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Large pillar from Yayoi era at Karako-Kagi site shown for 1st time

NARA, Japan - A woman on Oct. 24, 2014, points at a reconstructed model of a building from the Yayoi period (about 300 BC - AD 300) to show part of a large pillar excavated at the Karako-Kagi site in the town of Tawaramoto, Nara Prefecture in western Japan. The first public exhibition of the pillar, one of the largest found from that era, began on Oct. 25.

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Japanese women build orphanage in Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan - Mayumi Karako (L) describes a picture to Akhbar (C), who is blind, at Khoja Abdullah Ansari Orphanage in western Herat, Afghanistan on Feb. 9.

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A girl with hair ornaments

The woman has her hair arranged in warikarako style (like marumage for married women), with floral hairpins, kogai pins and karako-chirimen crepe on the head. She is wearing a furisode kimono, and the collar of her undergarment is revealed to a considerable degree. This is a stereograph taken in Nagasaki by Wilhelm Burger.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Wilhelm Burger, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number70‐25‐0]