Comments on: Doubly Mysterious Circle of People

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:14:03 +0000

I know I’m looking into this too much, but I guess that’s not that odd on this site.

If you look at the shadows of the people on the lower part of the circle, you’ll see most of them are standing with 70-30 pressure on their legs. This is usually a pretty standard martial arts blocking stance. I’d wager this is some sort of fitness thing for this school in the form of a martial art.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:36:04 +0000

Chinese fire drill.

(Yes, I appreciate that it’s Japan, just give me some artistic license here!)

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:22:45 +0000

I have a plausible explanation : it’s a training for the opening ceremony of world championship in Athletics in 2007 in Osaka.

By: Nico

Nico — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:19:27 +0000

I meant: They seem to throw something into the air.. like flowers. So maybe it’s a special holiday?

By: Yoshino

Yoshino — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:03:28 +0000

>>Nico

Hmmmm, I can see they are all young girls, because it’s a girl’s school.
Dancing girls and audience?
I can’t explain further.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:09:00 +0000

National ring a ring a rosie a pocket full of posies day.

By: Nico

Nico — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:36:38 +0000

Maybe this Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth plus someone from Japan will explain what event it is.

By: billbad

billbad — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:02:36 +0000

Also, in Japan, most companies do mandatory exercises, but for THIS one, if you switch to the road map, you can see it’s a tan-colored community area, so it’s probably a school. Those are kids doing PE.

By: Yoshino

Yoshino — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:50:20 +0000

In autumn or spring, most Japanese elementary schools hold school athletic meets. Maybe they are pupils practicing folk dance for the meets. In school athletic meets, school is usually divided into two teams, red team and white team. In some reports of Nova72, you can tell who is the member of red team or white team, because they wear caps of their team color.

By: The Z

The Z — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:36:17 +0000

Maybe:

Hankachi-otoshi: One person runs around a circle of people facing the center, and drops a handkerchief behind someone. If that someone recognises the handkerchief and chases the runner to touch him/her before another round is over, the runner is out. If the runner touches the person in front of the handerchief before that person recognises, that person is out.

It could be a twisted version of dodgeball?