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nathan-kakehashi-blog · 1 year

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Kakehashi 2022 - Day 1

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The trip began in earnest the morning after my arrival, naturally. (This was one of the busiest days, so here's yet another huge post lol.)

We had a VERY busy itinerary for the whole trip, planned down to the minute. I was pretty nervous still at this point, considering that it was my first time in Japan, as well as my first time travelling abroad without my family; but I was well-prepared and in good company for the trip.

Breakfast in the hotel was far better than what you'd find in an American hotel. It was a buffet of a wide variety of foods, ranging from typical western fare to all sorts of Japanese staples, in a very clean and well-lit restaurant. Surprisingly, the french toast was my favorite of the things I tried there, followed by the coffee. After having tried a wide variety of common coffees in Japan on this trip, I can safely say that they tend to be considerably less bitter and are smoother going down than coffees found in the US. (Not to say that you can't find that kind, though.)

As one final tangent before moving on, I also wanted to mention the washlets (bidets) in Japan. There isn't much I can say that hasn't already been said elsewhere about these, but I was thoroughly surprised by how prevalent they are. Out of the many bathrooms I visited during the trip, only a small handful of them didn't have a washlet at all. Even out in the countryside! I will miss the nice, clean restrooms of Japan dearly. I had some reverse culture shock on my way back home after the trip due to this, lol.

Our first stop for the day was the National Diet Building. We got to take a tour of the interior of the building. (Though just the central building and the south wing, the House of Representatives portion.) If I understood what I was overhearing as we were going through security right, this tour is a part of the standard curriculum for all Japanese schools. A few groups of elementary/middle schoolers from distant prefectures were on the tour ahead of us, cute yellow/red hats and all. I quite like this style of architecture, with all the nice reliefs and detailed wood carvings. It reminds me a lot of buildings in Washington D.C., having gone there once before.

A few highlights, including the House of Representatives:

Before lunch, we stopped by the park outside the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, mainly to see Nijubashi (lit. "double bridge"), one of a famous pair of bridges over the moats at the palace. Before it was replaced by the iron bridge present today, it was a wooden bridge that was built over a smaller bridge, hence the name. I also found it interesting how such a big park could be in the dead center of such a huge cluster of cities like this.

Nijubashi and the park near the Palace:

After finishing lunch, we went to see Meiji Jingu, a very famous shrine complex next to Yoyogi park. The fall colors around the shrine were utterly gorgeous; my camera doesn't do them justice. Vivid greens blending into blazing oranges. Pure crimson maples. Majestic, golden yellow ginkgo trees. I admit, I've always had a soft spot for autumn scenery. I also have to mention the crows. All throughout the park and the nearby areas of the city, there are crows everywhere, cawing away. I hardly ever see any back home, so I found that particularly neat.

The shrine gate, the autumn colors, and a crow:

On the way out of the shrine, I heard the deep, rhythmic bass of some drums in the distance. I didn't investigate since we were already walking away, but apparently one in our group got split up by following the sound, as if he had been summoned. We made plenty of jokes about him being spirited away or him being like a lost child.

What came next, I was not expecting at all. They set us loose in Harajuku for two full hours! (Specifically, right at Takeshita Street/竹下通り.) One of my only regrets of this trip was not having researched the area ahead of time, since I didn't have any idea they were planning this. For those unaware, Harajuku is known as a center for young teenage girl's fashion and the like. Not far from there is Omotesando, which is packed with all sorts of high-end international stores, like Gucci and Armani for example. Definitely not things I particularly like or can afford.

The bustling Takeshita Street and "fashion":

For whatever reason, I could not for the life of me find a decent-looking bookstore in the area around Harajuku proper, so me and my friend that I was wandering with quickly decided to try broadening our search to the direction of Shibuya. We didn't just take the train down a couple of stations since we were under the impression that we weren't allowed to, but in hindsight, we were literally right next to Harajuku station… We should have just taken it anyways lol. This was the first time I would properly experience the crowds in Tokyo, and I wasn't fully prepared for it. Fortunately, I do have some skills with moving in a crowd, but I did get a little jangled by just how many people were around and how loud it was.

As a sidenote, both cars and people in Japan flow in the opposite direction as the US. Instead of hanging on the right side, things flow on the leftmost-side first. Interestingly, this also includes pedestrian flows, even if it isn't always a literal rule. It took some getting used to at first, but now I'm having a hard time unlearning it, since I don't often walk in crowds here in the States. I may or may not have bumped into a couple people in Atlanta before realizing I needed to be on the right side again lol.

