Notes:
Kiki’s Delivery Service < 魔女の宅急便>;
the Hans Christian Andersen Award　国際アンデルセン賞
witch 魔女;
broom ほうき
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Have you ever heard of Kadono Eiko? She will get the Hans Christian Andersen Award this year. People call this the Nobel Prize for children’s books. She has written many children’s books, but most people know her because of “Kiki’s Delivery Service.” It is Kadono’s best known book. It’s about a girl who is a half-witch. She can ride a broom and has a black cat named Jiji. After she leaves home, she makes a living delivering things on her broom. Kadono has written at least five more books about Kiki. Actually, I have never read any of the books, but I have seen the movie by Miyazaki Hayao. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
candidate 候補者;
even so それでも;
party 政党;

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Tokyo had an election for governor yesterday, and for the first time a woman will be the governor of Japan’s largest city. There were 21 candidates. I think this election was more exciting than the last one because more people voted. The top three candidates got about 90% of the vote, but no candidate got over 50%. Even so, Koike Yuriko was the clear winner. She didn’t have the support of any major party, but she got almost 3,000,000 votes. Masuda Hiroya, who came in second, got fewer than 1,800,000 votes. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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