Japanese Surgeon's Daily Life

Rescue Training

　　I've been involved in motor sports for over 30 years. I attended lots of rallies as both a driver and a navigator. When I was young, even though my car broke down, I could maintain my car because the mechanism of the car was simpler than today. It lead to saving the cost of keeping a rally car. Now, however, the mechanism of the cars has become too complicated for an amateur to repair the car. It became costly to maintain a rally car and I gave up driving it. I'm enjoying the rally as one of the enthusiastic supporters or a course marshal now.
　　Today one of the rallies of the Japan Championship was held near my hometown and I attended as a member of the rescue team. My task was to stay in the car called FIV - First Intervention Vehicle - at the starting point of the special stage. The regulation strictly requires that medical personnel should be ready for an emergency in FIV. Following the headquarter's instruction, I was supposed to step onto the course first prior to other cars like wrecker trucks and investigate the condition of the entrants and the course itself.
　　The last picture shows the rescue training. A driver played the role of a spine injured driver. The rescuers removed his helmet and HANS device. They protected the injured driver with K.E.D. The injured driver was taken out of the car and was being placed on the spine board in the picture.

Bullets

　　I usually see patients at the OPD on weekdays until 12 o'clock. When the tide of the patients stops, I sometimes enjoy chatting with them about everything under the sun. A patient, who had been dispatched to southern China during the Great East Asian War, visited me today with some valuable things, some of which are shown in the picture. They were bullets for the type 38 rifle. The moment I saw them, I was surprised and shouted, "Is it all right for you to keep them privately? Isn't it illegal?" He disassembled a bullet with a smile on his face and explained how it worked and showed me that it had no powder at the same time. I'm not accustomed to seeing guns or bullets, and so I got a little upset.
　　In the battlefields, he was engaged in the maintenance of the railways and the transportation of the military equipment and supplies. His story was really interesting and suggestive of the misery of the war.

Microwave Oven and Toaster Oven

　　I'm embarrassed to say, I didn't fully understand the differences between a microwave oven and a toaster oven until this day. When I called my wife and ask how to use it, she laughed at what I had done.
　　The story is like this. I went to the nearest supermarket to get some late-night snacks in the afternoon as I had to stay overnight at my hospital. I was allowed to sleep, but if there was an emergency, I couldn't sleep and would get hungry at that time. So, I prepared something, which is shown in the picture. It was a set of small frozen pizzas, the diameter of which is about 10cm, and the description said, "You should use a toaster oven to thaw and cook them." My room is provided with a microwave oven and I thought I could cook them with it. I put a piece of frozen pizza in themicrowave oven and heated it. The result was....the pizza was barely edibleand the taste was terrible. I found that toasting and heating is completely different.

(Vocabulary)
thaw 〈人・物などが〉〈氷・雪など〉を解かす；〈冷凍食品〉を解凍する, 戻す（＋out）
～ （out） frozen food before cooking 冷凍食品を調理前にもとに戻す.

Long Time No See

　　I couldn't write entries for two months because I've had busy winter days. More patients, the aged particularly, suffer more of an array of serious health problems in winter than other seasons due to pandemics of flu, norovirus and MRSA. They had run riot in Japan. When hospital personnel took care of patients, they had to change clothes and wash hands thoroughly patient by patient for the prevention of infection to other patients. The procedure was cumbersome and took extra time on the rounds. Moreover, in March, the news of the outbreak of bird flu in around Shanghai came up which is connected with my hometown of Matsuyama City by regular commercial flights. In the case of the outbreak in Japan, I had to learn how to cope with it. I had gone through such tough days, but I received a week off and enjoyed a Taiwan tour with my wife. I'm going to write about the tour for some time along with past things.

