Osaka: Society and Culture
This category is for sites on Osakan society and culture.
Association of Poor People in Nagai Park
- Group of homeless in Osaka park seeking squatting rights and better treatment from police.http://www.geocities.co.jp/WallStreet-Bull/8932/
Culture Shock at Kansai Gaidai University
- A personal log kept by an instructor of complaints and observations for working at Kansai Gaidai University.http://gaidai-culture-shock.blogspot.com/
Dawn Center
- An institution established by the prefectural government serving as a base for creating a new partnership between women and men, in independence of women in society, IT for women, and international exchangehttp://www.dawncenter.or.jp/english/
Osaka Kita-Umeda Rotary Club
- Offers profile, roster, and related links.http://www.kita-umeda2660rc.org/welcom.htm
Japan: A Closer Look at Tohoku - Part 1- Tohoku is Japanese for “northeast” and the region occupies the northern area of honshu, Japan’s main island.? Hokkaido is Tohoku’s neighbor to the north, while Chubu lies to the southeast and Kan
- Kenka Banchou 3: Zenkoku Seiha - New Import, In Stock
- ?��?NCSX? The heroes of the previous Kenka Bancho games have shuffled off to greener pastures. We imagine Yasuo from the first game to be a
- Gunkanjima: UNESCO World Heritage site?
- The Asahi Shimbun has reported that some want Nagasaki’s “Battleship island” to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site: The island has been included in a tentative list of candidates for designa
- Downright?neighborly
- Posted by ampontan on Friday, November 14, 2008 WHILE POLITICIANS on both sides of the Sea of Japan continue to troll for votes by creating hobgoblins that arouse the sort of people who like to argue
- Electric Sunflower
- A former Japanese race car driver has designed a new kind of electric car, called the Electric Sunflower. Via, the United Nations University's new webzine Our World 2.0. The electric sunflowe