Japan to subsidize energy-efficient plants

According to the article “Japan to subsidize energy-efficient plants” (August 19, 2010) by Leika Kihara, published on www.reuters.com. Japan’s government plans to support the domestic plants to produce clean energy and economical goods such as Lithium battery cells for electric vehicles. Another purpose of this subsidize is to straighten out the dead line of subsidy cripple at householder to acquire the energy-efficient consumer.

It will also broaden a housing loan program, which was planned to be end by this year. This will be lead to the decrease in fixed rate loans on energy efficient and quake resistant homes for the next 35 years.

In my opinion, it is very courageous for Japan to start dealing with the global warming issues seriously. Many countries are happier seeing their economic growth high while pollution is getting worse. Japan has always been the first to tackle the issue and now seeing opportunity in the crisis it has made green energy its top priority products.

N Korea calls for Japanese apology, reparations for colonial rule

North Korea has blamed Tokyo for being unjust by offering only South Korea for its annexation of the Korean Peninsula a century ago. North Korea though has no diplomatic relations with Japan for a long time, mainly over the incidents that has happened late 1970s and early 1980s as part of North Korea’s espionage.

North Korea has expressed anger on the Japanese for the act that happened during 1910-1945 that the Japanese forced North Koreans to become labors and sex slaves while occupying the peninsula. Japan “should make immediate apology and reparation for the hideous crimes committed against the Korean people,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.

It has pressured Japan to “immediately roll back its hostile policy” towards North Korea. The statement by North Korea came about a week after Naoto Kan, Japanese prime minster, has apologized for the damages suffered by his country from the occupation and North Korea had expressed “deep remorse.” The statement by North Korea stated that Japan should repent and apologize to “all victims for the past without any precondition and discrimination.”

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Gov't to set up special team for job creation for young people

Japan has suffered from a terrible unemployment situation and Naoto Kan, the prime
minister of Japan, has created a special team to support a new plan of creating jobs for young people, including university graduates. The team leader will be the Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Manabu Terata who has served Naoto Kan as an aide.
This remark was made after Naoto Kan has visited employment related facilities in Kyoto in an effort to stabilize the employment situation among the young people. This team of specialist will put together from a short -term to long-term employment support plans, as “new graduates are facing difficulties in finding employment opportunities”, a government official said last Saturday.

Naoto Kan also said he will work hard to accelerate the economic stimulus measures from next work onward. ‘‘I will put together various opinions from the beginning of next week and I want to move on to a stage to compile economic measures,’’ Kan said.
The recent appreciation of the Yen because of rapid economic growth has affected Japan’s economy and Naoto Kan will start a new round of emergency steps to address these issues.

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Honda's U.S. output profit

Honda Motor Co, the first Japanese company that produce car in U.S, said the company’s success in moving production is the guard profit from the yen against the dollar. In July the percentage of the company profit in US, Canada, and Mexico was steadily increased from 82 to 89 percent. On the other hand, Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co just made 68 percent of vehicle sold in US.

"Honda's high rate of local production in the U.S. is a clear advantage," Yoshihiro Okumura at Chiba-Gin Asset Management Co. in Tokyo said. "They will benefit even more in the U.S., this sentence provided a lot of pressure to other vehicle company.

In my opinion, Honda Company is very successful at this time because of US citizen give a good feedback about the Honda vehicle. Moreover, at present the price of yen money was sharply increased 4.4 percent against the world's 16 major currencies this year .Therefore, I think Honda will produce the new product in this year to earn high profit.




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Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project Begins

Toyota city and private –19sector has start the project name Toyota City Low-Carbon Society Verification Promotion Council, which has Kohei Suzuki as a parent organization and promote the new project of Toyota City. Moreover, the council of Toyota will coordinate by 4 groups which are Toyota City, Toyota Motor Corporation, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., and Dream Incubator Inc.

Kohei Suzuki said, this project is really focused on decreasing of the Co2 energy and aim to optimize energy that use in daily life. This project makes Toyota company earn a lot of benefit and there are many people support them to continue with this project.


In my opinion, Supported by people around the world, Toyota Motor Corporation has a great effort since it’s established in 1937 to serve society by creating great products. Now, the Company manufactures vehicles and parts at 53 production sites in 27 countries and regions around the globe and is an active member in the communities it serves.



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100% of Honda civic in Japan is going to be “Hybrid”

In Japan Honda Civic is one of the most popular car models, thus their plan is to change from the normal civic to hybrid civic. Honda will only manufacture hybrid civic starting in 2011. Moreover, Honda had planned to build a smaller car and vehicle using the clean diesel technology.

By 2013, Honda says that they will have as many as hybrid models in its domestic and international market. Not only the hybrid civic but also the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle will be introduced in the same year.

Hybrid technology appears to be one of most intriguing innovation for Honda. They start to phase out the older technologies and focus on hybrid engine. Honda hopes that an increased manufacturing of car batteries will allow their scale. If all goes well, hybrid civic would cost the same or even less than those that use the older technology.

