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🥛Cold milk 5-sen 🍞Bread with butter or jam 7-sen Ryogoku Station,1932 One Sen銭 is 1/100th of a yen (Sen stopped being accepted as currency in 1988) In 1931 the starting salary for a teacher was 50 yen a month

Now he’s made a Jittoku, a secret tool used by the Mubyoshi school. There was an illustration but not a diagram of the inside. Recently one was found in a private collection. Recreated with hardened tool steel, Indonesian rosewood, brass and Japanese silk cord.

Kind of tangently related: illustration of the first large scale drone war. Shows the dramatic increase in drone production by Russia & Ukraine ⭐︎Drones responsible for 80% of damage ⭐︎ Between 2022~ 23, Ukraine had a 3000% increase ⭐︎Between 23~24 Russia 1000% increase

How to defend yourself from a ninja (whilst on vacation) ⑥ If you are traveling and the lock on your hotel room door is dubious, you can tie the door shut or use a tatami mat to block the paper & wood Shoji sliding doors. The weight of the mat will prevent the door from opening

Wayfinder stone Meiji 42 (1909) 大師道

Old school Ryukyu martial arts demo: Bo (staff) vs Eku (oar)

Podcast about the state of the podcasting industry in Japan, “which is not nearly as developed as in the US.” At one point, the guest introduced Rogan and talked about how he had then candidate Trump on for a 3-hour interview “A lot of people who listened to it thought, “Hey,