Animator Yōhei Kameyama announced Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express (Ginga Tokkyū Milky☆Subway), a sequel to his Milky☆Highway CG anime short The sequel will debut on television and streaming in July Kameyama streamed a trailer for the new anime: The sequel sees Chiharu and Makina doing community service after being ticketed for speeding in the previous short What was supposed to be a simple job gets the pair embroiled in a large-scale incident Kameyama once again directs, writes, and produces the sequel, and he also handled the character designs, modeling, animation, editing, and other duties mostly himself. Momoko Terasawa is voicing Chiharu in the sequel, while Anna Nagase voices Makina Kameyama released the original Milky☆Highway short in 2022 as his graduation project for Kadokawa's Vantan Game Academy CG Animator major The English-subtitled version (seen below) and the original version have 6.75 million views combined Mizuki Fumisuki voiced Chiharu in the original short Sources: Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express anime's website, Comic Natalie Japan: With his black uniform jacket slung rakishly over his shoulders and his feet propped up on a Japanese school desk as he held court with his crew Jason Wu was taking great satisfaction in being a juvenile delinquent The 29-year-old New Yorker was participating in a one-day mock school experience at “Kimino High School” for foreign tourists in Japan It’s designed to appeal to anime fans like Wu and his wife as well as those simply curious about cultural differences in education At a repurposed school about 60 km (37 miles) southeast of Tokyo participants pay about 35,000 yen ($245) to dress in classic Japanese school uniforms and attend calligraphy and other lessons they play traditional Japanese sports day group competitions like tug-of-war or throwing bean bags high into a net basket serve lunch and clean the classroom at the end of the day “This is like the only experience that you can do to have some semblance of the Japanese high school life,” said Wu Amid a tourism boom fuelled by an extremely weak yen organised by event planning company Undokai also dovetails with a government plan to coax more visitors outside of destinations like Tokyo and Kyoto suffering from “overtourism” and into rural areas Many manga or anime such as supernatural drama “Jujutsu Kaisen” and romantic comedy “Ouran High School Host Club” are set in high schools and for anime fans in particular getting to experience high school is a peak Japanese experience “Lots of animes will feature school life being this ideal part of your childhood,” said Wu’s wife “It’s a type of nostalgia that we wanted to experience for ourselves.” the event’s name Kimino is a play on words for “your” high school and the name of the town Kimitsu The school closed in 2020 due to a lack of students – an increasingly common occurrence as Japan rapidly ages and the number of children declines Nearly 6,500 schools across the country have closed in the past two decades “If this becomes an example of how to utilise closed schools or attracts attention as a new way to revitalise the local area I would definitely like to expand it to other places,” said Undokai founder Takaaki Yoneji Volume 4 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.820490 This article is part of the Research TopicMulti-Scale Air-Sea Variability and its Application in Indo-Pacific RegionsView all 8 articles The hourly measurements of air-sea interaction parameters made at the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO) buoy since 2004 have produced an extensive dataset that can be used to understand the dynamics of the oceanic mixed-layer under extreme weather conditions Our analysis of the KEO-buoy measurements reveals the presence of sporadic low-salinity signals (SLSSs) with duration of 1–2 days in the mixed-layer when Here SLSS events are identified within the buoy data by using a flag which is set to unity when the value of normalized salinity falls below −1 (minus one) Application of this definition to the hourly time series of salinity measured at 10 m depth by the KEO buoy has allowed us to identify 244 SLSS events over the 11-year analysis period Both winter (January-March) and spring (April-June) seasons show a peak in the composite time series of wind velocity subdiurnal variation (WVDV) near the start time of SLSS events SLSS events can be terminated by the entrainment of saltier subsurface water parcels to the mixed-layer in response to storms The discovery of the WVDV peaks following SLSS commencement is the reason the present study has adopted a time scale of 1-day wind velocity analysis This temporal resolution has enabled us to identify a TC-related delay in the development of the WVDV peaks which may represent a fundamental characteristic of the influence of TCs on these events - The monthly occurrence of SLSS events shows peaks in both May-July and October with an annual average of about two events per month - SLSSs cannot be reproduced by 1D turbulence closure models which have been used as part of 3D ocean circulation models - Some of SLSS events can be terminated by the entrainment of saltier subsurface water parcels to the mixed-layer in response to storms The Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO) buoy has been measuring air-sea interaction quantities since 2004 The KEO buoy records contain sporadic low salinity signals (SLSSs) in the mixed-layer when SLSSs cannot be reproduced by one-dimensional turbulence closure models which have been used as part of three-dimensional ocean circulation models in previous studies precipitation is substantial in both the Baiu and Autumn front seasons around June and November The monthly occurrence of SLSS events shows peaks in both May-July and October The composite time series of precipitation in both spring (April-June) and autumn (October-December) seasons show signals from −3 days to 0 days indicating surface skin layer freshening prior to the start time of SLSS events This may explain how the Baiu- and Autumn-rain fronts stimulate the genesis of SLSS events a number of SLSS events occur with less rain in both summer and winter seasons High values of wind velocity subdiurnal variation in the winter season suggest impacts from energetic cyclones that trigger SLSS events with less precipitation Water cycle in the atmosphere and ocean plays an important role in the global climate (Hosoda et al., 2009) Precipitation with the deposit of dust from the atmosphere yields freshening of sea surface water that then affects both physics and biology in the oceanic mixed-layer The three-dimensional distribution of salinity in the global ocean has been measured using Argo floats Argo floats in a traditional setting do not measure depths shallower than 5 m This is to prevent contamination of the sensor by pollutants