‘3- Recent News’ Archives
Prius Wagon Car, Prius α (Alpha), will be on sale
Prius is still a very popular car for its economy driving performance. Toyota got damaged on their production schedule by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. That influenced on New Prius Wagon Car's release in the market. However, after the long delay of sales launch, Prius α ( Prius Alpha) is to be on market finally. Prius is the top [...]
Shintaro Ishihara wrote about Japanese future today
Shintaro Ishihara is a Japanese politician, who is governor of Tokyo metropolis at this moment. He used to be a novelist in Japan and some of his books created sensation at their publishing time. Maybe because of this career of his background, his remarks at any lectures often make people consider something. He sometimes uses a little [...]
Miki Ando won the Gold Medal at ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2011
Miki Ando is again back as world champion of figure skating competition at ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2011. Miki Ando used to be a little nervous and naive type sport woman, but as far as recent her attitude is concerned, she probably has overcome her weakness inside herself. Her words at interviews are filled with something [...]
Unemployment, Financial Crisis, what’s next ?
Unemployment rate at the time of March 2011 in Japan was 4.6%, which looks still better under this world financial crisis aftermath. But this figure will be worse because of the earthquake, also the figure we see here is just visible unemployment, if we look closely at the invisible unemployment, some say it should be over 10% in [...]
Sony at Crisis on Internet
Today's news was shocking for Japanese economy again. Sony's playstation customer information leaked onto internet and it seems about 77 million user information at maximum. This affects world wide internet users and Sony might lose trustful relationship with their playstation fans. Japanese top companies recently face unbelievable [...]
City Magazine, PIA, to end its history
In Japan, there has been a very useful city information magazine called PIA. This PIA magazine covers mainly over the big cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, etc., and the wide range of information from gourmet restaurants to entertainment events of movies or music concerts have always been the must information for enjoying city life especially [...]
Katsunobu Sakurai, Mayor of South Soma City as one of TIME’s 100 most influential people
Time magazine of the USA selected Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minami Soma City or South Soma City in Fukushima Prefecture of Japan, as one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. Usually we Japanese should be pleased with this kind of news, however, not easy for our joy as the reason for this selection was, of course, the earth [...]
Ex-Candies Yoshiko Tanaka died yesterday
A very sad news reached me just when I was about to go to bed yesterday. Yoshiko Tanaka, who was a member of Candies, died of breast cancer yesterday. Although I was not such a fan of Candies back in 1970's when they were enjoying the popularity boom in Japan, the 3 members of Candies created huge sensation then in Japan and they were [...]
Missing dog found on the roof of a floating house
This is a happy news but still it also has a little sad aspect too. Today, a dog was found 3 weeks after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. He (or she ) was staying on the roof of a drifting house in the ocean. It means he has been there for 3 weeks just since the tsunami disaster. Tsunami swept away houses, cars, and people. With [...]
The devastating Tsunami in Japan
Probably most of the Japanese expected that someday a big earthquake would happen somewhere in Japan as it's a common sense that Japan is an earthquake type country. Japan is a kind of mountain stream on the pan-pacific ocean. We always had some kind of preparation in mind for the would-be disaster. But this time earthquake and tsunami was [...]
