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e me an expert on his various incarnations i first got to know ultraman max who as the main character on tv as my eldest son began his interest in the series and we went through his various annual changes together each christmas it was easy to get a new plastic figure or a new monster and though most did look vaguely similar to me even i managed to distinguish a few of the types i remember best the likes of ultraman mebius and zero though who became the ultramen we saw most frequently in the last flurry of youthful pleasure my kids took in this fantasy before their developing maturity forced them away from it not that they have completely given up on ultramen they may no longer play with the toys but neither have they been able yet to sell or give away their collections both are still increasingly passive members of the ultraman fan club and have even had the chance to meet their heroes on various occasions highlights have included running out on the field with the famous yomuiri giants who use the characters of ultraman as a another mascot going to an ultra monster themes restaurant in kawasaki and appearing as extras in the tv show and movies with ultraman x even i did that pretending to run from monsters in the shopping streets and malls of suburban kanagawa and it was great fun too as i have said before there is something to to said for studying the genre and understanding its greater sociao political or cultural abstractions so while i still have the excuse of my children s interest i am going to continue shooting this very important part of japanese popular culture meanwhile happy 50th birthday ultraman damon share this share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin print opens in new window print share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted by sungypsy july 17 2016 categories interesting leave a comment new kids on the block there was a protest this friday outside the national diet building by a group of high school studentts called the t nssowl that catchy name stands for teens stand up to oppose war law and is a small group of teenagers determined to follow the success of last year s sealds movement in calling for prime minister shinzo abe to reverse the changes he made to article of the japanese constitution they would also like him to quit last july the hawkish abe reinterpreted article 9 which forever forbids japan to undertake aggressive military action except in defence of the nation to allow the japanese armed forces to take part in collective self defence what this means is that the japanese military can come to the aid of allies even if japan itself is not itself under attack for many japanese this is anathema and they fear japanese soldiers getting dragged into foreign wars in support of the us there were massive protests against this reinterpretation last year despite this abe pushed the change through the diet the student organisation sealds student emergency action for liberal democracy energised the protests last year bringing the protests to the attention of the mass media where their issues could be openly discussed as a social phenomena japanese youth are often seen and generally portrayed as feckless and politically apathetic or naive sealds to a greater or lesser degree changed that image and one of their leaders aki okuda even met with opposition leaders and spoke in parliamentary committee meetings okuda san was present last night leading moral support when t nssowl gathered outside the diet to voice their own concerns about the direction japan is going the upper house elections which take place later this year are the first that teenagers will allowed to vote in since the voting age was lowered from 20 to 18 last summer the group is determined to galvanise the extra 2 4 million voters this change has created into a force of that will keep japan peaceful how successful they will be is hard to gauge certainly the protest attracted the media who surrounded the site of the demo what it didn t attract however were the teenagers whom it hoped to inspire i could only see four actual teenagers and the crowd of 200 or so people was mostly made up of the usual older protesters that still gather outside the diet building most fridays to call on abe to resign indeed the warmer weather has reinvigorated the usual anti nuke protests in front of the prime minister s residence and their angry calls often drown out the teenagers though this was one of their first protests and this embryonic group may yet grow into a force as vocal and influential as sealds were it was also hear to escape the feeling that these teenagers were very well teenagery they looked bored they checked their iphones and their hair during the chants and the protest slogans and logos seemed borrowed from the only slightly deeper convictions of the sealds movement early days yet and it will be interesting to see how japanese high school students will use their newly given voting powers in the up coming election less then a third of people in their twenties voted at the last election and generally the young in japan feel that politics doesn t apply to them perhaps this group will inspire those people to get politically connected again the dissatisfaction that has galvanised youthful support for progressive candidates in many countries from jeremy corbyn to bernie sanders is one that the young also feel here the need to protest about something being wrong with their lot in life obviously is keenly felt but who will take up the challenge on a level that seriously threatens the establishment here has yet to find a face several politicians came to talk at the sealds demos riding the wave of support the organisation generated to mark out their difference from the black suited norm a couple of law makers spoke last night too and each congratulated the teenagers on their desire for change yet after these speeches the chants the high schoolers made were the same the endless dirge of anti abe vitriol which no one really expects him to listen to or be troubled by even the faces of the teens showed that resignation and i am left wondering why young people given the power to mould their world for the first time in their lives are not thinking of new ways to affect that change later damon share this share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin print opens in new window print share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted by sungypsy june 4 2016 categories interesting leave a comment here comes the sun as japan recovers from another destructive earthquake in the the west at kumamoto i am thankful for one small thing in the latest disaster at least there were no tsunamis the tsunami that followed the march 11th 2011 magnitude 9 earthquake in tohoku caused most of the problems including the triple meltdown at the fukushima daichi nuclear power station when the back up generators were destroyed by the wave since then support for nuclear power has decreased significantly and though companies like tokyo electric tepco are determined to restart the 48 existing power station all of which were moth balled after the disaster and even build new ones they have also had to accommodate