A few nice Japanese Comic images I found:

Kids’ manga


Image by Andy Heather
This manga, belonging to a 7 year ancient boy called Kota, centres around the "hilarious" exploits of a black boy called bombi-ta ("brassic fatty") who is penniless and acts amusingly as a result of this pauperdom. In this full page he droops at the sight of Japanese people eating, to the delight of the cackling Kota.

A new blog – “comics strips”

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The new blog “comics strips” You can see a new comic every day.
Amusing illustration there are two amusing characters: one pleased and one upset.
When things happen to both laugh and a smile-provoking.
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It’s so amusing, you should come and see!

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Comics is a variable sequence of events described by the cartoons. Comic events in the tale changes from one picture and the pictures add up to a plot.
Comics come in various formats such as Streep, Comics Weekly, a weekly comic serial, comic books, comics folder, or “graphic novel.” Classified topics such as humor, science fiction, fantasy, super – heroes, horror, suspense, adventure and more.

Tales through comics exist at least since the days of ancient Egypt. There are also examples from the Middle Ages during which comic tales were passed through the textile (see Bayeux Tapestry.) Using print transfer comics from England during the 18th century and Germany in the 19th century.

Some say the modern comics in general started in Japan. Hokusai (1760-1849), known as someone who did the “36 views of Mount Fuji” and “101 stops on the way to Edo”, painted in his life no less than five – ten volumes of illustrated tales, or Japanese “manga. Many equatethese works, in terms of style, the line momentum, HG Rotskut series of de – Vinci, a collection of portraits of him hideous or particularly weird. particularly grotesque example of a particularly Japanese can be found painting “Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.

For most of the public, the term “comics” raises two strong associations: American Comics superhero of Japanese animation (Anime & Manga). In many ways this emphasis quite justified

a cartoon about north korea’s missile program


Image by oceandesetoiles
And here we go with translation:

> North Korea: I will launch it, you hear? I’m not joking!
> China: That’s it for me. I won’t talk with this silly woman any longer.
> Russia: Launch? Really? It really flies? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even crawl.
> America: At usssss?! (I reckon this is what it says.)
> Japan: Oh, how I wish I could go to somewhere else.

Check out these Japanese sword wwii images:

{146} WWII One Teenager’s Experience From Outbreak to End


Image by scribbletaylor
My grandad has gone to considerable effort to type up an account of his WWII experience. I’m extremely grateful to have this account and so proud of him that I wanted to share (with his permission, of course).

WW 2 A Teenager At The Outbreak, 3rd September 1939

Irvine Brook lived at Dunford Road Holmfirth. Left Nab School 1937, aged 14 and started work as an apprentice at the then electricity works at Crown Bottom (now car park).

Was at home 3rd September 1939 when war was declared. Well remember my Mother saying “O-God”. I was aged 16.

Joined the ATC with many others. The H/Q were at the top of Bridge Lane Holmfirth.
The ATC.(Air training Cadets), Fire watching at the electricity works. ARP(Air Raid Precautions). Duties, Saturday night dancing at the Con. Club (now Bridge Hotel) occupied most of my leisure time.
1941, Many of my mates were being “ called up ”. Most went in the Army,1 or 2 Navy, a few RAF . I didn’t want to be sent in the Army and I didn’t want the Navy. I wanted to be a ”Glamour Boy Fighter Pilot” in the RAF shooting down German Bomber Planes!!!. So I volunteered for RAF aircrew.
After a medical test and a bit of a general test I was in, but told to wait for “call up.” It seemed ages waiting, but in June 1942 I was told to report to Air Crew Recruiting Centre London.. Life in the RAF was starting for me.

First 3 months square bashing drilling and being shouted at. We even marched to our meals, at the London Zoo!! I also remember marching to Lords cricket ground for lectures etc. in the hallowed pavilion. On a recent visit to Lords I noticed a plaque had been on the pavilion wall commemorating all the aircrew that had passed through the well-known cricket field.

14th August1942. Sent to Initial Training Wing at St. Andrews Scotland for 3 months. More square bashing, PT, but most of the day was in the University Buildings learning about Air Navigation, meteorology, signals, Morse code and theory of flight and aircraft recognition. Now I thought this was getting a bit nearer something to do with flying! We were billeted in that well-known hotel on the front-I forget the name. We also played putting on the well-known golf course, in our RAF footwear. Sacrilege!! But there was a war on. Passed the exams and tests, promoted to Leading Air Craftsman!! Given a white flash to wear in my cap to signify u/t aircrew – now I was getting somewhere!

