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December 3rd to December 9th every year is Disability Week. The Disabled Persons Week was established by the Basic Act for Persons with Disabilities to promote interest and understanding of welfare of persons with disabilities among the public at large, and to promote active participation of persons with disabilities in activities in all fields. Shinagawa Ward also focuses on efforts to deepen understanding of people with disabilities during this period.  Every year, Shinagawa Ward holds a “Gathering to Commemorate Disabled Persons Week” with the hope that as many people as possible will become aware of Disabled Persons Week and that they will take an interest in the welfare of people with disabilities. This year, the event will be held at Kyurian again, Shikimachi Mizuki, a violinist who has cerebral palsy will perform a piece composed for the event, “Barrier-free Heart: Healing Tones”. Episode notes: '"Gathering to Commemorate Disabled Persons Week" Event to be Held in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo on December 7th 2024': https://barrierfreejapan.com/2024/11/03/gathering-to-commemorate-disabled-persons-week-event-to-be-held-in-shinagawa-ward-tokyo-on-december-7th-2024/ Shikimachi Mizuki on Soundcloud: ‘Memory of Moment': https://soundcloud.com/mizuki-shikimachi/memory-of-moment?in=mizuki-shikimachi/sets/s-ballad&si=83faaedfd9704a35879bfa35340aec49&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

A long time coming... Finally a disaster film thats actually about a disaster. J 5.5/10 M 6/10 For daily horror movie content follow the podcast on Twitter / Instagram @darkroastcult Each week we choose a movie from one of the horror genre to discuss the following week. Follow along each week by keeping up with the movies we are watching to stay in the loop with the movie club! Check out other podcasts, coffee and pins at www.darkroastcult.com ! THANKS TO ANDREW FOR MAKING THE INTRO SONG. (soundcloud.com / andoryukesuta)@andoryukesuta In 2016, the Japan Coast Guard investigates an abandoned yacht in Tokyo Bay, its boat is destroyed, and the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line is flooded with blood. After seeing a viral video of the incident, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Rando Yaguchi believes it was caused by a living creature, which is confirmed as news reports reveal its tail emerging from the ocean. Shortly thereafter, the creature moves inland, crawling through the Kamata district and the Shinagawa area of Tokyo, leaving a path of death and destruction during a disorganized and chaotic evacuation. The creature quickly evolves into a bipedal form but overheats and returns to the sea. The government officials focus on military strategy and civilian safety; Yaguchi is put in charge of a task force researching the creature. With high radiation readings from the creature's path, the task force realizes that it is energized by nuclear fission. The U.S. sends a special envoy, Kayoco Anne Patterson, who reveals that Goro Maki, a disgraced, anti-nuclear zoology professor, studied mutations caused by radioactive contamination, predicting the appearance of the creature. Maki was disbelieved by both American and Japanese scientific circles. The U.S. then prevented him from making his conclusions public. The abandoned yacht in Tokyo Bay belonged to Maki, who left his research notes, jumbled into a code, on the boat before disappearing. The creature—named "Godzilla," after Maki's research—reappears in its fourth form, twice its original size, making landfall near Kamakura. The Japan Self-Defense Forces mobilize but prove ineffective as Godzilla breaks through their defenses into Tokyo. The U.S. intervenes with a massively destructive airstrike plan, prompting the evacuation of civilians and government personnel. Godzilla is wounded with MOP "bunker-buster" bombs but responds with destructive atomic rays fired from its mouth and dorsal plates, destroying a helicopter carrying the prime minister, along with top government officials and incinerating large swaths of Tokyo. Depleted of its energy, Godzilla goes into hibernation. Yaguchi's team discovers that Godzilla's plates and blood work as a cooling system, theorizing that it could use a coagulating agent to freeze Godzilla. Analyzing tissue samples, it's discovered that Godzilla is an ever-evolving creature, able to reproduce asexually. The United Nations, aware of this, informs Japan that thermonuclear weapons will be used against Godzilla should the Japanese fail to subdue it in a few days; evacuations are ordered in multiple prefectures in preparation. Unwilling to see nuclear weapons detonated in Japan again, Patterson uses her political connections to buy time for Yaguchi's team, in which the interim government has little faith. Yaguchi's team manages to decipher Goro Maki's encoded research using origami. The team adjusts its plan and procures the means to conduct its deep-freeze plan with international support. Hours before the planned nuclear attack, Japan enacts the deep-freeze plan. Godzilla is provoked into expending its atomic breath and energy against Predator and Reaper drones. The team then detonates nearby buildings and sends unmanned trains loaded with explosives toward Godzilla's feet, subduing it, and enabling tankers full of coagulant to inject it into Godzilla's mouth. Many are killed, but Godzilla is frozen solid.

По пятницам, в 22:00 на THT MUSIC RADIO (tntmusicradio.ru) один из лучших в своём деле - DJ JIM, представляет еженедельное радио-шоу "ElectroМеханика".  II DjJim.RU II iTunes II ВКонтакте II FaceBook II Twitter II Instagram II Mixcloud II SoundCloud II 1. Shingo Nakamura, Nina Carr - Underneath [Monstercat] 2. Leo Lauretti, Bidwell, Anita Tatlow - See Me Fly (Can You Feel It) [Colorize (Enhanced)] 3. Mully - Driftwood [Elliptical Sun Melodies] 4. DeeAnork - Shadow Light [Sunwaves Digital] 5. Fazius, Cloudcage - Tonight [Synth Collective] 6. Shinagawa_13 - One Day At The Seaside [Embers Melody] 7. Skyhunter - Secret Place [RockRiverRecords] 8. Mark Moncrieff - 5am [Soluna Music] 9. Eric Olivier Mario - Get Me [Soluna Music] 10. Melchi - Stay Here [Sunset Horizon] 11. Klur - Eclipse [Colorize (Enhanced)] 12. Tom Liar - Moons Of You [Hathor]

Join us for an insightful episode featuring Nate Shinagawa, COO and Senior Vice President of UCI Health. Nate shares his background and discusses UCI Health's expansion, growth strategies, and key considerations in hospital operations amidst healthcare transformation. Tune in to explore the impacts of UCI Health's acquisition of four Tenet hospitals on its culture and future growth.

Justin Favrod et Christine Mercier, co-éditeurs du magazine Passé Simple, ainsi que Claude Zurcher, rédacteur en chef de Genève Monde, étaient les guides d'une balade organisée pour découvrir la Genève Internationale. Le parcours permet de découvrir des lieux emblématiques de ce quartier au cœur de la ville, allant de la sculpture monumentale "L'Effort humain" de Paul Vibert à la célèbre place des Nations, véritable cœur battant de la Genève internationale. D'autres étapes comprennent l'iconique Broken Chair, symbole du combat contre les mines antipersonnel, et la mystérieuse Cloche de Shinagawa du parc de l'Ariana. Pour vous donner envie de découvrir autrement Genève, nous recevons l'historien et journaliste Justin Favrod, co-éditeur du magazine Passé Simple.

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Tras la primera parte de cómo hacer turismo por Tokio con la línea Yamanote, completamos el recorrido en esta segunda parte yendo desde la estación de Tokio hasta Shinjuku por el sur, es decir, a través de Shinagawa, Meguro, Ebisu y Shibuya, entra otras. Además, hablamos de los trenes actuales que circulan por la línea y, en el Japonismo mini, tratamos noticias de actualidad como la debilidad del yen o las dudas acerca de la Expo 2025 en Osaka. Y ya que estamos con trenes, te contamos en la palabra japonesa cómo se dice "trasbordo", que lo escucharás muy a menudo. ¡Mata ne! ¿Quieres colaborar con el programa? - Colabora en Patreon - Únete a la Comunidad Japonismo - Reserva hoteles en Japón (y en todo el mundo) - Consigue seguro de viajes (¡no sólo para Japón!) - Busca los mejores vuelos - Lleva Internet (pocket wifi o SIM) - JR Pass para viajes ilimitados en tren ---- Continúa la conversación en: - Web: https://japonismo.com - Discord: https://discord.gg/hZrSa57 - Facebook: https://facebook.com/japonismo - Twitter: https://twitter.com/japonismo - Instagram: https://instagram.com/japonismo - Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/japonismo - Newsletter semanal: http://eepurl.com/di60Xn

This week on Krewe of Japan... Jenn & Doug sit down with Chris Carlier of Mondo Mascots to explore the wide & wacky world of Japanese Mascots. Kumamon, Domo-Kun, Chiitan and so many others... Chris shares his expertise & passion for these lovable characters through stories about how they have evolved from marketing & branding tools to international sensations and cultural ambassadors, help drive tourism for small communities, & so much more. ------ About the Krewe ------The Krewe of Japan Podcast is a weekly episodic podcast sponsored by the Japan Society of New Orleans. Check them out every Friday afternoon around noon CST on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Want to share your experiences with the Krewe? Or perhaps you have ideas for episodes, feedback, comments, or questions? Let the Krewe know by e-mail at kreweofjapanpodcast@gmail.com or on social media (Twitter: @kreweofjapan, Instagram:@kreweofjapanpodcast, Facebook: Krewe of Japan Podcast Page, TikTok: @kreweofjapanpodcast & the Krewe of Japan Youtube Channel). Until next time, enjoy!------ More Info on Chris Carlier (Mondo Mascots) ------Mondo Mascots on TwitterMondo Mascots on InstagramMondo Mascots Blog

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Nathan Shinagawa, Chief Operating Officer at UCI Health, joins the podcast to discuss his background and what led him to his current role, opportunities and headwinds that he has his eye on right now, how he's thinking about growth and adding value to UCI Health, one risk or investment worth making this year, and more.Want to network with peers and hear more conversations like this? Apply to be one of our complimentary guest reviewers at our upcoming HIT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting Oct, 3-6 2023 here.

Nathan Shinagawa, Chief Operating Officer at UCI Health, joins the podcast to discuss his background and what led him to his current role, opportunities and headwinds that he has his eye on right now, how he's thinking about growth and adding value to UCI Health, one risk or investment worth making this year, and more.Want to network with peers and hear more conversations like this? Apply to be one of our complimentary guest reviewers at our upcoming HIT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting Oct, 3-6 2023 here.

Nathan Shinagawa, Chief Operating Officer at UCI Health, joins the podcast to discuss his background and what led him to his current role, opportunities and headwinds that he has his eye on right now, how he's thinking about growth and adding value to UCI Health, one risk or investment worth making this year, and more.Want to network with peers and hear more conversations like this? Apply to be one of our complimentary guest reviewers at our upcoming HIT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting Oct, 3-6 2023 here.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.03.23.534008v1?rss=1 Authors: Ibrahim, B. A., Louie, J., Shinagawa, Y., Xiao, G., Asilador, A. R., Sable, H. J., Schantz, S. L., Llano, D. A. Abstract: Exposure to combinations of environmental toxins is growing in prevalence, and therefore understanding their interactions is of increasing societal importance. Here, we examined the mechanisms by which two environmental toxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and high-amplitude acoustic noise, interact to produce dysfunction in central auditory processing. PCBs are well-established to impose negative developmental impacts on hearing. However, it is not known if developmental exposure to this ototoxin alters the sensitivity to other ototoxic exposures later in life. Here, male mice were exposed to PCBs in utero, and later as adults were exposed to 45 minutes of high-intensity noise. We then examined the impacts of the two exposures on hearing and the organization of the auditory midbrain using two-photon imaging and analysis of the expression of mediators of oxidative stress. We observed that developmental exposure to PCBs blocked hearing recovery from acoustic trauma. In vivo two-photon imaging of the inferior colliculus revealed that this lack of recovery was associated with disruption of the tonotopic organization and reduction of inhibition in the auditory midbrain. In addition, expression analysis in the inferior colliculus revealed that reduced GABAergic inhibition was more prominent in animals with a lower capacity to mitigate oxidative stress. These data suggest that combined PCBs and noise exposure act nonlinearly to damage hearing and that this damage is associated with synaptic reorganization, and reduced capacity to limit oxidative stress. In addition, this work provides a new paradigm by which to understand nonlinear interactions between combinations of environmental toxins. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Protesters braved the cold weather this week, gathering outside the Myanmar Embassy in Shinagawa on the 2nd anniversary of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'etat. In the north, the Tsugaru Fujimi-ko lake in Aomori prefecture has completely frozen over, while the government eye plans to establish zones throughout the country that make use of a growling list abandoned houses nationwide and Japan's oldest-ever professional player Kazuyoshi Miura heads to Portugal to play for U.D. Oliveirense while on loan from J-League team Yokohama FC. And with today being setsubun marking the last day of winter, YEBIZO MEETS hosts exhibitions by ECAL, the Swiss University of Art and Design from Lausanne, as well as Osamu Kanemura at MEM gallery in Ebisu. — Get in touch: notebook.podcast@gmail.com Leave a message: speakpipe.com/notebook Instagram: @notebook_pod Twitter: @notebook_pod — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shinagawa City is one of Tokyo's most interesting places to visit. Here, old streets and historical temples and shrines stand encircled by towering high rises. For the very first time, JT and friends left the podcast studio and embarked on a journey to discover Shinagawa! Come along on this adventure with us and explore the art, culture, history, local food, and more of this charming ward. We are looking forward to sharing our experiences with you! Check out this page to find out more about Shinagawa: https://en.japantravel.com/tokyo/shin...