We were just a bit past Omotesando when we spotted an intriguing store that claimed to sell manga on the upper floor; as the both of us were big fans of manga (and active members of our Japanese reading club!), we decided to alter our heading to check it out. The store was running a temporary exhibit of studio MAPPA's recent hit anime "Chainsaw Man", which had a wall full of design artwork and behind-the-scenes work from the anime; not to mention the life-size statue of one of the lead characters (pic below). My friend quickly spent all of the money he brought with him for the trip(!) on a huge stack of volumes from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and I decided to buy the set of SPYxFAMILY, since another friend of mine had been translating it as his project for the Japanese translation class at the UofM, and I found it pretty good then. I had run the numbers, and if I had bought that same set here in the US and had it shipped, it would have cost me nearly triple the price!

My manga haul, the obligatory Jojo meme page, and the statue:

But as a surprise to us both, we ran into another one of us on the street shortly after we started heading back! He was heading to some back-alley store nearby. He is a huge fan of Chainsaw Man, so before going to that alley, we brought him to the store we found earlier.

Our search for the hidden, ambiguously-named "Gamers" took us past the one and only sketchy part of Japan I would see on the trip; an odd tattoo parlor with a bunch of shiny motorcycles parked beside it, and a pair of suspicious-looking individuals hanging around. Totally not a Yakuza-run establishment, right? Regardless, we would come to find that this store was not at all what we thought it would be. Instead of some kind of video-game store, it was a store crammed to the ceiling with Idol merch, gravure magazines, and Love Live posters. My own personal definition of hell. We quickly fled, slightly redder in the face, and started the trek back to Harajuku station.

The cursed store:

It was getting close to the departure time as we got back to the station, and right as we got there I spotted something by chance. This whole time, there was a cat café directly next to the station! And I didn’t see it in time to go! Argh! I'm still mad about that, since my apartment doesn't allow pets and it had been months since I had last gotten to pet one. And while we were waiting to leave, for whatever reason some group started filming Idol-style dances dressed in very seasonally-inappropriate (chilly!) sailor outfits near us. I found it moderately hilarious, though I tried not to show it visibly lol.

By the time we made it back to the hotel, I was thoroughly exhausted. Some of us were going out again to meet a few current study-abroad students from the UofM, but I didn't have the energy to go out, opting just to say hello to one of them near the lobby. This would be a theme for the next few nights, haha. They really didn't go easy on us, as far as the itinerary for each day goes.

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rattusn0rvegicus · 2 years

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Currently crying about Yoso-Tama-No-Kakehashi, a Japanese guidebook from the 1700s about raising rats. It's the first known rat guidebook in the world :)

They were raised as pets and for show animals, and it's mentioned in the guidebook that "one can call out and rats will come to hand". They were referred to as "nezumi" and it was considered important that they have large cages to live in. There was also a variety of rat that had a fox-like coat!

Rats were domesticated in Japan from the 1600s to the 1800s - it's unknown if any of those domesticated strains are ancestral to the current domestic rats today. They were domesticated again in Europe in the 1800s (initially for much crueler reasons than just for being pets) and I think it's just so sweet that we as humans fell in love with rats so much that we had to domesticate them at least TWICE...

You can download an article about the guidebook here. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/expanim/60/1/60_1_1/_pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioidaLs5z6AhUojIkEHRI1BvEQFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw3aarTW0iy1HybCcrxtp4ww

#Ratblr #Rats #History #Y'all I'm so emo about this

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fortunatelyfresco · 2 years

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strong evidence points to brown rats having lived alongside humans commensally for thousands of years, and i am driven mad by the fact that we apparently JUST DON'T KNOW when people first started keeping them as pets

i say "apparently" because i'm starting to strongly suspect there may be information written down somewhere that's cut off by a combination of linguistic/cultural/educational barriers in the world of People Who Care Strongly About Rats

jack black of london did not start the rat fancy in the 1840s–60s.

yoso-tama-no-kakehashi was a 1775 japanese guide on breeding and keeping your own "novel jewel-like nezumi", and it is the oldest record i've been able to find, courtesy of Takashi Kuramoto, a researcher who had it translated into modern japanese and wrote a paper on it.

another paper, "The origins of the domesticate brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) and its pathways to domestication" by Ardern Hulme-Beaman, David Orton, and Thomas Cucchi, says that there is evidence rats were domesticated in japan as early as 1654 (though one of the cited sources doesn't seem to actually say this, and i can't access the other), and also states that yoso-tama-no-kakehashi may suggest fancy rat breeding existed in China around the same time or even earlier, but that this "needs further exploration."

and that's it!!! that's all i've been able to find that didn't lead to a dead end, or a potential wealth of information that i can't read because i don't know japanese. japan has one of the largest rat strain databases in the world!

english-language layman-parsable resources tend to confidently state that jack black started the fancy. "The origins of[...]" cited above is the first I found that didn't. Takashi Kuramoto's paper was the second, and i only found it because they cited it.

english-language, layman-friendly resources also tend to state that dwarf rats originated in the sprague dawley colony in 1977, sometimes specifically citing this as the first documented occurrence of the phenotype—despite the fact that according to Takashi Kuramoto's paper, dwarf rats are mentioned in yoso-tama-no-kakehashi, a full 200 years earlier! sure, they might not be genetically linked to modern western dwarf rats, but isn't it worth noting if they popped up spontaneously twice?

