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There's a town in northern Japan that bills itself as the actual hometown of Jesus, and points visitors to a place named the tomb or grave of Christ. Not the Easter story most of us have heard. Plus: just outside the Austrian town of Gmünd, there's a divided chapel, with parts on both sides of a road. Weird Legend of Jesus in Japan (ABC News)The Divided Church of Gmünd (Amusing Planet)Wherever you call home, you can support this show on Patreon

With Chris currently fixing up his fixie for a two-wheeled jaunt across Northern Japan, we thought we'd take a step back in time to those home-based records during Covid - starting with Sharla and Chris figuring out what the best mackerel-based hotel is, followed up by Dogen telling us all how to perform the very best backflip, and the best way to learn Japanese!Pete and Chris will return Thursday for the next show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Episode 56, we walked through the timeline of Skye Budnick's disappearance, sharing the details made public by investigators and her family. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, or need a refresher, we recommend going back before diving into this one. In this episode, I'm joined by Skye's sister, Megan Lebron, for a deeper look into who Skye was, the challenges her family has faced in the years since she vanished, and any new developments in the case. On April 1, 2008, Skye boarded a one-way flight to Japan without telling anyone. She was last seen at an inn in Northern Japan before her trail suddenly went cold. No one knows why she left, what happened after she arrived, or where she is now. For nearly 17 years, Skye's family has navigated a foreign country, language, and culture in their search for answers—but they are still searching. Join us as we explore Skye's story through her family's eyes. Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Listen to this week's podcast recommendation, Surviving Skye https://www.survivingskye.com/ Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter

Margaret continues talking with Samantha McVey about the decades-long project in Northern Japan full of worker-cooperatives and new ways of living. https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/resource/bethel/bethel_0805.htmlKaren Nakamura, A Disability of the Soulhttps://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret talks with Samantha McVey about the decades-long project in Northern Japan full of worker-cooperatives and new ways of living. https://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/resource/bethel/bethel_0805.htmlKaren Nakamura, A Disability of the Soulhttps://aeon.co/essays/japans-radical-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textIn Episode 41 of the podcast we return to Hokkaido and onto its most famous volcanoes as I chat with Chuck Olbery of Hokkaido Powder Guides. Operating for 20 years, Hokkaido Powder Guides offers backcountry, free and customised tours across Japan's northern island including touring of its most prominent volcanoes – including Mount Yotei, Mount Tokachi, Mount Asahidake and Mount Rishiri.Straddling the Pacific Ring of Fire, - the 40,000 km / 25,000 mi long tectonic belt rings the Pacific Ocean – Japan is the world's most seismically-active country while also home to many active volcanoes. Volcanoes have long played an important role in Japan's history and cultural fabric, and for that reason, I see real value in experiences that take us into those living landscapes. Chuck advocates wonderfully that experience.For more information, visit the Hokkaido Powder Guides website and you can follow them on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube - you'll find images and videos across those platforms including some very nice videos featuring Chuck on the HPG YouTube channel. You might also be interested in previous episodes related to Hokkaido including: EP40. Iwanai, Hokkaido: Japan's Best Cat Skiing & Snowboarding Mountain, EP25. Daisetsuzan: Japan's Largest National Park and EP23. The God Bears of Northern Japan. I hope you enjoy.Outland Japan is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Peter Carnell - a freelance tour guide based in northern Nagano – that transports you to rural, regional and the wilds of Japan in pursuit of stories that lie outside the neon hum of Tokyo and golden trimmings of Kyoto. Stories of travel, life and culture beyond the big cities. Follow the show on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Please note, prior to October 2024, Outland Japan was named Snow Country Stories Japan.

Sam Clements is curating a fictional film festival. He'll accept almost anything, but the movie must not be longer than 90 minutes. This is the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest podcast. In episode 131 Sam is joined by returning podguest Tim Anderson, cookbook author & food writer. His new book, Hokkaido: Recipes from the Seas, Fields and Farmlands of Northern Japan, is out now.  Chris has chosen Ainu Mosir (84 mins). Written and directed by Takeshi Fukunaga, the film was shot on location in Hokkaido and released in 2020. It stars Kanto Shimokura, Debo Akibe, Emi Shimokura, Toko Miura, and Lily Franky. Sam and Tim discuss writing and researching his latest book Hokkaido, how the film Ainu Mosir represents the Ainu people, and why you should really visit Upopoy on your trip to Japan.  Thank you for downloading. We'll be back in a couple of weeks! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/90minfilm If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. We're an independent podcast and every recommendation helps - thank you!  You can also show your support for the podcast by leaving us a top at our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/90minfilmfest Website: 90minfilmfest.com Tweet: @90MinFilmFest  Instagram: @90MinFilmFest  We are a proud member of the Stripped Media Network. Hosted and produced by @sam_clements. Edited and produced by Louise Owen. Guest star Tim Anderson. Additional editing and sound mixing by @lukemakestweets. Music by @martinaustwick. Artwork by @samgilbey. 

BEYOND A DIAGNOSIS ( A JOURNEY THROUGH CANCER) by Grace BoykinA memoir of her son Weslee Sheaffer. His birth, head banging, and having to drive him around the neighborhood for him to sleep. His many creative talents. Travel to Japan as Rotary exchange student and stayed in many homes in south and Northern Japan. He loved to travel! Cancer diagnosis of Medulloblastoma brain cancer, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. Later he had a Meningioma Brain Tumor, His last was a glio-blastoma brain tumor with tentacles which is very rare to have 3 different types of brain cancer. His Celebration of Life as he died at age 32. Author Grace Boykin a native of Mobile, Alabama, Clearwater, Florida. Received B.A. degree in Social Science and Secondary Education from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Studied Art in Europe with Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama. Debut in Mobile and member of the Mardi Gras Court. Employed at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Taught Geography at Dunedin Junior High School and History in several schools throughout Melbourne, Florida. Tutored Braille and worked with the Blind at the Florida School of Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, Fl. Taught and created a Mass Media Curriculum for High School students and Directed the High school play “To Serve a Higher King”, in Palm Bay, Florida.Has published works of Poetry, Fiction books The Southern Hunt, and Deaf, Blind, and Tragedy. Autobiography of Grace Browder Boykin, A Turbulent Life ? ? ?, South Of The Hill, memoir about the Political Years 1930's to 1960's of Frank W. Boykin as a U.S, Congressman for twenty-eight years and his having over 20 jobs during his lifetime., Beyond A Diagnosis, (A Journey Through Cancer) memoir of son Weslee Sheaffer. Babies Swimming Class. Grace Boykin is resident of Milton, Florida after traveling and driving all the states on backroads when possible. Visited 25 national parks and 25 countries. Her passions writing novels and carrying a camera in hand to make the next great movie.https://www.amazon.com/Books-Grace-Boykin/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AGrace+Boykin  https://www.urlinkpublishing.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/8824urlgb.mp3

Drones have been introduced in the city of Nayoro in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido to prevent people from being attacked by bears.

Yokohama City to Provide Full Subsidies for Automatic Television Power-On Devices During Disasters; Unstable Weather Expected in Eastern and Northern Japan, & more… English news from Japan for June 2nd, 2024. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2024/06/02/news.html

In Episode 23 of the podcast I speak with David Laichtman - a doctoral candidate at Sophia University in Tokyo - about the historical and contemporary practice of bear worship in Japan by cultures including the Matagi in Tohoku and Ainu in Hokkaido. In doing so, this episode draws attention to the often-overlooked fact that Japan is home culturally and ethnically distinct people, many of whom are most identifiable in the snow country. This episode includes discussion regarding traditional practices which result in the physical death of bears. We discuss how that occurs including ritualistic aspects of the death and the consumption of the bear. Given the nature of our conversation, this episode may not be suitable for all audiences and for that reason, I ask for your discretion as to whether you want to listen to it. David and I discuss peoples including the Matagi and Ainu cultures. Neither of us are Matagi or Ainu and we do not speak on their behalf. My questions are asked from a place of true interest and it is my sincere intention that all questions are appropriate and engaging, while David's answers are based on his own research and observations. Should you be interested to learn more, Mataginoyu and Matagi Museum, both in Akita Prefecture, profile the culture of the Matagi. Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Hokkaido is the largest public facility dedicated to the promotion of Ainu culture. As David suggests, it might be best to visit Upopoy in conjunction with or prioritise a visit to Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, along with the Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum. David will be a guest speaker at the event ‘New and Critical Perspectives on Global Studies', presented by the Graduate School of Global Studies (GSGS) Sophia University on February 16th 2024.  Make sure to checkout the episode page on the Snow Country Stories Japan website for more information, images and links.  00:00  Episode Introduction 03:09  A Little of David's Story 05:01  Arctolatry: A (Very) Brief History 07:30  Bear Worship in Japan: Where & By Whom Is It Practiced? 09:49  The Matagi & The Ainu 14:08  Matagi ‘Kuma Matsuri' & Ainu Bear ‘Iomante' / Part 1 22:41  Matagi ‘Kuma Matsuri' & Ainu Bear ‘Iomante' / Part 2 26:23  The Story of Japan: One People, One Culture? 28:45  Matagi & Ainu Museums in Northern Japan 35:02  Recommended Reading & Where to Follow David 38:46  Episode CloseSnow Country Stories Japan is a bi-weekly podcast about life and travel in Japan's legendary 'yukiguni'. For more information about the show and your host, visit our website - www.snowcountrystories.com - and make sure to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Currency Depreciation Affects Study Abroad Costs; Winter Storm Warning in Northern Japan, & more… English news from Japan for November 23rd, 2023. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2023/11/23/news.html

Japanese Escort Ship Accident: Former Captain and Two Others to Be Investigated | Snowstorm Warning for Northern Japan, Hokuriku, and Niigata, & more… English news from Japan for November 24th, 2023. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2023/11/24/news.html

Elderly Couple Dies in House Fire in Ibaraki, Strong Winds and Rainfall in Northern Japan, & more… English news from Japan for October 6th, 2023. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2023/10/06/news.html

Strong Winds Expected in Northern Japan, Bears Found in Akita Workshop, & more… English news from Japan for October 5th, 2023. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2023/10/05/news.html

New Tax Deduction System 'Invoice System' Begins Today | Unstable Weather in Western and Northern Japan, & more… English news from Japan for October 1st, 2023. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2023/10/01/news.html

Heavy Rainfall Expected in Western and Northern Japan, Concerns Over Aging Giant Buddha Statues, & more… English news from Japan for June 30th, 2023. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2023/06/30/news.html

Official figures report that there are more than eight million houses standing empty across Japan, the reality could be even higher. One of the highest concentrations of empty houses or ‘Akiya' as they are known, is in the Prefecture of Akita, in Northern Japan, where in the past five years, houses have been abandoned at a rate of 13.6 percent. The problem is being put down to a number of factors. The lack of employment or education opportunities in rural economies means more migration into the cities. An ageing population combined with a low birth rate is upending traditional living arrangements. The land on which property sits benefits from tax relief, and if a property disappears so does the preferential measure. Building codes are strict. Religious reasons are cited as another factor - it's believed that the spirits of ancestors still dwell in the home. The Government has invested heavily in the housing sector, from financial incentives to occupy older empty houses, to focusing on building preferred new and expensive homes in Japan's cities in order to boost the economy. But as the population demographics continue to shift and shrink, unless the balance of supply and demand is addressed soon, then the suggestion is that empty Akiya will be an ongoing issue for Japan. This week on the Inquiry we're asking: Why are there millions of empty houses in Japan? Contributors: Ayumi Sugimoto, Associate Professor, Rural Studies, Akita International University, Japan Misa Izuhara, Professor of Social Policy, University of Bristol, UK Kazuki Morimoto, Associate Professor in Japanese, University of Leeds, UK Jiro Yoshida, Associate Professor of Business, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Guest Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan Presented: Charmaine Cozier Produced: Jill Collins Researcher: Bisi Adebayo Editor: Tara McDermott Technical producer: Richard Hannaford Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown (Photo: Abandoned wooden house in Tambasasayama, Japan,5 April, 2023 Credit: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

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Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1892 #Japan: Bear hunting in Northern Japan leads to vending machines of bear meat. MichaelYon/locals.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/03/japans-bear-meat-vending-machine-proves-a-surprising-success?embed=true

