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There was the final match to entry the national senior high school baseball tournament between Shinminato high school and the high school attached to the Kokusai University.
It was so exciting and moving game.
At the end of the eighth Shinminato was 2 points behind Kokusai. When they started to the game the manager Mori said to the players that he had also had the same situation 2 points behind the game 31years before at the final match but his team had won a come-from-behind victory.
It made the team encouraged and the pitcher Hakamatani took it deep inside and he made the first step for a come-from-behind victory.

In summer final match 1980 he played the role of a pitcher. In the team mate Hakamatani played the role of cleanup hitter. They finally could entry the national high school baseball game.
Hakamatani was dead 4 years ago when his son was in junior high school. He really wanted to take his son to the national high school baseball called 'Koshien'.
Mori talked about the game
' The pitcher Hakamatani was very painful body from the hard pitching getting treatment of drip injection but fortunatelly rain made 2days delay. I wonder it might be his deed from the heaven.'

I'm very glad to find the heartwarming news among the heartbreaking.

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Which disaster?

I'm very confused heavy rain attached North West Japan and many houses and cars were drifted. Hundred thousands of people had to take refuge.
I found no word for that cruel disaster. Just wondering why so many disasters happen in Japan!
I can't tell why but better to avoid next disasters…one after another.

We never forget natural disasters are near us but human disasters are also with us.
They occur complicated to annoy us.
Our life should be altered to fit in nature by stopping destroying nature.
But our modern life needs to construct roads and buildings invading nature.
We should know humans' profit is not profitable but harmful to the nature.
We can't live without cultivated artificial life but natural disaster itself caused by human disaster…I think.

Cold summer

It's reported rainy clouds come around above Japan, especially North East and North part of the main land.
Actually we have been often attacked by the sudden heavy rain fall called 'Guerrilla downpour in the afternoon. Though we had been familiar to the evening squall, recent Guerrilla is not said to be the same as the usual summer shower in the evening.
I'm not sure enough to understand the difference between the Guerrilla pour and the evening squall in summer. But these rapid rain fall brings cold summer while reduces the number of heat stroke people. But it will cause other damages. For example, about the bad harvests in fall, more serious problems will happen.
We need to watch out the food production and the price will rise.
The most important thing that I can do is not to waste food. If we ignore the bad situation and waste food,our life will be more and more dangerous to survive.
I think it's end of the mass production and mass consumption and take and eat moderately instead.

My favorite place

Good coffee and old-fashioned decors make me at home.
When I really want to take a good taste of coffee I surely sit on the law sofa and order 'hotsandset', and it's served grilled sandwich and coffee. It fills my stomach moderately. Most of all, it's only ¥600 although a cup of coffee ¥400.
I ask for another cup of coffee at last and I pay ¥1,000 all for it.
I buy before and after lunch having good time there.






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To get heal from the nature

The well known female montaineer Junko Tabei gave a lecture,
" Life is full of excitement at the final less than two steps to the top."
She uses a metaphor as a mountaineer to compare with mountaineering and life.
She has got to the summits of the seven continents all her career of life since the first Japanese female climber of the Mt.Everest in 1975.

She is now planning a party to climb Mt. Northern Alps and Mt. Tate inviting the families who got disaster in Fukushima by the big earthquake.
She expects those parents and children could get power from the nature and make impressive memory in their life.

She told in the speech
" Nature has great power. I hope they can get energy from the Mt.Tate and make their days brightly."

I respect her view of life such as living with nature and going through into nature.

                                           seeing the clouds below in the mountain

Heavy rain and flood warming

The weather forecast is warning there will be heavy rain and flood might be caused. The most worrisome is the area where the big earthquakes attacked.
Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate are warned by the heavy rain and flood as well as my area, Toyama.
But we are OK because we were not damaged by the earthquakes at that time but but those the East Japan facing the Pacific Ocean seem very terrible if they were knocked down by the bad flood after the huge disaster.
I pray for their safe and harmless life from the bad weather.
We will never end to produce hope until hopeless will die.




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A survivor from the ancient

I sometimes saw something quick rush with long tail when I worked in the garden. It always escaped immediately and disappear at once. But this time, I found it stay still on the wall and never went away even I approached to it taking photos. It was lucky for me to observe it for a moment. It's a lizard.
I just wanted such mysterious life would live long. I don't want to bother their lives to keep going on.
As they are great older life than ours, human beings is still new compared to them.
We should share the land peacefully. Don't you think so?



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