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Mar.24.2011
A Japanese physicist and excellent writer, Terada Torahiko wrote,
"It's easy to be overly scared or not scared at all, but it's difficult to be scared legitimately.
It is so true. With that note, I have translated the following article from Asahi newspaper of March 23, 2011. This is not...
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Mar.24.2011
Since four days ago, milk, yorgurt, and pancakes are unavailable at the restaurant I go to in Yokohama because the milk from Fukushima was stopped circulating. For two days recently, we had rain, and the rain collected all the radioactive material in the air and caused the tap water in Tokyo to...
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Mar.22.2011
Today is Tuesday. We haven't had power outage since Saturday. Thank goodness.
So far, the Japanese news I've been reading are quite detailed, not as vague as some U.S. news reported. But it takes time reading because I have to think and reread. I've learned quite a lot on nuclea power plants...
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Mar.21.2011
March 21, 2011
Yokohama, Japan
People are frustrated because they've been unable to help while the survivors need help desperately. This is the first time I see many men even in leadership roles are crying in front of cameras. I saw on television that a fire fighter went to close a gate...
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Mar.21.2011
March 19, 2011
The power is up all day today, and hopefully until Monday. Monday is a national holiday.
This morning, I went shopping after I talked with my children in a conference call. They are concerned about me, and I appreciate it. It was 10:50 am when I arrived at the market, and...
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Mar.21.2011
Today is March 18, 2011.
The value of Japanese currency shot up because of the earthquake. At one point, it was 76 yen. The highest I've ever heard. But because the government conducted an emergency G7 phone meeting and received the members' agreement, it eventually went down to 81 yen which...
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Mar.21.2011
March 16, 2011
Yesterday morning, there was an explosion at the First Fukushima Nuclear Reactor site. Tokyo Denryoku (The power company for the northeast and the kanto plain) reported that the suppression pool area of the second nuclear reactor vessel had some damage. Also, the fourth reactor...
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Mar.21.2011
If someone asks me which country is the most ready for tsunami, I will still reply it is Japan. If Japan wasn't, yes, the disaster could have been in much worse situation. The whole country could be completely incapacitated by now. So, I expect we'll be limping here and there in order to...
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Mar.14.2011
I took the attached photo around 3:30 pm on March 11, 2011. The other photo I mentioned below is not available. I alreadyIt's close to Yokohma station.
March 12, 2011.
I returned to Japan a few days ago, expecting my favorite sushi bar already closed. So, when I met a friend of mine at the...
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Feb.26.2011
"He was like a god," my aunt Ruri said about my great grandfather. "After we returned from Shanghai, we lived with him."
"He used to read us aloud Heike Monogatari when we went to sleep," my mother said. Heike Monogatari is about the fall of Taira clan.
His name...
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Dec.04.2010
Some of you have already read this story in one of my RR blog spots. But, it is now translated into Romanian and Spanish with the title of "Fat and Old and Ugly" in Contemporary Literary Horizon magazine. Here is the site.
http://contemporaryhorizon.blogspot.com/2010/12/multicultural-...
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Nov.22.2010
I’ve been reading his books one after another since last week. Ribi Hideo (リービ英雄) is his Japanese name. He is an American author and a scholar on Japanese literature. He had translated Manyoushu, the oldest collection of Japanese poetry. He has been writing in Japanese for a long time. I hope...
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Oct.25.2010
A childhood friend of mine loves Anne Tyler’s books. The friend has been reading literary books since her childhood, and she is one of well read persons I know. I don’t remember what I’ve read, but I did read some of Anne Tyler’s short pieces. But I was a bit surprised to hear of the friend’s...
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Sep.02.2010
I’ve been thinking about subtle differences in the way we move in daily life and in performances across cultures. A few times, I realized that I misinterpreted others’ movements just like words. But that’s no news to me. Probably, I have misinterpreted a lot in my life! And I can’t help but...
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Oct.12.2009
He was an insect painter. His works are very detail and warm. This is the story about Kumada Chikabo who recently passed away at 98. From the documentary program I watched, I learned that all his life, he never slept outside his home in Yokohama. His home and town was his kingdom. About four...
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About Keiko
Keiko Amano is a bilingual and bicultural writer who lives in Los Angeles and Yokohama. She writes short stories and novels in English and Japanese. Her stories appeared in Eye-Ai magazine.
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