2013/10/21
taiko, Chicago
promoting Japanese culture in Great Lakes area, http://mcachicago.org/performances/now/all/2014/1017
2013/08/19
central Tokyo, robotic bike parking underground [video]
[cross post from Rushton Hurley's monthly ed tech news, Next Vista.org]
How about a bicycle park in Japan that is mostly underground to save precious surface space?
This video is part of a Japanese culture series... http://youtu.be/pcZSU40RBrg?t=10s
2013/06/21
tozan, yama nobori, hiking, mountain climbing
However you call it, the views are great. Pictures from Otsuji-yama in Toyama-ken, June 2013.
Summit altitude 1,361 meters.
[photo credits, T. Saito]
2013/06/07
images 1923, The Great Kanto Earthquake
new image site from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library:
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/earthquake/
The Great Kanto Earthquake Japan of 1923 provides access to 199 images from a historical album of still photos captured destruction by the deadliest
earthquake occurred on September 1st, 1923. The project was funded by the UHM Library and the National Research Center, East Asia Grant (NRC-EA).
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/earthquake/
The Great Kanto Earthquake Japan of 1923 provides access to 199 images from a historical album of still photos captured destruction by the deadliest
earthquake occurred on September 1st, 1923. The project was funded by the UHM Library and the National Research Center, East Asia Grant (NRC-EA).
2013/03/26
video - Fukushima disaster +24 months
Two years on: this 5 minute youtube video includes many comments by local people (with subtitles).
Cross linking from full article, http://japanfocus.org/events/view/177
Context: Dr David McNeill is the Japan correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education and writes for The Independent and Irish Times newspapers. He covered the nuclear disaster for all three publications, has been to Fukushima ten times since 11 March 2011, and has written the book Strong in the Rain (with Lucy Birmingham) about the disasters. He is an Asia-Pacific Journal coordinator.
2013/03/07
online "Saving 10,000 lives" at YouTube
On March 6, 2013 the director, Dr. Rene Duignan, presented his 51 minute movie about the high rate of suicide in Japan to members of the news media & the National Diet. He documents the problem, the causes, the solutions, and the social consequences. Mental health professionals, researchers, teachers, friends and family members may benefit from this open discussion of a difficult topic.
http://tinyurl.com/saving10000 [full movie just uploaded], http://www.saving10000.com [website, including trailer for movie]
2013/02/15
info-graphics project 2010
Student project (about 11 minutes), "Japan: The Strange Country"
https://vimeo.com/9873910#embed [video description, below]
This visual medium is effective for showing statistics and simplifying complicated subjects.
WARNING: topic 7 (Love Hotels) and 8 (Suicide rates) would not be suitable for young learners.
But for older students and colleagues, friends and so on, this online project is worth browsing and discussing.
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from the video page,
This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn't that normal. So I created this video from foreigner's point of view, rather than Japanese people's point of view.
Both English and Japanese versions are available.
By the way, please don't call me racist, because I am one of short, small eyes Japanese.
2013/01/22
website, 400 years of British - Japanese relations
cross-posted from H-Japan at www.h-net.org
2013 marks the 400th anniversary of Japan-British relations. King James l sent Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hidetada presents and a letter, which were
received in September, 1613. The letter survives in Tokyo University.
Ieyasu received a telescope - the first ever sent to Asia - and Hidetada a precious cup and cover. The Shogun reciprocated with two suits of armour
(which are extant), and Ieyasu gave five pairs of gold screens (lost) and a shuuinjo, which survives in Oxford University. A vast number of events is planned for 2013, including a major show at the British Museum which will open 400 to the day after the date of the shuuinjo. We aim for '400 connections for 400 years',
http://www.japan400.com
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