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Ohagi (おはぎ), traditional Japanese sweet

Ohagi is a traditional Japanese sweet, made from boiled glutinous rice coated 
with a red-bean jam, sweetened soy bean powder, or sweet sesame paste.

Traditionally Ohagi is eaten only on special days set aside for Buddhist service, 
the Vernal Equinox Day and Autumnal quinox Day, when pious Buddhists pay 
homage to their ancestors and offer Ohagi to them.

Breakfast today (今日の朝食)

I took a typical Japanese breakfast today consist of steamed rice, 
soybean soup with asari clams, tsukune (chicken meatloaf with egg, 
dried laver seaweed, natto ( fermented soybeans) and raw egg mixed 
with steamed rice.


今日は典型的な日本の朝食を食べました。

内容は、ご飯、あさり貝の味噌汁、つくね、味付け海苔、納豆、生卵です。

Dango-jiru (だんご汁)

Dango-jiru is one of my favorite local specialty in Oita.

It is made by boiling flat noodles made from wheat flour together 
with ingredients such as radishes, carrots, burdock roots, aroids, 
and shiitake mushrooms in miso flavored dashi (broth).
Farmers who were busy with farm work invented the dish because they 
could cook it easily and eat it quickly.


だんご汁は私が大好きな大分の郷土料理です。

小麦粉で作った平たい麺を、大根、人参、ごぼう、里芋やしいたけなどの
具とともに、味噌味のダシで煮たものです。農作業で忙しい農家の人が、
簡単にでき、さっと食べられるものとして考案したのもがだんご汁です。

Environmental Future City, Kitakyushu

Kitakyushu-city aiming for the World’s Environmental Capital.
Kitakyushu-city is the birthplace of Japanese modern steel industry, is now the world’s 
leading environmental future city after overcoming serious environmental pollution 
while it contributed greatly to Japan’s industrial development.

  
   Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

Situated at the northern end of Kyushu Island, Kitakyushu City is one of Japan’s 
20 government-decreed cities, with a population of 969,000
(according to the estimation as of May, 2013) and has an area of approx.490㎢.

  
          
In 1963, five municipal cities were equally merged to make Kitakyushu City, 
which was a very rare case in the world as each of the cities had such different 
personalities;Moji City flourished as an international trading port, Kokura City 
had lots of historical background as a Samurai town, Wakamatsu City was a 
busy coal port, and Yahata City and Tobata City had steel industry which greatly 
contributed to the industrial modernization of Japan.

  

Kitakyushu City has long been called the ‘Town of Manufacturing’ as its economy 
relies on such heavy chemical industries, such as steel, chemicals, and metal 
manufacturing, which occupy a much higher percentage of its gross product 
compared with other major cities in Japan.
  

Ever since the international trading ports were constructed in Moji and Wakamatsu. 
Japan’s steel industry began in Yawata in 1901, and many other manufacturing industries 
have originated here in Kitakyushu City, which has made the city a major driving force of 
Japan’s industrial development and made a gateway to Asian countries and regions.

Kitakyushu City experienced serious environmental pollution in the 1960’s. However, 
it has completely overcome these issues thanks to close cooperation with the 
government, industry, and academia. By fully utilizing a wide variety of technologies, 
know-hows, human resources, acquired during this process, it is continuously engaged 
in the creation and development of environmentally-friendly new technology. 
The ‘Eco-Town Project’ is one of the fine examples of Kitakyushu’s specific commitment 
towards environmental business and development in the field of recycling and innovative 
energy.

  

Especially Kitakyushu has been designated as the ‘Environmental Model City’ in 2008 
as the environmental future city in 2011. And also nominated as the ‘Model City for 
Green Growth’ by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD). 
Kitakyushu City has an incredibly important role as the world’s leading 
environmentally-friendly city.

Kumamoto Castle after the Earthquakes

Let’s visit Kumamato Castle
 
Kumamoto Castle is one of the three great castles, along with Nagoya Castle and 
Osaka Castle and one of the 100 best places in Japan to view cherry blossoms.

The current castle was built in 1601 by Kiyomasa Kato, a great commander and 
took 7 years to complete. 

Suddenly, without any prediction, the series of Earthquakes including magnitude 
7.0 main shock which struck in April 2016 beneath Kumamoto-city.
Then severe damages occurred Kumamoto prefecture including Kumamoto Castle.

  
Kumamoto Castle sustained damage to its roof and exterior buildings and walls 
because of the earthquakes and associated aftershocks.
Several of the castle’s shacihoko ornaments were destroyed, and a large number 
of kawara tiles also fell from the roof.

Now the restoration activities are being performed as fast as possible.
  

Now, the Kumamoto Castle can be seen from the outside of the moats 
surrounding the castle.

We will welcome you to our place Kumamoto Castle. 

All the photos on the page were taken in August 2016.