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Our ordinary life

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Since we had a child about one year ago, we didn't watch TV due to my wife's principle. At first, I was against her, but some month had passed and we didn't feel unconvenient because I can catch the news from newspapers and FM radio we heard at morning time and furthermore recently internet is a part of our life so we can get many informations. And from experiencing the life without TV, I know that I wasted many time watching TV. And night time, we limited the room lights and opened the windows and heard the sound of trees and leaves touching each other and there are no sound without them so we feel living in the country side. And I can relaxly hearing music, playing with kid, reading books at home. I like that kind of style very much. Below was the picture of "bon odori", the traditional gathering at summer nights, dancing with traditional japanese songs. He liked bon-odori very much !

Swine influenza in Osaka

Two weeks has passed since swine influenza was discovered in Kansai-region (Kobe city). Osaka pref. and Hyougo pref. was designated as infected areas. And many workers included me was restrected to go out to another inafected prefectures so many co-workers had to cancel their schedules (ex. Tokyo, Kyusyu-area).In my company,we must wear musk (without saying that we must wear musk)and it was difficult to speak due to musk.(but this instraction was released 2 days before.) My wife canceled all schedules for our son to go to public area like children's meeting organized by hirakata-city. Also we bought many emergency foods for two weeks(because Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare recomended to prepare two-weeks-foods).And now, many people didn't wear musk even in the commuter-train. It feel terrible if it was bird influenza. If so, maybe I took holiday and didn't take train and the function of city might not work. Even for children, this might be terrible situation, s

From IKEA Osaka

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Cristmas Rose

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At last, christmas rose came into flower ! From my memo , we bought them 2 years before and didn't come into flower. This day was hot, so we walked around my house. There is two parks near my house and both is located at the top of small hill and both are small parks but I like both. Below is "kouri no mori park" Below is second park "souzou no mori park" ( #map ). And inside this park, there are japanese apricots so this is best season to celebrate the blossoms. This park is unique because there are ancient tomb in this park. (over there, there are glasses and under there, there are two small tombs existed). This tomb is named "中振丸山古墳(nakaburi maruyama tomb)" aged 5-6 A.D. and clay images and wooden coffin are discoverd. Clay images are also discoverd in the "kouri no mori park".

New Year's Trip

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In this new year vacation, we went back to my hometown Shizuoka-city. ( Maps ) For our baby, This is his first long trip by car, because we departed at midnight 2 o'clock, 31. Dec for cost saving ( we could save superhighway's fee by 50% off if we used it between 0-4 o'clock ) and arrived at shizuoka about 8 o'clock AM. It is about 370 km drive. Before going directly back to my parent's home, we drop to my grandfather and grandmother's grave (above pictures ), because my wife wanted to express her thanks to have our children. (she said we had a child after visiting my grandfather & grandmother's grave). ( in our car at morning ) So we arrived my parent's house about 10 o'clock AM. My parents met him once when he was born after 1 week, so my parents was so pleased with him. At lunch time, we went to " shoan " neay parent's home which my wife liked very much, because she liked "kakiage-don"( rice served in a bowl with fried

Cafe komeda

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Here is Komeda's coffee. It is very popular cafe shop around nagoya-pref. and this is Komeda's first shop at kansai region and was opend recently so we went there. #Map

Habikino-city

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After goint to habikino-city, we drop to Suiko-tennou-ryou (推古天皇陵, MAP ). I was surprised when I saw some kind of shrine and found the name of Suiko, because Empress Suiko was famous name on textbook of history at junior highschool. Around there, it is countryside and very quiet. After goint to the pavement, we can see the entrance of tomb. Acording to the information of sightseeing in Taishi town, Empress Suiko was the first empress of Japan and celebrate the culture of Asuka (6, 7 century). Around there, we can see many cultural monument of Asuka-period. After that, we went to cafe of パティシェFLOUR ( MAP ). It tastes good !

Late Marriage Anniversary

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At Nov. 2, we ate lunch at french restaurant  near my home for marriage anniversary (a little late due to my baby). We left our baby to our parent and went to the restaurant (but took one minute from our parent's home to the restaurant and also about 3 minutes from our home to our parent's home ! ) Good bye our baby for about two hours ! Before lunch. an hors d’oeuvre Main dishes dessert Bought cakes for wife's parents (thanks for baby-sitter ) and us In front of the restaurant.

Recently popular books in Japan.

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Recently, there are many how-to books or business books published, like how to stock and use informations (using internet services or notebook, etc) or the knowhow-books of memorize something. For example, we can see many books like, Kazuyo katuma , leverage thinking by Naoyuki Honma , Stydy Hacks by Ryusuke koyama , use one notebook for memo by Nobuyuki Okuno , method of memorizing by student of The University of Tokyo by Wakiko Tokuda , etc. Of course, such books had been existed before, but recently I think the number of such books are increasing. Maybe there are some reasons exist. One reason is the development of internet access (plus gear) and internet services, so we can easily get and utilize informations using Information Technology. We can easily get and send informations anywhere anytime by using mobile phone or wireless access by Note-PC in a cheap charge. And with such circumstances, the amount of informations are also increasing because many people publish informat

Beautiful moon

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Today, moon is very beautiful in the clouds, so I took pictures. If I fly up from earth, far away from earth and moon, I can see earth and moon close to each other in black space. A little dark setting up. Adjust sensitivity ( we can also see our home. )