tennis is just another outlet for competition Ray Hidaka has been a fixture in the Shoreham-Wading River boys varsity tennis team for five years wide-eyed seventh grader but still earned the first singles slot and has never let it go all these years he finally got some competition for that No Ray and Kai both finished ranked second and fourth respectively in the division for singles players worked his way into the second singles slot after playing varsity doubles with his brother the year before Ray only lost to three opponents all of last year in the first singles spot and all three of his losses were against seniors later named All-State he was one win away from making it to the states After being in the shadows of his brother early in his varsity years Kai decided to commit to tennis this offseason “I really spent a lot of time playing this year and wanted to get better,” Kai said “I’ve been playing club tennis since I was five something in me just wanted to take the next step and push myself to the limit.” Coach Matthew Epp saw it right away when he stepped foot on the court for the first practice “You could tell his improvement immediately making tough shots and putting the pressure on his opponents I knew we were going to see a new version of Kai this year.” Though Kai and Ray are only two years apart in age the siblings play with two different styles Ray is more methodical and cool-headed — other schools call him ‘The Terminator’ because of how ruthless and efficient he is They ended up playing head to head on the third day of practice.” we don’t actually play against each other a lot,” Ray said but we rarely play against each other in the offseason I’ve been busy studying for my six AP classes And before he would get a chance to face the best singles players in Suffolk County he had to prove that he was better than his brother “All I kept thinking about was all the times I lost to him over the years,” Kai said Kai won the first set 6-0 then proceeded to win the match and the spot I knew I was in trouble after that first set.” SWR opened their season March 25 against Bayport-Blue Point Both Hidakas won but Ray finished earlier after a two-set sweep He watched from the sidelines as his brother’s match went into the third and final set played with emotion and yelled in tight moments he was disappointed in his first performance in the No “I thought I was off my usual game,” Kai said “Playing outside after playing indoors all year is so much different That’s one thing I wish I had from my brother is his calmness no matter how many points he’s behind.” The competition continues as the siblings keep pushing one another to improve “Both of us want to make states this year,” Ray said with a smile. “But who knows, we might just have to play each other again in the county tournament.” A kaleidoscope of spring colors — periwinkle foxglove Leon Maurice Creighton of Greenport Village died Monday With the birth of river otter pups at the Long Island Aquarium and possible sightings of otters at Marion Pond in.. Shohei Ohtani was surrounded by plenty of familiar faces when he was announced as the unanimous winner of the 2024 National League MVP Award was part of the MLB Network broadcast to break the news to his Los Angeles Dodgers teammate Ohtani’s acceptance of the NL MVP Award also included Matt Hidaka working as an interpreter between the two-way superstar and MLB Network broadcast It’s not yet clear if Hidaka has assumed the role of Ohtani’s new interpreter who took over after Ippei Mizuhara was fired during the Seoul Series reportedly was alongside Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman for a scouting trip in Japan when the MVP winners were announced Matt Hidaka interpreted for Ohtani during his introductory news conference with the Los Angeles Angels in December 2017 He also worked as an interpreter for Kosuke Fukudome in 2007 When Ohtani reported for his first MLB Spring Training in 2018 it was with Ippei Mizuhara as his interpreter The two went on to form a close friendship that was well documented and added to the shock when Mizuhara was found to have stolen nearly $17 million from Ohtani in order to pay off illegal sports gambling debts Mizuhara’s betting activity surfaced during the Seoul Series at the beginning of the 2024 season and led to immediately being fired by the Dodgers Mizuhara is facing federal charges and recently had his sentencing delayed into January 2025 The Dodgers looked internally in order to replace Mizuhara and tasked Will Ireton with becoming Ohtani’s new interpreter Ireton previously worked as a Dodgers interpreter for Kenta Maeda from 2016-2019 and remained with the team when the right-hander was traded to the Minnesota Twins With Maeda no longer on the Dodgers roster Ireton shifted into player development and baseball operations holding various roles such as coordinator of performance and his current position of manager of performance operations He also spent one season on the Triple-A Oklahoma City coaching staff Along with serving as an interpreter for Ohtani Ireton handled in-game translating and communication for Yoshinobu Yamamoto It previously was another of Mizuhara’s responsibilities as well because MLB rules only permit teams to have one interpreter in the dugout during games Yoshihiro Sonoda remains Yamamoto’s interpreter for media interviews It’s plausible Ireton is going to continue interpreting for Ohtani moving forward but it’s also possible the Dodgers fill the role with a new hire Have you subscribed to the Dodger Blue YouTube channel Be sure to ring the notification bell to watch player interviews and stay up to date on all Dodgers news and rumors Get breaking Dodgers News direct to your inbox Metrics details Dimorphopterus japonicus is a kind of pest which seriously harms sorghum and millet we sequenced the mitochondrial whole genome of D and characterized and analyzed the mitogenome and it exhibits a typical high A + T content (77.6%) japonicus is highly conservative and there are no gene rearrangements The evolutionary rates of the PCGs are in the order of atp8 > nad3 > nad6 > nad2 > nad5 > atp6 > nad4 > nad4L > cox2 > nad1 > cytb > cox3 > cox1 By using the Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood methods we inferred the phylogenetic relationships within Lygaeoidea and estimated their divergence times based on concatenated mitogenome genes The stable clades of (Oxycarenidae + Piesmatidae) and (Blissidae+(Cymidae + Ninidae)) were consistently recovered in all analyses Estimated divergence times revealed that the divergence time of the Lygaeoidea was 99.4 Ma (95% HPD: 83.4-124.8 Ma) and most lygaeoid families diverged during the early Cretaceous to late Paleogene Berytidae is the latest differentiation in the lygaeoid families and the genus Dimorphopterus was differentiated in 45.9 Ma (95% HPD: 39.8–47.7 Ma) This study is of great significance for reconstructing the phylogeny of Lygaeoidea and providing insights into its evolutionary history andthe phylogeny of major lineages of Lygaeoidea was reconstructed which include the construction of phylogenetic trees for Lygaeoidea and an evaluation of divergence times will provide molecular evidence and theoretical reference for systematic taxonomic research on the Lygaeoidea superfamily The nucleotide composition of the D. japonicus mitochondrial genome is detailed in Table 2 the control region exhibits the highest A + T content (80.8%) atp8 has the highest A + T content (88.4%) When examining the three codon positions within the PCGs the A + T content at the first position (69.6%) is lower than that at the second (78.1%) and third (82.7%) positions The base skew analysis of the 13 PCGs reveals that seven genes have AT-skew values less than 0 while nine genes exhibit GC-skew values less than 0 The relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) in the mitogenomes of D japonicus mitochondrial genome collectively span 1,846 bp all other PCGs use ATN as their start codon and the remaining seven PCGs use TAA as their stop codons The ratios of KaKs of 13 PCGs in the mitochondrial genomes of D Organization of the control region in D Phylogenetic tree of Lygaeoidea inferred from BI and ML method based on different datasets. Phylogenetic tree of Lygaeoidea inferred from ML method based on PCG12rRNA dataset the monophyly of the Lygaeoidea superfamily was well supported Neolethaeus assamensis did not cluster with other species of the family Rhyparochromidae whereas the remaining 15 families formed monophyletic groups Although the internal topology of Lygaeoidea was not entirely stable were consistently recovered in all analyses the topology was divided into three major clades Pachygronthidae and Heterogastridae formed a sister group relationship in the first clade The topology of second clade was (Artheneidae+ (Oxycarenidae + Piesmatidae)) The other 11 families clustered the third clade the topology was (Cryptorhamphidae+ (((Lygaeidae + Rhyparochromidae)+ (Malcidae + Colobathristidae))+ ((Geocoridae+ (Meschiidae + Berytidae))+ (Blissidae+ (Cymidae + Ninidae))))) Neolethaeus assamensis was identified as the earliest divergent lineage within Lygaeoidea while the genera Dimorphopterus and Cavelerius also formed a sister group relationship The divergence times for Oxycarenidae and Piesmatidae were estimated at 82.7 Ma (95% HPD: 73.2–86.3 Ma) during the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era. The divergence times for Malcidae and Colobathristidae were estimated at 75.3 Ma (95% HPD: 61.0-89.4 Ma) in the same period. The genus Dimorphopterus diverged around 45.9 Ma (95% HPD: 39.8–47.7 Ma) during the Paleogene period of the Cenozoic era. The chronogram of divergence times by BEAST analysis the longest intergenic region was located between nad5 and trnH a rare feature in the mitochondrial genomes of Hemiptera insects G-U pairing was also observed in the secondary structure of rRNA further morphological and molecular data will be necessary to better understand the monophyly of Rhyparochromidae Our results suggest that the divergence of most lygaeoid families occurred from the early Cretaceous to the late Paleogene The divergence time of Berytidae was estimated at 31.4 Ma representing the latest differentiation among lygaeoid families The divergence time of Blissidae was estimated at 55.8 Ma with the genus Dimorphopterus differentiating at 45.9 Ma we conducted phylogenetic analyses and divergence time estimations within Lygaeoidea Due to the relatively small number of mitochondrial genomes available for Lygaeoidea research on the phylogenetic relationships within this superfamily remains limited and cannot yet provide a stable taxonomic position further research is necessary to increase the number of mitochondrial genomes and to further elucidate the phylogenetic relationships within Lygaeoidea by integrating morphological and biological characteristics japonicus used in this study were collected from Xinfu District the specimens were preserved in absolute ethanol at -20 °C Thoracic muscle tissue from adult insects was extracted following the protocol of the Shanghai Sangon ONE-4-ALL DNA Extraction Kit (BS88504) DNA quality was assessed using a NanoDrop 2000 nucleic acid analyzer Qualified samples were sent to Shanghai Personalbio Biotechnology Co. rRNA genes were determined by referencing published mitochondrial rRNA genes of Blissidae insects and considering their secondary structures Two replicate Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) runs were performed with the tree and parameter values sampled every 1000 steps over a total of 50 million generations sample trees were aggregated and 95% highest probability density (95% HPD) was displayed Sequence data that support the findings of this study have been deposited in the GenBank database with the accession number PP949834 Henry, J. 