You should always be alert when diving…
I just had this picture forwarded to me from my diving buddy. One of his friends took the shot on the Sunabe Seawall, near Chatan in central Okinawa. Even 60 years on, some remnants and dangers of WWII remain.
Dive logs 236-239 (31/3-1/4) (new and improved logs!)
In an attempt to make the dive logs more interesting (for the few of you who look at them), I’m now including a graph for each dive showing my dive profile. This will only be of any interest for you divers out there, but it might be worth looking at if you want to see how I dive. Here are the logs for last weekend
BBC’s Japanorama - what the West want to see of Japan?
Was just browsing the interweb at work today, due to having little work to do (no students and relatively few teachers) when I got to the BBC homepage. Was about to look at the news headlines when I saw a
link to a TV programme on BBC3 tonight called Japanorama. Intrigued, I clicked the link and read on…
The series of programmes follows Jonathan Ross as he travels to Japan in search of “what’s big” in Japan. In this, the 3rd series, the areas to be looked at by Ross are: Gaijin (outsiders), Ai and Koi (love & romance), J-Art, Densetsu (legends), Kaidan (Horror) and Gyaru (bad girls). Now I have no problem with Jonathan Ross, and I think the little I have seen of him on TV in the past 4 or 5 years has been good, but the content of this show should certainly be questioned. Firstly, the first episode is called Gaijin. While this literally means “outsider”, if you ask anyone in Japanese what gaijin means, they will say it is a foreigner. To illustrate this, just look at the 4 people below. We have a Japanese celebrity/comedian, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and iconic film-maker Akira Kurosawa:
