Mr. Trump was inaugurated as the President of the United States last Friday, 20th January 2017. I didn't think he would become the new president, but the people elected him. We have to respect the results of their election, but I have a un…

I came to IIyama station in NAGANO today. My car was covered with a lot of snow... It was too bad. I took a 30 minutes to remove the snow on my car.

Munenori Kawasaki is a professional Japanese baseball player. He had been playing for about 10 years in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and then became a free agent. Then, 6 years ago he went to play for the Seattle Mariners, Toronto B…

The cold weather came to Japan last weekend, and it brought heavy snow over wide area of Japan. Unusually, we had a lot of snow in Kusatsu and Otsu in Shiga. Actually, A heavy snowfall warning had been issued in Shiga and Fukui, but we wen…

A week ago, most ski resorts in Shiga and Fukui were closed, due to no snow on the ski runs, due to mild winter. We had a snow storm, more than 100cm fell in a couple of days. So we have to pay attention about avalanches in the deep snow a…

I left Osaka on January 6th in the evening and landed at Chitose airport in Hokkaido around 9 PM with my wife and her mother. We stayed one night at Sapporo, and headed to the Furano ski resort the next morning by shuttle bus. After a thre…

We went to Nozawa Onsen ski resort and Hakuba Goryu ski resort in Nagano for skiing during new year vacation with my friends. We were 6 people including us. We go skiing Nagano every year, and they live in Nagoya and Fukuoka, so we meet ea…

Happy New Year 2017. Thank you for all of your help last year. I hope you will have a great year!