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.