Here's an article about how Naoko Shirane brought Kumamoto and San Antonio together. -- Kirk
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Kirk here with a note on dolphin's in Amakusa:
US Marines train with Japan's Self-Defense Forces in Kumamoto from time to time. Here's a recent example. -- Kirk
Kirk here with national news made by KIHARA Minoru, who is from Kumamoto.
William Lafcadio Hearn (also known by his Japanese name, Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲 - the surname taken from his Japanese wife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn), was a peripatetic Anglo-Greek writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Hearn longed for the "true Japan," which he found in Matsue - apparently, all else failed in comparison, particularly Kumamoto (where he spent three years, 1891-94), which he abhorred, finding it cultureless and blindly adoptive of anything Western. His Kumamoto house is directly behind Tsuruya; tours are free.
This extensive (about 1500-word) article is chock-full of interesting tidbits about the Aso area.
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Jeff Cairns (shakuhachi) and Hidehiko Kashihara (guitar)
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OMO5 Kumamoto by Hoshino Resorts (Tatsuro Sasaki Architects) won Best of Globe at the 2023 Shaw Contract Design Awards! -- Kirk
night-time amusement park escape game
Two day pilot trip around Amakusa
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Kirk here with an inquiry from longtime Kumamoto International participant Jackie:
Kirk here with a fake image that illustrates what seems to be a historical fact. Here's a translations of a Japanese news article from last year:
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Kirk here with some news for martial arts fans.
Hi, Joe Tomei here. I’m not sure if this will make a difference, but I noticed that the Kumamoto internatonal Facebook feed is full of ‘Sponsored’ and ‘suggested for you’ posts. I’m not sure how much of a difference this will make but I’d ask the other editors, when the have a few minutes, to click on the upper right corner and hide those ads so as to discourage the facebook algorithm from adding unconnected posts. For people who aren’t editors, if you know facebook channels or accounts/profiles for businesses that are local, please add them in the comments so we can list them as favorites. I’m not sure if this will work but it is worth a try. Thanks.
Here's a link to an article about Suizenji Jojuen (Garden) with some notes about the "mini Mount Fuji." The article is correct; the grass-covered feature is indeed intended to look like Fuji-san as viewed from the Tokaido. What the article doesn't say is that there's a term for this kind of man-made garden mountain: tsukiyama (築山; literally "built mountain"). The mountain in Suizenji Jojuen is a representative example of the technique. In fact, if you look up the Japanese term on Wikipedia you'll find a picture of Suizenji Jojuen. -- Kirk
