Here's Kenchin Jiru, a piping hot Japanese home-style dish. Generally cooked as light soup simply seasoned with soy sauce, with stir-fried and stewed chunky vegetables such as Ninjin(carrots), Satoimo(aroids), Gobou(burdocks), Daikon(Japanese radish) and Tofu, it may be called Japanese barley soup. It warms you up in the coldest of winter, and is loved throughout the nation as one of the typical home-made cooking dish.

Holidays of February

• February 11th (THU)
• National Foundation Day

'People' would like to cheer and support someone who is working hard to achieve his or her goal. This time 'People' would focus on Japanese "Samurai" hurdler Dai Tamesue who recently went into a full-fledged training for the Peking Olympics.

The Tokyo Institute of Technology in cooperation with Panasonic, has led the project 'Manned Flight by Oxyride Dry-cell Battery' into the world's first success. On July 16th this year (2006), they made success in a trial of manned flight using commercially available oxyride batteries, in a project that they had been bringing forward together.