作者別: masago

週中くらいにスカイプで送ってくれたリンクの着物猫が可愛いかったのでありがとうと伝えたら、友達から教えてもらってすぐこれはMasagoが好きだろう！と思って送ってくれたそう。

今日のレッスンの最後に「仮定の話だけど」と言うので何だろうと思ったら、僕の隣人がなぜかすごく怒ってるんだよ。「俺はお前を殺してやる」と毎日言ってくるんだよ。あんまり毎日言われるからこっちも怖くなって「じゃあ、殺される前に殺してやる」と思い始めてるんだけどこれどう思うか？と聞かれた。仮定ってことはそれってアメリカは北朝鮮に今そう思っているって話？と聞くと「いや、ただ僕がそう思ってるだけなんだけどね」と言ってたけど、アメリカが北朝鮮そういうムードになりつつあるのはありうるなーと。

1)   Chubu Electric Power Company has shown to media a 22-meter-high tsunami defense barrier at its Hamaoka nuclear power station in central Japan.

2)   Researchers in Japan have detected relatively high levels of radioactive substances in sediment in multiple rivers running through Fukushima Prefecture.

3)   The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has compiled a plan to turn the village for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics into an eco-friendly residential and commercial area after the games.

4)   Japan’s governing coalition has drafted a bill calling for greater government efforts to raise public awareness of hate speech.

The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito adopted the first draft on Thursday at a meeting of a taskforce on the problem in Japan. The team was set up by the parties.

The draft defines hate speech as inflammatory speech intended to incite hatred against people from certain ethnic groups, to exclude them from society.

It says hate speech often involves blatant language that threatens the lives, property or freedom of such minorities. It also says the government must take measures to end hate speech in Japan.

5)   Work has finally begun to freeze the soil around four damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Engineers are trying to reduce the buildup of contaminated water at the site.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, the owner of the plant, started the work on Thursday, after the Nuclear Regulation Authority gave the go-ahead. It took TEPCO about two years to install the system.

TEPCO says it will freeze soil in phases, first, on the downstream side of the reactors, using 1,000 of the 1,700 underground pipes. TEPCO says it will take about 45 days for the ice wall to generate effects.

6)   Japanese consumers can choose their electricity supplier from Friday as full deregulation of the power-retail market comes into effect.

Consumers had previously only been able to buy electricity from power companies in the regions where they live. The full deregulation ends the monopoly of the major utilities that continued for about 60 years.
7)   The Bank of Japan’s quarterly Tankan survey shows that business sentiment among Japanese major manufacturers worsened for the first time in two quarters.

The central bank surveyed roughly 11,000 companies across Japan from late February to March 31, and released the latest survey results on Friday.

土曜日の朝英語のクラスを取っているのだけど、今朝は予約するのをすっかり忘れていたので、マイケル先生にSorry,I forgot to book your class today, see you next week.としたらNo!Wait!I can talk. I forgot too.ということでまた別の時間を振替で予約して無事週一の英語をサボらず済んだ。私の前の生徒さんT君が今週のレッスンの日を金曜日に移したそうで、それで今日は日曜日だとすっかり勘違いしたので今日は事前にテキストを用意してなかったよということで、スカイプに下記の内容をPasteしてくれたのでそれにてレッスンした。

A Japanese man who was questioned by Turkish authorities on suspicion of trying to join the Islamic State militant group has returned home after being deported.
Child abuse reports in Japan have hit a record high. The National Police Agency says officers reported 37,020 children under 18 to child welfare centers last year on suspicion of being abused.
The figure was up 28 percent from the previous year and the highest since the agency began taking data in 2004.

A northeastern Japanese city has been ordered by a court to pay compensation to the family of a primary school student who died in the March 2011 tsunami.

The defendant, Higashi-Matsushima City in Miyagi Prefecture, has jurisdiction over the school the girl student attended, Nobiru Elementary School.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will not repeal the national security laws that are set to take effect next week.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says that it would be a major risk if the nation’s economy grows at a slower pace than the government’s target.
Officials are aiming for growth of between 6.5 and 7 percent this year

トランプ氏がフロリダで勝ったので嬉しそうだった。^^ 　あとは日本でストーカー犯罪が増えているのはなんでだろうという話で、日本の男の子はSNSとかで女の子と話すのはできるけど、実際にFacetoFaceでコミニュケーションを取ることができないんじゃないの？と言っていた

1)   St. Patrick’s Day or the Feast of St. Patrick is observed on March 17 as a religious and cultural celebration. It honors Ireland’s patron St. Patrick. The date marks the traditional death of the saint. In the early 17th century, it was made an official Christian feast day observed by the Church of Ireland, the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Lutheran Church.

2)   Donald Trump boasted at his victory party on Tuesday night in Florida that he had won the Sunshine State despite a multi-million dollar negative ad blitz attacking him.

3)   South Korea has lodged a protest with Japan over its newly authorized high school textbooks that devote more pages than before to territorial issues.

The textbooks refer to Japan’s claims to the Takeshima islands in the Sea of Japan. South Korea controls them.
4)   The United States has urged North Korea to release an American university student who has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for crimes against the state.

Otto Warmbier was detained in Pyongyang in January while visiting the country as a tourist.

