Tuesday Writing Class (3T)

     Hello, everyone!       Do you like eating? These days, it has been difficult for us to eat outside because of COVID-19 virus, but I like eating very much. Today, I will introduce the series of gourmet drama named "Kodoku no Gourmet (Solitary Gourmet)."     "Kodoku no Gourmet" was originally manga which had been serialized in a monthly magazine from 1994 to 1996. Goro, the hero of this manga, is an ordinal business person who make contracts with other people. What strange characteristic he has is that he is particular about eating: for example, he always think what he should eat first.      In drama series which have been made irregularly since 2012, Yutaka Matsushige performed Goro. Mr. Matsushige's performance and explanation about food stimulate our appetite very much. The restaurants and cheap restaurants which were picked up in the drama exists actually, so at the end of the one episode, the author of "Kodoku no Gourmet" and guests went to act

     Hello, everyone. When I was a high school student, my teacher of music class often recommended us that we watch operas and musicals like 'Les Miserables.' As a matter of fact, I did not think that musical is good, for I could not understand why people suddenly started to sing songs😅! Thus, I had not watched operas and musicals for a long time (Now, I like to watch musical because I know about it more than ever).      However, these days, I knew that opera and musical are not the same things. Today, I will introduce differences between them in below paragraphs.     First, there are differences in terms of the proportion of music. In opera, songs are the most important, so opera singers never dance by themselves. If authors want to use dance in opera, they should hire those who only dance. On the other hand, in musical, an actor have to sing, perform and dance. This is because audience expect not only music but also story and acting.      Also, singing method is different b

     Hello, everyone! Did you enjoy the last winter vacation? I do hope that you had a good time during the New Year. Today, I will write about the origin of Otoshidama  (お年玉).    　Why Japanese adults give their money to children on the New Year's Day? It is said that this custom had been related to "Year God(Toshigami-sama,歳神さま in Japanese)," who had been worshiped in each family during the New Years holidays. People worshiped Toshigami-sama because they believed that the God brought abundant grains to people. Also, people thought that they could be health and make a lot of grains during the year if they gave rice cakes, which were made for the God, to their family or servants.      Japanese people thought that the rice cakes were sacred things. Therefore, it is said that people called the rice cakes "rice cakes like gems( 玉( Tama ) のような餅)." Also, some people called "the soul of Year God (歳( Toshi )神様の魂( Tama shii))," so the rice cakes became to be ca

     One movie that I really liked was called 'Eien no zero (Eternal zero).' It was made in Japan, and Okada Junichi and Miura Haruma were the main stars of the movie. Yamazaki Takashi directed it. The movie won Japanese Academy Award as the Best Movie in 2015.     In the beginning, Kentaro Saeki (Miura Haruma) were looking for his job, but he could not pass job interviews. Then, his sister, who are working as a free writer, told him about her job related to their true grandfather. In fact, the grandfather who sometimes met them were not their relative originally. Kentaro had interested in her job, so he decided to help his sister and interview their grandfather's colleges. Almost all of them were solders during World War Ⅱ.      At middle point, Kentaro and his sister were disappointed because evaluation about their grandfather were not good. However, suddenly, they met a man who had respected Kyuzo Miyabe. After they met the man, they came to change their impression to Ky

    Hello, everyone! Today, I'll talk about an interesting experiment about animal behavior.       Do you think that animals understand the concept of fairness? If you want to know whether they are knowing it or not, what will you do? I will write one answer about it, but of course it is not only one answer, so if you have any interesting ideas, please tell me on comments!     First, examinees are two capuchin monkeys, and they are divided into two rooms which have transparent walls. Thus, they can look each other every time. At the rooms, two capuchin monkeys should do an easy task: they should give a rock which are handed in them to a researcher who are standing in front of the two rooms. If one capuchin monkey complete a task, it will get a chip of cucumber. On the other hand, if the other capuchin monkey do the same task, it will get grapes.      The monkeys prefer grapes to cucumber, so they are under unfairness situation.     As a result, a capuchin monkey which get a chip of

     Hello, everyone. Today, I will introduce "Virtual Santa."      When I was an elementary school student, I often joined Christmas parties which were held in friends' house. At that time, participants exchanged their present to the others' present. These are good memory for me... But what about today's children? Due to COVID-19 virus, they cannot meet their friends or Santa, especially, foreign children cannot.      To solve the problem which children cannot meet friends or Santa, "Virtual Santa" has been invented by a British company! We can meet virtual Santa at Santa HQ, a homepage managed by the company.      At Santa HQ, children can meet Santa dance and sing with him, and discuss arts and music using video conference every day. Santa performers are drilled to be able to use modern gadget like zoom, so they can talk with children smoothly. It costs 30 ponds (about 4,000 yen) to talk with Santa, but considering the cost of traveling and performers