This a recent photo?

This a recent photo?

She did not come for a certain reason.

While welcoming the firming up of the present government policy to abandon the proposal of the reform bill to the Diet, at the same time some are worried that Prime Minister Koizumi won't clearly state the bill's withdrawal.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

A Japanese person would never do such a thing.

He is singing with a lot of ornamentation.

It often happens that young shogi players become a little self-important, but I don't think that's something limited to the shogi world.

"Say, you, the lady over there." "Eh?" "Could you give me a bit of advice?"

He has written a number of exciting detective stories.