Comments on: Imabari Wildfires

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:05:58 +0000

Jonadab – the easiest way I can tell people where I am is to link them to a Google map and tell them to zoom out. Have you ever lived in Japan?

By: Jonadab the Unsightly One

Jonadab the Unsightly One — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:42:02 +0000

AST: A prefecture is the first-level subdivision in Japan, so logically it is most similar to a US state, Canadian province, or what the Brits call a “country” (e.g., Wales). However, Japan has less total land area, so the prefectures are geographically smaller than most US states. Ehime is perhaps about the size of Delaware, I guess.

The big problem I have with detailed maps of Japan that I can find online is they usually don’t have any furigana, so if you don’t know all eighty billion kanji you have no way to read them at all. However, as best I can figure, the Hakata in question is at about 34 degrees 12 minutes 16 seconds north, 133 degrees 6 minutes 32 seconds east. If you look up Imabari on the Wikipedia, there’s a decent medium-resolution map. The big southern island on that map is Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan, and the coastline you see on the top edge of the map is part of Honshu, the closest thing Japan has to a mainland. Hiroshima is to the northwest.

Jonadab the Unsightly Ones last blog post was: Bad Analogies 101

By: AST

AST — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:54:40 +0000

Which way to the prevailing winds blow. I live in Utah, and we got a lot of smoke from the fires in California earlier this year. We’ve even had a dust storm that originated in Mongolia and blew across the Pacific. It made our skies look smoky for several days.

I need a good map of Japan so I can find the places you refer to. I also find “prefecture” a difficult term to use since there is nothing in my experience with that name. I’ve looked up the definition and it still seems strange. Is it closer to a U.S. state or a county/parish? From my reading on Wikipedia, I think I’d just as soon use -ken at the end of the name and explain what that means than clutter it up with words I associate with the Catholic and Anglican churches.

By: Deas

Deas — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:14:50 +0000

Soh-wn – Thanks for your comment! And thank you for the links you posted to my blog. I still live in Imabari, too, by the way. Pleased to meet a fellow Imabarian blogger.

By: Soh-wn

Soh-wn — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:56:54 +0000

Thank you for introducing it.

I live in Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan with a Japanese.

My English is clumsy, but is glad if what I think about comes.

I wish so that it is not generated in the world to seem to be Imabari.

By your introduction, I may prevent world all.

I pray for peace.

By: Deas

Deas — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:28:45 +0000

Tom – dang. I really am shocked that I missed the story when it got going. I mean…how did I miss it?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:38:33 +0000

You could see it from where I am in Tanbara. Although I didn't actually notice it until monday when all you could see was huge amounts of smoke. It looked very pretty once the sun started to set as well; dotted with army helicopters. Toms last blog post was: Extreme Tea Ceremony