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  This week I read Japan by Rachel Bladon. What do people know about Japan? Japan is in East Asia, in the Pacific Ocean Many people like sushi, and that comes from Japan. And everyone knows about Japanese sumo wrestling. But there are a lot more amazing things about this country. most people know that. - Japan is one of the most exciting countries in the world. It is also a country with many different faces. In Japan, east meets west, and old meets new.  　 In Japan, sushi and sumo are common ideas.  But I don't like either of them. Japan is a really fascinating country with a variety of delicious food and attractions. I love Japan like that. Many of the important things about life in Japan today were also important more than 1,500 years ago. Japan is near to Korea and China, and many ideas came to ancient Japan from people in these countries. Like Korean and Chinese people, the ancient Japanese learned to grow rice and to make cloth. 　China and South Korea are close to Japan and ar

  This week I read The Beautiful Game.  Do you like soccer  Do you play soccer?  In fact, soccer and football are different.  Also, football has a long history.  If you want to know such a thing, please read this book.  On 30 July 1930, 93,000 people went to the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay, to watch the final of the first FIFA World Cup. Uruguay beat Argentina 4–2, and was the first country to have its name on the World Cup. There was no television then (the first World Cup on TV was not until 1954). There were forty-one countries in FIFA (from the French for International Federation of Association Football), the international organization which controls football, but only thirteen countries played in the competition.  FIFA, now a global organization, initially had only 41 nations and only 13 teams in the match.  The world's first World Cup would have been very meaningful.  Football, for most people, is association football or 'soccer'. A hundred years ago, so

      This week I read The Olympic Games by Alex Raynham.  In 2020, the Olympic Games were scheduled to be held in Tokyo, but it was postponed due to the global pandemic of the new coronavirus.  I have little interest in the Olympics.  However, reading this book gave me an idea of ​​the history and charm of the Olympic Games.  I will write what I found in this book with a quote.  Ten seconds On a summer evening in 2012, eight men took their places at the start of a race in the London Olympic Stadium. It was the 100 metres final, and these men were some of the best, fastest, and most famous athletes in the world. There were runners from Trinidad and Tobago, the USA, Jamaica, and the Netherlands. Around the world, about two billion people were watching the race on TV. There were about 80,000 people in the stadium that night, and the noise of the crowd was amazing.  In 2012, I was 12 years old. And I remember this.  Usain Bolt ran 100 meters in less than 10 seconds.  Many people will have

      This week I read "Deserts" by Janet Hardy-Gould. This book is written about desert. I will tell about my findings of the book.  When you find a photo of a desert in a book, it is usually a very hot, dry place with a lot of yellow sand and no animals or people. Is this a true picture of deserts across the world? The answer is yes – and no. Deserts are, of course, very dry – a desert has under 25 centimetres of rain every year. In some deserts there is no rain for a very long time. Some deserts are hot for only part of the year, with very cold winters. And hot deserts can be very cold at night.  When people think about of a desert, they often think of a place with no hills or mountains. But across many of the world’s deserts you can find tall mountains.  Life in deserts, with their changing temperatures, warm winds and dry weather, can be very difficult. But you can find people in every hot desert across the world. Some people in Arabian Desert walk or drive for many days

      This week I read "One-Way Ticket" by Jennifer Bassett.   There are several short stories in this book, and I will introduce one of them.  "The Girl with Green Eyes" describes what passengers talk about on the train.   There were seven people in the carriage. There was the man in the brown hat; the young man and his wife, Julie; a mother and two children; and a tall dark man in an expensive suit.  There are many expressions about the eyes in this story. The conversations of the passengers were normal and not particularly interesting, but the explanation of the eyes made it interesting to see what they were thinking. I quote one sentence. These are the words that the mothers of the children in this story said. ‘People don’t always need words, young man,’ This word was very impressive. I recommend this book. The reason is that different readers enjoy this story differently. I enjoyed the depiction of the eyes, but others may enjoy their conversation. Please read

 This week I read New York by John Escott. This book is written about  New York city. More than twenty million people from all over the world visit New York every year. Most of them say, 'It's the most exciting city in the world!’ It was written about 9.11. On 11 September, 2001 9/11' to Americans- everything changed. At 8.46 a.m. on that day an American Airlines plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Seventeen minutes later, at 9.03 a.m., a United Airlines plane crashed into the South Tower. Nobody can forget 9/11. People all across the world watched on TV and saw the last minutes of the two big towers. Thousands of people died in and near the Center. Today this place is called Ground Zero. Many visitors to New York like to go there and remember 9/11. It is one more story - one of the unhappiest stories- from this city. When this incident was happened, I was 0 years old. I learn about this when I was in elementary school on television programs. I int