Japanese Manhole Covers: Drainspotting Adventure & Factory Tour ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Manhole covers are trending high in Japan and for good reason -- they're stunning! Only in Japan are manholes to cover sewage designed so beautifully that they now make MANHOLE TRADING CARDS! (Travel around Japan and collect them all. They're free!) The craze is real, folks.
There's even a new word for manhole enthusiasts: MANHOLERS
In this episode, John travels around the country as a manholer in search of Japan's best designs. He also visits Nagashima Imono Casting Factory where manhole covers are made and finds out why they have designs and are painted. He also visits the Manhole Summit for the latest news and designs.
FACTS ABOUT JAPANESE MANHOLE COVERS:
★ They were a way after WWII (World War 2) for Japan to spread the importance of its new sewer system project.
★ Okinawa (Naha city) was the first designed manhole in 1977. It had fish on it.
★ Now 95 % of all municipalities in Japan have customized manhole covers.
★ There are over 12,000 designs around Japan!
★ Manhole covers are sometimes painted for commemorative covers or for inside areas without vehicles like shopping arcades and parks. The paint used is a top secret mixture.
★ Designs represent local culture, history, mascots or sports teams: things citizens are proud of.
About Manhole Cards:
The cards are free and you have to physically go to each location to get one. It's first come, first serve.
Where To get the cards?
Here is a list of the distribution locations around Japan translated into English:
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(Book) Manhole: Japanese culture and history represented by the design / マンホール:意匠があらわす日本の文化と歴史
By Hidetoshi Ishii 石井英俊
Nagashima Casting 長島鋳物
Manhole Summit (held annually in January)
We Distribute Manhole Card
Kitami City, Hokkaido
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Special thanks to Ishii-san, Nagashima-san, Saito-san in Aomori and the Kodaira City Staff and the Museum of Sewage!
This show has been created and produced by John Daub ジョン・ドーブ. He's been living and working in Japan for over 18 years and regularly reports on TV for Japan's International Channel.
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Hidenori Onishi - IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame
Hidenori Onishi
1934 - 1998
2006 Inductee
Hidenori Onishi was a conservationist, a well-respected fisherman, and an influential leader in recreational angling. As a child, Onishi fished in Japan's countryside. After graduating from Keio University with a degree in economics and attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota, he returned to Japan where he established a successful real estate business. And he also returned to fishing, though some 30 years later it was the sea that lured him. The Japanese take their big-game fishing very seriously, and Hank Onishi became one of its most zealous enthusiasts. In 1978 he competed in his first Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament (HIBT), where he landed a 593 lb Pacific blue marlin and earned the award for individual high scorer. When Onishi revisited the Tournament in the early 1980s, he brought with him a prototype of the sportfishing bird. The technique was immediately embraced, and fishing with teasers was quickly adopted by offshore trollers throughout the world. Hank Onishi was a pioneer at home as well, the first person to troll Japanese waters for pelagic species in his private fishing boat. But Hidenori Onishi is best known as the long-time Chairman of the Japan Game Fish Association (JGFA). Impressed with the IGFA rules used in the 1978 HIBT, and with the organization itself, he envisioned a similar body in Japan to promote the sport and the angling opportunities in the country. Just one year later, with the cooperation and guidance of Hawaii's Peter Fithian, Onishi, Ryuzo Nishikawa and Junzo Okada founded the Japan Game Fish Association in the heart of Tokyo. The organization's mission, according to their first announcement, was to promote the development and raise the level of salt water sports fishing in Japan ... [and to] encourage the preservation and conservation of oceanic sportsfish by conducting and sponsoring ... research ... From the beginning, the JGFA kept records of catches made in Japan using the same system as the IGFA. But they did much, much more. Chairman Onishi was a formidable and vocal proponent of marine conservation, and of tag-and-release fishing in particular. In October 1985 JGFA began a tag-and-release program that to date has resulted in the successful tagging of more than 100,000 game fish of 65 species, and the re-capture of more than 1,000 of those tagged fish. The organization has always worked closely with the Fisheries Agency of Japan (in 1994 Onishi was selected to serve on their Ocean Utilization Council) and with Japanese commercial fishing interests, recognizing that coexistence is essential to the future of recreational angling in the country. And he was extremely optimistic about the future: Nowadays, our younger big-game anglers are more interested in the sport itself and in the ethics of the sport, he said in 1992. Their view is that unless it's really an exceptional catch, there's no justification for killing a fish simply for the sake of establishing a record -- and, of course, they're absolutely right. Hidenori Onishi became an IGFA Trustee in 1989. The first person from Asia selected to serve on the Board, he traveled throughout that continent promoting recreational angling, and in 1990 helped establish -- and served as director of -- the Asia Game Fishing Federation. In 1992 he became chairman of the newly-established Japan Pleasure Boat Fishing Federation, and in 1996 he was honored with IGFA's prestigious E. K. Harry Fellowship Award. Hidenori Onishi dedicated his life to the Japan Game Fish Association and served as its distinguished chairman until his death in 1998. That year, membership reached 3,500 (from 80 original members). In a letter that appeared in the 1992 JGFA Yearbook, IGFA President Elwood K. Harry offered his praise: JGFA has developed into a model fishing organization for other countries ... to study ... on how sport fishermen can band together not only to serve anglers, but to develop fishery management and conservation programs so vital for the future of sport fishing. For his deep personal commitment to game fish resources, for his ferventdedication to both JGFA and IGFA, and for his enduring love of the sport, Hidenori Onishi will be remembered.
