Kirk here with something about the relationship between Montana and Kumamoto:
2022-11-13 10:46 JST 2022 Kirk here with something about the relationship between Montana and Kumamoto: Mansfield Center hosts Kumamoto delegates to celebrate 40-year relationshipDespite language barriers and over 5,000 miles separating them, Kumamoto, Japan and the state of Montana share plenty of similarities. https://missoulian.com/news/local/mansfield-center-hosts-kum … ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 4 · Comments: 0 · Shares: 1 ← 2022-11-12 15:59 JST 2022-11-13 20:07 JST → Around this time … 2022-11-15 09:54 JSTKirk here. Kumamoto's Murakami had a great year. Given his ability and his interest in moving to the majors, I think it's just a matter of time now.Baseball: Yakult Swallows star Munetaka Murakami reveals MLB ambitions 2022-11-14 16:49 JSTWilliam Youngsters have other things on their minds to consider than plants. A notable point about moving to Japan before plants first grab one's attention is that one learns the Japanese term, not the English. Fortunately, kochia is ideally suited to katakana: コチア.Apparently, it is blooming now in Matsushima, down in Amakusa. If you've never been to Matsushima, put it off until next summer: scour the entire island for a private beach (locals might give you a lift in their kei trucks, and there's a treasure on the east side accessible by a very long stairway). It's one of those islands created when Unzen went all kablooee. https://kumanichi.com/articles/853132https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochia 2022-11-14 15:20 JSTKirk here. Kumamoto's Roasso came close to making it into the J1 soccer (football) league:--- start quote---In an evenly matched encounter, Kumamoto drew level from a corner in the 68th minute, with defender Osamu Henry Iyoha's header at the near post going in off the far upright.Rei Hirakawa then came within inches of sending Kumamoto to J1 in stoppage time, but his powerful effort from inside the box hit the right post after his initial strike was blocked by Kyoto forward Peter Utaka's face.--- end quote ---Soccer: Kyoto ensure J1 survival in playoff draw with J2 Kumamoto - The Mainichi 2022-11-14 12:27 JSTKirk here. Yesterday I posted that Mr. Onishi was re-elected as as mayor. In response, Kumamoto International regular Kazuhiro Oyama mentioned the low voter turnout. This article says that 28.26% is the lowest in Kumamoto City's post-WWII history -- the first time for the percentile to enter the 20s.https://kumanichi.com/articles/854228 2022-11-13 20:07 JSTKirk here reporting that Mr. Onishi has been re-elected as mayor of Kumamoto City. The gentleman with the creative poster I shared the other day came in third.熊本市長選 現職の大西一史氏 3回目の当選確実 自・公が推薦 | NHK 2022-11-13 10:46 JSTKirk here with something about the relationship between …Mansfield Center hosts Kumamoto delegates to celebrate 40-year relationship (this post) 2022-11-12 15:59 JSTWilliam Susuki, or pampas grass, is a harbinger of autumn. Our friend Liz Suenaga captured this stunning image of susuki sheaths framing the eclipsed moon.JMA (the Japan Meteorological Agency) has forecast an autumn and winter colder than average. Considering the global fuel situation, wearing a sweater would be preferable to turning up the heat.https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#5/35/135/&elem=temperature&pattern=P3M&term=0&contents=season&lang=en 2022-11-12 12:43 JSTKirk here with news about the director Noriaki Tsuchimoto, whose "Minamata: The Victims and their World" is reviewed on the following website:https://asianmoviepulse.com/2018/08/documentary-review-minamata-the-victims-and-their-world-1971-by-noriaki-tsuchimoto/Here's a blurb about an event being held now at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York:--- start quote ---One of the most unjustly overlooked of all documentary filmmakers, Noriaki Tsuchimoto made films that are revelatory in their patient pursuit of humanity. Emerging on the world cinema scene in 1964 with the subversive tour de force On the Road: A Document, which marked him as a strident formal innovator and firebrand leftist, Tsuchimoto gradually pared down his personal style and ceded his works to their surroundings, as evinced in his masterful trilogy of 1970s films that grapple with the outbreak of Minamata disease in the eponymous town of Minamata (Minamata: The Victims and Their World, Minamata Revolt: A People’s Quest for Life, and The Shiranui Sea). Tsuchimoto, a perennial Marxist, was distinctly mindful of the “original sin” at the heart of his vocation—that films almost always benefit filmmakers more than their subjects—and a keen awareness of this imbalance fueled much of Tsuchimoto’s work. He was never satisfied if his films didn’t also function as chronicles of their own making or question the ultimate efficacy of art and communication, and these preoccupations guided Tsuchimoto toward a rarefied grace in the face of an often-brutal reality. He was greatly admired by his contemporaries Claude Lanzmann and Shinsuke Ogawa, and was considered to be, along with Ogawa, one of the two most important figures in the history of Japanese documentary. This is the first major stateside retrospective of Tsuchimoto’s work.--- end quote ---https://www.jfny.org/event/the-trailblazing-documentary-cinema-of-noriaki-tsuchimoto/Documentary Review: Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) by Noriaki Tsuchimoto 2022-11-11 21:30 JSTKirk here with one more share. Thanks Mark!Game InformationVENUE: Sanga Stadium by Kyocera1:05 PM , 13 November 2022Kyoto, Japanhttps://www.espn.com.au/football/match/_/gameId/656825https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/8130695140337180 2022-11-11 19:22 JSTKirk here with a share that should be of interest to history buffs and/or lovers of travel. And, best of all, the price is right: "Free for monitor participants." :) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/8146248838781810 2022-11-10 21:24 JSTKirk here introducing a post about Mason Buskirk, who is working to get the JR Hisatsu Line restored and to keep the SL Hitoyoshi in service.I contacted him after reading the article and he shared this link to a Japanese-language website associated with his efforts:http://www.hisatsu-again.info/shomei/index.htmlMason, you can explain this better than I can. Please add any information or comments that occur to you. :)https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14754350Young American determined to save SL train line in Kumamoto | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
