‘3- Recent News’ Archives
Cherry Blossoms now in Japan
Today I went to an old castle in my hometown to see the cherry blossom around the castle park. In Japan people get happy when the blossom come up. I don't know the reason why it makes us so happy and joyful. When I was in Christchurch in New Zealand, there were also a lot of cherry trees around Hagley park and they blossom in the early [...]
President of Poland died…Tragedy !
Oh No ! What a tragedy ! He was on the airplane to attend the ceremony for victims of Katyn in Russia. But he himself came to be burried. No other words than tragedy. I can't comment anything because the reason of this accident is not yet reported. I just hope all the victims of this accident are resting in peace. I personally like [...]
Onbashira Festival of Suwa Taisha starts in Nagano
In the city of Matsumoto of Nagano Prefecture in Japan, there is an old shrine called Suwa Taisha. This is a very big and strange shrine for us Japanese too in some reasons. This shrine has a very unique and famous festival valled Onbashira Festival. How unique is it ? Maybe words can't tell it exactly, but it's a super strange festival for [...]
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 [...]
Death Penalty to be executed ? Amnesty tries to stop it
An old Japanese prisoner who got death penalty in China seems to be executed soon, news reported today. This is a hard topic, so I'm not sure if I could write about it here. Some years ago, I heard about this Japanese person who got jailed in China because of the penalty of smuggling drugs in to China. First of all, I need to say that all the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
National Insurance of America
This is not about Japan, but it's important for us too. American national insurance law passed the diet of America yesterday. This seems to have a lot of pros and cons, and the opinions of America are still going on. I once tried to live in America, and I researched the insurance system then. What I noticed was that all the insurance in the [...]
Suzuki Cars reached 1 million sales in India
For Japanese car companies, this year seems very tight because of lots of recall troubles especially featured in Toyota USA case. Recently Toyota's troubles are reported as a manmade trap by American media and some testifies made by trouble testers seems to be traps too. It means they wanted to make Toyota down by terrible gossips. This is [...]
