Archive for 8月, 2010
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 [...]
Rollings Stones in my summer time
I don't pick up Rolling Stones music for my favourite pastime usually. Not especially I escape from their sound but I just simply was raised by other music. Being away from them for a long time, reguraly I miss their music in hot summer time. This sound feedback happens because I first touched their music on Japanese National TV in my summer [...]
Off Course,an old POP music lives on
When I was a student in Tokyo, a very popular music group, Off Course, was active both in producing new numbers and in giving concerts. I myself didn't like it very much, as opposed to a lot of fans around me. One of my close friends, one day, brought me an album called WE ARE. As I wasn't interested, I left it on the shelf for a long [...]
Having Cold makes me Healthy…..???
I seem to have caught cold even in this crazy hot summer. Staying in bed with much sweat all over my body takes my positive attitude away, and what I can do is just wait for the recovery of physical strength or stamina. However, this experience is not always such bad thing, as some of the accumulated useless thoughts are also swept away [...]
Esophageal Cancer attacked 2 music icons of Japan
Esophageal cancer is not an unusual disease in the recent times of Japan. We often hear an strange name of a disease called Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease on TVor at hospitals in Japan, however, it had been a strange illness for some recent years. By the upsurge of oily Western food consumption in Japan, this strange disease has been on [...]
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 [...]
