#Nichi everyday

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Japanese words about "time"

< second : 秒（びょう/byo) >

one second : 一秒（いちびょう/ichi-byo)　→More!

for one second : 一秒間（いちびょうかん/ichi-byo-kan)

several seconds : 数秒（すうびょう/su-byo)

5 meters per second : 秒速５メートル(びょうそく5メートル/byo-soku go-mētoru)

< minute : 分（ふん/fun) >

one minute : 一分（いっぷん/ippun)　→More!

several minutes : 数分（すうふん/su-fun)

for one minute : 一分間（いっぷんかん/ippun-kan)

Wait a minute. : ちょっと待って（ちょっとまって/Chotto matte.)

*Because Japanese people are very punctual, if you say "Wait 'a minute:ippun'", maybe we think you'll really come back within 2 minutes. So it's better to say "ちょっと(chotto)：a little”.

< hour : 時間（じかん/jikan) >

for one hour : 一時間（いちじかん/ichi-jikan) →More!

several hours : 数時間（すうじかん/su-jikan)

How many hours does it take from Tokyo to Osaka by Shinkansen？；

東京から大阪まで新幹線で何時間かかりますか？

とうきょうから おおさかまで しんかんせんで なんじかん かかりますか？

Tokyo-kara Osaka-made Shinkansende nan-jikan kakari-masuka?

It takes 2 and a half to 3 hours: 2時間半から3時間かかります（にじかんはんからさんじかんかかります/Ni-jikan-han-kara san-jikan kakari-masu.)

< time : 時刻（じこく/jikoku) >

one o'clock : 一時（いちじ/ichi-ji)

two o'clock : 二時（にじ/ni-ji)

three o'clock : 三時（さんじ/san-ji)

four o'clock : 四時（よじ/yo-ji) 　×よんじ

five o'clock : 五時（ごじ/go-ji)

six o'clock :六時（ろくじ/roku-ji)

seven o'clock : 七時（しちじ/shiji-ji or ななじ/nana-ji)

eight o'clock : 八時（はちじ/hachi-ji)

nine o'clock : 九時（くじ/ku-ji) 　×きゅうじ

ten o'clock : 十時（じゅうじ/ju-ji)

eleven o'clock : 十一時（じゅういちじ/ju-ichi-ji)

twelve o'clock : 十二時（じゅうにじ/ju-ni-ji)

a.m. : 午前（ごぜん/gozen)

p.m. : 午後（ごご/gogo)

morning : 朝（あさ/asa)

noon : 正午（しょうご/shogo) 、昼の１２時(ひるのじゅうにじ/hiruno ju-ni-ji)

*We say "昼（ひる/hiru)" for around noon - afternoon.

evening : 夕方(ゆうがた/yugata)

*It depens on the person, but I mean around 16:00 - 18:59 by 夕方（ゆうがた/yugata).

night : 夜（よる/yoru)

*It depends on the person, but I mean after 19:00 by 夜(よる/yoru).

What time is it now? : 今は何時ですか？(いまはなんじですか？/Imawa nanji desuka?)

It's 9:30 at night. : 夜の9時半です(よるのくじはんです/Yoruno kuji-han desu.)

It's 7:45 in the morning. : 朝の７時45分です（あさのしちじよんじゅうごふんです/Asano shichi-ji yonju-go-fun desu.)

*We usually say "shichi-ji" for 7:00 and say "nana-ji" only when we want to emphasize that it's 7:00 and not 1:00.

< day : 日（にち/nichi) >

one day : 一日（いちにち/ichi-nichi)　→ More！

half day : 半日（はんにち/han-nichi)

everyday : 毎日（まいにち/mai-nichi)

today : 今日（きょう/kyo) or 本日（ほんじつ/hon-jitsu)

tomorrow : 明日（あした/ashita or あす/asu)

the day after tomorrow : 明後日（あさって/asatte or みょうごにち/myo-go-nichi)

two days after tomorrow : 明明後日(しあさって/shiasatte or みょうみょうごにち/myo-myo-gonichi)

yesterday : 昨日（きのう/kino or さくじつ/saku-jitsu)

the day before yesterday : 一昨日（おととい/ototoi or いっさくじつ/issaku-jitsu)

two days before yesterday : 一昨昨日（さきおととい/saki-ototoi or いっさくさくじつ/issaku-saku-jitsu)

three days later : 三日後（みっかご/mikka-go)

five days before : 五日前（いつかまえ/itsuka-mae)

< date : 日付（ひづけ/hizuke) >

1st day of each month : 一日（ついたち/tsuitachi)　→More!

January 1st : 一月一日（いちがつついたち/Ichi-gatsu tsuitachi)

What is the date today? : 今日は何月何日ですか？（きょうはなんがつなんにちですか？/Kyowa nan-gatsu nan-nichi desuka?)

＊You can ask just ”今日は何日ですか？（きょうはなんにちですか？/Kyowa nan-nichi desuka?)" if you don't need month.

*You can ask "今日は何年何月何日ですか？（きょうはなんねんなんがつなんにちですか？/Kyowa nan-nen nan-gatsu nan-nichi desuka?)" if you need year, too.

When is your birthday? : あなたの誕生日はいつですか？（あなたのたんじょうびは、いつですか？/Anatano tanjobiwa itsu desuka?)

It's December 30th. : 12月30日です（じゅうにがつさんじゅうにちです/Ju-ni-gatsu san-ju-nichi desu.)

< week : 週（しゅう/shu) >

one week : 一週間（いっしゅうかん/isshukan)　→More!

every week : 毎週（まいしゅう/mai-shu)

every two weeks : 隔週（かくしゅう/kaku-shu)

this week : 今週（こんしゅう/kon-shu)

next week : 来週（らいしゅう/rai-shu)

the week after next : 再来週（さらいしゅう/sa-raishu)

last week : 先週（せんしゅう/sen-shu)

the week before last : 先々週（せんせんしゅう/sen-sen-shu)

the 2nd week of next month : 来月の第二週（らいげつのだいにしゅう/rai-getsuno dai-ni-shu)

< day of the week : 曜日（ようび/yobi) >

Please remember kanji "月火水木金土日” and the pronunciation "Getsu-Ka-Sui-Moku-Kin-Do-Nichi" in the right order. "ようび(Yobi)" is also said as just "よう(yo)", like "げつよう(Getsu-yo)", and we often even omit ようび(yobi) when we talk, like "土日(Do-Nichi):weekend" or "月水金(Getsu-Sui-Kin or Gessuikin):Mon, Wed, Fri".

Monday : 月曜日（げつようび/Getsu-yobi)

Tuesday : 火曜日（��ようび/Ka-yobi)

Wednesday : 水曜日（すいようび/Sui-yobi)

Thursday : 木曜日（もくようび/Moku-yobi)

Friday : 金曜日（きんようび/Kin-yobi)

Saturday : 土曜日（どようび/Do-yobi)

Sunday : 日曜日（にちようび/Nichi-yobi)

Weekday : 平日（へいじつ/hei-jitsu)

Weekend : 週末（しゅうまつ/Shu-matsu)

What day is today? : 今日は何曜日ですか？（きょうはなんようびですか？/Kyowa nan-yobi desuka?)

Tomorrow is Sunday so I have the day off: 明日は日曜日だから、私は休みです（あしたはにちようびだから、わたしはやすみです/Ashitawa Nichi-yobi dakara, watashiwa yasumi desu.)

< month : 月（つき/tsuki) >

one month : 一か月（いっかげつ/ikkagetsu）or ひと月(hito-tsuki)

two months : 二か月（にかげつ/ni-kagetsu) or ふた月(futa-tsuki)

three months : 三か月（さんかげつ/san-kagetsu) or み月(mi-tsuki)

Beyond that, we usually use ”かげつ(kagetsu)" and hardly use "つき(tsuki)" which is the old way of counting.

→More!

January : 一月（いちがつ/Ichi-gatsu)

February : 二月（にがつ/Ni-gatsu)

March : 三月（さんがつ/San-gatsu)

April : 四月（しがつ/Shi-gatsu)

May : 五月（ごがつ/Go-gatsu)

June : 六月（ろくがつ/Roku-gatsu)

July : 七月（しちがつ/Shichi-gatsu or なながつ/Nana-gatsu)

*We usually say "shichi-gatsu" for July and say "nana-gatsu" only when we want to emphasize that it's July and not January(Ichi-gatsu).

