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Replying to @kellyahammond
A few weeks ago I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and have been watching some clips of him on TV in the 1960s and it is shocking how ignorant people were of Islam in North America back then! 🤯
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Replying to @imthejapes
Sorry, I see that is irrelevant to your problem. Ignore me!
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Replying to @imthejapes
Are you using http://fast.com/ja?
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Replying to @tomoakiyama, @camcavers and @Ben_Steiner
Yeah I would think especially in an emergency. Though you might be paying quite a bit for the medication afterwards, depending on if you have a plan.
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Replying to @suchibu
I knew it was too good to be true! That would have been an amazing story. Back when I was young and beautiful 🥴 I got a job in Kyoto as a stock image model. Only once have I ever seen my image out in the wild… not so beautiful I guess 🤷♂️
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Replying to @KansaiOdyssey
Better you than me! Looking forward to the photos on the blog
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Replying to @suchibu
Immortalized as a stock photo! Class! I hope you are getting royalties 😉
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Replying to @NomadDragon7
👀 Oh my lord! Glad it was a success and I wish you a speedy recovery! 💐
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Replying to @wesinjapan
On the second or third floor, I can’t remember. The windows faced south. I was in the end unit close to the street… I dunno how many units there are, but it was like a hotel with a bed, a desk, and a small fridge. No kitchen IIRC (or maybe I just ate out every night 🤷♂️)
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Replying to @wesinjapan
When I came to work for Rits on Jan 2 2002 they put me up in the guest rooms above that museum for like 3 weeks until I could secure an apartment. No idea!
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Replying to @wesinjapan and @pjacksonmusic
See! I had no idea and I went to school at the Kinugasa campus and later worked there for nearly three years!
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Replying to @pjacksonmusic
So many stories like that. Gives you a whole new perspective, especially when you stare out wide-eyed at all the intense infrastructure built up in all the major Japanese cities. There must be an app that geotags facts like this.
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RT @LegoLostAtSea: Plastic finds from Cornish beaches. The figures in the final image were all found on the same beach across a two day per…
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Replying to @PheebzEatz
Lived in Nagoya for 4 years. My first daughter was born there. It is a LIVEABLE city, small enough that it doesn’t feel overcrowded, but big enough to have everything the big city has, including distinct neighbourhoods to explore.
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Replying to @camelliakyoto
From earlier this year
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I just donated to @Wikipedia. Support free knowledge! #iloveWikipedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/?utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=ThankYouPage&utm_source=Twitter&uselang=en
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RT @Swarthyface: ダウン症の天才書家「金澤翔子」「世界一大きい般若心経」を奉納: https://bit.ly/3hUMvOd Kanazawa Shōko, champion calligrapher with down syndrome, produced…
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Came to Kyoto on my own to self-isolate and work on writing some chapters for my book and in the meantime am internet sleuthing obscure Japanese mascots… I *am* a real “writer” now aren’t I?! 🙌 https://twitter.com/alanb/status/1309097913105166340
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Replying to @alanb
OMG it IS Konishi! He is the mascot for Uto city in Kumamoto according to Yurupedia https://w.atwiki.jp/yurupedia/pages/2965.html He has the city birds on his shoulders and is a little chubby coz he loves “tasty things”. Official twitter 👉 @yukinagasyan
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Replying to @alanb
Ah! Kumamotoか！Konishi Yukinaga then… okay… weird to make a mascot of him… alright, I am off to the internets to identify this thing!
