Matsuyama

Shikoku Pilgrimage Is the “Omairingu” project inspiring or ridiculous? Introduction The Shikoku Henro is a Buddhist Pilgrimage visiting eighty eight Buddhist Temples in Shikoku to commemorate one of the most famous Japanese Buddhist Monks - Kūkai as known as Kōbō-Daishi. This pilgrimage is a training bringing both physical and spiritual benefits to pilgrims through its intensive process. Nevertheless, due to the consequences of rapid modernization in Japan, cultural practices like Shikoku Henro

Watch an artist create an entire exhibition in 17 hours Toshiba Australia, supported by Windows and Intel, issued a unique challenge to renowned Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. The artist known to his fans as “Matzu” was tasked with creating an entire exhibition using only one Toshiba Ultrabook on a trip from Tokyo to Sydney. The idea behind the campaign from Clemenger BBDO Sydney, is to show off the laptop's industry-busting 17-hour battery life. The “Made in 17 hours” campaign follows Matzu

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the “Father of English Poetry” because of his book The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer & Canterbury Tales Notes taken in Mr. Dye’s Advanced English 12 class). The Canterbury Tales comes from the Canterbury Pilgrimage, which was a significant part of Christian faith. Pilgrimages helped spread religion and help the pilgrims advance in their spiritually. The main difference between a pilgrimage and a vacation is that pilgrimages are uncomfortable in some way and pursue spiritual

To understand the Japanese castles, one must immerse in history of the country. Japan despite a very different culture, like the old continent, also had a medieval time. Different regions were then divided into small entities over which ruled a local lord. The equivalence would be Dukes or Counts. The Emperor of divine ancestry, could be seen as the Pope while the Shogun was in charge of the power of the reigning emperor. This feudal system then required to have stronghold, but it is only with the

The comparative advantage The concept of the comparative advantage was first coined in 1817 by economist David Ricardo, in his On the principles of political economy and taxation. The underlying idea of the comparative advantage theory is that the countries possess different resources and capabilities and they can produce some specific items in a more efficient manner than other countries can produce the same items, or more efficiently that the same country can produce other items. In such a

Rough Draft “Shawn have you ever heard of Hawaii?”, my father asked while we sat down for dinner. At that moment I already knew what was about to happen. My parents had been “joking around” recently about moving but I could tell that the jokes were progressively getting more and more serious, and this scared me. “No” I replied trying to avoid the subject. “Well it’s an amazing place, and your dad just scored a job transfer there and me and him are pretty set on it now.” I was distraught, I didn’t

It was a miserable night. On August 6th, the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Three days later another bomb fell and destroyed Nagasaki. Eventually, there was a radio announcement from the Emperor himself. Anne and I listened closely in the little hospital we were quartered in. The Emperor, weeping, announced that the war was finally over. We were finally released. American planes dropped little provision parcels filled with fruit, sugar, clothes, and other valuable items. Everywhere was destruction

Wanting to break out of this monotony, she and her three friends Mayu (Reina Kikuchi), Tamiko (Rina Matsuyama), and Ryoko (Marin Nishmoto) take it upon themselves to take 400 goldfish from a local festival and pour them into their school’s swimming

As John Howard stated in 2006, “Australia has no greater friend in Asia than Japan.” This article will give an overview of Japan as a country and the links that Australia has with this country, whether it be through culture, defence and military, tourism, trade or sport. It will also look into historical events that sparked these links and how these relationships were formed and strengthened. Finally, it will go into how these links have changed the way we see Japan, and how these links have changed

Serum IL-33 showed an excellent diagnostic performance. Th ese fi ndings coincided with those of Matsuyama et al. [12], Mu et al. [14], Hong et al. [15], Xiangyang et al. [16], Khalifa and Abdelfattah [17], Talabot-Ayer et al. [18], and Tang et al. [19]. Th is indicated that IL-33 may be involved in the pathogenesis of RA. In addition, the diff erences