near the sea surface when water is sucked in by a pump and the conductivity is measured by the electrodes of the sensor and the International Argo Steering Committee has recently recommended measurements up to a depth of 1 or 2 m below the sea surface This will increase opportunity for observing the traces of precipitation in the salinity profiles of Argo floats this study presents a detailed definition and analysis of the SLSS phenomenon Section Climatological Characteristics of Sporadic Events shows occurrence frequency and the time profiles of composite events has wider environmental significance since it should lead to improved operational algorithms in general circulation models concerning air-sea interaction as well as sea surface salinity satellites The fact that the KEO buoy is able to successfully operate in extreme weather conditions (when wind speeds exceed 20 m/s) is clearly of central importance here Figure 1. Trajectories of seven tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific that have passed over or close to the KEO buoy location (blue dot). The seven tropical cyclones considered here are listed in Table 1 The central pressures of these tropical cyclones at 6-h intervals along their trajectories is indicated by red and green dots with the red-to-yellow transition set at 950 hPa and the yellow-to-green transition set at 970 hPa Storm T1610 approached the KEO buoy twice: first from the east and then later from the southwest after performing an anticlockwise migration The trajectory and central pressure data are obtained from the Japan Meteorological Agency T1417 (Kammuri) yielded 115.71 mm at KEO while GSMaP recorded 216.36 mm for precipitation accumulated over 3 days during the approach We note that the GSMaP values are somewhat greater than those from KEO for all TCs Hereafter we present the precipitation values obtained both by KEO and by GSMaP and List of major tropical cyclones passing over or near to the KEO buoy during the study period They have investigated the CO2 outgassing at sea surface associated with T0914 passage at the location of the KEO buoy Hourly time series for 13-26 September 2009 when cyclone T0914 (Choiwan) approached the KEO buoy (A) 10 m wind velocity [m/s] in the KEO buoy data with solid and dotted-lines representing the zonal and meridional components (B) Precipitation rates [mm/hour] with the red-dotted and black-solid lines representing data from the KEO buoy and GSMaP and blue lines representing long-wave radiation and latent and sensible heat-flux components The vertical profiles of (D) salinity [PSU] and (E) temperature [°C] from the sea surface to 100 m depth The black lines in (F,G) represent the normalized anomalies of salinity and temperature at 10 m depth The blue and green lines in (F,G) represent the flag parameters indicative of sporadic low salinity and temperature signals (SLSSs and SLTSs) based on equations (3a) and (3b) The relationship between sea surface salinity change and precipitation may be estimated as follows Let us consider a water column element adjacent to the sea surface with height Δ and salinity S Conservation of salt in the water column element yields We are therefore confident that these low salinity events of 1–2 day duration represent genuine surface signatures of a new air-sea interaction induced by TCs neither observation-based statistical approaches nor OGCM simulations/re-analyses have reported the presence of low-salinity episodes such as these in midlatitude western boundary current regions with the passage of TCs We have named these newly-discovered features as “sporadic low salinity signals (SLSSs).” In the following we shall present results from a series of investigations into the climatological characteristics of SLSSs using the 11-year KEO dataset which may serve to improve our understanding of both mixed-layer dynamics and turbulence closure schemes used in OGCMs We focus on periods when a sharp decrease took place in the time series of salinity and give a definition for SLSS events Sporadic low temperature signals (SLTSs) are also identified within the temperature time series in the same way as salinity Let S and T be the time series of salinity and temperature We extract the anomaly component from each of these series using a 7-day high-pass running filter and normalize it using the standard deviation based on a 30-day running mean as follows: where the asterisk indicates the normalized anomaly, while the overbar symbol together with superscript 7d indicates a top-hat 7-day running mean filter. The use of a 7-day high-pass filter enables us to focus on sporadic signals (as shown in Figure 2) by removing the possible effects of mesoscale eddies and current meanders while the 30-day standard deviation enables us to investigate all seasons of the year the scale of salinity and temperature variations caused by summer TCs in the mixed-layer differs from that caused by the more energetic cyclones of winter is aimed at treating salinity and temperature variations equally We now define SLSS events as occurring when S* becomes <−1 We introduce a similar definition for SLTS events—that they exist only when T* is <−1 These definitions may be written in terms of the flags (Fsalt and Ftemp) for SLSS and SLTS where H represents the Heaviside step function. Terms on the right of equations (3a)-(3b) may be interpreted as flags which become either unity or zero when the normalized anomaly becomes less than or >−1, respectively. As shown in Figure 2F, the normalized anomaly of salinity S* (black line) has a negative peak of −1.5 on September 19, which yields Fsalt = 1 (blue line) with a duration of about 1 day. As shown in Figure 2G the normalized anomaly of temperature T* has a negative peak of −0.8 on September 21 We next compare the observed vertical profile of salinity (Figure 2D) with the SLSS flag values (Figure 2F), noting that SLSS recorded on 14, 17, and 19 September is extracted with high accuracy. A similar comparison of the observed vertical profile of temperature (Figure 2E) with SLTS flag values (Figure 2G) shows that no SLTS signatures fulfilled the required criterion during this period We have applied the definitions of SLSS and SLTS events in (3a) and (3b), respectively, to the hourly time series of salinity and temperature measured at 10 m depth by the KEO buoy from June 2004 to December 2017 which we refer to “the 11-year period” considering the availability the buoy data, as explained in Appendix A This analysis has identified 244 SLSS events and 191 SLTS events Hereafter we investigate the climatological characteristics of these selected SLSS events A total of 152 events occurred under light-rain conditions while the heavy-rain condition gave 92 events over the 11 years We thus find that only about one third (= 92/244) of SLSS events occurred under heavy-rain conditions The occurrence frequencies of 244 