My older son has the flu. He said he had a fever of 39.5 degree. That's awful. My wife and I suggested him to have the vaccination, but he dented that. He dislikes injection. He should have had it. He had to be absent from his job.

Ivanka Trump became an official employee. Her status is the Assistant to the President. She has been advising to his father and that has been a controversial issue of the administration. Her husband, Jared Kushner, is already became the se…

It should be warm around this time, the end of March. My wife and I will go watching cherry blossoms this weekend. I want the trees will be blooming then.

I'm trying to improve my English reading comprehension with an workbook for high school students. The book is a long seller textbook. I didn't like studying English in that way, but I changed my mind because I have too much poor reading sk…

I read an article about taking TOEFL by an English teacher. She said that you should start with reading section. Reading skill is the fundamental thing. While studying reading section with a work book, she said, you should memorize all of …

I went to Matsue Castle to guide in English. I'm a volunteer guide there. Unfortunately, I couldn't guide anyone today.

I have an online shop site. I wanted to sell some sea products on the site. I made it one year ago, but it doesn't work so far. That is because I haven't advertised it in public. I know I have to do that near the future.

My younger son left for Osaka for Japan's high school table tennis competition. The games takes place at Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium. The gym is in Minato-ward. When I was a university student, it was in Chuo-ward, near Osaka Castle.…

I helped my son's moving with my wife again. We took out garbage and clean the apartment. My son lived there only two years. He might transfers every two or three years because of his job. It would be hard.

I finished "A Little History of the World" with Audible. Sometimes, it was hard to recognize names, especially Asian names. I'll read the original text and its Japanese edition later.

I helped my son's moving. I had to carry his packages from 4th flor to the ground twelve times. I was really tired.

I enjoyed playing table tennis with my friends today. The last time I played table tennis was two months ago. I was afraid if I could play table tennis well. There ware ten people there. We were divided into two groups and started team com…

I had a party with my table tennis friends. It was like a class reunion. I dank and enjoyed it. Nite.

My wife and I applied an one-day bus trip. The trip included cherry blossom viewing with riding JR Sanko-sen train. The local line will end next year because of its endless deficit. Few residents there, but the line is popular for its beau…

My son and I went to a house agent to find my son's apartment. He is going to come back to my city becaus of his work. A staff of the agent showed us several apartments. We were searching so called 1K apartment. Finally, we found a suitabl…

I've just started to listen to "A Little History of the World" with Audible. It's an international best seller history book. The book was written in plane English. I like it.

I finished an English reference book for university entrance exam. I had a hard time to understand grammar jargons. How come they are so complicated?

Japan won over Cuba tonight! I'm not a big fan of baseball, but I couldn't resist to watch tha game. Internatiinal competition is really thrilling. Yamada didn't performed well at first, but he did a big role today. He made two home runs i…

My son is going to be transferred in the present personal changes. He is going to return to my city this time. He can live with us, but that's not possible. He has too many household Goods to live with my family. He has to find a new apart…

I'm watching WBC baseball game now. It's already 10:30 pm, but full of audiences in Tokyo Dome. It's the bottom of 8th inning. Japan leads the Netherlands with 6-5. I'm thrilled. Go, Japan!

Six years ago today, it happened. A historical massive earthquake hit the east part if Japan especially Tohoku area. The quake and tsunami took a heavy toll of lives. Nuclear plants were destroyed and it made tens of thousands of evacuees.…

I have my car inspected. The car is for my work. I had to repair the car here and there these years because it is 12 years old. In fact, the car didn't work once in the morning this year. I had to change its alternator. Alternator is an AC…

The son of assassinated Kim Jong Nam bravely posted a YouTube video and said that his father was killed. He also said he was with his mother and sister. He didn't show where he was, but he is really dangerous situation now because of the v…

Akio Jissoji was a writer and director of Ultraman series. He died in 2006 at age of 69. I liked his works especially the episode of Alien Metron. Sitting across a dining table, the alien discussed with Dan Moroboshi, Ultra Seven. It was a…

North Korea fired four missiles toward Japan. Three missiles reached Japan's EEZ zone. That North Korea's behavior was really crazy, unforgivable. Their leader Kim Jong Un should be removed from politics. He's just insane.

My son wants to buy a French road racer bike which costs about 90,000yen. It might be too expensive to buy for him because he is only a high school student. He just wants to spend that much money from his bank account, I think.

I went to an old post cards exhibition. These post cars were related my city Matsue and were printed from Meiji to Showa. Matsue. I enjoyed watching old my city there. Many post card publisher were in Matsue at the time. They made not only…

I've been busy more than I thought. I don't have enough time to read Murakami's new novel. Some people criticized his novel because he described Nanking Massacre as a historical cact. If so, you shouldn't believe it. But that's ok. It's ju…

I heard that a Japanese musician Monseiur Kamayatsu died in cancer on March 1. I'm not a big fan of him, but I liked some of his songs, like Waga yoki tomoyo or the theme song of Gyatoruzu. He looked very popular for Japanese musicians. R.…

I watched a boxing title match on TV. Japanese champion Shunsuke Yamanaka knocked out the Mexican challenger Carlos Carlson by his left hand. Yamanaka defended his title for the 12th consecutive time. He is now one win away from equaling f…