21st November1942. Posted to Perth Scotland for flying experience in a Tiger Moth. This was to see if you went green, sick, or passed out I suppose. BUT it was flying! My first ever. Not a Spitfire, but a start.10 hrs. flying in total, all with instructor of course. Came out ok, but my report said I tended to glide with my mouth open! Tiger Moths were an open cockpit and it was damned cold anyway. Stayed 2 weeks at Perth, then went home on a bit of leave.

14th Feb.1943. Posted to Heaton Park, Manchester. Waiting to go overseas for air crew training under the Empire AIR Training Scheme. It was here where one was told if you were selected for training as Pilot, Navigator W/Opp,Bomb aimer or Air Gunner. Of course all wanted Pilot Training! I got my wish- PILOT training, not Fighters, but Bombers!! Time dragged at Heaton Park waiting for the posting to overseas It was not known at the time where to. It could have been Canada, Bahamas, Rhodesia as all were members of the Empire Air Training Scheme. It turned out to be Canada for me. What a thrill!. Like thousands of other men during the war, I had never been for from home, and certainly not abroad.

Heaton Park, Manchester was near home so I managed to get home pretty often for the odd day or week-end. My Parents were always glad to see me. I was always glad for some home cooked food even with food rationed as it was. I also had a girl friend who lived at Wooldale. She was mad on dancing at the Con. Club. I went, but I was a shy lad with girls I reckon! I thought wait ’til .I get my Wings!! I walked her home to Wooldale in the blackout when the dance had finished and then had to walk all the way back home! Sometimes I stayed the night when it was raining. I’m sorry to say the girl died a year or so later.

21st May 1943 Movement at last. Boarded the liner QE1 for Canada, along with 3000 other airmen! Took 7 days to get there. The ship zig-zagged all over the Atlantic to avoid u-boats. This and it’s speed got us there safely. Airmen were sleeping all over the place, on decks, down corridors, dining rooms (sorry – mess decks!). My memory of this trip was of the freshly baked pure white bread baked on board. Sheer luxury to what we endured back home.

29th May 1943 Travelled by train from East coast Canada to Elementary Flying Training School in Manitoba where we were taught to glide Tiger Moth aircraft. Manitoba is all prairies, flat as a penny, hot in summer very cold in winter. Roads travel North & south only, simple to navigate by and map read.
I was based here for nearly 2 months, flying for 30 minutes or so each time, usually with the same instructor who I got on quite well with. I was taught how to swing the propeller for starting the engine-taking off – (grass runway)- and all the other basic manoeuvres involved in flying the aircraft I loved the aerobatics, the spins, the loops, and above all the low flying.

After 20 hours with instructor, I was considered ok to go solo. At last, I was alone in the aircraft taxiing out for takeoff. I can’t remember my feelings as I left the ground, climbed up to height, came back round and made what must have been a pretty excellent landing. MY VERY FIRST SOLO!!.

24th July 1943 After a total of 75 hours flying in Tiger Moths, with and without Instructor, I was posted to Service Flying Training School in Eastern Manitoba. This was a much larger airfield than!! previous, had a concrete runway, landing lights for night flying and lined up on the tarmac numerous Avro-Anson twin engine aircraft.the next type of aircraft I was to learn to glide – AND CRASH!!
This course was the one that chose if you were going to be a Pilot or not. If successful, you graduated at the end and received those coveted wings to wear on your tunic. If not, you were trained as Air gunner!.

I did OK , except when sent on my first solo flight, I ran out of petrol!! Both engines stopped of course and down I glided making a near perfect Belly Landing in a ploughed field! I had forgotten to place the wheels down anyway! If I had place the wheels down the aircraft would probably have somersaulted and caught fire with me in it. I was OK but frightened. I didn’t really run out of petrol because there was another tank in the aircraft containing 80 gall. but because of lack of experience I failed to change over the engines to this full tank. My recollection of this incident was the eerie silence on crashing in the middle of the huge prairie field except for the warning horn sounding to indicate the undercarriage was not lowered! Also as I stepped out of the aircraft the ground was only a few inches down instead of the usual 3or4 feet when the wheels are down. Also the propellers were a amusing shape. My crash was seen from the Control Tower (we had no radio) as a truck came to pick me up and took me back to the airfield.

I was hauled up in front of the Chief Flying Instructor, daren’t print his remarks. I was kicked off the flying course, grounded for a month and place on a charge for damaging H. M. aircraft to the sum of four thousand dollars! I was devastated. Was this the end of my ambition to be a Pilot? I was posted to the Cook House, peeling spuds and washing up! If they had taught me how to cook I might have been able to cook a meal some 60 or so years later!!