SLSS events in the 11-year analysis period sorted by (A) total count arranged into bins of 6-day accumulated precipitation (from −3 days to +3 days relative to the start time of each SLSS event and with a unit of mm) based on GSMaP hourly data at the location of the KEO buoy (B) Monthly averaged count where white and blue bars indicate SLSS events in light- and heavy-rain conditions with a light-to-heavy transition set to 40 mm/6-day (C) Same as (A) and (B) except for being sorted by total count in bins of wind velocity subdiurnal variation (WVDV) with a unit of m2/s2 and (D) monthly averaged count where green pink and orange bars indicate SLSS events in weak- WVDV for each SLSS event has been calculated as equation (4) with an average from −0.5 days to +0.5 days relative to the start time of each SLSS event and using JRA55-do 10 m wind velocity 3 hourly data at the location of the KEO buoy The monthly climatology profiles of GSMaP precipitation (with a unit of mm and indicated by tics on the right vertical axis) and of JRA55-do WVDV (with a unit of m2/s2 and indicated by tics on the right vertical axis) at the location of the KEO buoy are calculated independently from SLSS events throughout the 11-year analysis period and are plotted in (B) as an orange line and in (D) as a black line Monthly error bars in (B) and (D) are for all rain/wind conditions encountered over these 11 years Seasonal climatology of precipitation rate and sea surface height in the western North Pacific for 2003-2017 Left panels show precipitation rate from GSMaP (color shading with a unit of mm/month) and evaporation rate from Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea Fluxes (OA-flux) data (solid-contours for ranges greater than 150 mm/month and dashed contours for smaller ranges with an interval of 50 mm/month) Right panels show sea surface salinity from Argo data (color shading with a unit of PSU) and sea surface height from JCOPE2 reanalysis (solid- and dashed-contours for positive and negative values The location of the KEO buoy is marked at 32°N and 144°E SLSS events can be triggered by processes other than precipitation we have found that a number of SLSS events are associated with the short-term variation of surface wind rather than its magnitude without time-scale separation Let u and v be the zonal and meridional components We define wind velocity subdiurnal variation (WVDV) based on the squares of the high-pass filtered velocity components (ii) a number of SLSS events occur with less rain and less wind variation in the summer season a topic to which we shall return later in the manuscript The correlation between SLSS and SLTS flags is at most 0.2 and is greatest in winter indicating that energetic cyclones have the effect of cooling the sea surface or of causing deep vertical mixing Composite time series of the sporadic event flags defined by equations (3a) and (3b) and the precipitation rate in a 10-day period (from −5 days to +5 days relative to the start time of each SLSS event) Time series of SLTS and SLSS flags are plotted by solid-blue and solid-green lines with ticks on the left vertical axis in a non-dimensional unit Precipitation rates from the KEO-buoy and GSMaP data are plotted by solid-black and dotted-red lines with ticks on the left vertical axis in units of mm/hour Seasonal classification of SLSS events in the 11 years to (A) January-March and (D) October-December in all rain/wind conditions Total count of SLSS events in each season is noted in each panel Statistics in (C) are subdivided into SLSS events in (E) heavy- and (F) light-rain conditions with the light-to-heavy transition set to 40 mm/6-day in terms of accumulated precipitation based on GSMaP data at the location of the KEO buoy This last result indicates the possibility that SLSS events are triggered by freshwater parcels that have remained in the surface skin layers since the seasonal development of the Baiu front Figure 6. (A–F) Same as Figure 5 except for black and red lines showing the zonal and meridional components respectively of wind velocity subdiurnal variation (WVDV) given by equation (4) with a unit of m2/s2 WVDV has been calculated using 10 m wind velocity in the JRA55-do 3-hourly dataset Dependence of SLSS occurrence on precipitation and other factors investigated in the present study We have calculated composite time series based on equation (3a) relative to the start time of each SLSS event and find that the flag decays monotonically over a 1–2 day interval in all four seasons which is closer to the time scale of the near-inertial period rather than to the decay-times of instability processes associated with oceanic eddies and currents Another finding is that there is no notable second peak in the SLSS flag time series between −5 to +5 days This indicates that successive SLSS events occurring within time scales of 10 days are statistically independent of each other We have performed three further sets of composite time series analysis: the first of these is for sporadic low temperature signal (SLTS) while the third considers wind velocity subdiurnal variation (WVDV) based on equation (4) Both winter (January-March) and spring (April-June) seasons show a peak in WVDV at the start time of SLSS events indicating the roles of atmospheric cyclones and anticyclones The finding of these potentially meaningful peaks is the reason the present study has adopted a time scale of 1 day for WVDV analysis The summer (July-September) statistics are subdivided into SLSS events recorded under heavy- and light-rain conditions with the light-to-heavy transition set to 40 mm/6-day in terms of accumulated precipitation at the location of the KEO buoy We note that 18 events within the 11-year analysis period are associated with TCs with composite precipitation rates of about 1 mm/h over the 3 days prior to the start time of the SLSS events A delayed WVDV peak was initially observed in the case of T0914 (Choiwan) and such temporal lags in fact represent a fundamental aspect of the influence of TCs on SLSS events A further TC influence involves the termination of SLSS events through the entrainment of saltier subsurface water parcels by the wind storm Thus a preceding period of heavy precipitation followed by saltier water entrainment produces an SLSS event duration of 1–2 days a number of SLSS events occur with less rain and less prominent wind variation in the summer season when the composite time series recorded under light-rain conditions (42 events in the 11 years) indicates that WVDV and SLTS events are little correlated with SLSS events These results may indicate the possibility of SLSS events being triggered by freshwater parcels that have remained in the surface skin layers since the seasonal development of the Baiu front We have mentioned that in the western North Pacific A number of SLSS episodes occur with less rain in both summer and winter seasons High values of WVDV climatology in the winter season suggest impacts from energetic cyclones that trigger SLSS events with less precipitation indicating that these energetic cyclones have cooled the sea surface or have caused deep vertical mixing A future study should investigate whether SLSS events can be triggered by mechanisms other than precipitation Publicly available datasets were analyzed in this study. This data can be found here: https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/data-overview YK and YF have supported atmospheric event statistics All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest 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 The authors thank Prof. Joji Ishizaka and Dr. Takahito Kataoka for helpful discussions. 