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Hideyuki Kobayashi Joined: May 12th 2009
Logged in: November 25th 2010
Logged in: November 25th 2010
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Boy and Girl in Angkor Wat
Generally speaking, the name of Angkor Wat is well known and is misterious to us, maybe because of being easy on the ear. Surprising enoug, however, many Japanese people do not know where it is. At once they know Angkor Wat is located in Cambodia, they always express it is a dangerous and uncultivated place. Both words 'misterious' and 'uncultivated' are not related but paradoxical. The reason entirely depends on our Japanese educational less coverage of the areas such as Cambodia, Laos, Myammar and Nepal, thinking of the geography and history I learned at my school age. On the other hand, it is a fact that many of them want to go there in the near future. Fortunately using my holidays offered by my firm, I had a good chance to visit there alone, thanking to ... read more
Shrine
Oct 14 and 15, Held in Tenmangu Shrine abt.50km westward of Kobe (Also westward of Osaka) Japan. Although I checked it with Wikipedia, blogs and the related websites, I came to a question which date 14th or 15th is the most attractive one to me. It seemed it might take more than three hours to reach at the "Far West" from my house at Nara city "Far East". I took a train to Osaka station, transited for Himeji known as Himeji castle (World Heritage), arrived at Akashi Station where I changed to another line to Shirahama-no-Miya Station where the festival is held for two days. Without knowledge where it is, I followed to some would-be sightseeners. Before arriving the real site, several food stalls along street were seen within 10 minute walk. Already local people and ... read more
Bangkok
Traveled Bangkok and near places. I have been there many times say over 40-50 times on business, staying at hotels, in a well air-conditioned room with well non-local meals or Chinese food(sometimes Japanese food) and visiting customersair-conditioned cold (to me) offices. Those circumstances around me easily tend to make me forget where I am, adding customers speak English well. On Sunday during my stay, partners sometimes try to offer in good faith to take me out to some sightseeing places before completion of my business to be re-arranged at home afterward. It may have been tiresome to me rather than enjoyable, maybe mainly because of my poor psychological self-control. This is the same case in Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta so on. As joking to my friends, I say Phillippines ... read more