Ep# 48 Are you ready to become a homeowner in 2023?In this episode, my guest is Brad Shinagawa of B&B Mortgage Solutions. This episode is filled with great tips on how to start planning for pre-approval, getting your credit right, and mindset solutions to get you in the right headspace to be able to take on a mortgage. Takeaways from the show: How to budget for the mortgage payment What you need to know to get pre-approvedEstablishing a strong and honest relationship with your mortgage officerEstablished in 2007, B&B Mortgage Solutions opened in the heart of the largest mortgage and real estate meltdown ever seen.  Through their local values and exceptional reputation, B&B was not only able to survive, but flourish.Through the ever changing lending environment and the mortgage industry thriving again, B&B Mortgage has been repeatedly recognized as one of Hawaii's top Mortgage companies.  That, largely due to them following their motto of treating every client as if, “was my aunty.”Through listening to their clients' needs and educating them on the lending process, the licensed professionals at B&B Mortgage will tailor the most suitable, and often times “Out of the Box,” financing structure.  So, whether buying your first home or refinancing your tenth home, The B & B Team will find the right loan for you through the variety of home loan products available to them.To learn more, visit their website: https://www.bbmortgagehawaii.com/ Interested in making money as a mystery shopper? Get access to the FREE training here: https://www.budgetdivas.com/mysterytraining

Nate Shinagawa is the COO of UCI Health in California. He joins us today to talk about his dynamic career in healthcare. He shares his unconventional path to healthcare leadership, advice for early careerist, and the value in the concept of, "Big fish, small pond." 

¡Bienvenidos al 15º episodio de la tercera temporada de Mayi Chan in Japan! 🎙 En esta nueva entrega os hablo sobre mi visado permanente, que conseguí el pasado octubre. Os cuento los tipos de visado que he tenido desde que vine a Japón para vivir y cómo lo he hecho para poder tener el visado permanente antes de cumplir los 10 años de residencia (que es uno de los principales requisitos para poder solicitarlo). También os doy algunos consejos y os cuento algunas anécdotas del proceso. Espero que os guste el contenido. Como siempre, los comentarios son bienvenidos y agradezco enormemente si me dejáis un ❤️ o un 👍 (los que me escucháis por Ivoox) y también la difusión. Recordad que podéis haceros mecenas de este canal por solo 1,49€ al mes, podréis acceder a un montón de contenido exclusivo, al chat de Telegram y además me ayudará mucho a seguir creando contenido 🥰 Y si no os convence la experiencia, os podéis dar de baja en cualquier momento. Que tengáis un buen domingo y entrada de semana, Mayi ⭐️ ◎Enlaces: -Episodio Extra 2x14 Mis experiencias en la oficina de inmigración: https://www.ivoox.com/extra-2-x-14-mis-experiencias-en-audios-mp3_rf_73235936_1.html -Tipos de visados de trabajo de Japón: https://we-xpats.com/es/guide/as/jp/detail/10499/ -Página web de la Agencia de Servicios Migratorios de Japón https://www.isa.go.jp/es/ -Sobre el documento llamado Statement of Reasons https://picks.goandup.jp/en/reasons-required-for-applying-for-permanent-residence -Vídeo donde se explica la importancia del Statement of Reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3KF69mRa0 -Recaudación de fondos para la fundación Juegaterapia https://www.gofundme.com/f/Juegaterapia-navidad -Sobre la fundación Juegaterapia https://www.juegaterapia.org/ ★Mi Instagram. Me encontraréis como mayi_chan_in_japan: https://www.instagram.com/mayi_chan_in_japan/?hl=es ★Mi Twitter: @mayichan ★Canal de Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mayi_chan_in_japan ★Página de Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mokuren/ ♫Música: -Shamisen Dance - By Steve Oxen (Cortinilla) https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/es/royalty-free-music/downloads-c/japanese-music/63 -東京百色眼鏡 written by Flehmann (Intro) https://dova-s.jp/bgm/play14010.html -'Only For You' by 2sonmoa (Ending) https://pixabay.com/music/search/japan/ ☆Nuestro itinerario y horarios de los shinkansen • Sábado 8 Mañana (Zona Centro) Castillo de Nijo Palacio Imperial Tarde (Zona Este) Gion y santuario Yasaka jinja Templo Kiyomizudera y calles tradicionales Sannen Zaka y Ninenzaka (Higashiyama) Paseo por el río Kano (zona de Pontocho) • Domingo 9 Mañana (Zona Oeste) Arashiyama (bosque de bambú). Si hay tiempo, ver los alrededores también. Tarde (Zona Sur) Fujimi Inari y templos cercanos • Lunes 10 Mañana (Cerca de la estación) Torre de Kioto Templo Higashi Hongan-ji Shôsei-en (si hay tiempo) (Centro Pokémon) • Horarios de los Shinkansen: Shinagawa (8:10): HIKARI 503 → Kyoto (10:37) Kyoto (17:13): NOZOMI 166 → Shinagawa (19:17)

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! ¡Bienvenidos al 14º episodio extra de la tercera temporada de Mayi Chan in Japan! 🎙 En esta nueva entrega os hablo sobre mi escapada a Kioto de 2 días y 3 noches. Os cuento cómo lo preparamos, nuestro itinerario y algunas curiosidades del viaje. Espero que os guste el contenido. Como siempre, los comentarios son bienvenidos y agradezco enormemente si me dejáis un ❤️ o un 👍 (los que me escucháis por Ivoox) y también la difusión. Recordad que podéis haceros mecenas de este canal por solo 1,49€ al mes, podréis acceder a un montón de contenido exclusivo, al chat de Telegram y además me ayudará mucho a seguir creando contenido 🥰 Y si no os convence la experiencia, os podéis dar de baja en cualquier momento. Que tengáis un buen domingo y entrada de semana, Mayi ⭐️ ◎Enlaces: -https://www.eki-net.com/Personal/Top/Index -https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/onlinebooking/ -https://es-l.airbnb.com/rooms/32078618?source_impression_id=p3_1664774217_jip3YZZAKu4zAK38& -https://japonismo.com/ -Recaudación de fondos para la fundación Juegaterapia https://www.gofundme.com/f/Juegaterapia-navidad -Sobre la fundación Juegaterapia https://www.juegaterapia.org/ ★Mi Instagram. Me encontraréis como mayi_chan_in_japan: https://www.instagram.com/mayi_chan_in_japan/?hl=es ★Mi Twitter: @mayichan ★Canal de Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mayi_chan_in_japan ★Página de Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mokuren/ ♫Música: -Shamisen Dance - By Steve Oxen (Cortinilla) https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/es/royalty-free-music/downloads-c/japanese-music/63 -東京百色眼鏡 written by Flehmann (Intro) https://dova-s.jp/bgm/play14010.html -'Only For You' by 2sonmoa (Ending) https://pixabay.com/music/search/japan/ ☆Nuestro itinerario y horarios de los shinkansen • Sábado 8 Mañana (Zona Centro) Castillo de Nijo Palacio Imperial Tarde (Zona Este) Gion y santuario Yasaka jinja Templo Kiyomizudera y calles tradicionales Sannen Zaka y Ninenzaka (Higashiyama) Paseo por el río Kano (zona de Pontocho) • Domingo 9 Mañana (Zona Oeste) Arashiyama (bosque de bambú). Si hay tiempo, ver los alrededores también. Tarde (Zona Sur) Fujimi Inari y templos cercanos • Lunes 10 Mañana (Cerca de la estación) Torre de Kioto Templo Higashi Hongan-ji Shôsei-en (si hay tiempo) (Centro Pokémon) • Horarios de los Shinkansen: Shinagawa (8:10): HIKARI 503 → Kyoto (10:37) Kyoto (17:13): NOZOMI 166 → Shinagawa (19:17)Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Mayi Chan in Japan. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/817777

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.05.515308v1?rss=1 Authors: Ibrahim, B. A., Shinagawa, Y., Xiao, G., Asilador, A. R., Llano, D. A. Abstract: The inferior colliculus (IC) is an information processing hub that receives widespread 25 convergent projections. It contains two non-lemniscal divisions - the dorsal (DC) and lateral (LC) 26 cortices - that receive major cortical and multisensory projections. The LC in particular has 27 repeated molecular motifs that govern its input-output relationships. However, because the LC 28 is buried deep within a sulcus, it has been impossible to study by imaging, and thus difficult to 29 answer questions about its functional organization. Here, we couple two-photon microscopy with use of a microprism to reveal the first-ever sagittal views containing functional maps of the LC with cellular resolution. We used this novel approach to examine neuronal responses with respect to LC motifs, and demonstrate the LC is functionally distinct from DC. This method will not only provide new insights about the auditory system, but will also permit imaging of hidden brain regions previously un-imageable by conventional means. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

01) Dmitry Shade - Collaps (Original Mix) [Yeiskomp Record] 02) Milad E & David Deere - Arctic (Extended Mix) [Interplay Global] 03) Joe Fares - Far Away (Original Mix) 04) Taglo & Abel. - Never Gonna Be the Same (Extended Mix) [AVA Deep] 05) Anton Fokin - On My Mind (Extended Mix) [Gallant Records] 06) AG10 - Alive (Extended Mix) [Gallant Records] 07) Alex Soun - Sakura (Extended Mix) [Trance Reserve Music] 08) Milad E & David Deere - Ancient (Extended Mix) [Suanda Progressive] 09) Attrui - Piece By Piece (Original Mix) [XD Makes Music] 10) Loran Koma - Rise Above (Original Mix) [Transorica Records] 11) Keith Harris - Eventide 12) Francesco Fruci - La Cona (Extended Mix) [Phatbull] 13) Shinagawa_13 - The Nighttime 14) Deme3us & Hidden Tigress - Can You See Me (Extended Mix) [Synchronized Muzik] 15) Allevo - Dark Angels (Original Mix) [Boteri Beats] 16) Miratrix & Darkingz - London Bridge (Extended Mix) [Silent Shore Twilight] 17) Aviell & Alternoize Dj Feat. Ekaterina Shelehova - The Spirit Of Mother Earth (Original Mix) 18) Artyom Kitsenko - Genetika (Original Mix) [Transorica Records]

What's up everybody ! Time flies super fast. It is already in February. I just broadcasted "Happy New Year" a couple of episodes ago. Anyways, I talked about Yamanote Line Vo.4 today. We already reviewed 24 stations so far !!! You are officially the Yamanote master. I hope you will enjoy this episode. みなさん 山手線の駅も、今日で24個終わりました。 みなさん、これでもう山手線マスターですね！ 次回で、長かった山手線紹介も最終話となります。 お楽しみに！！！ 【ひとことフレーズ】 ・ロケ地　 　ドラマやテレビ、映画などで撮影が行われた場所のことをいいます。 　「ロケ地めぐり」というのは、映画などのロケ地を実際に自分でいってみることを言います。 例）スラムダンクのロケ地めぐりで、湘南に行ってきました。 例）君の名はのロケ地は、四谷駅が使われている。 ・なかなか　否定系　ない　（文法）　JLPT　N4 not easy to do, struggling to これは、することが難しい、達成することが難しい、行うことが難しい、などの表現の時に使います。 例）JLPT　N1に合格することは、なかなか難しいですよね。　 例）コロナが流行っているから、なかなか海外旅行にいくのは、難しいです。 ※参考サイト →https://jlptsensei.com/learn-japanese-grammar/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8B%EF%BD%9E%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84-nakanaka-nai-meaning/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kaichijapanese/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kaichijapanese/support

  In Optimal Fusion, Austin and Patrick discuss playing through Shin Megami Tensei V. In this third episode, they talk about the second major area of the game, Da'at: Shinigawa, the (brief) return to Tokyo and the lead up to the third area.  

This episode features Nathan Shinagawa, Chief Operating Officer at Banner Ocotillo Medical Center. Here, he discusses moving from politics to healthcare, recruiting and retaining talent, and more.

A true story about haunted Shinagawa, today, one of the busiest parts of Tokyo. A family learns the hard way that mistreating a well brings misfortune. The ghost can still be seen on some nights in Shinagawa.Andi Brooks tells this famous Tokyo ghost story. A Tokyo resident since 2006, Anglo-Irish writer Andi Brooks is co-author of the critically acclaimed biography Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain, curator of The Bela Lugosi Blog and a recipient of a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for his article on the love affair between Bela Lugosi and Clara Bow, Dracula and the It Girl.Since moving to Japan, he has become immersed in the world of yūrei and yōkai. His collection of original Japanese Ghost stories, Ghostly Tales of Japan, was published in 2020. He is currently writing a second volume of ghostly Japanese tales.Ghostly Tales of Japan: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xp1o2TVampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain: http://www.cultmoviespress.com/vampire-over-london/Bela Lugosi Blog: https://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/You can read today's story and all the stories featured on kaidankai at https://www.whiteenso.com/100-stories.html. If you'd like to participate in kaidankai, please send your story here: https://www.whiteenso.com/kadankai-submit.html.Follow us on twitter at: Japanese Ghost Stories @ghostJapaneseFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaidankai100/Sorry, no video of the haunted well. I can't find it.

