‘5- Various / All Others’ Archives
BALUTO ( Baruto ) became Ozeki of SUMO today
There is a SUMO wrestler from Republic of Estonia, and his Sumo Name is Baluto. Maybe this is not right spelling because the Japanese pronunciation is hard in Alphabet. Maybe his sumo name, Baluto ( or Baruto, Balto, Balt..anything like them is OK) comes from the Baltic Sea. Anyway, he bacame OZEKI rank today. Ozeki is the second [...]
Antonio Inoki joins Hall of Fame
There is a very very popular professional wrestler called Antonio Inoki in Japan. Some wrestling fans may know this name because he is known to the world as a man who had a match with Muhammad Ali ( see photo). That was an irregular match between wrestling and boxing. The result was DRAW, so many got disappointed with it at the end. But apart [...]
Norwegian Wood / Beatles
I love the Beatles. If it were not for them, my life would have totally been different. First of all I didn't learn English like this much. It was already 40 years ago when I first heard of them, and still the sound of them freshly catches my soul. Maybe many of the people in the world feel like me. One of the reasons Beatles never [...]
SUMO is a tribute to God
If you try to remember a Japanese sport, what would it be ? Baseball or football are recently popular but I'm sure some of you remember SUMO wrestling first of all. Probably Sumo is too strange for other countries people. For us Japanese, it's really hard to answer what SUMO really is. When we are born in Japan, Sumo is regularly held 4 [...]
PropagandaBuster, Texas Daddy Tony will be published in Japan
There is a popular YOUTUBE site called PropagandaBuster. This site is run by a Gentleman called Tony and he is getting a little popular in Japan now, it' s maybe because he often talks about problems concerned with Japan and it often goes for Japan. The speech he makes is really interesting in the sense that we can know how one of the [...]
Mao Asada & Daisuke Takahashi got Gold medal at ISU World Figure Skating Championships
In Italy, ISU World Figure Skating Championships was held by 27 of March, 2010. Japanese people are really glad now because both male and female skaters got Gold medals for the first time at a comepetition. Mao Asada won in the female one, and Daisuke Takahashi did it in the male competition. Both of them had very hard life before and after [...]
SAKURA / Cherry Blossom
Japanese National Flower is Sakura, or Cherry Blossom. Now it's time of cherry blossom in Japan. It tells the arrival of new spring, and Japanese wait it over a long winter time. Cherry blossoms around April in Japan with the steps of warm climate. With the flower, we go to schools of new year term, and company starts the new year. In this [...]
CHIUNE SUGIHARA still tells us something
This is not a public news but just a thought of mine. Today I saw a video of CHIUNE SUGIHARA, who save lots of Jewish people in the war time. The video in the bottom is a digest of the long story. It's a beautiful story but we Japanese don't know. Recently this story was on air a few times, so some may know, but not much of us know [...]
Bill Evans Forever
I often play the piano when I feel OK. Also guitar and Ukulele are my favourite music instruments, but probably I like the piano above all. I started playing the piano when I was 25 years old. So it's very late. I still remember the first motive for my piano passion, which was the encounter with Bill Evans. In Japan, there were many Jazz [...]
Japan-China-Western World harmony: Joe Hisaishi and Friends
I know that Chinese people still have mental damage because of the last war. Of couse Japan can't forget it. And Asian countries sometimes have troubles with Western countries too. To be honest, I think we should look back the history more from objective research because the process of the troubles, or reasons of the troubles often are not [...]
