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| Annoucement |
| 2008-05-07 06:56:00 |
Thank you for visiting my blog :) I like providing everything about my culture, Japan. Also, I think this is great to share ideas with you from all over the world.Now, for some personal reasons, I will take a short break here. Hopefully, I can write my blog soon :) I will be back again!Thanks for reading....
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| The Soul of Japan, Bushido |
| 2008-04-20 02:29:00 |
If you are ever fascinated by Samurai or Ninja, you definitely should read this book, called “Bushido (武士道)”. This book is not only talking about Samurai but also about how Japanese interprets matters and how they act against it.Bushido is the book about “The Soul of Japan”. You could know the basis of Japanese soul a (Behavior, Loyalty, Duty, Education, Etiquette etc), and how special country Japanese is from this book. For example, when you give a present for someone, what do you say or do? Probably, you tell the person how nice the present is. However, Japanese people say “Tsumaranai Mono Desuga(つまらないものですが)” which means “Please accept my small gift” which might sound strange to som...
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| Sakura in Shinjukugyoen |
| 2008-04-06 02:47:00 |
I went to see Sakura(cherry blossoms) in Shinjukugyoen (新宿御苑) whish is huge and histrical park in Shinjuku ward in Tokyo. Here is about Shinjukugyoen. Shinjukugyoen has 58.3 ha and the perimeter is about 3.5 km. Here is the map.It was clowdy when I went there, but Sakura bloomed beautifully. It was a garden for the Imperial Household, but became national park after war. I think Japanese people are most crazy nation for Sakura. People love to just watch and do Hanami party under the trees. You can get in the part at 200 yen for an adult. I think sports stuff is not allowed, but you can lay down on the ground and relax, and even lunch :)...
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| MLB Opening Game in Tokyo |
| 2008-03-22 20:30:00 |
On March 25th and 26th, there will be season openers in 2008 of Boston Red Sox vs. Oakland Athletics in Tokyo, Japan.This is third time to have the opening game in Japan (NY Mets vs. Chicago Cabs in 2000, NY Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Rays in 2004)Daisuke Matsuzaka, Boston Red Sox will be a starting pitcher.I will watch the game on 25th. Hopefully I can show you some photos and write about the game soon!...
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| White Day -It’s Boys Turn- |
| 2008-03-13 08:21:00 |
Just right one month later of Valentine’s Day on March 14th, there exist “White Day” in Japan.Girls present chocolate to boys on Valentine’s Day (refer to Valentine’s Day) and it is the day that girls confess their love to boys. Then what is White Day? If you receive chocolate on Valentine’s Day, you “have to” give them back sweets like candy, marshmallow and white chocolate to girls. This day is originally born in Japan.These days, I see boys are buying sweets preparing for White Day. It is said that it is manner to give back to girls something deserves three times. So, boys simply can’t give cheep sweets to girls.White Day custom is carrying out in Taiwan and Korea as well. I know there are black day, yellow day, rose day etc about love romance in Korea. What about in y...
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| The Japanese Sword Museum |
| 2008-03-09 03:01:00 |
Ninja, Samurai, Daimyou…People outside Japan are fascinated by the Japanese culture, especially boys.There is one maniac museum in Shibuya word, The Japanese Sword Museum (日本刀博物館). Katana (Japanese swords) are displayed all over in the museum. It has a collection of 120 pieces of swords and sword fittings including National Treasure and important Cultural Property.The fee is 525 yen for an adult and you can get brochure in English. The title of brochure is “Manual of How to Handle and Take Care of Swords”. I found it is quite interesting even you don’t have any Katana. For instance, “Whether drawing out a Tachi or Katana, one must hold the cutting edge up and grasp t...
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| The Hip-Hop Black Guy Who Finds Japanese Soul |
| 2008-03-01 02:34:00 |
ジェロ(JERO, Jerome White, Jr) is such an awesome black guy who made his debut as an Enka singer in Japan!ジェロ was born in 1981 in the Pittsburg, the U.S. His grandmother was Japanese (already passed away), and he was affected by her who loved Enka (演歌, a traditional-style Japanese popular song).The guy who learned how great Enka from his grandmother went to Pittsburg University majored in science. Since he was fascinated by Enka a lot, he came to Japan to be an Enka singer in 2003. While he worked as a computer engineer in Japan, he was keep singing as an armature Enka singer. In February, 2008, he made his debut as a professional singer with the song, “海雪(Umiyuki, ocean snow)” from Victor Entertainment.Here is his first song music v...
