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Just what it is! Scratch your back by yourself without help.

 

Available at the Main Store:

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And on the Marketplace!

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NVR 7th April 23-22

Sacred Kingfisher (todiramphus sanctus) -- back in Braidwood after winter. I've only seen this individual so far -- perhaps still waiting for a mate.

Gustave Moreau -

Oedipus and the Sphinx, detail [1864] -

Metmuseum IN 21.134.1

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Very excited to go back in Japan next month, after almost 3 years.

 

My last visit was in March 2020, to Tokyo and Fujisan area, just when covid began to hit the country and my own city. That trip had to be cut short as my wife and I worried that the border of Hong Kong might be shut anytime and hence our flights being cancelled. What would have been a 5-day stay in Tokyo after returning from Kawaguchiko was adjusted to only 2 days. And this time we are going back to Tokyo with a day trip to Kawaguchiko (this, is somehow coincidental!). Japan has always had a special place in our heart.

 

And this, was taken in Tokyo back in 2016 when I was hitting town solo. Can't wait to be roaming about and photographing there again!

 

Sony A7, Primoplan 58mm f1.9.

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Kicking back on the back dock overlooking the Patapsco River after sunset.

2 larger and 1 smaller Snowy Egrets in the local marsh

Incredible girl with a nice hairy exposed lower back.

This Richardson Ground Squirrel was a little ticked off with me and was doing his best to tell me to bugger off!

Back down to the tracks at Sthlm Eastern Station.

 

I like this place.

 

Thought it was more or less abandoned by now.

 

A freight train driver taught me the hard way that I was wrong.

 

Almost deadly wrong.

I almost crapped when I heard the horn on the locomotive...

leicama summicron50mm hp5

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Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D lens. Ilford Delta 3200 35mm B&W film.

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View On Black

Hi friends.

 

Na twee weken Portugal ben ik weer veilig op Schiphol geland.

Helaas was dat met één stuk bagage minder dan toen ik vertrok.

In de tweede week, mijn tweede dag in Lissabon, is mijn complete fotorugzak met inhoud (waarde circa 4.500 euri) me op slinkse wijze afhandig gemaakt. Babbeltruc e.d. iets waarvan je altijd denkt "zoiets zal mij nooit overkomen". Wel dus.

Gelukkig had ik mijn kleine Canon s90 gewoon in mijn borstzak en had ik mijn eerste volle 8GB kaart van de 40D ergens anders bewaard.

Flink balen natuurlijk.

De boel was wel apart verzekerd maar heb je op zo'n moment niets aan natuurlijk.

 

Ik heb voorlopig allemaal zoveel te regelen dat ik voorlopig nog niet dagelijks hier te vinden zal zijn.

   

Been away for a few days enjoying a break in the sun. But missing my femme side. So it is lovely to be back home and here.

I just booked plane tickets back to Finnmark on Sunday ツ

 

This is from when I was there two months ago. It will be nice to see the beautiful scenery without all the snow, and with even more birds ツ

 

My album of images from this beautiful part of Norway here.

 

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Cinnyricinclus leucogaster - Berlin Zoo - 10/16

  

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Porsche 911 and some lightpainting

White Dahlia, seen from the back.

Name: Rufous-backed kingfisher

Scientific: Ceyx rufidorsa

Malay: Pekaka Api

Family: Alcedinidae

IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern

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Sometimes when you take a step backwards, and a whole new world opens up before your eyes...

Two hours earlier…

 

Deep down, I always knew this day would come. The day when Batman would destroy Bruce Wayne. Part of me always hoped it would never come to be, at least no with Alfred still around. I always knew that it would break his heart. Hell, it even upsets me and I’ve spent the best part of my life loathing the damn place. But it’s for the greater good, and Alfred knows that. If that weren’t the case, he would have almost certainly fought to stop me.

 

”Are you alright beloved?”

 

”As good as can be expected.”

 

”You’re worried about what my father will do to your allies.”

 

”What if we run? If your father’s anger lies solely with me, surely if I leave Gotham he’ll abandon this assault and pursue us both?”

