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[Nilgiri]

By the way, how is your current long winter vacation in Arctic Canada? In Tokyo, the temperature goes down to -3C at nights. Day time is also quite cold when it is windy. Tokyo has almost a moderate temperature comparing to places like northern Japan and even some of the southern parts like Hiroshima.

This is why Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Founder of Tokugawa Shogunate (1600 CE) established the Capital here. Surrounding lands/Prefectures always have good harvests that earned the then govt to earn a lot of tax money. Under the Feudal system, Tokyo govt's direct access to the resources of the country was almost limited to these areas. The other areas had other feudal Lords subservient to Tokyo but had access to the resources in their own fiefdoms.

I have seen the Shogunate Palace many times now occupied by the Emperor. It is built on a very large high mound at least 2/3 sq. km. and is surrounded by one remaining wide moat filled with water.

Sorry for the long blubbering.

Sorry sky-bhai I only saw this now (I think you posted it quick after the first reply back then and it got joined together).

History of Japan is indeed a fascinating one (Edo was the old name for Tokyo area I believe?). I may be in Nagoya later on in the year for a research conference...we should meet up if so.

- 3 here is very mild temperature wise (eastern interior canada) for winter. Right now outside its about -20 (with windchill)....and its not rare for a few days of winter to touch even -45 C here. Like I was telling my mom a bit earlier...I can roughly gauge (in blocks of 10 degrees) just how cold it is by how quick the water in my nose freezes up when I step outside...its an all together different peculiar feeling. We do not have access to an ocean nextdoor like you do (to help regulate/moderate)....so our winters are quite bitterly cold...but not as bad as truly central interior Canada like Winnipeg etc. (or further up north).

 

[Black_cats]

Sorry sky-bhai I only saw this now (I think you posted it quick after the first reply back then and it got joined together).

History of Japan is indeed a fascinating one (Edo was the old name for Tokyo area I believe?). I may be in Nagoya later on in the year for a research conference...we should meet up if so.

- 3 here is very mild temperature wise (eastern interior canada) for winter. Right now outside its about -20 (with windchill)....and its not rare for a few days of winter to touch even -45 C here. Like I was telling my mom a bit earlier...I can roughly gauge (in blocks of 10 degrees) just how cold it is by how quick the water in my nose freezes up when I step outside...its an all together different peculiar feeling. We do not have access to an ocean nextdoor like you do (to help regulate/moderate)....so our winters are quite bitterly cold...but not as bad as truly central interior Canada like Winnipeg etc. (or further up north).

Which city of Canada do you live? Toronto or Montréal or Atlantic provinces!!

 

[Nilgiri]

Which city of Canada do you live? Toronto or Montréal or Atlantic provinces!!

Somewhere in that general area....don't want to say exactly (I do shift from time to time as well)...

 

[bluesky]

Somewhere in that general area....don't want to say exactly (I do shift from time to time as well)...

I heard Vancouver on the west coast has quite a mild temperature. But, how mild it can be? I went to Nigeria via Alaska and probably Amsterdam. Alaska was a transit. I saw outside. My God!! All looked frozen for a millennium.

I lived in Seoul for six months. It was freezing cold at -14C but the apartment blocks were centrally heated. You piss outside it gets frozen then and then. Before I came to Japan I used to think, like a stupid, Asia is warm and only Europe/ America is cold. But, Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia all are very very cold.

I am happy to live in a place just about 6km further from Tokyo border. Weather here is milder compared to other places in the north. Hokkaido may have 5m high snowfall in winter. I think it is the same or more in most places of your Arctic Canada.

 

[Nilgiri]

I heard Vancouver on the west coast has quite a mild temperature. But, how mild it can be?

It's pretty mild out there...because the ocean provides warm regulating current. Vancouver barely goes below 0 in general in winter (its summers are also pretty mild...and do not get that hot).

I went to Nigeria via Alaska and probably Amsterdam. Alaska was a transit. I saw outside. My God!! All looked frozen for a millennium.

Well yes interior + mountainous parts of Alaska are extremely cold...again the ocean effect can't "get" to it to play any role. But if you landed in say Anchorage, you would have noticed its warmer most of the time compared to most of (interior) Alaska given its on the same coast as Vancouver (and similar ocean effect).

But, Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia all are very very cold.

Yes mongolia and interior China + central asia are very similar to Siberia in Russia. Same northern latitude but more importantly far from the ocean so there is no massive (that too replenishing by warm currents) body of water to help give some thermal inertia.

