dafyddllyr.net (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Well, I've just spent the day in Kagoshima, visiting various local sights and attractions and all that. First impressions - it's really hot! The weather here is so so much nicer than it's been up around Tokyo and Nikko. I admit it's probably down to timing to an extent, but better weather does make you [...]
dafyddllyr.net (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
3 days on trains, long waits at stations, one night in an internet cafe and another in a train station but I got a lot of speaking practice in and I'm finally here in Kagoshima, right on the southern tip of Japan. The weather down here is beautiful, lovely and warm, nothing like it was [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... press release from the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT-K, said.Koji Takewaka, a professor of Kagoshima University, Japan, will speak on “Design, construction and maintenance of concrete structures in marine environment specified in Japan Society of Civil Engineers standard specifications” and Cristoph Mahrenholtz, a professor of University of Stuttgart, Germany will speak on “European...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Following KAPIC I went and stayed with another new ALT from Oklahoma Ashley in Kagoshima City. Once we got into the city she had to go to a work meeting so I was going to try and get my reentry permit. Basically I have to get a multiple reentry permit for my visa so that when I leave the country I can get back in. The closest place for me to do it though is Kagoshima City and they are...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
After my birthday party adventure Sunday I flew to Kagoshima City. Monday morning all of the JETS from my BOE board of educationwere having a presentation where we accept our contracts. Basically there were 30 of us in a small room and they said stuff in Japanese then translated it in English then more talking then they called our names and we walked up and bowed and accepted our contract. It...
AMPONTAN (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
HOW DO YOU TRANSPORT a train from the factory to its depot? If it’s the latest version of the Shinkansen bullet train, you send it by ship. The photo shows the newest model of the Shinkansen’s lead car being loaded on a barge at the Kobe plant of Kawasaki Heavy Industries , which manufactured it. The car will be used on the direct run from Osaka to Kagoshima when the first leg of the Kyushu...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
... occurred on the same day 131 years ago. That was the suicide of Saigo Takamori at Shiroyama in Kagoshima.
Pharyngula (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
... one to go. (Make it good - Well, gooder.)#2Posted by: | Wait a sec. kagoshimensis? As in, found in Kagoshima? I probably ate some of them! Now I'm sad.#3Posted by: bigjohn756 | I've been wondering...I assume that an octopus has a "natural" color, but, if it does, what color is it'#4Posted by: Trish | Patrician? Is that it's mouth up there, with that beak like jaw that would clamp down and...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
... "Da" Block, South Korea Korum Mall, India Mitsui Outlet Park Iruma, Japan GREEN BUILDINGS Kagoshima Museum of Environment: Planet Earth and its Future, Japan Pearl Academy of Fashion, India VS1, Adelaide, Australia FUTURA PROJECTS Magok Waterfront, South Korea Takamatsu Marugamemachi Main Shopping Street Regeneration project by the community based developer, Japan Orchard...
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
... calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide. During the demonstration conducted in Yoronjima island, Kagoshima Prefecture, chemical compounds adhered to the surface of the electrodes about a month after they were electrified. The experiment confirmed that in about a five-month period, coral adheres to electrodes and can live on the surfaces. RIOE plans to conduct the same experiment on Okinotorishima...
dafyddllyr.net (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
After having it as a backdrop to Kagoshima yesterday, today was my chance to take the ferry over and check things out! It was about 15 minutes away, not too bad at all. First stop was the visitor centre which had a few very unnerving facts, like the fact it had already erupted (if only [...]
dafyddllyr.net (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
... so cheap it doesn't matter. The first target will be Okayama, then Fukuoka the next day, and then Kagoshima the next - we'll see how it goes… Not looking forward an awful lot, but something good or fun or interesting always tends to happen, so hey! It's also a good time to practice Japanese, so I'll have to make the most of it! For more info on the bargain of a ticket, check out - Wikitravel...
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Just booked my tickets to Tokyo for the next big game show. This time around Trish and Tristan are coming with me and after the show we're going to go hang-out with her brother for awhile in Kagoshima. PSYCHED!
dafyddllyr.net (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
... I want to tackle (Miyanoura-Dake, Tsurugi-San, Ishizuchi-San) and a few places I want to see (Kagoshima, Sakurajima, Yakushima) down there as well, so it all makes sense to spend most time down there. As I get closer to the time I'll kind of shape this into an itinerary of sorts and iron things out and all that kinda stuff. Well that's about as much info as I have right now, hoipefully things...
Remove the Labels (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
The Ooishi Hyoroku Monogatari, a largely fictional story featured in picture scrolls in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, tells of a young warrior and his encounters with trickster foxes posing as yokai. According to the National Museum of Japanese History, the story takes place in 1624 in Kagoshima, where a group of notorious [...]
