I am thinking about changing my blog style, coz there are a lot of good blogs about Japanese culture now. When I started this blog, it was hard to find a blog about Japanese culture written by someone Japanese. Now I am thinking of what would be good to write; it will take time to renew the blog, but hope you will still enjoy reading.
Animation videos by Japanese artist "Astushi Wada", weird mood but interesting.
Now the big typhoon "Ma-on" is coming to Japan, but it's funny to see Ma-on's course, even typhoons seem to avoid the radiation area. Yes, apparently it's keeping away from the Fukushima area.
A former member of X-Japan died this weekend due to a suicide attempt following his arrest on a plane, he hanged himself at the detention center. The strange thing is that another former member, Hyde, also hanged himself in a hotel, but people think that it was an accident, that he didn't intend to commit suicide, but we don't know that for a fact.
This is the site of "Travel Volunteer". You can travel around Japan for free. This is the idea behind the project: Japan as a country was NOT entirely destroyed or irradiated. All places outside the evacuation zone are totally safe. But the media never mentions this or shows that life goes on normally in many parts of Japan. This has had severe consequences for many businesses in the travel & tourism industry, so this project was created to promote Japanese tourism to world travellers and show that Japan is still a safe & wonderful country to visit.
To qualify for this program, you must: -Be 21 years or older (as of July 31st, 2011) -Be able to enter Japan on September 12th, 2011 for the Final Selection Process -Be Fluent in English (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking) -Be in good health -Have never lived in Japan before -Agree with the concept and understand the main purpose of Travel Volunteer -Report about Japan to the world through the official Travel Volunteer blog
Fuji-Q Highland is an amusement park near Mt. Fuji. They have several crazy roller coasters: the big "Fujiyama", the spinning "Eejanaika", and the world's most exhilarating roller coaster "Dodonpa", etc.
On July 16th, they will open a new roller coaster called "Takabisha" (arrogant). Here is a video of it.
In the US, 9nania seems to be famous for having predicted the 3/11 earthquake in Japan. In Japan, a blog called "Kofuku e no Chikamichi" (a short way to happiness) became very hot after 3/11 because in February, the blogger predicted that the big earthquake would come soon and also identified which would be the worst-hit areas. One of these areas is Rikuzen Takada, which suffered severe damage from the earthquake and tsunami. The funny thing is that the blogger didn't even know where Rikuzen Takada was when she first wrote about it.
In her blog, she not only talks about the future, but she also explains things about the past that we couldn't know. She says that she can communicate with several people that others can't see and they speak of the past and the future to her. In a lot of cases, when she hears something from those people and writes about it on her blog, she doesn't know who, what, or where is she referring to at first. She just writes what she hears, so when she updates her blog, keywords from her posts quickly show up in search words rankings. And we have been able to confirm some of the historical details she's written about.
She writes things about many countries. This is what she wrote about the US on June 26th.
I am surprised that I am writing as if I knew everything. I can't be sure if this is credible or not, because I don't exactly understand everything that I'm writing, but everyday a new topic appears in my head. Since around 300,000 people read my blog, I am happy and have a sense of responsibility to my readers, but sometime when I read my blog, I feel that these are someone else's words, not mine. Because of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, dark capitalists seem to be changing their target from nuclear plants to other realms. Maybe war business? Maybe not. "Money makes money", such an idea has just hit me. I see an image of some people (looks like Americans) starting to run after watching something on TV. I also see some Japanese people watching monitors in front of Tokyo Station. It might be a TV interview, some people are replying to microphones and cameras. It's a cloudy day, some people wear sweaters, so the time is not summer but winter. I tried to ask when it will happen and whether it's a good or bad thing, but I couldn't get any reply.
She published her book a few days ago. Four months ago, nobody had even heard of her, but I guess her book will be a best selling book. I will write about her blog sometimes when I feel I should do it.
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo displayed Mitsubishi Electric's "Geo-Cosmos", the world's first large-scale spherical OLED.
Aum Shinrikyo is the worst cult in Japan's history and Shoko Asahara, a guru of the group, was sentenced to death by hanging on February 27, 2004. But he is still in jail even now because other Aum members' trials have not finished yet and some members have not been arrested (I guess they've died already). Some say that Asahara has a mental disorder and needs to wear a diaper in jail.
The head office of Aum was built in Kamiku Isshiki in the Yamanashi prefecture, a very good but inconveniently located area near Mt. Fuji. After the arrest of their members, Aum left the place and the Yamanashi prefecture built an amusement park called "Gulliver Land" to eradicate the image of Aum. They erected a big Gulliver statue and some amusement facilities. However, they were too easygoing with their restructuring plans, and two years later, the park encountered many financial difficulties and had to close. After several years, the park was bought by another company, but they soon gave up on the park as well. So for a while, the big Gulliver suffered from lack of maintenance. He has a lot of graffiti on him, and people took lots of pictures with him. Here are some photos of Gulliver Land. Now it is broken down and we can't find it on Google Maps.