(Vocabulary)
run riot（伝染病などが）猛威をふるう
cumbersome 〈手続き・やり方などが〉 面倒な, 煩わしい; 〈物が〉（重くて）扱いにくい, 運びにくい
take extra time（主語の事柄を行うのに）余分な時間がかかる

A Fire

　　An end of year party at a nearby restaurant was scheduled after work yesterday. We got off work on time. Just after changing my clothes, I heard a wail of a siren and an announcement, which informed us of the outbreak of a fire near my hospital and called on all members of the fire-fighting team to gather at the scene.
　　Opening the window, the wall of the building across the street was stained with a shade of red. The scene was extremely close. I went out of the hospital to grasp the situation immediately and found the fire at a two-layer wooden house adjacent to the parking lot of the hospital. Most staff members had already headed for the restaurant, but they were called back and got ready to evacuate inpatients from their rooms. Besides, some moved their cars to a secure place to escape the fire. All the staff members of my hospital were already in relaxed mode, but were forcibly returned to work mode. Fortunately, the resident in the burning house, who lived alone and was a rather aged woman, was out walking her dog at the time.
　　I'll show you pictures of the house burning and just before the inspection the next day. The wind was not so hard when the house burned. It was lucky that the fire didn't spread out across the town.

(Vocabulary)
wail [自](サイレンなどが)かん高く鳴る;1 泣き叫ぶ声;2 (風・サイレン・楽器などの) 悲しげな音
He could hear sirens wailing in the distance. 彼は遠くの方でかん高いサイレンの音を聞いた．
forcibly  力ずくで, 力任せに; 徹底的に, 強硬に
return （こんなわかりきった単語でもたまには辞書引きは必要ですね）
a) [自] return to sth　＜元の状態＞に戻る
return to normal 通常（の状態）に戻る
After a couple of weeks, things had returned to normal.　数週間後には事態は平常に戻っていた．
b) [他] return sth to sth　＜…＞を＜元の状態＞に戻す
efforts to return the company to profitability　会社を再び黒字に転じさせようという試み
[同意] restore sth to sth

Chair Mending

　　I have three folding chairs designed mainly for outdoor use, for example in the camping ground. They are cheap but really comfortable with an adjustable back support. I have one in my rooms of both my house and office.
　　One day, the one in my office broke, as shown in the first picture. The end of the frame was sharp and it seemed that it had torn the cloth of the chair. I could have replaced it, but I decided to mend it using a marble to prevent any more damage from the sharp end of the frame.
　　I went into my storage house in my garden this morning, which stores a series of gadgets, such as skis, climbing, camping and fishing gear, and tires, to take out a mending kit for the tent. This kit is essential for climbing particularly in winter. You have to carry the kit when you climb the mountains in winter, because damage to the tent is directly connected to accidents, and possibly death. I thought it was the best way to use this kit for mending my chair, whose cloth was so tough and resembles that of the tent. Another picture shows how the chair was mended.
　　By the way, when my wife saw me enter the storage house, she strongly suspected me of plotting something unfavorable for her, i.e. climbing. It was not an easy task to remove her suspicion. Anyway, my operation of the chair was well done.

(Vocabulary)
marble 1 [U] 大理石; 2 [C] ビー玉
gear [U] 道具, 用具; [U] 装備, (スポーツなどの) ウェア
climbing/camping/fishing gear  登山［キャンプ，釣り］用具
running/hiking/tennis gear  ランニング［ハイキング，テニス］ウェア
rain gear  雨具

Senile Dementia?

　　Today, a nearly 90 year-old patient visited my opd a week earlier than I expected. He has long been seeing me regularly, but he didn't have an appointment today. However, he asked me to give him injections of the analgesics consisting of hyaluronic acid into his bilateral knee joints.
　　According to his words, he, along with his wife, had been invited to a memorial ceremony held by the U.S. Navy, casually dropping the name of the Commander of the Navy and they had to visit Tokyo this weekend. He wanted the injection for prevention of pain from his knee joints for fear of the long walking.
　　He lives deep in the forest and is a mere common farmer. I didn't believe his story, but I wanted to joke with him saying "Is your destination really Tokyo? Isn't it Yokosuka?" He replied, "Yes, How do you know that?" I just knew that the naval base is located in Yokosuka City and had no idea about the memorial ceremony." However, I started to think that his story might be true.
　　You always have to keep away prejudices, I deeply realized. He was one of the rescuers of the U.S. aircraft accident that had occurred near here in 1952 and also one of the founders of the monument to fourteen U.S. soldiers who had passed away at that time. This year is the 60th anniversary. Sorry for the kidding, old man! You are right!

http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2009/04/short-touring.html

(Vocabulary)
joke with sb ＜人＞をからかう
drop  [他]〈言葉・名前など〉をふと口にする, 漏らす
She casually dropped his name into the conversation. 彼女は会話の中で彼の名前をふと漏らした．
casually  何げなしに

Commute Route

　　I can choose one of three ways for commuting such as my scooter, my car and the train. I adopt one of them every morning depending on the weather and my work status. After night duty, because I'm afraid that I might get sleepy, I often utilize the train. On the other hand, when I can get back home in the evening and the weather is fine, I usually choose my scooter and enjoy riding it. My wife sometimes says that she can't differentiate commuting from just a fun ride seeing my preparation for commuting. Anyway, the picture was shot on the way to my office this morning.

