English Diary 2026
☆ March 19 "Both the public and private sectors are urged to return to the starting point of the Fukushima disaster and carve out a new future for the country's energy policy." "Editorial: Lessons from Fukushima disaster must not fade as Japan returns to nuclear power March 18, 2026 (Mainichi Japan)" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260318/p2a/00m/0op/018000c I heard the word "Showa" for the first time in a while, haha. Yes, I was born in the late Showa era, and I spent most of my childhood in the early Heisei period. The world back then was quite different from today. There was no such thing as the attention economy like we have now. I guess I’m from the Showa generation. I was never formally taught cursive (筆記体), but since it was included in my notebook, I taught myself how to write it when I was in elementary school. Even when I write in block letters, it somehow ends up looking like cursive. However, since it would be problematic if my writi...