tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67741406720651547992012-02-17T03:03:04.396+09:00Animal news in Japan and Diary...Nyankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087180750508143813noreply@blogger.comBlogger1051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774140672065154799.post-43727155947788192512010-11-21T20:32:00.000+09:002010-11-21T20:32:45.900+09:00

Now we are promoting TNR in our prefecture. When people complained about troubles caused by stray cats, we tell them the effect of TNR and how to get along well with stray cats. In many case, one or two feeders feed stray cats without spay/neuter and people have troubles with poop of increasing cats. And in most of case, resident say "Take all cats away from this area!" with anger, but our law

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Yesterday, I attended the symposium about stray cats held in Osaka city. Many volunteers, government officials, charity organizations attended, some of whom I know. In Japan, the stray cats cause many problems all over the country now. Most of case, some people feed cats without spay/neuter, so neighbors complain that cats increase and leave their poop or damage neighbors gardens. All members

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 Yesterday, a dog training class was held by the registered volunteer of our animal control. He arranged this class in his town and a professional trainer came to teach training voluntarily. Now the people who want to learn training dogs are increasing, and I hope those project would be held in other towns or cities. But... I think it's true that Japanese people are not good at dog training. I

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Yesterday, I heard a phone call from a JR station official. He said, "A stray dog has been chained in front of the station since this morning and no one has come to pick him up, so will you come and take him?" It was already 5:00 pm and we were preparing for leaving the office, but I had to go to the station and pick up the dog. When I got to the station, it was nearly 6:00 pm. A man was there

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Yesterday, I visited a president of neighborhood community association of a town in Hikone city. He asked us if there are some good ways to reduce stray cats around his area. Now we hear those kinds of requests everyday. Sometimes there are a feeder to stray cats and the number of cats increase, making many troubles between the feeders and neighbors. Actually, local government doesn't have any

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I've not updated my blog almost half a year. I've been too busy since I moved to another office in April and I haven't had time to even sit in front of my PC everyday. Now I'm working at the animal control center of prefecture. We accept dogs and cats almost everyday and destroy them, though we try hard to adopt as many dogs and cats as possible, but unfortunately there are still hundreds of

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 The pet stuffs shopper IRISOHYAMA inc. released the ranking of cats' name in Japan of 2010.  That was,   No.1  Momo (it means a peach)   No.2  Chibi (it means small, little, tiny)   No.3  Kuro (it means black)   No.4  Mie (maybe the voice of meow)   No.5  Hana (it means a flower)   No.6  Tora (it means a tiger)   No.7  Nana (same as a girl's name of human)   No.8  Sakura (it means cherry

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This year, our NPO attend the Spayday Internatipnal 2010. And I entry the photo contest with my cats, Tamasaburo. If people voted to my photo, our NPO Japan Cat Network would get donation. I attended with this photo. photo contest Please vote for me here!!!

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Yesterday, I went to an old woman who asked me to trap a stray cat to spay. Our group was registered as a city volunteer 2 years ago and she was the first client after we appeared on the city news magazine. I visited her house and saw the black female cat, and thought that this cat was one of those we trapped and returned after spaying 2 years ago, but she claimed that this cat was another one,

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I found this news on WEB today. The news said it's a very famous video so maybe you have watched. It's very cute!! This is; And another news is here. It's "Year of the Tiger" this year, so in HongKong, the cats agility contest was held. Looks like very robust!

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Now I have many requests for TNR here and there. I visited some feeders to check the situation and arranged when and how we could trap cats and bring them to vets. I trap cats or kittens and bring them to spay/neuter almost every Saturday, but yesterday, I couldn't trap any cats at the all places where I was asked by the feeders. It's always like this...it's getting more and more difficult to

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My co-workers and I went to a Japanese restaurant and ate expensive lunch than usual... At first, the appetizer was served. It was marinated fish.   Then, the main lunch box with SOBA noodle came. There were four boxes and SASHIMI, TEMPURA, boiled fish and vegitables, SUSHI in them. And the last was dessert, a pudding with strawberry and black beans. All of them tasted very good and we

