- 2/26/2024 – Health department of Japan said the numbers of people about 34,000,000 infected, about 22,000,000 recovered, about 74,000 dead with COVID 19 cases ……. [ ***- Questions & Helps : Hotlines: Please Call -> Tel: 50-3816-2787(Japan) +81-50-3816-2787(Overseas) or -> Tel: 570-550-571 -*** ]
- 2/26/2024 – Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player, will make his Los Angeles Dodgers spring training debut Tuesday against the Chicago White Sox
- 2/1/2024 – Fujitsu is under scrutiny for a faulty software system in U.K.’s Post Office, which has generated false information that led to financial crimes.
- 1/20/2024 – Japan succeeds in landing on the moon. SLIM [for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon] has been talking to the Earth station
- 1/1/2024 – a MJMA7.6 (Mw7.5) earthquake struck 7 km (4.3 mi) north-northwest of Suzu, Noto, Ishikawa, Japan. It caused tsunami caused extensive damage in Wajima, Suzu and Anamizu. All fatalities and injuries, and missing individuals, making it one of the deadliest earthquake
- 1/1/2024 – The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) named the a MJMA7.6 earthquake of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake (令和6年能登半島地震/Reiwa 6-nen Noto-hantō Jishin) is one of the first major tsunami warning since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, with a height of tsunami of 5.1 m (17 ft) along the Sea of Japan coast.
- 12/6/2021 – Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo Entertainment System creator, passed away
- 10/27/2021 – Princess Mako marries commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro
- 8/18/2021 – Very heavy rain is dropping in Kyushu and Shikoku area of Japan
- 8/8/2021 – Olympics Japan 2020 Result: Gold 27, Sliver 14, Bronze 17
- 7/18/2021 – Yokozuna Hakuho wins 45th title in Grand Sumo Tournament.
- 7/4/2021 – People missing and dead with mudslide of Atami, Shizuoka, Japan
- 7/2/2021 – Ohtani Shohei, baseball player, has been named the American Major League Player
- 4/12/2021 – First Japanese Golfer, Hideki Matsuyama, wins golf major championship
- 2/7/2021 – Shunhei Fuchiyama, ballot dancer, won the 5th award at Prix de Lausanne
- 2/1/2024 – Fujitsu is under scrutiny for a faulty software system in U.K.’s Post Office, which has generated false information that led to financial crimes.
- 11/2/2020 – Mt. climbers, Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima, won the award of Piolet D’Or for a Rakaposhi mountain
- 10/6/2020 – Kenzo Takada, fashion designer, die after catching Covid-19
- 9/6/2020 – Evacuation Warnings: Typhoon Haishen unleashes massive rain and winds up to 100 miles per hour after hitting Okinawa and the southern Kyushu island of Amami Oshima, Japan
- 9/1/2020 – Osaka Naomi, No.1 women tennis star, protest in support of “Black Lives Matter”
- 8/9/2020 – City of Nagasaki marks 75th atomic bomb anniversary
- 8/6/2020 – City of Hiroshima marks 75th atomic bomb anniversary
- 7/29/2020 – Overflows of Mogami River caused by Torrential rain in Yamagata, Japan
- 5/24/2020 – Stardom Wrestler Kimura Hana killed herself because of cyber-bullying in social media(Sadly)
- 4/1/2020 – Ken Shimura, drama comedian, dies of covid-19 at age 70
- 2/18/2020 – Ariane 5 rocket from Guiana Space Center blast out into a space for carrying a Japanese telecommunications satellite into orbit
- 12/25/2019 – Mag4.8 quake hit southeast of Honshu, Japan
- 11/14/2019 – Emperor Naruhito joined with the goddess of sun, finishing the rituals of his accession to the throne.