It was hard to watch my Colleagues on the course continuing their daily flying training and harder still when they graduated and received their Wings. On the Graduation Honour Card where all the successful pilots were named, I was listed under the heading” Absent Friends”. My Log Book was endorsed CARELESSNESS!! Really, my Instructor was partly to blame for sending me up on my first solo on twin engine aircraft on a near empty tank. So I like to reckon anyway!

Part way through my grounding after washing thousands of dishes and peeling millions of spuds (that’s why I am so excellent at that job!.) I was told to report to the Station Adjutant. It was excellent news. I was to be re-drafted on the next course and my charge rescinded.Hurrah! Back to flying. Much wiser on the function of the. Aircraft fuel gauges, fuel tanks and flow valve.

Eventually I completed the course and received my “Wings”. I was a qualified Pilot!! Small did I know what was to come!! Oh! and I was promoted to Sergeant with extra pay .

Next and final stage of Training was to an Operational Training Airfield on the West Coast of Canada where I was crewed up with my Navigator and Wireless Operator. My Navigator was from London, W/Op Canadian. All of us newly trained. From then on we flew as a crew. It was going to be Hampden Bombers we were to glide but as was the war situation at the time our training was on the Dakota twin-engine transport aircraft. This was the type of aircraft I flew throughout the war.

29 April 1944 Left Canada for UK travelling in troopship “Ill De France”.
I thought Canada fantastic. The people, the Country, the hospitality, the food, although the beer could have been better. The girls were all right too!

Back home for 2 weeks leave. Wonderful seeing family and friends again. What a difference was wartime Britain to Canada.

16th May 1944 Overseas again. This time by flying boat to India and the borders of Burma. There were 6 crews on board as passengers, all newly trained on Dakotas.

31st May 1944. Our first operational Squadron! Where flying was for real and the purpose of all the training we had received. We transported troops, guns, ammunition, supplies and food to the Army in Burma, sometimes making 3 trips a day. Many trips involved flying at very low level and dropping supplies by parachute to troops in the jungles of Burma, this being the only way they could get supplies. On these occasions, I had the best job up front flying the aircraft. Over the drop zone my crew would drag the supplies down the aircraft’s fuselage ready for pushing out of the open door. As I flew the aircraft very low over the zone, at the right moment, I would press a switch, which signalled my crew to push the cargo out of the open door. Round & round we went until all supplies gone out through the open door. Back to base we flew for another load to glide to somewhere in Burma where our Army was fighting back the Japanese. After landing (sometimes on strips of flattened rice fields) and unloading the supplies, there would be injured and wounded soldiers to bring back to India for hospital treatment.

Our Squadron was based on the India Burmese border flying into and out of Burma as required. As the Army pushed the Japanese South and out of Burma our Sqd. Bases went further South to be able to supply them simpler.

I never saw an enemy aircraft in the whole of my RAF career and never fired a gun! Did I at one time want to be a fighter pilot? The enemy of Dakotas and crews in India and Burma was the WEATHER. Monsoon rain, anvil headed cumulus clouds that rose to 30000ft or more and if you flew into one the up-current or down current would lift the aircraft hundreds of feet like a feather or drop you down like a stone. Very, very perilous and their build up so sudden. It was in these conditions that we flew underneath the cloud base sometimes just above ground level and above the treetops of the jungle. We had to glide low in terrible weather to be able to map read anyway.

So, my life for the next 15 months was flying my beloved Dakota here there and everywhere. On the ground there were excellent times and terrible times and always looking forward to the day your boat came in for home. Airmail letters from home were so welcome and treasured. News on the other war fronts was getting better too.

It was in one of these Air letters that I received the sad news of my Mother’s death on the 5th Jan. 1945 aged 47.I was somewhere in Burma , no chance of getting home. My Father and Sisters kept me well informed of events that followed.

The operational tour of Transport Command Aircrew was 700 flying hours after which I was posted out of the war zone.

The war with Japan finished on 15th August 1945. How we celebrated with the dreadful Indian brewed beer!!

I well remember my final flight of my Operational Tour. It was flying from our base in Burma to Bangkok in Thailand. We flew in 30 Ghurkha troops to take part in the reoccupation of the Country. On landing the defeated Japanese soldiers were milling around. Immediately the Ghurkha troops stepped out of the aircraft and saw the Japanese they dashed for cover with rifles at the ready. Such was their hatred towards them. I wanted something to remind me of this trip. A Japanese sword would do fine! But not to be. I swapped the shirt I was wearing, for a blanket, with one of the Japanese soldiers. Best I could do!