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on April 2. It dropped for free subscribers on April 5. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe for free below:WhoJim Quimby, General Manager of Saddleback, MaineRecorded onMarch 6, 2023About SaddlebackClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Arctaris InvestmentsLocated in: Rangeley, MaineYear founded: 1960Pass affiliations: Indy PassReciprocal partners: NoneClosest neighboring ski areas: Sugarloaf (52 minutes), Titcomb (1 hour), Black Mountain of Maine (1 hour, 9 minutes), Spruce Mountain (1 hour, 22 minutes), Baker Mountain (1 hour, 33 minutes), Mt. Abram (1 hour, 36 minutes), Sunday River (1 hour, 41 minutes)Base elevation: 2,120 feetSummit elevation: 4,120 feetVertical drop: 2,000 feetSkiable Acres: 600+Average annual snowfall: 225 inchesTrail count: 68 (23 beginner, 20 intermediate, 18 advanced, 7 expert) + 2 terrain parksLift count: 6 (1 high-speed quad, 3 fixed-grip quads, 1 T-bar, 1 carpet)Why I interviewed himThe best article I've ever read on Saddleback came from Bill Donahue, writing for Outside, with the unfortunate dateline of March 9, 2020. That was a few days before the planet shut down to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and just after Arctaris had purchased Saddleback and promised to tug the ski area out of its five-year slumber. Donahue included a long section on Quimby:But to really register the new hope that's blossomed in Rangeley, I needed to drive up the winding hill to Saddleback's lodge and talk to Jimmy Quimby. Fifty-nine years old and weathered, his chin specked with salt-and-pepper stubble, Quimby is the scion of a Saddleback pillar. His father, Doc, poured concrete to build the towers for one of Saddleback's first lifts in 1963 and later built trails and made snow for the mountain. His mother, Judy, worked in the ski area's cafeteria for about 15 years. “We were so poor,” Quimby told me, “that we didn't have a pot to piss in, but I skied every weekend.” Indeed, as a high schooler, Quimby took part in every form of alpine ski competition available—on a single pair of skis. His 163-centimeter Dynastar Easy Riders were both his ballet boards and his giant-slalom guns. They also transported him to mischief. In his teenage years, Quimby was part of a nefarious Saddleback gang, the Rat Pack. “We terrorized the skiing public,” he said. “We built jumps. We skied fast. We made the T-bar swerve so people fell off.”Just days after his 18th birthday, Quimby left Maine to serve 20 years in the Air Force as an electrical-line repairman and managed, somehow, to spend a good chunk of time near Japan's storied Hakkoda Ski Resort, where he routinely hucked himself off 35-foot cornices while schussing in blue jeans. When he returned to Maine in 1998, he commenced working at Saddleback and honed such a love for the mountain that, when it closed in 2015, his heart broke. He simply refused to ski after that. “I decided,” he said, “that I just wouldn't ski anywhere else.” Friends in the industry offered him free tickets at nearby mountains; Quimby demurred and hunkered down at Saddleback, where he remained mountain manager. The Berrys paid him to watch over the nonfunctioning trails and lifts during the long closure. “I'm a prideful person,” he explained. “OK, I did do a little skiing with my grandchildren, but they're preschoolers. I haven't made an adult turn since Saddleback closed.”Quimby is now working for Arctaris, which owns Saddleback Inc., but that's a technicality. His mission is spiritual, and when I met him in his office, I found that I had stepped into a shrine, a jam-packed Saddleback museum. There were lapel pins, patches, bumper stickers, posters, and also a wooden ski signed in 1960 by about 35 of Saddleback's progenitors. Quimby's prize possession, though, is a brass belt buckle he bought in the Saddleback rental shop in the 1970s. “I used to wear it every day,” he told me, “but when Saddleback closed, I put it on a dresser and never wore it again.”Quimby stood up from the desk now, to reveal that he was wearing the buckle once more. In capitalized brass letters, it read “SKI.” His eyes were glassy with emotion.“We're going to do this,” he said quietly, speaking of Saddleback's resurrection. “We're going to make this happen.”They did make this happen. One feature of improbable feats is that they are often taken for granted once achieved. The number of people who confessed doubts to me privately about the viability of Saddleback is significant. It won't work because… it's too remote, there are not enough skier visits to spread around Maine, there are too many bodies buried on the property, the previous owners emptied the GDP of a small country onto the property and it still failed. All fair arguments, but for every built thing there are reasons it should have failed. The great advantage of humans over other animals is our ability to solve the unsolvable. I push a button on my phone and a person 5,000 miles away sees a note from me in an instant. That would have been dubbed magic for 100,000 years and now it is a fact of daily existence. Humans can do amazing things. And the humans who dug Saddleback out of the grave did an amazing thing, and it's a story I just can't get enough of.What we talked aboutSaddleback's strong 2022-23 ski season; the Casablanca Glades; the ski area in the sixties; “Saddleback was my babysitter”; Rangeley reminisces; when the U.S. Air Force stations a ski bum in Northern Japan; the Donald Breen era of Saddleback and a long battle with the Forest Service; Saddleback's relationship with the Forest Service today; the Berry family arrives; an investment spree; why Saddleback closed in 2015; why the Berrys replaced the Kennebago T-bar with a quad and whether they should have upgraded the Rangeley lift first; Quimby's reaction when Saddleback closed; how Quimby kept Saddleback from falling apart during his five years as caretaker of a lost ski area; why Arctaris finally revitalized the ski area after so many other potential buyers had faded; the most important man at Saddleback; the blessing and the curse of rebuilding a ski area in the pandemic year of 2020; how close Saddleback came to upgrading Rangeley to a fixed-grip, rather than a detachable, quad; how much that lift transformed the ski area; the legacy of Andy Shepard, the former general manager who oversaw the ski area's comeback; Saddleback the business in year three of its comeback; surveying Saddleback's ultra-new lift fleet; why Saddleback replaced the 900-year-old Cupsuptic T-bar with a brand-new T-bar; why the ski area chose Partek to build the new Sandy quad and how successful that lift has been; the story behind the old Saddleback trailmaps with theoretical lifts scribbled all over them (yes, this one):… whether Saddleback will expand terrain any time soon; the ski area's next likely chairlift; the potential for a hotel; the mountain's masterplan; how important the Indy Pass has been to Saddleback's comeback; and Indy blackouts and whether they will continue.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewWith lift towers rising up the mountainside and hammers clanging through the valleys and autumn frosts biting the New England hills, Andy Shepard hacked out an hour for me in October 2020 to discuss the previous six months at Saddleback. He itemized the tasks that Saddleback's crews had achieved in the maw of Covid. An incomprehensible list. Rebuild everything. Clean everything. Hire an army. Demolish and build a chairlift. Stand up a website and an e-commerce platform. All in the midst of the most confusing and contentious time in modern American history. The mission was awesome, and so was the story behind it:Congratulations, you did it. But the second that new detachable quad started spinning in December 2020, Saddleback became just another New England ski area, just another choice for skiers who already have dozens. So now what? What of all those old masterplans showing terrain expansions and lifts extending halfway to Canada? When can we get more places to stay on the hill? Can we get snowmaking on the trail back to the condos finally?Two and a half years later, it was time for a check-in. To see how Shepard and Quimby and the crew had quietly transformed what was long a backwater bump into one of the most modern ski areas in the country. To see how the Indy Pass – which hadn't existed when Saddleback went into its shell – had turbocharged the mountain's comeback tour. And to see, indeed, what is next for this New England gem.What I got wrongI wasn't wrong on this so much as late to publish: Quimby and I discussed season passes at the end of the podcast. At the time, details on the 2023-24 pass suite had not yet been released, and we talked a bit about where pricing would land. These details have long gone public, but I kept the section intact because Quimby details why the ski area was compelled to raise rates from previous seasons (the increase ended up being modest in the context of ongoing inflation, from $699 this season to $799 for next).Also there's a reference in our conversation to Sandy being a detachable quad, but the 227-vertical-foot quad is in fact a fixed-grip lift.Why you should ski SaddlebackMan is this place big. Two broad ridges staggered and stacked and parallel, with dozens of ways down each. Glades all over. Amazing fall line skiing. Lift lines? Not many. Maybe on Rangeley, maybe on big days. But mostly, the place is a glorious wide-open banger, stuffed into a north country snow pocket that most always stands above New England's notorious rain-snow line as storms roll through.“Yes but is it worth the drive?” asks Overthinks Everything Bro. Yes it's worth the drive. “But I have to pass 19 other big ski areas to get there.” So? If a genie erupts out of my next can of Bang Energy Drink, my first wish will be to eliminate this brand of thinking from existence. Passing other ski areas to ski Saddleback is not like passing a McDonald's at exit 100 to eat at a McDonald's at exit 329, more than 200 miles down the road. You're passing a number of distinct and unique ski areas to experience another distinct and unique ski area. A Saddleback run will imprint on your experience in a way that your 400th day at Waterville Valley will not.Not all of us, I realize, are so driven by novelty and the unknown. To many of you, turns are turns. Yee-haw. But I'm not suggesting you drive four hours out of your way to lap a town ropetow. This is a serious mountain, with terrain that has few peers in New England. It is special, and it is most definitely worth it.Podcast NotesOn the ski area's battle with the National Park ServiceQuimby and I had a long discussion on Saddleback's 15-plus-year war with the National Park Service over former owner Donald Breen's expansion plans. While Saddleback sits on private land, the Appalachian Trail runs over the mountain's summit, giving the government a say in any development that may impact the trail. As with most things New England, New England Ski History provides a comprehensive synopsis of what amounts to Saddleback's lost generation:With Saddleback finally financially stable and controlling 12,000 acres of land, Breen sought to tap into its vast potential in the mid 1980s. In 1984, Breen told Ski magazine, "Saddleback has the potential to be one of the largest resorts in this part of the country" and could become "the Vail of the East."While a massive development was possible, including above treeline skiing as well as a bowl on the back side of the mountain, initial plans were made for a phased $36 million expansion "opening up the entire bowl where the ski area sits with three more lifts and numerous trails."Working to gain approvals, Saddleback offered to donate a 200-foot easement to the National Park Service for the Appalachian Trail while retaining the ability to have skiers and equipment cross the corridor if needed. Countering the ski area's plans, the National Park Service recommended taking 3,000 acres of Saddleback's land. As a result, instead of investing in the mountain, Breen was forced to spend large sums of money to defend his property from eminent domain.Attempting to break the impasse in the early 1990s, Saddleback offered to pare back expansion plans and sell 2,000 acres to the National Park Service. The National Park Service responded with an offer for one sixth of the amount Saddleback wanted from the property.By the mid 1990s, Saddleback was offering to donate 300 acres of land to the National Park Service, while retaining the right to cross the Appalachian Trail with connector ski trails. The National Park Service once again refused, sticking with its eminent domain plan. Later Congressional testimony revealed that the Breen family was forced to negotiate with and give concessions to the Appalachian Trail Conference, only to have the agreements retracted by the National Park Service. In addition, the National Park Service would refuse to turn over documents relating to its involvement with other ski areas, or to put parameters of potential agreements in writing.After having spent a decade and a half of his life trying to work with the Forest Service, Donald Breen took a step back from negotiations in 1997, handing the reins over to his daughter Kitty. The Maine Congressional Delegation was brought in to attempt to get the National Park Service to negotiate.At Senator Olympia Snowe's urging, Saddleback offered to sell the bowl on the back side of the mountain to the Park Service in exchange for being able to develop its Horn Bowl area. The National Park Service rejected the offer, insisting the expansion was not viable, that the ski area could sustain increased skier visits on its existing footprint, and that Saddleback's undeveloped land had little financial value.Negotiations continued into 2000, at which point Saddleback had increased its donation offer to 660 acres, while the National Park Service still wanted to take 893 acres by eminent domain. Five proposals were put on the table while the National Park Service threatened to turn the matter over to the Department of Justice for condemnation. Finally, on November 2, 2000, the National Park Service and Saddleback reached a deal in which the Breens donated 570 acres along the Appalachian Trail corridor, while selling the 600 acre back bowl for $4 million. While the deal meant Breen could move forward with his development of the resort, the long battle with the government had consumed millions of dollars and nearly two decades of his life. Now in his 70s, Breen was ready to retire. In 2001, the massive resort property was put on the market for $12 million.To understand just how deeply this conflict stalled the ski area's potential evolution, consider this: when Breen and the Forest Service squared off in 1984, Sunday River, less than two hours away and closer to pretty much everyone, looked like this:And Saddleback looked like this:While both had just five lifts – Sunday River sported a triple, two doubles, and two T-bars; Saddleback had two doubles and three T-bars – Saddleback was the larger of the two, with a more interesting and complex trail network. But while Breen fought the Forest Service, his mountain stood still. Meanwhile, Les Otten went ballistic at Sunday River, stringing terrain pods for miles in each direction. By 2001, when Breen sold, Sunday River looked like this:While Saddleback had languished:Whatever market share Saddleback could have earned during New England's Great Ski Area Modernization – which more or less exactly coincided with his Forest Service fight from 1984 to 2001 – was lost to Sunday River and Sugarloaf, both of which spent that era building rather than fighting.And yes, I also thought, “well what did Sugarloaf look like in 1984 and 2001?” So here you go:On the Berry familyBreen sold Saddleback in 2001 to the Berry family, who absolutely mainlined cash into the joint. Over the next decade, the family replaced the upper (Kennebago) and lower (Buggy) T-bars with fixed-grip quads, and substantially blew out the trail and glade network. Check the place in 2014:But two big problems remained. First, that double chair marked “C” on the map above is the Rangeley lift, the alpha chair out of the base. It was a 1963 Mueller that could move all of 900 skiers per hour. And while skiers could have ridden Sandy to the Cupsuptic T-bar (if both were running), to the Pass trail to access the Kennebago quad and the upper mountain, that's not how most people think. They want to go straight to the top. So they'd wait.Which leads to the second problem. Queueing up for a double chair that was pulled off of Noah's Ark when you could be skiing onto high-speed (or at least modern) lifts just down the road at Sunday River or Sugarloaf is frustrating. Lines to board the lift could reportedly stretch to an hour on weekends. Facing such gridlock and frustration, most casual skiers who stumbled onto the place probably thought some version of, “This is cute, but next weekend, I'm going to Sunday River.”And they did. If the Berrys could have upgraded Rangeley, the whole project may have worked. But financing fell through, as Quimby details in the podcast, and the ski area closed shortly after. But to underscore just how crucial the Rangeley lift is to Saddleback's viability as a modern resort, Arctaris, the current owners, reportedly paid more to replace the chairlift ($7 million), than they did for the ski area itself ($6.5 million).On potential buyers between the Berrys and ArctarisQuimby notes that a parade of suitors tromped through Saddleback between 2015, when the ski area closed, and 2020, when it finally re-opened. The most significant of these was Australia-based Majella Group, whose courtship New England Ski History summarizes:On June 28, 2017, the Berry family announced they had reached an agreement to sell Saddleback to the Australia-based Majella Group. Grandiose plans were announced, as Majella declared it would be "turning Saddleback into the premier ski resort in North America." Initial plans called for reopening for the 2017-18 season with a new fixed-grip quad replacing the Rangeley Double and a new Cupsuptic T-Bar. However, despite announcements that "physical work" had started in September and that the company was "committed to opening in some capacity for the 2017-18 ski season," the area remained idle that winter and the sale was not completed.Nearly one year after the original sale announcement, the Majella Group CEO Sebastian Monsour was arrested in Australia for alleged investor fraud, revealing a financial house of cards. The Majella branding was removed from the Saddleback web site that fall and the ski area sat idle during the snowy winter of 2018-19.So things could have been much worse. Had Majella completed the purchase and then fallen apart, Saddleback would likely still be idle, caught in a Jay Peak-esque vortex of court-led asset salvation, but without the benefit of operating revenue.On Mount WashingtonQuimby notes that the weather at Saddleback can be “comparative to Mount Washington and that's no joke.” For those of you unfamiliar with just how ferocious Mount Washington weather can be, here's a synopsis from the Mt. Washington State Park website (emphasis mine):…in winter, sub-zero temperatures, hurricane-force winds, blowing snow and incredible ice claim the peak, creating an arctic outpost in a temperate climate zone. Known as the Home of the World's Worst Weather, Mount Washington's winter conditions rival those of Mount Everest and the Polar regions.The mountain's summit holds the world record for the “highest surface wind speed ever observed by man,” at 231 miles per hour. As I write this, the summit temperature is 4 degrees Fahrenheit, with 62-mile-per-hour winds driving the windchill to 28 degrees below zero. It's April 2. There's surely some hyperbole in Quimby's statement, but the spirit of the declaration is clear: if you go to Saddleback, go prepared.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 30/100 in 2023, and number 416 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