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Last time I wrote that there is only one shrine that worships cats in Japan, but it was not true. I read this news today, it says "The stones statues of Cat God were found in the northern part of Japan." This is the photo on the news site. A long time ago, silk raising industry was very popular in this area. So people used to worship cats, because cats attack mice, which is the enemy of silkworm

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We have a custom to worship cats. "MANEKINEKO", (happy cats or welcoming cats?) is representative one. It is a ceramic ornament which shapes cat, that raises one hand to invite people, money and happy. This is the MANEKINEKO I found at the porch of a Japanese sweets shop. And these were at the porch of a Chineese noodle shop. Today I read a news about the only shrine in Japan which enshrine

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My job started from Jan. 4th, as every year.Our New Year's Holidays begin from Dec.28th to Jan.3rd, but this year 4th is Monday, so we have to work on full weekdays from Monday after a week of holidays.It's on Wednesday yet...it seems to be veeeery long this week...By the way, I found a funny news today."Tama", maybe the most famous cat in Japan who works as a stationmaster at the local railway

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Now it's the New Year's Day. We had a cold morning and a little snow. Our cat, Tamasaburo was waiting in front of the stove for it would be fired, when I got up. We took OZOUNI and OSECHI, the new year's dishes like every year, and go to Shrine to pray for health and peace in this year, too. The last year, I was a little busier than usual with my volunteer work. It was anyhow achieved what I

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We have uncomfortable warm winter in the end of this year. Of course it's easier for us to clean the house and prepare for the New Year Day when it is warm, but it is also very odd. Today, we made "Mochi", maybe rice cake in English. Mochi is necessary for the New Year Day, and we usually make it on 30th December. First, we steam the particular rice for Mochi, then put it in the pounding

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Time passes very fast, even it seems to me years pass faster and faster recently.Maybe it's because I'm getting older. It's been just one year since I started this blog. I started my blog for my English study, but has my English improved more than before? I don't know... Today, it was the last day of our job in this year. We did a big cleaning of our office as every year. And it was

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It seems to be the Christmas Eve today. "Seems to be" means that I don't celebrate this day, because I'm not a christian. Here in Japan, most of people think Christmas is a festival or an event only for kids and young people, which doesn't have religious meanings at all. In my family, I used to have decorated the Christmas tree and prepared presents, cakes, and special dinner for my daughters.

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It is the payday today, and it means today is the hamburger's day. We bought the big hamburgers with coworkers and ate at the office. Now I look back my everyday lunch. I usually bring lunch box to my office, that I pack leftovers etc. into the box in the morning.It looks like almost same everyday... Sometimes I buy lunch at the convenient store. Curry and rice, pasta, riceball, ODEN,

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We had the first snow in this winter. In our region, only a little snow covered on the ground, but they have much more snow in the northern part of our prefecture. I saw the mountains on the other side of the lake all covered with snow, though I didn't see the last weekend. I came to trap some cats for TNR here, at the lake side. It's cold outside but I found 4 or 5 cats and kittens there.

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I got a phone call from a woman who wants to do TNR by herself, she wanted to ask how to do, so I met her last Sunday. She is a nun, but she doesn't live in the temple. She has rescued many kittens she picked up around her house. Now she has 3 cats in her house and feeds 4 outside cats,of course all spayed/neutered except for young kittens. These are her cats. The ginger one, named Magu, was

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I am on the way to the office from the job of checking restaurants. I found the very big, round and beautiful moon aaove the mountain. Then I looked back and found very beautiful sunset.(I m very sorry my poor camera can't catch the scene well) It was warm day even though it's Descember. Now in the end of the day, and I have to hurry back to finish my documents, maybe left on my desk while I

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In Tokyo, I went to watch a movie after the meeting, which name was "Dog, Cat, and Human". This movie shows the current situations about dogs and cats in Japan. The movie starts from the scene that an old woman visited the director and asked him to film the movie about the situations around dogs and cats, animal control and animal welfare in Japan. She had worked with rescue of stray and

