I found an intriguing article today on the Asahi website. The title of the article is : 中高年の骨折は「西高東低」 原因は不明、納豆が関係か. 骨折・こっせつ fracture of a bone The title says that concerning bone fractures of middle-aged and elderly persons, it is "high in the West and low in the East". Even if the reason for this difference is..
Japanese news: カズオ・イシグロ received the ノーベル文学賞
For today's news article, I have selected a short and easy one. I still don't feel confident in reading long articles or articles about politics, I fear they might be discouraging... Anyway, there is a subject that interests me this week: the British writer Kazuo Ishiguro カズオ・イシグロ receiving the Nobel Prize ノーベル文学賞. Link to the..
Japanese News: France not going to Pyeongchang?
I was very surprised when opening Asahi website this morning to see an article stating that France may not attend the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang if the relationship with North Korea gets worse. Let's analyse Asahi's article Link to the article The title is not difficult to understand: フランス、平昌五輪不参加の可能性も 北朝鮮情勢を懸念 The word underlined is..
Japanese News: People’s reaction after North Korea launched another missile over Japan
Today, I study an article concerning how Japanese reacted when they learned that North Korea launched a new missile over Japan.
Japanese news: comfort women statues on Seoul buses
Today, I decided to study this news article about the comfort women issue between Korea and Japan.
NHK radio journal’s “シリーズ戦争を考える”: War orphan ～ 小倉勇さん
This week, the NHK radio journal has started a series to commemorate the end of the war. I listened to the first episode and, as usual, was totally unable to follow what was being said. I understood enough to know that a man in his 80's (whose name is M. Ogura) was talking about his..
An 110-year-old carousel pig
An article about an old German carousel in Japan
ネイマール’s transfer in Japanese news
A short article about Neymar’s transfer to PSG in Asahi.
The Korean film Battleship Island in the Japanese news
How the Korean film Battleship Island is presented in the Japanese news. Notes on an article published on the site NHK News Web on July 26th.