yasunari kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Lecture:

Luminarie- Merry Christmas from Kobe Japan

Luminarie- Merry Christmas from Kobe Japan, originally uploaded by olga.regina.

"Luminarie" is Kobe's city- wide Light Sculpture- a
requiem for the victims of the Great Earthquake striking Kobe and Osaka on January 17, 1995.

Luminarie was presented in December, the same year as the earthquake.

The festival represents the revival of the city, dreams and hopes. I too find this year's end especially important as a time for reflection. I hope everyone finds peace this Christmas.- with love from Japan- olga regina

The Rosetta Project for Children- A wonderful online source for children's illustrated books. With sound files, full text and illustrations, this website offers the English as a Second language student an inexpensive Library to learn from.

learn japanese

Japanese language learning tools on Web:

a good link resource with online dictionary, news, culture exchanges and more

The Australian: Neo-geriatrics hold Japan in grip of silver crime wave [February 01, 2006]

The Australian: Neo-geriatrics hold Japan in grip of silver crime wave [February 01, 2006]: "Takeshi Kitashiba recently christened 2006 the Year of the Neo-Geriatric in a Japanese magazine. 'Neo-geriatrics are those over 65 who are still fit, healthy and want to get more out of their lives,' he said. 'Without work, they'll be filled with anxiety and there's a likelihood they may turn to crime.'"

This Day in History

This Day in History

	January 25 1948 Fatal Tokyo Bank Robbery

Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, or ‘Other’ AsianWeek.com

Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, or ‘Other’- the tricultural life I lead

Japanese - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

Japanese - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

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The Beckoning Cat

the waving cat's origin are cheerfully explained here.