Here’s a short video about Uniqlo featuring Fast Retailing CEO, Tadashi Yanai. Although Uniqlo is Asia’s fastest-growing clothing retailer, it is a strategy of “slow fashion” that helps it to succeed in these budget-conscious times. There is plenty of useful business vocabulary here: standout, titan, concept, resonate, frugal, supply & demand, driving force, critical, slowdown, […]
A Really Cool Adventure, from スミス 英会話 長岡京
Here’s a link guaranteed to make you pause and consider the amazing adventures and achievements of those who came before us. At the very least, the spectacular icy vistas from Antarctica may provide some relief from the hot and humid Japanese summer. http://www.businessinsider.com/1915-antarctic-endurance-expedition-photos-2012-6?op=1 The link is to photos of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1916 Trans-Antarctic Expedition, […]
More Celestial Magic from スミス英会話長岡京
In honour of recent astronomical events–and Martin’s great posts–here’s a wonderful sequence of time-lapse photos (isn’t that called a movie or motion picture?) of the Aurora Borealis taken in Norway: Aurora time-lapse by Tommy Eliassen See more of the photographer’s great work (example below) here: http://500px.com/tommyeliassen Happy studying…and sky-gazing. Rick Smith’s Nagaokakyo