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To learn more see our FAQ Sponsored contents planned and edited by JT Media Enterprise Division and U30 rider Lesil Yasuda became the winners of the 2024 Japanese Youth Riders Championships held at the Setagaya Equestrian Park at the start of October 2024 The divisions were well filled with fifteen riders in the children and junior age category and twelve young riders The Juniors and young riders contested the individual test and freestyle to determine the national champion In Japan the Under 25 Grand Prix division is expanded to include riders up to age 30 At Children level top honours went to Isami Saito aboard Poronociw Will The pair posted 68,680%in the first round and 69,667% in the evond round to be the stand-out winners for the title almost 3 percentage points ahead of the reserve champion Last year Saito was seventh in the 2023 Children Championship The silver went to championship newcomer Kokomi Matsuoka aboard Gracia  with 67,708% and 67,833% while Mayuko Sato collected bronze aboard the 15-year old Danish warmblood Øgårdens Dior De Luxe (by Sandreo x Zardin Firfod) after scoring 65,972% and 66,667% Dior de Luxe came from Denmark where he was shown by Mille Larsen Warncke Mugen Matsushisa on GyemantMugen Matsuhisa  and Gyemant  have gone from finishing fifth last year at the 2023 Nationals to grabbing the title and the gold medal in 2024 The pair scored 67,696% in the individual test and added a 70,470% freestyle on top for a winning Last year's bronze medal winner Kenshin Matsuoka climbed to a silver medal spot this year aboard Gracia while Yuki Kasahara collected bronze with Elevamente This pair was fourth in the children division in 2023 The three podium place-getters are yet to make their international show debut Gaito Hidaka on Sir GalantoFor 19-year old Gaito Hidaka the 2024 show season has been a wonderful one as the young rising star not only grabbed the title in the Young Riders division, but also went on to take bronze in the senior Grand Prix Championships in Gotemba Aboard Chiemi Katayama's 20-year old Hanoverian Sir Galanto (by Stedinger x De Niro) he scored 71,667% in the individual test and 73,975% in the freestyle for the Young Riders' title Gaito took over the ride on Sir Galanto from Kiichi Harada "I would like to thank my wonderful partners the supportive owners and sponsors," Gaito took to Instagram after winning the title chiropractors and the Hiruzen Horse Park team who always support me." The silver medal went to 21-year old Marie Yoshida  on Grandeur a 13-year old KWPN gelding by Charmeur x Krack C who previously shown in europe by Italian Beatrice Arturi before selling to Japan Last year elder sister Yurie Yoshida became the 2023 Japanese Young Riders Champion on him This year it was Marie's turn to finish second overall after scoring 68,676% and 70,825% The bronze went to Yuki Takamatsu on Hermes Der II after posting 67,843% and 70,870% In the Under 30 Grand Prix division Lesil Yasuda  was the only rider to twice crack the sixty percentage barrier to earn the national title Aboard the 18-year old Dutch warmblood Bernardau (by Uptown x Bustron) she scored  63,392 in the Intermediaire II and 63,587% in the short Grand Prix for the gold medal Yasuda bought Bernardau in 2023 after he was shown in The Netherlands by Stephanie Peters and Sharon Lubkemann Lesil trains at the Little Horse Club in Miki and prrofessionally works as an HR consultant in the corporate planning office at Sion Co Ltd Lesil Yasuda on Bernardau"I can't get enough of my buddy who is too good," said winner Yasuda after the Championships "I am grateful for the environment I have and will continue to work hard to embrace the next new opportunities Gotta become a good rider for my buddy real soon." The silver medal went to Sayuko Kimura on the Palomino Bosco (by Benicio x Quarterback), while Fuga Kitamura got bronze with Luce Di Speranza. 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A new tip-off reach the investigation division where buddies Hidaka and Fuwa are stationed…? is determined to bring the criminal running wild back under the law’s control Hidaka is summoned by the chief of the first investigation division regarding the body of the victim who had died during an investigation…? Hidaka finds that the victim’s ex-boyfriend Hidaka reveals a file titled “HIDE&SEEK” to Fuwa Inside lies the hidden truth of an unsolved case...? The OKURA members including Hidaka and Fuwa discover that the Chief of the First Investigation Division Hidaka and Fuwa reveal to Rinko that there is a file detailing the perpetrator of an unsolved case…? Hidaka learns that his ex-wife is the perpetrator of the series of police officer murders that occurred ten years ago…? who was the perpetrator of a series of police officer murders that occurred 10 years ago…? Fuwa uncovers the shocking truth: Hidaka is the real culprit behind the murder…? This carpet of over 5,000,000 bright red spider lilies beside the Koma River made it to the list of the top 30 reasons to visit Japan or really that the Emperor and Empress of Japan came last year to see it for themselves The entrance fee of ¥300 allows you to walk amongst the flowers and enter the festival area with all day stage events and food and souvenir booths Kinchakuda is about a 10 minute downhill walk from Koma Station (Seibu Chichibu Line) Koma Station is a little over an hour from Ikebukuro which makes it an easy day trip Thousands of people come to see this yearly event and parking spaces are limited Kinchakuda Manjushage Festival (巾着田曼珠沙華まつり) Sign up for our weekly newsletter of articles from Japan The fifth edition of “Japan’s Erzberg” the extreme enduro race been held in Hokkaido the northernmost island in the country which is dosed in snow all winter but becomes a home for enduro in the summer This year’s Hidaka Rocks was the fourth round of the 2024 Japan Hard Enduro Championship Series which will feature a total of seven rounds in total The race format follows that of the Erzbergrodeo in Austria combining a qualifying time trials on Saturday with a main race on Sunday 2024 Hidaka Rocks Extreme Enduro: Japan’s Erzberg prologue onboard a Yamaha YZ250X The qualifying race took place on a course of about 5km with a maximum speed exceeding 120km/h The results of the two time trial runs affected the starting order for the final The main race takes place in a quarry where rocks formed in the Jurassic Period are collected 100 riders lined up in five rows took on the challenging 11km course which was completely covered with rocks and had five checkpoints With a time limit of 2 hours and 30 minutes many riders in the main race had used up all their time by CP2 or CP3 Despite being more difficult than the previous four editions 14 riders competing for the championship made it to the finish line at the top of the mountain Fresh from landing on Enduro21 in the middle of the Erzbergrodeo (check around the 10 minute-mark in our YouTube video!) Tomoki Ogami (Beta) claimed the lead at the beginning of the race but Masatsune Otsuka (Yamaha) took over the lead and continued to extend his lead to win the race followed by Kouta Harada (KTM) picked off Ogami-san to claim second and third who is Japan’s Roof of Africa gold class finisher also crossed finish line with seventh place on his Yamaha four-stroke 450 The town of Hidaka in Hokkaido will also host a traditional international two-day enduro in September. More information here: HTDE Facebook page Words Credit: Hisashi Haruki | BIG TANK Create a personal Enduro21 account to access our new forum receive exclusive competitions and money saving offers Enduro21 is all about motorcycle enduro and off-road riding. 