Climber's High + Shinkansen

#ClimbersHigh #Shinkansen #クライマーズ・ハイ #新幹線

From a Domestic Focus to an International Audience for Japanese Comedy On 27 June, I presented at the online Japanese Comedy and Humour Workshop, looking at a possible shift from domestic focus to an international audience for Japanese comedy. The Japanese domestic ma…

From A Domestic Focus to an International Audience for Japanese Comedy

#Japan #Comedy #Zom100 #TsubakiSanjuro #JuzoItami #Ososhiki #Tampopo #ClimbersHigh

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Back to Climber's High 2008, and the Restaurant Ponchi. Like the yakiniku restaurant from the 2005 version, it's been remodelled since the movie, but at least I finally got in and can strike it from my Japan Bucket List.

#ClimbersHigh #Maebashi #ContentsTourism

Back to Climber's High 2005, and the Maebashi library.

#ClimbersHigh #Maebashi #ContentsTourism

The car park at my hotel in Maebashi was full, so I had to use another. Although it's been rebuilt, I parked where Yuuki does in Climber's High 2008.

There's even a discount for parking on the top floors, I would have paid extra.

今迄は幸せな人生だったと感謝している

#ClimbersHigh #Maebashi #ContentsTourism

From a Domestic Focus to an International Audience for Japanese Comedy I delighted that my abstract for my paper ‘From a Domestic Focus to an International Audience for Japanese Comedy’ has been accepted and that I will be presenting on the second day (27 …

From a Domestic Focus to an International Audience for Japanese Comedy

#Japan #Japanese #JapaneseComedy #JapaneseHumour #Zom100 #TsubakiSanjuro #Ososhiki #Okuribito #Tampopo #ClimbersHigh #JapaneseComedyAndHumourWorkshop

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Why Study “Climber’s High” (2008)? In my series of posts about my summer 2024 trip to Japan, there were three related to contents tourism and Climber’s High (2008) – Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2008), C…

Why Study “Climber’s High” (2008)?

#Japan #ClimbersHigh #Seventeen #HideoYokoyama #MasatoHarada #JAL123 #Maebashi #Gunma #Uenomura #クライマーズ・ハイ #クライマーズハイ #原田眞人 #横山秀夫 #DisasterMovies #Research #JapaneseStudies

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Contents Tourism in Ueno-mura: Climber’s High (2008) This is the next post in a series reflecting on some of the things I saw and did during my summer 2024 trip to Japan, and it is another related to contents tourism and Climber’s High (2008). …

Contents Tourism in Ueno-mura: Climber’s High (2008)

#Japan #ContentsTourism #Uenomura #Ueno #ImaikeRyokan #Gunma #ClimbersHigh #MasatoHarada #HideoYokoyama
#上野村 #今井家旅館 #群馬県 #クライマーズハイ #原田眞人 #横山秀夫 #コンテンツツーリズム

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Contents Tourism at Doai Station: Climber’s High (2008) This is the next post in a series reflecting on some of the things I saw and did during my summer 2024 trip to Japan, and it is another related to contents tourism. It is also another related to Cl…

Contents Tourism at Doai Station: Climber’s High (2008)

#Japan #ContentsTourism #Doai #DoaiStation #Gunma #ClimbersHigh #MasatoHarada #HideoYokoyama #Seventeen #土合 #群馬県 #クライマーズハイ #原田眞人 #横山秀夫 #コンテンツツーリズム

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Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2008) This is the next post in a series reflecting on some of the things I saw and did during my summer 2024 trip to Japan, and after the red bridge in the previous post (Favourite Photos: Yoriiku Shrine…

Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2008)

#Japan #ContentsTourism #Maebashi #Gunma #ClimbersHigh #MasatoHarada #HideoYokoyama #Seventeen #前橋市 #群馬県 #クライマーズハイ #原田眞人 #横山秀夫 #コンテンツツーリズム

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“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Three: Visual Packaging Culture Building upon the discussions in Chapters 1 and 2, this chapter discusses a range of issues that relate to images and symbols. The chapter begins by considering the way in which we can understand some...

“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Three: Visual Packaging Culture

#Japan #JapanTheBasics #VisualPackagingCulture #Symbolism #Shinkansen #HelloKitty #ContentsTourism #StarWars #Pokemon #ClimbersHigh #ANA #JAL #Skymark #StarFlyer #WrappingCulture

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Favourite Photos: Doai Station (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition)) Japan: The Basics contains many photographs (all taken by me) to help with the discussions in the book. I have previously done individual posts on each of the photos that were in the first edition tha...

