‘5- Various / All Others’ Archives
ASASHORYU news and Sumo spirit
Recently the Sumo Grand champion, Asashoryu, retired. The biggest reason for his decision was an accident that Asashoryu was involved. News reported he hit a man and the man's nose bone was broken. Asashoryu had a few accidents in the past, and Sumo committee seems to have decided " that's it". There are still many pros and cons, but I [...]
New York Burger sold out ? McDonalds
In Japan, among the hamburger shops McDonalds is the most popular and it's a successful company. In the USA, the original birth place of McDonalds, it's often thought to be a junk food. In Japan, there certainly are some critical people who say it's Junk, but average people still like McDonald's and they don't think it's a Junk food. I don't [...]
MAO ASADA won today
Mao Asada won the 4 continental figure skating competition today. Yesterday, she made some mistakes in the short program, so many worried about her success today. I think it was a brave choice for her because the next event is the Olympic games. Many of the world level skaters did not join in this competition because of the condition control, [...]
RAKUTEN starts new business in CHINA with BIDU.O 百度
Rakuten Ichiba (楽天市場）, or Internet Shopping Site, RAKUTEN will start EC business in China with BIDU.O (百度）. This is a really big news for us Japanese. Rakuten started it's business on the internet only about 10 and something years ago. But it already became the Japan's NO.1 internet shopping company, and it's ranked within top [...]
China became the biggest trading partner of Japan
Of course,the USA has been the largest country for Japan in the sense of trading and influence after the war. Japanese prosperity after the war, in a sense, was realized by the relation with the USA. But China seems to have taken place of the NO.1 trading status for Japan, according to the recent news. This is a good news. It's really [...]
SEIBU department Yurakucho store to close this year
This is a little shocking news for me because I often visit this department store. SEIBU department store has a lot of branch stores in Japan, and Yurakucho store or the Ginza area store is one of the most sophisticated branch store of them all. It's located just near the Yurakucho station, and the building is a complex with some good cinema [...]
DENTSU buys Innovation Interactive
I don't know the present status of the Advertising company, Dentsu. But it used to be ( or still is ) a world largest advertising company. At least Dentsu is the largest AD company in Japan still with a big distance to the second company, Hakuhodo. That guliver like company, Dentsu, seems to buy an American internet advertising company [...]
Mayor of Hiroshima City met President Obama
Recently the news about Japan-US relationship is not always good. That's because of the problem of removal of American base in Okinawa island first of all, and secondly, the new leading political party wants to get closer to Asian countries rather than staying with the USA only. Interestingly, impression of president Obama is not bad at all [...]
Spoken Japanese ” AHOKA ? BAKAKA? “
Today, I'm going to write an easy Japanese sample for casual conversation. Maybe the standard expression is rather easy-found words, here I write some really casual but often used expression. AHOKA ? (あほか？） This is originally an word from Osaka district, or Kansai ( western) district of Japan. AHO means stupid in Osaka, in [...]
FUNAI becomes the 2nd TV set selling maker in the USA
To be honest, FUNAI is not that familiar to us in Japan. Funai is an electric appliance maker of Japan, but like everyone, I know Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, Sharp, Sanyo, Kenwood or Pioneer better than Funai. The reason why I write about Funai here is that Funai became the 2nd company in the USA in sales result of TV [...]
