The Kemigawa Shinto Shrine in Japan to offer Omamori NFTs (good luck charm NFTs) as it searches for new revenue streams the benefits of the NFT charms wear off after a year The Kemigawa Shrine in Japan’s Chiba prefecture has teamed up with the KOJIKI project to sell the Kemigawa Jinja Collection of good luck charm NFTs These good luck charm NFTs take the real charms offered by the Shinto shrine and make them available in NFT form they are in no way inferior to the ones offered at the temple.” Kemigawa Shrine also says that they perform a prayer for the NFT charms when they are sold as well The charms offered by temples and shrines in Japan have a limited term of validity and are said to lose their power after one year The correct way to part with an expired charm is to return it to the temple or shrine it came from for it to be ritually burned the shrine says the benefits of the NFT charms wear off after one year the NFTs are set to automatically eliminate themselves While the NFTs are data that could theoretically be maintained permanently they’ve been set up in such a way that they’re more in line with the charms that exist in the real world the shrine says that once the good luck charm NFT disappears So once your NFT is burned you at least won’t be left empty handed But why is a shrine getting into NFT sales in the first place 90% of the 80,000 Shinto shrines in Japan are struggling to continue their operations This has caused some Shinto priests to have to get side jobs with many having to cover positions at multiple shrines There are also unmanned shrines with no one to manage them Kemigawa Shrine has been searching for new revenue streams and decided to get involved with NFTs and the metaverse Their lineup of good luck charm NFTs are as follows: The Kemigawa Shrine was already selling their charms online for those that couldn’t come to the shrine directly With this new initiative pushing virtual charms they may be able to reach even more people They also plan to expand beyond charms to offer other shrine goods as NFTs they plan on selling an “offering NFT” where those who purchase one will have their name carved onto a torii gate on the shrine grounds or put on a lantern Their future plans include setting up the temple in the metaverse which will include the gates and lanterns of those who made offerings being connected with the priest at Kemigawa Shrine through a mutual lawyer friend The good luck charm NFTs can be found here and are available for 0.005ETH (value may fluctuate depending on the market) A MetaMask wallet and ETH are required to purchase Former JP AUTOMATON editor & former AUTOMATON WEST editor in chief (*until May 2023) Japan’s war on manga piracy can only end with faster and more widespread distribution of official translations, MyAnimeList CEO suggests Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure has finally entered textbooks in Japan, becoming a part of middle school education Japanese scientists are one step closer to making your catgirl fantasies come true in VR AUTOMATON WEST is operated by Active Gaming Media Inc.Reproduction in any form or medium without acknowledgment of Active Gaming Media Inc Copyright © 2025 - AUTOMATON WEST / Theme by Creative Themes UTokyo FOCUS Japanese UTokyo facilities that have supported Japan’s Olympics People are not the only elements of UTokyo that have supported Japan’s Olympic endeavors the training of national teams and foreign athletes and experiments aimed at ensuring victory have all had an instrumental role This article showcases facilities that have contributed to the festivals of sports and peace in their respective locales and periods The project to build the Kemigawa Athletic Grounds was launched under the direction of UTokyo’s 12th President “Building our grounds with our own hands” was enlisted as the project’s slogan A student labor service organization was assembled chiefly from members of the Athletic Foundation a cumulative total of 1174 students had completed the task of leveling the fields for this facility Although the initial stages of work on the Kemigawa grounds were implemented through meaningful volunteer action wartime regulations made further work difficult and the vast fields were instead diverted for use as farmland to offset shortages of food demand for such farmland resources declined allowing the fields to be transformed by UTokyo alumni volunteers into a golf course The grounds were opened to members of the golfing public with a section reserved for physical education classes for the students in the College of Arts and Sciences following remarks made at the Diet over how the grounds were being used it was decided to return them to their original purpose and Professor Kitsuo Kato (physical education) was working as a research member on sports science in the athletes’ strengthening committee Recognizing that Japan lacked adequate turf-covered grounds required for performance training Kato proposed utilizing the