Atsuko, with information about the cute baby dolphins of Amakusa.ଘ(੭ˊ꒳ˋ)੭✧ Translated page⤵
2023-05-20 08:41 JST 2023 Atsuko, with information about the cute baby dolphins of Amakusa.ଘ(੭ˊ꒳ˋ)੭✧ Translated page⤵ 赤ちゃんイルカ、今年も元気に登場 熊本・天草市の通詞島沖｜熊本日日新聞社 天草市五和町の通詞島沖に生息するミナミハンドウイルカの群れに、今年も赤ちゃんイルカが姿を見せ、元気よく跳ねながら泳ぐ様子が見られるようになった。 https://kumanichi-com.translate.goog/articles/1048820?utm_me … ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 7 · Comments: 0 · Shares: 0 ← 2023-05-19 10:26 JST 2023-05-20 13:07 JST → Around this time … 2023-05-21 19:52 JSTKirk here. Today I posted about a wrestler named Kinbouzan. I didn't plan it this way but my wife and I happened to go to Ezuko this evening for a walk and came across this view of the mountain. The boat (a yakatabune; 屋形船) is operated by Eto Boat House. Earlier in the afternoon there were lots of people out on smaller boats that the boat house rents out. 2023-05-21 13:36 JSTKirk here. Any sumo fans out there? If you've been following news about the current tournament you may have noticed a name that has a familiar ring: Kinbouzan. Yesterday, I heard that Kinbouzan had lost to Yokozuna Terunofuji and thought "Could that be the Kinbouzan (Kinbozan, sometimes rendered "Kinpozan") near Kumamoto City?" Turns out that, yup, that's the reference. It seems that Kinbouzan's shishou (teacher) is Kimura Seihei who is from Kumamoto and used to wrestle as Higonoumi ("Sea of Kumamoto [Higo]"). The wrestler, however, is from Kazakhstan. Here's wishing Kinbouzan continued success in the world of sumo wrestling!Wikipedia page:https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E5%B3%B0%E5%B1%B1%E6%99%B4%E6%A8%B9How Kinbozan became Kazakhstan's first sumo sekitori:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW7QsR6Vd6APage from which image was taken:https://www.sumo.or.jp/ResultRikishiData/profile/4112/ 2023-05-21 10:12 JST( Fiona) Firefly season is approaching and I've already started to see a few at my local viewing spot in Tatsuda-yama. Post your photos and favourite locations here, and if there's enough interest I'd be happy to organise a hotaru viewing night walk for Kumamoto-i members. 2023-05-20 17:02 JSTDouglas here.The best time of year to see many active mutsugoro (mudskippers) on the muddy shores around the Ariake Sea is from the end of May and the middle of June.This very short video is the result of our first visit to film the fish in 2023.The main purpose was to get used to shooting video with our recently acquired BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K - more usually named BMPCC4K!We hope to be able to go back in June to get some more interesting shots of the mutsugoro.Mutsugoro May 2023 2023-05-20 13:07 JSTKirk here. Facebook has instituted a major change to their page editing and management interface. It may not be so noticeable to most users but it's a big change -- for the worse -- for me as someone managing and looking after the page.The change that has the biggest impact on page participants (not editors) is that it is no longer possible to post to the page as a guest. Moreover, the posts in which participants shared information to the page as guests (this was in a category called "community") seem to have been lost. All this reminded me of the concept of en****tification, propounded by Cory Doctorow. The basic idea is that modern internet platforms attract you with good services/features, make you dependent, and then reduce the quality or the experience to maximize profits. The reduction in quality is bad enough to be irritating but not so bad as to get you to break your ties with the service on which you have become depended (and where you have built a community).This latest change has nudged my love-hate relationship with Facebook a bit farther in the "hate" direction. :(Enshittification Part 1: Why Every Platform Goes Bad | On the Media | WNYC Studios 2023-05-20 08:41 JSTAtsuko, with information about the cute baby dolphins of …赤ちゃんイルカ、今年も元気に登場 熊本・天草市の通詞島沖｜熊本日日新聞社 (this post) 2023-05-19 10:26 JSTSean here -Reporting on an amazing discovery.File under: ParkingFor hikers, bikers, and all people who love Kinpo san. By chance, I rolled into this parking lot located about halfway between Honmyoji Park and Togenochaya Park and Museum on Rt. 1.What a great idea for people who have neither time nor energy but still want to hike or bike in our amazing collective backyard.This is not an ordinary parking lot. Each parking space is surrounded by a curtain to protect your car from killer bees, snakes, wild boar, or bears while you are away…..I guess.And they really want your business. The Parking “P” has a cute and welcoming heart surrounding it. Another reason to love our town. 2023-05-17 15:55 JSTWilliam The following info perhaps useful for our US readers was sent to my email. If