2012-10-29 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-15 Aki@英語ニュース 政治 石原都知事が保守新党結成のため辞任【Tokyo Governor Ishihara quits to form conservative party】 Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara caught the nation by surprise on Thursday, when he announced that he would resign the post to form a new conservative party with like-minded people for the next general elections.
2012-10-26 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-16 Aki@英語ニュース 復習シリーズ 今週の復習276【Weekly Review 276】 復習の穴埋めテストをやってみましょう。 1. Shukan Asahi magazine suspends series on Mayor Hashimoto 2. Okinawa assembly protests US rape 3. Wrestling champion Yoshida to receive People’s Honor Award
2012-10-24 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-14 Aki@英語ニュース スポーツ レスリングの覇者、吉田選手に国民栄誉賞【Wrestling champion Yoshida to receive People’s Honor Award】 The Japanese government decided on Tuesday to bestow the People’s Honor Award on triple Olympic champion wrestler Saori Yoshida for her record-setting achievement of winning 13 straight world titles.
2012-10-23 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-14 Aki@英語ニュース 政治 沖縄議会が米兵暴行に抗議【Okinawa assembly protests US rape】 The Okinawa prefectural assembly unanimously adopted a protest resolution on Monday against the US and Japanese governments over last week’s assault on a Japanese woman by two US Navy servicemen.
2012-10-22 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-14 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 週刊朝日が橋下市長についての連載を停止【Shukan Asahi magazine suspends series on Mayor Hashimoto】 The Shukan Asahi weekly magazine said on Friday that it will suspend a series of stories on Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto following a backlash over the first article detailing his background.
2012-10-18 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-16 Aki@英語ニュース 復習シリーズ 今週の復習275【Weekly Review 275】 復習の穴埋めテストをやってみましょう。 1. Skydiver completes supersonic free fall 2. Softbank to buy 70 % of US mobile carrier Sprint 3. Japan fury over French TV host’s Fukushima joke
2012-10-17 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-16 Aki@英語ニュース 芸能 仏テレビ司会者の福島原発ジョークに日本が憤慨【Japan fury over French TV host’s Fukushima joke】 A French television host has stoked anger in Japan after he showed a composite picture of national team goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima with four arms and dubbed it the “Fukushima effect.”
2012-10-16 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-14 Aki@英語ニュース ビジネス ソフトバンクが米国携帯スプリントの株７割を買収へ【Softbank to buy 70 % of US mobile carrier Sprint】 Softbank’s founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son announced on Monday it will acquire about 70 percent of Sprint Nextel Corp, the third-largest U.S. mobile phone company, for $20.1 billion.
2012-10-15 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-14 Aki@英語ニュース スポーツ スカイダイバーが超高速の降下を完了【Skydiver completes supersonic free fall】 A 43-year-old Austrian skydiver on Sunday successfully jumped from a record-breaking height of 39,000 meters above the New Mexico desert in a supersonic free fall.
2012-10-11 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-16 Aki@英語ニュース 復習シリーズ 今週の復習274【Weekly Review 274】 復習の穴埋めテストをやってみましょう。 1. Man released after online murder threat 2. Yamanaka, Gurdon win Nobel Prize for stem cell work 3. 350 million people suffer from depression worldwide
2012-10-10 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-14 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 世界中で3億5000万人がうつ病に【350 million people suffer from depression worldwide】 The World Health Organization reported ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10 that over 350 million people, about five percent of the global population, suffer from depression worldwide.
2012-10-09 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-14 Aki@英語ニュース 科学技術 山中教授とガードン教授が幹細胞研究でノーベル賞【Yamanaka, Gurdon win Nobel Prize for stem cell work】 Osaka prosecutors released a 42-year-old man in September who was indicted for posting a mass murder threat on a website after they found that a third party could have remotely controlled his computer.