User:Nihonjoe

Portal:Speculative fiction is now a Featured portal! Thanks to everyone who participated in the discussion and helped improve the portal in any way (you know who you are). I really appreciate it! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 19:43, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

日本穣 — Nihonjoe User page   Admin/Bureaucrat   Projects   Contributions   Miscellaneous   Awards Con • DYK • Cre • Cou • A • I blocks • protects • deletions • moves   Rouge-o-meter Green: Stickler for the spirit of the rules (and likes green). I was an expat during the time I lived in Japan. I spent a lot of time visiting cool places such as Itsukushima Shrine, Hondōri, Etajima, Matsue in Shimane Prefecture, the Kurobe Gorge, Shōbara, Miyoshi, Mihara, Kure, and Tokyo. Hiroshima has some amazing things to see, including the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum (where I saw the original The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali) and Shukkei-en (an amazing and peaceful garden which is right next door to the museum). I also highly recommend that anyone who can get there should visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum located within the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The park also contains the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (or "Atomic Bomb Dome"), the Children's Peace Monument (which is often draped with origami cranes), and a statue in honor of Sadako Sasaki (also often draped with origami cranes). You can also visit the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims there. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony is held in the park every year on August 6, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. I rode trains regularly on several different lines, including the Geibi Line, the Kisuki Line, the Fukuen Line, the Hiroden Main Line (the main street car line in Hiroshima), and the San'yō Main Line. I created and expanded many of the articles on the stations of the Geibi Line (as well as the article on the line itself). There was (don't know if it's still there) an awesome homemade ice cream shop about 20-30 minutes' walk from Bingo-Ochiai Station. I love manjū (especially Momiji manjū), Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki (the best kind!), and most kinds of sushi. After absorbing all I could of the culture during my stay, I returned to the untamed wilderness of the wild, wild west. I currently enjoy almost anything about Japan, including anime, manga, most Japanese food, and trains. In fact, I like Japan so much, I made a WikiProject for it. I also enjoy working on an eclectic mix of other topics, including artists William Bliss Baker, Arnold Friberg, Adalbert J. Volck, Kevin Wasden, Howard Tayler, and Stephan Martinière, poet and author Michael R. Collings, critic and author Gilles Poitras, author Toren Smith, and cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn. I regularly read Leading Edge magazine, I think Agnes Lum was the perfect first Clarion Girl, and I love the styling of Karatsu and Kutani ware. One of my biggest achievements here is bringing Portal:Speculative fiction to featured portal status. It took many months of a lot of work, most of it done by myself (though I greatly appreciate the help of those few who assisted in some way). I also enjoy reading and watching science fiction and fantasy, listening to all kinds of music (really, almost every kind out there), and reading in general. I have a strange fondness for Hinamatsuri. I especially enjoy technical writing and editing online material in order to make it better. I also enjoy graphic design and taking pictures and making images for Wikipedia. I like user boxes. I even made a couple of them myself. Feel free to use any of the ones I created, or go to the user boxes page and see what's already there. Stuff I helped with: Featured articles: Japan (12 April 2007) Featured portals: Japan (28 September 2008), Speculative fiction (1 September 2010) Good articles: Cross Game (3 August 2009) Unified login: Nihonjoe is the unique login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. Committed identity: 7716dd3d05d4157e5f4894fe6aa8b513543a1671e6e8cb2ac467a36f3ba25b2d1ce5727885db992610067596c65590f820ea3298e52df13069b917d2aeb63c5c is the SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity. • Adm: Notice: 3RR/AIV/AN/ANI/UAA - AP - B - CU - DP - GR - ICT - L - Nres - PA - O - PT - R - RFAg (m) - S - T - UTTM - WT — — — • Adv: Arch - Beans - Bollocks - Care - Garden - Grapefruit - Mastadons - Reason - Redundant - Replies - Sense - Tea - WOW • Crat: B/notice - CHU/CHUG/CHU/U/SUL - Logs: Rename / Rights - UserRights - RfX: RFA/RfB/Bots (BOTPOL) — — — • Del: AFD (Old) - CFD - WP:CSD - DRV - IFD - MFD - RFD - SFD - TFD - UCFD - Policy: CSD, DEL, PROD, UNDEL • Edit: IAR - Listcruft - Not Google - Point - {{Pui}} - RefCon - TC - TM - Trivia - Vanispamcruftisement — — — • Inter: B - C - MW - Meta - N - Q - S (en, ja) - Sp - Wikt - WU (ref) • Japan: DelSort (Japan/A&M) - New (trains) - Mangaka - MOS-JA - MOS-AM - RA — — — • Wiki: EIW - NOT - Note - RFA - V — — — • Nihonjoe (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · lu · rfar · rfc · rfcu · ssp · spi) edit   Editing Portal:Anime (adding anniversaries) List of Nintama Rantarō episodes‎ - Find sources: "Nintama Rantaro" – news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images Find sources: "忍たま乱太郎" – news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images List of Akazukin Chacha episodes‎ - Find sources: "Akazukin Chacha" – news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images Find sources: "赤ずきんチャチャ" – news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images edit   Selected articles I've worked on Cross Game (クロスゲーム, Kurosu Gēmu) is a romantic comedy baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi that was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday between 11 May 2005 (issue 22/23) and 17 February 2010 (issue 12). It