The Origin of Fatty Tuna These days, Sushi（寿司/スシ) has been gaining popularity around the world. Sushi is a traditional Japanese fast-food. It was sold at street stalls in Edo era, around 200 years ago, and many ordinary people like farmers or shopkeepers went out for eating Sushi because it was very cheap and easy to eat. Usually, the most popular and expensive sushi topping is fatty Tuna（トロ) nowadays. It costs around 2-10 US dollars for a piece. Red tuna（赤身）is cheaper in price, and the taste is plain. However, in the Edo era in Japan, Red Tuna was more expensive than Fatty Tuna because fatty tuna is too oily to eat.The fat part of fish was removed in the cooking process. Fatty tuna was a cheap and instant meal for the people in a lower class. Then, the question will be raised here. When is it that the fatty tuna has gained popularity? Actually, it was around at the beginning of Meiji Era, which is around in 1860. After the Black Ships, the fleet of United States Navy ships led by Matthew PERRY, came to Uraga port, the Western culture was brought to Japan. People started to eat chocolate and beef. People enjoyed the taste of Sukiyaki, (スキヤキ) a beef hot pot. So, the food culture was changed in a western way. People came to prefer the "oily" taste in food. Around at that time, people rediscovered the taste of fatty tuna (トロ) as well.

Manga Culture in Japan. Recently, Manga (Japanese comic books) has been more and more popular around the world. Some people say they like Hagane no Renkonjyutushi (Full Metal Alchemist). Other people say they like Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). Some of them are made into films and they also attract new fans of manga. It seems interesting. One of my favorite manga is Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure). It was first published almost over twenty years ago on Weekly shonen Jump, which is also famous for the mother of DragonBall and SLAM DUNK. One of the reason why many people like Jojo is that there are a lot of very very unique characters in the story. One of my friends even copy the posture of Jojo(main character), he standing on the right reg with both arms crossed and staring down at me. I sometimes get annoyed and say, "Hey, I can do BETTER!!" JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is interesting.

My Most Terrifying Experience I…I..I seriously am a serious person, most of the time. I am not a type of the jerk who let a sea turtle out of the mouth. Oh, I'm just joking. Anyway, I'm going to tell the true story which may sound unbelievable to you. About 4 years ago, it was in 2011 at this time of the year, around in November… It was very very cold outside at 11:30 p.m. The freezing night sky in the dark was very beautiful. Stars in the sky were like gems in the treasure box. It was a beautiful night. I thought, I probably would not like to waste my limited lifetime on browsing old my myspace page to check if there's a survivor in the test of time, so I went out in the middle of night. It was around at 11:30 p.m. It was very very cold outside. Where should I go? There is a shrine near my house, within the distance of 3 minutes' walking. I don't know why, but I started to walk toward the shrine almost unconsciously. It was very dark. The shrine, when I reached, showed the dark silhouette against the deep blue sky. I had a seat on the bench. I looked up at the stars. Beau--ti--ful…(sigh) Suddenly, I noticed some white silhouette coming into my sight. That was clearly a young woman wearing a very long white dress almost touching the feet. She was probably…um…27 years old or younger? She seemed to have a very long black hair. Some of you might know a Japanese popular horror movie, Ring, (I strongly hope you might know) and the popular main character, Sadako（貞子）(HONESTLY I EVEN DONT WANT TO WRITE THE NAME HERE 怖いです！！) has a very long black hair like I saw the woman that night. Oh….now I'm starting to be scared again… I…I saw….I saw that kind of figure, a long black haired woman wearing a white Japanese dress(white Kimono)standing speechless looking back at me….. OOOOOHHHHHHHHHH NOW I'M ALREADY SCARED!!!! I already regret writing this here…oh…I can't take a shower alone today… Then I stood up and ran, without looking back…being afraid of that woman chasing me. I safely went back home anyway, but it was a true story. Do you believe me? Or..I think it depends on the culture whether the ghost really exists or not. In Japan, some people had this kind of experience. It depends on you if you believe this or not.