Yubari city is financial crisis

Yubari face a financial crisis. This city is thinly populated region and most aging society in Japan. There is in "hokkaidou". This city does't have industry. It was once coal town. Now special product is only melon. The region is closed half a year by snow.

I think it is very bad news. Terrible! Tokyo people is terrible. News said that "whose do have responsibility? Yubari's people should solve somehow own themselves. Don't want to help."

Tokyo system is kept by other countries, however nobody know that in Tokyo.
I came from Nagano, so I watched Tokyo's rubbish was throw into our rivers and mountains with legal and unlegal way. Though I love these mountains. Countries is stick with bad ones and dirty ones and dangerous ones by center city.

This is same thing in wolrd. Japan is rich, Japan crach foreign's forest.
I should't forget such things, but it is terrible news.
I think we should protect children and old people's lives.

Akihabara's history

Akihabara start as a food market.
The market moved to a neighboring town "okatimati" "ueno" "tukiji".
Then Akihabara came to sell parts such as radios after the second war.
Akihabara has tradition as a part shops.

By the flow, shops of household electrical appliance came to gather.
So Akihabara became most famous as a town of an electric appliance in Japan.
Akihabara's neighboring town is "music town". The town is "Kanda" "Otyanomizu".
Kanda has Greco guiters. The Greco guitar was made with Matsumoto of Nagano (hujigen-gakki). And the Greco guitar was sold by Kanda Shokai in 60's.
So, a CD of music came to be sold in Akihabara, too.
Akihabara changes afterwards as a town of a part shop of a PC. Next game, animation, Manga, etc.
But now, Akihabara is not Manga town. Akihabara became a town for a tourist.
I am otaku, so I have a lot on otaku.

Illustration's are still seen everywhere in Akihabara. There is a maid coffee shop, too, and there is it in a costume play year.
But, as for it, it has been stolen an article for tourists. A tourist came to come to watch a figure of otaku. And the otaku who was the undeeply which wanted to attract attention of a person came to play it.

Real costume player has one rule, they don't do at a public place. That kind of manner matched in old days.

Though it was happy that I was in Akihabara quietly as otaku.

Akihabara always changes. This town is special space.
I loved for otaku town. But it is lost.

I know it is nomal change. Akihabara is a town satisfying greed. Therefore a town changes if a kind of greed changes.

Therefore I was able to make myself at home there so far. Because it is matched me. I think that a different person should make himself/herself at home now.

about bon

We usually call obon. Sometimes Japanese language use “o” when word begins. O + a word.
“o-bon” is a festival. We dance in night. Drums are beated.
Some area has some story. Every story is different. There is a difference in an area.
Sure, there are the almost same story too.

I talk about one of stories. If you join ring of dance, you could see dead persons. They dance together ours. Dead persons want to see live person…family and lover. It is special nights.
Old days “o-bon” is romance chance. “o-bon”dance makes couples and hasbands and wivis and children.

We watch fireworks. We eat special stand. The stands are administered by “yakuza”. Some yakuza is very darkness and dengerous people. But this yakuza is old type yakuza. This yakuza is not so bad. Old sort yakuza has some severe rules. One of rule is “Don’t injure a citizen except a yakuza”.

Almost young Japanese don't know obon story. No no, It is not only young person's problem. Adult forget too. 40-60age people unlike and aren't intersted in old custom. Because they were so busy so far. They love only rat race. They don't know other world except rat race.
When they were young, They decided to throw old story away. They wanted to be only only winner. They wanted to be rich. They believed that if I could be able to become rich, I get happy life. (I know it is mistake. I know money is great, but there are someting what we can't buy.)
So Japanese can't talk about our world to next generations, Japanese culture and old story is lost.

Each area has each festival. Example for “Hirosima” has a famous Event. It s called “tourou-nagasi”. It is possible to join only people of an area. Because this ceremony is a personal things.
They go to liver and carry little ships. And they flow those ships on liver. We can see many ships. The ships are about 20-30 cm. The ships have little fire. The fire is for dead people. The fires cheer up a heart of a dead person. We believe that. It is very beautiful and mysterious view. When we watch that, we feel little sad, however I think such things is beautiful mind, isn’t you?

about "bon" and new start!

I could not post two months, because I am not health. But I restart my blog. I think English is like a door. It gives me new world. So, It is not easy to write sentences, But I try it!
My great English teacher said “You need not become perfect, but it is important to do your best. This best means you can do. “
Most Japanese people think “Should be perfect” “If you work very hard, your diseases run away.” “Weak is bad” …..
Today　I talk about “bon”. “bon” is special day for Japanese. “bon” is summer event. It is only three days. However Almost Japanese take holiday and go back hometown. It look likes “great Japanese move”. If someone can not go back hometown on the days, someone would feel sad.
I try to explain to “bon”. In bon day, ancestors and dead relative and dead family come back our home. So we prepare foods and lights and for our ghosts. And we make cow and horse to use cucumber s and eggplants etc vegetables. The animals were ride by our dead family. Old Japanese thought dead country is very far, so dead people need animals to ride. Light is a mark for dead people.