Japanese World Heritages

I searched for imformation about Japanese world heritage to compare with New Zealand's one. There are 14 places specified as world heritage in Japan. So I would like to introduce two of it.



The Atomic Bomb Dome

In 1945 August 6th, an atomic bomb was thrown down in Hiroshima city. That atomic bomb sprinkled radiation and killed a lot of people. And because of locating just under the bomb, one dome left the form. That dome was built as museum, but after the throwing down that bomb that has been called The Atomic Bomb Dome. 1960, A peace movement person started to protect the dome in order to showing how pitiful the atomic bomb was. Six years later, 1966, that dome was specified as world heritage and many tourist visit there now.

Here is some information about The Atomic Bomb Dome.
And this site provide a live image of This dome. You can watch live camera's movie!



Rouan-ji
Next, The famous temple in Kyoto, Ryouan ji. Here is the site how to get to there. And if you want to know more about this temple's history, click here.
This temple is made by Hosokawa Katsumoto in 1450, and famous for the beautiful garden. The small stones in this garden are set to represent hills and waters. So there are no pond and water.
The main building of this was burnt in fire in 1797, however, after that the main temple was transferred another one in this temple. And now that building is specified as world heritage.

Kouran-kei Momiji Festival

I would like to introduce the famous autumn festival "Kouran-kei Momiji Matsuri"（香嵐渓もみじ祭り）. This festival is held Toyota city in Aichi prefecture and the month is November. The more information about this festival is here. If you want to go to this festival, this website will tell you how to go there. Kouran-kei is the road that Tomoe river to a temple Koujaku-ji.
The road is fulled with the maple and cedar trees. So when it comes to autumn, the maple leaves turn into red and at night the leaves will be lighted up. That's very beautiful views.There are many street stalls along the road. You can eat a lot of kind of food Francfort, Yakisoba and enjoy gold fish scooping, target shooting, and so on.

And very famous artist for a painting in sumi Fuugai Mototaka was born at Toyota city, so his special collection of works will be opened to the public only during the Kouran-kei Momiji Festival.

My Favorite Movies

I like to see movies and that genre is various, fiction, horror, fantasy, and so on. I'd like to introduce my liking movies.



At first, the horror movie "Dead Silence".This movie is horror movie and little violence is contained. The story of this movie is about a doll which carries a curse. One day, the doll was delivered to the couple and both of them didn't know that doll and wasn't written the sender. In the evening, husband went out to buy the dinner and wife stayed at home with that doll. Then the doll moved as one and killed the wife. And the husband was thought murder, but the husband never did that. So the husband started to seek why the doll was cursed and going to kill.


Second, the non-fiction movie"21". This movie is about a really exist man who was the student of MIT. His name was Ben. He was genius and wanted to enter the Harvard University, but the school expenses were too expensive. Ben was bothering how pay that money. One day, the professor of MIT invited Ben to the team of game. The game was Blackjack. The professor said that if we could count all of the card, we could be winner. Then Ben joined the team and earn money in the Vegas with Blackjack.

Diet & Exercise

Diet: Miso Soup

I would like to introduce healthy food, miso soup. I think it help us to go on a diet. This food is Japanese traditional soup, based on soybean paste. This food's ingredients is low calorie materials, and nutritious. The ingredients is primary miso and seaweed and tofu, and Japanese add vagetables which is in season. For instance, a pumpkin, a corn, and so on. The benefit of miso soup is not only diet, it is also said cuts breast cancer risk.The soybean's isofrabon is good for that. This website shows more deatealed information about this.
And if you want to know how to make miso soup, click here. you can know the recipe from this video.

Exercise: Jogging

Today, people bothering about diet. So many people want to know how to do sports. There are many way to start, however, I recommend jogging as diet. Also doing sports is good, I think. However, jogging is reasonable. You must buy only jogging shoes. And I recommend to read this, How to Get Started Jogging. If you read this, you will know how to do it. I think hard exercise is bad for our body, so you don't have to do hard jogging.

And I know there are iPod made for jogging. That is made by Nike and Apple. First, the sensor which count your jogging pace is in the Nike shoes. And if you change the pace, the sensor tell you that through the iPod. Of cource you can listen to music too! That's very good way to relax during jogging. This device can know the other's information about this on the internet.Now, you know how to jogging and enjoying it. You should try!

Laughter

(1) Interesting information about laughter
・About laugh
People can laugh everywhere when feel funny. The reason of laugh is various, for example, talking funny story, see a funny movie or TV program, and so on. People laugh naturally and everyone has own likes to feel funny, so explain why people laugh is difficult. But I think people laugh if the thing looks like stranger.

・Benefits of laughter
Laughter is beneficial to us both physically and healthy. Here’s interesting book about laughter. “Laugh For No Reason”. There is very interesting information about benefits of laughter, and I would like to explain pick out from this and I searched information.For instance, laughter’s physically effect is reduce stress, elevate mood, foster instant relaxation. And about healthy, laughter helps us to increase heart circulation and improve the delivery of oxygen and nutrient to tissues throughout our body.


(2 )Comedy &Other funny stuff
I would like to introduce the animation “The World of GOLDEN EGGS”. That animation is very funny the character’s speaking way, and speaking tempo makes us laugh, I think. The animation is made by short piece.And there are various characters, but the voice actor is just two men.Recently this animation collaborated in a commercial of Nissan Note(a kind of car).