Archive for 1月, 2010
JAL, Japan Air Lines under bunkruptcy law
Japan air lines, JAL, is decided to be handled by law because of it's huge deficit and weak running condition. JAL is a national air line of Japan. So the government can't decide to let it bunkrupt. If it stops flying, it means the people of Japan and people coming to Japan will lose the connection to the world. Anyway, there are many [...]
Ikebukuro New China Town in Tokyo
In Japan, there is a famous and popular China Town in Yokohama. This is already a famous tour spot of Tokyo and Yokohama district. Foods are good there and the people working there are very in good harmony with Japanese people around them for a long history time. Nobody denies this China town is a good place and it's a successful aspect of [...]
YAMANASHI WINE of Japan
Japanese wine is not famous in the world. I must confess that we don't choose Japanese wine often for our dinner or parties either in Japan. Maybe we Japanese believe without any proof that foreign wine is better than Japanese ones because Japanese wines have shorter history in the production and we aren't familier to them in spite that we can [...]
Heavy Snow in the World, is this global warming ?
It seems that many places in the world have seriously cold weather with heavy snow now. In Japan, we also had very cold winter over the new years day, and it's said that more cold days seems to be coming from this week. There is a question. Is this the planet we live on faced with the global warming really ? There seems to be pros and [...]
Toyota, Honda, or Suzuki ?
In 2009, the best selling car of Japan was Toyota Prius. Hybrid cars seem to be standard choice in Japan in spite that the price is still higher than normal gasoline cars. Honda used to be the most energy efficient car maker with Civic, Accord, or City. But Honda recently has few hit car brands. Toyota took place the eco car market too [...]
Ready to eat Curry dish
In Japan, there are many curry dish fans. The curry was imported from India and it had been arranged into Japanese style while the process of the long food history in Japan. Japanese curry is very popular in Japan, maybe it's among the top 5 popular foods in Japan. The price is not that high and the cooking is easy, so people cook it at [...]
Beauty Queen of City Council ? Yuri Fujikawa
Recenty I found an funny article among news. There is a middle size city, Hachinohe, in the northern part of Japan. Its population is about 300,000. There is nothing particular to tell about this city and not such an interesting travel spot either. But recently this city is a little closed up by media because of a menber of city [...]
New Album of Exile reaches at 1.45 million copies
Japanese music group ( or just an idol group ), EXILE's new album called AISUBEKI MIRAI E, or For Lovely Future in English translation, is on the top sales for a long time and it reaches at 1.45 million copies release. This is a very rare news in Japanese music industry. Decads ago, there were many million seller records in Japan. But now, CDs [...]
Futemma, Okinawa base goes where ?
US -JAPAN relation is not as good as the past 50 years. It's often said recently because of the issue of removal of Okinawa Military Base of the USA. Japan and the USA once agreed to move it to the new place in the man-made ocean base in FUTEMMA of OKINAWA. This agreement was made by the previous Japanese leading party, Leberal Democratic [...]
New Adults’ Day in Japan
Seijin no hi, or New Adults' Day is the day when we celebrate the new adult people in the year. People who become 20 years old in the year are celebrated for the growth and future happiness in Japan. The day was set on 15th of January some years ago, but nowadays, it's on the 2nd Monday in January each year, and it's a national holiday of [...]
