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Miu Won the World Cup Table Tennis

Miu Hirano became the first Japanese to win the table tennis World Cup in the women’s singles on Sunday. She became the youngest winner at...

NYT Summary

Demands for retaliation are growing in India after a deadly attack by armed military in the Kashmir region controlled by India near the bord...

Shin Gojira

I watched a Japanese science fiction movie Shin Gojira today. I really enjoy it. I used to watch some Gojira movies when I was a child, but ...

From Australia

I went to Matsue Castle for volunteer guiding. Soon after arriving there, an elderly couple asked me a guide to the castle. They were from A...

Autumn

It's been raining here since this morning. The temperature is decreasing. The real Autumn is here. A new typhoon was born in the southern ...

NYT Editorials

I've subscribed to the New York Times Weekly for the sake of improving my English ability since last year. To be honest, I wasn't a serious ...

Murder on the Orient Express

I'm a big fan of Agatha Christie since I was in elementary school. I've read all of her mystery novels. A lot of her novels were made into f...

Hard to Understand

I'm listening to GRIT and almost finish it. To tell the truth, I had a hard time to understand some parts of the audiobook, especially about...

Kayou-kyoku

I watched a music show on tv the other day. The show featured old Japanese songs, kayou-kyoku in Japanese. I really like these old Japanese ...

Dr. Ohsumi Wins Nobel

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. According to news reports, he's been study...

Shizuka Arakawa and Mortorbike

I happen to know Japanese Olympic gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa is a motorbike lover. She has Yamaha 1300cc bike which has the weight of 300...

GRIT Again

I began to listen to GRIT in English with Audible app. I just finished the Japanese edition so I should relatively understand it easily. But...

GRIT with Audible

I finished "GRIT" in Japanese. It was a good book. Grit is important for our business, study and life.  I'll listen to the audiobook in Engl...

Bad Whether

It's been raining. The temperature became lower recently. Time flies.  I've been busy for work this year. It might be good for me, but I'm f...

Fighters!

Congratulations! Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters has won the 2016 Pacific League Championship for the first time in 4 years. It's the first tit...

Translator

When I was an elementary and middle school student, I liked mystery novels. I was a big fan of Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle. I realized t...

Audiobooks 300 days

I began to listen to audiobooks in English 304 days ago. At that time, I listened to English news with Tuneinradio app every day.  Since the...

Guiding to Matsue Castle

I went to Matsue Castle for volunteer guiding in English. There were lots of tourists there today. After designated for a National Treasure,...

A TOEIC Day

My Twitter time line is filled with TOEIC because tomorrow is the day of the test. I don't take the test this time. I even didn't take that ...

Ai Gets Married

Japan's table tennis star Ai Fukuhara announced  her marriage to fellow Taiwanese table tennis Olympian Chiang Hung-chieh. They had press co...

B. League

A  new Japan pro basketball league began today. It's called B. League. The opening match was on prime-time television for the first time in ...

Reading GRIT

I'm reading GRIT in Japanese. It's a really  interesting book. In the Chapter 9, the author said that she had a favorite Japanese saying: Fa...

Nagoya Open

My son came back from Nagoya. He took part in a table tennis taurnament there. He couldn't win both singles and doubles matches, but he said...

A Big Typhoon Again

Super powerful typhoon No. 16 will hit Kyushu area soon. It has  heavy rain and strong winds. The massive typhoon will take a path through t...