vast grass-covered fields of the Kemigawa area for that purpose All interested stakeholders accepted this idea and development proceeded with public funding as well as assistance from the Japan Amateur Sports Association at last transforming the Kemigawa area into a highly functional athletic facility complex Japan’s national football team began utilizing the Kemigawa grounds for a three-month period of performance training This gave the team access to turf-covered grounds as smooth as a carpet a gymnasium with high windows that facilitated practice-kicking of soccer balls even in inclement weather and a cross-country course equipped with a rich mix of high and low sections that were ideal for power training the team upset powerhouse Argentina 3-2 at the Komazawa Stadium and brilliantly advanced upward through the group league rankings The course the national team’s players had used to build their strength was also used as a course for a cross-country event the final leg of the modern pentathlon competition after having completed the events in horsemanship on this day they had a clear autumn sky with not a single cloud in sight With Japan’s Crown Prince (the current Emperor Emeritus) watching the cross-country race unfolded over a 4000-meter course The Hungarian runner Ferenc Torok led with his point total and shook off the USSR’s Igor Novikov to win the race the USSR stretched its lead over the second-place US to win by a wide margin Although a commemorative plaque is all that remains now the flame of the sacred torch from Olympia did once shine over Kemigawa Wind tunnel experimental facilities (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology Building 1 of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology houses a 3-meter wind tunnel constructed of wood that was designed to investigate aerodynamic drag with artificially generated wind forces This experimental facility played a role in the development of the Kokenki a long-range research aircraft that holds the world record for long-distance flight The wind tunnel was built under the direction of Professor Theodore von Kármán known as the father of aeronautical engineering It has been used to test human posture in ski jumps thus contributing to the sweep of the winner’s podium at the Sapporo Winter Olympics by the three members of the “Hinomaru Squadron”: Yukio Kasaya and aiding the search for the ideal posture by Masahiko Harada and Kazuyoshi Funaki two ski jumpers that competed at the Nagano Winter Olympics UTokyo facilities have made solid contributions to the Winter Olympics The Olympic Village for the 1964 Tokyo Games was built on the former site of the US military’s Washington Heights housing complex (now Yoyogi Park) The nearby Komaba Campus was used by foreign track-and-field athletes as a practice ground Athletic Field 1 was used by athletes competing in the track while the rugby field served for javelin throw practice The baseball field was used for the discus throw while Athletic Field 2 was put into use for practice in the hammer throw the just-completed training gymnasium was used for athlete muscle training the Komaba facilities were considered innovative in their heyday and essentials for the development of world-leading athletes The drive to expand Komaba’s sports environment was one of the benefits that derived from the Olympic Games Bunta Taguchi was a Tokyo Imperial University graduate who served in the important position of medication general in the army He devoted himself to swimming from an early age and later served in advisory positions with the Japan Swimming Federation the Japan Amateur Sports Association and the Japan Amateur Athletic Federation Taguchi left behind many materials related to the Olympics (in the University of Tokyo Archives) The badge labeled “Imperial Year 2592” and the Lion toothpaste raffle tickets were emblematic of the special atmosphere of the era the letter of resignation by Juichi Tsushima and Masaji Tabata displayed the resolve of these men to continue working in the interest of Olympic Games despite resigning from their posts these memorabilia help convey the enthusiasm of the men who staked their lives on the Olympics * This article was originally printed in Tansei 40 (Japanese language only) All information in this article is as of March 2020 Inquiries about the content of this page: Strategic Communications Group Send inquiry Kashiwa Campus Hongo Campus Komaba Campus Access and Campus Maps Back 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 ancient lotus seeds excavated at the University’s Kemigawa farm (presently Kemigawa Athletics and Sports Ground) were germinated and bloomed by Dr gentle fragrance of these flowers became the base for the Renka (“lotus scent”) original series of cosmetics One bottle of hand & body wash: 2,160 yen Note: This article was originally printed in Tansei 35 (Japanese language only) All information in this article is as of September 2017 Japanese version