Fumio's world

Fumio's soysauce is coming

2011-12-08T02:47:00.000+09:00

Refer to the details via Edinburgh League of Comics website.

http://edinburghleagueofcomics.wordpress.com/

Cheers

Illustration exercises 6.12.2011

2011-12-07T22:03:00.000+09:00

Guitar

2011-10-14T22:33:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan 5/9/2011 - Au revoir France and Bonjour Plogoff

2011-10-07T19:01:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Week 21/8-28/8/2011 - Lots happened in the last 2 months

2011-09-04T19:16:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan- Rehabilitate

2011-08-30T19:30:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Week 21/6-27/6/2011 - Escape into shadow

2011-07-01T22:48:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Week 13/6-20/6/2011 - 'Caesium green tea and France's19'

2011-06-21T17:30:00.001+09:00

Future won't look too bright if we leave the situation as it is right now...that's the reality.Possible?I know it will be tough. Difficult thing is not to let depression take over and still try to find a humour,to keep going at it.

Hold on Japan Week 6/6-12/6/2011 - '3 months on and back in France'

2011-06-14T04:12:00.001+09:00

Hold on Japan Weeks 22/5-05/6/2011- 'Large Catch' and 'Melt down'

2011-06-07T05:05:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Week 15/5-21/5/2011- Division and unity

2011-05-24T19:15:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Week 7/5-14/5/2011- 2 months on

2011-05-16T21:19:00.003+09:00

Can renewable prevail nuclear?It's a huge question and Japan has to seriously deal with it.The first industrial nation to tackle the challenge if it has to avoid the second Fukushima.If the country can prove that the renewable resources can go up against the nuclear in cost wise, then other countries will follow.What an opportunity.

Hold on Japan Week 30/4-6/5/2011 - Casio F91W

2011-05-08T23:37:00.001+09:00

Edinburgh Leauge of Comics - Comic Book Tuck Shop poster design

2011-05-05T09:00:00.001+09:00

My comic group 'Edinburgh League of Comics' is participating Collective Gallery Sunday Market in Edinburgh on 15th May.These are the poster designs I did for the event.

Hold on Japan Day50 29/04/2011- Dark matters and Royal Wedding, end of daily update

2011-04-30T22:53:00.003+09:00

Hold on Japan Day49 28/4/2011 - Clearly not being there

2011-04-29T21:49:00.005+09:00

Hold on Japan Day48 28/4/2011 - British plants and PlayStation3

2011-04-28T21:43:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Day47 26/4/2011 - 25 years on

2011-04-28T07:51:00.001+09:00

Hold on Japan Day46 25/4/2011 - Bounce back.

2011-04-26T22:53:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Day45 24/4/2011 - Easter Weekend and watchdogs

2011-04-25T23:48:00.003+09:00

The energy companies are so powerful that it can't be beaten.The same problems also take place surely in other parts of the world.We are not thoroughly informed by media unless we make an effort ourselves.But how painstaking that is . . .

Hold on Japan Day44 23/4/2011 - How far would you go for it?

2011-04-24T17:14:00.001+09:00

Hold on Japan Day43 22/4/2011 - Circle and immoral contamination

2011-04-23T22:15:00.000+09:00

D-14,208
M-12,384
E-130,852
(22/4/2011)
Metropolitan Police Department

Hold on Japan Day42 21/4/2011 - Can't go home

2011-04-22T22:45:00.000+09:00

There is fine up to 100,000yen (￡730) and possible detention up to 30days, if you enter into the area.
They say it will be possible to return after the 9 month plan to stabilise the nuclear plants.But how possible is that?The zone within 3km is, needless to say, already inhabitable.

Hold on Japan Day41 20/4/2011 - Grand dad and Grand mum

2011-04-22T00:56:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Day40 19/4/2011 - Distant pain

2011-04-20T18:22:00.001+09:00

Hold on Japan Day39 18/4/2011 - Rikuzen Takata by the Guardian

2011-04-19T17:28:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Day38 17/4/2011 - 9 months

2011-04-18T19:00:00.002+09:00

Hold on Japan Day37 16/4/2011 - Will historians..?

