Do you know this movie?



I'd like to introduce about recent my favorite movie.
Its title is "otonri" which is produced in Japan.
The main actor is Junichi Okada who is one of the members of V6.
He acts "Satishi" whose job is camera man and doesn't have girl friend.
The other main actress is Kumiko Aso who is well-known among the middle aged people.
She acts "Nanako" whose job is the staff of flower shop and aims to the flower designer.
Of course, she doesn't have boy friend either.
They live in the same apartment and next rooms.
This story is about romantic love story, but, interestingly, both of them have never seen each other directly.
However, thier sound of lives make them comfortable each other and gradualy, they fall in love without direct communication.

What I learn from this movie is that my first priority in my life is not love, but self-realization and making the living on my own.
In other words, it's independence.
Human being cannot live without love and supporting each other is important, but too much dependence does not mean anything, I think!

preparation for our presentation: summary

Ireland is divided into four areas. Leister, Munster, Connacht and Ulster. Ireland has two aspects. Civilized and historical aspects. Dublin is the capital city of Ireland and center part of education and people’s urban life. As you watched video, it is crowed by many people. And also, there are oldest university and vast library. On the other hand, in the countryside, there is much traditional architecture like castles, churches and towers and in New grange which is located in south parts of Ireland, has the ruins like a pyramid in Egypt. Besides, thanks to the abundant nature, Cal way is known to the place which provided romantic view of the coast. Mixed of urban life and quite countryside attracts so many tourists and that’s why Ireland is popular sightseeing spot.

"Food" makes my daily life more creative and happy and also it's impposible to skip regular three times meals in a day.

By the way, speaking of food, there are two types people who take part of "eating" or who are engaged of "cooking."

Which part do you belong?

May be I am in the latter case, I think ;)

In the begining of this year, I started to join the cooking class.

Before I joined it, I imagined only about cooking some dishes, but I have the chance to make some sweets and breads during the lessons!

I haven't treated breads in the lessons yet because I am the beingner of cooking still, but I am really looking forward to treating these kind of food someday!

Then, what I learned from my cooking lesson is decoration is very important section if I

want eater to whet thier appetite for foods.

These are the pictures about the dishes I made!!

I presented this strawberry short cake to my dormitory friend as her birthday present.

I hope you will enjoy to see these pictures!!

Almost every people around me in the cooking class are really good at cooking than me!

In addition, their respectable skils motivate me in a positive way to try to cook hard!!

On June 21th, I got surprising present from my freind!

This is the picture of it and it's cute mug.

By the way, the reason my friend gave it to me was very simple.

She said that this mug was but a small token of her thanks.

I could not believe it and I was really impressed her word full of kindness!

I want to handle it carefully, but I'd like to often use it.

This is the least I can do to show my gratiude to her, I think.

Actually, Even thought mug is used when we drink something hot, I drink cool lemon tea by using it today.

This happy and unexpected incidents are remained me one idea that the friendship made me hart warm.

Thanks to her kindness, I realized that I am really blissful person!!

Do you know waht is it?

The answer is Chococro and it is my lunch I ate today!

the most popular bakery in our café is “Chocó cro”. Its taste and appetence is like a crescent roll and the dough is used the large amount of butter and it includes bitter taste chocolate.

As some of you know that I worked ST-MARC CAFE last year.

If you have time and money, please visit to ST-MARC CAFÉ!

Today, I telephoned with my family and kept talking for about an hour.
The topic was not so important thing like my campus life, but as for me, it was really presious time to comuinicate with them.
My old sister asked me about my plan in summer break. What are you going to do? or How long will you stay in Sapporo?
A few seconds, I silented and could not responese to her question.
Then, I noticed that I have nothing to do in this summer break!

Last summer break, I came back to my home town for the purpose of aquiring driver's licence.
It was a little bit tough work for me because regardless of summer break, to pass its examination, the students in draiving training school was demanded regular attendance in its lessons.
I was too busy to be relaxed enough, but thanks to the draiving training school, I could spend really worthwhole time in last August.

On the other hand, in this summer, what I have to do is only part-time job!
I do not want to waste of my summer time, so from now on, I start to think seriously about it!!

June 18th on Friday, I purchased new clothes on OIOI which is located in Machida.
And also this is the popular fashion building for young people.
The name of the shop I bought it is "Majestic Legon."