 

”Even if we did do that beloved, you know my father’s ways, and my father knows yours. If we did flee, he’d destroy Gotham simply to draw you back. We both know there’s no way you could just look away from all the destruction that was being in your name. My father always intended to destroy Gotham whether you fell to Damian’s blade or not.”

 

”All to make a statement. No-one betrays the Head of the Demon.”

 

”And to lay to rest the rumours of his ill health.”

 

”Are they genuine?”

 

”It’s not my place to….”

 

”Talia, I need to know everything about him if we’re to stand a chance. Please….. tell me.”

 

”My father has been slowly dying for almost two decades. The Lazarus pit sustains him, but his body is reaching the point at which it cannot survive without daily exposure to the pit.”

 

”The very thing that’s keeping him alive is slowly killing him. That’s why he’s spent all this time trying to find an heir, his time is running out.”

 

As I utter those words I notice a single tear drop down the left cheek of Talia’s face. Her statement is genuine. Ra’s is running out of time. That’s why he’s choosing to act now. Damian’s place in the League is uncertain thanks to my desertion, so to demonstrate his rite to the title of Heir to the Demon, Ra’s intends for him to slay the one person he has been unable to.

 

Bruce Wayne.

 

Batman and Gotham are merely collateral damage in all of this.

 

Despite my best attempts to excuse all this, reality is hard to ignore. This is all my doing, what comes next is the result of my actions. It’s all down to me as to what those actions become. The only consolation to all this is that this fight will not be my own. No matter how much I wish it were.

 

With that thought racing through my head, I take a moment to wipe away the tear on Talia’s cheek in the hopes of cheering her up. She knows deep down that there’s realistically only one way this will end.

 

She’ll lose either her father or me.

 

Assuming Jason makes it to Gotham with the Lucifer in time that is. Otherwise, poor health or not, Ra’s will ultimately triumph. Even with my above normal physical endurance, it would only be a matter of time until I made one fatal error, and that’s all Ra’s would need.

 

”Hey. Everything’s going to be alright.”

 

”We both know that’s not true, Bruce. Like it or not chances are someone from my family isn’t walking away from this.”

 

”Not if I can help it.”

 

”If you don’t kill my father he’ll just bath in the pit´s waters once more and continue this crusade against you. Whether you like it or not, there’s only one way to end this.”

 

”I won’t kill him Talia, even after all he’s done to us.”

 

”You have no choice, Bruce. Even if you do somehow manage to miraculously defeat him without taking his life, unless you let him bath in the pit he’s going to die. And when you do, he’ll fight you again, and again, and again. Until one of you breaks the cycle. Like it or not, either you’re going to kill him, or your morality is going to kill you.”

 

I take a moment to pause and consider Talia’s words. They’re of course correct. It’s almost impossible for me to claim that I wouldn’t expose Ra’s to Lazarus if I were fortunate enough to take him prisoner. After all, choosing not to save someone is just the same as killing them yourself. That’s why to this day I still believe that Batman killed Harvey Dent. I chose to save his daughter, but not him. My own actions were the reason for Two-Face terrorising Gotham.

 

Whether we like it or not, all our actions have consequences. It’s merely a case of deciding which ones we can live with.

 

As Talia and I enter the house’s basement, I take a moment to inspect the fake wall my father had built long before I was brought into this world. My mind always wondered what his reason for building this wall was. Did he have a sordid affair that he chose to hide from the world? Was he a black-market dealer? Or did he just simply crave an area dedicated only to himself.

 

I may never know the answer as to why the wall was built, but it has proven to useful at times. On the day of my parents’ funeral, I came here to hide from Alfred intending to take my own life. Fortunately, I was never very good at hiding from Alfred. At least, not as Bruce Wayne. Since then, the room has become a hidden storage of sorts. My contingency in case I needed to destroy Bruce Wayne but protect Batman.

