watashi to tokyo

Issei Miyake Exhibition

NISEI MIYAKE Exhibition "The Work of Miyake Issey" has started at The national Art Center, Tokyo. if you are sensitive to fashion and trends, you would know this BAO BAO bag which got to be hot  a few years ago. The great part of this bag is you can change the shape. 

If you don't have any interesting to fashion, you would know his work because of Steve Job's the black turtlenecks which became a part of Jobs' signature.

The Work if Miyake Issey @ The national Art Center, Tokyo
March 16-> June 13th 10:00-18:00 (Friday 20:00)
adult 1300yen

Hiroshi Nakamura, unique architect

Hiroshi Nakamura is a Japanese Architect living in Tokyo Japan.

He graduate School of Science and Technology, Meiji University in 1997 and worked at Kengo Kuma & Associates and established Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Co., Ltd. Tokyo International Airport Terminal 2 is his work and he is getting world's attention now.

His major work example is Ribbon Chapel.

I love this Dancing trees, Singing birds.

The house iteself is like a small forest. His unique work example is House HS. The house has a round shape like breast and it make the comfy hollow.

Here is a video of his work Optical Glass House.  beautiful!!

New Origami Darth Vader

Ghost in the shell REALIZE" project

Too bad, they don't have English page!  This is "Ghost in the shell REALIZE" project.  It is the project that Company, University and even public institutions work together to pursue the possibility of realizing a world of "Ghost in the Shell". This is the sample of LiVEARTH product.  They are making 3D globe and this one show the Global Robot Trades date.   And this one is Tachikoma realize project. A Japanese company Cerevo has officially announced they will make real Tachikoma of 1/2 scale.

Last week, REALIZE project had an award which 11 teams competed thier idea and technology. The winner was "Cyber Protection Suit" of team "SHIFT". The suit has artificial muscle and protected by air inside of the skin. This project has just started and hard to find information. I must check sometimes.

Two mystery stories

This is a old note written on February 22 1803. People living in around Harayadori seaside in Ibaraki Pref found a strange shaped boat was floating in the sea. The boat was made from metal and had windows on the top and around the body. The height was about 4m and length was bout 5m. They looked into the windows then found a weird appearance lady inside. She had red color hair and eye blows, skin was pink, but very beautiful. She had a small box in her hands and never let people in, she was just smiling to people. Inside a boat, there were small bottle of liquid, two carpets and sweets, foods and strange letters were written on the wall. After long discussion, poeple push the boat out to open sea. This story seems be well known those days, there are a few book wrote about the same story. One title of them was "About the sky ship". UFO!

Here is another recent mysterious story. On the morning of December 16, a worker at Shimane’s Prefectural Government Complex in Matsue left his home, allowing himself enough time to reach the office at his usual starting time of 8 a.m. Upon arrival, he glanced at the clock on the wall and was puzzled to find it read 1:35. It turns out that not only the clock in his particular office, but all of the roughly 250 clocks scattered about the complex had stopped simultaneously during the night. Throughout the main building, southern building, annex, and assembly hall, each and every clock was displaying the exact same, incorrect, time. Here is all story

boarding-robot "KURATAS" on sale

Suidoubashi Heavy Industry made KURATAS that is the first giant boarding-robot. The spec is "Height : about 4,000 mm / Width: about 3,000 mm / Length : about 4,000 mm / Weight : about 4,500 kg, Control system : AE V-sido".

Now on sall on Amazon. (sold out now :-) Price is 1,353,500 USD. 983,453 EUR. You can choose weapon, parts, color. coqpit and name on it by opion.

Snow in Egypt? No it's snow in Tochigi pref in Japan.

WORLD ORDER has released new PV "LAST DANCE". They danced in front of Fukushima nuclear plant and such issued stuff and buildings.

This is the one thier last PV. "Welcome to Tokyo". I guess they made this for Tokyo Olympic.

Did you read the news? "Egypt had snow for the first time in 112 years.It was ture, but the photo people shared in the world was fake! It was Japanese amusement park miniature. It was not real Sphinx, it was one in the TOBU worls square.

This one was shared in the world as snow on Spinx.1

But this is the snow in Tochigi pref in Japan :-)

This year's Kanji

This year's Kanji has selected today, it's 輪(wa). 輪 means round, circle, chain. The Kanji would be selected because Tokyo Olypic will be held in 2020, a long-running program Waratteiitomo announced the program will over next spring. The program was a kind of symbol of Japanese lunch time. "Telephone shocking" is a talking part of the host Tamori and guest, since today's guest call tomorrow's guest, the copy of the Telephone shocking is "chain friends".

An interesting article of BBC. "Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms? "　This is a movie from another TV show.

I guess, holiday season will be tough for Hikikomori people... そういや, I laughed a lot to see this. Christmas dinner for gamers. :-)

World order

Funny! their dance and idea.

Omotenashi!

New Ghost in the shell "ARISE border2 Ghost Whispers" has released in Japan. This is a trailer.

This is 8 minutes from the beginning.Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooove it!

The word of this year in Japan was relesaed from U-can. This year, they selected four this year. Two are from TV drama. One is from "Baigaeshi"(I will pay you back double) of Hanzawa Naoki which I picked a few month ago. One if from "JeJeJe" of Ama chan. It's a dialect of Iwate area. You can use when you are amazed. One from TV CM of cram school. "Ima desho" (it's now!). He said NOW is the time to study. Here is the AD.

Then last one is "Omotenashi" It's the word Christel Takigawa use in her speech at the 2020 Olympic bid in Buenos Aires. This is her original speech in French.

This is the one Japanese lady talk that speech in Engish! Good job