From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

Reading today's nikkei newspaper, it says about JMOOC:  http://www.jmooc.jp/ . This article says that -it is done by japanese -He (this article's author: jmooc's head) want users to power up their value to utilize it -He hope many university'll provide many lectures I think it is nonsense. I use itune-university and three moocs(cousera, edX,udacity) + khan, and it is very fantasitic ! I use them simply because they are very intersting to me, not for power up my capability or for my promotion. Mind your business ! Reading this artcile, I'm wondering about what is university now. Nowadays, we can learn many things from internet for free and it is revolutionary. So are there still something attracting things in japanese university? I simply chose TIT because I like electronics, math & scinece and this college attract me very much(cheap tuition fee is one reason: I'm not sure but maybe 1000 $ per year and second reason is easiness to enter. I'm now s

We went to shisendou, kyoto at 29 Sep. We started from hirakata by car at about 11:40 and arrived ichijo-ji about 1:20. At first, we ate lunch at "takayasu", famous noodle shop which my wife found by internet. It was 1:30 but the shop was crowded so we waited about 20 min (including waiting for parking lot of this shop). This shop's interior was very unique considering noodle shop. It got best noodle award. The volume was big so our total cost was about 1600 yen, cheap and delicious. After eating, there were waiting peoples. Then parked our car (we found cheap parking lot 700 yen per day) and started walking to shisendou temple. This was a enterance of shisendou, cost 500 yen per adult. Picture was inhibited inside this house but we could take pictures outside this house. There are "hachidai shrine" next to shisen-dou. At this shrine, movie might be taken There are ic

Hot summer season has gone and good season for grow vegetables has come. Yesterday, I bought seeds and seedlings. September is very good season to seed because comparing early summer time, there are a little warms so we can easly grow vegetables with leaves, so I bought 1) cabbage * 2) broccoli * 3) cauliflower * 4) spinach(ホウレンソウ) 5) komatsuna 6) field pea(莢豌豆) 7) Japanese radish 8) onion  ( *: which I bought seedling) As far as my last year's experience, bok choy(青梗菜) and No.2,5,6,7 is good. I usually plant onion seedling at november, but I found onion seeds so I'll try to seed them. Today, I plow the field about 2 hours and I got blisters on my hands ! It is also good season for eggplants ( in japan, autumn eggplant is synonymous with autumn delicious foods ). To get good autumn eggplant is to cut branchs at summer time. This is flowers of leeks(ニラ), it is similar with onion head. I sow them for the first time this season because I seeds them last ye

We went back to my hometown shizuoka-city from 9 Fri. to 11 Sun. Before starting, I had a kidney stone and had a very hard ache from 5 to 8 night (at 9 morning, the kidney stone went out of my body), so we went back by shinkansen bullet train. My son liked it very much because it was the first time to ride this train for him. After arriving at shizuoka, my father and mother and my two cousins welcomed us at shizuoka-station, then ate lunch at shoan which my wife liked very much. I like kakiage-don which contained much pinkish shrimps Kakiage(tempura) but this day I orderd maguro-don(tsuna-don). At this shop, there were oden which was popular at shizuoka-city and I liked it very much, so I orderd them. Next day, we went to "mizube no rakkou" at ushizuma, where we went last summer. This place was opend at summer time and my son liked it very much. It also costed zero yen ! After that, we went to fujinomiya-city to watch shiraito falls and Mt. Fuji. W

We went to Iga-ueno city to see Ninja show. Recently, my son likes ninja, and he practice how to make syuriken by origami-paper at kindergarden and Iga-ueno is the place where I wanted to go, so we went there at 21 July. It was about 1.5 hour by car and we arrived there about 1 p.m. and ate lunch at okonomiyaki shop " Ito ". This shop is like normal house, and we make okonomiyaki by ourself and we order big size okonomiyaki and big size yakisoba and cost 1230 yen ($12) and tasted very good ! After eating, we went to NINJA MUSEUM of Igaryu . And inside this museum, there hold Ninja show (needed extra cost 300 yen per person) and the last show started at 3 p.m. so we safely watched the last show. This show was very good and after watching this show, my son tried syuriken.  After this show, we walked through this museum and there were tour-guide so they navigate us and telling the story of ninja's life.