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The 6-hourly track, lowest pressure and maximum wind speed of TCs in Figure 1 are from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA): https://www.data.jma.go.jp/fcd/yoho/typhoon/route_map/index.html The KEO link on the NOAA homepage offers measurements from sea surface to 525m depth with eleven sensors. We used hourly data from the sea surface to 100m depth from seven sensors: sea-surface, 5m, 10m, 25m, 50m, 75m, (100m: temperature only), and downloaded these from https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/data-overview The KEO buoy data from June 2004 to December 2017 (163 months) were available from the website with the exclusion of the following maintenance periods: November 2005-September 2007 (23 months) which yields a total period of 127 (=163-23-2-5-1-5) months for analysis This is the “11-year study period” referred to in the present manuscript Sea surface height data from the Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment 2 (JCOPE2: Miyazawa et al., 2009) is a daily product and has a horizontal resolution of 1/12°. We have computed seasonal climatology for 2003–2017 in Figure 4 (contours in right panels) using data from http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/datadoc/fra-jcope2.php Vertical mixing in the upper ocean layer is an important process since it has an impact on sea surface temperature and is thus relevant to global climate sea surface temperature is influenced by the seasonal and interannual variations of air-sea fluxes Mechanisms that determine the vertical profiles of the mixed-layer have been investigated by using numerical models with a vertical mixing scheme The 1D model assumes that all quantities are horizontally uniform Application of this assumption to the incompressibility equation yields no vertical motion (not shown) both the mixed-layer depth and the thermocline depth vary with the vertical component of velocity that may originate from In order to compensate for the lack of vertical motion we have constructed an hourly time series of vertical velocity at 100m depth using the hourly time series of temperature and salinity perturbations observed by the KEO buoy where w and ρ are vertical velocity and potential density The subscripts t and z indicate partial differentiation in terms of time and the vertical coordinate The prime and overbar symbols indicate perturbation and mean components The 100m vertical velocity derived from equation (5) has been linearly interpolated in the vertical direction to vanish at the sea surface and then applied in the vertical advection term of the temperature and salinity equations in the 1D model In the following we explain the results of 1D-model simulations for T0914 (Choiwan) all model experiments fail to reproduce the SLSS events recorded in the data the effect of breaking waves at the sea surface during the passage of a TC has not yet been resolved in LES schemes while ensemble-mean closure models for the mixed-layer have similarly not yet been incorporated owing to both the duration of rain fronts and the presence of oceanic submesoscale eddies SLSSs are expected to be nonuniform in the horizontal direction Fukutomi Y and Aiki H (2022) Sporadic Low Salinity Signals in the Oceanic Mixed Layer Observed by the Kuroshio Extension Observatory Buoy Received: 23 November 2021; Accepted: 01 February 2022; Published: 31 March 2022 Copyright © 2022 Kameyama, Kanno, Ohishi, Tomita, Fukutomi and Aiki. 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Prefectural Senior High School and Yuta Muraki (Matsumoto Shuho Secondary School Nagano)—will be recognized for their coursework and exceptional research essays that focused respectively on “A Comparative Analysis between the United States of America and Japan: Women in STEM,” “U.S Public Health Policy in Hospitals for People with Disabilities,” and “Legitimacy of the United States and Japan as Permanent Members of the Security Council from the Viewpoint of Regional Representation.” Mona Abe (Urawa Akenohoshi Girls’ Senior High School Saitama) received an Honorable Mention for her research paper on “Protecting Undocumented Children in the U.S and Japan: Extending DACA.” Oki Sugiyama (Musashi High School Tokyo) also received an Honorable Mention for his paper on “A Study on Machine Translation Application to Strengthen the U.S.–Japan Relationship.” All 28 students successfully completed the Spring 2022 session of Stanford e-Japan For more information about the Stanford e-Japan Program, 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Kameyama holds a graduate certificate in piano performance from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in music from the University of South Carolina He studied music from age 5 in his native Japan At age 21 he completed a fast-track design program he fondly remembers mentally redesigning his clothes as a child while shopping with his mother ‘I don’t like that color.’ I would create designs in my head,” he says.Growing up in a family of musicians Kameyama would visit museums and attend jazz concerts every weekend “My mom never bought me toys or computer games,” he says He credits his music competitions with giving him the confidence to compete in fashion Kameyama graduated from Fashion Careers International Fashion School in Los Angeles where he now teaches and serves as fashion ambassador He says he’s proud to be a California designer now that he has “seen and done everything there is to do in Tokyo.” Kameyama doesn’t think about themes or inspiration Then I begin to get the vibe of the whole collection I’m often working right up to the day of a show changing things at the last minute.” Kameyama’s collection for New York Fashion Week was featured in Marie Claire magazine The runway show was accompanied by his own piano composition for a strikingly cohesive event He describes that collection as avant-garde but for Palm Desert he may design some “soft flowy” garments that reflect the climate He says his general focus is not on dressing famous people but “I don’t envision actresses