The third month has just started. March is called san gatsu (三月) or yayoi (弥生) in Japanese. Our fiscal and academic year start in April and end in March, therefore this is the end of the year. For companies it is the main accounting period. For schools it is the time of graduation.
Regarding the third there is a good news from Czech Republic again. Japanese Men's Ski Jumping team got the third place, bronze medal (銅メダル：do medaru) at the 48th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec. HS is 134 meter and K-Point is 120 meter. There are four skiers in a team, and they jump twice. After the first round the Japanese team got 475.8 points and was the 4th. After all they got 981.2 points and became the third place. This is the two consecutive third place since Sapporo 2007. The members are Shohei Tochimoto (栃本翔平), Takanobu Okabe (岡部孝信), Daiki Ito (伊藤大貴), Noriaki Kasai (葛西紀明). Okabe jumped 135 meter in the second jump.
First place, gold medal (金メダル：kin medaru) is Austria getting 1034.3 points. They won three consecutive championships. Second place, silver medal (銀メダル：gin medaru) is Norway getting 1000.8 points.
Congratulations!
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