Archives for April, 2006
2006.04.30 (Sun)
Nikko shopping street
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A woman waits for a bus at the top of Nikko’s main street.
2006.04.28 (Fri)
Gen joins Mozilla Japan
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Congratulations and *ganbatte* to [Gen Kanai](http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2006/04/28/02h37m59s) who’s joined [Mozilla Japan](http://www.mozilla-japan.org/).
2006.04.26 (Wed)
Paul Fusco’s Chernobyl pictures
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Do not miss Paul Fusco’s shocking photographs of Chernobyl 20 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Jane Jacobs dies
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Jane Jacobs, author of Death and Life of Great American Cities, has died at the age of 89.
2006.04.22 (Sat)
As we drove up the Tohoku Expressway a full moon illuminated snow on a distant mountain. The following afternoon we had a clearer view.
Sacred Bridge
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Got away to Nikko last weekend with a couple of friends. We didn’t do the Nikko extravaganza sightseeing thing, preferring to scramble along riverbanks and aquaducts on an impromptu tour of Japan’s oldest hydroelectric system (who knew hydroelectrics can be quaint?) but here’s a shot of a Nikko landmark, the Shinkyo, or sacred bridge which dates in its present form from 1676 and in legend from 767.
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