wearing my garments so I can see how it flows.” He says he like a clean Kameyama thinks soon it will be time to have professional helpers to do embroidery and pleating “It’s a lot of work and very expensive,” he says Michael Costello Presents His Friends From Project Runway To see more of Kameyama’s work, visit kentarokameyama.com. For information and tickets to Fashion Week El Paseo, go to fashionweekelpaseo.com Spending an adult life without detecting disabilities is not uncommon and can pose varied difficulties And a Japanese couple offers clues for how to approach one such case and a hint at a remedy as well from the perspective of people who are living the experience have brought the issue of adult developmental disorders to the fore via the pages of a manga series that conveys the challenges they face in real life The series is titled "My Wife is Developmentally Disabled" for publication in a monthly magazine Eri was diagnosed with a developmental disorder when she was in her mid-30s and had been married one year when she got the news the couple's everyday life had been "like a war" with fights and quarrels lasting until dawn almost daily developmental disorders can manifest in conditions such as autism spectrum disorder learning disorders and intellectual disability Diagnosis of developmental disorders in adulthood is sometimes the result of the sufferer showing mild symptoms or having developed ways to compensate for the condition Some adults simply develop symptoms later in life and there exists cases where minor disabilities remained undetected until adulthood Eri would drift off during conversations as her attention turned elsewhere and she would often not remember anything Satoshi had said she visited a doctor and notified her husband of the examination results in a text message the same day "I found out I have a developmental disorder Eri believed an apology was in order because she felt guilty that Satoshi had the misfortune to marry someone with a condition like hers Despite a diagnosis being a potential sign of progress that day was when the balance in their relationship edged in an unhealthy direction "We used to argue logically on equal footing but I then began to feel more or less that I was the normal one and therefore always correct," Satoshi said This imbalance played out in other parts of their daily lives Eri said she even tried to take her own life and would stop rolling over in bed Satoshi was unable to focus on work or married life and became addicted to online gaming spending as much as 2 million yen ($13,300) in six months on the habit at one point Only when each of them reflected on themselves based on advice they received from a psychiatrist did they begin to understand their shared suffering The manga series began in Monthly Comic Bunch The story is about the daily life of Chika a developmentally disabled woman working at an apparel shop Although cheerful and vivacious with great sales numbers Chika has trouble doing two things at once if a customer asks her a question while she is folding merchandise she will forget what she was doing and cause frustration among her coworkers Satoru is baffled as to why she gets flustered when she cannot carry out her household chores in an exact order -- another symptom of her condition the couple speaks about ways they can devise ways to overcome their everyday challenges One tactic is to put up a "no disturbance sign" when Satoru needs to concentrate on his manga work she knows to only communicate via text message though based on Eri's experience at an apparel shop as well as what the couple has heard from other developmentally disabled people they became acquainted with on social media while my wife can make quick decisions," Satoshi said when speaking about the themes of the series -- a product of the couple's collaborative effort with their personality styles complementing each other's Thankfulness is what Satoshi and Eri wish to express most through the work Whether the characters sometimes have miscommunications or blowups they still arrive at a point of "mutual respect." "Each person with a developmental disorder is unique...Some find life easier given the right environment and people," Satoshi said There is a line spoken by Satoru in the manga series that Satoshi said symbolizes his relationship with his wife in real life 'Chika is indeed odd but I think odd is alright FEATURE: French artisan's bright idea keeps passion for Suifu lanterns burning FEATURE: "Dreamnight" program enables disabled kids to enjoy zoo visits FEATURE: Classroom avatar creating constructive conflict at small Japanese schools To have the latest news and stories delivered to your inbox Simply enter your email address below and an email will be sent through which to complete your subscription Please check your inbox for a confirmation email Thank you for reaching out to us.We will get back to you as soon as possible Fashion Week El Paseo by | Aug 15 Kentaro Kameyama comes to Idyllwild Arts Academy after teaching fashion at The Fashion School of Los Angeles.PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY IDYLLWILD ARTS ACADEMY One of Kentaro Kameyama’s first tenants of fashion design is storytelling and appearance to connect with its audience the ensemble has to communicate on its own That philosophy takes Kameyama back to his musical roots well before he picked up a thread and needle and every weekend he would attend a jazz concert or visit a museum “Those are kind of like things always my piano teacher told me,” Kameyama says And I do the same with my fashion kids.” Kentaro Kameyama wowed the audience with these floor-length silk dresses.PHOTOGRAPH BY NALANI HERNANDEZ-MELO Later this month, Kameyama will start as the chair of Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Fashion Design Department. The winner of Project Runway Season 16 in 2017, Kameyama showcased his collection a few months later at Fashion Week El Paseo 2018 where among other outfits he presented floor-length silk dresses in solid black all paired with black leg warmers for a youthful look “Kentaro was chosen for the position of fashion chair because of his conviction that he can inspire young people in their journey to success in the fashion industry,” says Abbie Bosworth, chair of InterArts and Fashion at Idyllwild Arts Academy we needed someone with an understanding of more avant-garde or conceptual fashion to balance the already practical and industry-savvy fashion faculty.” This will not be Kameyama’s first teaching gig. He was first a student at The Fashion School of Los Angeles and then fashion design chair where he organized the school’s runway shows He first studied music starting at age 5 in his native Japan earning a graduate certificate in piano performance from the University of Southern California and a masters’ degree in music from the University of South Carolina