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ASHIGARA=TOKYO-3

TOKYO-3 is fictitious city name in Neo Genesis Evangelion of TV animation. This TV animation was broadcasting in TV Tokyo station. Tokyo is the actual capital city in Japan (Means of the “actual” is Japan has no laws about Tokyo as capital city. People in Kyoto city say Kyoto is capital also now), but TV Tokyo is calling as Tokyo “LOCAL” TV station. Other TV stations in Tokyo have networks for all over Japan, TV Tokyo does not have enough network. So, it Tokyo LOCAL. TV Tokyo’s budget is fewer than other Tokyo-key TV station companies and Evangalion on air (more…)
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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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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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Osaka water festival

Osaka is water-city because it has many rivers and canals. This festival has no constant style though it is annual event. This is an event, what is called, for advancement of Osaka economic. Osaka-city continues try and errors. In 2013, huge rubber duck appeared in main field. Here is in front of Osaka-city center market beside river Aji-gawa. And here is an old port of Osaka, it was called as “Kawaguchi port”. Now it is called “Nakanoshima gate”, is an event field and is not port. Why we have a port in here, Kawaguchi is a foreign settlement and for (more…)