Japan - News/General Discussion

thxss for the informational insight! :applaud:

i read it reached all the way to the philippines?

that really sux, i hope our peeps from japan who goes to this forum is ok :(

i realy hope KOOk05 is OK :( :)

yeah i saw it on nhk.. scale 8.0 happening around hokkaido right.. i've never experienced one.. so i really dun know what it is like to be on location during an earthquake.. taihen desu ne~

lovelessemotion wrote:i realy hope KOOk05 is OK :( :)

lovelessemotion ... what happen to kooko5 ... i missed out the topic ... :naughty:

i mean she lives in the south east pacific rim..... so i hope nothin happend beause of the earthquake...like typhoons or stunamis

lovelessemotion wrote:i mean she lives in the south east pacific rim..... so i hope nothin happend beause of the earthquake...like typhoons or stunamis

oochhh

A very sad event in Japan. There was only one killed, over 400 ppl were injured. The damage wasn't high, that's good.. A massive clearing up operation has begun. A sad day to insurance companies as well, I wonder if insurance companies cover up the damage by eartquake. It is estimated that there'll be a massive earthquake in Kanto region within this decade, as horrified as the Great Kanto earthquake claimin the lives of 142 000 ppl in 1923 :shakehead: :sweat:

lovelessemotion wrote:i realy hope KOOk05 is OK :( :)

hey loveless...... :)
thanks..... :muack:
me am ok... ;)
nothing much ever happens here..... thank goodness...
no earthquakes, no typhoons, no volcanoes and no tsunamis...... :mrgreen:
only unpredictable weather...... :shakehead:
and plenty of rainfall recently........ wet wet wet...... :shakehead:

singapore de..? it's raining almost everyday.. and everytime it rains heavily i know later in the news there will be reports of typhoons in other regions..

kook05 wrote: wet wet wet...... :shakehead:

LOL i like the sound of that :sweat: ....oh so peverted.....lol sorryJK jK jk jk jk jk :sweat:

ok what I want to know is what is that sound that can be heard in animes, jdramas, and jmovies. It usually happens when the anime/drama/movie is on a Summer time scene and outdoors. It sounds something like this
wwwwwweeeeeeeppppppp weeeeeeeeeeeeeeep wwweeeeep

I heard it the most in Neon Genesis Evangelion and alot of times in Japanese Dramas.

Im guessing its some kind of Summer bird or bug!? :google:

i think it's the cicadas...
but i could be wrong.
oh well~

it is the cicadas. i dont remember which drama, maybe gto?, it shows the actual bug while the noise is being made. i think that the cicada is a very common insect around japan, so it always appears in dramas and anime.

hmmm Cicadas eh? *tries to remeber the GTO LA episode* Id like to see what this bug looks like.

yeah that it is the cicadas. I used to lived in the countryside of Thailand and there are lots of sound like that epecially in the early morning and late at night. Man brings back fond memories of childhood... :)

cicadas also appear around singapore usually at night.. :mrgreen:

lolx! the way u express the sound's cute! lolx!!

Cicades? what's that? are they anywhere near crickets? cuz they make noises too! i remember my dad telling me that they used to catch them to battle each other.. kekez... childhood days..

Cicadas, or in JPNese (pronounced "semi") are plentiful in the summertime in JPN. More info here.

Yup, cicadas. Those lil buggers go crazy in Texas during the summer. Glad I just visit there. :D