After the first episode of the X-Men anime, Maddy and Ryan didn't think they'd be doing much political analysis of what mutants represent in this world, but the second episode introduces anti-mutant bigotry once again. The show's main villains are the U-Men, a group of mutant-hating cyborgs who have been kidnapping mutant kids from a small town in Northern Japan. The X-Men head overseas to investigate, and along the way, there are a lot of anime villains who giggle ominously. (Also, we forgot to do the "who's gay" section, for some reason. It'll be back next week, we promise.) Next week's episode: "Armor - Awakening," X-Men (Marvel Anime) Visit our STORE: teespring.com/stores/the-mutant-ages E-mail us your feedback at themutantages@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at TheMutantAges, MIDImyers and RyanPagella. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us via patreon.com/themutantages. Thanks!

Hello and welcome! Join Peter and Kieran this week as Chris is off for a late season camping trip at Nakusp Hot Springs which actually comes up this episode as we discuss Hot Springs, while we discuss Northern Japan, and Japan tourism in general. We also discuss terrible journalism in Kelowna BC, and the end of Hulkmania in the WWE due to some really questionable promotions. Enjoy!

This week we're continuing our mini-series on The Stories Collective in sharing Part 2 of The Sullivan's story. We left off last week with Jenny in Texas grieving the death of her husband Brad and trying to find a new normal. Meanwhile across the world. Brady Sullivan and his wife Sara were on a similar journey while being stationed in Northern Japan with the Air Force. Brady and Sara had been married for close to 5 years when they felt the desire to start a family. In January of 2009 Sara found a lump on her left breast. In the midst of all the tests and procedures to find out what was going on Sara found out that she was pregnant. In the joy of that discovery the doctors delivered devastating news within weeks - Sara had breast cancer. The next 9 months would be filled with so many visits to the doctor relating to the pregnancy and the cancer. Brady and Sara eventually came back to their home state of Texas to be close to family while going through the chemo treatments and waiting for the delivery of their baby girl Chloe. Brady and Sara began blogging their journey to keep friends and family updated on everything that was going on. Their blog went semi-viral and people from all over the world were praying for Brady, Sara and baby Chloe. We've linked their blog below and have also linked specific posts that Brady mentions in this interview. In September of 2009, 7 weeks before her due date, Sara went into labor. After an emergency C-Section and time in the NICU Brady, Sara and Chloe were going home. The plan was that Sara would finish her chemo treatments and all of this would be behind them. But as we know, sometimes the Lord has plans that are far beyond anything we can comprehend. While all of this was happening, Jenny had been made aware of the blog that Brady and Sara were writing, and she began to pray. You'll have to join us next week for Part 3 as we share what happened next...Join us on Wednesday, September 28th for Part 3! That will be the final episode in this mini-series. Would you please subscribe and leave us a review? This will help our podcast reach more people! We'd love it if you'd share this podcast with your friends on social media and beyond. A note from Brady - The blog started as a way to keep family and friends updated (instead of sending bulk emails) and became a platform to share Christ from. It was extremely therapeutic to get thoughts out of my head and onto paper. Seeing the positive impact that our journey was having on others faith journeys was very helpful during the grief process. It was amazing to see the power of social media and the rapid spread of Sara's story when her health took a turn for the worse after Chloe's birth.Check out Brady and Sara's blog - https://bandssullivan.blogspot.comHere are some of the posts that Brady referenced but didn't read while recording due to time constraints: Soon after Sara's passing, Brady had the overwhelming feeling that he was being blanketed by “The Peace of God” - https://bandssullivan.blogspot.com/search?q=cushionRefiner's Fire - http://bandssullivan.blogspot.com/2009/10/refiners-fire.html The Darker the Night - http://bandssullivan.blogspot.com/2010/01/darker-night.html (about seeing God's glory during the darkest portions of life)Reflections on Prayer - http://bandssullivan.blogspot.com/2010/01/sullivans-by-willow-tree-collection.html

Show Notes:0:46 - Northern Japan 0:52 - Connecticut0:57 - Satomi's dog's Instagram account (@peppertheelkhound)0:58 - Wendy's dog's Instagram account (@detective.truffle)1:08 - Pepper, Satomi's dog 1:09 - Norwegian Elkhound1:22 - Satomi's dog's Instagram account (@peppertheelkhound)1:39 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania2:44 - Hand applique 3:15 - Foundation paper piecing paper 3:16 and 3:21 - Foundation paper piecing3:59 - Vintage Singer machine 4:04 - Thread tension 4:24 - Hand applique 4:44 - Flying geese block 4:45 - Foundation paper piecing4:57 - Flying geese block 4:58 - Star quilt block5:09 - Half-square triangle block 8:21 and 8:50 - Starbucks mug cups8:44 - Satomi's first mug block 9:31 - Satomi's jelly jar quilt project, Jars and Stripes Quilt 9:39 - Mason jar10:20 - Applique 10:22 - Reverse applique 10:22 - Satomi's reverse applique class in QuiltCon 2023 10:54 and 10:55 - Freezer paper 11:05 - Starch 12:31 - Reverse applique 12:46 - Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine 16:11, 16:13, 16:20 and 16:39 - Satomi's bee quilt for Love Patchwork and Quilting Magazine 17:14 - Satomi's Instagram Reel featuring different colour palettes for the Sending Love quilt17:17 - Satomi's Sending Love quilt17:19 - Ruby Star Society 17:19 - EQ8 (Electric Quilt 8)17:35 - Moda Fabrics17:52 - EQ8 (Electric Quilt 8)18:10 and 18:39 - Kona Cotton 19:19 - Ruby Star Society designers 19:47 - Bernina ambassador 19:50 - Satomi's sit down Bernina machine 20:23 - Bernina 48020:44 - Bernina Q1621:03 - Bernina 21621:06 - Bernina 48021:24 - Bernina Q1621:42 - Free motion quilting 21:49 - Bernina Q1621:55 - Quilt sandwich 22:06 - Stitch regulator 22:11 and 23:08 - Free motion quilting 25:15 - Top Gun Maverick soundtrack 25:22 - Bernina Q1625:47 - Mariner's Compass traditional quilt block 25:26 - Kona Cotton in Butterscotch 26:18 - Ruby Star Society 26:24 - Rifle Paper Co. for Cotton and Steel 26:33 - Rifle Paper Co. canvas fabric 26:40 - Quilted Ewe in New Hartford, Connecticut 26:45 - The Old Country Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania 26:54 and 26:56 - Y-seams 27:02 - Satomi's On the Road quilt pattern 27:05 - VW van 27:17 - LPQ (Love Patchwork and Quilting Magazine) 27:23 - Satomi's Rainbow Blast quilt pattern 28:07 - Satomi's blue, Country Love quilt 28:23 - Knee lifter for the sewing machine 28:30 - Bernina B480, special edition 28:53 - Mettler thread 28:53 - Aurifil thread29:07 - Satomi's Elf Suit FPP (foundation paper pieced) pattern29:08 - Satomi's Santa Suit FPP (foundation paper pieced) pattern29:10 and 29:12 - Satomi's Grab n' Go FPP (foundation paper pieced) pattern29:31 - Buried Thread longarm quilting 30:32 - Pepper, Satomi's dog 30:40 - Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts 30:47 - Satomi's blue, Country Love quilt 31:14 and 31:17 - Snowboarding 31:19 - Mohawk Mountain31:34 - Snowboarding 32:00 - Donna of XOXSew (@xoxsew, listen to episode 29 to learn more about her and her work)32:26 - Christina of Tessellate Textiles (@tessellate_textiles)33:05 and 33:13 - Saija of Saija Elina (@saija_elina)Follow Satomi:Instagram - @satomi_quiltshttps://www.satomiquilts.com/Follow us:Amanda: @broadclothstudio https://broadclothstudio.com/Wendy: @the.weekendquilter https://the-weekendquilter.com/Anna: @waxandwanestudiohttps://www.waxandwanestudio.com/Quilt Buzz: @quilt.buzzhttps://quiltbuzzpodcast.com/Intro/Outro Music:Golden Hour by Vlad Gluschenko

In conversation with Dr Yolanda Munoz "You cannot talk of climate change when inclusion is an afterthought". The Centre for Human Rights is embarking on a campaign, #GreenJusticeAfrica to address the impact of climate change on the protection and fulfilment of human rights in Africa. Climate change is now one of the biggest threats to human rights globally. In this episode, Dr Yolanda Munoz, an academic and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and a full-time wheelchair user, discusses the impact of climate change on the rights of persons with disabilities. There is no climate justice without disability justice. Climate change is currently the central political and moral issue around the globe. It affects everyone, but not equally. For persons with disabilities, the threat is compounded by discrimination, marginalisation, and other pre-existing inequalities. From the 1990s, disability rights started to receive more attention in the African Commission. Though the African continent has made significant strides to include persons with disabilities in the society, the same cannot be said of climate justice. The even adaptation and mitigation practices, which seek to combat the effects of climate change may do harm to disability communities in Africa. In order to reduce such harms in the present and avoid them in the future, Africa must employ ethical frameworks that bring disability justice to the forefront of climate justice. Disability justice should be an integral part of conversations in climate change. Professionally, Dr Yolanda Munoz has explored the social arrangements behind the unquestioned exclusion of people with disabilities. She has also served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, as Program Officer with the Disability Rights Fund, as an external consultant for Global Greengrants Fund and has collaborated with the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Program, with the Faculty of Law at McGill University. In the academic field, she completed a Masters and a PhD in Japanese Studies, with speciality in the Ainu women of Northern Japan. Her knowledge on feminist theory and practice has been the motivation to design and teach the course “Gender and Disability,” offered since 2006 at the McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. This conversation was recorded on 5 July 2022. Music: Inner Peace by Mike Chino https://soundcloud.com/mike-chinoCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/0nI6qJeqFcc   