2011-04-17T18:12:00.000+09:00

Hold on Japan Day36 15/4/2011 - One fisherman's account

2011-04-16T15:43:00.001+09:00

End of daily update.I feel really bad about using this man's account.

Hold on Japan Day35 14/4/2011 - UK tightens, Japan begs

2011-04-15T13:44:00.002+09:00

Hold on Japan Day34 13/4/2011 - Faith Opportunist

2011-04-14T12:42:00.003+09:00

D-13,392

M-15,133

E-ucredited

(13/4/2011)

Sankei Shinbun

Despite me if you want.

Hold on Japan Day33 12/4/2011 Value of normality

2011-04-13T13:41:00.002+09:00

D-13,232

M-14,529

E-ucredited

(12/4/2011)

Sankei Shinbun

Hold on Japan Day32 11/4/2011 - One month, cumbria, and needless to say

2011-04-12T12:51:00.003+09:00

D-13,116

M-14,377

E-147,536

(11/4/2011

Sankei Shinbun

Mox fuel is basically a product of recycled nuclear fuel, mixed with tiny bit of plutonium taken from spent fuel , and much bigger amounts of uranium from another spent fuel( plus etc,according to Wikipedia).Uranium helps this tiny bit of plutonium to expand and become powerful enough to be used again.Sounds like microwave cooking.

Hold on Japan Day31 10/4/2011 - Arthur's seat

2011-04-11T13:57:00.003+09:00

Hold on Japan Day30 9/4/2011 - Stoicism, good or bad?

2011-04-10T11:55:00.000+09:00

D-12,915
M-14,941
E-153,680
(9/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun
Another massive operation begun to search the missing bodies.

Hold on Japan Day29 8/4/2011 - Donation Challenge

2011-04-09T13:42:00.003+09:00

D-12,787
M-14,991
E-154,234
(8/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun

Yesterday's strong aftershock killed 3 elderly persons yet people's psychological damage is more worrying.

Hold on Japan Day28 7/4/2011 - A real deal

2011-04-08T11:07:00.002+09:00

D -12,690
M -14,736
E - 157,600
(7/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun
I skipped 'The journey with Mr. Onigiri' because of this sudden huge aftershock.It comes back tomorrow.

Hold on Japan Day27 6/4/2011 - No comparison

2011-04-07T12:43:00.002+09:00

D-12,554

M-15,077

E-160,625

(6/4/2011)

Sankei Shinbun

Hold on Japan Day26 5/4/2011 - ABBA sings for the future

2011-04-06T11:06:00.001+09:00

D -12,431

M -15,153
E - 163,008
(5/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun

Hold on Japan Day25 4/4/2011 - Going but not forgotten

2011-04-05T10:27:00.003+09:00

D -12,259
M -15,315
E - 166,237
(4/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun

Hold on Japan Day24 3/4/2011 - Nuclear blues ①

2011-04-04T12:43:00.005+09:00

D -12,087
M -15,552
E - 161,643
(3/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun

Hold on Japan Day23 2/4/2011 - The Beatles and a happy pee

2011-04-03T20:55:00.002+09:00

D-11,938
M-15,478
E-164,244
(2/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun
I drew the dog calling for help but in the actual footage he hid himself under the roof when the helicopter approached.

Hold on Japan Day22 1/4/2011 - My friends in Tokyo

2011-04-02T13:14:00.002+09:00

D- 11,734
M- 16,375
E - 166,279
(1/4/2011)
Sankei Shinbun
Massive 3 day operation between Japan's self defence force and American army begun today to search for the remaining bodies.According to the BBC some 24,000 military personnel are deployed.

Hold on Japan Day21 31/3/2011 - Business as usual

2011-04-01T13:10:00.006+09:00

D- 11,438
M- 16,547
E - 172,064
(31/3/2011)
Sankei Shinbun

French president Nicolas Sarkozy came to Japan just for 3 hours and stressed about the importance of setting up an nuclear energy regulation which all the countries must follow.Of course for France nuclear is a massive business and sustaining the safe image is the key.

Hold on Japan Day20 30/3/2011 - Yesterday's match.

