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... Although I need a better title than the working one of "Smells Good in the Morning". Back to Aomori... For once, unthinkable, a train is delayed. Eventually I arrive in Hirosaki . My guidebook calls it "The Kyoto of the North". I'm not much a fan of Kyoto. Go, see, eat, do what you have to, leave. It's like Heritage Britain all rolled into one place and, some exceptions aside, I've met too...
So let me remember. Sorry to harp on about it, but the lack of a domestic internet connection is an intriguing condition. Time is otherwise spent. Facts forgotten, information wanted, idling... If it's important enough, it will work its way into a notebook for when I cycle down the road. So where I would normally spend a few hours reading about Aomori here and there, now there's just the blank...
Jump to the full entry & travel map Aomori, Tohoku, Japan So this weekend, we took an organised coach trip from base to the Nebuta Festival in AomoriJapan! What is Nebuta, well below is an extract from the official Nebuta webiste, written by the locals:- There are many theories about the origin of the Nebuta Festival. One is that it is said to have originated after the subjugation of...
Jump to the full entry & travel map Aomori, Tohoku, Japan So, this weekend just gone, we decided to go to the Firework Fesitval held at Lake Towada, Northern Japan! Its in very beautiful, lush green, mountainous countryside, and is a breathtaking lake with mountains in the backdrop. Mike decided that he wanted to partake in the Flea Market also, and try and raise some money for his Chief Petty...
AOMORI (Kyodo) The wreckage of a helicopter that crashed last weekend in the Tsugaru Strait off Oma, Aomori Prefecture, was salvaged Thursday for investigation into the cause of the accident. Divers Wednesday pulled the body of one of the four people reported aboard the helicopter — copilot Hiromitsu Kikuchi, 43, — from inside the wreckage. Read the full story
Helicopter Feared To Have Crashed Off AomoriSENDAI, Japan (Kyodo)--A helicopter with four people aboard is feared to have crashed Sunday in waters off Aomori Prefecture, and prefectural police and the Japan Coast Guard have started search operations in coastal areas and nearby waters, the police said.
Each year, Japanese farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture, some 350 miles north of Tokyo, create “crop art” in the local rice paddies… From Pink Tentacle: This stop-motion video of the 2008 Inakadate rice crop art is composed of still images captured daily from June 1 to July 3, 2008 via the roof webcam [...]
AOMORI (Kyodo) The trial operation of a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, will be extended again due to a glitch, this time for around four months until November, Isami Kojima, the president of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd., said Wednesday. The plant resumed test operations to encase high-level radioactive wastewater into glass blocks on July 2 after a hiatus...
This week! SASUKE Trial! 80 out of a 1000! Who will make it to the big show? Who will be forced to stay at home? It's SASUKE Maniac! Here we go! Short interviews with some participants. Some people are from as far as Aomori and Okinawa. There's a Rice Bowl participant! Casey Cummings ケーシー・カミングス? He's from America. Or at least he has American flag shorts. Further examination shows that he came...
A strong earthquake rocked northeastern Japan early Thursday, injuring at least 115 people, authorities said.The 6.8 magnitude temblor struck about 12:26 a.m. local time in Iwate and Aomori prefectures, the Kyodo news agency reported. The epicenter was was in the northern coastal area of Iwate prefecture and was about 67 miles deep, Kyodo said.A central government fact-finding team was sent...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northeastern Japan, including Iwate and Aomori prefectures, early Thursday, leaving many people…Read more
DPA Tokyo, July 23 (DPA) A magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit northern Japan Wednesday night, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warnings were issued. Several people were taken to a hospital in northern city of Aomori, but all sustained only minor injuries, according to media reports. There was no damage reported to nuclear power plants in Miyagi province, [...]
Tokyo - At least 91 people were injured in a magnitude-6.8 earthquake that hit northern Japan Wednesday night, media reports said. The quake left some 10,000 households without electricity in northern Iwate, Aomori, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, ...
Tokyo - A magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit northern Japan Wednesday night, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warnings were issued. Several people were taken to a hospital in northern city of Aomori, but all sustained only minor injuries, a...
At least 132 people were injured early Thursday when a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northern Japan. Most of the injuries from the 12:26 a.m. quake occurred in Iwate and Aomori prefectures. So far it appears 28 people suffered serious injuries. Read the full story
