This is a country where the apple farmers rotate by hand each apple during the growing season so there is an even spread of sunlight. Where under each apple tree reflective layers are carefully spread out so the bottom of the apple also gets to ripen. Where the apple trees have been cared and nutured for hundreds of years.

This is focus in a way which I can barely understand but which I can definitely taste.

The snow monkeys are a perfect demonstration of just how Japan interacts with nature. The monkeys used to be wild but have become a tourist attraction due to the way in which they use the hot springs to warm themselves up. There is nothing to stop them leaving the hot springs but they have evolved an interdependent relationship with the park wardens and the tourists who come to visit them.