Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Shooting Man Killed Himself

The suspect of shooting incident in Wakayama shot himself and died at the hospital. 
The suspect, Mizobata, 45, shot his former coworkers yesterday. His coworkers died and injured by his shootings. After that, he escaped from the place and barricaded himself in an apartment with two pistols. 
The police surrounded the man, but couldn't arrest him. Finally, the suspect shot himself by his pistols. 
He was arrested last year over the drug crime and about to go to jail. The shootings occurred just one day befor the date.  
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Hitting on Tohoku

Typhoon No.10, Lionrock, is hitting on northeastern Japan now. This is the first typhoon hit the Tohoku area from the Pacific Ocean, so they haven't prepared for the conditions. Unexpected hard rain and wind cause damages there. Watching news shows on tv, I can see floods happen everywhere. 
I pray for safety indeed. 
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Massive Typhoon Hits Tohoku

A powerful typhoon No.10 is going to land the Tohoku area. This will be the first typhoon to reach the region from the Pacific Ocean. 
The typhoon will cause a lot of rain. The residents there should be take care of landslides or floods from now on. 
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Typhoon No. 10

A massive typhoon No.10 is traveling along the Japanese mainland and will across Tohoku region. The typhoon will cause a lot of rain. Be careful everyone. 
As I work for fishery industry, I'll face lack of fish next week. The fish prices will soar in the markets. That's the way it is around this season. 
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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Bad Memory

I'm listening to an audiobook. The title is "The Five People You Meet in Heavn". It has full of impressive words. I want to remember these sentences, but I easily forget about that.
Getting older, I began to feel my poor memory. So sad. 
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Friday, August 26, 2016

Actor Takahata Arrested

An actor Yuta Takahata has arrested by the police for sexual assault. He did it at a hotel he stayed in Gunma. Yuta was one of a young and energetic actors. His mother was a famous actress Atsuko Takahata. 
His mother apologized at a press conference this morning. I don't think the incident was her fault. Reporters asked harsh and insane questions. I really feel for the mother. 
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

National Honor Award

According to some newspaper, the Japanese government plans to send People’s Honor Award to a Japanese female wrestler Kaori Icho who won her fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games.
Icho became the first woman to win gold in four consecutive Olympics in any individual event. I think she deserves to win the award. Three times Olympic winner Saori Yoshida already won the award in 2012. 
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The Five People You Meet in Heavn

I downloaded Mitch Albom's audiobook "The Five People You Meet in Heavn". It was one of my favorite English novels. The story is not so long. It's 4 hours and 40 minutes long. I could through it in three days. I think I'll listen to the audiobook several times. 
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Lazy

I fallow many English learners on Twitter. I really admire them. Even though they are busy for work, they spend lots of time as much as they can. 
On the other hand, I'm lazy for studying English, but seriously I want to be good at English. Only thing I'm doing now is listening to English audiobooks. I should do more for it. I'm kind of flustered. 
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Monday, August 22, 2016

Tokyo 2020

The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games came to an end. In the closing ceremony, Tokyo held an eight-minute presentation and it was really nice. 
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerge from a large green pipe with Nintendo character Mario costume. Media said it was the best part of the whole ceremony. I think it was really nice and funny. Tokyo 2020 would be a wonderful event. 
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Listening to a Murakami

I'm listening to Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" with Audible. The story is 26 hours lond and I'm at 23 hours now. 
I once read the novel, but I didn't remember the story. The story is a typical  Murakami. I enjoy the world, but I can't understand the meaning of each episodes immediately. Maybe, when I finish it, I would feel something from the novel.
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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Japan Wins Silver 4×100

Japan's 4×100 relay team took silver medal in Japan's new record time 37.60 at the Rio Olympics. Tha last runner Cambridge got the baton about the same time as Bolt and powered with full speed. He finally grabbed silver after Bolt and Jamaica. Japanese athletes took the first silver at Olympic track in a sprinting event.
Watching the event on TV, I was really excited about the performance. No one in the Japanese team has a sub-10 time for the 100m, but every runner did really well especially the handovers at the race. 
AP said on the web "Usain Bolt and Jamaica wins gold in relay _ and a Jamaican-born sprinter helps Japan win silver". 
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Friday, August 19, 2016

Yoshida Lost Gold

The BBC reported that American Helen Maroulis caused one of the biggest upsets in women's wrestling as she became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport. She best Japan's three times Olympic champion Saori Yoshida in the -53kg final in Rio Olympics. 
Yoshida might get a lot of of pressure from everywhere. In the second period of the match, Yoshida lost four points and couldn't reverse the points. She apologized to audience for her lost. 
She has been doing really well since 2004 in Athens Olympic Games. She had no need to apologize. 
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Men's Table Tennis Gets Silver

Japan faced China at the 2016 Rio Olympics men's table tennis team final. Japanese players performed well, but they couldn't beat China this time. 
At the second match, Japan's Jun Mizutani defeated the World No. 2 Xu Xin for the first time. That was a bright side of the match. I believe Japan will defeat China in the near future. 
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Japan Wins Bronze Medal

Congratulations! Japan women's table tennis team has won the bronze medal at tha 2016 Rio Olympics. The match was against Singapore with a 3-1 victory. 
At the first single match, Ai Fukuhara was defeated, but after that Japan got three match straight. 
Mima Ito won the fourth match and grabbed the bronze medal. She was 15 years and 300 days old and became the youngest table tennis Olympic medalist ever. 
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Japan Men's Table Tennis Goes to Final

Japan men's table tennis team has reached to the final for the first time at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Japan couldn't win against Germany for a lond time, but they did it at last. 
Japan will face China at the final. China is very strong team. They has Rio Olympics individual gold and silver medalists. It would be reall hard to beat China, but I hope Japan upsets China this time. 
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Monday, August 15, 2016

