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In the future, a car will change.
It is a vehicle. We use it for carrying.
 
It will become a home battery.
We do not need to buy energy from electronics power companies.
We get energy from cars.
 
Car will change our life.


 

Prime minister will change soon.
 
From when do we do as the other person’s opinion,
do we do only easy things?
We do not think about ourselves.
 


 

I went to Tokyo on business trip.
I like to see cloud and mountain from
Shinkansen  indows.
Because shape of cloud is always different.  
And the mountains donot change the shape.
We live among things that always change and
never change.
 
 


 

It is interesting to read a past sentence.
I am read the diary which I wrote three years ago.
What change my mind? In what part of things do I change?
Anyway, Recording is important, I think.
Reading the past diary, I can return to the past time like time machine.


Recently,I often see the English topics on the business magazines

in Japan.

Because some Japanese companies start to use English  as a

common language.


 

There are many people who complain "hot ,tired"

But there are little  people who fight against "hot,tired"


I'm so sad to hear news about chinese train accident.


I am happy!!

They are amazing. Thank you!!


Earthquake is so terrible



Hapa Izakaya at 1479 Robson Street

When Hapa Izakaya opened in 2003 at Robson Street, it was one of the first establishments to introduce original Japanese dishes in an izakaya atmosphere to Vancouver. Today, their Robson location is three times as large as it used to be in 2003, and branch restaurants are also found in Vancouver's trendy Kitsilano and Yaletown districts.


Shrimp and Avocado Salad

Hapa Izakaya stands out with its minimalist exterior (like a Gion teahouse, barely recognizable as a restaurant) and stylish interior, as well as its original dishes, whose style have inspired a lot of newer izakaya style restaurants in Vancouver over the years.


Tsukune Skewers

Hapa Izakaya fascinated me back in 2003 with never before experienced dishes such as saba (mackerel) seared at the table. Maybe our choices today were not the luckies, but we felt that the originality of Hapa's dishes has dwindled a little bit since 2003 (or other restaurants have caught up to it and raised our expectations). Nevertheless, we enjoyed our dinner there a lot.


Bintoro Tataki

We started off with Bintoro Tataki, a beautifully simple dish of seared tuna sashimi on an excellent vinaigrette sauce. Many of the other dishes were good but not outstanding, including the Shrimp and Avocado Salad and the Monsa Roll. Another highlight of the night was Kakuni, slow simmered pork, which was served in an original way with nikuman style steamed buns.


Kakuni with steamed buns


Monsa Roll


For a long time, Japanese cuisine in Vancouver was virtually limited to sushi and a few other standard dishes such as tempura. While sushi restaurants are still by far most numerous today, various other restaurant types have tried to introduce their dishes to Vancouver over recent years. Some have struggled, such as okonomiyaki, curry and Japanese pasta restaurants, but others have enjoyed great success, such as izakaya and ramen restaurants.

Daikon Salad
Daikon Salad

Today we visited Zakkushi, the pioneering restaurant to introduce Vancouver to kushiyaki, skewered foods grilled over charcoal. Zakkushi opened in summer 2004 at 823 Denman Street and has opened two more locations since then in Kitsilano and at Main Street.


Aspara Maki (Asparagus wrapped with pork)

I failed twice to dine at Zakkushi before, because the restaurant's popularity makes it difficult to get in without reservations. But today we finally enjoyed our first dining experience there. As soon as the charcoal smell of my first yakitori skewer entered my nose, I understood the restaurant's unbroken popularity: Zakkushi can easily compete with good kushiyaki restaurants in Japan. Their yakitori are excellent!


Tsukune (chicken meat balls)

Zakkushi features mostly conventional dishes, centered around the typical range of yakitori (grilled chicken on skewers), including tsukune (meat ball), momo (thigh), liver, heart and gizzard. The menu is complemented with a variety of appetizers and tapas style dishes and a sophisticated selection of alcoholic drinks. It is one of Vancouver's few Japanese restaurants that does without sushi on its menu.


Cheese mochi maki (rice cakes wrapped by pork and topped with cheese)


hellow everyone.recently,I have to prepare a lecture about Chinese culture simple.I konw some of you are Japanese.Please tell me when sb say China what is your first impression or what do you think can represent China.Thankyou


 konishiwa  i love so much japan and manga their language from children i just wanna have chance to meet a femal friend living there and make some conversation so i hope to have a friends and helpe me to know more about japan thanks a lot every body have a nice day


Where did Japanese came from? How life began?

In ancient time, Japanese people thought  that human , life and everything consisted with nature in naturaly.

 They respected nature and harmonize well with nature.

And  they respected 清明心(せいめいしん)which is the pure mind without lying.

 

They had  清明心 to live better among the community.

