Q1.How do you choose a child's given name in your family?

My family considers the meaning of the stroke count and thye Chinese character, when naming a child. In Japan, we can attach our favorite reading only to names.

For example,

愛　→　usually Ai →　special KOKORO

It is Okay, but we have to pay attention because if we attached it diffical reading, anyone would confuse and couldn't read.

Q2. Does your given name or family name means anything?

My name and my younger brother's name mean "we love everyone and everything and we may be loved by everyone." This is my parents wishes. I can feel my parents deep love by this name. I like my name.

But I don't know about family name means....

Q7. How do you know if names are boys' name, girls' name, or both?

I guess we know boy's name, girl's name from ○○子 or ○○太,雄.
Alsoe there are typical names such as りさ、ゆき、あい、ゆうこ、なつき、ゆか、きょうこ　and ゆうだい、しゅんすけ、あきら、よしひこ、ゆうたろう　so on. Tere are various names.
Probably I think that I will make a judgment from old memory and experience.

My brother name is みずき.
This name seems to be both. I explained "my brother is boy" many times.

Last Class Survey

1. Concerning Religion:
a) Which religion discussed in class was the least interesting and why?

Judah

Because many Japanese have wrong idea about them. We were taught Jewish has been to persecute at World War Ⅱand Jewish are still persecuted for their religion .
But It is wrong. They also oppress another religion people. (I cant remember which religion)
So we need to know about Jewish from another angle.

b) Which religion was the most interesting or changed your attitude? Why?

Jewish

I have seen a VTR about Jewish. It is same reason the above.

3. Which topic was least important to cross culture discussions?

Name and address

4. Which speakers were most interesting and what did you learn?

I can't remember her name, she was married Australian.
Japanese welfare is poor, Japanese government say to people like "we have to have a lot babies" but Japanese government never help those costs.
Australian government help them.
It is really nice.

The United Nations (UN) is the key organization to promote and maintain world peace. Research the UN in the library or on the Internet. If you were working for the UN, which job would like to have using your English abilities? Why?



I would like to manage NPO and NGO.
Before the donations have reached people needed truly, it would be consumed by NGO and NPO. I mean first the donations is used for transportation expenses until they go there, second they construct the too gorgeous institution for working.
They invest those donations in much expense, in order to prepare, and they save people of mere a few by the remainder of only few donations. It is not a true volunteer activity. We should build a system which divides to refugee equally the donations which we contributed and gives it.

What is CCC?

http://doraku.asahi.com/special/sf/index.html


☆The United States does not have a national paper like of Japan. Therefore, there are many local newspaper stuck to the area. There, although it is not a celebrity, the person who played an active part in the area is written.
In SanFrancisco there are many Japanese-American.
The life of Japanese-American and the actual circumstancescondition are written to the local newspaper.
The ｃontinuance of the Japan town is now dangerous in San Francisco. For San Francisco, the Japan town has existence value and also symbolizes uniqueness.
Many Japanese-American has got the income in the Japan town. Moreover, it is also Japanese society there. It focused in their future and uneasiness is thrown into relief.

We tend to think that the Japanese who can speak English is smart, the Japanese who lives in overseas is cool.
We have to know about their worries.

When I was in Manchester in Britain, I have heard about Japanese-British from one of my Japanese friend. They sometimes confuse about their identity. Like "Which nation am I??" "What is Japanese culuture? I don't know about that anything."
Their trouble is very deeper than our imagination.We should get to know their actual condition in more detail. And it is important to get to know the difficulty of they living overseas. We could understand more deeply each other, when we interchange with them, because we get to know.