- 10/22/2019 – Emperor Naruhito finished enthronment in his ceremony
Emperor Naruhito & Empress Masako
- 10/12/2019 – Typhoon Hagibis hit Tokyo and northern areas with heavy rain, damaged many houses without electricity and water due to extensive flooding
- 10/9/2019 – Akira Yoshino, chemist, won Nobel Prize of chemistry for the making of lithium-ion batteries
- 10/3/2019 – Hayabusa2 probe has deployed the rover to explore the surface of Ryugu asteroid.
- 9/3/2019 – Kokeshi dolls parade happened in Osaki, Miyagi, Japan
- 9/3/2019 – Residential farmland are flooded due to heavy rain in Omachi, Saga
- 7/30/2019 – Storm Nari makes landfall in Mie prefecture, Japan
- 7/12/2019 – Hayabusa2 probe landed on Asteroid Ryugu
- 6/18/2019 -Mag6.4 quake hit around Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
- 6/16/2019 – World record of millions of protestors in Hongkong fighting for Freedom and Democracy (Bravo!)
Time to Fight!
- 6/1/2019 – Mag 5.0 hit at Chiba, 48 miles of Tokyo, Japan
- 5/10/2019 – Mag 6.3 earthquake hits at coast of Miyazaki, Japan
- 4/10/2019 – Japanese scientists has made a help to capture the actual look of a black hole
- 2/21/2019 – Mag 5.5 earthquake hit Hokkaido island, Japan
- 2/12/2019 – Hiro Murai, director, won the “Grammy Award for Best Music Video as rap artists and women”
- 2/8/2019 – The Japanese movie of “Shoplifters” has received an “Oscar nomination for best foreign language film“
- 1/23/2019 – Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches 7 tech demo satellites
- 1/3/2019 – Mag 5.0 earthquake hit Kumamoto, Japan
- 12/11/2018 – Tasuku Honjo, medical scientist, received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in Stockholm for discovering of a protein on immune cells for cancer treatment
- 12/8/2018 – Ice skater, Rika Kihira, won the Grand Prix Final women’s title
- 11/26/2018 – Osaka wins bid to host 2025 World Expo
- 10/29/2018 – JAXA just launched H-IIA F40 which gets Greenhouse Gases Satellite “IBUKI-2″ and KhalifaSat
- 10/29/2018 – The mission of ESA’s and JAXA’s BepiColombo to Mercury launches on top of an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket
- 10/1/2018 – Tasuku Honjo, immunologist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the work of the immune system to attack cancer
- 9/5/2018 – Mag 6.7 earthquake hit Hokkaido, Japan
- 8/28/2018 – Momoko Sakura, “Chibi Maruko-chan” manga creator have left us of her breast cancer disease(Sadly!)
- 8/7/2018 – Japan commemorates 73rd anniversary of atomic bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
- 7/29/2018 – Students from Japan performed dancing show for Taiwanese earthquake in Taiwan
- 7/9/2018 – 2 millions has to flee, many houses destroyed, after floods across the nation – Please Help!!! ( – Donation: 1. Japan Red Cross http://www.jrc.or.jp/search/ichiran/index.html 2. Council of Welfare https://www.saigaivc.com/20180709/ 3. Idro Japan http://www.idrojapan.org/web/ 4. Not Just Mad https://www.facebook.com/ItsNotJustMud – )
- 7/7/2018 – Mag 5.9 quake hit closely from Isumi, Chiba Prefecture
- 6/29/2018 – Japan Football National Team reached round 16 of FIFA World Cup (Congratulation)
- 6/18/2018 – Mag 6.1 earthquake hit in Osaka, Japan(God bless Japan!)
- 5/17/2018 – Hideki Saijo, one of the famous J. pop iconic singers with almost singing half century long, has passed away(Sadly!)
