2011 Winner of AKB Election

AKB48 3rd Annual General Election has ended and the results have been freshly announced.



This year Atsuko Maeda regained the throne with 139,892 votes from last year's top Yuko Oshima.

I think she must be a center of AKB.





All 152 candidates were contesting for the coveted 21 top spots which will be featured in AKB48 22nd single.


Top 40 members are like this.

I'm not so interested in AKB, but I was so surprised at the huge amount of votes.


Japanese government should learn how to enhance its attractiveness from AKB.

Miffy & Cathy

The Japanese character Hello Kitty is to lose her friend Cathy after a legal battle between Hello Kitty owners Sanrio and Dutch firm Mercis BV, which manages the copyright for Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy.



Mercis sued Sanrio in November 2010 because Cathy looked too much like Miffy.

But the two companies have now reached an out-of-court settlement.

After the March 11th earthquake in Japan, Mercis proposed that the costs of the litigation be donated to post-quake relief efforts.

They agreed to contribute jointly about ￥17.5 million to the victims or for restoration.






I like this solution because I can feel love and dream from both firms.


Any disputes such as Japanese government should follow this idea.

Fraud? or Farce?

"I want to make a decision based on common sence," embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan said at an informal Cabinet meeting yesterday morning.



Just one year have passed since he was chosen as a top leader of our nation.

But his face is quite different from the one at that time.





Who do you think will be the best as a new leader if Naoto Kan steps down?


Some people have criticized him "fraud".




Stop this farce, politicians!!

Hair we go!

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has had a hair transplant.


Rooney confirmed the news via twitter like this.

His football performance is absolutely great, but it's also important for the star player to make his look better.


Hair we go!! lol

Low Intelligence

My brother got a series of Chuo Univ. brochures to decide his future faculty.

Glancing over them, I found unbelievable mistakes.

This is the brochure of Fuculty-Linkage Program, but it says "Fuculty-Linkage Progam".





The most famous and popular faculty in Chuo Univ. is Law, but even its brochure calls itself  "Faculty of Low".

Those are fatal mistakes!!

13-year-old boy died under torture

The battered face of 13-year-old boy Hamza al-Khateeb depressed me terribly.

He went missing after a protest in the southern Syrian village of Jiza on April 29th, and until his body was returned to his family, his whereabouts were unknown.

Activists said he was tortured and killed by Syria's Security Services during a month in costody.




Since a video portraying the torture inflicted upon him was broadcast on the al-Jazeera TV network, he has rapidly emerged as the new symbol of the protest movement in Syria.

And a video posted on YouTube showing his beaten corpse has sparked international condemnation.




I can't see the video, and can't think about what he endured, either.


The boy's head was swollen, purple and disfigured.

His body was a mess of welts, cigarette burns wounds from bullets fired to injure, not kill.

His kneecaps had been smashed, his neck broken, his jaw shattered and his penis cut off.





Only devil could do such a horrible atrocity...

Eigonoie Shinbun June edition

Eigonoie Shinbun June edition has been printed.

Especially this time, I wrote an article for the first time.

The title is "Student Three Year Free", which is well-known for Softbank's unique CM.

I know we need to make more and more amendments to the editing.

Maybe most of our students won't read it because they get sick and tired of reading the full-lettered paper...





My article is not so important, but the other teachers' ones are helpful for your studying.


Try to read all!!