Free gifts(giveaway)～おまけ商品～

There are various kinds of green tea sold at convenience stores. I buy a bottle of green tea every day, so I’m puzzled which one I should buy. These days, I buy the “Iemon(伊右衛門)” from Suntory because it has　free gifs（おまけ商品）, such as hand towel, hand mirror, and so on. They are not so bad when I use practically. Another bottle, “Fresh tea(生茶)” has small goods of giant panda. There are many examples like this in Japan. Some magazine which feature fashions have small bags of “HERMES”, “Louis Vuitton”, and “Chanel”. These companies say that it is good for not only customers but also for us because they can know what kinds of bags customers want. I found it very interesting that Japanese companies add one or two free gifts to merchandise from drinks to magazine with the corporation of other companies. I think this tendency is especially characteristic of Japan. I’ve never heard such things in other countries. Even if there are some goods like this, quality of free gift would be even lower than that of Japanese free gift.

When you go for a shopping next time, why don’t you pay attention to “Free gifts”?

Natto

Hello.
I'm from Ibaraki.Ibaraki is famous for mito natto.
I think natto is very delocious food.But some people don't like it.
Certainly,it smells strange.But its smell is very good for me.
I have not eaten natto since I came to Hirosaki.
I miss mito natto.

club

Today I introduce the club I belonged when I was junior high school student. I was a member of track and field club. I was a distance runner. Track and field is a battle against oneself and one`s record. So athletes make every effort to shorten their record, for example, changing form, placticing many times, and so on. Track and field seems an inconspicious sport, but it is very interesting. Let`s try to watch Olympic Games.

Singapore

Hello.

When I was in high school, I went to Singapore.I love it and so I tell you about it today.
Singapore is famous for Merlion, Centosa Island, Night Safari and so on!It has a lot of sights for sightseeing.I love Singapore in that many cultures are mixed.Mainly Chinese, Malaysian,Indian live in the country.

It's always in summer.It has a hot and humid climate.And Singapore is known as the clean city.That's really true.

Singapore is very small, but its charm is infinite!!!!I really want to visit there, again!!

Please try to go to Singapore someday.

My plan in summer vacation

Today, I tell you about my plan in summer vacation.
My brother lives by himself in Kyouto. So, I am planning travel in Kyouto by the train.
Do you know seishun-18-tickets ?? This tickets is very useful. Because a ticket is 2,300 yen. It is inexpensive.and we can ride around in a day by using this ticket. But there are some instructions for this tickets.
First, we can only buy it in definite term.
Second,we can only buy it in five tickets book.
Last,we can only ride on way train.
I think this tickets is a friend of the poor student. I want to travel everywhere in Japan and enjoy summer vacation by using this tickets well.

my favorie composer

Today I introduce another favorite composer 'Akira Senjyu'. He graduate Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He is one of the most important composer in the world. His recent famous work is the music of 'furinkazan'. The opportunity I know him is the music of 'Sunanoutuwa'. 'Sunanoutuwa' is the TV drama which is broadcasted in 2004. In the drama the music composed by Senjyu put enthusiasm into me. In the future I will pay attention to him, too.

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I`m sorry to be late.
Recently, NBA final is end. I introduce what happens in the games and result.

BOSTON (AP) -- A blizzard of green-and-white confetti was in the forecast,
a
shiny trophy was being readied for its trip to the center of the parquet floor
and T-shirts and caps were hurriedly handed out to the rest of the new NBA
champions.
First, though, a final, fitting bow.
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The clock said 4:01 left, and the scoreboard read: Boston 116,
Los Angeles 81.
It was time for Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to
come out -- together.
"I thought, they came in as a group, and I thought
we
should take them out as a group," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said.
The
Big
Three walked off as one, and into history.
With Bill Russell and
John
Havlicek
sitting courtside,
and Red Auerbach
surely lighting up a victory cigar
somewhere, these Celtics returned to
glory like the great Boston teams before
them, dominating the Los Angeles
Lakers 131-92
in Game 6 on Tuesday night.
For Pierce, Garnett and Allen,
this was moment they had
waited for, the one they used to wonder would ever
arrive. But they
sacrificed individual acclaim for team success, and with Rivers
as their
guide, the trio brought Boston back to the top with title No. 17.
"I'll be
forever linked to this city," said Garnett, who toiled for years in
Minnesota. "And
I'm more than grateful for that."
Almost an hour afterward,
Pierce, the
finals MVP who a year ago thought his days in Boston were over,
strolled
back onto the court.
"I didn't want a championship," he yelled to
no one
in particular. "I needed a championship. I ain't going nowhere. I'm
spending
the night."
In the closing minutes, Boston fans sang as if they
were in
a nearby pub, celebrating the first NBA championship won in the city
since
1986. They serenaded the newest champs with "Seven-teen" and taunted Kobe
Bryant and his Lakers, who were buried by a green-and-white
avalanche.
Garnett scored 26 points with 14 rebounds, Allen
scored 26 and Pierce, who
shook off a sprained right knee sustained in Game
1, added 17 for the Celtics, a
24-win team a year ago. Rajon Rondo had 21 points,
eight assists, seven rebounds
and six steals.
Boston built a 23-point
halftime lead and obliterated the
Lakers, who were trying to become the first team to
overcome a 3-1 deficit in
the finals. The 39-point win surpassed the NBA
record for the biggest margin of
victory in a championship clincher; the
Celtics beat the Lakers 129-96 in Game 5
of the 1965 NBA finals.
As the clock ticked down, Pierce doused Rivers with
red Gatorade. Owner Wyc Grousbeck, who named his
group Banner 17 to leave no
doubt about his goal, put an unlit cigar in his
mouth -- a tribute to Auerbach,
the patriarch who had a hand in the
franchise's first 16 titles.
Garnett
dropped to the parquet and kissed the
leprechaun at center court and then found
Russell, the Hall of Famer who taught him the
Celtic way, for a long embrace.
"You know you're a Celtic when other players
come up and congratulate you to
be here," said Garnett, the centerpiece
of a 7-for-1 trade pulled off last
summer by Boston general manager Danny Ainge, a former
Celtics guard. "They
explain the tradition. It's like coming into a frat."
It was Boston's first
title since the passing of Auerbach, and following
the game TD Banknorth Garden,
the "new" Garden, smelled of
one of his stogies. He must have been smiling as
the Celtics denied Lakers coach Phil Jackson
from overtaking him with a 10th
championship.
The Boston-Los Angeles
rivalry, nothing more than
black-and-white footage from the 60s and TV
highlights of players wearing short
shorts in the 80s to young hoops fans,
remains tilted toward the Atlantic Ocean.
The Celtics are 9-2 against the Lakers in the
finals.
Boston missed its
first crack at closing out the series in Game
5, but the Celtics didn't miss on
their second swing, running the Lakers out of the gym.
"Beat L.A.?" More
like "Beaten L.A."
Bryant, the regular-season MVP,
finished with 22 points
on 7-of-22 shooting.
He started 4-of-5 from the
field and seemed intent on
forcing a Game 7. But he missed seven shots in a
row and everywhere he went,
L.A.'s No. 24 ran smack into a wall of Boston
defense as high as the Green
Monster.
"They were definitely the best
defense I've seen the entire
playoffs," Bryant said. "I've seen some pretty
stiff ones and this was right up
there with them. The goal was to win a
championship, it wasn't to win MVP or
anything like that, it was to win a
championship."
With Garnett scoring 17
points and Pierce adding 10,
Boston built a 58-35 halftime lead, and unlike Game
2 when they let the Lakers trim a
24-point lead to two in the fourth quarter
before recovering, the Celtics
never stopped.
They pushed their lead to 31
in the third and a
mind-blowing 43 at one point.
No team had to work harder
for a
championship than these Celtics, who were playing in their record 26th
postseason game
after being pushed to seven by Atlanta and Cleveland before
beating Detroit
in six to win the Eastern Conference title.
They entered
Game 6 slowed
by injuries as Pierce, Kendrick Perkins (shoulder) and Rondo
(ankle) were
less than 100 percent. There was also uncertainty surrounding
Allen, who
stayed behind in Los Angeles following Game 5 after his youngest son
became
ill and was diagnosed with diabetes. The Celtics needed three planes to
get
back from L.A. and didn't get home until late Monday night.
But there
were no excuses, and just as they had while winning 66 games during the
regular
season, the Celtics got a record seven 3-pointers from Allen and
plenty of help
from their bench as P.J. Brown, James Posey, Leon Powe and rookie Glen "Big
Baby" Davis came in and contributed.
It was a group effort by this gang
in
green, which bonded behind Rivers, who borrowed an African word ubuntu
(pronounced
Ooh-BOON-too) and roughly means "I am, because we are" in English,
as the
Celtics' unifying team motto.
Rivers, who never won a title during 13
seasons as a player, was nearly run out of town last season as the proud
Celtics
dropped off the league's radar screen. But he remained confident,
boosted by
encouragement from his father, Grady, a former police lieutenant
who told him to
hang tough.
Grady Rivers died in the season's first
week, and never got to
see his son fulfill his dream.
As the final
seconds ticked off, Rivers
recalled his father.
"My first thought was
what would my dad say," Rivers
said, "and honestly I started laughing
because I thought he would probably say,
if you knew my dad, 'It's about
time. What have you been waiting for?"'
Notes: The Celtics set a finals
record with 18 steals. ... Allen was poked
in the left eye in the second
quarter by Lamar Odom and spent much of the second
quarter getting treatment
in the locker room. ... The Celtics joined Golden
State (1974-75) and
Portland (1976-77) as the only teams to win a championship
after missing the
playoffs the previous year. ... Boston went 48-7 at home,
including 13-1 in
the postseason. ... Jackson is 193-84 in the postseason.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=424933

