Most of my friends are dead, because most of my friends are writers: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Mark Twain ...

This is a memorial to Ellison Onizuka, who was one of the astronauts on the space shuttle Challenger when it exploded in 1986. Ellison Onizuka was a Nisei; his parents were born in Japan and he was born in Hawaii.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellison_Onizuka

Video of cats in Hawaii

Helicopter tour of Hawaii and Pearl Harbor

Holo Holo Kai Glass-Bottom Boat tour in Honolulu

A lot of the signs in Hawaii are in Japanese.
25% of the Hawaiian population is of Japanese descent.
50% of the tourists in Hawaii are Japanese, and tourism is the most important industry in Hawaii.

This is an old whaling ship at Hawaii's Maritime Museum.
"Whaling" means "hunting whales".
Whaling was the biggest industry in Hawaii 100 years ago.
In the background is the clock tower, which is a Honolulu landmark.

I bought a BENTO today at the Chinese store. This one has roe (fish eggs).
My old camera is out-of-focus.

京都御所

GOSHO

Kyoto Imperial Palace

The bottom picture is the throne room, but I can't read the KANJI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Imperial_Palace

Kyoto train station

KYOTO EKI

京都駅

These are the last of my photos of Hirano Shrine.

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kyou chichi to haha ni aimashita.

今日母と父に会うことを行った。

This is the Dole Pineapple Factory Tour in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dole is a big pineapple company and started as one of the original big landowners in Hawaii. Now they have transferred their pineapple farms to the Philippines because the cost of production is lower, but they keep this pineapple factory in Hawaii as a tourist attraction.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dole_Food_Company

U.S. Army Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii (Battery Randolph, 442nd Division)

video tour of the city of Honolulu, Hawaii

English Lesson 4

It is 16 degrees this morning.

Kesa ondo wa 16 dou desu.

それは今朝16度である。

Jim Breen's online English-Japanese dictionary

Babelfish

There is a sign in English and Japanese, so I learned that this is Hirano Shrine.


Today I am not eating to lose weight.
Kyou watashi wa tabemasen. Futotte desu kara.

Hirano Shrine

ODEN

Hirano Shrine, Kyoto 2005

I went for a walk in downtown Toronto yesterday.

Hawaii 02 video

叔父

This is a test video of flying to Hawaii.

It was sunny and hot today, for a change.

One of my favorite pictures - a photo of a photographer taking a photo of me at Hirano Shrine.