Rah! Rah! Rah! Cheerleaders pep up dour Japan

On a recent Saturday, some 20 members of elderly cheerleading club Japan Pom Pom performed at a competition near Tokyo, waving gold pom-poms and dancing to the rhythm in shiny red costumes adored with sequins and wearing bobbed silver wigs. The club, whose members' ages average 66 and add up to 1,520 years, practices two hours a week and often performs at children's hospitals as well as nursing homes. In Tokyo's bustling business district of Shinjuku, Aya Saito, 33, has been dancing on a street every morning to the 1980s pop song "Mickey" for seven months as commuters rush by to work.

My opinion

The group's enthusiasm appears to be contagious. Although they are not young and cannot dance well, but their try them best. This courage is so great. I should learn from them. I hope when I old or do not need work, I can do some interesting things like them. I think if they show themselves on the ground, everybody will clap their hands. Fighting!

Japan astronaut gets designer 'space suit'

The US space shuttle Discovery blasted off on Monday with Yamazaki and two other female crew on board, bound for the International Space Station (ISS) on a historic mission that put more women in orbit than ever before.Ahead of her departure, Yamazaki, 39, asked Ashida, daughter of fashion guru Jun Ashida, to design her work clothes for the 13-day space mission and she came up with a slim knit cardigan in light blue with navy blue shorts."As a female designer, I chose a design and colour with a sense of grace ... so that she can feel at ease as she carries out a tough mission in a male-dominated, bleak atmosphere," Ashida said on Wednesday."It's like a dream come true to see my clothes worn in space," said Ashida. "I'm looking forward to seeing her wear my design."

My opinion

The designer is so cool. I also like design something in my daily life. I want to become a stage designer, because it is so cool. I can design the stage which I like. Of cause, I also can see the star. The designer can have this idea is very interesting. Next time, they can try to design the spaceship. Japan's astronauts have shown a penchant for space entertainment in the past.

Japan's NEC offers eyewear translator

Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said Thursday.High-tech company NEC has come up with a device that it says will allow users to communicate with people of different languages.The text -- provided instantly through voice recognition and translation programmes -- would effectively provide like movie 'subtitles' during a conversation between two people wearing the glasses.Users can still see their conversation partner's face because the text is projected onto only part of the retina -- the first time such technology is used in a commercial product, according to NEC.

My opinion

This eyewear is very great. If I can have one, we can know foreign langrage well. Maybe we English listening will be best. Ha-ha. I think this is a good implement to promote communication. We can use it to instead of translator. You can imagine that every official wear this eyewear in international meeting. It is so cool. But, it is have a question that if we speak local langrage or the pronunciation is not very good, how this eyewear can translate? Is this subtitle on glasses harmful for eyes? Maybe it is still has many problems to use.

Fat fingered sumo wrestlers given iPads

Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads to communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a standard mobile phone.The Japan Sumo Association is distributing about 60 iPads among all the 51 training stables and top association officials from this week to help improve communication.A 62-year-old former wrestler admitted that while he can read incoming text messages on his mobile phone, he does not know how to write replies and does not usually use a computer.But "time flies if you play with this", he said of the Apple gadget.The iPod was chosen because the sumo association believed the device was big enough to cater to wrestler's fat fingers, unlike the smaller keys on mobile phones, according to reports.

My opinion

God! I want to be a sumo，so I can get a free iphone. Ha-ha. My mum always doesn’t allow me to buy iphone, but I want to have one very much. Sumo’s finger is fat as same as their leg? It is so funny. I think if they cannot use normal hand phone, they also cannot use computer or Mp3. How about their closestool? Is it bigger than normal one？Ha-ha.

China is expected to surpass Japan this year

China is expected to surpass Japan this year as the world's second-largest economy, an unprecedented position for a still-developing country and one that has brought strains as well as triumphs. Second-quarter GDP figures from Japan reported Monday morning show that its economic output, at $1.288 trillion, fell short of the $1.339 trillion China reported for the three months ended in June. That suggests that China is likely to pass Japan once and for all this year. China's output has topped Japan's before, in the last quarter of the year, when the Chinese economy tends to run hotter for seasonal reasons. Outpacing Japan in an early quarter is seen as a good indication that China has the momentum to zip past Japan for the full year.

My opinion

I am proud of my motherland. Many years ago, China is a backward country. The civil was hungry and poor. Many people immigrate to other countries. Today, many people still think China is a low development country. For example, there are many foreigner have ever asked me if many Chinese do not have enough food and cloth. Actually, china has developed very well. Except Shanghai and Beijing, most of cities are also very beautiful and improved. In contrast, China still is a third world county, has a widening gap between rich and poor. I do not understand business, but I think China is more and more strong.

Quiet please! Noise irks Japan's commuters the most

Taking the train in Japan and want to avoid annoying fellow passengers? Keep conversation to a whisper, turn down your iPod and put your cellphone on vibration mode, a recent survey by the railway association showed. For Japanese commuters, noise is the biggest issue, with loud conversation and music from headphones the top two offenders and cellphone ringtones in fourth place, the survey by the Association of Japanese Private Railways showed.Here are the top 10 examples of bad rail manners according to the association's online survey, with responses from about 4,200 people:

1. Noisy conversation

2. Music from headphones

3. The way passengers sit

4. Cellphone ringtones and talking on phones

5. Pushing, shoving when getting on and off trains

6. Applying make-up

7. Littering

8. Sitting on the floor of the train

9. Riding the train drunk

10. Riding a crowded train with a child in a stroller

My opinion

Make a noisy is a very bad habit. It is not only on bus, also in public place like classroom, restaurant, hospital. In china, if you make noisy or strange voice in public place, the other people will think you are impolite. But for Chinese bus, many foreigners may complain about pushing and shoving that accompanies getting into the bus. However, the people will give up for senior citizens or pregnant women. But my Thai friend told me it is a strange thing in Thailand?! Anyway, we must have a good habit when we are in public place. We cannot disturb the others.

Kabuki

Kabuki is a traditional Japanese form of theater with its origins in the Edo period. In contrast to the older Japanese art forms such as Noh, Kabuki was the popular culture of the common townspeople and not of the higher social classes. Kabuki plays are about historical events, moral conflicts, love relationships and the like. The actors use an old fashioned language which is difficult to understand even for some Japanese people. Actors speak in monotonous voices accompanied by traditional Japanese instruments. Kabuki takes place on a rotating stage (kabuki no butai). The stage is further equipped with several gadgets like trapdoors through which the actors can appear and disappear. Another specialty of the kabuki stage is a footbridge (hanamichi) that leads through the audience. In the early years, both men and women acted in Kabuki plays. Later during the Edo period, the Tokugawa forbade women from acting, a restriction that survives to the present day. Several male kabuki actors are therefore specialists in playing female roles

My opinion

Kabuki is always a special culture in my heart. It is like the Beijing opera, is Japanese traditional culture. I like their cloth and makeup. It is very different from Chinese theater. When you watch it, you can have a special experience like drink a cup of gongfu tea. I have ever heard that many Kabuki actors are must learn it from childhood, and every pose and action must be traditional. They are split into many ratings, and when you get a certain gating, you just can wear kimono to play. I am not sure it is true or not, but I think this art must very wonderful.