Tokyo
Feb 3 2011, Ryo

TOKYO — In the James Bond version, circa 1967, Japan’s Mount Shinmoe was a serene, extinct peak with a scenic, lake-filled crater that provided the perfect perch for 007 and his bikini-clad partner to surveil the lair of supervillain Ernst Stavro...

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A visitor walks over an illusionary art work of an alligator painted on the floor at the Trick Art Museum at the foot of Mount Takao on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, May 3, 2009.