Japanese JAPAN

a pear juice

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A pear juice

MILD COFFEE

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A mellow coffee, with all the rich aroma of carefully selected coffeebeans, and finished with only the sweetness of milk.

FROM PACKAGE

FIBER WATER

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FIBER WATER

GREEN TEA

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PET BOTTLE PACKAGE

Coffee

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Coffee FIRE

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Coffee with the fine taste and aroma of beans brewed within 18 hours of grinding.

toothpaste for kids

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toothpaste

broiled eels

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broiled eels

PACKAGE

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UNAGI

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UNAGI & RICE UNADON

HAKATA RAMEN

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RAINY SEASON,TSUYU

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EVERYDAY IT'S RAINY OR CLOUDY.
MERANCOLY

Casual Shot

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Pedestrian crossing

THE FACE OF OLD HOUSE

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OVER 100YEARS OLD

JAPANESE NOODLE, SOBA

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This is prepared in a hot soup together with dried mushroom named Shitake in Japanese.

It cost 440 yen.

Soba (Buckwheat) comes from a plant relatively easy to cultivate even when the weather is cold or the soil has worn thin; the grain of this plant is made into Soba flour, then kneaded, finely cut, and cooked for eating.

LUNCH

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GOOD NOODLE

Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.

LUNCH

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CUP NOODLE ?

POT NOODLE?

INSTANT NOODLE?

BREAKFAST

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Rice, Dried fish, Baked egg, Cucumber, Tofu

JAPANESE JUNK FOOD, IKA YAKI

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IKA is squid in English.

Calamari?

The sign

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subway sign

SOFT CANDY

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50% Japanese people know this soft candy " BONTAN AME "

ONE SHOT

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100YEN STORE

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Everything there costs only 100 yen plus tax.

in front of the main entrance

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There are beautiful Azalea in front of the main entrance.

They are called " Tsutsuji " in Japanese.

When I was a child, I often consume nectar from Tsutsuji.

Sweet memory

SAKURA TRANSITION

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↓↓↓

HA-ZAKURA

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SAKURA TURNS TO HA-ZAKURA.

My Japanese Blog : musicmoviebook

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if you can read japanese, please check out my blog!

I love J-POP music.
There are many posts of japanese music and movie, book and so on.

thank you

SAKURA MAKES US HAPPY!

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BEAUTIFULE

SAKURA MOCHI

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SAKURA MOCHI

SAKURA #3

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ALMOST FULL

SAKURA #2

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30% and 90%

NOT YET

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SAKURA IS NOT FULL OF BLOOM YET.

SAKURA

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Spring is near.
The SAKURA is ready to bloom.

I took this picture at night.
We often enjoy the beauty of SAKURA in the night.

The life of SAKURA is very short.
It may be sad.
But, for this reason we will enjoy this time with SAKURA.

Kanzaburo Nakamura will perform KABUKI in Germany and Romania.

2008-03-26T18:25:00.002+09:00

KABUKI is spread out all over the world.

Kanzaburo Nakamura, the top of KABUKI group named Heisei Nakamuraza, will perform KABUKI in Germany and Romania in May.

We are happy because many people all over the world see Japanese culture.

But,unfortunately, Japanese People including me don't know about KABUKI.

We must have interest in Japan!!

I think we can create Happy Japan with learning Japanese tradition.

maybe

SANUKI-UDON

2008-03-25T16:58:00.007+09:00

Last Thursday I went to UDON restaurant.

We can eat only SANUKI-UDON in this reataurant.

It is so popular kind of UDON.

At first, I ordered KAMATAMA-MENTAI, UDON with egg and mentaiko.

And then UDON master started boiling UDON.

It took just 5 minutes. It is good that we can eat without waiting.

I'll give you a question.

Do you know what it is?

In fact I saw it here at the first time.

Answer is UDON-soup faucet. we use it, when we eat hot UDON.

GREEN TEA

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Casio Watch & Country Side

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Today I went shopping to buy something cheap at the flea market wih my friend, named Tommy.

I bought a wrist watch whose buttery was dead. But it cost 300 yen. It's so reasonable!!

We drove around to take some pictures of Japanese country side.

I took only this picture.

You can see the rice field, the mountain and the old Japanese house.

The image quality is not good. Because this was taken by the cell phone camera.

GAMARJOBAT, Japanese Pantomime Artist

2008-02-21T19:39:00.004+09:00

Now I watch the TV show. It gave me the information about GAMARJOBAT.

