Eighteen years have already passed since the turn of the century. It's 2019 in the so-called Christian Calendar, 2679 in the Japanese original calendar, and the 31st and final year of Heisei Era in Japan.
Shortly after the new year began in respective local times, vehicle-ramming attacks against pedestrians took place in Shibuya, Tokyo, and in Bottrop, Germany. In Manchester, England, a man stabbed three people with a knife around 9p.m. local time on New Year's Eve, shouting some foreign words. Definite motives for these terrible incidents are not yet reported. I wish the victims involved a stable recovery, and may this year be peaceful one for all of us on the globe.
This year 2019 is the year of the 60th anniversary of the state of Hawaii's statehood and of the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations of the U.S. and PRC(People's Republic of China). I'll write about them before long. As the company I work for is not shut down during 3-day Japanese holidays of New Year's celebration, unlike a part of the U.S. Federal Government, I don't have a choice to stay up late.
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