The audio quality can be a little wonky this week. We've identified the issue and resolved it. Sorry about that.We've heard for years that gamers are violent. But what if gamers were more peaceful in game than the people around them in real life? A really interesting new study has identified that gamers behave differently in EVE Online depending on the type of community they live in.The Nirvana Nevermind baby isn't happy about his nudes being plastered all over record stores and the internet. Now he's suing. We're not legal beagles, but we've got opinions.Roblox is bad. It isn't the simple gameplay, the child targeted community, or the memes. Actually, it's bad because it's one of the worst deals for game devs out there. Roblox seem intent to make it hard to make money from developing on their platform. That's a really nice way to treat the people who made your game popular. People are also trying to recreate mass killings in a game for children. It's a mess.The Link Between Videogames And Violence Is Not What You Think- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240196#sec012Smells Like A Lawsuit- https://deadline.com/2021/08/baby-nirvana-nevermind-album-cover-sues-band-exploitation-1234821540/Roblox Drama- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-08-20-roblox-business-model-criticized-as-exploiting-children- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-06-03-parent-watchdog-group-warning-about-robloxOther topics discussedMilk crate challenge has doctors warning it's ‘worse than falling from a ladder'- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/25/milk-crate-challenge-tiktok-doctors-warningsWhat is the Milk Crate Challenge, how did it explode out of nowhere and why are people doing it?- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-25/what-is-milk-crate-challenge-viral-videos-doctors/100404942Ice Bucket Challenge (sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as motor neuron disease and in the United States as Lou Gehrig's disease) and encourage donations to research.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Bucket_ChallengeJack Thompson (activist) (American activist and disbarred attorney, based in Coral Gables, Florida. He is known for his role as an anti-video-game activist, particularly against violence and sex in video games. During his time as an attorney, Thompson focused his legal efforts against what he perceives as obscenity in modern culture. This included rap music, broadcasts by shock jock Howard Stern, and the content of video games and their alleged effects on children.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence (a parody and satire hoax organization created by sophomore Parsons The New School for Design student David Yoo as a final project in December 2002.)- https://gyaanipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mothers_Against_Videogame_Addiction_and_ViolenceEve Online ((stylised EVE Online) is a space-based, persistent world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by CCP Games. Players of Eve Online can participate in a number of in-game professions and activities, including mining, piracy, manufacturing, trading, exploration, and combat (both player versus environment and player versus player). The game contains a total of 7,800 star systems that can be visited by players.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_OnlineEve Online's ‘million dollar' battle came up a little short last night- https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/24/16927594/eve-online-million-dollar-battle-resultsFIFA (video game series) ((also known as FIFA Soccer, FIFA Football or EA Sports FIFA) is a series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label. As of 2011, the FIFA franchise has been localised into 18 languages and available in 51 countries. Listed in Guinness World Records as the best-selling sports video game franchise in the world, the FIFA series has sold over 325 million copies as of 2021. It is also one of the best-selling video game franchises.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_(video_game_series)Australian Classification Board : Adult (18+) ratings for video games (Many games were banned before 2011 on the basis that the R18+ rating did not apply to video games at the time. This was the subject of complaint in the gaming community, who argued that there is no reason why adults should be prevented from seeing content in games that they could see in a film.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Classification_Board#Adult_(18+)_ratings_for_video_gamesVideo game addiction (also known as gaming disorder or internet gaming disorder, is generally defined as the problematic, compulsive use of video games that results in significant impairment to an individual's ability to function in various life domains over a prolonged period of time. The World Health Organization included gaming disorder in the 11th revision of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD).)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addictionSurgeon Simulator : Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery.- https://store.steampowered.com/app/233720/Surgeon_Simulator/Corrupted Blood incident ((or World of Warcraft pandemic) was a virtual pandemic in the MMORPG World of Warcraft, which began on September 13, 2005, and lasted for one month. The epidemic began with the introduction of the new raid Zul'Gurub and its end boss Hakkar the Soulflayer. When confronted and attacked, Hakkar would cast a hit point-draining and highly contagious debuff spell called "Corrupted Blood" on players.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incidentCorrupted Blood Incident : Comparison to the COVID-19 pandemic (The Corrupted Blood incident has been compared to the COVID-19 pandemic, and epidemiologists who studied the Corrupted Blood outbreak are using the research from the incident to better understand coronavirus's spread - primarily its sociological factors.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident#Comparison_to_the_COVID-19_pandemicCall Of Duty (a first-person shooter video game franchise published by Activision. Starting out in 2003, it first focused on games set in World War II. Over time, the series has seen games set in the midst of the Cold War, futuristic worlds, and outer space. The games were first developed by Infinity Ward, then also by Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_DutyUS man sues Nirvana for using his naked photo on iconic 'Nevermind' album : Spencer Eldon recreating the photo he took when he was a four-month-old baby in 1991.- https://www.malaymail.com/news/showbiz/2021/08/25/us-man-sues-nirvana-for-using-his-naked-photo-on-iconic-nevermind-album/2000325Viva Frei - Nirvana's "Nevermind" Baby Lawsuit is BOUND TO FAIL! Lawyer Explains - Viva Frei Vlawg- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXY_nlfZ_dI&t=257sGamer Chad - Roblox / Ultimate Slide Box Racing / Into the Toilet! / Gamer Chad Plays- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzqLTCT0vc4Columbine High School massacre : Doom connection and the Harris levels (Eric Harris was an enthusiast of the Doom series, owning some of the Doom novels and having designed Doom levels under the nicknames "REB", "Rebldomakr", and "RebDoomer". In a videotape recorded before the massacre, Harris expressed enthusiasm for the planned shooting, saying it would be like Doom. He also pointed out that the shotgun was "Straight out of Doom".)- https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacreSuper Columbine Massacre RPG! (a role-playing video game created by Danny Ledonne and released in April 2005. The game recreates the 1999 Columbine High School shootings near Littleton, Colorado. Players assume the roles of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and act out the massacre, with flashbacks relating parts of Harris and Klebold's past experiences. The game begins on the day of the shootings and follows Harris and Klebold after their suicides to fictional adventures in perdition.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Columbine_Massacre_RPG!Robux ((R$) is the currency on Roblox. Robux was introduced on May 14, 2007 (alongside Tix) as a replacement of ROBLOX Points. Robux was one of two currencies on the platform alongside Tix, which was removed on April 14, 2016. Robux is known as Roblox's primary currency by the community and staff; all paid items within the avatar shop are sold for Robux, including user-created content such as microtransactions and game passes. The name 'Robux' is a portmanteau of Roblox and bucks.)- https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/RobuxAttack on Pearl Harbor (a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_HarborSix Days in Fallujah (an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Highwire Games and published by Victura. Described by Highwire Games as a tactical shooter, it is slated to be the first video game to focus directly on the Iraq War. The game's plot follows a squad of U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1), fighting in the Second Battle of Fallujah over the span of six days in November 2004.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Days_in_FallujahBattle of Hastings (fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 mi (11 km) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_HastingsHistory (American TV network) ((formerly The History Channel from 1995 to 2008; stylized as HISTORY) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney General Entertainment Content division of the Walt Disney Company.The network was originally focused on history-based documentaries. During the late 2000s, History drifted into reality television programming. In addition to this change in format, the network has been criticized by many scientists, historians, and skeptics for broadcasting pseudo-documentaries and unsubstantiated, sensational investigative programming.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_(American_TV_network)The Curse of Oak Island : What Is the Oak Island Money Pit?- https://www.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island/articles/what-is-the-money-pitForged in Fire (TV series) (American competition series that airs on the History channel and is produced by Outpost Entertainment, a Leftfield Entertainment company.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forged_in_Fire_(TV_series)The Secret Playboy Mansion Games Room With Hidden Bedrooms, Mirrored Walls, Gambling & Arcades ?‍♀️- https://www.celebritywotnot.com/celebrity-homes/the-playboy-mansion-games-room-secret-cabin-hidden-bedrooms-mirrored-walls-gambling-arcades/Red Hat (an American IBM subsidiary software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat- https://www.redhat.com/enHistory of union busting in the United States (The history of union busting in the United States dates back to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century which produced a rapid expansion in factories and manufacturing capabilities. As workers moved away from farm work to factories, mines and other hard labor, they faced harsh working conditions such as long hours, low pay and health risks.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_StatesAmazon is using union-busting Pinkerton spies to track warehouse workers and labour movements at the company, according to a new report- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-pinkerton-spies-worker-labor-unions-2020-11?r=US&IR=TActivision Blizzard ‘suppressed' evidence in sex discrimination lawsuit, California claims- https://www.polygon.com/22641099/activision-blizzard-dfeh-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-amendmentThe Fly (1986 film) (a 1986 science-fiction psychological body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. Produced by Brooksfilms and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story of the same name and the 1958 film of the same name, The Fly tells of an eccentric scientist who, after one of his experiments goes wrong, slowly turns into a fly-hybrid creature.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film)The Fly II (a 1989 American science fiction horror film directed by Chris Walas. The film stars Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga, and is a sequel to the 1986 film The Fly, itself a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_IIThe Fly (1958 film) (a 1958 American horror science-fiction film produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, and Herbert Marshall. The film was released in CinemaScope with color by Deluxe by 20th Century Fox. It was followed by two black-and-white sequels, Return of the Fly (1959) and Curse of the Fly (1965). The original film was remade in 1986 by director David Cronenberg.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1958_film)Arrival (film) (a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the movie as a spec script based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. It stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker. The film follows a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrial aliens who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)Verge Science - We decoded NASA's messages to aliens by hand (In 1977, twin golden records were sent into space on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Still sailing through space at nearly 60,000 km per hour, the records contain sound, songs, and images from earth.)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRuovINxpPcWTF is Happening! The Podcast (TNC Podcast)- https://anchor.fm/wtfihpodShout Outs 21st August 2021 – Nick Davatzes, Cable Pioneer Who Launched A&E Network and History Channel, passes away at 79 - https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/nick-davatzes-dead-79-ceo-ae-networks-1235046271/ Nickolas Davatzes, longtime CEO of A+E Networks who steered the launch of A&E Network and History Channel has passed away. Davatzes joined the company as CEO in 1983 just as A&E Networks was formed through the merger of fledgling cable channels Entertainment Network, owned by RCA and the Rockefeller family, and ARTS Network, owned by Hearst and ABC. A+E Networks today is a 50-50 joint venture of the Walt Disney Co. and Hearst Corp. Davatzes served as CEO emeritus. Davatzes led the company's launch of the signature A&E Network (an amalgam of Arts and Entertainment) in 1984 and History Channel in 1995 (History formally dropped “Channel” from its moniker in 2008). He served as CEO of the parent company through 2005, when he was succeeded by protege Abbe Raven, who started at the company as a secretary. Davatzes was known for promoting educational outreach and the importance of industry R&D during his run at A&E Networks. The company later expanded to include the Lifetime cable channel as well as more recent entries like lifestyle channel FYI and Lifetime Movie Network. Disney executive chairman Bob Iger hailed him as a “towering figure in the early days of cable television (who helped) build some of the most iconic brands in the media landscape.” Iger added that he was “a person of true integrity.” He died in Wilton, Connecticut.24th August 2021 – Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts passes away at 80 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-25/rolling-stones-drummer-charlie-watts-dies-at-age-80/100404658Charlie Watts, the drummer who provided the backbone of the Rolling Stones' songs for more than half a century, has died. Watts "passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family," his publicist Bernard Doherty said. "Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also as a member of The Rolling Stones, as one of the greatest drummers of his generation." The quiet, elegantly dressed Watts was often ranked with Keith Moon, Ginger Baker and a handful of others as a premier rock drummer, respected worldwide for his muscular, swinging style as the band rose from its scruffy beginnings to international superstardom. He joined the Stones early in 1963 and remained over the next 60 years, ranked just behind Jagger and Keith Richards as the group's longest lasting and most essential members. Watts stayed on, and largely held himself apart, through the drug abuse, creative clashes and ego wars that helped kill founding member Brian Jones, drove bassist Bill Wyman and Jones' replacement Mick Taylor to quit and otherwise made being in the Stones the most exhausting of jobs. The Stones began, Watts said, "as white blokes from England playing black American music" but quickly evolved their own distinctive sound. Watts was a jazz drummer in his early years and never lost his affinity for the music he first loved, heading his own jazz band and taking on numerous other side projects. He had his eccentricities — Watts liked to collect cars even though he didn't drive and would simply sit in them in his garage. But he was a steadying influence on stage and off as the Stones defied all expectations by rocking well into their 70s, decades longer than their old rivals The Beatles. He died in London with his family around him.25th August 2021 – Linux turns 30 - https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-linuxs-30th-birthday/ In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os.minix that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." No one knew it, not even Torvalds, but the technology was going to change forever. Thirty years later, Linux rules IT. Almost all major websites -- including Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia -- run on Linux. It's the same with the clouds. Even on Microsoft's own Azure, the most popular operating system is Linux. As for supercomputers, all 500 of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers run Linux. Thanks to Android, Linux is also the most popular end-user operating system. Not bad for a hobby operating system! In those very first days, Linux wasn't formally known as Linux. Torvalds explained, "Linux was my working name, but I never wanted to release it as Linux. Linux was a perfectly good working name, but if I actually used it as the official one, people would think that I am an egomaniac and wouldn't take it seriously. So I chose this very bad name, "Freax," for "Free Unix." Fortunately, the first Linux administrator Ari Lemmk, decided Freax was a silly name too. Hence, he actually named it Linux because he thought this internal project name was Torvalds first choice.Remembrances25th August 1822 – William Herschel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_HerschelGerman-born British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel. Born in the Electorate of Hanover, William Herschel followed his father into the military band of Hanover, before emigrating to Great Britain in 1757 at the age of nineteen. Herschel constructed his first large telescope in 1774, after which he spent nine years carrying out sky surveys to investigate double stars. Herschel published catalogues of nebulae in 1802 (2,500 objects) and in 1820 (5,000 objects). The resolving power of the Herschel telescopes revealed that many objects called nebulae in the Messier catalogue were actually clusters of stars. On 13 March 1781 while making observations he made note of a new object in the constellation of Gemini. This would, after several weeks of verification and consultation with other astronomers, be confirmed to be a new planet, eventually given the name of Uranus. This was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity, and Herschel became famous overnight. As a result of this discovery, George III appointed him Court Astronomer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and grants were provided for the construction of new telescopes. Herschel pioneered the use of astronomical spectrophotometry, using prisms and temperature measuring equipment to measure the wavelength distribution of stellar spectra. In the course of these investigations, Herschel discovered infrared radiation. Other work included an improved determination of the rotation period of Mars, the discovery that the Martian polar caps vary seasonally, the discovery of Titania and Oberon (moons of Uranus) and Enceladus and Mimas (moons of Saturn). Herschel was made a Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1816. He was the first President of the Royal Astronomical Society when it was founded in 1820. He died at the age of 83 at Observatory House, Windsor Road, Slough Herschel's epitaph is Coelorum perrupit claustra (He broke through the barriers of the heavens).Famous Birthdays25th August 1819 – Allan Pinkerton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_PinkertonScottish–American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Pinkerton first became interested in criminal detective work while wandering through the wooded groves around Dundee, looking for trees to make barrel staves, when he came across a band of counterfeiters, who may have been affiliated with the notorious Banditti of the Prairie. After observing their movements for some time he informed the local sheriff, who arrested them. This later led to Pinkerton being appointed, in 1849, as the first police detective in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. In 1850, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co, and finally Pinkerton National Detective Agency, still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB. Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption "We never sleep." As the US expanded in territory, rail transport increased. Pinkerton's agency solved a series of train robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan, then Chief Engineer and Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad, and Abraham Lincoln, the company's lawyer. When the Civil War began, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service during the first two years, heading off an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to Washington, D.C. as well as identifying troop numbers in military campaigns. His agents often worked undercover as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers to gather military intelligence. Pinkerton himself served on several undercover missions as a Confederate soldier using the alias Major E.J. Allen. He worked across the Deep South in the summer of 1861, focusing on fortifications and Confederate plans. This counterintelligence work done by Pinkerton and his agents is comparable to the work done by today's U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agents in which Pinkerton's agency is considered an early predecessor. He was succeeded as Intelligence Service chief by Lafayette Baker; the Intelligence Service was the predecessor of the U.S. Secret Service. His work led to the establishment of the Federal secret service. Despite his agency's later reputation for anti-labor activities, Pinkerton himself was heavily involved in pro-labor politics as a young man. Though Pinkerton considered himself pro-labor, he opposed strikes and distrusted labor unions. He was born in Gorbals, Glasgow.Events of Interest25th August 1957- The Invisible Man Vs. The Human Fly premiered in Japan - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204691/ A star is born! On this day in 1957 (in Japan), The Invisible Man Vs. The Human Fly took to the silver screen for a monster of a pairing! Directed by Mitsuo Murayama, the SciFi/Fantasy starred Ryûji Shinagawa and Yoshirô Kitahara; and here's the plot summary: "A ruthless serial killer with a peculiar method of stalking and killing his victims comes face to face with a police officer turned invisible by a scientific experiment. Who will emerge triumphant?" In the late 1950s, in the United States this film was announced, and stills were published, under the English language title "The Murdering Mite." This film shares part of its Japanese title with the Japanese release of the much better-known 1958 U.S. science fiction film The Fly, which was released in Japan as Fear of the Fly Man (ハエ男の恐怖 Hae Otoko no Kyōfu), though with the 'Fly' in "Fly Man" spelled in katakana rather than kanji characters. While both films feature "fly men," The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly actually predates the latter film by almost an entire year.25th August 1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999 - https://www.wired.com/2010/08/0825voyager2-neptune/ Voyager 2 makes its closest encounter with Neptune, passing just 3,000 miles above the cloud tops of the most distant planet in our solar system. The Voyager 2 space probe has been our most productive unmanned space voyage. It visited all four of the outer planets and their systems of moons and rings, including the first visits to previously unexplored Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2 found four rings and evidence for ring arcs, or incomplete rings, above Neptune. That means all four of the gas giants in our solar system have rings. Neptune's, however, are very meager compared to the magnificent rings around Saturn. In the late 19th century, astronomers thought that an unseen Planet X was influencing the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. The observed positions of the two planets and their calculated positions differed. Among those astronomers convinced of the existence of Planet X was Clyde Tombaugh. In 1930 while scanning areas of the sky for Planet X, he found Pluto. When Voyager 2 flew by Neptune, it took very precise measurements of Neptune's mass and found it to be about 0.5 percent less massive than previous estimates. When the orbits of Uranus and Neptune were recalculated using the more accurate mass figure, it became clear that the imprecise number for Neptune -- and not the gravity of an unseen planet -- had caused the observed orbital discrepancies. After its encounter with Neptune, the spacecraft was rechristened the Voyager Interstellar Mission by NASA to take measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field, plasma and charged-particle environment. But mostly it's searching for the heliopause, the distance at which the solar wind becomes subsumed by the more general interstellar wind.IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us onFacebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comSupport via Podhero- https://podhero.com/podcast/449127/nerds-amalgamated See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Frederik - Se Jokin Minulla On (1975) The Locomotion in Finnish.  Alice Babs - Been To Canaan (1973) Pretty Purdie and the Playboys - You've Got A Friend (1971) Carole King - Child of Mine (1970)  Design - I Feel The Earth Move (1973) The City - Now That Everything's Been Said (1968) From the great Light In The Attic website:  By the mid-‘60s, King's marriage to Gerry Goffin, with whom she'd written many of those wonderful hits, had hit the rocks. A divorce loomed, and King all but retired to raise their two daughters. She headed west to Laurel Canyon in ‘67, taking the children with her, and made the previously unlikely move of joining a progressive folk-rock band. King formed The City with future husband Charles Larkey on bass and Danny Kortchmar on guitar and vocals. With King on piano and vocals, they created a folk-rock sound that pre-empted the singer-songwriter boom of the ‘70s. Produced by Lou Adler and featuring Jimmy Gordon on drums, The City's sound is deep and soulful, imperfect but passionate. And the songs, with King writing or co-writing all but one, are as exceptional as you'd expect and as widely covered as her factory work. “Now That Everything's Been Said” was a hit for American Spring [Ed: That was the band that Brian Wilson produced, featuring his wife Marylin and his affair d'couer, his sister-in-law Diane.], “A Man Without A Dream” was tackled by The Monkees, and “Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)” was a hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears. Central to the album's appeal is King's own stirring reading of her track “Wasn't Born To Follow,” covered masterfully by The Byrds for the Easy Rider soundtrack. King had been used to a life on the sidelines, and her stage fright left the trio unable to tour the LP which adversely affected their fortunes. That, plus some behind-the-scenes distribution problems, meant the album was quickly deleted, and it remained so for the next thirty years–partly at King's request. Even so, its failure was a surprise to those concerned. “I was 26 when Now That Everything's Been Said was released in 1968,” King says of the album. “[We] expected it to zoom to the top of the charts within, at most, a few weeks. Individually and together, we optimistically imagined the album's success as if it had already happened. Danny and Charlie kept telling each other, 'It's a great album. The City is gonna be Number 1 with a bullet!'" Frances Yip - I Feel The Earth Move (1973) The Isleys - It's Too Late (1972) From one of my favorite pages, Wilson and Alroy's Record Reviews: Their review of Brother, Brother, Brother (two stars out of five) This is the kind of thing you can do when you own your record company: the Isleys turn over half the running time to three Carole King covers ("Brother Brother," her then-current hit "Sweet Seasons," and a ten-minute version of "It's Too Late"). All of which are calming and pretty but not particularly moving, similar in style to Givin' It Back but not quite as rough. Those numbers are complemented by some funkier tunes more reminiscent of Get Into Something, including the single "Pop That Thang," "Love Put Me On The Corner," and the propulsive "Work To Do." More than anything, this is transitional, pointing out the direction that was to pay off far better commercially and artistically starting with the next studio album. The younger crop of Isleys played most of the instruments again but still received no producing or arranging credits. Carol Burnett - It's Too Late (1972)  Jerry Butler - So Far Away (1972)  Daffi Von Cramer - Locomotion (1972) Lone Kellerman - Kom An Baby (1977) Mike James Kirkland - It's Too Late (1973) Nora Aunor - Sweet Seasons (1972) Known as "The Grand Dame of Philippine Cinema" for her contribution to the Philippine film industry. Aunor has released more than 360 singles and recorded more than 200 songs and over 50 albums. She has notched more than 30 gold singles and with an estimated gross sales of one million units, Nora's cover of "Pearly Shells" (1971) is one of the biggest-selling singles in the Philippines. Due to a botched cosmetic surgery in Japan while endorsing a cosmetic surgery clinic based in Shinagawa and Makati, her vocal cords were damaged and she cannot sing due to paralysis of her left vocal cords. Peter Nero - Jazzman (1975)  Rita Coolidge - One Fine Day (1979) Carole King - Pierre (1975) Marlena Shaw - So Far Away (1972) Vikki Carr - So Far Away (1971) Carpenters - One Fine Day (1973)  The City - Snow Queen (1968) The City - I Wasn't Born to Follow (1968) The Counts - Jazzman (1974) The Lettermen - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Man (1970) Tiiti - Sata Kettaa (1979) Carole King - Time Gone By (1979) The Anita Kerr Singers - You've Got A Friend (1973)  Stanislaw Sojka - You've Got A Friend (1979)  