Do yu know the name of it?
This is the picture of it.
In the summer season, it is nessecary to chose my daily clothes carefully because of high tempereture and the rainy season in June.
I can say the same thing in the case of daily shoes.
In addition, almost every college sstudents in the Aoyama Gakuin Universty always wear fashonable, elegant and expensive clothes, so I have to care my clothes seriously and it is impossible to wear the miserable one.
However, this is the positive aspect for me to grow up my motivation to try to be beautiful!!

Father's Day

June 20th was the Father's Day and I gave some presents for him.
I love my father because he always care of my health condition and call me at least once a week.
So, I am sure that this is the time to convey my appreciation to him.
As I said before, my home town is Sapporo which is far area from Tokyo and I have to send it.
It takes two or three days to arrive my presents there.
Anyway, the thing I gave was T-shirts and a polo shirts.
I bought the polo shirts at the UNIQLO, it means the polo shirts was not so expensive.
On the other hand, the other one was really expensive clothes. Do you know the United Arrows?
This is very famous clothes shop among the young ladies and adult.
To be honest, when I first look at its price tag, I hagitate to purchase it.
However, I want my father to be happy and smile, so I decided to buy it!!

June 8th
Today, I did not have a part-time job and had nothing to do, so I rent some DVD from TUTAYA and enjoyed watching it. These free times are really precious for me. By the way, the title is “The Wife of Viyon.” This movie was released in 2009, but its original story was written by Osamu Dazai in 1950. Do you know him? I am sure that he is well-known modern literary author among all ranges of agers in Japan. “The wife of Viyon” is minor literary work and not so many people are familiar with it, but how about “Hashire merosu” or “Rashomon.”? May be some of you studied and read it when you were the high school students during the modern Japanese classes. The vocabulary and writing style of his literary works are very difficult, but they are really sophisticated. Now, I read only English literary works because my major is the English and American literary. However, I think that reading Japanese thing is also important to deepen the knowledge of literary. From now on, I want to read more Japanese one if I have a time. Let’s move on to the movie topic. This is the story about love story. Its main actors are Takako Matu who acts “Sachi” in the film and Tadanobu Asano who acts “Otani” in the film. Both actors are one of the most famous and great top performers in Japan. It is not too much to

say that anyone cannot play the role of “Sachi” and “Otani” except them. The outline of this story is... sorry, I really want to introduce you in my own words, but it is faster for you to watch this VTR than to read my explanation. So please watch it! Here is the rough outline of this movie. If you have a time, please watch it!

1, MLA citation
This news report is about suicide rate increase in Japan. Here is the MLA citation.
“No letup in suicide rate.” The Japan Times. June 10 2010. June 15 2010.

2, source
No letup in suicide rate
The National Police Agency announced last month that 32,845 people took their own lives in 2009, a rise of 596 from the previous year. This marks the 12th consecutive year in which the number of suicides has topped 30,000 — a sad persistent trend in Japan.
The police determined the likely causes of 24,434 suicides, or 74 percent of all cases, by such means as notes left by victims or information from people close to victims. Unemployment led 1,071 people to kill themselves, an increase of 65.3 percent; other life-related hardships led to 1,731 suicides, a rise of 34.3 percent.
The number of suicides jumped in October 2008 following the onset of the global financial crisis and has remained high since. Each month, from January to August 2009, saw more suicides than for the same month a year earlier.
The most frequent cause of suicide was depression, blamed for 6,949 deaths, a rise of 7.9 percent from 2008. This has been the No. 1 cause for three consecutive years. Since, the NPA says, a combination of factors often leads to suicide, it is likely that financial worries or difficult relationships and other problems at the workplace are responsible for many cases of depression.
Middle-aged people are the most susceptible to suicide. The number of suicides per 100,000 people was highest for people in their 50s (38.5 deaths), followed by those in their 60s (33.5) and those in their 40s (32.1). Ominously, the suicide rate for those in their 20s was 24.1 deaths, and it was 26.2 deaths for those in their 30s — both are a record high since 1978.
Apparently behind the suicides of young people is economic stagnation and a pervasive feeling of gloom about Japanese society. In addition to striving to identify and help those who may be suicidal, the government should put into place the economic, social and education policies that can help give young people hope and meaning to their lives.