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It has become quite convenient in this world. 10 years ago, I used to search the way to the meeting places with the time tables and route maps, and the Tokyo railway lines are too complicating for me, I used to have a hard time to find the best way to get where the meeting was to be held. But now, I can find the best way and exact time to get everywhere with my cellular phone. It shows me several

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The number of flu patients are increasing rapidly.We get a lot of notifications from schools and nursery homes that they decided to close some classes because of many absence with flu.The children of my coworkers are also affecting.My daughter also has got sick since yesterday.Though she is not so bad and I don't know if she got flu or not, but I let her absent from school because I heard many of

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Now I'm coming to the Lake Biwako, which is the biggest lake in Japan, that we, people in the Shiga prefecture are proud of. It is my job to watch hotels or inns and check the hygine conditions, so now I came to some hotels near the Lake Biwako. It s fine, rather hot day and very comfortable to drive along the road around the lake. There are big, old pine trees along the road and the lake

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There is a hamburger shop near our office.The hamburgers sold there are rather expensive than those of Macdonald.They are bigger than the Big Mac and the value is around 700 - 800 yen, while the Big Mac costs 400yen.But we found "the Birthday Hamburger" there, so we chipped in to buy it for our co-worker's birthday present the day before yesterday.It was veeery big! Bigger than her face!And the

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My mother and I are learning the flower arrangement once a month.We say "IKEBANA" in Japanese.The verb "Ikeru" means like "to give a life" or so, I think it seems to be a little different from the verb "to arrange".I usually learn "OSHOUKA", which is the very basic way of arrangement.Generally we use 2 or 3 kinds of flowers and arrange them in set order.It looks like these. It is said that each

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We had a very fine and comfortable day today.It was not so hot, not so cold, with only few clouds in the sky.The air seemed to be very clear like a crystalline.Why do I have to work in the office such a wonderful day!?Oh, but the chance had come suddenly and I was able to go out from the office.A phone call rang and an old woman said that she, her family and her relatives got sick after having

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Today we had the first anniversary after death of my husband's mother.On Anniversary Day, we hold a Buddhism ceremony.Relatives gathered and listened to the Buddhist sutra that the priest read.Then, we had lunch dinner all together.In our region, as is often seen in the country side, women don't sit and eat lunch in the guest room with men.Only in case the women's husband couldn't attend the

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We had a big typhoon on the last Wednesday.We have not experienced such big typhoons for several years in my prefecture.We had much rain and terribly storm wind through the night.Next day, the typhoon had passed away but still we had storm wind in the morning, so most of school decided to close all the day.After typhoon passed away, we usually have a very fine day.The sky would become clean and

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Today, it's the harvest moon.It's supposed to be the most beautiful moon in a year.We decorate silver grass in the vase, and watch the moon with eating rice dumpling.But ancient poet said that the most beautiful moon was the 16th night, so we can see the beautiful moon tomorrow, too!

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Higanbana(Equinox Flower or spider lily) is one of the well-known autumn flowers.It dutifully blooms in the term of HIGAN, a week around the Autumnal Equinox Day.HIGAN means "the other shore", or in Buddhism, nirvana.It is a week around spring and autumn Equinox Day.In this period, we often go to our ancestor's grave as we do in OBON vacations.Higanbana is a very vivid red flower, but isn't loved

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It's very rare but I'm alone at home today.Though it is Saturday, My husband are at work, my daughters are at school, and my parents are going for shopping or so.Actually, today I planned to bring some stray cats to a vet for spay/neuter, but I had to cancel suddenly because we failed to catch them.So, now I have no schedule.I did the laundry, cleaned the house, then I started to organize a lot

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I found some interesting picture books at veterimary hospital.I love to read picture books when I was waiting for my turn.This time I found 2 English books, though it was very rare.One was "Cosset Your Cats".The book said that we must cosset and pumper our cats, because cats are worth to do so.Second is "The Truth About Cats".This book says that cat came from another planet! Wonderful!The third

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Today, I met a man who would help our NPO near Kyoto station.After meeting, I went around to see autumn in Kyoto city with my daughter, who is going to cram school near the Kyoto station.First we went to Nashinoki(tree of pear) shrine to see the flower of HAGI(I don't know English name).It blooms in the middle of September, but still they weren't full.At this shrine, people put small pieces of

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It's getting cool day by day.I hear the buzzing of crickets instead of ciaadas.Now rice crops turn their color to orange, it is the season of harvest.This is the rice crop field of the back of my house.Last week, they fhnished harvest.Empty field makes me lonely.