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| Happy Valentine's Day |
| 2008-02-16 18:55:00 |
It's a bit late, but I wish you had had happy Valentine's day! Here is the link about Valentine's day in Japan from my old post. How was your valentine's day? Did you have good time? Valentine's Day...
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| Okinawa Sweet, Chinsukou |
| 2008-02-09 01:47:00 |
I’ve never been to Okinawa(south island in Japan), but I am into Okinawa sweet, Chinsukou (ちんすこう) recently. When people went to Okinawa, they definitely would buy it as a Okinawa souvenir.Chinsukou is one of the traditional sweets in Okinawa. It is made of flower, sugar and lard mainly. It is like a crunchy sweet cookies and good much with Japanese green tea. In acient time, only a royal family and nobles were allowed to eat it when they have some celebrations.There are so many kinds of Chinsukou; cheese, chocolate, purple sweet potato, pine apple, nuts, raw sugar, salt and so on. Now that Chinsukou is famous Okinawa sweet, you can buy it in Tokyo or Kanagawa easily. It probably isn’t sold in small supermarkets, but you can find one in big o...
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| Out with the demon and in with fortune! |
| 2008-02-01 17:39:00 |
Setsubun（節分), the day before the calendrical beginning of spring, is one of the traditional events in Japan. The word “Setubun” comes form “dividing the season” originally.On February 3rd, Setsubun, people scatter roasted beans in the house saying “鬼は外、福は内!/Oni-wa-Soto, Fuku-wa-Uchi! (Out with the demon and in with fortune!)” After scattering beans all over the house, people eat beans as the same numbers of their age. For instance, if you are 23 years old, you need to eat exactly 23 beans.Beans are considered to have power for cleansing a person of evil influences. Therefore, people take powerful beans into their bodies and it means that beans will have fortune in their house.Hey, it snowed today in Kanto area. This is my f...
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| Too Beautiful Politician |
| 2008-01-26 05:02:00 |
Yuri Fujikawa (藤川ゆり) is getting into the news as a young and beautiful member of *Hachinohe city assembly. She looks pretty attractive and has idol-look face. *Hachinohe is the city in Aomori prefecture in Tohoku area.Yuri who has father formally member of Hachinohe city assembly ran for nationwide local elections in April, 2007, and she won the election top. She was born in 1980, and just 27 years old now.After graduation from Teikyo University, she started to work in an institution of caring old people for a few years. When she turned to be 27, her father tried to win at the election to be a member of the prefectural assembly but he failed. Then, she announced to stand as a candidate for member of city assembly after her father’s fail.Since ...
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| 7 Days and Planets |
| 2008-01-18 20:34:00 |
Some of the readers here may already know how to say the day of the week, but I want to introduce them and how to remember them.Here is the list of the day of the week.日曜日 （にちようび / Nichiyoubi）…Sunday月曜日 （げつようび / Getsuyoubi）…Monday火曜日 （かようび / Kayoubi）…Tuesday水曜日 （すいようび / Suiyoubi） …Wednesday木曜日 （もくようび / Mokuyoubi）…Thursday金曜日 （きんようび / Kinyoubi）…Friday土曜日 （どようび / Doyoubi）…SaturdayIn Japan, the week usually starts with Sunday. You can see most calendar has Sunday first.The only you need to remember is the word before “曜日/ Youbi”; 日、月、火、水、木、金、土. Those words are called “七曜 / Shichiyou” and stands for 7 pla...
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| Matsushita, National, Panasonic → “Panasonic” |
| 2008-01-12 20:24:00 |
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has announced to change its company name to “Panasonic” to strengthen the world brand name on 10th January. (The company productions; Lumix for digital camera, Diga for blue-ray disk recorder, Viera for plasma TV etc…)Matsushita has distinguished the brand name for products; digital electrical appliances for abroad such as plasma TV are called “Panasonic” and white goods for domestic is called “National”.The company is aiming to appeal the name in foreign markets to compete with other brand by uniting “Matsushita”, “Panasonic”, and “National”.The origin of “Panasonic” is the created word, “Pan” and “Sonic...