Kameyama chats further with Palm Springs Life about this opportunity in Idyllwild and how he will use his experience in the classroom Kentaro Kameyama works alongside his students designing clothes How did this opportunity with Idyllwild Arts come about I just applied in March when they posted the job and at this point in my life I wanted to spend more time on educating the younger talents rather than me trying to showcase my newest collection I want to share my experiences rather than I want to do more for myself How will you handle the logistics of teaching at the school from Los Angeles Idyllwild was a little bit different from what I expected because in Palm Springs and Joshua Tree But I love nature and I look at the pictures of Idyllwild and fell in love with the beautiful scenery I will have an apartment in Idyllwild and keep one in LA I hope to get back to LA a few times a month but I’m going to be able to manage my business going around here And it keeps the connection with our LA people and the models and the factory and production people And I do have assistant here too so I think it’s going to work out I don’t think it’s not necessarily just in fashion but anyone who is an educator loves to see the process getting better,and starting to be a better person I’m kind of very picky about craftsmanship and paying attention to detail in your pattern and so I kind of push my students in that way How did that shape you as a student of fashion and how will that help your students at Idyllwild Arts I think I really want to expose them to a lot of different arts I happen to student classical piano for over 30 years you can see another layer of understanding You start to see connections with painting There are not many people like me getting into fashion from a different media So what fashion projects are you currently working on In June I presented my new swimwear collection at Los Angeles Swim Week I will working on this chamber opera of two singers and one piano where I composed the music and designed the costumes for the show So that will be happening in November at Boston Court Pasadena I also read you will appear in a couple of fashion-focused TV shows this fall I’m going to be on House of Eleven Fashion Show on TLC (founded by Darcy and Stacey Silva) and then a show on Amazon about working with a transgender modeling agency When you appeared at Fashion Week El Paseo in 2018 coming off winning Project Runway The funny thing is when I won Project Runway I just did my best and just happened to get picked the winner I didn’t really care about it until two or three years later I kind of 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Express North Pacific “We are delighted to be able to offer fast and reliable FedEx services in Mie prefecture and to contribute to the economic expansion in the region.” Shipments from Kameyama Station are sent to Kansai International Airport where they are loaded onto FedEx aircraft and delivered to major cities in North America Shipments from major cities in North America Europe and Asia are delivered to customers in Japan the next business day after arriving at Kansai International Airport and being cleared through customs and sorted FedEx Express is the world’s largest express transportation company providing fast and reliable delivery to every U.S address and to more than 220 countries and territories FedEx Express uses a global air-and-ground network to speed delivery of time-sensitive shipments by a definite time and date with a money-back guarantee (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation the company offers integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively Consistently ranked among the world’s most admired and trusted employers FedEx inspires its more than 280,000 employees and contractors to remain “absolutely the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the tremendous success of their last season Kentaro Kameyama has chosen to showcase his new line at this season of Paris Fashion Week at the Hotel d'Evreux This exciting new collection is the result of a collaboration with G Sonsie a women's fashion company that offers high fashion swimwear cashmere sweaters and other fashion clothing Both Kentaro and G Sonsie are based in the heart of Los Angeles Kentaro Kameyama and G Sonsie launch their exciting new collaborated line after Paris Fashion Week Japanese-born and Los Angeles based designer Kentaro Kameyama is the newest member of fashion's "in" crowd as the winner of season 16 of Lifetime's Emmy-nominated series "Project Runway." His fashion-forward collection impressed the show's judges Heidi Klum Zac Posen and this year's finale guest judge The collection was a featured spread in Marie Claire Magazine Kentaro Kameyama's dress designs are often streamlined and neutral yet display whimsical characteristics It's as though this classical pianist and composer is combining his creativity in the music world with his vision for flamboyant fashion guests got to enjoy an incredible performance by Electronic R&B Singer/Songwriter JABS who released the track U&ME featuring Willow Smith but found it possible to express herself through music She later found herself opening shows for Jaden Smith and released a music video "All Good" in 2017 directed by Jada Pinkett Smith Media contact:Carmela Sira[email protected] 317-956-7545 https://www.gsonsie.com Do not sell or share my personal information: 18 (UPI) -- Japanese designer Kentaro Kameyama has won Season 16 of Project Runway taking home $100,000 to start up his own fashion line The competition series' judges included Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia, Zac Posen and finale guest panelist Jessica Alba The season can't possibly come to an end without our​ top 20 moments from the finale episode: https://t.co/IvLndGy9Qj pic.twitter.com/LDyn6RUKEp Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world worth $3.5 billionDespite moves into FX trading he still has criticsFacebookXLinkedInEmailLinkGiftBusiness Tips From a Porn Maker Turned Startup Guru 2017 at 6:27 PM EDTBookmarkSaveLock This article is for subscribers only.Imagine the publisher of Pornhub.com being asked to address Harvard University undergraduates on the virtues of running a socially responsible business That’s basically what happened in Japan this past December when the country’s most prestigious private university extended an invitation to adult entertainment mogul Keishi Kameyama After years of being rejected for bank loans and frozen out of business deals, the onetime pariah is now being embraced as an internet pioneer, and even a role model. His ever-evolving media and technology empire, DMM.com started with pornography but has grown into a vast collection of enterprises that have made him one of Japan’s richest people Photographer Kameyama Takeshi has a strong international reputation for his