We finally touch on some Murakami weirdness with Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey from Haruki Murakami's short story collection, First Person Singular. In this story, we deal with themes of loneliness and unrequited love, all told from the perspective of an unusually intelligent monkey. 

This is English Japanese bilingual reading of Haruki Murakami.

This episode features Nathan Shinagawa, Chief Operating Officer at Banner Ocotillo Medical Center. Here, he discusses his career, his responsibilities in the role of COO, his top priorities for the year, and more.

Sabéis que me encanta Japón, me pirra la literatura y es más... ¡me gustaría escribir algo! Y he pensado unir esas cosas en un futuro. Así que, ¿y si redacto algo en serio y extenso sobre Japón? Pero claro, escribir un libro es una cosa a la que le tengo bastante respeto, por lo que nada mejor que contar con el amigo Alberto para que me comente todo el proceso. Él es un autor novel que lleva años escribiendo relatos y libros que hasta el momento se ha autopublicado. Su última obra -y seguramente la mejor- es 'El cerezo de Shinagawa', una novela de terror ambientada en Utsonomiya. Escucha este episodio para saber más de Alberto, el proceso de escritura de un libro y como siempre de Japón en general, ya que a los dos nos encanta viajar allí y no podemos evitar hablar de ello. Podéis leer un fragmento del libro para que os hagáis una idea, os lo he subido aquí en el blog: https://gaikanpodcast.blogspot.com/2021/04/el-cerezo-de-shinagawa-libro-descarga.html Creo que os puede enganchar, si queréis comprar el libro de Alberto podéis hacerlo desde este enlace además le echas un cable a este pódcast: https://amzn.to/3gSyAvh Twitter de Alberto por si quieres seguirle o preguntarle algo: https://twitter.com/aogayas La novela de Alberto es de terror, pero es ficción. Lo que sí que sería terrorífico es viajar a Japón sin seguro, así que no dudes en contratar uno cuando vayas. Si lo tramitas con Chapka viajarás con tranquilidad y además ayudas a este pódcast. No solo eso sino que tendrás un descuento de un 7% en tu seguro. Puedes hacerlo con el código GAIKAN, o a través de este enlace: https://www.chapkadirect.es/?app=cd_gaikanpodcast Músicas usadas: -Good Morning Tokyo por milton.(Milton Musical Capsules) | https://freesound.org/people/milton./sounds/79645 Reconocimiento-NoComercial 3.0 España (CC BY-NC 3.0 ES) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ Cambios realizados: Normalización, aparecer y desvanecer progresivamente (Audacity) -Ueno Shamisen - Japan por RTB45 | https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/195521 Reconocimiento 3.0 España (CC BY 3.0 ES) Música en cuña publicitaria: - Oboro por Peritune: https://peritune.com/blog/2019/04/08/oboro/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cambios realizados: Normalización, autoduck, aparecer y desvanecer progresivamente (Audacity)

¡Buenos días Tomodachis, y Mamonakus! Hoy os traemos una entrevista muy fresca con A.J. Ogayas, autor del libro "El Cerezo de Shinagawa". Hablaremos con él de su pasión por Japón, de como empezó a escribir y de como surgió la posibilidad de "Autopublicar" un libro en Amazon. Hablaremos con él de proceso de creación de la historia, los personajes, y nos dará alguna pincelada de su próximo libro. Aclarar que no es un podcast patrocinado. Con éste tipo de contenidos lo que queremos hacer es ayudar a buenos Tomodachis apasionados por Japíon, como A.J.Ogayas, que tienen un sueño y lo llevan a cabo. Esperamos vuestros comentarios y recordad que nos podéis apoyar con vuestros Ko-Fi en: https://ko-fi.com/japonizados Libro "El Cerezo de Shinagawa": https://amzn.to/3d8dwwY Redes sociales: Twitter: @docujaponizados Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/japonizados/ Web: Directo a Japón: https://www.directoajapon.com/ Amazon Afiliados: www.amazon.es/shop/docujaponizados