August : 八月（はちがつ/Hachi-gatsu)

September : 九月（くがつ/Ku-gatsu)

October : 十月（じゅうがつ/Ju-gatsu)

November : 十一月（じゅういちがつ/Ju-ichi-gatsu)

December : 十二月（じゅうにがつ/Ju-ni-gatsu)

< year : 年（ねん/nen) >

one year : 一年（いちねん/ichi-nen) 　→More!

for one year : 一年間（いちねんかん/ichi-nen-kan)

half a year : 半年（はんとし/han-toshi)

every year : 毎年（まいとし/mai-toshi)

this year : 今年（ことし/kotoshi)、本年（ほんねん/hon-nen)

next year : 来年（らいねん/rai-nen)

the year after next : 再来年(さらいねん/sa-rainen)

last year : 去年（きょねん/kyonen) or 昨年（さくねん/saku-nen)

the year before last : 一昨年（おととし/ototoshi or いっさくねん/issakunen)

*When you say きょねん/kyonen, don't say きょうねん/kyo-nen although it looks almost same in romaji, because we have the word kyounen（享年/きょうねん）which means the age when the person died.

in 2024 : 2024年に（にせんにじゅうよねんに/nisen-niju-yo-nen-ni)

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Holidays 7.9

Holidays

Arbor Day (Cambodia)

ASB Community Action Day

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2024 ( website )

Call of the Horizon Day

Carnation Day (a.k.a. Clove Gilliflower)

Chicken Days begin (Nebraska)

Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Utah)

Donkey Kong Day

Family Day (Ukraine)

Fashion Day

Festival of Grand Unified Theories

Flag Day (Chile)

14th Amendment Anniversary Day

Goat Mother’s Day

Intern Appreciation Day

International Small Arms Destruction Day

Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival begins (Turkey)

Mars

Mint Day (French Republic)

Muffler Appreciation Day

National Camel Toad Hunting Day (Secular Church of the SubGenius)

National Culture Day (Kiribati)

National Day of Lesbian Visibility (Chile)

National Dimples Day

National Lavender Day

National No Bra Day

National Student’s Day (India)

Paper Napkin Day

Rock Around the Clock Day

Shiman Rokusen-nichi (Day of 46,000; Tokyo, Japan)

Special Recreation Day

State Rebellion Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day (Ohio)

White Ensign Anniversary Day (UK)

Wimbledon Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Omelette Day

National Chicken Day

National Sugar Cookie Day

World Pakora Day

Independence & Related Days

Argentina (from Spain, 1816)

Constitution Day (Australia, Palau)

Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Kebec (f.k.a. Alaurentia; Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Louisiana (Readmitted to the Union; 1868)

Luxe (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Nunavut Day (Canada)

South Carolina (Readmitted to the Union; 1868)

South Sudan (from Sudan, 2011)

2nd Tuesday in July

Alpenfest begins (Gaylord, Missouri) [2nd Tuesday thru Saturday]

Carnival Tuesday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines) [2nd Tuesday]

Cow Appreciation Day [2nd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 9 (2nd Week of July)

Panathenaea [Honoring Athena] (thru 7.14) [Every 4 Years]

Festivals Beginning July 9, 2024

Halifax Jazz Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) [thru 7.14]

Kansas Wheat Festival (Wellington, Kansas) [thru 7.13]

Michigan Livestock Expo (Coldwater, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk (Vitebsk, Belarus) [thru 7.15]

VALAVALA (Melbourne, Australia) [thru 7.11]

Feast Days

Agilulfus of Cologne (Christian; Saint)

Amandina of Schakkebroek (Christian; A Martyr of Southern Hunan)

Barbara Cartland (Writerism)

Basil Wolverton (Artology)

Caprotinia (Old Roman Female Slave Festival)

Charlotte the Penguin (Muppetism)

St. Clotilde (Positivist; Saint)

Cyril and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

David Hockney (Artology)

Day of Remembrance for Ann the Deep Minded (a.k.a. Audh; American Asatru)

Day of Unn the Wise Person (a.k.a. Day of Remembrance for Ann the Deep Minded; Pagan)

Dharma Day (Buddhist) [Full Moon, 8th Lunar Month]

Ekādaśī Tithi (Self-Purification Festival; Hindism, Vaishnavism) [11th Lunar Day]

Ephrem of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Everilda (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Chinese Martyrs (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of Dionysus and Rhea (Pagan; Everyday Wicca)

Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Christian)

Feast of Translation of Nicolas (Christian; Confessor)

Goddess Boann (Celtic Book of Days)

Gregorio Grassi (Christian; A Martyr of Shanxi)

Invent a Word Day (Pastafarian)

James Ormsbee Chapin (Artology)

John Fisher (Christian; Martyr)

Marija Petković (Christian; Blessed)

Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í)

Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Martyrs of Orange (Christian; Martyrs)

Mary Hermina Grivot (Christian; Saint)

Mervyn Peake (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 4 (Shamanism)

Mojo Nixon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Murphy Anderson (Artology)

Nicholas Peck and His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Our Lady of Itatí (Christian)

Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation (Christian)

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá (Christian; Saint)

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Christian; Saint)

Rusty (Muppetism)

Sabinus (Christian; Martyr)

Saturnino Herrán (Artology)

Solstitium VI (Pagan)

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican commemoration)

Thomas More (Christian; Martyr)

Veronica Giuliani (Christian; Saint)

William Turner Dannat (Artology)

Zeno (Christian; Martyr)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 53]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

American Pie (Film; 1999)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Film; 2004)

Barbie (Film; 2023)

The Bears and Bees (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Black Widow (Film: 2021)

Blowin’ in the Wind, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1962)

Blue, by LeAnn Rimes (Album; 1996)

Crow Crazy (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1945)

Despicable Me (Animated Film; 2010)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Film; 2010)

The Golden Compass (a.k.a. Northern Lights), by Philip Pullman (Nove; 1995) [His Dark Materials #1]

Heavenly Puss (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1949)

Love and Curses (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Loving You (Elvis Presley Film; 1957)

The Office (UK TV Series; 2001)

The Oil Can Mystery (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (Film; 1975)

Pink Elephants, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Film; 2003)

Pluto’s Purchase (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Predators (Film; 2010)

The Queen Was in the Parlor (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Riding Giants (Documentary Film; 2004)

Rocky Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1976)

Rookie of the Year (Film; 1993)

The Saint on TV, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1968) [Saint #39]

Tall Timber (Disney Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

This Is a Life? (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Tron (Film; 1982)

William Tell (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Winnebago Man (Documentary Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Augustin, Gottfried, Veronika (Austria)

Leticija, Marija, Veronika (Croatia)

Drahoslava (Czech Republic)

Sostrata (Denmark)

Aive, Aivi (Estonia)

Ilta, Jade, Jasmiina, Jasmin, Nanna (Finland)

Amandine, Hermine, Iphigénie, Marianne (France)

Hannes, Hermine, Veronika (Germany)

Pagratios (Greece)

Lukrécia (Hungary)

Letizia (Italy)

Asne, Tusnelda, Zaiga (Latvia)

Algirdas, Algirdė, Leonardas, Veronika (Lithuania)

Gøran, Jøran, Ørjan (Norway)

Anatolia, Heloiza, Hieronim, Lucja, Łucja, Ludwika, Lukrecja, Mikołaj, Patrycjusz, Weronika, Wszebąd, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Lujza (Slovakia)

Verónica (Spain)

Götilda , Jörgen, Örjan (Sweden)

Averil, Avery, Junior, Misty (USA)

Amandine (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 191 of 2024; 175 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 4 (Jia-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 3 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 2 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 11 Red; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 26 June 2024

Moon: 14%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 22 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Clotilde]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 20 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 19 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Ur (Primal Strength) [Half-Month 14 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 7.23)

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Holidays 7.9

Holidays

Arbor Day (Cambodia)

ASB Community Action Day

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2024 ( website )

Call of the Horizon Day

Carnation Day (a.k.a. Clove Gilliflower)

Chicken Days begin (Nebraska)

Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Utah)

Donkey Kong Day

Family Day (Ukraine)

Fashion Day

Festival of Grand Unified Theories

Flag Day (Chile)

14th Amendment Anniversary Day

Goat Mother’s Day

Intern Appreciation Day

International Small Arms Destruction Day

Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival begins (Turkey)

Mars

Mint Day (French Republic)

Muffler Appreciation Day

National Camel Toad Hunting Day (Secular Church of the SubGenius)

National Culture Day (Kiribati)

National Day of Lesbian Visibility (Chile)

National Dimples Day

National Lavender Day

National No Bra Day

National Student’s Day (India)

Paper Napkin Day

Rock Around the Clock Day

Shiman Rokusen-nichi (Day of 46,000; Tokyo, Japan)

Special Recreation Day

State Rebellion Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day (Ohio)

White Ensign Anniversary Day (UK)

Wimbledon Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Omelette Day

National Chicken Day

National Sugar Cookie Day

World Pakora Day

Independence & Related Days

Argentina (from Spain, 1816)

Constitution Day (Australia, Palau)

Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Kebec (f.k.a. Alaurentia; Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Louisiana (Readmitted to the Union; 1868)

Luxe (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Nunavut Day (Canada)

South Carolina (Readmitted to the Union; 1868)

South Sudan (from Sudan, 2011)

2nd Tuesday in July

Alpenfest begins (Gaylord, Missouri) [2nd Tuesday thru Saturday]

Carnival Tuesday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines) [2nd Tuesday]

Cow Appreciation Day [2nd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 9 (2nd Week of July)

Panathenaea [Honoring Athena] (thru 7.14) [Every 4 Years]

Festivals Beginning July 9, 2024

Halifax Jazz Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) [thru 7.14]

Kansas Wheat Festival (Wellington, Kansas) [thru 7.13]

Michigan Livestock Expo (Coldwater, Michigan) [thru 7.13]

Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk (Vitebsk, Belarus) [thru 7.15]

VALAVALA (Melbourne, Australia) [thru 7.11]

Feast Days

Agilulfus of Cologne (Christian; Saint)

Amandina of Schakkebroek (Christian; A Martyr of Southern Hunan)

Barbara Cartland (Writerism)

Basil Wolverton (Artology)

Caprotinia (Old Roman Female Slave Festival)

Charlotte the Penguin (Muppetism)

St. Clotilde (Positivist; Saint)

Cyril and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

David Hockney (Artology)

Day of Remembrance for Ann the Deep Minded (a.k.a. Audh; American Asatru)

Day of Unn the Wise Person (a.k.a. Day of Remembrance for Ann the Deep Minded; Pagan)

Dharma Day (Buddhist) [Full Moon, 8th Lunar Month]

Ekādaśī Tithi (Self-Purification Festival; Hindism, Vaishnavism) [11th Lunar Day]

