On 10月２8日, we had a Japan Club meeting.
It was on our school's Halloween dress-up day.
We had Chinen Yuri as the 'Bishounen of the Day'.
We also played a game which represented the superstition of the Japanese, which was: if you made a tombstone fall or crack, its spirit will kill you when you sleep.
Anoo, that's about it, jaa ne minna!!!!
Ashita, watashi no gakkou ni open house ga arimasu.
I'm planning to go!!!! ;D
I'll be there around 12:30-1:00 pm.
I'm going to bring one of my magazines and one of my Hey!Say!JUMP calendars. ^_^
Also, I'm going to wear my kimono!!!! ><
Anoo, jaa ne minna!!!!
Health and Sports Day (体育の日, Taiiku no hi), also known as Health-Sports Day or Sports Day, is a national holiday in Japan held annually on the second Monday in October. It commemorates the opening of the 1964 Summer Olympics being held in Tokyo, and exists to promote sports and an active lifestyle.
History and Current Practice
The first Health and Sports Day was held on October 10, 1966, two years after the 1964 Summer Olympics. October was chosen for the unusually late Summer Olympics to avoid the Japanese rainy season, and Health and Sports Day continues to be one of the fairest days of the year.[1]
In 2000, as a result of the Happy Monday Seido, Health and Sports Day was moved to the second Monday in October.[2]
As Health and Sports Day is a day to promote sports and physical and mental health, many schools and businesses choose this day to hold their annual Field Day (運動会, Undō-kai), or sports day. This typically consists of a range of physical events ranging from more traditional track-and-field events such as the 100 meters or 4 x 100 meters relay to more uncommon events such as the tug of war and the Mock Cavalry Battle (騎馬戦, Kiba-sen).
Most communities and school across Japan celebrate Sports Day with a sports festival which is similar to a mini Olympics. These festivals include many of the traditional track and field events, such as 4 x 100m relay, 100m sprinting, and long jump, as well as many other events. Some of the events include: ball toss, tug-o-war, rugby-ball dribbling races, sack races, and so on. Another common event is often simply called the “exciting relay”, which is an obstacle course relay including any number of different challenges: Three-legged races, making a stretcher with a blanket and bamboo poles and then carrying an “injured” teammate, laundry hanging, crawling on hands and knees under a net, and doing cartwheels across a mat.
The festival usually begins around 8:30 am with a parade featuring all the different teams that will be participating: it could be divided by neighborhood, class, geographic area, or school. There is sometimes a local marching band providing music. Once the parade has gone around the field and lined up in the middle, the band will play the Japanese National Anthem and the Japanese flag will be raised. Local officials will make speeches welcoming everyone. Often everyone will spread out across the grounds for group stretching (this stretching routine was developed by the government and is done daily by many Japanese people; the stretching routine music is broadcast daily on the radio and TV). Then it’s time to start the events.
Every event has prizes for the winners, usually something useful for around the house such as boxes of tissues, laundry detergent, dish soap, hand soap, saran wrap, and so on. Around 12:00 noon, the events will take a pause for lunch and sometimes traditional dancing. Lunch is usually a small Japanese Lunchbox called Bentō, including rice, fish, stewed vegetables, sushi, onigiri (rice balls) and other small Japanese treats.
As with the Olympics, the final event of the day is the 4 x 100m relay or 100m sprint. Following this, the points totals are tallied and the ending ceremony involves congratulatory speeches by local officials and the handing out of prizes to the top teams.
References in popular culture
* In Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto, the titular character, Naruto Uzumaki's birthday was chosen to be October 10th because it was previously Health and sports day, and the character is extremely hyper and over-energetic.
Kyoo san-ban no Nihon no kurabu no officer meeting ga arimashita. (Today, we had our third Japan Club officer meeting.
We talked about open house and our next Japan Club meeting.
We're planning to do Bishie (short for bishonen which means 'pretty boy') of the Day like last year and add etiquette to our meetings.
We might give lessons about Japanese sentence structure and/or vocabulary. ^_^
Anoo, jaa ne minna!!!! (well, see you soon everyone)
Kyoo (today), we talked about getting pen pals from our sister school in Japan during our first Japan Club meeting.
YATTA!!!!
I'm so excited!!!!
Hopefully, I would be able to understand what my pen pal is saying in her letters (in this case, e-mails).
I wonder if my pen pal and I get to write snail mail, too!!!! ^_^
Love snail mail!!!! ><
Anoo, bai bai minna!!!! (well, bye bye everyone)
Konban wa minna!!!! (good afternoon everyone)
Ashita, ichiban no Nihon no kurabu no meeting ga arimasu. (tomorrow, there will be the first Japan Club meeting)
Wednesday, September 30th during hirugohan (lunch).
Yosha!!!! ;)
Respect-for-the-Aged Day
敬老の日
Keirō no hi
Third Monday of September (2009.09.21)
This is the day Japanese give thanks to old people for their long-year contribution to this country.
This national holiday was established in 1966 as a day to respect the elderly and celebrate long life. Originally held on September 15, it originated as a renaming of Old Folks' Day (老人の日, Rōjin no hi). In 2003, it was changed to the third Monday of September in accordance with the Happy Monday System.
Beginning in 2000, Japan implemented the Happy Monday System (ハッピーマンデー制度) which moved a number of national holidays to Monday in order to obtain a "long weekend".
Autumnal equinox
秋分の日
Shūbun no hi
Around September 23[2]
This is identical to the vernal equinox day in March. People make mothering, and eat the rice cakes, called o-hagi.
This national holiday was established in 1948 as a day on which to honor one's ancestors and remember the dead. Prior to 1948, the autumnal equinox was an imperial ancestor worship festival called Shūki kōrei-sai (秋季皇霊祭).
