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- While Japan Turns Away from Nuclear Power, South Korea Sticks to Plan - Earth & Industry - May 22, 2012 at 5:44 am
- Pricing nuclear out of the energy future? - Climate Spectator - May 22, 2012 at 1:12 am
- Nuclear reactor reprieve puts UK energy plans in doubt - The Guardian - May 21, 2012 at 7:41 pm
- Germany's Energy Transition: One Year Later - openPR (press release) - May 21, 2012 at 5:39 pm
- G-8 to Eliminate Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Curb Climate Pollutants - Environment News Service - May 21, 2012 at 5:18 pm
- Merkel Tightens Grip on Energy Overhaul as Progress Lags - BusinessWeek - May 21, 2012 at 12:46 pm
- Planning a new environment policy - The Japan Times - May 20, 2012 at 11:50 pm
- While Japan turns away from nuclear power, South Korea sticks to its path - The Guardian - May 17, 2012 at 3:30 pm
- Nuclear's Once Bright and Shiny Future Blinks Out - Huffington Post - May 12, 2012 at 7:45 pm
- Japan's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Efforts Eroded By Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - Huffington Post - May 4, 2012 at 2:10 pm
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I went to see the Robert Doisneau exhibition at the Kyoto Station Art Gallery today and it made me want to live in Paris AND become a black and white photographer. Robert Doisneau really knew how to wait for the perfect moment and he knew where to wait too. Pure genius. Every picture is a fascinating character study of a person, or place, or relationship… or dog. Wonderful stuff. I was sorely tempted to invest in the book of the exhibition but didn’t have ￥10,000 on me. Probably a good thing. I’ve got too many books as it is. Anyway, I recommend seeing it if you’re in Kyoto. It continues until February 22nd and you can find it on the 7th floor of the Isetan building.
This month sees Deep Kyoto‘s debut column in Kyoto Visitors Guide. I’m hoping some of those 15,000 a month readers will be interested enough to come back and check out my site. Anyway, I’m getting name recognition and the editor has agreed to do a monthly guest column for Deep Kyoto in return so everyone’s a winner.
A short while ago, another Kyoto blogger Ted Taylor, told me about a music event at TakuTaku, a pretty famous live music venue I’ve been meaning to check out for ages. You can read about TakuTaku here. The event was Soul Flower Mononoke Summit and their guest Ainu musician Oki. Soul Flower Mononoke Summit is an acoustic offshoot of rock band Soul Flower Union developed after the Great Hanshin Earthquake. At that time SFU decided to help keep people’s spirits up by playing for them in the streets, and because they were in the streets they swapped their electric guitars for Okinawan sanshin and supplemented them with old-fashioned chindon style street-band percussion. They are obviously very popular in Kyoto, TakuTaku was packed, and everyone (young, old, families, babies…) seemed to know the songs, singing along, swaying, dancing, waving their hands in the air… A great night with good community feeling. Many thanks to Ted for letting me know about that one. You can read more about the gig and specifically Oki’s performance on his blog here. Here is a video.
If you like that there’s another one here.