The last super car 'Monster Snake' were successfully sold out

There are a lot of globally famous auto makers in Japan, such as Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki,Isuzu etc. Those companies are very big and established a great presence in the auto maker industry world wide. All of them produce millions of automobiles every year. But there is one small Japanese auto maker, which is known among the car lovers only, which is Mitsuoka Auto Mobiles. Despite the facts that all those mega automobile makers' headquaters are located in large city such as Tokyo, Nagoya or Hiroshima, Mitsuoka Automobile's headquater locates in Toyama Pref, which is, sorry to say, not famous for the manufacturing industries, but famous for fishery and farming industry, away from the noisy city circumstances. But Mituoka automobile is famous for not pursuing the number of the cars being sold, but try to survive in the very competitive auto markets by producing very unique cars. Among their original line-ups of their products, Orochi, which means 'Monster Snake', is a flagship model of the company. The final production has sold out this April, and Mitsuoka stop its production of Orochi series. Mr. Takanori Aoki, the desginer of the Orochi says that 'When I designed this model, I was told by Mr. Mitsuoka, the owner of the company, that we should not follow the design of the Ferrari. For me, Ferrari is the super hero. It is like a A-Student in high school. Meanwhile, when I looked back my high school days, I was not a A-Student at all. I even didn't have a girl friend. So, I descided to design tha car which looks super-well, way outstands from A-graded guys." Orochi was a huge success for Mitsuoka Automobile. Orochi helped the company to establish its steadfast reputation in the market.

How much would you pay for Wedding Party?

According to the survey done by Zexy, oneo f the largest Bridal informtion comapny, now Japanese couple would pay JPY 3,440,000 on average for their wedding party, which is 6% increase from previous year, .

One of outstanding recent trends of the wedding party is the increase of the percentage of the cuople that prefer to hold wedding party at restaurant house with beautiful garden from 4.3% in 2003 to 23.3 % in 2012, while wedding party in banquet room at hotel decreased 42% in 2003 to 27.0% in 2013.

Wedding market is now estimated as two trillion Yen. With the average age of marriage s getting older, now there are more couples that can afford this high expense for one party.




This is the promotion video clip from the company of the Wedding Party cordinator.

Osprey landed on Japanese SDF's vessel first time

The joint drill with U.S. Marine Corps and Japanese Self Defense Force(SDFJ) was broadcasted through major news media today, and video which shows the scene that Osprey landed on the SFDJ's vessel is widely broadcasted.

Though Osprey has been controversial in Japanfor years, it seems a lot of people, at least people show up in the internet cyber space, made a lot of positive comments on this drill.

Especially, Oprey's high capability to deliver materials with long range flight are perceived arguably first time positive this time around, after knowing that Osprey can land on the SDFJ's vessels, people could first time perceive that Osprey would be helpful for the disaster-relief services, like East Japan disaster in 2011, when all of the transportation systems on the land were completely destroyed, and many victims of the Tsunami were isolated and died due to the lack of the oils to get warms under severely cold winter cirmstances.

This opinion is getting a lot of people's understanding. And it seems that they feel comfortable if SDFJ buy this Osprey for its own. (With this news, we now knew that SDFJ is requesting the Japanese Cabinet to secure budget to buy this hellicopter.)

Although it was a bit surprise to know that SDFJ already has vessels (Hyu-ga type vessel) which enables Osprey to land on it.

Must watch TV drama on next Sunday; Yae no Sakura

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Updated: June.17 2013
Yesterday's broadcast was good, as I expected in advance.
It was the story of the battle of Shirakawa (White River) and Nihonmatsu (two pine tress).
Next Sunday's story is going to be a famous boy Samurai soldiers story, which ended up as a true tragedy of the series of the battle.

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Next Sunday, June 16th is the day 'Yae no Sakura' comes to one of its first climax for its yearly broadcast.

'Yae Sakura' is a kind of Sakura blossom which has more flower petals than Somei Yoshino, which is the kind of Sakura planted in Washington DC.

 And heroine's name is Yae, who actually lived and got married with Joe Niijima, who later found Doshisha University.

Next on-air story is for the battle of Fukushima Pref.(Aizu) and the ally of Kagoshima Pref (Satsuma) and Yamaguchi (Cho-shu), at the Fukushima castle.

