These are essays serialized in Yamaguchi Shinbun Newspaper every Wednesday from September 2010 to July 2011. Total 42 essays. Using this series as main, along with other contents, I published a book “NAZO TO SUIRON (Solving Riddles)” in 2011.
In the 35th essay, I explained great achievements of Takahashi Korekiyo as the first general manager of Shimonoseki Branch (Western Branch) of the Bank of Japan. This article on the newspaper triggered a movement to found a memorial of Takahashi Korekiyo in Shimonoseki city.
http://www.fuu-ring.com/fuu-ring/korekiyoou/korekiyoou.html
In the 37th and 38th essays, I introduced a dog whose name was “Love” kept in Mutsure-Jima, a small island near Shimonoseki. After publication of these essays, Love attracted attention among Shimonoseki people. A local television station filmed a TV show to visit the island to meet the dog.
- An Occupation of Bank of Japan Branch Manager
- The Sky of Yamaguchi is Beautiful
- Origin of Benten Bridge
- When Feeling Yamaguchi Dialect
- A Young Poet Kaneko Misuzu
- Visit the Grave of Mr. Sugi Michisuke
- Skin of Pufferfish
- Riddle of Crescent Moon
- Canada Goldenrod
- Achievements of Industrial High Schools
- Origin of Tatsutaage Dishes
- Nihon or Nippon?
- Bank of Japan’s Tankan
- Indicators of Richness
- Corporate Economy and Personal Economy
- Distinguished Persons in Culture who Appear in Banknotes in Japan
- Origin of the Chinese Character of “Dragon”
- Endpoints of Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Why Confederate Rose was Cut
- Confluences of Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Who Killed Maki Kikushiro
- Why is the Full Moon in Winter High
- Origin of the Pictogram of Electronic Mails
- Season to Decorate Ouchi Dolls
- Flag in Keio University School Song
- Great East Japan Earthquake
- Attempted assassination of Li Hongzhang
- Origin of the Story “Hoichi the Earless”
- Earthquake and Yamaguchi prefecture economy
- Footsteps Become Fertilizer of Flowers
- How Leaves of Foliage Plants Grow
- Lunar Calendar
- Lily of the Valley and Sugar
- Origin of Lotteries in Japan
- Takahashi Korekiyo and Shimonoseki
- Why TV’s timepiece disappeared
- An island where a dog guides directions
- An island where a dog guides directions II
- Iwakuni Clan and A Pine Tree
- A Mystery of Ganryu-Jima Island
- Blood Type Personality Judgment
- Farewell to Shimonoseki