Producer/Host: Natalie Springuel Maine coastal and ocean issues: Rare Steller's sea-eagle sparks attention and imagination Since late December 2021, a rare Steller's sea eagle has been repeatedly sighted by hundreds of people on the Maine coast. This raptor is significantly bigger than our own beloved Bald Eagle. Its home range is very far away in coastal Siberia, around the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kamchatka Peninsula, down to Northern Japan and as far as the Korean Peninsula. There are reportedly only around 4000 Steller's sea-eagles on the planet, and they are listed as a vulnerable species on The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. Starting back in August of 2020, birders noticed its presence in Alaska. A few months later in March of 2021, a raptor presumed to be this same eagle was sighted in Texas. And then in June multiple confirmed sightings were reported all the way east, in Québec's Gaspé Peninsula. November in the Canadian Maritimes, December was Massachusetts, and then, December 30, 2021, it landed in Maine and continued to be sighted in the Georgetown to Boothbay region until March 5th. Why has this Steller's Sea Eagle been wandering the northern hemisphere? What do we know about its ecology and conservation? And how has its presence captured the imagination of seasoned birders, coastal residents, and a growing cadre of community scientists? These are the topics for today's episode of Coastal Conversations. Guests: Doug Hitchcox, Staff Naturalist at Maine Audubon Jeff Wells, Vice President for Boreal Conservation at National Audubon Brent Pease, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of wildlife conservation and management at Southern Illinois University About the host: Natalie Springuel has hosted Coastal Conversation's since 2015, with support from the University of Maine Sea Grant where she has served as a marine extension associate for 20 years. In 2019, Springuel received an award for Public Affairs programming from the Maine Association of Broadcasters for the Coastal Conversations show called “Portland's Working Waterfront.” Springuel is passionate about translating science, sharing stories, and offering a platform for multiple voices to weigh in on complex coastal and ocean issues. She has recently enrolled in audio production training at Maine Media Workshop to dive deeper into making great community radio. The post Coastal Conversations 3/25/22: Rare Steller's sea-eagle sparks attention and imagination first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Producer/Host: Natalie Springuel Maine coastal and ocean issues: Rare Steller's sea-eagle sparks attention and imagination Since late December 2021, a rare Steller's sea eagle has been repeatedly sighted by hundreds of people on the Maine coast. This raptor is significantly bigger than our own beloved Bald Eagle. Its home range is very far away in coastal Siberia, around the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kamchatka Peninsula, down to Northern Japan and as far as the Korean Peninsula. There are reportedly only around 4000 Steller's sea-eagles on the planet, and they are listed as a vulnerable species on The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. Starting back in August of 2020, birders noticed its presence in Alaska. A few months later in March of 2021, a raptor presumed to be this same eagle was sighted in Texas. And then in June multiple confirmed sightings were reported all the way east, in Québec's Gaspé Peninsula. November in the Canadian Maritimes, December was Massachusetts, and then, December 30, 2021, it landed in Maine and continued to be sighted in the Georgetown to Boothbay region until March 5th. Why has this Steller's Sea Eagle been wandering the northern hemisphere? What do we know about its ecology and conservation? And how has its presence captured the imagination of seasoned birders, coastal residents, and a growing cadre of community scientists? These are the topics for today's episode of Coastal Conversations. Guests: Doug Hitchcox, Staff Naturalist at Maine Audubon Jeff Wells, Vice President for Boreal Conservation at National Audubon Brent Pease, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of wildlife conservation and management at Southern Illinois University About the host: Natalie Springuel has hosted Coastal Conversation's since 2015, with support from the University of Maine Sea Grant where she has served as a marine extension associate for 20 years. In 2019, Springuel received an award for Public Affairs programming from the Maine Association of Broadcasters for the Coastal Conversations show called “Portland's Working Waterfront.” Springuel is passionate about translating science, sharing stories, and offering a platform for multiple voices to weigh in on complex coastal and ocean issues. She has recently enrolled in audio production training at Maine Media Workshop to dive deeper into making great community radio. The post Coastal Conversations 3/25/22: Rare Steller's sea-eagle sparks attention and imagination first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Keith Richards thinks selling music catalogs is a sign of getting old, even though he is no longer with us Prince is still coming out with new music, Rod Stewart got in trouble for fixing those potholes, John Mayer teaches people guitar on Tik Tok, Nikki and Vinnie's wife cant wait for the new Selena album,  a 7.3 magnitude quake hits Northern Japan and a Tsunami alert has been issued, it's No Selfie Day, the March Madness brackets are out, people are going to miss their pets more than their family when they return to the office, labs are the most popular dog for 31 years running, and Starbucks is trying to get rid of their disposable cups!  

AMONG the headlines for Wednesday 28 July 2021, Malaysia registered another record high of 17,405 COVID-19 cases, bringing the cumulative positive cases to 1,061,475 since the pandemic broke out last year. Also, A tropical storm hit northern Japan today but there were no immediate reports of damage and Olympic football matches in the region were due to go ahead.   Listen to the top stories of the day, reporting from Astro AWANI newsroom — all in 3 minutes.   We bring you the headlines, weekdays at 5 pm.   Stay informed on astroawani.com for these news and more.

Today, we're talking to Emi Kiyota, an ageing design expert and self described Environmental Gerontologist. She's also the founder of Ibasho, a not-for-profit organisation that helps older adults create sustainable and socially integrated communities that places elders and their value at the heart of the organisation. She's helped build a few of these, including locations in Nepal, the Philippines and Northern Japan which we talk about in this episode. Emi's work is all about empowering older adults to continue contributing to society, and it was great to hear her explain the concepts of Ibasho and why interdependent communities are the future of care. The Aged Care Enrichment Podcast is proudly brought to you by https://silvradventures.com.au/ (SilVR Adventures). Subscribe and check out our back catalogue of available episodes wherever you get your podcasts from: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ace-aged-care-enrichment/id1528261777 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4wk2d6NjlbHg8Eid35TNB2 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-ace-aged-care-enrichment-77188643/ Listen online here: https://silvradventures.com.au/podcast

Todd: OK. I'm back here with Kanade.Kanade: Yes.Todd: So Kanade, why don't you talk about where you're from.Kanade: OK. I'm from Akita, which is Northern Japan. And there is a lot of mountains and you can see changing color in the fall and in my home Yashima town, there are only six thousand people in there and there is a waterfall called "Hotonedake", which is the best one hundred fall in Japan.Todd: Wow! That's cool.Kanade: Yeah, Cool!Todd: So you've seen it?Kanade: Yes!Todd: So how high is this amazing waterfall?Kanade: Uh, I don't really know. It's really big.Todd: Really. So is it famous because it's really tall or causes it's really wide?Kanade: Could be both.Todd: Oh really, that's a big waterfall. OK. When is the last time you went home?Kanade: Last week.Todd: Uh-huh. Really? Both you're parents still live there?Kanade: Yes.Todd: OK. And were your parents born there?Kanade: Yes, but different town. My father is from Yashima, the same hometown, the same home as my home, but my mom is from Nigaho, the next town from Yashima.Todd: Oh, OK. Do you have a lot of childhood memories?Kanade: Yes. Actually but my dad was really busy, so my mom took me. Took me many, many places...as a child.Todd: Oh, that's sweet. Well, you're a good daughter.Kanade: I think so. Yeah.Todd: OK. Thanks a lot.

Todd: OK. I'm back here with Kanade.Kanade: Yes.Todd: So Kanade, why don't you talk about where you're from.Kanade: OK. I'm from Akita, which is Northern Japan. And there is a lot of mountains and you can see changing color in the fall and in my home Yashima town, there are only six thousand people in there and there is a waterfall called "Hotonedake", which is the best one hundred fall in Japan.Todd: Wow! That's cool.Kanade: Yeah, Cool!Todd: So you've seen it?Kanade: Yes!Todd: So how high is this amazing waterfall?Kanade: Uh, I don't really know. It's really big.Todd: Really. So is it famous because it's really tall or causes it's really wide?Kanade: Could be both.Todd: Oh really, that's a big waterfall. OK. When is the last time you went home?Kanade: Last week.Todd: Uh-huh. Really? Both you're parents still live there?Kanade: Yes.Todd: OK. And were your parents born there?Kanade: Yes, but different town. My father is from Yashima, the same hometown, the same home as my home, but my mom is from Nigaho, the next town from Yashima.Todd: Oh, OK. Do you have a lot of childhood memories?Kanade: Yes. Actually but my dad was really busy, so my mom took me. Took me many, many places...as a child.Todd: Oh, that's sweet. Well, you're a good daughter.Kanade: I think so. Yeah.Todd: OK. Thanks a lot.

Todd: OK. I'm back here with Kanade.Kanade: Yes.Todd: So Kanade, why don't you talk about where you're from.Kanade: OK. I'm from Akita, which is Northern Japan. And there is a lot of mountains and you can see changing color in the fall and in my home Yashima town, there are only six thousand people in there and there is a waterfall called "Hotonedake", which is the best one hundred fall in Japan.Todd: Wow! That's cool.Kanade: Yeah, Cool!Todd: So you've seen it?Kanade: Yes!Todd: So how high is this amazing waterfall?Kanade: Uh, I don't really know. It's really big.Todd: Really. So is it famous because it's really tall or causes it's really wide?Kanade: Could be both.Todd: Oh really, that's a big waterfall. OK. When is the last time you went home?Kanade: Last week.Todd: Uh-huh. Really? Both you're parents still live there?Kanade: Yes.Todd: OK. And were your parents born there?Kanade: Yes, but different town. My father is from Yashima, the same hometown, the same home as my home, but my mom is from Nigaho, the next town from Yashima.Todd: Oh, OK. Do you have a lot of childhood memories?Kanade: Yes. Actually but my dad was really busy, so my mom took me. Took me many, many places...as a child.Todd: Oh, that's sweet. Well, you're a good daughter.Kanade: I think so. Yeah.Todd: OK. Thanks a lot.

Tonight J tells the stories of ghosts in the aftermath of the devastating 2011 Tsunami in Northern Japan. Meanwhile, Leslie tells creepy first responder stories about hearing voices from the dead. So grab a cup of coffee, take the phone off the hook, and listen to these Legends in the Dark. Legendary Listener shout out this week is to—Belgium. Thank you so much for listening!! Have your own story? Want to share it? Send it over, we would be honored to listen. Podcastlegends@gmail.com

▼Contents 0:00 What do I do? 0:30 I love the wildlife that my grandparents have in northern Japan 1:45 I grew up in Tokyo 2:00 I worked for the wellness department at luxury Japanese resort hotel 2:40 I have been practicing Zen and mindfulness for 8 years 2:55 Life in India to seek spirituality 3:40 I learned Indian traditional medicine and nutrition 5:00 My book and published audio 5:45 Zen Eating session with corporates and conferences 6:25 I worked for an IT food company 6:40 I was one of the owners of the healthy cafe too. 7:25 Follow me @zeneatingmomo on all kinds of social media! ▼What is Zen Eating? Zen Eating is Mindful Eating Meditation inspired by Japanese Zen Buddhism. Eating carefully, one bite at a time, with a guide, calms the mind, regulates your thoughts, and gives you a relaxing and positive feeling. In the last four months, Zen Eating online had more than 500 guests from 30 countries. It has also been adopted as a corporate team building and wellness program. “We don't pay attention to the meals in today's busy world. Eating in a relaxed manner can give us a hint on how to enrich our daily lives” I have received many comments like this. I offer online workshops that are inspired by food and make you feel at peace. Eating while sharpening the five senses makes everyday meals feel richer. I look forward to sharing time to rediscover the joy of eating and life with you! ▼Try listening to the free audio of Zen Eating InsightTimer @Momo.zeneating ▼Follow me on social media! Instagram @zeneatingmomo Facebook @zeneatingmomo Linked in @zeneatingmomo ▼Website https://zen-eating.com/ ▼Profile Momoe ZEN EATING ORGANIZER and FACILITATOR from Tokyo, Japan Developing and facilitating Zen Eating providing mindfulness practice through food inspired by Japanese Zen Buddhism. This online program has applied for a team-building and wellness activity by Google, Accenture, along with other companies and conferences. She has helped over 500 people from 30 countries to have a peaceful mind in 4 months despite the circumstances that this Covid19 Pandemic as her program activates your senses by eating in a meditative state. She is a cultural salad bowl by herself from her varied experiences from living in Egypt and India, traveling over 30 countries, having a grandfather that is a mountain priest of Japanese traditional way of training one's mind. Worked for the wellness dept of a luxury resort hotel Hoshino and IT food company Cookpad. Graduated from Chuo University, the Faculty of Policy Studies, and studied Zen and Japanese culture. She is writing a book and dreaming to make a documentary video of Zen Eating

Introducing Gretchen Miura Legend of Healing. Gretchen is a mindfulness teacher, avid maker and mother of four. Originally from New Jersey in America, Gretchen lives in northern Japan on the Oga peninsula where she and her husband run a Zen temple. She hosts mindfulness retreats, classes and workshops in English, as well as traditional ceremonies and activities for the local community. She sells her handmade bento bags, face masks and accessories at her online shop SORAbento. She is living a life focused on creativity, belonging and connection. This episode is dedicated to Chris. When Gretchen was 5, her 17 year old brother died in a car accident. This is the backdrop of her life since then. In this conversation Gretchen takes us on the journey of Chris, his death , her family, religion, and her path to acknowledging, dealing with and healing the suffering attached to her loss. And in fact the family loss. We talk about Catholicism, Buddhism and try and tease apart the humanity of grief and loss, of joy and living. How her 4 children taught her so much about her brother, through the tenderness of the relationship of her youngest daughter and oldest son. Gretchen and her temple and family are quite well known and she has appeared in an NHK documentary about her temple and the people around it. She is something of a celebrity in the area! This is a deep and rich conversation that goes into the depth of grief, the rituals surrounding death. All the way to the end more and more learnings come out between us and we will have a part 2 later in the year because we didn't even touch on Gretchen's hilarious journey to being the parent of 4 and married to a Zen priest in a remote peninsula in Northern Japan! - The surprising joy the has come from meeting her grief - Having authority over the suffering - The first and second arrows of loss - That's all there is! Hear her thoughts on enlightenment - Facing and dealing with grief creates fertile ground for magical experiences - Grief, love, life and ritual - How her children brought her closer to connecting to her brother - How faith brought the family through Chris' death yet she struggled to connect with that same faith - How she connects and can continue to connect with Chris - Incidents that allowed stress to be dissolved - We have to take of one another - Universal truths and satori Links & where to find her here: Dairyuji Temple Instagram Dairyuji temple in Oga Akita Zeb Soto Sect Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Online Shop: Sorabento Griefworks by Julia Samuel The word I was scrambling for is ‘flippant'.

