PUBLIC MARKS from user karlcow with tag japon

Ensuring the Future of Food

井の頭線

延伸工事完了後の井の頭線下北沢駅(昭和35年)

京王線

電車遠足（京王帝都電鉄•井の頭線）

New tourism minister Nariaki Nakayama wasted no time putting his foot in it. The day after stating that Japanese do not like foreigners and that the country is ethnically homogeneous, Nakayama apologized Friday and retracted his statements.

Japan's online social scene isn't so social

Insurance company AIU calculates the cost of educating a future doctor or dentist in the private-school system: ¥44.24 million from kindergarten through medical school — an enormous burden.

07:17 JST 21 Sep 2008 35.6N 140.2E 80km 4.8 CHIBA KEN HOKUSEIBU

As one eminent senior Japanese scientist at Osaka City University acknowledges, "It is unfortunate for research and students that it is almost impossible to keep good foreign scientists in Japan."

Photos of Geisha Posing as Bathing Beauties During the Meiji andTaisho Eras of Old Japan

En instituant le Japon comme sentinelle du monde d'aujourd'hui, le Festival d'automne sait que le miroir du pays du Soleil-Levant ne nous permettra sans doute pas de nous reconnaître, mais peut-être de nous redécouvrir, nous, Europe narcissique obligée à la quête de l'autre.

250% is sardines.

At the age of ten, young Hajime was forced to leave school and find work. He found employment at the Tokyo Printing Company where he began to show serious interest and talent in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting.

Note that many Japanese net shopping sites, from the tiny stores at Rakuten all the way up to Amazon, allow payment at convenience stores.

15:13 JST 20 Aug 2008 36.1N 139.9E 50km 4.5 IBARAKI KEN NANBU

Masanobu Fukuoka, the pioneer of "natural" farming, which eschews plowing, weeding and fertilizers or pesticides, died of natural causes at his home in Iyo, Ehime Prefecture, on Saturday, his family said. He was 95.

Farms at Negishi in Yokohama. This beautiful rural landscape was a short distance from the foreign settlement.

These fantastic photoshopped images by Tokyo Genso (Tokyo Fantasy) show a post-apocalyptic Tokyo overtaken by nature.

Kiki de Montparnasse

00:26 JST 24 Jul 2008 39.7N 141.7E 120km 6.8 IWATE KEN ENGAN HOKUBU

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