Disaster Drill

　　My hospital takes care of around 70 hospitalized patients on average. Roughly speaking, 10 on life support, 10 in a vegetative state, 30 almost or fully bedridden and others who can manage to walk by themselves. I don't want to assume a fire could break out after midnight. However, it can happen. The bigger hospitals over a certain level are strictly regulated to hold a fire drill at least once a year. Today, that disaster drill was conducted.
　　In the evacuation drill, you usually take inpatients out of the hospital as soon as possible. You carry them on your shoulder or with makeshift stretchers made of sheets or blankets, and go downstairs.
　　By the way, today's drill was completely different from usual drills. We had to carry them upstairs. Do you know why? Today's drill was against a tsunami.
　　My hospital is located 500 meters away from the seashore facing the Seto Inland Sea and a few meters above sea level, where the possibility of a tsunami is supposed to be extremely rare, but not zero. After last year's big tsunami, lots of refuge areas were assigned to every single neighborhood throughout Japan. The refuge area for my neighborhood is a 30 meter-high hill just behind the hospital. It's the rule to take all the inpatients to the top of the hill in 10 or 20 minutes, but it isn't practical. We alternatively decided to take them on the roof of the hospital by the stairs one by one.
　　Some staff members played the roles of the inpatients. They could move their extremities to make it easy to be transferred and didn't need any respiratory assistance, but in reality, some patients need respiratory assistance and continuous infusions or some can't flex their knees or elbows due to the contracture. Those things would become obstacles to prompt evacuation. Additionally, the evacuation took a far longer time than we expected. We have to engage in exercise and discuss measures to shorten the evacuation time.

(Vocabulary)
bedridden  unable to leave your bed, especially because you are old or ill
contracture  拘縮
obstacle (成功・進展などの) 障害, 妨げ [＋obstacle to]
engage in sth  [句動詞] (フォーマル) ＜活動など＞に従事する, 参加する

(Vocabulary from comments)
realistically  現実的に, 現実を直視して;《文修飾》現実問題として
bother　《常に単数形で》厄介者, 面倒なこと, 悩みの種
plausible　〈説明などが〉もっともらしい, 信憑(しんぴょう)性のある;《通例[名]の前で》妥当な, 有望な
a plausible alternative   妥当な代案 [同意] credible
familiarize sb with sth ＜人＞を＜…＞に慣れさせる
run　《[C]通例単数形で》(失敗・成功などの) 連続, 続き [＋run of]
a run of six consecutive defeats  6連敗
a good/a winning/an unbeaten run  好調続き［連勝，負け知らず］
a run of good/bad luck   幸運［不運］の連続

Yellow Sand

　　In this season of the year, yellow sand is carried to Japan by the wind from deserts on the Chinese continent. It's really a nuisance. Lots of people suffer from bronchitis and allergic reactions of the respiratory organs. Laundry that has hung outside gets damaged. Everything outside gets dirty. Doors and windows must be tightly closed. It's really a nuisance.

　　By the way, my scooter, which had been left in the garage during winter, was also vulnerable to the yellow sand. It easily invades into the scooter, so I cleaned my scooter up thoroughly and wrapped it as you see in the picture below. It's getting warm and the season of motorcycles and bicycles has just started. I'll visit various places and show you the pictures of them.

(Vocabulary)
yellow sand ［dust］ 黄砂

My Colleagues

　　Passing by the physical therapy room, a cheerful conversation reached my ears. I dropped in the room. Several staff members were posing for pictures. A physical therapist will be getting married on May 12th and he wanted to take snapshots of the office. At the wedding party, he'd like to show pictures of his office to his friends, his relatives and his wife's parents. He invited me to come into the picture. I'll show you it. A man who is being pointed at by others in the picture is the therapist whom I wrote about above.

