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New Year 2026

Happy New Year🐎Thank you for visiting this website last year. I hope all of you will have a great year🌟

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Final assingment before Christmas!

I’ve submitted my final report before the Christmas holidays! I conducted a thematic analysis on Japan’s declining birthrate, analysing Japan’s shrinking workforce, economic scale, international standing and so on.

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Narration recording -Tokyo-

A narration recording today was for Kita Ward in Tokyo. The length was 90 minutes! Long! I haven’t read many narrations for that Ward before, but I’ve now memorised most

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Friend from Alaska!

A friend of my friend, who spent primary and secondary schools in Alaska as a returnee child, visited Japan and we went out for a dinner together. (The photo above

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Film: Glorious Back Home

I was invited to the preview of the film “Glorious Back Home”, depicting the life of former Hanshin Tigers player Shintaro Yokota, who passed away in 2023 due to a

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Baseball players’ talk show

I was invited to a talk show featuring famous former professional baseball players: Daisuke Matsuzaka (Dice-K, D-Mat in Bostson Redsox and New York Mets) and Tsuyoshi Wada (Chicago Cubs). I

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Narration recording -Tokyo-

This week’s narration recording was for Taito ward. Taito Ward has several tourist spots such as Asakusa and Ueno, so I often visit there when my friends come to Japan.

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Sussex University friend visiting

As I mentioned earlier, my coursemate at the University of Sussex in the UK visited Japan!We’re both studying Sustainable Development from the last year. Having other friends and we went

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Essex University people’s visit

I am studying at Sussex University in England now and for undergraduate, I graduated from University of Essex also in England. I had an Essex alumni gathering in Tokyo last

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This month’s assingment

I submitted another assingment! I chose about the Japanese government’s Individual Number card (My Number card) with health insurance certificate. I analysed it from the perspectives of co-production and democracy.

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Model “Shonan Chill walk”

. I’m one of models in the guidebook ‘Shonan Chill Walk’ published by Asahi Shimbun Publications. It introduces routes for exploring the area on foot or by bus. Have a

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Narration recording -Tokyo-

I recorded the narration for Nerima Ward again this week. Reading it every week/month is enjoyable as I can follow the progress of the content such as events and political

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Nice lunch

There was an alumni gathering for my old school (junior high and high school) and I had a lunch after that near there with my junior and her child. The

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Narration -Tokyo-

I narrated administrative content for Nerima Ward in Tokyo this week.I’m quite familiar with the place names as several friends from secondary school and those I met through work, live

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Friend from Hong Kong

A friend from my university visited Japan again.This time, we explored and had a shopping in Ginza and headed to Shinjuku.We enjoyed some quality pork cutlet, tonkatsu. She also brought

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Annoucement session

At the request of the Chiba Prefectural High School Baseball Federation, I again taught the team staff members from several high schools how to announce during the games, house announcer.The

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Narration -Tokyo-

This week I narrated for a ward in Tokyo.Most of the pieces were sports-related so I delivered with energy and cheerfulness. There was also a bit of war-themed reading, which

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Annoucement school gathering

I attended the annual gathering for my annoucement school where I learnt Japanese annoucement before I started working. In Japan, university students who want to be announcers usually go to

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Friend from Australia

Japanese yen remains weak. Friends from overseas visit Japan every month. An Australian friend I met during my university days in the UK came to visit last month. She was

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Narration -Saitama-

This week I narrated for a local authority in Saitama Prefecture. Almost no time to read the scripts beforehand, it’s good practice to read them seeing for the first time.

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Assignment done!

I wrote another assignment for my postgraduate studies in August.I choose a case study of the Great East Japan Earthquake. I analysed the Tohoku region (northern Japan) post-disaster from a

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