Notes
Respect for the Aged Day 敬老の日;
turn grey 老人社会になる
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Today is Respect for the Aged Day. This is the day to say “hello” and “thank you” to your grandmother or grandfather. Don’t forget to be nice to the other elderly people in your neighborhood, too. When this holiday was created in 1966, there were about 6 million people who were elderly (65 and over). Only 250 of them were 100 years old and older. Now there are more than 35 million elderly people in Japan. They make up almost 28 percent of Japan’s population. More than 2000 of them are 100 years and older. Japan is definitely turning grey! (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
bellboy ホテルで客の用事をすましたり荷物を運んだりする職員;
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Albert Einstein learned that he had won the Nobel Prize when he was in Tokyo to give lectures in 1922. He wanted to give a bellboy at his hotel a tip, but he didn’t have any money. Instead, he wrote a note and gave it to man. The note said that a calm life made people happier than always trying hard to succeed. He told the bellboy that the note would probably be worth more than a tip because he was famous. Now, almost 100 years later, Einstein was right. The note sold at an auction for $1.56 million dollars (almost 178 million yen)!　(by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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