Matsumoto

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Donations are being collected at a Nepali restaurant in Matsumoto City.

I'm very glad to contribute, even if it only helps a little bit.

I made a donation to try to help.

Setagaya Ward moved up the start date for vaccinations by about two weeks, from October 1 to September 16.

Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture has already begun vaccinations, while Morioka planned to start inoculations on September 24.

Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward also moved up the start date to September 25.

Following the decision, influenza vaccine doses arrived at Ochiai Family Clinic in the ward on September 17, which prepared to administer them.

Finally, nine months before Kenichi Hirose boarded his subway train, they'd moved on to human trials.

Just before 11:00 PM on the 27th of June, 1994, a converted truck had driven into a quiet residential neighborhood in the small city of Matsumoto.

There, a specially designed system had quietly sprayed 12 liters of sarin out into the hot summer night, a night when almost everyone's windows were open to catch the breeze.

As the sarin cloud unrolled across the leafy suburb, residents had started foaming at the mouth, had suffered painful convulsions, all the awful symptoms we've already heard so much about.

By the time police arrived, five people were dead and over 500 were in need of medical treatment.

Three more would later die of their injuries.

As the first major terrorist attack carried out with a WMD, the Matsumoto incident could have spelt the end for Aum, but the police got caught up in a false theory that one of the suburb's residents, Yoshiyuki Kono, whose wife was put in a coma by the attack, was the real perpetrator, and the cult was never investigated, which is how Kenichi Hirose came to be sat on that rush hour train, free to unleash hell.

At 8:00 PM, all five Aum cultists punctured their bags and let the disaster begin.

And so getting there requires like a train ride and then a bus ride.

And then we also were gonna go from Nagano to a little town called Matsumoto.

Oh, I love Matsu- Yeah, it's, that's a great-

Matsumoto is, if you, anybody listening, put it on your list.

Yes.

It is like, especially if you're into history and you wanna see castles and you're, you're nerdy about like...

Most of the castles in Japan are actually reproductions.

They've been rebuilt because they're all made of wood, and so obviously you can imagine that over the centuries, you know, wood doesn't hold up.

The tall towers and great stone walls where the samurai lived.

You may have seen them in anime, in games, or on a trip to Japan.侍たちが生きた城、castleの世界を一緒に見ていきましょう。では、始めましょう。戦国時代、大名たちは自分の土地を守るために城を建てました。城は戦いの時のとても大切な場所でした。城の真ん中には高い建物があります。これを天守、castle towerと言います。天守は遠くまで見ることができる見張りのための塔でした。The castle tower was a watchtower from which you could see far into the distance.そして大名の力を見せるシンボルでもありました。城の周りには石で作った高い壁があります。これを石垣、stone wallsと言います。石垣は敵が中に入るのを防ぎました。The stone walls kept enemies from getting inside.大きな石を隙間なく積み上げる技術は、今見ても本当に見事です。Even today, the skills of stacking huge stones with no gaps is truly impressive.昔、日本には天守を持つ城がたくさんありました。でも、その多くは火事や戦争でなくなってしまいました。昔のままの天守が今も残っている城は日本に十二しかありません。Only twelve castles in Japan still have their original 天守 from long ago.今日はその中から三つの城を紹介します。三つとも日本で特に大切な建物、国宝、a national treasureです。All three are national treasures of Japan.一つ目は松本城、Matsumoto Castle。長野県松本市にある外側が黒く塗られた城です。この黒い色は木を雨から守るための漆で、今でも毎年塗り直しています。Even today, the black lacquer is repainted every year to protect the wood.二つ目は犬山城、Inuyama Castle。愛知県犬山市にあり、川の近くの丘の上に建っています。今、日本に残っている天守の中で一番古いものの一つと言われています。三つ目は姫路城、Himeji Castle。兵庫県姫路市にあります。白い壁がとても美しい城です。姫路城は一度も戦いで壊れることなく、今も当時のままの姿で残っています。This castle has never been destroyed in battle, and it still stands today just as it was.世界遺産、a World Heritage Siteにもなっています。城の近くには街ができました。これを城下町、castle townと言います。城下町には武士や商人、merchants、職人、craftspeopleが住んでいました。人々は城を中心にして生活していました。今の日本にも昔、城下町だった街がたくさん残っています。例えば石川県の金沢です。今でも古い町並みや武士の家が残っていて、当時の雰囲気を感じることができます。Even today, old streets and samurai houses remain, and you can feel the atmosphere of those times.では、今日の重要な言葉をもう一度確認しましょう。一つ目は守る、to protect。二つ目は防ぐ、to keep out。三つ目は残る、to remain。四つ目は美しい、beautiful。五つ目は雰囲気、atmosphere。今日は日本の城のお話でした。興味を持った城があればぜひ行ってみてください。次回、第八話では忍者を紹介します。アニメやゲームでよく出てくる忍者、その伝説と本当の姿を一緒に見ていきましょう。Let's look together at the legends and the real story of the ninja.今日も日本語candyを聞いていただいてありがとうございました。では、また次のエピソードでお会いしましょう。

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And we studied Chinese language, history, politics, culture.

all things chinese and then in december we left and my my classmates went back to goshen and finished their degrees i actually thought i'm a hoosier literally uh i'm a hoosier who knows when i'm gonna get back to asia i'm a violinist i should probably go see what this suzuki thing is over in japan So the winter of 1982, I was in Matsumoto, Japan, studying with Suzuki at his school.

Shinichi Suzuki was the founder of Suzuki Method.

And so I worked with him for four months.

And then they beat International Pacific University 2-1 in the first round of the Emperor's Cup.

Drew two all the way to Matsumoto.

They lost 3-2 to Nagasaki in the next round of the Emperor's Cup.

And then they just beat Kanazawa 1-0 away this weekend.

They know, I mean, if you think about clubs like Muscle Memory or whatever, there's probably the same people there running the club, so they've got the know-how of... how to get out of the division.

Yes, I think that counts for a lot, doesn't it? Just that experience of having gone through it before.

When you compare that to teams like, you know, Gifu came down, Matsumoto came down, Toyama came down, Kanazawa came

down, Sanuki came down, Hotori

I mean, that's incredibly satisfying.

Born in 1929, Yayoi Kusama grew up on a plant nursery in Matsumoto, Japan.

She was only 16 years old when America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Her only formal artistic training was in Nihonga, a Japanese style of painting that privileged drawing from life and natural pigments.