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According to the news

Congratulations

www3.nhk.or.jp Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Though it was the news on the day before yesterday, it was a very happy news which Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka won a Grand Slam tournament. She has two nationalities, American and Japanese,…

A powerful typhoon is coming

www3.nhk.or.jp Tuesday, September 4, 2018 A powerful typhoon has came through western Japan. It has strong winds and heavy rains. I saw on the TV news that a car laid its on side due to hit by a gust of wind. And strong winds blew a big ta…

Origin

mainichi.jp Friday, August 31, 2018 Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu has shown practice preview of free-program with song “Origin” for new season. How is the song? I am looking forward to seeing his performance. I was sick because of a cold toda…

Flying cars

headlines.yahoo.co.jp Thursday, August 30, 2018 Awesome !! Flying cars seem to be really possible thing. Like a dream thing which I saw on TV when I was childen, it comes true. I thought such a thing was impossible. It is a great technolog…

Self-driving taxi

japantoday.com Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Awesome ! Autonomous driving taxi services has started. Now, only between Otemachi and Roppongi in Tokyo, passengers put the a smartphone on a QR cord of the door and make payments, then door opens. …

Have you ever climbed Mt. Fuji ?

www.asahi.com Sunday, August 26, 2018 Long before Mt.Fuji was listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 2013, I have ever climbed to top of Mt.Fuji. I had scheduled that we started from the fifth station at evening and took a nap …

AI robot teacher

japantoday.com Thursday, August 23, 2018 Amazing ! It is time when AI robots teach English. Most of children are interested in the robot, and it should be fun to learn while playing with it. So it is good that they will have interest in En…

My way to learn English

the-japan-news.com Monday, August 20, 2018 Now, Harumi Kurihara is 71 years old. She restarted learning English since 60 years old. Several years ago, I have seen on a TV program which she was training cooking for about a week at a restura…

Hato bus tours

japantoday.com Sunday, August 19, 2018 Hato Bus Company is 70 years since establishment. Actually I have never used Hato bus tours. I am interested in foreign language tours. It has Chinese tours and English tours. Of course, I want to joi…

Obondama

headlines.yahoo.co.jp Thursday, August 16, 2018 Have you known “Obondama”? A few weeks ago, my acquaintance told me about that, so I already have known. There aren't kids in family related who we have to gift Otoshidama already. We have 3 …

Talking about war

news.yahoo.co.jp Wednesday, August 15, 2018 Have you ever talked about war from experienced people? Yes, I have. At the end of the World War, my late father was 15 years old. He never went to the battlefield as a soldier, however he talked…

JAL airplane crashed in 1985

www3.nhk.or.jp Sunday, August 12, 2018 33 years already passed since JAL airplane crash in 1985. I still clearly remember that thing even now. I went to a driving school just that time, and I knew that from TV news when I went back to home…

Japan gives green light to liquid baby formula sales

mainichi.jp Thursday, August 9, 2018 At first I thought, what does green light mean ? It means, to allow a project, plan etc to begin. It might be related to a traffic light. That shows cars or people they can go forward. When the great ea…

The 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing

www3.nhk.or.jp Monday, August 6, 2018 It is the day that atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima today. When I think of nuclear victims, I feel sad as well as victims. I can't stop my tears. I am thinking I should go to Hiroshima and see the …

Haagen-Dazs Icecream giveaway

mainichi.jp Thursday, August 2, 2018 On the event "Happy Haagen Heart" of Haagen-Dazs Japan, Inc, mini cups in two flavors vanilla and rich milk will hand out 23,200 cups of ice cream for free in seven locations across Japan to lucky visit…

Huawei Smartphone

asia.nikkei.com Wednesday, August 1, 2018 On shipments in the second quarter of 2018, Huawei has become the second place on smartphone shipments in the world. Samsung has been the first place. By the way, I am useing a Huawei smartphone. A…

Emergency announcement

japantoday.com Tuesday, July 31, 2018 At the North Osaka Earthquake, an ordinary citizen woman made emergency announcements know to foreigners who did not understand big earthquake happened in English using the train announcement system . …

iPS Cell

www3.nhk.or.jp Monday, July 30, 2018 A research team from Kyoto University announced clinical trials for Parkinson's disease using ips cell will be started on August 1. They aim the first operation for transplant to patient within the year…

The oldest person in the world

japantoday.com Sunday, July 29, 2018 The oldest 117 years old woman in the world who is Japanese passed away. May her soul Rest In Peace. If I can live until 117 years old, now I have lived only less than half in my life. Seems uneasy rath…

English becomes a regular elementary school subject

Saturday, July 28, 2018English becomes a regular elementary school subject for fifth- and sixth-graders, from 2020. It is good thing, in my private opinion. Because English is the common language of the world.I regret that I don't have eno…

Foreign workers

japantoday.com Thursday, July 26, 2018 In Japan, there is a serious shortage of labour, moreover foreign laborers are supposed to increase. Foreign store clerks of convenience stores have increased recently, I think. Now,the number of fore…

Japanese migration to Brazil

japantoday.com Monday, July 23, 2018 The passenger ship Kasato Maru from the port of Kobe had 781 people of the first immigrant arrived at the port of Santos in Brazil in 1908. And this year, 110 years have passed since emigration started …

Released summary of Olympics tickets prices

www.japantimes.co.jp Sunday, July 22, 2018 I hope to attend the opening ceremony and go to cheer for games, on Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Tickets will begin to be sold next year, and it is good there are seat prices even I can buy. I am prayi…

Oral rehydration solution

withnews.jp Thursday, July 19, 2018 When my mother's regular doctor recommended "oral rehydration solution" for the improvement of dehydration by diarrhea, it was an opportunity I could know it. It was good for diabetic patients like my mo…

Tokyo 2020 Olympics

mainichi.jp Wednesday, July 18, 2018 The Tokyo Olympics main stadium seems to 40% complete. If I will be able to get tickets, I think to go and see the opening ceremony and one of games. However, it must be highly competitive. We can cheer…

At the 100yen shop

japantoday.com Saturday, July 14, 2018 Cloth gloves, Sandals, Mask, Portable toilet bags, Triangular towel, Adhesive bandages, Plastic bags, Plastic wrap, LED lantern light, Batteries, Rechargeable mobile battery, USB Lightning charging ca…

Plastic straws

www.nytimes.com Thursday, July 12, 2018 It has been announced that starbucks coffee will eliminate plastics straws on all stores around the world by 2020. Recyclable strawless lids are proposed instead of plastics straws. The movement to e…

A bunch of grapes

japantoday.com Wednesday, July 11, 2018 It's incredible price only for a bunch of grapes is 1.1million yen ! How much is one of grapes ? Does the successful bidder sell those grapes to a consumer ? And keep price down as celebration of fir…

The good news and the incredible bad news

www3.nhk.or.jp Thursday, July 10, 2018 It's good that 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in cave have been rescued. It was the good news. Actually I thought I was going to write about floods on parts of western Japan on today's blog, b…

Thai boys

www3.nhk.or.jp Thursday, July 5, 2018 The flood is terrible. When they went into the cave, nobody thought such a thing happened, I think. However, it is really good boys seem fine as far as I see it ! Though we can't feel relieved yet, any…