Ephrem of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Everilda (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Chinese Martyrs (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of Dionysus and Rhea (Pagan; Everyday Wicca)

Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Christian)

Feast of Translation of Nicolas (Christian; Confessor)

Goddess Boann (Celtic Book of Days)

Gregorio Grassi (Christian; A Martyr of Shanxi)

Invent a Word Day (Pastafarian)

James Ormsbee Chapin (Artology)

John Fisher (Christian; Martyr)

Marija Petković (Christian; Blessed)

Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í)

Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Martyrs of Orange (Christian; Martyrs)

Mary Hermina Grivot (Christian; Saint)

Mervyn Peake (Artology)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 4 (Shamanism)

Mojo Nixon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Murphy Anderson (Artology)

Nicholas Peck and His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Our Lady of Itatí (Christian)

Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation (Christian)

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá (Christian; Saint)

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Christian; Saint)

Rusty (Muppetism)

Sabinus (Christian; Martyr)

Saturnino Herrán (Artology)

Solstitium VI (Pagan)

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican commemoration)

Thomas More (Christian; Martyr)

Veronica Giuliani (Christian; Saint)

William Turner Dannat (Artology)

Zeno (Christian; Martyr)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 53]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

American Pie (Film; 1999)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Film; 2004)

Barbie (Film; 2023)

The Bears and Bees (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Black Widow (Film: 2021)

Blowin’ in the Wind, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1962)

Blue, by LeAnn Rimes (Album; 1996)

Crow Crazy (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1945)

Despicable Me (Animated Film; 2010)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Film; 2010)

The Golden Compass (a.k.a. Northern Lights), by Philip Pullman (Nove; 1995) [His Dark Materials #1]

Heavenly Puss (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1949)

Love and Curses (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Loving You (Elvis Presley Film; 1957)

The Office (UK TV Series; 2001)

The Oil Can Mystery (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (Film; 1975)

Pink Elephants, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Film; 2003)

Pluto’s Purchase (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Predators (Film; 2010)

The Queen Was in the Parlor (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Riding Giants (Documentary Film; 2004)

Rocky Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1976)

Rookie of the Year (Film; 1993)

The Saint on TV, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1968) [Saint #39]

Tall Timber (Disney Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

This Is a Life? (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Tron (Film; 1982)

William Tell (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Winnebago Man (Documentary Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Augustin, Gottfried, Veronika (Austria)

Leticija, Marija, Veronika (Croatia)

Drahoslava (Czech Republic)

Sostrata (Denmark)

Aive, Aivi (Estonia)

Ilta, Jade, Jasmiina, Jasmin, Nanna (Finland)

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Amandine (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 191 of 2024; 175 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 4 (Jia-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 3 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 2 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 11 Red; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 26 June 2024

Moon: 14%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 22 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Clotilde]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 20 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 19 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Ur (Primal Strength) [Half-Month 14 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 7.23)

[harukakusakabe]

Nichi Nichi Kore Koujitsu

Everyday is a good day.

A4 / colorpencils

[dreamonminecraft]

Here's a tutorial on how I make aesthetic wallpapers!

We're going to be using the app Nichi everyday. This is the Android version so I'm not sure if there's any differences on the iOS version, but I doubt it.

This is what the app looks like when you open it. I have the free version so some of the templates are locked, but I'm going to just click create and make my own.

When you open the editor, you'll be prompted to put in your own pictures. As you can see, I've got my pictures organized so they're easy to find and use, obviously this is optional, just a suggestion. You can upload up to 9 pictures in an edit, but for this I'm just going to be using 7. You can choose to do all pictures of people, some aesthetic and some people, or all aesthetic. obviously, it's up to you.

When you insert the pictures obviously it won't look perfect. (usually)

You're going to use the second button from the left to change the border style. Double tapping on a picture will allow you to add or decrease the filter and change the crop, but for the border I chose, that won't be necessary.

The next step is to organize the pictures to look how you want. Generally, a picture of people (in this case Ethan and Mark) is going to be front and center. Notice how the pink pictures are spread out so it isn't too concentrated. This is a useful strategy when making pride flag wallpapers.

Once you've arranged your pictures, it's a good idea to find a nice background. It's important that the background doesn't clash but still stands out. Nichi has a lot of good solid color backgrounds and a few more intricate, but if there's something you want as a background picture, just enlarge it until it covers the whole canvas and then make sure it's the bottom layer. Backgrounds are found on the middle button.

For this one I wanted to add some tape. You can find these in the next button right. I used colors that are in the pictures or similar to them. Nichi Also has clear tape and silver tape as well as some fun patterned ones but I wanted to stay basic with this.

I wanted to add a big sticker in the background to make it more interesting, so I used a ripped graph paper sticker and enlarged it until it fit the screen. This creates contrast from the black in the pictures and makes it softer.

Finally, add some little extra stickers. In this case, it was a flower and a pink circle, which was layered on the bottom.

You can also add text and get a little more fancy, which I can explain if anyones interested, but that's a basic tutorial! Click save in ths top right, save it as a template if you'd like, and then it'll be in your camera roll for posting.

Pros of using Nichi:

Nichi doesnt leave any watermarks on your edits unless you put them there.

The free version works well and has many options for things to use

The upgrade is only $1.99 a month!

The app is updated monthly with new stuff for premium and free users.

It's super easy and fun!

If you've got any questions, feel free to ask, dm, or reply to this and ask them!

[klvbxlove]

i’mma list my favorite akb48 songs so far, and  i wanna know what y’all think of my taste :)

10zen zakura (10年桜)

365 nichi no kamihikouki (365日の紙飛行機)

aitakatta (会いたかった)

bingo!

boku dake no value (僕だけのvalue)

bokutachi wa tatakawanai (僕たちは戦わない)

everyday, kachuusha (Everyday、カチューシャ)

first rabbit (ファースト・ラビット)

flying get (フライングゲット)

gingham check (ギンガムチェック)

green flash

halloween night (ハロウィン・ナイト)

hatsukoi door (初恋ドア)

heavy rotation(ヘビーローテーション)

high tension (ハイテンション)

iiwake maybe (言い訳Maybe)

jabaja (ジャーバージャ)

keibetsu shiteita aijou (軽蔑していた愛情)

kimi wa boku no kaze (君は僕の風)

kimi wa melody (君はメロディー)

koisuru fortune cookie (恋するフォーチュンクッキー)

labrador dog (ラブラドール・レトリバー)

mae shika mukanee (前しか向かねえ)

mata aeru hi made (また会える日まで)

mimi wo fusage! (耳を塞げ！)

nagareboshi ni nani wo negaeba ii no darou (流れ星に何を願えばいいのだろう)

namida no sei janai (涙のせいじゃない)

namida surprise! (涙サプライズ!)

ohayou kara hajimaru sekai (おはようから始まる世界)

ponytail to shushu (ポニーテールとシュシュ)

river

saigo no door (最後のドア)

sakura no hanabiratachi (桜の花びらたち)

sakura no shiori (桜の栞)

sentimental train (センチメンタルトレイン)

shitsuren, arigatou (失恋、ありがとう)

shoujotachi yo (少女たちよ)

skirt, hirari (スカート、ひらり)

so long!

teacher teacher

tsubasa iranai (翼はいらない)

uza

yuuhi wo miteiru ka? (夕陽を見ているか?)

[7team7]

SasuSaku Month Day 6: Sharp Edges

Title: a paper crane for a paper heart // rating: T (warning: major illness, angst) // Sakura is very sick. Sasuke wishes she would just get better, so he folds one thousand paper cranes. // ao3 link 

A/N: Inspired by the book “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes”, it was one of the first books to ever make me cry as a kid. My mom was a teacher and she used to read it to her class and she gave me to book later.  Based on a Japanese legend, making a thousand origami cranes is said to make a wish come true.

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“And then you fold this part over like that, and you have a crane! Well, yours is looking like it could use some work, Sasuke-kun. Make sure to fold it so you have clean, sharp edges. Like mine.”

Sasuke hated this. He didn’t see the point in this. He didn’t know all of the details, but Sakura was very, very sick. Even dying. The fact that they were folding cranes while she sat in her hospital bed said it all. He grew more frustrated by the day; she should be back at school, at his house for dinner, at the gym, at the sweets shop—anywhere but here. He yearned for their younger days when they daydreamed about the future and folded paper airplanes full of hope instead of cranes weighed down by tragedy. The hospital made Sasuke exceedingly uncomfortable, but he’d be damned if he missed even a moment of what could very well be Sakura’s final days. 

And Sakura, ever the curious one, ever the optimist, took the experience as a time to learn. She was a great patient, allowing a million tests to be done on her for research purposes, asking all sorts of questions because she was genuinely interested in medical practice. When Sasuke asked her why she kept prodding the nurses for more information instead of relaxing in her bed, she just smiled at him and replied, “I’ll need to be prepared for my future career, right?”

If it were anyone else, Sasuke wouldn’t humor them, but this was Sakura, and he’d do anything for her. Really, even fold as many paper cranes as he could manage. Even when she was napping, which was becoming more frequent as her strength left her little by little, he folded. This side over that, taking care to make sharp edges. Nothing but neat, clean cranes would do.

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Once, he was so distracted while fiddling with a half-finished crane, he gave himself a nasty paper cut. He had been staring at the tiny form on the hospital bed, consumed by his thoughts of a future without her when he sliced a thin line clean across his palm. Stupid cranes. Stupid sharp edges. 

He hated how that phrase said by her soft voice kept ringing in his head. That’s what Sakura was: pink, soft, warm. If someone was all cold and sharp edges, it was Sasuke. 

