Dec.18,2008: Kasuga Shrine's spiritual ritual

Kasuga Shrine's On-matsuri has been conducted since 1136 without any letup year. Out of many ceremonies of the festival, the most spiritual ritual is Senko-no-Gi and Kanko-no Gi.

Nov.30, 2008: Nara French club of the Kyoto-Nara-EU-Association

Cultural exchange activities between France and Japan are going on at this club. And this club is one of the umbrella organizations of Kyoto-Nara-EU-Association which is offering a wide variety of cultural exchange activities between EU and Japan including the club mentioned before, English club, cycling club, Europe movie study group, and the like.

Nov.22, 2008: Parks and urban greenings

Japan is blessed with nature, while trying to raise its urban greening rates.

Nov.12, 2008: Japan's repeated cycle of economy

When looking back on Japan's economic history, we can easily find the trend in Japan's repeated cycle of the production economy and the money economy.

Oct.26, 2008: A shakuhachi performer Joshua

Joshua M. Smith from Big Apple is brave enough to face the Japanese society and try to achieve self-actualization, as a professional shakuhachi performer.
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http://www.tourguidejd.com/tourguidejd/deploy/infopacks/docs/jd_infoPack_231.pdf

Oct.7, 2008: Genes of towns

When regarding towns as living things, every town has its own unique genes; and these genes feature the town's character and vibes. Well, what are genes? How are the genes created? Let's take it further by considering Osaka, Kyoto and Nara.

Oct.7, 2008: Urban development by Osaka citizens

With the modern civic spirit, Osaka citizens have executed the urban development since the 17th century, which is the genes of Osaka.

Sep.14: job opportunity 2 in Nara (part-time employee)

Nara International Exchange Center is recruiting an English teacher on a part-time job basis. Hourly pay is 2,000-3,000 Yen.

Click here.

Sep.14: Job opportunity 1 in Nara (all-time employee)

Nara International Exchange Center (NIEC ) is recruiting an English teacher on an all-time employee basis. Monthly salary is 250,000-300,000 Yen.

Click here.

Aug.31: Art industries and successful merchants

Successful Kyoto merchants are active in the art industry particularly related to the kimono, which creates win-win relations.

Aug.24: Handing down the traditional arts at Nara

Nara is well-known for the birthplace of many traditional arts such as gagaku, noh and Kyogen, but few people know those have been continuously handed down to younger generations by the collaboration of the authorities (temples and shrines) and the commoners.

See the below;

http://www.tourguidejd.com/tourguidejd/deploy/infopacks/docs/jd_infoPack_220.pdf

Aug.16, 2008: Ganrinin Photo Gallery in Nara

In the north east side of Naramachi-Town, we can enjoy a small, cozy and simple Geisha Museum freely open to the public, where you can get an insight into Geisha culture, its history and its contribution to the community.

Aug.14, 2008: Job opportunity in Kawachinagano, Osaka

Kawachinagano City Hall is recruiting an English instructor.

The monthly salary is 463,300 En.

You can see it in detail on my webpage.

Aug.12, 2008: Good unknown spots in Ponto-Cho & Gion

Enjoy Japan' one of the most opulent bright-light districts with reasonable prices----restaurant, bar in Ponto-Cho and Gion, Kyoto.

July 15, 2008: international cafe restaurant Youan

A young lady owner Mayumi is running Youan in the midst of Naramachi-town. If I were forced to say it in only one phrase, it's a "sending base about Japanese culture information."

July 5, 2008: The origin of Shinbutushugo

I posted "why did the syncretization between Shinto and Buddhism happen?"

June 26, 2008: Unpaid salary at NOVA

Today I got to know that not a few ex-NOVA teachers still don't know the way how they can get their own unpaid salary and so on. Therefore, for ex-NOVA teachers, I dare posted the important information about it.

June 24, 2008: The official release of my webpage

Today I officially released my new webpage " Tour Guide JD ", and noticed my old webpage's URL relocation.

June 22, 2008: Tsubakimoto Chain's job offering

Tsubakimoto Chain's job offering details are as follows; (1)Applicants don't necessarily be required under the age of 35 and the best speaker of Japanese. Tsubakimoto Chain puts the highest emphasis on applicant's personal character. (2)The application deadline is extended to June 25(Wed). (3)The contemporary expatriate employee in charge of the job is set to fly back home, so, they need to hire a new expatriate employee, which makes them flexible as to the age, Japanese abilities and the deadline.
The expatriates who get interested in the job are recommended to contact Reiko ASAP. You could see the way to contact her on Tsubakimoto Chain's job offering information.

June 14, 2008: 2,500En Guest house in Nara

Nara-City recently ended up having so-called Guest House; UGAYA with the cheapest fee 2,500 En. So, I added this information to my webpage.

June 11, 2008: Job-opportunities with high salary

One of Japan's biggest material handling maker "Tsubakimoto Chain" is recruting a native speaker of English who can work for its Kyotanabe-plant in Kyoto. The monthly salari is:
350,000 En - 400,000 En.

June 5, 2008:Job-opening information on June 3

Today Reiko at HelloWork e-mailed me the official Hirakata-City's job-opening information written in Japanese which I posted on June 3 as hot news. I translated the official document into English. Click here.

May 30, 2008: Japanese multi-layered spiritual structure

Today (May 30), I added "Japanese multi-layered spiritual structure observed on and around Kasuga-Shrine" on my webpage.