CultureEssayHistoryJapanese traditionUncorrected Toru Jul 09, 2015Jan 08, 2024 10 yen coins, 15 yen to 50 yen, engrailed rim, giza-ju, Japan, rare coins, years rolled on, ギザ十 Rare 10 Yen Coins in Japan In Japan, there are a plenty of 10 yen coins, and some of them are known as rare coins. They Read More
CultureEssayHistoryScienceUncorrected Toru Jul 03, 2015Jan 08, 2024 364, 365, black cards, calendar, club cards, diamond cards, fifty two weeks, heart cards, joker card, leap year, playing cards, red cards, spade cards, thirteen cards, weeks, year The Relationship Between Playing Cards and a Calendar Today, I’d like to introduce the relationship between playing cards and a calendar. The red cards implies noon, and the Read More
CultureEssayHistoryLanguageUncorrected Toru Jul 02, 2015Jan 08, 2024 ancient India, Canada, characters, Inuit, Inuktitut, James Evans, language, puzzle, space language Inuktitut Language Today, I learned about Inuktitut. Inuktitut is a language that is used by Inuit who live in the northern part Read More
BusinessEssayHistoryNewsUncorrected Toru Jun 29, 2015Jan 08, 2024 5 franc, 500 yen, coin, Guinness Book of Records, Japan, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, Switzerland, U.S. dollars, value The Coin Which Has The Highest Value. Do you know the regularly used coin which has the highest value? In the past, It was Japan’s 500 yen Read More
DiaryEssayEtymologyGeographyHistoryUncorrected Toru Jun 25, 2015Jan 08, 2024 10th century, Erik the Red, etymologies, Greenland, Iceland Greenland and Iceland Today, I learned about etymologies of Greenland and Iceland. Both of them were named by Erik the Red in the Read More
EssayEtymologyHistoryScienceUncorrected Toru Jun 22, 2015Jan 08, 2024 CIPM, definition, error, general theory of relativity, invariance, length unit, light speed, meter, prototype meter Definition of Meter Today, I learned about a length unit ‘meter.’ In the past, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the Read More
EssayHistoryJapanese traditionScienceUncorrected Toru Jun 10, 2015Jan 08, 2024 JAXA, Kennedy Space Center, largest, NASA, rocket parts, sliding door, Tanegashima Space Center The Largest Door Today, I’d like to introduce the largest “sliding door” in the world. It is located in the Tanegashima Space Center Read More
DiaryEssayHistoryMathematicsScienceUncorrected Toru May 27, 2015Jan 08, 2024 Collatz Conjecture, computer, even number, finite trial, natural number, number theory, odd number, unsolved problem Collatz Conjecture Today, I wrote a program source of Collatz Conjecture. 今日は、コラッツの問題のプログラムを書きました。 Although this is one of the unsolved problems in number Read More
CultureEssayEtymologyHistoryUncorrected Toru May 10, 2015Jan 08, 2024 flower, Germany, languages, medieval, story, translation Forget-me-not A forget-me-not is a flower. 勿忘草は、花の名前です。 This name is derived from a story in medieval Germany. この名前は、中世ドイツのある物語に由来します。 Knight Rudolph found Read More