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Volume 9 - 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2015.00062 This article is part of the Research TopicIntegration and segregation in sensorimotor processingView all 13 articles Research regarding crossmodal interactions has garnered much interest in the last few decades A variety of studies have demonstrated that multisensory information (vision and so on) can perceptually interact with each other in the spatial and temporal domains Findings regarding crossmodal interactions in the spatiotemporal domain (i.e. motion processing) have also been reported we summarize past and recent findings on spatiotemporal processing in crossmodal interactions regarding perception of the external world A traditional view regarding crossmodal interactions holds that vision is superior to audition in spatial processing but audition is dominant over vision in temporal processing vision is considered to have dominant effects over the other sensory modalities (i.e. visual capture) in spatiotemporal processing recent findings demonstrate that sound could have a driving effect on visual motion perception studies regarding perceptual associative learning reported that after association is established between a sound sequence without spatial information and visual motion information the sound sequence could trigger visual motion perception has also exhibited similar driving effects on visual motion perception recent brain imaging studies demonstrate that similar activation patterns could be observed in several brain areas between spatiotemporal information from different sensory modalities we suggest that multimodal information could mutually interact in spatiotemporal processing in the percept of the external world and that common perceptual and neural underlying mechanisms would exist for spatiotemporal processing In our daily life, we receive dynamic inputs to multiple modalities from, for example, moving cars, the face of a friend with whom we are conversing, and so on. While a large amount of inputs continue to change uniquely in each sensory modality, we can perceive them as integrated, coherent objects, or scenes. Our perceptual systems appropriately and flexibly associate and integrate these inputs (Ernst and Bülthoff, 2004) thus enabling us to establish coherent and robust percepts of the external world in our brains the findings regarding spatiotemporal processing of crossmodal interactions have been updated in recent years we summarize past and recent findings of spatiotemporal processing in crossmodal interactions we briefly review some key findings of spatial and temporal processing in crossmodal interactions we focus on the literature on spatiotemporal processing in crossmodal interactions including psychophysical and brain imaging findings Schematic illustrations of spatial and temporal ventriloquism effects (A) In a typical spatial ventriloquism effect the spatial position of sound sources is perceived as that of visual sources the temporal position of visual sources perceptually shifts to that of sound sources in a typical temporal ventriloquism effect Crossmodal interactions in the spatial domain other than with vision have also been reported. For example, sound could affect tactile distance perception (Tajadura-Jiménez et al., 2012) Observers were exposed to a situation where sound locations were always moderately far away relative to the tapped position of their arm the perceived distance of the tactile sensations on the observer's arm was greater than the actual stimulated positions by the sound presentations Crossmodal interactions have been also investigated not only in two-dimensional, but also in three-dimensional spaces (see Van der Stoep et al., 2015 for a review). For instance, Sugita and Suzuki (2003) reported that the timing of a perceived co-occurrence between light and sound was changed as a function of the distance between the observer and the light This suggests that the brain compensates for temporal lag using viewing distance information as if it “knows” the physical rule that the traveling velocity of light is faster than that of sound in space the understanding of crossmodal interaction in the spatial domain has been updated in recent years Summary of psychophysical research evidences of crossmodal motion perception These findings indicate that sound can modulate the perception of visual motion through changes in the interpretation of a visual event or by temporal ventriloquism effects Schematic illustrations of audiovisual illusions in motion perception Two visual stimuli moving toward each other at the same vertical location are perceived to overlap at the center and then to continue moving along their trajectories Both streaming and bouncing percepts occur equally without auditory information when a transient sound is presented at the timing of the visual coincidence This is a typical auditory modulatory effect on visual motion perception (B) Auditory aftereffects induced by visual adaptation The adaptation to visual size changes (e.g. expansion) induces not only size change aftereffects for the visual test stimulus with constant size (shrinking) but also loudness change aftereffects for the auditory stimuli with constant loudness (decreasing in loudness) The involvement of motion processing could be assumed in this phenomenon because both auditory and visual stimuli are assumed to demonstrate motion in depth The effect from audition to vision is not reported to occur the adaptation to visual size changes alone could induce the auditory loudness change of a steady sound in the opposite direction of the visual adapting stimuli both auditory and visual stimuli are assumed to signify motion in depth and the aftereffect is considered to occur purely at perceptual levels These findings thus suggest that visual motion information could directly affect or induce auditory motion perceptions the auditory loudness change did not have any modulatory or inducing effect on visual aftereffects have concluded that common perceptual mechanisms and shared neural substrates for different sensory information exist in motion perception They have also suggested that vision is superior to other sensory information in crossmodal interactions in motion perception because sounds did not have such capturing effects on vision Schematic illustrations of dynamic visual capture and sound-induced visual motion When the motion direction of apparent motion is incongruent between visual and auditory stimuli the direction of auditory apparent motion is perceived as congruent with that of visual apparent motion The opposite effect is reported less often Visual flashes presented at a fixed position are perceived as moving horizontally when auditory stimuli are presented in horizontal motion This is the first demonstration of an auditory driving effect on visual motion perception We can therefore predict that auditory information could have capturing or inducing effects on visual motion perception in this situation the effect is considered to be purely based on perceptual motion processing These findings could extend the suggestions originally proposed by Soto-Faraco et al Different sensory information flexibly and adequately cooperates with each other based on the reliability and saliency of information under common perceptual mechanisms and shared neural substrates in motion perception we could predict that arbitrary crossmodal associations could be established in motion perception as well the exposure to auditory pitch changes and lower-order visual motion induced the association effect only for lower-order visual motion perception These findings indicate that motion processing plays a key factor in the establishment of crossmodal associations in motion perception Schematic illustrations of perceptual associative learning between a sound sequence and visual apparent motion After a 3 min exposure (adaptation) to a paired presentation of sound with arbitrary pitch changes [higher (H) to lower (L)] and visual horizontal apparent motion (leftward motion) the sounds began to induce visual apparent motion in the previously exposed manner under the establishment of associations in crossmodal spatiotemporal processing some lower level of processing could be involved such as subthreshold processing and the processing of frequency band and receptive fields They presented changes in smells (banana and fennel) with a visual global motion display the smells affected the perceived direction of the visual global motion display This result suggests that crossmodal associative learning in spatiotemporal processing is not limited to audio-visual domains but could generally occur among a variety of sensory pairs Recent findings clearly suggest that new perceptual associations could be established between arbitrary inputs through crossmodal spatiotemporal processing each sensory input affects the percept of the other one as if “replaying” the associated relationship The association effects are assumed not to be limited to particular sensory combinations but have sharp selectivity in each sensory modality These findings suggest that perceptual associative learning is one of the most plausible underlying mechanisms to establish common perceptual and neural mechanisms in crossmodal spatiotemporal processing crossmodal motion information could activate from higher sensory association areas (e.g. the intraparietal and superior temporal sulcus) to a relatively lower motion processing areas (e.g. V5/MT area) and primary sensory areas related to motion processing The activation patterns in these areas are also assumed to be variable depending on the congruency of motion signals we overviewed recent literatures regarding perceptual aspects and functional brain characteristics related to crossmodal spatiotemporal processing we discuss possible linkages between these aspects Schematic illustrations of neural bases of crossmodal motion perception Interactions of motion information across sensory modalities could occur in V5/MT and association areas and induce negative aftereffects it could be assumed that some lower levels of brain representation and processing areas play key roles for the establishment of new neural representations regarding the associations of motion information and arbitrary information without motion signals with positive aftereffects We could assume that the area involved in motion processing (V5/MT area) would be the potential brain region where new neural representations for crossmodal motion processing are formed in crossmodal positive motion aftereffects These would indicate that lower cortical regions such as primary sensory areas and/or subcortical regions could play key roles for crossmodal motion processing Consistent with the suggestions from many crossmodal studies lower and higher brain regions and bottom-up and top-down processing would be mutually and closely involved in crossmodal interactions in spatiotemporal processing we encapsulated the recent evidence regarding crossmodal interactions in spatiotemporal processing (i.e. The traditional view in crossmodal studies has regarded the dominant effects of vision over the other sensory modalities (i.e. had been assumed to have only modulatory effects on crossmodal motion perception recent findings clearly demonstrate that sound and motor action could have a driving effect on visual motion perception specifically when the visibility of the visual stimuli was degraded Studies regarding perceptual associative learning have further reported that an association could be established between sounds without spatial information and visual motion information by a 3 min exposure the sounds acquired a driving effect on visual motion perception Other sensory information (smell) was also reported to have similar driving effects on visual motion perception Crossmodal interactions studies at neural levels demonstrate that activation in lower and higher cortical brain regions including the area related to visual motion processing is commonly modulated by crossmodal motion information The perceptual