Japan Trip: Looking at the Lafcadio Hearn Former Residence in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Japan Trip: Looking back in History at the Lafcadio Hearn Former Residence in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
【★009★Shimane Matsue Lafcadio Hearn's Former Residence】
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Within the samurai town of Matsue City in Shimane Prefecture, visitors can visit the former residence of Lafcadio Hearn, one of the first western authors on Japanese culture. His former residence is now opened to the public.
Though Lafcadio Hearn was born in Greece, his Matsue home was traditionally Japanese. The exterior is the then typical strong Japanese gate while on the other side of the gate is a traditional Japanese garden. Visitors can explore through his home, examining the hanging scrolls in the tatami rooms.
Lafcadio arrived in Japan in 1890. During his time here, he married a Japanese lady and became a naturalized Japanese citizen, taking the name Koizumi Yakumo. Among his works are “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan” and Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. For a deeper understanding of Lafcadio Hearn, there is a museum next to his residence, with collections on both his work and Lafcadio Hearn, the person.
Hours: 8:30 to 18:30 (until 17:00 from October to March)
Last entry is 20 minutes before the closing time.
Closed: Opened all Year Round
Admission: 300 yen each for the museum and residence (50% off for foreign tourists)
1160 yen (also includes Matsue Castle and samurai residence)
920 yen (three sites of your choice: museum, residence, castle or samurai residence)
Access Information: Lafcadio Hearn's former residence is located in the samurai district, north of Matsue Castle.
From Matsue's train stations, please board the. Lake Line loop bus
Caught! Human Fishing School - AYLP Japan 2012
Visit to Human Fishing School.
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Curious Holes In The Stone at a Japan Shinto Shrine
Shinto is one of the two major religions of Japan (the other is Buddhism). Shinto is often considered to be the native religion of Japan, and is as old as Japan itself. The name Shinto means the way of the gods. Shinto is a pantheistic religion, in which many thousands of major and minor gods are thought to exist. The Japanese have built thousands of shrines (jinja) throughout the country to honor and worship these gods. Some shrines are huge and are devoted to important deities. Other shrines are small and may be easily missed when strolling along roads in the countryside.
Shinto gods are called kami. Kami are thought to have influence on human affairs, and for this reason many Japanese make regular pilgrimage to community shrines in order to offer prayers to local kami. The act of prayer involves approaching the shrine structure, passing through the gate-like torii, cleansing the hands and mouth with water and possibly ascending stairs to the main entrance of the shrine. Usually without entering the shrine the worshipper will throw some coins into a stone or wooden collection box and then rattle the suzu bell which is at the top of a long hemp rope. The worshiper grabs hold of the rope and shakes it back and forth causing the copper bell at the top to rattle. This is thought to get the attention of the shrine god. The worshipper then bows twice, claps his or her hands twice and then bows again. In addition, the worshipper may clasp their hands together in silent prayer. Shintoism and Buddhism have managed to find a comfortable coexistence in Japan. Evidence of this harmonious relationship is found in the fact that that most Japanese are married in a Shinto shrine, but buried by a Buddhist priest.
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Stacked Stones at a Japan Shinto Shrine
Shinto is one of the two major religions of Japan (the other is Buddhism). Shinto is often considered to be the native religion of Japan, and is as old as Japan itself. The name Shinto means the way of the gods. Shinto is a pantheistic religion, in which many thousands of major and minor gods are thought to exist. The Japanese have built thousands of shrines (jinja) throughout the country to honor and worship these gods. Some shrines are huge and are devoted to important deities. Other shrines are small and may be easily missed when strolling along roads in the countryside.
Shinto gods are called kami. Kami are thought to have influence on human affairs, and for this reason many Japanese make regular pilgrimage to community shrines in order to offer prayers to local kami. The act of prayer involves approaching the shrine structure, passing through the gate-like torii, cleansing the hands and mouth with water and possibly ascending stairs to the main entrance of the shrine. Usually without entering the shrine the worshipper will throw some coins into a stone or wooden collection box and then rattle the suzu bell which is at the top of a long hemp rope. The worshiper grabs hold of the rope and shakes it back and forth causing the copper bell at the top to rattle. This is thought to get the attention of the shrine god. The worshipper then bows twice, claps his or her hands twice and then bows again. In addition, the worshipper may clasp their hands together in silent prayer. Shintoism and Buddhism have managed to find a comfortable coexistence in Japan. Evidence of this harmonious relationship is found in the fact that that most Japanese are married in a Shinto shrine, but buried by a Buddhist priest.
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