Summer vacation

I' m looking forward to summer vacation, because I have a lot of things which I want to do.
First, I want to go to the seashore with my friends. It is our annual summer event and a opportunity to meet my friends again.
Second, I will study hard. I want to be good at English, so I will read many English books and practice speaking English.
I hope to make a lot of memories.

Teaching

Have you ever taught something to others? This is very difficult, I think. Since I began to work as a teacher in a cram school, I always feel that. For example, my student is very weak in fractional expressions so I never fail to give a test about them. At the end of a class, I ask whether he can understand this class or not, and he says,"Of course, I can do that". However, he can't solve fractional expressions I give him as a test!

Surely, teaching is very hard but I can grow up through it. Nowadays, I think of the following questions every day. How should I teach that? What ways to solve the problem he can understand easily? This experience is new for me and is very useful in the future. And I think that teaching is an important skill so I want to develop the skill more.

battle against oil

One day,I noticed that a bad smell was coming from kitchen. "Where is coming from?"I thought.

I looked for the cluprit. What do you think it is?

It was oily dirt of a ventilation fan. So I decided to clean it completely.

I wondered why that bad smell had developed although I didn't cook so much often.

At first,I look the ventilation fan. That was exactly what I thought.

Soon,I took the action.

The dirt was worse than I had expected.So I tried using various kinds of cleansers.

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It took about an hour.I won.

The ventilation fan became very very very clean!I was happy.

Through the trying,I discovered the most useful cleanser was キュキュッと　クエン酸入り.

Please use it when you clean something.

Thank you for reading.

Dog

Which do you like dog or cat??I love dog!!Especially I like pug.It's kind of dog. Picture is pug.

Dou you know pug?I think pug is very pretty and eyes is cute.But my friends often say that pug is not pretty.I want everyone to know pug more.Then they realize charm.

By the way,whan pug feel happy,pug not barking but whining"bu-bu-".This is just out of my world!And it is said that pug means a clenched fist.

This brog is my fovorite.Maybe you can relax.

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/mattari-mamenbo/

Today I tell you my present cooking life!

In past days, I show the dishes I made. This is the second time. Now I live in a boarding house, so I don't have to cook myself. However, in order to grow up in various fields, I challenge to make dishes as one of the methods.

First menu is sauted dish of eggplant & poke with "miso". And second one is fried rice with a sticky sauce. There were some mistakes such as that I use too much oils or that I forgot buying eggs. But these were so good! I continue to cook from now too!

Traveler

Story of traveler

A traveler always has he/her own place that he/her need to reach in a certain period of time. But to be there he/her must to pass a desert, river and jungle. He must get he/her needs to continue the journey so he need to take a break at every place. But a good traveler will not spend so many times make other trip around the place because he/her still has along journey to continue. In other hand a bad traveler will spend a lot of time buy all stuff that he want and he feel very happy at that time. But he forgot that he need to complete a mission to reach another important place. So as a result he just feel happy a while at first and then face a terrible life in the rest of he/her live. So in conclusion we must to think a truth goals in doing something.

Man vs traffic light

WHY we must to obey to the rod near the road? Who is more powerful rod or human? Didn't you think you are a crazy person obey to the rod that can't think and can't do nothing to you except show you red, yellow and green. It show how weak we are. We need a rule to guide our life so we will not get a trouble in our life same as the use of the traffic light to control people from accident. In the nut shell we need to obey to the rod on the road.

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I'm sorry to be late.
The Beijing Olympic Games are drawing near, so I want to introduce its articles.

