開催終了7月5日ギリホリ英会話
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2008年07月04日 00:03 更新
今週は土曜日に英会話を開催します。
【開催時間】14：00〜16：00
【開催場所】アルバーニー通り上にあるティムホートン（ビュートとサーローの間）
皆さんの参加お待ちしています。
「初めての方へ」
このギリホリ英会話はメンバー皆で集まって英語でコミュニケーションをとるのが目的です。特に
英会話のレベルなどは関係なく、英語を話す機会がもっと欲しいな〜とか、英語を話すのがす
きという人はどんどん参加して下さい。
集合場所は基本的にコーヒーショップですので、学校の授業のように硬いものではなく、気軽
に何でも話せるような雰囲気ですので、とにかく皆で楽しんでやっていきます。
流れとしては最初の45〜60分でお互い自己紹介をし、残りの60〜75分で用意されたトピックに
ついて話し合う、といった感じです。
もし興味がある人は是非気軽に参加してください。ちなみに参加費などはなしで、コーヒーを飲
みたい人は、コーヒーを自分で購入するのにお金がかかる程度です。
英会話の後にも、定期的に食事にいったり、ビリヤードしに行ったりと活動してます。皆で楽し
みましょう！！
【連絡先】
ヒデカナックス携帯： 778-231-4855
ヒデカナックスメールアドレス：hidecanucks@gmail.com
※ 特に参加、不参加の電話連絡はいりません。
【開催時間】14：00〜16：00
【開催場所】アルバーニー通り上にあるティムホートン（ビュートとサーローの間）
皆さんの参加お待ちしています。
「初めての方へ」
このギリホリ英会話はメンバー皆で集まって英語でコミュニケーションをとるのが目的です。特に
英会話のレベルなどは関係なく、英語を話す機会がもっと欲しいな〜とか、英語を話すのがす
きという人はどんどん参加して下さい。
集合場所は基本的にコーヒーショップですので、学校の授業のように硬いものではなく、気軽
に何でも話せるような雰囲気ですので、とにかく皆で楽しんでやっていきます。
流れとしては最初の45〜60分でお互い自己紹介をし、残りの60〜75分で用意されたトピックに
ついて話し合う、といった感じです。
もし興味がある人は是非気軽に参加してください。ちなみに参加費などはなしで、コーヒーを飲
みたい人は、コーヒーを自分で購入するのにお金がかかる程度です。
英会話の後にも、定期的に食事にいったり、ビリヤードしに行ったりと活動してます。皆で楽し
みましょう！！
【連絡先】
ヒデカナックス携帯： 778-231-4855
ヒデカナックスメールアドレス：hidecanucks@gmail.com
※ 特に参加、不参加の電話連絡はいりません。
コメント(3)
2008年07月04日 01:37
今週のトピックです。
In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For more than two centuries this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Following the Treaty of Kanagawa with the US in 1854, Japan opened its ports and began to intensively modernize and industrialize. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia. It occupied Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), and southern Sakhalin Island. In 1931-32 Japan occupied Manchuria, and in 1937 it launched a full-scale invasion of China. Japan attacked US forces in 1941 - triggering America's entry into World War II - and soon occupied much of East and Southeast Asia. After its defeat in World War II, Japan recovered to become an economic power and a staunch ally of the US. While the emperor retains his throne as a symbol of national unity, elected politicians - with heavy input from bureaucrats and business executives - wield actual decisionmaking power. The economy experienced a major slowdown starting in the 1990s following three decades of unprecedented growth, but Japan still remains a major economic power, both in Asia and globally.
Government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) helped Japan advance with extraordinary rapidity to the rank of second most technologically powerful economy in the world after the US and the third-largest economy in the world after the US and China, measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis. One notable characteristic of the economy has been how manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors have worked together in closely-knit groups called keiretsu. A second basic feature has been the guarantee of lifetime employment for a substantial portion of the urban labor force. Both features have now eroded. Japan's industrial sector is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and fuels. The tiny agricultural sector is highly subsidized and protected, with crop yields among the highest in the world. Usually self sufficient in rice, Japan must import about 55% of its food on a caloric basis. Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch. For three decades, overall real economic growth had been spectacular - a 10% average in the 1960s, a 5% average in the 1970s, and a 4% average in the 1980s. Growth slowed markedly in the 1990s, averaging just 1.7%, largely because of the after effects of overinvestment and an asset price bubble during the late 1980s that required a protracted period of time for firms to reduce excess debt, capital, and labor. From 2000 to 2001, government efforts to revive economic growth proved short lived and were hampered by the slowing of the US, European, and Asian economies. In 2002-07, growth improved and the lingering fears of deflation in prices and economic activity lessened, leading the central bank to raise interest rates to 0.25% in July 2006, up from the near 0% rate of the six years prior, and to 0.50% in February 2007. In addition, the 10-year privatization of Japan Post, which has functioned not only as the national postal delivery system but also, through its banking and insurance facilities as Japan's largest financial institution, was completed in October 2007, marking a major milestone in the process of structural reform. Nevertheless, Japan's huge government debt, which totals 182% of GDP, and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems. Some fear that a rise in taxes could endanger the current economic recovery. Debate also continues on the role of and effects of reform in restructuring the economy, particularly with respect to increasing income disparities.
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