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Posted at Mon Dec 31 15:04:53 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/147011771343718935929763085660695252179 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/147011771343718935929763085660695252179 Akiyo Mon Dec 31 15:04:53 UTC 2012 It was not mlignant and my recovery is going well.
So I started working from December.
I'm amazed about the medicine's rapid progress!

Posted at Sat Dec 08 02:40:38 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/221309826435024822756548760568029227438 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/221309826435024822756548760568029227438 Akiyo Sat Dec 08 02:40:38 UTC 2012 As India's growing population pushes into wildness areas, more and more people are coming into contact with poisonous snakes.
Although such encounters canna occasionally be fatal for humans, It's usually the snakes that fare worse.
Although the snakes cannot protest that they invasion of their habitat, they now have a human spokes person, animal welfare activist, Snehaw Bout. Bout founded a society in 1993 to protect dangerous snakes.
Bout and her colleagues often go to rural villages to remove snakes.
When I release an animal back into the wildness, I feel as if I've given a child back to its mother, she says.
But she feels that for the future education is the key.
With this in mind her society now puts on snake exhibitions.
Bout believes that these will help people to see snakes as fellow creatures deserving of life.

Posted at Fri Sep 14 01:26:48 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1676424 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1676424 Akiyo Fri Sep 14 01:26:48 UTC 2012
I'm trying the suvenir from the Philippine, Green Dried Mangoes.
...I can feel some taste of chemical substance that is added for preserving food.
Right, it is sulphur dioxide, that is commonly used in wine. So I don't care. hehe.

Posted at Wed Sep 12 03:42:27 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1673250 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1673250 Akiyo Wed Sep 12 03:42:27 UTC 2012 Although she went out around with her boy friend everyday until midnight, her score of the English exam was always good.
One day her roommate asked her how and when she studied English.
She answered like that "I learn it in his bed."

Posted at Wed Sep 05 12:46:06 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1661929 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1661929 Akiyo Wed Sep 05 12:46:06 UTC 2012 In this period, Japan was not open to the other country, the only countries that could come into Japan was only Netherlands and Chaina.
But he knew the importance of learning technologies and studies from the developed countries.
So he gathered the talented men in their speciality, such as politics, mirritary, lunguages,medical study, and so on. He had them study in the US.

After he returned Japan, The War called Boshin war occured, in which war the anti-government armies cooperated to defeat the current government.
He was a politician under the current government.
This war generated many casualties in both side of armies, futhermore the fire was about to reach the civilians.(the fire was on the verge of reaching the civilians.)
Then Katsu tried to find a point that the current government could compromise.
He succeeded to convince the Shogun, the top of the government, to give up to govern.
It was a realistic way to avoid the fire would have expand all over Japan.

After the change of government, he was still high position in the government.
He was abusolutely against Japan start the war against China.
He was also peaceful man as well as realist.


coution: This statement possibly contain wrong information. If you are curious about him, or Japanese history, please check the other references.


Posted at Fri Aug 31 22:16:15 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1654055 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1654055 Akiyo Fri Aug 31 22:16:15 UTC 2012 I respect Katsu Kaishu who was the Japanese politician about 140 years ago.
Why did I choose him! I should have chosen more simple person whom I easily explain...
But it may be boring story for both judges and me.
I want to entertain the person who share their time for hearing me.
Just practice, Although I'm feeling lazy~~



Posted at Fri Aug 31 08:53:12 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1653083 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1653083 Akiyo Fri Aug 31 08:53:12 UTC 2012
We spend our convenient life with computers without considering who made it. But I hope that you have some idea about ENIAC through this report. A story of the beginning of something make people curious, and some would even try follow the achievement of the inventors. I hope that this report would motivate you to make and do something new.

Posted at Sun Aug 26 22:46:45 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1645840 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1645840 Akiyo Sun Aug 26 22:46:45 UTC 2012 This machine was complicated. It had a lot of electronic parts, and could remember numbers. Moreover it could make 5000 calculation/sec without errors.
Compering with today's computer that do 100 million calculation/sec, it was slower, but at that time it was epic.
ENIAC was shown in public through newspapers and magazines as an amazing electronic brain.

After ENIAC was made, the 2 engineers set up their own computer company based on their better idea, where they designed and built new computers.
Although it didn't make much money, they worked for computer for rest of their life.
ENIAC was turned off in 1955, and send to Smithsonian Museum.