While Takayuki Matsumiya has made his mark in the 5,000 meters, he'll be going
to the Olympics in the 10,000.
Matsumiya clinched a place on Japan's team to
this summer's Beijing Olympics by winning the men's 10,000 title at the Japan
Championships at Todoroki Stadium on Thursday.
"I came here [to qualify] for
the Olympics and I made it, so I'm really happy," said Matsumiya, the two-time
defending champion in both the 5,000 and 10,000.
Matsumiya pulled away from
rivals Ryuji Ono and Yu Mitsuya with three laps to go and won in 27 minutes
51.27 seconds. Ono finished second in 27:55.16 with Mitsuya third in 27:58.63.
"There's a big difference between first and second places, so I was
concerned more with where I finished than the time I ran," said Matsumiya, who
last year set the Japan record in the 5,000.
With the victory, Matsumiya
became the first athlete to fulfill the Japan federation criteria for automatic
selection by anyone who wins the national title and has achieved the Olympic "A"
qualifying standard.
Matsumiya topped the "A" mark of 27.50.00 when he
clocked 27:41.75 at the Cardinal Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., on May 4.
The Olympic team will be announced Monday following the four-day meet.
One athlete who earlier this year might not have thought he would make that
list is two-time world bronze medalist hurdler Dai Tamesue, who overcame his
first barrier in an attempt to make it to Beijing.
Tamesue, running just the
second race of an injury-delayed season, advanced to the final of the men's
400-meter hurdles by winning his semifinal heat in 50.87.
"It was a relief
to finally run," said Tamesue, who pulled out of several meets earlier this
season due to problems with both calves and his left Achilles tendon and has run
just once.
"My body felt good, although given what I've gone through, I was
wondering if that feeling was wrong," Tamesue said. "After I took my first step,
I thought everything was OK."
Kenji Narisako, who won the 2006 title when
Tamesue skipped the meet, posted the fastest time of the round of 49.99.
Both Tamesue and Narisako have achieved the Olympic qualifying "A" standard,
meaning both will likely go if they finish one-two.
In other events,
two-time defending champion Shingo Suetsugu and Shinji Takahira each won their
qualifying races to make the final of the men's 200 meters.
Suetsugu, the
2003 world bronze medalist, won his heat in 20.67 seconds, while Takahira took
it easy down the stretch to finish first in his race in 20.81.
Four of the
women's field event titles were decided, but no Olympic places.
Yuka
Murofushi won the hammer throw over two-time defending champion Masumi Aya,
winning with a throw of 62.98 meters for her third title and first in three
years.
Disaster struck the women's pole vault, in which Japan record-holder
Ikuko Nishikori and defending champion Takayo Kondo both failed to clear a
height, each missing three times at 4.10 meters.
That opened the door for
Doshisha University's Tomomi Abiko, the lone vaulter to clear 4.10, to win her
first title. Mami Nakano, the 2006 champion, placed second at 4.00.
Other
winners were Yuki Ebihara, who won the javelin with a toss of 56.71 meters, and
Fumiyo Yoshida, who leaped 13.12 meters to capture the triple jump.
(Jun.
27, 2008)

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20080627TDY24302.htm

Places I visited

Today I introduce the places I visited to you.

First, I talk about Sapporo. I lived in Sapporo for two years. It is a big city and has very high buildings. It also has Hokkaido University. I lived near Hokkaido University, so I often went there. I walked, ran, played soccer and took an examination on the campas. I want to visit there again.

Second, I talk about Okinawa. Okinawa is hot place. Though I visited there in December, I could swim in the sea. I also went many places related to war. I could listen to the stories and study history.

the kingdom of Thailand

In this summer, I visit Thailand to study Thai children's life and culture with international medical study culb member. So, I decide to writ about Thailandand to know Thailand well and to be this tour more valuable.

I considered what type of infomation I should know. I thougth that health is the most important thing than any other things.

I examined food and infection diseas .Food; there are many kinds of hot food and we had better not to eat at stand because of bad hygien. Infection diseas; we should watch out mosquito if we are pricked with mosquito it is possible that we infect malaria or dengue fever.

I want to make the most of this knowledge and keep health to spend time more valuable.

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The number of cruel murders is increasing recently. Especially murdering family members is very tragic.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080625TDY02310.htm

4 family members murdered / Man kills wife, son, daughter-in-law,
granddaughter with sledgehammer

CHIBA--A 77-year-old man has been
arrested on suspicion of killing four members of his family at their home in
Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, by bashing them with a sledgehammer, police said.

An elderly man called the police at about 7 a.m. Tuesday and claimed he
had murdered his family. Police officers arrived at the house of Yoshio Kiuchi
and found four members of the Kiuchi family bleeding from head injuries. Kiuchi,
who reportedly had health problems, was found lying unconscious.

The victims are Kiuchi's 75-year-old wife, Tokiko; his 49-year-old son,
Shigeru; Shigeru's 44-year-old wife, Miyuki; and Manami, the 4-year-old daughter
of Shigeru and Miyuki.

According to the police, Kiuchi killed his wife with a sledgehammer
while she was preparing breakfast in the kitchen between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., and
then attacked Shigeru and Miyuki in a tatami-floored room. He then allegedly
bludgeoned Manami to death on the second floor of an adjacent building.

The sledgehammer's handle was about one meter long, and the steel head
was about 20 centimeters long, the police said. Kiuchi kept the sledgehammer in
a shed.

The police found a bloodstained sledgehammer in the kitchen of the main
building.

Kiuchi suffered no injuries, but his pajamas were blood-soaked,
according to the police.

A 59-year-old relative of Kiuchi, who resides in the neighborhood,
said, "I heard that Kiuchi had been in ill health, but I never thought something
like this would happen."

The Kiuchi family's house is an area where houses are scattered amid
paddy fields, about four kilometers southeast of JR Abiko Station. Kiuchi worked
as a farmer until about 2000.

Kiuchi was quoted by the police as saying: "I'd had troubles with my
family mainly due to my health problems. My wife had told me I was a nuisance,
so I thought several times about killing her. When I got up this morning, I
decided to go ahead and do it. I killed all my family members because I thought
it would be a load off my shoulders."

The family's neighbors said they did not know of any problems with the
family.

A 76-year-old woman sometimes talked with Tokiko at an elderly people's
community group, saying: "She was a nice person. I hadn't noticed anything
strange about her."

A 56-year-old female neighbor was stunned by the incident, saying, "We
don't even get minor crimes like theft in our neighborhood, so this kind of
brutal incident is very frightening."

A woman in the neighborhood said: "I heard Kiuchi had been bedridden
due to heart trouble. He wasn't hospitalized, but he had been staying at home to
recuperate and sometimes had to go to hospital."

This news interest me very much. This new is about playstation3 that sony made.

Sony's games division is haemorrhaging cash because the PlayStation 3 console
cost so much to develop and make that the company will find it difficult to
recoup its losses.

It is not unusual for consumer electronics
manufacturers to pour money into research and development, sell at a loss when a
new product is released and make up the deficit with high-volume sales in
subsequent years.

However, the magnitude of Sony's PS3 losses, and the
length of time it will take to recoup them, have startled games sector analysts.

Sony's admission that clawing back the cash will have a negative impact
on the group's financial results for some time came to light in its most recent
filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Form 20-F
filing, which is mandatory for non-US companies with US-based shareholders,
revealed losses in the year ending 31 March 2007 (the first financial year in
which the PS3 figured) of ¥232.3bn (£1.09bn).

Although this figure is
high, a substantial loss is to be expected. R&D costs for the relatively
simple PS1 launched in 1996 were estimated at close to $500m (approximately
£350m then).

But the PS3 was a far more ambitious product. Sources close
to the company estimate that each PS3 console cost $800 to manufacture when it
was launched in 2006, let alone multi-billion dollar R&D costs.

That
production bill will have reduced as Sony refined the manufacturing process. But
losses for the year ending 31 March 2008, by which point over nine million PS3s
had been sold, were still running at ¥124.5bn (£585m).