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- 4/8/2018 – Mag 5.9 earthquake hit in Shimane, Honshu, Japan
- 3/7/2018 -Shinmoedake Volcano erupts in southern Japan
- 3/6/2018 –Kazuhiro Tsuji, a makup artist, won best makup Oscar in ‘Darkest Hour’
- 2/25/2018 – Japan won 13 medals in total: 4 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze in PyeongChang, Korea of Winter Olympics
- 1/24/2018 – A volcanic eruption at north of Tokyo destroys a Japanese ski slope
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1/17/2018 – An Epsilon-3 rocket successfully launched a NEC observation satellite into space orbit
- 10/19/2017 – Mag. 5.8 earthquake hit about 100 miles away from Amami, Kagoshima
- 9/3/2017 – Naohisa Takato won gold medal in 60kg title of World Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary
- 9/2/2017 – Princess Mako will marry Kei Komuro but losing the royal status due to her fiance is a commoner
- 8/24/2017 -Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Group visits U. N. at Geneva
- 8/1/2017 – A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit north region of Tokyo
- 6/1/2017 – Launched the super accuracy of car and mobile navigation systems satellite into space successfully
- 5/31/2017 – Japan launched “Michibiki-2 satellite” by H-2A space rocket at Tanegashima Space Center
- 2/1/2017 – The Namco video game creater of ‘Pacman’, Masaya Nakamura, passed away on January 22
- 1/27/2017 – Ozeki Kisenosato is a first Japan-born sumo ‘yokozuna’ winner of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in 19 years.
- 11/22/2016 – 6.9 mag. earthquake (evacuation alert) hit Fukushima, Japan.
- 10/27/2016 – Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito, left us at the age of 100.
- 10/23/2016 – Mt. Aso, a volcano on Kyushu island, Japan erupted.
- 10/3/2016 – Yoshinori Ohsumi, cell biologist, won Nobel Prize in autophagy of medicine.
- 8/5 – 8/21/2016 – Japan result at Brazil Summer Olympics: Gold:12; Silver:8; Bronze:21
- 7/12/2016 – “Sukiyaki” lyricist – Rokusuke Ei has died at the age of 83.
- 6/9/2016 – Koshuke Morita, a professor scientist, discovered chemical atom 113 – “nihonium”
- 4/15/2016 – Big Earthquake in Magnitude 6.2 hit in Kumamoto, Japan.
- 4/1/2016 – The “Cherry Blossom” Festival in Hirosaki Park is held every year from the end of April to the beginning of May (Very Beautiful!)
- 2/6/2016 – A magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit Tainan, Taiwan (God bless them !)
- 2/5/2016 – Sakurajima volcano Erupts in Japan
- 2/3/2016 – JAPAN unveiled its 1st own stealth fighter plane – X2
- 11/30/2015 – Gegego no Kitaro(ゲゲゲの鬼太郎) Manga Artist – Shigeru Mizuki has passed away.
- 10/6/2015 – Takaaki Kajita has won the Nobel Prize in physics for working and showing that the subatomic(neutrinos) have mass.
- 8/24/2015 – The European Space Center is going to use the Japanese technology of the special electromagnetic waves to search the atmosphere atom of the signs of life in Ganymede (Jupiter’s moon) in 2020
- 7/13/2015 – The president of Nintendo Game System Satoru Iwata passed away at 55
- 6/26/2015 – Japanese Maglev train breaks the record of world speed with 600 km per hour
- 5/29/2015 – Volcano erupts on the southern island of Kuchinoerabujima, Japan.
- 5/3/2015 – The massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal has killed over 7,000 and injured over 14,000 people. (God bless them !!!!!!!!)
- 2/28/2015 – Yutaka Katayama, Father of Nissan (Datsun) Z series of Sport Cars passed away at 105 in Japan.
- 12/10/2014 – The physicists, Nakamura, Akasaki, and Amano, who won the Nobel Prize were awarded in physics field for creating energy-efficient blue light-emitting diodes.
- 12/3/2014 – JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have launched SMOOTHLY of “Hayabusa2” Asteroid Explorer into space from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.
- 11/22/2014 – 6.2 magnitude earthquake 16 km from Omachi, Nagano, Japan.
- 11/10/2014 – Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿) was honored to receive a “Oscar life time Achievement Award” !