the growing consumer demand to find alternative ways to generate the huge amount of electricity japan uses after the earthquake japan attempted to limit its electricity usage and many areas experienced rolling black outs as the sudden switching off of all japan s nuclear power stations meant the country couldn t generate enough power to keep going though people stoically accepted this as necessary at the time memories are short and the lights are fully on again in tokyo but there have been some moves towards generating electricity from more renewable sources and one logical reimagining of the rural coastland of tohoku can be seen in the large solar energy farms that are being built there above the salt damaged fields agriculture is the number one industry in tohoku and desalination projects started on some areas of the coast just days after the tsunami indeed most of the 1 800 hectares of damaged farmland around the city of sendai in miyagi had been cleaned cleared of debris and made ready for planting by the spring of 2014 as part of the desalination process pumping stations powered by solar panels were set up by sendai city government this combined with a switch to new methods of farming and a preference for growing vegetable over the traditional rice crop has seen parts of the sendai coast actually become a more profitable farming area than it was before 2011 a lot of the north east coast of remains damaged and derelict however there are physically differences of course massive earthworks are raising the level of the land and infrastructure to protect it from the next inundation and to compensate for subsidence caused by the quake also the shorelines are now often home to dykes topped with walls barriers and lines of sapling trees that will comb the power out of any future tsunamis yet is is the changes in the people that are more telling not all of the problems tohoku faces were caused by the events of five years ago the rural communities in this area and indeed all over japan are ageing and disappearing as younger generations move to the cities for work and find their ambitions thwarted by such bucolic backwaters a lot of those that survived the tsunami have themselves moved inland or even further afield many will also retire from the plough sooner rather than later the ministry of agriculture forestry and fisheries maff amended the agricultural land law the forest law and other related laws shortly after the march 11th disaster in an effort to relax restrictions on the usage of abandoned forest and farmland it also gave financial assistance to encourage the development of renewable resources for power generation that would localise energy supply and make these communities more disaster resistant as an example of this in april 2014 the installation of solar pv systems on crop producing farms was allowed for the first time this solar sharing system allows farmers to instal solar panels above fields that are used for cultivation it had previously been prohibited even if the land was fallow and unproductive the total acreage of abandoned farmland nationwide is estimated at about 400 000 hectares and through the changes in these rules it is hoped that local economies especially in tohoku will be revitalized as farming communities which cannot farm due to age or the effects of the tsunami sell or lease their land to alternative energy producers or work directly in the construction and running of the the facilities this seems to be happening eurus energy group began operating two mega solar projects in miyagi and fukushima in march 2015 the ishinomaki hebita solar plant also began operating the same time these are important symbols of the recovery of the affected regions infact solar power could be a major factor in reshaping the future of tohoku the next century had promised an emptying landscape and provincialism even without the destruction wrought by the events of march 11th but as the importance of farming diminishes and with continued investment from government agencies and academics keen to take advantage of the unique start from scratch situation of the area it could become a major producer and exporter of renewable energy not just solar plans to invest in wave and wind power along with biofuels and geothermal energy are all being worked on now by clever people and brave locals with nothing to lose time to go back and keep reporting on this i think later damon share this share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin print opens in new window print share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted by sungypsy may 20 2016 categories interesting leave a comment okawa school memorial on my trip north at the beginning of the month one of the most harrowing places i visited was the okawa elementary school in ishinomaki though quite removed from the shocking destruction of that large city and far inland in a wide river valley to the rural north it spoke of the power of the march 11th 2011 tsunami more than any place i have yet visited on the tohoku coast the thing is you cannot see the ocean from the school the valley is all fields wooded hillsides and bucolic peacefulness it feels safe and far removed from any danger a perfect place to build a school in fact and it was that sense of security perhaps that led to delays in evacuating the children after the earthquake struck at 2 46pm a delay that cost 84 staff and students their lives when the tsunami later swept up the valley today there is still a lot of anger about the indecision of the teachers who apparently waited 50 minutes in the playground after the quake before eventually deciding to move the kids towards higher ground that was much further away than the hillsides that rise just next to the school the blame for these delays has led to law suits and suicides for some parents and relatives the school buildings themselves are a sore reminder of their tragedy and they have called for the remains of what in its day must have been an amazing place to come and study to be demolished over sixty percent of ishinomaki residents however want to keep the ruined school as a memorial to those that died this dilemma appears to have been solved for the moment in a news conference on saturday march 26th the mayor of ishinomaki hiroshi kameyama set out his plans to make the school into a monument to the victims of that day it is an important place to remember and mourn the victims as well as educate people about disaster preparedness and pass on what transpired he said adding that there are no plans to reinforce the building or attempt to repair any of the damaged structures to raise awareness about disaster preparedness we need to keep what we have as it is he plans to shield the ruined classrooms and gymnasiums with trees as a compromise for those that cannot bear to look at the building where their loved ones died and build a memorial park around the site while i can understand the pain the parents of the children who died must feel i am glad they are keeping the school it is a beautiful place despite the tragedy that overtook it yet i think there must also be many happy memories associated with the walls and playgrounds here 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