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Last Year's

(TUE) March 25th, 2025

8:25 p.m. Looking back on last year's Takamatsuno-miya Kinen. It ran at an unexpectedly leisurely pace. Japanese sprint G1s rarely runs slower than average. Why did the pace lag then, in the first place? There were front runners like T M Spada, Mozu Meimei, and Win Carnelian so the pace could have been much faster. But it didn't turn out that way, why?

I don't blame Mozu Mei Mei and Win Carnelian as they were shortening the distance from 7 furlongs and a mile race, respectively. Horses tend to drop their positions when they shorten the distance, so it's natural for the formentioned two horses not being able to take the lead. What happened to T M Spada? If she didn't take the lead, who woulld?

Vicor the Winner (from Hong Kong)! No wonder. T M Spada was apparently over her prime, and it looks like she had a bad start as well. I'll check out the video tomorrow.

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Pocketchange
Pocketchange - How to charge your left-over Yen to digital money

If you are ready to leave Japan but have your pocket heavy with leftover Japanese Yen, why not empty your pockets and feel light with Pocketchange?

Holidays

Holidays of March

  • March 20th (THU)
  • Vernal Equinox Day

Food Catalog

Cream Anmitsu
Cream Anmitsu

Fed up with the heat? Here's a nice cold Japanse-style sweets to cheer you up! Cream Anmitsu is a delux version of Anmitsu, Kanten(Japanese gelatine) jelly and fruits with ice cream topping and Kuromitsu caramel sauce poured over it. And what's great, it's low calorie!

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airframe seen from side
Manned flight by oxyride dry-cell batteries project

The Tokyo Institute of Technology in cooperation with Panasonic, has led the project 'Manned Flight by Oxyride Dry-cell Battery' into the world's first success. On July 16th this year (2006), they made success in a trial of manned flight using commercially available oxyride batteries, in a project that they had been bringing forward together.