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Japan's Shinkansen
新幹線Japan's shinkansen is a true icon of the country: fast, stylish and safe.In service since 1964, the shinkansen rail network now stretches between the northern and southern tips of the main Japanese island of Honshu and to Fukuoka on Kyushu.Shinkansen at a glance2,459km of trackCarries around 370,000 people dailyReaches speeds of 300km per hourYahoo Japan Auction ServiceBook a hotel in Japan with BookingsTokyo Serviced ApartmentsJapan FriendsShinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Mod...

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[ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:20:14 -0600 ]


Colors in Japanese
色Listen to the colors in Japanese from JojiWe have looked at the numbers in Japanese and days of the week, another vocabulary category beneficial to quickly learn is colors (iro 色).White (shiro 白), black (kuro 黒), red (aka 赤), green (midori 緑), blue (ao 青), brown (chairo 茶色), yellow (kiiro 黄色), purple (murasaki 紫), orange (orenji オレンジ), pink (pinku ピンク), crimson (shinku 深紅), gray (haiiro 灰色).Notice that some of the colors are taken from English and w...

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[ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:58:24 -0600 ]


North Korean Girls' Choir
View a video of a North Korean Girls' Choir in Pyongyang, DPRK. JapanVisitorYahoo Japan Auction ServiceBook a hotel in Japan with BookingsTokyo Serviced ApartmentsJapan FriendsUnder the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim DynastyTagsPyongyang North Korea DPRK Korean Girls ...

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[ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:47:13 -0600 ]


Jellyfish at the Aquas Shimane Aquarium
??????????????I visited Shimane prefecture recently. Shimane is in the west of Japan, towards the south-western end of the main island, Honshu, and faces the Japan Sea. Shimane is Japans second least populated prefecture.Shimane prefecture is very picturesque, and is the ideal place to escape the bustle of the big city and unwind driving through the rolling countryside, or relaxing in one of the many hot springs, or onsen, that dot the region.I also visited the Aquas Shimane Aquarium (Shimane...

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[ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:22:04 -0600 ]


DPRK Mass Games 2008
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Mass Games, also known as the Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance, are held in Pyongyang's Rungnado May Day Stadium. The Mass Games are the opening night of a two-month festival that runs in various venues in Pyongyang.The 90-minute show presents the history and glories of the DPRK and the Kim Dynasty; the Mass Games involves over 100,000 participants, including highly-disciplined gymnasts, dancers, soldiers and school children, the lat...

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[ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:18:11 -0600 ]


Jellyfish at the Aquas Shimane Aquarium
??????????????I visited Shimane prefecture recently. Shimane is in the west of Japan, towards the south-western end of the main island, Honshu, and faces the Japan Sea. Shimane is Japans second least populated prefecture.Shimane prefecture is very picturesque, and is the ideal place to escape the bustle of the big city and unwind driving through the rolling countryside, or relaxing in one of the many hot springs, or onsen, that dot the region.I also visited the Aquas Shimane Aquarium (Shimane...

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[ Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:54:24 -0600 ]


Taro Aso Reality Tour
Three young demonstrators were arrested by Japanese police in Shibuya, Tokyo after taking part in a "Reality Tour" to view Prime Minister Taro Aso's luxury mansion located in the area on October 26.The march to the 6.2 billion yen apartment of Japan's latest PM, Taro Aso was organized by "Part-timer, Arbeiter, Freeter & Foreign Workers" to emphasise the income gap in Japanese society.Japanese police argue the demonstration was unauthorized and they had issued warnings to the participants to ...

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[ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:32:01 -0600 ]


KTX Train Seoul Station
??????The Korea Train eXpress (KTX) is South Korea's high-speed rail system, operated by Korail and connecting the capital Seoul to Busan via Daejeon and Daegu and Yongsan Station in Seoul to Gwangju and Mokpo.The KTX train is based on the French TGV model and has a top speed of 350 km/h, though 300 km/h is the normal operating speed for safety reasons.The KTX service between Seoul and Busan began in 2004 and the journey time is now 2 hours and 40 minutes and will be reduced further when the hig...

