This Joel and his band playing for the first and last time at the Star Club in Kobe City before returning home to England...(some feedback on this one turn down your speakers!)
Recently the Soran dance has become a very popular junior high school dance for the girls to do at the Sports Festival, I got a good video of the one at my present school...
I was invited to take part in a tea ceremony at Kofukuji temple in Nagata by Amatake-san. It was a very solemn occasion as it was the first one for the year 2007. In this video I'm just waiting around while everyone changes into kimonos.
In Japan, all of the young adults who turn 20 wear a kimono and celebrate at specific venues with their friends, they have their first (legal) drink or smoke and have fun with people they haven't seen in a long while...
We are starting the first game here, running up the mountain to get the flag...I'm just videotaping but the fellas up the hill started shooting at me...