Waterman: Where/how to get 新型コロナウイルス感染症に関する自宅療養証明書 after ending home recovery?
2022-08-17 11:35 JST 2022 Waterman: Where/how to get 新型コロナウイルス感染症に関する自宅療養証明書 after ending home recovery? ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 2 · Comments: 3 · Shares: 0 ← 2022-08-16 08:02 JST 2022-08-17 14:38 JST → Around this time … 2022-08-18 10:38 JSTKirk here, following up on William's post about the castle. William mentioned that, with the dark sky as background, the castle keeps in the photo he shared reminded him of Darth Vadar:https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid0KWReqBXVENeZqqEbmD72N4vrbqKiLXq7qinTkCb5fateFXNU8KDBA7aGXpxCQ2rplI immediately saw the resemblance and was prompted to start playing with my photo editing software. The image you see is the result. That made me wonder if this might be more than a coincidence. I've read an article about how Darth Vadar's helmet was inspired by one worn by Date Masamune of modern-day Sendai:https://nipponrama.com/date-masamune-samurai-darth-vader/I've never seen any indication that the mouth on the helmet has roots in Japanese castle design but it's seems plausible to me that designers flipping through images from 15th century Japan might have borrowed part of the design of the helmet from castle architecture. 2022-08-18 06:40 JSTWilliam Yagi-sensei with an interesting perspective of our castle. Looks a bit like Darth Vader & Son.The KKR Hotel (which has a wonderful tea room in the lobby and patio) area offers interesting perspectives of the castle with its steepest, tallest walls as well as the Kumamoto Art Museum Annex and the Traditional Arts and Crafts Museum, the latter definitely worth a visit. The entire area used to be within the castle walls. If you poke about east (to the right, downhill) a bit, you can find remnants of castle wall and a portion of old moat. http://www.kkr-hotel-kumamoto.com/ 2022-08-17 21:43 JSTKirk here with some COVID-19 stats. Today, the prefecture set a new record for new cases in a single day: 5,157 (Wednesday, August 17th). Though the current variant tends to be less lethal than previous ones, the high infection rate is leading to a spike in deaths. Today there were 11 deaths in Kumamoto and 286 nationally. To put that in perspective please look at the attached image. Japan has surpassed the current death rate per million in the U.S. and the current wave may be close to outstripping the number of deaths from the previous wave.https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/127194?display=1https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases 2022-08-17 21:26 JSTWilliam Much has been said about Kumamoto being the only major municipality to provide 100% artisanal water. My older sister made me buy bottled water at the combini and, when the manager scolded me, I said, "Yeah, well, she's from LA, Boston, and Baltimore respectively, so give her a break. (Plus, she's older than me.)"Words do not do justice. Behold actual artesian water intake pumps whose water flow directly to your taps. Apparently, the prefecture operates 98 such wells across the city. Whether you're cooking, brushing your teeth, or flushing the toilet, this is the extravagant substance you are blessed with. (Photos from Prefectural Waterworks - love the bottom photo clearly showing the water gushing up to enter the intake pipe). 2022-08-17 14:38 JSTKirk here. Kyushu Gakuin plays their third game in the series tomorrow (Thursday, the 18th) at 3:30 in the afternoon. The will play against Seiko Gakuin of Fukushima. Thus, Kumamoto and Fukushima, two places known for big earthquakes that have hit in the 21st century, will compete to advance to the semifinals. Seiko Gakuin is a school that has a history of doing well in the Koshien Tournament:https://office-morioka.com/h_baseball/seiseki/seiko_gakuin.htmlSchedule screenshot taken from here: https://www.hanshin.co.jp/koshien/highschool/summer2022/schedule.html 2022-08-17 11:35 JSTWaterman: Where/how to get 新型コロナウイルス感染症に関する自宅療養証明書 after … (this post) 2022-08-16 08:02 JSTKirk here. Kyushu Gakuin plays their second game today (against Tochigi) starting at about 10:30:10:30 第2試合(3回戦)九州学院（熊本） － 国学院栃木（栃木）https://www.baseballchannel.jp/etc/132610/3/I'll be watching on the web here:https://vk.sportsbull.jp/koshien/【夏の甲子園2022】試合日程スケジュール 組み合わせ一覧｜第104回全国高校野球選手権大会 | ベースボールチャンネル - Part 3 2022-08-15 22:54 JSTWilliam "Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν), was a Greek-Irish-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West," Wikipedia notes. His Japanese name was Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲) .... His writings offered unprecedented insight into Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things."In 1891, Hearn obtained teaching position in Kumamoto, at the Fifth High Middle School (a predecessor of Kumamoto University), where he produced many of his most famous works. He was particularly interested in Japanese folk tales, which, fortunately for posterity as most were oral stories, he noted down. Many of these were ghost stories. As the Japanese ghost season coincides with Obon (rather than the west's Halloween), which is now, this would be a good time to familiarize yourself with them.His works have fallen out of copyright so are available for free at Project Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Lafcadio+Hearn&submit_search=Go%21 "In Ghostly Japan" is a favorite of mine. 2022-08-15 18:09 JST(Fiona) The news of the attack on Salman Rushdie is not directly relevant to Kumamoto of course, but as one of the editors here at Kumamoto-i it struck a chord with me. Our diverse readership extends to a few thousand people with an interest in Kumamoto, and it's inevitable that some posts will offend or annoy. Our remit at Kumamoto-i is to provide useful and interesting information about this region, but occasionally we veer off track or facts need correcting. Sometimes we receive requests that news articles be suppressed and posts taken down as they are deemed to have offended sensitive readers. I hope that we will always strive to uphold the values of tolerance and freedom of expression, including of course the right to reply and express opinions in the comments. 2022-08-15 16:05 JSTWilliam The lovely town of Shisui is not the place one would stop at (even more go to) other than to visit the Michi no Eki Melon Dome. Work took me through the area countless times, yet I had no idea of its history as host to the Army Kikuchi Airfield. Next time I visit, I will view it through different eyes. Kumanichi reports on this: https://kumanichi.com/articles/759215In 2008, the "Association to pass on the war legacy of Hanafusa (Kikuchi) Airfield to the future (花房（菊池）飛行場の戦争遺産を未来につたえる会)" was established. Their website is here: http://ans0924.blog.fc2.com/ Perhaps contacting them before visiting will result in a bilingual tour.Pictured below is Yasushi Kurasawa (101), a resident of Shisui, who says, "(This water tower) is a living witness to our history, standing up to the fires of war and sustaining our lives even after. I want to leave it to future generations as a symbol of peace and recovery." 2022-08-15 12:55 JSTKirk here with something that came out in relation to the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:"A Mainichi Shimbun survey conducted in July and August found that second-generation hibakusha headed prefectural groups in Yamanashi, Toyama, Shimane, Kochi and Kumamoto prefectures. The leadership switch began with Yamanashi in 2015, followed by Toyama in 2018 and Kumamoto in 2019. Second-generation hibakusha became the leaders of groups in Shimane and Kochi in 2022. Meanwhile, groups in the eight prefectures of Yamagata, Tochigi, Ishikawa, Shiga, Nara, Wakayama, Tokushima and Miyagi have disbanded."Aging hibakusha groups face tough decision: disband or entrust activities to 2nd gen. - The Mainichi