The Blakiston's fish owl is the world's largest living species of owl, with larger females of the species weighing as much as ten pounds. It lives in the Russian Far East and Northern Japan. It is also endangered: global populations are estimated to be around 1500 owls in total. The story of one conservationist's efforts to save these owls is told in Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2020), the first book by Jonathan Slaght. The book traces Jonathan's many trips to the territory of Primorye in the Russian Far East, as part of his research into where the fish owls live and hunt. In the dead of the Russian winter, Jonathan and his Russian compatriots survey the forests, listen for fish owl duets, investigate nests and capture owls in an attempt to learn more about these creatures. Jonathan Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he manages research projects on endangered species and coordinates avian conservation activities along the East Asia–Australasian Flyway from the Arctic to the tropics. You can follow him on Twitter at @JonathanSlaght. Owls of the Eastern Ice has won widespread acclaim, including being longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In this interview, Joanthan and I discuss his research project, and how he turned it into a book. We also delve a little deeper into the ways we think about conservation, and what else needs to be done.  You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he's a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

The Blakiston’s fish owl is the world’s largest living species of owl, with larger females of the species weighing as much as ten pounds. It lives in the Russian Far East and Northern Japan. It is also endangered: global populations are estimated to be around 1500 owls in total. The story of one conservationist’s efforts to save these owls is told in Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2020), the first book by Jonathan Slaght. The book traces Jonathan’s many trips to the territory of Primorye in the Russian Far East, as part of his research into where the fish owls live and hunt. In the dead of the Russian winter, Jonathan and his Russian compatriots survey the forests, listen for fish owl duets, investigate nests and capture owls in an attempt to learn more about these creatures. Jonathan Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he manages research projects on endangered species and coordinates avian conservation activities along the East Asia–Australasian Flyway from the Arctic to the tropics. You can follow him on Twitter at @JonathanSlaght. Owls of the Eastern Ice has won widespread acclaim, including being longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In this interview, Joanthan and I discuss his research project, and how he turned it into a book. We also delve a little deeper into the ways we think about conservation, and what else needs to be done.  You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blakiston's fish owl is the world's largest living species of owl, with larger females of the species weighing as much as ten pounds. It lives in the Russian Far East and Northern Japan. It is also endangered: global populations are estimated to be around 1500 owls in total. The story of one conservationist's efforts to save these owls is told in Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2020), the first book by Jonathan Slaght. The book traces Jonathan's many trips to the territory of Primorye in the Russian Far East, as part of his research into where the fish owls live and hunt. In the dead of the Russian winter, Jonathan and his Russian compatriots survey the forests, listen for fish owl duets, investigate nests and capture owls in an attempt to learn more about these creatures. Jonathan Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he manages research projects on endangered species and coordinates avian conservation activities along the East Asia–Australasian Flyway from the Arctic to the tropics. You can follow him on Twitter at @JonathanSlaght. Owls of the Eastern Ice has won widespread acclaim, including being longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In this interview, Joanthan and I discuss his research project, and how he turned it into a book. We also delve a little deeper into the ways we think about conservation, and what else needs to be done.  You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he's a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

The Blakiston’s fish owl is the world’s largest living species of owl, with larger females of the species weighing as much as ten pounds. It lives in the Russian Far East and Northern Japan. It is also endangered: global populations are estimated to be around 1500 owls in total. The story of one conservationist’s efforts to save these owls is told in Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2020), the first book by Jonathan Slaght. The book traces Jonathan’s many trips to the territory of Primorye in the Russian Far East, as part of his research into where the fish owls live and hunt. In the dead of the Russian winter, Jonathan and his Russian compatriots survey the forests, listen for fish owl duets, investigate nests and capture owls in an attempt to learn more about these creatures. Jonathan Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he manages research projects on endangered species and coordinates avian conservation activities along the East Asia–Australasian Flyway from the Arctic to the tropics. You can follow him on Twitter at @JonathanSlaght. Owls of the Eastern Ice has won widespread acclaim, including being longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In this interview, Joanthan and I discuss his research project, and how he turned it into a book. We also delve a little deeper into the ways we think about conservation, and what else needs to be done.  You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blakiston's fish owl is the world's largest living species of owl, with larger females of the species weighing as much as ten pounds. It lives in the Russian Far East and Northern Japan. It is also endangered: global populations are estimated to be around 1500 owls in total. The story of one conservationist's efforts to save these owls is told in Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2020), the first book by Jonathan Slaght. The book traces Jonathan's many trips to the territory of Primorye in the Russian Far East, as part of his research into where the fish owls live and hunt. In the dead of the Russian winter, Jonathan and his Russian compatriots survey the forests, listen for fish owl duets, investigate nests and capture owls in an attempt to learn more about these creatures. Jonathan Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he manages research projects on endangered species and coordinates avian conservation activities along the East Asia–Australasian Flyway from the Arctic to the tropics. You can follow him on Twitter at @JonathanSlaght. Owls of the Eastern Ice has won widespread acclaim, including being longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In this interview, Joanthan and I discuss his research project, and how he turned it into a book. We also delve a little deeper into the ways we think about conservation, and what else needs to be done.  You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he's a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Blakiston's fish owl is the world's largest living species of owl, with larger females of the species weighing as much as ten pounds. It lives in the Russian Far East and Northern Japan. It is also endangered: global populations are estimated to be around 1500 owls in total. The story of one conservationist's efforts to save these owls is told in Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2020), the first book by Jonathan Slaght. The book traces Jonathan's many trips to the territory of Primorye in the Russian Far East, as part of his research into where the fish owls live and hunt. In the dead of the Russian winter, Jonathan and his Russian compatriots survey the forests, listen for fish owl duets, investigate nests and capture owls in an attempt to learn more about these creatures. Jonathan Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he manages research projects on endangered species and coordinates avian conservation activities along the East Asia–Australasian Flyway from the Arctic to the tropics. You can follow him on Twitter at @JonathanSlaght. Owls of the Eastern Ice has won widespread acclaim, including being longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In this interview, Joanthan and I discuss his research project, and how he turned it into a book. We also delve a little deeper into the ways we think about conservation, and what else needs to be done.  You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he's a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/animal-studies

Dr. Dugas attended the New England School of Acupuncture, the oldest school of Chinese Medicine in the USA. He earned a Master's degree in Acupuncture and Oriental medicine(MAOM). Following graduation, he passed his national board exams for Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. He was subsequently granted Diplomat of Oriental Medicine (Dipl. OM) status from The National Certification Commission of Acupuncture Medicine (NCCAOM), and recently was granted licensure in Florida as a Doctor of Oriental Medicine/Acupuncture Physician. Dr. Dugas sees patients at Body Mechanix Acupuncture located in New Port Richey at 5623 US Hwy 19 Suite 103 34652. For Acupuncture Services call him at (727) 232-6568. . Dr. Dugas' interest in Asian medicinal practices arose in his early teens and throughout the late 1980s, while he was living in Northern Japan. He lived in Northern Japan through the 90s. During this time, he earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree from Earlham College, his focus on Japanese Studies. Dr. Dugas also is well known as a Master Dit Da Jow Brewer. Dit Da Jow are transdermal herbal liniments used for pain and recovery. Contact Dr. Dugas for more information on how you can utilize these liniments in your health care practice and/or martial arts school. Currently he is continues his study of Master Tung Acupuncture as well as training in South Mantis Gung Fu. He looks forward to furthering research on Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, Chinese Martial Arts(Jook Lum Gee Tong Long Pai), Indonesian Martial Arts, Tieh Sha Zhang Gong (Iron Palm) and Tieh Bu Shan Gong (Iron Vest) training, Shuai Jiao(Chinese Wrestling) and Kam Na/Chin-Na (Throwing and Grappling) and Dit Da Ke (Chinese trauma medicine). For more information on the Old Time Kung Fu programs Dr. Dugas offers through public and private instruction, please visit http://www.oldtimekungfu.com Dr. Dugas offers Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine services at Body Mechanix Acupuncture located at 5404 Main Street New Port Richey, FL 34652 or at your home. For more information call (727) 232-6568. You can also email dr.dale@daledugas.com

So happy to have Mari Manji on The Joshi Pod! We chat about her growing up in Northern Japan, making the move to Tokyo and eventually getting into the wrestling business. Mari and Manami Katsu recently left Pure-J and are now freelance wrestlers. What is next for those two? We talk about the meaning of the Manji character. Mari also sings us a song! Please have a listen. Follow/Support Mari Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_a_r_i_0130 Blog: https://ameblo.jp/mari-manji/ Follow/Support Manami Katsu Twitter: https://twitter.com/manami_katsu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manami_katsu/?r=nametag Music Provided By "The Joshi Pod Theme" Composer/Producer: Justin Knipper http://www.soundcloud.com/interbeingjmk https://twitter.com/justinmknipper "There's Something About Mary" by Jonathon Richman

A fictionalised version of our first visit to the incredible, inimitable Basie in Northern Japan, the jazz joint to end all joints. Story written by Philip Arneill. Soundscape by Brian of Grooves Ahead. Basie photo ©Philip Arneill 2020. +++++ Credits Sound Effects: (freesound.org)scottyhigh20, cantikfrantik, sinatra314, bplayers, soapuel, khenshom, joanzz, vital-sounds, shcluppipuppie, timjpower, macdaddyno1, soniaespi Music: (jamendo.com): AFTER WORK - Mack The Knife, Hugo "Droopy" Contini - Dexterity, Gray Mic Records - Swing With Me, Christian Petermann - Jazz Rendezvous

Jak and Jodi talk about their weird experiences of the week. They discuss "bear patrol", the ancient Ainu people of Northern Japan, and the importance of taking responsibility.     Become a part of the OWL community by subscribing to our channel! TWITTER: @OurWeirdLifePod FACEBOOK: @ourweirdlifepodcast INSTAGRAM: @ourweirdlifepod

Yasuaki Mori Ex-CEO Of Infineon Technologies Japan: EPISODE #1 Japan's Top Business Interviews Yasuaki Mori is a European, Asia and North American technology growth executive in the disruptive mobility, automotive, IIoT and cyber security markets.  He has grown businesses from $200 to $700M and scaled organization from 100 to 200+ people, developed go-to market strategies and rebuilt, converted, strengthened organizations in sales, marketing, channel, system/application engineering, product quality, HR, finance. marcom, logistics and government affairs. He is a multi-lingual & multi-cultural executive (French, Japanese, English) with professional networks in Europe, US and Asia. Summary Points  Joint venture sales are tough because both parties are in the same market with a focus on synergies but occasionally you end up in a competitive situation. When the joint venture parties are from different cultures, e.g. Japanese and German, you need trust and understanding, however both are exercised differently in the different countries. For example, in Japan, harmony is exercised through Honne (real truth) and Tatemae (façade), but in Germany it is exercised by people giving their true opinion, so it can be tough for employees and clients to deal with. We used to have meetings where only the leadership spoke. After the earthquake and tsunami in Northern Japan several years ago, we held daily meetings in order to keep operations moving, and as things calmed down, we cut the meetings down to once a week and then once a month. However, when we tried to cut the meetings out altogether, the employees asked for it to be kept on as a standard part of our procedures. It become a town hall meeting where people, not just the leadership contributed. Unofficial communication in Japan is superb and it would be good to be able to tap into that to make it more corporate and help shake off the communication silos. Middle management is what tends to the blockage point, not because they wanted to block things, but because we as senior management were not paying enough attention to what feedback they were giving about our discussions about strategy etc.  What a strategy means for senior management has a totally different meaning for the lower ranks and middle management needs to be engaged and coached on how to spread the message. Push out as much information as possible unless it is strictly confidential, since unless you tell people what and why things are happening in understandable terms, it is never effective. Japanese employees traditionally ask their bosses for instructions, but I think its better to know what your value is in the company, and where you are adding value to the whole chain of the company, then you should know what you need to do – then you don`t need to ask your boss about what you should do. And by adding value to yourself, you are making yourself more valuable to the external market. Japan still works from a top-down method whereas foreign companies work in a matrix. Executives are expensive with limited time frames like 3-4 years, and because they have to get used to Japan at the beginning and settle their families, and then towards the end of their term, they need to look for a job back home, they are really only effective for 1-2 years so that is one of the problems you face by sending a novice to Japan. A good element of Japan is limited corporate greed in comparison to other countries.  Honesty is a key strength in Japan that is a good foundation to help build a business on. Although I`m not sure how it equates to taking more risk for innovation.  Big data and good data analytics can relieve many efficiency and quality problems but there is limited understanding in traditional management style Japanese companies of how to use AI because it is not just about technology, its about organizational change. Japan is very weak in terms of making deliberate organizational change to suit the technology.  There is a reluctance to go digital because the Gemba (factory floor) is so strong, but people are getting older and there are fewer and fewer workers so digitization needs to happen. But this needs fast decisions and these are not a strength of traditional corporate Japanese cultures. Engaged employees are self-motivated. The self-motivated are inspired. Inspired staff grow your business but are you inspiring them? We teach leaders and organisations how to inspire their people. Want to know how we do that? Contact me at greg.story@dalecarnegie.com If you enjoy these articles, then head over to www.enjapan.dalecarnegie.com and check out our whitepapers, guidebooks, training videos, podcasts, blogs. Take a look at our Japanese and English seminars, workshops, course information and schedules. About The Author Dr. Greg Story Your Corporate Coaching And Training Guy President, Dale Carnegie Training Japan Author of “Japan Sales Mastery”, the Amazon #1 Bestseller on selling in Japan and the first book on the subject in the last thirty years.   He is also the author of the new book “Japan Business Mastery” aimed at business people who are new to Japan and want to know more about how things work here. In the course of his career Dr. Greg Story has moved from the academic world, to consulting, investments, trade representation, international diplomacy, retail banking and people development. Growing up in Brisbane, Australia he never imagined he would have a Ph.D. in Japanese decision-making and become a 30 year plus veteran of Japan. A committed lifelong learner, he publishes articles in the American, British and European Chamber journals, and daily releases his videos and podcasts.   For podcasts and videos:  Mondays THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show podcast & THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show video Tuesday THE Leadership Japan Series Wednesday THE Sales Japan series Thursday THE Presentations Japan Series"   Friday THE Japan Business Mastery Show & THE Japan Business Mastery Show video.   Saturday Japan's Top Business Interviews Show podcast and Japan's Top Business Interviews Show video He is a thought leader in the four critical areas for business people: leadership, communication, sales and presentations. Dr. Story is a popular keynote speaker, executive coach and trainer. Since 1971, he has been a disciple of traditional Shitoryu Karate and is currently a 6th Dan. Bunbu Ryodo (文武両道-both pen & sword) is his mantra and he applies martial art philosophies and strategies to business. #DCTakeCommand

Northern Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture is an off-the-beaten-path region where you can explore Buddhist temples, stay at traditional inns, and go skiing—all without battling the crowds at more popular destinations.