When he wasn’t with Sakura, it was more apparent than ever. He snapped more easily, got less sleep, zoned out when others spoke to him. His mind was always on Sakura, Sakura, Sakura. It felt pretty twisted: he had always felt happiest with her, but her condition made his mood incredibly sour. The only person he had ever felt comfortable enough with to talk about his feelings was Sakura. But he couldn’t burden her with his fears and grievances, not when she was the one teetering between life and death each day. Sasuke’s heart hurt so much, he sometimes felt like he was dying too.   

So he kept folding, if not to just have an excuse to stay by her side without speaking. He wasn’t sure what he could even say to her at this point. His mother had already tried talking to him about the stages of grief he already seemed to be experiencing, like anger and denial, but he just walked away from the conversation to go visit room 707. 

It had been a month since that talk and she hadn’t attempted to reason with him since. After he came home from the hospital that day was the first time he had allowed himself to cry in a long time.

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Sakura’s illness scared him even more because it seemed devastatingly similar to Itachi’s. His beloved older brother was sick for a long time before he couldn’t hold on any longer. If the same thing happened to Sakura, Sasuke wasn’t sure what he could do to keep himself together. She was such an integral part of his life; losing her would be like getting half his heart scattered to the wind. 

He loved Itachi deeply, but differently; their relationship was something he was born with and could always count on to be there, no matter what he did. Itachi would love him always. But he made the choice to love Sakura everyday, instead of pushing her away like he did in the past. She was the first to offer comfort when Itachi died, even when he lashed out at her. She had helped him to restore a sense of normalcy, but he couldn’t return the favor.

But where had he gone wrong? He couldn’t take any of it back now, even if he was hurting. Maybe if he had made different choices in the past, he could’ve protected her from something, anything. Maybe they wouldn’t be in the situation they were in now. He felt so helpless. What was the point in having her by his side, knowing her, loving her, all in the past when she was about to be ripped away from his future? 

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Even as his thoughts walked themselves in circles, he couldn’t imagine a life without Sakura, no matter the situation. 

So he kept folding. Sharp edges on all the cranes: big, small, patterned paper, plain paper. Lots of pinks and greens. A part of him thought that maybe, just maybe, if he had wished hard enough and folded enough cranes back then, his brother would still be with them. So he would keep trying for Sakura. 

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When she first showed him the stacks and stacks of papers for the cranes, he asked her what she was going to wish for. She laughed at him, “I can’t tell you! If you tell someone your wish, it won’t come true.” 

Even though she was smiling, Sakura didn’t bother asking Sasuke what his wish would be. They both knew what Sasuke was going to wish for and it was breaking their hearts. 

He kept folding. 

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He was quite proud of himself and ready to show Sakura when he finally reached the last crane to fold. He swung by room 707, just to find the bed empty. His stomach dropped and he immediately thought the worst. 

“Where is she? Where is Sakura?” he started shouting to no one in particular. He started to panic when no one answered and he slid his back halfway down the wall with his head in his hands. Was she...? Why didn’t anyone tell him? They knew him since he was here almost everyday, they had his phone number after he insisted on being added to her emergency contacts list. 

A kind nurse hurried over from the counter, “She’s not here anymore. I guess it all happened too quickly for anyone to let you know.” 

Sasuke thought he was going to vomit.

“They moved her to a different unit this morning.”

“A different unit? So she’s not...dead?” his voice cracked and saying the word out loud nearly made him choke. “She’s okay for now?” 

The nurse smiled gently at him, “I think she’s going to make a full recovery. The esteemed doctor Tsunade came to town yesterday and it turns out she’s been doing years worth of medical research related to Sakura’s illness. She’s going to be able to help Sakura.”

Sasuke didn’t realize how much he had been shaking until his knees gave out and he fully collapsed to the ground. “Can you tell me where she is? I have something to give to her.”

The nurse took pity on the kid and told him, even if protocol might say otherwise. Young love was really something.

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Sasuke rushed up the stairs to the fifth floor, going through what felt like an endless maze of stark white, fluorescent lit hallways. His heart was pounding, nearly drowning out the sound of the hospital’s endless conversations and crying and beeping equipment.

He finally rounded the corner to face a huge pane of glass. Sakura. It had to be her, there was no one else with that hair. But he couldn’t get a clear view, a blonde woman he had never seen before was talking to the many other doctors, who he recognized as Sakura’s doctors, in the room. It almost looked like she was teaching them something. Even reprimanding them. Was this the doctor the nurse downstairs had told him about? Sasuke didn’t care who was in there, as long as they could make Sakura healthy again. He took a seat across from the window so he could still glance inside while folding. 

Just one more. One more crane with meticulous sharp edges, and he could make his wish. The paper he chose for the final crane was a beautiful floral pattern, all pinks and greens and the feeling of spring and hope. A new beginning, a new life. 

“Hey kid,” a voice called. Sasuke looked up from the crane to see the blonde woman poking her head out of the door to Sakura’s room. “She keeps asking for you so hurry up, get in here.” 

Sasuke scrambled to get out of his seat, nearly dropping the crane in his haste. As soon as he reached her bedside, Sakura sat up. It had been a while since she could do that on her own. She smiled with more brightness than he had seen in a long time and said softly, “Dr. Tsunade is so smart, I’ve learned so much.” 

“And I’m going to be fine.”

Sasuke didn’t trust his voice at the moment, so he wordlessly presented the thousandth crane. Sakura carefully took it from his hand to place it on the bedside table, next to the very first one he made with her. “Thank you, Sasuke-kun.” 

His heart felt like it was made of paper: it had nearly been torn in half, but it was going to be all smoothed out soon enough. What mattered was that his was still beating along with hers.

One thousand paper cranes, one wish. 

One boy and one girl who would do anything for one more day together. 

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A/N: Who would I be if not a writer who includes happy endings every time (even if it is kind of deus ex machina ish lol)!! Hope you still liked it

After I wrote this I realized I could’ve gone with something inspired by AKB48’s 365 Nichi no Kamihikouki/365 Days of Paper Airplanes, so I added the paper airplane part in the beginning. I really love that song :)

something fun is coming tomorrow so please look forward to that!

[yogaadvise]

Teachers thoughts: what is your intention for the New Year?

Esther Ekhart - journey towards relaxation

All I desire at this phase of my life from my yoga practice is for it to relocate me in the direction of being my most kicked back, open, existing, kind self feasible in all situations off the floor covering. Yoga for me can be meditation, a solid flow, a long centering grounding Yin session or just walking in nature existing to my breath. Knowing what to do when to aid me be my most loosened up self is the journey.

Nichi Green - being here now

My emphasis currently is corresponding in my practice. I can conveniently obtain sidetracked which yoga exercise assists with extremely. Whether my technique is Vinyasa design, Ashtanga or Yamuna I'm hopping on my floor covering each day just to tune right into my body and also greet. I'm also working with Handstand which has created a whole lot over the last year as I've got stronger in my core as well as top body. I attempt and do it everyday which is invigorating and also I love being upside down.

What I wish to take with me into the New Year is a feeling of existing. I lately saw a terrific interview with the star Bill Murray that, when asked what he wanted, said' to simply be here regularly. To be actually present.' This reverberated massively with me and also I've embraced his little rule of 'Return Bill' to advise me.

Irina Verwer - authenticity

I love to begin my everyday practice and also my courses with an intention - and also setting an intention for a new year is a wonderful way to open to assess what is functioning, what isn't and what needs some great tuning or reformation. My recurring purpose is to be authentic. This beams with in every choice I make. It assists me to be open, to connect with myself and others on a much deeper degree, to take care of myself, to relax, to consume the foods that really feel excellent to my body and also to pay attention before talking. Desiring you a really joyous New Year!

Sandra Carson - offering the most to myself and also my world

Intention for me is what distinguishes the technique of yoga exercise from any type of other kind of workout or motion technique. I locate my practices have always been the most powerful when I established a purpose. If I don't set an objective of any kind of kind, I end up just doing the asana and also moving and taking a breath. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, however it leaves my practice a little completely dry and also not really satisfying.

An objective for me can imply to address something physical, psychological or emotional. It can likewise be an offering to a person or something. It actually depends upon where I remain in my life what purpose I establish, when I am struggling or not in an excellent room, I require to remain near to myself and also will set my objective on something more individual. When I really feel balanced and clear, I established my intention as an offering.

So my method usually revolves around the inquiry: what do I require to resolve to be healthy and balanced in my body and also mind? Just how do I require to practice in order to see myself, to understand and also feel myself far better? Just how can I relocate a way that opens up rigidity in my body and also to get strengthens where I really feel weak? Exactly how can I be much more open, kind, loving as well as understanding and also less narcissistic?

My objective is the driving pressure that aids me to connect to myself and also to attach to the globe around me with even more understanding and also clearness. Currently in my life, with all the ups as well as downs that come with it, I have actually been really feeling a change in myself. In general, I am extremely satisfied and also happy for where I am and I really feel quite satisfied, both in my physical and also spiritual method. Although there is constantly function to be done, I feel my energy moving away from myself and I am concentrating much more on what it is that I can offer to the world. The globe is a large area as well as 'supplying to the globe' may come across as a lofty or grandiose effort. For me, 'the world', simply means my spouse and children, my neighbour, my pupils and pals, the cable car driver or whoever I run into in my life. How can I remain in the world in a manner that does not only make me feel happy as well as meaningful, but additionally in such a way that offers to others?

David Dodd - presence and exploration

I work at two degrees in my own method when it pertains to intention. At a general level I constantly collaborate with the objective to merely 'Exist'. I often tend to spend a great deal of time in my head, so for me existing means most importantly bringing my attention to my body and right into the breath when I practice. This basic purpose has offered me well over the years to ground me each morning before I go out as well as do my point in the world. I will certainly remain to work with it going forwards both during technique as well as off my mat.

