Recently, it is getting colder and colder. Old Man Winter is coming. Almost of houses in Japan are wooden things, which are suitable for summer season. It is quite natural that they should have no embedded systems fireplaces or central heating systems.   
Most popular heating devices here are kerosine stoves and [...]

 The article in Science Magazine-Digital Edition announced that the body of wild sheep in Scotland getting smaller and smaller every year. It is called as Soay sheep, which lives in the isolated island where belongs to Saint Kilda islands. The reason is that the period of winter is shorter and [...]

 Indeed we have been able to find the system of mail-order sale from a long time ago in Japan, but we have never seen that regarding vegetables and so on. There are some reasons we are considering. One is that it needed so much time to convey them to the [...]

 There are many “One Coin Shops” in Japan. There are some things in San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. Therefore, you may recognize them.
We can purchase various goods by Japanese Yen 100 there. It is almost equal to US$ 1. What kinds of goods can you purchase by US$ 1 [...]

 In ordinary case, we have begun to learn English from junior high schools in Japan. It means that a person who graduated from a university has learned it for 10 years, i.e. 3 years at a junior high school, 3 years at a high school and 4 years at a [...]

 When the movie Titanic was screened, the sunken ship joke became popular. I would like to introduce it. It is how the captain of the sinking ship makes passenger dive in the sea.
 He advises against American people that they can be heroes if they dive in the sea, against British [...]

 There is the Rank of Aoyama at the side of Aoyama Cemetery, total area 273000㎡, in Tokyo. Although only decedents sleep in tombs, taxi drivers are sleeping there. We can find there are around 60 taxies every day. Most of they stop there to take a nap in cars.
 According to [...]

- Electric Train in Tokyo and District -
 Most business men in Japan usually use electric trains and buses to commute to work. The network of electric trains in an urban area is advanced very much. For example, the number of online tracks into Tokyo, i.e. Shinkansen bullet train, JR, private [...]

 Japanese cars and electrical appliances have good reputations of trouble free in the world market. The reason is that most Japanese companies have very severe quality control system against their products.
 Even if the number of defective products found was only one within 100 products, they are to stop to shipment [...]

 One time, two Asian people dropped into a Japanese style bar, when I was drinking there. It was full, so they shared my table. It seemed that they already drunk somewhere, because an older man wigged out. We began to talk each other naturally. According to it, I found they [...]