associative learning effects also indicate that arbitrary unrelated crossmodal spatiotemporal information could interact if prior knowledge/experiences of integration are formed between them These indicate that perceptual associative learning is one of the most plausible underlying mechanisms to establish common perceptual and neural representations of crossmodal spatiotemporal processing in the brain the generalization and validity of the existing evidence regarding crossmodal spatiotemporal processing should be confirmed by focusing on crossmodal interactions excluding vision Detailed investigation regarding the process of establishing neural substrates through perceptual associative learning is also necessary when and where do new neural substrates appear in the brain during perceptual associative learning Which brain areas begin to activate and how does the amount of neural activity change over time Does the perceptual aftereffect shift from positive to negative along with the development of forming neural representations Answers to these questions could contribute to an understanding of the manner in which the brain acquires perceptual and neural bases for crossmodal interactions in spatiotemporal processing could distort the percept of auditory space Further investigation of this aspect could contribute to e comprehensive understanding of the influence of crossmodal interactions in spatiotemporal SH and WT are involved in literature search and YS are involved in the interpretations of findings and the writing of the paper including 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited in accordance with accepted academic practice distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms *Correspondence: Souta Hidaka, aGlkYWthQHJpa2t5by5hYy5qcA==; Wataru Teramoto, dGVyYW1vdG9Aa3VtYW1vdG8tdS5hYy5qcA== †These authors have contributed equally to this work Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher 94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or goodLearn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish The police arrested Hana on suspicion of attempting to murder her 61-year-old father by attacking him with with a kitchen knife around 3 a.m The police arrived at the scene in response to an emergency call from Hana who claimed she had been beaten by her father They said she had made another call at 5:30 p.m prompting them to visit the house afterward The police said that Yoshihiro sustained a minor injury to his left arm as reported by Japanese news website TokyoReporter Yamaha Motor said it would not comment on the case citing its private nature and the ongoing investigation the Iwata-based firm manufactures a wide variety of motorized products Email: evne@vnexpress.netTel: 028 7300 9999 - Ext 8556 PR Spots Animal "Hokkaido Racecourse" is a local racecourse run by the Hokkaido Prefectural Government It is held at Monbetsu Racecourse in Hidaka Town one of the world's leading horse-breeding areas and the 2025 season will begin on Wednesday Horse racing in Hokkaido has a long history and foreigners who were involved in the development of Hokkaido during the Meiji period built racecourses in Sapporo and other areas These became the roots of modern horse racing national horse racing (Central Horse Racing) and local horse racing (municipal horse racing prefectural horse racing) were held all over the prefecture but currently the only local horse racing events held in Hokkaido are the "Ban'ei Horse Racing" in Obihiro City and the "Hokkaido Horse Racing" here in Hidaka Town Monbetsu Racecourse has a 1600m clockwise course and is close to the Polaris☆Stand you can get much closer to the horses than at other racecourses You can watch the excitement of the horses up close The Grand Chariot Nighter will be held for the entire 85-day period and the setting sun shines on the curves of the stand you can enjoy Monbetsu Racecourse's original Jingisukan served in a metal bucket with a Jingisukan pot on top The meat is the "Original Hidaka Jingisukan" sold by Takayanagi Shoten in Hidaka Town and you can also enjoy it at the outdoor tables on sunny days Genghis Khan set requires advance reservation Izumi Shokudo is famous for its thick country soba noodles made with buckwheat flour from Tokachi They serve a variety of Hokkaido ingredients and the restaurant serves meals packed with the delicious flavors of Hokkaido head to the Asian restaurant "Lumbini Food Cafe" and other dishes are all authentic and not to be missed The official goods shop in Tonekko Square sells a variety of original goods There are notebooks with the jockeys' faces printed on them There are also goods featuring the original characters Tenta and Maki there is a box with the words "Losing Ticket Memorial Box" written on the side but a box for memorializing losing tickets at the shrine after the season ends This is a service that any horse racing fan would be happy to receive Many events will be held to coincide with the opening of Hokkaido horse racing Former professional baseball player Kenji Sugiya who has been appointed as the official ambassador for Hokkaido Racecourse 2025 He is scheduled to make a guest appearance at the opening ceremony and in the live broadcast studio A ceremony to celebrate the opening of the season is held before the first race Don't miss the moment when the sake barrel is opened the first 300 people will receive a "Hokkaido Horse Racing 2025 Racing Calendar," "Hokkaido Furano Hop Carbonated Water," and "Red and White Mochi" the first 300 people to arrive at the Tonekko Square special tent will receive an original towel as a gift including the local gourmet dish "Tsubu Kushi." Also there will be a food truck set up at a special booth near the paddock Jockey muffler towels will be on sale from 2024 and jockey stuffed toys will be on sale from 2025 there's plenty to enjoy on the opening day besides watching the races Hidaka Town is also full of ranch spots where you can interact with horses Hidaka Town is not only home to Monbetsu Racecourse but also has many other tourist attractions unique to the "town of horses." There are so many attractive facilities where you can interact with horses that it would be a shame to just come to watch the races Here we will introduce some noteworthy ranch spots in Hidaka Town that are perfect for families and animal lovers A petting ranch that specializes in miniature horses This is the only place where you can interact with them directly Miniature horses are the smallest horses in the world standing 83.7cm tall and weighing around 80kg when fully grown Come and spend some relaxing time with the many miniature horses This is a ranch where you can observe retired race horses The ranch also has accommodation where you can spend time surrounded by horses They also sell a variety of original goods such as beauty serum made from thoroughbred placenta A portion of the sales will be donated to the retired horses a free shuttle bus runs from the north exit of JR Sapporo Station there is also a free shuttle from Monbetsu Racecourse to "Yogibo Versailles Resort Farm (Wednesdays only)" Get closer to Hokkaido Racecourse and the unique spots of this horse breeding region About the "Free Shuttle Bus from/to the North Exit of JR Sapporo Station" Seasonal “news” of Hokkaido can be checked by category You can check the information of your “town” in one place Events” held throughout the province are easy to find and can be saved This page has been automatically translated by Google Translate service Mari Asaka is an ordinary high school student attending an ordinary school when she meets Tsunagu Hidaka newly attending her school as part of an integration program; most beastfolk live in a walled-off section of the city but can their love bloom in a world where beastfolk are second-class citizens Our Love Will Make It Through is translated by Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley and lettered by Greg Deng Tsunagu Hidaka's race is also a way for the story to explore racism and human treatment of someone they perceive as Other The story takes place in a world where beastfolk were genetically engineered (for unclear or unstated purposes) quite some time ago living inside walled areas within cities with tight security; Tsunagu is shown having to show some form of ID in order to leave to go to school the high school our leads attend is taking part in a new integration program where students from beastfolk schools will be allowed to enroll in human schools While it won't conjure up this image for everyone it will absolutely remind some American readers of school integration efforts during the Civil Rights era and I think that's deliberate on Yuzuki's part Tsunagu faces discrimination from his first day in the classroom with students targeting him because of his race and some attempting to get him expelled or “encouraging” him to leave Alongside this overt discrimination we have scenes such as Mari bringing Tsunagu home with her after he falls into the river; her mother isn't cruel to him but she is visibly shocked and clearly uncomfortable at first Mari and Tsunagu first meet when they're both running late for school and have to climb over a low wall to get there on time Mari offers to help before she sees Tsunagu's fluffy dog face and she is taken aback when she realizes that this beastboy is wearing her school uniform But she quickly realizes that he's just a bigger furrier version of the boys she already knows and this allows her to become one of his first allies at school is willing to engage in a friendly way with Tsunagu and while other students may act like they accept him little events show that they're not as comfortable or happy as they pretend – for example when Tsunagu takes first place in the exams a female classmate is furious because she wanted that rank but that her first instinct is to lash out at the one student who it feels “safe” to hate is still telling The issues with the narrative are solely confined to the romance plot and if you take out the way that Tsunagu looks they're really just the same problems people have had with YA romance for quite some time that means that there are elements of Tsunagu and Mari's burgeoning relationship that feel distinctly unhealthy Largely this comes down to him forcing himself on her because he simply can't help himself there is an extra layer here in that he has “beastlike” instincts; he's started school in May rather than April because of beastfolk's mating season Yuzuki is clearly trying to shield these controversial romance tropes behind the trappings