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Various events leading to my birthday
First, I need mention Shoko Aramaki who volunteers at the Kitakyushu Municipal Art Museum as a tour guide because she treats me to lunch every year at a Japanese-style restaurant with a Zen-style garden of rocks which nobody sits on sand amidst ivy-like vines on fences bordering the parking lot. Before we have gone to restaurants in Kokura South ( Read more... ) -
Trip to South Korea
Lately I’ve run into a hefty firefighter from Honduras several times at JICA, as well as at the Wasshoi Hyakuman Summer Festival ( Read more... ) -
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Now, at half-past five the typhoon left this island of Kyushu in Miyazaki. Typhoon Man-Yi like most other storms missed us completely. So much for the strongest typhoon yet recorded in July. I couldn't help noticing that the reports of damage came in from the south of Kyushu before the typhoon even hit. Lately I get news articles from the ( Read more... ) -
Typhoon Man-Yi
The first of Kitakyushu's regional festivals, called Kokura Gion (Matsuri) was to be held this year on the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth. That's right, it started on Friday the thirteenth, an ill omen for sure. Sure enough, that day Typhoon Man-Yi (Bebeng in the Philippines, Number Four for 2007 in Japan) hit Okinawa and came into Japan ( Read more... ) -
Message to folks, Thursday 31 May 2007
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We left Kitakyushu on Thursday, 12 October 2006 and arrived in London that night. On Friday, 13 October 2006 in the morning we went to Big Ben near Westminster Abbey. The weather is cooler in England so I wore a jacket. According to Big Ben it was half past ten, or as many young people in Britain say, “half ten”. There was a statue across the ( Read more... ) -
Typhoon Shanshan
Typhoon Shanshan, from a girls' name in Hong Kong, was the strongest typhoon this decade, resulting in casualties and many injuries. It is the thirteenth typhoon this year in the Western Pacific (Southeast Asian) region. Refer to http://agora.ex. ( Read more... )