May 4, 2021
Seoul – When Jun Jae-o, a pilot for South Korean low-cost carrier Air Seoul, announced that his plane was entering the skies above Japan’s Tottori Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast one recent Sunday morning, the cabin began to come alive.
While passengers positioned their cellphones to take photos of the land opening up below them, the 44-year-old pilot added that local officials were also welcoming them from ground level social distancing taken to an extreme.
“Today’s flight will be a short one, but I really hope that once the coronavirus pandemic is over, you and your family and friends can enjoy traveling to Tottori Prefecture,” he said.
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When Jun Jae O, a pilot for South Korea s low-cost carrier Air Seoul, announced that his plane was entering the skies above Japan s Tottori Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast one recent Sunday morning, the cabin began to stir to life.
While passengers positioned their cell phones to take photos of the land opening up below them, the 44-year-old pilot added that local officials were also welcoming them from ground level social distancing taken to an extreme. Today s flight will be a short one, but I really hope that once the coronavirus pandemic is over, you and your family and friends can enjoy traveling to Tottori Prefecture, he said.
Looks like: El Tajín, Mexico
This museum filled with fine art and historical artefacts also has a replicated World Heritage Site from Mesoamerica. You can see a replica of the pyramid of El Tajín in the rooftop courtyard, but the structure is even more impressive from below – when you enter the museum and look up, the pyramid acts as a giant skylight with 365 windows.
The entire building is made of limestone imported from France and decorated in intricate Mayan design, inspired by the Governor’s Palace in Uxmal. The art gallery has rotating displays, but the permanent exhibits include an eclectic mix of traditional Japanese
Company in western Japan builds plant to produce ethanol from shochu
A condominium management company in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, has built a plant to produce fuel ethanol from the waste liquid produced in the process of making the distilled Japanese spirit shochu.
Anabuki Housing Service Co. developed the plant in Miyazaki Prefecture, where shochu is widely produced at a time when the cost of treating waste liquid has been an issue for small and medium-sized breweries.
Small and medium-sized sake breweries produce dozens of tons of waste liquid per day, and many of them ask waste disposal companies to dump it, which costs about 10,000 yen ($92) per ton.
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