The PS1 and PS2
will have paid back their R&D and early manufacturing costs because they
sold in such high volumes over a long period of time.

While this
business model has been standard among consumer electronics firms, the problem
for the PS3 is that product cycles are becoming shorter as competitors leapfrog
and customers become more demanding.

This leaves fewer years to recoup
R&D losses with high-volume sales.

Howard Stringer, chief executive
at Sony, stated last week that returning the games division to profit is a top
priority for Sony.

Sony will look to recoup losses on sales of consoles
and software. Currently PS3s are on sale for between £310 and £350, depending on
which games the retailer has bundled with the console.

Popular PS3 games
sell at between £30 and £40, and less popular titles as low as £15. After
retailers and distributors have taken their cut, Sony is likely to make anything
from 40 to 75 per cent margin on these sales.

At this rate, the PS3 may
never be anywhere near as profitable as earlier PlayStation models.

However, with every console sold Sony is also seeding homes with Blu-ray
players for which it can sell Blu-ray DVD movie titles at much higher margins.

Thus, while the games division loses money on PS3s, the benefits to
other parts of the Sony empire may outweigh the losses.

http://www.vnunet.com/reviews/

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I'm sorry.The former is failure.
Space development is noticeable lately.
This news is very interesting and exciting.
link:http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080608TDY01302.htm

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas--Astronauts on the International Space Station
on Friday attached a storage facility for Japan's manned space laboratory Kibo
to the top of an experiment module.Kibo's main section is now almost complete
with the mounting of the Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section
(ELM-PS) on the already operational Pressurized Module shortly after 6 a.m.
Saturday.Astronauts Karen Nyberg and Gregory Chamitoff operated the robot arm
and maneuvered the ELM-PS onto the Pressurized Module in about two hours--the
first time two sections of Kibo have been joined in space.Mission specialist
Akihiko Hoshide was responsible for operating the bolts to join the sections at
the early and latter stages of the process.A range of scientific experiments
will be conducted in the Pressurized Module. Equipment and materials in the
storage facility to be used in the module were moved there through a different
process before the ELM-PS was moved.Astronauts are scheduled early Tuesday to
enter the ELM-PS through a hatch from the module to confirm the parts have been
securely attached.This was the second of three space shuttle missions to take
Kibo to the ISS. Kibo will be completed next spring when its Exposed Facility is
attached.(Jun. 8, 2008)

Space development will make progress.

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Space development is noticeable lately.
This news is very interesting and exciting.
link:http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080608TDY01302.htm


JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas--Astronauts on the International Space Station on Friday attached a storage facility for Japan's manned space laboratory Kibo to the top of an experiment module.
Kibo's main section is now almost complete with the mounting of the Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section (ELM-PS) on the already operational Pressurized Module shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday.
Astronauts Karen Nyberg and Gregory Chamitoff operated the robot arm and maneuvered the ELM-PS onto the Pressurized Module in about two hours--the first time two sections of Kibo have been joined in space.
Mission specialist Akihiko Hoshide was responsible for operating the bolts to join the sections at the early and latter stages of the process.
A range of scientific experiments will be conducted in the Pressurized Module. Equipment and materials in the storage facility to be used in the module were moved there through a different process before the ELM-PS was moved.
Astronauts are scheduled early Tuesday to enter the ELM-PS through a hatch from the module to confirm the parts have been securely attached.
This was the second of three space shuttle missions to take Kibo to the ISS. Kibo will be completed next spring when its Exposed Facility is attached.
(Jun. 8, 2008)

Space development will make progress.

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Hello!
Today,I want to introduce happy news for me.
My hometown is famous for soccer team.
It is Kashima Antlers. My hometown supports the Antlers with all our face.
The other day, Kashima Antlers turned out hiro who could save Japanese soccer team.
His name is Atsuto Uchida. He is the hope of Our team.
So, I quoted below article.

It wasn't pretty, but that's exactly what Takeshi Okada wanted from his players.
Japan will advance to the final round of 2010 World Cup qualifying as the Group 2 winner after Okada's side beat the clock to beat under-strength Bahrain 1-0 on Sunday.
Before a Saitama Stadium crowd of 51,180, Japan exacted revenge for its defeat at Manama in March with a very fortunate goal by Atsuto Uchida--the Kashima Antler's first for the national team--in the final minute.
Substitute Seiichiro Maki distracted Sayed Mohamed Jaafar as Uchida's header bounced high over the Bahrain keeper for the lone goal of the match.
"This was an important game for us, and it's not just because we lost they last time met," Okada said. "I don't think we played badly at all in the first half but we couldn't capitalize. Finishing is something we need to work on, and our goal wasn't beautiful by any stretch of the imagination.
"But personally, it made me happy to see our players, who have a reputation of being stylish and elegant, to play such scrappy football."
Japan finished the third-round qualifiers with 13 points from six games, two points ahead of runnerup Bahrain. The draw for the Asian final qualifiers starting in September will be held on Friday.
Okada made the decision to play Shunsuke Nakamura from the start despite the risk of him reinjuring his right ankle.
Nakamura hurt the ankle in the 1-1 draw with Oman at Muscat on June 7, and the injury was bad enough that it nearly kept him out of last weekend's Thailand game that sent Japan through to the final round.
A day earlier after training, Nakamura said his ankle had improved in the past week, but playing him against the hard-tackling Bahrainis carried the risk of aggravating the injury--but it was, evidently, one Okada was willing to burden.
True to his word, Nakamura did seem to be lighter on his feet on this night than he did in Bangkok, and in the fifth minute, the left-footed one came across a great opportunity to hand his team the lead.
Referee Ravshan Irmatov awarded Japan a penalty that should never have been awarded, as defender Sayed Mohamed Adnan stopped Hisato Sato with a perfectly clean tackle.
But that didn't stop the official from pointing to the spot, and Nakamura stepped up to try to convert.
A 1-0 Japanese lead seemed all but written in on the scoresheet with Nakamura, who very rarely misses from the spot, taking the penalty. But Jaafar read Nakamura like a book, diving to his left to make a superb save of what was a well-struck penalty.
Japan dominated the rest of the first half, creating several chances before halftime. Yasuhito Endo's free kick during injury time came off the bar, and Keisuke Honda had the rebound all to himself from point-blank range facing an open net.
But the thought of scoring in his national-team debut appeared to have crossed Honda's mind as the Netherlands-based midfielder somehow managed to miss the target.
Milan Macala's visitors made a game out of it in the second half, putting Japanese custodian Seigo Narazaki to the test. The hosts went close a number of times before Keiji Tamada's throw-in led to Uchida's goal.
JAPAN: Narazaki, Uchida, Nakazawa, Tulio, Yasuda, S. Nakamura, K. Nakamura, Honda, Tamada, Sato
BAHRAIN: Jaafar, Husain, Ayyad, Isa, Adnan, Alanezi, Alwadaei, A'faish, Abdulrahman, Omar, Ismaeel
(Jun. 23, 2008)

This news is here:http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20080623TDY20303.htm

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Hello. I introduced EURO2008 to you before. Now I think you wonder what is going on.
link:http://news.google.com/news?ned=ca

MADRID (AFP) — Thousands of supporters of the Spanish national team have vowed
to shave their heads if their side wins the Euro 2008 football championship.
Spanish sports daily Marca has been urging fans to sign an online petition
promising to go bald if Spain wins the title and as of Tuesday night just over
10,000 people have made the pledge, the newspaper said on its website.
"I,
an unrepentant lifelong fan, solemnly commit myself before Marca, the fans and
the national team, to shave every last hair on my Spanish head if our team wins
Euro 2008," the online pledge reads.
"The team needs all the support it can
get from its fans," the newspaper wrote on its website over a photo of a group
of bald fans wearing red and yellow Spain jerseys with their arms in the air.
"If you are among those who beleive Spain is going to win, shave yourself
with us," it added.
Participants have the chance of winning one of 20
cameras which will be awarded to those who make the pledge.
Spain is now two
wins from adding to its 1964 European Championship success, its sole
international title, after its 4-2 penalty shootout win over world champions
Italy on Sunday.
The Spanish side will face Russia in the Austrian capital
Vienna on Thursday for a place in the June 29 final.

