One man tried to move a big stone using heavy machinery for land preparation in 2004 in Aso, Kumamoto. When he began to break the stone, the excavator suddenly bit the dust. He repaired it and tried again, but the machine didn’t work twice in front of the stone. He couldn’t find the reason why the machine didn’t work well and finished his...
A mongoose hunts a snake! It is very famous but few people have seen a real fight between them. I also have never seen it and really wanted to enjoy it. Because I had heard that there were many attractions for fighting shows in Okinawa, I searched them on the web when I visited Naha City in the winter of 2010. Unfortunately, fighting shows were all prohibited on...
There is a replica of the Eiffel Tower in Saga. This is a one-fifteenth reduced scale of the real tower which exists in Paris. The replica tower has two extra small towers on both sides of the main tower that was planned for the real tower but never built because of the budget shortage. This excellent architecture was made...
Hashima Island – Gunkan Jima (visited in April, 2006) It was a spring morning in 2006, I was on the quay wall of the island off the coast of Nomozaki, Nagasaki. Hashima Island was very famous for ruin geeks because it was an uninhabited island with high-rise condominiums from 1975. This island is commonly called Gunkan-Jima because of its shape. As you can...