Giant Crows and Moving Bookshelves

Hey, so I'm finally writing something.  ...Finally... 
I figured I could just write short blogs about various things of interest here in Japan.
For one thing, there are giant crows, with giant beaks that would make Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds into a horror movie.  A couple of those things could probably maim or kill a human, if it really wanted to.  They're kinda cool though. 
Oh, and the insects are giant as well.  Including cockroaches...  >.<

Earlier on, we had a tour of the Chiba University library during orientation, which was pretty normal.  Then they took us to a room that was unique in that all of the bookshelves were pushed up against each other, and to access a shelf you have to push the button on its side that slides all of the other bookshelves away from it to create a small aisle.  It was cool, and kinda scary.  Somewhat scary because one of the American guys thought it'd be funny to shift the shelves over while we were walking between two shelves.  At least we discovered that there are sensitive emergency shut-off bars lining the shelves to prevent accidental squishing of people.  :3