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- 10/1/2014 – The Hongkongese protest marks the BIGGEST demonstration in Hong Kong since it was handed back to China by the British in 1997.
- 9/29/2014 – Mt. Ontake, Japan’s second highest volcano, erupts on 9/27 injuring many people and found 31 dead bodies…..
- 9/12/2014 – Tokyo wins bid to host 2020 Olympics (’20 年夏季オリンピック)
- 8/20 /2014 – Deadly Landslides in Hiroshima, Japan
landslides happened in a residential area near a mountain in the Hiroshima city outskirts
- 8/ 15 / 2014 – Japanese sumo legend – Taiho
A ceremony to unveil a statue of the latest Japanese sumo legend Taiho was held in his birthplace – Poronaysk, Sakhalin, Russia. This smart move achieved through a big joint effort of friendship by the Russian and Japanese people.
- 5/29/2014 – Hatsune Miku EXPO 2014 in Indonesia
Anime Expo was held in Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, Indonesia in May, 2014.
- 5/26/2014 – Two members of AKB48 were hospitalized
Being attacked at the band’s booth meet-the-fans events. Rina Kawaei, Anna Iriyama, both broke bones……caused by a man. 😦
Tidying up – In Japan, people like to simplify and organize their homes properly from little by little in different rooms. Tidying is a very good tool to clear away clutter so that can organize in way one want. Talk to yourself of what materials want to keep or discard. When one valuate the belongings to organize it, it will be transferred into the next level. Beginning with large size of materials like electronic devices, clothes, then moving on to something small like, books, toys, and other small items that is a magic power of tidying up. Keep materials that talk to the heart, and remove items that no longer give a sense of liveliness and excitement. Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, likes to visit different families for helping people organize their homes by using her KonMari Method™, which stop anyone to search at piles of stuff at home. It also motivated mindset it can inspire.
Mother – Nao Suzuhara who is a temporary elementary school teacher realizes that one of her students has been abused from her mother. Due to maternal instinct, this makes Nao Suzuhara instinctively wants to decide to be a substitute mother for taking care of the girl. Later, during a vacation, Nao and the girl experience various events along the way together. They skip town and embark on a risky journey pretending to be mother and child.
Boku no Itoshii Youkai Girlfriend/My Undead Yokai Girlfriend/僕の愛しい妖怪ガールフレンド – Inukai Tadashi is a student who has been a bullying victim but wishes to find a girlfriend in otaku college at Kyoto. Tadashi who is a game geek to search and try about one of the posts on “love spell” social media for entertainment. However, this creepy spell is actually a curse to summoning a yokai called Izzy. Izzy who has been sealed for hundred of years wants to finish up a mission to do her revenge. She tells Hachi to be responsible to cooperate with her, which can sustain herself by engaging in physical relationships. This intention makes Tadashi struggles to find out a peaceful solution to the problem.
The Sominsai festival – It is best known for its unique nude wrestling matches, was held in Japan. People shout out of “jasso, joyasa” echoed through a forest to expel of evils in Iwate Prefecture. The event draws out thousands of participants and tourists each year. The Sominsai festival is one of the strangest festivals, especially in rural area. Many people are exciting but behind the scenes are tough to be done. Sominsai festival used to take place around the seventh day of Lunar New Year. As the sun set, men in white loincloths went to the mountainous temple to against the chill of a winter breeze shouting out “jasso joyasa.” As the festival reached its peak point, people packed into the wooden temple shouting aggressively. Unfortunately, it finally came to an end after 1000 years of tradition due to demographic challenges in the region. Although it’s no longer celebrated, many participants and visitors felt sadness to understanding about the ending of festival. Even though it is tough to maintain the same method of the past, it still represents a significant part of Japanese cultural history.