At a second degree I usually function with several particular purposes with regard to the interest I give my physique. For example, presently I am exploring what is going on in my butt muscle mass when I raise up right into back bends, and also the differences in feeling when I loosen up as well as re-engage these muscle mass in different methods as well as at different times in the pose. The various strategies for asana technique give different viewpoints on what is the 'appropriate means' to exercise in this respect, so I am just spending some time discovering this for myself. I invested a few months doing this a couple of years back and I am discovering equally as much - and having as much enjoyable - the second time around!

James Reeves - rest in the moment

My life's purpose is to rest in my interconnected integrity in all minutes of life so my everyday and yearly intents constantly support this. This year my intent is to remain to instruct and expand in my research and understanding, whilst taking ample break for my own meditation as well as technique. It's so simple to obtain shed in all the 'doing', all the research study, and all the 'understanding' as well as forget that often we just require to relax back right into the minute. Here's to a large New Year!

David Lurey - present in the state of love

I am maintaining with a clear purpose to be extra conscious in my asana method in the hope that it performs to the rest of my life. I am not so thinking about becoming more versatile or more powerful in my presents these days, but a lot more concerned with maintaining existing and also alive in every circumstances. It entails 'more' body recognition however is much more focused on involving my mind in the moment.

The intention of being extra conscious is to keep me much more in the existing minute where I believe Love to exist. I intend to be in mental as well as physical state of love as long as feasible. Oh ... as well as a couple of swimsuit handstands too!: o)

Francesca Guisti - being open to what unfolds

I don't truly assume concerning objective when I hop on my floor covering. It's not regarding 'What I want to accomplish' or' just how I intend to really feel' with my method. It's a lot more about the energy degree that I have at that specific moment, as well as how it advances as I enjoy my technique. Sitting as well as Pranayama have a profound result on my energy, and also typically afterwards I am prepared to move my body. If there is an intention, it's simply the deep understanding that once I get on my floor covering I am always a lot more in tune with my body, with my breath as well as with my mind. Clearness and equilibrium come whether I put my intent there or otherwise. I invite my fellow specialists to keep their intent light: being open to what unfolds is the most effective intention!

Anat Geiger - understand the underlying actions

What constantly helps me is to ask the inquiry: what is the purpose behind the act? I think it is the determination to please even more than our hungers that matter, our willingness to comprehend that every single action we take have consequences that surge via our lives and also the lives of others.

I think that a person of our greatest troubles is what I call 'objective shuffle': we think we have one inspiration, while deep inside there is another, more complicated and commonly much less rather intent moving the engines.

I frequently state in classes that I believe the yogi's most useful prop is sincerity. When we absolutely look inside ourselves as well as truthfully access what is our inmost intent, we will certainly concern recognize our actions and its results better, as well as we will be able to much better affect them, if that is our choice.

Resolution and intention

Rather than making a New Year's 'resolution' - which, by its very meaning, can be stringent and uncompromising, just how around making an intention rather - something that you can function towards, that doesn't have a 'success' or 'fail' outcome attached to it.

Find your intention

Shoot the intention arrowhead - locating our real motivations as well as looking them right in the face is sometimes the finest means to reconnect with our technique and also our life. Work to locate your true intentions and also position them where you can reach them in this half an hour Vinyasa Flow with Anat Geiger.

Have a pleased and serene Brand-new Year!

Love, EkhartYoga x

n. b. This post, has been lately updated.

[globalteachonline]

What you'll learn Master the Japanese readings and pronouciation of kanji.Be able to learn kanji for the JLPT N5~N3 levels.Be able to review Kanji with quizes.How to read Japanese signs that are common in Japan.We've provided Kanji lesson that how to read kanji for students preparing for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test(JLPT). 【Why should you learn Kanji?】 Kanji helps you to understand the context and give meaning to words. Being able to read and understand Kanji, will not only make you proficient in reading but also make studying grammer and vocabulary much easier.Once you understand the meaning of a Kanji, you will be able to process information much faster than if it was written in just Hiragana. 【How to memorise Kanji?】 Kanji has two different readings which are called "On-yomi" and "Kun-yomi". "On-yomi" comes from the Chinese pronounciation of the kanji. And "Kun-yomi" is the pronunciation of the original Japanese word.Remembering each "On-yomi" and "Kun-yomi" is quite hard for foreiners and takes a lot of time. Therefor, the best way to learn kanji is to learn the meaning and reading of the kanji along with vocabulary.For example; the kanji  "日" can be read as "nichi","hi","bi", and "ka". The word "日曜日" is pronounced "nichiyo-bi", where the first kanji is pronouced "nichi" and last kanji is pronouced "bi" even though it is the same kanji.Depending on the context the kanji will be read differently. Who this course is for:People who wants to know how to read Kanji.People who wants to be able to use Kanji in everyday life.People who want to learn practical Japanese kanji effectively.People who want to take the JLPT examination one day.

[shojotachiyo]

Since there is just so much AKB48 group content out there that it’s hard to know where to start, I thought I’d put together a list of links showing performances of the 48G girls participating in Produce 48 and other content related to these girls specifically.

Links will be broken into four categories for each girl: studio/live performances, notable songs with PV, notable songs without PV + theater units that have been recorded, and Other. I’ll usually identify who to look for in studio/live performances. I’m also trying to stay “relatively” current with studio/live stuff...like 2012 and later.

Do keep in mind that a lot of the live performances are likely to feel fairly raw and the songs are likely to be extremely Japanese idol-y.

1. Miyazaki Miho (宮崎美穂) - AKB48 5th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Perfect Human

Notable PVs: Bokutachi no Chikyuu (center)

Other Notable Songs: Arashi no Yoru ni wa (center) (CD), Make Otoko (center) (DVD)

Other: Myao’s Room (SHOWROOM)

2. Takeuchi Miyu (竹内美宥) - AKB48 9th generation

Studio/Live Performances: NO FEAR FESTIVAL, Faint (short hair)

Notable PVs: Kimi ni Todoke (cover with kobasolo), Sangatsu Kokonoka (cover with kobasolo)

Other Notable Songs: Higurashi no Koi (duet) (CD), Miniskirt no Yousei (center) (CD)

Other: Song Covers Youtube Channel

Recommended Cover: Negaigoto no Mochigusare

3. Takahashi Juri (高橋朱里) - AKB48 12th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Bird (center), Seventh Chord, Namida no Hyoumen Chouryoku (3rd singer)

Notable PVs: Atarashii Chime (SR of center)

Other Notable Songs:  Namida no Hyoumen Chouryoku (CD), Hibiwareta Kagami (CD), Hajimari no Yuki (CD), Saisho no Ai no Monogatari (Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe! Theater Ed.)

Other: Sailor Zombie (drama)

4. Muto Tomu (武藤十夢) - AKB48 12th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Oshibe to Meshibe to Yoru no Chouchou (black), Hibiwareta Kagami (center), Tomodachi de Irarerunara (SL)

Notable PVs: Show Fight! (center)

Other Notable Songs:  Subete wa Tochuu Keika (center) (Thumbnail Theater Ed.), Hajimari no Yuki (center) (CD)

Other:  Lake commercial (Party People)

5. Iwatate Saho (岩立沙穂) - AKB48 13th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Tonari no Banana (2nd singer), Kono Mune no Barcode (SR of center), Reborn (SR of center), Hibiwareta Kagami

Notable PVs:  Kimi wa Boku no Kaze, Reborn

Other Notable Songs:  Kono Mune no Barcode (DVD)

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6.  Shinozaki Ayana (篠崎彩奈) - AKB48 13th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Wimbledon he Tsuretette (blue dress), Reborn (1:05)

Notable Songs: Wimbledon he Tsuretette (DVD)

7. Mogi Shinobu (茂木忍) - AKB48 13th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Tomodachi de Irarerunara (SR), Kono Mune no Barcode (SL of center), Hibiwareta Kagami

Notable Songs: Kono Mune no Barcode (DVD)

Other: I’m just gonna leave this here

8. Kojima Mako (小嶋真子) - AKB48 14th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Bye Bye Bye (center), Namida no Hyoumen Chouryoku (4th singer), Wimbledon he Tsuretette (center)

Notable PVs: Seijun Tired (center), Kangaeru Hito (w-center), Nanka Chotto Kyuu ni... (w-center)

Other Notable Songs: Namida no Hyoumen Chouryoku (CD), Wimbledon he Tsuretette (DVD)

9. Ichikawa Manami (市川愛美) - AKB48 15th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Kegareteiru Shinjitsu (center)

Notable PVs: Shuuden no Yoru

10. Goto Moe (後藤萌咲) - AKB48 Draft 1st generation

Studio/Live Performances: Itoshisa no Accel (1st singer), Kegareteiru Shinjitsu (2nd singer)

Notable PVs: Position, Accident-chuu (back row SR), Romantic Junbichuu

11. Nakanishi Chiyori (中西智代梨) - AKB48 transfer/HKT48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performances:  Koi wa Totsuzen ni, I’m Sure (Chaos Stage) (NSFW-ish)

Notable PVs:  Kimi wa Ima Made Doko ni Ita? (center)

Other Notable Songs: Kono Mune no Barcode (CD)

12. Chiba Erii (千葉恵里) - AKB48 Draft 2nd generation

Studio/Live Performances: Ashita no Tame ni Kiss wo (4th singer)

Notable PVs: Position, Accident-chuu (back row SL)