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Replying to @alanb
What is he a mascot of? Is he a Christian Daimyo? What’s he doing in Fukuoka? Kuroda’s weren’t (technically) Christian… I have many historical legitimacy questions for your rotund furry costumed friend
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RT @NASAWebb: #NASAWebb is for everyone. For #SignLanguageDay, learn facts about Webb in ASL from @NASAGoddard mission director Apurva Vari…
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Replying to @w00kie and @teienartmuseum
Fancy place! Nice shots 📸
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Delightful! I had those foam orange headphones. https://twitter.com/JapanDeepDive/status/1308714064273571850
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Just a grey, grey day here in Kyoto. Probably should have brought more than shorts! I am turning into an islander…
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Replying to @chadkoh
(I really don’t know why the video is so bad in that video… gonna try an upload from Wifi to see if the quality is any better)
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Replying to @hepomodeler
Mate I threw UP in the gusty winds on the ferry to Iki from Karatsu yesterday! 🤮
We sailed into the headwind and the boat smashed down over big waves causing huge sprays! 🌊
Hope the deck of the ship liked that fancy bistro lunch. They had bad service anyway…
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Replying to @nihon_hustle
Michelle Yeoh! https://twitter.com/colebrax/status/1085596359326158849?s=21
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Phew! Ensconced in the bath at the Kyoto apartment with a bevvie after a long day’s travel. Gonna be here for the next 10 days writing and taking meetings. Still have a few openings if you want to catch up face-to-face (in a socially-distanced, responsible way of course! ↔️) 🤙🏽
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Replying to @ThomasKyoto
Totally don’t remember it from Nagoya. I only noticed this one randomly. Normally I sit on the other side of the Shinkansen, so that I can get a glimpse of the Setonaikai… but after a couple days of choppy water, that last thing I wanted to see today was the sea! 🤢
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Replying to @chadkoh
I saw a really impressive one at Imari, though I didn’t take a photo. I am sure someone out there has done a photo book on luxurious wedding chapel architecture of the 90s in Japan. Wonder if I could do one for each Shinkansen station from end to end? 「チャペル海道」
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There is a Sagrada Familia-like structure in Fukuyama… of course this is a wedding chapel
https://goo.gl/maps/pbrsaKzMs9ZdeWKz9
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Last time I rode the Shink to Kyoto there were I think 9 people in the car. Just left Hiroshima Shink and is is much fuller. Every 2 person row has a person, and almost every 3 person row has at least two people in it, with the middle seat open. So, something like 40人?
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Replying to @toranosukev
Olde Japanese Twitter!?
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Some very big waves but me made it to shore without “incident”! 🏴☠️ This old landlubber is groggy… 🥴 not from drinking rum 🥃 — but from an over medication of anti-nausea pills! 🤓
Next leg: Shinkansen to Shin-Osaka. 🚅
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At the ferry terminal Otw to Kyoto. Yesterday we got back from Karatsu. High winds due to the typhoon, and pretty much everyone got sick. I hope the deck liked the lunch I had at that fancy bistro in Karatsu with the bad service. Not looking fed to next couple hours 🤢 🛳
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At the beach in Karatsu:
🌊 sea
🏖 sand
🏝 islands
⛴ ferry
🏄 windsurfers
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Replying to @laurie_ljg
Do you have a Top 10 list? I’d be super interested in knowing what Kyushu’s versions of the Mushroom Museum are (Sea Gaia I suppose is the biggest)
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Homeward ⛴
Imari+Arita was a hub of ceramics since the 1600s. After Meiji, they made ceramic insulators to replace the glass ones the Brits used on the first telegraphs. The Mongol sinking area was a bit far, so will visit when I come back to explore the pirate towns of Hirado. https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1307462416645513216
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Replying to @emi_well
お疲れ様で〜す！
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Saw a lot of cool stuff in Arita today but Tōzan Shrine built to potters in 1658 with a ceramic torii ⛩ takes the 🏆. There were some impressive ceramics on site, but many of their treasures were stored away due to the typhoon. Even the omamori were ceramic! #japan #shinto
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Replying to @nosword
Ballistic Bell Ringing! But I think you are right, it is a zen temple, but not sure if Rinzai or not.
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Replying to @nosword
Yeah I jumped a few times! My kids wouldn’t go close to it! 🙀
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Replying to @V_Varen_EN
Sorry just assumed😅
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Heard the bell from the temple round the corner ring at 6 and ran up to see if I could spot the monk and… well… pay attention to the little arm. Robots are even taking religion over!
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Replying to @V_Varen_EN
Well, if you ever are feeling homesick just take a trip up North to Saga and you can feel right at home in your massive 18th C Euro palace! 😉
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RT @V_Varen_EN: @chadkoh Woooow! I am from Dresden. The yard looks different, but from the outside photos I really thought it is the origin…
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Replying to @chadkoh
*Zwinger
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Drove up into the Saga mountains above Arita, the famous pottery town, to a kiln where we were to try painting our own mugs when we ran into a replica of the 18th C Zeinger Palace in Dresden 🤯
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Today we are walking around Okawachiyama, the “Hidden Village of Pottery.” The mountains are very shear and green. A wind is blowing and the sky is azure. Perfect for a little hike!
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