The corruption of the Japanese Diet

　For eating and drinking, the members for the House of Representatives in Japan spent around 100 million yen(900,000 American dollars,480,000 pounds) by public subscription in 2002nd and 2003rd fiscal year.The fact was disclosed recently by the probe of the Asahi-shimbun newspaper.

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Japanese Beauty

　As you could recognize with a map ,Japan is situated at the dead end of the world.Everything gathers here from overseas to go down under water contained and starts fermenting.

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"Kimono" Fanatics

　Several people in ”Kimono” in their 30-40s were taking photographs of each other today(on the 4 th) at “Yajigawa”,the old town of Shimoda-city of Shizuoka-pref.Their faces kindled with excitement like T.V. personalities.

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"Rakugo" Comic storytelling

　One day all of a sudden, a cherry tree grew up from the top of a man’s head. It seemed because he had eaten a lot of cherries with pips. 　Soon gorgeous blossoms bloomed on the tree and became popular with people. 　Then, a lot of people came up on the top of his head and had a booze looking at the beautiful blossoms. People came everyday to have a booze. 　Quite noisy for him, the boss.

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Declination of recognition

　A gap between superficial recognition of our own selves and reality always bears a tragedy or comedy.

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Sakura Cherry blossoms

　Could you read out the following Japanese poem repeatedly? At least 5 times. Shikishima no 　Yamato-gokoro wo 　　Hito towaba Asahi ni niou 　Yamazakura bana

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A mishap 5 (The end)

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All of a sudden, the editor in chief has changed his support for Satsuma’s new idea for the English conversation column. “What’s the reason for your remarkable shift on my idea? Could you tell it to me precisely?” Satsuma went to the editor’s room and asked. But his answer was the same as he had told before.

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A mishap 4

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“The assistant would have been almost the same age as your daughter because you are 18 years older than she.” The editor in chief called Satsuma to his room and began telling gravely. He looked like starting to talk Satsuma out of “bullying her”,which was the rumor among “desks” and reporters. The editor seemed to believe the rumor to be true.

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A mishap 3

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The short man often shows up to the fat and short “desk” who sits next Satsuma to the left and whispers with the low voice which Satsuma could listen to. “Where should we go tonight to drink? What about the inn called Umi at Shimbashi? The female owner of Umi is fairly tempting,isn’t she? ” The president is supposed to have been spending not his money but the company's money for business for his private drinking by the certain workers who know something at the back of the company.

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A mishap 2

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A younger "desk" got raged with a female manager of “desk”s. One day, Satsuma was asked to go upstairs with him. He complained, she had been having hairsplitting with his work and had often directed him to improve antagonizably whenever she had found small problems by him at work. And he asked Satsuma if it is appropriate to complain to the shortman of her bad manners. Satsuama answered that he should do it rightly.

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