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2013-06-20 01:13 JST 2013 Coming this way . . . Check out this page for more information: http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 2 · Comments: 0 · Shares: 0 ← 2013-06-16 12:24 JST 2013-06-21 21:18 JST → Around this time … 2013-06-29 10:20 JSTTo Takamori Town by tram! 2013-06-29 10:18 JSTThis page is in English but, somehow, the blurb you see below came out in Japanese. At any rate, the blog talks about how "bicycles can be taken on trains of Kumamoto Electric Railway for free" and how at "Kita Kumamoto Station where I changed a train I could finally see the 'greed frog'!!", etc.http://kumanago.jp/en/blog/2013/06/26/the-train-with-wrap-advertising-of-keroro-gunso-so-called-a-green-frog.htmlBlog Kumamoto Nagomi Tourism Site 2013-06-29 17:40 JSTThis Tanabata festival will be going on from the 4th of July through the 7th at the Takamori Tunnel in Aso:http://kumanago.jp/topics/?mode=detail&id=940http://kumanago.jp/thumb.php?mw=300&mh=240&path=./topics/photo/1372229493.jpg 2013-06-25 22:05 JSTPR Character “KUMAMON” to Participate in “Japan Expo” for … 2013-06-21 21:18 JSTThough this cover image is not of Kumamoto Castle, this article says that Kumamoto Castle has been ranked as number one of all of Japan's castles in a survey done by travel website TripAdvisor."Taking the top spot was Kumamoto Castle. Oddly enough, Kumamoto was the only member of the group traditionally referred to as “Japan’s Three Great Castles” in the top 20, as neither Osaka nor Nagoya Castle were chosen for the honor.Visitors ranked Kumamoto highly for its watchtowers and sweeping stone foundation created by master castle designer Kato Kiyomasa. One visitor remarked that the building’s low ceilings and squeaking wooden nightingale floors, designed to alert guards to the presence of an intruder, made hum feel like he had slipped back in time to when the structure was first built, 400 years ago."http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/06/21/travelers-rank-japans-20-best-castles/Travelers rank Japan’s 20 best castles 2013-06-20 01:13 JSTComing this way . . . (this post) 2013-06-16 12:24 JSTI posted the following on the YahooGroups side of Kumamoto-i:http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/05/national/minamata-recognition-criter\ia-called-outrage/#.Ubxydxac1K6Unfortunately, however, RSS Graffiti, which I've been using to forward items from YahooGroups to this page, isn't very reliable lately.I wrote a bit about this article on Minamata disease and a parallel with the Fukushima issue on YahooGroups at the following address:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumamoto-i/message/12556Minamata recognition criteria called outrage 2013-05-31 10:49 JSTHere's a video about Arao's tidal flats:http://youtu.be/0NZ_6xQk7eoラムサール条約登録！世界が認めた「荒尾干潟」 Internationally acknowledged "Arao Tidal Flat" 2013-05-31 10:48 JSTGood news about the natural environment -- sort of. Part of the bounce back may be due to global warming.Kumamoto Prefecture has mudflats (or tidal flats) with mudskippers in Arao. Here's the address of an post about them:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumamoto-i/message/11812http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/30/national/mudskipper-numbers-jump-eightfold-report/#.Uaf9lpWc1K4Mudskipper numbers jump eightfold: report 2013-05-27 21:40 JSTRainy season starts in southwestern Japan 2013-05-16 20:36 JSTI think this site is extremely interesting. Notice how much worse the air quality in Kyushu is than Korea -- in spite of Korea's proximity to China. Also, notice that there are many areas in China that seem to be better the Kyushu. Hmmm. http://aqicn.org/?map
