あなたの夢[ゆめ](= dream)は何ですか－そう聞かれたら、どう答えますか。 What is your dream? – if somebody asks you this question, what would you say?
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Free Japanese film showing – May 2016
FREE Japanese film showing in May 2016 Date: Thursday 12 May 2016 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:40 PM Location: L3 Contact: athena@waikato.ac.nz Website: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/school-of-arts/languages/japanese-film-showings Free Admission! No booking required! English subtitles! ALL WELCOME. ‘Chibi Maruko-chan Ono kun&Sugiyama kun’ (c) SAKURA PRODUCTION / NIPPON ANIMATION Director: Tsutomu Shibayama & Yumiko Suda 1990 | 94min. | Rating: […]
Continue readingNZも猫ニュース Cat news in NZ
日本人はねこが大好き－いろいろなニュースやレポートが(かわいいものから、ちょっと変ったものまで!)日本で見られます。 そして、ニュージーランドにもねこニュースがありました! Japanese people love cats. All sorts of (cuteor weird!) cat's news and reports can be seen in Japanese media all the time. Now, we have got a good one from New Zealand…
Continue reading庭の犯人は。。。 The offender in the garden was…
しばらく前に、菜園[さいえん](= vege garden)用[よう](= for)の肥料[ひりょう](= fertiliser)を使[つか]って、余[あま]った分[ぶん]を外[そと]に置[お]いておきました。つい最近[さいきん]、袋[ふくろ](= bag)から肥料がばらまかれているのに気づきました。一体何が起こったのか、全[まったく]くわかりません。しかし! 昨晩[さくばん]犯人[はんにん](= offender)を突[つ]き止[と]めました(= detected)っ。犯人は。。。 I left a bag of fertiliser for the vege garden outside some time ago. I noticed just a few days ago that there was a bit of mess around the bag but had no idea what happened. Finally last night, I managed to find who (what) […]
Continue reading日本は春 Spring in Japan
先日、ニュージーランドの秋について書きました。今、日本は春です。 今は、八重桜[やえさくら](= puff cherry)がきれいに咲いています。いいな～。 I wrote about the current season in New Zealand the other day. It is spring in Japan now. Japanese people are now enjoying puff cherry blossom…
Continue reading食欲の秋 Good appetite in Autumn
ニュージーランドは秋です。いろいろなおいしい食べ物があります。この写真の食べ物、知っていますか。 It is autumn in New Zealand and there are a lot of seasonal ingredients available now. Do you know what they are in the above photo?
Continue reading熊本 Kumamoto
As you know, big earthquakes happened in Kumamoto, Japan last week. There are so many aftershocks still happening there. The massive recovery efforts have been made; quite a few shops are now open. Kumamoto Airport started operating again. But there are still many people having all sorts of difficulties. Tokyo Shimbun Newspaper reports that quite […]
Continue readingG7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Hiroshima
G7 Foreign ministers are meeting in Hiroshima right now. The ministers are scheduled to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum today. I hope the meeting would go well and all representatives would understand Hiroshima better.
Continue readingFree Japanese film showing – April 2016
FREE Japanese film showing in April 2016 Date: Thursday 14 April 2016 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:20 PM Location: L3 Contact: athena@waikato.ac.nz Website: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/school-of-arts/languages/japanese-film-showings Free Admission! No booking required! English subtitles! ALL WELCOME. ‘BALLAD’ (c)2009 “BALLAD”PRODUCTION COMMITTEE Director: Takashi Yamazaki 2009 | 132min. | Rating:M Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yui Aragaki, Takao Osawa Director Yamazaki blasts […]
Continue readingWhy should we learn additional languages?
Yes, we should all learn additional languages!
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