The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

August 30, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
What I learn from teaching many years is that the most important thing in studies is to read books. Anyone who read books surpass that of others. This is true in any languages.

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain
US writer
1835-1910
優れた書物を読まない人は、それらを読めない人より買っているわけでは決してない。

I want you to write about the most impressive book you have read and why you chose it.

gto

Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from wise men.

August 29, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
It is our third day of lesson in Surugadai Campus of Meiji University.
I understand you are working hard and tired, but you are young and now is the chance to study.

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men."
Marcus Porcius Cato
Roman statesman
234 BC-149 BC
愚か者が賢者から学ぶより多くのことを、賢者は愚か者から学ぶ。

Today I want you to think what you have learned from your education in the elementary, kindergarten, or middle school(junior high school). Write anything you remember in your school life.

gto

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

August 28, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
John Galsworthy
English novelist and dramatist
1867-1933
自分の将来について考えないのなら、将来はない。

To Meiji University High school students：Write an essay of 100 words with the above phrase
and on your dream. We have a dream.  This dream is our motivation to study hard and to attain our goal.
Meiji University's motto is ever forward, go forward, move forward.
I think this is an excellent motto for us to improve ourselves.
gto

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

August 27/28, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
I would like to express my heart warming welcome to the students who are taking the Summer Seminar of Meiji University High School of 2013.
It is my seventh year with Meiji University High School students since I started this TOEIC classes for the Meji University High School.

I want you to read my Blog this week and write an English composition(essay) of 100 words or less next day from Wednesday to Friday.
Today I want you to think of the message I wrote and write an essay on the topic as well as a short self introduction of yourself.

Think about this message:
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
決して一つの敗北を決定的な敗北だと勘違いしてはならない。
F.Scott Fitzgerald
US novelist
1896-1940

The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them.

August 23, 2013
"The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain
US writer
1835-1910

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

August 21, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
 I found out two things recently.  One is that Tokyo University grading system is A,B, C, and F.
Most students will receive A's. Under this condition most students GPA will be 4.0 and they will have far advance grades to receive a full scholarship in the USA over "the private universities" students from Japan.
The other is I learn in the university that the Shogun's decree is above that of the emperor.  Japanese bureaucrats misinterpreted the decree that the imperial government gave to the supreme commander of pacifying the barbarians in  the eastern Japan(SEI I TaiSHOGUN) that it was in the war time but they said throughout any time.  So emperors hesitated of giving the title to Minamono no Yoritomo or Ashikaga Taga Takauji. They will be superior commanders above the emperor's decrees.( the Legal History of Japan )

Today's quote:
"Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."
簡単なことを完璧にやる根気強い人たちだけが、難しいことを難なくこなす能力を身につける。
Johann Schiller
German poet and Dramatist
1759-1805

Consider the postage stamp:its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

August 20, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
Josh Billings
US writer
1818-1885
"切手のことを考えてみなさい。　　その利用価値は、向こうに行き着くまで一つのものに貼りついていられることだ。”

Tomorrow I will start the classes in Mita Campus of Keio University Summer School of their Extension classes.
I will take the Japanese Economic History and the Japanese Legal History, both have huge books to read in a week. I think a year of intensive study of Japanese is needed, so I will do so.
I started retaking courses in the university was to get  credentials in teaching social studies in Japanese high school and still pursuing today for that.
gto

To love life is to love time. Time is the stuff life is made of.

August 18, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"To love life is to love time. Time is the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin
US statesman, diplomat, inventor, scientist and publisher
1706-1790
人生を愛することは時間を愛すること。
人生は時間から成り立っているから。

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. 私はこれまで、学べるものが何一つないほど無学な人間に、あったことがない。

August 17, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
When I was writing a Master's thesis, I had met Ogata Sadako, who was an associate professor of International Christian University.  My impression of her was a young kind intelligent scholar.  I am very grateful for her help and advice in writing my paper.
 " I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei
Italian Physicist and astronomer
1564-1642
私はこれまで、学べるものが何一つないほど無学な人間に、あったことない。

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. 自分の将来について考えないのなら、将来はない。

August 16, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
John Galsworthy
English novelist and dramatist
1867-1933
自分の将来について考えないのなら、将来はない。

The film director, Oliver Stone came to Japan and said:
"Those don't care the past, don't care the future."
Surprisingly what he said in Japan is that many Japanese say the Atomic Bomb caused the Japanese surrender earlier than expected but what he said was Japanese made the decision to accept the Potsdam Agreement due to the Soviet Union entry to the war and not that of A bomb; he mentioned that there is no excuse on the part of the USA to use the atomic bomb and kill a huge number of civilians.
He mentioned that only those who went to the war understand the tragedy and never to have it again.

gto

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

August 15, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister and novelist
1804-1881
成功の秘訣は、目的をしっかりと持ち続けることだ。
gto

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

August 13, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
I will decide on August 15, 2013
what I will do with Facebook and the Network.

" I don't know who my grandfather was;I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
Abraham Lincoln
16th US President
1809-1865
私、祖父がどういう人だったのかは知らない。それよりもはるかに関心があるのは、彼の孫がどんな人物になるのかを知ることである。

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

August 9, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
"Not failure,but low aim, is a crime.
James Russell Lowell
1819-1891
US poet and author
失敗することではなく、低い目標を持つことが罪なのだ。

What! gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Venice, Act 2, Sc.2.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

August 8, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
I am traveling everyday with my daughter, Mary to Keio University, Hiyoshi.  She is taking Law and English Writing and I am taking Japanese and Turkish Ottoman Empire History. I never expected five years ago this would happen. It is my pleasure to go to university together. The torch is silently passed to next generation.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my clock?
Sonnet 34 Shakespeare

" Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1900-1944
愛とはお互いを見つめ合うことだはなく、共に外の同じ方向に目を向けることである。
gto

An exhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

August 4/5, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
" An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
That is Kermit Carvell.
Washington Irving
US writer
1783-1859
どんな時も変わることのない善良さは、転が授けた最も尊いものの一つであり、思考の荒海を油のように覆っていって、最悪の天候の中でも心を穏やかに落ち着かせてくれる。
これが、本当の友である、カーベルさんである。
gto

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

August 3, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
After shocking request from IRS I had a little energy or mind to write anything. But a nice request by Henry Mittwer's grandchildren's mail gave me a little energy to start writing some verses to re-establish myself as the most wanted career of writing.
I still would like to write few lines from Quote...Unquote. but to re-start is the most important thing.

"A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't."
Irvin S.Cobb
US journalist, humorist and writer
1876-1944
優れた語り部とは、自分には素晴らしい記憶力がありながら、
ほかの人たちにそれがないことを願っている人のことである。