TOKYO, JAPAN.- U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker poses in front of his photographs at the opening ceremony of his photo exhibition "Ambassador Baker's Japan" on November 16, 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition is opened to the public until January 7 next year.

Red-crowned cranes in the snow in Hokkaido and monkeys bathing in hot springs are among the sights of Japan captured by U.S. Ambassador Howard Baker in a photograph exhibition that opened Tuesday at the Tokyo headquarters of Kyodo News. Describing Japan as "a very photogenic country," Baker, 79, said he has had many opportunities to take photographs as he travels extensively in Japan, although he focuses more on portraits of landscape and things rather than on people.