Nov 11 marks the end of WWI (1918) and is known variously as Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Poppy Day, Remembrance Day. Wars still rage, but may there be peace on earth. 🥀
Typical fountain bubbler spigot in Japan park. 📷🇯🇵🛝
Nov 10 is 技能の日 “ginou no hi”, a day Japan celebrates the development of vocational skills such as landscaping, carpentry or PC repair. See JAVADA’s excellent, detailed English pamphlet PDF regarding this subject. 🇯🇵🧑🌾✍️🔨
Shimbashi Tokyo food fair colors. 📷🎪
The neighborhood in Totsuka Yokohama is really hilly. 📷💦
Nov 9 is “dial 119” day in Japan since 1987 (S62, 3 months after I arrived!) after the fire and emergency services number (more here), during nat’l fire prevention week. Be aware & check your 🧯
Kanda, Tokyo’s “Fureai Bridge”. 📷🌁
Nov 8 is World Urbanism or Town Planning Day. I’d be interested in learning more about what goes into large urban planning projects including if protests have ever been effective. 🪧👷♂️
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Urbanism_Day https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230616/p2a/00m/0sc/030000c
Maru the Shiba was freaked out by the wind last night and spent most of the night wandering around and whining in distress. He wouldn’t come be with anyone so everyone is tired today including him. 🐕🥺
The tower holds water for disasters, but I snapped this because my shadow lined up in an interesting way. 📷😎
Asahi Shimbun marked Nov 7 as 知恵の日“chie no hi / wisdom day” in 1988, launching their “modern words bank” column, a legacy kept alive in their kotobank site. 🧐
IndexNow Update Script - automate your search engine URL submissions https://cogley.jp/2023/11/06/indexnow-update-script.html
Today 11/6 is roll cake day in Japan, from a goroawase word play on 11 “ii” for good, and 6 “ro”ll. 🇨🇭
Night invite 📷🌚
Nov 5 is “world tsunami awareness day”, so learn about it and ensure you can #GetToHighGround if you are in a risk zone. 🌊‼️
The cosmos in your cosmos 📷⏳
Why no, officer, I couldn’t read the sign. 📷🪧
World Heritage Sites are not the only thing UNESCO, established this day 4 Nov 1946 as an agency of the UN, does. Take a moment to learn more about their important work. 🕊️🌏
On Culture Day, Shoney’s Big Boy mascot is American culture in Japan. 📷🍔
AshidaVox ST-31-02 Headphones - new wired model for my daily driver https://cogley.jp/2023/11/02/ashidavox-st-headphones.html