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When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan showcases the invisible structures that underlie traditional building.
The first thing a visitor encounters upon entering
When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan at New York City’s Japan Society, is the faint aroma of sawdust. A combination of cypress and cedar, this subtle scent pervades three halls filled with building models, traditional hand tools, and joinery displays, reinforcing the fact that the root of traditional Japanese building is the tree.
Plentiful in that heavily forested archipelago, timber was the material of choice for the everyday architecture of dwellings and shops as well as for sacred spaces such as of temples and shrines, though the show focuses on the design, construction, and preservation of large temple buildings. Everything in this exhibition, from ceiling height models detailing the design of bridges and roofs to an extensive selection of hand saws, chisels, and plane
Young people playing active role in disaster-hit areas Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 6 | KYODO
Jiji Mar 11, 2021
Young people are increasingly working to help reconstruction efforts in the Tohoku region, hit hard by the disasters of March 11, 2011, by moving there and tackling challenges such as depopulation and regional revitalization.
Shunsuke Mitsui, 32, representative director of SET, a nonprofit based in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, hails from Ibaraki Prefecture.
He established SET in March 2011, when he was a university student, and has engaged in volunteering activities for reconstruction. Upon graduating, he moved to the Hirota district of Rikuzentakata and served as a city assembly member for four years from 2015.
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Private kindergarten group in Tokyo sees funds go missing Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Jiji Mar 10, 2021
An association for private kindergartens in Japan has revealed that money totaling some ¥320 million became unaccounted for in the three years until fiscal 2019.
According to the Tokyo-based association, the total damage is expected to exceed ¥400 million, including money that went missing in fiscal 2020.
The association is considering lodging a criminal complaint against its former head, Kei Kagawa, 69.
Kagawa has denied that he used the funds for private purposes.