Cool Japan!

Good evening:) How were you today? Were you fine? It gets colder and colder day by day, so I think that I need to buy a new coat, but I don't have enough money...I am going to save money in order to buy it!

By the way, Do you know this site? http://www.nhk.or.jp/cooljapan/

This site is TV program about "Cool Japan", which is broadcasted by NHK in the night, and it intoduces Japanese things with some foreignes who are interested in them. I took the class which teacher taught us about comparison between Japan and another country with this site last year. Recently, I watched it and remembered learning in the class last year. Today, I'd like to tell about a thing that I feel Cool Japan.

Please look at the picture.

Have you ever eaten "Namagashi"? they are Japanese traditional sweets. Allmost of them are made from adzuki beans and sometimes included food which people can get each seasons. They habe been eaten by Japanese for a long time, and people enjoyed feeling seasons when they ate Namagashi in those days. Because Some are represented seasons and others are represented traditional things. They can be made in detail by a workman. I think that there aren't traditional things like them in another countries, in other words, These sweets are only Japanese things! Japanese sweets don't only enjoy watching, but also eating. I can say that Namagashi can be expressed Cool Japan. Don't you think so?

If you are interested in this TV program, you should watch it and look for your Cool Japan. I think that many young people aren't proud of Japan. There are many great things and beautiful places in Japan. Foreign people are more interested in Japan than us, so they can understand good points of Japanese more than Japanese people. We need to know about our country so that we take over next generations and tell about Japan for people in another countries. It is a good opportunity for us to look for Cool Japan in order to reconsider about Japan.