2011-03-31T10:58:00.003+09:00

D- 11,258
M- 16,344
E- 177,765
(30/3/11)
sankei
shinbun The main reason for the decrease of numbers of the evacuees is that most of them decided to return to their homes after the electricity were back on, or some decided to go to their relatives' homes.None of the town folks of Futaba, is unable to return home because their town is within the area of 20km evacuation zone.Today they were transferred from Saitama's super sport stadium to an ex-school building now turned into an evacuation centre.It's their third move.One said 'Many can go home, but we can't.We've lost absolutly everything'.

Hold on Japan Day19 29/3/2011 - Sorry Culture

2011-03-30T10:39:00.001+09:00

D- 11,168

M- 16,407
E- 175,121
(29/3/11)
sankei
shinbun
If you want to know deeper, this exlains very well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6oT5kYI0Y

Hold on Japan Day18 28/3/2011 - Not nice pee and Mr.Onigiri

2011-03-29T11:12:00.001+09:00

Tepco asked for help from France, their knowledge and expertise in Nuclear energy. This is apparently a very unusual move and according to Japanese source(sankei shinbun)that France and Japan always had a close relationship in the field of nuclear development. The nuclear rod used in the reactor NO.3 was transported from France in 1999.
D-11,000
M-11,339
E- 180,868
(28/3/2011)
FNN

Hold on Japan Day17 27/3/2011 - Innocent bystander

2011-03-28T11:44:00.000+09:00

D- 10,668
M- 16,574
E- 245,408
(27/3/11)
sankei
shinbun

Hold on Japan Day16 26/3/2011- Bath

2011-03-27T12:20:00.001+09:00

Death- 10,489
Missing- 16,621
Evacuees- 243,238
(26/3/11)
sankei shinbun
They are not just numbers...everyone of them is like us, human beings.I sometimes omit the figures from the image because it's too much.

Hold on Japan Day15 25/3/2011 - Strange Emotional Rollercoaster

2011-03-26T12:11:00.002+09:00

Death- 10,102
Missing- 17,053
Evacuees- 246,190
(25/3/11)
sankei
shinbun
Once again, more than 10,000 people- possibly 20,000 died just within a day.This blog I decided to do, cannot be finished with an upbeat tone.It's too sad.
Iodine level in tap water in Tokyo area has fallen, says the government and Media.

Hold on Japan Day14 24/3/2011 - about NOT being there

2011-03-25T12:03:00.000+09:00

The internal lights were back on in those nuclear plants thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Fukushima 50.
Still very long way to go, those guys are costing their lives and health to save millions.While Tokyo Electric Power Co are getting all the criticisms and blames, people still endure the hardship.One thing I need to correct from the yesterday's news- the dolphin which was saved from a paddy field was in fact a sunameli porpoise and was saved by volunteers who were searching for dogs and cats, not the locals.I found this correct article in today's Independent, not the same Japanese news source which said dolphin.As far as I know they haven't said that they have mistaken(guess not so important).

Hold on Japan Day13 23/3/2011- Spring breezes in

2011-03-24T09:21:00.001+09:00

There was a black smoke also coming out from the third reactor of the nuclear plant which halted the repair work.There is one good news.A dolphin that was brought in with tsunami and got stranded in a rice field, was rescued by the locals and put back into the sea. Some people in the West regard Japanese unmerciful with the animal but I guess they just skip this kind of inconvenience report.

Hold on Japan Day12 22/3/2011 Super stadium and cardboard boxes

2011-03-23T12:04:00.002+09:00

There are fewer and fewer pages dedicated to Japan's earthquake in the newspapers. Yesterday The Times had 3p, Independent 3p, The guardian 2p.Today Times 2p + 1pExtra, Independent 1p+1/2.Guardian 1p.The Financial Time uses at least one entire page for the event everyday.According to The Times many of these Radiation refugees were not even given a single iodine tablet by the government.I heard on BBC 5live radio 2-3days ago that Britons in Japan were given these tablets by the British authority.That is, of course, before the decision to move these people out of the area.