This is a link to the jigsaw puzzle of Chinen Yuri from Hey!Say!JUMP. ^_^
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Nagoya (名古屋市, Nagoya-shi?) is the third-largest incorporated city and the fourth most populous urban area in Japan.
Located on the Pacific coast in the Chūbu region on central Honshū, it is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba, and Hakata. It is also the center of Japan's third largest metropolitan region, known as the Chūkyō Metropolitan Area. As of 2000, Chūkyō Metropolitan Area has 8.74 million people, of which 2.17 million live in the city of Nagoya.
Sightseeing
Nagoya's two most famous sightseeing spots are Nagoya Castle and Atsuta Shrine.
Nagoya Castle was built in 1612. Although a large part of it burned down in the fires of World War II, the castle was restored in 1959, adding some modern amenities such as elevators. The castle is very famous for two magnificent Golden Orca (金の鯱, Kin no Shachihoko?) on the roof, often used as the symbol of Nagoya.
Atsuta Shrine is known as the second-most venerable shrine in Japan, after Ise Shrine. It is said to enshrine the Kusanagi sword, one of the three imperial regalia of Japan. It holds around 70 festivals in a year, and many people visit the shrine year-round. Also, the shrine has over 4,400 national treasures representing its 2,000 year history.
Nagoya TV Tower
Other Nagoya attractions include:
* The Nagoya TV Tower
* JR Central Towers of Nagoya Station
* Midland Square: The new international sales headquarters for the Toyota Motor Corporation features Japan's highest open-air observation deck.[4]
* The Nagoya Port area: The Nagoya port area includes a themed shopping mall called Italia Mura as well as the popular Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium.
* Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens
* The Toyota museums: The Toyota Automobile Museum in Nagakute and the Toyota Museum of Industry and Technology near Nagoya station.
* The Noritake factory: The home of Noritake fine chinaware is open to visitors and allows people to browse through the history of the establishment. Complete with cafe and information/technology displays, as well as shopping facilities, visitors can spend a whole day wandering through the displays and grounds. It also holds a few sad reminders of devastation during the final stages of WWII.
* The Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts (N/BMFA)
Nagoya was home to a Pokémon-based theme park and a robot museum, but both are now closed.
Education and culture
JR Central Towers and Nagoya Station
Nagoya is home to the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a sister museum to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which was founded to bring aspects of the MFA's collection to Japan.
The Tokugawa Art Museum is a private museum belonging to the Owari branch of the Tokugawa clan, who lived in Nagoya castle for 16 generations. Among other things, it contains 10 designated national treasures of Japan.[9]
Several universities are also located in Nagoya, including Nagoya University and Nanzan University.
The Nagoya dialect is referred to as Nagoya-ben.
Some famous Nagoya foods: misokatsu (pork cutlet with miso sauce), tebasaki (chicken wings marinated in a sweet sauce with sesame seeds - a type of yakitori), kishimen (flat udon noodles), misonikomi udon (noodles in thick miso soup), Nagoya kōchin (a special breed of chicken).
For more information on Nagoya, you can go to this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya
I just wanted to let y'all know that 'The Spirit of Japantown Festival' is going to be on Saturday, September 26, 2009!!!!
It's 10am-6pm!!!! ^_^
http://www.spiritofjapantownfestival.com/
There's the site if y'all want to check it out!!!!
Let's all try to go and hang out with each other!!!!
If any of you DO go, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take pictures of what you do, eat, drink, etc!!!!
WE WANT TO SEE THOSE LOVELY FACES PARTYING OVER THE WEEKEND!!!!
~ りょこ
こんにちは みんに！！！！ (hello everyone)
げつよび officer meeting が あります。 (on Monday, there will be an officer meeting)
９月14日!!!! (on September 14th)
During ひるごはん!!!! (lunch)
At the Manley entrance area where the blue couch is!!!! ^_^
We are going to plan on what to bring and stuff for the Club Fair.
~ りょこ
This is a chart of both hiragana and katakana. When both is referred, the word, kana, is used. The characters on the left are hiragana where as the characters on the right are katakana. ;)
This is a picture of Mt. Fuji with sakura (cherry blossoms) flowers and a shinkansen (bullet train) in the foreground — all three are iconic of Japan. ^_^
This music video is of the Japanese boy band called NYC Boys. NYC boys is a temporary unit that was formed on June 7, 2009. It was formed to promote the FIVB World Grand Prix 2009, an event that begins on July 31 and scheduled to end on August 23, 2009. They will be performing the theme song NYC in Tokyo and Osaka before each game.
Group Name:
* The "NYC" comes from the initials of Yamada, Nakayama, and Chinen's last names and the four members of B.I.Shadow represent the "boys". NYC also stands for New York City.
* Sometimes, the name is written as NYC boys, where Yamada's initial is presented in a larger font size.
Members
* N Yuma Nakayama
* Y Ryosuke Yamada
* C Yuri Chinen
* boys
o Kento Nakajima
o Fuma Kikuchi
o Hokuto Matsumura
o Yugo Kochi
Discography
1. Akuma na Koi / NYC (Release Date:July 15, 2009) 1st week sales - 175,788 . Total sales - 260,403 . RIAJ Certification - Platinum
Konnichiwa minna!!!! (hello everyone)
On Thursday, September 17, there's the club fair going on!!!!
It's during lunch at Pardini Park.
Don't forget to bring all the stuff for Japan Club!!!!
I might bring my magazines and CDs. ><
I'm thinking to wear my kimono, too. ;D
Ganbaro ne!!!! (let's do our best)
こんばんわ みんな!!!!
あした officer meeting が あります。
９月２日!!!!
During ひるごはん!!!!
あのう、おやすみなさい みんな!!!!
~ りょこ
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