Interview Project 2011 ①

Eigonoie junior high school students asked some questions to foreign people walking around in Tokyo Imperial Palace today.

There were less people there than usual.


Because of the fear for radiation or high-yen recession?



In spite of the bad weather, my students tried hard to interview 15 foreigners!!






We're going there again next Sunday with many elementary school students.


I hope more foreigners will be there.

New Hero Award

Genki Haraguchi received the New Hero Award in the 2011 J-League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup, which was decided based on votes from football journalists as he has made a great contribution to his team.

The final of 2011 Nabisco Cup will be kicked off at 13:05 today.



Go Haraguchi Go!!


You're the man!! ＼(^□^)／

Tenya fever

The quality of recent Tendon Tenya's products is so high!!


I've already tried the following two Tendons.

 Oyako Tori Tendon (Chicken and egg Tendon)

Komochi-Hotate no Tendon (Seed Scallop Tendon)

Red pickled ginger and lemon go well with oily Tendons.


How about trying them?

After Gadhafi's Death

The United Nations and two major human rights groups called Friday for an investigation into the death of Moammar Gadhafi amid questions over the final moments of the late Libyan strongman's life.



While the debate continues over whether rebel fighters executed Gadhafi after capturing him, celebrations goes on well and the great majority of Libyans are rejoicing his death.

Libyans have emerged from a very long nightmare, in which two generations lived in terror under Gadhafi's dictatorship.


The details of how he met his end seem irrelevant to most of them.






However hard they had experienced their lives, it's difficult for me to understand that most of Libyans made their big smiles after hearing a human death.


I think the feeling is different between the celebration of the end Kadhafi's dictatorship and the joy of his death.

Children...... What are you pleased with...?

Cruel Passersby in China

If your car accidentally knocks down a toddler, do you call the ambulance immediately or run the girl over again?


If you see a little girl dying on the ground, do you try to save her or ignore her and walk away?




These questions seem to be ridiculous and crazy to answer, but such a cruel incident really happened a few days ago in China.




The graphic surveillance video of the incident in Foshan city shows a van driver striking the two-year-old girl, pausing with his vehicle straddling the gril's torso, then driving forward, running her over a second time with his back wheel.

None of the 18 people who saw the girl's bloody body stopped to help.

The girl was then run over again by a light-duty truck.




If you want to see the video, go to YouTube and find one.
(→http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=china+two+year+girl&utm_source=googletb)




She is in critical condition, her brain show little activity despite earlier subtle movements in the lower body.




Where is the morality?


Where is the love?

Spotted seal "Ara-chan"

People have crowded a riverbank in Shiki, Saitama, to catch a glimpse of a wild spotted seal.

The animal has been seen in the Arakawa river near the Akigase water diversion weir, around 35 kilometers upstream from Tokyo Bay.


When the seal poked its head out from the water about every 10 to 20 minutes, people would call out its name "Ara-chan."

I like sea creatures, but I also wonder why people and media tend to make a great deal of fuss over seals.


If it had been a Steller's sea lion or a walrus, how would people have reacted to it?

All Come Together

Urawa Reds slipped into the relegation places with five matches remaining after a 1-0 derby-day defeat to Omiya Ardija on Saturday.

The result puts the Reds' record this season at only 6 wins, 11 draws, and 12 losses.


Whatever the outcome, Reds manager Zelijko Petrovic announced after the match that he will step down at the end of the season.





I didn't see the match, but it must have been disastrous.


We've come to the crucial stage.


What we really want is goals and victories.




To support Reds, I put a banner on the left side of my blog.


And if you go to the Urawa Reds homepage(→http://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/index.html), you can also download the wallpapers like these.

Urawa Reds, I'm always standing beside you.


You're not walking alone.


Believe us and your pride.


All come together and say,

"We are REDS!!"