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| Happy New Year |
| 2008-01-09 06:07:00 |
Hi there, this is late but let me say Happy New Year! I hope you will have great year.Here is a tip, how to say Happy New Year in Japanese.あけましておめでとう in Hiragana 明けましておめでとう in Kanji (Both are pronunced like "Akemashite Omedeto") So あけましておめでとう everyone! I will start to write article again soon :) ...
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| Happy Holidays! |
| 2007-12-24 05:36:00 |
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! I wish you happy new year. Lots of love. Christmas cake that I baked At my friend's houes We cooked special dishes for Christmas...
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| Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility |
| 2007-12-14 19:33:00 |
Have you heard of Asimo (アシモ) before? Asimo is humanoid robot which Honda developed. The word Asimo comes from “Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility”. It is not a big surprise anymore that it can go up and down the stairs.The first Asimo was officially announced in 1996. It has 130 cm tall, and 52 kg. The speed of walking of “Asimo 2005” is 2.7km/h, and can run 6km/h. It is not put on the market yet, but you can lease it from Honda at the cost of 20,000,000 yen per year. Asimo succeed in ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as the first creature besides human.In December, Honda announced new technology this year. The new Asimo can avoid people or leave his post to make way for them in...
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| New York Beauty |
| 2007-12-07 09:26:00 |
I was traveling to New York for a week. This post may not be suitable for this blog theme, but let me show you photos of NY I took. New York Beauty...
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| Family Tree in Japanese |
| 2007-11-24 18:46:00 |
When you introduce yourself in Japanese, introducing your family might be necessary. Let’s look at a simple family tree in Japanese. You are “Watashi”.Here is usuful expressions.I have a elder broterh.→ (Watashi ni wa) Ani ga imasu. /（私には）兄がいます。I have a elder sister and younger brother. → (Watashi ni wa) Ane to Otouto ga imasu. / （私には）姉と弟がいます。How many brothers/sisters do you have?...
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| Letter Art |
| 2007-11-17 00:25:00 |
Now, here is a question for you. How can you see this Japanese word?ぷ。You may see this person is bowling. Probably, it is easier to recognize it like this.ぷ。 ...。 ......。 iiiiぷ is just one of Hiragana letter in Japanese (it sounds "Pu"), but it looks like something different when you see it from another angle. Here is some arrangment of ぷ。ぷ。 ぷ。 ぷ。3 people are bowling at the same time.ぷ。.....iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiThis is bowling with many pins.These are very difficult to recognize this at first for native Japanesebecause they see it only as a letter.Here is a question for you. These are not Japanese letters but alphabet and mark. How can you see it?＠ii...
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| Hug Me Please! |
| 2007-11-10 09:17:00 |
Recently, I just see many people who are holding a sign which says “Free Hugs” at the really crowded place or park in Japan. I felt really weird when I saw it for the first time because I had no idea what the purpose of it.The origin of Free Hug is from the states in 2001. Jason Hunter walked along Miami with the sign after his mother’s dead. In 2004, Juan Mann from Australia started to Free Hug Campaign, and his achievement was recorded, broadcast on You tube, and then Free Hugs became famous.A photo from Akihabara. The sign says Free Hugs in Japanese.The purpose of Free Hugs is to share happiness and sadness with people you don’t know; however, since hug is not common custom, or the word, “Hug” is not well-known in Japan, it seems to be difficult to get a hug from strangers o...
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| Moshi Moshi? |
| 2007-11-03 08:51:00 |
When you call on the phone, how do you say in your country? In Japan, we say “もしもし(Moshi Moshi)” at the beginning like “Hello” in English.At the very beginning of phone development in Japan, people used to say “おいおい(Oi Oi)” instead of Moshi Moshi. In 1890, telephone switching was stated in Japan. Since then, telephone operators started to use Moshi Moshi which is written as 申し申し in Kanji and it means “I’m going to say.”Here is another tip. In business scene, it is better not to say Moshi Moshi. You start the conversation without Moshi Moshi. Only when you cannot hear well, you can use Moshi Moshi.Do you have any special word for the beginning of phone conversation in your country?...
