Shinto is referred as a religion in which majority of the Japanese people believe.

As one of the Japanese, however, I’ve never really known what Shinto really is.

I follow some rituals and other things because those were already parts of my daily life, customs, and events. I grew up with them. So, never really questioned why. 

It’s kinda like…. ….. ….. oh well, I can’t come up with good examples….

anyway, when I found this website–>http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/shinto/

(yea again it’s BBC. I like BBC, what can I say?)

I was like… "wow, it’s a good summary of Shinto!" 

I’ve only read the first part in "full lists of articles in Shinto": Beliefs, but I already feel that this website can be even a good resource for me to learn something more about my own beliefs/backgrounds/ways of thinking which I believe are highly influenced by and relevant to Shintoism. 

This is also good for any of non-Japanese people whose religions are very different from the beliefs of Shinto. It’ll definitely help you understand Japanese people better:) 

I read this article of "Ladies of the France Resistance" on BBC.

This story is very impressive.

Not only were they teenage girls, but also they took an immediate action for their own country.

wonder how many females in my country, even males, would do something like what these two French old ladies did? 

not many i believe.

i’m not even sure if I would do it…?

I really admire these ladies.

*just to remind myself in the future of these women. 

http://services.inquirer.net/express/07/11/28/html_output/xmlhtml/20071128-103683-xml.html

I know many guys carry their cell phones in their chest pockets (both shirt and jacket) in their business attires. If you are one of them, you might want to change that habbit now after this Korean man died assumingly by cell phone battery explosion in his chest pocket…

As the article says, the cause is not yet finalized by the investigation. However, most likely this battery explosion had something to do with his death. 

It is pretty scary and serious problem.

Watch out your chest pocket!!

上にﾘﾝｸはった記事は全部英語なので簡単に要約すると、韓国である男性が職場で死んでいるのが発見されて、その男性の胸ポケットからバッテリーが溶けているケータイ電話が見つかったそうな。

医師のこれまでの診断では、男性の左胸に焼けたような跡があって、肋骨と背骨だか脊柱だかに損傷が見つかった。

これらから警察では、ケータイのバッテリーが破裂したのが男性の死因ではないかと見ている。

まだ死因ははっきりしてないから正式な発表はなされてないけれども、このバッテリーが何らかの形で男性の死に関係してる可能性はかなり高いんじゃないかな。

特に男性でYシャツやスーツジャケットの胸ポケットにケータイを持ち歩く人がいっぱいいるけど、あなたももしその一人だったとしたら、これからはその習慣を変えたほうがいいかもね！

ケータイは機械だし、機械はいつどこで何を引き起こすかわからないしね。そんなものを心臓の近くに置いておくってのはちょっと怖いよね。