North Korea’s Supreme Court convicted him of committing a hostile act, in line with what it called the US government’s hostile policy toward the country.
5)   Japanese police received over 20,000 reports of stalking in 2015. It’s the 3rd straight year the reports topped this figure.

Police identified suspects and took action in 2,415 cases.
Suspects were accused of violating the anti-stalking law in 677 cases. There were also 362 cases of blackmail, 315 of housebreaking, and 11 of attempted murder.

6)   Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the government will continue to make every effort to resolve the case of a missing Japanese freelance journalist, Jumpei Yasuda .

Suga told reporters on Thursday that the government has been dealing with the case in line with instructions from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
7)   The remains of 393 Japanese war dead have been returned from the Bismarck Archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean.

Remains of more than 1.1 million Japanese are still on former battlefields 71 years since the end of World War Two.

Takayoshi Sumita, the deputy chief of an association of veterans and relatives of war dead, says he wants the government to do its best to locate all the remains.

今日はなでしこJapanの話とまたトランプ氏の話でマイケル先生は熱く語っていた。今日この中で読めなかった単語は「cauldron」(聖火台)。新国立スタジアムの計画に聖火台の場所がなかったって本当なの?今から計画するって^^

1)   Japan’s central government and Okinawa Prefecture have reached a settlement in the legal battle over the relocation of a US base within the southern prefecture.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told related Cabinet ministers on Friday of his decision to accept a new court proposal to settle the case over the reclamation work at Henoko in Nago City.

2)   The Japan women’s soccer team on Friday lost to China in the final stage of the Asian qualifying matches for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

“Nadeshiko Japan” lost 2-1 in a match held in Osaka.

By losing the game it has become virtually impossible for the team to qualify for the Olympics. The Japan squad has 2 losses and one draw so far.
3)   Since late last month Japan has seen a series of incidents related to 2 major organized crime syndicates.

Last August, several groups affiliated with the nation’s largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, formed a new organization called the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.

Since the breakup, events linked to the 2 syndicates have occurred across the country. The National Police Agency suspects that a rivalry stemming from the split is behind the actions.

The agency says it has confirmed at least 5 such acts in Tokyo and 4 other prefectures for the 3 days through last Saturday. They include a shooting into the wall of a home and a vehicle ramming into a building.

4)   A Japanese government survey shows that the number of overweight children in Fukushima Prefecture has decreased to the level before the nuclear disaster in March 2011.

Japan’s education ministry’s annual survey covers children throughout the country from age 5 to 17.

The ratio of children weighing 20 percent more than the standard level had been increasing in Fukushima until last year

5)   Japanese students will use “digital textbooks” in class in four years’ time.

An Education Ministry panel has decided on a basic policy for introducing tablet computers and other digital devices into classrooms at elementary schools as well as junior and senior high schools, starting with the 2020 school year.

6)   Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe says the organizers of the 2020 Olympics in the city should decide where to place the cauldron in the new stadium in accordance with how they want to produce the opening ceremony.

Masuzoe made the statement on Friday during a regular briefing.

It has come to light that construction plans for the new stadium for the Tokyo Games had no place for the Olympic cauldron.

Tokyo organizers on Thursday decided to set up a panel to study where to install it and come up with a solution as early as April.

7)   Japan’s government is planning legislation to ease the entry of private-sector companies into the space business.

The Cabinet approved two related bills on Friday. One would allow private companies to launch satellites if they meet certain conditions.

Currently, only the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and its contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, are permitted to launch satellites.

本当は7時からの30分クラスなんだけど大体15分くらいは延長してくれる。きょうは55分まで話してしまった。マイケル先生は日本にしばらく滞在してみたいそうでトピックが終わった後その話でしばし盛り上がる。

1)   Three former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company are set to face a court trial for the March 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

2)   Some members of Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, split last summer. But while police are concerned, a lawyer who works for the yakuza says the groups have more pressing issues.

On Tuesday, a gang member affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi was arrested on suspicion of shooting into the office of a new yakuza gang. The new group is made up of members who split from the Yamaguchi-gumi last August.

3)   Japan’s latest census shows its population decreased by nearly one million over a 5-year period.

It is the first population decline recorded in a census since the survey was introduced in 1920.

4)   Two of Japan’s main opposition parties have finalized a plan to merge, to better challenge the ruling coalition in an Upper House election this year.

The leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party, Katsuya Okada, and his Japan Innovation Party counterpart Yorihisa Matsuno agreed on Friday that their parties will merge next month.
5)   Japanese police have added 10 names to the list of missing people who may have been abducted by North Korea.

The National Police Agency said on Friday that it is looking into what happened to the 6 men and 4 women.

The addition raises the number of people on the list to 886.

6)   Railway fans have snapped up tickets for Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train on its first day of operation.

Tickets sales started on Friday for the new Shinkansen line, a month before service starts.

Officials at East Japan Railway Company say tickets for the first train bound for Tokyo from Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido, northern Japan, sold out in around 25 seconds.
7)   A motorist sped onto a sidewalk in downtown Osaka on Thursday afternoon, killing himself, one pedestrian and seriously injuring others.

Witnesses say the car first hit pedestrians crossing a busy intersection in front of Hankyu Railway’s Umeda Station, before ploughing into others on the sidewalk.
8)   Japan’s government says it will instruct the operator of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant to take steps to prevent a recurrence of its failure to swiftly determine that a meltdown occurred.