Episode 39.With us both having schedules that don`t match up of late love had to get out there and get some interviews in the bag.It is the idea l had come up with over a year ago.The gist was to interview Olympic athletes and tourists on what they made of this unique country.Then two month later the "Rona" hit and you've had a year of Duncan and I talking about the situations we get ourselves in.So right out of the gate l have my friend "Crypto Eri" a 20 year resident of Tokyo and an all round good egg.There is something about being surrounded by strong women's married one we are trying to raise one, but the ones that coming shining through in this male dominated world those are the ones l seek out and will try and get on here in the future.We talk about how she ended up in this crazy town and what's in store for her in the future.The backdrop of todays episode is Tokyo itself.A coffeeshop overlooking the 4th busiest train station in the World,Shinagawa.We got ourselves in a quieter corner and waited it out until the planes stopped flying over us on the flightpath to Haneda and sat down and had a proper chinwag.So a big thank you to Eri for the conversation and here's episode 38.Darren.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/justpassingthroughpodcast?fan_landing=true)

1872年就通车的品川车站，是日本最具代表的交通枢纽之一。去过东京的游客，是不是都曾路过这个车站呢？交通便利的品川车站，自然是很多公司总部聚集地。而除此之外，在日本，说到品川还会让人联想到它不可胜举的医美医院。这一期我们请到了曾任职医美翻译的嘉宾，为我们来讲述一下日本医美的现状以及游客在海外进行医美项目时的注意事项。变美，不仅仅是女人的专利哦。还有男性医美项目也是让主播们大呼精彩。带上你的纸和笔，一起和我们云游品川，了解日本医美吧。 Shinagawa Station, which is opened in 1872, is one of the most representative transportation hubs in Japan. I guess almost all of the tourists have passed by this Station while coming to Tokyo. With this convenient location Shinagawa station naturally attracted many companies to set headquarters here. In addition, in Japan, when it comes to Shinagawa, it is also reminiscent of its invaluable medical beauty hospital. In this issue, we have invited guests who have worked as medical aesthetic translators to tell us about the current market of Japanese medical aesthetics and the precautions that tourists should pay attention to when conducting medical aesthetic projects in japan. Chasing for beauty is not just a woman's desire. And the guys can also enjoy medical beauty projects. Hang around Shinagawa with us, and learn about the beauty of Japanese medical orthopedics. I beg there’s a lot of things you wanna take note.

1872年就通车的品川车站，是日本最具代表的交通枢纽之一。去过东京的游客，是不是都曾路过这个车站呢？交通便利的品川车站，自然是很多公司总部聚集地。而除此之外，在日本，说到品川还会让人联想到它不可胜举的医美医院。这一期我们请到了曾任职医美翻译的嘉宾，为我们来讲述一下日本医美的现状以及游客在海外进行医美项目时的注意事项。变美，不仅仅是女人的专利哦。还有男性医美项目也是让主播们大呼精彩。带上你的纸和笔，一起和我们云游品川，了解日本医美吧。Shinagawa Station, which is opened in 1872, is one of the most representative transportation hubs in Japan. I guess almost all of the tourists have passed by this Station while come to Tokyo. With this convenient location Shinagawa station naturally attracted many companies to set headquarters here. In addition, in Japan, when it comes to Shinagawa, it is also reminiscent of its invaluable medical beauty hospital.In this issue, we have invited guest who have worked as medical aesthetic translator to tell us about the current market of Japanese medical aesthetics and the precautions that tourists should pay attention to when conducting medical aesthetic projects in japan. Chasing for beauty is not just a woman's desire. And the guys can also enjoy medical beauty project. Hang around Shinagawa with us, and learn about the beauty of Japanese medical orthopedics. I beg there's a lot of things you wanna take note.⋅ 我们的 YouTube 频道上线了。记得订阅、按赞、开启小铃铛。⋅ 与我们互动，请关注我们的 Twitter 与 微博 @Tokyo_Stations⋅ズカイ - ぽーいっ！⋅ 收听 TOKYO STATIONS：Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, Pocket Casts, 小宇宙, 荔枝播客, 喜马拉雅, 皮艇, 网易云音乐, and more.主播：黄大姐，秦老板，方枪枪，小狐狸设计：哦小普编辑：哦小普剪辑：哦小普，秦老板监制：哦小普© ℗ 2021 (kbys) studio in Tokyo, Japan

Discussion Notes: The Rabbit Matchmakers This week’s story: Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey by Haruki Murakami  Next week’s story: Chemical Bonds by Neema Avashia  Rated: Clean Gerald, Andy and Anais discuss “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” by Haruki Murakami, a story of talking monkey who works an honest job and pines for lost loves from... The post Ep 191: Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey by Haruki Murakami appeared first on Literary Roadhouse.

Discussion Notes: The Rabbit Matchmakers This week’s story: Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey by Haruki Murakami  Next week’s story: Chemical Bonds by Neema Avashia  Rated: Clean Gerald, Andy and Anais discuss “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” by Haruki Murakami, a story of talking monkey who works an honest job and pines for lost loves from... The post Ep 191: Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey by Haruki Murakami appeared first on Literary Roadhouse.

In this episode, Kim interviews Michelle Shinagawa, a Reiki Teacher, NeuroMovement Practitioner, Chakra Therapist, Aromatherapist, Spiritual Counselor, and KonMari space & life organizer. We cover how we can use decluttering to create more abundance in our businesses, tips on how we can attract in more clients by decluttering your mind, learn about the practice of Reiki and how we can incorporate using Reiki in our business. Book an RTT Session with Host Kim Akrigg. Kim is a RTT coach for entrepreneurs who want to manifest their dream lives and embody their highest selves. Find Michelle here:Instagram: www.instagram.com/purplefishhealing Facebook: www.facebook.com/PurpleFishHealing Website: http://purplefishhealing.com Free Step By Step Konmari ChecklistLearn more here:Instagram: @kim.akrigg Website: www.kimakrigg.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/kimakriggphoto/ Magic of I Planner: www.magicofi.com Discount code: KIMAKRIGGSupport the show (http://www.paypal.me/kimakrigg)

Every day we turn on the  news to see and hear the news with statistics, cases, test rates and more  reports about COVID-19, to the [point of saturation.  We hear of how the coronavirus has impacted people all over the world, but we rarely if ever hear specific reports of its effect on blind and visually impaired individuals. In this ongoing Blind Abilities series, Around the World with COVID-19 from a blindness perspective, we have spanned the globe, introducing blind guests from Around the world, from Australia and Malaysia, to the united kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada and the US. Today we hear a first-hand report from Hiroyuki Shinagawa. Konichiwa with yet a different perspective on how the coronavirus has affected him in Osaka, Japan. Hiroyuki is a massage therapist in Osaka, and shares with us the impact  of Corona and Covid-19 on the Japanese people, inside and outside Osaka, including a unique insight into the Japanese culture which we have previously not seen in this series. Hiroyuki speaks of the progression of the coronavirus over recent months, giving his insight into the role of the Japanese people, and the effect which the virus has had on the citizens of Osaka, and the blindness community as well. As usual, Blind Abilities has inserted excerpts from real  news stories to enhance the report and paint a tine-line for you to better understand the sequence of the COVID-19 progression.  Also, here is a script of Hiroyuki's report: Hello all, My name is Hiroyuki Shinagawa. Konichiwa from Osaka, Japan. Osaka is one of the 47 prefectures in Japan, surrounded by Kyoto, Kobe, Nara and Wakayama. I am a totally blind and massage practitioner. In Japan, massage and acupuncture are traditional job for the blind. There are many different styles of work in the massage field:  some people open their own massage salons,  some work in hospitals,  some are hired by companies to work in massage rooms,  and others visit client's houses and nursing home for rehabilitation purposes. In Japan, the new coronavirus has been in the news since the end of January. Every day in February, the cruise ship Diamond Princess was the hot topic in the news. Around that time, it was increasing the number of people tested positive for the virus, but there were not many death cases. In March, however, a famous Japanese comedian passed away by COVID-19,  which had a great impact on Japanese people. The state of emergency was declared in Osaka on April 7. I work in the company's massage room, and my company decided to close it temporarily from that day, and we had to stay home. Our massage room is run by three therapists. The other employees of the company were also ordered to stay home. Most of them started to work from home. But, we could not. It was the time of self isolated. There were no penalties in Japan. It was voluntary quarantine. We were required to: stay home, don't go out to other prefectures. libraries and movie theaters were ordered to close.             restaurants and bars should be closed at 8 p.m. Massage places were able to remain open, but many clients were discouraged from going out. Also, the therapists who visit and give massages at nursing homes were restricted entering the facilities. The state of emergency was lifted in Osaka on May 22. My stay at home continued and I wasn't able to go to work until June 22. What we are doing to prevent infection in our massage room is Clients are needed to take their body temperature before receiving a massage. We use the disposable sheet to cover the massage table, And after the treatment, we wipe the bed, mat, and undressing cage with alcohol-laced paper. While the state of emergency was declared, there seemed to be very few people walking the streets. The blind people rely on the sounds around us. Some of my friends told me that there was no crowd at a busy train station. So, it was so hard to find the place where they wanted to go and it was very difficult to walk. The sounds of ticket gates, footsteps and conversations, and other sounds that might give us a clue. They were all gone. In such cases, the Be My Eyes app was very helpful. There is one of welfare services that the visually impaired people can use when they go out somewhere. It's the accompanying assistance service.  Many people use this service when they go out to the hospital, shopping, or concert hall, but I have never used it. But, some blind people don't feel free going out as before. because helpers refuse to go out for fear of infection. On the other hand, there were many visually impaired people who don't want to go out with the same reason. I hear that the income of the helpers' offices is decreasing and faces business difficulty. I'm often out by myself with a white cane, it is a good exercise for me. During staying at home, I lost that valuable time. I had tried running and stretching in my room. There were people who uploaded yoga and stretching videos with voice guidance for the blind, which was very helpful. I used to go to the gym for the disabled and swim once a week, but I can not make a time to go. Before pandemic, that facility was open until 9pm, so I always went there after work, but now it closes at 5pm.  Also, people are required to apply a week in advance and have to be selected in a lottery. Oh my fat! I can't wait to burn off the fat in my belly. Well, what is the situation now? Two months ago, anyone could sit on a commuter train, but now it's full of people standing. And the evening trains are crowded more than before. Maybe, many people want to go home early. In daily life, what I'm taking care for are: wearing the mask, keeping the social distancing, and washing hands. I think that most important things is: no touch my face by fingers. Japanese government give us the advice: avoid three Cs. Three Cs are: closed spaces, crowded places, close-contact settings. By the way, Osaka is one of popular place for tourists. Before February, I could hear many kinds of foreign languages on the platform of subway station, mainly Chinese. Now, no chance to hear it. Do you remember? The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was scheduled on July 24, 2020. As you know, the Olympics and Paralympics have been postponed to next year. Since the middle of July, we have seen an increase in the number of positive cases in Tokyo. It's also increasing in Osaka. Last week, the highest number is reported. I wonder what the world will be like this time next year. Hey everybody, Stay healthy and wealthy! Contact Your State Services If you reside in Minnesota, and you would like to know more about Transition Services from State Services contact Transition Coordinator Sheila Koenig by email or contact her via phone at 651-539-2361. Contact: You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Storeand Google Play Store. Check out the Blind Abilities Communityon Facebook, the Blind Abilities Page, and the Career Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired group

We've been working non-stop in June so on our one day off we decide to visit the aquarium. We also discuss Japanese design, and we plan our upcoming trip to Karuizawa. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ellie has training for online lessons so we go to Shinagawa where we find a nice river to walk along, we discuss how being home for so long has affected us, and we ramble on topics from food to traveling after the pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Delve into this episode with your host Vince Kramer and his unique guest Michelle Shinagawa while they talk about the healing properties of Japanese rituals in Reiki and KonMari.

#22 - Michelle Shinagawa: Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up A wonderful conversation with Michelle Shinagawa about the KonMari method, the life changing magic of tidying up. Michelle is a certified KonMari consultant and Reiki teacher and healer. Because of her spiritual background she can guide us in not only transforming our spaces but our lives. In this episode, Michelle shares how the once in a lifetime tidying festival works and how to learn to pay attention to what sparks joy in your life. Ultimately the KonMari method is not just about tidying your home. It's a journey of self- discovery that can transform every area of your life. It begins by finding the things that spark joy.  Michelle thank you for sparking joy within me for your friendship, inspiration and wisdom. To find out more about Michelle Shinagawa go to her websitehttp://purplefishhealing.com. You can also download the KonMari check list  at https://organize.purplefishhealing.com To find out more about the Be the Light Podcast or your host Maria Kammerer visit her website at https://www.attunecincinnati.com/. Grateful to Max Raphael of True Resonance, trueresonance.net, for co-producing this Podcast and for donating his beautiful music for the intro & outro.

Cinematographer, performer, and award-winning author of Showdown at Shinagawa, Bill Zarchy. Bill’s tales from the road, technical articles, and personal essays have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul and Travelers’ Tales anthologies, as well as the San Francisco Chronicle and magazines such as American Cinematographer, Emmy, and Kyoto Journal. Bill talks to us about the art of filming and his adventures in over 30 countries, which included photobombing the red carpet in Cannes, sharing former president Bill Clinton’s pain, and a lot of bumps on the head. Recorded live in studio April 8, 2018.

