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Important changes for understanding. Hypothetically, you've been placed on the lucky team of Graphic Designers who are charged with designing maps for the 2020 Olympics that is being held in Tokyo. Sentimental or Practical?

While I have a lot to say on the subject of immigration and Japan Living I also like to be involved with people who have more experience. On YouTube there is a community of folks (expats) who blog and share their lives and or thoughts on Japan living.

In 1950 Japan started down a new path to enter the world on a global scale. I believe that about 75 years after that new beginning, Japan will be ready. That's in 2025.

Why do we dream? For years now I've thought that dreams are the minds way of processing our worries and fears and problems that we have.

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How immersion can cloud the waters of writing. By Alex Stratis 06.28.13 Perspective and writing about being an immigrant is like swimming in the ocean or lake.

“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk.

Love is a sea of dreams. When we go swimming in this sea, sometimes we just paddle around in the shallow parts and the Shores of Friendship are so close that it's hard to tell that we are indeed in (the sea of) Love. Love is the comfort of a combination of atmosphere and personality. We choose our atmosphere and our personalities are our experiences up until now. The result of time and place are the feelings of the waves that can be gentle or crashing. If you've found yourself deep in (the sea of) love sometimes it's disorienting, which way is up? When do we come up for air? (take a breather) Love takes patience, responsibility, time, effort, risk, luck, and trust. Love gives us an insight to the core of humanity and really life in general as all things understand love. Because we all go for a swim in some way during our short lives. We can only find love if we know where the shore of friendship is in relation to the deserts of being alone. Love is a sea of...

The following is some insight from my own personal experiences working in a large Japanese corporation in Chubu, Japan.

I spend a lot of time every day looking for a worthy shot, sometimes i focus on my iphone and sometimes on a better quality shot on my D7000. This slideshow is a collection of timeless images shown in a simple fashion to some quirky traditional music. The music is about a lone traveler. Most of the photos were taken in Aichi ken where I now live. Dont forget to like the video if you fond it interesting! :)

The music I listen to The genre is called Drum and Bass and just as the name implies its full of percussion. But its more than that as (if you don't already know) you will find in this post. This music is run at a quick tempo of around 160-180bpm which is on a whole different rhythm level compared to most other music. I aim to share some great resources for quality Drum and Bass here in this post. Every so often I invest in the audio pleasure I get from the people I tune in to, over at bassdrive.com (which is an internet radio station for some of the best drum and bass around the world) "Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music. The label is home to artists such as High Contrast, Netsky, London Elektricity...

Nature in Japan I really like these videos. All made by the same Japanese man. He also makes video about his cats but After I watch these nature videos I feel so at peace. Take a few minutes to enjoy the beauty of Japan! Check out his youtube channel:  Nyanta8355 If you want to see more of my nature videos, check out my nature playlist .

Learning to use the English language When anyone is learning to use a new language its good for them to use the new alphabet/collection of characters in various ways outside of writing or reading. For me this means creating little 'cards' of each character so that words can be explored in a hands on way outside of writing. Writing in English While writing in English can be very beneficial to learning the language there are different parts of the brain that understand its creation (motor memory) and another part that aids in understanding what the letter means. This is my theory anyway. I don't know the science behind this. So be cause a lot of people get caught up in what style to use or where the letters are placed I've decided to add a different way to learn spelling/reading. Writing in Japanese Japanese language doesn't use spaces or capitals or lowercase and therefore when kids are learning to read and write...

I arrived in Hamamatsu on November 2nd, 2011. For the past nine months I have called Shizuoka-ken my home away from home. Some of things I love about Hamamatsu are as follows: The best thing about Hamamatsu is the climate. While I might have been lucky that it has been relatively mild, temperature wise, I feel like by default, the climate in Hama is drier and cooler than most places in Japan that I've had the privilege to visit. That alone makes it a special place.

This really resonates with me, all the wars we fight and all the people that die from violence for example are all a victim of the struggle of geography. Food water all a result of geography. It needs to be more important in education. Good video/message, hope you find a chance to watch it.

Language has always been important to me. I have been listening to Japanese for 12 years. I took a class in Japanese in my second year of high school. But I've had mixed spats of study in the realm of grammar and verb conjugation , ect. I've taken a few university courses and went to Japan while in Art school. Long story short Japan and its language has always been a part of my life in some way. Now I live there and am feverishly trying to improve what little I do know of the language. What I lack most is practice in speaking. But this is also complicated by my weak grasp on taking what I know and adding grammar and new vocabulary to the right situations in a timely manner. So while my speaking confidence is low, my listening confidence is much better and I can generally listen to someone talk in their native speed and manage to provide the right combinations of responses so that they can continue trusting that I understand what they have said. In reality, I maybe under...

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Sayonara days of limited quality and control!  A new adventure begins. Check out a review of this camera on  DPreview.com When I first got into photography it was a SLR Pentax that my dad got me for my birthday. I was pretty young, I don't recall the age I was, but it was pretty cool. Later I got to use the family's Sony Mavica on some vacation, I don't recall the details but digital cameras were cool. In the early years of the new millennium I got a Sony Mavica CD1000 which used mini CDs as the medium to record to. It has an amazing zoom! And a whopping (at the time) 5 mega pixels!

Why and how we react to the Earthly events that we cannot control. By Alex Stratis 03/17/2011 image used from HTE When earthquake, flood, fire, etc., occur in an area that is not inhabited by humans, it does not generally get any notice by the media, and therefore is not really a disaster. What I am saying is that disaster is relative to what it affects. Imagine now, if you will, a Japan/Hati/NZ-like island, void of any people. The best way to do this is to go back in time before humans existed. Why do this? Well, for perspective, what was the coast of Japan like back then? For thousands of years landscapes were formed by volcanoes and earthquakes. Why is this relative?