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All the More Reason

(THU) October 2nd, 2025

8:56 p.m. After finishing the setting changes for my mail provider, I finally got around to checking out the latest news about Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. The forecast seems to have changed and now they're saying that Longchamp will have rain from Friday to Saturday. Well, I'm not counting on the weather, I just said that it would be easier for Japanese horses to perform well if the track was dry, fast, less power-consuming.

Just checked the closed entry form for Kyoto Daishoten. 18 horses running. All right, it's going to be afull-field race! That's much more attractive as well as interesting than a small-field Mainichi Ohkan which probably will run on fast, dry turf.

Okay, let me take a quick look at Kyoto's weather this weekend. Woah, they're having rain on Saturday! All te more reason I should bet on Kyoto Daishoten.

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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 October

  • October 13th (MON)
  • Sports 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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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.