In far Northern Japan on the peripheries of the known world, an aggressive and moody child with one eye and a bad temper would come to prominence almost despite himself. Date Masamune, AKA the "One-Eyed Dragon" would eventually become a powerful and enigmatic ruler in the far North who won the respect of some of the most powerful Daimyo of his age.  Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samuraiarchives Shopping on Amazon.com?  Use our link: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=samurai-20 Support this podcast: Samurai Archives Shop (T-Shirts, etc) http://www.cafepress.com/samuraiarchives Contact Us: Twitter @SamuraiArchives https://twitter.com/#!/samuraiarchives Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samurai-Archives/104533213984 FB Podcast Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/samuraipodcast/ Samurai Archives Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/samuraipodcast/ Samurai Archives podcast blog: http://www.samuraipodcast.com Samurai Archives Forum: http://www.japanhistoryforum.com Patreon Special Thanks: Luis, Cody Makua Burks, Marty Brennan, Kelsey, Patrick Stewart, Joshua Badgley, and Dennis McDaniel!

How the bleep did we wind up here? We were working through our checklists and things were going so well, and now we're just lost... things are coming at us from every direction and we're not sure what's actually happening now. How did that happen, anyways? In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba discuss how crisis situations can get out of control as things escalate. Topics discussed include crisis management frameworks, situational awareness, the need for a "radar screen" to detect incoming threats, and examples from recent disasters. //static.leadpages.net/leadboxes/current/embed.js Episode Transcript Bryan Strawser:                   How the bleep did we wind up here? Jen Otremba:                        I don't know. Bryan Strawser:                   I mean, I don't get it. This disaster was progressing as we expected and we were working down the checklist- Jen Otremba:                        And we had plans, we had a plan. Bryan Strawser:                   We had plans and now all of a sudden I don't know where we're at. Jen Otremba:                        There's so much going on. Bryan Strawser:                   It's coming at us from every direction and I'm just lost, I don't know what I'm supposed to be dealing with. So you're probably wondering what the heck we're talking about. So there's this idea that I learned a long time ago about when you're dealing with crisis that our tendency is that we want to go out and create plans. Jen Otremba:                        Which is what we tell people to do. Bryan Strawser:                   Which we tell people to do, but we talk about ... Lots of people call us and say, "We need help developing crisis or emergency plans and here's what we want to have plans for." And we always kind of stop the conversation and say, "So, talk to me about how you'll lead through a crisis." And we've had previous episodes where we've talked about the need to have a defined crisis management framework, and how do you escalate and communicate and make decisions in a crisis? But if we go back to the beginning of that whole thing, that we know that there are things that are going to happen in our business, in a client's business that are going to be bad. There are going to be crises, and we can probably guess what the top 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 of them are going to be, and so we tend to make plans for those because we know that these are things we're going to have to deal with. Jen Otremba:                        And we have experience with those things. Bryan Strawser:                   We have experience with those things, and some of them are common. Fires happen, and severe weather happens and there's nothing that you can do to control it. You're going to have thunderstorms and straight-line winds and tornadoes and- Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, just last night we had some severe storms. Bryan Strawser:                   We had this just last night here in Minnesota, at the time that we're recording this anyway, when we hear this it might be a few weeks down the road. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, that's true. Bryan Strawser:                   But we haven't learned how to control the weather yet, so we know that these things are going to happen, we know that we'll have lightning storms that will damage homes and might lead to fire, and we know that fires are going to happen and there's going to be power outages and gas leaks, and utility outages- Jen Otremba:                        Snow storms. Bryan Strawser:                   And snow storms, at least for those of you in the north, but then we get into things that might be a little more exotic. We might have active shooters, we might have a workplace violence threat, we might have a roof collapse. Jen Otremba:                        A bomb threat. Bryan Strawser:                   A bomb threat, you might have a violent attack, you might have a domestic violence situation. The list goes on. Jen Otremba:                        Water main break. Bryan Strawser:                   But there are things that we know within a reasonable certainty, given enough time are going to happen and there's very little that we can do to prepare for that, there's very little we can do to control that I should say, to stop it from happening. There's certainly some things that we can do to mitigate it. Jen Otremba:                        And prevent it. Bryan Strawser:                   But we create plans for this, right? So locations create emergency checklists, and even at a corporate level we create checklists to deal with the initial response, and we connect that to some kind of crisis framework, and we might do this. Companies might have 25 situations that they have pretty good plans in place for, and all big crisis situations usually start there. It's something that you have a plan for, and then as you're managing that situation we talk about, we've talked about having a radar screen and understanding threats that are coming in, and this need for situational awareness of what's going on. I think the great challenge for crisis leaders is that you have to keep your process and your team above that, and you have to be able to see what else is happening while you're dealing with the here and now of the situation that you're finding yourselves in. Jen Otremba:                        Right, because there's always, business still needs to go on, right? Bryan Strawser:                   Then there's the things that you just don't see coming, and sometimes it's just the unknown event that you didn't predict, or it's the failure of imagination, this is kind of we describe 9/11, that nobody thought that this could happen, and then now it's here, and who knew? And now we've got to work through this new reality thing. But sometimes you find yourself in these really bad situations and it started with something that you knew and you thought you had, but it comes at you in some unique combination, and then you sit there and go, "How the F did we get over here? How did this happen?" Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. Bryan Strawser:                   Long ago a professor of mine, Dr. Dutch Leonard from Harvard, described this whole idea of acting in time. That there's this window of opportunity following a disaster, following the boom, as we like to say, that you can react. And those actions and decisions that you make, if you make them quickly enough you can influence the outcome of the situation, but that window of time diminishes. But I remember vividly this discussion we had one day in class about the great Japanese earthquake in 2011, where you had one of the top ten earthquakes in recorded human history leading to a massive tsunami, which leads to a big rheological disaster at Fukushima and the Japanese government really struggle with this whole situation, while everybody looking from the outside went, "Man, they're in a bad boat." They got a big tsunami coming ashore, and all the damage, and the earthquake itself that caused damage. Massive casualties, and now they have this rheological disaster, and look at those three things that are going on. Jen Otremba:                        I think with that, we were talking about this earlier, the important thing to point out there is that Japan knows how to do emergency management. Bryan Strawser:                   All three of those things very well. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, because they experience it all the time. Bryan Strawser:                   Best in the world, perhaps. Jen Otremba:                        Yes, exactly, and they had plans, and they had processes [crosstalk 00:05:58] Bryan Strawser:                   Not only do the government have plans, but their businesses have plans. Jen Otremba:                        Exactly, yeah. Bryan Strawser:                   And now because all three things happen at once, they very quickly went from, "We have this under control, we're working a checklist," to not having the right situational awareness things in place and didn't see the interconnectivity of what was going on to, "What the F just happened to us?" And "Holy cow, now what do we do?" And they visibly struggled, it brought down the sitting Japanese government over time, if I remember correctly. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, well it was huge. It was a huge mess. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. I was there, I think it was six months to the day after the earthquake, I was at an APEC event, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, group that the US was a part of. I went out there at FIMA's invitation to present on private sector emergency management and business continuity, and we held it in Sendai, the biggest city near where the earthquake was, it's where the tsunami came ashore, in Northern Japan. And we had a lot of this, certainly no one was there to assess any blame, but we had a lot of discussion about earthquakes and tsunamis are things that you can predict. I mean you can't predict, but you know that they're going to happen and you can make plans for these things. Jen Otremba:                        Right. Bryan Strawser:                   It's the need to have situational awareness and the need to help businesses prepare, that was a great challenge. The news media didn't do the devastation justice, it was really something to see in person. But that's not what we're talking about, the event here is really- Jen Otremba:                        Sand track Bryan. Bryan Strawser:                   Yeah, I know ... but how do you, when you're in the middle of the disaster, you're in the middle of the response and you've got multiple things going on, like in this case three interconnected but independent issues that you're dealing with the aftermath of, how do you keep your head above that? How do you stay focused on, "Hey there's a strategic picture and it might go beyond these three interconnected things we're dealing with right now?" Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. I think, going back to the discussion that we had about the radar screen, for instance, if you had a team that's looking at all of these things and managing all of these things at once, they may easily get sucked into that silo. This is happening over here, this is happening over here, but if you have a leader of that team that is managing all of these things happening they should be the person to see, "Hey, these connect somehow." That's on a smaller organization scale, but larger scale, FIMA or something like that, would be the same way. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. We've talked previously, I think in our Leading in an After Shooter Situation episode, where we talked about you really want to separate the immediate response actions from the longer term planning, and I think this is similar in that you should have some kind of watch intel operation, even if it's just part of one person's time. It's looking at that big picture and that's the radar screen right there telling you about the things that are coming in. At the same time you have a broader group of people, who are your crisis team, that's dealing with these situations as they're happening. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. And at that point in time you might need to split the team up and have certain people work on this, and we've done that before where we had separate conference rooms for separate incidents happening at a time, or one major incident but we had people monitoring for additional incidents that may occur. Bryan Strawser:                   I really do believe that the challenge in these situations is you can get so focused on the response and what you're doing right now, that you just fail to see this massive issue headed in your direction that you've got to manage, and I think that the danger is getting on that single track focus of what's going on and not seeing the other events that are happening and how they interconnect. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, fail to see something bigger coming, as well. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. I mean we mentioned 9/11, but think about the asymmetricness of that kind of event where it was in Pennsylvania, and DC, and New York and it was near simultaneous, and so you're trying to react to all of this and you've completely lost your ability to be proactive and in front of what's going on because you've no idea what's coming next. Jen Otremba:                        No, which is what made it so scary to everyone. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. Bryan Strawser:                   This need for the radar screen I think is one of the greatest learnings out of all of, if you think about situations like the earthquake in Japan, but being able to keep yourself above that is a great challenge. I think most folks have started with the idea of having checklists and plans in place for emergencies, I think having the radar screen is a difficult challenge. I think being able to deal with the situation that you didn't see coming is the other part of that challenge and making sure that you have the right kind of framework in place from a crisis management standpoint to escalate any kind of issue, deal with it collaboratively, and make the decisions about what you're going to communicate out during those situations. Jen Otremba:                        Right. I think having the right people in the right places as well. So, in Japan, at that point, they were all in it. So maybe if they had someone outside looking in able to help them, then would have been able to connect all the dots, but that's obviously huge large scale. But in a smaller scale, like a corporation, oftentimes when we had things happen at a field office or a field location, or something like that, it was much easier for us to monitor that from afar than be in the middle of it and trying to manage it from there. Bryan Strawser:                   But I think, actually it's a great example, because at our distance, being at corporate, while a certain location or a local market was dealing with an issue, I think we had more emotional detachment from the situation. Jen Otremba:                        Absolutely. Bryan Strawser:                   And we weren't so bogged down in the details of what was going on, we could see the bigger picture. Jen Otremba:                        Absolutely, or I think, like the Moore tornado, when that came through we weren't worried about our families being in the middle of the Moore tornado while I'm at work, whereas our employees that were in that area were. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. I think one of the challenges with all this too is that in the middle of a crisis, and we always talk about crisis as being some kind of disruption driven by violence or crime or natural disaster, but I think that we forget that the more difficult aspect to deal with is the reputational aspect of these situations, that we can handle something correctly from a peer crisis management standpoint and then the reputational thing comes up that's related to that and just knocks the wind out of our sales because we didn't see that coming. That idea of the radar screen can't just be about terrorism threats and natural disaster weather threats, it has to be about the reputation of the organization and how is that getting communicated? What does that look like? Social media, real media. Jen Otremba:                        I like how you put that earlier about the acting in time, or your professor said that, acting in time, because that initial reaction really can make a difference when it comes to the public opinion. Bryan Strawser:                   There's the great video of, when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, if I remember right it was '81, and Alexander Hague was the Secretary of State, and so there was a press briefing going on following the attempted assassination and the press briefing wasn't going real well, and the secretary of state watching this from the situation room in the White House was like, "Well, I'm going up there because I'm in charge." Really, he wasn't, but that's what he said, he came out and he was kind of angry and made this very blunt statement that, "As of now I'm in control here." It wasn't even the next in line of succession, it was the Vice President, who just was on his way back from a trip and was just going to be a few hours. Jen Otremba:                        Right. Bryan Strawser:                   But his actions could have settled things and instead it made it worse. Jen Otremba:                        That's a great example, actually. Bryan Strawser:                   He made it worse, he certainly acted in time but he made the wrong decision. Jen Otremba:                        The wrong action in time. Bryan Strawser:                   The wrong action. History has shown us that that was not the best move, and that actually was one of the factors that led to his replacement the following year. Jen Otremba:                        But I think that goes again to the emotions, the severe amount of emotions that were probably involved at that time, and all of the people so directly involved and so close to that situation were reacting emotionally. Bryan Strawser:                   Yeah, I couldn't agree more, and I think there's a, we'll find it and link it into the show notes, I think it was Atlantic magazine, it was, that had actually gotten hold of the tapes of discussions on the Vice President's aircraft on the way back to DC and George H. W. Bush talking with his advisors about, "Here are the decisions that we're going to need to make, and here are the issues that are going to come up, and how we're going to need to reassure the public, and we're going to have to deal with this." Jen Otremba:                        Sure. Bryan Strawser:                   Very insightful, very good grasp of the strategic issues involved, was in great communication back to the White House, as I remember from reading this a few years ago, and very different from what you saw from Secretary Hague at the time. Jen Otremba:                        Right. He was also in a different location and a different place and maybe he had a second to think about it. Bryan Strawser:                   Right, right. So again, the three things you want to have in place; you want your plans, your checklist in place for those immediate issues that you want to deal with, those are your plans. You need your radar screen, your ability to look at the broader picture from a situational awareness perspective, and you need your framework and how do you deal with the things that you didn't predict and how do you escalate and make those decisions, so that you never find yourself on the far end of a disaster saying- Jen Otremba:                        What the- Bryan Strawser:                   "How the F did I get there?"

