2013-06-29 10:20 JST 2013 To Takamori Town by tram! http://kumanago.jp/en/blog/2013/06/28/to-takamori-town-by-tr … ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 2 · Comments: 0 ← 2013-06-29 10:18 JST 2013-06-29 17:40 JST → Around this time … 2013-07-03 09:22 JSTThe Branding of Kumamon: The Bear That Stole Japan’s Heart 2013-07-02 23:09 JSTThis is a Japanese version of the following English post:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumamoto-i/message/12595熊本県と熊本市は、秋に行われる「水銀に関する水俣条約外交会議」で手伝う「語学ボランティア」の募集しています。まず、関連のリンクを紹介してから多少の補足説明をしたいと思います。http://www.pref.kumamoto.jp/site/suiginjoyaku-gaikoukaigi/volunteer-language.htmlこのページでは締切が7月1日になっていますが、ボラティアがまだ足りないので、今月の20日ごろまで延長されるそうです。今日、私自身がコーディネーターの方から受け取った募集要項や申し込み用紙のpdfを次のリンクで入手できます。http://www2.kumagaku.ac.jp/teacher/~masden/2013/130702_volunteer/20130702214755.pdfさて、補足説明として、次の点を強調したいと思います。＊準備等の日程が合わなく諦めないでください。調整できるそうです。＊英語の力に自信がなくとも、興味とやる気があれば、ぜひ申し込んでください。バックアップ体制がしっかりしていますので、言葉が通じないなどのような場合には、近くで待機しているプロが応援に来てくれます。＊ボランティアは会議の全日程ではなく、自分にとって都合のいい日を事前にコーディネーターに伝え、その日だけボランティアをすることになります。＊自分自身がボランティアできなくとも、ぜひこのメッセージを関心がありそうな友達とShareしてください。周知徹底の協力も重要なボランティアです。よろしくお願いします。 2013-07-02 22:09 JSTThis major international conference will be held in Kumamoto in October. I'll post a message about the need for volunteers soon. In the meantime, I thought I'd post this link to try to raise awareness of about this major event.http://www.unep.org/newscentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=2702&ArticleID=9373Minamata Convention Agreed by Nations - UNEP 2013-06-30 21:37 JSTMayor to travel to Japan 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 2013-06-29 10:20 JSTTo Takamori Town by tram! (this post) 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 2013-06-25 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 . . . Check out this page for more information: http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com 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