In my opinion, global warming is one of the most danger problems we encountered. It causes many disasters, such as the higher in temperature, flooding and earthquake. Carbon dioxide is one of the factors causing the global warming. Carbon dioxide mostly produced by the vehicle, changing all of the car into hybrid engine would cause the reduction in carbon dioxide. It would reduce the carbon dioxide produced by vehicles; therefore using hybrid car would be one of the choices to save our world.




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IPad winning over elderlyMaker sees lucrative potential in largely untapped market

IPad is a good technology for senior citizens because it can help them know about our world news and the information that they never know before. Furthermore, there are a lot of elderly people give a good comment for IPad.

Hikosaburo Yasuda, 95year olds, said "he plans to buy Apple IPad just because the juvenile has it. “It important to try new things if not you will get left behind”, Yasuda said. Moreover, another reason that makes him want to buy IPad is he never had a chance to read. IPad is a good tool for the senior citizens that try to use computer."

Motoo Kitamura, 78, a former salesman, said "the IPad helps him communicate with his 2-year-old grandson, who turns it on himself to play games. Kitamura uses it to follow the Hanshin Tigers baseball team and show vacation pictures.
Now, there are many customers bought 3.72 million IPads that sell for $565 in Japan and this year’s Apple Company approximately earn 12.9 million this year. It is the biggest benefit in this year".

In my opinion, at present there are many senior citizen try to learn new thing from new technology and in the future the percentages of elderly IPad user will increase sharply during 2011-2012 .




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Apple Japan modifies website content on iPod nano accidents

Apple Company in Japan has changed their websites to improve the IPod Nano program easier to research information on accident during the recharging because there are many people complaint about this problem. Moreover, some user also complaint that finding the IPod Nano program is very difficult on Japanese websites. Therefore, Apple is trying to fix this problem as soon as possible because Japan is the biggest regular customer.

IPod Nano was the fourth generation of music players that produced by Apple, which mix up between IPod shuffle and IPod first generation. Launched in USA on 7 September 2007, it came for replace IPod Mini which have low function. Furthermore, the special ability that made IPod Nano became the most popular during that time was flash memory and the color screen. There were six previous colors (silver, black, mint, turquoise, and berry red and rose pink) were replaced by silver, black, purple, light blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and pink.

In my opinion, Apple Japan will lose high profit from this product because they must decrease the price for the customers. Moreover, now there are new product come out name” IPhone 4G” which will make IPod Nano get low price.



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Miki Nakatani once again plays loser in love

Miki Nakatani the, 34, will go back to plays on the movie name “Hankyu Densha”. In this movie, she must act to be an unfortunate woman which is losing her love. This film will set to open on next summer. Nakatani has played a similar character in the movie name” Kiraware Matsuko no Issho” in 2006.Therefore, she will not be under great pressure. Moreover, Nakatani was born in Tokyo, Japan and she began her job as a member of a singing girl group.

In 1993 she began to appearing in TV, drama and commercials and then in 1995 made her film debut in toei’s Daishitsuren which was the most popular film in that period. Furthermore, in 2000 she released her first single name, "Mind Circus", on For Life Records.

In my opinion, Miki Nakatani was the most famous actor during 1993 to 2003 and she has a lot of experience to be a great actor. However, at present there are many young actors who try to replace the old actor in the film. Therefore, it makes the high competition between old stars and new stars which made Nakatani lost from the film long period of time. Moreover, now there is increasing of young actors in Japan so this can made an old star lost from the film forever.

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Toyota Recalling 11,500 Lexus Vehicles

Japanese car maker Toyota will recollect 11,500 Lexus Vehicles in Japan and other countries markets after many people complaint about steering system in some Lexus company. This problem will really affect Lexus company‘s about 4,500 units will be recall in Japan and 7,000 in other countries.

Toyota says, this latest Lexus recall was not response to 12 consumer complaints but there have been no reports of accidents or injuries. Furthermore, it makes the LS460, LS600h, andLS460L price dropped sharply.

In my opinion, The Lexus Company must find the ways for fix this problem as soon as possible because it really affects the benefit of Lexus. Moreover, there are 12 customers complaint in Japan. Therefore, this also can affect the company name. This is the biggest problem that Lexus Company get in this year.

Shinkansen service resumes 10 hours after maintenance train derails

Shinkasen bullet train in Osaka, the western city of Japan, were restored 10 hours after crash with other train, affecting about 60,000 people including foreigner traveler. This is the biggest news in Japan today.

The service between Osaka and Himeji stations resume at 2:30 pm. After the first shinkasen had been fixed. Therefore, it made some shinkasen station resumed again. However, a total of 85 trains on the Osaka line and Tokaido line, the line that connects Tokyo with Osaka, still cannot restore, and this is the main line for Osaka.


