Although astrology has no scientific basis, it's very popular and it seems that many people believe in it.

Those good-for-nothing layabouts were sacked.

Basically I like short poems. Among them this poem was my favourite.

There was no damage to the office, or workers, and we're in business as usual.

I think there are probably few Japanese who know this side of the Emperor Meiji, the side that left a song like this.

In Japan solar heat is used more for solar water heaters than for electricity generation.

It seems as it was a shot-gun wedding so they're having a quiet wedding with only family and a couple of friends from university invited.

Disk herniation is when cartilage, called 'intervertebral disk' and found between each vertebra, slips out.

My water broke on the evening of the predicted birth date.

This time I hadn't converted my money yet, so I needed to change Yen into Yuan.