CROSSROADS Language Studio’s Newsletter, July 2008
It has been reported that about 100 people are One of the most interesting things in thekilled by guns every day in America. We have Japanese Constitution is Article 9. In it, theto understand that most of the victims are renunciation of war is declared. We haven’t had
common people, not gangsters. This is a any wars since World War II, and this is ourreally difficult problem for the American pride.
people, and it has been discussed for a long
But now, half a century later, a movement totime. When we talk about gun control, we “revise” the Japanese constitution, and Article
have to include the NRA, The National Rifle 9 in particular, has arisen.
Association. Even the US president, G. W.
On May 3rd, Constitution Day, a survey for orBush, belongs to this association. It’s easy for against the revision of Article 9 was carried out
us to guess that there is a close connection on 88 streets in Japan. In Matsuyama, 36
between the NRA and gun control. In short, it people agreed with a revision, 336 people didn’t
seems that this association has a great agree, and 60 people had no idea.
influence on politics.
Recently, others from the around world have
Usually when you obtain guns, you have become interested in Article 9. An Article 9
to show your identity card. Of course a conference was held in Chiba prefecture on
person who has a history of crime is May4-6th. About 12,000 people attended it.
prohibited from having a gun. However, at Mairead Corrigan Maguire from North Ireland,
what is called a gun show, people can buy who won the Nobel peace prize, and Cola Wiseguns without showing an identity card. This of the USA, who sponsored the Hague Peaceis the so-called “Gun Show Loophole”, where Conference, pleaded the case for peace.
a lot of people get guns illegally.
I recommend a book, ‘I Am Chary, an
Many people get guns to guard against Earthman’, in my web blog. Chary is a man
harm. One is reminded of an incident that traveling all over Japan by bicycle handing out
happened in America a few years ago. A paper cranes, “9 Chan” (named after Article 9),Japanese student was killed by his friend’s to people on the road.
family during Halloween when that family
In Japan, there are over 8,000 A9As (Article 9told him to “freeze”, but the student Associations). We hope that there will be no moremisunderstood this for “please”. He was shot wars; that nobody will die in war ever again.
when he moved. It is clear that this problem - From Ayuko in S(b)1
was not just about guns, however it is hard
for Japanese people to understand how sucha thing could happen, because we don’t have NET LESSONS: Are you too busy to come toCROSSROADS?.... Try our lessons on the Internet!
guns in our daily lives here.

- Article by Kenji in A1

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J oshua Says : Well, it’s really turning humid, and hot, again! It seems as
though each year is getting more extreme – “Global Warming”? But we have asolution – don’t complain (I know, I know, that’s difficult!), just enjoy it! How?
Well, for one thing, we have our roof-top B-B-Q party coming up at the end ofAugust. Cool drinks, fresh air… FUN! And, of course, the end-of-term party andperformance night is on this month too. Check out P3 for details. See you there!!
UUJunko Says: As one of the new projects we are introducing in our 25th
anniversary campaign this year, we are going to make an Internet version ofour Newsletter available to all our students who would like to have it. So, if
you want to receive our Newsletter in your e-mail “inbox” just let me know
and I will arrange it for you. You can even request a copy to be regularly
sent to a friend if you think they would enjoy it – free of charge!
UUPP

M ichael Says : I realize that it’s July, but listen to what I recently learned: June usedto be the name of the 4th month, and not the 6th. Why was it moved, you may wonder? Itturns out that May was a month for Death, and consequently people would postpone theirweddings until the month after. June is named after Juno, wife of the chief Roman god,and goddess of weddings. So as you may have guessed, the Romans though it better tohave the month following May to be named after the goddess of weddings!
UUPPPPO wen Says : Forecasters have told the UK it should brace itself for "unusualsummer weather" with high-winds, storms, and heavy rains. It seems the world's
weather is changing more and more. The UK has had floods, during the last few
Summers, that have damaged hundreds of homes. Have the weather patternschanged much in Japan? As I enjoy the, admittedly humid, heat in Matsuyama, I
can honestly say I prefer the rainy season to the cold and damp of home.
UUTTTT

G reg Says : Isn’t it scary how fast time zips by? I can’t believe it is nearly the 2008 Olympics
already. It seems like only yesterday when I was in Sydney watching the 2000 Olympics.
Speaking of 2000, can you remember the commotion everyone was worried about during theturn of the millennium and the Y2K virus? It seems that day by day time stands still but when
we look back we scratch our heads and wonder what we did with the years!! What will you dodifferently in the next 10 years? What do you wish you had of done differently in the last 10 years?
UU

E milie Dit: La terrible bagarre de l’homme contre le moustique a commencé. Le temps est chaud ethumide (mushiatsui) ; et de la rivière les moustiques font leur berceau. Adultes, ils se répandent à travers laville, et la nuit venue ils tatouent par surprise la peau d’un poinçon rouge. En Français, il existe l’expression« avoir une peau à moustiques », c’est-à-dire avoir une peau qui attire tous les moustiques des environs. Ainsi
au regard des pointillés rouges qui balafrent la peau de certains de mes amis, j’ai pu constater qu’ils ont
malheureusement « une peau à moustiques », et que par chance la mienne, intacte, n’est pas au goût de tous.
UU

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