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Blogs

Current blogs

• Searching for Accurate Maps Updates on the 2011 Japan earthquake/tsunami, especially the Fukushima nuclear reactors,
  and social commentary on the Japanese reaction
• Reading blog
• My Office Blog
• Reading & Writing in English (class blog for Doshisha Women's College English majors (2nd-years) "Writing Strategies".
• FAME - an English discussion group for residents in the Gakuenmae, Nara, Japan area.

Current websites

• The Not Doing - a startling book about health and human nature by a Japanese master of Aikido and Seitai. Long out of print, it will soon be available from this website
• personal website (links to books & news about UK and Japan, EFL publishers websites)
• my Tezukayama University profile

Japan 2011 Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster

• News On Japan
• Nikkei 日本経済新聞 in both Japanese and English (subscription required for some pages)
• Marketing Japan - Tokyo resident. Up-to-date status reports on situation in Tokyo. Facts, data, and well-deserved slaps at sensationalist, fear-mongering journalism. Graphics, tables, maps.
• BraveNewClimate - solid, factual info on the nuclear reactors + informed, moderated discussion.
• MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub
• Why I Am Not Worried About Japan's Nuclear Reactors - excellent background reading, written a couple of days after the disaster struck.

My favourites

• Tezukayama University's library -
  • to see if the library has a book I'm looking for
  • to see if another library has the book I'm looking for
• Mises Institute - Austrian (free-market) economics website. .
  • There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - "Human Action" (p. 570) Ludwig von Mises, LvMI, 1998).
  • “Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito. Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.” - Mises' personal motto, quotation from Virgil
• Gary North's Specific Answers - wealth-building stragegies, comments on the world economy, Q&A forums.
• ALC - English-Japanese-English dictionary
• Yahoo!Japan dictionary -
• Robinson Curriculum - a complete curriculum for homeschoolers, by a homeschooling Christian family.

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