August 17th, 2016 Miyako International Community Radio via Miyako Harbor Radio 82.6 FM [LIVE]

Producer: Hisao Hashimoto
Assistant Producer: Saaya Tazawa
Navigator: Hisako Yamaguchi
Member: Francis Yuen, Bejay Ta, Victor Kochaphum, Haley Skye, Tanner Flory, Simon Holden
Interpreter: Togoo Sasaki, Ito Shunsuke

The topic of the show were obon in Japan and also origami.
Origami is very difficult for anybody for the very first time no matter if you are Japanese or not.
I am even still not sure how to fold one of the most popular origami crane ("tsuru" in Japanese.)
I guess I don't bother remembering how to fold origami much. *LOL*
The instruction of how to fold crane is as below:

And after you mastering folding origami crane, eventually, you would be able to make something like

Don't Drive and INGRESS

INGRESS is an interesting smartphone game and I have been playing months now. What is INGRESS? Here's a wiki. Ingress (game) via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(game) Players have to move around their towns for this game, so some players walk, another players use their bikes, and others drive. But you have to be very careful when you play this game and drive your car at the same time. When you get caught by watching smartphone while your are driving, you will get 1 penalty point on your driver's license and also the ticket cost you 6,000 yen. How do I know about it?

[PolitiC@Nippon] Ryukougo Taisho 2016: Japan’s Most Vogue Words of the Year

Ryukougo Taisho is one of the unique events of Japan. In the end of the year, they choose the buzzing words that everyone is using them in common during the year from TV shows, dramas, news, so on. (Sometime, it's not really used in common, but they pick those words anyway.) Last year, they chose some words from from politic, such as Abe Seiji wo Yurasanai (or "We won't tolerate Abe's politics") SEALDs, the "youth (well, there are some young folks but mostly old folks in their 60s and 70s) group" going against to Abe's politics) and so on. Ref: [Ryukougo Taisho 2015: Japan's Most Vogue Words of the Year] http://www.mtv81.com/features/specials/ryukougo-taisho-2015-japans-most-vogue-words-of-the-year/ This year, one of the words they choose is:

At a theater

While I was watching the play at the theater, I suddenly said 　　　 then, I woke up. Yes, I was talking in my sleep. The person who was sitting next me was surprised and looking at me. So, I said her Then, I went back to sleep.

Ito Shunsuke

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