Other Notable Songs: Tomodachi ga Dekita

Other: 47 no Suteki na Machi he (draft solo performance audition song)

13. Asai Nanami (浅井七海) - AKB48 16th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Wimbledon he Tsuretette (blue dress), Cross (SR), Dakitsukouka? (w-center, navy skirt), High School Days (all white uniform)

Notable PVs: Position

Other Notable Songs: Dakitsukouka? (w-center)

14. Sato Minami (佐藤美波) - AKB48 16th generation

Studio/Live Performances: Kanpeki Gu~ no ne (2nd singer), Dakitsukouka? (orange skirt), High School Days (tan sweater around waist)

15. Oda Erina (小田えりな) - AKB48 Team 8

Studio/Live Performances: 11gatsu no Anklet,  Namida no Hyoumen Chouryoku (center)

Notable PVs: Shuuden no Yoru

Other Notable Songs: Dakara Kimi ga Suki na no ka (CD)

16. Shitao Miu (下尾みう) - AKB48 Team 8

Studio/Live Performances: Itoshisa no Accel (2nd singer), Tsuneishi Festival 2017

Other: AKBingo Dance Battle Royale 2018 (pink dress, hair down, dance only)

17. Nakano Ikumi (中野郁海) - AKB48 Team 8

Studio/Live Performances: 365-nichi no Kamihikouki, Escape (4th singer)

Notable PVs: Yaban na Kyuuai, Amanojaku Batta (center), Kegareteiru Shinjitsu (w-center), Seifuku no Hane (center), 47 no Suteki na Machi he (center)

Other: AKBingo Dance Battle Royale 2018 (red belt, dance only),  AKBingo Dance Battle Royale 2016 (pants, dance only)

18. Nagano Serika (永野芹佳) - AKB48 Team 8

Studio/Live Performances: Namida no Hyoumen Chouryoku (3rd singer), Choco no Yukue (big hat)

Other: AKBingo Dance Battle Royale 2018 (pink dress, ponytail, dance only)

19. Honda Hitomi (本田仁美) - AKB48 Team 8

Studio/Live Performance: Escape (blue bow), Aitakatta & Everyday Katyusha

Other: AKBingo Dance Battle Royale 2016 (skirt, ponytail, dance only)

20. Matsui Jurina (松井珠理奈) - SKE48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Baguette, Akai Pinheel to Professor

Notable songs are literally everything from SKE and AKB from the past 10 years but if I had to pick:

Notable PVs: Oogoe Diamond (first center), Kin no Ai Gin no Ai (most recent solo center A-side), Yaban na Kyuuai, Hanshateki Through (w-center), Tenmetsu Pheromone (center)

Other Notable Songs: Glory Days (CD), Omoide Ijou (CD), Mystery Line (CD), Baguette (CD), Toy Poodle to Kimi no Monogatari (CD), Akai Pinheel to Professor (CD), Watashi Leaf (CD)

Other: Hollywood Jurina

21. Asai Yuuka (浅井裕華) - SKE48 7th generation

Studio/Live Performance: Hungry Lion (blue dress)

Notable Songs: Hungry Lion (CD)

22. Shiroma Miru (白間美瑠) - NMB48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Gokai (pink), Heart no Dokusenken (pink)

Notable PVs: Warota People (center), Masaka Singapore (center), Rashikunai (w-center), Yojijukugo Girls (center)

Other Notable Songs: Nage Kiss de Uchi Otose (CD), Ame no Doubutsuen (CD), ONEW no Uwabaki (CD), She’s Gone (DVD), Mystery Line (CD), Boku wa Aisarete wa Inai (CD), Subete wa Tochuu Keika (Thumbnail Theater Ed.), Gokai

23. Murase Sae (村瀬紗英) - NMB48 2nd generation

Studio/Live Performance: Heart no Dokusenken (purple), Kuufuku de Renai Suru na (center), Zipper (blue), Renai Higai Todoke

Notable PVs: Which One?, Abata mo Ekubo mo Fuku wa Uchi (duet), Mou Hadashi ni Hanarenai (w-center) 

Other Notable Songs: Zannen Shoujo (CD)

Other: Queentet Joshiryoku Video

24. Kato Yuuka (加藤夕夏) - NMB48 3rd generation

Studio/Live Performance: ONEW no Uwabaki (pink), Dance Medley Must Be Now/UZA/Escape (center)

Notable PVs: Tomadotte, Tameratte (center); Yaban na Kyuuai; Must be Now

Other Notable Songs: Nageki no Figure (CD), Koi no PLAN (CD), Faint (CD)

25. Naiki Kokoro (内木志) - NMB48 Draft 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Nageki no Figure (Stage Left), Tsundere! (short hair)

Notable PVs: Sayonara, Kakato wo Fumu Hito

26. Uemura Azusa (植村梓) - NMB48 Post-Yamada Nana Audition

Studio/Live Performance: Renai Higai Todoke (center), Yuuwaku no Garter (Stage Left), Kuufuku de Renai Suru na

Notable PVs: Which One?, Sayonara, Kakato wo Fumu Hito

Other: Queentet Joshiryoku Video

27. Umeyama Cocona (梅山恋和) - NMB48 5th generation

Studio/Live Performance: Sa-sa-sa Saikoo! (Yellow)

Notable PVs: Good Timing

Other Notable Songs: Sa-sa-sa Saikoo! (Namba Ai Theater Ed.)

28. Imada Mina (今田 美奈) - HKT48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Return Match (white suit)

29. Miyawaki Sakura (宮脇咲良) - HKT48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Baguette, Kanojo

Notable PVs are really any A-sides from HKT48 and any A-sides from AKB48 after 2014 but in particular:

Notable PVs: Taboo no Iro (duet), Kimi wa Melody (center),  Boku no Omoi ga Itsuka Niji ni Naru Made (center), Buttaoreru Made (w-center), 12byou (w-center)

Other Notable Songs: Wimbledon he Tsuretette (CD), Yume de Kiss Me (DVD), Kiss Campaign (CD), Baguette (CD), Christmas Eve ni Nakanai You ni (CD), Kanojo (CD)

Other: Let’s Play Youtube Channel

30. Matsuoka Natsumi (松岡 菜摘) - HKT48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Hikaeme I Love You, Koisuru Fortune Cookie, Melon Juice

Notable Songs: Ame no Pianist (CD)

31. Motomura Aoi (本村碧唯) - HKT48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Wimbledon he Tsuretette (blue)

Notable Songs: Wimbledon he Tsuretette (CD)

Other: AKBingo Dance Battle Royale 2018 (dance only), Choreographed =LOVE’s Start!

32. Aramaki Misaki (荒巻美咲) - HKT48 3rd generation

Studio/Live Performance: Tenshi wa Doko ni Iru?, Watashi wa Blueberry Pie (center),  Daite Twintails

Notable PVs: Tenshi wa Doko ni Iru? (duet), Hohoemi Popcorn (center)

Other Notable Songs: Watashi wa Blueberry Pie, Daite Twintails

33. Kurihara Sae (栗原紗英) - HKT48 3rd generation

Studio/Live Performance: Faint (center),  Watashi wa Blueberry Pie, Daite Twintails

Notable PVs: Gunyatto Magatta (w-center)

Other Notable Songs: Watashi wa Blueberry Pie, Daite Twintails

34. Tanaka Miku (田中美久) - HKT48 3rd generation

Studio/Live Performance: Tonari no Banana

Notable PVs: Watashi no Furusato (solo), Namaiki Lips (duet), Boku no Omoi ga Itsuka Niji ni Naru Made, Hayaokuri Calendar (w-center)

Other Notable Songs: Romantic Byou

35. Yabuki Nako (矢吹奈子) - HKT48 3rd generation

Studio/Live Performance: Tonari no Banana 

Notable PVs: Ijiwaru Chuu (solo), Namaiki Lips (duet), Hayaokuri Calendar (w-center)

36. Murakawa Bibian (村川緋杏) - HKT48 Draft 2nd generation

Studio/Live Performance: Kikyou

Notable Songs: HKT-jou, Ima, Ugoku (center) 

37. Tsukiashi Amane (月足天音) - HKT48 4th generation

Studio/Live Performance: Hakusen no Uchigawa de

38. Hasegawa Rena (長谷川玲奈) - NGT48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Inori wa Donna Mirai mo Shiawase ni Kaeru

Notable PVs: Junjou Yoroshiku

Other Notable Songs: Hansei Soda

39. Yamada Noe (山田野絵) - NGT48 1st generation

Studio/Live Performance: Gesu na Yume

Notable PVs: Junjou Yoroshiku, Otona ni Naru Made (SR of center)

Other Notable Songs: Hansei Soda

Other: Voice Yamada

[recentanimenews]

A Crocodile Who Lived for 100 Days Full Trailer Shows The Days after The Protagonist is Gone

    The official website for the forthcoming anime feature film adaptation of Yuuki Kikuchi's web manga series 100 Nichi Go ni Shinu Wani (A Crocodile Who Will Die in 100 Days), newly titled 100 Nichikan Ikita Wani (A Crocodile Who Lived for 100 Days), has posted a 60-second full trailer.

  The new trailer starts with a scene from the 100th days of the manga's story. You can see the memories of the days spent by the crocodile and his friends, which seemed to go on forever, as well as how things and his friends  are changed on the 100th day after he is gone. The clip also features the film's theme song "TSUZUKU" provided by the three-member band Ikimonogakari.

  The four-panel manga focusing on the last 100 days of a crocodile's life before his death was posted on the author's official Twitter account everyday from December 12, 2019, to March 20, 2020. Shinichiro Ueda (Camera wo Tomeruna! / One Cut of the Dead)-directed anime adaptation is set to be released in Japan on May 28, 2021.

