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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Thursday, October 3, 2002 |
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Web sites worthy of mention...
An interesting list of weblogs arranged around London's tube stations. Click on a station to find a list of blogs 'based' at that station, as well as those within 10 minutes, and 20 minutes, of the station. A good site to explore when you've got time on your hands...
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Outside of the lessons, two amusing things happened while I was in Kirikushi Elementary School.
First of all, when I got to school, the children were doing cleaning, and one little boy was wiping the shoe racks. As a joke, I told him to make sure he polished my shoes, and he laughed, so I thought nothing of it. However, just as I was leaving after my lessons, the same little boy rushed up with the hugest of beams on his face, and told me that he'd cleaned my shoes the best he could, although he only had the floor rag! Moreover, he went on to tell me about how he'd had to do it when nobody else was looking...!
English?
Shining shoes.
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The report of the investigation into what exactly happened to the Japanese kidnapped by North Korea isn't going down well here. The findings seem unconvincing, to say the least. I mean, the graves of seven of the eight kidnapped Japanese who died are reported to have been washed away by floods! Does this seem hugely convenient for North Korea, or what?
Anyway, the Chugoku Shinbun's account makes absorbing, if slightly chilling, reading, but it's in Japanese. The Daily Telegraph article, though, is in English, and gives most of the details.
Particularly sinister, I think, is the case of Arimoto Keiko and Ishioka Toru, who smuggled a letter to their families in Japan; as the Telegraph comments, it seems possible that they were discovered and killed as punishment.
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Today's up to 28 degrees. It looks like I won't be getting the kotatsu out quite yet...
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Web articles worthy of mention...
Check this out for yourself... ;-)
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...However, comments like this mean the pressure's on, especially as my next newsletter article, the deadline for which is the 10th of this month, will be the 50th article I've written for the town magazine. Oh, the pressure... what should I write?
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The head of the Board of Education has just congratulated me on my latest newsletter article ('How I see Hiroshima'). He said that I could submit my articles to any publication without feeling embarrassed. It's very pleasing to get comments like this!
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My last day of being 27 today. To which- if I'm being honest- I have to say, 'So what?' It's not as if turning 28 is a milestone birthday, and I'm sure tomorrow will feel just like any other day. I'm going for a drink with friends in the evening- but then again, I do that most Fridays anyway...
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:44:42 pm.
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