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About 30 years ago, I drove northward from Sotobo in Chiba along the coastline in Fukushima and Miyagi as far as accessible by road, passing through inland areas in Iwate to Miyako again, and went up north to the Shimokita Peninsula.

Read more of the article entitled 'Potential Challenges for Safe Living: The Idea of Harmony with Nature Learnt from Cultural Heritages'

Conserving electricity is an absolute necessity due to the power shortage associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster.

Read more of the article entitled 'Daylight Saving Time and Biological Clocks: To Get Through Summer Power Conservation'

It will be hot this summer. This is not a prediction that this summer will be as hot as last summer, but it does mean that the temperature will be higher in offices and homes to conserve energy.

Read more of the article entitled 'Heat Wave Caused by Saving Energy: How to Beat the Heat at Home and in the Office'

A voice is directed at those nearby and reaches them. That is probably what poems were in the first place. Or else words written on paper. And to reach people, they had to be transcribed again and again. And so printing machines came into being to replace the human hand. And so more time became necessary to get the words to the people.

Read more of the article entitled 'Poetry for Japan, and for Now '

Buildings have service lives. This seems obvious to Japanese, but might be seen as strange by Westerners.

Read more of the article entitled 'Service Lives of Building -Actual Life-Spans Determined by Factual Investigation'