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Kowloon – The Walled City – Kawasaki Warehouse

Kenji Harada — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:09:09 +0000

Entered into a uniquely themed game center in Tokyo. This game center is themed after a historic city in Hong Kong Called “The Walled City” in Kowloon. Alot of details were placed in to get the look and feel just right. Here is a link with more info:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

YAKUSHIMA WONDERLAND

Kenji Harada — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:36:09 +0000

Yakushima island is World Heritage site in Japan. There are as many as 6 mountain peaks over 1,800 m high including Miyanoura-dake (1,935 m above sea level), the highest mountain in Kyushu, and this is what gives the island its other name-the ‘Alps on the ocean’. Jomon-Sugi is said to be 6,300 or 7,200 years old. It was well known in the Edo Period.

Happy Dayz Production happydayz.jp

KOYASAN SHINGON BUDDHISM (short ver.)

Kenji Harada — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:42:19 +0000

About Koyasan 高野山
Koyasan is home to an active monastic center founded twelve centuries ago by the priest 空海 Kukai (posthumously known as Kobo Daishi) for the study and practice of Esoteric Buddhism. It is the headquarters of the Koyasan sect of Shingon Buddhism, a faith with a wide following throughout Japan.
– from Official website
eng.shukubo.net/about.html

Producer : Hidetaka Ino
Director+Editor : Yasuhito Tsuge
Director of photography+Colorist : Masato Indo
Composer : Ayako Taniguchi
Production : augment5 Inc.

Gunkanjima – Battleship Island

Kenji Harada — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:39:06 +0000

Producer : Hidetaka Ino
Director+Cam+Edit : Yasuhito Tsuge
Assistant : Yu Aoki
Composer : Yasuhiro Nakashima
yasuhironakashima.com/
Aerial Shoot : Jun Ikeda , Hisashi Tamoto（Aozora Eizo）
aozoraeizo.com/

Production : augment5 Inc.
augment5.com/

– Release　2013/06/28
googlejapan.blogspot.jp/2013/06/blog-post_28.html

– Detail about This Project (from designtaxi.com)
designtaxi.com/news/358943/Explore-Japan-s-Abandoned-Battleship-Island-With-Google-Maps/

In the recent James Bond movie ‘Skyfall’, the villain’s secret hideout was located on a deserted island filled with derelict buildings. That location was actually based on Hashima, also known as Battleship Island, an island off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

Google Maps has mapped the uninhabited island using Google Trekker, allowing anyone to explore the area on their desktop.

Hashima was populated from the late 19th century to the 1970s as a coal mining facility. The island was then completely abandoned, only opening up to the public again in 2009.

However, many parts of the island are off limits to tourists as it is unsafe; strong winds have been known to cause parts of buildings to collapse, due to the deteriorating condition.

Google, with the assistance of Nagasaki City, was able to “collect imagery with the Google Trekker beyond the cordoned-off areas for tourists and into off-limits paths around the island”. They were also able to use their ‘Business Photos’ technology to give a glimpse into the “abandoned buildings, complete with ancient black-and-white TVs and discarded soda bottles”.