of another genre Tsunagu licks and bites sexual(ized) areas of Mari's body while she tells him no and he's fully aware that this is not acceptable behavior shielded by the idea that he wants her so much that he can't stop This plays directly into what scholars Megan K Bonomi call “the virgin-beast trope” in their 2020 essay “Love Hurts?: Identifying Abuse in the Virgin-Beast Trope of Popular Romantic Fiction” in Journal of Family Violence “Popular romantic fiction … often portrays a submissive/virginal female character and an aggressive/beastly male character This binary portrayal of heterosexual relationships is problematic because it presents a power imbalance within the couple as essential for romance.” While there are many more egregious examples of the trope it's hard to deny that the romance plot of this volume plays right into it and it's not only a trope some readers dislike it's also one that is controversial when used in young adult fiction if you enjoy that trope or are looking for a furry/human romance in general There are some confusing elements of the art – apart from his face and tail it doesn't really look like Tsunagu has fur all over his body especially since we can see his very human fingernails – but scenes of him unconsciously wagging his tail are adorable The translation does its best to highlight the racial inequality message Yuzuki's art does its best to lean into that Our Love Will Make it Through isn't for everyone Full encyclopedia details aboutKimi to Koete Koi ni Naru (manga) Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Tokyo Kinchakuda Manjushage Park in Saitama prefecture’s Hidaka city is one of the best places near Tokyo to see red spider lilies also known as higanbana or manjushage in Japanese With about five million of these unique flowers expected to bloom around this time of year the sprawling Saitama park will be bringing back its annual autumn flower festival from September 18 the warmer-than-usual weather this year delayed the growth and the blooming of the flowers as such the festival has been extended until October 9 And that's perfect because the red spider lilies are now approaching full bloom and this weekend's the best time to go see them Aside from fields of beautiful scarlet red spider lilies you’ll also find booths at the festival selling a variety of local food and drinks as well as souvenirs As this is one of Japan's largest concentrations of red spider lilies especially on these dates: September 28-29 and October 5-6 It takes about 90 minutes from Ikebukuro Station to Koma Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro line; from there it’s a 15-minute walk to the park.  Kinchakuda Manjushage Park is open from 9am to 4.30pm Entry costs ¥500 per person (free for junior high school students and younger children) To all photographers and Instagrammers who’re planning to shoot photos and videos note that you’re not allowed to set up tripods at the park In the mean time, you can keep an eye on the flowering status of the spider lilies via the event website and Instagram Stories.This article was originally published on August 25 2022 and updated on October 2 2024 Here’s the official 2024 autumn leaves forecast for Japan – updated A zombie shinkansen is running from Tokyo to Osaka this month Two typhoons are approaching Japan this week teamLab opens a new permanent exhibition at a rice terrace in Ibaraki This Japanese restaurant chain is serving deep-fried KitKat Want to be the first to know what’s cool in Tokyo? Sign up to our newsletter for the latest updates from Tokyo and Japan. facebooktwitterpinterestinstagramAbout us Watching Neo Sora’s debut feature “Happyend,” a coming-of-age film set in the near future I was reminded of stories I’d heard from my wife about her Tokyo high school which was shut down for weeks in the turbulent 1960s by student protesters But instead of battling cops on the streets she served as the president of a Beatles fan club and saw “A Hard Day’s Night” about 30 times the film draws a similar contrast between social turmoil outside the confines of an upscale urban high school as a major earthquake looms and the personal lives of its students from a practical joke they play to annoy their principal (a wonderfully caustic Shiro Sano) to the tight but troubled friendship of the two main protagonists.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0'); }); the film’s kids view potential disaster and present oppression by shadowy xenophobic authorities with something less than life-or-death urgency as though they were seeing it from inside a bubble This makes their semi-dystopian world and its discontents feel more like metaphors than anything present and real The official website for the new anime of Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 manga announced on Saturday that singer-songwriter Riria. is performing the anime's ending theme song "Anta Nante." Riria She recalled mulling over Ranma and Akane's back-and-forth repartee and came up with this song that represents their aggravating relationship Director Kōnosuke Uda drew the illustration below to thank Riria for this song that "wonderfully portrays Akane's feelings when she is upset by Ranma": Akane's voice actress Noriko Hidaka said she felt like crying when she heard the song's lyrics "Anta Nante," and asked fans to look forward to experiencing feelings for Akane after 35 years when the ending plays after the first episode Ano will perform the anime's opening theme song Twelve episodes of the new anime were leaked Takahashi debuted the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine in August 1987 Viz Media released the original anime on VHS Sources: New Ranma 1/2 anime's website, Comic Natalie announced management changes effective October 1 was stabbed at home last September and requested to resign which also included those of Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director of the Company were taken over on October 1 by Katsuaki Watanabe who continues to serve as chairman and representative director Motofumi Shitara was appointed as Executive Vice President and representative director while also holding the position of Senior Executive Officer and Director Yamaha is complying with Japanese laws regarding the stipulated number of directors despite not hiring any external individuals Can-Am is returning to its roots in motorcycles and its two models have been honored with the Red Dot Design Award – adding to the iF Design Award... BMW Motorrad has unveiled the new R 1300 RS a major evolution of its boxer-engine sport touring lineup Royal Alloy Japan has unveiled a limited-edition version of its classic scooter dubbed the “Royal Alloy JPS Edition.” Drawing from the iconic livery of the 1970s Lotus F1.. Triumph Motorcycles Japan held a nationwide contest for customised DAYTONA 660 bikes Acerbis has recently launched the new Assault – a helmet designed for riders to take on the asphalt with no limits or venture into off-road terrain © 2025 M Sports - Premium news & magazine M Sports Please enter your username or email address to reset your password © 2025 M Sports - Premium news & magazine M Sports A shocking incident shook the city of Iwata president of renowned motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha Motor was allegedly assaulted by his own daughter in the early hours of Monday morning the attack took place at around 3am at the family home was arrested by the authorities on suspicion of attempted murder it has not been disclosed whether the suspect has confessed to the crime The incident was preceded by an emergency call made by Hana on Sunday afternoon claiming to have been assaulted by her father The authorities responded to the call by visiting the residence the police received another emergency call Yamaha Motor has refrained from commenting on the case calling it a private matter and citing the ongoing investigation Your browser does not support JavaScript, or it is disabled．Please check the site policy for more information National Report Hokkaido--India native Rizwan Alam rises at 4 a.m as an employee of Mishima Stud here to begin his work He then rides on the back of a yearling that he is responsible for Alam is tasked with training horses to ride with humans he returns to a dormitory near the stable to eat lunch with his family which is said to be India's national sport Alam communicates with Japanese in broken English Indian colleagues interpret for him to provide explanations in his native tongue “He is firmly determined to take care of his entire family,” said Kenta Fujii “He is diligent and respects his superiors--a feature that may be common among Indians They have strong ties and care for each other while on duty.” One of every 30 residents is now Indian in Urakawa which is Japan’s most renowned thoroughbred-producing area A staggering 80 percent of racehorses are produced in the Hidaka region of Hokkaido Urakawa is particularly famous as a leading production area in Hidaka A national breeding farm was installed in Urakawa during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) the five-time champion Shinzan is especially noted as the superstar of the Showa Era (1926-1989) the shortage of labor in the horseracing industry has accelerated over the last 10 years or so Urakawa thus started inviting and hiring skilled trainers from Southeast Asia and Africa A rapidly growing number of farms reportedly began employing Indian trainers after word spread that their work styles and personalities are ideal for positions in Urakawa Starting from 2014 when there were no Indian workers in Urakawa their number reached 371 by the end of October 2024 Alam hails from Bihar state in northern India one of the poorest regions across the nation the sport of riding horses and hitting a ball with sticks He served as a trainer for nine years in Qatar Hearing from a friend in Urakawa that his “salary can go up 20,000 yen ($128) to 30,000 yen” more than what he was making Alam came to Japan in 2022 to show off his skills in the “slightly cold but pleasant destination.” Alam found many of the comforts of home and a supportive community for Indian immigrants A grocery store offers a range of spices in Urakawa which are distributed by local governments to expectant mothers Urakawa town released a maternal and child-health handbook in Hindi A local supermarket is expanding its lineup of milk yogurt and other items Indians typically buy in bulk Bharat Restaurant is characterized by a noticeable yellow sign among horse farms recommends curries with a spice level