"She & Him" Volume 3

 Music matters always for me, whatever situations I'm in. "She & Him" will release a new full length album at 7th May, 2013 in North America and also they announce their North America summer 2013 tour. I wish they will come to Japan. I just can't wait!!

Calm Beginning of 2013

 A day is so fast and I reckon I never get used it. One month flies away so quick just like a fragment of snow in a hand melts. News papers have reported horrific things about all over the world, politics, economy and non-true-or-without-truth stories yet. Besides all of them, for "people" really calm days have passed through so far in Japan, I think. That sounds nice to me, because whether I feel reluctant to do something or not, the thing goes to normal. So, I do clean up my room. haha!

One Day in 365

 This past Monday, 14th January, 2013, was an annual holiday for celebrating age of 20-years-old that's called "Coming of Age Day" in Japan. The festivity is to celebrate a person becoming an adult and to be realized a person taking its own responsibility. And the same day, this year, Tokyo, also Kanto area, got huge amount of snow. Japan is a small country as size but not small like weather is all the same at any places in the country. At north part of Japan like Hokaido, Aomori, Nigata, there's snowing in winter season but at the south it' not much. At Tokyo, snowing normally is only one day in 365 days and even its amount is usually just a few, like 1 cm deep or around. However this year's snowfall was a 8cm deep that's been 17 years. Just a 8 centimeter but in Tokyo that's totally big deal! It matters a lot, especially transportation. Actually at the day, there were delays and cancellation for every kind of transportation. Tokyo is so weak for snowing. So, if you come Japan in winter, you'd better check a day for snowfall has been coming already.

Tokyo Olympic 2020

 This year's late summer, there will be a final decision which affects a lot of people who believes in 2020. Tokyo has been qualified as last three contenders for 2020 Olympic host city. Newly elected Governor of Tokyo, also ex-governor too, has spent too many tax for its enticement despite many habitants are not interested in it. Actually, the rate of its support was just around 50 percent which was the worst in the three cities. The rivals has following percentage like Madrid 78 percent and Istanbul 73 percent. So, Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee, which literally a committee for the bid for 2020 Olympic game, has cashed for advertisement raising interest in Tokyo. And this week-head, their plan released. The plan is based on London's, it means Tokyo Olympic would be compact. Every games and facilities would be within a radius of 8 kilometers of the city central. And even many facilities will be renewed as like London did. Tokyo has the same problem London had and the same reason London also had. The problem and the reason are that Tokyo's infrastructure now is getting old and need to fix it all over the city. Tokyo's situation looks like London, that the reason why I think Tokyo doesn't need the Olympic because of the London's aftermath. What do you think?

 

 

Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee Official WEB-Site : http://tokyo2020.jp/en/

Christmas Illumination 2012 Summery

 This past year 2012's Christmas Illumination around Tokyo was actually really good. Many illumination was decorated more light than before and spent more money seemingly. Just one disappointment was Tokyo station's lighting-up-show with Projection Mapping had cancelled just after opening day due to safety reason, but still it's really impressive therefore it's fun going out into winter's chilly air.

 There are summery pictures of 2012 Christmas illumination.

 ( Abave at Roppongi, mid at Ebisu and Yokohama, bottom at Marunouchi and Omotesando.)

Happy New Year 2013

 To fix my broken computer again made me nothing to do even with Japanese traditional new year's holidays, especially this year's very good calendar mede majorities having 9 days-off, it made me complicating to do things that I have to do. I still couldn't post some articles that I wrote last year, so I will. And this year 2013, I will post more than this past year 2012, that's my will for 2013.