        Poster visual:

  ＼????最新予告映像解禁????／ ワニと仲間たちが過ごした100日と、 それから100日後の新しい物語 愛おしかった当たり前の日々 それでも明日は続いていく#100日間生きたワニ #神木隆之介 #中村倫也 #木村昴 #新木優子 #ファーストサマーウイカ #山田裕貴 5月28日(金) 全国公開???? pic.twitter.com/do3DxxUaf5

— 映画『100日間生きたワニ』5月28日（金）公開 (@100waniMOVIE) April 25, 2021

    Main voice cast:

  Crocodile: Ryunosuke Kamiki (Taki Tachibana in Your Name.)

Rat: Tomoya Nakamura (Aladdin in the Aladdin Japanese dub)

Mole: Subaru Kimura (Gian/Takeshi Goda in Doraemon)

Sempai: Yuko Araki (Gabby Gabby in the Toy Story 4 Japanese dub)

Dog: First Summer Wika

Baito-chan: Kurumi Shimizu

Frog: Yuuki Yamada

    Source: "100 Nichikan Ikita Wani" anime film official website / Twitter

  ©2021 "100 Nichikan Ikita Wani" Production Committee

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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The big question about dementia care is who is going to do it

IN A TWO-STOREY building in a suburb of Tokyo, eight old people are sitting around tables in a spotless living room with a kitchenette attached. They are enjoying a quiz game, which entails shouting out the word that completes a well-known phrase or saying. One woman is first to all the answers, with nobody else getting a look-in. But, say staff at this care home, one of 280 run by Nichi Gakkan, a medical-services company, she forgets what happened ten minutes ago. The residents’ spartan rooms, with just a few keepsakes from home, have their photographs on the door, to make it easier to go to bed in the right one.

The house has 18 beds. All residents have dementia—mostly Alzheimer’s, but some cases of vascular dementia and one of the rarer fronto-temporal sort. The youngest is 69; half are over 90. They are encouraged to help with chores, such as folding their own laundry. Volunteers teach ikebana (flower arranging) and origami (paper folding). They watch, or sit through, a lot of television.

Most have families. But some never visit. To be honest, says one of the staff, it makes little difference. Residents often do not recognise loved ones. The best that can be hoped for is to offer a “safe and ordinary everyday life”. This is a top-of-the-range facility, with a lower ratio of residents to staff than in many other care homes: four people on duty in the day and two from 5pm to 8am. The cost is met by public insurance, residents’ pensions and savings, or by their families. Occasionally a resident has to leave for a cheaper home. Mostof them are here till they die.

Japan has the world’s oldest people, with 28% of the population aged 65 and over and 2.4m people over 90, including more than 70,000 centenarians. (In America, with a population two and a half times as big, 16% of the population are 65 or over, and there are 97,000 centenarians.) Japan also has the highest percentage of people with dementia of any country: about 4%, or 5m people. Since life expectancy at birth is high (81 for men, 87 for women), birth rates low (seven births per 1,000 people in 2019) and immigration tiny, this percentage is only going to grow.

Just behind Japan demographically are greying western European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and the Asian tigers: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. These trends of longer lifespans and lower fertility rates will, barring disaster, be followed by the rest of the world. So how Japan copes with a problem that every country will have to confront is instructive.

It has advantages—notably prosperity, but also traditions of social cohesion and respect for the elderly, and sophisticated companies alert to the business opportunities in ageing. Nichi Gakkan, for example, was founded in 1968 to focus on medical administration and education. It moved into long-term care, which now accounts for 60% of its business, in 1996, ahead of a new insurance scheme that the government launched in 2000. Its home in Tokyo is a fine example of humane, dignified care for people with dementia, of whom it houses 130,000 across Japan. However, as the country’s demographic imbalance worsens, the shortage of places for the infirm elderly and those with dementia will become more acute. In 2018 Tokyo was reckoned to be short of 140,000 residential places for old people. Across Japan it is estimated that the number of care workers will need to increase sevenfold by 2030 from today’s 1.5m. On this basis, more than a tenth of the workforce will be working as carers.

This is a global phenomenon. Around the world, similar problems are sure to develop. In America in 2017, 1m sufferers from dementia (nearly one-fifth of the total) were in residential care. In Britain around 312,000 are in care homes, a number expected to rise to 417,000 by 2025 and 667,000 by 2040. So severe is the shortage of appropriate residential care that, before the covid-19 pandemic, a quarter of beds in National Health Service hospitals were said to be occupied by people with dementia.

Many care homes are gruesome places, in which sedated residents sit or lie vacantly while overworked staff struggle to fulfil routines for administering medicine, food and exercise, and a television blares in a crowded living room. Efforts are being made to improve such homes, with more emphasis placed on treating residents as individuals. “Reminiscence therapy”, in which people are helped to remember events, people and places through sight, touch, taste, smell or sound can have remarkable results. Music seems especially potent. After caring for her mother and writing her book on dementia, Sally Magnusson founded a charity called “Playlist for Life”, devoted to producing musical life-soundtracks for people. So dementia care need not be grim.

In a much-praised example in the Netherlands, Hogeweyk, a “dementia village” in Weesp near Amsterdam, earlier this year housed 169 people with advanced dementia in 27 separate houses in one compound. Residents choose between four “lifestyles”—traditional, urban, formal and cosmopolitan—with decor, cuisine and activities adapted accordingly. It has its own grocery shop and a restaurant that is open to the public. Eloy van Hal, a founder of the centre, describes it as a shift from a medical and institutional model to a “social-relational, non-institutional” one. It is on the site of a conventional care home, and no bigger. Operating costs are no higher and can be covered by the Dutch long-term-care insurance scheme. Mr van Hal says the aim is that nothing should identify it as a “care home”. But it still has a flag outside advertising itself as such, and residents cannot go out at will.

In the Netherlands and elsewhere, much is done to help people with dementia stay at home for as long as possible. This is what they and their families often prefer. It also usually costs less than residential care. The average stay in Hogeweyk is just over two years, partly thanks to the support available to people in their own homes until they suffer serious impairment. Yet care at home can still place strain on caregivers. According to the OECD, the prevalence of mental-health problems among carers is 20% higher than among non-carers. In Japan there has been alarm over a series of “nursing murders”, in which caregivers have killed their charges. The stresses of tending for an invalid at home are also cited as a factor in many suicides.

Some places in Japan are bolstering care at home not just with visits from professional carers but by making daily life more “dementia-friendly”. According to the government, 12m people across the country have been given rudimentary training as “dementia supporters”. In Matsudo, a suburb of Tokyo, the local government and volunteers organise “dementia cafés”, weekly get-togethers for those with relatively mild dementia, for whom day-care facilities are not yet suitable. A volunteer at one describes how some people have been coming for two years and show no obvious signs of mental deterioration. The municipality is also trying to make the world outside safer. “Orange Patrols”, groups of five or six mostly elderly volunteers in hi-vis jackets, keep a lookout for endangered schoolchildren and disoriented old people.

People with dementia are also encouraged to carry a QR code on them, perhaps stuck to a walking-stick or hat, or on a lanyard. If somebody finds them looking lost (and, thanks to a vigorous public-information campaign, knows what to do) a smartphone scan of the code will reveal details about them. Takeuchi Wataro, of Mapple, a map and guidebook firm that sells codes on stickers at ¥1,800 ($17) for ten, says he was inspired by coming across a confused old man walking blithely across a six-lane highway.

Home improvements

Looking after someone at home may not be possible for 24 hours a day. In Britain a surge in the number of dementia cases ending up in hospital seems linked to the closure of day-care centres, which offered both a social outlet that helps slow cognitive decline, and a much-needed respite for carers at home. Even better, some places offer overnight stays when needed.

Another way to keep people at home longer is through technology. In some public-housing blocks in Singapore, neighbours or family members of the vulnerable elderly will be alerted if, say, a tap in a washbasin has not been used for a while. Researchers at the UK Dementia Research Institute’s Care Research & Technology Centre, based at Imperial College London, are experimenting with taking this further. Infra-red and radar sensors installed in the homes of those with dementia, devices worn by them as watches, or hearing-aid type brain-scanners can all provide data giving early warning of signs of trouble. They might pick up indications of worsening dementia or a sickness. For example, blood-pressure and temperature measurements and frequent visits to the lavatory might indicate a urinary-tract infection (a common reason for people with dementia to end up in hospital, because they can be slow to respond to the symptoms).

As the numbers with the condition rise, in most countries it will be hard to find enough carers

There are also, inevitably, apps for dementia. “Refresh player” and “Refresh studio”, from a tech firm called “How do I?” offer “personalised memory support”, including videos on how to perform day-to-day tasks, such as run a bath or boil a kettle, which appear when a smartphone taps a code on a sticker on a once-familiar but now sometimes baffling object. They can also jog memories with videos or photos supplied by family and friends. Japan is pioneering the use of robotics in caring for the elderly. Toys such as Paro, a furry seal used as a “therapy animal”, and Pepper, a humanoid robot deployed in hundreds of care homes to play games, talk and demonstrate exercise moves, can help.

Nobody pretends that these can be a substitute for human care, especially for the bewildered. But they are at least a partial answer to the question that will determine the future of dementia care: who is going to do it? There are wonderful examples of “people-centred” care for dementia sufferers. But most are extremely labour-intensive (see article). And as the number of cases rises inexorably, in most countries it will be hard to find enough people willing and able to take on the job.

