雪と噴火! Snow and eruption!

昨日[きのう]、東京[とうきょう]近辺[きんぺん]の雪[ゆき]のニュースについて書きました。今は、北日本で大雪が予想[よそう]されて(= forecasted)います。すでに1メートルを超[こ]える(= over)雪が降[ふ]ったところもあります。 東京の近くの群馬[ぐんま]県[けん]でも雪が降りました。そして、昨日は火山[かざん](= volcano)も噴火[ふんか]しました(= erupted)。 I wrote about news of snow falls in the Tokyo areas yesterday. Now the northern areas in Japan are expecting heavy snow and some areas have already got more than a meter snow. Gunma-prefecture, one of the nearby areas to Tokyo, has got snow and also got its volcano […]

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やりました! They did it!

昨日の夜、やっと決まりました、はい、そうです、労働党[ろうどうとう](= Labour Party)が政権[せいけん] (= government)をとることになりました。ジャシンダ・アーダーンさんは、労働党[ろうどうとう]の党首[とうしゅ](= party leader)に数か月前になったばかり、そして、今度はニュージーランドの首相[しゅしょう](= prime minister)になります。37歳の若き首相です! We finally found that which party would form a government – the New Zealand Labour party! Jacinda Ardern, the party leader, landed the party's leadership position just a few months ago and now she will be the prime minister of New Zealand! A full-of-energy 37 yr […]

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日本の食べ物は。。。 Japanese food is…

日本の食べ物と言えば、最近[さいきん](= recent)まで、すし、天[てん]ぷらでした。でも! 今日のワイカト・タイムズを見てください。お好[この]み焼[や]きのレシピです。時代[じだい](= time; era)も変[か]わりました。。。 We all thought just sushi and tempra when it came to Japanese food till recently… Now look at today's Waikato Times! The recipe of Okonomiyaki is there! Times have changed, indeed…

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みかん味魚 Fish with citrus flavour

日本人は魚[さかな]が好きです。でも、魚の臭[くさ]み(= smell)や料理に時間がかかることで、魚を食べる人が減[へ]って(= to decrease)います。そこで、、、どうしたと思いますか? As you might know, Japanese people love fish. But due to its smell and required time to cook, quite a few people now do not have so much fish on their dining table. So, what have the people in the industry done, do you think? 

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NZ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…

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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 […]

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