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[ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:43:00 -0600 ]


Meitetsu Railways
?????Nagoya Railroad company aka Meitetsu Railways is a major railway network in the Chubu region of central Japan. Meitetsu is headquartered at Nagoya Station and connects Nagoya with Inuyama, Gifu, Okazaki, Toyokawa Inari, Gamagori, Toyohashi, the Chita Peninsula and Chubu International Airport via Kanayama Station.Meitetsu also runs trains to various suburbs of Nagoya including Arimatsu, Chiryu, Tsushima, Hekinan and Toyota city.Meitetsu Railways has about 445km of track and the Meitetsu Grou...

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[ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:23:00 -0500 ]


Kintetsu Railways
??????The Kinki Nippon Railway Company (Kintetsu) connects Nagoya Station in the Chubu district of central Japan with Osaka Namba Station in the Kansai, Nara, Tenri and Kyoto as well as Kuwana and further south Toba and Kashikojima in the Ise Shima region of Mie Prefecture.Founded in 1910, the Kintetsu group of 137 companies also operates department stores based at its major railways stations in Japan and builds trains which are operated in the USA, Hong Kong and Egypt. Express trains that run o...

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[ Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:12:34 -0500 ]


Telling the time in Japanese
If you know the numbers in Japanese, you can quickly figure out how to ask and tell the time. ji (?) is the word for time; punor fun (?) is the word for minute.Listen to some time expressions in JapaneseWhat time is it now? ima nanji desu ka? ??????It's two o'clock. ni-ji desu ????It's ten o'clock. jyu-ji desu?????It's two twenty. ni-ji nijupun desu????????It's ten twenty-five. jyu-ji nijugofun desu ??????It's three thirty (half-past three). sanji sanjyupun/sanji han desu ?????It's ten fifty jy...

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[ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:31:23 -0500 ]


Arimatsu Matsuri Parade
??????I went back to see the Arimatsu Festival yesterday, as the main parade was washed out and was rearranged for yesterday.I'm glad I made the effort as the festival was a lot of fun especially the amazing karakuri mechanized puppets on top of the huge floats. The old man karakuri sticking out his tongue was amusing.Arimatsu is a small post-town on the ancient Tokaido highway (now National Route 1)between Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) and is well-known for its high quality shibori (tie-dye) products i...

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[ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:24:50 -0500 ]


Arimatsu Festival
????Last Sunday I went to see the annual Arimatsu Festival, though the main parade was washed out and has been rearranged for tomorrow.Arimatsu is a small post-town on the ancient Tokaido highway between Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) and is famous for its high quality shibori (tie-dye) products. Some beautiful historic merchant houses still remain, which are used as showrooms for Arimatsu shibori fabrics.The festival consists of a procession of large, ornate floats pulled through the streets, accompanie...

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[ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:14:00 -0500 ]


The Months & Days of the Week in Japanese
A couple of weeks ago we looked at the numbers in Japanese.If you know the numbers in Japanese, it's easy to form the months of the year.Listen to the months of the year in Japanese and the days of the weekJanuary is literally "one month", February "two month", March "three month" and so on. Just combine the numbers from 1 to 12 with gatsu (month). The kanji for "month" or "moon" can be read as gatsu, getsu or tsuki (?) .January is ichi (one) + gatsu (month) = ??February is ni (two) + gatsu (mon...

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[ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:24:01 -0500 ]


Japanese Monkeys Working In A Restaurant
????????These Japanese macaque monkeys are working in a Japanese izakaya in Tokyo serving hot towels and beer to customers. The monkeys - Yat-chan and Fuku-chan - are rewarded with soya beans as tips.The monkeys work in two-hour shifts and are certified employees. The owner of the pub is hoping to breed more monkeys to increase his simian staff.Yahoo Japan Auction ServiceBook a hotel in Japan with BookingsTokyo Serviced ApartmentsJapan FriendsHappi CoatsJapanese For Busy PeopleTagsJapanese monke...

