In Japan, major companies are required to have their workers retire when they reach 60 years old. The companies need to retain their workers by 65 years old after 2025. (It is currently a transitional term) The Cabinet also approved bills …

Hajime Moriyasu, Head coach of Japan's national soccer squad, has been criticized due to the lineup of matches in the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Despite the fact that some of the members have not played well, he has name…

Lately, I wake up around 4am but tend to go back to sleep. About a year ago I didn't fall back to sleep and went running immediately after waking up. I assume that I have been staying up late these days, so I am not able to wake up earlier…

I told off my son when soccer practice was finished because he was too rude to his teammate who was frustrated and cried after losing a game covering his ears irritatingly. My son cried for a while. After he calmed down I asked him why he …

I listened to a podcast while running today. One of the podcast channels which I listened to is All Eears English. The channel is for ESL provided by two American women and they discuss vocabulary, grammar, expressions of American English.…

I had a meeting with colleagues in one of our group companies in India. I always have a problem with listening to them because of their strong accents. So that we discussed about their activities today which was not familiar with me, I was…

I bought a blood pressure monitor online the other day. I thought I had better start monitoring my blood pressure since I turned 40 years old this year and I have high blood pressure. The higher our blood pressure levels, the more risk we …

I have started to work out since the first of January 2022. I tried working out many times, but I couldn't stick to it. So this time I am working out with a video game called "Ring Fit Adventure". The game is a Roll-Playing Game to defeat …

I took an English online lesson on a different platform from usual last night. The toutor was a British woman. She was very friendly and communicative. We talked about many different things in 30 minutes. Since Japan and the UK have a lot …

I check my financial conditions every Saturday. I keep a record of incomes and expenses in the week and balances of asset and liability in my household as of the day. It is just under a year but my financial conditions are vidualized.SInce…

It has been two months since I started online English lesson on cambly. I have been looking for tutors who suite me and methods which improve my English level and finally I decided how to use the online lessons. Every three lessons in a we…

Indonesia's parliament passed a law to move the country's capital. The project is to solve problems in Jakarta such as overpopulation, air pollution and land subsidence. The new capital named Nusantara will be moved possibly in 2024 and it…

I went to a hospital since I was worried about my recent foamy urine. Protein was detected in my urine by a urine test.If protein is excreted in urine, kindy may not be working properly. Just in case, I had a blood test as well. The test c…

I arranged living room layout which has not been changed for about two years, because I thought I want to clean and tidy up the room by purchasing tile carpet the other day. I threw away what I don't need and put what I need in right place…

A rug of a living room in my house was slippery. And also it often gets wrinkled, so I need to fix it every day, which is really annoying me. I put a rug move stopper under the rug but it didn't work. When I looked for an alternative, I fo…

I am 42 years old according to the old Japanese method of counting years of age, which means the age of calamity for me. Fortunately I had time in this weekend, I went to Atsuta Jingu (Shrine) and had a shinto priest ward off bad luck. It …

I planed to play a game of TOEIC vocabulary test with my daughter in order to motivate her who is losing motivation for study English. The game is like this; Provide 10 vocabularies for the test in advance and perform the test after a coup…

My boss and colleagues teated me to lunch to celebrate my promotion today. I come to realize that I got promoted little by little. Now, I am a managical position which has a bigger responsiblity and influence on people around me. I should …

Japan records over 6,000 coronavirus infections. The number of the cases have been increasing rapidly after the new year of 2022 started. The pandemic has happend around this time 2 years ago. How long will this situation continue? Today, …

I made a stupid mistake. My daughter was going to pratice soccer tonight. I thought that I would ran while waiting for her, so I prepared stuff for running and went to work. After finishing my work, I took my daughter to soccer ground. Whe…

Today is the first day of a trainig of my kid's soccer team in this year. Every year parents of six grade kids provide "Oshiruko" in the day. This time, I have 6-grade daughter, so I helped out with this activity. However, other parents ha…

I have been feeling something in my left eye for about a week now. I don't know why it happened. There has been no pain, so I have left it as is until today. However, it hasn't gotten better, I went to an eye clinic near my house after eat…

来年から中学に進学する娘が部活をどうするか悩んでいる。 小４から続けているサッカーをやりたいらしい。部活は男女共同（最近、体力差が出てきた）、クラブチームは隣町にあって、毎日送り迎えができないかもしれない。 父親として、どんなアドバイスをす…

It was so tired last week because of my side effects of the vaccination and chores for my daughter's soccer school that I couldn't do anything that I want to do.Fortunately I had a half day off, so that I figured out what to do for learini…

It has been a week since I received the second dose of the corona vaccine. I had few side effects for a few days after the vaccination, but I have been suffering from malaise, fatigue, chills, bloating, urticaria, and other side effects th…

I finally got second does of Pfizer vaccine together with my wife yesteday. I have been feeling some sore on my arm where I got injected but no tiredness and fever so far.I hope that there will be no side effect to both of us.Currently cor…

Theme of this summer holidays is to re-start learning English.During summer holidays, I have been working on English grammer and vocabulary. What I did yesterday are comparision for grammer which has 10 rules in my textbook and 16 sentence…

"Doctors saves lives and lawyers are nothing but power hungry bottom feeders"This is the quate from one of my favarite American drama "Suits".This is a scene where Jessica Pearson who is a managing partner of Pearson Spector Litt conveyed …

In my city, it is famous for grapes in summer. They are about the same size as muscats and the color is purple.It tasts sweet and juicy. I love them.My kids also like to eat them.They put one of them into their mouths as it is and squeeze …

It was around 40 degree Celsius yesterday.As I remember correctly, the average temperature in summer was around 30 degree Celsius when I was a child. Of course, it was hot but not as hot as it is now.According to the morning news today, th…