Yesterday I climbed the Mt. Bukka near Atsugi, and walked down to the Lake Miyagase. Lake Miyagase is famous for having one of the biggest Christmas tree in Japan which is made of natural tree. It has about 30 meters high! Though it seems …

Yesterday, I went to the Christmas party of my wife's company. Her company allowed the employee to invite one person to the party, so I could join it. They also invited the famous comedian, "Packun & Mackun". Packun is the foreign comedian…

Every Thursday, we go to Yokota Base to learn English. Today, our teacher had a Christmas party and gave us a Christmas present. I also brought a Christmas present. It was an weird sandglass whose sand flowed upside-down. Teacher was very …

Yesterday, I went to hiking near Kofu. After the hiking, I went to the public bath in Kofu. The visitors except me were 3 tattooed yakuzas. And one more yakuza was coming into the bath. He seemed to be the boss of the three. When boss sat …

Yesterday, clubmate of university came to my house. I served them a chicken ham which was sold near my house. They liked it very much and they wanted it as a souvenir. So they asked late-coming clubmate to buy a chicken hams before visit o…

Today, I went to Tachikawa police station to apply an international driver's license. I didn't know the driver's licenese of Japan will change to IC card in January 2007 before I went to police station. But I'm not sure about benefits for …

Every Thursday, I go to Yokota Base to learn English. Today, my teacher invited us to gymnasium of Yokota junior-high school because she sang a song in there. But I didn't understand the lyrics she sang at all. It made me lose my self-assu…

Yesterday, I applied J-1 visa at the U.S. embassy. Surprisingly, I received the J-1 visa today. it arrived much earlier than I thought. As soon as my boss heard it, he began to say "you can go earlier than 10th Jan.!" No kidding! The final…

Today, I went to U.S. embassy to apply the J-1 visa. A visa coordinator in my office said, it usually takes for 30 minutes to enter the U.S. embassy, and another 1 hour after entering the U.S. embassy. But in case of me, nobody was waiting…

I went to a shrine near Narita to join the festival named "Tori-no-ichi" which sells things for new year. Tori-no-ichi was not so big, but the shrine has the biggest Grand Gracious Deity in Japan. It has 2.5m tall and 2.0m around and made …

DS-2019 is a document to accept foreign researcher to the U.S. university. The foreign researchers must apply J-1 visa, and J-1 visa needs DS-2019. Ordinary, it takes 3 to 4 weeks to issue the DS-2019, so I e-mailed the officer to hurry up…

Yesterday, I watched DVD of "Super Size Me". The movie is the trial of eating meals in McDonald during a month. The examinee gained 10kg in a month, and got almost diabetes. How awful McDonald is! By the way, some of my friends who don't h…

3rd Dec, I went to Hakone. Hakone is a famous sightseeing spot in Japan. Thus, Hakone was full of foreign people. Although Hakone is a famous spot for hot spiring, few foreigners were found at hot spring. Foreigners seem to dislike Japanes…