2022-04-17 15:35 JST 2022 ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 1 · Comments: 0 · Shares: 0 ← 2022-04-17 12:18 JST 2022-04-17 15:42 JST → Around this time … 2022-04-18 16:01 JSTWilliam My beat covers politics, technology, and the environment, not culture. That 八代亜紀 (according to my wife, pronounced "Yashiro," not "Yatsushiro" Aki) could have remained off my radar displays the depths of my ignorance.If Kumamoto could have a prefectural anthem, it would be this: Sweet Home Kumamoto八代亜紀 / Sweet Home Kumamoto 2022-04-18 13:42 JSTKirk here with news of recognition given to researchers at Kumamoto University:https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/949491--- start quote ---Dr. Miharada and his team were selected this year for their proposal, “Towards safe and stable transfusion therapies independent of blood donation.” The excellent collaboration of young international scientists is made of three researchers from Japan and one from Sweden.--- end quote ---Kumamoto University’s Dr. Kenichi Miharada awarded this year’s Heisei Memorial Research Grant from the Japan Prize Foundation 2022-04-17 21:26 JSTKirk here with something that's not unique to Kumamoto but is as relevant here as it is elsewhere in Japan. As this post from Kuma Visit explains, the new 500 coins are cool, but you might not be able to use them in older vending machines:https://www.facebook.com/kumavisit/posts/3102320763352882 2022-04-17 18:30 JST(Douglas) Sorry to be late in remembering the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes.Here is a video that Megumi and I produced in May of 2016.2016 Kumamoto Quakes Revisited 2022-04-17 15:42 JSTWilliam As an Angeleno (the southwesternmost part of the US), I went to college in Maine (the northeasternmost part of the US). It was there I learned "culture shock." Clothing, food, behavior, climate, how people interact, even language - all was new to me. And my first two years there were both the most rotten and most productive of my life. After that, I found I could fit most anywhere. TO ALL NEW KUMAMOTO ARRIVALS: Any request, any advice, even just an ear to listen to: contact us. PM. We oldies are here to help, no condescension. After all, we have been there.Below: My hometown beach and my college beach, both in winter. 2022-04-17 15:35 JSTPost (this post) 2022-04-17 12:18 JSTA blessed Easter to our Kumamoto International friends from all of us at KI.(Stock photo - ha ha! Get it?) 2022-04-17 10:41 JST(Fiona) After meeting a few Kumamoto-i members on a walk in Tatsuda-yama yesterday, we talked about making an event of it....the Kumamoto-i Walk and Talk! Tatsuda-yama has lots of walking trails, ranging from gentle to mildly strenuous, and now is a great season to explore it, before it gets too hot and the mosquitoes are out in force. It's also one of the locations of the Green Vision Expo and currently offers free shuttle trips to the area from downtown Kumamoto.If you'd like to go on a stroll through the forest, taking in bamboo groves, a tiny woodland shrine, wildlife and birdsong with fellow Kumamoto-i members, please join us for the inaugural Walk and Talk next Saturday from 3pm, weather permitting. It's well worth arriving earlier in the day to check out some of the Hana Haku events in Matsuri Hiroba. There is free parking, but little in the way of food and drinks, so bring your own refreshments and water bottle.Meeting point, sign-up sheet and further details will be posted later in the week, but please comment below if you're interested in joining the walk. 2022-04-17 10:10 JSTKirk here. The caption reads "A woman lights a lantern at temporary housing in the Kumamoto Prefecture town of Mashiki on April 14, 2022, the sixth anniversary of two devastating earthquakes in the southwestern Japan prefecture. A total of 276 people were killed in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures in the quakes on April 14 and 16, 2016. (Kyodo)"https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/04/ff507e0ac645-japan-and-beyond-week-in-photos---april-915.html 2022-04-16 22:54 JSTWilliam It was the quakes that turned Kirk's hobby into a full-fledged venture: this site. For some, the quakes were a seminal event; new arrivals who did not experience them may have noticed the scars. If you were here during that time, please share your stories below. They may be helpful for the next one.https://kumanichi.com/articles/626562 2022-04-16 12:30 JSTKirk here with something I posted last year. Apologies to those of you who have already seen this.Miyazono (an area in Mashiki-machi) is the only place in Japan to have suffered two shindo (seismic internsity) 7 earthquakes in succession. When I took the first photo, I had no idea I'd be going back to the same place in two days to take another photo. My camera was a simple smartphone -- nothing special -- but I wonder if mine might not be a rather rare set of photos showing what two Shindo 7 quakes in one spot actually means. Today is April 16 -- exactly six years since the second quake. I hope my days as a disaster photographer ended with these shots.https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/5220478308025559
