A beginner's English Diary of Japanese

Japan Expo is being held in Paris now.

The expo began in 2000.

The number of the visitors grows yearly.

More than 160.000 people visited the expo last year.

I n the expo, both Japanese traditional culture and pop culture are introduced.

You can see demonstrations of judo, kendo and other Japanese sports, and have experience of calligraphy and origami.

Introductions of Japanese animation, manga and music are the center of attraction in the expo.

You can buy Japanese comic books and music CDs and DVDs.

An autograph session by popular writers is planned.

I’m very happy that lots of foreigners get interested in Japanese culture.



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At the Aussie festival, I heard about the Tasmanian devil’s critical situation.

Tasmanian devil is a flesh-eating marsupial animal with body length of about 50 cm.

Although it was named likened to devil from its spine-chilling cry and figure eating dead bodies of animals, it looks cute.

In 1996, a facial cancer peculiar to Tasmanian devil was found.

If they contract the cancer, usually their faces get swelling.

Then their tracheas and gullets get clogged.

Now lots of efforts to save them have been made in Australia.

I heard that a new bleeding facility was opened in Taronga Zoo in Sydney.

I donated some money with hope of saving them.



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After the travel seminar, I went around information booths.

At the Australian Football booth, I learned its rule.

I also learned how to hand pass, that isn’t throwing a ball, but punching it.

I enjoyed a mini hand pass game at the booth.

There were some booths introducing Australian food and wine.

I tasted some honey, dried fruit and wine.

Then I visited some travel booths and got lots of brochures.

In those travel booths, I got very interested in Tasmania.

You can enjoy lots of outdoor life there such as fishing, trekking, animal watching, etc.

As I didn’t have much time, I couldn’t visit an Australian wine bar from evening.

But I enjoyed the whole festival.



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Today, I visited the Aussie Festival 2010 in Tokyo.

Its contents were a small concert by a Japanese singer Hana Saito brought up in Australia, a travel seminar, lots of information booths ran by companies and organizations and an Australian wine bar.

In the concert, Hana Saito sang some affectionate songs.

Everyone in the hall listened attentively to her songs.

In the travel seminar, two women introduced their means of transportation while traveling Australia.

The first woman showed her journey in the west Australia by car.

And the other woman showed one by a long-distance coach.

They talked about the splendor of journey and some stories of their failures.



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