3, Summary
The National Police Agency announced that more than 30,000 people took their own lives in 2009. This figure raise about 500 people than previous year. This marks the 12th consecutive year in which the number of suicides has topped 30,000 — increasing the suicide rate is sad and negative trend in Japan. The most frequent cause of suicide was depression. This has been the No. 1 cause for three consecutive years. The NPA says a combination of factors often leads to suicide; it is likely that financial worries or difficult relationships and other problems at the workplace are responsible for many cases of depression. In addition to striving to identify and help those who may be suicidal, the government should put into place the economic, social and education policies that can help give young people hope and meaning to their lives.

4, Opinion
When I first read this article, I got really shocked so many teenagers and younger people commit a suicide in Japan. What is worse, their most major factor lead the suicide is mental problems such as depression related with social unrest. Of course, frequently, I also feel that I want to die and want to disappear from this world. However, maybe I never commit a suicide because now, I have really good friends and family who support me. So, to avoid and prevent from being too much depression, the most important thing is making good human relationship with people who are around us. Not everyone help you, but, as least a person will absolutely help and support you.

5, Vocabulary
1) Suicide (verb): took their own lives (自殺する)
Ex) Teenager suicides are increasing.
2) Global financial crisis (phrase): global recession (国際経済危機)
Ex) Leman Shock was the typical example of global financial crisis.
3) Depression (noun): the negative feeling and emotion (憂鬱、欝)
Ex) Living away from home is leading to depression.
4) Susceptible (adjective): be affected by something easily (影響を受けやすい、感染しやすい)
Ex) I am susceptible to colds.
5) Stagnation (noun): recession (停滞、不景気)
Ex) the first quarter is the period of economic stagnation for our company.

6, Questions
1) Recession is one of the suicide factors. What should government to stop the increasing the suicide rate?
2) What do you do when you feel depression? (What is your way to release stresses?)3) If your friends or family say that he or she wants to die, how do you encourage them?

HERO

HERO

“HERO” is really famous song! Sakurai made this song for his child. When I listen to it for the first time, it was really impressed for me. I learn one thing from this song. It is natural for parents to love their children, but it is so difficult and great thing to love their children.

I love Mr. Children, especially Kazutoshi Sakurai who is the vocal of Mr. Children.
This group was organized in 1992 by Sakurai, Suzuki, Nakagawa and Tahara.
Now, they take an important part of Japanese pop music.
If they release new single song and best album, they certainly raise their name in the top of music lank. Why are they so popular and loved by the large numbers of people?
The answer is their lyrics.


Both of their melody line and their lyrics are produced by Sakurai.
His words are really sympathy and impressive among young people to adult.
When we are depression, his song has courage us.
Sakurai said in his interview that he wants many people to be activity and positive thinking.
I think his dream and desire has already come true!!


Another reason why they are one of the most popular Japanese singers is the way to Sakurai’s sing.
His way of sing is very unique.
In addition, his voice has a wide range, so not only ordinary people, but also other singers cannot imitate him.
Again, they are very popular among all the age of people.
Maybe their population will remain the same for long time because each song has particular and difference massages from Sakurai. Now, I will recommend you some songs!!


tomorrow never knows
“Tomorrow never knows” is also really famous song, but it was published in 1994, so nowadays, not everyone knows it maybe.
I recommend you to listen to it when you are depression.
This lyric give us positive thinking.

In these days, I spend a really worthwhile time not only in the school life, but in private time. However, sometimes I am irritated with little thing and can not put up with it. Here is my experience which I could not control my anger.


In the evening on Monday, I was on three hours shift as the cram school teacher. Almost every child who comes to study in this cram is junior high school student.
High school student is minority.
To be honest, when they study English, mathematics or something these kinds of academic subjects, their attitudes are never seemed to be settle down. Some students started to lose their temper when they faced difficult questions to solve and others started to chat with their friends. In short, all of them dislike studying. It is not too much to say that they HATE studying.


When I met them first, I could not understand why those of people who hate to study come to the cram.
Don't you think it is just a waste of time and money?
Attending the cram is not compulsory education and it costs their parents the large amount of money per a month.
If I were their parents, I would have pay money for another thing!