Monday 10 December 2007

銀座

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銀座是日本東京中央區的一個主要商業區,以高級購物商店聞名,是東京其中一個代表性地區。
銀座位於中央區西部,分為銀座一丁目至銀座八丁目。銀座四丁目與銀座五丁目之間被晴海通所分隔,全部8個丁目由中央通貫通。


歴史
中央通
晴海通
首都高速
銀座站
東銀座站
銀座一丁目站
有樂町站

銀座為背景的電影
日產汽車
松屋(日文維基)
資生堂

Sunday 26 August 2007

India Bomb Blasts Kill 40, Minister Blames Terrorists

By Ashok Bhattacharjee and Bibhudatta Pradhan

Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Two bombs exploded in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad late yesterday, killing 40 people and injuring another 50. The state's chief minister said the attackers were linked to overseas terrorist groups.

One bomb blew up at a street-side restaurant in the Kothi area of the city, the capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh, while the other rocked an open-air auditorium in the Lumbini Park area, Jeevan Reddy, state minister for roads and buildings, said today in a telephone interview.

``Available information points out that terrorist organizations from Bangladesh and Pakistan are behind it,'' Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said in a televised briefing today. ``Most of the time, the external terrorist organizations are responsible for'' such attacks. He didn't elaborate, beyond saying that no arrests had been made.

Police defused a third bomb, set to explode at 10:35 p.m. local time yesterday, about three hours after the two blasts, Reddy said after a cabinet meeting in Hyderabad. The roads minister previously said two bombs had been defused.

``This is a terror plot, this is a terror attack,'' Hyderabad's Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said in a telephone interview. ``But the situation is now under control.''

Muslim Population

Hyderabad has a large Muslim population among its 6.5 million residents. A bomb at a mosque on May 18 killed 11 people when it exploded during Friday afternoon prayers.

The Press Trust of India put the toll at 42 dead, citing police. The restaurant death toll was 32 and the fatalities at the open-air auditorium, where a laser show was going on, totaled 10, PTI said.

The chief minister appealed to people not to believe or propagate rumors and announced compensation payments of 500,000 ($12,000) rupees for the next of kin of those who died. Reddy also pledged a government job to those families that had lost their breadwinner.

Monday 16 July 2007

Lady Bird Johnson laid to rest



JOHNSON CITY, Texas — Past the yellow tufts of sunflowers that stayed late into summer and the unobscured green hills, past red, white and blue U.S. and Texas flags and dozens of neighbors holding wildflower bouquets, Lady Bird Johnson returned to the place she called "heart's home."

The procession bearing her hearse followed a 65-mile route that she had traveled so often, from Austin to her beloved ranch, where she was buried Sunday next to her husband, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who died in 1973.

Along the route, thousands paid tribute to the former first lady, who while belonging to a nation, was especially embraced by these people in lawn chairs, holding umbrellas against the sun, who rose, pulled off their hats and applauded as the 30-car processional passed.

"My passion and love of wildflowers are in part from Lady Bird," said Diane Hayden, who traveled from Austin to watch the cortege arrive in Johnson City. "It's a deep love that goes through and through, and I feel like there's a connection between Lady Bird and me."