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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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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…)