Articles for Fujii

Astronomer records an object crash on the Moon with a bright flash. See video
1 week, 3 days ago

Astronomer records an object crash on the Moon with a bright flash. See video

India Today  

As Earth witnesses the peak of the Geminid meteor shower with up to 120 meteors per hour streaking through the sky, a fascinating event has unfolded on our celestial neighbour, the Moon. Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, has been meticulously recording meteor impacts on the Moon using high-speed cameras. "There was another lunar impact flash …

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Big in Japan: How American Christmas cakes became a global holiday tradition
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Big in Japan: How American Christmas cakes became a global holiday tradition

Salon  

The most expensive strawberry in Japan is the Bijin-hime or “Beautiful Princess,” which can sell for up to $500 per palm-sized fruit. As Daisuke Miyazaki, chief executive at Ichigo Tech, a Tokyo-based strawberry consulting firm, told The New York Times, “Peak strawberry season went from April to March to February to January and finally hit Christmas.” Now, strawberries are a …

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The ballad of Otter 841 — Santa Cruz’s adorable outlaw
1 year, 5 months ago

The ballad of Otter 841 — Santa Cruz’s adorable outlaw

LA Times  

The otter known as 841 made a splash last month for her habit of swiping surfers’ boards in Santa Cruz. A surfing sea otter at Cowells pic.twitter.com/XWFWKglWI7 — Native Santa Cruz June 19, 2023 But where most onlookers saw a playfully curious critter, wildlife experts saw “aggressive behavior and potential public safety risk,” according to the U.S. While officials can’t …

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A renegade sea otter is terrorizing California surfers: ‘It’s a little scary’
1 year, 5 months ago

A renegade sea otter is terrorizing California surfers: ‘It’s a little scary’

LA Times  

It was Joon Lee’s fourth time surfing on Sunday. Lee said he’d been surfing near an otter for most of the time he was there — in Steamer Lane, off Cowell Beach. A city worker posted signs Tuesday morning along West Cliff Drive warning surfers of an “aggressive sea otter” in the area and to enter the water at their …

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Designed to Last: 10 of the world's most ingenious buildings
2 years, 4 months ago

Designed to Last: 10 of the world's most ingenious buildings

BBC  

Designed to Last: 10 of the world's most ingenious buildings Atelier tao+c / Su Sheng Liang / Building for Change, Gestalten 2022 Why abandon buildings once they're no longer needed? Koji Fujii / TOREAL / Building for Change, Gestalten 2022 Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center, Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Kamikatsu Zero Waste Centre, Kamikatsu, Japan Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP "In 2003, …

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Before Pearl Harbor, L.A. was home to thriving Japanese communities. Here’s what they were like
3 years ago

Before Pearl Harbor, L.A. was home to thriving Japanese communities. Here’s what they were like

LA Times  

An image provided by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles shows the 1938 Nisei Week closing parade. Its fleet went to sea regularly and profitably; a Times headline from 1913 commented, “White men inferior to Japanese as fishermen.” A 1994 Times story described the community with the main street called “Tuna Street.” The Baptist church It was a …

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The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters
3 years, 1 month ago

The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters

Wired  

Off the coast of California lies an underwater forest of giant kelp, a kind of seaweed that grows to 100 feet tall at the rate of a foot a day. “As a general rule, kelp forests are much more productive than most terrestrial forests, in that they're churning through carbon much more quickly.” But since the 18th century, California's kelp …

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