The pollen allergy, that's the biggest reason. In 20 century, Japan decided to plant a lot of 杉 for then expensive wood material, now the situation changed and it's cheaper to import the wood rather than grow it and harvest in Japan. A lot of 杉s at that time was still left. The pollen of 杉 is spreading most of the Japanese region.
I don't have a pollen allergy so I can't describe how bad its symptom is from my experience, but one of my colleague ended up using gas mask, saying surgical mask is useless for him(He is a very weird man who try to achieve the best outcome no matter what)
Even if you have pollen allergies, you don't realize you have it until you are exposed a lot of pollen.
The second reason is we are taught from the childhood that when we catch a cold or prepare food wear surgical mask to prevent the spreading of pathogen you may have. So when we caught a cold, we wear one.
Some people using surgical mask to hide their faces, but that trend was arose fairly recently. recently in this context means less than 50 years. Now that we have surveillance camera everywhere, practical face recognition software and everyone has a camera which also comes with a feature to live stream to the world, I think that's the least we can do to protect the privacy.
So, according to the Japanese news source, he leaved Japan by private jet, enter Lebanon with fake name.
Lebanon is his grandfather's nationality, so Ghosn has Lebanon nationality too.
Ghosn let Nissan purchased this private real estate(worth 6 billion JPY) in Lebanon, also, he let Nissan to donate the money to three university at Lebanon without following proper procedure in the company.
The news article quote the full-text of Ghosn's statement in Lebanon which is short but he claimed Japanese justice system is rigged.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20191231/k10012232821000.html
My thought is, Why didn't he go to the France or Brazil where he is also suspected and get the fair justice system?
So, the foreigners finally noticed the yuzawa? I've noticed more than usual presence of foreigners in kagura this season. The snow is extremely bad in this season though.
Yes it does
I bet that was the hardest part to build.
I had no motivation to improve my ski skill from wedge turn and beyond. Why do I have to? I enjoy it as a casual leisure for less than 20 days per season. The wedge turn is fun enough for me. I'm not a very skilled person and that's okay.
Move to the snowboard, It's true I can side sliding most of the on-piste, but I find it quite boring. So I had a motivation to learn the proper turn. After taking lessons, I improved my skill to the point of carving turn.
Now I know the feeling of carving turn, I think I can do that in ski too. But, I really like the soft boots. Maybe I can use very short ski with non-release binding that support soft boots, But even the shortest ski still has the risk of injuries if the bindings does not have release mechanism.
I value the safety over the convenience, so I wear helmet and all the protectors available. I like the fact that snowboard wears are designed for the presence of protectors.
Some may think I am a boring snowborder but I'm fine with the status quo. I'm not a pro, not a gifted athlete, not young anymore.
Still not much snow in Japan. Only a handful of Honshu ski areas were opened and they are not the typical ski areas. They are either located at very high altitude, or massive use of snowfactory.
The foreigner's favorite ski resorts located at Hokkaido are not the exceptions. They are barely opened. You can't expect the fresh powder.
This season is a nightmare.
I agree, huge map with copy-pasted objects aren't that fun. I'm talking about Just Cause 3/4.
Unless you're staying near ski area, the real costs of ski in Japan are train and hotel. If you're going to stay at Tokyo, I have some advice.
First, purchase Japan Rail Pass. This free pass allows you to unlimited access of JR train including Shinkansen. As a foreigner, you have a privilege to purchase it(I don't)
If you're staying at Tokyo, you can day trip Tokyo-Echigo Yuzawa in 80 minutes. There are handful of ski areas at Echigo Yuzawa. Since you have a JR free pass, the only cost remaining is a Lift ticket(about 5k JPY) and renting a coin locker(500-1k JPY).
I have exactly same issue. My thought is, slowing down is bad for the knee.
I found out that if I don't bother to slow down with carving on easy on-piste course(less than 23 degree for my case), it doesn't stress my knee and muscle that much and I can do it all day. If this is the case, I have to improve my skill so I can carve even on these difficult high degree off-piste.
I tried various stance width, stance angles, and the knee braces, my thought was, although it does more or less affect the feeling and easiness of snowboarding, it doesn't completely prevent the knee pain.
I felt wide stance width is bad for muscle and the knee, but narrowing it doesn't completely solve the problem. For the stance angles, it doesn't matter unless you are using extremely wide duck stance.
I tried expensive knee braces, i felt it does somehow improve the endurance, but again, it doesn't solve the problem.
Some people recommend the painkiller. I don't recommend it. It just hide the pain. It is said the anti-inflammatory painkillers speed up the heal and in fact, I'm taking prescribed drugs for that. But I recommend you to ask the doctor for that.
