If I could have a superpower for one day, I would choose to have teleportation power. I would travel around the world in a day. From east to west and south to north, I would be able to go anywhere, anytime. I would only have to prepare a l…

The other day, after I enjoyed a clear sunny Indian summer day, I was driving right before the sunset when the blue sky turned to be an orange color. The road was a bit jammed up so my car was stopped by the traffic jam. At that moment, I …

Today, I will tell you about the newest trend in pop culture in techonology. Music and PC technology have been connecting each other since the 1980’s. Nowadays, a completely virtual cyber pop idol has been popular for a couple of years. He…

A typhoon is passing through my area now. Strong gusty wind is blowing and trees and flowers are waving now outside. It will continue for a few more hours or so. Today, I will tell you about a memorable experience during the typhoon. Do yo…

In this essay, I will tell you how I practiced mastering English sounds while I was trying to sing English rock songs with/in karaoke. Japanese is an intonation based language while English is a stress based language. Therefore, I needed t…

I had two primal motivations to start learning English. When I was a small kid, I sometimes played with my American relatives. At that time, they were living in Japan and they were bilinguals. They could easily switch between Japanese and …

Today, I’d like to teach you rock and roll history. Rock music was born in the US in the early 50’s. It is said that rock has some roots (for example, blues and bluegrass). In the late 40’s some African-American artists began to release mu…

Today, I will tell you about the interesting movie I am watching, which is titled Butter. The story is about an adopted girl in Idaho who is talented in butter carving. Four contestants participate in a butter carving contest and their lif…

When I woke up in the morning in times of trouble, I went to the garden to cheer myself up. I saw dewdrops were glistening in the morning mist. The scenery was shining with iridescent light. I was rescued by beautiful morning sunshine. Aft…

Since he was a child, one of Bob’s dreams has been acting like and becoming a donkey. He has been thinking about how he can be like a donkey, but he couldn’t think of a good way to become one. The other day when he saw a big computer scree…

One of my favorite memories is meeting with Paul McCartney. Last November, I took a picture when he came here to perform a concert. He came to watch Sumo wrestling before the day of the concert. Actually, I met and shook his hand at the sa…

My parents’ generation grew up with wars and rebuilding after the Second World War and we were born into the world during a high growth period in the Japanese economy. I will write some important difference between these two generations in…

Movies are popular all over the world. These are produced 700 movies in the US, more than 1200 movies in India. In this short essay, I will discuss several reasons why films are popular all over the world. It is called that a movie is perf…

Dear Lucy, Cathy and Michelle, How have you been these days? It’s been a long time since you guys came back to the US. Do you still remember some Japanese? Anyways, my English skills have been developing since the last time we met/since we…

One fine December morning, one man was eating potato chips in a basketball court outside. It was sunny like in Madrid. The court was close to a beach and he was thinking about a mean person he met the other day. However, He inherited funny…

One day, I attended a class in grad school about cross-cultural communication, since a lot of foreign students are studying this/things related to this in grad school. The students were quite multicultural. Then, a foreign student asked an…

An astronaut in outer space was waiting to return to the earth. He had been in the spaceship for almost one year to research other galaxies. Right after the ship passed through the wormhole, he was really glad to see the earth again, the p…

In this short essay, I will tell about three reasons why education is important. First, current society is quite complex and requires a lot of skill to live and work. In order to get such complicated skills, we have to learn some basic ski…

Reliability is the most wanted trait to look for when making a friend. I will talk about this briefly in this essay. I like a humorous person or an intelligent person but even if the person has such traits, if the person is not so reliable…

Since you’ve never come to Japan, I’m gonna write some advice to transitION here. Airport Probably, you have to CONNECT in THE Tokyo or Kansai international airportS to come here. My town’s airport is very close to downtown and TO THE trai…

Dear great great grandson, How have you been lately? I am fine here in THE 21st century. I will answer your question in this time travel t-mail about what life WAS like in this century. In the late 20th century, THE computer and the World …

A lot of movies have been made that are based on novels; however, I prefer watching movies over reading novels. I will explain the several reasons for it in this short essay. Time The first reason is that Most films take around 2 -3 hours …

Movies and Television became popular in the 20th century. After that these two media have been influencing people’s behavior. I will discuss how movies or television influence people’s behavior in this short essay. Before movies and televi…

Today, I AM introducING an interesting novel called The Good Earth that is written by AN American nobel laureate author, Pearl Buck. This is A saga about three generations in China. The story begInS WITH a poor Chinese farmer’s life. He wa…

A man moved to a port town famous for salmon and salmon fishing. The reason he moved to this town was to open new style of Sushi bar here. He was planning a conveyer belt sushi bar to revolutionize the price and style of an ordinary sushi …

Recently, I have been reading fewer books than ever. I still watch movies though. I often watch movies on DVD at 2 times faster speed to save my time, if it has Japanese subtitles. And I am watching more internet broadcasting from ordinary…

I think whoever controls the media also can control opinions of people. In this essay, I will discus this with an example. I think 20th century is the era and mass media and it is still going on. Most people in the world access media every…

One of my all time favorite movies is Contact, which is based on Carl Sagan’s novel. I’d like to explain about this movie and its themes in this essay. The author Carl Sagan was an astrologist who introduced his knowledge to ordinary peopl…

Humans are called social animals. Therefore making a friend is one of important things in our life. In this short essay, I will discuss what I think make a good friend. 1. Chemistry One of important factors to make a good friend is to choo…

This dog name called Kai-kun is pretty famous nowadays because of a mobile carrier’s commercials. His role of this commercial series is a father of a family. Other family members are humans but he is a dog. He talks like a human and acts l…