Recently, I fall into a TV drama, ‘カーネーション‘. It is based on the life of the fashion designer Koshino Ayako (小篠綾子). She was the mother of the famous designers, Koshino sisters. There are two characters, Yasuoka Tamae (安岡玉枝) and Yasuoka Yaeko (安岡八重子). Tamae is a mother-in-law of Yaeko. Tamae had two sons she took care of [...]
One of TBS programs, 「報道の日2011」, was very interesting. It was broadcast from 8:00 to 22:54(JST) and had four parts. I only watched from 14:40 to 17:00. But it made me exhausted. It was a part of third part which was 14:25 to 19:25. Third part content was the videos of March 11th. And they re-edited [...]
As I was interested in Gkatar’s comment on “Happy New Year!”, I checked out min [...]
My mother tongue is Japanese and English is my second language. I think the difference between these two languages are huge. Learning German at my university days, I found out similarity of them, their words order, pronunciation, spelling and so on. When I was young, I was impressed by an European or an American [...]
Do you know the sweets, Akafuku?It is the famous sweets of Ise. It is the decent Japanese-style confection of simple structure which covered rice cake with red bean paste. Although there were various food camouflage scandals last year, Akafuku is one of them.But is it only me who consider the some difference between Akafuku problem [...]
fall has come this week. we had very very hot summer at our town. and it was still remaining in the middle of october, I guess. but suddenly we were getting cool. no, it is a little bit cold than cool. in japan, many high schools have uniforms for students. traditionally, they order students to [...]
in japan, even today, most people think many non-living-things have lives, though they cannot take to say clearly. so, japanese horror movies have nonsence creatures from point of western modern viewing. but we’ve thrown out our traditional thinking. therfore, for young people in japan today such creatures might be thought nonsence. town and countryside overflow [...]
long time! too long. so, i can’t remenber what i was going to write. but, of course, about gods. in old days, all over the world, all human races had a lot of gods in their myth. their gods were not far from themselves. originally, gods were familiar people and things, like ancestors, heros, heroines, [...]
do you know the one of the Studio Ghibli’s animation, ‘Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko (1994) ‘? if you were raised in japan, it is a last idea that this is not for children. i am a japanese, so I agree with you. but if you are not, you may not agree with us. on the [...]
i found this here. have you seen the drama on TV?http://www.ntv.co.jp/hotaru/message/index.html ～ドラマ化に寄せて～ 原作者 [...]
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