Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Online Games
Japanese 9 and 10
Internet Activities
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual.html
This is an excellent site offering a virtual Japanese home, Judo lessons and even Flower arranging. Try it out. Anytime you see the word “virtual,” it means that there is some sort of web game or activity.
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/games/hiragana/
Match the hiragana words with the pictures. See what level you can get to.
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/games/gestures/index.html
Gestures in Japan mean different things. Can you guess what these ones mean?
http://www.nekopy.com/game/kana/f_kana.html
Let the show run through, then guess what the broken hiragana are supposed to be. Find it in the hiragana chart and click on it.
http://www.accessjapanese.com/game.html
Hiragana quiz!
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/games/puzzle/puzzle.html
Japanese Puzzle
http://www.quia.com/ws/355974.html
A word search of Months and days. Can you finish it?
http://www.quia.com/pop/41014.html
Review your hiragana with this question and answer quiz.
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/
Just an excellent site. Some of the pages are listed above, but take a look for yourself. I could spend hours and hours here.
Internet Activities
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual.html
This is an excellent site offering a virtual Japanese home, Judo lessons and even Flower arranging. Try it out. Anytime you see the word “virtual,” it means that there is some sort of web game or activity.
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/games/hiragana/
Match the hiragana words with the pictures. See what level you can get to.
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/games/gestures/index.html
Gestures in Japan mean different things. Can you guess what these ones mean?
http://www.nekopy.com/game/kana/f_kana.html
Let the show run through, then guess what the broken hiragana are supposed to be. Find it in the hiragana chart and click on it.
http://www.accessjapanese.com/game.html
Hiragana quiz!
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/games/puzzle/puzzle.html
Japanese Puzzle
http://www.quia.com/ws/355974.html
A word search of Months and days. Can you finish it?
http://www.quia.com/pop/41014.html
Review your hiragana with this question and answer quiz.
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/
Just an excellent site. Some of the pages are listed above, but take a look for yourself. I could spend hours and hours here.
National Anthem
http://www.languagerealm.com/japanese/anthem_jp.php
Japan's National Anthem (Kimi Ga Yo)
Japan's National Anthem (Kimi Ga Yo)
Friday, September 21, 2007
Woman goes for sumo ring, heavyweights panic
from msnbc.com
Woman goes for sumo ring, heavyweights panic
Individual tried to reach Tokyo arena from which women are banned
TOKYO - A woman invaded a sumo ring — a sacred arena from which females are banned — in Tokyo during a major tournament, domestic media said on Thursday, then was pulled down by a referee and one of the sport's huge wrestlers.
The middle-aged woman dashed from the side of the Kokugikan sumo stadium on Wednesday and shoved away a female security guard before rolling onto the ring just as a bout was set to begin, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
The Japan Sumo Association insisted that though the woman did enter the raised platform around the batting ring, she did not set foot on the ring, or dohyo, itself.
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"It's bad for the heart," Takamisakari, a popular wrestler who helped catch the woman, told the Sports Nippon daily. "What was the person trying to do while we were wrestling seriously?"
It was not clear why she had attempted to reach the ring during one of the sport's heavily televised six big tournaments, but she was carrying a bundle of flyers saying "help, bad spirits," Nikkan Sports daily reported.
Severe faux pas
Such an intrusion would be a severe faux pas for the ancient sport, which is so serious about keeping females out that a female governor of Osaka had to delegate prize-giving duties to a male subordinate at a 2001 tournament.
Japan's giant wrestlers battle it out in a ring with a diameter of 4.6 metros (15 feet) set in the center of a sand stage raised around 50 centimeters (19 inches) from the ground.
Tradition forbids women from entering the ring on the grounds that it is sacred and their presence, considered unclean, would pollute it.
"It's just the way it's been from the past," an official from the sumo association said.
Women were also banned in the past from climbing mountains or entering mines in Japan.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Woman goes for sumo ring, heavyweights panic
Individual tried to reach Tokyo arena from which women are banned
TOKYO - A woman invaded a sumo ring — a sacred arena from which females are banned — in Tokyo during a major tournament, domestic media said on Thursday, then was pulled down by a referee and one of the sport's huge wrestlers.
The middle-aged woman dashed from the side of the Kokugikan sumo stadium on Wednesday and shoved away a female security guard before rolling onto the ring just as a bout was set to begin, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
The Japan Sumo Association insisted that though the woman did enter the raised platform around the batting ring, she did not set foot on the ring, or dohyo, itself.
Story continues below ↓advertisement
"It's bad for the heart," Takamisakari, a popular wrestler who helped catch the woman, told the Sports Nippon daily. "What was the person trying to do while we were wrestling seriously?"
It was not clear why she had attempted to reach the ring during one of the sport's heavily televised six big tournaments, but she was carrying a bundle of flyers saying "help, bad spirits," Nikkan Sports daily reported.
Severe faux pas
Such an intrusion would be a severe faux pas for the ancient sport, which is so serious about keeping females out that a female governor of Osaka had to delegate prize-giving duties to a male subordinate at a 2001 tournament.
Japan's giant wrestlers battle it out in a ring with a diameter of 4.6 metros (15 feet) set in the center of a sand stage raised around 50 centimeters (19 inches) from the ground.
Tradition forbids women from entering the ring on the grounds that it is sacred and their presence, considered unclean, would pollute it.
"It's just the way it's been from the past," an official from the sumo association said.
Women were also banned in the past from climbing mountains or entering mines in Japan.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Tokyo Eye: Kabukicho
From Episode 11 of the NHK World show Tokyo Eye, this is a look at Tokyo's biggest entertainment district, Shinjuku Kabukicho
Tokyo Eye: Robots
From episode 25 of NHK World's Tokyo Eye, a look at anime-influence robot culture in Japan.
UGOKIE-KO-RI-NO-TATEHIKI(1933)
UGOKIE-KO-RI-NO-TATEHIKI(1933)
(Moving picture -Fox and Asian racoon's cheats each other)
Director:Ikuo Oishi
In the temple that became ruins, the fox that disguises as the samurai does the fight of magic with Asian racoon's parent and child.
It seems that it was influenced from the style of Max Fleischer's Cartoon.
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