Japan {Content}

Preparing the trip to Japan

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Creativity and it's cultural origins

• (Japonarama)

Robotics and it's cultural origins

• following the conference enjoyed in the College de France last year (add a link)
• Study on worker availability vs e-worker
  • statistics on workers needs / capacity to build robots and the pace of production / fertality rate

Aikido

• Dojos? Culture?
• Video by Henry Kono : Yin and Yang in Motion
  • "We always give out our center" (@0:17:03-0:17:28)
  • "You should be moving on your own orbit" (@1:01:01)
  • "This is the hardest thing : watch your own center" (@1:02:33)
  • "Nothing is different in Aikido from one technique to another.
    They are all the same.
    The outer form is different." (@1:28:06)
  • "Your physical weight doesn't change but you will get lighter. Your body movement will get lighter" (@1:31:09)
  • "He is telling me exactly where he is going to be.
    Even if he wanted to stop he can not stop when the movement starts.
    I am not unbalancing him.
    I am going to keep him so balance so he can not move also he is moving.
    This is the only way he can move." (@1:33:55-1:34:25)

Japanese language

• http://www.iknow.co.jp/

Sightseeing

• Zen Garden north of Tokyo

Tips from friends

• Angel : Tokyo (of course), Nara and Kyoto is my best prefer, because is a historycal cities, they are near, very near from each other. Osaka is nice too, and Nagoya is a big city. But you have to go to Kyoto, is beautiful and have studios of Samurai movies, parks, a lot of things.