Favourite Photos: Doai Station (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition))

#Japan #FavouritePhoto #JapanTheBasics #Photography #Doai #DoaiStation #Gunma #Tanigawa #ContentsTourism #ClimbersHigh #HideoYokoyama #JAL123 #JL123

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Favourite Photos: Ichinokurasawa and Mount Tanigawa (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition)) Japan: The Basics contains many photographs (all taken by me) to help with the discussions in the book. I have previously done individual posts on each of the photos that were in the first edition tha...

Favourite Photos: Ichinokurasawa and Mount Tanigawa (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition))

#Japan #FavouritePhoto #JapanTheBasics #Photography #Symbolism #MountTanigawa #Gunma #Tanigawa #ContentsTourism #ClimbersHigh #HideoYokoyama #JAL123 #JL123

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World Book Day – My Favourite Book For this year's World Book Day, staff in my School at Cardiff University were encouraged to write about their favourite book. You can see the display of my choice in the photograph with this post. The...

World Book Day – My Favourite Book

#WorldBookDay #KuraimazuHai #ClimbersHigh #HideoYokoyama #JAL123 #JL123 #MountTanigawa #Uenomura #Gunma #Doai #Maebashi #クライマーズハイ #横山秀夫 #群馬県 #上野村 #前橋市 #土合 #谷川岳 #日航１２３便

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Kanzawa, JL123, JL516, and Me Don't worry, the title doesn't include a typo - it really is supposed to be 'Kanzawa' rather than 'Kanazawa', a city that is close to the epicentre of the recent Noto Peninsula Earthquake and Tsunami....

Kanzawa, JL123, JL516, and Me

#JAL123 #JL123 #JL516 #Kanzawa #ClimbersHigh #Seventeen #KuraimazuHai #HideoYokoyama #Research #PlaneCrash #HideoYokoyama #クライマーズ・ハイ #クライマーズハイ #横山秀夫

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Favourite Monologues in Films/Books – The Sayama Article For the first time in a few years, I have been focussing upon the JL123 crash in my final year teaching. Each week we have been looking at a different theme or issue related to the crash. We also watc...

Favourite Monologues in Films/Books – The Sayama Article

#Monologue #SayamaArticle #KuraimazuHai #ClimbersHigh #Seventeen #HideoYokoyama #横山秀夫　#佐山　#御巣鷹　#クライマーズハイ #JL123 #JAL123 #Osutaka #MountOsutaka #ReportingDisasters

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Mental Health Awareness Day 10 October is Mental Health Awareness day. As I also wrote last year, it’s one of those days where I think it’s sad that we still need to have a day to raise awareness of the issues sur…

Mental Health Awareness Day and Mount Tanigawa

#MentalHealthDay #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #MountTanigawa #ClimbersHigh #Japan #JapanTheBasics @Tokyo_Weekender @TELLJapan

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Climber’s High – Completing The Set In March, I wrote a post about re-listening to the audiobook ‘Seventeen’, which is the English name for the novel クライマーズ・ハイ Kuraimazu Hai (literally ‘Climber’s High’).…

Climber’s High – Completing The Set

#ClimbersHigh #HideoYokoyama #Audiobook #Audible #Seventeen #MountTanigawa #OsutakaNoOne #Uenomura #AkiraNoguchi #JAL123 #JL123 #下りるために登る #クライマーズハイ #横山秀夫 #野口晃 #御巣鷹の尾根 #谷川岳 #上野村

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Relistening to “Seventeen” by Hideo Yokoyama I don’t often listen to audiobooks. And until the past week, I’d never listened to one more than once. Most of the books in my collection are translations of novels by Haruki Murakami &…

Relistening to “Seventeen” by Hideo Yokoyama

#HideoYokoyama #Seventeen #Audiobook #Audible #JAL123 #JL123 #Tanigawa #Uenomura #ClimbersHigh #JL123 #Gunma #横山秀夫 #クライマーズハイ #谷川岳 #上野村 #下りるため登る #群馬県

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Podcasts on pause for a while. Time to be with an old friend again.