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We attended the Summer Festival held in the local area on Aug.29th.It was held late as Summer Festival, but many people came and enjoyed meals, songs and dances that people played each other.Our NPO opened a flea market and did some atractions.Kids gathered and enjoyed goldfish scooping -although not real fish,- or hooking water yoyo.Colorful and pretty erazers were very popular.After dark, the

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We held an event of dietary education today.And now, it's August, the month of food hygine, so the event was involved in food hygine.We prepared some games, quiz, picture-story show, and dance to songs with kids.We prepared black-light tool and fluorescence laution, to show how to wash hands right way.I wore a catfish costume of the mascot of our prefecture, called caffy, and danced to the song!

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Today, we took a ride on the local train named "Beer Train" with my coworkers.This special train runs only during summer time and we can have beer and a small box of lunch.It is only 90minutes of round trip through country side, but we enjoyed beer and food, relaxed on the train that went slower than usual.I hope we could have a longer trip, taking easy and going far away...

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Now it's OBON vacations here in Japan.OBON is a couple of days around August 15th, which is supposed that spirits of ancestors come back from heaven to see their family.So we take holidays in this period and go back to home town, to visit graves or to hold some Buddhist memorial services with relatives.Our family went to graves of my father's ancestors today.He was born in a small mountain

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Today, I and Susan, the leader of our NPO Japan Cat Network come to an University in Nara prefecture to help students doing TNR for stray cats living near the dormitory of the University.There are 3 cats here, a mother, a son, and a daughter.Kittens are about 7 months old, and very friendly.But mother doesn't appear...maybe she is very cautious and knew something wrong would happen with her 6

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Today, I brought cats to a vet clinic in Hirakata city, Osaka prefecture, about 100km from our town.My friend, who is doing TNR program and rescue kittens in Hirakata city, told me that they would have neuter operations at free of charge, and they would accept more 10 cats, so asked me to bring cats there, if our group had unnutered male cats.Of course there are so many cats in our region, most

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Finally, rainny season finished.Blue sky and white cloud, now it's summer!

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Finally, it stopped raining.So, we went to the mountain to go for hiking.It was very fine and comfortable for walking around in the mountain.But we didn't go to the top, only walked along the forest road.We took a rest at the cabin on the way to the top and had a coffee.My husband sometimes caught butterflies.Some people also came to hunt butterflies.Recently hunting insects are inhibited many

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Last week,my husband said me suddenly, "OK, let's go to Shinhodaka next week!"Shinhodaka is the famous mountain as mountain climbing in Japan, which many climbers go to climb from all over the country.But purpose of my husband was not mountain climbing but hunting for insects collection.He loves to collect insects, and always says that it is important to know true nature...Anyway, we came here,

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August is the month of Food Hygine.We had a caopaign and pass the paper fans to people at the stations.Today the fireworks event is held, so many people came to see that wearing YUKATA.It is one of the most fantastic event in summer!

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Today, we offered to delivery "grilled eel with rice" for lunch at our office.It's "the day of ox in the midsummer", which is supposed to eat eel to keep health and survive the hottest season.I love grilled eel very much but my family members don't...So I decided to eat it at the office with my co-workers.Grilled eel encourage me to go for work in these hottest days!