Spain, Germany, Turkey and Russia survive. I am looking forward to watching the rest games.

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Hello, I tell you about the most interesting news. The news is the impact of industrial action by Qantas engineers in Western Australia.

Qantas engineers in three cities walked off the job yesterday over a
pay
dispute. A total of 35 flights were cancelled yesterday, including one in Perth,
and a further 29 have been cancelled today because of the flow on effect of the
strikes.
Qantas says one flight to Perth from Sydney has been cancelled as a
direct result ofyesterday's action.The Australian Licensed Engineers Association
has told Qantas that workers in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth will
strike again for four hours on Friday.

In this summer, I travel to Thiland. So I think I do not want to happen to the inpact of industrial action.

link:http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/25/2285646.htm?section=business

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Hello!

It have been said that Japanese people work too hard.This article intoroduce the relation between suicide and overwork. I think Japanese society is needed to be reexamined.

With the number of suicides in the country increasing, observers are pointing
out that suicides due to stress from overwork also have grown.
The number of people who committed suicide increased by 938 to 33,093 from 2006 to 2007, the second-highest number ever recorded, according to a report released by the National Police Agency on Thursday. The report said the number of suicides
committed by people in their 30s and 60s reached record highs, while the number
of suicides by people in their 40s also increased.
(the rest is ormitted)

link
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080620TDY02302.htm

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Hello.
The news I'm the most interested in is about removing North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Why has the U.S decided to do that?I think there is no reason we remove the country from the list.If the president of the U.S would only like to leave his "footsteps" on history and urge that he has performed his duty as the president,the decision will make the world sitiation worse.
I quoted a part of the article as follow.

Washington has notified Tokyo of its plan to start the process Thursday of striking North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism if Pyongyang files a declaration of its nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday.
The planned U.S. move may push the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda into a tight corner, possibly forcing the government to face the tough political choice of either dropping its hardline demand for Pyongyang to make progress on the abduction dispute or straining the U.S. alliance by hampering the six-party talks to denuclearize North Korea.
Fukuda said later Tuesday that Japan would welcome the delisting if it helps resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.
"If the nuclear problem will be resolved, isn't that something desirable, also for our country? . . . It's something we should welcome," Fukuda told reporters when asked whether he would urge President George W. Bush not to remove North Korea from the list.
Officials in Tokyo meanwhile stressed there would still be a moratorium of 45 days, and the U.S. decision could be rescinded during that period if the North's declaration is not sufficient to ensure complete denuclearization as agreed to in the six-party talks.

link.....http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080625a2.html

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Before long, the issue that has not been solved may be settled. This issue is whaling.

For decades, there is distance between pro and anti whaling nations. However, these countries got a chance to be close each other this time. I'd like to keep paying attention to this issue from now on.

This news is quoted from the following site:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/whale-watch/break-from-the-past-in-whaling-dispute/2008/06/25/1214073287563.html

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has described a decision to try to bridge the global divide over whaling taken in Santiago today as a break with the past.
Australia is one of 24 nations to agree to work behind closed doors over the next year on a resolution to the deadlock between pro and anti-whaling nations.
Mr Garrett told the International Whaling Commission that the organisation had to move away from its 1950's function as a regulator of whaling, in favour of conservation.

On the lengthy agenda for the future of the IWC, made public for the first time today, are some of the most bitterly disputed issues facing the organisation, including the global moratorium on commercial whaling.
A possible future bargain between anti-whaling nations and Japan is also flagged, with the inclusion on the list of coastal whaling in a country's own waters.
Some observers believe that this might eventually be exchanged by Tokyo for its right to go scientific whaling in the Antarctic.
The agreement, reached behind closed doors, changes the IWC's rules of procedure to demand greater attempts to reach consensus, rather than go to the votes that so sharply divide the organisation now.

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These days, there are many tragic news. So I introduce positive news!

Music therapy for psychiatric in-patients with schizophrenia can improve some of the symptoms of the disorder, according to a new study by researchers at Imperial College London and therapists at the Central and North West London Mental Health Trust.

The preliminary research, published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry, is the first time music therapy for people with acute schizophrenia has been evaluated.

For this small study, 81 in-patients at four hospitals in central and inner London were randomised to receive music therapy or standard care alone. Those people receiving music therapy had between 8 and 12 sessions, once a week, for up to 45 minutes

During the sessions patients were given access to a range of musical instruments and encouraged to use them to express themselves. Initially the therapist listened carefully to the patient's music and accompanied them closely, seeking to follow their emotional state in musical terms. The therapist then offered opportunities to extend or vary the nature of the musical interaction.

The researchers measured symptoms of schizophrenia and found that improvements were greater among those people receiving music therapy than among those receiving standard care alone. Referral for music therapy was associated with reductions in general symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as emotional withdrawal. However, the authors caution that because this was a small study, it is possible that other factors, such as severity of illness, may have influenced the study's findings.

Now I practice playing the violin. In my future, my deveropping skills will help those patients get better! This news is here:http://medieigo.com/weeklytopic.php?id=1

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Now I worry about my electricity charges. I must pay... Then, I introduce the news. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080613f1.html

Takeshi Hishida, representative director of Taiyo Hatsuden of Yokohama, said there has been a sharp increase in requests for information since the start of this year.
His company offers manufacturers' cost estimates to people interested in installing solar power generation equipment at their homes.
"Many of those coming to us for advice say sunlight is clean and they want to contribute to the global environment," the 46-year-old Hishida said.
Company employee Kenichi Kawauchi of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, set up equipment capable of producing 3.18 kw of power in his home last November.
The 45-year-old spent ¥3 million on the project.
"Power output increases with the number of hours of sunshine," Kawauchi said. "Our electricity bill decreased to ¥1,500 in March. Above all, my family's awareness of ecology has been enhanced by monitoring the volume of power output."
Hishida said the cost of installing solar power equipment with an output capacity of 3 kw is around ¥2 million, and some households have been able to recover the expense in about 15 years.

