Street View Video – Oita Kamegawa Part 1 and 2
The bicycle cam. This was taken back in April. The Kamegawa old shopping district in Beppu, Oita Japan. Read the full post ...
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Street View Video: NingMing, Guangxi
[cincopa 10624383] Here is Part 1 of the Iroha Project Street View for the main street in NingMing, Guangxi. This is over the shoulder of the driver of the three wheeled motorbike/taxi. Read the full post ...
Japanese Anime and Manga Website
A new website, ‘Japanese in Anime and Manga’, for learners of Japanese who like Japanese animation and comic books, is now open! It’s an e-learning site that offers a fun way to learn a number of character/genre-ba...
Photo restoration
I just had the chance to go through and sort through some old photographs all of which need restoration work done. Photo restoration is something I always enjoyed – photographing the original and retouching the pho...
International vs Domestic Students
I am not sure who are the worst offenders of rule breakers. The international students or the domestic students? Japanese have always had a reputation of being friendly and obedient and in the view of Japanese people the...
三線 Sanshin
The Sanshin is a three string Okinawan instrument from which the Japanese shamisen (三味線) originated. The original sanshin consists of a python covered body, neck and three string and has close ties to China where i...
Street view video: PingXiang, Guangxi
[cincopa 10624293] You have been all waiting for it now you have it. Google has Google street view I have the Iroha Project Street View. I am the only one with a street view cam of Pingxiang and Ningming. Pingxiang is th...
Wikipedia now online in mainland China
Wikipedia the free encyclopedia has for a long time been banned in mainland China because it is an open content system allowing people to edit articles, is now online here. Not that I use it a lot but for some things it ...
A brief history about the town of Ningming
The town of NingMing is located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southwest China. Three and a half hours southwest by train from Nanning and about an hour and a half north of the Vietnam border. A very mounta...
World No Tobacco Day May 31
World No Tobacco Day May 31. I am just trying to find out just how many people knew about this day and how well it was advertised. It seems to be another project of the World Health Organization but I doubt it was well a...
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![It originates on the misfortune day [Red tongue day]. Besides, it is assumed the misfortune by the good luck only until about 1 PM of 11 AM. It takes care about the origin of fire and cutlery. The thing that [Death] is associated in a word is noted.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku5.gif "It originates on the misfortune day [Red tongue day]. Besides, it is assumed the misfortune by the good luck only until about 1 PM of 11 AM. It takes care about the origin of fire and cutlery. The thing that [Death] is associated in a word is noted.")