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We have cool summer this year.It has been raining every day.The rainny season should have finished already, it seems like it would not stop forever...But today, it is fine after long rain, flowers look like a little bit happier.These are Summer flowers around here.Beautiful with orange and red, though with my poor camera! ;-)凌霄花 Nouzenkazura(Trumpet creeper)Canna(orange)Canna(red)芙蓉 Fuyou(Cotton

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Today, I and Susan, the leader of our NPO, were invited to the barbeque party held by ARK(Animal Refuge Kansai), the most famous organization of animal rescue here in Japan.It was clouded and sometimes started pouring suddenly, but not so bad to have bbq.There came many people.Most of them were dog owners who had adopted dogs from ARK.Dogs looked like veeery happy to run around in dog run

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Today, one kitten was adopted.Her new family looks like very good.Gentle father, kind mother, and cute daughter.They have another boy cat, he is very active and quarreling with new cat.Mother was afraid that the boy cat would hurt the new cat, because he was much bigger and stronger than new kitten.But she is not so weak, let me say, a kind of tomboy.Maybe they would be good friends!

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These are Japanese paper fans.They are made of paper and bamboo, and they make us very cool also with their cool appearances.We deal them out in the month of Food Hygeine, to pay attention people to prevent food poisoning.Now it's almost midsummer, getting hotter day by day.We have to be cautious not to cause the outbreak of food poisoning!

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It's hardly raining.Pouring and thunder, it means the end of the rainy season and begining of summer.Now rain is too hard to drive, I can't see anything because of rain curtain.Maybe I should say, it's rain cats and dogs!

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Today, I ran around to adopt kittens.In the morning, I introduced a family to the woman who is feeding stray cats.She lives near the lake, and some people come and throw away kittens around her house.She has picked them up and taken care of them.She feeds 8 outside cats and 10 inside.These are cats she is feeding outside.I hope the family I introduce today would like the kitten and adopt him.In

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Now there increasing patients of Nova Influenza (so called Swine flu) rapidly among high school students in our region.Last week, one school boy was confirmed as Nova flu.He attended the Kendo (Japanese fencing) match, so many students were affected by the disease through the game.Then, those students brought the virus to their each school and now more than 70 cases have been confirmed by PCR

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This brewery has more than 150 years of history.Old type of brewery has characteristic tall smokestacks.The owner of this brewery does a lot of new things.He remodeled old storehouses to a small meseum, a Japanese-style-bar, and sometimes holds music concests or some other interesting events there.You can see where SAKE is brewered, with advance reservation.The brand name of this brewery's SAKE

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Today, I went to patrol around near the Hikone Castle.There are many mascot dolls of HIKONYAN, our idle cat.This is the shop of Japanese confectionery.And beautiful flowers in front of the shops!

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I'm a worker of Public Health Center, and one of my important job is to prevent food poisoning.So I go on patrol to the restaurants to promote atention to the owners to cook food enough and much more cautious when they serve raw food like Sashimi.Today, I went around countryside of our city.People here are VERY at ease.Only few people lock their house when they go out.This is a Tofu shop without

Nyankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087180750508143813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774140672065154799.post-62626257871762417752009-07-13T17:24:00.001+09:002009-07-13T21:47:08.753+09:00

This is my mobile phone.It has a strap of Muttley, (Japanese name is Kenken) who is the best partner of Dastardly in "Wacky Race&quot".Japanese mobile phone is very convenient.It has variable functions, and I can do whatever I want only with my mobile phone.I read today's headline news in the morning, and check the weather report of my region.Then I read some blog posts of my favorites or of my

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It's very hot and humid every day.I cut my cat furr and made him COOL!That's summer style, and the newest fashion here in Japan! ;-)

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I'm tired... :-(Actually I haven't publish a new post for a month.I wonder what I have been doing...At the end of May, Novel Influenza patient was confirmed in our city at last.We had been a little busier with investigation or answering phone calls from people here.We opened 24hours phone answering section, and we stayed over night in our office by 2 shifts.And I ran around here and there to trap

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A worker of Welfare Soceity of old people came to me and said.An old woman has to be hospitalized and her nephew, a half Japanese Canadian came to take care of her.But the old woman was feeding stray cats and now 12 cats including 6 kittens are around her house, so her house is terribly messy. The Canadian nephew said, "I have to clean my aunt's house, so are there anyone who will take cats away

