ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/26(月)-3/1(金)
ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/26(月)-3/1(金)
ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/26(月)株価 ３４年ぶりの高値更新
NIKKEI 225 STOCK INDEX SETS NEW 34-YEAR HIGH
2024年2月9日のニュース
Tokyo’s benchmark stock index hit a new 34-year high for the second straight day on Friday. This came after New York’s Dow Jones Industrial Average set record highs for two consecutive days.
The Nikkei 225 ended the day at 36,897, up 0.1 percent from Thursday. It briefly topped the 37,000 mark for the first time since February 1990. Export-related shares such as semiconductors led the gainers as the yen weakened against the dollar.
The Nikkei index has surged 10 percent since the beginning of the year as foreign investors pick up Japanese shares. Analysts say such investors are buying into the view that Japan’s economy and businesses are poised for new growth. This view is also attracting funds from China’s markets, where the economy is slowing.
ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/27(火)能登町でボランティア活動開始
VOLUNTEERS ALLOWED INTO QUAKE-HIT NOTO TOWN
2024年2月8日のニュース
In Japan, volunteers have begun helping people in the Ishikawa Prefecture town of Noto, which suffered heavy damage from the powerful earthquake on New Year’s Day.
Ishikawa Prefecture has been sending volunteers to quake-hit areas, including the cities of Nanao and Suzu, since January 27. But Noto had been unable to accept volunteers until now, in part due to the lack of running water and safe accommodation.
The town is limiting volunteer activities to those who can make day trips. Eleven people who had registered with the prefecture arrived in Noto on Thursday morning. They quickly headed to their designated places after being given shovels, gloves, and other equipment for removing quake debris.
(Volunteer)
“When it rained heavily in the area where I live, many people came and helped us. I want to return the favor.”
(Shoji Yoshihiro / Noto Town volunteer center leader)
“I think their help will be a light of hope for the townspeople.”
ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/28(火)ゼレンスキー大統領 軍総司令官を解任
ZELENSKYY REPLACES TOP GENERAL
2024年2月9日のニュース
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had spoken of his intention to “reset” the “direction of Ukraine’s leadership.” Now he says it’s time for someone new to head the war effort against Russia.
Zelenskyy posted on social media his gratitude to General Valerii Zaluzhnyi for two years of service as commander-in-chief.
(Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Ukrainian President)
“We proved that we can regain control over the Ukrainian sky. Unfortunately, we could not achieve the goals of our state on the ground.”
He says troops need a “different approach” toward mobilization and recruitment in order to overcome a feeling of “stagnation.” The new military chief is Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi. He had commanded the ground forces since 2019.
The change comes as Ukrainian forces are running out of ammunition and soldiers on the front line. They’re struggling to push back Russian troops in the face of intensifying ground battles in the east.
ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/2/29(木)小澤征爾さん死去
MAESTRO OZAWA SEIJI DIES AT 88
2024年2月9日のニュース
We begin with sad news about a world-renowned maestro. Ozawa Seiji has died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo. He was 88.
Ozawa was born in 1935 in northeastern China, then called Manchuria. He began to play the piano as an elementary school student. Later, he entered the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and learned conducting. In his 20s, he studied under two legendary conductors, Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein.
Ozawa served as the musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 years. He also assumed the same position at the Vienna State Opera. Across the decades, he continued to conduct for renowned orchestras worldwide.
Ozawa had performed on and off since undergoing surgery for esophageal cancer in 2010. Still, he continued to pour his energy into fostering young musicians.
ニュースで学ぶ現代英語 24/3/1(金)野球と日系人の歴史考える講演会
HISTORIAN: BASEBALL CREATED ‘BRIDGE ACROSS THE PACIFIC’
2024年2月11日のニュース
A baseball historian is hoping to increase awareness of how Japanese Americans interned in the U.S. during World War II opened up a “bridge across the Pacific.”
Kerry Yo Nakagawa has documented how detainees of Japanese origin played baseball at their internment camps. He gave a lecture in California nine days before the 82nd anniversary of the issuance of an executive order by then-U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
The directive led to the internment of about 120,000 individuals deemed “alien enemies,” including people of Japanese ancestry. He explained that there was a time when people of Japanese descent were not allowed to play for Major League teams.
(Kerry Yo Nakagawa / Founder and Director, Nisei Baseball Research Project)
“What if Ohtani-san, Murakami-san, Nomo, Ichiro, Yamamoto-san, now with the Dodgers, could only play baseball behind barbed wire and only for their community? Wouldn’t that be a tragedy?”
