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During my time as student in Berlin, I went every day with the subway across Berlin to the Free University in Dahlem. People sat with their backs to the window side, i.e. all were facing each other, face to face. No, almost all the faces were covered with a newspaper, up to 95% with the infamous BILD, and with the equally notorious BZ. Now and then you could see the TAGESSPIEGEL. The oversized letters of the red tops enabled effortless reading.
Here in Tokyo in the urban trains you sit face to face as well. But you almost never see a newspaper, but most people have a cell phone (Mobile) before their faces: to read, play, watch movies, smile, do hairdressing in the mirror image of the device … but they do not phone or receice calls with loud ringing. These rules are really observed.
With focussing on their mobile phone, people leave the train, go upstairs, and move fast from or to the large tower buildings.
Such images are sometimes referred to as “UNICEF” photos . Children with big eyes are always touching. This image is from Tamara-Diana Braunstein, established in New York. She moved to Dakar, Senegal, for a job as a teacher in the great Africa. Now, after two years of Africa, it works in Dortmund and Bochum. The image is not to generate pity, but to show the beauty, the pride and joy of life of people in Senegal. This is clear from the contents of the book, Tamara has written about this unusual two years.
This blog contains basically no commercial ads and things, but for this book in my mini-publishing company, I would like recommend this book (currently in print, subscription price of 10%). I read the vivid descriptions carefully and with joy. All in English, but with 86 color photographs of Tamara. No one-sided enthusiasm but critical view of daily life, religions and culture.
Note: There are few other blogs without commercial: here is a photographic blog by Thomas Pindelski
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Japan strongly welcomed the Nobel Prize for Obama:
‘‘It’s not easy for the president of the United States, the biggest holder of nuclear (weapons), to call for the creation of a nuclear-free world,’’ said Hatoyama, who met with Obama in New York on the sidelines of U.N. meetings late last month. In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano also congratulated Obama for winning the prize and lauded the president’s leadership and efforts for a nuclear-free world.
The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with its disastrous consequences have demonstrated the real impact of nuclear weapons. Nobel had invented dynamite. Nobel hated the war (though he made a lot of money from it ), but felt a particularly strong and terrible weapon of destruction to mankind would be deterred by the war and wanted to dedicate his work this goal. For the Nobel Prize, he wrote: “… the most or best work for fraternity between peoples and for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and proliferation has worked for peace congresses.”
Obama’s vision of a nuclear-free world deserves strong support and not faint-hearted comments.
