The parcel of "snowman" in abira-town, Hokkaido

Making a parcel for a "snowman" has greeted the peak. in abira-town, Hokkaido - 47NEWS via kwout

　Making a parcel for a "hokkaido hayakita snowman" has greeted the peak. This fills natural snow in the styrene foam which carried out the form of the snowman, and ships it all over the country.
　The hayakita post office (it is "hayakita snowman post office" in abira-town now) started service as a "home country parcel" in 1986. The group "hayakita snowman meeting" of hayakita-town has succeeded now. Every year, there are many orders from Okinawa located most south in Japan.
[ Making a parcel for a "snowman" has greeted the peak. in abira-town, Hokkaido - Kyodo News 2008/12/20 ]

A price is 4,000 yen or more by mailing cost lump. The dispatch to overseas may also correspond. It is to [ hayakita snowman meeting ] in detail.

The time of "Triops agricultural technique from Decoy agricultural technique" comes!?

Triops agricultural technique does not require time and effort, but is the low-pesticide and ultimate weeding-out method - YOMIURI ONLINE via kwout

The Triops study group (Sakata-shi, Yamagata) is tackling the "Triops agricultural technique." This is an agricultural technique which breeds Triops in a paddy field, removes weeds, and grows rice. Time and effort is not taken but it can grow by low levels of pesticide. It is said that this Triops agricultural technique excels the serious Decoy agricultural technique in management or noise. Although there are problems, such as fixing to a rice field and breeding, it may be observed as a new living thing agricultural technique.
A Triops agricultural technique breeds Triops by a rice field, and makes the weeds of a paddy field eaten. Moreover, underwater is made muddy, light is interrupted and growth of weeds is suppressed. Since the stalk of a rice is thick, Triops does not eat. The weeds which just budded are eaten. Unlike a Decoy agricultural technique, the administrative expenses for protecting from a natural enemy etc. do not start, but there are also no worries about a bad smell or noise.
The farmhouse which is tackling from 1993 is carrying out in about 330a. paddy field. He said "If only Triops breeds, it is necessary to apply no time and effort, and I think that it is the ultimate weeding-out method".
Nagashima Takayuki, the associate professor (insect use study) of Tokyo University of Agriculture is talking like this. "If Triops of 30 is bred in a 1-square meter paddy field, it can be made weight in a little less than one month, and about 60% of weeds can be weeded out. Eggs hatches in the water of 20 temperature or more. It is usable if it takes care about the judgment of time which puts water into a rice field, or management of a fallow term. "
[ Triops agricultural technique does not require time and effort, but is the low-pesticide and ultimate weeding-out method.（November 28, 2008 The Yomiuri Shimbun Yamagata version ） ]

I think that this is the technical development which contributes to the world. I want a study group to conquer a subject to it and to put in practical use by all means.
In addition, it is said that the first symposium in the Tohoku University of Community Service and Science public-benefit hall in Sakata is opened from 1:30 p.m. on December 5 the day after tomorrow.

The train of stall "odensya"

The train of stall "odensya" - YOMIURI ONLINE via kwout

In Toyohashi Railroad of Aichi Prefecture, the test-ride event of special vehicles which enjoys warm "oden" (Japanese hotchpotch) and sake in a streetcar was held on November 25. Since it is Railroad(It is called densya in Japanese) of "oden", it is named "odensya." Operation which picked up the general visitor is started on November 28.
shop curtain and paper lantern are decorated by in the car, and it seems to be a stall completely. The participant enjoyed 9.4km of round trips, and the trip for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, eating Japanese hotchpotch, after giving a toast from beer. This train is a reservation system and will leave the Toyohashi station front at 6:25 p.m. A charge is 3000 yen per person.
The inside of a year is till December 27, and it is considerably buried with reservation. A part next year (January 8 to 31) receives reservation from December 8. An inquiry is to the Toyohashi Railroad railways department (0532-53-2135).

