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Credits & licences

Made with
other people's work.

Photography, video, type and icons are used under their respective licences. Corrections are welcome.

Photography

Unsplash

Hero, region, season, destination and Open Graph photography is sourced from Unsplash and stored locally. Used under the Unsplash License; attribution is appreciated but not required. Images are illustrative and are not presented as live camera frames.

Unsplash License

Wikimedia Commons

Three regional images come from Wikimedia Commons and have been resized for the web, along with the interactive Japan map geometry.

Tohoku — Matsushima Bay

“Miyagi-Landscape of cherry blossoms and Matsushima Bay-xl.jpg” by Makoto_Lab. Resized for the web.

SourceCC BY 4.0

Shikoku — Iya Valley

“Iya Valley (6551493685).jpg” by KimonBerlin. Resized for the web.

SourceCC BY-SA 2.0

Kyushu & Okinawa — Kouri Bridge

“Kouri Bridge (15130568259).jpg” by Takuya ASADA. Resized and cropped for the web.

SourceCC BY 2.0

Interactive Japan map

“Eight regions of Japan (en).svg” by Orange Wave / Bigmorr. Paths extracted, recoloured and grouped for the interactive eight-region map.

SourceCC BY-SA 4.0

Video & thumbnails

Camera video is embedded from YouTube and remains the property of its respective channels. Camera cards use the public YouTube thumbnail for identification, not as editorial hero imagery. Japan Live View does not host, download or re-stream any video. Playback is governed by the YouTube Terms of Service.

Type & code

  • Cormorant Garamond and Manrope, served through Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.
  • Icons from Lucide, used under the ISC License.
  • Built with Next.js, React and Tailwind CSS. Camera status data is provided by the YouTube Data API v3.