It was the last and fierce battle at the end of Edo era, and can be said the last battle between authentic Samurai armed with Japanese swords, and lower class people with state-of-the-art weapons like rifles.

Actually, Yae was born and raised in the family who taught how to use rifle for generations in Aizu han. And yet Yae was a young woman back then, she actually joined the battle at the Aizu castle (Tsuruga castle.)and shot the gun against her enemies.

What good about this broadcast is the realistic scene taken with full of computer graphics.
So, it must be interesting to watch even if you do not understand Japanese language.

So, set the channel to NHK, channel one(1), at 8:00pm Sunday

Prime Minister Naoto Kan will be forced to resign by the end of August

On July 9th, Democratic Party secretary general, Katsuya Okada, said that additional budget plan will be put together under new leadership  at a Democratic Party's meeting, gathering all representatives from every  regional organisations of the party.

And this means there is no supporters within Democratic Party for Naoto Kan,

Therefore,  it is highly likely PM Naoto Kan is forced to resign by the end of August when this extended congress of this summer end.

If this is the case,  prime mister is going to resign wihtin two years again. This is going to be the 6th prime minister who resigne within two years since 2000.

I strongly believe the resignation of the Prime minister with this very short period is not good at all.

First, I think this is due to each prime minister's individual ability. But given that this is the 6 th prime minister within 12 years, I am beginning to think that this might be the problem to select our Primi Minister.

I wonder if there are any political systems that will fix the mal fuctioning Japanese political election system?  

The icecream that every Japanese Love

It is so hot these days, especially this summer.  Since the 3.11 nuclear power plant trouble, every company is forced to reduce by 15% of total consumption of electricity. So, every office set the air conditioning system to maintain 25c in office hour. Couple of dacades ago, at a time air conditioning sytem is not so familiar, everyone went to Department Store, Bank Offices, llibraries, coffee shop, etc., somewhere that had had an air cooling system to away from heat. But this year, those places are not so cool because they are also forced to reduce power consumption.

So, now icecream and beverage bottling companies are full in operation.

Here I introduce th ranking of some inexpensive icecream, that you can buy at convinience store.

No.1  Jumbo Choco Monaca
produced by: Morinaga Corp.
Price           : JPY 120  (USD$1.5)

Vanila and slice of chocolate icecream covered by Monaka. When you bite, it's crispy. 'Saku-Saku' is how we describe its crispiness. Monaka is a kind of wafer, but it's not like what you can imagine with waffles It's more thick and crsip on the surface, and soft inside,  and a little bit of sweetness included,. ... mmh, try first.






No.2  Gari Gari Kun
produced by Akagi  Nugyo
Price      : JPY 60 (US $0.8)

Look at this unsophisticated package. It looks cheap, plain and simple. And the inside is exactly it looks like.

This is a kind of icecrashed candy bar. Soda (ramune flavored)  icecream is inside. When you finish eating, look at the wooden stick. When you find 'あたり'　written on surface, then you won and can get another free Gari Gari kun,


See how cheap this campaign is. This is exactly boy kids love, and most adult men love. This product has been put in the market since 1964. And surprisingly, this ice candy bar was the most sold icecream at convenience store last year.
This Akagi Nyugyo is not a big company. I am sure they bet their live on this product.


No.3  Super Cup
produced by Morinaga
Price :  JPY 120 (US$1.5)

This is the best standard vanila ice cream.

Yes, this is plain and simple vanila ice cream.

 

but I may recommend this

My No.3 Sou

produce by Lotte
Price :  JPY 120 (US$ 1.5)

As this prodcut name shows, it's more brisk on tongue.

It's creamy, but not too much, sweet but not too much.

It feels like a litte bit of crashed ice in it.  You can't find any of such small ice cubic. Probably it is in micro mm scale.

Lastly, every icecream  Maccha (Grenntea) flavour icecream. try those, too.

Fukushima NewClear plant exploded

Media is broadcasting that one of the facilities of Fukushima newclear plant exploded at about 4 pm JST because of the other strong earthquake hit the area directly.

While many concerned parties are trying to controll the plant, especially trying to cool down the facilty, it is going to unforeseeable what will happen next.

