2011-05-27

dancer + projected image in sychrony

This TV show is called Showtime, http://www.ntv.co.jp/showtime/
The performers show their talents and the audience decides on the amount of money they will be paid based on their performance.The 3rd and latest version aired in April of 2011.

Here is a dancer who moves in synchrony against the projected images to create some amazing effects.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qzCHZyt8g

This version has the intro to the duo, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ec0sAcM7D4
See also this funny series of commercials for the drink called Fanta, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W_t92q5eoc
or with subtitles, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncrbByjJe-w&feature=related

2011-05-22

linguistic family - Japanese & Korean

Galloping along with the Horseriders: Looking for the Founders of JapanAuthor(s): Gari LedyardSource: Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), pp.217-254.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/132125
---This is an early statement of the inter-relationships.

A 2011 piece appeared in the NYTimes. Learning a little about problem solving like this by linguists could be a helpful part of students experience of Japanese.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04language.html?_r=4

The theory about agricultural societies prevailing over hunter/gatherers is described in detail for the passage of rice growing society reaching the Japanese islands by way of the Korean peninsula about 2400 years ago, according to this May 4, 2011 article in the NYTimes.
Key dates: 30,000 years ago (earliest hunter-gather evidence in Japan); 10,000 years ago (Jomon era begins); wet-rice cultivation suitable to cooler climates of Korea (and Japan) about 2400 years ago.

2011-05-13

traditional Japanese dolls

good site of Japanese traditional dolls.

久月人形 http://www.kyugetsu.com/dolls/gallery.html