Tatsuya Mano, a JR west official in charge of shinkansen administration came out for apologized by saying,” We are very sorry that we have caused a situation in which the train did not run from the morning at a time when many people are traveling during the summer holidays.’‘

In my opinion, there are many people that got affect from this situation. This situation is not what people would ask for, I know that no one would ever wanted this to happen. However, Government is trying so hard to fix this problem as soon as possible. People can make sure that everything will back to normal soon. I'm hoping that Japan's railway service will provide more of security system to prevent this kind of situation because there are many people depend on them.

Some Japanese students still have motivation problem

The lost of interest in school among Japanese student interest me because I have similar problem. This problem is spreading around the world because now there are a lot of entertainments to keep them busy from school and they will skip school with friends instead of study. Moreover, the high pressures from parent also make some student feel boring about education system because they do not understand the importance of school.Violence in school is the second reason why some Japanese students lost their motivation to go to school. There are concerns that school violence in Japan, which teachers say is the reason to the failure of human relations between parents and children, as well as teachers and students.

In my opinion, Japanese student have the high responsibility about their education and the Japanese education standard is in the fifth place over the world .However, I think Japan have too much entertainment for make students not interested to education. For example game, fashion and high technology.

What is Japanese education system today???

At present the Japanese education system has improve a lot after World War II there are divide into 4 segments which are primary, junior high school, high school and university. A school year has three terms: summer, winter and spring, which are follow by a holiday period. The school year start in April and ends in March of the following year. An elementary school (from 6 years) and junior high school (3 years) 3 years of high school and 4 years of university respectively.

In my opinion, Japanese education system is very different from Thailand. For example, Japanese students have more responsibility than Thai student. We can obviously see from every subject competition between Thailand and Japan. However, it is obviously seen that Thai rules are stricter than Japanese .For example, uniform and hair style.

I choose this topic because I want to describe the information about Japanese education system for show every Thai student to put more effort about their study.

38-year-old Nishizawa recaptures OPBF super middleweight crown

The big changes of Japanese boxing make many fans shock about the result becauseYoshinori Nishizawa the oldest Japanese boxer bitt Paula Tuilau, the super middle wage crown and win Oriental-Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) champion. In the fight Nishizawa shows his fans with the powerful right punch and finished Tuilau at 2 minutes and 59 seconds in the fifth rounds out of twelve rounds. Moreover, Nishizawa improved his record to 25 wins, 12 by KO, against 14 losses and 5 draws, while Tuilau fell to 15-11-5 with 11 KOs.

In my opinion, Nishizawa must retire from boxing at the age 35 because most of the Japanese boxer, whose age over 35 will be replace from the younger boxers but not Nishizawa. At the age 35 he can break the record of many boxers. I think after he retires no one can forget his fighting style and his picture will stuck in our mind forever.

I choose the story of Nishizawa because I want to show the reader who read my site that, “You shouldn’t give up doing the thing that you love “.Moreover , Nishizawa also a good example for every people who want to follow their own dream and never easy to give up.

Japanese Stars Who Could Be On The Move This Summer

I am interested in Football. I watched many matches in Word Cup 2010. I supported Asian teams because I live in Asia Continent. There are four Asian countries that qualified into FIFA World Cup 2010. Japan shows the best performance in this World Cup. Therefore, it makes European teams start looking at Japanese players. The most impressive Japanese player is Keisuke Honda.

A lot of people are talking about his recent form with Japan. With only four matches played in World Cup, he scored two goals and one assist in creative midfield position. Keisuke Honda, who recently playing at CSKA Moscow, linked with many prestige European clubs such as Real Madrid, AC Milan, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Tottenham Hotspur.

In my opinion, He is a very talented and creative player, and he has potential to play for any European team. Hence, he will get more interested in many clubs from now on. Moreover, I think his price will sharply increase more than 20 million because now Honda shows over the world in FIFA World Cup 2010 that he is the best in Asia. In the future I think his price will continues increase until age 30.

Ryoko Yonekura to play Scarlett O'Hara in stage version of 'Gone With the Wind'

Ryoko Yonekaura, the most popular actor in Japan in this time, will play as Scarlett O’Hara, the main character in the movie, in the stage version of movie “Gone with the Wind”. The movie schedules in June next year at Imperial Theatre in Tokyo. There are many people interested about her taking a role in this movie. Moreover, producer Toho said the movie will play in the celebrating 100th anniversary day of Imperial Theater. A musical version of “Gone with the Wind” was staged once before in 2003, but next year version will be a drama with no music.

Yonekaura, who won a national beauty award in 1992, said she will be under great pressure because it is the first time for Yonekara to perform in these kinds of character.

In my opinion, Ryoko, who is 34 years old, is one of the best actresses of all times in Japan. Furthermore, she is outstanding on the stage. She is famous for her acting on Broadway musical. As I have mentioned her abilities above, she has many experienced on her actress career. For example, the movie name Love Revolution, Fushin no Toki and Warui Yatsura.Therefore, I believed she has enough potential to do well on this role.

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