Culture of Japan

I climbed Japan's highest mountain "Mt.Fuji" with shorts, boots, a t-shirt,a bottle of water and a Mars Bar. What was I thinking at first - but at the end it was no problem mostly because i became numb from the cold - until the sun rose early in the morning. We took the train to the mountain. It was awesome and a peaceful journey. Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is 3776 meters - Japan's highest mountain. We started at 6:30 pm from the fifth station and arrived at the top at 1:00 am an elevation of 3,776 metres (12,388 ft). I will never forget. It was ... Read Full Story

DAMIRworld Blog in Japan - Mt Fuji Top And Keepin It N-Ice & Underground. I climbed Japan's highest mountain "Mt.Fuji" with shorts, boots, a t-shirt, a bottle of water and a Mars Bar. What was I thinking at first - but at the end it was no problem mostly because i became numb from the cold - until the sun rose early in the morning. We took the train to the mountain. Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is 3776 meters - Japan's highest mountain. It is almost a perfectly shaped volcano and has been treated as a sacred mountain and is very popular for world travelers. ... Read Full Story

The following pertains to the Japanese as spoken in the Hakata dialect of Fukuoka, Japan. TO^ or tou is used as the ? or question mark sometimes in Japanese. Observe the way TO^ is used in the following sentences, "DOKO NI IKIYORU TO^?" どこに往きよるとう - "Where are you going?(Where do you think you're going?) also heard "DOKO NI IKIYO^ TO^" どこに往きようとう - same meaning, but in this example the verb iku is in Base II then adds + yoru to^ Doko kara kiyo^ to^? どこから来ようとう - "Where does he come from?" or "Where do you come from?". another variety of this construction that will ... Read Full Story

IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT ANTI-DEPRESSANT MEDICATIONS LIKE PROZAC, XANAX AND ELAVIL ARE RATHER EXPENSIVE in the long run, and can carry rather unpleasant side effects which @ times have been known to include notorious episodes of anti-social behaviour. So, if the following "WaiWai" item per the Mainichi Daily News can be taken as credible, it seems Prozac and kin have met their match--and try telling that to the so-called "Church of Scientology," themselves known to be rather critical of medication-based psychotherapy: Mount Fuji has been sacred in Japan since ancient times, but now Asahi Geino (4/3) says simply looking at a photo of the ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Celebrity , FILM , Publishing / Best-Selling Novel Norvegian Wood Goes to Hollywood October 18, 2008 Hai! — Haruki Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood” to be adapted by French-Vietnamese movie director Tran Anh Hung by Dan Bloom TOKYO(RushPRnews)10/18/08 – Finally, it has happened. “Norwei no mori” is going to be a film. After years and years of negotiations with film producers in Japan and Hollywood that never went anywhere, the Japanese novelist who has been tipped to receive the next Nobel Prize for Literature — yes, Haruki Murakami — has agreed in principle to allow a French-Vietnamese movie director bring his much-acclaimed ... Read Full Story