中年英語好き

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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7月7日火曜日

主な出来事  6月28日-7月4日


Politics

According to a demographic survey, domestic Japanese population became a 126.26 million people,  270 000 people were decreased from the previous year. Population decline is consecutive in six years and the number of decrease is the maximum.

Prime Minister Abe has apologized about the problems that the young lawmakers of the Liberal Democratic Party put pressure on news organizations and said insulting remarks to Okinawa.

North Korea reported the Japanese government about the postponement of the re-survey results such as the Japanese abduction issues.


Business

At Tokyo stock market,  the Nikkei Stock Average has declined by 596.20 yen due to inflated anxiety to Greece financial crisis, which was the largest decline this year.

The IMF announced that Greece did not keep the repayment deadline and was certified as delinquent country.

According to the company short-term Economic Survey of June, it is announced that diffusion index of large manufacturers has been improved from the previous survey for the past three quarters..

Toyota Motor Corp. announced that the suspect  Julie Hump who had been arrested on suspicion of drug Control Law violation was resigned.

World

Space X of the US space venture launched the unmanned spacecraft from Florida to transport supplies to the International Space Station, but it failed.

Signing ceremony of AIIB, that China led was held in Beijing. 50 countries have signed, but seven countries postponed.

Federal Supreme Court judged the constitutionality of the death penalty by drug injection.

President Obama announced that it had reached a final agreement with Cuba about restoring relations and resuming mutual embassy.
Japan

There was a small eruption in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture. Japan Meteorological Agency raised the eruption alert level to 3.  Hakone-machi instructed people to evacuate from a radius of 1km of Owakudani.

71-year-old man committed a burning suicide in the Shinkansen. A woman was in the collateral damage to death, and 28 people were injured.

In order to adjust the deviation of the Earth's rotation speed and standard time, information communication research committee inserted leap second and set 59 minutes 60 seconds at 8 o’clock.

The National Tax Service (NTS) published a route price of 2015. The average rate of change of the country year-on-year fell, but lowering degree was 0.3 point reduced from the previous year.