Author: Kazuo Yokobori

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Aibou cafe

AIBOU is Japanese popular TV drama series and it continues for 15 years. “AIBOU” is Japanese word and it means “Buddy system” in English. The experienced and young police detectives solve the cases. <Left side man is Katayama Ukyo (actor is Yutaka Mizutani), right is Touru Kai (Hirotaka Narumiya).> The “AIBO Café” is an advertisement event cafeteria and shop in Fujigawa highway service area. We can look Mt. Fuji from this service area in fine weather day and its 1.5 hours distance by car from Tokyo. <Mamoru Yonezawa (Seiji Rokkaku) is a staff in the crime laboratory investigation section.> Therefore, (more…)
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Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Industrial Heritage

Tomioka silk mill is a heritage in Gumma prefecture. China invented silk fabrics in ancient times and that industrial production started in Europe in 19th century. Tomioka silk mill is the first succeeded factory of silk thread mass production in worldwide. That silk exported to worldwide and silk fabrics popularize. By this reason, Tomioka silk mill became one of UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.The Tomioka Silk Mill became a World Heritage Site because it was the first in the world (19th century) to have a group of women who received a salary of more than 200 people. They were (more…)
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Mobile police patlabor

Mobile police patlabor (patrol labor) is Japanese animation in AD. 1990 by Mamoru Oshii. He is famous as a director of GHOST in the SHELL.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDX08ZY8Y48 The story is on little future Japan in 1999. Now we passed that story years. Current year is 2015 and A.D. 2015 is the future that Marty was time traveling from 1985 in Back to the future2 movie. Tablet pc and flat large panel TV are realized, but cars are on road yet. Labor mean is same as in English, but in this story, it has mean of name of robots for public construction work. (more…)
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Kobe port and Submarine SOURYU

Kobe port in Hyougo prefecture is a principal port in Japan same as Yokohama port in Kanagawa. That is physical distribution center and famous sightseeing point in west Japan. MOSAIC is a main commercial building in the Kobe port. It has many restrains, theater and shops. The restaurant ship CONCERT is landing in front of this building. We held our wedding ceremony on the CONCERTO and CONCERTO makes free of a course dinner for a person bills on wedding anniversary day, so we usually go to Kobe for dinner on anniversary day. Beside of MOSAIC are a little amusement park (more…)