Would be good to get the Japanese audiobook one day.

#ClimbersHigh #Seventeen #HideoYokoyama #JAL123

Listen to Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama, Louise Heal Kawai - translator on Audible.

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Discussing JL123 with ChatGPT/OpenAI Having started to get an understanding of what ChatGPT/Open Ai can do, as I discussed in my post First Interactions with ChatGPT/OpenAI, I decided to up the ante and move on to a topic related to m…

Discussing JL123 with ChatGPT/OpenAI

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #JL123 #JAL123 #ClimbersHigh #ShizumanuTaiyo #PlaneCrash #CrashCause #Research #DisasterMovies

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Favourite Photos: Doai Station On some days I just do a short post that primarily revolves around a favourite photo without much accompanying text. This picture was taken during a trip to Doai station in 2011. The main reason fo…

Favourite Photos: Doai Station

#FavouritePhoto #Photography #Japan #Doai #JAL123 #ClimbersHigh

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“Truth” in Fiction – Pillars and Cantilevers In a number of posts (Book Review: “The Retreat” by Mark Edwards, Book Review: “Follow You Home” by Mark Edwards, Conventions in Disaster Movies, “Greenland” – A Very Good Disaster Movie, “Flight 9…

“Truth” in Fiction – Pillars and Cantilevers

#Fiction #NonFiction #Novels #Movies #Documentaries #Truth #PillarsOfTruth #CantileverOfTruth #ClimbersHigh #Seventeen #HideoYokoyama #横山秀夫 #クライマーズ・ハイ #ClimbersHigh #IamWriting #Research

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Reporting and Responding to Disasters I have previously done some posts (such as Creating Disasters and Disasters by the Book – How Japanese may be Designing Disasters) relating to one of the most significant concepts to have impacted …

Reporting and Responding to Disasters

#ClimbersHigh #Seventeen #クライマーズ・ハイ #HideoYokoyama #横山秀夫 #Reporting #Media #Disasters #AllLivesMatter #Mourning #Remembering #JAL123 #JL123 #Japan

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The JL123 Crash and Manga – Recreating Iconic Images Following on from my post about the manga Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin and The JL123 Crash and Manga – Unsolved Crime, this post will be discussing another manga in relation to the JL123 plane crash.…

The JL123 Crash and Manga – Recreating Iconic Images

#JL123 #JAL123 #Manga #Japan #Crash #PlaneCrash #Osutakayama #Osutaka #御巣鷹山 #御巣鷹 #御巣鷹屋の暑い夏 #ClimbersHigh #ShizumanuTaiyo #クライマーズハイ #沈まぬ太陽

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“Climber’s High” Of all the disaster narratives that I studied for my article “Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?”, the one that I have studied in most detail is ‘Climber’s H…

“Climber’s High” - part of my study of disaster movies

#ClimbersHigh #クライマーズ・ハイ #HideoYokoyama #Japan #Novel #Dramatization #Movie #Disaster #DisasterMovie #Research #MasatoHarada #IwakuraSeries #JAL123 #横山秀夫

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“Disaster Narrative by Design: Is Japan Different?” available now Disaster movies remain a relatively under-studied “genre” of narrative, particularly in relation to which conventions are used within such narratives. One of the key works is by Yacowar (2012) and …

“Disaster Narrative by Design: Is Japan Different?” available now

#Disaster #DisasterResponse #DisasterMovie #Japan #JAL123 #ShizumanuTaiyo #ClimbersHigh #Movies #FilmGenre #Hollywood #MediaStudies #FilmStudies

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Listening to music from the movies of Shizumanu Taiyo and Climber's High as I remember those on board #JAL123. At this time, the explosion occurred.

#ShizumanuTaiyo #沈まぬ太陽 #ClimbersHigh #クライマーズ・ハイ
#JAL123 #JL123 #JAL123便事故 #御巣鷹の尾根 #上野村 #日航機墜落事故

Contents Tourism – Mount Tanigawa and Ichi-no-Kurasawa Are you familiar with the term ‘contents tourism’? I cannot remember when I first heard it, but I know who to thank for introducing me to it – Dr Philip Seaton. After hearing some…

Contents Tourism – Mount Tanigawa and Ichi-no-Kurasawa

#ContentsToursim #Tanigawa #Ichinokurasawa #ClimbersHigh #JAL123 #Gunma

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