New life

My son was born in Fujiyoshida hospital at 1:25 on November 5, 2012. His weight was 2615g. He cried vigorously as soon as he was born. Now he drinks his mom’s milk and then sleeps and evacuates. His cycle is once per 3 hours. My wife is also busy so she is sleepy a little all time.
His name is Kantaro, .My wife and I named. It means that we hope him to have strong belief, conviction, and grow big and tough parson to hang in there if he faces any large and difficult problems in future. Its Japanese characters mean a great trunk, so its big tree never falls down if it faces any heavy stream. So education is very important, we want to educate him with such hope in mind.
My wife, Miharu, did accomplish a great thing. She was in labor for 48 hours. It was too long time with very big pain, you know. I was by her and helped her for all time in lobar, then I could not understand it usual to have such big pain to bear a child though I had heard it laboring. So I asked a doctor and nurses if its condition is usual some times.
My wife and son are very good now. I rewarded for her labor.
Anyway, it is a great thing to bear a child. Thanks Miharu, I am glad to see him and exited our life in future.

Snowboard tour 2011 in Ishiuchi

We went to Ishiuchi Maruyama to snowboard with my friends on Feb. 12-13.
Participants are 12 local friends and 2 FANUC friends.

We took much movie.

This movie is our movie of last year 2009-2010, That title is 2%
Please check it!
I am white helmet, red wear and bｌack pants.

Tomohiro brought many presents for us.
We depended on card game, who can get what present.
I got a colorful goggle.
They are putting on each present in this photo.
We enjoyed UNO and Indian poker.
I lost many times so must have drink much.

Birthday party of Matsuko and Hiromi

The party was held on Feb. 11.

Matsuko is my aunt who is sister of my father. Her birthday is Feb. 12 and she bacame 59.

Hiromi is also my aunt who is siser of my mother. Her birthday is Feb. 19 and she is going to become 51 tomorrow. They are very friendly to me. I thank them for taking care of me when I was young.

I bought very delicious beef for them from Fujiyosida city, so it was the grilled beef party.

Miharu, my girlfriend, made birthday cake for them, It was very cute and delicious.

And I presented a big photo of summer festival for Matsuko and the T-shirt of FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, Japanese artist, for a limited time.

We enjoyed this party.

Hiromi asked me when is next dinner, yesterday. She seems to want to drink with us.

Anyway, they are single women and they don't have their children, I want to be kind to them, cute aunts.

Happy New Year!

Long time no see! I update Shizuo’s room for the first time in 2 years.

Our house was old 2 years ago, but now new one.

This is new house.

My father designed it so he seems to be satisfied very much.

This is restroom in our house. It is one of the most favorite spaces. The wood on the wall was kept in nearby mountain for long time by him. He likes its grain and shape.

I used this photo as New Year’s greeting card of my family.

Next of me is my brother, Masatake. This year is special for him. He is in Djibouti in Africa now. He left for Djibouti on January 7^th. He is supposed to teach Djibouti children science as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer for 2 years. Do you know the country?

It is the hottest country in the world; Maximum temperature is 71.5 deg C (160.7 deg F). I think, it is so harsh environment that it is difficult to maintain good health for him.

The enrollment rate of Djibouti seems to be the lowest in the world; Female gross enrollment rate was at 21.9% and male gross enrollment rate was at 29.0% in 2007. His purpose seems to provide high quality lesson of science with various experiments for Djibouti children. Anyway, I want him to take care of himself and keep up the good job.

This photo is Masatake’s going away party. He explained his mission and dream to Our families. Such opportunity is probably good for children, I think.

Moving and the latest events

We, our family, moved temporary house January to rebuild our house. Probably it was built about 100 years ago. These photos were taken after moving. Some families, who were related with this house before, helped our moving.












































I have heard that about four generations have lived in this house, including me. There are many tombstones in our grave so many generations must have lived in this land. I know my father has a long paper about our ancestors written by chief of temple my family belongs to. It was written about 30 years ago so it was done as far as he had known. Actually no one knows who lived here a long time ago. Anyway, many people must have protected this land and even now my parents also have this spirit.

Now I live in Oshino village. It is a little far from my home. In addition, my corporation is one of global companies so I don’t know when where I will live in future. My brother also seems to want to work in the world of International Corporation. For us it is hard to live in this land but I want to take my home carefully because our ancestors continued to protect it for a long time.

I took some photos of my empty house without our furniture and so on. I felt so sad. One year later, our house my father designed is going to be rebuilt. He is filled with plans of new his house.

Left woman is our neighbor who seems to miss my mom in next house. Right woman is my mom

Shinjo’s birthday party
































This is Shinjo who is my work friend. Namiki’s wife, Ritsuka, made foods for us. It is so delicious and the party was so funny that I drank so much though next day was work. Shinjo always makes crazy face, so shy boy!


Snowbird tour
































We went to Hakuba. It takes 3 hours there by car. There has more snow than here but not so much. We enjoyed free riding and snowboard park. I took many movies so please wait for our PV. Probably it will be funny.

Summer Festival in Akiyama

We held summer festival of my local area at August 14. At first, I just We held annualwant to say to my friends helped to prepare the festival that thank you for spending their time. It goes without saying that we enjoyed it much but many people took part in it and seemed to enjoy it. My local area doesn’t have many jobs so many people go to big city to look for their jobs. Now the population of my village is decreasing and my village has a high proportion of elder people. If you would live here, you must have been able to get many friends!

This year, I also planed all of schedule and events of this festival. For children, I asked a magician. For young people, some musician and entertainers. For elder people, a musician who can sing some Japanese traditional songs. And for everyone, we prepared so big fire works as last event of this festival! They were very beautiful and powerful. Many people gave a shout of joy and I was also able to enjoy them without anxiety if we could success this festival and fatigue.

I acted as one of most responsible persons of the members and I made much time to plan prepare for it. It was not easy to make time because my job is busy. It may be regardless of business depression. I envy when I was a student. But I must have been unable to hold it without my friends and enjoy it without my friends. I appreciate them and I have been enjoying my life with them, too.

I found an old man riding on a wheelchair in the venue. He was close to main stage and seeing events and performances on the stage for himself for long time. His skin was tanned and he looks very cheerful but I thought he couldn’t walk because his feet were strange shape. I have seen him last year so I wanted to talk with him and I asked him before fire works.
“Where are you from?”
He answered.
“Yokohama!”
It is so far from here! I asked.
“How did you come here?”
He said.
“By train!”
“Why? It was no easy matter to come here by train riding on a wheelchair, wasn’t it?”
“I live in Yokohama but I was born here! Last year, my wife took me here by her car! But my wife died this year! So I came here by train!”
I was unable to laugh but he did. Suddenly he seized my arm and made me take his arm. The tanned arm was so big and hard! He said to me.
“I’m pretty good! So I will come here next year and I am look forward to this festival next year, too.”
I was very glad. I had a great complement, I think. You know, fire works after that were soooo beautiful!!!

This is “Taisyokoto”. It is Japanese traditional musical instrument. We asked local old women to play that.











This is “Yosakoi”. It is Japanese traditional dance and poewerful. They are also local old women.











This is “an antertainer”. I negotiated him to play with very little money. He was popular among children.











This is “Japanese traditional singer”. I also negotiated her to sing with very little money. She was popular among old people.











This is “Bonodori”. It is also Japanese traditional dance. We made a circle and danced together.











These are our members, my friends. We did campfire after this festival and we enjoyed to hit faces with pie made from fresh cream!