Hold on Japan Day11 21/3/2011- Football ! J leauge's Vegalta SENDAI

2011-03-22T11:32:00.001+09:00

Hold on Japan Day10 20/3/2011 - Milk

2011-03-21T11:34:00.004+09:00

An 80 year old woman and her 16 year old grandson were rescued after 9days being trapped.Foreign rescue teams begin to leave Japan concluding their missions are now over.Small amount of radiation were detected within milk and spinich from the farms in the affected area.

Hold on Japan Day9 19/3/2011 - The colonel taking over

2011-03-20T12:48:00.001+09:00

Hold on Japan Day8 18/3/2011 - Media confusion

2011-03-19T11:56:00.003+09:00

One week passed. The longest week in life for many including myself. At 2:46(49?)pm, there was one minuet silence all over Japan.I was in Edinburgh, exhausted in bed....

Hold on Japan Day7 17/3/2011

2011-03-18T14:31:00.001+09:00

Try to show different perspectives.I am discovering new angles, some absurdities in Japan.

A night out with the frog

2011-03-18T11:23:00.001+09:00

Sorry Karmit.

Hold on Japan Day6 16/3/2011

2011-03-17T21:53:00.002+09:00

If you are interested in donating, please visit Redcross homepage- either British one, American one,or in your own language.Or any famous humanitarian aide organisation such as Medecine without borders.
Many many thanks

Illustration 16/03/11 Floating men

2011-03-17T05:52:00.006+09:00

Talk and visit at University of Gloucestershire 02-03 March

2011-03-17T02:09:00.001+09:00

Thanks to the generosity of my friend illustrator Catell Ronca, I had a privilege to do a talk about my work for the BA illustration students at University of Gloucestershire.It was a very plesent experience to meet and have chats with fellow talented students.I wish them great results and career...I hope I managed to
present them that there are many options and genres in creative industries that illustrators could lead into.Not necessary in the UK only.Options are also in abroad with internet.

Hold on Japan Day5 15/3/2011

2011-03-16T23:27:00.001+09:00

If you are interested in donating, please visit Redcross homepage- either British one, American one,or in your own language. And there is Save the children home page.

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/

Many many thanks

Day4 14/3/2011

2011-03-15T11:24:00.000+09:00

BBC correspondent reported the workers in Tokyo saying 'business as usual' but cleary NOT.
There are far less people in the streets and there are queues emerging for the food in front of shops.
Never seen before in the capital. Those who would like to donate please visit http://www.redcross.org.uk/ Many many thanks.

Day3 13/3/2011

2011-03-14T04:18:00.000+09:00

The government ordered temporary halts on the

electricity usages in other parts of Japan, to save the energy and

deliver it to the regions in need of it.

I buy some UK newspapers since the disaster struck and the cover of Independent on Sunday especially touched me.

Earthquake update 12/3/11

2011-03-13T06:36:00.002+09:00

The explosion of the plant was apparently caused by a chemical reaction between the water(coolant?)which evaporated into hydrogen, and oxygen near
the covering ceiling.The reactor was safe and unharmed.The pressure is falling since.
(They are just my views.Don't forward it to people as information)

Earthquake struck northern Japan on 11th March 2011

2011-03-12T10:10:00.000+09:00

Town called Rikuzen-Takada in Iwate prefecture

was completely washed away.

ELC title header No.2

2011-02-26T09:09:00.003+09:00

Edinburgh League of comics title header design

2011-02-26T09:05:00.002+09:00

I am starting a group blog with my fellow comic artists in Edinburgh.
The group is called ELC(Edinburgh League of Comics)
http://edinburghleagueofcomics.wordpress.com/

These are the designs I have come up with for the title header

The ball and cushion

2011-02-11T08:02:00.005+09:00

The flower man

2011-02-11T08:00:00.004+09:00

Illustration 08.02.11

2011-02-11T07:44:00.004+09:00

Friends Gathering.

Starting- Au debut.

2011-02-05T04:17:00.000+09:00

Because of being so disorganised, I failed to meet the deadline for this year's 24h Bandes Dessinees in Angouleme.http://www.24hdelabandedessinee.com/public/list2011.phpThe theme was Popeye the sailor man.I turned him into a salesman instead of sailor man.Anyway hope this une petite histoire pleases you.

Missed out 24h Comic at Angouleme 2011

2011-02-05T04:09:00.000+09:00