Gen 3 has a shorter focal length, enhanced flash, and improved lens performance. With an aperture of f/14.4/f/32, a shutter speed of 1/500 to 1 second, a focal length of 63.75 mm, and a field of view of 38° horizontal/38.8° vertical, the finished impression is more telephoto than the Gen 2. The viewfinder, for example,…
Month: June 2026
Roadside Station Wellness Arao” opens on June 5. It is equipped with Kumamoto’s gourmet food, a terrace overlooking the Ariake Sea, and an RV park where visitors can stay overnight in their cars.
Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture, will open a new tourism and exchange center, “Roadside Station Wellness Arao” (2-3-1 Kaiyo-cho, Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture), in the “Arao Kaiyo Smart Town” located near the Ariake Sea Coastal Highway on June 5. It is a redevelopment area utilizing the former Arao Racecourse site, and was created as part of…
Announcement of Oceania Innovation Seminar & “Pacific-DIVE” Program Open Call ｜ News & PR
Last fiscal year, JICA launched Pacific-DIVE, a program to identify and support innovative technology and business solutions from Japanese companies for solving development issues in the Pacific region. This program is open to companies that aim to develop businesses that contribute to solving local issues while creating synergies with JICA projects in the Pacific region,…
Kura Sushi” plates and teacups are included in the appendix! Official Brand Mook, on sale July 16!
Takarajimasya will release “Kura Sushi Official Dish & Teacup Book” on July 16. The price is 2,299 yen. Official brand mook of the conveyor-belt sushi chain “Kura Sushi. It includes a flat sushi plate, a slightly deep dimpled plate, and a teacup with a large logo on it. Each plate measures approximately 15 x 2…
Revisit the excitement of the Expo. Hiroshi Ishiguro Pavilion “Future of Life +” is back at Takanawa, Tokyo! New scenario added
MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives will hold a special exhibition “Future of Life +”. The exhibition will be held from July 25 to September 25 at “Box1000” in TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY. The signature pavilion “The Future of Life” by Hiroshi Ishiguro, a leading android researcher and professor at Osaka University, which was the talk…
Tickets for the “Nagaoka Matsuri Grand Fireworks Festival” are on sale by lottery until June 8. About 20,000 fireworks in the night sky of Shinano River on August 2 and 3.
The Nagaoka Fireworks Foundation in Niigata Prefecture will hold the “Nagaoka Festival Grand Fireworks Display” on August 2 and 3. The venue is the Shinano River bank (Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture), and the launch time is from 19:20 to 21:10 on both days. The festival is one of the three major fireworks festivals in Japan,…
Omagari Fireworks” will be held in Akita Prefecture on August 29. Seats for spectators are available on a first-come, first-served basis from June 12 via Lochike/e-plus.
The Omagari Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Daisen City in Akita Prefecture will hold the “Omagari Fireworks (98th National Fireworks Competition)” on August 29. The National Fireworks Competition is Japan’s premier fireworks display competition in which 28 companies selected from all over the country compete with each other to display their best fireworks. The…
ATCSW Promotes Collaboration in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand to Strengthen Community Resilience and Disaster Prevention ｜ News & PR
The Project for Human Resource Development in Social Welfare in the ASEAN Region was launched in August 2025. This project is a technical cooperation project implemented by the ASEAN Training Center for Social Welfare and Social Work (ATCSW), the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security of Thailand (MSDHS), and JICA. As a core training…
JAL Disney Sea 25th Anniversary Special Painted Aircraft Departs for Kumamoto! The first flight was sent off with a banner “JAL Jubilee Express
On June 4, JAL launched the “JAL Jubilee Express,” a specially painted aircraft commemorating the Tokyo DisneySea 25th Anniversary “Sparkling Jubilee,” an anniversary event at Tokyo DisneySea. The aircraft will operate on domestic routes to/from Haneda and Shin-Chitose for a limited time until around April 2027. The first flight was JL625 from Haneda to Kumamoto…
The 74th Kumagaya Fireworks Festival will be held on August 8. Advance sales of paid spectator seats will be available until June 10, starting from the front near the fireworks.
Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, will hold the 74th Kumagaya Fireworks Festival on August 8. The event will take place along the Arakawa River (downstream from the Arakawa Ohashi Bridge) from 19:00 to 21:00. In case of stormy weather, the event will be postponed to the following day. The number of fireworks to be launched is…