[ The train of stall "odensya" - November 26, 2008 The Yomiuri Shimbun Aichi version ]

Electric assistant man-pulled cart in Kyoto

Electric assistant man-pulled cart in Kyoto - YOMIURI ONLINE via kwout

Kyoto University, Sunstar Engineering, etc. developed the trial product of the high-tech man-pulled cart of electric assistance. This man-pulled cart can be pulled comfortably also on a slope. If this man-pulled cart spreads, an old person may come to pull a man-pulled cart easily.
This man-pulled cart was named "the electric assistant man-pulled cart of the Kyoto style." It has the lithium ion battery under the seat on which a visitor rides. If the lever attached to the front rudder stick is pulled, a wheel will turn by the power of a motor.
The gross weight in the state where two visitors rode exceeds 200km. However, it can run also up a steep slope by trot under the power of a motor. The beautiful design of Kyoto yuzen is given to the body and appearance is also graceful.
In the trial product, the subject remains in the durability of the battery etc. Utilization is aimed at when it has improved.
[ Yomiuri Shimbun (Kyoto) November 25, 2008 ]

The high-tech top around which it continues turning for 3 hours while changing to seven colors

The high-tech top which rotates for 3 hours is popular - YOMIURI ONLINE via kwout

"The high-tech top" is collecting popularity. It continues turning around the top to a surprising thing for as long as 3 hours. The car-accessories manufacture company "ohinata" in yurihonjo city developed it. The motor for vibrator of the cellular phone discarded in large quantities is reused. The order came also from overseas and 50,000 pieces were already sold.
This high-tech top is a product made from a plastic, and is an about 4 centimeters diameter. The built-in motor operates and it continues rotating by centrifugal force for a long time. The light of the light emitting diode built in the top changes to seven colors, such as red and blue, one after another.
It is sold also at "Tokyu-Hands" in Japan. There is an order from Germany, France, etc. on the Internet, and it came to be arranged in a toy store in the U.S. Now, the order received from overseas occupies 40 percent of the whole.
[The high-tech top which rotates for 3 hours is popular - November 25, 2008 The Yomiuri Shimbun Akita version ]

The page of "the high-tech top" of a company site is here. It can purchase by a mail order. 2000 yen per piece.

[Damage of a bamboo] Japan may be covered with the wood of a bamboo.

It turned out by the investigation using the data of the artificial satellite that the area of the wood of a bamboo this year was expanded twice in Toyama Prefecture as compared with 1975. The influence of growth of other forests being barred by the wood of a bamboo has come out.
The wood of a bamboo is concentrated on the place near the colony where altitude is comparatively low. The wood of the bamboo which was there from the first spread out quickly. When it was before, collecting a bamboo shoot or making a handicraft using a bamboo was performed. These days, the opportunity to use the wood of a bamboo decreased and management of the wood of a bamboo was neglected. It is regarded as the main causes by which the woods of the bamboo increased in number.
[The area of the wood of a bamboo increased twice in 32 years. - November 19, 2008 The Yomiuri Shimbun Toyama version]

Probably, "damage of the bamboo" is a serious thing in Japanese various places.

It went to see the wood of the bamboo of Chiba Prefecture at work this year. When it looks at carefully, along a road and a riverbank have very many woods of the bamboo which was extended wild and became like a jungle.

It seems that the situation is getting worse rapidly although this is the problem which many people have been pointing out for some time fairly.

The following is the report about Chiba Prefecture written in May, this year.

The wood of the bamboo which became like a jungle is conspicuous in the mountain near a colony. Mr. Takeo Tashiro (65 years old) of NPO "meeting which studies bamboo" representation says, "It is the damage of a bamboo."
The bamboo shoot of a "moso bamboo" is extended in height also of 20m in summer. A day does not put the wood of a bamboo like a jungle, but its daytime is also dark. In the mountain invaded by the bamboo, a day does not hit, but trees wither and a wild bird and an insect disappear.
The bamboo shoot which grew in the wood of the neglected bamboo becomes the food of a wild boar, a deer, and a monkey. Those beasts also eat away the bamboo shoot of the mountain of the bamboo with which management was prudent.
According to the sphere of activity of the deer increasing in number, leech (Haemadipsa zeylanica japonica) which inhales people's blood spreads. In the both banks of isumigawa-river, a bamboo grows thick. A lot of bamboos which broke may close the flow of a river. The vicious circle has covered the mountain.
The production of a bamboo shoot cannot compete with a cheap Chinese bamboo shoot. The vermin damage by an animal. Aging of those who take care of the wood of a bamboo. Management is not prudent and the bamboo spreads everywhere.
[ Asahi Shimbun Chiba version May 16, 2008 ]

