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22日水曜日

主な出来事  7月13日-7月18日


Politics

Security-related bills were passed both at the Special Committee House of Representatives and the House of Representatives plenary session in favor of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito.

For landfill approval procedures of Henoko coastal areas, experts committee of Okinawa Prefecture has submitted a report to the governor Onaga pointed out that "legal flaw is observed".

Prime Minister Abe expressed construction plan review of the new National Stadium since there is strong criticism of huge construction cost.

Business

Euro zone summit meeting of the European Union agreed in principle to conduct financial support resumption to Greece that has fallen into a financial crisis.

China National Bureau of Statistics announced that preliminary estimates of real gross domestic product of the April - June quarter was a year-on-year increase of 7.0. It still stayed  at a low level in the sluggish growth of the investment.

The Bank of Japan opened the monetary policy decision meeting and lowered the real gross domestic product forecast for 2015 to 1.7% from 2.0% growth in April.

World

According to the site dealing with China's human rights issues, 107 people of human rights lawyers  were detained all at once by public security authorities across China. Then, it was reported the number of people have exceeded 150 people.

Western six countries and Iran have announced that they reached the  final agreement in Vienna for a diplomatic resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue. Iran's nuclear development activities was placed under thorough surveillance, and  Western countries are to cancel the economic sanctions.

There was a suicide bombing in the suburbs of Baghdad, Iraq's capital, and more than 120 people were killed.

Japan

Nagasaki Family Court decided to send a 16-year-old girl to the medical reformatory who was brought to Family court as killing the girls of first grade high school in Sasebo.

NASA spacecraft, "New Horizon" that was launched nine years ago passed through 12,500 km point from Pluto. We succeeded in close observation of it  in the first-ever.

Nuclear Regulatory Committee officially determined the examination certificate that Unit 3 Shikoku Electric Ikata nuclear power plant had met the new criteria of the nuclear power plant.

"Hibana" written by Naoki Matayoshi, popular comedian, was awarded Akutagawa Prize.