Sunday, January 26, 2025

Checkmate: Games of Chess and Yokohama’s Citizen Forest

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  Take Niiharu Citizen Forest . It‘s the largest Citizen Forest of Yokohama. The landlord who had the biggest acreage was Mr. Okutsu who unf...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Haste May Make Waste: Japanese Planning Act for Tokyo and Yokohama

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  Hamakko (= a child of Yokohama) First, in defense for Tokyo. As a capital city the development pressure on her is always greater than for ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Once upon a time in Yokohama, and Tokyo: the period when Japanese Planning Act became effective

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  In 1968, Japanese City Planning Act became effective. It was to control rampant and often chaotic urban developement that was in mode aft...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

A Tale of Two Cities: Green spaces in Yokohama vs. Tokyo

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  Yokohama’s Citizen Forest System now has 53 years of history. The first Citizen Forest was Iijima Citizen Forest (; my post on October 9,...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

I wish you all a very Happy New Year

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  😄 Naomi
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Spring 2025 Chainsaw and Brush Cutter Seminar in Kanagawa Prefecture

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  For some of you interested in obtaining “certificate” for operating chainsaws and brush cutters in Japan, here is info about next seminars...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Small wonder: Haruhino-Kurokawa Forest 2

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  The lab by Prof. Yasuo Nihei for Tokyo University of Science is studying concentration of microplastic contamination at different point...