OK! Hello again everyone! Here is the August Festival Calendar I promised you July 12th. August is a block-buster for events. There are more scheduled festivals than ever before, and more of them are on weekends. Crowds will be that much bigger, too as a result! Naturally! Sunday August 1st – PL in Tondabayashi 100,000 rockets, […]
Summer Festival Calendar for July 2010! ( 花火大会 )
Many of you know that my wife Yoko and I are hardcore summer festival revelers and this summer already has us feverish with so many festivals scheduled on our days off! Never before have we been able to plan for so many festivals (22 to be exact !), and as a result this year I […]
Kaguya Part 1 ( かぐや ) Hayabusa ( はやぶさ )
Last month, you must have heard news about the Hayabusa space probe which was sent by the Japan Space Agency (JAXA) to drill into the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa and bring back samples. This successful and important mission will tell us a lot about how the Solar System was formed and the likelihood that we may someday find […]
