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Saturday, February 7, 2009

北方領土の日(hoppo ryodo no hi): Northern Territories Day

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On Feb. 7, 1855 the Treaty of Commerce, Navigation and Delimitation was made between Japan and Russia and the border was established between...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Inauguration: 大統領就任式(daitoryo shunin shiki)

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The inauguration of the 44th president of the United States of America was held on Tuesday Jan. 20 in Washington DC, following the Martin Lu...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

阪神・淡路大震災(hanshin awaji dai shinsai): The Great Hanshin Earthquake

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It's been 14 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake happened. It occurred on Tuesday January 17, 1995 at 5:46:52 AM in the southern p...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Physical checkup 健康診断 (kenko shindan)

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The worst three causes of death of Japanese people are said to be cancer, heart disease, and stroke. However these days the metabolic syndro...
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Kimiko Kitani was born in Yokosuka, and lives in Miura. After graduating from college, she worked as a teacher of English at a junior high school for 6 years and went back to a graduate school. She enjoyed working at Expo '92 in Seville, Spain for 7 months and traveled around Europe for 5 months. After Master's course, she majored in Education at a Doctral course. In 1996 she was an exchange student at Washington State University. She circumnavigated by the 44th Peace Boat Cruise from December 25, 2003 to March 31, 2004. She worked at the Andes Amazon Pavilion of the Expo 2005 in Aichi. From 2006 to 2008 she was dispatched to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida as a JOI (Japan Outreach Initiative) Coordinator. She published her Florida experiences as "Florida Report 2006-2008" in Japanese in 2012. She has started writing the blog to introduced Japan and Japanese culture since December 31, 2008. Her life work is to be a bridge between Japan and other countries. Her hobbies are traveling, taking pictures, and watching movies.
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