I will think about this in the future (when I have a house built)

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Hello!!I tell you about ambulances today.Below is a quotation from Yomiuri Shinbun(http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080624TDY02307.htm )

Ambulances 'treated like taxis'
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Many people request ambulances for nonemergency purposes, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey of fire departments in 51 major cities.
In many cases, people called ambulances because they thought they would have to wait less when they arrived at the hospital.
In 2007, about 50 percent of ambulance requests were made by people with minor injuries or mild symptoms.
In the survey, The Yomiuri Shimbun asked 51 fire departments in Tokyo, prefectural capitals and major cities what people who called 119 asked for.
According to the survey, 37 fire departments said some callers wanted to use ambulances for nonemergency purposes in a manner similar to a taxi. This was observed in various cities.
A fire department in the Koshinetsu region said a woman carrying a bag filled with items prepared for her hospital stay rode in an ambulance.
A Kansai fire department said many people called 119 and named a time and date for an ambulance pick up. Many fire departments said they often observed this behavior.
People even lie about their maladies, some fire departments said.
A Koshinetsu region man in his 60s told a 119 operator that he was too sick to move and requested an ambulance. However, when he was examined, he did not display symptoms that necessitated emergency treatment. It was later discovered that he had made a reservation at the hospital beforehand.
In the survey, 28 fire departments said some people with minor symptoms, such as a cold, called 119 because they thought they would be treated before other patients if they arrived by ambulance.
In many cases hospital nurses decide the severity of a patient's condition. If a nurse determines that a patient has minor symptoms--even if the patient arrived by ambulance--they are not necessarily treated immediately.
In one case in the Sanyo region, the family member of a patient with a minor cut demanded that the patient receive treatment before others because she arrived in an ambulance. The family member made the demand after being told to wait in line.
Seven fire departments said people waiting to be treated at hospital sometimes leave to call 119 because they think they will be treated faster.
A fire department in the Kanto region said it received a 119 call from a man in his 50s who claimed he had a stomachache.
After an ambulance drove him to the hospital, the fire department found out he had been waiting at the hospital earlier.
"I waited for one hour and I got irritated. I thought I would have to wait less if I arrived by ambulance," the man said.

It is very awful that ambulances can't go directly to the patients in critical condition.I've never taken ambulances.But whether one has taken ambulances or not, everyone must think how to use ambulances.They are not free taxes, of course.Our action may save someone, or endanger someone, I think.

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I think some crimes set off a chain reaction in various parts of the Japan every year. These days, there is a good example. Two weeks ago, I wrote blog about the series of murders in Akihabara. And this week, I found an incident probably triggered by the crimes in Akihabara at http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080623a4.html

Monday, June 23, 2008
Three cut with knife in Osaka Station
OSAKA (Kyodo) Three women sustained minor injuries Sunday afternoon when they were cut in separate incidents on and near the same train platform at JR Osaka Station, police said.
A 52-year-old woman from Kashiba, Nara Prefecture, was cut by a knife on her left arm at 1:35 p.m., police said. About five minutes later a 20-year-old woman from Taisho Ward, Osaka, was cut on her left arm as she was about to board a train.
Earlier, a 20-year-old woman from Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, was poked by a knife when she was on a landing between escalators heading up to the platform.
A surveillance camera showed a woman near both of the platform victims. She was described as stocky, about 160 cm tall and appeared to be in her 30s. She was wearing a one-piece dress, a black hat, a necklace and a white shoulder bag. Her hair was chestnut color. The woman from Nishinomiya saw the woman pass by her while the other two victims did not see their attacker.

A pervert who slashes people as he or she passes them on the street has attracted attention of the people in Japan because we may become the victims of incidents accidentally. I wish that this chain reaction will stop as soon as possible.

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I had found and important news for all human being. At http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080620/ap_on_sc/phoenix_mars;_ylt=Ai_618jS5iTL.29.y3GVnvKs0NUE

LOS ANGELES - The apparent discovery of ice near Mars' north pole has scientists asking: Did the frozen water melt at some point in the planet's long history to create an environment friendly for life?
The Phoenix spacecraft exposed bright white crumbs at the bottom of a trench while digging near Mars' north pole earlier this week. The bits disappeared in new photos sent back on Thursday, convincing scientists that the magic act was evidence of ice that vaporized after being exposed to the sun.
"The fact that there's ice there doesn't tell you anything about whether it's habitable," chief scientist Peter Smith of the University of Arizona said Friday during a teleconference from Tuscon.

I think it is a very important thing because as we all know sciencetist had calculated that this earth we no longer can be stay by the creature one day. As we can feel now a day there are many problem had occur such as pollution and oil problem.In conclusion one day we maybe live in Mars and be friend with aliens.

My hobby

I'm sorry to be late.
My hobby is to watch a TV program. I watch dramas, varieties, news, cookings. I often watch "Kamimura Emiko's Osyaberi Cooking"and"Tetsuko's Room".
When I moved to Hirosaki, I was surprised because Aomori didn't have a TV station of Fuji network affiliates. But I have been already accustomed to it.
By the way, nowadays, "HEROES" began to be broadcasted. "HEROES" is a popular TV drama and famous for Masi Oka in United States. Do you know Masi Oka? He is so nice character. Please watch it once.http://www.heroes-tv.jp/

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First you have to find some news. That's why the Japan Times, Japan Today and Google News are in the sidebar. Click on them and find some news that interests you about Japan or maybe about the whole world. I have Google News customized for my own interests, so I can easily get news that interests me. It might not interest you, but you should find your own news for this assignment anyway. Google News tells me I would be interested in Business Week's article about the iPhone.

The most immediate impact of the iPhone has been on hardware design, encouraging a rash of imitators with big touchscreens. That includes the new Samsung Instinct, which Sprint Nextel (S) has been billing as an iPhone killer. Even Research In Motion (RIMM), whose executives have ridiculed the iPhone's lack of a physical keyboard, is rumored to be developing a touch-based BlackBerry. (The company declined to comment on future product plans.)

Such efforts largely miss the point. Certainly, the beautiful hardware design adds tremendously to the emotional appeal of Apple products. But it's the software that makes the iPhone, the Mac, and the iPod stand out from the pack of wannabes.

I guess I am, but not much. I like news articles to tell me things I don't know.

I was more interested to note that the obscure dictatorship of Equatorial Guinea had made the top of Google News. The top story seems to be about how the former colonial power Spain had backed a failed coup attempt.

une 19 (Bloomberg) -- Spain, South Africa and the U.S. approved a bid to topple Equatorial Guinea's president in 2004 after oil companies said the nation was unstable, Agence France- Presse reported, citing a Briton accused over the failed coup.

Simon Mann, 55, told a court in the capital, Malabo, that Spain, the former colonial ruler, and the other two countries welcomed a change of government, AFP said. Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman Manuel Cacho denied the allegation, according to AFP.

It's hard to think of a better country, at least in Africa, for someone to overthrow. The dictatorship is in the category with Myanmar, North Korea and others for the suffering that its people have undergone. A large percentage of the people are refugees in neighboring countries. But this news doesn't tell me much that I didn't already know, except that Spain might have been involved in an attempted coup d'etat.

How about the search for the missing in the recent earthquake in Japan? That certainly interested me, and I thought I'd share the latest with you.

