Not sure where this should go, please let me know where this should go, or redirect it if appropriate.
PS: This is gonna be a long multi-point post. It started with a couple questions then I got carried away.
I'd love to see YouTube video series on the following:
Japanese woodwork (especially karakuri tansu [EDIT: and Himitsu-Bako ]). I'm very interested in woodwork. Wish I could share some urls to give you a sense of what I mean. Google "Clayton Boyer Clock Designs" to get a sense of the kind of stuff I'm referring to.
Japanese bee keeping.
Japanese traditional blacksmithing. Modern metal working.
Japanese gardening (that means producing food, for you Europeans
. By the way, if your back-yard is called "the garden" what do you call the place where you grow your food?)
Traditional Japanese skills such as working with stone, wood, straw, etc.
Food storage such as canning (preserving, I think Europeans call it. Sealing food for long term storage in glass jars "Mason jars"
. Drying, freezing, etc.
Japanese art (modern)
What kind of DIY are the Japanese into?
Do the Japanese have the equivalent of what Americans call "Preppers"? Do they take security precautions such as locking doors, using security alarms, etc.
Japanese police, firemen, first-responders. Uniforms, duties, non-common rights, training.
Japanese public vehicle lights and sirens!
The Japanese way of thinking when developing public utilities, such as sewage, etc.
Most of us, unless we're some profession or trade of infrastructure construction or maintenance use these services obliviously. When you look around and see today's best science being applied on a massive scale, it's simply awe-inspiring to know that we shoe-wearing-monkeys can manage water and electricity and transportation for MILLIONS of people.
Example: Have you ever considered (at least in Canada) that EACH telephone pole, electrical transformer is identified? How else do you think that the service person knows where to go to fix it? Next time you walk past a utility pole, look for little metal tags or stamps in the wood.
Agriculture. What are the methods and attitudes? Are they mostly organic, or do they do it as the rest of the world? What are the products they produce?
Japanese house construction. Japan is earth-quake territory. What are some of the tell-tale signs of it that we might not think of. (For example: not a lot of stone buildings, lots of wood buildings).
Japanese road construction (yeah, how do they build and maintain roads). How many layers of this or that material, what thickness, why? How does this work with earth-quakes, how do they handle traffic redirection, etc.
What large groups of people in the country are known as bat-shit crazy? American examples might be militias.
What groups of people are somewhat mocked? In Canada we have Newfies (People born in the province of Newfoundland). In the states they're often backwood rednecks called Hill Billies.
In Canada there's a custom, especially in large cities. If you want to give away stuff such as books, exercise equipment, old furniture, you simply place it by the sidewalk with a note: Take me!
Do they have flea markets? (I'd LOVE to see one of those!)
What are their hardware stores like?
I'll probably have more questions as time goes on, but if you were looking for ideas of stuff to put on YouTube, I may have overdosed you
Hopefully, there'll be more videos... coming soon!
Thanks!
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