Posted at Sun Aug 26 22:39:07 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1645834 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1645834 Akiyo Sun Aug 26 22:39:07 UTC 2012

Now, who tried their hand at building ENIAC.
There were 2 persons who were willing to take a risk to build it.
One was John Mouchly, and another was J.Prester.Eckert.
J. Mouchly was a 55 year-old physist. He was curious about predicting weather, but it was difficult. So instead of it, he started to be into calculation by computer.
J.Eckert was a 24-year-old young engineer, who had a ph.D of engineering.
Since he was a child he loved to design electronic devices.
J.Mouchly was an ideaman, and J.Eckert made the idea work out.
Both of them had the most important element for a inventor, bravery and craziness.

Posted at Sun Aug 26 22:36:15 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1645830 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1645830 Akiyo Sun Aug 26 22:36:15 UTC 2012

In the business field, there is always uprising and falling down, and sometimes making comeback.
The hottest person in these days who made comeback is, I think, Steve Jobs.
He established his own company, and then was kicked out from it for his policy apart from the other executives.
He made comeback with the idea of iMac that rescued Apple co.Ltd from the bankrupt.
After his death this story became well-known. And his encouraging words also spread all over the world.

Posted at Wed Aug 22 02:08:02 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1638269 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1638269 Akiyo Wed Aug 22 02:08:02 UTC 2012

If I were a billionaire I would spend my money in the way that money generates the another money.
The one thing is the investment. I would buy some stocks of the company which products seasonings for foods. Every foods needs seasoning, so I think it would make stable interest.



If someone asks me the advice how to become a billionaire, I would tell them to approach the billionaire and to contact them.
If know the place where a billionaire goes often, go there.
This advice might be unreasonable, but it is better than no action.

Posted at Tue Aug 21 22:57:35 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1638112 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1638112 Akiyo Tue Aug 21 22:57:35 UTC 2012 Philippine was influenced by many countries such as Spain, The US, Japan, China, even the Middle East.
My hotel was near the inhabitant of Muslim’s, so I could hear their prayer every morning and evening. I don’t know there was a prayer at noon.
Too much influence to identify their origin. It is confusing for me who is Japanese pure blooded.
If I was a Pilipino I would feel as if I didn't have my roots.

Anyway it was a good experience for me to visit Davao city.
All people I met are really kind and helpful (:
I bet that Philippine's best resource is the people.

Posted at Tue Aug 21 00:45:16 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1636545 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1636545 Akiyo Tue Aug 21 00:45:16 UTC 2012 Davao holds a big festival called Kadayawan festival every year.
The performance I wanted to see best was Pilipino traditional dance called Indak-Indak.
But I missed it. I didn't expect that almost all performances in festival scheduled before 8AM.
The only things I could see were the flower float and the exsivision of the traditional manufactures like a fabric, bag, and instrument in the department store.




Posted at Tue Aug 21 00:44:50 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1636542 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1636542 Akiyo Tue Aug 21 00:44:50 UTC 2012
Posted at Sat Aug 11 23:13:41 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622292 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622292 Akiyo Sat Aug 11 23:13:41 UTC 2012 The fire in this country doesn’t cease.

Posted at Sat Aug 11 23:13:28 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622290 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622290 Akiyo Sat Aug 11 23:13:28 UTC 2012 Some are developed to revolution and the others are developed to the civil wars. Libya succeeded to stop the civil war with NATO and set a new government, even though it is temporally one. Egypt, which had relatively good relationship with the western society, took the first step to democratize. But Syria can’t escape from the suffering of the civil war without the international community’s support


Posted at Sat Aug 11 23:13:17 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622289 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622289 Akiyo Sat Aug 11 23:13:17 UTC 2012
Posted at Sat Aug 11 23:13:05 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622288 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1622288 Akiyo Sat Aug 11 23:13:05 UTC 2012
Those 2countries are representative of the countries which achieved Overthrow of its government in “Arab Spring”.


Posted at Fri Aug 10 23:58:54 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621015 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621015 Akiyo Fri Aug 10 23:58:54 UTC 2012
In Libya, the demonstrations and protests to the government were developed to the civil war. But the missions of NATO & anti-government groups went well, and the dictator, Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown on 23 August. He was killed on 20 October. The 42 years old Gaddafi’s government was over, and National Transitional Council was founded. Now the government ispromoting the revival of country. Its oil product is about to make a come back. But its democratization is not achieved yet.


