Shizuoka

In one example, marketer and blogger happy-kernel commented on the news that the Kakegawa City Amateur Sports Association in Shizuoka Prefecture is starting an agricultural farm business.

Global Voices in English » Go Farm, Young Man! – How Farming in Japan is Changing 2009

A blogger living in Shizuoka Prefecture (south of Tokyo) explains what he learnt this year.

Global Voices in English » Japan: Training for disaster prevention 2009

TAKA: How do you do, MOON-san, I live in Shizuoka as well.

Let’s Die Together 2007

TAKA: How do you do, MOON-san, I live in Shizuoka as well.

Let’s Die Together 2007

-- A motorcyclist in Shizuoka, Japan continued riding for two kilometers without noticing that his right leg had been cut off when it hit a median strip.

bitsenpieces IV eddvick 2007

On a more or less typical night, on a site called “Let’s die together in Shizuoka” (a city an hour from Tokyo on the bullet train), I sit in front of my computer screen and watch as the death script is rehearsed and elaborated by anonymous participants, some of whom may simply be exploring a radical idea, while others may soon be found dead in cars:

Let’s Die Together 2007

On a more or less typical night, on a site called “Let’s die together in Shizuoka” (a city an hour from Tokyo on the bullet train), I sit in front of my computer screen and watch as the death script is rehearsed and elaborated by anonymous participants, some of whom may simply be exploring a radical idea, while others may soon be found dead in cars:

Let’s Die Together 2007

He is almost 30, his name is Toji, and he lives in Shizuoka, Moon’s hometown.

Let’s Die Together 2007

He is almost 30, his name is Toji, and he lives in Shizuoka, Moon’s hometown.

Let’s Die Together 2007

They tend toward geometrical abstraction: agricultural land divided into rectangular fields, the biomorphic shapes of the links on a golf course, rafts of lumber attached together in floating strings, neat arrays of industrial buildings, and the compressed urbanization of the prefecture's capital city, also called Shizuoka.

Island Life and the Wild William Meyers 2011