Ready for the return flight back to Base. Approaching the Dakota in an orderly marching group came 30 ex prisoners of war. Clothes in tatters, footwear in bits, bodies very thin, and showing all the signs of their last 5 or 6 years ordeal. But all now smiling. Freedom for them at last.

The flight back to base was horrendous the monsoon weather was atrocious with Cu, Nimbus cloud, severe lighting and hail all around. Impossible to go round, so tried to go above. In no way was I going to turn back to Bangkok with those POWs even though my crew thought I should. The Dakota was never a pressurised aircraft and carried no oxygen equipment, so the maximum height we would normally glide was about 10k ft.

On this momentous flight but, I took the aircraft (with a bit of coaxing from the engines) up to 19000ft to get over the top of the perilous cloud. I and my crew on the flight deck were frozen stiff even with full heat on. and were feeling the effect of the rarefied air. Me with no shirt and a Japanese blanket that I daren’t wear not knowing where it had been!. How my passengers in their poor state of health and in that cold and near airless fuselage survived, I do not know. But I could not turn back.
After 4or5 minutes at that height we were over the worst and I could take the Dakota down to normal level. My navigator and W/Op went back to see how the ex-prisoners were coping and found them trembling and shivering, but alive. Landed safely at base in Burma. The ex-POWs overjoyed at being back on friendly ground and with friendly caring people.

9th September 1945 Went on 2 weeks leave to Hill Station in India. Very pleasant. Thought I might be sent home, but no.

19 September 1945 Posted to a newly formed internal airline Squadron based at India’s Capital City ,Delhi.

These flights involved taking high-ranking Officers to various Cities all over India and Ceylon. At times it meant being away from Base for over a week.

5th April 1946 Awarded Distinguished Flying Medal. Now promoted to Warrant Officer with another pay increase!

14th June 1946 At last told of going home! I did hope I might be able to glide a Dakota back to England. But it wasn’t to be. Instead I bordered a crappy ancient troopship in Bombay on the 28th June to sail back to the UK. It didn’t matter though, I was going home. It took 23 days to sail home. Imagine my delight at seeing the English coast and docking at Clydside after years away.

My next base was at a de-mob centre somewhere down South. Kitted out with civvy suit, shirts shoes, etc., receiving pay due and some in advance. My RAF uniform finished with. Was I sorry? – YES.

3rd September 1946 REALEASED FROM RAF after just over 4 years in service and having flown 1760hrs in RAF aircrew

NOW BACK IN CIVVY STREET

For various reasons, some men (and women) do not wish to speak of their time in the Forces .I can well know and respect those wishes.
For myself, I look back to my teenage years and beyond in the RAF. I would never in all those years have met the men I did, the places I visited and lived in, to glide in an aircraft let alone be in control of one, the events I experienced and above all giving me the confidence in years to come. It also made me realise the value of home and family that I was away from for those many years.

Do I despise wars? — Yes
Do I regret my Service in the RAF? —-NO

A few nice How to Write in Japanese images I found:

How a Mac works – Language D


Image by panapp
Mac knows all the language. Here you can see the window for the language: on my Mac i’ve setted the italian as the main laguage and all the software is in italian (and in this way i can write in roman letters), but i’ve setted japanese kanas and kanji too, so i can easily use them and change from italian to kanji just with a simple keyboard combination (⌥+⌘+space).

The Toyota Corolla in Japanese Drifting

Drifting is a motor sport where the focus is on technique rather than being the first to cross the end line. It refers to sliding a car through corners while maintaining control of the car. The point is to have the rear wheels slip at a greater angle than the front wheels. That is when the car is considered to be drifting in a power-slide, which causes the tires to smoke. The racing league in Japan, where drifting was born, is called the D1 Grand Prix. It started more than thirty years ago and was popularized internationally by Kunimitsu Takahashi, also known as the Dori-Kin (“Drift King” in Japanese). Naturally, he was driving the classic Toyota Corolla AE86, fully equipped with genuine Toyota Corolla parts. The car was light weight and had a rear wheel drive configuration, which made it a well loved choice among Japanese street racers. In 1996, drifting made its way to Willow Springs, California, where an event was sponsored by the Japanese Drifting Magazine.

The Toyota Corolla AE86 continues with its rather large fan base because it is an affordable drift car capable of holding its own during competitions amidst more expensive and more powerful sports cars in D1 Grand Prix and Formula D drifting events. What makes this even more spectacular is the fact that the AE86 has less than half of the horsepower of most of the newer models. To keep it running at peak optimal performance, drivers use genuine Toyota Corolla parts on their drifting cars. The AE86 is also well loved in Japanese anime and in many racing video games in the US, including Electronic Art’s Need for Speed franchise, Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport franchise, Namcos The Quick and the Furious (PS2), and Segas Initial D Arcade Stage.

