Fujii Nao
All by Herself
When Nao Fujii entered the university, she was eighteen years old. She majored in medical science at the university and learned how to cure patients. After graduating, she became a doctor at the age of twenty-four, and began to work in sports medicine in the hospital. Gradually, many friends of hers married when she became thirty-five, but she hadn’t married anyone yet. Though her friends introduced their acquaintances, she wouldn’t marry. So she has all the time she wants to herself, even when she goes on a journey to Australia every five years. The reason why she hasn’t married is marriages cause sex discrimination, she thinks. She wants to treat men and women equally. So she has lived all by herself until now and she will live all by herself from now on.
Hayashi Takahiro
It’s My Life
Takahiro Hayashi entered Tohoku University at the age of eighteen. He enjoyed campus life—club activities and trips abroad. But he also studied hard. This is why he could go to America as an exchange student. When he was twenty-four, he became a doctor. After ten years passed, he realized that this job was not suitable for him. He decided to become an astronaut. He passed many examinations and as a result, he became an official astronaut at the age of forty. He got on a Space Shuttle of NASA and he completed his task in space. He was cheered enthusiastically when he landed on Earth. He became the most popular person in the world in his fifties. While he was traveling in Africa, he saw many people suffering from hunger and diseases, especially AIDS and malaria. He was so sad that he joined Doctors without Borders. He was a pioneer surgeon in Japan. So he was able to treat many people all over the world. Since he turned seventy, he has been in Africa, devoting himself to treating all Africans across the continent.
Iwashita Yuki
Delightful Life in Barcelona
Yuki Iwashita, who is crazy about football, emigrated to Barcelona, Spain, in 2012. She married a Spaniard in 2014. She went to Camp Nou Stadium to watch the football games on weekends with her husband. They were members of the F.C. Barcelona fan club which is called Socio. Her favorite football player was Lionel Messi. He was an Argentine, and he belonged to F.C.B. Yuki always cheered for him. A baby boy was born to her and her husband in 2015. His name was Lio, after Lionel Messi. She got Lio to learn football as soon as he started walking. She sent him to the subordinate organization of F.B.C. which is called Cantera. He became a football player in 2032. She went o Camp Nou to watch Lio’s games on weekends. Lio married in 2038. She had a grandson in 2040. His name was Gio, after Giovanni VanBronckhorst, who was a famous football player. Yuki and Lio got Gio to learn football as soon as he started walking. They sent GIo to the Cantera in 2046. Gio became a football player, too, in 2060. Yuki went to Camp Nou to watch Gio’s games with Lio. Everyone in her family is a member of Socio now. They are having a happy life in Barcelona.
Osajima Momoko
Her Wonderful Life
Momoko Osajima was born in Fukuoka in 1991. She grew up as an ordinary girl. She had had a dream that she would become an interpreter since she took a trip to Hawaii at the age of eleven.
For this dream, she studied hard and entered the university she had wanted to for a long time. Thanks to her family’s help, she could study in New York when she was twenty years old. When she returned to Japan after a year, she learned to speak English. After graduating from the university, she got a job as an interpreter for a famous company. Her dream had come true.
When she was twentieth-three years old, she met a man in the office. He and she had a lot in common, so she got married to him at the age of twenty-five. She delivered a son and two daughters. She did a lot of housework while she worked. She worked until she was forty-five years old. Then she and her family moved to Hawaii. She had eight grandchildren. Her son built a big house there when she was sixty-five years old. She spent a great life with her big family. They were very warm. Her life was very splendid.
Tsuchiya Momoko
Momoko Tsuchiya: Savior of Animals
After graduating from high school, Momoko Tsuchiya studied history and sociology in university. When she was twenty-two years old, she started activities to save abandoned dogs and cats. It had been difficult for such animals to survive in cities. She and her co-workers protected them, provided them with shelter, fed them, and found foster parents for them. She felt it was her vocation.
In 2020, she established an NPO in order to set forward her work. She was eager to have more people get interested in protection of both pets and wild animals, so she traveled around and made speeches on her views. A lot of people cooperated with her. Thanks to their effort, she finally succeeded in realizing her hope. All animals and human beings could live together in peace!
Her name and her great achievement are known all over the world now. People call her the “savior of animals.”
Watanabe Akari
Life for the Refugees
Watanabe Akari was born in Japan in 1990. Her parents named her Akari for the Psalms. When she was a high school student, she decided to work for Doctors without Borders as a doctor. After graduating the university, she worked at a local hospital for a few years. Finally, she joined Doctors without Borders. She worked as a pediatrician for thirty years. She especially exerted herself to save refugees from starving. She worked in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Pakistan, and other war-torn countries. Retiring from Doctors without Borders, she started writing and lecturing in Japan. Now she is eighty years old, but still working to let people know that there are many things we can do without special efforts to help those who are suffering from illness, starvation, and civil war.