 

As I push the wall back to reveal the concealed entrance, I lay my eyes on the four gasoline cans that have been there since I first put the cowl on. A primitive method of erasing evidence, but that was the point. A well organised explosion would arouse suspicion, imply that something was being concealed. But a setup like this? You’d have to be Batman to know that it was a rouse.

 

Whilst I begin to carry two of the canisters out of the room and towards the front entrance of the house, Talia takes a moment to glance inside the room.

 

”Why is everything in here broken?”

 

”It’s a reminder.”

 

”A reminder of what?”

 

”Of the pain I felt that night. And a reminder of my promise. That no other child should have to feel that pain.”

 

”You came here that night?”

 

”I came here most nights after Crime Alley. It wasn’t until the day of their funeral that I decided to stop coming here.”

 

”That was the day you considered taking your life.”

 

”You see that rifle? I stole that from its mounting in the hallway and ran here with the intent on taking my life.”

 

Talia appears surprised that I would admit to that so easily, then again most people are always so hesitant about admitting to suicidal thoughts. Most people these days use it more as a joke than actually committing to the act itself.

 

”What stopped you?”

 

”It jammed.”

 

”Bruce….”

 

”Alfred stopped me. He reminded me that they gave their lives to save mine. To throw my life away as well would have been the ultimate betrayal. I owed them so much more.”

 

Without a moment’s pause, Talia picks up the other two canisters and begins to follow behind me. She says nothing, but she doesn’t have to say anything at all. Her actions speak volumes.

 

”How do you plan to detonate these?”

 

”A small breaching charge from my belt will suffice. We’ll put them in the front entrance of the house, that way most of Gotham should be able to see the explosion.”

 

”What then?”

 

”Well first, we give them a warning. Then we’ll use this as the proof.”

 

”A warning? From who? Batman?”

 

”No. From Ra’s Al-Ghul.”

 

Title:

Back door.

  

日本語のあらすじ等は下の方にあります😃

 

( 富士フィルム GFX50R shot )

 

新宿。東京都。日本。2025年12月29日 … 1 / 40

 

(今日の写真。それは未発表です。小説の内容とは無関係です。)

 

子供の関係で、新宿のホテルへ一泊してきました。最初の裏口と居酒屋の二枚を除いて、朝の6時から30分以内ですべて撮影しました。

今回は、子供中心で一泊したので、朝食前にちょっとだけ撮りに出かけました。ホテルの朝食が美味しかったです。:)

  

Additional Notes

1Under artillery fire, with dust swirling in the air, three UAS-cell drones descend from the rooftop of “26 Federal Plaza”, which houses the FBI New York Field Office (New York Field Office).

2Headsets on: a prototype setup—Apple Vision Pro (third generation) and PlayStation controllers.

Operators: Veronica, Elliott, Sarah, Tyler.

 

Overall Chain of Command

•Alexander Harris (52): Special Agent in Charge, New York Field Office / Incident Commander (overall command)

•Veronica Reeves (41): Special Agent / Field Operations Coordinator (liaison between the ground team and the rooftop team)

•Elliott Chen (36): Technology Unit Chief / Tech Lead (commands the rooftop UAS cell)

 

Rooftop “UAS Cell”

1Elliott Chen (36)

◦Role: UAS-cell command / on-the-spot decisions / integrated dashboard (ground cameras, air traffic control, vehicle telemetry)

◦Assigned drone: Drone-1 (overwatch / primary tracking reference)

2Sarah Kim (28) (Junior #1)

◦Title: UAS Operator (licensed Remote Pilot)

◦Personality: Calm, quiet, procedure-driven (reliable under pressure)

◦Assigned: Drone-2 (close-in observation / route prediction)

3Tyler Brooks (26) (Junior #2)

◦Title: Robotics & Autonomous-Driving Analysis Specialist (technical specialist role)

◦Personality: Fast-talking, brilliant; talks even more when nervous (adds “heat” to dialogue)

◦Assigned: Drone-3 (perimeter sensors / monitoring communications and RF conditions)

  

B♭ (B Flat)

A Novel by Mitsushiro Nakagawa

 

“Synopsis”

A Palestinian group from Gaza hacks into North Korea’s cryptocurrency system, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. Their true goal is not money—but to recreate the lost homeland of Gaza on American soil.

