Summer in Japan is a time for festivals, or Omatsuri in Japanese. Night Festival will be held at Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1. 2024.
The museum shows special exhibition, titled “Jingoji: showing over 1000 years old Buddhism statues, Mandara arts not only in the daytime, but also in the evening with a special ticket.
On a special stage to be set up in the museum premises, traditional Japanese performing arts, such as dance and drum performances from various parts of Japan, will be staged to immerse visitors into the atmosphere of a lively summer festival.
Japanese Night Festival, or Ennichi is a place for fun. Local traditional food to eat out, and scooping super balls.
For more information and tickets go to the following website.
FIT制度(Feed In Tariff) – 自然エネルギーで発電した電気の固定価格買取制度が始まったのが2012年なので、発電10kW以下の住宅では10年の買取期間が終わったパネルもでてきています。10kW以上の非住宅の場合は買取期間が20年ですが、2032年以降に大量のパネルが廃棄されることが心配されています。
Since the FIT, Feed in Tariff was introduced in Japan in 2012, solar panels were installed on 3,990,000 places. After the FIT comes to an end, will they all go to the landfills? To find out how the solar panels are recycled, we visited Ecology Center of Hamada Corporation located in Keihinjima island in Tokyo.
The factory is near the Haneda Airport. The sales department manager Mr. Yamamoto talked about the history of the company, overall business and recycling of solar panels.
Solar panels can last 15 to 20 years or more. Most of the cases solar panels are brought are damages by natural disasters an replacing roof. Disposing of large amount of solar panels costs 150 yen per 1Kg. Hamada sometimes buy the used panels, and sell for second-hand market. There was a case that the disposal cost was reduced from 30 million yen to 3 million yen. The price of used panels are 25yen per 1kWh, so much less than new panels. There are demand for used panels for temporary facility.
70% of Solar panels with silicon cells are made of glass. If the glass is not broken, the panels can be separated to aluminum frames, glass and cells/EVA sheets.
First, the aluminum frames were separated with a machine.
Then the panels are inserted into a machine to separate cells/EVA sheets from the glass using hot knife, and they come out of the machine as a plate glass and a roll of cells/EVA.
Plate glass is put into component analyzer, and sold to glass manufacturer.
Recycled glass has amber color and bubbles, which looks warm and antique.
Cells/EVA sheets sold to other manufacturer are pulverized to extract silver and copper.
In this way, the aluminum and glass of solar panels can be recycled separately, so there is no need to worry about filling up landfills with large amounts of waste. .
Special thanks to the staff of Hamada Corporation at Keihinjima-island Ecology center.
As Azabudai Hills development attracted a lot of new visitors, our shop updated the display.
Chic affordable aromatic bottles and containers are best selling. Interior designers sometimes buy a lot of decorative items for model rooms and photo taking.
Be ready to get spooky! Halloween is just around the corner, and we have dedicated a little corner at Azabu Interior to embrace the Halloween spirit. How about decorating your home to celebrate? Come by to check out our accessories. Perhaps you could find something spooky. We are open Mon-Fri 9AM-6PM, Sat and Holidays 10AM-6PM.