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I'm a worker of a munincipal Public Health Center.One of my job is to promote human health and to investigate infectious diseases. Now patients of novel influenza have been confirmed here in Japan. 2days ago, patients were only 10 students.But now, the number of patients got rised to 135, mainly 10 - 20 years old students. They have never been to oversee trip. They have got diseases in Japan, by

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I got a call from a woman who has been feeding stray cats for 3years. She and her friend caught some of strays and spay/neuter them, but one of cats gave birth to some kittens in the box that her family made for the cat's house. She wanted us to help catching the cats to spay her, and find new owners for kittens.So, we caught them by trap and brought to the shelter of Japan Cat Network. The vet

Nyankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087180750508143813noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774140672065154799.post-38432473953558427242009-05-06T08:34:00.005+09:002009-05-06T09:19:21.400+09:00

We have the local festival from May 3rd to May 5th in our region every year.I think the English term "Festival" doesn't explain exactly, so I call "MATSURI" in Japanese here.Matsuri is held to please our local GODs, staying in the local shrine.Our local GODs guards us every day and promise plenty of rice harvest, our health and prevent from disaster.So we hold MATSURI every year to appreciate

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Today, I got a call from an woman who lives alone with 5 cats. She said now she lost her job and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to feed her cats any more... I told my friend of cat rescue NPO leader and decided to give her some cat food. We went to her house.She lives in very old apartment, she said that it's been 100years sinse constructed.She really looked like poor, but her cats

Nyankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087180750508143813noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774140672065154799.post-32073775234595412992009-05-01T22:55:00.004+09:002009-07-17T20:27:49.117+09:00

Maybe someone know I'm a worker of Public Health Center.It's difficult to explain my job to others, even in Japanese.My main job is food hygine, animal control is a part of my job,too.And, health promotion especially preventing infectious diseases is also our job.Now, "Swine Flu" or we should say "Influenza A" is becoming a big problem worldwide,it's becoming very busy in our office.Today, 20

Nyankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087180750508143813noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774140672065154799.post-5285728504705649872009-04-25T09:03:00.005+09:002009-07-17T20:27:10.486+09:00

Now it's rainning...it'll rain all day long today...Our cats are laying around and taking a rest...I decided to sleep with them, too...I decided not to think anything about houseworks today!...Zzzz...

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For these 2 weeks, there increasing cat rescue offers. Last weekend, 2 people called us and needed help.They picked up kittens attacked by crows in the park near they lived.The park was placed far away from each other, but 2 people called us almost same time. Those kittens were 1 or 2 weeks old and one died soon...It must be very difficult to take care of 1 week kitten for someone who had not

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It's very fine and hot day today.Now cherry blossoms are full blooming here and there, it's the best day for HANAMI, watching cherry blossoms! Around the moat of Hikone Castle. A little boat going. Many people come around the stalls.Along the river Like a tunnel I walked through the tunnel. The last photo is from our office.The cherry blosoms are very beautiful with blue sky on their back. Maybe

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Today,we had rabies shot campaign in the parking space of our office.Japanese Law says that it's the duty for dog owners to shot their dogs Rabies vaccination once a year.And we have the campaign for Rabies shots in April and May.It was very fine and warm day, best for shots outside under full blooming of cherry blossoms.City officials set their desk under the cherry trees for reception. An old

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Our new cat enclosure is up! I posted about working for the enclosure remodeling of Japan Cat Network, a cat rescue organization I'm helping, and now it's all up and we all love it.Of course cats DO love it! This is outside of the enclosure. And inside. Cats are relaxing. Now, new volunteers gathered in Tokyo and they started working for new TNR activities and adoptions, also fundrasing. That's

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The new business year has got started.Today, I was putting old files into cardborad boxes and make new files on our desks.The first day finished like this...By the way, I wonder the "April Fool" is common all of the world?My daughters were looking forward to this day for joking their friends.My cats also love joking!I hope they would get along well forever! ;-)

