2014-01-28, 01:45 | Link #3341 |
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I was looking at some info online about Hokkaido, and saw that the prefectural government has its own YouTube channel, with a playlist of English-language videos.
But what I found really interesting is that one of these English videos looks at the Ainu: There are other videos about the Ainu on the channel, such as this one narrated in Japanese:
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2014-03-06, 09:53 | Link #3343 | |
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Tsukiji Market to get new waterfront site
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2014-03-06, 09:58 | Link #3344 | |
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It would be interesting to see how the much older residents take this.
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2014-03-07, 03:03 | Link #3345 | |
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2014-03-12, 22:33 | Link #3346 |
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Anyone here know a festival that is celebrated by both Japanese and Chinese in October? The better if it connects to the sea.
(On a side not, how long would it take a submarine with the constant speed of 50 knots to travel from Tokyo Port to Sekaku islands?) |
2014-03-12, 23:00 | Link #3347 |
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First of all, Chinese festivals correspond to dates on the Chinese lunar calendar. As a result, the festivals don't always fall on the same date on the Western Gregorian calendar. The Chinese New Year, for example, started on Jan 31 this year and on Feb 10 the year before.
The only major Chinese festival to fall on September or October is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Japanese equivalent is Tsukimi. Neither festival has anything to do with the sea. Both, on the other hand, originated from autumn harvest festivals. Fifty knots roughly equals 93kmh. The Senkaku Islands are about 1,885km away from Tokyo. You can do the maths from there. |
2014-03-14, 20:21 | Link #3348 |
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I'm currently watching Earth From Space on National Geographic, and part of the live feed from the International Space Station features Wakata Koichi, the current ISS commander.
Here in Canada, Chris Hadfield earned a bit of a name for himself during (and after) his recent stint on the station. So I was wondering: how much (if any) interest is there in Japan for Wakata-san's mission in space?
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2014-03-16, 19:20 | Link #3349 |
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This Japanese Manga Doesn’t Mince Words About War Crimes:
"Shigeru Mizuki is one of Japan’s oldest and most famous working manga artists. He’s best known for drawing yokai—basically, Japanese ghosts and monsters. But in recent years, the 92-year-old cartoonist has turned to Japan’s militaristic Showa era. The result is a stunning series of graphic novels based on historical research and Mizuki’s own experiences growing up and fighting in Tokyo’s imperial wars. His latest work, Showa: A History of Japan, is an unblinking recollection of one of the 20th century’s darkest periods." See: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/acb87aa68a3e |
2014-03-16, 23:12 | Link #3350 | |
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2014-03-17, 00:53 | Link #3351 | |
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It is a pity some just have that eternal grudge they want to pass onto their next generation. Glad this old man chose not to so as to put matters to the rest. Then their descendants can move on.
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2014-03-17, 02:31 | Link #3352 | |
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2014-03-17, 07:53 | Link #3353 |
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I read about the manga some time ago, and I was impressed that he's (and also perhaps Koshun Takami, who wrote in Battle Royale of a post-war dictatorial empire surrounding the game of death, and the horrors of fascism) unlike those apologists who endorse school book history revisions and extremists who mistakenly think that a return to militarism is also a return to past glory.
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2014-03-23, 09:06 | Link #3354 | |
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AKB48 Producer Akimoto to Produce 2020 Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony
Unsurprisingly not everyone in Japan is thrilled with this news. Quote:
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2014-03-23, 11:35 | Link #3355 | |
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2014-04-14, 22:31 | Link #3356 |
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Through Japanese Eyes: World War II in Japanese Cinema:
"A film about kamikaze pilots has been playing to packed theaters from Hokkaido to Kyushu since its release in December of 2013, becoming one of the top-grossing Japanese productions of all time. In addition to attracting the admiration of Prime Minster Shinzo Abe, “The Eternal Zero” has drawn a fair amount of criticism for being the latest in a string of recent films that mythologize the Japanese role in World War II." See: http://news.usni.org/2014/04/14/japa...apanese-cinema |
2014-05-03, 21:44 | Link #3357 | |
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I'm currently working my way through a new book (printed in 2014) called Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics, written by Dr. Mark K. Watson (currently of Concordia University in Montréal), which I loaned out from the local Japan Foundation library.
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It also mentions the role that the now-defunct Rera Cise restaurant played in helping to shape part of the Tokyo Ainu community - and notes that, despite its closure, its legacy lives on through a new restaurant, Harukor. And, indeed, it notes that there is more than one group which holds claim to Ainu identity in the area. Just as the various First Nations peoples in a place like Toronto may come from a range of diverse groups across Canada, those who self-identify as Ainu in Tokyo are not necessarily descended from a common corner of Hokkaido (or Sakhalin, or elsewhere). With the difficulties in trying to revitalize the Ainu presence in Hokkaido itself, the issue of what, if anything, to treat the Ainu presence in Tokyo and eslewhere has been controversial. But the volume makes a compelling case that, wherevet the ongoing process of re-defining the status and meaning of the word "Ainu" in Japan may go, it may well find itself being increasingly shaped by the role played by a broader Ainu diaspora.
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2014-05-05, 21:27 | Link #3359 |
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@Hazou: Please read from this: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2073.html
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2014-05-05, 22:01 | Link #3360 | |
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