The greatest movie ever for me!:"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Hi guys! Today Iwould like to introduce a greatest movie that I watched in my life! Firstly, can I ask you 3 questions??? 1.Do you feel bored about your life? 2.Do you like travelling? Abd, 3. Do you change your mind in a positive way??? If your 3 answers are "YES!!!",then this movie is exactly for you! What you need the most is "something exciting" isnt it?? I was like that before watching this movie. One of my friends, who likes travelling and adventure like me,strongly recomended this movie to me. There is a lackluster negatives assets manager whose name is Walter and he works in a magagine company. One day,he found there is one more negative,which is for a last magagine cover. And he notices that he needs to find a cameraman who has a last negative, so Walter starts going to many countries to find him and get a last negative. Thanks to this great movie, I could recognised that what I want to do in my life and how I want to live. Anyway, just watchit if you have something unclear in your mind! I'm sure you feel something will be changed!;D "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

About Movie

Hello everyone!
Are you interested in movie? What kind of movie do you like?
I like Disney and Ghibli. The Disney movie makes me happy and give us dream.
The Ghibli movie is funtastic. Actually, I like the sound of the Ghibli movie. Mostly it is very beautiful song. I like to sing the song in Karaoke!

,Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio based in Tokyo, Japan. The studio is best known for its anime feature films.


 
A lot of famous movies were created by Studio Ghibli.
These are popular in around the world.
Probably in Japan, many people had watched the Ghibli movie when ther were child. Still now many adluts people love it!

This is "Tsuzura's Best 3 of Ghibli movie"
(Sorry, I could not find the movie in youtube, so I will put the sound of the movie)

1. Castle in the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loweYSCZ2dk

This sound of the movie is really really really beautiful! I love this!

2.  Spirited Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imz9oFipliE

This is a lille scary, but finally we can feel happy!

3. Princess Mononoke
http://video.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%AE%E3%81%91%E5%A7%AB&tid=9e031232d6596c41a895e63efc15747d&ei=UTF-8&rkf=2&st=youtube

This is also a litte scary because in the movies there are some monsters! But human lives together with nature and animals!



 

Movie! Movie!

Hi, guys!

I like watching movie in the theater and my favorite movie is Dtective Conan series and foreign movie! I don't like youth love story in Japan such as remaking girl's cartoon:(

My favorite movies which I watched in the theater last year and this year are "White House Down" and " World War Z" and "Transcendence".

"White House Down" is the story of the incident that happened in white house in the U.S.A.  This movie was so exciting and full of thrill!! But I can feel family love in this movie also.

"World War Z" is the story of HUMAN vs ZOMBIE VIRUS. The main character was acted by Brad Pitt. He is really cool! I like zombie movie very much! So I also love BIOHAZARD series and I watched all this story. I'm really looking forward to watch the next story!

The most latest movie is "Transcendence". And this story was about artificial intelligence. The main character was acted by Johnny Depp! I like him, too! He often act character that unusual appearance such as Jack Sparrow or Edward Scissorhands, but in this movie, he acted quite nomal appearance person.(But it was only appearance.lol)

What movie do you like?

 

 

 

The characteristic of Japanese weather

Today's topic is weather! So I would like to introduce about Japanese weather to you guys^^! First, the four seasonss that called "四季(shi-ki)" is one of the most unique point of Japanese weather. There are some countries,which have the four seasons like Japan, such as USA, US, New Zealand and so on. However, the distinctive point is that the four seasons in Japan is very clearly distinguished. And 12 months could be divided into 3 months depend on the each season. In spring(March to May) if you come to Japan, you will be surprised at the beautiful cherry blossoms that are frequently seen in spring! But the weather in spring is very easy to change, so the differences of the tempareture is tend to change a lot.

In summer(June to August) it will rain a lot and the humid season will come. Japanese summer is really high humidity, so you would feel more hot than the reality.

In autumn(September to December,heaps of leaves will turn red, yello, and many places will be filled up with them! However the typhoom tends to come in this season and it gives us lots of rain as well.

In winter(December to February) it will snow a lot! Usually it doesn't snow heaps in Tokyo however these years it snows like a north part of Japan due to global warming.

