Greetings, and a Happy New Year from The Land of the Rising Sun! Or, as they say around here, akemashite omedeto gozaimasu, kotoshi mo aikawarazu, … or something!
This greeting is best said in the early hours of New Years Day after hauling your booze-addled carcass up to the top of Mount Misen on the Holy Island of Miyajima in good time to greet Dawn’s first crack of the year. A few rousing choruses of “BANZAI!” to wake up the monkeys are also customary practice – but please, no fixed bayonets!
New Year’s Day, 2009, Miyajima, Japan
New Year’s resolutions are quite popular in Japan. At the beginning of each year many of my students resolve to “lose weight” and “study English harder”… but nothing changes!
This year, my resolution is to help Japanese students learn how to make better goals and “succeed in English” be updating my rather neglected Succeed-in-English.com website and offering students both in Japan and all over the world a nice low-priced package in which they can study “the secrets of success” in “English” plus free online tuition and coaching with the materials by myself, via the website, email and skype. 
David Hurley
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