A Journey to the Levant
The Times just published their World’s top 200 universities list. link
The Technion, “My” university is ranked 109. At first I was disappointed, but then, I browsed through the list and found out that it is not that bad.
Waseda University is at 180.
Indian institute of Technology is at 154.
BUT, not even close to Tokyo university at 19, Kyoto University at 25.
Yoichiro Nambu, Toshihide Maskawa, Makoto Kobayashi won this year Physics Nobel prize.
Finally, I could find Enoki mushrooms in Israel. The downside is it is imported from China.
Tekoa farms import it; not sure if regularly, and the taste… not bad, but less tasty than Japan.
KDDI will launch in November a new product and service called au Box.
More information can be found in Asiajin (BTW, a great Blog) and KDDI website.
The Box is a Motorola CPE, supposedly based on KreaTV Open Software Platform.
Searched for more info in Motorola website, looking for “Open Software”, but failed to do it. Is it really open?
Not sure this is legal, but these guys has many streaming videos of Japanese/Korean/Chinese Dramas and Movies.
Link
We follow this Taiga Drama from NHK. Though I am sure it is not 100% true, it is quite fun to study about Samurai life, and for this Taiga Drama, the events that lead to the fall of the Shogunate, and to the Meiji Restoration.
Will try to write some more in the future.
Bumped into the new J-wave Tokyo Radio webstation, and I like their Logo. Well, I like the Tokyo part, “Radio” is not that exciting.
J-wave website (For streaming Japanese Radio)
And the Logo:
I was browsing through Japanese youtube, and found out the #9 most subscribed channel all time is:
A Japanese girl wearing a dress playing metal. Her face is not visible, only her legs (thing), dress and guitar.
Interesting!
Channel and a sample:
The 2008 Olympics will start soon, and this is the official Japanese Olympics song.
Waratte Misete Kure – Show my your smile.
Not bad.
And a link to Yahoo Olympics web site
I predicted that Hakuho will win the March tournament.
Well, I was wrong, and Yokozuna Asashoryu won.