Japan extends north and south so the four clearly different seasons exists. Reference; http://weather-ignorance.jp/02-nihon_2.html "The secret of weather" (Last access 18/07/2014)

Emotion and wether

Do you feel happy when the wether is sunny?
Do you feel sad when the wether is rainy?

According to "connection of wether and emotion" by doctor Ishiyama, human's emotions are affected by the wether.
Probably, you feel tired when wether is ranning. You may do not want to do anything.
Actually, human need a lot of ray of light in our daily life.
The ray of light can give us powerful energy to act and we absolutely need it.

In fact, some of doctors have reserched about depression. They say people who lives snow district feel more stress than not snow district. The worst one of hours of sunlight as Akita prefecture, is the top of  suicide rates. The second ranking from the bottom is Aomori prefecture.
The hours of sunlight has exert a influence on human's emotions and motibation for acttive movement.

 If you feel stress, if you have something bad, please go out and feel the warmth of sunlight.
It might be help you!

WEATHER

Recentry, news reporters speach about typhoon every day in Japan. the typhoon called No.8 and this is said really big typhoon. This had a major infuluence to a lot of area in Japan, especially human and agriculture. For some area, evacuation order are warned.

Now, the Meteorological Agency is reporting another typhoon called No.9 is coming to Japan.

In addtion, unusual weather is increase and this typhoon brought heavy rain to remote place from the place typhoon came. Because of this, I was soaking wet to go to university although the typhoon was in the Shikoku area:(

And the typhoon killed about seven people, this means this typhoon was really strong. Maybe the next typhoon is like this, so we have to pay attention to weather in Japan.

I Like FOODS!

Heya guys~! It's getting so hot recently isn't it??? And, today Is like to introduce special cold sweets from Hirosaki to you guys! Have you ever heard about "Akudo Icecream" in Hirosaki?? There is a very famous ice cream shop in Hirosaki, which is called "Soma Icecream Shop" but native people here say "Akudo Icecream" as a nick name.

There are many sorts of ice creams! And they are not expensive! One ice cream candy costs only 60 yen! And really tasty!^^ In this summer plz just try it! Im sure you will like it!;D

About Food

I love eating food! I cannot stop eating especially sweets!
Eating sweets is my life!
And also I like baking, I need both eating and baking sweets!

This is my favorite cookies recip!











Ingredients
125 grams of butter
2 tablespoons of water
150 grams of brown suger
150 grams of dried coconut
150 grams of flour
150 grams of odtmaeal
1 teaspoon of baking soda

Instructions
1. First, heat the butter and water in a small pan.
2. Then pour the melted butter and water into a mixing bowl.
3. Add the other ingredients, and mix them together.
4. Drop spoonful of the mixture onto a baking tray.
5. Now bake them  at 200℃ for 10 to 15 minutes.
6. Leave them to cool on the tray before you eat them.

Actually, this is British sweet, my friends who comes from England taught me when I cooked with them. The taste was really good, I cannot forget the taste!

If you like, please try to cook this! You may be surprised the delicious taste!!!!

FooooD!!

I'd like to talk about my favorite food! I love kimuchi that Korean traditional food. I eat kimuchi almost everyday at dinner and I can eat two bowl of rice with eating kimuchi!

And, kimuchi is not just spicy and delicious, but also very high nutritional value. Kimuchi is include garlic and chili that are effective against colds etc, and this is fermented food. So it has a lot of nutrition, for example, lactic acid bacteria that good for intestinal and many amino acid, vitamin! Because of this, kimuchi is said good for health! However, eating a lot of kimuchi every day is not so good because it is so spicy and strong stimulation for stomach or other digestive organ:(  In addition, taking in a lot of  lactic acid bacteria is cause of  diarrhea.

But kimuchi is so deliscious!! How about eating kimuchi moderately for health?

 

 

World Happiness Report

Accourding to the statistic by Unated Nations(UN), Japanese people seem not to be happy compared to other countries such as Denmark, Norway,Switzerland and so on. This reserch,"World Happiness Report" is anounced on 9th of September 2013. Interestingly, the ranks are not depend on the economic level of the countries. The USA is ranked in 17, and the second nig GDP country, China is ranked in 93 like the low happiness level of Japan. It is a very controversial report though, his report would help us to think about "What happiness is" exactly.

