http://soldave.thedeepstop.com Scuba diving in Okinawa, and all things to do with Japan Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:00:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well it's been a fun weekend overall, and an extended one for those of us lucky enough to live in Okinawa and my employed by the local government. Yesterday marked the end of the Battle of Okinawa, and therefore was Okinawa Memorial Day, with all public offices and schools ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/24/a-weekend-of-diving-and-driving/ Something very different here for you, and probably not so relavent to my regular readers. But I spent quite a while writing this so I thought I'd put it here. As some of you know, as well as diving, one of my loves in Japan is now my car. This ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/17/devils-own-alcohol-injection-stage-2-kit-a-review/ Bits of news are still coming out of the Japanese news feeds about Tomohiro Kato, the man who murdered 7 people and injured 10 others in the centre of Akihabara on Sunday. He is reported as having told police he was unhappy with working conditions and the fact there ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/11/akihabara-murders-kato-was-unhappy-with-life/ ..as news of another knife attack (this time attempted) has made the top story here in Japan. Yup, the copycat people are out now, and we know how Japanese people like to follow the trends. Once again, Kyodo News with the story. 16-year-old boy arrested for barging into ex-girlfriend's high school ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/10/im-just-laughing-at-my-desk-here/ Another day, another knife attack here in beautiful Japan. This time the victim was a schoolgirl and the attacker wasn't known. This, from Kyodo News: Man slashes schoolgirl with knife in Nagoya Monday 09th June, 04:28 PM JST NAGOYA - A man on Sunday night assaulted a schoolgirl on a street in Kita-Nagoya, ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/10/ok-this-is-getting-tedious/ A couple of people have sent me emails recently, telling me that they are having problems commenting on my blog. The problem seems to be with the authentication code that you are supposed to type in not appearing on the screen when you try to leave a message. ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/10/problems-commenting-on-my-blog/ Another slight personal update today (as you might be able to tell, I have quite a bit of free time on Mondays!). June is the time of year when student teachers come to various schools throughout Japan for a few weeks of teaching experience, both watching and then later taking ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/09/student-teachers-have-arrived/ A couple of weeks ago you may recall I posted an article about suicide in Japan, why it has been rising and what is being done/can be done in order to bring it down. I gave a few examples, and included that of a singer called Kago Ai (pictured below), ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/09/suicides-in-japan-no-support-for-people-in-need/ A chilling story for you here, which most of you have probably read about by now so I will try and give you a different slant and opinion on it. The news event I am talking about is the one which happened in the Akihabara district of Tokyo yesterday, in ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/09/a-crazy-goes-crazy-in-a-crazy-part-of-tokyo/ It has been a long time coming, but I have a bit of diving news to report. The water is warming up, and so on Saturday I arranged an Open Water pool session that has been put off since the water started getting cold back in November. The day was ... http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/09/finally-some-diving-news/