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The second one is AI. I'm getting so sick of these videos. What a waste of time and resources just for clicks and views. The least they could do is add Godzilla in the background.

I thought the first one looks suspicious since the trains don't go full speed through stations like that and according to the comments it's real but sped up.
 
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The second one is AI. I'm getting so sick of these videos. What a waste of time and resources just for clicks and views. The least they could do is add Godzilla in the background.

I thought the first one looks suspicious since the trains don't go full speed through stations like that and according to the comments it's real but sped up.
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The Cat Inn You Can't Get a Reservation For🐈Staying at the Cat Paradise Where 13Cats Visit Your Room


 
In my previously posted video, I mentioned a place that is in "Western Tokyo" Prefecture but not Tokyo City. Many people are not aware that there is a Tokyo Prefecture as well as Tokyo City, and the two are quite different. Look at this map.


The area called Tokyo (City) that we are all familiar with (the 23 wards) is the purple area on the right. But Tokyo Prefecture also includes the pink, green, and yellow areas on the left. As a matter of fact, the area that is not Tokyo City is larger than the area that is Tokyo City!

Here is a video which highlights Western Tokyo.

 
Did you know that Iwo Jima Island is part of Tokyo City? Look at this screen shot, which shows the various "subprefectures" that are all administered by Tokyo City. (Iwo Jima is part of the Volcano Islands.)

Iwo Jima.webp


Here is the video which this screenshot is from. (The part about the islands south of Tokyo begins at 3:54.)

"Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo"



The following is a nice travel video of one of the Ogasawara Islands, an inhabited island 1,000 km south of Tokyo, accessible by a once-a-week, 24-hour ferry ride from Tokyo.

"The most peaceful island in Japan, even though it is located in Tokyo Stay in the Ogasawara Islands"



(Iwo Jima Island is part of Tokyo, but it is uninhabited, and there is no ferry or airline service to Iwo Jima.)
 
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One of the southernmost islands of the Ogasawara Islands is Chichijima, which means Father Island. (Many island groups in Japan have individual islands named separately as Father Island, Mother Island, Elder Brother Island, etc.)

But the ferry only runs once a week and takes 24 hours, so you must plan to stay longer than a few days.

English subtitles for this videos can be enabled. Feel free to ask how to do this.

"🏝️Exploring Ogasawara: Hidden Paradise of Chichijima! 🐋✨"

 
In my previous post, I highlighted an island in the Ogasawara Islands, Chichijima, which means Father Island. So -- you guessed it -- there is also a Hahajima which means Mother Island.

"Life on Haha-jima: Adventures in the Ogasawara Islands | 小笠原諸島・母島での冒険"

 
Take a look at this ski-lift-style chair-ride up to a castle in Shimane Prefecture. Watch from 6:10 for the actual ride. At the top of the hill is an amazing temple called "The Hidden Kyoto ." The trip back down, including a bicycle rental, is really cool too. There is even a working steam engine train at the end of the video.

 
"Kamikaze" is a word with various meanings. One meaning is that of Japanese suicide pilots who died during WWII. Curiously, the word that Japanese people usually use for these pilots is not kamikaze but 特攻隊 (とっこうたい ) (tokkoutai). I once heard an American person trying to get a Japanese person into a discussion about kamikaze pilots, but the Japanese person didn't seem to understand the meaning of the word. (Or it may have been the Japanese person simply didn't want to be dragged into such a discussion.)

Kamikaze means "divine wind," referring to how Kublai Khan (the grandson of Genghis Khan) and his Mongol army attempted to invade Japan in 1274 and again in 1281, but his attacking armadas of ships were hit by typhoons both times. It seemed to some people that the typhoons were heaven-sent, hence the name.

I was surprised to learn that the armada's main attack in 1274 was not on the main island of Honshu, but on a small island called Tsushima, halfway between Japan and Korea. This video tells the amazing story of how 200 Samurai defeated 8,000 Mongols!

"When 80 Samurai FACED 8,000 Mongols: The Battle of Tsushima"

 
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The Mongols invaded Japan for a second time in 1281, but this time Japan was ready. They built a wall on the beach that was six feet (two meters) high and 12 miles (20 km) long. When the Mongol soldiers landed on the beach, they could not climb the wall and were sitting ducks for Japanese archers. Take a look at part of the wall at 7:48. Parts of the wall can still be seen in Fukuoka today.

The name of the wall is 元寇防塁 (genko borui).

All of this happened 750 years ago!

(The video is in Japanese only, no English narration or subtitles.)

 
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Here is a little more information on the 元寇防塁 (genko borui) wall. Here is a cross-section image of how the wall was constructed.

genko borui2.webp


Below is the video this screenshot is taken from.

 
Japanese people love to import English words into Japanese. But they also love to shorten them into shorter, easier-to-say phrases.

 
Have you ever gotten a song stuck in your head and it just won't go away? Listen to this.



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