Brush Up Life/ブラッシュアップライフ/Rebooting – It is a comedy, friendship, and time Leap drama. It is focusing on Kondo Asami, a mid-age single woman who lives with her parents. One day, while she works at the city hall, she finds out herself that need to start her new life. Suddenly, she wake up on a bed and find out she is in a gynecology clinic, where she meets her young parents again. The nostalgia story talks about how is the feeling of them between each person with friendships, like, class reunion or so forth. While they share their mind thought, they are expressive that is why they become close friends.
Fx Shogun – The story talks about the collision of two different ambitious men, a mysterious female samurai, and an English Sailor. The sailor called John Blackthorne shipwrecked in Japan to face a land whose unfamiliar culture educate him. Lord Toranaga is a powerful daimyo to against his local rivals. Also, Lady Mariko is a dishonorable woman who must prove her value to live. This historical fiction of Blackthorne rose to become a fine samurai under a powerful daimyō in Japan. Later, the daimyō was first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who controlled from 1603 to 1616.
Skin illusion primer UVn 3 colors/スキンイリュージョンプライマーＵＶｎ全3色 – This SFP50+ primer can scatter the light better to change the impression of your color skin. It also offer green, pink, lavender color that can change the skin appearance. After carefully apply the primer, it overs and fits finer details of the skin pores to make face looks bright and smooth in any direction one can see and leaving a beautiful finish that can last. In addition, it contains hyaluronic moisturizing acid that has finest particles that emits light to form and fit into uneven skin face surfaces. It allows smooth light to reach deep into every pore of that entire face skin.
Tears for you涙そうそう – When Yotaro’s mom marries a jazz musician, Yotaro has a 3-year old step-sister, Kaoru. Unfortunately, Kaoru’s father skipped town and Yota’s mom passed away. Yotaro’s mother dying wish is for him to watch out for Kaoru. As he fulfills the wish, he protects his younger sister who calls him “nee-nee.” Later Kaoru starts her school, she lives with him. Yota works hard in a restaurant to save money to fulfill his dream for Kaoru’s entrance to a university. This makes him to have lesser time for his girlfriend Keiko. After Mr. Kameoka sells him a place for a restaurant, he has been swindled with a huge loan. When Keiko’s father offers to pay Yota’s debt, Yotaro refuses it. Yota concludes himself that is not suitable for Keiko’s future. Later, he paid over the debt and Kaoru starts to study college. However, they decide to live separately with the feelings of love with Yota growing stronger days after days.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity/仁義なき戦い/Jingi Naki Tatakai – In 1946 Kure, war veteran Shozo Hirono becomes sworn brothers with Hiroshi Wakasugi. Hirono and his gang of fellow ex-soldiers join the Yamamori Family. Three years later, in 1949, Hirono gets into a fight with Toru Ueda but asks Yamamori to take Ueda into his family and perform a favor for corrupt politician Shigeto Nakahara. Sakai kidnaps one of Kanamaru’s allies, allowing Nakahara’s side to win, and goes into hiding afterwards. However, out of loyalty to Hirono, Wakasugi stops Doi from killing Yamamori and a deal is brokered: Wakasugi will become a guest member of the Yamamori Family while Kanbara takes his place in the Doi Family. Months later, Hirono is then paroled. Sakai forces Yamamori to retire, forms an investment company, and starts negotiating with the Kaito Family. Makihara then contacts Hirono to join him on the retired Yamamori’s side; however, Hirono refuses and leaving his family. He goes to see Sakai vow to kill each other. Sakai allows Hirono to leave, but is then murdered by Makihara’s hitmen. At Sakai’s funeral, which has Makihara and Yamamori in attendance, Hirono arrives, shoots and threatens Yamamori before leaving.
When the Last Sword Is Drawn/壬生義士伝/Mibu Gishi Den/Legend of the Loyal Retainers of Mibu – The story talks about Saitō Hajime Samurai who is a heartless killer, Yoshimura Kanichiro Samurai who is a money-grabbing one, and Nambu Morioka who is an emotional swordsman. It is set during the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, which is conflicting loyalty to the clan, lord, and family. These samurais will to do anything for the good of their families.
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