online movie, Intro to Japanese Religion

credited to Rushton Hurley-sensei, cited on senseionline@yahoogroups for 27 April 2007

http://www.nextvista.org/2007/02/06/intro-to-japanese-religion/

Boys Day 5/5, also a music page

Boys Day (5/5), www.nihongomemo.com/nenchugyoji/tangonosekku.htm

BEAUTIFUL melodies (incl. Japanese melodies), http://mocascafe.la.coocan.jp/musicpage.htm

some Podcast recordings in Japan

searching www.yahoo.co.jp for 'podcast' returned the following:

 

Podcast ニッポン放送 Podcasting STATION, http://podcast.1242.com
ニッポン放送によるポッドキャスティング。番組案内。 ... ニッポン放送podcastをiTunesへの登録はこのバナーを. ドラッグしても可能です! ... 好きなPodcast番組だけ登録する。 iTunesを立ち上げて、左側 ...

Yahoo!ポッドキャスト, http://podcast.yahoo.co.jp
音楽、芸能、ニュース、政治等の番組を配信。 ... English as a Second Language Podcast. A podcast for those wanting to learn or ...

Podcast,ポッドキャスト,ラジオ, www.podcast.jp

日経Podcast(日経ポッドキャスト) , www.nikkei.co.jp/podcast
日本経済新聞社による「日経ネット・ポッドキャスト」「聴く日経」。ニュース、ビジネストレンド等の番組案内。 ... 日本経済新聞朝刊の主要記事を音声で紹介する「聴く日経」をお送りします。

Podcastを楽しもう!castella(キャステラ) みんなのキャステラ , www.castella.jp

アップル - iTunes - iTunes Store - Podcast, www.apple.com/jp/itunes/store/podcasts.html

mixPod [guide], www.mixpod.jp
ポッドキャスト、ビデオキャストのジャンル別番組リンク集。 ... mixPodは、有料・無料のPODCAST情報満載サイト。 ... 映像ポッドキャスティング、ラジオポッドキャスト、ニュースPodcast、中国語Podcasting、ビデオキャスティングなど。 ...

manga on cell-phones

story about reading manga on mobile phones
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nc20070425a1.html

origami slideshow (23 slides)

f rom www.slideshare.net, Amazing Origami Art - A Cool Japanese Paper Art and you can view it online 

 

also, hear: BEAUTIFUL melodies (incl. Japanese melodies), http://mocascafe.la.coocan.jp/musicpage.htm 

2007 url list

==Japanese fashion http://fashion.3yen.com/
==giri and on, http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csacpub/Mono19/Html/wrapped_gifts-2_-4.html

==The National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan announced that they have incorporated their database into Google Scholar, and enable to search their database (3 million papers) on the Google site. Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com/
NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/CiNiiTop

=="Buddha Board" has a surface that allows you to paint on it with water. The special surface turns dark wherever the water touches it. When dry the image fades, http://www.buddhaboard.com

== traditional song, Akatombo, on YouTube
<> Japanese female singer, MORIYAMA Aiko sings 'AKATOMBO'[Red dragonfly] in front of Cyndi Lauper.
Cyndi Lauper was surprised at Aiko's skill as a singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA0pgTuNF68

<> We sang at the Sentosai, a festival at a local shrine in Beppu, some traditional Japanese songs. The audience sang the songs with us and was really enthusiastic! Which, off course, made us even more enthusiastic. The song Akatombo is about your hometown and childhood and it remembers the dragonflies at sunset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy3flkPV1Nc

<> folksong concert in Langenbogen, May 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLblM3mW7vk

==practical information and resources to language teachers, www.languageteachers.net

== kiji 2007
1. Valentine's day in 2007 style
(1) Senbei Article: http://www.asahi.com/life/update/0210/008.html (Asahi)
Wikipedia on Senbei: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%85%8E%E9%A4%85

(2) Japanesque Article: http://www.asahi.com/life/update/0210/007.html (Asahi)

(3) Tofu Article: http://www.asahi.com/life/update/0210/004.html (Asahi)

(4) Donation Article: http://www.zakzak.co.jp/top/2007_02/t2007021327.html (ZakZak)

2. Business News in Japan
(1) Mary, one of the key companies that promoted the Chocolate-giving tradition (ZakZak)
Article: http://www.zakzak.co.jp/top/2007_02/t2007021324.html
Website: http://www.mary.co.jp/
Wikipedia on Valentine's day: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC

(2) Promotion by seniority revisited (Gendai Net)
Article: http://news.www.infoseek.co.jp/gendainet/society/story/10gendainet05017507/

yakitori in San Jose, audio slideshow

http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2007/04/sumiya/soundslider.swf

taiko at San Jose

http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2007/04/sjtaiko/soundslider.swf
[one minute audio slideshow, with captions available]

narrated slideshow, Fulbright Memorial Foundation

This downloadable online movie uses Skype for the voice interview and a
slideshow to illustrate the middle school Q & A between New Jersey (USA) and
Tokyo with a teacher traveling on the exchange program in November 2006.
http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/etv/index.html#

A page of pictures and day by day accounts are online, too:
http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/chen/japan2006.htm

The topics are the usual impressions one first has when visiting Japan and the
schools, but for beginning students of Japanese, or for colleagues who teach
social studies, the movie has value.

_________________________________________
Guven Peter Witteveen, wittevee@umich.
Outreach Educator, Center for Japanese Studies
The University of Michigan, www.ii.umich.edu/cjs

Re: textbook-based internet materials

"M & J Quirante" turtlecrossingranch@verizon .ne
Adventures in Japanese does have a good website with mucho useful info you can print out.
http://www.punahou.edu/page.cfm?p=134