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Finally, the last day of March came.It means the end of the business year had come.But I couldn't finish my job after all...I have badly pain in my eyes because I was struggling with Excel files all day long to make some reports about food poisoning cases that occurred in our region.Now spring has come and cherry blossoms are ready to bloom in front of our office.It's the most lovely,comfortable

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March is the end of business and school year here in Japan.So, we have very busy days in these couples of weeks.And last week, the personnel transfers were announced.Some people were accepted requests and could be transfered the sections of choice, but some people were transfered the sections unexpected.This year, no one was changes in our office, it's very rare case.I'm happy because my current

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Now it's spring...Yes,it's supposed to be the best season in a year, it's true.I've been waiting for coming spring through winter, and now IT comes. But, it's also the most terrible season in a year for people who have hay fever like me and my daughter.We can't open our eyes and can't stop sneezing everyday without medicine against allergy. This year, it's very warmer than every year, so you can

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Today, we worked for remodeling of the Shelter of Japan Cat Network, the cat rescue group which I'm helping, VERY HARD work!We had to remove all garden stones and mud without any machines and make ground flat.We digged cray wall with picks, put them on pushcarts with shovels, and brought it to rice field 100m away all by ourselves.Then we digged out a camellia tree and moved another place.Our

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The oldest cat in my family welcome you...He is very shy and polite master.Please make yourself at home!

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I came to Tokyo for business trip.I attended the "Society for the Study of Human Animal Relations" held in Tokyo Univercity, the highest educatinal institution in Japan. This is the campus of Tokyo Univercity.And this is the "Yasuda Koudou", very famous building of Tokyo University, where there used to be a big fight between students and teachers about 40 years ago.We studied about some animal

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It's Hinamatsuri today.It's called the "Ceremony of Peach", and ceremony for girls.Its orgin came from China.Ancient time, people made paper dolls and threw them into rivers, to hope their health and happiness toward coming spring.Then, in Japan people have come to decorate pair of dolls, male and female,called Hina Ningyo.It became gorgeous year by year and now it has 7 shelfs and some retainers

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The Japanese film "Departure" win the Academy Awards as foreign laungage film.This film is really good and I'm happy to hear that, too.But it's very interesting for me that English title is "Departure", not "Farewell".Japanese title "OKURIBITO" means "a person who passes dead people to another world",so to say,"a person who make families left behind a good farewell".Of course, "dead" is the "

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I've been struggling with changing my blog's template all day long...Today, I didn't do anything with my home works, cleaning, laundry, washing dishes...from morning till night, nothing!Well, my daughters are old enough to do everything of households so I let them do something, and I have been sitting in fron to of my PC and serched the way I could change my blog looking nicer.I tried some

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Maybe you know, Feb.24th is the Spay Day International.Our cat rescue group also attended this canpaign, and did a small event.We passed out fliers to people at the JR Hikone station and MinamiHikone station.Because it was on Sunday, there were not so many people walked by.But it was "The Cat's Day" in Japan , though we didn't know, some people thought it was a Cat's Day Event! ;-PA Newspaper

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It was very warm last week, but it suddenly returned to winter again. We had snow from yesterday, and it's very cold now... Yesterday, an old guy died.He had been sick for more than 5years, and he used to say, "I won't be long." But he was alive for 5years, since he was first said to be critical condition. He was very scary when he was young, we used to be careful not to make him angry.Some

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This year, it's very warm, we have a really strangely warm winter. Today the gale is blowing from early in the morning.We have such gale every year of this season called "HARU ICHIBAN" that means "the first spring wind", it often occurs with spring storm or spring thunder, which tell us the end of the winter. But it came toooo earlier now.It's almost one month earlier than usual! By the way,

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At the countryside in Japan like here, people usually keep their cats only outside, because when cats come into house, they scratch slide doors made of paper and wood or furniture. Many of those people only love to feed cats, and they don't have responsibilities for them as owners, of course they never think of spay/nueter them, they often say "I don't want to spay/neuter them because they are

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I took the exam of EIKEN test, which is a test for practical English proficiency. I had passed the Grade Pre-1, it's supposed to inquire a pretty high ability of English...BUT!! I can't believe I have as much proficiency as "to use English smoothly in dayly life",because I can hear only half of native speaking at natural speed.I guess now I'm as equal as American junior high school students...(

