Hiked Hakone’s Mt Kintoki today with the wife and D1. Perfect weather for it and the view of Fuji was spectacular, but I’m spent. 🇯🇵🗻
Colorful laundry bags, not trash. 📷🧺
PMark Security Incident - JIPDEC announces investigation results into Privacy Mark breach
Nov 15 is 7-5-3 or “shichi-go-san” day, a traditional rite-of-passage holiday in Japan, to pray for your children’s health and good fortune. Usually people can’t take the day off to go to the shrine if it falls on a weekday, and would schedule the Shrine blessings on the weekend. 🇯🇵🎎🎏
When you can find one, Japan pay phones may have buttons (or instructions like this one) for police (110) and fire (119) service, that connect you without needing payment. 📷🚨🆘
Today 14 Nov was the birthday of Dr Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, and is World Diabetes Day. One in 10 people has it, so it’s a good idea to get informed. 💉🩸
Local Daily Yamazaki for bread or drinks. By the way Nov is apparently “Double Soft Won-double Month”. 📷🍞🍞
AshidaVox ST-31-02 Headphones Microcast
For #MicroMonday I’d like to share and thank Matt Langford (@mtt), who created “Tiny Theme” that many of us micro-bloggers use. 📅🙏🏻
Today Nov 13 is “Urushi” Lacquer Day. Legend has it that Imperial Prince Koretaka, first son of Emperor Montoku in the Heian Period, prayed at Horinji temple in Arashiyama Kyoto for improved lacquerware production methods. Since then, this has been a day of thanks to lacquer craftsmen. 🇯🇵🍱
Cool geometrical shapes at Tokyo station. 📷
On this day in 1872, the 5th year of Japan’s Meiji period, the gov’t mandated “Western” clothing for gov’t officials, and 100 years later in 1972, it was designated “Western Clothes Day”. 🎌🕴️
An AU store in 2008, where you could buy a flip phone for zero yen, if the signs are any indication. 📷🤳
Nov 11 marks the end of WWI (1918) and is known variously as Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Poppy Day, Remembrance Day. Wars still rage, but may there be peace on earth. 🥀
Typical fountain bubbler spigot in Japan park. 📷🇯🇵🛝
Nov 10 is 技能の日 “ginou no hi”, a day Japan celebrates the development of vocational skills such as landscaping, carpentry or PC repair. See JAVADA’s excellent, detailed English pamphlet PDF regarding this subject. 🇯🇵🧑🌾✍️🔨
Shimbashi Tokyo food fair colors. 📷🎪
The neighborhood in Totsuka Yokohama is really hilly. 📷💦
Nov 9 is “dial 119” day in Japan since 1987 (S62, 3 months after I arrived!) after the fire and emergency services number (more here), during nat’l fire prevention week. Be aware booth phones have buttons & check your 🧯
Kanda, Tokyo’s “Fureai Bridge”. 📷🌁