Music lovers of underground house music welcome back on Nightblue’s Podcast. We deliver here today "Just because", a fresh new set mixed with ONLY VINYL records and without any computer assistance. Since the creation of this Podcast in 2010, this is the philosophy for a TRUE mixing experience, for the thrill and for the authenticity of what the craft of spinning vinyl stands for. Hiroki Yokoyama is the man behind the artwork, from Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Check out Hiroki's other great pictures at https://www.facebook.com/hiroki.yokoyama.5621. Great talent! These are pictures which speak by themselves! Many thanks Hiroki for granting me the rights for this! Stay connected in the coming hours for the track list.

Music lovers of underground house music welcome back on Nightblue’s Podcast. We deliver here today "All Night Long", a fresh new set mixed with ONLY VINYL records and without any computer assistance. Since the creation of this Podcast in 2010, this is the philosophy for a TRUE mixing experience, for the thrill and for the authenticity of what the craft of spinning vinyl stands for. Hiroki Yokoyama is the man behind the artwork, from Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Check out Hiroki's other great pictures at https://www.facebook.com/hiroki.yokoyama.5621. Great talent! These are pictures which speak by themselves! Many thanks Hiroki for granting me the rights for this! Stay connected in the coming hours for the track list.

Music lovers of underground house music welcome back on Nightblue’s Podcast. We deliver here today "Crepuscolo", a fresh new set mixed with ONLY VINYL records and without any computer assistance. Since the creation of this Podcast in 2010, this is the philosophy for a TRUE mixing experience, for the thrill and for the authenticity of what the craft of spinning vinyl stands for. Hiroki Yokoyama is the man behind the artwork, from Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Check out Hiroki's other great pictures at https://www.facebook.com/hiroki.yokoyama.5621. Great talent! These are pictures which speak by themselves! Many thanks Hiroki for granting me the rights for this! Stay connected in the coming hours for the track list.

A David Esteban le conocen sus amigos y lectores como Flappy. Es el autor de un blog llamado ‘Un español en Japón’ que lleva 10 años funcionado, los mismos que hace que Esteban vive en Asia. En la entrevista, Flappy habla de su llegada a Japón y de los distintos trabajos que ha hecho durante este tiempo. En la actualidad tiene una empresa turística y acompaña a visitantes hispanohablantes alrededor del país. La entrevista se grabó el 30 de octubre de 2015 en un hotel de Shinagawa, a unos cinco kilómetros de Shibuya.

