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12月8日火曜日

主な出来事  11月29日-12月5日


Politics

Pension fund management operation independent administrative corporations has announced that the quarter operational result between July to September was deficit of 7 trillion 889.9 billion yen, and the investment yields was also a minus of 5.59%. This quarter deficit  was the largest since 2001.

Regarding the notification card delivery for My number system, Japan post has announced that 6.53 million copies had not been delivered by the end of November and they were slipped in December.

The government opened the meeting of international terrorism Prevention Headquarters and determined to strengthen the anti-terrorism measures that has reflected the Paris terrorist attacks. It established the international terrorism information collection unit in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that aggregate  the relevant information centrally.

Business

IMF decided to deal with Chinese renminbi (RMB) as an international key currency from next October. Based on the composition ratio  in the major currencies of the IMF that was calculated from trade trends, RMB was positioned in the third currency, which follows the dollar and the euro.

Ministry of Finance announced in corporations statistics that the capital investment of all industries except for the financial and insurance industry between July to September quarter was 10 trillion 493.7 billion yen, 11.2% increase of year-on-year, which was 10 consecutive quarters increase.

The largest oil wholesaler JX Holdings and the third largest Tonen General Sekiyu have announced that they reached a basic agreement on management integration. They aim to improve earnings effect of more than 100 billion yen per year on a consolidated basis within five years with reviewing the rationalization by restructuring of the refinery.

World

Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the NLD, which won a sweeping victory in Myanmar general election met with the President Thein Sein and confirmed a policy to achieve smooth power transfer.

Shootings occurred at welfare facilities in San Bernardino, California, and 14 deaths have been confirmed. Police shot and killed the suspects of man and woman who fled by car. It was reported the man has been in contact with the terrorist organization.
Towards the Islamic countries devastated, House of Representatives of UK Parliament passed a government policy to expand the area of bombing in Syria by a majority vote. British fighter 4 aircrafts attacked the oil fields in eastern Syria.

Islamic countries  published the video that they were killing the Russian spy with a knife on the Internet.


Japan

Cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki's has died at the Tokyo hospital for multi-organ failure. He was 93 years old.

It was found that former Hansen's disease patient's family decided collective lawsuit seeking an apology and compensation claims against the country because the country didn’t take any measure though they underwent discrimination by forced quarantine policy.

It was found in the final report of the the third party committee that Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute in Kumamoto City had been manufacturing blood products by different methods from the one that the country approved.

It was found that 25 officials from both ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs had refused the proper evaluation for public servants dealing with confidential, which was based on specific secret protection law.





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