Canadian Medical Service

　　When I arrived at the emergency hospital, her treatment had already finished, but I knew from her what it was like. As many as 7 staff members were involved with her treatment, and their roles were seemingly strictly arranged; some only helped her take her clothes off, some just took her to the consulting room using a wheelchair,,, and so on. How inefficient it was!

　　I wanted to attend to her even in the consulting room, because I was interested in the consultation and treatment in Canada, but she is a woman. I refrained from being there. After the consultation, it was proved to be not serious. I was relieved to hear that.

　　She paid the consultation fee and was told to go to a pharmacy, where she would get some medicine. I accompanied her. She was a wonderful English speaker, but I thought I might be handy knowing more technical terms than her and naturally I wanted to see what things were going on.

　　At the pharmacy, I was surprised to see the pharmacists working slowly. Though no one but her was waiting for the medicine, she had to wait for a small bottle of tablets for more than 30 minutes. When she received the medicine, she was told to go to the physical therapist's clinic to get a knee brace. She was fed up. If the pharmacist had been smart, she could have got it during the time she was waiting for the medicine.

　　To my surprise, the analgesic which was prescribed for her contained a kind of narcotic. In Japan, narcotics are not used against benign pain. It is used for pain from malignant diseases. Additionally she had several bills from the orthopedic surgeon, the pharmacy, the ambulance, the physical therapist's clinic, and so on. What a complexity! Moreover, it was incredibly expensive. It was more than ten times higher than that of Japan. The ambulance fee is free in Japan. I heard that poor people couldn't consult physicians in the States, and I realized firsthand that it was true. Common Japanese people make a contract with a travel insurance company when they go out of Japan. Of course, Ms. O. had a contract and her injury would be fully covered. I learned that such kind of insurance was essential to travel overseas.

　　She started consulting the physical therapist for the last two days in Whistler. When I went out for skiing leaving her alone, I felt sorry, but there was no other way. Looking back a few days ago, the tall foreigner with his crutches waiting for a shuttle bus, whose crutches I was interested in, might be visiting the physical therapist's clinic. Finally, I could see and handle the crutches from Canada, which were produced in China though, and learn how to control the toboggan.

http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2012/03/woodrun-nanami-or-shichimi.html
http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2012/03/rescue-stretcher.html

(Vocabulary)
firsthand (経験・知識が) 実体験に基づいた, じかの; (説明・報告などが) 目撃者［当事者］による
first-hand reports from former prisoners  元捕虜自身による説明

A Tragedy

　　The story started when our leader, Ms. O. dropped her glove from the chairlift, Jersey Cream Express. She had the good grace to give it up and bought a replacement at Glacier Creek Lodge. On the next ride on the same chairlift, however, I found something from the chairlift which looked like her lost glove. I told her that and we decided to recover it, but the point was hard to access. We explored into the bush, but, , , . From now, I'll explain each picture below. The number stands for the order of the pictures.

1. The silhouette which looks like a bear is our leader, Ms. O. We looked for the glove around one of three posts of the chairlift, but in vain. This area wasn't packed and it was really hard to evacuate from. I managed to get out, but she was trapped in some heavy snow that had accumulated the previous night. At that time, she unfortunately twisted her right knee. We called for the rescue team.

2. A lady climbed up to us with her big skis on her shoulder. We were so surprised to see her physical strength because we expected that someone would ski down from uphill to us. Now, at first she positioned her skis with tips up crossing in the snow to show other skiers our existence on the ski slope. Next, she questioned Ms. O. about her ID, her condition and her medical history like drug allergies, and so on. At last, she started digging a grave-sized hole, and I couldn't understand what it was for.

3. Another staff member came to us with a toboggan. They put it in the hole and held it. I finally understood what she did. By the way, when hearrived, he asked her, "Did you hear a pop?" I learned the word "pop" at that time. Japanese has lots of onomatopoeic expressions and it makes it difficult for foreigners to learn Japanese. I knew that "pop" matched lots of Japanese words depicting sound.

4. The right knee of Ms. O. was about to be fixed by a knee brace.

5. Our leader is always really tough and stubborn, but she was silent with her eyes downcast. I deeply realized that she was a woman. (grin) However, she was apparently thinking of her job schedule after coming back to Japan. She wasn't depressed.

