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Mountain Song

June 20th, 2008

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Photo by Paul Kodama
Japan in June- Paul Kodama’s bike and hike in Japan. (Email notice via Hal Lum)
One Life Japan and blog here with neat photos of mountain vegetables.
Kevin’s Kaikonikki – A blog documenting the life of Kevin’s silk-worms.

Ya ya ya yama yo – yama wa ikiteru (Mountains are alive)

The Taste of Tea – Mountain Song

A few weeks ago I saw Katsuhito Ishii’s 2005 Japanese cult classic The Taste of Tea, starring Tadanobu Asano and 2007 Oscar Nominee (for Babel) Rinko Kikuchi. A quirky film about the Japanese living in a countryside.

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June 20 is the first day of Summer.
Summer Solstice summer in color.

Multimedia Tonight Sky – highlights of the June sky. (This is a delightful site, very soothing, makes you forget the staggering price of gas and food – almost)

Yasukuni Controversy

April 24th, 2008

R.I.P Kon Ichikawa

February 13th, 2008

Setsubun

February 3rd, 2008

Kanji of the Year 2007 – Fake

December 13th, 2007

Yoshiko Yamaguchi – The Manchurian Candidate

September 25th, 2007

R.I.P Edward G. Seidensticker

August 27th, 2007

Tale of an Osaka Love Thief

July 29th, 2007

Tamasaburo Bando

April 28th, 2007

Edward Suzuki – Int’l Tokyo Architect

March 29th, 2007

Happy Geta Feet

January 17th, 2007

Hana and Haruki

January 12th, 2007