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MAO ASADA made 3 Axel jump twice

MAO ASADA made 3 Axel jump twice

MAO ASADA got silver medal at the competition of Figure Skating of Vancouver Olympic. Her way was really long.  At the previous Olympic, she could not join in the games because she was too young.  But at the time, she was already the top skater at world competition. In that sense, she was not lucky in her career. But she proved the technique [...]

Terrible News from Media

Terrible News from Media

Seeing news on TV everyday, I often lose my hope to the future. Probably many of wise news watchers know that Japanese media don't tell the truth at all. What they report is only beneficial things for themselves. It's really desperate. Many of them know that Japanese media are working closely with powerful politicians. And the controlling power [...]

Japan with Hidden Cross – Ken Joseph (Jr.)

Japan with Hidden Cross – Ken Joseph (Jr.)

This book was very interesting for me. I've already read some books about history of Japanese religions and immigrants from other parts of the world. The Author, Ken Joseph and Ken Joseph Jr. explained how our history education has had a lot of lack in teaching religion of Japan, and the people of Japan. We Japanese learn that Buddhism [...]

Takeshi Kitano Biography

Takeshi Kitano Biography

Takeshi Kitano's Biography is going to be published in France. Well, I sometimes talked about him here. So somewhat I think it's already enough about him here. Recently I saw his TV show, and I thought he really got old. When he was a comedy boy rather than a movie director, his talks on stage was like the thunder storm. That was really [...]

Tengu- The shadow of Jewish in Japan

Tengu- The shadow of Jewish in Japan

In Japan, there are many strange creatures in the tale of history, in the old books, and sometimes it's still visible as statue in temples or shrines. Tengu ( see photo) is one of the strange creatures living in the legend of Japan. Tengu is believed to live in the steep mountains and he is strong with much knowledge for life. Please see [...]

Jedaism in Japan 2

Jedaism in Japan 2

There is an old and original religion called SHINTO in Japan. This was born probably more than 2000 years ago in Japan. It's related with Emperor of Japan. SHINTO shrine honors its God but it's not visible from us human. We don't have idol worship at shrines of SHINTO samely as Judism. There are uncountably large number of Shinto shirines in [...]

DAISUKE TAKAHASHI got Bronz Medal on Figure Skating Competition

DAISUKE TAKAHASHI got Bronz Medal on Figure Skating Competition

In Vancouver, Japanese players aren't making good results judging from the numbers of medals.  But yesterday, Daisuke Takahashi gave us a touching moment when he got bronz medal for the first time ever as a Japanese figure skating player. Japanese female figure skating made some good results in the past Olympic games. Shizuka Arakawa got Gold [...]

Japan has 769 billion dollar US Bonds now

This is an amazing number. 769 billion dollar US bonds ! Today's news says that Japan again outnumbered China on the UD bond holding amount. This means that  Japan has been constantly buying US bonds whatever Japanese economy situation may be.  We know that accumulating amount of US bonds has no value because Japan can't sell it.  But the [...]

Good Luck, Yuko Kawaguchi !

Good Luck, Yuko Kawaguchi !

I didn't know a Japanese girl is playing ice skate in Russia as a Pair Skating player.  Her name is Yuko Kawaguchi. Yesterday, she and her partner Alexander Victorovich Smirnov (Александр Викторович Смирнов) played skating in Vancouver Olympic. Russia seems to be traditionally strong in this competition with more than [...]

Joji Kato & Keiichiro Nagashima got medales on Speed Skate

Joji Kato & Keiichiro Nagashima got medales on Speed Skate

On Speed Skate 500 meter competition, Keiichiro Nagashima and Joji Kato got medals today. Nagashima got silver medal and Koto got bronz medal. Japanese speed skate team is always expected medals since Kitazawa got silver medal for the first time in Sarajevo Olympic games.  After that, Hiroyasu Shimizu got gold medal in Nagano Olympic, which [...]

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