Kei Wins Bronze

Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese medalist since Ichiya Kumagai at the 1929 Antwerp Olympics. Kei defeated Rafael Nadal with a 2-1 to get bronze at Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. 
I watched the game on TV. In the second set, he was about to get the medal, only one game to win. Nadal came back from the edge and took back 5 set straight. 
The third set, Nishikori got the first break. Nadal couldn't came back from that. 
I'm reall glad Kei's bronze medal. I hope he comes back to Matsue, his hometown, and to show the Olympic meal to us. 
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Bronze Medal Match

Kei Nishikori was defeated by Andy Murray with a 1-6, 4-6 will face Spain’s Rafael Nadal in Sunday’s bronze-medal match. Nishikori had only beaten Nadal once in seven previous encounters. If he win the next game, he will become the first Japanese man to win an Olympic tennis singles medal since the 1920 Antwerp Game. 
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Kei Goes to Semis

Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori won over France’s Gael Monfils at the Rio Olympics. He was almost lost the game. He survived from three match points, a 3-6 tiebreake. 
Nishikori will face the defending champion Andy Murray in Saturday’s semifinal. Kei had a win-loss record of only a win and seven losses against Andy. I believe Kei will win this time and will go to the final. He was born in my city, so we are waiting for Kei to bring an Olympic medal to our city. 
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Friday, August 12, 2016

The First Medal for Japan

Jun Mizutani won the first bronze medal for Japan at Rio de Janeiro Olympic table tennis men's single against Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus. Japanese table tennis lovers longed an Olympic medal since 1988 when table tennis was introduced in Olympics. I was really glad Mizutani's success. 
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Uchimura Wins All-Around

Kohei Uchimura won his second Olympic men’s gymnastics individual all-around title by only 0.099 points to Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev. He's never lost all-around at world championships and Olympics since 2009. 
Uchimura looked very tired and damaged after finished the high bar. He is two times Olympic and six time world championships champion. That's amazing. He is the best gymnast for sure. 
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Ai-chan

Ai Fukuhara couldn't go into the final of Rio 2016 table tennis taurnament. She fight against London gold medalist Li Xiaoxia and lost the game. She will play the next match for the bronze medal. 
She has lead Japanese table tennis players for the long time. I hope she get the third place.  
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Japan Gets a Gold

Japan men’s Olympic team won all-around gymnastic gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. I couldn't watch their performances on time, but I had the news on a tweet. Later, I watched Japan's performances on TV and they were perfect! I was really moved by these performances. 
I think they were under a lot of pressure because they couldn't get gold medal both Beijing and London. The last was floor exercise. The first player was Kenzo Shirai, 19. He performed really well and the performance made Kato and Uchimura relaxed. 
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Monday, August 8, 2016

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

I'm listening to English version of "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami now. The audiobook is 26 hours long. I can enjoy it for a long time. 
I've read the novel right after it had published. It was an interesting and strange story as well as most of Murakami's novels. Once you begin to read it, you couldn't stop it, perhaps. 
If I tried to read the long story in English, I would need at least six months to finish it. But, I can enjoy it easily with audiobook. That's wonderful. 
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Sunday, August 7, 2016

Protect Japanese Territory

About 230 Chinese boats including some military equipped coast vessels sailed near Japanese-controlled water in the East China Sea. The incident occurred near the Senkaku Islands. They are administered by Japan but also claimed by China. 
Japan should protect these islands more firmly, otherwise China would land there near the future. They won't hesitate to do that. 
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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Rio 2016

Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games have started. The first Japan's game was football against Nigeria. Unfortunately, Japan lost the first game even Nigeria had transport troubles. 
I look forward to watch table tennis, gymnastics and tennis. I'm worried about Kei Nishikori's physical conditions, but he will reach some kind of medal in this Olympics.   
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Friday, August 5, 2016

Next Audiobook

I finished an audiobook "Life if Pi". It was a nice story. I could imagine the scene in the story. The last three chapter was a little bit chilly. Anyway I really recommend the novel. 
My next audiobook is a long story. It's 26-hours-long Haruki Murakami's book called "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle." I read the novel once, but I almost forgot about that. I really look forward to listening to it. 
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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Nike Withdraws from Golf Equipment

Nike said that they will stop to sell golf equipment such as clubs, balls and bags. They will continue produce apparel and foot gears. That was because their sales has been declining due to the decline in players population especially younger generations. 
The decline in participation rate of golf would be the same here in Japan. More and more golf courses have been closed. We don't watch golf taurnaments on tv so often. Even many of my friends quite to play golf. We are too busy to play golf or we have found more interesting things. 
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

A Rotten Rule of Koshien

A female high school baseball member helped team practice in Koshien field, but she was forced to go out from the ground by a official. That was becaus she was a woman. That's ridiculous. 
She has been supported the team for a long time and that was common scene for her teammates. Why she had to be out of Koshien field? That was a nonsensical rule. It should be changed immediately. 
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Taking Water

It's been hot. I have to work outside at a fish market in the morning. While fish auctions, I have to bit among other auctioneers. The crowd create deadly heat, so I'm sweating every morning. 
To prevent heat stroke, I take lots of tea and water at least three liter a day. I don't know when this heat will end, but l'm really looking forward to autumn. Really. 
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Monday, August 1, 2016

Security in Rio

Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games will start soon, but there are lots of security problems there. Due to the worsening of economic conditions in Brazil, street crimes happen so frequently. And terrorist attacks are concernd, but Brazilian authorities are not familia with handling terrorist attacks. 
Only I can do for Olympic athletes is play for them. I hope I can watch their performances in good conditions. 
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