Diary of a rail fan in Kansai,Japan(Ver.2)

About world's rail news, general news, my train pictures, and travel diary)

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 - 非営利 - 改変禁止 4.0 国際 ライセンスの下に提供されています。

List of my travel diary My train photoes The other contents

Entries from 2012-06-01 to 1 month

Special rapid service train will be partly cut, due to lack of electricity

JR West announced "In the case of electric power shortage alert, we will reduce frequency of Special rapid service by half." In railway companies in Kansai, JR West is the 1st company that announced how to deal with electric power shortage…

Taiwanese undergrad's life savings of $43,000 lost to termites

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/ANN/Story/STIStory_815994.html What's important for storing money is not reliability of where it is stored, but diversity of where it is done. Diversity of the safes will reduce risk of lo…

A frantic lady disturbs my senior researcher's daily life

My senior researcher often disappears from my laboratory. The main reason of it is his girlfriend. The sweetheart monitors his activity so severely that he can't live freely. For example, when he hadn't met her for over a month, she told h…

Noisy Tepco shareholders OK Japan state bailout

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_815643.html I laughed at ST(Press Agency of the linked article) described Tepco shareholders as 'Noisy'. But, Kepco(Kansai Electric Power Co.,LTD.) has more noisy share…

Japan police investigating man who cooked own genitals

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_815212.html Though I hadn't yet heard that someone ate surgically removed genitals of a man before reading the article, it seems common for women to suck their boyfrien…

Wikipedia founder speaks out over student's extradition

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_814798.html I guess whether the student is guilty or not depends on the contents he allowed Internet users to watch for free. If he accepted any contents, contents tha…

Ukraine will be a member of the countries that have high speed rails

Citation: Prototype 220 km/h trainset on test http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/prototype-220-kmh-trainset-on-test.html The testing hasn't yet written even on English Wikipedia in detail. And, this will be the 2nd High…

Construction of Sha Tin to Central Link of Hong Kong MTR began yesterday

the ground‐breaking ceremony of it was held.The plan has been revised at least 4 times since KCRC*1's original proposal. The line is from Sha Tin to Admiralty via Kai Tak and Hung Hom ,and will be divided into 2 sections. One (between Tai …

Kintetsu utsube and Hachioji line are in crisis of being abolished. The Diet plans to maintain the lines

※Though I translated the linked web page, systematic error deleted it. Because I don't have time to translate again, I just leave here the link. Citation: http://www.asahi.com/travel/rail/news/NGY201206140005.html Kintetsu has no way but t…

Google sets out to save dying languages

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_813454.html If we hear the word "dying languages", most of us are likely to come up with primitive tribes' languages in rural areas. Surely, it can be true fo…

Breast-feeding mothers who exercise don't hinder baby: Study

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_813022.html It has already been clear that mothers' exercise wouldn't affect their babies' health, judging from the fact that we haven't yet heard many female…

Korean Air apologises to Kenya over 'primitive energy' ad

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_812594.html These days, few and few people spend primitive lives even in developing countries.In Japan, "Hungry spirit" is often used for criticizing the young, instead…

No health risk from faulty breast implant, says UK govt

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_812349.html I guess those who decided to implant silicon into their breasts must have inferiority complexes about their sizes of breasts. In my elementary school days,…

Kumming will be 7th city that has urban railway linked to an airport in China

Opening date of Kunming metro Line 6 is scheduled to be June 28, 2012. The line connects East Bus Station and Airport Center(Kunming Changshui International Airport). According to UrbanRail.Net, intermediate stations will open after initia…

Renewed Kintetsu 23000 series train will run on August 4,2012

With Regular Shrine Removal of Ise Jingu, Kintetsu 23000 series trains "Ise-Shima Liner", a kind of resort express, will be renewed for the first time in 18 years after installation of the trains in 1994. And the trains will run on August …

Paris mulls plan to extend Eiffel Tower... downwards

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_811308.html How considerate Paris' authorities are! My colleague in my preparatory school once said that he couldn't see the portrait or the statue of Mao Zedong due t…

I finished writing the travel diary

URL for the diary http://d.hatena.ne.jp/special-rapid223/20120610#1339684163 ※Because a website for uploading pictures is under maintenance someday, you can't see some pictures during that.

My follower on Twitter received notice of an informal job offer

I just want to say "Congratulations!" He is one of the students that have difficulty in job hunting. Increasing college students who cannot receive notice of an informal job offer have been a social issue in Japan. Shrinking economic marke…

Lack of sleep can increase one's risk of stroke: Study

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/ANN/Story/STIStory_810048.html Lately, I tend to stay at my laboratory until late at night. It is not because I have to experiment or study something, but because I usually chat with my la…

My junior researcher wondered if it is a tasit rule to upload pictures on facebook

If you are a facebook user who has many friends on facebook, you can remember that your news feed page is full of pictures. So, my junior researcher wondered if it is the tasit rule to upload pictures on facebook. Especially, most of the p…

Travel diary on June 10, 2012

When I left my house, I didn't think about where to go. Anyway, I headed for Hanshin-Sannomiya via Hanshin Namba Line. After reaching Hanshin-Sannomiya, I took pictures of the platforms of Hanshin-Sannomiya, which are under improvement con…

London bus workers threaten strike before Olympics

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_809133.html On the other hand, bus workers in Japan are suffering from long working hours. But, they won't go on strike because they can't gather enough employees to s…

In Japan, Fukuoka Municipal Subway will get patent to operate extension section of Nanakuma Line(福岡市営地下鉄七隈線の延伸区間営業許可を取得予定)

Since opening of Nanakuma Line in 2005, inconvenience of transferring to Airport Line from Tenjin-Minami has been pointed out. After many kinds of extension plans were suggested, a route runs from Tenjin-Minami to Hakata via Canal City Hak…

Contradiction occurs

I was invited to a drinking session planned by a lady in another laboratory. Because no one in my laboratory intend to participate in it, I and my senior researcher decided to participate in it in order not to hurt the lady. By the way, on…

China closes Tibet to tourists, travel agents say

Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_807756.html It means that we won't get to a world's highest railway. As is often the case with inland China, the political situations are fluid. It is usually related w…

Japan birth rate stays flat in 2011 at 1.39 children per woman

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_807301.html Decreasing wages of young men accelerates lower marriage rate and lower fertility rate. And, more and more women get out into the world. Then, at a glance, families w…

My junior researcher likes insects

My junior researcher began to say "Lately, I feel loneliness. So, I'd like to domesticate something." He : I've domesticated a cockroach. But, The cockroach died easily because I forgot feeding the cockroach with water. I : How about domes…

Ordos city plans a city rail system?(鄂尔多斯市规划了城市轨道交通?)

Ordos(鄂尔多斯) is located in Inner Mongolia, China. On wikipedia, I found the plan of a city rail system in that city. Concepts of the plan includes below. Total length:54.44km Underground section:6.6km Viaduct section:28.8km Ground secti…

Double tracking will make Saphan Taksin Station abolished

Vice president of Bangkok announced abolition of Saphan Taksin Station on BTS Silom Line. According to local newspaper, completion of extension section of the line between Wongwian Yai and Bang Wa may be the reason. It is to enhance operat…

Girlfriend blames drugs, voodoo for grisly US attack

The girlfriend of a United States (US) man who savagely used his bare teeth to rip into another man's face in Florida said he must have been under the influence of drugs or voodoo magic, local media reported on Thursday.The naked assailant…