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| Big Revision of Kojien |
| 2007-10-27 10:28:00 |
Japanese people may look up a word in 広辞苑(Kojien) at least once in their life. Kojien is famous Japanese dictionary which is really thick published by Iwanami Shoten. It was published since 1955 and has been sold 11,000,000 copies.In January, new Kojien will appear, and its content will be revised dramatically. Young people’s sayings, slang are written in that. For instance, ニート(Nîto), 逆切れ(Gyakugire), イケメン(Ikemen), うざい(Uzai) and more. There will be 240,000 words in it, which is the greatest number in Kojien history.Do you know the all above words? I pick up slang from them and explain about it. イケメン, in short, stands for good-looking man. It is the shorten word of イケてる面 (Iketerumen, イケてる means nice, 面 means face) and also consi...
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| Not To Be “Sneezed” |
| 2007-10-20 02:55:00 |
ハクション(Hakushon)! This is typical sound for sneezing in Japanese. Sneezing is translated into Japanese as くしゃみ(Kushami). I know in western country, people say “bless you!” when someone sneezes. Japanese doesn’t say anything against it, however, people in middle ages used to say “くさめ(Kusame)” as a spell. Around the ages, people believed sneezing let soul out from nose and people’s life span would be shortened. Therefore, people said “Kusame” and since when don’t know, the word turned to be “Kushami” then; sneezing itself is called “Kushami” now.Here is Japanese superstition about sneeze. If you sneeze once, people think that somebody is gossiping about the person and it is good one. If it happens twice, that turns to be bad gossip, and even m...
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| Unlimited Bubble Packing |
| 2007-10-14 00:14:00 |
I am sure some people love to play with bubble packing by pushing them. Bubble packing is plastic materials with air in it, and usually used for as a wrapping of fragile things. This is funny but when people have bubble packing in their hands, they cannot help pushing them.Playing with bubble packing could be good for relax or get rid of frustration sometimes. Normally, it always has the end. When you push one, it’s done. However, Japanese toy company, Bandai was succeeded to produce endless bubble packing toy.The toy name is “∞プチプチ (Mugen Puchipuchi)” Bubble packing is called プチプチ informally in Japan, and ∞ means unlimited, which means you can play with bubble packing forever. Of course, sounds come out when you push it. There are 5 different color of it; white, ...
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| Newborn Culture in Akihabara |
| 2007-10-07 11:10:00 |
One of new Japan sightseeing spots, Akihabara has queer but attractive air all over the town. Although now Akihabara is known as anime Mecca for people who love cartoons and other stuff like that, called Otaku, the place was originally famous as huge electric town before. You can buy every kind of electrical appliances, second hand items, of course, and even tiny electric parts for electric construction and amateur radio machine. Now, anima stores lines outstandingly on Main Street. Everything is related to animation; comic books, figures, novelty goods, games, CDs, magazines and costume! Another thing what Akihabara made famous is Meido（メイド）, girls wearing housemaid costume. You can see these girls everywhere in Akihabara. Some wear it for solicitation of shops, and others we...
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| Japanese Slang –KY- |
| 2007-09-29 09:53:00 |
“KY” looks it comes from English or alphabet language, but this is Japanese slang.“KY (ケーワイ)” is shortened word of “Kuki Yomenai (空気よめない)”. It is used for person who is unable to read a situation. For instance, a guy keeps talking to his favorite girl like forever. The girl is totally fed up with listening to his talking, and shows bored feeling on her face. However, he doesn’t notice that she is bored, and just doesn’t stop talking. The guy is KY like in this case. KY also has another meaning of Kuki Yome, saying a person to read a situation. It is used to describe a person mainly though.This slang was born on the Internet, and gradually started to be used in real by young people use KY, and old people don’t know/us...
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| What Do You Have In Your Brain? |
| 2007-09-09 00:53:00 |
Isn’t it fun and curious if you can see what people think in real? You can find it out with “脳内メーカー(Nounai Maker)” by Usoko Maker. 脳内メーカー is popular website among Japanese now.You just type your name (or someone’s name if you want to know), and 脳内メーカー tells you what you really think in your brain. I tried mine, and here it is.Well, I don’t want to explain about inside my brain, but I do. You can see several Kanji in my brain, and they show what I am thinking. My brain has “休”, “金”, “友”, and “H”. So, I seem to think about “resting”, “money”, “friends” and “erotic thing”!In case you try this, you type first and last name in Kanji if you have Kanji name. If you have alphabet na...