In this episode, Alex and Travis (we miss you James!) to the magical island of Hokkaido in Northern Japan. We talk about the indigenous people to the land called The Ainu (2:03). The forced assimilation of the Ainu into Japanese culture is also discussed (5:30). Then, we cover the representation of Ainu people in popular culture (8:24). The tunnel built to connect Hokkaido to mainland Japan is discussed (11:39).    We then get into the Spirit Drink and the creator of Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky, Masataka Taketsuru and his purpose of studying in Scotland (13:31). We talk about how he met his wife Rita (14:25) in Scotland and the married couple moving to Japan (15:11). We discuss the impact and change in the lives of the couple when World War II starts (17:06). We then talk about the presentation and aroma of the bottle (22:37) before giving it a taste and our thoughts.   The conversation switches to the divine beings of the Ainu culture called The Kamuy (38:10). This switches to the tale of a demigod famous in Ainu mythology named, Okikurmi (44:09). We talk about his origins and his famous struggle with the wind goddess Pikatakamuy (48:45).   We switch to the remix and the Japanese highball and give our thoughts (1:00:50).   Finally, we get into the Lyrics portion of the episode in which we talk about Oki Kano and his group Oki Dub Ainu Band (1:06:27). We discuss his time in New York and how he finds out about his biological father (1:12:43). We then talk about when he is gifted the musical instrument of his ancestors, The Tonkori (1:17:40) and how it inspired Oki Kano to move to Hokkaido (1:21:54). Finally, we talk about his unique sense of style (1:27:32) and discuss a few musical selections off the album Utarhythm (1:30:07).

Loved this classic mix from 2011. Sydney's Japanese Wax Assassain DJ NAIKI laying down a killer selection of 80's Funk & R&B & beyond for this classic OLD SCHOOL mixtape he put together. Recorded: 2011. Time: 25 Mins Style: 80's Funk & Old School R&B Vibes DJ - DJ NAIKI (Chief Rockers) About DJ NAIKI In 1991, DJ Naiki was working as a waiter, in Sendai, in Northern Japan. Through his passion for music, and fascination of the turntables, Naiki's career as a waiter was short lived, as he started to gain skills on the 1200s. May 1994, DJ Naiki left Japan, to start a new life in Australia. He was soon to be found spinning in Sydney Hip-Hop clubs, such as Kinsela's, Mr GoodBar and Lotel. DJ Naiki's fast paced turntable persona has led him to DJ at many high profile shows, such as the Naughty By Nature Concert Afterparty, DJ CASH MONEY's All world show ( @ Metro in Sydney ), DJ Krush Tour, DJ at the Olympic Village nightclub, 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2002 NSW DMC Finals and opening concerts for the likes of Ugly Duckling, DJ Jazzy Jeff, People Under The Stairs, Nivea, Black Eyed Peas, Fatman Scoop& Crooklin Klan ROCK STEADY CREW and BEATJUNKIES and ＧＡＮＧＳＴＡＲＲ MOBB DEEP etc. Through his fast cuts, and awesome music selection, DJ Naiki has risen to become one of Australia's Premier Hip-Hop and RnB DJs. DJ Naiki is also renowned for his incredible record collection, and his classic old school mix tapes Always supporting his Japanese community, and feeling the need for a "Japanese Hip-Hop Party" in Sydney, DJ Naiki teamed up with long time friends DJ Duggs, and Kavi-R from Ackshun Entertainment and collectively started " O-ii-shi ", a monthly Hip-Hop event which has been running since, June 1999. O-ii-shi has blended many styles such as Reggae, rare grooves and funk along with the underground Hip-Hop it is famous for. Also He has residence for break-dance scene such as infamous Japanese dance society ‘DANCEKOOL`. and `BATTLE OF THE YEAR`. Links: https://soundcloud.com/djnaiki/

Sydney's Japanese Wax Assassin DJ NAIKI laying down this dope tribute mix to A TRIBE CALLED QUEST & the NATIVE TONGUE family. 30 minutes of m 90's Boom Bap power & classic Hip Hop joints recorded live on air on STOLEN RECORDS on FBI RADIO back in 2008 hosted by SHANTAN WANTAN ICHIBAN. About Stolen Records // Stolen Records radio show is no longer on air these days, but you can catch the charismatic host SHANTAN on JJJ & also rocking festivals and club nights around Australian. Links / www.mixcloud.com/stolenrecords/ www.soundcloud.com/shantan_ichiban www.facebook.com/ShantanWantanIchiban/ www.abc.net.au/triplej/shantan-ichiban/7952780 About The MIx // Time: 32 Mins Style: 90's Hip Hop, Funk & Original Samples. Track List: (courtesy of www.stolenrecords.fm)/ Can I kick It Intro – A Tribe Called Quest Dirty Old Bassa Nova – Howard Roberts Quartet Jam – A Tribe Called Quest Jazz…(We’ve Got) – A Tribe Called Quest Love Your Life – Average White Band Check The Rhime – A Tribe Called Quest Award Tour – A Tribe Called Quest Oh My God – A Tribe Called Quest Who’s Gonna Take the Weight – Kool & The Gang Buggin Out – A Tribe Called Quest Can I kick It – A Tribe Called Quest Hot Sex – A Tribe Called Quest Scenario – A Tribe Called Quest Daylight – Ramp Bonita Applebum – A Tribe Called Quest Technova – Towa Tei Find A Way – A Tribe Called Quest On The Road Again feat. Q-Tip (Remix) – Jungle Brothers Wrath Of My Madness – Queen Latifah Straight out the Jungle – Jungle Brothers The Choice is Yours (Revisited) – Black Sheep Buddy (12″ Remix) – De La Soul Because I got it like that – Jungle Brothers You Can Make It If You Try – Sly & The Family Stone - Crossword Puzzle – Sly & The Family Stone Say No Go – De La Soul It’s A Shame – Spinners It’s A Shame – Monie Love 40days – Billy Brooks About DJ NAIKI In 1991, DJ Naiki was working as a waiter, in Sendai, in Northern Japan. Through his passion for music, and fascination of the turntables, Naiki's career as a waiter was short lived, as he started to gain skills on the 1200s. May 1994, DJ Naiki left Japan, to start a new life in Australia. He was soon to be found spinning in Sydney Hip-Hop clubs, such as Kinsela's, Mr GoodBar and Lotel. DJ Naiki's fast paced turntable persona has led him to DJ at many high profile shows, such as the Naughty By Nature Concert Afterparty, DJ CASH MONEY's All world show ( @ Metro in Sydney ), DJ Krush Tour, DJ at the Olympic Village nightclub, 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2002 NSW DMC Finals and opening concerts for the likes of Ugly Duckling, DJ Jazzy Jeff, People Under The Stairs, Nivea, Black Eyed Peas, Fatman Scoop& Crooklin Klan ROCK STEADY CREW and BEATJUNKIES and ＧＡＮＧＳＴＡＲＲ MOBB DEEP etc. Through his fast cuts, and awesome music selection, DJ Naiki has risen to become one of Australia's Premier Hip-Hop and RnB DJs. DJ Naiki is also renowned for his incredible record collection, and his classic old school mix tapes Always supporting his Japanese community, and feeling the need for a "Japanese Hip-Hop Party" in Sydney, DJ Naiki teamed up with long time friends DJ Duggs, and Kavi-R from Ackshun Entertainment and collectively started " O-ii-shi ", a monthly Hip-Hop event which has been running since, June 1999. O-ii-shi has blended many styles such as Reggae, rare grooves and funk along with the underground Hip-Hop it is famous for. Also He has residence for break-dance scene such as infamous Japanese dance society ‘DANCEKOOL`. and `BATTLE OF THE YEAR`. DJ Naiki can be found spinning every hip hop jam around rotating guest selector on stolen records FBI (94.5 FM) Links: www.soundcloud.com/djnaiki www.stolenrecords.fm www.soundcloud.com/stolenrecords

SOUL OF SYDNEY RADIO 137: One from the archives of Sydney community radio. Sydney legend, Japanese wax assassin DJ NAIKI laying down a dope selection of G-FUNK vibes live on legendary STOLEN RECORDS radio show back in 2008 live on FBI RADIO. Recorded March 2008 on live on FBI Radio 94.5 FM. Time: 30 Minutes Style: G Funk, Hip Hop About DJ NAIKI // In 1991, DJ Naiki was working as a waiter, in Sendai, in Northern Japan. Through his passion for music, and fascination of the turntables, Naiki's career as a waiter was short-lived, as he started to gain skills on the 1200s. May 1994, DJ Naiki left Japan, to start a new life in Australia. He was soon to be found spinning in Sydney Hip-Hop clubs, such as Kinsela's, Mr GoodBar and Lotel. DJ Naiki's fast paced turntable persona has led him to DJ at many high profile shows, such as the Naughty By Nature Concert Afterparty, DJ CASH MONEY's All world show ( @ Metro in Sydney ), DJ Krush Tour, DJ at the Olympic Village nightclub, 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2002 NSW DMC Finals and opening concerts for the likes of Ugly Duckling, DJ Jazzy Jeff, People Under The Stairs, Nivea, Black Eyed Peas, Fatman Scoop& Crooklin Klan ROCK STEADY CREW and BEATJUNKIES and ＧＡＮＧＳＴＡＲＲ MOBB DEEP etc. Through his fast cuts, and awesome music selection, DJ Naiki has risen to become one of Australia's Premier Hip-Hop and RnB DJs. DJ Naiki is also renowned for his incredible record collection, and his classic old school mix tapes Always supporting his Japanese community, and feeling the need for a "Japanese Hip-Hop Party" in Sydney, DJ Naiki teamed up with long time friends DJ Duggs, and Kavi-R from Ackshun Entertainment and collectively started " O-ii-shi ", a monthly Hip-Hop event which has been running since, June 1999. O-ii-shi has blended many styles such as Reggae, rare grooves and funk along with the underground Hip-Hop it is famous for. Also He has residence for break-dance scene such as infamous Japanese dance society ‘DANCEKOOL`. and `BATTLE OF THE YEAR`. DJ Naiki can be found spinning every hip hop jam around rotating guest selector on stolen records FBI (94.5 FM) Links: https://soundcloud.com/djnaiki/ http://stolenrecords.fm/category/dj-naiki/ http://stolenrecords.fm/ https://soundcloud.com/stolenrecords/ More from Stolen Records: STOLEN RECORDS SKRILLIONAIRES Stolen Records. A collaboration between Shantan Wantan Ichiban and Mike Who?. We play rap music. Good stuff. We also like Dancehall, Reggae, Latin heaters, soul music, burgers and ice cream. Lets be friends! Believe it or not, we are Sydney’s premier hip hop show – prime time Wednesday 6pm on our fair city’s number one independent music station FBi 94.5 FM. We have talked to rather famous people too. Lil Jon, Common, Lady Saw, Kelis, Kid Cudi, Dizzee Rascal, and Elvis (from beyond the grave through a clairvoyant).

Fumiko Ichikawa is Co-Founder and Managing Director at Re:public, think and do tank. She has studied human-computer interaction, and she has been the practitioner of ethnographic research in Japan and around the world. After the financial crisis and great earthquake that took place in Northern Japan in 2011, Fumiko co-founded Re:public. The company extensively work with cities and regional governments, where conducting research together with people are the critical part of developing an ecosystem of people driving change, innovation, and quality of life. In today's episode we talk to Fumiko about how a natural disaster in Japan was her catalyst for a career transition from a researcher in the technology space to a facilitator of urban innovation with her own company Re-public; her involvement with the Fukuoka innovation studio; the type of relationships people build with cities, citizenship, identity and craftsmanship. Mentioned in Podcast: Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Don Norman 2011 earthquake in Japan The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, James Holston The Craftsman, Richard Sennett Fumiko's work: https://re-public.jp/ http://new-normal.life/ (Translation available) Social media and other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fumikoichikawa/ https://www.instagram.com/furbiko/ https://www.epicpeople.org/article_author/fumiko-ichikawa/

Welcome to my first episode of my podcast! My first guest is Natsuki Yasuda, a young entrepreneur who's worked at Rakuten, a global Japanese e-commerce rival to Amazon, but then he went rogue to co-found his own consulting firm and build his own travel guide/tour package website of his homeland, Hokkaido prefecture in Northern Japan, treasurefurano.com Activities such as dogsledding with Siberian huskies make me want to sign up! It was a trip down nostalgia lane catching up with one of my former students that I've witnessed grow from a teenager to a member of the new generation of Japanese young adults that have ambition break out of the social norm yet do something worthwhile to help others. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/madeinjapanpodcast/message

Tina Koyama is a Holistic Life and Wellness Coach for women, and a 2017 graduate of The Path of Self Love School. She guides women to let go of stress and bring in more self love and self care through tools and practices that support and nourish the body, mind and spirit. She is an American from South Carolina, USA and a long-term resident living in Niigata, Japan. We talk about: What it’s like living in Northern Japan on the “dark side” of Honshu Transitioning out of English teaching What “Self Love” is and how it’s different from “Self Care” Tina’s own work on transformation Perfectionism and the Inner Critic Jayne talks about her learning around control The Celebrate You with Essential Oils Retreat, Oct 20-21, 2018 in Iwaki, Fukushima IG: #braveheartedwellness Website: www.braveheartjourney.com (coming soon) Facebook: The Brave+Hearted Sisterhood FB Group Facebook: Tina Koyama Holistic Life + Wellness Retreat Information: https://heatherminowa.com/celebrate-you-registration/

Craft Beer in Japan is on the rise, and today we talk to an expat who is helping that rise: Gareth Burns of Be Easy Brewing. Our old buddy Ry Beville, of the Japan Beer Times, brought Gareth and his brewer Masahiro - along with their "everything" gal Chika, all the way out from Northern Japan just for this show! Gareth was stationed in Japan and fell in love with not only his surroundings, but the craft beer scene there, and decided to make that his new career path. He brought along two beers for us to try - a Czech Pils and a Pale Ale - making JP and Tasty the first two folks in the US to try beer from Be Easy. Pretty cool! We also talked (and tasted) some regional Sake! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris and Pete return and they've planned out a very different route through Northern Japan. Our Google Map can be found here: goo.gl/3t4t3q Get in touch: abroadinjapanpodcast@gmail.com More Abroad In Japan shows available below, do subscribe, rate and review us on iTunes, and please tell your friends! http://www.radiostakhanov.com/abroadinjapan/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Airmen participate in an isolated personnel pickup in the forests of Northern Japan.