Episode 63:  THE Leadership Japan Series - How to be a Leader Who Can Super Motivate Staff Today we are going to listen to a presentation given to McGill University MBA class here in Tokyo on how to be a leader who can super motivate staff. Staff Intro:  Greg is a big supporter of this program.  He's been coming here to talk since about 2007, years and years ago.  He actually gave the graduation speech in 2009.  We really appreciate Greg coming back to speak with us.  Today's format is similar to before.  We'll have a presentation by Greg and then questions and answers, and then we'll spend a little bit of time to give you a chance to network and exchange meishi if you like.  Greg:  What I am going to talk about today is leadership and how to motivate people. One of the issues in successful business is it is very hard to be successful if you can't take the people with you, unless you want to be doing everything yourself.  Leading people is not such a straightforward thing.  What are some of the issues that you have found so far in your businesses with people?  What is difficult about people?  Give me some feedback. Participant:  The people. (Laughter) Greg:  What's another difficulty you found dealing with people? Participant:  Understanding their motivations. Greg:  Understanding their motivations, yes.  What else? Participant:  Big egos. Greg:  Big egos.  Trying to understand how to deal with people who are highly driven but are hard to handle. Yes. Participant:  People who compare themselves to other people and what other people are getting. Greg:  Yes, worried about their package, or their bonus or their conditions at work and whinging about it to you probably.  What else do we have?  What else do you see? Participant:  Emotions. Greg: Emotions, yes.  People are not inanimate objects.  They are driven by emotion.  We justify with logic, but actually it is a lot of emotional things going on for us.  In the time we have left today, I am going to give you as much as I can to help you in becoming much more successful with people.  At the end I'll try to give you an opportunity to find where to get more help if you want it.  Also, please remind me at the end too if you would like to get the video of this and my slides.  I am more than happy to share them.  At the end give your meishi to me and I will send it to you. We start with Dale Carnegie, 24 years old.  About the same age as some of the people in this room maybe.  A young man starts a company.  He starts a brand new business.  A business in the self-help industry, which didn't exist when he started his business.  He created an industry.  And maybe, like you, he's facing many fears.  How am I going to run this business?  Where am I going with this?  He was an overnight success.  It just took 24 years to get there.  Over those 24 years as he is conducting his classes, helping people get better with other people, it was like a living laboratory for him.  He's getting ideas and he's getting examples and he's getting problems and he's making note of these.  He's working out solutions and he's recording these solutions.  He's polishing and he's polishing and he's polishing.  Finally in 1936 he gets Simon and Shuster, a massive book brand in the publishing world, to publish an unknown, unheard of author who runs a training company.  In today's parlance we'd say, “success, went viral with this book”.  It didn't only go viral, it went viral globally.  Here's a guy who went from being a well-known person in the training business to being a global guru.  In Japan his books in translation have sold more than 9 million copies.  You are in a living laboratory right now.  Wherever you are working and whatever you are doing, you see stuff going well and stuff going not so well.  Grab it.  This could be your book.  This could be your viral hit.  And it may not be on Simon and Shuster, it may be on Kindle, it may be an eBook, but you have got the living laboratory right where you are to take a leaf out of a book like someone like Dale Carnegie, and become a global superstar. Validation of what you are doing is very critical. How would you like to be able to say 90% of the Fortune 500 companies use my solution?  That's not bad, is it?  Validation.  That's what he achieved.  How would you like to have a testimonial from the most successful business man in world history?  Warren Buffet is by far the most successful business person in world history, and he is a massive fan of Dale Carnegie.  This is a screenshot of a CBC broadcast of an interview with him in his office in Omaha, Nebraska.  He is pointing there to his Dale Carnegie certificate that he got in his early 20's.  He is a guy who had such a high intellect and such brilliant ideas, yet couldn't get anybody to go with him, give him money to invest on their behalf.  Don't you wish you had given him some money back then?  Imagine how much it would be worth now.  But he wasn't getting anywhere.  One of his friends said, “Warren, do the Dale Carnegie course”.  So he did the course, changed his life.  How do we know it changed his life?  Because we have a testimonial video with him on this program saying, “it changed my life”.  In your business or where you are now, where are the validations?  Where are the testimonials?  Where are the opinion leaders that you can draw on to make what you are doing more convincing, more credible to your business audience?  In Japan we have a good example.  Previous chairman, now emeritus chairman of Google, Murakami-san, who again as young man, went to the Dale Carnegie course, became a convert, used the principles, went to the very top.  He writes and speaks and he is a great advocate for what Dale Carnegie brought to his business career.  We see this replicated time after time.  125th street in Harlem, New York at the YMCA, 1 man, 1 class, 1 product, to today, 91 countries around the world with offices.  We cover more than 91 countries but we have 91 countries with offices around the world, and are teaching in more than 30 languages.  If you think about it, if you're like a Mikitani for example, he was one guy in Japan.   I was just at his headquarters in Shinagawa yesterday, it's like two huge towers, thousands of people.  It's phenomenal.  These are the sorts of examples that we can encourage ourselves with, that we can actually also have that capacity.  Here's the bad news.  Sorry to bring up some bad news.  Business is all messed up.   It's totally gone around the wrong way.  We are all told hard skills, technical skills, expertise, and knowledge, all of these things are critical for your success.  Well that's baloney.  That's absolutely not enough.  You can have hard core technical skills, that's great.  Then what happens?  You do a good job.  And then what happens? They promote you.  This is where the trouble starts.  As a technical person, as an expert in your area, you are fantastic in your world that you control for yourself.  They recognize your potential and they promote you, but they don't train you properly, they don't transition you properly into a more difficulty level role.  Suddenly you are dealing with all of these emotional people.  People who've got big egos, people who are bitching about everything.  (Laughter)  You're in charge.  Suddenly you find that all the things that were brilliant for you doesn't translate to other people and they are not on the same page as you.  But you've got to lead them.  So very quickly you find there's a limit to what you can do with your technical skills.  It requires another skill set.  I am not going to make a guess, but I am very doubtful that there are many MBA courses which have people skills as a subject.  They probably have organizational behavior or leadership and these sorts of things, but the practical on the ground people skills is what makes the job of a person who is promoted on their capability to a leader, successful.  Now we might think, “There's no problem, technology is going to be the answer.  I'll be saved.  I'm a crap people leader but I'll be ok because I have got technology backing me up.  I'll be great.”  Well good luck with that one.  We haven't quite worked out yet how to automate leadership.  (Laughter)  They have been working on it, but they haven't got there yet.  In the meantime it's you.  If you think there is a 24-hour, 7 day a week environment, technologic advancement is going to make the difference for you, try it.  It won't work for you.  You need people skills.  You need to have that one-on-one.  Now, think global, learning leash, you're told all these sorts of things.  The trouble is if you're rude in three languages, you're still a dork, and the people who are working for you think you're a dork.  If you're transferred overseas, the people there think you're a dork too.  Just because you speak the language doesn't help; you speak your own language it doesn't help.  So all this thing about globalization – “we're going to promote English in Japan, we're going to be brilliant, Japan's going to have a global empire, it's all going to be good” - it's not going to work unless the people themselves have that capability to work with other people.  People have got so many universal traits that when you go to another country, yes there are those cultural aspects, but this is very key, people often miss this point - we all have personality styles.  The personality styles are often much more important than the cultural traits that are nationality and upbringing.  If you're a very micro-detailed person, and I'm am big picture person, we're are going to have a terrifically hard job to have a conversation.  If I'm a hard driving New Yorker and I'm standing right in front of your face and I talk aggressively and I'm direct and you are Japanese, well that's going to go pretty badly.  You are looking for something more consensual, not so aggressive, and I am wondering how people feel.  Those sorts of things in business are overriding the culture.  The fact that I might be German or Australian is irrelevant.  These things override that.  We've got to go beyond these sort of simple ideas to go a bit deeper. We talk about people skills.  What are these people skills?  It's the ability to understand people, get them with you on a journey.  Leading people is basically pretty easy.  It's getting them to follow you that's the tricky part.  That's where the people skills come in.  So communication, empathy, getting people around a clear vision of where we are going, making sure the values of the organization are common.  Making sure that people understand the why in your communication.  Often we give the what and the how but we forget the why part.  All of these things with people skills make a difference.  Where do you think some of the challenges are for yourself around people skills?  What do you think are some people skill challenges that you have?  Participant:  Sometimes, I know I cannot control a 100% my emotions. Greg:  As a leader, that's right.  If you've had a very bad day, you might be a little grumpy and then you know what, every single person in this room is an absolute expert boss watcher.  (Laughter)  Every single one of you.  The boss walks in the door, bingo, you've got him or her.  They're in a good mood today.  “Can I present that project or idea?”  Oh, they're not in a good mood today - I'll leave it until tomorrow.  They look really busy - I shouldn't interrupt them.  We are all trying to read every tiny nuance of our boss.  And guess what?  When you become the boss that's what happens to you.  When you walk in the door and you look like a little dark cloud of rain pouring over your head, everyone's going to avoid you like the plague and the communication, the whole thing is going to go down.  As the boss, one of the people skills is to always be bright and upbeat because you are the mood maker.  You are the mood maker for the entire organization and people are watching you so minutely.  That's one very good issue.  What's another issue about people skills?  Participant:  Being assertive and not giving into external pressure. Greg:  External pressure from where? Participant:  From maybe the people around you.  For example, if you are someone who tries to make people happy, it's really easy to give in on what you believe is the right thing to do but is maybe getting resistance from those around you.  So asserting yourself… Greg:  How do we be assertive without upsetting everybody?  We have a course actually called, “How to Disagree, Agreeably”, for that very reason.  How will we have a difference of opinion but not destroy the relationship?  How can you have a different idea on things with somebody else and be persuasive enough to get them to say to you, “actually I didn't think that but listening to you I see the logic of that. I am going to change my mind”.  Or at the minimum, “I am going to disagree agreeably with you in a way that our relationship is not broken”.  This is one of the critical things that we need to learn and the thing is we don't get taught this in school or university.  It's a practical skill and we need to do better.  Who would like to be better in people skills?  That can't be right, only three people?  I need to get my glasses.  Ok, yes, many people.  Of course we do.  It's a critical thing.  The trick is though, how?  How can we get people to come with us?  How can we get people to sign on?  How can we get people motivated to go with us?  Well, we could pay them a lot more money.  Who'd like to get more money?  Why don't we just pay everybody a truckload of money?  They're bound to be happier, they are bound to need more money.  Is that reasonable?  Well it is reasonable except if it's your company.  It is reasonable except if you've got a budget.  It is reasonable except if you've had the budget cut, which is normally how it works, right?  So if we can't throw money at them, then what are some levers that we can pull?   I own this business.  One of the constant things you are struggling with in small business is your fixed cost relative to your variable cost.  That maps out your cash flow, and cash flow affects the capacity for your business to grow.  So paying a truckload of cash to people for someone like me in small business is not an option.  I have to have other levers I can pull because that is certainly nothing I can go to.  I don't know that very many people are 100% motivated by money anyway.  You are going to find a very small percentage of transactional people, often in trading industries, who are totally motivated by money and don't care about anything else.  In those businesses that probably works, but that is a very tiny microscopic amount of people.  Most people want more than money.  They want recognition.  They want status - that ego thing.  They want to feel that they are doing something worthwhile.  They are working like crazy.  Is this really worthwhile?  Am I valued?  Am I valued around my work environment for my professional effort?  That's very critical, it's not always about money.  Money is very important, but it's not the only thing.  You can't afford to pay them a truckload of money anyway most of the time.  How do you get people like this to be engaged?  That's what we are going to look at today.   One of the problems is engagement is a critical factor for innovation.  If people don't care, why would they innovate?  If people haven't signed on, what do they care if the process improves?  If we are doing the same things in the same way, we will get the same result.  If you wanted to have a better result, and I am absolutely certain that all of your bosses, and those of you running your own organization, you'll all want year-to-year, an improved result.  That represents a change.  Same thing; same result - no.  You want something different for a better result.  The problem is all of us are pretty resistant to change.  You'll find that your team are pretty resistant to change too, because they are in their comfort zone.  A change represents risk.  Is Japan a country where people are prone to take risks?  No.  And you're the leader.  You are going to take people who are risk resistant, risk obverse, with you on a journey into something new and untried before.  That's not so easy.  In some ways managing leading in Japan is quite a challenge for that reason.  You're probably like me - I catch the same train to work every day.  I stand in front of the same carriage door because at the other end the escalator is right there.  I take exactly the same route to work.  I eat at the same 20 restaurants.  I have a small group of friends I'm comfortable with.  We are all like that.  We've eliminated what's dangerous, what's costly, what's time inefficient.  We are effective around that.  The problem is we are asking for you to do something new.  So how do we get people to take a risk and take on the opportunity of something they haven't got today that's better?  It's not so easy.  This is another piece of bad news.  The training in most companies doesn't provide that.  It just doesn't work.  So you think, “I'm the leader and I've got the HR department there, or the training department there or the whiz bang sent from training, they'll take care of that for me”.  Well good luck with that one.  What you'll find is that most training does not do much more beyond information transmission.  But you are not interested in training as a mission, you are after transformation.  You want people out of that comfort zone. Take on something new and going on to the future of something better and brighter.  That's not information download, that's transformation.  Now training for the most part challenges.  If you're the boss and they say they've got training for your people, really look at it and ask yourself, the way that this curriculum is structured and the way this training is delivered, is it going to be a comfort zone expansion, or is it going to be a bunch of people sitting around, bored out of their minds, writing down, particularly in Japan, Sensei who just talks and talks and talks and talks until you're dead.  (Laughter)  Maybe that's not the model for transformation.  Maybe that's not the model for expanding comfort zones.  As a leader, look very carefully at what is happening in the training environment.  I meet senior leaders, a lot of them all day long because that's my job, prospecting, meeting the leaders.  I meet two types of leaders.  I have the leader type who doesn't care about the training, they only care about themselves.  You know, how's my bonus going?  How am I looking with operation on my company?  I'm not worried about anybody else so I don't care about their training.  That's one type of boss.  The other type of boss is they're very innocent.  Oh yeah, I want to know about the training, I want to make sure my people develop.  I want to see my people grow.  I know as they grow they've got to push me up the ladder to give me something bigger to run.  They are looking for leaders who can help people grow.  Dale Carnegie found a secret source in that long maturation period of developing his business and his training methodology.   He found how to get both information across to people and also transformation where he could span that comfort zone at the same time.  I asked headquarters, the Dale Carnegie University in the States.  I said, “Give me five years, all trainers, all training from the simplest module, two hours, to the most complicated product that we offer.  What's the average satisfaction rate?”  This is what came back.  When we look at this, think about your own environment.  How can you make sure that the development of your people has got that improvement capacity around your comfort zone?  If you don't expand their comfort zone, the information will go straight in here and go straight out there.  Who would like to have an opportunity to see your people grow?  If you have a good coach are you going to have bad people?  Probably not.  If the coach is very good, the coach is going to develop the people and you are going to get it improvement.  You are going to get progress.  The problem is, how do we get people to become good coaches?  How do you as a leader become a good coach?  What can you do to become better in your people skills, communication skills, and motivational skills with people to help them go forward?  In their growth is your success.  In their capacity to do more is your capacity to step up.  Every organization, particularly in this country in the last five years was screaming out for leadership.  They are screaming out for leadership for people who can take groups of people and make them more productive.  They are looking for leverage, they are looking for that ability to drive things up.  So trust me if you've got that capacity to help people grow, they will produce more and you will have a much bigger job, or a much bigger business or a much more successful organization.  They are all linked.  You might think, “My organization has got management systems, they've got an HR department.  It's all in place - I'm just painting my numbers.  I go and do the performance review and then we work out the bonuses.  It's all going to be great.  Well, good luck with that one.  Most management systems are archaic.  Basically it's a very old model and most HR departments, particularly in Japan, are way behind.  The concept in Japan HR is being a partner to the business, not be someone who is not ticking boxes, “We completed that.  That's done”, but actually growing the business, growing the people, is very remote in the HR industry in this country, today.  So if you're a leader and you're relying on them, good luck.  Maybe some information exchange, but there will be no transformation.  People will not grow.  The boxes will all be ticked.  People will go to the training.  They'll come back and they'll just be doing exactly what they've always been doing and that's got to be very frustrating for you. Now talk about engagement.  This is Charlie Ergen, chairman of DISH Networks, the meanest company in America.  It strikes fear into the employees.  I love this bit - staff clock in with a fingerprint scanner so HR knows if you are late.  How about we get that down at your shop?  Scan everybody's fingerprint when they come to work and see if they are late or not.  He says, “I don't hold myself up as a great manager”.  In that type of environment it's pretty harsh.  What do you think the engagement level is going to be like in that company?  Lower, right?  Pretty bad.  This is a bit closer home.  This is Carnival. I read this in a newspaper.  This lady in her 60's wasn't hitting her sales targets.  For punishment they got her to dress up in a bunny outfit.  She took them to court and she won.  She won in court.  The cost to Carnival wasn't the big settlement they had to pay her as a result of the judgment.  The cost to Carnival has been that type of environment, that type of mentality and what it does to motivation.  What it does to engagement.  And engagement leads directly to innovation.  So if you're not getting all of these things to line up, you've got a huge problem around taking your whole company forward.  This is a polling question we did. We did a survey, globally in 2012-13 looking at what drives engagement in people.  They came up with three things.  This is actually taken from a course we ran here a number of times in Japan, both with pure Japanese participants and sometimes Japanese and foreign mixed groups, asking these questions.  You see the highest ones have come out there: satisfaction with immediate managers, belief in senior leadership and pride in the organization.  Actually it completely validated and correlated with the result of the research.  We did research all over Japan, 1000 people here as well.  We found that these were the three things that actually triggered engagement.  Now they are very obvious.  Satisfaction with the immediate manager.  Like I've said before, if the immediate manager is a complete dork and the immediate manager has got very poor people skills, very poor communication skills, is very very technical and very useful but useless as far as motivating people, then the engagement level is going to be low.  If they are not communicating properly, the people are not going to have faith in where the senior management is taking the organization, and this becomes an issue.  People don't sign on for the journey if they don't know why the journey is important.  This often happens in organizations.  The suite at the top of the building, the penthouse sort of the executive suite, the top floor with the gorgeous looking receptionist in the short skirts and the beautiful flower arrangement and the quiet - you can hear a pin drop.  There's plenty of executive suites like that in Japan and you've probably seen them - I've seen plenty.  People at that level are all thinking our vision, our mission, our values are understood by everybody in the organization.  And we are like a huge ship sailing together in the same direction and we're all onboard and we're all good.  The reality though is that the belief in senior leadership is weak.  Why is it weak?  Maybe because of people like you.  I look around here and a lot of you are probably middle managers.  You are in some level of leadership position in your company.  You are absorbing like rain all this information from above, but you're like a concrete floor on a building - none of it goes through.  You tell people the ‘what' and you may tell people the ‘how' but you forget to tell them the ‘why'.  Or maybe you're not even getting the why from the guys above.  All you're getting is ‘what' and ‘how' as well.  It's very hard to get people to believe in senior leadership if they don't know why we are doing this - they're not signed on.  So don't forget to tell people the why of what you're doing.  The last one there is pride in the organization.  Sometimes in organizations people try to use an ‘us and them' technique.  So it's ‘us, our workgroup, against them, the rest of the organization'.  “Oh those people in logistics my goodness gracious me they're hopeless.  Marketing, oh no, what are they doing down there?  Nothing ever works, I never get any leads.  Those sales people, they couldn't sell anything.  They are the most useless bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.”  Everybody is whinging and bitching about everybody else.  They are all blaming everybody else.  And sometimes the leaders, some leaders, encourage this.  We're good - they're bad.  They are talking about their own organization.  The bad should be the competitor.  We're all good, they're bad.  But no, they kill the pride in the organization because they have a very poor understanding of their communication or people skills, how to drive motivation in their organization, how to pull people there.  Their role as an amplifier, as a conduit, is a microphone to broadcast what the top leadership is thinking and why they are thinking that.  Don't miss that opportunity in your current role to make that happen. So this is a great quote from a Canadian.  I got a Canadian quote here particularly because it's McGill.  I don't know this guy.  Do you know this guy?  BanneckNezascrem?  I don't know about him, but he must be famous in Canada I presume.  I'll read this just quickly, “Fear doesn't work - it shuts down the emotional level.”  That is a very key piece. “Power of persuasion, be sincere, honest, prepared.  Your power is psychological.”  This is critical stuff.  Now this is great insight from a conductor of an orchestra.  When we did our research on what drives motivation and engagement, we found that a key trigger was an emotional reaction - “I feel valued.  I feel valued by my team and my boss.”  That simple emotional trigger was a starting point for people to feel more inspired about what they were doing, a bit more enthusiastic.  Put a bit more effort into it.  Empowered, feeling trusted that they can take a risk, they can try something new.  They can take a suggestion, they can lead a project.  Also related to their confidence, which comes back to that sense of empowerment so don't miss that.  If you're a cold, hard, technical skill person thinking technical skills is everything you are going to miss the fact that your people, that's not enough.  They may respect you as a technical expert or they still may think you're a dork and they don't want to work hard for you and they can't wait until you get fired so they can get somebody else who is better.  That's what they are thinking.  A trigger to engagement is that starting point of being valued.  How do we feel valued?  I'm going to go through a couple of the Dale Carnegie principles that he came up with on how to build people skills and build better relationships with each other.  All of these things are very simple to understand.  They are common sense but they are not common practice, which is the problem - to get even praise and honest appreciation. Hands up.  Last week who had a conversation with their boss where their boss began that conversation with praise to you and honest appreciation for your efforts?  Please put your hand up.  (Laughter)  Two people.  Started the conversation, not you.  This is the point - in a time poor, busy life, we're all truncating and shortening everything.  We've got technology with us 24-hours a day now, so it's go go go - there's never a break.  So often because we are time poor we forget the human part.  It might be something like, “Phil where's that report?”  That's how it starts, as opposed to, “Phil, thank you very much for your contribution in the meeting on Wednesday.  I thought that was great.  You brought up a point that we hadn't considered.  By the way, (laughter) how's that report coming along?”  Which conversation would you rather have?  The first one or the second one?  We'd all rather have the second one but we forget that to have the second one because we're time poor.  “Where's your report?  What happened to that project?  Where are we in the budget?  Where are the sales?  Why are these numbers so low?”  That's what happens.  We get this truncated conversation which forgets this bit.  Think about your conversations with your colleagues and with your subordinates if you've got a team.  Try and start from a different approach.  That's principle number 22.  Here's another one.  Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing others.  Often the people who are working for us are younger or less experienced then we are.  That's generally why we are the boss.  We've done more, seen more, been there, different things.  We forget that we were their age at their stage in their careers.  We presume they should know what we know at our stage, when their stage is here.  So we get straight into, “you made a mistake.  That was wrong.  Look, you left this out.  This report is rubbish.”  You're straight into it.  But think about when you were coming through.  How did you learn, all of us, how did we learn?  What did we do to learn?  We made mistakes, didn't we?  We are all the sum product of every mistake we've ever made.  Because that's how we got knowledge, insight and how we learnt.  But we suspend that generosity to ourselves when we deal with our peers and our subordinates and we criticize.  You might want to say, “you know what, I remember when I was first in this department and I was given the task of writing the report, I struggled.  It was really hard and my boss had to really help me a lot to make it ship-shape, make it correct.”  Talk about how you weren't perfect - that is a great emotion.  If you're like, “I'm mister or miss perfect.  Be like me and you'll be good”, that's a hard act to maintain.  If you are shy and you are a human being, you are not perfect.  People find that easy to follow.  If you're like that, like that fist, and you cannot penetrate and be one with that fist-this is what you want, together, but you can't be together like that, it doesn't work. You've got to relax, open up, show some vulnerability.  This is a good place to start.  Now this is very very critical - this is principle number 25 in Dale Carnegie's principles.  There are 30 of them, human relations principles.  Don't miss this one.  Most of us have grown up in business, being a part of being told what to do.  That's how we learned.  On the job training is the default training mechanism in Japan.  So you've got some mediocre or crap senior sent by, teaching you.  Then you do the same to the next generation and the next generation and the next generation.  It's like pass the parcel type of thing.  Ask questions.  Why would we ask questions instead of just telling people what to do?   We are time poor, why not just tell them what to do?  Why should we ask questions?  What do you think?  Why should we ask questions?  What's in it for us?  Yeah.  What do you think? Participant:  New ideas? Greg: Generates new ideas.  What else? Participant:  It stimulates the memory because they have to come up with it on their own? Greg:  Yes, it stimulates their recall of that piece of memory because now they have ownership.  That key word is ownership.  When you tell them, you own it.  When you invite them to self-discover it, they do.  What we found in training is that when we invite people to self, discover they have permanent learning.  It's the same in learning - if you can get people to self-discover, you will have people sign on, own what they need to do and not forget what they need to do.  So that's a very critical phase.  This is also important, praising the slightest improvement.  When we ask people to step out of their comfort zone, it's very scary.  People worry, “I might make a mistake or I might get criticized, or I might feel scared.”  Don't wait until the end of the project or the end of the program to reward them.  It's like, “I'll save it up for Christmas.  I'll put it all in the Christmas bag and I'll bring all the presents out once a year.”  Every time you see someone step-up, recognize them.  That gives them confidence to try a little bit further, because they are hesitant.  They are watching you.  Before I make a mistake are you going to come down on me?  I love this show, give me ideas, I can implement them.  And then Bam!  You whack them down when it doesn't go perfectly.  Don't do that.  Look for the opportunities to help them grow.  Same thing here.  When they've got a problem, often they are overwhelmed - “I can't do this, it's beyond me.  I'm lost.”  You've got to give them hope and use encouragement to make the fault seem like it is scalable.  You can do this, this will work.  Don't forget to give that positive feedback to them and keep that motivation and keep trying.  Often people will just go statistics, I don't like statistics.  I can't do it.  Then the lecturer will give you some encouragement that shows you can do it and then eventually you do it.  Same thing in your business.  This is critical - if you own it, you've got to drive it.  What you want is for them to own it.  If they are happy to do the thing that you suggest, they will take it and run with it.  Delegate things to people.  I heard a great quote the other day.  “Most people don't delegate.  They are in the boat and they are paddling like crazy.  They are so busy paddling, they didn't walk over and turn on the engine in the boat.”  T322hat engine is your people.  That engine is your subordinates who've got the capacity to drive the power to really make that boat go fast.  But you're too busy paddling, because you are doing it all yourself.  So getting people happy to do the thing that you suggest is critical around delegation.  But most delegation is dumping - “Phil, here's the report.  I want it tomorrow.”  Walk away.  Seagull management, right?  Squawks a lot, plop and leaves.  (Laughter)  So what you want is to get them involved, explain the why, get them signed on, have the ownership and they will absorb the delegation and they will run with it. Here's a bonus point for you in addition to Dale Carnegie's principles.  This is in terms of giving some follow-up to people after they have done a project all the way through.  We often call it feedback.  And I'm calling it calling it “feed forward”.  What we are looking for here is two streams of comment.  Tell people what they are doing that was good and then tell them how to do it better.  Often you hear, “You've got to critique them!  We are here to critique you.”  What do we do when we critique?  We spend all that time in the past, talking about something that we cannot change.  If you go in there going forward, “feed forward”, you're talking about what's working for them.  Sometimes people won't know what's working, they aren't aware of it.  Tell them, “You know what, this is really good”.  “Oh, I didn't know that.  Ok, I'll keep doing that.”  That's good to reinforce the positive they have and then the better part is the future.  We are not worried about what happened in the past now. We are on the front foot going forward.  It's all very positive and minimum.  So “feed forward” is a very powerful mechanism for you to take people with you on a journey, using your people skills, using your communication.  We've only got a limited amount of time.  We are about to go into Q&A shortly.  Think about your technical skills versus your people skills.  Think about what you can do to make things work for you.  If you would like to get more information or you are looking for more help, go to japan.dalecarnegie.com - that's the English site.  There's a mirror Japanese site.  There's lots of free stuff for you.  The Dale Carnegie principles are all there, you can download them.  You've got white papers, guidebooks, 250 videos, 60 odd podcasts, .  numerous blogs - there's a lot of practical stuff.  This is not anything that you are going to get at McGill because McGill is operating at a much more academic and higher macro level.  This is the nitty gritty practical, daily, immediate use stuff compiled into one place.  If you get a chance, go and have a look at that.  This isn't the stuff that you are going to wait until after your MBA and say, “ok now I can use it, now I am in a power position”.  You are going to use it now, wherever you are right now it will work for you.  Let me open it up for questions. Participant:  When, a lot of managers use these kind of things, engagement, being on the lower echelons what I tend to hear comes out almost negative and patronizing and the term double speak just kind of pops up.  You know you're not doing very well but the company is just like, “how can we give you a raise?”  People don't like that.  A lot of this does work, I agree with it, but there are some people that hate that kind of speech.  What would you do in these kind of situations? Greg:  The question was about congruency between the content of the message and the delivery of the message.  When you are getting feedback from the boss, but your crap detector goes off because it doesn't sound quite right to you, that's because there is not a congruency between the two.  The first part is kokoro gami in Japanese - your starting point of your intention.  If your real intention is to snow people and tell them a bunch of words, you'll get that reaction.  If your real intention is to help people, you'll speak from the heart and it will be congruent and they will follow.  Reading a blog article or reading a book or TED lecture or something, taking the superficial and then parlaying that into a conversation is still superficial.  We are not stupid - we spot crap so quickly.  So my answer to that question is, speak from the heart and speak truly about how to help that person.  When they receive that communication, they'll realize it's sincere.  You see it there in the Dale Carnegie principles - it's sincere, it's honest.  All those words are critical because fake praise or that type of fakery doesn't work because we are just way too smart always.  Don't use it yourself.  Speak from the heart.  You might have to say something hard and something corrective.  But if you say it in the right way with the right intention, with good communication, the person will receive it without resistance.  That's the skill.  That's the people skill, the communication skill.  And that's a trained skill.  This is not something we are innately born with.  That's why you have organizations, which are 102 years old around the world and 51 years in Japan like Dale Carnegie.  There is a never ending need for those sorts of skills, and we need to develop those.  Who has the next question?  Yes, please. Participant:  I think soft communication, all this stuff looks good to me.  But what I see in day by day life, when one person or one leader tries to do it like that, he has to take charge with some harsh word or something.  That's what normally happens - that harsh person will become a leader.  What I mean to say that, being softer will not move you up.  The surrounding people will have the same level of knowledge. Greg:  So the question is, if I give truckloads of whip to people and no sweeties, I'm going straight to the top?  Well, it doesn't work in business because the person who is brutal with other people will only get a certain compliance.  They won't get the innovative ideas.  They won't get the extra mile.  They won't get people to back them and support them.  Everyone is hoping they are going to self-destruct and disappear.  Being a leader doesn't mean being a pushover.  It does mean holding people to account.  If I've delegated a task to you, and you screw it up or you don't do it, it doesn't mean going, “Oh, you didn't do the task.  That's all right, I'll do it.”  No, it means you hold them to account.  You come back and you check.  Has this been done properly?  “How's it going?”  You actually get involved in the solution.  Because you are recognizing that certain people need that kind of help.  “How's it going?”  It's not a matter of being a pushover - it's a matter of communicating with people in a way that's effective about getting the task done in a way which doesn't kill their motivation.  And again, this communication piece is not necessarily something that's going to be there just because you speak the language you speak, whatever you're native or mother tongue may be.  This takes work, takes training.  This takes skill, takes brainpower to think about how you are going to sculpt that conversation in a way that will help that person to overcome a mistake, not be totally discouraged.  Give them hope, but still hold them accountable.  That's the balance.  So it's not such a simple black/white thing as be sweet or be mean.  It's actually be professional but have a good communication balance that helps people to feel encouraged to keep trying and also you keep them accountable, keep them on track.  Who has the next question?  Participant:  Thank you for the presentation.  My question is, is there any way to use performance measurement? Greg:  The question is about performance measurement.  It could be performance measurement for a training company or performance measurement for a team.  Often we'll use surveys for that.  We'll do a pre-survey - a temperature check on how that person is doing as a leader.  We will then, from that, customize a program for that person or people, depending on who your organization is.  Deliver it.  And then take a temperature check again.  One of the things that we notice, though, is quite unique I think about the system that Dale Carnegie came up with is the practicality and the immediacy of time space learning which is what you are doing, basically.  Every week you are here, during the week you are practicing, developing and polishing.  We do the same thing.  Between the classes, people get a chance to practice these real world principles with others and see how they work.  To get that feedback and then come back and report and then it's that plan, do, act ‘kaizen' type of idea.  What we notice is, we have an 8-week course called the Dale Carnegie course.  What we notice is by week 4, week 5, people really start to take off.  At the initial part they are a bit skeptical - “This stuff looks pretty simplistic.  I don't think it's really going to work.”  Then they try it and this is what we hear - “I can never get my colleague to help me, he's always too busy.  I used this principle and this principle, I couldn't believe it.  My colleague changed.  You can't believe it!  My boss took me to lunch!  The boss never takes anybody to lunch!  Oh I used this principle and we had this sort of conversation.”  Like Warren Buffet - it changes lives because it is immediate and practical.  And it's got a no time-wait disadvantage to it.  I think we are just about at time for this.  As I said before if you would like to have the slides, hopefully the video works or at least the audio will work, I am happy to give it to you.  I brought lots of meishi today, so if you want to give me, hit me with a meishi.  Or even receive my meishi and hit me with an email - I'll send it out to you.  Thank you very much for your attention… (Applause)  

