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  • Yurie Omi

    Yurie Omi

    According to Wikipedia, “Yurie Omi (born July 27, 1988) is a Japanese female announcer, television reporter, television personality, and news anchor for NHK. Omi is one of the hosts of NHK morning news show NHK News Ohayō Nippon. She is also the co-host of NHK television series Bura Tamori aired from April 2016.” I’ve been…

  • Visiting Hong Kong / 香港へ

    Visiting Hong Kong / 香港へ

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 A few weeks ago I visited Hong Kong to deposit part of my fixed amount savings, deposited in Japan’s post office and matured last month, in HSBC Hong Kong where I’ve had my bank account for 13 years, and to buy some gold which was a bit inexpensive than what you buy in Japan.…

  • Japan’s northernmost end / 日本のさいはてへ

    Japan’s northernmost end / 日本のさいはてへ

    日本文はフォートラベルに転載しました。 https://4travel.jp/travelogue/11321411 Though it was almost half a year ago, I visited Wakkanai, the northernmost end of Hokkaido. Since it was the beginning of January this year, it was extremely cold outside with plenty of snow and the streets were very slippery. Wakkanai is deeply related to Russia, since this city is just 40 kilometers…

  • Words of the year 2016 / 2016年のキーワード

    Words of the year 2016 / 2016年のキーワード

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 Although I was posting only two entries including this one in each language this year, the time seems to come to look back the year 2016. At every year-end, I make it a rule to list up the most impressive things and events I experienced or encountered each year in some keywords. Words of the past…

  • The end of globalisation / グローバル化の終わり

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 When I started my career in the late 1990s, my employer encouraged us to have a global mind to cope with Japan’s recession so-called “the lost decade”. By 2000, the words “global” and “globalisation” were used as the keywords — and sometimes buzzwords — for surviving the upcoming new millennium, followed by the dot-com…

  • Words of the year 2015 / 2015年のキーワード

    Words of the year 2015 / 2015年のキーワード

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 It’s time for me to look back this year and list up the most impressive words I experienced this year. Words of the past years are:The words of the year for 2001: getting a flat within the Tokyo metropolitan area, a position change at the office, and Soarer.The words of the year for 2002: America.The…

  • Visiting Maine / 回転木馬とロブスター

    Visiting Maine / 回転木馬とロブスター

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 I think it’s too late to write this entry, but I visited Portland and Boothbay Harbor, Maine in this September. I watched a musical play Carousel at Kokugakuin Tochigi High School performed by its musical club a few weeks before. Carousel is a musical that features a love story of a young girl and a barker in…

  • Becoming an e-Estonian / エストニアのマイナンバー

    Becoming an e-Estonian / エストニアのマイナンバー

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 Estonia, one of the Baltic countries which became independent of the Soviet Union along with Latvia and Lithuania in the early 1990s, is one of the IT-conscious countries with significant numbers of IT-related startups, including Skype. The Estonian government is doing its best to make a “digital country” by inviting IT engineers to some…

  • イギリスの貴族

    イギリスの貴族

    noteに移行しました。