Amid the backdrop of hardline Republican immigration policies and a growing wave of xenophobia, a quiet plan begins to take shape: the gradual collapse of America from within.

During a speech at Madison Square Garden, Republican presidential candidate Justin Bradford is shot. Almost simultaneously in Los Angeles, former president Owen Reed is attacked at a rally for Democratic hopeful Ryan Bennett.

Two assassinations—mirroring one another—ignite a nation’s deepest divide. Yet, against all odds, Justin survives. His blood type is one in 2.5 million: the Bombay Blood Group.

The only person who can donate such blood is Anaya Patel, a community art facilitator working in Brooklyn. Her blood, stored in the Bellevue Hospital Blood Bank, is used for an emergency transfusion that saves the candidate’s life.

Jack Vance, an agent of the U.S. Secret Service, suspects a Gaza-based network behind the attacks. Together with Cameron Bartlett, the FBI Director of the Los Angeles Field Office, and Veronica Reeves, a senior investigator from New York, he begins to uncover a vast conspiracy.

Their investigation leads them to Rafi Gannam, a former architecture student at the Islamic University of Gaza, who has infiltrated redevelopment sites across Los Angeles and New York—embedding C4 explosives deep within beams and structural cores.

His targets: new residential districts where agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) live—symbols of “the order America built.”

Veronica urges the President to pursue dialogue to prevent further destruction, but President Grant M. Ranford refuses to listen.

Meanwhile, the recovering Justin and his Democratic rival Ryan appear on national television, calling for unity beyond political divisions.

Their words of reason, however, are drowned out when Grant takes the stage in Iowa, defiantly declaring: “We will never bow to terror.”

Among the crowd, Rafi’s operatives have already taken their positions.

As chaos erupts and the stage collapses, Amir Nasser—once Rafi’s comrade, haunted by the memory of his sister’s death in Gaza—tries desperately to halt the chain of destruction.

But Rafi’s conviction remains unshaken.

Under the twilight beneath the Williamsburg Bridge, amid the city’s fading noise, the two men part ways.

It is the boundary between prayer and vengeance, between hope and nothingness.

  

“Characters”

 

Anaya Patel – 25, Community Art Facilitator

Arjun Singh – 26, Anaya’s boyfriend, Luminatech Innovations

Mika Sato – 25, Anaya’s friend, Community Art Facilitator

 

Justin Bradford – 27, Republican Presidential Candidate

Eleanor Blake – 26, Justin’s fiancée

 

President Grant M. Langford – 61, Incumbent Republican President

Vice President Charles “Chuck” Baines – 64, Incumbent Republican Vice President

 

Ryan Bennett – 30, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Sophia Bennett – 30, Ryan’s wife

Owen Reed – 65, Former Democratic President

 

Jack Vance – 45, Secret Service, Former FBI Los Angeles Field Office

Ben Holloway – 30, Jack’s colleague

Darryl Ross – 29, Jack’s colleague

Elijah Kane – 28, Jack’s colleague

 

Marcus Dane – 45, FBI Los Angeles Field Office

Cameron Bartlett – 55, FBI Los Angeles Field Office, Field Office Director

Tom Caldwell – 38, FBI Technical Unit, Marcus’s subordinate

 

Veronica Reeves – 41, FBI Special Agent

Alexander Harris – 52, FBI New York Field Office, Field Office Director

Elliot Chen – 36, Technology Unit Chief

Alicia Monroe – 58, FBI Director

 

Zakaria Haddad – 51, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Former Islamic University Engineering Professor, New York Team

Amir Nasser – 23, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Former Islamic University Electronics Engineering, New York Team

Rafi Gannam – 32, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Islamic University, Architecture, New York Team

Rohan Shah – 29, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Islamic University, Architecture, New York Team

 

Majid Hamza – 47, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Information Technology, Los Angeles Team

Samira Hammad – 28, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Engineering, Los Angeles Team

Saeed Kabari – 35, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Business Administration, Los Angeles Team

Reem Nasser – 30, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Media Studies, Los Angeles Team

 

Noah Levi – 55, Israel, residing in Tel Aviv, Jewish

  

B♭ will be released worldwide on February 29, 2026.

