Response to the letter of Manuel Sandoval

Today I write response to this letter written by Manuel Sandoval.



The letter written by Sandoval is a response to this letter about U.S . marines who are suspected of raping a woman in Japan. However he talks about U.S. military located all over the world. It is not the topic the writers who wrote or will write resonses try to discuss.



He says that he have been there and knows about the place where the matter happened and the people living there. Why does he know that? Did he research all people living there? It is just a too personal view having little power because it impossible to research and know all people living there.



He said in his letter that "She must have known what kind of situation she was in from the get-go". Of course you should think careful your situation so as to avoid dangers, but it does not mean that people are allowed to rape a person if the person is in such dangerous situation. The people who comitted a crime have to be punished. Whether a victim was in danger situaton or not does not matter. However it is possible that the woman trapped the guys in the case they discuss, so police and the other related organizations investigate in order to bring the fact out, so it is not hasty judgement to investigate, it is reasonable way to investigate.


Talking about U.S. forces staying in Japan, he said that U.S. might take care of Japan too long time, but many Japanese do not think so. Japanese think that U.S. forces should retreat from Japan, especially Okinawa and people living near the U.S. forces bases think like that because they sometimes or often suffer from problems made by U.S. armies. Japan is not taken care of by U.S., but it is a reciprocal help. Japan gives amount money to support U.S. forces. In fact, America is afraid that Japan has a big defense power on its own by having their own forces to defend Japan. So America intefere Japan with making a domestic combat plane
. America forced Japan to allow America to join tha project to make a new generation combat plane. The reason is that America do not want Japan have big power and against America. So Japan does not need, but U.S. need to stay thier forces in Japan so as to control the region including Japan, China, Korea and North Korea.

Why I am in IES class

The reason why I am in IES is that I want to improve my English skills. In my high school, there were some teachers who came from other countries, mainly English speaking countries. I had many chances to talk with to them, but I could not because I was not good at speaking English and I did not have confidence in my English skills. I regretted that I did not talk to them. Then I wanted to study English more eagerly and chose this university.

When we took a placement test, we were explained that we could not use any Japanese during IES class if we joined IES program. So I though that it was a good chance to force me to use English usually. I think it is difficult to make an environment where we usually use English by me, because we need someone who help to make the environment. However, IES program offers me such environment, good lessons, and what’s more, people who are good at speaking English far better than me and have high motivation for studying English. I though the program would help me improve my English skills, especially speaking skill which was hard to train alone.

I don’t have any specific reason why I want or need to study English now, such as in order to get a job which needs high English skills. However I want to study English, and I also want to study other languages if I can because I want to talk with more and more people who are from not only Japan, but also other countries and have various ideas, senses of value and characters.

Crepe

Hello!!


Last Sunday, I made crepe at home because my circle will run a crepe stand on Gaidai Festival. So I wanted to know how to make and tried.

I prepared 100g of flour, 4 eggs, 400ml of milk, 30g of butter, tablespoonful of sugar and a little vanilla.


After that, I prepared strawberry and blueberry jam, oranges and peaches so as to put them on crepe.


I tried some combinations what I should put together in order to make delicious crepe. When we run a crepe stand on Gaidai Festival, we cannot use uncooked food such fresh cream or fruits which is not canned. Especially, fresh cream is a very important factor to make delicious crepe, so it was very difficult to make good one. Anyway I became good at baking crepe, I think.





I tried tasting many crepe, so I got tired of crepe and elt sick after that. However I will try to make good crepe again, may be.

Favorite Novel ②

Today I have nothing special I talk to you, so I introduce my favorite novel, "Calling You". Of course the story was written by Otsuichi.


A heroine of the story is a girl, Ryo. She is not good at communicating with others, and don't like such her characteristic. She does'n have a cell phone and she wants one because she thinks that all people are linked with others by cell phones. One day, she thinks waht kind of cell phone she wants, and imagines her own cell phone in only her mind. The more she thinks about her cell phone, the clearer the cell phone becomes. Then her cell phone rings, although it exist only in her mind. The person who calls her is a boy, Shinya. They start talking and gradually open up. So they decide to meet, however...

This was made into a movie and comic(the picture is a cover for a comic). So if you don't like just read words, it's better to read the comic or watch the movie, I think. The comic changes the original story, however the comic story is so good and I like it, too. However I have not watched the movie which also changes the original story, so I don't know it is good or bad.

This is heart warming story, so if you are irritated, stressful or very tired, this story may help you feel better. Please try this.

Response to The Article About Loanwords

I think loanwords are imported into Japan because they are useful. In a certain field, people working there can work smoothly with loanwords. They know meanings of loanwords, a kind of term, used in a field, so they can communicate with each other and understand what they want to say quickly. Loanwords, especially from English words, help workers to communicate with foreigners who involved in the same filed since sounds of loanwords are similar to original words and meanings of loanwords are almost the same as meanings of originals. Even though Japanese workers cannot speak English or other languages well, they can communicate to some degree by using loanwords which are common language.


Loanwords help companies very well, especially on the point of advertising their products. Loanwords sometimes, or often, more attracting than Japanese. By using loanwords, companies can make shorter catchphrases and can tell customers more information and good points of their productions. In fact, almost few companies do not use loanwords when they advertise their products.


However there is a problem that when politicians speech and use loanwords, some people cannot understand what they say even thought the speeches are important and have to do with all people. It means that some people may get losses because of loanwords they do not know.


We, especially media and things have to do with politics, have to be careful when we use loanwords, but I think adoption of loanwords as good and the words develop our way to convey information.