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[ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:58:36 -0500 ]


Naked white man in Imperial Moat!
Stocks aren't the only things plunging. A much more smile-inducing plunge was that of the naked tourist yesterday into the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.Watch this YouTube video of Japanese TV coverage of the event, and the over-the-top police reaction to it.Yahoo Japan Auction ServiceBook a hotel in Japan with BookingsTokyo Serviced ApartmentsJapan FriendsHappi CoatsJapanese For Busy PeopleTagsJapan Tokyo Imperial Palace naked police ...

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[ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:01:00 -0500 ]


The Numbers in Japanese
??One of the first things a visitor to Japan should memorize are the numbers in both written and spoken form so here they are:Listen to the numbers in Japanese1 - ichi; ?2 - ni; ?3 - san; ?4 - shi (yon); ?5 - go; ?6 - roku; ?7 - nana (shichi); ?8 - hachi; ?9 - kyuu; ?10 - jyuu;??100 - hyaku??200 - ni-hyaku???1,000 - sen???2,000 - ni-sen??10,000 - ichiman???20,000 - ni-man???The numbers are useful in restaurants and shops and for saying your age if asked.watashiwa nana sai desu - I'm seven years ...

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[ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:18:26 -0500 ]


Film Preview: "The Witching Hour"
Kobe-based film director and screenwriter Darryl Knickrehm has provided JapanVisitor a clip of his latest film.The film is titled The Witching Hour. Darryl provided a bit of background below.Please come and watch the rough cut of the latest DK PRO short film on Youtube! It is called The Witching Hour. The clip is about 6 minutes long and features the music of Nine Inch Nails (it was made for the Nine Inch Nails film festival up on Youtube).A few of the effects and edits are still a bit rough, bu...

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[ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:51:04 -0500 ]


Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry & Technology
???????After visiting the Toyota Automobile Museum earlier this year, I was inspired to visit Toyota's other showpiece museum in Nagoya, the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry & Technology, not far from Nagoya Station.I was not disappointed; the museum is superb. The museum is housed in the original red brick buildings of the Toyoda (the forerunner of present-day Toyota Corp) textile factory and research center.The museum is divided in to two parts in separate buildings. The first build...

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[ Tue, 13 May 2008 21:49:09 -0500 ]


Kawagoe breakdance
???Kawagoe is a historic castle town to the northwest of central Tokyo, about 45 minutes by express train from Shinjuku. Certain streets of the central city are lined with weighty, ornate old merchant buildings, and, of course, the temples and shrines that grace most Japanese cities. It prospered so much in the Edo era from its trade with nearby Tokyo (then known as Edo) that it became known as "Little Edo."Kawagoe is now a tourist town attracting over 5 million visitors a year. It is easily acc...

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[ Sun, 04 May 2008 19:59:23 -0500 ]


Henro Pilgrims
??Listen to the sound of henro chantingA familiar sight at the temples of Shikoku are the scores of henro, white-clad pilgrims making their way around the 1,400km pilgrimage route of the 88 Sacred Temples of Shikoku.The pilgrimage covers the island in a clockwise route starting and finishing at Ryozenji Temple near Tokushima. The 88th temple is Okuboji Temple, south of Takamatsu.The pilgrims are retracing the route of Kobo Daishi (aka Kukai 774-835), the Buddhist saint and founder of the Shingon...

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[ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:09:53 -0500 ]


Tanuki
?There was a tanuki rooting around in my backyard this afternoon. Don't usually see them during the day as they are mainly nocturnal, which is why they are seen so often as road kill.Tanuki are omnivorous, and this one was rooting out bugs or worms. They are quite gentle creatures, rarely aggressive to humans, and this one let me get within a meter of it before it scuttled away.Tanuki are often erroneously referred to as badgers or raccoons, but they are not related to either of those species, b...

