Cool job of the week: Elevator engineer. Position held by Ulala's cousin's husband, Tsunehiro. His business, as all major manufacturing sectors, has been hit hard by the Global Recession. But his job is safe (for now) and he and his wife Noriko have a baby on the way, so Congratulations to them!
This tower is in the 'burbs of Nagoya and it is the mythic testing site of Mitsubishi Elevator Division. That`s right. They built a big ol` tower for the sole purpose of running test elevators up and down AND occasionally dropping them for safety tests.
The neighborhood where this tower stands tall is called "Inazawa" and the engineers, with their typically nerdy sense of wit, built the tower 173 meters tall. In Japanese, that would be "EE-chi-NA-na-ZA-n". I-na-za - and wa is used as a topic marking particle. Clever. Geeky.
Symian is wondering how Friday snick up on him like that.
Currently Reading: Time Magazine.
Currently Listening: Little Tom
Kanji of the Day: 走 ソウ／はし(る)
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