of 2 or 3 for Japanese guests while Indian patrons often prefer level 10 Finding Indian features in every corner of the town Alam invited his family to Urakawa a year earlier A remaining challenge is the language barrier Mothers from India often return to their homeland for educational purposes when their children turn 5 years old said he is worried about the future of his offspring as well “I want him to study in Urakawa but feel at the same time that an English school is necessary,” said Alam “English education is important in particular in India.” People from the major South Asian country with the world's largest population of more than 1.4 billion speak not only the official language of Hindi but also Marwari and other minor languages As many as 21 languages are officially recognized as state tongues in the Constitution to reflect the nation’s diverse ethnic groups and religions Minakshi Soni arrived in the town last August under the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program aiming to promote foreign language education and global interactions in the local municipality came from a town in Rajasthan state in India As she was raised by her Marwari-speaking father who was a goldwork artisan Soni became enchanted by the beauty of a Japan-made light green vase treated with gold during her childhood Soni started attending a weekly Japanese language class She spent six years passing the advanced level of a Japanese language test securing a Japanese teacher post at a junior high school in India a friend informed Soni about a “job offer that best suits you.” Soni therefore decided to head for Urakawa Soni currently serves as an interpreter for Indians who show up at the town office for tax consultations She likewise translates the municipality’s notices “I am happy to be able to support Indians in Japan as I had longed to work in the country for many years,” said Soni Another mission of Soni is assisting in Indian kids’ learning She goes to an elementary school in Urakawa twice a week where two Indian children are enrolled Though a first-grade boy who came to Japan last spring has gradually become able to understand the Japanese spoken by his teacher at the primary school Soni stressed that further support is essential Her reasoning is that Indian parents frequently do not use Japanese making it difficult for children to receive help with their assignments at home “My hope is teaching Japanese for adults as well as children,” said Soni Soni's latest endeavor is offering a weekly Hindi lesson for Japanese “I would like both Japanese and Indians to learn from one another to further deepen friendship,” she said Her journey as a liaison between India and Urakawa has just started as the JET program lasts for up to five years Foreign workers the winning ticket at horse racing stables Forget stereotype and explore the real India Nishi-Kasai’s Little India is a model of expat integration Ranch aims to save as many retired horses as possible Information on the latest cherry blossom conditions Please right click to use your browser’s translation function.) 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The page may not be displayed properly if the JavaScript is deactivated on your browser Japanese version To get the best experience using our site, we recommend downloading the latest version of Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox Research Division Hospital for Special Surgery Weill Medical College of Cornell University For more publications, please see the PubMed listing One of the goals of HSS is to advance the science of orthopedic surgery and related disciplines for the benefit of patients Research staff at HSS may collaborate with outside companies for education HSS supports this collaboration in order to foster medical breakthroughs; however HSS also believes that these collaborations must be disclosed this website lists Research staff collaborations with outside companies if the Research staff member received any payment during the prior year or expects to receive any payment in the next year The disclosures are based on information provided by the Research staff and other sources and are updated regularly Current ownership interests and leadership positions are also listed Further information may be available on individual company websites Hidaka reported no relationships with healthcare industry By disclosing the collaborations of HSS Research staff with industry on this website HSS and its Research staff make this information available to patients and the public thus creating a transparent environment for those who are interested in this information the HSS Conflicts of Interest Policy does not permit payment of royalties on products developed by him/her that are used on patients at HSS This story is part of a series spotlighting Seattle University student clubs In this installment we go inside the Hidako Taiko club one of more than 100 student-run clubs on campus there are several cultural clubs on campus including Hidaka Taiko a club intended to spread the joy and culture of taiko drumming to the campus community Taiko is a traditional form of Japanese drumming traced back to the 6th century CE and has been ringing loud ever since Having such a strong Japanese cultural presence on campus an SU Japanese exchange student decided to first form the club in 2017 and the group has grown considerably in popularity since “Hidaka Taiko has allowed me the privilege to become a part of an immensely encouraging community and I have made connections with amazing people who I would have never met otherwise,” says club member Catherine Smead “Once I joined Hidaka in the Fall of 2020 my passion for the art grew immensely and I hope to continue playing even after my time at SU comes to a close.” When I asked the club to describe themselves in one word they answered “driven” and given the intense workload they put on themselves Club members practice three times a week intensive drills to improve their form Because they are a student-run cultural entertainment club they are invited to perform at many on-campus events including during games "I love Hidaka Taiko because it is a club that serves as a creative outlet I can push myself to be better because I know I have supportive people around me that will always encourage me,” says club member Katlyn Wong “I got to fulfill a childhood wish with this club and I really couldn’t have asked for a better taiko group to start with and learn from It’s a home I can always come back to.” Hidaka Taiko struggled to retain members throughout COVID they have slowly rebuilt their club to its pre-pandemic form including welcoming promising new members that will keep up the beautiful tradition of taiko drumming Copyright © document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Seattle University they take us around a tour of the famous Hidaka Washi factory in Japan known for making the world’s thinnest paper one company is taking paper thinner than it’s ever been before using methods that date back a thousand years The paper is then sent to museums and libraries around the world—including the British Museum and the Library of Congress—and is used to restore and protect books and works of art,” says the video’s description The company claims their work is focused on the theme of “Washi” not just papermaking which is reflected in the firm’s name “Hidaka Washi originated as the TENGU Export Paper Union in 1949 with 10 paper-making craftsmen living in a valley called Kusaka hand-made tengu was popular for export as typewriter paper,” explains the company’s about section Hidaka Washi has maintained the traditional handmade papermaking techniques employed by those early craftsmen but also improved and refined them with the latest technologies “Since the era of handmade Japanese Paper we have concentrated on making washi by applying traditional skills and methods to meet the demands of the times,” claims the firm Via: Great Big Story  Premium Japanese version Late spring cruising through the mountains around Okutama in a rally car (of sorts) Fuji rising up into the clouds like a stoic giant covered in ice cream Well let me take it up a notch by joining Hidaka-san and his friends as they tour their classic Porsches through mountain passes of Kanagawa and into Yamamashi I was invited by Hidaka-san to join the NPSC (Narrow Porsche Sports Club) touring day a few months back and since then I’d been counting down the days I was instructed to meet the group at 8:00am sharp at Omugishiro Parking Area on the shore of Lake Okutama With its proximity to Tokyo and stunning mountain scenery The vibe at Omugishiro Parking Area was super chill, and with 21 classic Porsches in the group it was hard to find a bad photo. There were plenty of other interesting cars out for a drive too, and I took a quick look around here After we spent a good half hour or so soaking up the morning atmosphere, Hidaka-san entered the next location into my Google Maps app and we set off in convoy. Last in the procession of these perfectly maintained air-cooled Porsches, my Impreza must have looked very sad indeed Some of you may be familiar with Hidaka-san’s Porsche from Blake’s feature back in 2018 there have been plenty of updates since then I thought it was worth catching up with Hidaka-san again and checking out the new look of the car Once we started winding our way through the mountains I really began to feel like part of the family engine layout is pretty much where the similarities end between the 911s and my Impreza although Porsche was actually quite successful in the world of rally too most of the classic drivers were distinguished gentlemen who have perhaps retired and are indulging in some well-earned driving time But there were a couple of younger participants in the group too including this guy who looked a proper bad-ass with his crew cut At the next parking area I started mounting up my camera rig The other drivers found this incredibly entertaining; I’m pretty certain they had never seen a foreigner strap a camera to the front of an Impreza before I started changing positions of the rig to get some more rolling shots of Hidaka-san’s Porsche The other guys milled around stretching their legs but in the process Hidaka-san and I had fallen away from the group We packed up the camera gear and agreed that we should catch back up to the pack Even though we knew the photos would be great I think we both felt a sense of release to be able to relax and just enjoy some driving The exhaust note of Hidaka-san’s Porsche was really