Podcast Host: DJ Stormer
Podcast Owner: JapanVisitor
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Location: Japan
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Listen to sounds from Japan - festival (matsuri) music, street sounds from Tokyo and temple gongs.
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9/2/2010 | Download File (0.00 MB) - right click to download
Tokyo's Koto ward is, like most of the city east of Ginza, far from glam and not renowned for its overall beauty. However, it is home to the Fukagawa district which is rich in historical significance and offers some aesthetically unforgettable experiences.One spot of particular beauty in Koto ward's Fukagawa district is the Kiyosumi Teien Gardens. These relatively small gardens date from Japan's feudal era, and were once owned by the founder of the Mitsubishi corporation. They offer a feeling of languid spaciousness beyond their mere square meterage, with their large calm pond teeming with carp, tortoises and waterfowl, their immaculately maintained lawns, the elegant tea house built out over the pond, and the stone monuments that dot it, for the visitor to stop and ponder.See a YouTube video of Kiyosumi Teien Gardens above. And read more about Kiyosumi Teien Gardens the surrounding Fukagawa district. © JapanVisitor.comYahoo Japan Auction ServiceJapanese FriendsTokyo Apartments SearchJapan Job SearchRough Guide To JapanTagsJapanTokyoKiyosumigardenFukagawa
9/1/2010 | Download File (0.88 MB) - right click to download
Resonance 2010 is a music/dance/art experience directed by Kaoru Watanabe, former artistic director of the famed Kodo Drummers. Resonance will be doing two shows in Kyoto at the excellent art space UrBANGUILD on Sept 3 and 4. Please see the link here and press release for full details in English. Resonance can offer a 1,000yen discount off the cost of entry (2,000yen entry instead of the regular 3,000yen) to JapanVisitor readers. Just send an e-mail to yakimonos [at] earthlink [dot] netThis show is an incredible mix of East and West performed by some really astounding talent that appeals to both Japanese and foreign audiences.© JapanVisitor.comYahoo Japan Auction ServiceJapanese FriendsTokyo Apartments SearchJapan Job SearchRough Guide To JapanTagsTaiko DrumsKodoKyotoResonance 2010Japanese music
8/31/2010 | Download File (0.00 MB) - right click to download
Tokyo's Koto ward is, like most of the city east of Ginza, far from glam and not renowned for its overall beauty. However, it is home to the Fukagawa district which is rich in historical significance and offers some aesthetically unforgettable experiences.One spot of particular beauty in Koto ward's Fukagawa district is the Kiyosumi Teien Gardens. These relatively small gardens date from Japan's feudal era, and were once owned by the founder of the Mitsubishi corporation. They offer a feeling of languid spaciousness beyond their mere square meterage, with their large calm pond teeming with carp, tortoises and waterfowl, their immaculately maintained lawns, the elegant tea house built out over the pond, and the stone monuments that dot it, for the visitor to stop and ponder.See a YouTube video of Kiyosumi Teien Gardens above. And read more about Kiyosumi Teien Gardens the surrounding Fukagawa district. © JapanVisitor.comYahoo Japan Auction ServiceJapanese FriendsTokyo Apartments SearchJapan Job SearchRough Guide To JapanTagsJapanTokyoKiyosumigardenFukagawa
8/28/2010 | Download File (0.00 MB) - right click to download
????·?????Beckii Cruel, aka Rebecca Flint, was the subject of an interesting BBC 3 documentary this month. The Isle of Man-born schoolgirl became a hit in Japan after posting videos of herself on YouTube dancing to J-pop songs in her bedroom. Long a fan of Japanese manga and anime, Beckii's doe-eyed looks fit perfectly the stereotype of a shojo manga character. Spotted by a talent scout, Beckii was taken over to Tokyo for her 15 minutes of fame as a moe idol.The documentary probes the Lolicon (Lolita complex) aspect of young girls dancing for the "entertainment" of a mainly older male audience, the pressures of making it big in Japan and the support Beckii has received from her policeman father, Derek, who clearly has one eye firmly on her earning potential. Now with a Twitter page and a website, Beckii is hoping to go mainstream and we wish her well.© JapanVisitor.comYahoo Japan Auction ServiceJapanese FriendsTokyo Apartments SearchJapan Job SearchRough Guide To JapanTagsBeckii CruelIdolLoliconanimeJapanese manga
8/22/2010 | Download File (0.00 MB) - right click to download
?????????? Japanese gay, lesbian, and transgender pride is here again this weekend, with the 7th Tokyo Pride Parade, happening on Saturday, August 14, 2010 (see Tokyo Events, Gay & Lesbian).Tokyo was the first city in Japan to have a public gay/lesbian pride event, in 1994. It inspired a similar event that began in Sapporo City, Hokkaido, two years later: what is now known as the Rainbow Parade, Japan's longest-lived annual gay and lesbian parade.Tokyo's gay lesbian pride parade has a rather convoluted history that - perhaps appropriately for being in Japan's political center of Tokyo - much reflects the nature of Japanese history itself, with at least a modicum of infighting that has seen the event stop and start and change names more than once.Despite what goes on behind the scenes, the Tokyo Pride Parade, as it is now known, is Tokyo's biggest gay and lesbian and transgender party where the boys and girls party with flamboyance and style, the outrageous gleefully outweighing the chic.The 7th Tokyo Pride Parade, like those that have preceded it, is officially classified as a "demonstration" rather than a festival, so anyone wishing to participate in the parade itself - that circles the streets of Shibuya ward - must register to participate by 10.30am on the day.The organizers are expecting a crowd of about 5,000. Go on, make it 5,001! See you there.Read more about the history of Tokyo Pride.© JapanVisitor.comYahoo Japan Auction ServiceJapanese FriendsTokyo Apartments SearchJapan Job SearchRough Guide To JapanTagsJapanTokyogaylesbianprideparade
