I got up early this morning to look at an American League Championship Game between Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians on NHK TV BS Digital Broadcast in live. Today the Mariners won the fifth game against Indians and became the winner of Western Region of the American League. Ichiro did well at the game. But I was really impressed by the speed of balls threw by pitchers of both sides. Their speed was from 150 km per hour to 160 km at the most. And even though ball counts became three ball no strike, they recovered from pinch by striking out batters. From no down full base, powerful pitchers succeeded in stopping runs. They tried double steal (though it failed sometimes.) They hit big homeruns. Their game is always positive and thrilling. I enjoyed the game of big leaguers very much at my home in Tokyo.
| Today's regular monthly meeting of 16th graduates for Toko was attended by Messrs. Osamu Sato, Sadao Ito, Mafumi Terada, Motoo Kuroiwa and me, a total of five. We discussed the difference of philosophy between Japanese and westerner. Messrs Kuroiwa and Ito recommended me to refer to a book titled as "History and Religions" written by Mr. Hiroshi Yamamoto, one of our class mates (published at his own expenses.) |
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Although westerners force to choose one of the alternatives, it is difficult for Japanese to adapt themselves to such a way of thinking. Japanese have been accustomed to the traditional thinking that there is in-between about everything. We also agreed that the most of Japanese believe in the life after death.
Mr. Ito, who was a member of mountain climbing club of Toko, is walking around hills and mountains. He makes long distance drives frequently. He is very active. After I heard about his life, I thought that it was natural to have such activations even at our age.