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Best place to live in…
It's been a very hot summer in Japan. Even in September the high temperature doesn't seem to go down. News says it's the hottest record ever over last 100 years. Last year I spent the summer time in New Zealand, and sometimes I lived in Hawaii in summer time. Compared to those places, Japanese climate is crazy. People say Japan is [...]
Japanese Yen rises higher
It's a real surprise for many of Japanese businesses. Today's news says 1 dollar became equivalent to 83 JPY. This seems the highest exchange rate for Japanese Yen to US dollar in the last 15 years. Some or maybe many have suspected this high rate since the crash of American Economy by sub-prime loan crisis. Also some of them even expect [...]
Rollings Stones in my summer time
I don't pick up Rolling Stones music for my favourite pastime usually. Not especially I escape from their sound but I just simply was raised by other music. Being away from them for a long time, reguraly I miss their music in hot summer time. This sound feedback happens because I first touched their music on Japanese National TV in my summer [...]
Off Course,an old POP music lives on
When I was a student in Tokyo, a very popular music group, Off Course, was active both in producing new numbers and in giving concerts. I myself didn't like it very much, as opposed to a lot of fans around me. One of my close friends, one day, brought me an album called WE ARE. As I wasn't interested, I left it on the shelf for a long [...]
Having Cold makes me Healthy…..???
I seem to have caught cold even in this crazy hot summer. Staying in bed with much sweat all over my body takes my positive attitude away, and what I can do is just wait for the recovery of physical strength or stamina. However, this experience is not always such bad thing, as some of the accumulated useless thoughts are also swept away [...]
Esophageal Cancer attacked 2 music icons of Japan
Esophageal cancer is not an unusual disease in the recent times of Japan. We often hear an strange name of a disease called Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease on TVor at hospitals in Japan, however, it had been a strange illness for some recent years. By the upsurge of oily Western food consumption in Japan, this strange disease has been on [...]
Obon Time of Japan
It's an update in this blog after a long time interval. Sorry about it. Now we have, what we call, Obon time in Japan, which is one of traditional national events with consecutive national holidays. Usually people of Japan enjoy holidays from 13th to 15th of August, and many go back to their hometown. The reason for their retruning home is [...]
My Message
From today, Japan started a long vacation time, what we call, Golden Week. This vacation time lasts until May 5th, but many take paid day-off on May 6th and 7th, for those people, vacation would turns out until May 9th. You might see a lot of Japanese tourists in many parts of the world in this term because the biggest number of tourists in a [...]
English Schools in Japan bankrupt. Teachers go home
An English school called GEOS in Japan recently announced bankruptcy. This is the 2nd time bankruptcy among large English schools in Japan, the first one was NOVA. There have been 3 or 4 large chain schools in Japan, Aeon, Nova, Geos, and ECC. It means 2 out of 4 schools are already gone. Frankly speaking, those English schools are not [...]
America…
I was a huge fan of the USA when I was young, at least until I was 35 or so. Now I can't say I like the USA. I can really say I like the average people of America, but when it comes to the political matter, I don't like the USA. I really liked to see movies of America, and music of America really excited me when I was young. Now so many [...]