Some people also recommend marijuana, probably for its painkiller effect. It's illegal in my country and really, I don't want to decrease my lung performance by smoking.
No. You won't notice the difference. If you can't stand even that level of minor scratch, you can mount your board on the wall and stare it instead of shredding but we both know that's not the option.
Yes? But considering we already think these are historic buildings worth preserving, we’re not really in cost optimization territory any more.
For that, we already have Atomic Bomb Dome. It costs expensive maintenance and reinforcement effort, reserve enough nearby land for safety zone to ensure even if it collapsed, it won't affect the nearby building. It's just a giant monument. No practical usage other than sight seeing and remind the current and future generation that the nuclear weapon is the inhumane weapon.
Since these buildings are for practical usage and not that famous for the monument, it's just better to scrap and rebuild. Given a enough money(it's awfully lot), we can disassemble and reassemble at different location but that's unrealistic.
Is this sentence true? お父さんとお母さんとどちら料理が上手ですか。
Also is the answer supposed to be like this? 父の料理が 上手です。
I am learning 。。の ほうが。。です
Thank you
No. No. and No, don't use Japanese period symbol for the ellipsis.
Ok. So this dots ...... are preferred then? Thank you
There are tree ways to express ellipsis in Japanaese
・・・ :3 'KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT' (U+30FB))
…: 'HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS' (U+2026)
⋯: 'MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS' (U+22EF)
Traditional book typesetting usually use 6 dots.
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If you had bindings and a board from the early 2000s and could only afford to upgrade one, which would you upgrade first?
Bindings. You can't trust 20 years old plastic. What about the boots? You can't trust 20 years old boots too.
Great performance... But if he call himself the artist, he should have practiced for the better calligraphy.
This season is still horrible in Japan for the lack of snow. The ski areas that has been opened already are either located at very high altitude or using expensive snowfactory. I've heard even the Hokkaido's condition is worse than average.
So when the Square Enix start selling their PC port of Dragon Quest XI in Japan? It's region-banned in Japan. As we call it おま国(short for おまえの国籍が気に入らない。 meaning, "I don't like your nationality.")
Cheers guys. Yeah, I know what I'm in for. One big cable car, no avalanche control, no ski patrol, lots of flat spots, a couple of cat tracks to get you back to the base of the cable car, after hopefully an epic run.
I have my own avy gear. All other gear necessary (for very cold climates) including a pow board (poles would be a nice addition though). I do seasons at St Anton, & live for the off-piste there, especially the steeps & chutes on Schindlergrat. So I think I'll have no problems with the terrain. But with no local knowledge, & unable to afford a guide, any description of where to ride would be much appreciated, as it's hard to find online. Also looking to find someone to ride with, a long shot online I know. I'll see what happens when I get there. Not that much use having avy gear, then riding by yourself 😳
Also, it seems like many of the resorts here are in no rush to get open. Kamui Ski Links homepage says opened from Dec 1st, but they're still not opened. Have to fine a post on FB to see this.
Worried that Asahidake may be the same. Hoping I'm not dragging all my gear up there, only to find the cable car is only opened for sightseeing, because they're in no rush to get there cat tracks open.
I'm staying in one of the onsen hotels up there for a couple of nights. Wanted to stay in the 16 bed YHA hostel, but it booked out very quickly. Hopefully that's a sign we'll be skiing & boarding on the 11th.
I've only got a couple of days there, & can't delay any further, as I've got to get to St Anton quickly. I've already delayed my start date for work there by 6 weeks 😂
This season is generally horrible in Japan. Many ski areas delayed their opening for the lack of snow.
Anyone know any thing about Asahidake, Hokkaido?
Looks like the Asahidake ropeway will open on Dec 11th. But I don't know if this is for skiing/boarding, or just site seeing? Any advice about this, or if someone wants a riding buddy there, would be great.
Random question about an unusual place I know. Don't know if I should be posting here, or creating a new thread. So apologies if I'm doing things wrong.
Yes. You can ski/snowboard there. But don't expect the quality service of usual ski resorts.
It's official name is Asahidake ski course. There is a 100 person ride ropeway. There is a very narrow one-vehicle-wide of on-piste course and nothing else. Everything else is natural off-piste. No safety rope. No patrol at all. You are on your own.
Also, No rental nearby, so you have to carry your own gears.
If you love powder and don't mind very difficult natural terrain, it would be a fantastic place.
If, on the other hand, you like rich hotels, bars, restaurants, friendly foreign language speaking staff, safe well-maintained on-pistes etc, go to other famous ski resorts.
