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A happy new year 2010!

Visiting to the Shinto shrine for praying for the business prosperity is our division's custom at the first business day of the new year. We visited Asakusa Shrine this year.

The left photo shows Asakusa Shrine and beautiful sky.

Beautiful autumn tint has come to be watched in the Chuo-koen Park in front of my home.

I went to the park with my three sons to see the beautiful red leaves. My eldest and second sons with their bicycles. My youngest son with his soccer ball and Frisbee.

Today I went to take a walk around the Tamako lake near my parents' house with my parents and my three sons. Fine day and beautiful red leaf in the tint of autumn, it was autumn of Japan exactly.

Left photo shows stroll road around the Tamako lake. Beautiful!

I congratulated Kaoru on her birthday today. Kaoru and I planned to go playing games, sports and having a lunch at a nice italian restaurant near our home while my paid holiday.

Our eldest son Mikoto and second son Ayato were (maybe) studying at school and youngest son Nairu were at day nursery, so only Kaoru and I spent a weekday daytime like a young couple without child care. It's very very unusual for us.

My colleague and I had a little tea time at small French cuisine "Nanbu Tei" at the back of Hibiya Kokaido pavilion after the negotiations at Uchisaiwaicho,

Unremarkable like a place of refuge but very elegant orthodox Japanese style house. Initially Nanbu Tei was started as a Japanese Soba noodle restaurant in 1955. Japanese roof tiles, white mortar walls and strong wood props. Very beautiful.

Today we celebrated my second son Ayato on his 7th birthday with sushi and birthday cake.

Left photo shows Ayato(pleased with birthday cake)

7th birthday... Time passed by so fast !

Cloudy and cold today. A weather forecast said it would rain here in Tokorozawa-city in this evening. However, my very active three sons could not suppress their energy inside the house, so we went to 'Akebono-Kodomonomori' park in Hanno City neighbouring to Tokorozawa City we live in. To the park from our home took 20-30 minutes by car. There are two parks by road. The park is famous for the Moomin residences.