清明心 was inherited to 和 in Shotoku era, in the middle the Middle Age, it became 誠。

 日本人は、誠実なんです。
           
(訳)
どこから日本人は来たのか、生命はどこから来たのか?
昔の日本人は、人、命、すべてのものがおのずから自然にできたと
考えました。
彼らは、自然を尊重し、調和することを大事にしました。
清明心、嘘のないきれいな心を大事にしました。共同体でうまく生活する
ためです。
清明心は、聖徳太子の時代に和となり、中世で誠となり引き継がれて
きました。


Hello guys! ( If you like this article, just click "I like it!" on the left! thanks)

Today I'd like to share some movie from Japan.
The movies are GOOD QUALITY in many ways such as music, scenery, story, actors/actresses.
Give it a try if you have a chance to see.

  今度は愛妻家  A good husband   /  Heart warming story
  おと な り  Oto na ri  /  Music is beautiful and scenery as well.
   風が強く吹いている  The wind is blowing strongly.  / One for all, all for one.
  かもめ食堂 Kamome restaurant     / The delicious food makes people happy. 
  フラガール    Hula girl   /  Dancing dancing dancing!
  南極料理人  Antarctica cook  /  Time for eat everyone.

I leave the images for each movie below so that you can imagine what kind of movies are they.

         

                 


Hello guys! ( If you like this article, just click "I like it!" on the left! thanks)

Tsukiji fish market is the one of the largest market in Asia. 
Since over-capacity number of the people visited and sometimes done behave wrongly, market refused to accept it since early April of 2010.

But on 10th May, they reopend with some rules. You can see what's the rule and how tsukiji is popular right now. In the first morning of reopen, people stared queuing up since 4:30am!!!


   mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100511p2a00m0na012000c.html
     www.japan-guide.com/e/e3021.html

Thanks to the Tsukiji market, we can have delicious SUSHI. 
We should respect the rule!

      


Hello guys,
Are you a kind of person who really care about the blood type?
For me, it doesn't mtter at all and I hardly ever remember other's blood type. My all family has got blood type O and we have different pattern of actions and thought. So to me, categorize by the blood type is not reliable enough.

But..... Here is interesting article in BBC. You'd better read through!! 

   news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8646236.stm

What men and women are doing on Saturday night ???
What is "Burahara"?
Which blood type does former prime minister have got?

** From the article

Decisive and confident - that is people with type O.
The black sheep though seem to be blood group B - flamboyant free-thinkers, but selfish.
ABs are well balanced, clear-sighted and logical, but also high-maintenance and distant.
My image is of someone who is down to earth, something like that." -A.

From my personal perspective, we  may use the blood type as one part of tiny hint to understand that person. But never should jump to conclusions too quickly....

Here are the best seller about the blood type. You can now see how we interesting in categorize...

         


Hello guys,

Our national hero Naoko Yamazaki come back to Earth finally!!!

As one of same citizen as her I'm really happy and honored. According to the news she has been dreaming to be an astronaut since she was little like 5 years old or something like that. Now she is working mother and after a lot of practice.
 

       www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20100422TDY01T03.htm 
 


From the article: expression

complete mission
I'm glad to be back....
appear in good spirits
hand her mom to a bouquet

unsteady on her feet

               
 

 

 


Hello guys,

Could you eat any kind of vegetable? Lettuce, carrot, eggplant, cabbage, mushroom.. and so on..

I prefer the best vegetable to meat and  fish. I think it's because of my mother's cooking. She is the specialist to make any vegitable to appealing dishes for child. Thanks to my mom I can eat almost any vegetable. 

Let me introduce interesting article here.


         www.asahi.com/english/TKY201004110134.html

 

TItile: Eco-friendly sustainable village brings a futuristic style of farming.


In the article, you can reach 
Main purpose of this experiment.
Which vegetable they are using for this experiments?
How do thay make it color and which color?
Is there any word/expression relate to eco-friendly?
 

                                                                 

Colored vegetable might be served in future... sounds bit wired for me though....

 

        

 

Viva Vegetable!


 

Hello guys,

 

I love Green tea. Not only me but all my family absolutely prefer green tea more than any beverage. Nowadays many people prefer coffee, English tea, and even another kind of tea...

 

Now is the best season for taste '新茶' ( first picled tea of the year).  Like Beaujolais Nouveau!!!!
 Full of flavor, you can enjoy smell, color, after taste.
 This year due to the bad weather the price is higher and higher....
 You can find more detail in below article... Let's read it.
 

        www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20100420TDY02T02.htm    
 

Why the price is becoming higher?
Compare to last year, how high the price actually?
How many trades were there?
What's the points are wholesalers check before trade?
What does make slow growth for tea, according to market official?

 

        

 

 



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