Fast-food restaurant

"What is your favorite fast-food restaurant?"

According to Maiboscom reseach, most people who using fast-food restaurant likes "McDonald's" (32.5%). Then, "Moss-burger" (27.1%), "Kentucky-fried-chicken" (9.4%), "Mister-doughnut" (8.1%).  The survey had reserched five times, the newest one was held in 2011. In this graph, there are 6 kinds of various burgers stores, but McDonald's and Moss-burger are runaway popularity in Japan.

 Favorite fast-food restaurant (an authority:Maiboscom)

　McDonald's has many kind of burgers and reasonable price. I think McDonald's is approachability. Moss-burger is really delicious, but more expensive than McDonald's. Parsonaliy, I want to use Moss-burger if I have a lot of money.

What is your favorite fast-food restaurant?

The World's Heaviest Smoking Countries

Annual per capita cigarette consumption rates. Gray countries have no data available. (Max Fisher / Washington Post)
October 19, 2012

This figure shows The World's Heaviest Smoking Countries. The ranking is like this;
1- Serbia
2- Bulgaria
3- Greece
4- Russia
5- Moldova
6- Ukraine
7- Slovenia
8- Bosnia and Herzegovina
9- Belarus
10- Montenegro
11- Lebanon
12- Czech Republic
13- South Korea
14- Macedonia
15- Kazakhstan
16- Azerbaijan
17- Japan
18- Kuwait
19- Spain
20- Switzerland

Russia is one of the most high smoking rate country, however recentry strict rule for smorking that prohibit to smorking in public place and advertising etc.

Smoking relates almost disease, so I wish smoker people decrease and people who die because of heavy  smoke is disaper in the future.

My favorite song!

Hello, every one! I want to share with you about my favorite song!

I like Michael Joseph Jackson. He was an American singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, businessman, and philanthropist. And also, he was called the King of the pop, his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
I impressed his song which I had  haerd his songs. The song is "cry". This is really beautiful song. The people tie thier hands and turn to the same direstion in this music video. Their faces are full of hope. There are many various generations people, children, teenagers, adlts and old people. In addition, there are different races people. Black, white and yellow-sikinned races. No matter of age and race, people become a one. The human-chain is very beautiful.
Moreover, the lyrics is wonderful, too.

You can change the world (I can't do it by myself)

You can touch the sky (Gonna take somebody's help)

You're the chosen one (I'm gonna need some kind of sign)

If we all cry at the same time tonight

 

We can guess that "cry" means "shout" in this song. We cannot change the world by myself. His song teach us many important thing. He is still telling it, even he died. We are the same, we are the one and we are freinds!

 

Sherlock Holmes

Hi,guys!
I have loved the novels "Sherlock Holmes series" written by Arthur Conan Doyle since I was in primary school. So I have many this novels in my room. I respect Holmes's deep and keen insight, and also like his cool wise saying. I recommend you this web site that you can read the all sereis in Japanese and English! In this web site, I would like to reommend you this wise saying at "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet".

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should retain her secret –the more so as the secret was a disgraceful one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture became a certainty.

The purpose of "Life" By Michiko

Hello, guys! Today I would like to introduce a one of my favorite movies that moved me so much! The title is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", and you can find a brief info. about this movie, here: In this movie, there are many great words that can give a power to live and face our own obstacles. I was impressed especialy by this messags, 　　　　　

To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, 　 and to feel. That is the purpose of life

This message let me remind of my purpose in my life and it also let me know what I want to do most as well. My dream is becoming a great Japanese Language Teacher in oversea, and I would like to experience as much things as I can. So the message showed exactly what I want to say as a purpose of life, this is why I was really surprised and impressed by this movie. If you are wondering about what you want to do in your future, I strongly recommend you watch it! Just in 2hours, you can find something wonderful that could change your life! Michiko Nara

Young people traveling the world

I found this article searching the web, and recommended it to my son, who's also in college. It seems many young people are traveling the world, and learning from their experiences. I myself took off from college in the middle, and made my decision to study African history. One of my seminar students took off in the middle of college and travelled around Asia for a year. When he got back he knew what he wanted to do with his life. I recommend you to try the same. It's a lot cheaper than you think, especially if you work while you're traveling.

