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Okoba Station (大畑駅) in in Hitoyoshi City. The images in this video are reminiscent of an older, quieter time.
OKOBA / KUMAMOTO 2011 ［大畑駅／肥薩線］
http://www.con-quest.tv/ 九州を旅する web magazine "con-Quest"

If you are trying to find out if JETs you know are safe or now, this information should help.
JLGC Japan Local Government Center
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Posts that arrive via RRS are delayed considerably. For more timely information go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumamoto-i/
kumamoto-i : Kumamoto International
kumamoto-i: Kumamoto International

Some of the information that has been exchanged on Kumamoto-i over the last decade has been organized on this page.
Kumamoto Links
This page provides annotated links to English information about Kumamoto, Japan.

I found this image of Kumamoto Station on eBay. I couldn't find a date but it must have been taken before WWII, as the Japanese is written from right to left, horizontally. The picture presents quite a contrast with the new facilities that have been put in place to prepare for the arrival of the Shinkansen.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=120691240254

Some readers of Kumamoto-i on Facebook may be interested in Fukuoka Now
Fukuoka Now
Best source for news, events and useful & timely information about Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan since 1998!

Kawase Hasui (1883 - 1957)
Kumamoto Castle in Samidare (Rain in May), 1948
http://www.fujiarts.com/cgi-bin/item.pl?item=141125

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Technical note: We've had some more RSS problems but I think that they are resolved now and that everything you see is up-to-date. This time there seems to have been a problem with the Yahoo Kumamoto-i feed itself. I fixed it by running the feed through "Google Reader" as a "bundle," even though its just one feed: http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F01720285359701720643%2Fbundle%2FKumamoto-i
Google Reader - Kumamoto-i

I accidentally disabled RSS Graffiti (the application that takes posts from Kumamoto-i and displays them here) when I removed Social RSS (another, less reliable, RSS application). It is now enabled but, In the meantime, there was an update about shopping for kid's clothes in Kumamoto and a couple of posts about displaying Japanese text in Yahoo Groups.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumamoto-i/
kumamoto-i : Kumamoto International
kumamoto-i: Kumamoto International

A while back I posted about the on-going festival (friday and saturday evenings) in Yamaga. Here's one of the videos I linked to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_iPy6VbyU
冬の山鹿の観光活性化を目指して始まった百華百彩。祭り期間中、豊前街道沿いには竹灯りや和傘灯籠など、様々な オブジェが展示され、幻想的な世界が繰り広げられる。 オブジェはすべて手作り。住民と学生が協力して竹の切り出しや加工など１カ月前から準備をすすめている。 番組では祭りを作り上げる皆さんの姿を追いながら、住民のふるさとへの熱い思いを伝える。

Facebook seems to have updated their "pages" software. I hope that will make this page easier for everyone to use. One advantage for me is that I now have the option to post as myself or as "Kumamoto International."

Technical note: RSS Graffiti seems to be working well. I'm having a harder time with Twitter. I just linked this page to Twitter to see if the results are any better.

I'm still experimenting with ways to get the Kumamoto-i RSS to post to this wall. "Twitterfeed" skipped some posts. "Social RSS" has been worse. Now I'm trying to use "RSS Graffiti." In the meantime, there have been several new posts to Kumamoto-i that have not appeared here. Check the link below to see what you've missed.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumamoto-i/
kumamoto-i : Kumamoto International
kumamoto-i: Kumamoto International

One more question: Are the "twitterfeed" posts (the ones that are being forwarded to "Kumamoto International" on Facebook from the Yahoo Groups site) appearing in your news feeds? There should have been a post called "Re: Kumamoto-i on Facebook" about 20 minutes ago.

Hi everyone! This is Kirk again, probably posting as "Kumamoto International" again. I have a question. After you have click that you "like" this page (thanks to all of you who have done so!) do these updates appear in your "News feed"? I don't see anything in my news feed but perhaps that's because I'm the one who made this page. Thanks in advance!

I made this as a "page" but I'm not sure if I did the right thing. I would like for people to be able to follow it (view recent posts, etc) as they would read status updates from "friends" but I'm wondering if that will work. If anyone can help me understand how to make this work so that people can easily check up on Kumamoto-i through Facebook I'd appreciate it.