2020. december 21., hétfő

We Interviewed Pepper — The Humanoid Robot


Pepper is a humanoid robot companion designed be sort of a kiosk at businesses like shopping malls, hospitals, and doctors' offices. Pepper is also able to track eye contact and express emotion. We spent a little time with Pepper and got its thoughts on how it helps people, Paris, robot uprisings, and tacos.

2020. december 10., csütörtök

Top 5 Things to do Around Fuji | japan-guide.com


Mount Fuji is Japan’s tallest mountain, standing at 3,776 meters (12,380 feet). It is an active volcano but a low risk, with its last eruption in 1707.

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Mt. Fuji

 Mt. Fuji : Aerial perspective ~ leaving Japan with a plane. An active volcano on the border between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, located about 100 km west-southwest of Tokyo. (Photo by Hendrik Schicke, 2013)



Mt. Fuji is 3,776 meters high and is the highest mountain in Japan, situated in the southeast part of Yamanashi at the border of Shizuoka. With unrivaled magnificence and a beautiful cone shape, Mt. Fuji has often been selected as the subject of paintings and literature. It is world famous as a symbol of Japan.
At the foot of Mt. Fuji are Fuji-Goko (Fuji's Five Lakes), Aoki-ga-hara-jukai (a sea of trees that is dark even during the day), and Kitaguchi-Hongu Fuji-Sengen Shrine (which was constructed to calm the eruption of Mt. Fuji). The Fire Festival of Yoshida, held at the end of the summer as a ritual for closing the climbing season for Mt. Fuji, is one of the three most peculiar festivals in Japan.
Mt. Fuji has long been the center of mountain worship of ancient Japan. Today, it is a popular mountain to climb, and many people climb Mt. Fuji to watch the sunrise called Goraiko from the summit. Access to the 5th station is well maintained, so you can go up to this point and thoroughly enjoy the magnificence of Mt. Fuji by just looking at the beautiful sight and its surrounding environment close at hand in all seasons without having to climb all the way to the top.
Fujisan, object of worship and source of artistic inspiration was inscribed as a World Heritage site (Cultural Heritage) at the 37th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in June 2013.

A subway station (地下鉄道)

 "A subway station (地下鉄道), ca. 1930 ~ old postcard.

The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line was conceived by a businessman Noritsugu Hayakawa, who visited London in 1914, saw the London Underground and concluded that Tokyo needed its own underground railway. He founded the Tokyo Underground Railway (東京地下鉄道, Tōkyō Chikatetsudō) in 1920, and began construction in 1925. The first subway line in Tokyo between Ueno and Asakusa was opened in 1927 as a private railway. The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (東京地下鉄銀座線, Tōkyō Chikatetsu Ginza-sen) is the oldest subway line in Asia. One of the last cars from the original 1000 series cars operated on the Tokyo Underground Railway between Ueno and Asakusa was retired in 1968. (Image: Tokyo Metropolitan Library)