牛乳パック再利用 and 毎度ありがとうございます.Watch the video to find out what they mean. If anyone is interested in more videos that deal with Japanese language, please let me know and I will make some more.
稲積水中鍾乳洞は３億年前の古生代に形成され、 ３０万年前の阿蘇火山大噴火により水没し現在の形を形成しました。
洞内には水中鍾乳石や珊瑚石、ベルホール、ヘリクタイトなどが 数多く見られる世界的にも珍しい水中鍾乳洞です。
無数の鍾乳石、水深 40ｍをこえる深渕、未知の洞奥から湧き出る清流、 その清らかな水が、千変万化の美をおりなし 水中鍾乳洞のコントラストは訪れる人たちを幻想の世界へ導いてくれます。
また、洞内の温度は一年中16度で、夏は涼しく、冬は暖かいため一年を通してすばらしい水中鍾乳洞をご覧いただけます。
マイナスイオンを感じる洞内で心も体も癒されます。
According to figures from the National Tax Agency, average annual salaries for Japanese workers in their early 20s fell to 2.48 million yen in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, from 2.83 million yen in 1997. At the current exchange rate, that is a decrease to $29,470, from $33,63.It is interesting, actually scary, that full-time employment at a company doesn't provide enough income by itself to support the lifestyles, even modest ones, of the younger generations.
Data released last week by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare found that almost 56 percent of workers 15 to 34 years old needed another form of income to help pay living expenses.Some of the people highlighted in the article have been able to parlay the experience they gained in their second job into new entrepreneurial ventures allowing them to quit their main job. This entrepreneurship is something that Japan and its economy have traditionally lacked and if this spirit increases it could help Japan slowly claw its way out of economic stagnation and retreat.
Japan’s frequent leadership changes are dizzying and increasingly counterproductive. The country has had 14 prime ministers in the last two decades and could soon have another. That would make three in the last 12 months alone — hardly time enough to introduce new policies, much less effectively implement them.Who will be the new prime minister, Kan or Ozawa, and how long will he last? For more information and deeper analysis see the respective articles. They are worth the read.
This phenomenon would make successful governance difficult in any country. But Japan is the world’s third largest economy and a technological and regional power. It needs a prime minister who can offer robust, principled leadership over a sustained period, win support for economic policies that would help pull the world out of recession and maintain a strong alliance with the United States.
Police stations without computers, 30-year-old "on hold" tapes grinding out tinny renditions of Greensleeves, ATMs that close when the bank does, suspect car engineering, and kerosene heaters but no central heating.
A dystopian vision of a nation with technology stuck in an Orwellian time warp? Not at all. These are aspects of contemporary, low-tech Japan that most visitors miss as they look around the hi-tech nation that its government, electronics industry and tourism board are keen to promote.
Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system.
Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong Kong, Li already finds that when she picks up a pen to write, the characters for words as simple as "embarrassed" have slipped from her mind.
"We rely too much on the conversion function on our phones and PCs," said Ayumi Kawamoto, 23, shopping in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district.
"I've mostly forgotten characters I learned in middle and high school and I tend to forget the characters I only occasionally use."
