Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
As a child, many people have had the experience of standing with their back to the sun and bending their fingers to make shadows of birds and animals, or of deforming their body as distortedly as possible to enjoy the…
Zatoichi is a kyōkaku (侠客, a wanderer with a chivalrous spirit) from the Edo period, and tells the story of a blind masseur (座頭, zato) named Ichi (市, the blind man’s common name) who travels around the country, meeting and…
As September arrives, the angle and color temperature of the sunlight in the mornings and evenings suddenly begin to take on an autumnal appearance. This is probably because the sun’s altitude decreases and sunlight travels a longer distance through the atmosphere…
Nights in cities used to be much darker than they are now; the level of darkness can be best described as pitch black, where it was impossible to see even an inch ahead without moonlight or starlight. Street lights are…