How’s your New Year’s Day? New beginning for 2024 so I started with a morning walk & prayer around my new village in Tachikawa City, Tokyo (barely 9 months in my new house). I was vlogging Live on Facebook as I showed around my neighbor’s New Year decors by their doorsteps and the newly-asphalted roads in our area. It’s a cultural thing to hang “kadomatsu” (intricately designed pine needles, bamboo strips & Japanese plum branches) so I’d like to show my viewers and readers on this blog site. It’s winter in Japan, but it’s unusually sunny & windy yesterday.Â
By 3 PM, it was still bright and sunny outside. I told myself that it would recompense my not viewing the first sunrise of 2024. It’s another cultural activity here to witness the first sunrise at the mountaintop or by the seashore. Every year, so many beautiful pictures by local and international photographers are shared on social media.  This could be the reason why it’s called the Land of the Rising Sun — the local’s fascination with this beautiful natural creation.
Since the coronavirus pandemic, I didn’t go out on the first day of the year.
Yesterday as I had to review the video of the Bible Quiz Championship 2023 and give prizes to the viewers who participated in this online Bible Game, I went to my office.  I thought I might be dizzy or sleepy because I talked to my brother and his family in Canada until about 5 AM.Â
When I looked at my Japanese-style hanging light, it was moving nonstop. I grabbed my old cellphone, took a video, and timestamped at 4:12 PM. Just to confirm if there was an earthquake, I went to my Japanese room, and lo & behold my other Japanese hanging light and cherry blossom lantern/chandelier were nonstop moving for at least 2 minutes.
I checked the social media since it was announced on national government TV that they will be back on January 4. Just a few minutes later, I was asked by the different Bombo Radio stations around the Philippines to give updates on the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit Ishikawa Prefecture and the western area of Japan on New Year’s Day. It’s about 503.2 km away from where I live in the northwest part of Tokyo and it’s in the eastern part of the country. Updates will be broadcast on Bombo Radyo and here on the FILIPINA EDUPRENEUR blog site.
Marathon broadcasting on Bombo Radyo on different stations on January 1, 2024.
Bombo Radyo General Santos
Bombo Radyo Dagupan
Bombo Radyo Cauayan
Notice I was wearing the same clothes. While I was broadcasting on one radio station, another link was waiting for me to click and join the anchor/s of another radio station — just seconds away before on air again with different audience/viewers. You can check our Live Broadcast.
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