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| One of Hot Japanese "Heroes" |
| 2007-09-02 00:57:00 |
This amazing man, Masi Oka was not well-known in Japan till the drama; “Heroes” is big hit in the U.S. Masi Oka or Masayori Oka (his real name is 岡政偉) is the hottest Japanese in the U.S now.Masi Oka was born in Tokyo, and moved to Los Angels, California at 6 years old with her mother. He speaks English, Japanese and fluent Spanish. You can guess he is now American, but he still has Japanese citizenship.What made Masi famous in the U.S is a popular drama, “Heroes” on NBC. The drama was started to broadcast in 2006, and Masi plays role in Hiro Nakamura. He speaks lines in both Japanese and English in the drama. The lines of Heroes are all written in English, so Japanese for Japan scenes lines are translated b...
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| Firework Festival in Kanazawa ward |
| 2007-08-26 06:08:00 |
On Augusut 25th, my friend and I went to see fireworks at beach. We went there wearing Yukata which is an informal cotton kimono for summer wear. Enjoy videos and a few photos!...
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| New Record! |
| 2007-08-18 00:13:00 |
On August 16, 2007, the highest temperature was recorded in Tajimi, Gifu prefecture and Kumagaya in Saitama prefecture. The new record is 40.9 degree which renewed the old record in Yamagata, 40.8 degree for the first time in 74 years. Here is an article about the former record in Yamagata.This intense hear has lasted quite long. It is almost over 30 degree everyday in Kanto, east and south part of Japan. These hot days cause heatstroke everywhere. There are 18 people died because of heatstroke in total in Ibaraki, Chiba, Kanagawa, Mie, Shiga, Ohsaka, Hyogo, Saitama, Gunma, Tokyo, Akita, and Kyoto at the present.Specially, old people and children tend to get ill with this heat. What is the problem about old people is they don’t use air conditioner. They ...
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| Find Your Month in Japanese |
| 2007-08-11 08:54:00 |
I think some of you guys who are interested in Japanese and reading this website know how to write month in Japanese; 一月、二月、三月…十一月、十二月. How about the month in different way of writing? In old Japan, people showed months as Kanji like below list. Those Kanji are still used to show a month. I was born in 葉月. Which month were you born in?January(一月)…睦月(Mutsuki) Reason: There are various views of 睦月, and most convincing one is to mean having a banquet with whole family.February(二月)…如月(Kisaragi)Reason: 如月is used in China as another name of February.March(三月)…弥生(Yayoi)Reason: The month that plants grow thickly.April(四月)…卯月(Uzuki) Reason: There are several views of 卯月. How...
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| The Car Saves Your Life |
| 2007-08-03 21:58:00 |
Nissan motors announced they developed concept car which prevents drunken driving with some functions that detect alcohol smell in the car. This development is the first attempt in Japan.The concept car detects alcohol using shift lever from sweat on your palm and with sensor on the driving seat by alcohol smell that comes out from your body.When the car detects alcohol which can be drunken driving, it tells you with various messages and sounds, and rock the car not to drive.Moreover, a small camera attached to the meter at driving seat watches how long the driver close their eyes, also the car watches how much the driving winds. If the driving is considered as having possibilities of dozing driving or drunken driving, the car warns and rolls up safety belt several times.Nissan motors are ...
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| Kugenuma Seaside |
| 2007-07-21 09:04:00 |
Probably 鵠沼海岸 is hard Kanji to read even for Japanese. 鵠沼海岸(Kugenuma Kaigan) is in Fujisawa city in Kanagawa prefecture. Some of you many know 湘南海岸(Shonan Kaigan), and Kugenuma Kaigan is so close to the beach.Both Kugenuma Kaigan and Shonan Kaigan are very well-known as surfing beach. You can see people surfing all the time but winter; since spring to autumn. More photos.I went Kugenuma Kaigan for the first time with my colleagues. It took about one hour by train from Yokohama, and it takes 25 minutes walk from 鵠沼海岸駅(Kugenuma Kaigan Station). The day was not enough to go into the water; I was wearing swimming suits though. However, I enjoyed its summer and beach air a lot. Amazingly, there were so many crams in the sand, of course alive ones, and we even...
