2008-04-21 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 タバコの自販機が購買者の年齢確認へ【Cigarette vending machine to check buyer’s age】 The Finance Ministry plans to approve a new type of cigarette vending machine that can check a cigarette buyer’s age when a driving license is inserted in it besides those with the “taspo” IC card function.
2008-04-14 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース ビジネス くいだおれ太郎に申し出が殺到【Offers flood in for Cui-daore Taro】 A restaurant in Osaka has been flooded with offers from around Japan to buy or rent its popular drum-beating doll since the closing of the restaurant was first announced on April 8.
2008-04-07 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 政治 福田内閣の支持率が過去最低水準に急落【Support for Fukuda plunges to lowest level】 The approval rating for Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s Cabinet plunged to its lowest level since he took office in September last year, with less than a quarter of those surveyed supporting it.
2008-03-31 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 復習シリーズ 今週の復習98【Weekly Review 98】 復習の穴埋めテストをやってみましょう。 1. Activists attack Japanese whaling ship 2. Last “Ginga” leaves Tokyo
2008-03-17 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース ビジネス 最後の「銀河」が東京を出発【Last “Ginga” leaves Tokyo】 The last “Ginga” (Galaxy) sleeper express train bound for Osaka left Tokyo Station at 11 p.m. on Friday as some 2,000 railway fans flooded the platform to bid farewell to the train, taking its photos.
2008-03-03 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 事件事故 活動団体が日本の捕鯨船を攻撃【Activists attack Japanese whaling ship】 Anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd threw brown envelopes containing a white powder and bottles of stinging acid onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members.
2008-02-28 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 復習シリーズ 今週の復習97【Weekly Review 97】 復習の穴埋めテストをやってみましょう。 1. Kon Ichikawa dies at 92 2. Aegis destroyer collides with fishing boat
2008-02-21 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 事件事故 イージス艦が漁船と衝突【Aegis destroyer collides with fishing boat】 Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Atago collided with a small fishing boat in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture early Tuesday morning. The two fishermen aboard are missing.
2008-02-14 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 歴史文化 市川崑氏が92歳で亡くなる【Kon Ichikawa dies at 92】 Kon Ichikawa, the Japanese film director known for such films as “Harp of Burma” and “Tokyo Olympiad,” died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital Wednesday. He was 92.
2008-02-07 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 復習シリーズ 今週の復習96【Weekly Review 96】 復習の穴埋めテストをやってみましょう。 1. Celebrity lawyer to become Osaka governor 2. China finds no pesticide in dumplings
2008-02-04 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 社会 中国側はギョーザ内に農薬検出せず【China finds no pesticide in dumplings】 Following reports that Chinese-made dumplings sickened at least 10 people in Japan, Beijing said tests on their ingredients found none of the pesticide cited by Japan.
2008-01-28 / 最終更新日 : 2019-05-13 Aki@英語ニュース 政治 タレント弁護士が大阪府知事に【Celebrity lawyer to become Osaka governor】 Celebrity lawyer Toru Hashimoto, who scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s Osaka gubernatorial election, will become the youngest of Japan’s 47 prefectural governors at the age of 38.