23
Jun
Classic Clip from Movie: City of Life And Death - Japanese Drump Play
Seventeenth part of 風さわやかに(Kaze sawayaka ni - Refreshing Wind), a celebration video made by the 越谷市立富士中学校(Fuji junior High School, Koshigaya City) in 越谷市(Koshigaya), 埼玉県(Saitama prefecture), in year 1997. Here are some classroom scenes.
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16
Jun
Japan - Countryside - Minakuchi Shrine - Koka City - Shiga Prefecture
Author: admin // Category: japan city life
Andando por Minakuchi, Shiga. Vista a este bonito templo no meio da cidade. Adoro esse lugar, traz uma paz, uma tranquilidade. Sempre otimo meditar por ali, para aliviar o stress, trazer harmonia interior, equilibrio.
The benefits of routine meditation are enormous. Not only is regular meditation scientifically proven to improve your health and well being it also provides a method for visualizing and achieving life goals. Meditation is an incredibly simple yet powerful tool for stress relief, relaxation, visualization and personal transformation.
Koka City is located in the southern part of Shiga Prefecture, bordering Kyoto and Mie Prefectures. We are famous for our ninja history, fine quality ceramics and historic Tokaido Road. Koka is different from many popular destinations in Japan in that you can make a visit here without having to face the crowds of people or “touristy” atmosphere that you will find in many other destinations. We take pride in the fact that we have preserved our history and culture without over-development. Visiting Koka is a refreshing experience that will allow you to see Japan as it was meant to be seen. We are distant enough from the hustle and bustle to enjoy a unique serenity, however we are close enough to several major hubs to be easily accessible. The JR train line services several stations in Koka to link us to the rest of the country. Being only a short train ride from Kyoto, Koka makes an ideal day trip.
We are located approximately 40 kilometers (about 25 miles) east of Kyoto City. Osaka and Nagoya are also within 100 kilometers (about 62 miles). The southeastern section of Koka is encompased by the Suzuka Mountain Range, with many peaks reaching over 1000 meters, (3280 feet). Much of the rest of the city is low and flat, with forests, greenery and rivers. Having an area of 482 square kilometers (186 square miles), Koka City encompasses roughly 12% of the area of Shiga Prefecture.
Koka City is a merger of five districts that were once independent towns: Shigaraki, Minakuchi, Konan, Koga and Tsuchiyama. All of these districts share a rich history steeped in tradition. Since ancient times the region (historically known as Koga) has been famous for its distinctive pottery and delicious teas. In the 15th century Koga became famous for being home to one of Japan’s two largest Ninja clans. Furthermore, Tokaido Road, the historical travel rout between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto, runs right through the heart of modern day Koka City.
Koka City experiences four distinct seasons, with warm summers, cool winters and a mild spring and autumn. Average annual rainfall is about 1,550mm (61 inches) and snowfall is usually quite low, with an average year seeing less than 20cm (8 inches).
As of December 31, 2006 Koka City has a population of 95,772 people with 31,284 households.
甲賀市（こうかし）は、滋賀県の南部に位置する市。2004年10月1日に甲賀郡の水口町、土山町、甲賀町、甲南町、信楽町が合併して誕生した。西部・南部は京都府、三重県と境を接する。
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Day 3 of my Hokkaido Trip. Went to Otaru, a city in Hokkaido, and went to some tourist spots in there~
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This is a very famous place to go and see the cherry blossoms….This name of this place is called Senbako…..
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THIS IS NOT A FLEA MARKET! Its a Matsumoto tradition and a fine craft fair known across Japan! I have to say: There are no resellers here its all original hand made and one of a kind stuff.
The Annual Craft Fair in Agata-no-mori on its traditional last weekend in May is always a really nice event with a pleasant atmosphere. Its a real family affair and child-friendly. There is plenty of space to sit down on the grass and have a picnic, and watch the world go by. This event seems to be getting bigger every year. There are many more vendors and the park is positively bulging with visitors looking for something special to take home.
The stalls here offer everything you could possibly imagine at a craft fair and then some. Some things you might expect: the knick-knacks and trinkets, beads and bracelets, from toys to furniture, cloth, clothes and fabrics, incense, candles and one of kind hand bags and shoes. Would you expect to find a working metal smith or a glass blower? Right there! Need a straw brush or bamboo works, hand made fabrics and beautiful Japanese pottery, ceramics, glass and fine carpentry. I even saw a clock maker and some one of a kind hand made watches! Theres a tent for everyone. Not sure what to get for that impressive birthday gift? Look no further! Wander about and have a look around. You will need some yen though, bargains are few & far between. All of the craft workers here are professionals not hobbyists. Cash baby cash!
As for food there are a few tents that offer coffee, beer, ice cream and awesome curry! There was even a person making candy sculptures that were quite amazing and a shame to eat.
To get there: Head away from Matsumoto station on the main street (eki mae dori) and keep walking for about 20mins - until you can go no further. Its a strait shot right out of the main exit at the station.
Check out the city website here its super gaijin friendly and packed with whats up in Matsumoto:
http://welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp/
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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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Urban - Osaka And Kobe City Japan. A GCSE Geography Case Study Revision Video On The Urban Growth Of Cities And The Quality Of Life In An MEDC Country - geogplanet
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A music trip through modern and traditional parts of Japans capital. Sorry for the reflections at the beginning. Video in full (stereo) quality available on my website http://www.blueplanetvideos.com
Get clips of this video as royalty free stock footage in full DV resolution at the microstock site Pond5 (R).
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A short video clip in Ginza, Tokyo. Ginza is a great place for shopping, when you have enough money ^_^
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