u/gorudo-

Dear,

This week I'm going to visit Perth alone, and I hope for someone to play with me.

From Japan, staying 2 to 6 July.

You know, the building of the former Government-General of Chosen(조선총독부청사/朝鮮總督府廳舍) was abolished and dismantled in 1995 as a symbol of decolonisation, while there had been a controversy on the necessity to preserve it as historic remnant.

As a Japanese interested in the Empire of Japan, colonisation and de-colonisation, discourses around them, I wish that the building were somehow preserved and made use of as part of Seoul modern historical museum in front of the Royal Palace(경복궁), and that I could read and understand the way this building has been recognised, discussed, and reviewed in the context of Korea's politics of de-colonisation and (colonial) modernity.

edit: a month ago, I visited Busan and I called at Busan modern and contemporary historical museum which makes the most of the building of the former Chosen Bank Busan branch.

You know, after the dismantling of the (previous) national British rail, a remarkable amount of foreign investment has been made to operate British trains with the technique and know-hows applied in their origin countries.

Are their investments regarded as positive? why?

interesting in that Tokyo metro now has a minority of stakes in Elizabeth line.

You know, until KCR 西鐵綫(West Rail Line)-now MTR Tuen Ma line- was launched, Tuen Mun area had been geographically separate and remote from Kowloon's downtown like TST.

How did you commute? after all buses? then how was the connection between them and the Light Rail?

Elizabeth Line Moment

As the title goes, I'm travelling from Tokyo to the WA this July and I wonder how much I should bring cash to exchange for AUD.

I'd like to know how cashless the city is, or whether I'd better use cash in terms of exchange rate(even considering foreign credit card fee).

Plus, doesn't Perth's transport card have an ApplePay version like Suica, Octopus-card, and Oyster card?

tips: excuse me for inadvertently making a silly title. it's about 九龍塘

It's just for a reminiscence of the past MTR.

You know, until 沙田至中環線's opening as the two Pre-KCR lines' extension, 九龍塘站 had functioned as main interchange between 東鉄線 and MTR(觀塘綫).

As TST's transfer route between 屯馬(西鉄) and 荃湾 lines is a little long and takes some time, 九龍塘's changing road is thought to have been the most important for New Territories residents' commuting and trip to Kowloon and HK island, thus to have caused a severe traffic jam in the station, in particular in rush hours.

How is your remembrance?

You know, Japan's JSDF(自衛隊/Japan Self Defence Force) is officially declared not to be the military due to her Constitution's article 9 which prohibits the land of rising sun from possessing any armament to settle its international dispute…

In contrast, Japan's military power is ranked as the world's 9th strongest one. Therefore foreign documents, books, and ariticles (like items in English) are apt to treat it as Japan's regular national force, considering its de facto status.

Then, as I read some articles in Korean such as things in Namu Wiki, JSDF tends to be juxtaposed with the word 준군사조직. What kind of dynamics is behind this denomination?

I ask this question sheerly out of curiosity.

I wonder how the stratification of each univ's prestige is constituted in HK.

En dépit de la narrative que l'IA pourrait diminuer la significance de l'occupation "white-collar" et fortifier la monopolie

de l'industrie connaissance-intensive par un peu des personnes les plus intellectuelles, il y a encore la prestige socio-economique-culturelle jouée par quelques institutions de l'éducation tertiaire, comme les grandes écoles privilegés comme le dernier ENA, l'OxBridge' de l'Anglettere, et les universités impériaux du Japon.

vous en pensez comment? Surtout, sauf les grandes écoles et le Sorbonne, dans la régime de l'université gratuit et publique, il n'y a pas assez d'influence causé par la stratification éducationalle?