Japanese scientist wins Nobel in medicine along with a U.S. scholar this year!　日本の科学者[かがくしゃ](= scientist)がアメリカの科学者とともにノーベル医学[いがく](= medicine)生理学[せいりがく](= physiology)賞[しょう](= prize)を受賞[じゅしょう]しました。 Professor Tasuku Honjo, Kyoto University, was awarded this prize for his tremendous work which has hugely contributed to cancer therapy. You can read this wonderful news at various websites; for example here (in Japanese) and here (in English). […]

Do you have any problems to get rid of clutters? This New Zealand website cites some tips provided by the guru of decluttering. The guru’s name is Marie Kondo; yes, she is Japanese! 近藤[こんどう]麻理恵[まりえ]さんの名前を聞いたことがありますか。近藤さんは日本人で、片[かた]づけ(= decluttering)の名人[めいじん](= guru)です。本もいろいろ書いています。ニュージーランドのウェブサイトで近藤さんの片付けのコツが紹介[しょうかい]されています。興味[きょうみ]がある人は、こちらからどうぞ。

Have you heard of Ainu? Ainu is an indigenous language in Japan and very few people can speak it now. People of the Ainu descent came to New Zealand to meet Maori people and learn how to save their endangered language. This visit gave Maori people an opportunity to learn the Ainu language too. You […]

Today’s New Zealand Herald reports PM Ardern’s speech delivered at the UN General Assembly hall. I was just reading this article as anybody else in this country would do and then, the sentence ‘the startled look on a Japanese delegation’ suddenly popped up! So why did the Japanese person react like that? – you can […]

ニュージーランドヘラルド紙[し]に日本のタトゥーについて記事[きじ](= article)がありました(ここです、英語で書かれています)。とても興味[きょうみ]深[ぶか]く読みました。 I found an article about tattoo in Japan. It is an interesting read (the article can be found here)!

this is a test 月曜日に大きな地震[じしん](= earthquake)日本でありました。電車[でんしゃ](= train)が止まったりしましたが、今はまたちゃんと動[うご]いて(= to move)います。まだ全部[ぜんぶ](= all)元[もと]に戻[もど]ったわけではありません。1日にも早く、いろいろ元に戻りますように。