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Japan,   It's very unique but incomprehensible. For example, Manga, which is Japanese culture. But its characters has bigger eyes than typical Japanese. Actually I am not a fan of manga any more.   Maybe it because I was just too faithful for school teachers who seemed to have bad ideas about manga. What they said that manga should disturb students learning, badly influence to their growth or it could be childish.  I ended up developing the idea about manga like this,   "Only teenagers read manga." Spontaneously I put a bit negative image to manga in my mind.  Today, I visited World Cosplay Summit was held in Nagoya, Japan. "Cosplay" can be interpreted "costume play".  Wearing costumes of manga, you would become the character of your favourite manga.  As if you came out of the comic book.   However what made me surprised was that participants were not teenagers, but they were "salaryman", which is Japanese-English, employe...

This is about my book. I did book-talk in 2009 or 2010 in a small book store. Now I started thinking of the second book. But before then, I would like to show what I wrote the first book. Looking back on past 10  years, my life was like a dream. I got almost 3 million yen for my retirement for teh reason of company's business. I tralved a lot.  But I didn't waste of my time & money.... I mean, I didn't like to spend just for fun. I could learn a lot, language, life or whatever... I could meet my relative in the USA, who is exactly my motivation of studying English. I made wonderful frinends from all over the world. But problem is ... I had had no hope in this reality in Japan any more...   I had been getting to be like a dull and lazy middle aged lady ... I had spent much energy for caring about what people saw or said toward me...  like... having different views or tastes from others here. However, I accidentaly ...

都会についての物語を書きはじめたところだけれど、実は、都会をかなり勘違いしていたところがあって、ちょっと練り直しとなっている。 I started writing a story about City, but I totally misunderstood what cities are. So now I've got lost a way of writing and have to re-wirite it soon. もし、このバイリンガル・ブログを見て、日本語を勉強している人がいたとしたら、このブログは役に立っているということで・・・。 If someone who see this bilingugal blog, learn Japanese, it would be great because it helps those people. 今日作ったウエブページを見てほしい。 I would like to show my webpatge. http://www45.atpages.jp/akanespringday/index.html もし、日本語をもっと勉強したいとか、何か日本語訳してほしいというご希望があれば、どうぞよろしくお願い申し上げます。 If you would like to study Japanese more or if you would like me to translate somet kind of documents or data into Japanese, please comtact me. ということで、今日はお知らせ。明日からがんばって書いてみる。 So today, I just inform you about my new blog. And then, tomorrow, I will start writing the story again!

I think I misunderstand what Cities are. 「私、都会というもの自体を勘違いしていたかも・・・。」 What do you mean? 「え？どういうこと？」 That is, when it comes to Cities, I thought there were only skycrapers and people lived alone. On top of that, they didn't know who lived next door. In other words, the people in Cities would be cold fish because there were no communication among them. Nobody cared who lived and what people did. 「つまりね、私、都会と言えば、高層ビルが立ち並び、それで、みんな、一人暮らしをしていたり、隣にだれが住んでいるか分からないみたいな、人と人との交流のない冷たいところだと思っていた」 「え？そうじゃないの？」 Isn't that true? Nope.  Not only that. Actually, "Human Hearts" should be more sutable in Cities than in local areas. I just realised that. 「実は、そうじゃないんだ。っていうか、それだけじゃない。たとえば、『人情』って言葉はまさに都会にぴったりの響きがあるってことに気付いた」 This type of grocery store still exists in City. You could enjoy communication with people. 「まだまだ会話を楽しみながら、お買い物ができる八百屋さんもあるんだよ。」 in Koenji in Tokyo 東京・高円寺にて

また夏がやって来た。ついあの夏のことを思い出してしまう。前触れもなく襲ってきたあの怪物同様の巨大な竜巻がすべてを奪ってしまった。 That summer has come again. She couldn't help getteing back her memory about that summer. Nothing to be expected, hurricane, which was like a gigantic monster, had blown away everything form her. 彼女は、一枚の写真を残したまま、全てを失った。その写真を大事に抱えて、命からがらこの大都会へ生きる望みをかけてやって来た。新しい自分探しも含めて。 She lost all of things except for one photo. She held it with her and managed to escape such an awful place and then, reached this city.  With some hopes to live her life, she had started looking for her new life. 都会は、乱雑としていて、いわゆる人情というものに欠けているかもしれない。でも、時には、そういう方が好まれることだってある。特に、全てを失い、途方に暮れた者にとって、優しい言葉が単に「同情」にしか聞こえないことだってあるから。 City could be confution as well as lack of humanities. But sometimes, it could be better for some people. Especially, for the people who lost everything and get lost their own way, such words as "Are you all right?" or "I am worried about you." make them more anxious, or rather annoyed. So, for them, lack ...

ここには、いろんな人が買い物に来る。みんな平生を装って、野菜や果物など日常に必要な食料を選んでいるように見えるけれど、実を言うと、みんな、いろんな出来事を抱えている。 There are many kinds of people shopping in this supermarket. It seems that they look just ordinary people who have any serious problems with their lives. Shopping daily things, such as vegetables, fruits or come groceries. In fact, they have some difficulties. 都会に暮らす人たちは、もともとは田舎者。お洒落に決めて澄まし顔をしていても、実は、昔の写真を見ると、その背景に広大な田園が写っていたりする。突っ込んで話をしていくと、ついつい田舎の方言が出たりすることだってある。 The people who live in City are originally from rural area. Even though they weaf the latest fashion, the background of their photos might show massive rice fields. Talking to them with excitiment, they mgiht use their dialect without consciousness. でも、都会で過ごすうちに見事に垢が抜けていく。だけど、やっぱり、過去の事実だけは抜けないのであった。 But reality is that their looking becomes more fashionable.  At the same time, their past cannot be eliminated.

街の小さな公園・・・、ここには、背の高い木々が植わっている。この公園が作られた当初、それらの木々は、背丈が低かった。でも、長年の月日が、彼らを背高のっぽにし、暑い夏の日差しやにわか雨から人々やそこに住む鳥やりすを守ってくれる。 There is a small park in a big city, where they have lots of tall strees. The trees were short just when the park appeared.  However, many years passed, as if they had grown those trees up to have them protect people and animals from rain and beam of the sun. その小さな公園をずっと突き進んでいくと、一軒のスーパーマーケットがある。 The supermarket was just there, through the park. 十分にシンプルすぎるほどの真っ白い建物の１Fに静かに佇むスーパーマーケット。大きな窓で囲まれ、外から店内の様子がうかがえる。壁の色も真っ白で、このスーパーマーケットのキーワードは、『白』だと誰もが思うかもしれない。 The supermarket could be said "White", which is on the ground floor of the white building. It has big windows to see the inside from the outside. Its walls are also white.  So you could say the key word of the supermarket is "White". 決して、広い店内とは言えないけれど、中身は充実している。それは、彩りよく有機野菜や果物、新鮮な魚や肉、チーズやワインがきれいに並べられているから。大型のスーパーマーケットとは違い、何がどこにあるかが一目瞭然。 It is never big inside of the supermarket but everybody can b...