Japanese City Life

I’m back for another tour of my Japanese apartment. Only this time- it’s bigger!
This was filmed in Tsukuba Science City, Japan, about 45 minutes outside of Tokyo (accessible via the Tsukuba Express, or TX). I hope you enjoy, and check back later for informative videos on food, life, people, and culture in Japan!
The website for the apartment is here: http://jsthouse.com/ninomiya/index.htm
If you plan on living here, keep in mind that it is only intended for international researchers, so your company should help you out. Post any questions about it to the comments section, and I’ll hopefully be able to answer them. Thanks for watching! ^_^

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hello everybody, I need to find out where I can read about dog day-care center in Japan. A friend of mine, is coming to visit me and she is thinking to bring her doggie. From Japan to Spain, I think it would be a very hard travel for the doggie, and would like to inform her about Japanese dog day-care center. I can not tell you the city where she lives, so, I would need information about all around Japan.
Thanks a lot.

We have some information in Japanese.
http://pethotel.s-kzy.net/

But not much information in English.

Mad City: Annabelle Lane wears a red dress, enemies move slower, driving stages go in a straight line and takes more than one hit for you to die. It is also said to be a quiz mode that can be unlocked after the game is beaten.

Bayou Billy: There are some NES exclusive DPCM generated voice clips that are in English, such as “The Adventures of Bayou Billy”, & Godfather Gordon’s laugh. Annabelle is a lot sexier. She dresses like Daisy Duke. Difficulty is ruthless because the enemeies move alot faster and are slightly harder to avoid. Driving scenes are tougher because you die instantly when you get hit and you have to deal with curves in the road. Before advancing to the next stage, the NES has the screen saying “This stage uses the controller/Zapper”. And lastly, the Game Over screen when you run out of continues. Only the NES has that chilling picture of Billy struggling for his life.

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Black Digital Multi-Band 5 G-Shock Watch with Resin Band featuring 4 daily alarms/1 snooze alarm, World Time, 200-meter water resistant and Auto EL backlight with Afterglow. Multi-Band Atomic Timekeeping (US, UK, Germany, Japan). Receives time calibration radio signals which keep the displayed time accurate. Auto receive function (6 times per day). Manual receive function. Signal: US WWVB, UK MSF, Germany DCF77, Japan JJY40/JJY60. Frequency: US 60kHz, UK 60kHz, Germany 77.5kHz, Japan 40/60kHz. Tough Solar Power. Shock Resistant. 200M Water Resistant. Auto EL Backlight with Afterglow. World Time. 29 times zones (48 cities), city code display, daylight saving on/off. 5 Daily Alarms (1 with snooze). Countdown Timer. Measuring unit: 1/10 second. Countdown range: 1 minute to 60 minutes. 1/100 second stopwatch. Measuring capacity: 999:59 mins. 59.99 secs. Measuring modes: Elapsed time, split time, 1st-2nd place times. Hourly Time Signal. Auto Calendar (pre-programmed until the year 2099). 12/24 Hour Formats. Accuracy:

Well some partys starts from 22:00 till 5:00 …but this is Japan in some other clubs the party finish at 15:00 Sunday ! ( usual finish time is 11:00 )
Thats K.O. Many People !
Dj Silver Fox and DJ TAI SOULSEEK (TOKYO ELECTRO DeLUX/JP)
Check out :DJ TAI SOULSEEK (TOKYO ELECTRO DeLUX/JP) at : http://www.myspace.com/rastatai
Check out Dj Silver Fox at : http://www.facebook.com/people/Emanuel-Hayashi/561211641
http://www.odeon-bar.com/

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So how’s your credit crunch going? Cancelled the family holiday? Job under threat? Imagine it’s 15 years from now and things are even worse. The businesses you used to run are a distant memory, as are your three marriages. Now, middle-aged and broken, all that stands between you and homelessness is a part-time job at the post office (£3.50 an hour) and the waning tolerance of your young girlfriend whose tiny studio flat you share in a dead-end provincial town. Sounds like the sort of vision of the future that might have kept the G20 bigwigs awake in their London embassies last week. In fact, it’s the all-too real life of Naoki, an entrepreneur who fell between the fissures that tore apart the Japanese economy in the early Nineties and ended up as part of its unenviable underclass, the “new poor”.

Despite being the world’s second largest economy, Japan has never recovered. As a warning to us all of how deeply long-term recession can hobble lives, Sean McAllister’s intimate portrait of Naoki and his 29-year-old girlfriend Yoshie, Japan: a Story of Love and Hate (BBC4) almost unbearable. Luckily, if that’s the word, the weird extremities of Japanese society kept the privations of their lives at an almost surreal distance. Yoshie’s flat in Yamagata city was so small that McAllister conducted half of his interviews with Naoki at the foot of the bed in which you could see Yoshie sleeping fitfully. And, when Yoshie was at home, she was in bed, the result of holding down several jobs, one of which was as an escort to tipsy Japanese businessmen in local bars. If she wasn’t half-cut from work, she was compulsively wolfing down a midnight feast, a bizarre side-effect of the anti-depressant she took nightly. Imagine a short story somewhere between Haruki Murakami and Raymond Carver, and this might have been the scenario.
It’s a mystery how Naoki maintained the rueful grin behind the cigarettes he chain-smoked. There was some light relief: unlike his sad-looking fellow wage slaves at the post office, Naoki couldn’t help sniggering at his boss’s po-faced pep talks about road safety on their rounds. And the only way he and his girlfriend’s disapproving father got along, finally, was by comparing their experiences with Viagra. Most memorable, though, were Naoki’s old cine films of the mass protests against the Vietnam war he took part in in the late Sixties: along with many others, the young Naoki violently objected to the presence of US airbases in Japan. You were left wondering why the Japanese have not been able to muster any of that old, insurrectionary energy in the past two decades of their decline.
After the deathly quiet streets of Yamagata city, downtown Baltimore, gangsters, bent cops and all, looked a hoot in The Wire. The BBC has done the decent thing, finally, and given David Simon and Ed Burns’s crime-and-punishment epic its terrestrial debut. If you’re new to it, and haven’t been thoroughly put off by its Greatest TV Drama Since The History of Forever reputation, you’re already five episodes in and possibly reeling. The Wire, notoriously, doesn’t hang around for anyone who’s not au fait with Baltimore Police Department general orders or the fruity language of its drug-dealing 14-year-olds. A bit of advice then: catching it at the end of every weekday night without the box-set DVDs’ pause or rewind button (or subtitles) is asking a lot, so just persevere with the hoppers, re-ups and burners and all, eventually, will become horribly, wonderfully clear.

