Author: Kazuo Yokobori

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Cyo-Ohkawara exhibition

Cyo means super. Mr. Kunio Ohkawara is a famous mechanical designer as he designed GUNDAM. Because Hyougo prefectural museum had his exhibition, I went to Hyogo-prefecture.Hyogo is neighbor prefecture of Osaka, easy to go from Osaka by railway. Hyogo means the armory. They said there was ancient armory in Yamato period (until about A.D. 600) for against invading army from west-south Japan and continental. Almost of Japanese museums, it cannot allow to take pictures in the museum. So, sorry here is no pictures inside. This is entrance of the exhibition room, MS-06S Zaku’s line art on large wall. And this (more…)
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Hakata DONTAKU

DONTAKU is famous festival in Fukuoka prefecture of Kyusyu island west south Japan. In addition, Fukuoka is my wife’s hometown. Hakata is a central downtown name in Fukuoka-city and it area is little almost around of Hakata station. Fukuoka-city is a port town and faces Hakata Bay. Name of “Hakata” is popular than “Fukuoka” in history. Many Japanese have misunderstanding “Hakata-city” exists as Fukuoka capital city. Really, they say it discussed to choose “Hakata-city” instead of “Fukuoka-city” when Tokugawa Shogun government returned political power to Emperor. In souvenir shops in Hakata-Station, There are very few items of named “Fukuoka…” souvenirs. (more…)
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Kunoh-san Tohsyoh-gu

Kunoh-san Tohsyoh-gu is a cemetery of Shogun Ieyas Tokugawa (A.D. 1542-1616).Kunoh-san means Mt. Kunoh. Tohsyoh-gu means the palace of shining east. After him dead, it established this palace for deifying Ieyasu Because this is ritual, so I can’t explain enough. It needs to divide his body to 2 parts and bury at south and north palaces from Edo-Castle. South palace is Kunoh-san Tohsyoh-gu, here. North on is Nikko Tohsyoh-gu in Tochigi prefecture. Then his started government (Edo-period) continues about 270 years (A.D 1603 – 1867).In the last of Edo-period, Tokugawa backed political power to Emperor with bloodless. Both of Tohsyou-gu (more…)
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Shizuoka Hobby show

Shizuoka-city in Japan is famous as city of a scale model.TAMIYA, BANDAI, Hasegawa etc. famous scale model companies head office and factory are in Shizuoka. The hobby show is for showing new products to public. I visited this hobby show because 1/1 scale GUNDAM is replace and rebuild for special item. It is large, it can enough look large crossover a railway. This station is Shizuoka station for Shinkan-sen express. Because GUNDAM is 18.2m, it is almost same as fifth floors building. Before GUNDAM TV animation, they said the animation Robot needs 50m height for toy sales. Godzilla height is (more…)
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New Tram(Nankou port town line)

New tram is a nickname of Osaka Nanko port town line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nank%C5%8D_Port_Town_Line Port town line is for new town in Osaka bay area named Nanko-port town. Nanko-port town and new port are business district around Osaka-bay was planned when Japan was in babble economics (A.D.1986-1991). Therefore, that project plan was too huge and it remained huge debit to Osaka-city. Local administrations and Japan government are holding huge debit, but almost of Japanese people cannot feel this problem and bad economic condition, we are living normally. Probably it reason is there are no bill collectors in Japan. Because Japanese government and (more…)