Japanese School Year is over in March and Pai-chan's finally free, however I may have to stay as a senior grader due to some physical check results. Teachers do not agree on my graduation from the school, rather they want me to stay in their classes again. I don't know why. Anyway, Pai-chan is a fully capable adult and want to become more a mature, sexier gurl. What do you think ?… Read more

This Year's First Sakura Cherry Blossoms Opened today at Nagoya, Fukuoka Compared to average year, 9 days earlier in Fukuoka, 4 days earlier in Nagoya.… Read more

A 1,780 metres (5,840 ft) long Tsunoshima Bridge was opened in 2000. At the time it was the longest toll free bridge in the country, though the completion of the Kouri Bridge in Okinawa prefecture pushed it into second place. Tsunoshima is an island in Yamaguchi-ken with only 900 inhabitants. A Lighthouse was first lit on March 1, 1876, in the Meiji period, named Tsunoshima Lighthouse. As one of only six lighthouses at that time in Japan… Read more

Shunan City Industrial Complex (周南市工業地区), Yamaguchi-ken More widely known and included in Setouchi Inland Industrial area, Shunan City's zone specializes in oil, chemical related industries.… Read more

Cape Shiriyazaki is part of Shimokita Hanto Quasi-National Park. As the northern most east edge of Honshu, it features many wetlands and treasured rare flowers and mountainous plants. Built in December 1901, the Shiriyazaki Lighthouse was the first electric lighthouse. It was selected as one of the top 50 lighthouses of Japan and is the local symbol. Brick structure designed by R.H. Brunton. The Lighthouse is also equipped with fog bell being the first fog signal in Japan. Since this optical de… Read more

Tokyo was 20.4 C daytime high ... lots of sunshine and very warm day it was .... Mount Fuji at 13:00(04:00 UTC)... Fuji ice cream melting ....… Read more

Once a beautiful wooden town in historical times, Nagoya is one of the few modern Japanese cities to have been carefully planned and zoned after the destruction of the War ended 1945. In fact, the city is a spacious, well-planned, urban center that oozes prosperity due to the location of Japan's largest company - Toyota - in the town as well as a substantial number of blue-chip precision-engineering companies driven by Toyota's success. http://blog-imgs-87.fc2.com/s/k/b/skbjkjsk/Lexus_CT_200h_F_SPORT_006_… Read more

20 Nagoya, Uwajima (Ehime-ken) 21 Tokyo, Gifu 22 Fukuoka, Kochi, Wakayama 23 Kumamoto, Yokohama… Read more

The Aso Fire Festival (阿蘇の火祭り) is a month long festival held in towns around the volcanic Mount Aso (阿蘇山) in Kyushu. As the name suggests, this festival involves a lot of fire and a spectacular experience in witnessing how villagers burn down grasses on Mount Aso. The festival is rather new. It began in 1984 as an effort of the local farmers to coordinate the seasonal burning of the grasses from their fields. The motivation behind this was to turn the burning into a spectacle that would attract tourism to the area. At various… Read more

仙台秋保温泉緑水亭 Soothing open air "Rotenburo" in a large Japanese garden… Read more

Japanese common folktales are called "Mukashi-banashi"= 昔話 (tales of "long ago" or from "bygone times") and they typically open with the formula "Mukashi mukashi somewhere in....." (akin to "Once upon a time...") These tales had been told in their local dialects, which may be difficult to understand to outsiders, both because of intonation and pronunciation differences, conjugations, and vocabulary. Many folktales collected from the field are actually "translations" into standard Japanese (or more like adaptation… Read more

Aso Uchinomaki Onsen (阿蘇内牧温泉) Kumamoto-ken, Kyushu… Read more

So called "White Day" is a relatively new phenomenon created by the confectionery industry in Japan and was first celebrated in 1978. A Fukuoka-based confectionery company, Ishimura Manseido (石村萬盛堂), marketed marshmallow products to men on March 14, 1977 calling it "Marshmallow Day" (マシュマロデー). While Marshmallow Day did not succeed as a cultural phenomenon, the National Confectionery Industry Association (全国飴菓子工業協同組合) established White Day as an "answer day" or "reply day" to Valentine's Day ex… Read more

Kyoto 京都… Read more

(An Open-air Rotenburo - no towels allowed inside the tub) (Indoor public Onsen) (One kind of Time-reserved onsen if available) (A typical dinner : moderate menu, an example) (Plus such kind of soup or miso soup etc if you like) http://blog-imgs-87.fc2.com/s/k/b… Read more

Yokohama Marathon tomorrow (March 13, 2016)… Read more

Arita ware (Imari) Old Imari is quite probably the most famous Japanese ceramic product in the world. China, the dominant exporter of porcelain, fell into internal disturbances in 1644 and it became hard to obtain Chinese products. The west requested Japan to step up production of porcelain instead of China because Europe did not have the techniques to make porcelain at that time. Thus substantial amounts of Japanese… Read more

March 11, 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami, Fukushima Nuke Plant Disaster ....… Read more

Kawarayu(川原湯) was a small Onsen located in Naganohara, Gunma-ken. The town was surrounded by a thick forest, and known for its waterfall and the gorges created by the Azuma river. Kawarayu-onsen was an old Onsen, named almost 800 years ago after a Buddhist priest Kawara (川原朝臣権頭光林) who discovered this Onsen for own healing. Another story says that this spring was rather discovered by Minamoto Yoritomo (源頼朝=the first Shogunate at Kama… Read more

Akaigawa-mura(village), Yoichi, Hokkaido (北海道余市赤井川村) Population 1,149 as of December 2015… Read more