Web Censorship in China
Google is out, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are banned in China. However, Wikipedia is now available in China. Truth is I really don’t care if Facebook, Youtube and Twitter is not available in China because there ...
Category Archives: Commentary
What is this?
Rather than me trying to find something to write about every week I decided to post a photo of something and ask the readers “What is it?”. Rules are easy just tell me what you think what is pictured here an...
27 Commonly misused words
1. Adverse/Averse Adverse means unfavorable. Averse means reluctant. 2. Afterwards Afterwards is wrong in American English. It’s afterward. 3. Complement/Compliment This one seems common. Complement is something that a...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.")