A naval unit that is already deployed to South Korea spent a couple weeks in Northern Japan for a special exercise.

Japanese and American Sailors have been training for mine warfare in Exercise 2JA in Northern Japan.

U.S. bombers conduct bilateral missions, and U.S. Forces train at sea with Japanese maritime forces in Northern Japan.

We have a little bit of everything tonight. In the first 2 hours I am joined by Tim Janakos, We will talk about healing, music and books, and also the phone lines will be open for Tim to take some calls for Healing. Tim Janakos is a lifelong student of Buddhism, and a healer who works with the body code, emotion code, Quantum Touch 2.0, Three Dimensional Therapy, Access Consciousness and a few other unnamed healing modalities. He’s also  a visionary author and song writer from Southern California now living in Northern Japan. He’s written 4 books and is currently working on his 4th CD. About 5 years ago after being unable to find cures for his many illnesses he came upon energy healing, which helped him get rid of all his physical ailments and set him on a healer’s path. He now has a bi-weekly call in radio show where he does live healing for callers all over the world, with phenomenal success. To find out more about Tim’s work, music and books, please visit his website: http://www.tjmusic.org/ You can also find Tim on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TVC.16 Check out Tim’s music on his youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/timjanakos

Ainu: The Indigenous People of Northern Japan Atsushi Honjo, FRC Grand Master of the Japanese Grand Lodge In this podcast, which is a reading of his presentation at the AMORC World Convention in San Jose, Grand Master Atsushi Honjo introduces us to the Ainu worldview, with its striking relationship to the environment, to the Divine, and to all creatures. Running Time: 24:56 | 59.9 MB Podcast Copyright © 2016 Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. All Rights Reserved. Posted by Rosicrucian Park @ 03/07/2016

Ainu: The Indigenous People of Northern Japan Atsushi Honjo, FRC Grand Master of the Japanese Grand Lodge In this podcast, which is a reading of his presentation at the AMORC World Convention in San Jose, Grand Master Atsushi Honjo introduces us to the Ainu worldview, with its striking relationship to the environment, to the Divine, […]

This week we sit down with Nathan Peterson, a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Iowa. Born in South Central Nebraska Peterson attended Creighton University in the early 2000s earning a degree in Art History. He then went to the University of Iowa where he received his master’s degree also in Art History. From there he became interested in East Asian studies specifically in China and Japan. His most recent work has been in the contemporary art of China, including the artist Ai Weiwei, and Northern Japan, particularly in response to the Tsunami of 2011. Currently, Peterson is teaching at China’s Tianjin University and completing his second master’s degree in Chinese while finishing his dissertation to earn his doctorate from the University of Iowa.

In this episode, your hosts Chris, Nate, and Travis dedicate a two part podcast to their recent respective trips to Japan including their cultural and historical experiences, and Nate's volunteer efforts in Ishinomaki in Northern Japan, an area hit by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Mentioned in this Podcast: The 9th Annual Samurai Fiction Contest:  http://www.samurai-archives.com/writcon.html Photos of Kumamoto, Japan http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuzo/sets/72157631741259360/ Photos of Okinawa, Japan http://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/sets/72157634941743843/ The Sengoku Field Manual http://sengokufieldmanual.blogspot.com/ Shambhala Publications: http://www.shambhala.com/ Support this podcast: Shop Amazon.com, suport the podcast: http://amzn.to/wnDX2j Samurai Archives Bookstore: http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20 Samurai Archives Shop (T-Shirts, etc) http://www.cafepress.com/samuraiarchives Contact Us: Twitter @SamuraiArchives https://twitter.com/#!/samuraiarchives Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samurai-Archives/104533213984 Samurai Archives podcast blog: http://www.samuraipodcast.com

A poem by Doctress Neutopia about the Japanese nuclear disaster and how it is effecting the world ecology. The poem talks about a dance that Neutopia had been practicing for months about a tsunami that broke pipes and caused a disaster. The Butoh dance was choreographed by teacher Jodi Netzer. We performed the dance for the Tucson Green Chamber of Commerce three hours before the tsunami hit Northern Japan. The dance made me even more aware of the power of art to predict the future. Now it is put for art to put and end to the destructive power that is devastating the world environment with deadly radioactivity. The photo is of Butoh dancer, Jodi Netzer, performing the Tsunami dance the day of the Water Festival.

Package about how Sailors and civilians at Fleet Activity Sasebo volunteered their time to refurbish 50 bicycles for the families affected by the disaster in Northern Japan. The Disaster in Northern Japan left many people with no means of transportation. Produced by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Long.

Marines from marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265 deliver relief supplies to victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as part of Operation Tomodachi.

You may think the media and the social networks have told you all that needs to be known about conditions on the ground in Japan, but hearing it first hand gives you a far greater understanding.  In the days following the massive earthquake and tsunami, Karamoon contacted me from his home in Tokyo. He wasn't sure how much longer he could remain in his home, or on the other hand, if he wouldn't have to stay in doors for two weeks to avoid radioactive winds. In the following podcast he describes his experience and the concerns going forward.  He also goes into details about his survival preparations and options on an island where many people face difficult choices in the aftermath. Follow Karamoon on twitter Listen to the Learn Japanese Pod And just now I received an update, Tokyo Hacker Space is taking action for quake relief in Northern Japan but they need your help. (link has been down occasionally today)

B-roll of Misawa Air Base helping to restore their commercial power that was lost on Friday. Airmen from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa took only a few hours from the telephone recall to getting to the airplane. In addition to the 18th Civil Engineer Group, members of Detachment 1 of the 554th Red Horse Squadron also left Kadena as well. Scenes include the civil engineers packing up their gear, entering buses and interviews before deployment to northern Japan. Soundbites from Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Jenks, Senior Airman Jordon Conn. Produced by Tech Sgt. Michael Tateishi. Also see "Kadena sends aid to sister airbase in Northern Japan" in the package section.

It all happened while we watched and gasped. Never before has the world been exposed to such vivid and comprehensive footage of a disaster of this magnitude.  The Japanese Tsunami is unique among all natural catastrophes in its power and exposure to the world. The images have been riveting but it is critical for us to remember they are indeed real. Real people were consumed. Real people were scrambling from those horrifying waters. Mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons spent their last moments in abject terror and were washed away in an instant. And because we watched it happen on computer and TV screens, it seems distant and unreal.  And the pain and suffering will continue. Radiation leaks, homelessness, disease, mourning, rebuilding and the fear of recurrence  - these will be the new normal in these coastal towns. It is right for events like these to completely rock our sensibilities. It is right to mourn, normal to question, and good for us to respond in tangible ways. The following articles and links are provided for us to enter in to this tragedy in a way that is honest, human, charitable and hopeful.In the end, comprehensive answers may elude us. But we can draw comfort from the God who holds our tears in a bottle (Ps. 56:8) and who was willfully crushed under the full weight of the world's sin and agony to deliver all of those who would trust Him into a place where tsunamis happen no more.Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:1–6)From The Boston Globe's The Big PictureNews Stories - What happened?Powerful quake, tsunami kills hundreds in Japan - An AP article summarizing the eventsUpdates and Video of Japanese Earthquake’s Aftermath The latest news updates from the New York TimesQuake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis From CNNStone In The Pond: Charting The Path Of The Tsunami - animation of the NOAA modelThe Japanese Tsunami - The Big Picture Japan Floods Nuclear Reactor Crippled by Quake in Effort to Avert Meltdown - from the New York TimesNuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario at Fukushima Power Plant This is provides a solid explanation of the possible meltdown (HT: my buddy Doug Dale) In Minamisanriku, Heartbreak as 9,500 Remain Missing - Time Magazine. This is a town of 17,000.Human Reaction and Biblical Answers - What are we to think?Sympathy for Japan, and Admiration by Nicholas KristofA Prayer for Japan by John Piper. Here is a moving excerpt from that prayer:O God, we humble ourselves under your holy majesty and repent. In a moment—in the twinkling of an eye—we too could be swept away. We are not more deserving of firm ground than our fellowmen in Japan. We too are flesh. We have bodies and homes and cars and family and precious places. We know that if we were treated according to our sins, who could stand? All of it would be gone in a moment. So in this dark hour we turn against our sins, not against you.And we cry for mercy for Japan. Mercy, Father. Not for what they or we deserve. But mercy.Have you not encouraged us in this? Have we not heard a hundred times in your Word the riches of your kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not a thousand times withhold your judgments, leading your rebellious world toward repentance? Yes, Lord. For your ways are not our ways, and your thoughts are not our thoughts.From The Boston Globe's The Big PictureNPR Interview w/ Piper regarding the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean This is a remarkably helpful piece and one I have gone to time and again when faced with the inevitable questions that accompany profound suffering. Charities - How can we respond?Crash Japan A dear friend of mine in Hamamatsu City and Makoto Fujimara both mentioned this organization as a great place for disaster relief donations.UPDATE 3/17/11Thursday, 17 March 2011JAPAN DISASTER APPEALIn the days following WWII General Douglas MacArthur appealed for 1000's of missionaries to come to help rebuild the devastated nation. Unfortunately only a fraction of that responded to the call. Today we are appealing once again for Christians to come help Japan rebuild. These are some of the things that CRASHJAPAN, a national network of churches, missions and ministries is prepared to facilitate in Northern Japan in response to the disaster.1.2 Water Supplies 2.2 Bulk Food/Meals3.1 Provide Shelter for Victims/Evacuees3.2 Provide Shelter for Relief Workers/Volunteers4.1 Medical Equipment and Supplies4.2 Basic Medical Care or First Aid4.3 Non-Prescription Medicines5.1 Provide Clothing, Bedding, Blankets6.2 Personal Hygiene Items7.1 Trauma Counseling7.2 Spiritual Support8.1 Debris Removal and Cleanup8.2 Construction and Repair9.1 Transport / Shipping of Goods and Supplies9.2 Point of Distribution / Final Delivery9.3 Provide Storage Space, Warehouse Facility9.4 Transportation of People10.1 Web Development, Web Support12.2 Fund Raising12.3 Financial Management12.4 Volunteer Management12.5 Manage/Mobilize Volunteer Networks13.5 Language InterpretersIf you are able to help in any of these areas - please contact us at 213-457-3154 in the US at 050-5534-5729If you are able to donate funds please contact pnethercott@crashjapan.comIf you are able to send a volunteer team please contact bthompson@crashjapan.comIf you are able to send relief supplies please contact yhari@crashjapan.comChurches Helping Churches - these folks have done an excellent job leveraging relationships between churches to mobilize relief efforts in Haiti and now they taking what they have learned to Japan.World Vision - World Vision is assessing the role they might have in aiding victims and is planning to create child-friendly space for children to play as a first step.American Red Cross From the website of the American Red Cross:Since early Friday morning, we have been in close contact with our colleagues in the Pacific region to offer our support and learn more about the humanitarian needs. The Japanese Red Cross has indicated that it would accept financial support from the American Red Cross for its role providing first aid, emotional support and relief items to those displaced.On Sunday, the American Red Cross will deploy a disaster management expert from its Washington, DC headquarters to Japan for a week-long mission. She will serve on a seven-person, international team focused on providing high-level support and advice to the Japanese Red Cross, which continues to lead the local earthquake and tsunami response.You can donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting "redcross" to 90999 as well.God have mercy.How should we respond to the tragedy in Japan? from Summitview Community Church on Vimeo.

Package made from ""Kadena sends aid to sister airbase in Northern Japan" b-roll about how Misawa Air Base in Japan to restored their commercial power that was lost on Friday. Airmen from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa took only a few hours from the telephone recall to getting to the airplane. Soundbites from Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Jenks, Senior Airman Jordon Conn. Produced by Tech Sgt. Michael Tateishi.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A discussion with the director of the film Rokkashomura Rhapsody: A Plutonium Plant Comes to Northern Japan.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A discussion with the director of the film Rokkashomura Rhapsody: A Plutonium Plant Comes to Northern Japan.

A discussion with the director of the film Rokkashomura Rhapsody: A Plutonium Plant Comes to Northern Japan. Part of the Japan at Chicago Lecture Series: Celebrating Protest. Sponsored by the Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies, the Human Rights Program, the Center for International Studies, the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, the Environmental Studies Program and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Co-sponsored by DePaul University.

A discussion with the director of the film Rokkashomura Rhapsody: A Plutonium Plant Comes to Northern Japan. Part of the Japan at Chicago Lecture Series: Celebrating Protest. Sponsored by the Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies, the Human Rights Program, the Center for International Studies, the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, the Environmental Studies Program and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Co-sponsored by DePaul University.