SENDAI--The Miyagi prefectural police continued their search Wednesday for a couple who went missing near a waterfall in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, after the Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake on Saturday.

The couple and nine other people are still missing. The police and the Self-Defense Forces are working to find them.

Masahiro Mori, 61, from Izumi Ward, Sendai, and his wife, Yoko, 59, were last seen Saturday morning near a suspension footbridge leading to the Shiraito-no-taki waterfall.

A 52-year-old company employee from Tochigi Prefecture said he met a couple that fit the description of Mori and his wife just before the earthquake. The man also sent photos of the collapsed bridge to The Yomiuri Shimbun.

You can find more at the link above.

My hobby

My hobby is reading books. I read books when I find interesting books. Therefore, there is no special writer for me. I forget time when I read books. I often read books all days. I am happy when I concentrate on something like this. Reading books teaches me various ways of thinking and how to express.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC

My hobby

Today, I will tell you my hobby. My hobby is to play a musical instrument; a contrabass.

I like playing a musical instrument because I can get and give a lot of power when I do. For example, after classes and examinations, I am very tired mentally. When I feel exhausted, I always play my contrabass. This is because I can get over fatigue easily by doing and get power to tomorrow. In other words, playing it sets my mind at ease. Moreover, music that I play can give all the people a lot of power. I have my friend’s words that I can’t forget. My friend was in an accident and he had to go into a hospital so he was very disappointed. I wanted to encourage him, so I played my contrabass for him. This performance was poor but he said to me that this was fantastic and he never failed to heal his wound. In other words, I think my music can give power to live. Therefore, by playing a musical instrument, I can make myself and others happy so this is my hobby.

If you don't know the contrabass, please read the following site.

http://www.kanzaki.com/bass/bass-lecture.html

A contrabass is very fantastic!

My hobbies

I have many hobbies such as playing and watching sports, reading, watching movies. Then, I’ll write about “Strolling around places I don’t know”.
I took a trip to where I want to go every vocation and there, I choose one town and stroll around the town a day. I have no information about this town like “What is famous in this town”, so what I see, hear and eat there are very fresh to me. This freshness is very important.
Last spring, I went to Kanda, Tokyo and I strolled around the town for example. I go there at least one time a year because there are some of my favorite shops and the town is near the towns I often go. But I found something new in this town again. I encountered “delicious steamed bun” and “Solemn shrine” there. The former is sold at a shop near the station and there is delicious smell of the bun around the shop. The latter was not so big but I felt something magnificent from that. When I found new thing, I feel very excited.
In conclusion, I think the most attractive point of this hobby is that I can feel very excited because I stroll around places I don’t know. Now, I’m thinking about strolling around one town in Fukuoka or Okinawa in this summer!

My hobby

Hello!
I tell you about my hobby today.My hobby is cooking.I've liked it before I started to live alone.Of course I like eating food I cook, but L like to watc someone eating it with relish more!!
I cooked gratin, curry, chanpuru(traditional food in Okinawa called チャンプルー)and so on.And I like bake a cake, too.Pumpkin tart is my favorite one.
I never cook fry because I think it dangerous.I'm afraid that a fire may break out.But I'll try to cook it!

This is my favorite homepage→http://cookpad.com/ There are a lot of recipis!!

My hobby

Hello. My hobby is listening to music.

Music gives me activity and vigor.

Music often help me live.

I like Yutaka Ozaki.He embodied my abstract views.

His song is very delicate because his sense is very good.

How about listening to music?

Please link to this.

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Info/ozaki/

My hobby

Hello!

I have many hobbies, for example, playing basketball, watching movies, reading books, watching NBA games and so on. Among all those hobbies, I am absored in watching NBA recentry, because NBA Final is being done just now! I would like to talk about this today.

It is the time Michael Jordan cameback to NBA second when I began to watching NBA. For the first time , I watch NBA games to learn how to play well. But their perfomance and passion deeply immpressed me and I couldn`t stop watching NBA games. NBA players move and excite us, so his games are worth watching.

Just now, The Final is end. If you want to know result, please click here. http://www.nba.com/finals2008/index.html

My hobby

I introduce my hobbies. I have two hobbies.
At first, one thing is playing badminton. I was belong to badminton club in junior high school and high school. But, I don't belong to badminton club now. so,I have'nt played badminton lately.
I will play badminton with my friends, when I will return my home in summer vacation.
So, I am looking forward to come summer vacation very much.

Secondly, another thing is practicing callygraphy. I have continued callygraphy since elementary school age . I belong to callygraphy club in Hirosaki University now. Practicing callygraphy in tatami makes me calm down. so, I like doing callygraphy. I think callygraphy is beautiful culture in Japan. We must follow culture to next generation. so, I want to try my best .
Thank you!

My hobby

Hello! How are you? It has been very hot .... I feel weak.

I have many hobbies. Today,I introduce my hobby,playing the piano,to you!

I had been taking the piano lesson for 10 years since I was in elementary school.

In those days,the number of boys who would learn the piano was small.But because I thought the melody coming from the piano was very very wonderful,I decided to take the lesson.

For the first 5 or 6 years,I played only classical music.But gradually,I played modern music which were the soundtrack of some dramas,popular songs and so on.

That’s very fun! I play the piano when I come back to my home.

瞳をとじてby 平井堅、永久にともにby コブクロ、冬のソナタ、ナウシカ、トトロ..... these are some examples of music I play now.

I will be a fan of the piano!

please click it ↓

http://piano.s20.xrea.com/

my hobby

My hobby is to read books. I read various books and in particular I like a novel. The book I am reading now is ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. This book is very interesting. In this story a hero of the novel travels over the world and meets various people. In the travel he meets very small people. In contrast he meets very big people, too. Through the travel he experiences many things. While reading the story, I also travel in my mind. From now on I want to read diverse books.

You can read ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ in this site. http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000912/card4673.html#download

My hobby

Are you interested in any sports? Sport is one of my hobbies. I like non-team games like bowling. However I haven't had much exercise recently, so I would like to go bowling with my friend this summer vacation.

In reality, I'm more interested in watching sports than taking part in them. I think that it's fun to watch figure skating on TV. I'm a fan of Nakano Yukari, so I'm looking forward to wathing matches and seeing her beautiful performances.

">http://yukarinakano.jp/

My hobby

I have several hobbies, playing sports,watching movies, reading books and so on. Today I talk about reading books.

I read many sort of books when I have time. In particular, I like books on history; Japanese history, European history, Chinese history. When I read "Shiki" written by Shibasenn, I was very impressed by many thinkers, Koshi, Sonshi and so on. What they said is useful in my life.

In university, I want to read so many books and go to the places which relate with books I read.

My hobby

My hobby is reading. I liked to read a book about life and a story full of thrills and suspense. Now, I like to read a book about social problems and a book about science. For example, "The seven daughters of eve" is a book of genetics. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA connect human ancestor. It is a interesting book, I think.

I also read comics. Now I read "moyashimon." There are cute bacteria in this comics. It is animated, I believe. You can read it and watch it.

My hobby

Hello!

