Although there had been at an event (without giving many details), until this month that could not have solar-powered handsets in Japan (ソーラーフォン) but have finally come out of the hands of the AU operator, the first mobile can be recharged by solar energy (although it can be recharged by the traditional method) is the ” Solar Phone SH002 “Sharp . “The solar panel can charge the battery up to 80% of its total capacity. With 30 minutes of sun exposure could make a call 2 minutes or 140 minutes on hold.

In addition to Nagoya in Aichi prefecture everyone knows, there is a very small, inhabited by a few hundred Nipponese, mostly fishermen located in Saga Prefecture (location on Google Maps here ). This place makes 500años was very important because, here Toyotomi Hideyoshi , built a spectacular fortress which would serve as the basis for its invasion of South Korea. Although, at present, this castle is just the rock memorial shaped hilt katana you see in the picture above.

If you also visit the castle hill of the village or nearby town of Yobuko , we realize that, today, is just one of the fishing villages of the area, where one of the main products is squid, in fact, find several squid drying (either lying or on a drying wheel) during our trip. Interestingly, during Christmas , they put a tree in a village squares of squid colors and hang as a decoration in its branches

With the raging heat, the other day I went craving mochi ice cream , such as those you see above, that is just the classic Mochi (饼) but filled with ice cream inside. Specifically, the image is of a place that specializes in candy flavors is near the station of Akihabara (秋叶原) . So, today, in fact, much-fancied me one of these … I’ll tell you about this traditional Japanese sweet.

The mochi is made ​​with glutinous rice and water. Traditionally, glutinous rice is soaked and then left with a kind of mortar (usu) and a wooden mallet (kine) he was pounding and kneading rhythmically between two people, adding more water when necessary. See it this way is quite a sight, I saw it often when I lived in Nara . Curiously, commenting that the children are told during the Tsukimi (observation of the moon), on the moon, you can clearly see a rabbit making mochi this way.
Today, in some cases still is a traditional way (special festivals, matsuris, etc) but for general consumption using machines. The mochi can be eaten in various ways (and giving different flavors and colors). Times more consumption of mochi are during the ” Hina Matsuri “and the New Year , times when there are also many cases of choking (especially in the elderly) for elastic and sticky nature of it.

You know that on Wednesdays I talk about my adventures outside of Japan , but I’m not going to talk about any personal experience, if not a story about China , I read this CNN article on Japan while checking my feeds Nipponese.
Apparently, this is a trend that has emerged in the Asian giant since last summer that is coloring the hair of dogs to make them look more original, or to look like other animals (pandas, tigers, etc. ..) . They say that the products used are not harmful to the animal, but I guess it’s difficult to prove.
I personally have not seen any of these colored pets on my trips to China , but apparently the fashion is given in Beijing and I, when I go, I usually move between Guangzhou and Hong Kong .

Horyuji Kondo Horyuji Temple is full of determination and I try to achieve the ideal of Prince Shotoku, the world of Buddha that it’s so beautiful places, where it has become a reality in the form . Horyuji Temple Prince Shotoku against, not just a beautiful and precise, however, has also emphasized that the magnitude of the scale. The temple was built in the era of the first publicly adopted the Buddhist Prince Shotoku, which became the model for building a temple then 　　Horyuji Temple, the Emperor’s own illness convalescence hope for Tomorrow The temple was Fayuan is, without looking at the complete demise, fifteen years and then carry on Suiko (607) The temple was completed in Suiko and Prince Shotoku. However, after the fall of the Prince family,天智天皇two years (670) burning, and returns to the embers. When placing an eight year reconstruction天武天皇(680) temple in West Campus, “Kondo, pagoda, orders, corridor …” will be rebuilt. Then, 11 years Tianping (739), with a focus on East Campus monastery bamboo夢殿by Yukinobu “夢殿…” are produced, and finished your current foundation of Horyuji. – commentary – 　　Kondo of Horyuji Buddhist temple was built on a basement of a double double.

After the success of my video 2 minutes in Shinjuku , continued with more videos of the series’ two minutes. ” In this case, we will move to Kyoto , with a Shōtengai (商店街) is a shopping street at ground level but covered of the many that exist in Japan again, left without putting out ambient sound for background music the video makes you feel there …

Hoy, para acabar la semana os voy a presentar una serie de vídeos que empezaré a realizar a partir de ahora. Serán vídeos de dos minutos (al más puro estilo Fran Valenciano) grabados en diferentes partes del mundo, con el sonido ambiental para que sea como desplazarse a ese lugar realmente. El primero se llama 2 minutos en Shinjuku y, espero, os trasladará a una despejada noche de invierno en este popular distrito de Tokyo. Espero que os guste

At the time I was glad that Spain won the World Cup . This was more or less a year … During that time Japanese friends, I called to congratulate each victory of my team and cheering during matches in Spain, today, I have to congratulate me. Japan is the world champion women’s soccer , Congratulations, girls! after all what you have gone this year … you deserve this happiness …
I am delighted that today’s football world champions are just Spain and Japan

The other day on twitter someone who went to China I was wondering about the issue of censorship on the internet … You know facebook , Youtube (and others like DailyMotion or Vimeo), Flickr (which has been but now it is not), blogging platforms (like Blogger or wordpress.org) and twitter are censored himself (among others). However, it may seem incredible that in a market of more than 475millones of Internet (and rising) has no such services, but that if there … are services of China, for China, also has some impressive numbers , so the Chinese, in fact “not notice” this Internet censorship

In the top chart we see the sites and most successful social media in China , the most successful social networks are “type facebook” QQZone , Pengyou , Renren and Kaixin001 except Sina Weibo , a “Twitter,” another this style would Netease Weibo .
As for websites, we Baidu , the “Chinese Google,” followed by QQ, which, like Sina , offers multiple applications (profiles, blog, social networking and instant messaging), we also have a web shopping Taobao and one of the ” Youtube “China: Youku , while others like Tudou and 56 are also popular.