Requiem for Setsuden
From Geisha, Interrupted, 6 month ago Similar articles
Live in Tokyo long enough, and you will start to think that neon is a naturally occurring color of the rainbow. Â Or at least you would have, before the power saving campaign that followed the Fukushima meltdown, before setsuden. Â In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, when people started to seriously consider shutting down Japan`s nuclear reactors, I thought all that talk sounded pretty idealistic. Â Nuclear power was obviously dangerous, but then again so...
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setsuden
From Our Adventures in Japan, 4 month ago, Similar articles
Ha! I guess I did jinx myself, because yesterday, we had some hail and some flurries...woot!Anyway, trending word these days is "setsuden" (set-sue-den) it is the fusion of two words.Setsuyaku means to conserve. Denki is electricity.Since the massive earthquake and tidal wave earlier this year, all of Japan is trying to conserve electricity so that we can help pass on some of it to the Tohoku (
Requiem for Setsuden
From Geisha, Interrupted, 6 month ago, Similar articles
Live in Tokyo long enough, and you will start to think that neon is a naturally occurring color of the rainbow. Â Or at least you would have, before the power saving campaign that followed the Fukushima meltdown, before setsuden. Â In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, when people started to seriously consider shutting down Japan`s nuclear reactors, I thought all that talk sounded pretty idealistic. Â Nuclear power was obviously dangerous, but then again so...
Setsuden cooking
From Lioness in Japan, 10 month ago, Similar articles
Setsuden means saving electricity in Japanese, and as I mentioned in my previous post on “cool” products, it’s really important for Honshu to decrease its power consumption because there may not be enough energy to go around. I don’t think I go all the way to save energy but I do try ? I unplug appliances if I don’t use them and if I go out or go to sleep, I shut down my computer and use fewer lights, plus I try to use the fan instead of air-conditioning in the...
Setsuden article in The Japan Times, plus suzumi or 'keeping cool' the traditional way
From I was really just very hungry, 10 month ago, Similar articles
In my Japan Times article this month, I talk about setsuden or cutting down on electricity use, a critical topic this summer in Japan due to so many power plants (both nuclear and otherwise) being offline temporarily or permanently. This is not just in the devastated Tohoku region, or the Tokyo-Kanto region that TEPCO covers, but nationwide. With daytime temperatures nearing 40 degrees celsius already, it may be a long and difficult summer in Japan. Hopefully the article will give some ideas...
haydn and al-husary
From bint battuta in bahrain, 1 year ago, Similar articles
These days I feel as though I'm studying in every spare moment. My studies are entirely voluntary, nothing to do with my work, so it's actually a pleasure; I feel most alive when I'm learning.I have joined the Manama Singers again, who have just started to rehearse The Creation by Haydn (which celebrates the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost). The Manama Singers hold three or four concerts a year, but after I sang in Mozart's Requiem last year (my...
Requiem for a Teacher
From Gaijin Mama, 1 year ago, Similar articles
So right now, I’m thinking about the logistics of wheelchairs and a Japanese wake and/or funeral. I just got word that one of my daughter’s teachers has died. It was quite sudden - a fall at the deaf school (maybe a stroke'), and then surgery, and then, apparently, complications. He wasn’t her homeroom teacher, but this year he was teaching her, and the other two fifth graders art and one or two other subjects. He was also a sub-homeroom teacher when my daughter was in...
bitter sweet requiem
From bint battuta in bahrain, 2 year ago, Similar articles
So, I sang. And it went well. By the the time of the concert I felt pretty confident about following the music; I knew the tune well, and I got a grip on all the notes and symbols (the important ones, at least), enough to guide me in singing. It was a great feeling to have achieved that.It was also fantastic to sing with an orchestra (albeit a small one), which I did for the first time in rehearsal on Friday. That was perhaps nicer than the actual concert, because of course there is more...
