#詩

東雲の空の白妙の輝き 肌をうつ風の温かさにいつの間にか春を感じる 昨月まで、あれほど肩を強ばらせていたというのに 大海から内陸に沿い、海と陸の境を一瞥に訪れた欄干のかもめ その眼に映るは、 黄昏の遠望にしずむ、黄身がかった白色の空の名残 再び旅…

レモン哀歌

高村光太郎の『レモン哀歌』を訳してみた。 はっきり言ってむずかしい。 You were very wanting for a lemon. On a sorrowing bed of pearly white, A lemon received from my hand, Your fairly beautiful teethes gnawed. And topaz-colored scent diffuse…

a magic word "Ryugaku"?

There will be an explanatory session of exchange program for Nichidai students planning to apply for abroad studies. I was asked to make a brief presentation for the prospective exchange students. Of course I'm very pleased to make my stat…

How does it happen?

It is admirable that professors and students speak incredibly nice English in Stockholm univ, where I had opportunity to study last year. I currently miss the education that I benefited and owned so much, especially when I see professors w…

gee, how the "mail problem" affected immigration control in Japan...

The formidable failure of Democratic Party, the "mail problem", had a big influence on immigration control system. While Democratic Party severely condemned LDP for whether there were the bribings during 2005 election, LDP submitted a set …

Old-Fashioned or a Way of Democracy as integrity of opinions?

“The Tokyo High Court on Monday rejected a defense appeal of the death sentence for Aum Shinrikyo founder Chizuo Matsumoto. The court ruled that his lawyers missed a deadline for submitting the appeals documents. The decision could seal Ma…

Periphery of Knowledge

I still remember when I was taking a course of Political Science in Stockholm University. That time I presented in the lecture of Comparative Politics. Along with political circumstances in Asia the professor mentioned a little about Tibet…

Fluidity of Mind, No Right Place to settle

As there are no blessing of sunshine during winter period in Sweden, I packing myself university library have a life of mole. Even the spring wind letting me know the arrivals of the new season, and even under the daylight of sunshine that…

Busy, Busy Days

I'm fairly busy these days. I myself need to study for preparation of possible study in abroad. I also engage in volunteering along with a thousand of errand. One volunteering job which I'm interested in is to care and teach junior-highsch…

Night Club in Japan

Yesterday night was the first time to go to night club. I and my friend whom I met last year in Stckhlm visited there where his friend is working as DJ. We had approx 3.5 litter of Beer each before going there; after only a iota of dancing…

TOEFL

TOEFL is an eval uation test which calcurates in figures if a person taking the test has an English capability enough to study in English speaking countries. There are two types of TOEFL test; one is PBT that means Paper Based Test and the…

Not Again...

Since december 2003, when mad cow deases were reported in US, Japan had barred beef imports from the United States. In the long run, Japan finally approved the imports of beef with an agreement that beer aged under 20 months and without sp…

My Resultion for 2006

After long swings and roundabouts, I came to a conclusion that I am going to proceed to a graduate education. When I was in Sweden, I said to people around and myself "I'm going to have a job in Japan." The reason for that statement was pa…

English as a Language of Abundant Information

There is not a particle of dounbt that English is full of information compared with Japanese. One can find it undeniable when he reads news on news websites or is going to amass information through the internet. For instance, there are mor…

Are you hungry or angry, China?

As everyone knows, anti-Japan demostrations are still going on in China, but please think it seriously that the demonstrations are just tighting their necks. China and Japan are largely interdependent especially in their economies, while t…

Why Japanese hesitate to use the word "sex" (Third Chapter)

Since the new virtue had been born in Japan, people blindly started to conduct under the new way of thinking while averting their eyes to meditating what was real virtue or moral. It was/is bad instinct of Japanese people which tends to be…

Why Japanese hesitate to use the word "sex" (Second Chapter)

In this chapter, I explain the recondite history which forms a present principle of sex in the definition of Japanese people, which is rooted in about 140 years ago. In 1868, just after Meiji restration, Meiji government promulgated 神仏分…

It's hard to say "goodbye".

My German friend who was nicer than anybody-else left to his home early this morning. Though he was from Germany, he was really good at making pizza more than potato dishes. It was astonishingly delicious. He was also the one who gave me w…

Why Japanese hesitate to use the word "sex" (First Chapter)

The reason why Japanese tend not to use the word "sex" is, in my opinion, because of Japanese people's instinct which tends to have invisible wall between each other. The wall is a metaphor for showing us the particular perspective of indi…

西洋人=「俺たちが世界の中心だ!」(英語ver)

※ Before explaining this issue, I dare to say it is very serious problem and not funny. ъ( ゚ー^)SUMASO I think the problem of Western countries' people is that they think as if they were in the centre of the world. I have seen immensely man…