Recently, director Ridley Scott remarked that streaming films and series have become dull.

I agree.

If you have two hours to spare for such stories, I ask for only two minutes of your time.

Two minutes with my novel will outlast those two hours.

I am confident of that.

  

Stay tuned.

Mitsushiro

October 9th, 2025

 

P.S.

Micchan — the man who challenges Netflix. 😃

  

( Fujifilm GFX50R shot )

Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. December 29, 2025 … 1 / 40

(Today’s photos. Unpublished.This is unrelated to the novel.)

 

Because of my child, I stayed one night at a hotel in Shinjuku. Except for the first two shots—the back entrance and the izakaya—I took everything within 30 minutes, starting at 6:00 a.m.

This time the trip was all about my child, so I only slipped out briefly before breakfast to take a few photos. The hotel breakfast was delicious. :)

  

Images.

L'Arc-en-Ciel … CHASE (Eng. ver.)

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My new novel:

B♭ (B-flat)

There’s still more to come. 😃

(This is not the final draft.)

Set in New York City.

 

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:: Soundtrack ::

 

B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack )

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B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack . For Japanese)

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B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack . Sweet Summer rain ver.)

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B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack . Hard days ver.)

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Note: I gave a brief explanation of this novel in the following video:

youtu.be/3w65lqUF-YI?si=yG7qy6TPeCL9xRJV

  

My new novel:

B♭ (B-flat)

Notes

1. "Bombay Blood Type (hh type)"

•Characteristics: A rare blood type that lacks the usual ABO antigens — cannot be classified as A, B, or O.

•Discovery: First identified in 1952 in Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay).

•Prevalence: Roughly 1 in 10,000 people in India; globally, about 1 in 2.5 million.

•Transfusion Compatibility: Only compatible with blood from other Bombay type donors.

2. 2024 Harvard University Valedictorian Speech – The Power of Not Knowing

youtu.be/SOUH8iVqSOI?si=Ju-Y728irtcWR71K

3. Shots Fired at Trump Rally

youtu.be/1ejfAkzjEhk?si=ASqJwEmkY-2rW_hT

  

Mitsushiro Nakagawa belong to Lot No. 402 _.Copyright©︎2025 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.

 

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Title:

裏口。

  

追加メモ

1 砲撃を受け、粉塵の舞うFBI New York Field Office(ニューヨーク支局)**が入っている「26フェデラル・プラザ」の屋上からUASセル(ドローン)3機降下

2 ヘッドセット装着 試作機 アップルヴィジョンプロ 第三世代 プレイステーションコントローラー ヴェロニカ、エリオット、サラ、タイラー

 

全体の指揮系統

•アレクサンダー・ハリス(52):NY支局長/Incident Commander(総指揮)

•ヴェロニカ・リーヴス(41):特別捜査官/現場オペレーション統括(地上班と屋上班をつなぐ)

•エリオット・チェン(36):テクノロジー班主任/Tech Lead(屋上UASセル指揮)

 

屋上「UASセル」

0.エリオット・チェン(36)

•役割:UASセル指揮/現場判断/統合画面(地上カメラ・交通管制・車両テレメトリ)

•担当ドローン:Drone-1(俯瞰監視/追尾の基準機)

0.サラ・キム(28)(若手部下①)

•肩書:UASオペレーター(Remote Pilot資格持ち)

•性格:冷静・無口、手順を守るタイプ(緊迫シーンで頼れる)

•担当:Drone-2(接近観測/ルート先読み)

0.タイラー・ブルックス(26)(若手部下②)

•肩書:ロボティクス/自動運転解析担当(技術スペシャリスト枠)

•性格:早口・天才肌、焦ると余計に喋る(会話に“熱”が出る)