#i am so mad that i cant just be a rat historian and research these things for a living #rats #sorry it's midnight and i am staving off despair by screaming about this

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vaiings · 1 month

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1. INTRODUCTION: What is this blog?

so. i'm vai.

i've been studying japan, its history, politics, culture(s), and language for a couple years at this point. i'm always looking to learn more about the country– i'm curious, i can't help it. when i was selected to go to japan as part of the kakehashi project in february 2024, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. i got the chance to see things, do things, and meet people that i would have never been able to do otherwise (currently missing that taiyaki my partner bought me in asakusa).

...so why am i talking about that here?

架け橋, kakehashi. bridge. between cultures, between people. even in the age of social media, there's a lot of art, news, and information that's inaccessible to your average english-speaking person about japan. unless, of course, you make the effort to learn (or are blessed with having already learnt) japanese. there's a gap you have to...um...

bridge

first.

think of this blog as a one of those. a record of some of my japanese-english translations, my thoughts on what i've seen and learnt, and more– making things a little more accessible for an english speaking audience by taking that information in japanese and sticking it here.

active here for this summer 2024, potentially longer. expect another post soon.

#kakehashi2024 #japanese translations #japan #vaiings: about

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eyeviewsl · 4 months

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Kakehashi 2024: SLPAJ's Flagship Project Links Sri Lankan Startups to Global Opportunities

The Sri Lanka Professional Association in Japan (SLPAJ), in partnership with the Sri Lankan Embassy in Japan, proudly presents the annual Kakehashi event, a powerful platform that connects Sri Lankan startups with investors, fostering growth and expansion. The event is held from October to January, online and through social media, and serves as a remarkable opportunity for startups to showcase…

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cindypaulos · 1 year

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Stephen Melillo Interview for Memorial Day.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wtnpn-141be9e In 2005, “Kakehashi: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE” was recorded in Japan by 143 world-class Japanese Military Musicians and 300 Chorus traveling from Shenandoah and Old Dominion Universities. It was the FIRST recording released by the Ministry of Defense outside of Japan. In 2007, a “visualized” version of “Kakehashi: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE”, won THREE Telly…

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tumsozluk · 2 years

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Nine students selected for Kakehashi Japan study abroad program

Nine Marshall University students have been selected to participate in the Kakehashi Project, an exchange program sponsored by Japan’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The program is run by the Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The “Japan Friendship Ties Program” is intended to promote…

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mainsnational · 2 years

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Death Note Creators' New Anime, Platinum End, Releases First Trailer

A new trailer for Platinum End, the new anime from the creators of Death Note and director of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, has been released.

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New details and trailers for the anime adaptation of Platinum End, the new series from Death Note creators Tsugumi Oba and Takeshi Obata, have been revealed.

As reported by Anime News Network, Platinum End's official website has been updated with a new trailer and new information about the upcoming series. The first part of Platinum End is directed by Hideya Takahashi, who has previously worked on anime such as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind and Pokemon Origins, while the second part of the series is directed by Kazuchika Kiss, who served as lead animator. Did. Ghost in the Shell and the Rebuild of the Evangelion series. The anime is being produced by Production IG's sister studio Signal.MD, which also produced 2017's Napping Princess.

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nathan-kakehashi-blog · 1 year

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Kakehashi 2022 - Day 0

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Now that the background info is out of the way, I can start talking about the trip itself! First off, there's day zero; the travel/transit day.

Day 0

Given that we all live in the States, we had quite the long flight ahead of us. Between the connection flight to ATL and the long-haul flight across the pacific to Haneda, we were in the air for at least 15 hours, maybe more. This was absolutely grueling; made worse by the fact that I didn't get any sleep the night before and that I had missed breakfast before leaving home. The night before, one of us had a close call with the documentation that Japan requires for the quarantine fast-track program, nearly costing them the trip; fortunately they were able to get it straight in the end. (With only a couple hours to spare at that!)

