Father's Day in Japan
Last sunday, the third Sunday of June was Father's Day. It's a good occasion to thank my children's dad(my husband).
- What we did on Father's day this year.
- Few decades ago.
- Today at public school
- Father's Day , Mother's Day
- My family
What we did on Father's day this year.
I talked about father's day to my girl. she goes to nursery school. We had a dinner at asushi-restraunt and gave a present. It was a bag that he wanted to.
Few decades ago.
When I was a kindergarden pupil, decades ago, I remember I made a card and a paper tie in class. We gave our fathers at fathers' visiting day. It's a lovely memory for me.
Today at public school
Today, talking about parents' jender - including father's or mother's day, in classes at public schools is regarded as kind of taboo. Proportion of families headed by a single parent, especially single-female-parent household is increaseing in Japan.Teachers are becoming sensitive to fatherless children's feelings because many divorced fathers don't see their children so much.
Father's Day , Mother's Day
Father's day look so pathetic compared to Mother's day. Many children are hardly concerened with Father's day. There are children not to treat dad or send nothing.
My family
I'll treasure to celebarate father's day with my family every year. It's a wonderful opportunity that children thank their dad - a family oriented father.
Meigetsu-in temple, blue hydrangea in Kamakura.
Kamakura is one of ancient capitals in Japan.
It's not too far from tokyo, a few hours by train. It's nice place for a one-day trip.
In rainy season, zen-temples are filled with blue hydrangea.
meigetsu-in temple is one of the most popular temples for their hydrangea's characteristic blue color, called "meigetsu-in blue".
It's been cloudy and rainy from june to mid-july, it's also the best time to see beaudiful hydrangea in Kamakura.
Wet season is coming to Tokyo, Japan
It's cloudy and so humid today in tokyo. wet season arrives officially.
It lasts one month or neary two months...until the middle or the end of July.
This rainy season is called "tsu-yu".
"tsu" means "ume", plum or Japanese apricot. "Yu" means rain.
It coincides with the season of plums ripenining.
Japanese love umeboshi, dried ume, dried or pickled Japanese apricots.
Umeboshi is super sour! suppai! becuause of citric acids in umeboshi.
When high humidity bothes you, try umeboshi, invigorating plums.
My kids love to play outside. they don't care the humidity weather at all.
I enjoy seeing beautiful hydrangea while kids play.
Japan born sumo wrestler became a champion!
Have you ever seen sumo or sumo wrestlers?
Ozeki kotoshogiku became a champion of the new year grand sumo tournament.
He was born in japan.
Maybe you are not surprised since Sumo is a Japanese national sport.
Lately, for a decade, we have never seen a Japan born sumo wrestlers as champions.
Most champions are sumo wrestlers from Mongol.
That's why I wrote kotoshogiku was born in Japan.
It's a big news for us.
You can see sumo wrestlers around ryogoku.
They wear yukata, kind of kimono.
You can try chankonabe, sumo wrestlers dish around ryogoku.
Youtube kotoshogiku vs. goeido
Maruchan akai kitsune udon
My nickname is maruchan.
I'm going to tell you why I am maruchan today.
I think you must know nisshin.
It's a Japanese company, famous for instant cup noodles.
Maruchan is other company which make noodles. I prefer Maru chan products.
Please try maruchan.
I recommend akai kitsune udon.
Akai means red, kitsune means fox, udon is a type of noodles, different from ramen.
Kitsune is fox in Japanese, but don't worry.
it's a deep fried tofu, actually. You can eat it.
Japanese people believe kitsune, I mean fox, has a special power. You'll see shrines of foxes a lot in Japan. When foxes granted your wishes, you need to give deep fried tofu to foxes since they are supposed to love them.
That's why we say kitsune as deep fried tofu.
Please try akai kitsune udon, anyway:)
Nice to meet you
Thank you for visiting my blog.
I'm a Japanese female, living in Tokyo.
I'm on maternity leave right now, going back to office from April.
When I told about my pregnancy to my American friend who lives in Tokyo for years, he told me , "wow! how brave you are! "
He can't believe we'll try to raise two children in Tokyo without our parents support.
It's not easy to raise children in Tokyo now.
In Japan, a lot of children are on the waiting list for nursing school. Fortunately, our girl goes to a wonderful nursing school right now. I hope our baby boy will enter the same nursing school from April.
Low birth rate is a social problem in Japan. Though,
We don't have enough nursing schools, maternity hospitals, educational expenses...
I guess there are not so many blogs about Japan by females having children, written in English.
I'm going to write my everyday lives and about Japan.
I hope you'll enjoy my blog.
