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Kyudo, Japanese Archery

The ancient art of Japanese archery, named Kyudo in the nippon language, is still practiced nowadays by young and old. There are two important elements in Kyudo. The first one, efficiency, puts emphasis on hitting the target each time. The second, aesthetics, is concerned by the appearance or meditative process that goes in every shot. In other words, one seeks to hit the target with a motion as beautiful or as elegant as possible.

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Getting ready for Kyudo competition

Kyudo line

Kyudo Japanese Archery

Kyudo twins

Kyudo warm-up

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Nagano Winter Olympic Stadium

Nagano was the host city of the 1998 Olympic games. The building presented here is the stadium of the opening ceremony with the Olympic torch still on display. Olympics facilities for hockey, speed skating, figure skating are scattered throughout Nagano whereas the ski events were held in Hakone. The Olympics were a profoundly marking event for the people of Nagano. It created an accelerated development of the town (notably the arrival of the Shinkansen rapid train) with a sudden increase of the infrastructures and also a cultural opening to the world.

Nagano Olympic stadium

Nagano Olympic torch and stadium

Snowlets, mascots of Nagano Olympics

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Country: Japan
Area : Chubu area
Prefecture : Nagano-ken
City : Nagano-shi
District : Shinonoitōfukuji

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A visit of Nagano’s olympic facilities

The host city of the 1998 Olympics was Nagano Japan. A short bicycle ride brought us to the stadium of the opening ceremony. Here I am taken in picture with the Olympic torch and the “Snowlets”, the olympics mascots. The Olympics were a profoundly marking event for the people of Nagano. It created an accelerated development of the town with a sudden increase of the infrastructures and also a cultural opening to the world.

As an anecdote ,the people of Nagano,all Japanese they are, and especially the mayor of the time, wanted to greet so well the athletes that they were offering free beverages in vending machines. This led to a lot of abuse from the athletes who took great amounts of unnecessary drinks.

I also heard of some fight between American and Canadian hockey teams after perhaps some abuse of alcohol…