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One of 21 video poems in Four Seasons Productions newly released Moving Poetry Series – Three innovative new films – RANT * RAVE * RIFF. This collection of 7 Haiku poetry was written in the eighteenth century by the great Zen Buddhist monk Ryokan. The poem is recited in its native Japanese by Machiko Moser and includes English subtitles translated from Japanese by Misao Kodama and Hikosaku Yanagishima.

To learn more about this provocative new series, how to purchase directly from our online store or on Amazon.com and for the full transcripts of our films poems, visit our website at www.4spFilm.com.

MUST be experienced in full sound on a big screen.

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I am sooooo pleased on how this video turned out! I spent a couple hours when I got home from work on it and TA~DA~! Awesome new video

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(American Salaryman in Japan)

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(Kool dude who is a student in Tokyo)

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(He left Japan, but made some interesting podcasts)

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Please also include why and which town is ideal location -Thank you.

Fukuoka, Kyushu.
- Ideally Japanese Culture and a lovely city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka

Sapporo, Hokkaido.
- Snow festival, and if you like the cold, this is your city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo

Tokyo, Honshu.
- If you are used to big cities, this is your place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo

Fukui, Honshu
- I loved this place, especially the Asuwa River.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukui,_Fukui

Matsuyama, Shikoku.
- Not many people go to Shikoku, often overlooked. Very Japanese-y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuyama

Sado Island, off Honshu
- Loved it, very peaceful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sado_Island

I hope i’ve helped,
but my main place to live would be Sado Island I LOVED it!

God bless, good luck,

Ichiban.

It should be great if you can give specific resale prices or margins for popular Japanese cars.

It depends on the specific cars you want to import & resell. For example, these are the resale prices of cars imported from Japan to Australia:

2003 Mitsubishi EVO VIII GSR ~~ $36,900
2003 Nissan Skyline V35 350GT ~~ $29,000
1999 Subaru WRX Race Car ~~ $16,500
1995 Nissan Skyline R33 GTR ~~ $63,500 (Hardcore – Show or Drag)
1999 Nissan Skyline R34 GTR ~~ $61,200 (Highly modified V Spec)

Most of these are quite popular among used car buyers, but the primary interest is with the Australian / Canadian base of performance car enthusiasts. That’s where the real meat of this industry is.

So I saw a Toyota pick up with a number 9 on it. Looked all redneck and all, but it was a Japanese car. It was almost all out redneck except that it was all decorated on a Japanese car. So that looked weird to me.
dodge is made here.

A few possible senarios could happen here.

1) You were in Califnornia, and it was a "wanna be" redneck.

2) The "cowboy" in question cares about the enviornment

3) This particular "cowboy" has accepted Toyota’s dominance in the Truck series, but not yet in the Cup series and likes Kasey Khane.

4) You are trying to make this issue much bigger than it really is.

My starting point in Sapporo, should I drive towards biei or hakkodate to avoid the jam?

Since no one will go to Biei at that time of the year, go there but really it will be a wasted trip as there is nothing to see. Nothing is green and the fields are just barren. There will be a lot of traffic though towards Hakodate, most of the time the highway has only one lane, so you can’t even get out. It is the worst place to go during GW and all the hotels are always full. Make sure you have a reservation. I had to drive around until 1am to get a room at a motel once and was stuck in traffic for about 6 hours.

if it is out can you tall me if it’s on youtube

24th february 7pm- cartoon network shows the film in english on that day at that time. its release is in march though

http://z.about.com/d/gojapan/1/0/Y/1/1/FI-japanesetattoo6.jpg

that one thanks
xoxo

It is clearly meant to portray a Chrysanthemum – the national flower of Japan. To be more precise, it is a variety with incurving petals.

Looking for a good value but nice Ryokan or bed and breakfast with easy acess ie train, bus or within walking distance to the Disneyland Resort Tokyo. Otherwise, any good recommendations for a nice Ryokan or b&b anywhere in Tokyo? Impt matter is the price has to be right… Thanks!

The area around TDL is modern area and difficult to find a ryokan. There are only hotels around there.

So you have to find ryokan which is a bit far away from Disneyland.

The below is one of them, Business Hotel Matsushima

http://www.matsushima-ryokan.com/

http://www.matsushima-ryokan.com/access.html

Contact them by email. It’s 5,000-6,000 yen for 1 night, 1 person.

And it’s about 30-50 minutes from TDL by train.

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