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Real - network Visual Analyzer "Nirvana改".

Cooooooooooool! NICT is the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan. They made Real - network Visual Analyzer "Nirvana改". 　It visualize network  and blocks attackingetc,. I guess there are a lot of  this kind of systems but this Nirvana's design looks like Evangelion, i mean apparently it is influenced by Japanese animation. Love it.

This is said blocked by "封" Kanji. Coooool

Kintsugi, reparing can make a new art

I found this nice video to introduce Japanese repair technique Kintsugi.  Kin means gold and Tsugi means connect.  In Japan, broken Japanese pottery are repaired by lacquer dusted and painted by gold, silver, or platinum.  The point of Kintsugi is not only "repairing", it means highlights negative/damage part as design and put a new life and new beauty.  This will be Japanese unique repair way in the world. Here is a good Englsih site to introduce Kintsugi(Studio kotokoto).

For example, a bowl (2:47 part on the second video ) of kintsugi was designed as water fall.  A bowl made by Koetsu Honami (3:00 part) has a big kintsugi part but it is one of important cultural property.

Kintsugi is not only by gold,  Yobitsugi is a way to attach parts of different ceramic.  Makie is a way to add some decoration on gold. Use Silver or Pratinum and paint black makes different mood. It is not popular but some people learn Kintsugi as hobby and we can buy Kintsugi kit at store

Do you know? The Real African Samurai

Do you know there was a REAL African Samurai in Japan? He is Yasuke. A muslim from Mozambique. He served the Japanese most famous Shogun Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century (the Sengoku Jidai). This facebook post picked up Yasuke and tells about his well.

Large Scale historical TV Show NHK Taiga Drama picks 16th century very often / the Sengoku Jidai , coz each Daimyo has unique character, they had a lot of such as tactics and an offensive and defensive strategy, win and reveresal in war etc,. In recent years, Kuroda Kanbei of 2013 was story of the Sengoku Jidai and of course there was Yasuke as servant of Nobunaga. Here is the guy on the show.

Links　
Large scale histrical Cledds Drama
Sazae-san is a economic index for Japanese

Very unique recruiting tryouts for surgical students.

Very very interseting! KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL presents recruiting tryouts for surgical students.

Get Upset!

"Get Upset! " Virtual Reality game place "VR ZONE Project i Can" open at divercity Odaiba in April 5th. It is time limited event. Need to check it out.

New Origami Darth Vader

Pokemon test on wikipedia

Widipedia blog wikimedia had an interesting post last week. It's Pick and choose and Pikachu: 20 years after Pokémon launched, its impact on Wikipedia remains.

Did you know Pokemon Test? It's a kind of criterion to decide to make a new page on wiki. I have never haeard it before and acutally wiki page doesn't have Japaenese page.

Japanese and religion

She explains very well. Easy and clear! check this out.

Good parodoy

Japanese comedian’s parody of Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds

The woman is Naomi Watanabe, she is well know for Form replication of Beyoncé.

 

Kitty's work

I knew the range of Kitty is wide and she doesn’t choose the job basically. But I didn’t know she is working for the construction’s site in Shinjuku and also it is well know for foreign tourist as Kawaii construction. hmm.

We will say Kitty is work even as “Gaten”.  “Gaten” is the name of job searching magazine published by Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. The job in that magazine was limited in Construction, drivers, cooks such manual labor, Japanese call manual labor “Gaten kei” or “Gaten”. Although the magazine was discontinued in 2009. We still use the word “Gaten”. Gaten people wear their unique clothes of Knickerbockers and Jikatabi shoes.