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[ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:45:31 -0500 ]


Kuritorisu
????Its a balmy spring Wednesday night outside. Im in Kuri to Risu (Chestnut and Squirrel), a lesbian night held every Wednesday at a bar in Shibuya (kuri-to-risu being thekatakanaform of the word 'clitoris'). Im talking to Fumi-san, a through-and-through Tokyoite in the sense of knowing whats what. Pizzacato Five. Wolfgang Tillmans. A soul DJ by the name of Takahashi. How Chinas mentality is too staid to really lead the 21st century and how it will be a conglomeration of China, the US, I...

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[ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:26:32 -0500 ]


Trainspotting in Japan
?????1000?????????With scores of different engine types employed by numerous private railway companies, Japan is a trainspotter's dreamland.Every weekend thousands of mostly young to middle aged men gather at stations across the nation photographing and videoing their speeding steel idols.I rode with a group of spotters in the front seats of a train recently and was amused to see them flashing the V peace sign with their fingers as we roared through stations to be caught on film by their rival g...

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[ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:31:17 -0500 ]


Kansai International Airport KIX
??????For those travelling to and from KIX from Kobe or points further west and north, a new connection service has started that cuts down on the journey time AND is cheaper. The high-speed ferry runs from Kobe Airport and takes just 30 minutes to cut across the bay. The fare is 1500yen for adults, 700 yen for kids.Due to Japanese transport systems shutting down through the night, it can sometimes be difficult to get to KIX for early morning flights without having to book a hotel in Osaka or at ...

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[ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:36:01 -0500 ]


A's, Red Sox get MLB show on the road
Major League Baseball created a lot of buzz in Japan when it opened its 2008 season in Tokyo with two games between the World Series champion Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics on March 25 and 26.The teams split the series, Boston winning a dramatic encounter on opening day 6-5 in 10 innings and the As holding on to win Game 2 by a score of 5-1. Both games were played at Tokyo Dome.Former Seibu Lion right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka became just the second Japanese native to start a season...

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[ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:24:02 -0500 ]


Okinawa jamming in Nakano, Tokyo
????????????? I was walking back to Nakano Station from a yoga lesson in Heiwa-no-mori Park in Tokyos Nakano ward at about 5pm yesterday (Sunday). The street fair I had noticed on the way was still in full swing, and the sounds coming out of it made me check it out.Being late in the day, several people were crashed out on the ground, but it was still buzzing. Stalls were selling food, booze, photos, jewelry, second hand books and magazines, and promoting one or two worthy causes.But the focus o...

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[ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:02:00 -0500 ]


so desu ne
???????????Theres a very useful phrase in Japanese that goes: So desu ne ("so dess nay"), as in the following conversation between a Boss (A) and a Worker (B). If not convinced, click each "so desu ne" to listen, reading the "translation" in parentheses.SO DESU NEA. Come in, come in. Its a little cool today, isnt it? B. So desu ne! (Yes, it is a bit.) A. Looking at the forecast I expected a bit of sun today. B. So desu ne. (Yes, guess I did too.)A. Pull up a chair. Theres one over there. B...

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[ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:31:17 -0600 ]


Peruvian Music At Kanayama Station
?????Listen to the music of Peruvian buskersAichi Prefecture along with nearby Shizuoka Prefecture has the largest numbers of South American residents in Japan. Many of them live in small satellite towns surrounding Nagoya, working in the automotive industry, toiling long hours at low pay to produce parts for such giants as Toyota and Mitsubishi.Sunday is usually the only day off during the week for these workers to relax and persue their interests. Occasionally it is possible to see a couple of...

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[ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:28:51 -0600 ]


Kunizakari Sake Museum Handa
?????????????Listen to a part of the sake museum guided tourJust across the road from the Vinegar Museum in Handa is the Kunizakari Sake Museum. The two liquids are historically Handa's biggest exports and have an intimate connection as vinegar can be made from sake lees - a by-product of sake production.The Kunizakari Sake Museum is free to enter and includes a guided tour of the building with exhibits of historic implements used in sake brewing and an explanation of the production process, a v...

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[ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:03:10 -0600 ]

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