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It is actually noticeably cooler here today.
Should get warmer again, but nice all the same.
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They were on one of the satellite channels over summer, I recorded them. Not watched yet. They will very likely repeat them, as they always seem to.
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It seems a bit not-Japanese to me, liking service and all.
Then again, I suppose the self-service petrol stations do well. Though they are cheaper aren't they.
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Actually get some sun today maybe?
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No.
Hold on I'll post a hint
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Maiko is closer than Nozawa
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You don't need to!
I know what a momiji looks like in full autumn colours.
Presumably that means that the full autumn colours ends earlier for you then.
It's getting October before we have them here.
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Are you adding a slight exaggeration with the "full autumn colours" for the momiji there, snowdude?
Do they get even 'fuller' autumn colours next month?
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I vaguely remember something about a hot day, cold night combination being best for colours, but it might be rubbish.
I've only seen photos, but Ontake looks like it has a large area of rowan trees (nanakamado) up near the alpine. They go bright red and are well spectacular. I like photos with big swathes of colour more than individual trees.
I like that idea. Somewhere over Nagano/Gifu kind of way.
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Cloudy but quite bright start.
Rain forecast later.
Fed up of rain.
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Friend at uni sharing a house with usually got up around 3pm.
Can't remember ever seeing him studying, perhaps that's why he scraped a third!
Wouldn't mind if he had been living some mad excite lifestyle, but it really wasn't.
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Tried this morning to do some work with the windows open.
It's not mad hot, but I was starting to get real sweaty with the humid thing still going on, so on with the aircon for a bit I think.
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South Koreans will be 'extinct' by 2750 if nothing is done to halt the nation's falling fertility rate, according to a study by The National Assembly Research Service in Seoul.
The fertility rate declined to a new low of 1.19 children per woman in 2013, the study showed, well below the fertility rate required to sustain South Korea's current population of 50 million people, the Chosun Ilbo reported.
In a simulation, the NARS study suggests that the population will shrink to 40 million in 2056 and 10 million in 2136. The last South Korean, the report indicates, will die in 2750, making it the first national group in the world to become extinct.
The simulation is a worst-case scenario and does not consider possible changes in immigration policy, for example.
The study, carried out at the request of Yang Seung-jo, a member of the opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, underlines the challenges facing a number of nations in the Asia-Pacific region.
Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and increasingly China are all experiencing growing financial pressures caused by rising healthcare costs and pension payments for an elderly population.
The problem is particularly serious in South Korea, where more than 38 per cent of the population is predicted to be of retirement age by 2050, according to the National Statistics Office. The equivalent figure in Japan is an estimated 39.6 per cent by 2050.
According to a 2012 study conducted by Tohoku University, Japan will go extinct in about one thousand years, with the last Japanese child born in 3011.
David Coleman, a population expert at Oxford University, has previously warned that South Korea's fertility rate is so low that it threatens the existence of the nation.
The NARS study suggests that the southern Korean port city of Busan is most at risk, largely because of a sharp decline in the number of young and middle-aged residents, and that the last person will be born in the city in 2413.
Don't worry though, it's a 'worst case scenario' apparently.
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Sure is. A day to be inside today with the rain belting down again.
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Towada.
A bit far, but would like to go up there.
Thanks.
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Heavy rain.
Again.
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This autumn I want to go somewhere I haven't been yet for some fab autumn photo taking.
I did Nikko the other year, and of course done lots around Niigata.
Any good recommendations?
Not just 'normal' beautiful, most mountain areas look pretty when the colors turn - but I have plenty of that on my doorstep.
Interested in something special. Particularly from Gifu in the south to Yamagata in the north kind of area.
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Aircon is borderline, I bet most people not using them.
hopefully. to me too soon!
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Not here, it's still very humid in daytime.
Had the aircon on for an hour last night too to get to sleep.
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Ah my turn then...
Self service tills
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There are indeed!