THE first greeting traditionally offered in Japan on New Year’s Day is Akemashite, o-medeto gozaimasu. So, akemashite, y’all! And Happy New Year!
Nakamura Mari, who has been performing as a busker (with an electric keyboard) in front of train stations until the last train of the day. She’s sold 80,000 CDs in four years. A group of 15,000...
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/all-you-have-to-do-is-look-152/
一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything A certain media outlet asked me to review some book about the South Korean presidential election. When I asked them if I could ...
Floats at the Sakurayama Hachiman-gu fall festival in Toyama, Gifu.
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/all-you-have-to-do-is-look-151/
一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything South Korean historical scholar Cheong Jae-jeong’s statement that Takeshima is the same as Mt. Fuji for the South Korean peop...
The 21st Kagura Festival in Aso, Kumamoto. The festival brings together different styles of Shinto kagura dance from around the country. This year 10 groups participated.
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/all-you-have-to-do-is-look-150/
Kukuchi-jo, a (perhaps) Korean-style fortress, now a national historical structure in a national park in Yamaga, Kumamoto. It is not known when it was built, but the name first appears in written...
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/all-you-have-to-do-is-look-149/
一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything Whenever the Emperor is brought up, the Japanese dispense with reason and lose their capacity for judgment. The Japan that exis...
一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything That portion of the elite capable of performing a role globally will in the future become detached from most of the low income ...
AT what point does one’s reaction to the absurdities of South Korea’s preoccupation with Japan pass from amusement at a diversion that resembles the ramblings of a wild-haired street corner p...
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/smallness-playing-large/
Giving young people the experience of harvesting and threshing rice as it was done in the middle ages at a rice paddy in Bungotakada, Oita, which has been designated as an important cultural land...
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/all-you-have-to-do-is-look-148-2/
一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything There has been a lot of discussion in South Korea recently that they’ve succumbed to the “Japanese Disease”. But the vast...
MANY Japanese are fascinated by the Edo period, which extended from 1603-1868. Among the many reasons is that was a period of vigorous cultural activity that was distinctively Japanese, as the co...
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/life-in-the-edo-period/
Twelfth-century warlord Taira no Kiyomori worshipped at the Kamo Shinto shrine in Tatsuno, Hyogo. The shrine recreates in period costume a procession with Kiyomori and his wife Tokiko.
https://ampontan.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/all-you-have-to-do-is-look-148/
一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything I do not repudiate either the “post-nation state” or regional devolution. It might be that the bright future for mankind is...