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Welcome to Japan Days. Some of my fondest memories are from my days in Japan, therefore I have started this website. Originally, I had most of this content on another site, but the theme of the content was inconsistent with the theme of that site. For that reason, and also because I am an incurable geek who loves to experiment with code, I decided to open Japan-Days.info, dedicated to my days in Japan.
The site is for anyone with an interest in Japan. Members of the US Armed Forces and their dependents who are either currently stationed, previously stationed, or about to be stationed in Japan, are very welcome here. The time that I spent there as a member of the USAF in the 1970's changed my life, and my hope is that any of you who have the opportunity to go there can find information in here that will enable you to better enjoy your tour in that wonderful, fascinating country. and that will help you to make the most of this great opportunity to experience a most amazing country and culture.
I hope that you enjoy the website, and please check back often as I add more content.
--Bob
Currently, the picture gallery from which the random pics are selected include photos that we took in 2005.
As I develop more of the site, I plan to add more pictures to the gallery, and I plan to enhance the function that dynamically builds the slideshow to select photos by category, with categories being defined and selected for content relevancy.
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- As temperatures soar, Japanese turn to ghost houses
Reuters 2010-09-03 00:42:53
With Japan suffering its worst heatwave since records began in 1898, haunted houses or "obake yashiki" are doing a roaring trade as the traditional summertime venues to cool off. Ghost houses are set up especially for the summer in amusements parks in Japan with the tradition linked to Japanese Buddhism which views August as the time when ancestral spirits may return for a visit and Japanese visit their elders' graves. This year ghost houses have reported dramatic increases in visitor numbers as they tap into the Japanese tradition of also telling scary stories to send shivers down people's spines and cool them down. (Reuters) - NHK to resume live broadcasts of sumo
BusinessWeek 2010-09-03 00:42:53
Japan's public TV broadcaster is to resume live sumo broadcasts, after canceling coverage of July's Nagoya tournament over a betting scandal that hit the country's ancient sport. NHK officials said Thursday the station will televise the Sept. 12-26 Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament as usual. NHK did not air live broadcasts of the Nagoya tournament, saying that the betting scandal generated viewer disgust. It was the first time since 1953 that live broadcasts weren't shown on NHK. (BusinessWeek) - Police to send papers on 'thieving cop'
Yomiuri 2010-09-03 00:42:53
Police said they will send papers to prosecutors over a senior police officer who allegedly stole a bicycle because he was worried about being late for work. The Kanagawa prefectural police will punish the police officer, whose duties include preventing bicycle thefts. The policeman, 25, of Takatsu Police Station, allegedly stole a bicycle parked outside a video rental shop in Saiwai Ward, Kawasaki, on the morning of Aug. 3 and rode it two kilometers to Kashimada Station on the JR Nambu Line. The bicycle belonged to a part-time worker at the store. (Yomiuri) - Japan finds fresh suspected foot-and-mouth case
AFP 2010-09-02 11:01:13
Japan discovered a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease in a cow in its southern prefecture of Miyazaki, just days after it lifted a state of emergency, an official said. "We cancelled two auctions of cows in the prefecture after a suspected case of foot and mouth was discovered on a farm," a prefecture official told AFP. The region reported the case to the farm ministry and was awaiting the test result to determine if it is a fresh foot-and-mouth case. (AFP) - No. of Internet crime cases hits record high in 1st half
AP 2010-09-02 05:25:35
Police responded to a record 2,444 Internet crime cases nationwide in the first half of this year, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday. The number, up 586 or 31.5 percent from a year earlier, represented a new high since the NPA started gathering statistics for Internet crimes, defined as crimes which use a computer network, on a half-year basis in 2004. Of the total, the number of fraud cases, such as swindling money from a successful bidder by posting false information in an online auction, climbed 22.8 percent to 867 cases. (AP) - Threats keep dolphin protest out of Japan village
AP 2010-09-02 00:58:41
The star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group. Instead, Ric O'Barry, the former dolphin-trainer for the 1960s "Flipper" TV show, is playing host to a reception Wednesday for some 100 animal-lovers at a Tokyo hotel. On Thursday, he will take a petition signed by 1.7 million people from 155 nations demanding the end of the dolphin hunt to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, escorted by police security. (AP)