Kyu Furukawa Garden

 

There are several famous gardens existing in the city of Tokyo. They do not look like the middle of the metropolitan Tokyo when you enter. You may feel as if you experience a time slip.

 

  "Kyu Furukawa Graden" is so unique that the place consists of  a British Garden and a Japanese Garden in one area. A giant family concern or zaibatsu called Furukawa used to own this place.

 After the WWII, GHQ dissolved zaibatsu and the ownership of this garden moved to the government. Tokyo lend the garden to show to the public.

It's worth visting to "Kyu Furukawa Garden" near JR Komagome Station in Tokyo.

Ozenuma (Oze Tarn)

This photo captured one of the most beautiful site in Japan called Ozenuma. The place is located in the Oze National Park and legally entitled to protect its nature and wetland with the Ramsar Convention.

Gentiana triflora var. japonica

Ozenuma is located 1665m high from sea level so that only alpine plants exist. If you are a careful traveler from a city, you are amazed and smoothed by rare plants beside wooden roads. The nature is precious enough to protect.

 I am one who grew up in Tokyo and love countrysides and the nature. A place like Oze eases my feelings and energize my soul! Why don't you find places you are able to be proud of in your province or country!

Japanese Second Division Football Game

 

I went to watch a Japanese Second Division's football game on Sunday. The Spa Kusatsu(16th in the season) played against Mito Holｌyhock(15th) in the home stadium in Gunma Prefecture. 3356 people gathered from Gunma and Ibaragi Prefecture.

Result: The Spa Kusatsu(Purple&Yellow Uniforms) 0-0 Mito Hollyhock(White Uniforms)

Although two Mito Hollyhock's players went away from the field due to Red Cards, The Spa could not find a way to score. The result disappointed Supporters who screamed for The Spa Kusatsu. I found the team struggled with strategic problems.

That was a very local football game that almost all people may not pay attention to. However, this level of a match is very important for the Japanese national football team to grow stronger. The more people get involved to a football, the stronger the national team can be.

Green Soy Beans

Green Soy Bean is one of the most famous traditional food in Japan. People usually eat them while drinking beer. They are immature soy beans. The harvest time is set before soy beans turn brown.

Before you boil green soy beans, you mix them with salts. Then, you put them into boiled water and leave them for about 4 to 6 minutes. After you put them into sieve, you sprinkle salts over!

You push a peel to squeeze green soy beans out. Don't eat peels! Green soy beans taste somewhat sweet with salts. They are so nutritious to contain the nutrition of vegetables and beans. If you have a chance to eat them, why don't you try it!

I sometimes enjoy the old style of Japan

Although I grew up one of the biggest metropolitan in the world called Tokyo, I sometimes visit at a small village where my father grew up and my relatives live. When you go to the west from the center of Tokyo, you encounter a mountain region in Yamanashi prefecture.

I love to visit at the Japanese Shrine in the middle of mountains because the air and water are very clean and fresh so that I feel as if I was reborn. The Japanese Shintoism has many gods all over such as trees, rocks, rivers, and mountains. Everything around is a part of gods.

 If you get tired of daily matters and city life, I suggest you to go to such a place. We all are a part of the nature even though we are civilized to conquer the danger of the nature. We can never become stronger than the nature.

That is because we live within the nature.

I'm just writing something

In Tokyo, it's a cloudy day.

Setting up a new PC as I want is more troublesome than I thought. I bought a Windows7 PC to replace an old xp PC.  Where can I find that software? In these few days, I struggle to searching CDs all over my house.

Windows7 becomes 64bit so that some software can be installed and some not. It depends on whether software is compatible to 64 bit and simply structured as 32bit or not.

Even though it takes a lot of efforts to set up, my satisfaction skyrockets as I touch. It's  good to have something new that gives me much motivation!

Again

It's been a long time not to write. I started reading USA Today subscribed by Kindle 2 I bought several months ago. Expressions of English on news papers are much easier than magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and so on. The proper level of difficulty allows me to enjoy studying a foreign language.

No one should jump over several steps at once. It's better to go step by step in order to reach wherever you want to go. The most important thing is to continue to do something you want to achieve day by day.