My Favorite Japanese Dramas

-TRICK
Naoko is one of main people in the drama. She is an unpopular magician, but she says herself "very popular magician." She does not believe in supernatural phenomenon. Mr. Ueda is a professor and he tries to demonstrate with science in supernatural phenomenon. They venture to expose trickery. The drama has comedy.



-Liar Game
The drama was broadcast in 2007. The drama was late-night broadcasting, but the drama was watched by many, many people and was popular drama. Nao is a main person in the drama. One day, she got 10 million yen and she had to scramble for 10 million yen of other person with hard liar games. Nao was swindled by other people. Suddenly, a man appeared and helped to Nao.



-Maou
The drama was broadcast in 2008. The original of the drama is in Korea. I have never seen Korea's the drama. I watched the drama remade in Japan. The story is revenge and tragedy. A boy was killed by his class mates when they were junior high school students. The boy's older brother decided to revenge on the class mates. The older brother is a lawyer, and a member of the class mates is a detective now. The lawyer is mixed up with the detective, so the lawyer has many chances on the revenge.



-Kurosagi
The drama was broadcast in 2006. A man was swindled by con men. He had no choice, so he was forced to kill his entire family and himself. Only by chance did the son of him survive and the son is rumored to be taking his revenge on the "Shirosagi." The son's name is Kurosaki, and he is called "Kurosagi" by police and other con men.

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Book Review 1-1 VAMPIRE KILLER

Colin Miller is the main person in the story. He is 18 years old. He needs money, so he looks for a job. Marcus Fletcher is a professor and a vampire killer. He believes in the vampires. He needs people who help him to kill the vampires. Claudia helps the professor with Collin, but she doesn't believe in the vampires.

Colin is looking for a job because he needs money, but there are no jobs in the town. One day, he finds a notice about a job. The conditions the job is written in the notice. He thinks that he meets the conditions, so he calls the telephone number. He notices that the job is vampire killer after he met the professor. Colin thinks that the job is no good, but he promises to help the professor because he wants money. After that, Colin meets Claudia. Colin, Professor Fletcher and Claudia look for the vampire at midnight. They arrive at the number sixteen room in a building. They enter the room, but the vampire isn't there. Colin looks in the bedroom. Suddenly, he hears the voice of Claudia. There is Claudia smiling there. She is transformed a vampire. She is a true vampire. Colin is helped by sun light and he run away. He doesn't go out because perhaps Claudia is looking for him.

I chose the book because I had interest in the title of the book. The book has comic style and the pictures of the book are computer graphics. It is easy for me to read the book. I was surprised by the ending of the story. I never expected that Claudia is a vampire. I don't think that I work dangerous jobs for money.

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I Had My Hair Permed

I had my hair permed at WILL, a hair salon, nearby Tetori Jinja Shrine. It is first time for me to have a permanent wave my hair in my life. I had digital permanent which is one of ways permanent and durable permanent. My friends looked me and said to me "Kaori's hair style is very good and cute." I was very happy. When I had my hair permed, the hair salon made 50% discount. I was lucky.

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Essay 1 Introduce Myself

Hello, my host family! My name is Kaori S. Kaori is my first name. I’m Japanese and female. I was born in 1988, so I’m 20 years old now. I’m a KGU student. I’m majoring in English. I study not only other countries’ languages but also other countries’ cultures, international law, religion, and other things. I have been working at a part-time at McDonald’s restaurant for two years. I’m SW Manager, so I have to manage money and materials of my store. I like music very much, so I listen to Japanese pop songs every day, and I often listen to classic music and Chinese pop songs. I had belonged to the brass band club for nine years. I played the trumpet. I learned how to play the piano when I was a little girl. I like playing the trumpet and piano very much.

Kumamoto Prefecture where I live in is a very good place. For example, there is Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto City. The castle is a historical building and the castle was built 400 years ago. Kumamoto has a rich nature. There is the Ariake Sea which is one of famous seas in Japan, and Mt. Aso which is the famous Caldera Mountain in Kumamoto Prefecture. The local dishes of Kumamoto are Basashi, which is slied raw house meet, Ikinari Dango, which is sweet potato dumpling, Karashi Renkon, which is lotus root with mustard. In conclusion, Kumamoto had rich nature and foods.

I have four people in my family, my father, my mother, my older sister, and me. My father’s job is carrier, so he is strong man. My mother is a house wife. She is an overprotective person. My older sister works at a general store. She is 23 years old now. She and I like each other, so we seldom quarrel. I don’t have a pet because the condominium which we live in prohibits keeping pet.

My dream is to become an English teacher for children. I have some reasons. The first reason is I like children is very much. The second reason is I like English. The third reason is I want children to become international people in their future. I’m studying English hard because of my dream. I want to be a good teacher.

I have some questions. First question, how many things do you know about Japan? Second, what do you think of Japan? Next, what is the image of the Japanese that you have? Do you know Japanese culture? Finally, do you know Japanese prime minister? That’s all. Thank you.

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