This is partly a simple function of demography as society ages. But it is also partly because care workers often endure low status and low pay, a sad truth highlighted in the covid-19 pandemic as society leant on them more heavily than ever. In Britain, for example, under the new immigration policy the government is introducing for the post-Brexit world, most jobs in care will not pay high enough wages to allow employers to recruit overseas. Yet the industry relies on about 350,000 immigrant workers. A trade union has warned of a shortage of up to 500,000 workers in an industry that already has 8% of vacancies unfilled.

The ranking of such jobs as “unskilled” seems short-sighted. Camilla Cavendish, a journalist and policy wonk now again advising the government, led a review in 2013 of support workers in Britain’s health and social-care services. In a recent book (“Extra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing World”), she writes: “Care work is undervalued, underpaid, emotionally draining and physically exhausting. Yet it is, in my view, highly skilled. It requires enormous maturity and resilience; deep wells of kindness, too.”

Japan, in contrast, has been making it easier for foreign workers to come in for a few years. But cultural and language barriers are high, and the country starts from such a low base of immigration that this will not make much of a dent in its shortfall.

Adelina Comas-Herrera, a researcher at the London School of Economics, is leading a study into care in poorer countries (“Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries” or STRiDE). She argues that what is needed, given the looming labour crunch, is a new model of collaborative care. This might involve using what institutional infrastructure exists for new purposes, especially in poor countries with few arrangements in place. In Vietnam, for example, the ruling Communist Party has a nationwide network of offices. Community centres might be transformed to offer a form of day care. Such adaptation may be better than building dementia-care services from scratch.■

Dementia The perils of oblivion

This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "God’s waiting rooms"

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[sidlyrics]

Graduation

Letra / Lyrics: Mao Música / Music: Aki

Graduation

紙切れぐらいにしか　思ってなかった その意味には　まだ気づかない

寒空　響いた　お別れの歌に 口パクして　ボタンはずした

なんとなくで　過ごした三年だったけど 君もきっと　同じだよね

こんな風な毎日が　永遠じゃないと知ってた だけど僕ら　離れること　疑ってた 出会った頃のままで

この道はいくつも　枝別れの先 繋がってる　君は言った

寒空　響いた　お別れの歌が 懐かしくて　会いたくなった

なんとなくじゃ　振り落とされそうなほど 甘くなくて　非力を知って

あの頃はよかったと　笑い合うような真似は したくないね　だけどそれじゃ　進めそうにない 思い出から　始めよう

筒に入れた　紙切れだったはずなのに 今　こうして　証になった

こんな風な毎日が　永遠じゃないと知ってた だけど僕ら　離れること　疑ってた かけがえのない日々

あの頃はよかったと　笑い合うような真似は したくないね　だけどそれじゃ　進めそうにない 立ち止まってもいい　思い出から　始めよう

Graduation

kamigire gurai ni shika　omotte nakatta sono imi ni wa　mada kidzukanai

samuzora　hibiita　owakare no uta ni kuchi paku shite　BUTTON hazushita

nanto naku de　sugoshita san nen datta kedo kimi mo kitto　onaji da yo ne

konna fuu na mai nichi ga　eien janai to shitteta dakedo bokura　hanareru koto　utagatteta deatta koro no mama de

kono michi wa ikutsumo　eda wakare no saki tsunagatteru　kimi wa itta

samuzora　hibiita　owakare no uta ga natsukashikute　aitaku natta

nanto naku ja　furi otosare sou na hodo amaku nakute　hiriki wo shitte

ano koro wa yokatta to　waraiau you na mane wa shitakunai ne　dakedo sore ja　susume sou ni nai omoide kara　hajimeyou

tsutsu ni ireta　kamigire datta hazu no ni ima　kou shite　akashi ni natta

konna fuu na mai nichi ga　eien janai to shitteta dakedo bokura　hanareru koto　utagatteta kakegae no nai hibi

ano koro wa yokatta to　waraiau you na mane wa shitakunai ne　dakedo sore ja　susume sou ni nai tachi domatte mo ii　omoide kara　hajimeyou

Graduation

We've always thought of it as nothing but a scrap of paper. We still haven't realised its meaning.

We lip-synced during the song of farewell that echoed through the cold weather, as we undid our buttons

Although it was the 3 years that we somehow passed you're surely still the same person

I knew that this kind of everyday wasn't eternal But we doubted whether we would separate, as we continued on just like when we first encountered each other

You said that down this road is a great number of branches linked together that are the future beyond this farewell

Echoing in the cold weather, the song of farewell reminds me of those times and makes me want to meet you guys

I know that shaking off a graduation is somehow something that we're cautiously powerless to

I don't want us to just put on a smile like we thought those days were great But if we don't, we'll show no signs of progress Let's start it from our memories!

Even though the scrap of paper was meant to be curled into a tube... by doing that it has now become proof

I knew that this kind of everyday wasn't eternal But we doubted whether we would separate Those irreplaceable days

I don't want us to just put on a smile like we thought those days were great But if we don't, we'll show no signs of progress We can stand still, let's start it from our memories!

Graduación

Nunca lo hemos considerado nada más que un pedazo de papel. Aún no nos hemos dado cuenta de su significado.

Hicimos play-back durante la canción de la despedida que resonaba a través del tiempo frío, mientras nos desabotonábamos.

Aunque fueron tres años que pasamos de alguna manera, seguro que aún eres la misma persona.

Sabía que este tipo de rutina no iba a ser eterna pero dudábamos sobre si nos separaríamos, mientras seguíamos igual que la primera vez que nos encontramos.

Dijiste que a lo largo de este camino hay un gran número de ramas entramadas que son el futuro más allá de esta despedida.

Resonando a través del tiempo frío, la canción de la despedida me recuerda a esos momentos y me da ganas de veros, chicos.

Sé que quitarse de encima una graduación de alguna manera es algo en lo que somos prudentemente impotentes.

No quiero que simplemente finjamos una sonrisa como si pensásemos que esa época fue genial, pero si no lo hacemos, no mostraremos ninguna señal de evolución. ¡Empecemos a partir de nuestros recuerdos!

Aunque el pedazo de papel estaba pensado para ser enrollado dentro de un tubo... el hecho de hacerlo ahora lo ha convertido en una prueba.

Sabía que este tipo de rutina no iba a ser eterna pero dudábamos sobre si nos separaríamos. Esos días irremplazables.

No quiero que simplemente finjamos una sonrisa como si pensásemos que esa época fue genial, pero si no lo hacemos, no mostraremos ninguna señal de evolución. Podemos quedarnos quietos, ¡empecemos a partir de nuestros recuerdos!

Kanji, romaji, English: Wingom Español: Reila

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NITESHA KYOTO Winter-Spring 2021｜台湾絵葉書展「台日旅情 TAI-NICHI sentimental journey」

この度 NITESHA KYOTO では日本統治時代の台湾絵葉書展「台日旅情 TAI-NICHI sentimental journey」を開催いたします。1900年の私製絵葉書の認可、そして1906年の日露戦争の勝利によって��本では全国各地で絵葉書ブームが起き、日本統治時代（1895年〜1945年）の台湾絵葉書も徐々に人気が出始めました。その後1920年には台湾の行政区分を新たに制定、台湾各地のインフラが整備されたことで、各都市に立地する名所風景などが頻繁に絵葉書の主題として特集されました。そこには現在の台湾には存在しない名所や建物も含まれています。日本統治時代の台湾絵葉書には、当時の都市や地方の様子、原住民の生活や風習、産業、風物、プロパガンダなどを知ることができるため、現在では台湾を研究するための貴重な文献として高く評価されています。また印刷技術においても、凸版印刷、コロタイプ、手彩色といった精巧で美しいバリエーションに富んでいることもこの時代の絵葉書の魅力でもあります。ゆえに戦前の絵葉書には熱心なコレクターがいることも事実です。本展では1930年代前後に発行された台湾絵葉書、関連書籍を中心にご紹介いたします。「かつて存在していたが、今は存在しない」幻となった台日への空想旅行を皆様にご案内いたします。 ▍DATES & OPEN HOURS 展示は 2021年1月24日[日]〜4月上旬。

1月24日〜30日は毎日13:00-18:00オープンします（入場無料・予約不要）。2月1日以降は通常営業となり、日・月のみ有料・予約制です。

Open everyday (free entrance and no reservation required) during Jan 24 - 30, 2021, from 13:00 to 18:00. Open only on Sun. & Mon. from Feb 1 by appointment with entrance fee.

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▍二手舎 NITESHA 二手舎（ニテシャ）は書籍の買取・販売を行う古書店として東京を拠点にスタートしました。これまで写真集、美術書、アートブックを中心に、様々なジャンルの国内書籍と海外の洋書の販売・買取を行ってきました。2017年には展覧会を企画、2018年には稀覯本だった「プロヴォーク 復刻版」を刊行しました。2020年にNITESHA KYOTO をオープン。 www.nitesha.com NITESHA TOKYO 二手舎 東京 所在地：〒157-0067 東京都世田谷区喜多見6-11-1ルミナス成城203 アクセス：小田急線成城学園駅より徒歩20分 +81(0)3-6411-0248｜info@nitesha.com 予約制 NITESHA KYOTO 二手舎 京都  所在地：〒602-0019 京都府京都市上京区下木下町144-4  (Map) アクセス：烏丸線鞍馬口駅より徒歩8分、京都駅より車で15分 （烏丸通りと寺ノ内通り交差点すぐ） 有料貸切・予約制  [ご予約：https://nitesha.youcanbook.me/] （お一人様 1,000円／2時間制／商品をご購入される場合はキャッシュバック） 二手舎 京都について About NITESHA KYOTO

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