Kano Chisato
How to Make Delicious Nikujaga
Nikujaga is a traditional Japanese dish of boiled beef and potatoes. It is often called the taste of mom’s cooking in Japan. The recipe for nikujaga is like this. First, fry two hundred grams of beef in a pan quickly over a high flame. Next add two sliced onions. After the onions become soft, you put in four potatoes cut in big pieces and continue to fry. Then pour water until the potatoes are covered. A few minutes later you have to skim the scum from it and put in five tablespoons of soy sauce, two tablespoons of sugar, sake and sweet sake for seasons. After that, put a carrot cut in big pieces in and boil for thirty minutes. When a skewer can pierce the potatoes, you can stop boiling it. If you want to make delicious nikujaga, you have only to follow these instructions.
Motonaga Marina
How to Write Stories
I want to tell you how to write novels and stories. Writing a story is fun, so I hope for you to do that. What you need to do first is to have an idea. In your life, you may think about many kinds of things. You will consider something about politics, society, your life and your problems. Your ideas can become the material of the stories. Your experience can, too. Gather materials to make stories.
Second, you had better consider a story line. It helps you when you write a story. You can write without plots, but that is more difficult than with them. After you have made a plot, write your story. You can compose it as you like. It is important to imagine. If you don’t have much ability to express your idea, imagination will help you out. You have to pay attention to the beginning and the end. They are very important, to say nothing of titles.
After writing, read your story and improve it. You are sure to want to use better expressions and descriptions. Read your story slowly again and again. Now, you have finished writing your story. Congratulations. You should have your story read by someone else. This is a very important thing for you to make better stories.
Nakano Shiho
How to Search with the Internet
When you can’t decide the menu for today’s dinner, what do you do? Do you check recipe books? There is an easier and faster way to check. That is the Internet. Allow me to introduce the way to search with it.
First, you switch on the personal computer and start it up. Next you click the icon for the browser which your computer has. Second, you open the site of the search engine and enter the word you want to search for. After displaying the results of the search, you find the site you want to check, reading the sentence under the title of the web page. Finally, you click on the title which interests you and print it out.
The Internet has enormous amounts of information and you can search more easily with the Internet than with books. When you are able to use the Internet, your life will be richer.
Oshima Saori
How to Wake Up
Imagine that you have a very important meeting tomorrow morning, so you have to wake up at 5:00 A.M. What will you do? If you are in the habit of waking up at 5:00, there’s no problem. But if you usually wake up at 9:00 A.M., you might think you should give up sleeping the night before. But that’s too dangerous. I want to suggest a useful way to wake up early.
The night before, you should take a little longer bath than usual, just before you go to bed. If you don’t feel relaxed enough, maybe you should drink a cup of hot milk, but not tea. Then you go to bed, set the alarm clock for five and—it’s the most important part—tell yourself to wake up at five, again and again. Then the next morning you are sure to wake up on time.
Satoya Mayuko
How to Make Pancakes
Below is the best way to make pancakes. I have made them by this way many times, and succeeded in it every time. First you mix two eggs and 200 cc of milk in a bowl; then stir them well. You next pour a pack of pancake mix into the bowl; then mix it with an eggbeater. Next you heat a frying pan over a high flame and put oil on it, but cool it off on a wet towel. This process is a conclusive factor of taste. Thereafter you heat it again and pour the mixture into it. When some bubbles begin to appear on the surface, you turn the pancake over and bake it well. Finally, you serve it on a plate and spread some syrup on it. If you follow the recipe above, you will never ail. Enjoy the delicious pancakes.
Tokimatsu Aoi
Preparation for Driving
When you prepare for driving there are three important steps. First, of course, you get into a car. Second, you sit back in the seat and adjust it. You then put on your seat belt. However, on this occasion, it is bad only to put it on. You have to fasten it tightly; you pull it from the bottom toward your shoulder. After that you adjust the equipment like the steering wheel or the rearview mirror. Finally you start up the engine and now you are ready to drive.
Yamashita Nozomi
How to Cook Sunny-side Up Eggs
Sunny-side up eggs are food we often eat for breakfast. The recipe is so simple that everyone can cook it easily and quickly. First, we have to put a little oil in the frying pan, and heat it for a few minutes. Meanwhile we had better break an egg into a bowl. Next, we thrown it in the frying pan, then put the lid on it. We continue to heat it for a few minutes. Now, it is near completion. Lastly, we dish it on a plate; in addition, we add a few lettuce leaves, cherry tomatoes, or bacon strips, as we like. Finally, the sunny-side up egg is completed.
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