RKK's report about Kumamon visiting Harvard and other points in Boston. http://youtu.be/Ey8ATxFgdos
2013-11-22 21:16 JST 2013 RKK's report about Kumamon visiting Harvard and other points in Boston. http://youtu.be/Ey8ATxFgdos 13111304 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey8ATxFgdos ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 3 · Comments: 0 ← 2013-11-22 15:29 JST 2013-11-22 22:03 JST → Around this time … 2013-11-24 08:53 JSTKuma shochu is basically distilled sake. Like sake, it's make from rice. Actually, a form of sake is produced first, and then that is distilled to make the shochu. In this case, "Kuma" refers to the Hitoyoshi area (the kanji [球磨] are different from that of "Kuma" in Kumamoto [熊]). Hitoyoshi is famous for its rice shochu -- Kuma shochu.http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000791665Yunomae’s bountiful forest: Kuma shochu makers get back to nature - The Japan News 2013-11-23 09:04 JSTI saw something on TV about manhole covers in Japan. Here's an example from Kumamoto. I think I'll pay more attention to this from now on.http://wiki.chakuriki.net/index.php/ファイル:Kumamoto_Manhole.jpgファイル:Kumamoto Manhole.jpg - chakuwiki 2013-11-23 21:55 JSTI haven't been able to do anything to help with this worthy effort. I'm sure, though, that the conference in March will be a success!https://www.facebook.com/ftic.kumamoto第8回フェアトレードタウン国際会議／8th International Fair Trade Towns Conference in Kumamoto 2013-11-23 09:05 JSTKumamoto International Friendship Festival this weekendFrom the post:"If you are free this Sunday, November 24, the Kumamoto International Friendship Festival is happening from 11 to 5pm at the Kengun Shopping district (健軍商店街）in Kumamoto City. There will be food, performances, face painting, and booths of all sorts. Kumamon will make an appearance at 12:30. For those of you who were at Kumamoto Orientation and met Sakai-san and the other jolly women who demonstrated the Otemoyan dance, they will be performing at 3pm on stage. Come say hi!"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/kumamoto-jet/DwXk0rnGewQ/gyTRFxmqq2cJ(I posted this from my individual Facebook account first so I am reposting this as "Kumamoto International.")Google Groups 2013-11-22 22:03 JSTThough Kumamoto seems to have been spared thus far (thankfully), nearby Nagasaki and Oita have been sites of anti-foreign hate speech demonstrations.http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201311070011Hate speech protests spreading to smaller cities around Japan - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun 2013-11-22 21:16 JSTRKK's report about Kumamon visiting Harvard and other points … (this post) 2013-11-22 15:29 JSTAccording to the article that accompanies the picture, Kumamoto Prefecture cooperated in the development of this car. Here's something I found about the history of Honda in Kumamoto:"The Kumamoto factory was built in 1974 as part of Honda’s efforts to modernize their production facilities. The CB650 production occured at this plant. Today, Kumamoto is the site of Honda’s newest facility which will consolidate motorcycle manufacturing in one plant, taking on production from the plant in Hamamatsu and the plant in Marysville, Ohio, USA."http://www.sohc4.net/honda-factories/http://www.earthtechling.com/2013/11/honda-unveils-new-small-sized-electric-car/Honda Unveils New Small Sized Electric Car « 2013-11-20 11:19 JSTMitsubishi Electric to Build New Engineering Facility in … 2013-11-20 11:01 JSTThe Myokensai festival in Yatsushiro starts on the 23rd.http://www.myouken.com熊本県八代市 国重要無形民俗文化財 八代妙見祭 2013-11-19 08:23 JSTDon't ask a police officer to give you directions if you don't have your residency card:http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/11/17/393870/Taiwan-couple.htmTaiwan couple claims mistreatment in Japan 2013-11-18 09:13 JSTHere's a guide (alas, in Japanese, but it should be better than nothing) to winter illumination displays in the Kumamoto area: downtown Kumamoto, Aso Farmland, and the Saishunkan complex:http://xmas.walkerplus.com/list/ar1043/熊本県のクリスマスイベント・イルミネーション情報 | クリスマス特集2013 - Walkerplus