そして、僕が嫌々の渋々、ゆっくりと身体を捩ねじったときに──彼女は、跳んでいた。
This is the first time I see two 副詞 connected by の. Is that some sort of specific grammar pattern?
No. It sounds good though.
How can you avoid the knee pain? Last season, I couldn't shred enough just because of the knee pain. So I have been regularly exercising this off season with dancing, bouldering(It probably doesn't help save for improving core, It's just my other leasure), and kick scooter. I'm 163cm, 75kg and 18% body fat. By the start of this season, I can easily perform multiple single-leg squats. No knee pain at all. I quite satisfied the result.
Then, I shred the first time for this season, I took a rest for every few hundred meters for precaution. But after one day, I got a horrible knee pain to the point that I have to visit the hospital and be prescribed the pain killers. It still hurts so I probably can't shred until a new year.
Judging by the pain, and according to the doctor, I injured MCL and LCL. Well, come to think of it, my exercises doesn't use that part of ligaments much except for dancing.
Thanks for the advises. Come to think of it, I tried duck stance at the first time +12/-9. Maybe duck stance wasn't good for me.
Another thing to consider besides your stance angles is the width. I was using the default stance distance on my boards, and had knee pain every time I came home from riding. Moved my bindings in to a narrower stance and haven't had any problems since.
That's interesting. My current board is a rather long for my height. The shop staff recommended it for I was heavier(83kg) at time I purchased the board.
I'll adjust width next time and see the difference.
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Ok ELI5 pls, I have no idea what i just read. Is that something important i should know when building my home system?
That's already ELI5 level.
手伝ってあげたいという気持ちはまったくないようね。
Does the sentence sound the same without the という? If not, then why is it there? Thanks.
Not much difference.
Why is it that a lot of English translated from Japanese uses incredibly complex and flowery language? I've noticed this ever since I was really young and just assumed that Japanese was an excessively poetic language, but now that I'm beginning to learn it, I've realized that English subtitles complicate a lot of pretty simple/everyday phrasing. I feel like there isn't that same quality of translation when I see translated materials from other languages. If this doesn't make sense, I can produce some examples, but yeah...idk
If you try to retain the implicit meaning of one language to another, or trying to retain the original sentences, the translation will be very complicated.
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Still not enough snow in Japan. This season is horrible.
Title is wrong. As the video description itself said, this was runnnin on real hardware. And it said it just replaced texture. But I suspect they also increase the saturation a bit(either by in-game shader or editing captured footage. I think the latter)
My thought is, the Game Freak should hire a better graphic designer.
Thanks. I have a prescription, i'm just wondering if it's now legal to bring into the country.
Be careful that your prescription need to be a valid prescription in Japan. For that, it must be issued by a legal Japanese-qualified doctor.
Sorry, I know this comment is a few days old.
I wanted to ask—are you saying that a prescription to acquire the medication while in Japan must come from a legitimately accredited japanese physician? That would make sense. My question is whether you‘re instead saying that bringing vyvanse with you into japan requires not only your own doctor’s prescription, but a prescription from a japanese doctor / a different doctor approved by the japanese government for the purpose of importing controlled medications?
I’m diagnosed with ADHD, and rely considerably on my vyvanse prescription in order to functionally go about my daily business. I’ve also always wanted to visit Japan some day, so the question of whether vyvanse was going to be approved for controlled use/possession/sale in japan or just blacklisted along with all the amphetamine-related drugs has really been of interest to me, the last couple years...
Again, I'm not expert on this domain so you shall not relies on me.
Yes, you need a valid prescription from a doctor who has Japanese doctor license.
For a foreign visitors, there is a registration procedure to inform the Japanese government that you have a valid medication for the intent to use on yourself.
Practically, almost no tourist visitors care to submit these papers. Usually, the possession of these medication was found out when visitor was injured and needed to go to the Japanese hospital where the doctor examine their medication history for the treatment consideration. In that case, things won't get bad. The hospital submit all the necessary paper work, explain the no malicious intent.
The real risky situation is this. After you entered the Japan without detected, then randomly stopped by local cops on the street, then the cops patiently ask to reveal the content of the bag. You have not legal reason to oblige, but cops won't let you free until you voluntary agree to reveal the content of the bag(that's their usual tactics). then the cops found out your illegal medication(remember, if you acquire it without valid prescription from Japanese doctor license holder, it's technically illegal), then you have a trouble.
If your medication is truely for your valid self usage, the police/prosecutor will probably give up charging you for it need a proof of intent to be really illegal. But you will be arrested and face a temporary detention in above scenario.
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