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Hayao Miyazaki designing a village for kids

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date September 2, 2015

Hayao Miyazaki has donated around 2,5 million dollars to an NPO to build a village for the kids of Kumejima island in Okinawa. Miyazaki will also be involved in the design of the installation. It will have 10,000 square meters and will aim to create a natural environment where rocks and trees feel integrated into the landscape.

The name of the project is “The forest where the wind comes back”, probably in contrast with his last movie title “The Wind Rises”. The objective is to give the kids of Kumejima a place where they can play and enjoy nature with freedom. This is the first design of the village made by Hayao:

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Via Okinawa Times

Beautiful Japan

Photographing Sakura

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date September 1, 2015

One of my favourite things to photograph is the sakura blossom, I took so many pictures of sakura this year that it took me a while to process them using Lightroom. One of the most difficult tasks after taking tons of pictures is the process of selecting the ones that you think are the “best”. It is very difficult for me to decide which ones to keep and which ones to delete. This is my final selection for this year!

High resolution versions on my Flickr

More blogposts about sakura:

Various

TOTO opens toilet museum

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date August 28, 2015

TOTO, is the biggest company in Japan producing toilet equipment, their most successful product line is their washlets. They just opened a museum dedicated to the history and future of the toilet. In a lifetime we spent around 90 days of our precious time alive in the toilet, I guess it is important enough to have a museum dedicated to it 🙂