Planned Blackout will be coming from tomorrow Sunday for Kanto are residential

Yesterday's earthquake gave huge impact even for the Kanto are residential.
First off, every railway had to stopped its operation since they needed to check out the safety of the physical rail. So, more than several hundred-thousands of people were forced to stay in their office area.

I, personally, walked back to my home with 6 hours strait walk. Luckily I was out of my office when earthquake hit, and was about to have a meeting at Shinjulu-area. Shinjuku was 25km away from my home, while my office is more than 30km away.
(I didn't have any experience to walk such long way. Given that marathon runners run 42Km, I thought it was relatively easy to walk 25km. But that idea was totally wrong!! it took 6 hours to finish 25km walk. It was cold last night, and I didn't know the way to home, so Google Map was useful, but the mobile device went out of juice at the most complicated area. So, I lost the way. It guided a short-cuts, but I had to go back to the main street which I Iknew for a drive.)

First, most foods went out from stores, next batteries for mobile phones, while voice communications were stopped by network carrier. Internet from mobile phone was barely-available,

Many people who have a physical confident went back to their home by walk. So, many pubic facility opened its facility for the rest of such walkers. (It was quite helpful.)
Media reported that many bicycles were sold out instantly from bicycle stores.
I, personally stopped by the bicycle along the way my home, but the least cheapest one costs 15,000 yen, so I didn't buy it. It was bad idea, too. I should have bought it given the long way home to go back.

Aftermath still continues. Since Nuclear power stations in Fukushima was damaged heavily and stopped operations, the capacity to generate for Kanto area has been decreased significantly.
Authorities has just announced that they are planning to stop supplying electricy to area. Residentials, offices will have planned blackout from tomorrow, which is expected to continue about two to three hours per area.

Still, many small earthquakes continues. We really needs to be careful.

Consumers affairs Agency Japan gave Groupon orders to improve

Groupon Japan today received orders for improvement of its operation from Consumers Affairs Agency.
It's because of the trouble of the delivery of the Oseti deli for Jan.1st. Of course, this oseti deli. were made by one of Groupon's client food delivery firms. But Groupon was blamed not to give any deep considerations on the capability of the food delivery firm to deliver committed Oseti deli.
Groupon Japan was once one head ahead among the coupon companies in Japan, where it is said that there are more than one hundred competitors.
Now, Pon-pa-re, a subsidiary of famous information magazine company, took on Groupon with massive advertisements.
It's banner ad is giving a huge sensation, enough to draw attentions from the ordinal consumers who might not have any interest in using group coupon.

Groupon needs to seek strong marketing to keep it's No.1 position.

Here is Groupon's rival, PonPaRe's banner ads.

This beautiful young woman says 'This Ryokan (Japanese Traditional Hotel) must be expensive, isn't it?"

Then, a man thinks in his head, ' I can't say this is less than half the price.'

Ticket Maximum 83% discount at Pon Pa Re

FIgure Skating in Olympic

Woman's Figure Skating in Vancouver was a game which most of Japanese people were looking forward to watching. And yesterday's free skating was the game which literally all of Japanese watched.
It was unfortunate Mao won the silver medal despite of most Japanese expectations. But she performed pretty well, given the slump of her during the year of 2009. She was about to loose to be nomination for this year's Olympic.
And other two woman athletes are also performed well.

The results were
Silver Medal ; ASADA, Mao (born in 1990)
4th ;ANDO, Miki (born in 1987)
8th ;SUZUKI, Akiko (born in 1985)

Among those athletes, Suzuki Akiko amazed most Japanese. She won the 1st prize in Junior High School competition. But afterwards, when she became a college student hundred miles away from her home, she was so overwhelmed by the pressure from her surrounding that she suffered anorexia. She could hardly get up from her bed. So she eventually went back to her home town, where her mother made home-made nutritious foods for her. She lost her weight to 32Kg from her original weight was 47kg. Thanks to her mother's continuous warm supports, she came back to the NHK competition in 2008, and won the third prize. Although she remained in 8th position, her smile with her satisfaction after the competition impressed so much.

It was a great and exciting game.

(From left; Asada, Ando, Suzuki,)