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Today,it was SETSUBUN, the end of winter.Tomorrow is the beginning of spring.We through beans today to through away eveils and invite happy.When my father was a child, he used to enjoy this day,he says.All families in his village, they put a seive at porch and sardines sticked with holly trees.Because, evils(=ONI in Japanese.or to say Devil?) come to their house and find a seive,they start to

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Last week, I had a very exciting and wonderful experiense...It was TV filming! I'm helping a TNR volunteer group(it's name is Japan Cat Network, managed by a couple of American) and a British TV company came to their shelter and filmed some cats!Their main purpose was to reserch about MANEKINEKO(in English, happy cat?) and to film some Japanese Bobtail cats. First,they thought to film GOTOKU-Ji

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An English man said "cool as a cucumber" in his conversation...He told me the meaning of the idiom, but it's very fanny for me. Why is cucumber so cool? I imagined Mr.Cucumber has a "cool face" folding his arms,and he doesn't become panic anything happens.He is not strong like superman, but maybe he can solve every problems with his cool face. It's so COOL! Oh,it's "Goyaman" not "Mr.cucumber". "

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I was just looking a news program on TV but one news shocked me..That was GAZA.It was so terribly...I can't express well...Some people say that Japanese people have been complacent about the current peace situations, but why is that so bad? I DO hope people should learn from cats all over the world. This is the symbole of peace!

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I found this interesting news today...If I trained my cats, would he be able to use comb to make clean his hair?Now only he can do is watching us cleaning our room!The news is here : Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users

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Today, I watched a TV program that said, "Now every country has its own English." It was so interesting.In the program, they introduced some Phillipine English like "chancing". Guess what means? "Chancing" means "groper", it's amazing! Or we Japanese say "to claim" to express someone saying something bad against something, though American people use the word "to complain" in those case. My

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"Ahiru no sora(means sky of a duck)" is my favorite MANGA in recent. "SORA(means sky)" is a name of main character,who is 16 year-old-boy, a high school student.He is a basket player but he is only 150cm tall."AHIRU(means a duck)" is he.He can't fly even though how hard he tried. When he appeared first time, he said, "I'm a duck.But my basketball shoes is my wing." It's because he is a 3points

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A Japanese proverb says,"NEKO NO TE MO KARITAI"."NEKO NO TE" means "cats' hands", "KARITAI" means "I want to borrow."That means "I'm too busy so I need any help even cats' hands!"Yes,we Japanese people think that cat is an useless animal.Of course they sometimes catch mise and prevent our house from gnawing our house,but that's all.Cats doesn't obey our orders like dogs,they don't watch house,

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I have been busy soooo much these 5 days.Last Friday,food poisoning incidense by Noro-virus, which is caused by the lunche boxes served by a big lunch servise company.I'm a worker of Public Health Center and one of our job is to investigate the cause of food poisoning and prevent wide spread.This time, the company serves more than 4000 lunches everyday, so we have to investigate more than 4000

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I was born in the Year of the OX.And my parents used to say, "You move very slowly whatever you do, because you were born in the Year of the OX." And one of my teacher said "The letters you write seem to be written by oxen.",I wondered how oxen could write letters... I found an interesting news about economy dippression and the Year of the OX.We still believe in some superstitions like this!-----

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Every year, my family watch HAKONE EKIDEN on TV.We do watch it all through...we can't stop watching although they only running.I don't know why they atract us so much.It's because they ONLY running, we could imagine it's too hard for us.Today,the 3rd day of the New Year, usually we have to go to work from 4th.But this year,4th is Sunday, it's very lucky that we can take one more holiday!

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My family usually spend the New Year's Day lounging around in Kotatsu and watching TV all day long.Especially this year,we don't visit any shrines because of mourning,and the family of my husband's brother,which is our only relative here, also doesn't celebrate this New Year's Day,so all we had to do today was to visit the dead mother in the Buddhist altar at my husband's brother's house. This is

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