We spotted this little fellow the other day while hiking. "Spotted" isn't actually quite correct, we noticed his most amazing song.
It's a gabicho (ガビチョウ, Garrulax canorus) or a Chinese hwamei. "Hwamei" comes from the Chinese 画眉 (huà-méi), meaning "painted eyebrow". In Japan, gabicho are...
A few impressions of the Tokyo Motor Show 2019.
Definitely more 'E' (as in e-cars), less glamour and fewer motor girls. The show is still on at Tokyo Big Sight until 4 November.
https://www.tokyo-motorshow.com/en/
A few impressions of CP+ 2019 at the Yokohama Pacifico, a comprehensive event at which all people living a "life with photography," from those who enjoy simply shooting with smartphones to professional photographers, can experience the joy of cameras and photography from every viewpoint.
This...
This video was posted a few days ago by SeaWorld San Diego. It shows a Giant Japanese Spider Crab moulting, a procedure that takes up to six hours.
The Japanese spider crab (タカアシガニ taka-ashi-gani, "long-legged crab") has the largest leg span of any arthropod, with some specimen reaching 3.8...
It was a summer (and perhaps will be an autumn) of superlatives: the shortest rainy season, the hottest months of July and August, the deadliest floods and landslides (in Western Japan and Hokkaido), and the most powerful typhoons on record. Trami, or Typhoon No.24 according to the Japanese...
Not long ago I was contacted by a lady living in our neighbourhood who was looking for someone to brush up her “rusty” German. She is in her early 80s, and despite her self-declared aversion to textbooks and grammar remarkably fluent.
Talking about her childhood over coffee and cake I learned...
The 2018 CP+ Camera & Photo Imaging Show is currently held at the Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall and Conference Centre in Minato Mirai, the 9th edition of the foremost annual photo show in Japan. Last year over 66,000 people attended the event, and the show featured 23 world premieres...
"Tokyo hit by heaviest snow since 2014" - whenever the first snowfall hits Tokyo, the city sinks into inescapable chaos. Traffic chaos, that is, not so much caused by the weather itself, but by an ever-swelling tsunami of frantic commuters heeding the advice of companies and authorities to...
Spotted in our neighbourhood: a ジョウビタキ (jōbitaki), or Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus). Native breeding in East Asia (northeastern China, Mongolia, Korea, and Siberia), they hibernate in southern China and Japan.
The photo shows a male specimen: a grey crown and nape with lighter...
Ikuta Rose Garden is part of Ikuta Ryokuchi Park (生田緑地) in Tama Ward, Kawasaki. Although we live in its immediate vicinity we have never managed to visit, as the garden is open to public only twice a year: in mid-May and between mid-October and early November for just a few days. Therefore, we...
This is by no means a paid product endorsement, but rather the result of a year-long quest to find a user-friendly, expandable and possibly free script to catalogue home libraries. I'd originally planned to install an archive script on our server, but then fortunately found Libib. Libib [ləbib]...
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