What's in Japan.

Have you ever erased necessary applications of your smart phones? I'll introduce how did I reinstalled Talk.app, one of the pre-installed applications, into my XPERIA IS11S.

The beginning of this story is an annoying alarm of small remain disk space. And I deleted Talk, but I awared it is really important, because gmail's alert had become not to work and gmail account synchronization had become not to work.

The simple solution is to get and reinstall the application. But I couldn't find Talk.apk.

Here's my solution. I used SManager with root. First, launch a shell with SManager. Let's search Talk.apk. Type "cd /", "find -name Talk.apk". In my case, Talk.apk is in /system/app.

Go to /system/app. Type "cd /system/app". And next, "pm install -r Talk.apk" If you can see "Success" message, input command ctrl+z and type "reboot".

After rebooting, you can use the application as before erasing.

Ganjin

I went to Toshodaiji. It was established by Ganjin in 759, who was a priest, came from China in 752.

How many times had he challenged to ship to Japan? He tried 5 times. Former 4 times he failed.

World Heritage

Now, Toshodaiji is a world heritage. So when it was damaged, it should be re-established with old ingredients as much as possible. From 2001 to 2009 was the re-establishing term because it was damaged by big earth quake in 1995.

In Toshodaiji, exhibits its re-establishing process with models.

Azekuradukuri

Do you know Azekuradukuri? It is a way to build a storehouse with wood. Azekuradukuri can control humidity in the building and has special wood plate to reject mouses.

Shosoin is also built in Azekuradukuri way. 7 Azekuradukuri buildings are in Nara prefecture and 2 of 7 are in Toshodaiji. 11 are in Kyoto Prefecture.

Sumioni

Toshodaiji has 4 sumioni. Sumioni are on the corner of the roof("sumi" means corner, in Japanese). It's said that they prevent evil spirit.

Do you know from what are benches at train stations made?

Tickets

Benches at stations are made from used tickets.

When people ride on trains, they buy tickets, and when ride off the trains, they insert the tickets into ticket gate machine. Then a big amount of used tickets are piled into the machine.

Company managing station reuse such used tickets for bench. Press tickets, bend and cut and transform to bench.

I'm scheduling to move to Tokyo Prefecture for business in December. The next home is near by Ayase station in Tokyo. It's northern part of Tokyo.

Rent is high in inner part of Yamanote line, in Tokyo. A real estate agent said that rent price in Saitama was broken, too low.

The rent I took an contract is 130 thousands yen per month. It is about 15 thoudans US dollar. And space is 55 square meter, for 2 people.

Ayase station is located in Adachi-ku and Adachi-ku is often thought as dangerous place. But reality is different, Ayase is really safe place, because real estate agents around Ayase decided not to contract with people who are getting public assistance a few years ago. In Japan, people can get public assistance too easily, even if their reason to get it is "I don't want to work.' Actually, many people get public assistance in that way, especially non-Japanese people who had migrate to Japan for public assistance.

Many people think it is a bad use of tax income.

I installed VMWare Tools into Debian 6 on VMWare on Windows XP SP3. It was too difficult.

VMware requires linux-header 2.6.32-5-686 and gcc-4.3. I guess it's because gcc-4.3 is the base of linux-headers. But why does VMWare Tools require linux-headers? and why installing VMWare tools is such complicated? Error message was showed many time.

The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

What is the location of the gcc program on your machine? /usr/bin/gcc

The path "/usr/bin/gcc" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

What is the location of the gcc program on your machine?

The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes] /usr/bin/gcc-4.4

The answer "/usr/bin/gcc-4.4" is invalid. It must be one of "y" or "n".

The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

What is the location of the gcc program on your machine? /usr/bin/gcc-4.4

The path "/usr/bin/gcc-4.4" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

If you execute vmware-install.pl after installing linux-headers (and gcc-4.3), the program detects the location of the gcc and linux headers correctly.