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Monday, August 07, 2006

Current Affairs 2

1. A MSDF petty officer was accused of copying and keeping classified documents and repeatedly travelling to China to see a woman at a karaoke bar where another woman involved in a scandal over a Japanese diplomat commiting suicide once worked. Wow, it's like James Bond or Richard Sorge! It' a sign of World War 3? ←this is what the teacher said.

2. Lawson Inc. opened a new store, targeting older customers, in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture, where people aged 65 or above make up more than one-third of the population. It has products such as hair dye and food for diabetics, which are not usually carried at convenience stores. I heard "Natural Lawson" for the first time. I've never found it, at least in Gotemba (of course not!).

3. JAL and ANA announced the status of booking during Obon vacation. About 307,000 people booked international flights among which routes for China and Southeast Asia are popular. About 3,035,000 people booked domestic lines which is same as last year. The teacher said that many British people go to Spain for their summer vacation looling for the sun!

4. Koki Kameda won WBA tiltle against Venezuelan Juan Landaeta in controversial decision. To all eyes but the judges' Landaeta dominated the fight, but it was Kameda who became a world champion. I'm not interested in it because it's ridiculous. It's just a show, not a sport. I heard that TBS hired judges. I'm sure it's a fix. Don't believe the media hype just for high ratings.

5. At the gala of ASEAN Regional Forum in Kual Lumpur, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played piano, 2 pieces of Brahms sonata, and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso performed a parody drama of Casablanca. I'd like to know how it really was with Ultraman and Lobster Baltan.

This time we read the article from TIME; "Oh, That Mike's Open ... When policitians get a better hearing than expected". By the way, why English has a lot of insulting slungs such as imbecile, dickhead, bastard... Japanese doesn't have that kind of slungs so much.

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