6. She was ready to be transferred to the base. Then I found us on the trail of a Black Diamond, called "Blowdown". Black Diamond means the most difficult as I wrote the other day. I wondered how they took her to the ambulance. The answer was simple. They schussed on the BLACK DIAMOND! Wow! Incredible. They seemed to schuss down to come across the Green (the easiest route) and Ms. O. was picked up by a snowmobile, which took her to Olympic Park, where she was put in the ambulance.

(Vocabulary)
odd   《[名]の前でのみ》(靴・ソックス・手袋などが) 片方だけの
odd socks/gloves  左右ばらばらのソックス［手袋］
have the good grace to  潔く～する
pack [他]〈雪・土など〉を押し固める
pack sth down  ＜…＞を押し固める
Pack the soil down firmly.  土をしっかりと押し固めます．
twist [他]〈手首・足首など〉をくじく, ひねる, 捻挫(ねんざ)する
twist your ankle/knee/wrist   足首［ひざ，手首］をくじく
position  (特定の位置に) …を置く, 配置する
Position the cursor before the letter you want to delete. 削除したい文字の前にカーソルを置きます．
position yourself  位置につく, 陣取る
onomatopoeia  擬音（語）, 擬声（語）, オノマトペ
toboggan təˈbɒgən  a light wooden board with a curved front, used for sliding down hills covered in snow
stubborn  負けん気の強い
be silent with one's eyes downcast  シュンとして黙っている
schuss ʃus  直滑降する; 直滑降

(Vocabulary from comments)
sustain 〈損害・損失など〉を被る, 受ける,〈傷害など〉を負う
Two of the firemen sustained serious injuries.  消防士のうち2人が重傷を負った．

Woodrun; Nanami or Shichimi?

　　It was the second time that I had stayed here, because I used it 6 yeas ago. At that time I was with my daughters, who were still high school students. Time flies really fast.

　　After we settled in a living room for some time, we went out for dinner. The 3rd picture is the bus stop of the shuttle bus which transported us for free in the village.

　　We came across a young man who was using a pair of crutches. He was rather taller than me. The top of his crutches might be the same level as that of my jaw. I was interested in them; How long could they extend? There were more than 10 notches left. I wanted to handle them, but I refrained from asking him to let me use them. He looked to be in pain. However, my hopes did come true a few days later. Who knows how such things play out. We came across several unpredictable happenings on the trip and these happenings are sure to make you subscribers amused, I believe.

　　At a sushi bar, one of my friends ordered a bowl of Udon noodles. Then, the waiter asked him immediately whether he needed "Nanami" or not, but what's "nanami"? The waiter naturally saw we were Japanese, and he also looked doubtful. Anyway, he brought a small bottle of "Nanami", and it meant "Shichimi". We thought that he had memorized it mistakenly, but he was right as the pictures show below. I don't know yet why "Shichimi" is called "Nanami".

one of washrooms


my room

crutches

menu

Shichimi

Nanami

An Early Bird

　　Now, I feel like I have become another person. I get up at 5:30 every morning. It's 2 hours earlier than before. Naturally I go to bed by 11 o'clock. This change of my rhythm of everyday life is unbelievable for the reason that I wrote in the previous entry. My condition is very good now.
　　I finish breakfast sometime after 6:00 a.m. and flick through the headlines of newspapers over a cup of coffee. The amount of breakfast has doubled compared with a month ago. Then my wife takes me to the station by car. The scenery around the station looks  new to me though I'm really familiar with the station. I've never dropped in at the station at that early hour on a weekday. Lots of people in their business suits or students are coming and going. In this season it's still dark but comfortable in the fresh air of the early morning.
　　I get on the train after 7 o'clock and spend an hour in the train. Receiving an internet radio which is aired from Springfield, Oregon with a Taiwanese-made phone and a noise-cancelling headphone which is assembled in Singapore, I read books while commuting. The place that my train runs is a tiny coastal rural line of Japan. I'll show you on a map and you can imagine the beautiful scenery.

http://kumo.typepad.jp/wadachi/commute.html

A Month

　　A month has passed since I moved to my new office and started commuting by train, which is 40 km away from home. I've never worked at a distance of more than 15 minutes from my home. From this point of view, this transfer is epoch-making in my life.
　　When I was asked by the owner to serve in this hospital for the first time, I thought it would be unlikely. I didn't want to waste time commuting. I'm a night bird and get more work done at night than in the morning. In other words I thought I could never become an early bird. That's why I continued to refuse the offer for 10 years.
　　However, a surgeon quit and left the hospital this fall after six months' advance notice. Consequently, the hospital was on the verge of closure, because hospitals are regulated to maintain the minimum number of doctors by medical law. If it couldn't keep the designated number of doctors, the hospital wouldn't be permitted to run in the same style. It would be forced to reduce the considerable number of inpatients. This situation made me decide to work in this hospital.
　　For this reason, I had to get up extremely early for me. What became of the night owl? I'll write about it.