GAMARJOBAT is pantomime unit, Hiropon & Ketch.

Please check their web site!

click here

Many Japanese love this style people.

Funny and Cool!!

If you can read Japanese, check their blog too.

It's cold!!

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We have the first now this year in my town.

It's too cold.

TATAMI

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tatami is made of Igusa.
i will post later

YAKISOBA

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THIS IS YAKISOBA!
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR JAPANESE JUNK FOOD.

THE ZARU-KATSU TEISHOKU

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That's a japanese food set!
noodle & rice
noodle is SOBA.
rice is KATSU-DON.

so nice

Telephone Box

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Recently we have not find a telephone box. Because everybody uses mobile phone in Japan.

About 15 years ago, telephone cards were convenient. But, now, they are traded as premium cards between collectors.

Yatai #2

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Yesterday I took these pictures.
These are stall faces.
Inside of stall is comfortable. Now is winter, but we don't feel cold.
You can see the plastic curtain. That keeps the inside warm.

COLD

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I caught a cold.
usually japanese take medicine as soon as possible when we catch a cold.

my japanese friend who lives in europian country told me that foreign people did not take medicine when they caughta cold. instead of that,they drink tea.

old people in japan drink ginger tea for making body warm.

Udon

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Udon

Koi, Common Carp

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Koi, specifically nishikigoi, are ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp.
The German breedｓ German Carp. I am a bit surprised at it. Because I have looked Koi as the fish lives in Asia only.

I took these pictures at the pond of Kushida Shrine.

By the way, many Japanese don't know about this fact. Hiroshima Toyo Carp, famous pro baseball team in Japan was named from Hiroshima Castle. Because it was called Rijou, means Koi castle.

I am learning about Japan with writing the blog.

Yatai

2008-01-28T00:41:00.002+09:00

A Yatai is a small, mobile food stall in Japan typically selling ramen or other hot food.

The stall is set-up in the early evening on pedestrian walkways and removed late at night or in the early morning hours before commuters begin to fill the streets.

Yatai (Jan. 28, 2008, 01:30). In Wilipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatai

This is Japanese stall.

I took this picture in early afternoon. So it is not set-up.

He is the master of stall.
You can see few vegetables.
I ate Ramen.

I had a mistake. I forgot to take picture of stall face.

Origami, the art of paper folding

2008-01-25T19:59:00.001+09:00

I didn't have anything to do. So I made Origami.

This shape is a bird, named TURU.

Almost Japanese can make it within five minutes, maybe.

Do you Know "Golden Week" ?

2008-01-25T01:42:00.001+09:00

" Golden Week " is a Japanglish word. At first, the owners of film theaters started using this word after the National Holidays Law was brought into effect in 1948. The numbers of people who went to see the movies was increasing during the week, so the owner started calling the week " Golden week", which meant " supremely wonderful week." Sincethen, this word has been popular.

Golden week is a long holiday week which starts on April 29, " Green Day", and ends on May 5, " Children's Day." During Golden Week, Green Day, Constitution Day ( May 3), and Children's Day are national holdays.　 Once holidays were studded during this week, so Golden Week was alsocalled " Tobi-ishi Renkyu ", which means "stepping-stone holidays". Butrecently this expression hasn't been used. Golden Week is an ideal tourist's season, so many people travel abroador around Japan.

It's easy!!

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Pencil Sharpener

thank you

What is this ?

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what is this??

UKIYO-E, picture of everyday life in the Edo Period

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The UKIYO-E was started in the latter half of the 16th century. It had the everyday life of Kyoto.

And then, because of woodblock-print that enabled mass production in Edo period, it was spread out among people.

Almost Japanese people saw UKIYO-E as the worthless cartoon.

Ironically, it was admired by the foreigner who saw it by chance.

Japanese New Year Card

2008-01-23T01:08:00.001+09:00

This is Japanese New Year Card.

My senior in the volunteer group sent me.

The bigget word is "Flight" means "go to forward".

The meaning of sentence is I am happy that you can enjoy a great New Year's Day.

and How are you? Please do your best without rushing.

This year I sent 50 New Year Cards to my friends.

Japanese Street

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This is the street I drive down usually.

My room

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This is my room.

You can see Japanese bed, FUTON and Japanese carpet, TATAMI.

START

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I want to introduce japan to the people in all of the world !?

Actually I donot know about Japan very much. Almost Japanese people are same, they donot know.

So I will report Japanese history,tradition,food and more, with learnig them.

My English skill is not good!! Please point out my mistakes.