photos capturing winter snowscapes We spoke with him about the enchanting beauty of Japan's stunning snowy scenery even in the bitter cold Kameyama Takeshi is a non-professional photographer based in Niigata City just around two hours north of Tokyo by Shinkansen his photo "Tadami Line in Winter*" featuring the snowy landscape of Fukushima Prefecture earned him the prestigious title of Nature Photographer of the Year at the world's largest international photography competition This marked the first time a Japanese photographer received this honor leading to increased international attention "Having been born and raised in snowy Niigata snowfall has been a natural part of my life since childhood I have started to worry that we may lose the opportunity to witness these magnificent landscapes Capturing these moments in photographs serves as a record I hope that those who view the photos will be impressed with the scenes and feel compelled to protect them I photograph snowscapes to foster awareness and inspire action towards environmental conservation." Kameyama says that he continues to capture photographs of particularly enchanting snowscapes in his local areas of Niigata and Fukushima Prefectures "I revisit the same locations numerous times until I capture a shot I am satisfied with I aim for pure clean white snow as the first condition The third condition involves a light snowfall creating a mirror-like reflection on water," he explains it's rare for all these conditions to align more than a few times a year when I decided to focus on capturing the snowy landscape with the Tadami Line train in Fukushima Prefecture and wait in sub-zero temperatures for about an hour until the train arrived This process was repeated time and again." This dedication resulted in the globally renowned award for "Tadami Line in Winter" at the international photography competition "I have always been fond of the scenery along the Tadami Line and have visited many times in the past I also came to recognize the harshness and severity of nature and there are times when trains experience delays or cancellations there was a section that remained impassable for 11 years Amid a decline in the number of passengers and talk of discontinuation local efforts made by the community led to the resumption of operations on the entire line in 2023 Moved by the resilience of people living closely with nature I chose the Tadami Line as my subject to capture through photography the harmonious coexistence of nature and people along its route." Recognized on the international stage with "Tadami Line in Winter," Kameyama has been selected as a finalist for the Lucie Awards often referred to as the Academy Awards of the photography world including recognition in an international photography contest in Paris Taking photographs of snowy landscapes is a dangerous and demanding endeavor involving the transport of equipment weighing over 30kg in the bitter cold and patiently waiting for the perfect moment the allure of Japanese snowy landscapes surpasses these challenges as well as the northeastern regions of Fukushima and Yamagata "Having grown up with my father managing and engaging in conservation activities at a mountain hut in the area I climbed the mountain numerous times from childhood the deep snow renders it an inhospitable place gleaming white appearance holds a sense of admiration and nostalgia it is the ultimate snowy landscape." Kameyama expresses his desire to continue capturing photographs of captivating yet lesser-known places in the future his works undoubtedly have the potential to rediscover the beauty of snowscapes that one might overlook even while living in Japan No article or any part there of may be reproduced without the express permission of the Cabinet Office. Copyright inquiries should be made through this form. © 2009 Cabinet Office, Government of Japan Charles Albert made the first ascent of No Kpote Only at Fontainebleau in France in January 2019 and it was repeated by Ryohei Kameyama earlier this year. Albert graded it V17 and Kameyama suggested V16/17. Nico Pelorson recently made the third ascent and said it’s a solid V15. Pelorson had climbed one V15 in the past and said that he found better beta that makes the problem easier than on the first ascent. Pelorson, 23, has sent a handful of 5.14d’s with four being first ascents. Albert is known for bouldering without climbing shoes. Kameyama, who had climbed Big Island V15 and Kuzan V15, said that he hadn’t climbed many routes harder. At the time, he was projecting Burden of Dreams, the world’s first V17, first climbed by Nalle Hukkataival. “I feel Burden of Dreams is more a little difficult than this problem,” said Kameyama. “I think No Kpote is V16.” Pelorson said, “It took me about eight sessions, seven last year and one this year. I did a lot of bicep and tricep training with Lucien Martinez. I saw Rhyohei send it with a heel instead of a toe like Charles, so I tested this beta and it was much easier. In fact, I only did one move similar to Charles.” Watch Pelorson’s “solid V15” beta below. There’s currently only one uncontested V17: Burden of Dreams, watch the send below. 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by The Yomiuri Shimbun JAL launched ‘JAL VISION 2030’ in May 2021 for which it drew up the FY2021-FY2025 midterm management plan with three pillars of ‘Business Strategy,’ ‘Finance Strategy’ and ‘ESG Strategy.’ JAL has addressed its CSR activities for a sustainable growth even before its bankruptcy in 2010 JAL has decided to upgrade them to ESG Strategy as COVID-19 hit the airline “Amid much lower flight demand than we expected we have rethought what we should do as JAL Group,” Kazuya Kameyama “CO2 emission is our fate in terms of carrying people and goods zero emission cannot be separated from our businesses.” JAL has summarized 22 issues and about 180 challenges in ‘Environment,’ ‘People,’ ‘Local community’ and ‘Governance.’ Environment is broken down into five themes of ‘Response to climate change,’ ‘Effective usage of limited resources,’ ‘Reduction of noise,’ ‘Prevention from environmental contamination’ and ‘Preservation of animal diversity.’  JAL is particularly focusing on response to climate change under the midterm management plan JAL estimated that it currently emits CO2 of about 9.09 million tons a year in aircraft operations (Scope 1) and CO2 of about 57,000 tons in the ground operations (Scope 2) the amount is forecasted to increase about 12 million tons in total by 2050 JAL drew up a roadmap to reduce CO2 by about 500,000 tons by FY2025 about 2 million tons or 90% of the FY2019 level by FY2030 and ultimately practical zero emission in FY2050 JAL is addressing ‘three arrows’ of upgrading to fuel-efficient aircraft (50% contribution) reducing in daily operations (5% contribution) and using SAF (45% contribution).  