122 days ago by Keith Morrell

Earlier this year Coca-Cola Japan and the Japanese Red Cross installed one hundred donation boxes in vending machines in June of this year (2011). NHK Video If you have never been to Japan, when walking along any street you can’t escape the vending machines are bright and always full of random drink ...

Gouka Seishi - goukaseishi.com · Rank: 185,054 · 6 references

148 days ago by AdventureRob

Everyone knows about the Great Tohoku Earthquake which hit Japan on March 11th 2011, I mentioned the tohoku earthquake previously as I was based in Fukushima so certainly felt the 9.0 shock (was previously a 8.9 but upgraded after analysis). 5 months later, a lot of damage repair and things are most ...

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155 days ago by AJD

I have been back in Japan for 10 days and it feels good. It is hot, humid and sweaty. Not to everybody’s taste but I love it; an escape from the impending and inevitable drawing in of the nights in the UK and the prospect of a cold damp winter that will inevitably follow. I have walked the temples o ...

Get beneath the surface - ... - insidejapanblog.com · 2 references

283 days ago by Kevin Thomas Hurley

千羽鶴, or senbadsuru, is a group of one thousand origami paper cranes held together by strings. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. This past March I was beginning a ...

Kevin in Shanghai - kevinincairo.blogspot.com · 3 references