やりました! They did it!

昨日の夜、やっと決まりました、はい、そうです、労働党[ろうどうとう](= Labour Party)が政権[せいけん] (= government)をとることになりました。ジャシンダ・アーダーンさんは、労働党[ろうどうとう]の党首[とうしゅ](= party leader)に数か月前になったばかり、そして、今度はニュージーランドの首相[しゅしょう](= prime minister)になります。37歳の若き首相です! We finally found that which party would form a government – the New Zealand Labour party! Jacinda Ardern, the party leader, landed the party's leadership position just a few months ago and now she will be the prime minister of New Zealand! A full-of-energy 37 yr […]

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Free Japanese film showing in October 2017

FREE Japanese film showing in October 2017 Date: Thursday 12 October 2017 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:50 PM Location: L3 Contact: athena.chambers@waikato.ac.nz Website: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/school-of-arts/languages/japanese-film-showings Studio Ghibli Animation Film! Free Admission! No booking required! English Subtitles! ALL WELCOME. ‘When Marnie was there' Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Voice: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima 2014 | 103min. | […]

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Kazuo Ishiguro!

I wrote about 'the Buried Giant' some time ago. This novel was written by British writer Kazuo Ishiguro and he has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature! Mr Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan and moved to U.K. when he was five years old. Mr Ishiguro grew up in Japanese language environment (his Japanese […]

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