beautiful but most impressive was the speed he carried through the corners the sun was out and it was lovely and warm It wasn’t until I got out of the car that I realised we had arrived at a vineyard wine tasting was off the table for all drivers Japan has a zero tolerance to drink driving which is probably why so many cars stay on the road unscathed for so long here For those of you who dabble in the joys of the grape I would highly recommend trying some Japanese wine While it’s no competition compared to  French the Yamanashi Cabernet Sauvignon gifted to me by Hidaka-san was really very drinkable well balanced and peppery (I’m not ashamed to show my lack of wine notes lingo) Having done plenty of wine tours in Australia and the UK it was interesting to see some of the different growing techniques including some vineyards with 10ft high trellises how many certified Carrera RSs have you spotted currently there are four 1973 RSs in the club I took the opportunity to have a good nose around the 911s I had been tracking all morning Apart from the obvious decal change from the last time we saw this car including the switch from a 915 transmission to a beefier G50 unit The wheels have also changed from 17-inch to 16-inch and the tire size from 255 to 275 ‘Gulf Orange’ is definitely one of Porsche’s more vibrant colour codes and gives this car real hakuryoku – impressiveness Seeing it on the road was pretty unbelievable and over a week later I’m only just realising that the whole experience was real The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed something else at the rear end you’re looking at 100mm extra width in rear arches Hidaka-san again entrusted the work to Bodyworks DB the shop originally tasked with creating the Mary Stuart-style whale tail it’s just been stretched out an extra 50mm on either side After a fantastic day of driving it was time to say our goodbyes and head back down the mountain The drive home was equally as exciting with views of Mt I’m sure this is not the last time we’ll see Hidaka-san’s mad creation More stories from Japan on Speedhunters "The vibe at Omugishiro Parking Area was super chill and with 21 classic Porsches in the group it was hard not to find a bad photo." I think you meant either: "The vibe at Omugishiro Parking Area was super chill and with 21 classic Porsches in the group it was hard to find a bad photo," or "The vibe at Omugishiro Parking Area was super chill and with 21 classic Porsches in the group it was hard not to find a good photo The most photographed car of the narrow Porsche sports club was the one with a widebody kit Hello Tobby-san.Thank you for joining our NPSC touring.It was exciting day for for NPSC.In end of Jun you could enjoy sweet peach around Enzan aria and in January you could enjoy sweet grapes around Katunuma area.Please join again for our NPSC touring.When Covid-19 situation will over we would like to go to Toyama.There is chare of NPSC is living.And we could enjoy sea foods around NIHONKAI.I would like to you will join again.Thanks Yukihiro-san I’m looking forward to our next driveThank you so muchToby TobyEven in Japan with all those young-heads and their obsession with JDM the older guys know "what time it is!" Porsche- time Those 2.7 Carreras are NNNNNIIIIICCCCEEEEEE Wish I could have driven my MKIII Jetta with them have you guys featured a prettier car than this 911 Gorgeous cars but I badly want to see your camera rig now Same I'm always interested in camera cars:) That first picture made me want to drop everything I'm doing buy an old-school Porsche and spend my days driving on mountain roads "my Impreza must have looked very sad indeed" Nahhh Id be impressed by the impreza guy the porsche group invited lol Well that’s a more positive way to look at it how much wider is it than stock in total now That's a widebody kit to dominate all wide bodies now I want to take a look at that rig and how you managed to set the camera how do you swap between front and back rolling shots Speedhunters is an international collective of photographers writers and drivers with a shared passion for uncovering the world's most exciting car culture stories The Japanese Hard Enduro Championship has been suspended for two years due to the pandemic is back in full swing this season and “finally” round three of the series returned to the infamous Hidaka rocks Extreme Enduro Held in Hidaka on the north island of Hokkaido this is the town where the annual traditional ISDE-style two-day enduro has been held for many years Since 2018 the town has also hosted an Extreme Enduro similar to Erzbergrodeo in a similarly dramatic quarry 80 riders took on this year’s race and which begins with a high-speed prologue on the Saturday and the result of the prologue determines the start order of the main race Taku Izumi set the best time in the prologue on the mighty Beta RR 480 a big bike for extreme enduro but with a recorded a top speed over 130km/h has a total distance of around six kilometres but the contrast to the prologue couldn’t be greater Riders need to check in at four checkpoints inside the time limit is 2 hours and 30 minutes The main race unfolded with a close battle between three riders Masatsune Otsuka (Beta) Ayato Yamamoto (GASGAS) and Taisuke Mizukami (GASGAS) who formed the leading group from the first half of the race and exchanged positions throughout The course itself proved much more difficult than the past editions of Hidaka Rocks and it was the final uphill at the end of the race which decided to winner In the end it was Mizukami on the GASGAS who first conquered the last hill climb and won the final race “The last two hill climbs decided the game.” Said Mizukami “Every rider tried many times and failed It was worth it to come from the southern tip of Japan where I live to this northern island!” That’s no short distance Otsuka and Sasaki did eventually climb to the summit with last year’s series champion Ayato Yamamoto finishing in fourth place The final result saw eight riders reach the finish line within the time limit Words Credit: Hisashi Haruki | BIG TANK Photo Credit: Satoru Ii | off1.jp Some of the influences are clear and the artist’s paintings remind the viewer of the work of the great names and schools in the history of art his work cannot be reduced to this combination of references Born in Noda in 1977 to a Japanese mother and a British father where he studied at the Winchester School of Fine Arts then at the Royal Academy of Arts in London after a period spent at Parsons School of Design in New York: quite the prestigious academic background he decided to change his name in 2007 after meeting someone on a walk who had the same name as him which means ‘from the sun.’ This influence and the importance of his country of birth can be found particularly in some of his canvases such as The Conjuror (2020) and Pergola (2013) They can also be seen in Gathering Peaks (2019) in which the viewer observes a mountain landscape borrowed from ukiyo-e (the art of Japanese prints) Christian Hidaka’s art is based on his ability to bring together figures and planes and to open doors and windows onto references and art schools it is also marked by the influence of Giorgio de Chirico and Pablo Picasso and techniques specific to Chinese and Japanese painting a mysterious narrative in which the lines of flight guide the eye and carry it towards other worlds ‘Without losing any sleep over dogmas and by surfing with disconcerting ease between different cultural arenas, Hidaka works at geographically and geometrically off-centring things—a poetics of anachronism‘, wrote Raphaël Brunel on the occasion of an exhibition at the Galerie Michel Rein Christian Hidaka’s work can be viewed on his website and on that of the Galerie Michel Rein Christian Hidaka - 'Gathering Peaks' (2019) The Growing Popularity of Japanese Contemporary Artists in France Traditional tattoos were strong signifiers; murderers had head tattoos The series 'Hysteric Ten' by photographer Sawatari Hajime revisits one of the most sulphurous relationships in Japanese art Nagisa Oshima made Sada Abe the heroine of his film defying the codes of 'pinku eiga' that make men the focus of attention This rice soup seasoned with miso is served by a monk to Ashitaka one of the heroes in Hayao Miyazaki's film we interviewed its founder and chief representative Japan forward Asaho Hidaka reckoned the Falconets will be a tough nut to crack for his team Hidaka however said the team will give their all advance to the quarter-final Japan and Nigeria will clash in a Round of 16 contest at the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Bogota on Friday morning The Falconets impressed in the group stage recording impressive victories against Korea Republic and Venezuela Hidaka said they are willing to give their all in order to scale through the hurdle we’ve been focusing on winning each match one by one our whole team is determined to fight with everything we’ve got in the match against Nigeria and absolutely win to advance,” she said in report posted on Japan women’s national football team’s X page “Everyone on the team shares that strong mindset and we are confident in our strengths and ready to give it our all.” NPFL: Katsina United to honour Maiduguri flood victims EPL: Ten Hag rules out two Man Utd players against Southampton Save Nigeria’s image abroad – Afenifere urges govs to defend nation’s integrity Canada-based Nigerian arrested over $610,382 romance scam Methodist Church laments high level of hardship Federal govt presents license to Isaac Balami University of Aeronautic Arms smuggling: Arrested individual not serving member of UK Armed Forces — British High Commission Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd Alumna and lecturer Chisa Hidaka ’86 talks dancing with dolphins her project at the intersection of humanities and science after an encounter with wild dolphins helped her realize that the animals would be perfect partners for contact improvisation “Watching dolphins move seamlessly together in pairs or trios or larger groups I recognized the same kind of attention and choice-making that dancers do when they improvise together,” Hidaka said.  the dancers move together using touch to communicate with each other no set “moves” — everything is discovered spontaneously between the dancers.  