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| A Holiday Unique To Japan |
| 2007-07-14 21:05:00 |
In Japan, there is a Day called '海の日’. 海の日 is one of Japanese national holidays and called “Marine Day” in English. The point of the day is to appreciate the blessing of ocean and wish prosperity of Marine country, Japan. 海の日 was just an anniversary(the day used to be called “海の記念日/Umi-no-kinembi” at the time) but turned into national holiday in 1996. 海の日 is on the third Monday in July, so this year is July 16th. According to the description of the Ministry of Land, “Japan is the only one country in the world that has Marine day as a national holiday.” Since the 海の日 is a sort of new holiday in Japan, we have few event on the day. We may be able to celebrate this day by ...
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| Love Romance Beyond The Milky Way |
| 2007-07-06 21:13:00 |
What would you do if you are allowed to meet the person you love only one time per year? You may go crazy or give up the relationship? There is a couple(stars) who meet each other annual year, on July 7th legends concerning the Tanabata(七夕) festival in Japan.Orihime(織姫) and Hikoboshi(彦星) have such a long long distance relationship in the milky way. Orihime is daughter of the Lord of Heaven, and she was hard worker. Hikoboshi also worked hard everyday. The Lord of Heaven approved two young couples marriage one day. However, they prefer to their married life, and became lazy and stop working. The Lord of Heaven was furious with them and made them separate beyond the Milky Way, only allowed to meat one time on July 7...
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| Yokohama Chinatown |
| 2007-07-01 00:54:00 |
There are Chinatown mainly in Nagasaki, Hyogo and Kanagawa prefecture in Japan. It is like an illusion that you are in the country, China once you step in Chinatown. And, one of very fascinating Chinatown in Japan is in Yokohama, called Yokohama Chukagai(横浜中華街). It is huge Chinatown and famous sightseeing sport in Kanagawa.626 stores; restaurants, suvenior stores, general shops gather in Yokohama Chinotown. It covers an area of 500 square meters, and the length of Main Street is about 300 meters.There are several Chinese festivals held in Chinatown through the year. Especially, Shunsetsu is big and most important event which celebrate New Year following the old calendar for Chinese people.Yokohama ChinatownI...
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| Onomatopoeia –Sounds in Life- |
| 2007-06-09 23:38:00 |
1, Sound of rain・Light rain…Parapara (パラパラ)・Heavy rain…Zâ zâ (ザーザー)2, Sound of a clock…Chiku-taku(チクタク), Kachi-kachi(カチカチ)3, Sound of knock…Ton-ton(トントン)4, Sound of thunder…Goro-goro(ゴロゴロ)5, Sound of splash…Zabun(ザブン), Bashan(バシャン)Now, south Japan is having rainy season which called 梅雨(Tsuyu). This month is a little depressing but here is cute children song using sounds of rain which has been sung from old time.Song: Amefuri“Ame Ame Fure Fure Kahsanga Janomede Omukai UreshiinaPichi Pichi Chapu Chapu Lan Lan Lan”Rain more, I am happy that mom comes to me with Janome (an old Japanese traditional umbrella). Pichi Pichi Chapu Chapu (sounds of stepping puddle) Lan Lan Lan (s...
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| Sankyo Warehouse |
| 2007-06-02 04:06:00 |
What do you think these lined wooden buildings are? They look old-fashioned but elegance in the air, don’t they? These charming buildings are called Sankyo Souko(山居倉庫) which is warehouse established in 1893 in Sakata city, Yamagata prefecture to keep tons of rice. Sankyo warehouse was built as attached warehouse of Sakata rice exchange place, and still used as agricultural warehouse now. The roofs of 12 buildings are dual structures, besides they prevent moisture so that not rice goes damp. These massive keyaki trees have fresh green leaves in summer and they work on rice also to prevent rice from strong sunshine and wind. This displayed boat was used to carry rice that were planted and harvested in Yamagata to Edo (Tokyo) or other prefectures that have less rice fie...
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