From Letters to Editor
A Japanese housewife wrote that she misses a Norwegian whale dish. When she was a primary school girl in Osaka, they often served a Norwegian whale dish in school lunch. She doesn't know even now why the menu was so named but the taste of cooked whale meat was delicious. The school sometimes provided this menu for children 25 years ago in Osaka. But now she married and lives in Shizuoka Prefecture. One day her child brought back home a menu card of school catering. As she was reading the menu card, she was reminded of the Norwegian whale dish, since it was the cuisine she liked the best among all the dishes served in the primary school. She now thinks as the naming of the menu, a Norwegian whale dish, sounded so fantastic, she usually asked for another helping when this dish was served.
(The Asahi Simbun newspaper)
A Japanese university student wrote that she loved rice omelet. It brings her good fortune. When she took an entrance examination for a high school, her mother asked her what menu she wanted for lunch to take in an examination hall of the day. She asked rice omelet and her mother cooked it for her. Rice omelet lunch worked excellently on her in an examination room. Getting energy and impulsion from the lunch, she could have the best result. Actually she could obtain a scholarship in the school due to a high score in the entrance examination. On other occasions when she took various qualification examinations, the rice omelet lunch box her mother cooked for her always worked excellently, but without it, she could not score good points. Yet, there is a big problem. Her mother doesn't like eggs, so that she never makes rice omelet for her family. Rice omelet is so special for the mother and the daughter.
(The Asahi Simbun newspaper)
A 47-year old woman who lived in Minami-Soma City was evacuated in the wake of the Fuksuhima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. She moved to an apartment house where her brother lived in Fukushima City. Even in the place of Fukushima City 70-km from the Fukushima Daiichi plant, water supply was cut off due to an M9.0 earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011. So, she had to pick up some vessels and buckets and walked to a water tank truck. Her heart sank in the same way as everybody living in Fukushima City. But, around the water tank truck, children were not depressed at all. They carried any small vessels to get water with energy. As if defying pressure from the nuclear accident, Fukushima children lived lively. It made her keep up her spirits in the somber time when the Fukushima Daiichi accident was still not well contained. In April she returned to her home in Minami-Soma City which stretches 10km to 40km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Yet, she takes heart when she recalls the cheerful children in Fukushima City.
(The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper)
(to be continued...)
*** *** *** ***
Today a CNN live broadcast on the Iowa primary election could be also viewed around Tokyo.
As an anchorman pointed to, Mr. Romney won 30,021 votes in Iowa in 2008 but this time 30,015. He looks very consistent in his operation though he is called a flip-flop in policy.
Anyway, as Mr. Ron Paul secured the third position, it is now apparent that the Occupy Wall Street movement has more influence on Republicans than the Tea Party movement has. And Occupy Wall Street guys seem to choose a flexible, conservative, Republican candidate against the incumbent president Mr. Barack Obama, a flexible, liberal or progressive, Democratic candidate for the 2012 Presidential Election.
In addition, it is a little unknown who Former President Mr. W. Bush really supports though Former President Mr. George H.W. Bush offered his support to Mr. Mitt Romney.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/george-hw-bush-backs-romney-criticizes-gingrich/2011/12/22/gIQABTzwBP_blog.html
Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Rev 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.