Showcasing the similarities between dolphin and human behavior became the objective of Hidaka’s project “Upending assumptions about who ‘we’ are and what is ‘animal’ is the goal,” Hidaka said we are questioning the belief that humans are uniquely different and separate from all other species.” This questioning is crucial not only to achieve increased protection for dolphins and for the oceans but also “to speak to a more fundamental question about what needs to change to move beyond the current environmental crisis.” Responding to changes in the dolphins' environment has a deeper meaning for Hidaka and her team when they were dancing with three dolphins two swam off while the third began to act strangely and guide Hidaka back to the surface each time she tried to initiate a dance After a few confusing dives and a sea of commotion Hidaka realized that the two departed dolphins had chased off a tiger shark while the third protected the Dolphin Dance team Chisa Hidaka with Dolphin Dance Project co-director Benjamin Harley and Atlantic spotted dolphins Lucky and Pristine in Dolphin Dreams (2017) Chisa Hidaka with Atlantic spotted dolphins Jalapeno and Leia. Photo by Benjamin Harley Chisa Hidaka with Dolphin Dance Project collaborators Kathleen Fisher So how does a Weill Cornell-trained surgeon end up in the aquatic art film industry “A scientific perspective is integral to my training and technique as well as my overall aesthetic,” she said of her dance practice my aesthetic tends toward biomechanical or hydrodynamic efficiency over decoration or gesture.” Her scientific background comes in handy constantly while working on the dolphin project on everything from the physiology of free diving to understanding and contextualizing the existing research on dolphin cognition and behavior Hidaka didn’t always connect the dots between dance and science she majored in dance while on the pre-med track “I thought that being pre-med was a kind of backup plan in case the dance career didn’t work out.” For several years after graduation working with choreographers like Pooh Kaye which Hidaka said “emphasized the anatomical and biomechanical basis of movement over stylistic priorities,” sparked her interest in learning more about how bones and joints work from a scientific perspective as well as how they become injured or diseased and how movement can be restored It was this interest that led her to medical school. In addition to developing the Dolphin Dance Project and teaching at Barnard, she coordinates education programs at the Hospital for Special Surgery “I see that I spent my time at Barnard gaining the educational foundation for all that I would need to bring together seemingly disparate areas of research.” More from Hidaka: an Artist-in-Residence feature at the Barnard Movement Lab, including a conversation with her collaborator Ben Harley and Siobhan Burke dance critic for the New York Times and Barnard Adjunct Faculty Copyright © 2025 Barnard College | Columbia University | 3009 Broadway Spots Shizunai Eclipse Hotel in Shin-hidaka Town, Hokkaido, has been the focus of much attention for its "Umamusume Discount" program The hotel's "Famous Horse Concept Rooms," in which guests can stay in a renovated suite with a display of championship memorabilia and premium goods and a new "That Idol Horse" concept room will be launched this May The name of the plan is "Tracks of Melody Lane - My beloved little idol The horse weighs in the low 300kg (!) and is very small but is active in heavyweight races and other events The room rate is 28,000 yen per room per night including breakfast you will also receive original goods as a present when you check in This "Famous Horse Concept Room" series has been held in the past under the theme of famous horses such as Mesho Samson Please visit Shizunai Eclipse Hotel's website to register! Please enjoy the "best breakfast in Hokkaido" at the Shizunai Eclipse Hotel's specialty, along with the delicacies of Hidaka's sea and mountains! "So cute it's unfair" - Feel the healing power of a sleeping miniature horse! "An angel has fallen" Volume 6 - 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00194 The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that responds to a wide range of chemicals including chemical carcinogens such as dioxins and carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons and induces a battery of genes associated with detoxification Recent reports suggest that AHR plays an important role in carcinogenesis and maintenance of various types of skin cancers AHR is a susceptibility gene for squamous cell carcinoma and a prognostic factor for melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma the carcinogenic effects of ultraviolet (UV) and chemical carcinogens both of which are major environmental carcinogenetic factors of skin which regulates UV-induced inflammation and apoptosis and metabolic activation of chemical carcinogens AHR modulates the efficacy of key therapeutic agents in melanoma AHR activation induces the expression of resistance genes against the inhibitors of V600E mutated B-Raf proto-oncogene serine/threonine kinase (BRAF) in melanoma and upregulation of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) in tumor-infiltrating T cells surrounding melanoma these findings underscore the importance of AHR in the biology of skin cancers Development of therapeutic agents that modulate AHR activity is a promising strategy to advance chemoprevention and chemotherapy for skin cancers the skin contains a system that recognizes and detoxifies these carcinogenic insults the dysregulation of which leads to the initiation of skin cancer In addition to the increase in carcinogenesis of skin cancer recent therapeutic aspects of skin cancer have greatly changed the emergence of molecular targeted therapies including inhibitors for V600E mutated B-Raf proto-oncogene serine/threonine kinase (BRAF) and checkpoint inhibitors which attenuate suppression of the anti-tumor immune response have drastically improved the outcome of advanced melanoma These drugs retrogradely elucidated the critical contribution of specific proliferative signals and tumor immunity in the maintenance of melanoma These recent changes in skin cancers imply the importance of identifying a key molecule that modulates carcinogenesis and maintains skin cancer to improve prevention of and therapy for skin cancers we introduce the function of AHR in the context of carcinogenesis and maintenance of skin cancer and mainly focus on environmental carcinogens and molecular targeted therapy AHR binds to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives derived from environment AHR isolates from the complex in cytoplasm translocates into nucleus and activates translation of the target genes 2,3,7,8-Tetrachloro dibenzo-p-dioxin; FICZ Summary of the effect of AHR activation on skin cancer These observations imply that AHR activation promotes UVR-induced skin carcinogenesis via attenuation of the DNA repair system and apoptosis and via enhancement of the UV response these results suggest that AHR activation promotes tumor induction of PAH-induced skin carcinogenesis Regarding the mechanism of dioxins-induced carcinogenesis and its dependency of AHR as dioxins are not generally metabolized to be directly genotoxic and there is lack of related articles In addition to the carcinogenic role of AHR activation, AHR also greatly contributes to the maintenance of various skin cancers. In non-cutaneous tumors, AHR is an established factor that induces suppression of the anti-tumor immune response, resulting in the escape of tumor cells from immune-mediated cell death (44). Furthermore, AHR affects multiple aspects of cancer biology, including cell survival and proliferation (45) Recent findings show that AHR modulates anti-tumor immunity and proliferative signals in skin cancers we introduce recent findings regarding how AHR contributes to the maintenance of skin cancers These observations suggest the contribution of the AHR system to the biology of melanoma the details of which have been revealed in recent reports This improvement indicates the critical importance of BRAF and checkpoint molecules in the maintenance of melanoma recent findings have revealed a significant role for AHR in modulating the effect of these critical molecules they also reported that co-administration of AHR antagonists with BRAF inhibitors maintains at least partial sensitivity to BRAF inhibitors in melanoma cells This finding tells us that the AHR system may be a significant modulator of PD-1-mediated suppression of the anti-melanoma immune response Several reports have suggested possible links between the AHR system and tumor biology in Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) and extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) MCC is a rare and aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer, and ~80% of patients are infected with merkel cell polyomavirus. Univariate analysis of clinical specimens revealed that a longer overall survival is achieved in the group with lower expression of tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase 2 (TDO2) and AHR in cells surrounding the tumor (70) As TDO2 is an enzyme in the tryptophan-kynurenine metabolic pathway the TDO2-AHR axis may play a significant role in the pathophysiology of MCC Another study of EMPD, an adenocarcinoma of apocrine origin, reported that the epidermis adjacent to EMPD lesions expresses CYP1A1 and CCL20, an interleukin-17-related chemokine. Malassezia yeast, which are often pathogenic in apocrine lesions, produce a metabolite that activates AHR and induces the Th17 immune response. Thus, a possible link may be present between Malassezia metabolite-induced AHR activation and the Th17-skewed tumor immune response in EMPD (71) AHR was recently found to be a key modulator of UVR- and carcinogenic chemical-induced skin carcinogenesis this molecule is associated with the efficacy of BRAF inhibitors and checkpoint inhibitors which are core therapeutic drugs in melanoma these data underscore the importance of the AHR system in carcinogenesis and maintenance of skin cancers This means that the AHR system is a putative target particularly for chemoprevention and cancer chemotherapy of skin cancer The emergence of research investigating the effect of AHR antagonists for various skin cancers is promising and eagerly awaited TF and SA supervised and reviewed this work This study was supported in part by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (18cm01643h0001) Prevalence and costs of skin cancer treatment in the U.S. Interactions among stratum corneum defensive 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited *Correspondence: Takanori Hidaka, dGFrYW5vcmktaEBtZWQudG9ob2t1LmFjLmpw