paco's entry (136)
It is very hot in summer in Japan. Temperatures are sometimes even higher than our body temperatures. Terrible humidity makes the heat ...
August 6th is Hiroshima Day and August 9th is Nagasaki Day. In 1945, a uranium bomb and a plutonium one were dropped on these cities res...
Radiation sampling tests will be conducted on rice before the harvest season. The government says that they will pay compensation money ...
Wenn ich an Fukushima und die Leute dort denke, erfüllt Trauer mein Herz. Vor ein paar Wochen habe ich in einer Zeitung einen Leserbrief...
It has been a while since I posted an entry the last time. I hope you are all fine.
お久しぶりです。みなさん、お元気ですか。
Last year, I wrote some ...
I heard some days ago that an Australian actress Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban had welcomed their second baby. According to ...
A girl received a fashionable sweater on Christmas which she had asked Santa Claus to bring her. A few days later, the girl was complain...
The other day, I watched a television talk show with a theme “Boyfriends and girlfriends”.
先日、テレビで「恋人」というテーマのトーク番組をやっていました。
The p...
Daughter: (Looking at advertisements inserted in newspaper)
Why are toy stores trying to sell toys just before Christmas?
（タイトル）父親と、サ...
Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich von einer Freundin eine Karte bekommen. Sie hat mir geschrieben: „Das nächste Mal schreibe ich ausführlicher...
One of mass media’s favorite phrases these days is “sôshoku-kei danshi” or “herbivore men”. This term basically means "men who are...
Last month, the 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates took a place in Hiroshima. The other day, I watched a session held in this su...
Back in the mid-1980’s, when I began to work for a firm, older generations negatively named my generation “shin-jinrui” which means “new ...
Unfortunately, a lot of people commit suicide every year. Not only adults but also children do.
残念なことに、毎年たくさんの人が自殺します。大人だけでなく子どももです...
“Those were the good old days” say elderly people. I guess everyone has some cherished memories from the past. So do I. However, I som...
It has already been said for more than two decades in Japan that something should be done to support working mothers. Yet, the nation di...
I wrote about Japanese married working women in their thirties and forties in my last entry and mentioned that some of them had decided t...
Some days ago, there was a TV program about married women in their 30’s and 40’s who have been pursuing their careers under the Equal Emp...
Yesterday, I showed you an English test that had been used in a standardized entrance examination for Japanese universities last year. H...
One of my American teachers told me that school children don’t clean their classrooms in the US and that janitors do. In Japan, children...