Of course go far enough north and even when you have ocean, you can get pretty cold days in Japan and Korea like you said (and even more so directly above them in kamchatka/eastern siberia in Russia).

I am happy to live in a place just about 6km further from Tokyo border. Weather here is milder compared to other places in the north. Hokkaido may have 5m high snowfall in winter. I think it is the same or more in most places of your Arctic Canada.

Hokkaido sure by its latitude and probably more exposure to the Siberian weather patterns would be closer and sometimes similar to what we get here in Canada. Probably why it took long time for Japanese people to expand and colonise there (if you know the story and history of the Ainu people for example) and integrate it with Japan proper.

But I would say still it wont approach Canada even here in the more temperate zones (during winter) on average in general...and forget proper Canadian arctic...that compares more with interior Siberia and Antarctica....as probably 3 coldest landmasses on Earth.

BTW bluesky, how long you have been living in Japan out of interest? Do you speak Japanese fluently?

 

[Black_cats]

Somewhere in that general area....don't want to say exactly (I do shift from time to time as well)...

Are you afraid that Hasina or it's people will bust your balls for criticizing her ?

 

[bluesky]

Hokkaido sure by its latitude and probably more exposure to the Siberian weather patterns would be closer and sometimes similar to what we get here in Canada. Probably why it took long time for Japanese people to expand and colonise there (if you know the story and history of the Ainu people for example) and integrate it with Japan proper.

Ainu people are the oldest inhabitants of Japan. The main Japanese people call themselves Yamato. This Yamato group entered Japan from China, Korea, Vietnam, and even Polynesia and intermingled among themselves to form the Yamato group. Ainu gave a hard fight to the expanding Yamato group. But, finally, they were expelled to Hokkaido. Ainu people are fast losing their identity. They are full citizens of Japan without any discrimination.

The Emperor's family is supposed to be hailed from Korea. But, there is a taboo to discuss this openly. However, only last year the current Emperor talked about a Baekje (Korean) Lady to become the Queen in Japan many hundred years ago and he and his forefather Emperors are continuing that blood. The statement is true and he said so in order to soften the hard line Korean attitude towards Japan because of many past events.

BTW bluesky, how long you have been living in Japan out of interest? Do you speak Japanese fluently?

A few tens of years. Yes, I speak Japanese quite fluently, but cannot read it all and writing is most difficult unless one has the continuous habit of writing.

 

[Nilgiri]

Are you afraid that Hasina or it's people will bust your balls for criticizing her ?

There are quite a few number of BAL power ppl + their relatives here in Canada. I have even met some of them (through mutual friends). I don't want them (or any political types more generally) getting interested in me if they come across me here at some point. Already one (non-BD person I know in RL) has brought up this forum with me and a few (other topics) dicussions I've had...so I am taking a breather from how much of me I share here.

A few tens of years. Yes, I speak Japanese quite fluently, but cannot read it all and writing is most difficult unless one has the continuous habit of writing.

Cool. Regarding reading, you recognise more with kanji, hiragana or katakana script?...or all about the same?

Yes I can see how writing would be extremely difficult.

 

[bluesky]

Cool. Regarding reading, you recognise more with kanji, hiragana or katakana script?...or all about the same?

Yes I can see how writing would be extremely difficult.

Hiragana and Katakana scripts are more like English or Bengali alphabets. It is like a, i, u, e, o. Someone born in Japan and goes to Japanese schools can possibly learn Kanji, the Chinese characters. So, people like us are in between good and bad, some we can read and some cannot.

In my case, I can understand many kanjis but in many cases, I may not be able to read/pronounce them correctly. There are two/three ways of pronouncing each kanji. For example, the Kanji for EAST is TO (same in TOkyo/東京), Higashi and also Azuma.

It is true that the old name of the Capital was Edo. It was named Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration in the late 1860s. Its meaning is eastern Capital. On the contrary, the meaning of Beijing/Peking (北京) is northern Capital. 北 is north, kita in Japanese. It is possible that Japan followed Great China to rename its Capital.

 

[Bilal9]

@Dubious bhai the thread has too many off topic discussions now. Maybe we can move them to the sticky 'chill' thread please.

 

[Nilgiri]

北 is north, kita in Japanese.

Yep I know this one in Chinese... "Bei" ....because lot of HK slang nicknames/insults for Mainlanders starts with "Bei". I learned some important characters in Chinese...HK signs were/are fairly bilingual, but it helps still to know enough.

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