•担当:Drone-3(周辺センサー/通信・電波状況の監視)

  

僕の新しい小説

 B♭ (ビーフラット) ……. Mitsushiro Nakagawa

  

“あらすじ”

 

北朝鮮の仮想通貨システムをハッキングし、数億ドルを奪取したガザ出身のパレスチナ人グループが、アメリカ合衆国へ密かに潜入する。

彼らの目的は、失われた祖国ガザを、アメリカの地に「復元」することだった。

共和党による強硬な移民政策と、国内にくすぶる排外感情を利用し、アメリカ社会を内側から崩壊させる計画が静かに進行していく。

共和党大統領候補ジャスティン・ブラッドフォードがマディソン・スクエア・ガーデンで演説中に狙撃され、ほぼ同時刻、ロサンゼルスでは前大統領オーウェン・リードもまた、民主党候補ライアン・ベネットの集会で撃たれる。

国家を二分する双方向の暗殺。だが、ジャスティンは奇跡的に生還する。

彼の血液型は、世界でわずか250万人に一人といわれる「ボンベイブラッド」。

その希少な血を提供できたのは、ブルックリンで活動するコミュニティアート・ファシリテーター、アナヤ・パテルだった。

彼女の血液はベルビュー病院の血液バンクに保存されており、緊急輸血によって、候補者の命はかろうじて繋がれた。

シークレットサービスのジャック・バンスは、テロの背後にガザ出身の組織が関与していることを察知し、FBIロサンゼルス支局長官キャメロン・バートレット、ニューヨーク支局の特別捜査官ヴェロニカ・リーブスと共に捜査を進める。

やがて彼らは、イスラム大学で建築学を学んだラフィ・ガンナムが、ロサンゼルスやニューヨークの再開発現場に潜入し、梁や構造体の中枢にC4爆薬を仕込んでいた事実に辿り着く。

標的は、ICE(移民・関税執行局)やERO(執行・送還作戦部門)の職員が暮らす新興住宅街——すなわち、「アメリカが築いた秩序」そのものだった。

ヴェロニカは、これ以上の破壊を防ぐため、大統領への対話を進言するが、現職のグラント・ランフォード大統領は耳を貸さない。

一方、命を取り留めたジャスティンと民主党候補ライアンは、テレビを通じて国民に訴えかけ、分断を乗り越えようとする。

だが、その理性の声を嘲笑うかのように、グラントはアイオワ州での演説を強行し、「テロには屈しない」と宣言する。

その会場には、すでにラフィの仲間が率いる工作チームが潜入していた。

崩壊する会場の惨状を前に、仲間の一人アミール・ナッセルは、かつてガザで妹を失った記憶に引き裂かれ、破壊の連鎖を止めようとする。

だが、ラフィの信念は揺るがない。

ウィリアムズバーグ橋の下、夕暮れの喧騒のなか、二人は決別する。

それは、祈りと報復、希望と虚無の境界線だった——。

 

“登場人物”

 

アナヤ・パテル 25歳 コミュニティアート・ファシリテーター

アルジュン・シン 26歳 アナヤの恋人・ルミナテック・イノベーションズ社

 

佐藤 ミカ 25歳 アナの友人・コミュニティアート・ファシリテーター

 

ジャスティン・ブラッドフォード 27歳 共和党大統領候補

エリノア・ブレイク 26歳 ジャスティンの婚約者

 

グラント・M・ランフォード大統領 61歳 共和党大統領現職

チャールズ・ベインズ副大統領 64歳 共和党副大統領現職

 

ライアン・ベネット 30歳 民主党大統領候補

ソフィア・ベネット 30歳 ライアンの妻

 

オーウェン・リード 65歳 民主党前大統領

 

ジャック・バンス 45歳 シークレットサービス 元FBIロサンゼルス支局

ベン・ホロウェイ 30歳 ジャックの同僚

ダリル・ロス 29歳 ジャックの同僚

イライジャ・ケイン 28歳 ジャックの同僚

 