Posted at Fri Aug 10 23:57:16 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621014 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621014 Akiyo Fri Aug 10 23:57:16 UTC 2012 1. Those countries were run by despotic government, and citizen’s freedom was suppressed by it.
2. There are oil-privileges. The wealth from the oils wasn’t shared but was concentrated in the hands of autocrats.
3. The percentage of the unemployment was very high, especially among the youth. And there are large numbers of educated but dissatisfied youth within the population.
The eruption of the citizens’ anger for those situations leaded the revolutionary wave of shutting the government.
And citizens in Tunisia stood up for democracy at last in 2010. Then this action in Tunisia called “Jasmine Revolution” spread to the other countries.


Posted at Fri Aug 10 23:57:05 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621013 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621013 Akiyo Fri Aug 10 23:57:05 UTC 2012
Posted at Fri Aug 10 23:56:54 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621012 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1621012 Akiyo Fri Aug 10 23:56:54 UTC 2012
*** August 6th called "Hiroshima day" in Japan. ***

This happened in a hotel in Taiwan.
At the breakfast-time in a restaurant, I was going to go back to my room to give silent prayer for victims of "Hiroshima."
Then a waiter hold me and said "You can pray here." and the general manager of the hotel told all customers and their staffs in loud voice "Please, give silent pray for Hirosima!"
They silently prayed. After that some Europians and Americans came close to Japanese and hold their hand.
I was very moved. Taiwan is our friend country ...

Posted at Tue Aug 07 10:35:55 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1615686 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1615686 Akiyo Tue Aug 07 10:35:55 UTC 2012 There are 2 good examples, one is a GM rice which is called golden rice, the another is a GM potate. Golden rice contains vitamin A which is not contained in regular natural rice. Usually people who live mostly on regular rice miss this iportant viatain.
Meanwhile GM potatoes contains less starch,.It don’t absorb much fat when it is cooked with oil. Both of those GM foods are helpful for us to maintain our health and would make difference in our life.

Posted at Sat Aug 04 02:42:12 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610643 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610643 Akiyo Sat Aug 04 02:42:12 UTC 2012 We are already receiving these benefits, then I wish these goodness will expand and cover all over the world.

Posted at Sat Aug 04 01:58:22 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610618 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610618 Akiyo Sat Aug 04 01:58:22 UTC 2012
Now let’s move to the next, how GM food can crop protect the environment.
GM crops are kinder to nature than natural crops. Due to Biology they gain the power to resist diseases and pest. It means that they don't need pesticides or herbicides as much as natural ones. The less chemicals the finer soil would be. So the reduction of chemicals is helpful to reduce fertilizers.
In addition effective elimination of pest and weed also get the crop well growing, and food supplies will get to be more stable.


Posted at Sat Aug 04 01:58:01 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610617 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610617 Akiyo Sat Aug 04 01:58:01 UTC 2012
First I will talk about how GM food improve food supplies. Then I will discuss How GM food crop can protect the environment, finally I will talk about GM food that is improved in nutrition with two examples such as rices and potatoes.



Posted at Sat Aug 04 01:57:49 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610616 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1610616 Akiyo Sat Aug 04 01:57:49 UTC 2012 2nd They know about the addiction of nicotine, the chemical substance in the tobacco.

In addition the box which has 10rolls of tobaccos cost the user about 300 yen.

If someone enjoy a box a day, the total payment that he/she owe in a year is about 110,000 yen.

It is big amount of money not only for the young but also the adults.

Now the nonsmokers well understand those disadvantages, and don’t get close to cigarettes positively.

I expect the number of nonsmokers will get/become more and more.


Posted at Thu Aug 02 23:30:38 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1609065 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1609065 Akiyo Thu Aug 02 23:30:38 UTC 2012 I think that is a result of the education about the effects of smoking especially to the young ages. Then what kind of information keeps them from this bad habit,
although there are some advantages of smoking,


Posted at Thu Aug 02 23:30:25 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1609064 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1609064 Akiyo Thu Aug 02 23:30:25 UTC 2012 if they know how hard the terminal period with breathing difficulty or with cancers is, they would not recommend smoking to their friends.
Because smoking habit in the yong age definitely increase the risk of many diseases which is either written on the box of cigarette or which is not writen on it.

Posted at Tue Jul 31 22:54:41 UTC 2012
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1605949 http://www.lang-8.com/428636/journals/1605949 Akiyo Tue Jul 31 22:54:41 UTC 2012