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What kind of country is Japan? This site aims to become a guide to Japan and Japanese culture by introducing various information about Japan, from basic information such as its location, climate, transportation, food, language and manners, to whats and whys about the local traditions and customs.

Caterpillar's Murmur

Mosquitos And Mosquito Coils

(SAT) September 4th, 2010

1:52 p.m. Cow has picked up a news from somewhere that the number of mosquitos were thirty percent fewer than ususal this summer. Even mosquitos can't seem to stand this heat.

1:55 p.m. But I've been seeing a swarm of mosquitos in and around the Myoga(Japanese ginger) bush in the back of our kitchen. It's as if they've come to gather in the shady damp bush from the whole neighborhood, and despite the fact that there were supposed to be fewer mosquitos than usual, I've been attacked by tens of them every time I go out there to pick some Myoga. As a result, my legs have costantly been speckled with mosquito bites. However, thanks to the Katori-senko(mosquito coils), haven't been attacked while sleeping. And perhaps because I've been using those Kincho coils since I was a baby, they make it easier the to get off to sleep even on the hottest nights. Really, I wouldn't know how to get over summer without them.

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Food Catalog

Kenchin Jiru
Kenchin Jiru

Here's Kenchin Jiru, a piping hot Japanese home-style dish. Generally cooked as light soup simply seasoned with soy sauce, with stir-fried and stewed chunky vegetables such as Ninjin(carrots), Satoimo(aroids), Gobou(burdocks), Daikon(Japanese radish) and Tofu, it may be called Japanese barley soup. It warms you up in the coldest of winter, and is loved throughout the nation as one of the typical home-made cooking dish.

Holidays

Holidays of September

  • September 20th (MON)
  • Respect for the Aged Day
  • September 23rd (WED)
  • Autumnal Equinox Day

People

Watch out for "SAMURAI" Tamesue!

'People' would like to cheer and support someone who is working hard to achieve his or her goal. This time 'People' would focus on Japanese "Samurai" hurdler Dai Tamesue who recently went into a full-fledged training for the Peking Olympics.

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airframe seen from side
Manned flight by oxyride dry-cell batteries project

The Tokyo Institute of Technology in cooperation with Panasonic, has led the project 'Manned Flight by Oxyride Dry-cell Battery' into the world's first success. On July 16th this year (2006), they made success in a trial of manned flight using commercially available oxyride batteries, in a project that they had been bringing forward together.