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場所: 町田市, 東京都, Japan

50代を目前に控えた中年サラリーマンです。中学・高校の英語教師の資格を取りましたが、バブル景気もあって一般企業に就職。ところが、なんと海外部門に配属され、本気で使える英語を身につけなければならなくなりました。その後、NY駐在も経験させてもらい、英語がライフワークの一つになりました。年男の年頭を機に、ブログを使って毎週の出来事を簡単な英語で紹介することにしました。自分の勉強にもなりますし、ブログをご覧の皆様のお役に立てれば幸いです。

2015年3月10日火曜日

主な出来事  3月1日-7日


Politics


Democratic Party summarised at the party convention that
they were defeated at the House of Representatives election last December .
They determined their fiscal 2015 activity to become the alternative
choice for regime change instead of the Liberal Democratic Party.


LDP-Komei two parties, encountering the donation issue
by the subsidies companies furnished from the national government,
agreed to organize the issues and problems of Political fund control act.


Ruling 6 Parties filed a Public Offices Election Law amendment
in the House of Representatives to pull the voting age more than 18 years.


Government presented a draft of the security legislation in light of
accepting exercise of collective self-defense.


Business


The ban of the company briefing for the third grade university students was lifted.


Four major department stores announced that their existing store sales in February (preliminary)
were increased compared to the same month in the previous year.
Purchases by Chinese tourists in the holiday of Chinese New Year "Spring Festival"
is greatly contributed.


The Cabinet decided the Electricity Business Act amendment to disconnect the power
transmission and distribution department of a major power company.


Announced that FamilyMart and Uny Group Holdings announced that they are under
discussion for the management integration.


World

The memorial demonstration of former first deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, who was
anti-regime faction leader of Russia, was held in the vicinity of the crime scene of
central Moscow. About 50,000 and a couple of thousand people participated.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed his speech in the US Congress,
and expressed opposition to the agreement on the Iran nuclear talks.

China's National People's Conference had started in Beijing and
announced to reduce the target of the gross domestic product growth rate
to 7.0 percent from 7.5 percent.


Rippado Korea US ambassador was slashed by a man of anti-American activists
at breakfast meeting lecture in Seoul and seriously injured.


Japan

18-year-old boy made testimony to admit murder suspect.

As a result of verification of eight patient who died after
liver resection surgery with laparoscopic,
Gunma Univ hospital announced that there had been negligence in all cases.

It was found that Liberal Democratic Party branch that the Prime Minister
Abe serves as the representative had received a donation from the three companies
that were furnished subsidy from the national government.

Innocence in Minokamo mayor, who has been accused of pre-bribery crime