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A level 6 earthquake caused a fire in an electrical power station. Its on almost every japanese tv channels.
There is a huge black smoke cloud comming out of the central. At this point I don’t know if the smoke pose a danger.
This area is far from Okazaki, so I don’t think they felt anything overthere. There is no risk of tsunami for this earthquake.
English instructions for I-O Data Tv Tuner GV series Model TZ ( sold in Japan only )
1. Make sure your system is set to have “Restaure Points” when installing drivers. ( They wont unregister properly when installed incorrectly)
2. On Japanese operating systems, the correct driver detection is done without any problems. But for other languages, windows pops-up a dialogue window asking to choose from 3 drivers. One is for Vista and can be ignored, the other is in the root of the Cd -do not install as it will screw your setup. The right one is in the Driver folder, (fun reading the kanji, no katakana!)
3. The TV tuner is dephased of one channel. Add +1 to area channel number ( configured in the mAgic Manager)
4. In “mansions” the channels are set to other frequencies than those of the local area. Compare with an already installed Tv.
5. This model is “CopyGard” enabled, thus preventing the recording of pay channels like Midnight Feel. This CopyGard signal is analogic and is passed over STBs (setup boxes) also.
Another fun ride… After I decided to reject this crazy route, I went somewhere else and got almost better. The first plan was to transit to the Arab Emirates, New York and then Ottawa. Does not sound very good. So I made my reservation like this; Nagoya – Narita – Toronto – Montreal instead. I don’t know what to expect with Air Canada. Maybe I will report on that later. I am almost done with the packing.
The refund policy at Yamasa sucks … I have to wait 2 months? So fast to take payments, so slow to give it back.
2 weeks to go until I leave.
Going back to Canada… leaving Yamasa
Postal Program Personal effects by mail, personal possessions you bring to Canada.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) may mistakenly assess duty and tax on them.
If this happens, you have two options:
- Return the mail item to the CBSA for reassessment.
- Canada Post will write your phone number on Form E-14, Customs Postal Import Form, give a copy of it to you, and return the mail item to the CBSA.
- We’ll contact you once we’ve received the item from Canada Post.
- If you prefer immediate delivery of the item, pay the amount indicated on Form E-14 when Canada Post delivers the item.
- To request a refund, fill out the back of Form E-14 and send it to the nearest Casual Refund Centres (also listed on the back of the form).
- You must provide proof that the goods were previously accounted for with the CBSA, such as a copy of Form B4, Personal Effects Accounting Document, and Form B4A, List of Goods Imported.
- Canada Post’s $5 CAN handling fee will be refunded if it’s determined that the goods should have been duty-free and tax-exempt at the time of importation.
- However, the handling fee will not be refunded on Priority Post items.
- The CBSA will not refund any broker’s fees or any shipping and handling costs.
Sounds like fun as usual 
Some kind of big news, this blog should be called direction … Guam for a while. More to come in the next days. 19 days left. What will happen? Is this the end of okazakijapan.com? The beginning of a new adventure? The end of a Yamasa chapter?
Stay tuned.
Those damn cell phone, there is nothing that makes me grind more than a cell phone that I fully paid and still I can’t do what I want with. I own a Sanyo W33SA from AU in Japan. I have a 2gig SD card and I wish to listen to music I already own the right to. But no, the Sanyo phone refuses to read from the card anything that was not created by it.
I thought it was something to do with DRM, but I manage to encode my mp3 files with the Nokia Internet Development kit. I created .dm files but the stupid phone just ignores them. After that I thought I should check how images files are handled. So pictures I took with my W333SA, are exportable to the computer and importable but other pictures from the computer are not readable. I tried renaming, coping the EXIF data, ect.
The images file created by the phone have a creation date, but the ones made on the PC have one. Could it be the reason? Also it looks like the phone has an index of created files. I need to find where it is stored.
As of yet with the software provided by AU, I haven’t been able to communicate with the calendar software. Something is broken with the Japanese software. I really hate SANYO and AU. I don’t want to buy Jpop on Lismo…help?
Sanyo W33SA:
Status: unlockable
Date: May 28th 2007
he Sanyo W335A is a swiveling clamshell phone that sports a 1.3 megapixel camera. Other features include: * 2.4-inch QVGA TFT LCD display, 262K colors * FM radio * TV capability * 50MB internal memory * MiniSD memory expansion slot * Pictbridge * USB * weight: 150g
