The Crab Burger
If you like crab, then you might like423

the new Dom Dom Whole Crab Burger. Someof you might be wondering what it is, but it isexactly what it says in the name. It is a wholecrab, fried, and put on a burger! It is a softshelled crab8 so, apparently9, you can eat theshell, the guts, and the meat, all with a nicecoating of deep-fried batter10. I’m not sure if I
want to eat the shell.

28/9/2020 (#13 this year)
The leaves on Mt. Moiwa have started to change color. Only just the tips1 of the trees sofar, but it is the start of autumn. And this is the last week of our first semester. How was it? Whether
you think it was good or whether you think it was bad, it has certainly been memorable2. I wonder if
the second half will be as interesting as the first half. I hope that we can put the corona virus behind
us and get back to some type of normal. I miss being able to see other people’s faces and interact
with them in the way that we used to.
Something You Didn’t Know (Hamburgers)
1. The word “hamburger” comes from Hamburg, a city in Germany. The type of meat used in ahamburger is said to have come from Hamburg and in 1884, there was a “Hamburg Steak”, which
was ground meat3 eaten in bread, like a sandwich.
2. No one knows who invented the hamburger we know today. About 7 different immigrants4 toAmerica laid claim to it in about 1900. The hamburger was popularized5 at the St. Louis World
Fair in 1904, but many people sold it from different small stalls6.

The burger has been released by theDom Dom hamburger chain. They have madeit to celebrate the opening of their new store in
Asakusa Hanayashiki, the oldest theme park inJapan. Have you ever heard of Dom Dom
Hamburger? I must admit that I hadn’t. However, itis very famous because it is Japan’s oldest

3. During World War 1, the name was changed to “Salisbury Steak” because people didn’t likenames that sounded German.
4. The Big Mac is the world’s most famous hamburger and over 1 billion are sold per7 year.
5. An average beefburger has meat from over 1,000 different cows.
20 differences

hamburger chain. The chain started in 1970, just over
one year before McDonald’s came to Japan. It wasstarted by the supermarket company Daiei. Daiei
originally wanted to go into partnership11 with
McDonald’s to open a Japanese restaurant.

Can you find all 15
differences in thesepictures? Good luck.

But McDonald’s wanted to split
everything 50-50, while Daiei wanted a51% stake12. McDonald’s pulled out ofSome of them are
pretty small.
Last week’s answer

the deal, so Daiei started their own
hamburger chain. The Dom Dom burger
became popular, but I think it waseclipsed by12 the Big Mac when
McDonald’s came to Japan. Have you
ever tried one? Do you think you will try
the whole fried crab burger?

1. 1.Tip～の先 2.Memorable 記憶に残る 3.Ground meat ひき肉 4.Immigrant
移住者 5.Popularize 人気にさせる 6.Stall 屋台 7.Per 各 8.Soft-shelled crab 殻の軟らかいカニ 9.Apparently～らし 10.Deep-fried batter 衣をつけて揚げた
11.Partnership 事業提携 12.Eclipsed by によって影を潜める

Some trees and plants grow extremely3 slowly, but

World Records
I’m going to stick with1 animal records again this week. I did the fastest 5k run
by a human a while ago, so this week … the world’s fastest tortoise. Theworld’s fastest tortoise is called Bertie and he comes from the UK. In 2016, hesprinted over a 5.48 m course in 19:59 seconds! That means he was running ata staggering2 speed of 1 km/hour! That doesn’t sound very fast, but theaverage speed for a tortoise of Bertie’s size is about 100 m/hour. So, Bertie is
the Usain Bolt of the tortoise kingdom. Some of the largest Giant Tortoises only
move at about 60 m per hour and it can take them a month to travel a
distance of 10 km. Maybe we should buy our own tortoise and start training it.
Maybe this is going to be the record we break!

Take care of your body.
It’s the only place you
have to live.

the fastest growing plant on Earth is bamboo. One
species of bamboo can grow at about 91 cm perday. It grows so fast that, if you were a little
patient4, you could actually see it growing. There
are about 1000 different types of bamboo in theworld and they are not all as fast. Some can also
grow very tall and some bamboo in tropicalregions5 can grow up to 40 m tall. That is higher
than Hokusei. Perhaps we should plant some in thegarden. The school would be completely hidden
within about a week.

There are no muscles in your fingers. Some people
have strong hands and some people have weakbaby hands, but that is not because of your fingers.
Your fingers only have bones and tendons6. The
strength in your hand comes from the muscles in
the palm7 of your hand and your forearm8. If you
roll your sleeve up and move your fingers, you cansee the long tendons that connect each finger toa muscle moving. So, if you are trying to strengthen
your hands, you cannot get stronger fingers. All you
can do is to exercise the muscles in your palm andyour forearm. Good luck. The person with thestrongest grip strength9 on the planet is American
David Horne. He has a grip strength of 122.91 kg.
That’s impressive, but he would have to go a long
way to beat the grip strength of the coconut crab.
If it were the same size as a human, it would havea grip strength of 6 tons!
1.Stick with そのままにする 2.Staggering 驚くほど 3.Extremely とても 4.Patient 忍耐強
い 5.Tropical region 熱帯地方 6.Tendon 腱 7.Palm 手のひら 8.Forearm 前腕 9.Gripstrength 握力