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- Residents launch thermal power project to revive spa resort in Fukushima - Mainichi Daily News - 05 Feb 12 at 08:59
- World at risk without climate justice - The Asian Age - 05 Feb 12 at 05:23
- Analysis:Nuclear crisis bolsters Japan push for utilities reform - Reuters - 03 Feb 12 at 20:18
- Panasonic Targets Clean Power for Homes After Fukushima Disaster - Bloomberg - 03 Feb 12 at 16:12
- Chris Huhne: most greens 'think he has done well' - The Guardian - 03 Feb 12 at 10:35
- Japan's unending nuclear nightmare - Daily Star Online - 01 Feb 12 at 18:11
- Fukushima disaster prompted huge surge in global renewable energy deals - REVE - 01 Feb 12 at 10:05
- Fukushima puts East Asia nuclear policies on notice - The Japan Times - 31 Jan 12 at 23:57
- Post-Fukushima, Nuclear Policies in Flux Around the World - Care2.com (blog) - 25 Jan 12 at 14:13
- Will Fukushima Push Japan Toward A Renewable Future? - Earth & Industry - 22 Jan 12 at 16:14
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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.