In the summer of 2012, at age 24, I left home to travel the world. In just over a year, I backpacked through South America, South Asia, Western Europe, and the western United States. I hiked the Inca Trail, skied the Alps, hitchhiked through Patagonia, and trekked through the Himalayas. I worked at hostels, stayed at a Buddhist monastery, and gardened at an English women’s retreat center in exchange for meals and a place to sleep. And while I learned many things on the trip, what was most surprising was how many people my age were traveling just like me.

My Summer Plans ^^

Hey guys!Today let me share my Summer Plan for coming the next long break! In September Im gonna go to Hong Kong to meet up with my friends! I have 2 friends from China and Hong Kong, who I met in NZ ladt year. I got along with them and the other 2 Japanese gilrs, and we made a tie friend ship. We promised that we all meet up next year, which is this year, so thats why Im gonna go there^^ This is a pic of HK, I never been there before so I'm feeling excited visiting them heaps!

They speak Cantonise so I wanted to learn it though there are no Cantonise classes in Hirosaki uni, so I decided to study Chinese instead. My dream is talking Chinese with them someday and communicate well! So I'm dreaming about it and studying it;D That is my Summer Plan, I'd like to hear your plans as well! If U dont mind, lets takl about this^^ Seeya tomorrow guys~! Michiko Nara

Summer Plants ~Sunflower🌻and Garden balsam~

The flower reminds me of summer is exactly "Sunflower".  The color and image are all suit summer, I think.

Hearing the word "Summer" makes us think of sun, and I think the figure of sunflower resembles sun! So I feel summer in sunflower.

Also when I was a elementary school student, my homework in summer vacation is to grow sunflower! In addition, in Japan the word sunflower is a summer season word in haiku.

I love the picture that growing straight and high to sun.

Next plant is garden balsam. This plant is relatively famous in Japan. The characteristic of this plant is blow their seeds off when they get ripe. I think this is really cute! Flowering period of this is from June to September. So garden balsam suits summer, too.

Going to sea or eating ice cream is good in summer, however enjoy wathing summer plants is also wonderful!!                                                                                                                                                                    

Summer plants

Hello guys! Today's topic is "Summer plants". I would like to introduce you it.

When I was in Finland, I had 4 fost families. My 4th fost family love growing flowers. So, I could learn some flowers names in Finnish. In particular, I could find very interesting name's flower!

This is it!


This is called "Japanin Kello" in Finnish. It means Japanese clock in English.
I asked them the reason of the name, but unfortunately they did not know it.

These flowers are decorated in front of a entrance on house, especially in summer. This is a summer plants for them. Many houses hold it, and decorates own house by like these beautiful summer plants!

In my image of summer plants, it is a Japanese morning glory!
I guess most of people thinks so, too! In summer,  these are everywhere in Japan. I can feel a summer from the flower.
 Whta is your summer plants???

Edible Flowers

Hello, guys!;D Today's topic is "Flowers", which make people happy as decorative plants. I can be glad when I see beautiful flowers, however, there are many flowers which not only make people happy but also make them "full". Have you ever heard of an "Edible Flower"? It is a flower that we can eat as foods, and which is usually used for decoration. One of Japanese Traditional edible floweres is Cherry blossoms petals,which is used for Cherry blossom tea, a bean jam ban,and even cheeese! There are many kinds of Japanese foods which include Cherry blossom pickled petals. In wedding ceremony, Cherry blossom tea is drank because Japanese people consult omens. There is a Japanese saying,"Ocha wo Nigosu"; "Ocha" is Japanese green tea and "Nigosu" is to make unclear. So this saying means that be evasive, which is not good meaning for happy weddings,consulting onems green tea is rare served in Japanese wedding. Instead of green tea,Cherry blossom tea is served since it is very clear. After I looked for some imformation of Japanese well known edible floweres, I reconed Japanese people really like Cherry blossoms!:)) I hope you enjoyed my blog, thanks for your reading! Michiko nara