Archive for 10月, 2009
Joe Hisaishi works for business
// Joe Hisaishi is a renowned composer of Japan. He produced many splendid music works with Hayao Miayazaki, Takeshi Kitano and more film makers and many of them got international prizes at contests. His ability is arguably the god-sent talent and we still expect his new works to come out. Recently I read his book. He explained in the book [...]
Japanese living cost is high ?
// I live in 3 countries alternately. USA, New Zealand, and Japan. Among these countries, generally thinking the cheapest living cost country is thought to be New Zealand. In a sense, it's true. In New Zealand, monthly totlal spending is really small. But if I compare each item price one by one, the lowest price country woul be [...]
Friendship between the USA and Japan
// The USA has several military bases in Japan. The biggest one is in Okinawa, the small southern island of Japan. Okinawa is a resort place of Japan with beautiful ocean andbeach, good food, kind people and warm weather. It's like Hawaii. Also like Hawaii, Okinawa has a large size of American base. The USA uses this base after the 2nd [...]
Yoko Ono is Japanese ?
// Yoko Ono is, probably, the most famous Japanese woman in the world. That's because she used to be the wife of John Lennon. Actually she worked for her own art works but that didn't make her famous. The reason for her recognition is after all John Lennon. This is a Beatles fan's opinion, and not about Japanese woman but about Yoko [...]
International understanding
// When we were students of high school or college, one of our dreams were going to America and learn many things there. But for us , studying abroad was too expensive. That wa just a dream for us. Now many go to the USA and the other countries for studying. That is not rare to experience foreign countries while young. But we [...]
Kenji Jojima will come back to Japan
// Seattle Mariners is a famous American Baseball team in Japan because there are some good players from Japan. Of course the top player is Ichiro. Next famous player is maybe Jojima, the Catcher from Daiei Hawks, which is now Softbank Hawks. Jojima recently announced that he would come back to Japanese baseball as he wants to stay with [...]
Beatles and Drug
// Beatles' remaster CD is a big hit in Japan. I'm a fan of them. I'm glad to know something new comes out, but it's not a new record, but just a remake. In Japan, they were not recognized as real musician when they came to Japan in 1965. Now they are the top musicians and some think they are god. Why don't they disappear ? Their [...]
Family Matter of Japan
// I was raised in an unhappy family. My father was always drunken and bullied us. I cursed my life. This is not just a story but a true experience of mine. I recently decided to go back to my hometown and decided to live with the father again. It is a kind of torture if I needed to remember all those bad memories. The reason [...]
House of counsilors’ by-election was held today
// Today, by-election for 2 members of house of councilors were held in Japan. As we expected, new leading party's candidates won in both positions. Still the national popularity vote for the new government of Japan is very high, around 70% supporting rate, so this result is not a big surprise. This result also means that the [...]
Language stress
// Living in the other country often make people relaxed. Being away from every day troubles, we can enjoy life soon after arrival in the other country. But living there for a long time often make people feel sad. The Japanese living overseas sometimes say that they miss a lot of things of Japan. In my experience, when I was in [...]