マーカス・デイン 45歳 FBI ロサンゼルス支局

キャメロン・バートレット 55歳 FBI ロサンゼルス支局 支局長

トム・コールドウェル 38歳 FBI技術班 マーカスの部下

 

ヴェロニカ・リーヴス 41歳 FBI特別捜査官

アレクサンダー・ハリス 52歳 FBI ニューヨーク支局 支局長

エリオット・チェン 36歳 テクノロジー班主任

 

アリシア・モンロー 58歳 FBI長官

 

ザカリア・ハッダード 51歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 元イスラム大学 工学部教授 ニューヨークチーム

アミール・ナッセル 23歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 元イスラム大学 電子工学部 ニューヨークチーム

ラフィ・ガンナム 32歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 イスラム大学 建築学部 ニューヨークチーム

ロハン・シャー 29歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 イスラム大学 建築学部 ニューヨークチーム

 

マジード・ハムザ 47歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ大学 情報技術学部 ロサンゼルスチーム

サミラ・ハンマド 28歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ大学 工学部 ロサンゼルスチーム

サイード・カバリ 35歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ大学 経営学部 ロサンゼルスチーム

リーム・ナセル 30歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ大学 メディア学部 ロサンゼルスチーム

 

ノア・レヴィ 55歳 イスラエル テルアビブ在住 ユダヤ人

  

僕のこの小説は、来年、2026年2月末日に公開します。

 

先日、リドリースコット監督がサブスクの映画やドラマ群がつまらないと話していたようだけど、同感です。

僕も非常に退屈です。

それらに2時間を要するなら、僕の小説を2分間だけ読んで欲しい。

その2分間は、2時間を越えるでしょう。

僕は自信があります。

ぜひ、期待してお待ちください。

 

Mitsushiro Nakagawa

09th. Oct . 2025.

  

追伸

ネトフリに挑戦する男、みっちゃん。😃

  

( 富士フィルム GFX50R shot )

 

新宿。東京都。日本。2025年12月29日 … 1 / 40

 

(今日の写真。それは未発表です。小説の内容とは無関係です。)

 

子供の関係で、新宿のホテルへ一泊してきました。最初の裏口と居酒屋の二枚を除いて、朝の6時から30分以内ですべて撮影しました。

今回は、子供中心で一泊したので、朝食前にちょっとだけ撮りに出かけました。ホテルの朝食が美味しかったです。:)

  

Images.

L'Arc-en-Ciel … CHASE (Eng.ver.)

youtu.be/ruqQJtq4Lgc?si=03sxDkNGqdZHbHqT

  

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僕の新しい小説。

 B♭ (ビーフラット)

 

舞台はニューヨークです。

 

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:: Soundtrack ::

 

B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack )

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B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack . For Japanese)

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B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack . Sweet Summer rain ver.)

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B♭ ( My Novel . Soundtrack . Hard days ver.)

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Note: I gave a brief explanation of this novel in the following video:

youtu.be/3w65lqUF-YI?si=yG7qy6TPeCL9xRJV

  

追記 この小説を多少説明しました。

youtu.be/3w65lqUF-YI?si=yG7qy6TPeCL9xRJV

  

メモ

 

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「Bombay型(ボンベイ型、hh型)」

•特徴:通常のABO血液型を持たない(A、B、Oに分類されない)特殊な型。

•発見地:1952年、インド・ムンバイ(旧ボンベイ)で初めて確認。

•発生頻度:インドでは1万人に1人程度だが、世界的には約250万人に1人とも。

•輸血制限:同じBombay型しか輸血できない。

 

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2024年ハーバード大学首席の卒業式スピーチ『知らないことの力』

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Shots fired at Trump rally

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Mitsushiro Nakagawa belong to Lot No. 402 _.Copyright©︎2025 Lot No.402_ All rights reserved.

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Leica M8

Юпитер-3 5cm 1:1.5 ( Jupiter-3 50/1.5 )

LSF54A runs back south to Bloomington, passing through Elwood back in June 2016.

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