I introduce my hobby.My hobby is walking!I like go to my unknown spots .And I like finding stores,beautiful things, interesting things, animals, kind people ...etc. I have enjoied going cycling since I moved to Hirosaki.I often through some back streets on purpose.Because these streets are quiet.So I can enjoy listening the song of birds and the sound of wind.If you are tired,I advise to do it.Maybe you can feel relax!And you can get power by nature.Please try it.

My Hobby

My hobbies are cooking & playing the violins. I have started both of them since I entered this college.

I've not experienced playing the instructors so far. Last Sunday, the concert Hirodai Orchestra I belong to played was held. Many people came to the concert, & the concert was successful. I saw the enthusiastically playing violinists, then I was attracted by them. They played violins, waving their bodies front & rear and their movement was perfectly completed! I want to be like my seniors soon!

In Japan, one of famous violinist is Tarou Hakase. Why not listen to classical musics played by Tarou Hakase?
http://wacca.tv/m/listen/hucd10022

News

I'm sorry to be late.

On saturday morning, a big earthquake occurred in Tohoku area,and six people were killed and many others are injured. I had not experienced big earthquake,so I was astonished when it occurs.

Nowadays it raind heavily,it thundered violently and in this time the earthquake occurred.There is something wrong with the earth!!!

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080615dy01.htm

my hobby

hello

My hobby is playing football. I always play football with my friends in the evening. I had start playing football since I at elementary school and continue play until now. But what I wanted all of you to know that I'm not a good soccer player until now. Maybe because I don't take it as an important thing for me. I just like to play it doesn't matter about skills and trick. Know at Hirosaki University I join soccer club and we always play on Saturday and Sunday. Football is a very good sport for our health because when w play football we must use all part of our body and at the same time think what to do. So all organ of our body is working together at the same time in high performance.

Now as we know that one of the famous tournament in the world EURO2008 had began an still have many match that we can watch.

In conclusion let all of us take a part to feel the greatest football match in the world by watching this tournament.

My hobby

I introduce my hobby. My hobby is swimming. I have some reasons why I like swimmig. First, I feel swimming is fun. Second, I feel very comfortable. Third, in the pool, we can not move more faster than on grand, but we can do many kinds of action such as forward rotation, back rotation and so on.
It is unclear when I became I could swim, but pobably I think I was infant school. Nvertheless, first,I can swim the backstroke, among I can do the way of swimming, I am not good at swimming backstroke. So, I practice swimming backestroke hard, I want to be good at swimming backstroke.

News

Nowadays, in Korea, an antigovernment demonstrations are being held. Hundreds of thousands of people take part in it, so the scale is very big. They are making a protest against Korean government policies. Especially, they are making a protest against resuming the import of American beef. The percentage of those supporting the president has fallen under 20 percent and the Cabinet resigned.

If you are interested in this news, please access to the link.
http://jp.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idJPJAPAN-32179020080610

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Nowadays, the oil price is very high. I have a driver license so I check the price everyday. That was very low a month ago;about 120~130 yen. However, suddenly that increased and that is over 170 yen now.

About this situation, news said following.

The G8 powers and the three Asian countries, which are responsible for about 65 percent of the world's energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions, said they share "serious concerns over the current level of oil prices."

This is true, I think. We also must think about this turmoil and connect this idea to the environmental problems.

Please read this article and think about it.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080610a8.html

News

My interesting new story is ''the government of Osaka''.
Hashimoto tries toreform Osaka.
His tactics gradually come true.
Those are financial cuts and so on.
His bold plan may be criticized,but I expect him.
And his talent is very good.He speaks very fluently.So I understand well his intent.
He is able.
Therefore Osaka will change into a transparent government.


Please link to this address.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080607TDY04304.htm

News

This news make a flutter. Maybe Everyone knows quite a lot about this news.
Tomohiro Kato, the 25 years old. He left seven people dead and ten people injured in Tokyo's Akihabara electric town on Sanday.
I think this matter is the most atrocious affair for the first half of a year.
I sympathize with victims' families.



http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080611p2a00m0na023000c.html

NEWS

Hi!
My interesting news is the incidents about 霞ヶ関の居酒屋タクシー.

According to the latest article of yomiuri shinbun,more bureaucrats received beer and snack.
Many people are criticizing it.Some say,"Bureaucrats are hopeless.They should be eliminated!"

I think,however,we should not criticize these incidents extremely.
If I were a taxi driver,I would do the same thing .If a person who gets on the taxi looks very tired and it is in the dead of night,you will surely give them something to show appreciation.

Please access to the link below!

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080611TDY03303.htm

News

Hello.

I would like to talk about a interesting experiment. Do you know "MENTOS GEYSER" ? If you drop some mentos rapidly into carbonated liquid, for example, coke and pepsi, the contents of bottle spout out as high as 6 meters. You can see this interesting experiment on Youtube or other internet site.

But you mustn`t think to try it in your body. In May 2008, chinese university student was hospitalized after eating mentos and drinking coke. Her mucous membrane was little damaged. Furtermore, some babys in Brazil died in the sama situation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentos

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mentos_and_coke3.htm

The most shocking news in recent years

If you watch the news in Japan these days, you will watch news about ‘Indiscriminate Murder in Akihabara’
Tomohiro Kato, who was working at a car company, killed 7people and injured 10people in Akihabara. There were many people in Akihabara because it was Sunday. There was held walking-free streets and the man rammed 2-ton truck into the crowd. After that, he got out of that car and started using a knife to kill the people who were enjoying shopping. According to inquiries from the police, he was suffering from many things. Relationship with people, complex about his appearance, worries about his job and so on.

I wrote about this news because there are people who have same age with me in the victims.

If you want to know more details about this news, please access to this link.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/09/japan.attack.ap/index.html

News

I introduce the news that Japanese Olympic swimmers can choose any swimsuits they like during the Olympics. Until now, The Japan Swimming Federation has obliged swimmers in the Beijing Olympics and world championships to wear suits made by particular three japanese manufacturers. However, many swimmers who wore swimsuits mabe by Speedo which is a British manufacturer established World records, and Japanese swimmer Kitajima Kousuke also established when he wore it. For the regulation of the swimsuit, many people have argued about swimsuits, but at least Japan Swimming Federation made the decision public.

I hope that japanese swimmers will flourish the Olympics to wear the swimsuit they like.

Please check it, if you are interested in this news.
">http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20080611TDY01303.htm

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The rodent includes rats and squirrels. Now capybara is the biggest in the rodent. (Do you know capybara? We can see them in zoo.) This news is that scientists have discovered a fossilized skull of a new giant rodent. The bodyweight of the giant rodent was about 1 ton!
Think about 1-ton rat... I'm scared!!

Detailes are written in this page.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/01/16/super.rat/index.html

News

I introduce the news of a boxing match. June 12,Takehiro Shimada fight against Edwin Valero.Edwin Valero is WBA super featherweight champion.His professional boxing record is 23-0 (23 KOs).He is a very aggressive fighter,so he is called 'KO Dynamite'. He is 26 years old while Takehiro Shimada is 36 years old.He is a veteran in this sports but I want him to be a champion.