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Archive for April, 2006

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Well, My Thursday girls are featured in this month’s Lively News Letter(Lively Academy’s monthly news letter). If you click on the image you can see a full size copy. In the picture from left to right are Anna, Me(of course), Mei and Karen. The comments underneath are first from Tomoko sensei and them me. We [...]

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So after thinking my site setup is pretty much done I opened it in Internet Explorer only to discover it looked like shit . I normally use Firefox and it looked great in there. So after a day or so I fixed the malfunction and now it looks good in both although I think it [...]

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Well, I didn’t work on the site today. I watched a movie called Just Friends. It was a rather funny movie. I had my adult class today. Nothing new there. I was supposed to have a trial student come but she didn’t show up. I was going to go for my scooter license test today [...]

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I’ve been doing some editing and combined my blogger completely with the rest of my site. I just have to get the footer up and upload the rest of the pages and it will be done. The photo album will come after, I still need to sort and upload a lot of pictures. Al in [...]

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Well, it’s been awhile but I’m going to try and update my blog more often.
This week was the first week of my new schedule at work. I completely lost my Wednesday class and have 2 brand new classes. Once again I was told by Mr.Yagi (My boss) that one boy always cries when he meets [...]

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Alien

We are no longer Aliens!!!

The current alien registration system will be abolished with the start of the new residency management system.

The aim of the new residency management system is to enable the Ministry of Justice to continuously keep information necessary for managing the residency of foreign nationals residing in Japan for the mid-to long-term with resident status, and ensure greater convenience for those foreign nationals.

Kinpunshou

Topless Gilded Dancers

strange, but kinda cool!
his event seems to be always held in October. In fact the 34th annual was held just last weekend. The 金粉ショウ(kinpunshou) is a major attraction. The show is performed by DAIRAKUDAKAN and consisted of several dancers painted with gold powder. The women dance topless in g-string bikini bottoms. That’s the kinda cool part. But the downside is the men are also wearing the g-string bikini bottoms.

typhoonroke-02

Typhoon Roke headed toward Japan disaster zone

Even before its arrival Typhoon Roke turned deadly, with local media and police reporting five people killed or missing after being swept away by rivers swollen with rain.
The storm, packing winds of up to 134 mph (216 kph), was expected to make landfall along Japan’s southeast coast around midday and then cut a path northeast through Tokyo and into the northeastern Tohoku region, which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake.

geisha

Jobs program to train geisha

Despite their image in the West as little more than prostitutes, geisha are in fact highly skilled women who dance, play musical instruments and entertain their clients with games and conversation.

monk

Six months later

“Unless people start reopening their businesses, the town will never take the first steps toward reconstruction,” said Taiko Tanisawa, the 63-year-old owner of the reopened Marutani store, as she warmly greeted customers.

familymartmobile

FamilyMart unveils mobile convenience store

The 3-ton truck can hold approximately 300 different items, ranging from “bento” lunchboxes to cup noodles, drinks, candies and many more. It features a refrigerated case powered by propane gas, for preserving vegetables and other perishable items.

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