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The car’s popularity has reached cult status in Japan, and is now a very expensive car to buy if it’s over 20 years ancient, and if you can find one for sale. If you’re lucky enough to own one, make sure that it is top performance condition by using Toyota parts. The Corolla AE86 is still considered one of the finest Drifting cars. Other well loved Toyota Drift cars are the Alteza, the Cressida (JZX), the Supra, the MR2, and the Soarer. According to the “Daily Yomiuri,” the Corolla is the worlds best-selling car ever. Launched in 1966, it became Japans best selling car in 1969, and has been ever since, with the exception of 2001 and 2002, with over 30 million sold.

The Toyota Corolla AE86 is truly a classic drift car that will not be overlooked or forgotten any time soon. As one avid fan puts it, “Supercars may come and go but there will never be a replacement for the Toyota Corolla AE-86. It has already became a legend.” The Toyota Company was originally named for its founder, Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda, in 1937. The name was changed to Toyota, partly because it was simpler to pronounce, and maybe even because the spelling of Toyota, which takes eight strokes to write in Japanese, is considered to be luckier than Toyoda. I can’t help but wonder if Mr. Toyoda had any thought what an influence his company would have on society, not just in Japan, but on a global scale, and especially in the U.S.

How a Mac works – Language A


Image by panapp
Mac knows all the language. Here you can see up right the menu for the language: on my Mac i’ve setted the italian as the main laguage and all the software is in italian (and in this way i can write in roman letters), but i’ve setted japanese kanas and kanji too, so i can easily use them and change from italian to kanji just with a simple keyboard combination (⌥+⌘+space).

Some cool Japanese sword wwii images:

Japanese Arrive in Manilla To Discuss Surrender


Image by England
9/1/45

Japanese officers arrive in the Philippines to discuss Japan’s surrender with General MacArthur.

Some cool japan speak mp3 images:

How To Learn Japanese With Using Audio

Learning Japanese with audio is lacking suspect the best and most useful way to get happening. If you are fluky enough to have some Japanese links who can help then you are already before of the plucky. In most suitcases people will look to sunset classes at their local seminary or on the internet for online chief Japanese education.

Of course the best way to learn any dialect is in the country itself. This has evident advantages but for most of us this is not feasible and we have to elect more realistic methods of how to learn Japanese.

The more you learn about Japan and its people you promptly apprehend that they are the masters of efficiency. You would do well to classic them in this admire and relate their meticulous methodology to some explore which will permit you to arise your adventure in Japanese idiom education in a way that lends itself to providing most takings for the time that you invest in studying.

Ok so we might all admire the Japanese mindset but just don’t have the time or means to waste on the research, lucky I have done it for you then!

Why report Japanese? There are many advantages to knowledge any new words, in this defense the budding importance of Japan in the inclusive markets could mean that having some taste of Japanese society and prose may give you a limit if you are employed in such areas as tourism, journalism, technology and many other areas of employment.

Of course it would be diligent of me not to reveal how incredibly pleasing Japan is itself and how correctly fascinating their polish is. Learning how to address Japanese with a position to visit the country at some meaning is in my scene enough of a motivating reason and reward in itself.

Although it may appear a scary seek if you prepare your approach in loan and place some habitual time aside for studying, knowledge Japanese with audio is achievable. I newly came across a youthful man while researching the business who’s learn to speak Japanese tips included,”erudition Japanese on his palm pilot.”

Having useless a lot of time in the forums and researching the best way to learn Japanese I have come up with the next conclusions.

Learning about the tongue and nation is best done in Japan itself. If at all doable solicit the help of some Japanese links. If with Japanese MP3 downloads or inexpensive poetry CDs, ensure that they come from only the very best sources like the ones open for selling by Dr Paul Pimsleur, Dr Robert Blair and the publishing house Harper Collins. All have proven footpath account for learning Japanese online with audio.

Whether your motivation is delicate or professional you can be certain that this adventure that you are about to board on will be correctly rewarding. Many scholars have exhausted their full lives deep in the beauty of this speech, its people and its culture. You could do a lot shoddier than choosing to invest some of your precious time in learning Japanese with audio.

Ok it’s probably predictable to say Sayonara (Sa-yo-na-ra). (goodbye)but I’ll add a small as I disgust being predicatable

Saying goodbye to a close colleague (informal) is said like this “Ja-ne” (pronounced) jar-neigh! Have fun learning the Japanese language, Ja-ne!