is collected in 16 tankōbon volumes as of November 2009, with the final volume scheduled to be published in April 2010, coinciding with the end of the anime. It received the 54th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009, and has been praised internationally as quietly brilliant and a great success. The series was adapted as a 50-episode anime television series that began airing on the TV Tokyo network on 5 April 2009 and will finish airing on 28 March 2010. The first episode of the anime, which covers the time frame of the first volume of the manga, received high praise, even outside of Japan. Cross Game is the story of Kō Kitamura and the four neighboring Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyō, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. Wakaba and Kō were born on the same day in the same hospital and are close enough that Wakaba treats Kō as her boyfriend, though nothing is officially declared, while Aoba, one year younger than them, hates how Kō is "taking" her sister away from her. After Wakaba dies, Kō and Aoba slowly grow closer as they strive to fulfill Wakaba's final dream of seeing them play in the high school baseball championship in Kōshien Stadium. The manga is divided into multiple parts. Part One, which consists of volume one, is a prologue that takes place while the main characters are in elementary school, ending with Wakaba's death. Part Two starts four years later with Kō in his third year of junior high and continues into the summer of his third year of high school. Part Three continues the story without a break, ending with Kō and Aoba traveling to Kōshien. edit   My timeline on Wikipedia  Milestones   Milestones 50,000 Hōjō Tokimasa 25,000 WP:ANIME/Reference Library Watchlist 5100 pages on trimmed watchlist Watchlist 7500 pages on my watchlist 20,000 My talk page 15,000 2005 Miyagi earthquake Admin May 10, 2006 10,000 Talk:Yumi Toma 7500 Wikipedia:Requested moves WP:JA Established WikiProject Japan 5000 Nihonjoe/Userboxen Watchlist 1000 pages on my watchlist 3500 Nihonjoe 2000 Wizard (magazine) 1000 Highschool! Kimen-gumi 500 Highschool! Kimen-gumi CUTF Joined Cleanup Taskforce CVU Joined Counter Vandalism Unit 100 {{Speculative fiction}} 1 Hayao Miyazaki Check your own milestones with the Milestone tool! edit   Wikipedia Picture of the day The Red-and-yellow Barbet (Trachyphonus erythrocephalus) is a species of African barbet found in eastern Africa. The males of the species have distinctive black (spotted white), red and yellow plumage, while youngsters and females are similar, but a little more dull. The species lives in broken terrain and both nests and roosts in burrows. Omnivores, the species is generally very tame, feeding on seeds, fruit and invertebrates. Photo: Ikiwaner Archive – More featured pictures... edit   Stuff I'm involved in Administrators Bureaucrats WikiProject Anime and manga WikiProject Japan edit   Portals I help maintain Anime and Manga Japan Speculative fiction edit   Did you know... These are Did you know... hooks I submitted (20 articles so far) which have appeared on the Main page. ... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club? ... that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, a manga about a blind samurai, won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award? ... that Japanese anime director Rintaro has worked in animation for 50 years and co-founded the animation studio Madhouse? ... that Nausicaä, the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and "The Princess Who Loved Insects", a Japanese folk hero? ... that Taishō Baseball Girls is a light novel series about an all-girl baseball team set in Taishō era Japan? ... that Keizō Tsukamoto set a Guinness World Record by creating the cover art for more than 1,900 issues of Weekly Manga Times starting in 1970? ... that Minori Kimura made her professional manga artist debut at the age of 14 in the 1964 Spring Special issue of Ribon, a magazine published in Japan by Shueisha? ... that Queen Millennia was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with another Leiji Matsumoto series, Captain Harlock, to create Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years? ... that when a Japanese honeybee hive is invaded by a giant hornet scout, the honeybees "bake" the hornet in a ball of about 500 bees (pictured)? ... that Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, released in 1933 and directed by Kenzō Masaoka, was the first "talkie" animated film in Japan? ... that Kutani ware (pictured), first produced about 1656 near the current city of Kaga, is a type of Japanese porcelain known for its use of multicolored glazes in bold designs? ... that Karatsu ware is a style of Japanese pottery which is considered one of the top choices for implements used in the Japanese tea ceremony? ... that singer-songwriter Tatsuo Kamon began studying with rakugo master Tsuruko Shōfukutei at age 16? ... that Makiko Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards for her debut acting role in the 1995 film Maborosi? ... that Japanese manga artist Seizō Watase worked at an insurance company for 16 years before retiring to work on manga full time? ... that the Leading Edge, a student-run, semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award-winning cover in 2002 by James C. Christensen? ... that Sayuri Kokushō's 1986 debut single, Valentine Kiss, is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan, despite selling only 317,000 copies? ... that the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasury and Archives contain the oldest extant manuscript of the Kokinshū, dating from the 11th century and designated a National Treasure of Japan? ... that a kichō (pictured) is a portable multi-paneled silk partition used in aristocratic households during and following the Heian period in Japan? edit   About this page This is a Wikipedia user page. This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nihonjoe. 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