This was my first time overseas, and also the first time I had flown at all in many years, so I made a few mistakes in my carry-on packing. I had the right-side aisle seat. My bag ended up in an overhead bin across in the left-side aisle, so I couldn't reach it during the flight, leaving me with just what I had on me at the time. I quickly learned that I wouldn't be getting any sleep on the flight either, being a tall person without a properly reclining seat or something to lean on. The only saving graces were the pillow that Delta provides and the in-flight movies. Without those, I might have gone insane lol.

We arrived at Haneda at long last, having chased the sun across the sea. My phone was having a wonderful (hard) time figuring out what day it was, at least until I got it properly connected to the cell network. As a sidenote, I can now highly recommend Google Fi in Japan; I had full signal for the entire trip on my US-model Pixel 6. It doesn't even support all the cell bands that Japan typically uses, so why do I have dead spots at home but not there!?

Quite unlike most airports I had been to before, Haneda's exit terminal was run like a well-oiled machine, churning thousands of people through each hour. It was extremely well-staffed, having people handing out fliers detailing the recent changes to the quarantine requirements, along with what documentation would be needed shortly. Customs went smoothly, although the worker understandably didn't speak English. (Or at all, for that matter. Japanese would have been better than just pointing at things to me lol.)

Inside the exit terminal at Haneda:

After claiming our bags and regrouping, we met up with JICE and were brought to a tour bus. At this point, it was nearly sundown in Tokyo, so we headed straight to the hotel in Koto-ward/ku (just east of Chuo-ku). On the bus ride, I saw all sorts of new and unfamiliar sights, such as "buildings with multiple floors" and "stores". (Joking aside, the southern US is definitely not famous for its infrastructure or wealth.) I also got to see the edge of Odaiba (which I went to later!) and Tokyo Big Sight on the way in, albeit partially obscured by buildings.

The Hotel was much better than I was expecting, being one of the largest buildings in that part of the city. My room was relatively small compared to US hotels, but it had everything I needed and then some, amenities-wise. But the biggest unexpected detail was the view out my window. It was jaw-dropping, having an unobscured view of the cityscape, including a perfect view of the Skytree. (See video clip below!) I wasted no time though, passing out as soon as I got settled in the room for the night, getting some greatly-needed rest for the days ahead.

Interior of the hotel room:

View of the Skytree at night:

Morning cityscape pan:

To be continued…

(Also, later on I'll include some full-res photo albums of each day, rather than just the highlights that I've included here.)

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wearejapanese · 3 years

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In the Fall of 2014, a handful of young, Japanese Americans were selected to travel to their families' country of origin as part of the Kakehashi Project through the Japanese American Citizens League. A few of the students agreed to document their trip, many of them visiting Japan for the first time, to capture the sights and sounds they experienced over the course of their journey. These are a few of their stories.

Heidi Nielson, 25, University of Arizona:

I'd always wanted to go to Japan for as long as I could remember. I grew up hearing about Japan from my grandparents, mostly my grandma, who always wanted us to go someday and kept us connected to our heritage. When my grandma died, I didn’t handle it well. We were very close, and she was always a role model of strength and resilience to me, having been crippled at a young age by severe arthritis. Before she died, she left me all of her journals and asked me to write her memoir. Ten years later, I still haven’t been able to open them. I wanted to go on the trip for so many reasons, but most of all I wanted to feel closer to my grandma and to a country that she loved.

Arriving in Japan felt surreal and sometimes the trip skill feels like a dream. I got engaged the night before I left for Japan, and I kept telling my fiancé that it was like two dreams coming true at once.

My favorite day was when we arrived in Ten’ei Village. We were welcomed to Fukushima prefecture by the government, and the official made a special effort to talk to me about my great-grandparents, who emigrated from Fukushima. As we were driving to Ten’ei Village from Fukushima City, I kept marveling at the idea that I could have been looking at the same mountains and trees that my ancestors did.

On our last full day in Japan, we went to Asakusa Shrine. It was a lovely rainy day to wander around the beautiful temple. I lit a candle for my grandma there. Even though it was such a small gesture, I felt happy thinking that there was a light burning for her in Japan.

Before I left, I felt like I was just beginning to learn what it means to be Japanese American. I joined JACL before applying for the program, and I felt so proud of the history of activism in the community. It is a history that I want to carry on as a soon-to-be attorney.

I feel closer to not only my grandma, but also my whole family. When I came home, my mom, who has never been to Japan, was so excited to see and hear about everything. I brought her a lot of presents, but she was most excited when I showed her the picture of the candle I lit for my grandma. She told me that my grandma always said that when she died, she hoped she could stop in Japan before going to heaven.

Now that I’m back, my mom and I want to do more research on our roots in Japan, and I feel like I can finally start my grandma’s memoir.