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Silver Multi-Band 5 Pathfinder Watch features Atomic Timekeeping, Digital Dial Code and Titanium Band. Features Tough Solar Power, Digital Compass, Altimeter, Barometer and Thermometer. Multi-Band Atomic Timekeeping (US, UK, Germany, Japan). Receives time calibration radio signals which keep the displayed time accurate. Auto receive function (6 times per day). Manual receive function. Signal: US WWVB, UK MSF, Germany DCF77, Japan JJY40/JJY60. Frequency: US 60kHz, UK 60kHz, Germany 77.5kHz, Japan 40/60kHz. Tough Solar Power. Digital Compass. 16 points of measurement. Measuring range: 0 to 359 degrees. Measuring unit: 1 degree. Altimeter. Measuring range: -700 to 10,000m (-2,300 to 32,800ft). Measuring unit: 5m (20ft). Auto memory measurements. Altimeter Memory. Memory capacity: 40 records. Measurement data: altitude, month, date, time. High / Low altitude memory. Cumulative ascent / descent memory. Relative altitude display. Altitude tendency graph. Altitude differential graphic. Altitude alarm. Barometer. Display range: 260 to 1,100 hPa (7.65 to 32.45 inHg). Display unit: 1 hPa (0.05 inHg). Atmospheric pressure tendency graph. Atmospheric pressure differential grapic. Thermometer. Display range: -10 to 60 C (14 to 140 F). Display unit: 0.1 C (0.2 F). 100M Water Resistant. Low Temperature Resistant (-10 C / 14 F). Full Auto EL Backlight with Afterglow. Duplex LCD. World Time. 29 times zones (30 cities), city code display, daylight saving on/off. 5 Daily Alarms. Countdown Timer. Measuring unit: 1 second. Countdown range: 1 minute to 60 minutes. Auto-repeat function. 1/100 second stopwatch. Measuring capacity: 9:59 mins.59.99 secs. Measuring modes: Elapsed time, split time, 1st-2nd place times. Hourly Time Signal. Auto Calendar (pre-programmed until the year 2099). 12/24 Hour Formats. Accuracy:

Ok. Here’s my story. I’m in 9th grade. My dream job is to become an English teacher in Japan.I live in Hawaii and..the colleges here aren’t so great. I plan to attend college somewhere on the west coast so my parents could visit me more frequently. ( or at least..that’s what they want lol) So..what are some good colleges that offer good English majors on the west coast..or offers something that would help me become a successful English teacher in Japan?
Thanks..:D
what’s life like in Japan, by the way? what cities are good to live in.. ( ideally, I’m looking for something that’s not too densely populated, not too polluted, and has a low crime rate..etc.) i just LOVE Japan!

All of the California schools as well as University of Oregon, University of Washington, probably have many Japanese exchange students coming and going all the time (I go to University of Oregon, there are many students from Hawaii, pretty good English program, and always tons of exchange students, and a good Japanese program if you’re interested in doing both Japanese and English… not to mention a well respected Education school once you finish undergrad.)

UofO is in a medium sized city, but pretty quaint, low to moderate crime, party scene but lots of academic non-partiers too, lots of Japanese exchange students and international activities on campus all the time, school spirit.

So consider it? Haha. Good luck in the big college decision! It can be tough!

Aug 1995
“I write this as a warning to the world…” headlined London’s Daily Express in 1945. The story was filed by Wilfred Burchett; the first Western journalist into Hiroshima - Japan after the atomic bomb explosion on 6th August, 1945.

What Burchett saw profoundly affected his life. In one hospital the patients wanted to kill him and he was forced to flee. Others begged him for a cure to the disease he christened ‘Atomic Plague’. Burchett went on to report the communist side of the war in Vietnam, provoking such outrage in his native Australia that he was refused entry for 20 years. He finally died in 1983 in Bulgaria, spurned by the West. This film contains interviews and shocking archive footage of the utterly destroyed city of Hiroshima and hospitalised victims of the blast.

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I don’t smoke. But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t enjoy the Tobacco and Salt museum in Shibuya. Its not the greatest museum ever, surely. But it is worth a peak inside if you are in the area, especially because the entry fee is only ¥100.

Occasionally the temporary exhibit on the 4th floor is surprisingly interesting. The 3rd floor salt area is highly miss-able.

Music:
“100 Cigarettes” by Big Sugar

As for the other museums I recommended:

The Edo-Tokyo Museum
http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/english/index.html

The Parasite Museum
http://kiseichu.org/eaboutus.aspx

And of course…
TokyoCooney.com

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