Ep199 Got Faded Japan PodcastJohnny remembers faded comedians of the past while Shank finds himself in a bubble-era hotel. SDF pilot attempts to skirt up-skirt, Japanese millionaire fathers 13 in Thailand, girl’s corpse found in cardboard box, yaks admit to dismembering body and burying parts in home flooring, duo jump to deaths from Todai station platform, knife-wielding man nicks ¥180K from Shinagawa hotel, and Wakayama man pins panties to ladies cars.The Got Faded Japan Podcast gives listeners a glimpse of the seedy side of Japan's news, culture, politics, parties, and all around mischief and mayhem. Hosted by Johnny and Shank who add their own opinions and otherwise drunken bullshit to the mix. Send us an email on FB/twitter/instagram @ Got Faded Japan, gotfadedjapan@gmail.com or go to gotfadedjapan.com to buy a t-shirt to support the show. Or hell man, just tell a friend & post a link to keep this pod rolllin' Fader! Kanpai mofos!

Read the full story with photos at: https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/company/globalnews/2014/0304_01.html   A glass-clad tower that reflects the sky is Otsuka Osaka’s unique and innovative presence that is now the new office for Otsuka group companies in Japan’s second largest city. This new building with unprecedented construction method with window frames function as load-bearing pillars, eliminating pillars throughout the office areas and creating unique open and airy spaces, was designed to bring out the best from a diverse group of employees. Instead of the common approach of straight beams located inside windows, Otsuka’s new office building employs crossed, slanted beams for increased strength also functioning as seismic control structures. Incorporating the windows into the beams makes the office more spacious and inviting. Pillars have been placed diagonally for increased strength and incorporated into the window frames to make the workspaces larger and easier to use. The generous expanse of glass reflects the sky, resulting in a bright, translucent presence. The innovative design is characterized by glass extending all the way to the corners. The bright open space is to allow each individual the freedom to utilize his or her own unique creative instincts to come up with innovative ideas and products. We expect our new workplace to generate flexible thinking and original ideas, freed from conventional stereotypes. Old Boys’ (Old Girls’) Club is another area where creative juices can be exchanged without the seriousness of a conference room. OB Club first opened its doors at the Tokyo headquarters in Kanda in 1986. Less than a year later, Osaka office opened its own. To continue the idea of offering a relaxing space for employees to gather, a new OB Club was added in the Shinagawa office in 2007. With the opening of the new office is Osaka, the former Osaka OB Club was replaced with a new one. Otsuka believes that utilizing the talents of a diverse group of individuals who are not constrained by nationality, gender, or other prejudices promotes innovation and globalization, and Otsuka will therefore continue its efforts to create an employee-friendly work environment. This is Otsuka Group’s second office building in Osaka. Atop Osaka’s first Otsuka office building, still in use, is the upside down map that can be seen from the new building. Chairman Otsuka had come across an artist who depicted the world map upside down. That was when it struck him that Otsuka needs to view the world in a totally new way, other than how it has always been depicted. It is to remind Otsuka employees to think differently rather than to follow the convention that this map is prominently displayed on top of the building.

Read the full article with photos at: https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/company/globalnews/2013/0315_01.html   The March 15th, 2013 event kicked off as fish of all sizes swam in an aquarium in Shinagawa, Japan, while a professor of ophthalmology, Shigeru Kinoshita, from Kyoto talked about the essence of dry eye and about its latest treatment. An Aquarium was chosen as the site for this seminar, so that the participants were able to understand what dry eye is and to learn about the similarities and differences between the eyes of fish and humans. The body surfaces of a fish, including its eyes, are covered with mucous membranes. In contrast, during the course of evolution, the body surfaces of humans keratinized from mucous membranes into layers of skin, which is more tolerant to dryness. The surface of human eyes, however, has remained as mucous membranes in order to retain its transparency and smooth, hairless nature. A layer of tears on top of mucous membranes covering eye surfaces are what protects the eyes from dryness. Healthy, normal mucous membranes and mucous play important roles in keeping the tears clean, as in neat and smooth rather than hygienic clean. Professor Kinoshita pointed out that dry eye is not just about quantity of tear fluid. The eyes sense 'dryness', 'gritty/sandy sensation', 'pain', and discomfort, because mucin, which is one of the tear components, decreases and the ocular mucous membrane becomes irritated. Japan is a leading nation when it comes to the treatment of dry eye, says Professor Kinoshita. Until recently, available medications only affected the quality of tears, but now a more proactive dry eye medication is available that can treat both mucin and the mucous membrane.