Presence which money of a U.S. Forces base shows to local

Presence which money of a U.S. Forces base shows to local - Asahi Shimbun Kanagawa version November 25, 2008 via kwout

Nuclear aircraft carrier George Washington (GW) arranged in U.S. Navy Yokosuka Base in September returned to port on November 21. Presence with a big economic effect by thousands of crew or families is likely to be shown in Yokosuka with a base.
A restaurant district is in front of a base. There is a poster of "Welcome GW" in the wall and window of a store. The passage which was sparse was crowded, so that it was buried with young soldiers and he could not walk straightly the night when GW returned to port.
Energy is always full also of the master (62 years old) of the bar which seems to be free for dealing with an order. If an aircraft carrier enters into port, it will be said that visitors increase in number at least 3 times every day.
"The relation between the US Navy and the Yokosuka economic world is the world's No.1. It is although there is probably an objection from the navy town of a U.S. mainland." The James Kelly US Navy commander in Japan presented one sheet of paper entitled "the economic impact to Yokosuka by the US Navy base." According to it, it is that about 583,300,000 dollars flowed into local economy in one year in October, 2006 - September, 2007. If it carries out based on the average exchange rate in 2007, it is equivalent to about 68,800 million yen.
Does it account for how much rate of 68,800 million yen for local economy? The dependence to the "base money" of a city economic activity will only be about 2.5%.
On the other hand, the degree of attention to the base of the area is increasing. Nobuyuki Taguchi who is an edit issuer of a "construction financial press company" says, "With construction relations, while order of public-works or a major company is decreasing, the presence of the U.S. Forces which always issue a fixed quantity of work is increasing in the past several years." The Yokosuka chamber of commerce has regarded the U.S. base as "the partner of new local jobs" in recent years. The person in charge has a hope, "if gaps, such as English, a bid, business practice, are buried, a business opportunity should spread."
On the other hand, the income to the city by a base existing is the money delivered from a country. The amount of a grant in the 2007 fiscal year is about 2,100 million yen, and hits 1.6% of the whole general account budget.
About the validity of this amount of a subsidy, arguments have been exchanged during many years.
Although the city was also doing periodically the original trial calculation "10 billion yen of tax revenues will increase if there is no base", it stopped about ten years ago. It is said that it was opposed by the member of a city council, "Does this reliance by which a company comes dully exist? It is independence of a number."
A certain city management says, "For a city, a base is a certain thing from the first, and if wished, it will not be lost, either. It is meaningless even if it investigates economical value this way and that about a "precondition"."

[ Presence which money of a U.S. Forces base shows to local - Asahi Shimbun Kanagawa version November 25, 2008 ]

Warship island is progressing to public presentation next spring

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"Hashima island" of Nagasaki City in the name of a "warship island" was opened to the press on November 14. Since the coal mine shaft was closed in 1974 and this island became uninhabited, landing has been forbidden. Nagasaki City started maintenance in June, for sightseeing, and it will aim general public presentation at spring next year. "Hashima island" are 480m of north and south, and 160m of east and west. It is appearing on the sea about 19km southwest from the Nagasaki harbor. Mitsubishi will start coal-mining in 1890. It was the "marine city" where the ferro-concrete multistory apartment building made the first in Japan in 1916 is built, and about 5200 persons live in the golden age. The another name of the warship island was attached from the figure associated with a battleship.
[ Warship island: Maintenance of the marine city supporting modernization is progressing to public presentation next spring - Mainichi Newspapers November 15, 2008 ]

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