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Well its been a while since I found some intresting stories while day tripping through Japanese news sites! But today I found two good ones at Japan Today.
First its good too know that no matter how sick or injured you might be that in Japan its very likely that you could be rejected from entering a Japanese Hospital!! goto Patients rejected by Tokyo hospitals
Increasing number of patients with fever rejected by Tokyo hospitals › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
This story is just to hard to believe, here in the USA we close schools for weeks at a time cause some kid comes to school with a head cold..Great.
The next gem is the happy news that the good old SCA has found a good home in Japan... geeees. Do I never miss those guys from my Science fiction convention going days! What a pack of tubbies and remember I'am not a small guy myself. goto
http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/go-knight-clubbing-in-mejiro
Go knight clubbing in Mejiro › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
Oh by the way why is there a sticky warning on the title of this thread? Are we not all adults here?
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Kyoto, Japan
Watching PBS today, I came across a Rudy Maxa episode on Kyoto, Japan. Even though I've read and viewed countless items on Kyoto, he drew it all together in a way I'd never really thought about. As he writes in his introduction: class blockquote The spiritual heart of Japan, Kyoto offers a glimpse of Japanese life as it used to be, primarily because it was never bombed during World War II.Because it was never bombed, so much of the ancient is still there, untouched. It was an amazing travel program. Kyoto was a special historical site all on its own in the past, but to see that it still contains many of the old sections, craft shops, culture, rock gardens, moss gardens, and so on is stunning.
There are some beautiful photos Mr. Maxa has put up in a slide show on his website. It's worth taking a look, but it cannot do justice to the program itself as he takes us through small specialty shops, an old-fashioned inn, even the Hyatt Regency Kyoto, which is heavily influenced by the traditional appearance while giving the privacy and amenities that travelers want today.
Maxa also toured a neighboring rural town, Ohara, which grows vegetables for Kyoto and is known for its pickles. He sampled pickles in a store that sells 39 types, ranging from eggplant, to radish, to nearly any vegetable you can imagine. A sweet shop had the most beautifully formed and decorated delicacies imaginable, mostly featuring the azuki "red bean paste."
In the end, Mr. Maxa quotes Basho on the beauty of Kyoto... class ul Even in Kyoto—
hearing the cuckoo's cry—
I long for Kyoto.Rudy Maxa's World
Clickable map of Kyoto and surroundings.
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Nchristi, thanks for posting the link to Mr. Maxa's website and his wonderful slide show of photos taken in Kyoto. What a beautiful city full of history, culture, and nature. If I ever visit Japan someday, Kyoto is the one city that I look forward to seeing the most, especially since the ancient parts of the city are still there. What a feeling it must be to wander the streets of Kyoto, thinking about all the historical figures from our taiga dramas who might have walked around the same areas hundreds of years ago!
Yep, Kyoto is known for its traditional Japanese sweets. I was taking a Japanese Conversation class a couple of semesters ago, and one of my classmates, who had visited Kyoto recently, gave the class a slide show presentation of photos he had taken there. When he showed us a photo he had taken in a sweet shop, the entire class was surprised—the delicacy was shaped in the form of a pink flower (perhaps a cherry blossom) and was so beautifully formed. My classmate commented that the delicacy looked so beautiful that he felt guilty after eating it!
What a beautiful city. Truly a historical treasure.
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There is one of those Japan video topics that talks about the different seasonal Wagashi. They don't show that one on UTB that often though,
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