you're an American citizen and haven't registered with the Consulate, you should.Greetings from the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka,We be visiting Kumamoto City on Friday, June 9th to offer passport, birth registration, and notarial services. Services are by appointment only and are limited to 8 families. If you would like an appointment, please reply to this email by Tuesday, June 6 with the information requested below.Please note that we will need applicants to bring exact change in cash only. We can accept payment in both dollars or yen. If paying in yen, please note our exchange rate is currently $1=140 yen but is subject to change. We look forward to seeing you in Kumamoto!Date: June 9, 2023 (Friday) 13:00-15:00Venue: Kumamoto Prefectural Office Main Building 7th Floor6-18-1 Suizenji, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto City*To make an appointment, please email us the following information by Tuesday, June 6.Name of applicantType of service requestedPassport / Birth report / Notarial serviceNumber of applicantsPlease let us know if you currently have an appointment at the ConsulateYes / NoSincerely,Consular Section, U.S. Consulate [email protected] 2023-05-17 15:31 JSTKirk again. I just posted about the heat. It's supposed to get up to about 29 Celsius (about 84 Fahrenheit) today. I thought I'd check to see how that compares with historical temperatures and this is what I found. The blue is average daily highs for the month of May and red is for June. You can see that 29 is hot, even for June, much less May. You can also see that the trend is up -- presumably the result of global warming.I took the data from this webpage:https://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/stats/etrn/view/monthly_s3.php?prec_no=86&block_no=47819&year=&month=&day=&view=a2 2023-05-17 14:39 JSTKirk here with a little about the heat. I was just watching a news show I recorded last night and I saw that they are already using misting fans to cool folks waiting in line outside of the castle. This video was posted four days ago but I have no double that the fans are being run today too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cw2J1l4iGk 2023-05-16 14:40 JSTKirk here. Over the time that I (with lots of help from others) have been trying to feed relevant and (hopefully) useful information to this page, I have come to notice that English information is often presented on the web with no links to the Japanese information it is based on. Discussion of that issue here eventually led me to write a letter to Mayor Onishi that, to the mayor's credit, resulted in a significant improvement in machine translation on the Kumamoto City website: users can now toggle directly between foreign-language translations and the original Japanese. The mayor fixed the issue on the Kumamoto City site (see URL at the end of this post), but the vast majority of municipal / governmental websites in Japan continue to present poor-quality machine translations with no clear way of accessing the original Japanese text. That led me to write an academic paper (in Japanese) that came out in December of last year:https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520013485571215616The motivation for the article and a significant portion of the discussion relates directly to this Facebook page so I would like to share a pdf here but staff at my university tell me that the pdf won't be published on the web until June. I'll post about that when the time comes.At any rate, the main idea of the article is "Why the %*@# do so many people in Japan assume that foreigners ONLY need information in foreign languages?" In other words, why is it assumed that foreign residents have no need for information in Japanese, even when the quality of the translation is clearly poor? I gave a paper copy of the article to Mr. Yagi of the International Center and he was kind enough to arrange an opportunity for me for me to present the contents of my paper to the staff at the International Center. Mr. Yagi has asked me to address some issues that go slightly beyond what I wrote in the paper I so I decided to make up a short little Google form questionnaire to get some feedback from readers of this page. Here are the URLs of the form and of the post I made about it yesterday.https://forms.gle/qbrEMjKfV6A6mDH29https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid0Q7vYqgZ9AvV5P9kYVRPnoC1Wr8GfpcxoPbjb8kL5nmThRo7MWgfVMmTGQwVhiQfGlI've already gotten 13 responses. Thanks!!! I hope more of you will share your perspectives so that I can share them with the folks at the International Center and then with readers of this page. Yoroshiku!!https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid02LZBsiowcLPQWYTBiZCzxNxb2zSLceUdkrizXDDkVUdoP6dCY6Dmsc2oqyuy3HEfvl
