‘3- Recent News’ Archives
Dentists face deficits
It's a long time royal road for would-be millionaires to choose dentist as their occupation in Japan. Rather than becoming medical doctors, dentists were often thought as a shortcut to the rich. Actually some decades ago, it was hard to find POOR dentists in Japan. However, it seems to have become a past legend of millionaire myth. It's [...]
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 [...]
Emperor visits Nasu
Emperor of Japan often visit resort areas in Japan especially in hot summer time for escaping from busy days and taking a rest. Close to my hometown, there is a popular resort palce, NASU. Emperor would visit there every now and then, remembering the time of his visit, the roads are crowded with people to celebrate the visit with national [...]
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 [...]
Takoyaki at Shanghai International EXPO
TAKOYAKIis a popular Japanese food. There is a octopus ( tako ) piece inside, and the Yaki means Bake or Grill. But it's really difficult to express how this food is good. Nowadays, we can find this food anywhere in Japan. But some decades ago, Takoyaki was a regional food that was found only in Western parts of Japan. Osaka is the most [...]
OKINAWA is shaken by politics
I don't know how big Okinawa military base removal matter is in the USA or among the people of America. Maybe not that big issue among them. In Japan this issue is recently discussed much on TV or in papers. Most of the arguments made are from people of Okinawa, so honestly speaking, people in mainlands of Japan aren't concerned much about [...]
More Sun for More Food Supply
Flowers are fine now with the arrival of Spring. This year's spring is really late. Today we have a little warm day but forecast says it will be cold in a few days. It's really unusual weather. Maybe there will be a concern about crops in this summer if this cold weather continues. About 15 years ago, there was a serious [...]
2nd good influence country ?
Today's newspaper of Japan said that Japan was selected the 2nd good influence country in the world next to Germany. This survey was also held last year and Japan was the 4th good country, top 3 were Germany, UK, and Canada. So Japan was not bad last year either. I don't know how the statistics was made, but it's not a bad state of mind to [...]
