岩崎[いわさき]瀧三[たきぞう]という人を知っていますか。121年前に生まれた人です。Do you know a man named Takizo Iwasaki, who was born 121 years ago?
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山の日 Mountain Day
今日、日本では山の日です。山の日は祝日[しゅくじつ](= public holiday; statutory holiday)です。今年からなので、今日が歴史[れきし](= history)上、初[はじ]めての山の日です。 そして、みなさんが考えているかもしれない通[とお]り。。。 はい、日本には海[うみ]の日もあります。海の日は7月20日です。海の日も、わりと最近[さいきん]作られた祝日[しゅくじつ]です。 ではここで質問[しつもん](= question)です。日本には祝日がいくつあるか知っていますか。 It is Mountain Day in Japan today. This is a public (statutory) holiday. It has come into effect this year; so it is our first Mountain Day this year! As you might guess… yes, we have Marine Day as well, which is July 20. This public […]
Continue reading再び8月6日… 6 August again…
明日は、8月6日、そう、広島[ひろしま]に原爆[げんばく](= atomic bomb)が落[お]とされた(= dropped)日です。 71年前、バーク・あきこさんは広島にいました。今日のニュージーランド・ヘラルド紙にバークさんの体験[たいけん](= experience)が載[の]っています(= to be published)。バークさんは今オークランドに住んでいます。 この週末[しゅうまつ]、ニュージーランドでも、例[たと]えばオークランドやネイピアで、広島と長崎[ながさき]の原爆[げんばく]投下[とうか](= the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)の日にあわせて、集[あつ]まり(= gathering)があるそうです。ニュージーランド・ヘラルド紙で読みました。 世界中に平和[へいわ](= peace)が訪[おとず]れます(= to come)ように。 It is 6 August tomorrow – yes, it's the day Hiroshima got an atomic bomb. Akiko Burke was there 71 years ago. Mrs Burke, who lives in Auckland now, talked about her experience to […]
Continue readingプライバシーと権利 Privacy and human rights
There was an interesting court case about privacy in Japan. A man who was arrested and fined about five years ago for indecency with a minor took his claim to the court. His claim was that the current situation on the Internet, which his name and arrest record was accessble, would prevent him from successful […]
Continue reading七夕 Tanabata
(c) buck82 今日は7月7日、日本では七夕[たなばた]です。 It is the seventh of July today and Tanabata in Japan.
Continue readingNZメディアの中の日本 Japan in NZ Media
海外[かいがい](= overseas)の人にとって日本と言えば、東京[とうきょう]とか京都[きょうと]ですよね。今日のニュージーランドヘラルド紙[し]の旅行[りょこう]のセクションには広島[ひろしま]が! それも原爆[げんばく]ドーム(= A-bomb dorm)ではなく、焦点[しょうてん](= focus)は、これっ。 Tokyo or Kyoto – these are Japanese cities non-Japanese people would come up with first, I guess. Today's NZ Herald shows Hiroshima in its travel section. And it focuses this:
Continue reading夏至 Summer Solstice
今日は夏至[げし](= summer solstice)です－これは北半球[きたはんきゅう](= the Northen Hemisphere)のことで、我々[われわれ]ニュージーランドは、南半球[みなみはんきゅう](= the Southern Hemisphere)ですから、冬至[とうじ](= winter solstice)です。 It is the Summer Solstice today – of course, this is the case in the Northen Hemisphere. We, New Zealand people, have the Winter Sostice today.
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.
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