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From: Akane Fan <AkaneFan@akanesoma.com>
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Subject: Re: TOKYO EYE [NHK World, 2 files] THANK YOU once again!
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In article <2015021814470516807-antigel@synchronicitycom>,
Danny Claude <antigel@synchronicity.com> wrote:
> > i love these little bits of everyday japan and glimpses of the seldom-seen.
> > thanks for posting these!
>
> You're most welcome, Akane Fan.
> And, since we are to the point of comparing our tastes, of course I
> like all of these programs I post (that's why I like to encode & keep
> for myself or for sharing), but my main preference goes maybe to
> flavor, gives us a glimpse of the soul of a community, a village, of
> slices of ordinary people's lives, etc.
> To be more specific, as a complete atheist, I keep dumbfounded by the
> advanced scientific, technological & materialist ideas came from the
> West.
i used to watch "cool japan", and i was constantly amazed by the juxtaposition
of the reverence of nature and the various gods manifesting nature's aspects,
and blatant commerciality built to make a yen or two off the same. they were
usually profiles of some small village or town with a unique local deity, and
the town would build an entire tourist industry around it.
that said, i remember one some years ago (possibly their 20-minute documentary
series) about a temple where people who had lost someone would come and learn to
carve statues of the buddha engaged in some activity that their loved one had
enjoyed. the interviews with the people who were (usually clumsily) carving the
statues were such a wonderful, quiet glimpse into the lives of everyday people.
but thank you very much for posting what you do. since our local station has
moved its transmitter, i can no longer receive NHK, and even when i did it was a
very low bitrate feed, much lower in quality than what you post.
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