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Time again for food and food related object entries.

Remember that scene in the Ghost Slayers Ayashi supernatural anime where one of the characters is selling a type of noodle on the street and he squirts it out of a squarish device?

Well this is what this week's entries are about.

tokoroten (gelidium jelly) ところ天 or 心太

tokoroten-tsuki (extruder for tokoroten) 心太突き

Entries edited slightly to correct errors. Thanks for the message Ono-san, my sources were vague on some aspects of tokoroten.

Partyin' in December

I had thought of putting this one aside until December but then decided to go ahead and upload it today.

bōnen-kai ("forget the year party") 忘年会

Such parties sound like a good idea. Start planning yours now.

Osaka neighborhood

This week I have an entry for:

Shinmachi (pleasure quarter Ōsaka) 新町

Expect me to have more entries on Ōsaka and Kyōto in the future as I just acquired Ian Martin Röpke's Historical Dictionary of Osaka and Kyoto

Update on Expo '70

Ono-san from Tokyo identified some errors in my entry for Nippon bankoku hakuran-kai (Japan World Exposition aka Expo '70) 日本万国博覧会 For one I had the name as Nihon bankoku hakuran, not the formal Nippon bankoku hakuran. I also had the number of attending nations wrong as two dropped out after the list I was relying on was published.

Ono-san even went as far as to contact the Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition '70 to verify which nations had attended.

He sent me the list of nations at Expo '70, in the order of the date when the nation announced its participation:

1　カナダ　Canada
2　大韓民国　Republic of Korea
3　アメリカ　USA
4　中華民国　Republic of China
5　オランダ　the Netherlands
6　ザンビア　Zambia
7　ソ連　USSR
8　ベルギー　Belgium
9　ドイツ　Germany
10　スイス　Switzerland
11　ニュージーランド　New Zealand
12　オーストラリア　Australia
13　フランス　France
14　ブルガリア　Bulgaria
15　クウェート　Kuwait
16　英国　United Kingdom
17　キューバ　Cuba
18　トルコ　Turkey
19　ポルトガル　Portugal
20　タイ　Thailand
21　フィリピン　Philippines
22　アルジェリア　Algeria
23　メキシコ　Mexico
24　デンマーク　Denmark
25　ノルウェー　Norway
26　スウェーデン　Sweden
27　フィンランド　Finland
28　アイスランド　Iceland
29　エチオピア　Ethiopia
30　ラオス　Laos
31　ビルマ　Burma
32　ギリシャ　Greece
33　ドミニカ　Dominican Republic
34　サウジアラビア　Saudi Arabia
35　チェコスロバキア　Czechoslovakia
36　セイロン　Ceylon
37　象牙海岸（コート ジボワール） Côte d'Ivoire
38　タンザニア　Tanzania
39　インドネシア　Indonesia
40　ガーナ　Ghana
41　キプロス　Cyprus
42　マダガスカル　Madagascar
43　ウガンダ　Uganda
44　シンガポール　Singapore
45　パキスタン　Pakistan
46　ガボン　Gabon
47　インド　India
48　チリ　Chile
49　バチカン　Vatican City
50　ベトナム共和国　Republic of Vietnam
51　コロンビア　Colombia
52　ネパール　Nepal
53　エクアドル　Ecuado
54　ペルー　Peru
55　イタリア　Italy
56　中央アフリカ　Central African Republic
57　アルゼンチン　Argentina
58　ブラジル　Brazil
59　ナイジェリア　Nigeria
60　アブダビ　Abu Dhabi
61　イラン　Iran
62　マレーシア　Malaysia
63　アフガニスタン　Afghanistan
64　エルサルバドル　El Salvador
65　カンボジア　Cambodia
66　マルタ　Malta
67　ベネズエラ　Venezuela
68　アラブ連合　United Arab Republic
69　モナコ　Monaco
70　ニカラグア　Nicaragua
71　パナマ　Panama
72　コスタリカ　Costa Rica
73　ウルグアイ　Uruguay
74　モーリシャス　Mauritius
75　シエラレオネ　Sierra Leone
76　アイルランド　Ireland

Add Japan and you have 77 nations participating, so I have updated the entry accordingly. Thank you again Ono-san.

Sustained Energy

This week I cover a beverage that is drunk throughout much of the world including North America but few anime fans have heard of.

Lipovitan リポビタン

I have a bottle in front of me on my desk and probably will open it this afternoon for the energy boost I will want.

This entry has quite a collection of links to resources at the company, some were used to put the entry together, others are just generally informative.

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Very jazzed to find a press release in my inbox this morning from Nozomi Entertainment that they have acquired the license for the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, and it will be the remastered version. They plan to release it as three box sets.

Three more manga

Today I add three more manga to my recommended list.

Drifting Life by Tatsumi Yoshihiro

Ghost Talker's Daydream by Okuse Saki (story) and Meguro Sankichi (art)

Ohikkoshi by Samura Hiroaki