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OK, Sons! If You Don't Do It, I'll Do it!

I'm folding my family's clothes into neat piles after our evening meal I prepared. My wife also works and we share housework. Tod...
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May 18th 2013 21:40
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Elizabeth Gilbert on TED: Your Elusive Creative Genius

Elizabeth Gilbert on TED(URL): http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html When I clicked the video button of her tal...
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May 11th 2013 17:11
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A Long-Distance Relay Race

The day before yesterday I participated in a long-distance relay race, 25th Yokohama Ekiden. It was held at a running course near Tsurumi...
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May 01st 2013 19:15
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Another Baseball Season Has Started!

My younger son is a third grader in his elementary school and, last Saturday, he joined the local baseball team to which his brother also...
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Apr 21st 2013 10:00
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A Runner's Watch

This watch was delivered from amazon.co.jp this evening. I couldn't resist my impulse to purchase it last night. I'll participate...
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Apr 14th 2013 21:23
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An Email From My Son

About two weeks ago, my son went to New Zealand on his school trip. He stayed for seven nights at his host family's house in Oxford, ...
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Apr 06th 2013 16:19
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We Aren't Just Doing It For Living

The other day, I was net-surfing and captured by a video, in the thumbnail of which an intellectual-looking woman and a word "great ...
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Mar 22nd 2013 23:58
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A Native Almost 3rd Grader Reads Aloud His Japanese Textbook

During weekdays, I take care of my younger son's homework typically three times a week. He's in the 2nd grade of his elementary...
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Mar 16th 2013 17:52
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The Taiwan Lantern Festival 2013

I was staying in Taiwan this week. On Wednesday as usual, I went to Tainan to meet my customers. After the meetings, I got on a bullet ...
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Mar 08th 2013 21:45
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白馬八方尾根 旅館山正( Hakuba Happo-one Ryokan Yamakoshi): A Monologue of An "Old" Skier

Since 1992, I've been to the Happo-one Ski Area once a year except for twice. Around 1992, skiing was a kind of boom in Japan and m...
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Mar 02nd 2013 22:28
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A Paradise; It's Only 187 Km Drive From Tokyo

I wake up. It's 5:30 a.m. of a Thursday. I'm full time off today. I take a quick breakfast, get ready, and leave home by car fo...
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Feb 24th 2013 20:29
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Ha, Ha, They Are All Frozen Foods!

Ha, Ha, They Are All Frozen Foods! Sometime ago, my wife went to Hayama in the Miura Peninsula to attend a one-night and two-day train...
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Feb 17th 2013 16:54
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Kusatsu Onsen

Yesterday we arrived at our "ryokan"--Japanese style hotel--in Kusatsu Onsen (spa) to spend the three-day weekend. This is o...
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Feb 10th 2013 14:23
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Starbucks at Kamisato Service Area

I ordered a caramel macchiato grande. It's 8:57 p.m. on Thursday, January 31st. I'm resting at the Starbucks of Kamisato serv...
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Feb 01st 2013 01:30
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Mobile Reading with iPad Mini

I got my ultimate mobile reading tool, an iPad mini, at last. I got it for Christmas present for myself! Because it's small(134.7m...
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Jan 26th 2013 22:43
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Belated Dedicating of Talismans

My parents live in a farm-area of a country side and they have their home shrine like the one shown in Fig. 1a); Having a home shrine i...
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Jan 19th 2013 20:43
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How To Change "Shoji"

In Japan, many family do the year-end house cleaning--very major cleaning once a year. Some family change "shoji"-paper of &q...
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Jan 11th 2013 22:58
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It's Heated Up Finally To 19 °C Here

Look at photo 1. It's my watch, see the lower part, which shows it's 19 °C here. I acquired my apartment and moved into at t...
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Dec 24th 2012 20:23
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A Christmas Wish List

"Look, dad. I made this!" My son holds out his wish list for Santa Claus (photo 1). I'm surprised by the list, which is a...
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Dec 15th 2012 16:11
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The Sky Looking Like An End of The Year

I'm heading for Narita Airport by express train. Outside, the wind is pretty cold today. I look at the view from the warm train w...
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Dec 09th 2012 17:48
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