(Vocabulary)
closure  [C,U] 閉店, 廃業, 廃校, (建物・工場などの) 閉鎖

Jigoku Tour

　　In the last entry I explained that in Japanese, "jigoku" means "hell". So, some might suspect the meaning of the "Jigoku Tour". It's one of the tourist attractions in Beppu City. We couldn't visit all of them and saw only half of them, but there were a variety of hot springs.
　　Firstly, I have to write about the rod poking from the fringe of the pond in the picture in the last entry. It's not a fishing rod, of course. The water of the pond is rich in sulphur and moreover the temperature is about 90 degrees centigrade. It's partially boiling in the pond. Ordinary creatures can't live in the pond. To tell the truth, a bag is hung from the tip of the rod, which contains several eggs. The staff members of jigoku were cooking boiled eggs and these eggs were sold there. The tourists could enjoy the sulphur-flavored boiled eggs.
　　Next, I'll show you a picture below, which depicts a steam foot bath though I'm not confident in clearly describing this peculiar bath. You open the lid with two hinges and put your legs in the hole and put the cover on your legs, which was laid on the stone panel in the picture. Your legs will be steamed from the heat of the earth and it is very comfortable.

(Vocabulary)
poke out of/from sth  〈物が〉 ＜…＞からはみ出て［突き出て］いる, のぞいている
poke through sth   ＜…＞の中から突き出ている
A few flowers poked through the snow.  数本の花が雪の中から顔をのぞかせていた．
fringe  (集団内などの) 傍流, 非主流; (場所の) 周辺部

 

Company Excursion

　　The owner of my hospital generously gave employees a free company 2-day excursion to Beppu City, which is famous as a hot spring city. The city is located in Kyushu and at the opposite side of Ehime prefecture across the Houyo channel and we utilized the ferry between Yawatahama City and Beppu City. I'll show you the route of the ferry below, because some subscribers enjoy seeing maps.
　　The hospital has around 80 inpatients and cannot be closed, so the employees were divided into several groups and the number of members in my group was 25.
　　The first picture was shot from the deck of the ferry just before the landing. If it had been clear, you would have seen the beautiful view of Mt. Tsurumidake, which lies dormant now, but has continuously been supplying huge amounts of hot water to us. Our hotel was one of the most prestigious hotels and I will show you the link.
　　As soon as we arrived at the hotel, some rushed to the pool but I fully enjoyed bathing in one of the best hot spring resorts. Then, dinner time! The restaurant took a smorgasbord approach. I become dehydrated from bathing, and it made my beer taste really good. We had dinner from 5:00 pm. avoiding the busy hours and went bowling until the late hours.

The Route of Our Ferry

 
 

 

(Vocabulary)
dormant (植物・動物などが)休眠中の, 休止状態の, (ウイルスなどが)潜伏中の; (火山が)休火山の
lie dormant  活動を休止している, 潜伏する
fully 心ゆくまで
a smorgasbord restaurant  バイキングレストラン

My Commuting Train

　　The picture shows my train which I utilize every day. I spend two hours in this car in commuting time. This station was formerly located on a busy line, but after the new modern line was built in an inland area, it got rustic. I like it, though. Most subscribers of this blog are from out of Japan, so I'll upload the map of my commuting route later. I hope you'll enjoy the map and some might feel as if he/she could actually get in the car.

(Vocabulary)
commute time  通勤時間
rustic  田舎らしい, 素朴な, 質素な
The village had a certain rustic charm.  村にはある種素朴な魅力があった．

Wandering

　　The local cultural festival was held today. People display their works like pictures, handicrafts and calligraphy and play some instruments. The junior high school brass band club members were playing in a small space which was normally used as a parking lot. My hospital has a day care department for elderly people and the users of the facility display their works, and little kids display their calligraphy as I'll show you below.