Although SAF or sustainable aviation fuel is regarded as a promising solution the distribution amount is currently limited to less than 1% of the total JAL is ambitious to increase the ratio to 1% of the total by FY2025 and 10% by FY2030 but it is true that the future is not clear yet.  JAL invested in Fulcrum BioEnergy with Marubeni jointly develop SAF for the aviation sector Fulcrum in California is a specialist to transforming municipal solid wastes including plastics into SAF JAL succeeded in operating a scheduled flight with SAF loaded from San Francisco to Haneda.  “If transformation from municipal solid wastes as well as food oil is going to scale up and to be more adopted commercially then it may be possible for us to achieve the goal of 10% in 2030.” decided to purchase 50 million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel from Aemetis for their operations at San Francisco International Airport SAF will not be enough by any means to zero emission.  Japanese airlines will rely on import to purchase SAF for a while though New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and private manufacturers are devoted themselves into development of made-in-Japan SAF Even though made-in-Japan SAF can be distributed it is not realistic that Japanese airlines will stop importing SAF “SAF is a sort of national economic security,” Kameyama said.  Supposing that Japan fails to establish a SAF refueling system and airlines operating kerosene flights pay a kind of penalty airlines to withdraw from Japan routes to avoid extra costs It will possibly happen on cargo flights.  deteriorating Japan’s international competitiveness establishments of a supply chain and an international certificate framework will also be required “JAL is actively committed to them.”  JAL and ANA announced in October 2021 a a joint report “Toward Virtually Zero CO2 Emissions from Air Transport in 2050,” with the aim of expanding awareness and promoting understanding of SAF Please view the main text area of the page by skipping the main menu. The page may not be displayed properly if the JavaScript is deactivated on your browser Fontainebleau is once again a witness of the great level of Ryohei Kameyama! In 2017 this silent Japanese impressed with the quick ascents of the 8C of The Big Island and Jour de Chasse but this time he went even further Only 4 sessions to gain the first repetition of No Kpote Only by Charles Albert the second line in the world proposed as a possible 9a and the first to be repeated On the French site fanatic-climbing.com Ryohei explains that he climbed this extreme line with a new method using a heel-hook and an intermediate hold not considered by Charles Albert who Kameyama is also one of the few to have tried the 9a of Burden of Dreams and declares that the line by Hukkataival is in his opinion harder proposing a downgrade to 8C+/9a for Albert’s line A proposal however open to the opinion of Ryohei who claims not to have tried so many hard lines to have a more complete comparison Again in Bleau we witness another great exploit still on a well-known boulder: the 8C/8C+ of Le Pieds a Coulisse by Guillaume Glairon Mondet From his instagram page the third after that of Jimmy Webb and Charles Albert A climb characterized by an incredible determination behind it since Nicolas took over 16 years to send it “Yesterday I tried to remember exactly when I climbed this line for the first time I think it was in 2003 during a session with my friend Yohan Dard If I had known that I would put 16 years to succeed…But the D day was yesterday hundreds hours to find the best sequences….I did it!!!! I would have liked to realize the FA but I was not strong enough a few years ago when we shared a lot of time working the line with Guillaume Glairon Mondet I did one of those problem that I never thought I could do 10 years ago And I think it’s the best feeling of my climber’s life Time to turn my eyes to the next one and let this magical part behind me.” News: 8a.nu/fanatic-climbing.com/instagram Privacy policy - Cookie policy - Privacy Preferences | Credits: 8 Flow Agency You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image Fifa Fan Festival at the Dunedin Stadium and fanzone on Sunday A Promise in Assassin's Creed Shadows showcases Yasuke's journey of eliminating the Templar targets. The quest starts only after you complete The Silver Queen where Yasuke agrees to help find Hosokawa Tama's little brother This means you must travel to the Kameyama Castle and rescue Akechi Mitsuyoshi This article highlights the required steps to finish the A Promise quest in AC Shadows you can access the A Promise quest from the Templar target segment on the in-game objective tab Following their interaction during The Silver Queen Hosokawa Tama promises to reveal Nuno Caro's location if Yasuke rescues her little brother and brings him to her The templars have him held in the Kameyama Castle in Tamba the game will provide you with the following clues regarding Akechi Mitsuyoshi's location: you can reach the required location without fighting and get on top of the boxes to go through the open window When you go to the top using the stairs and access the left-side house you can find Mitsuyoshi's servant lying on the ground The servant will reveal that Mitsuyoshi is locked beneath the tenshu and give you a stolen key to access the area head southeast and stealthily creep behind the enemies to access the required tower use the key to open the tenshu door and find Akechi Mitsuyoshi Also read: How to obtain the Legendary Onna-musha Kosode in Assassin's Creed Shadows Yasuke must protect Akechi Mitsuyoshi during their journey to the castle's exit and you must defeat the enemies there to progress each area has four to five enemies on average which should be easy for Yasuke to deal with follow Mitsuyoshi to exit the Kameyama castle Also read: How to obtain the Swift Shinobi Hood in Assassin’s Creed Shadows you must retrieve his katana from the castle courtyard Follow the objective marker to the specified location a mini-boss fight against a Templar named Baltazar will commence You can automatically collect Mitsuyoshi's blade after killing him you will also receive the Howl of the Dragon (Legendary Amulet) and the Critical Damage for Long Katana Mastery (Engraving) as rewards go to the Atago Shrine in the Tamba Highlands area keep following him to Hosokawa Tama's location While talking to her during the cutscene, the game will give you options to choose several prompts. As the overall narrative stays the same irrespective of your choices, select your preferred dialogues to complete the A Promise quest in Assassin's Creed Shadows Finishing the quest grants you 2000 XP and two Mastery Points as rewards Check out more Assassin's Creed Shadows guides below: Are you stuck on today's Wordle? Our Wordle Solver will help you find the answer Your perspective matters!Start the conversation