1) In November of 2005, a Vietnamese woman was forced to return to Vietnam even though her husband (a refugee from Vietnam) and baby stayed in Japan.

2) The CIA sometimes kidnaps and tortures people in a foreign country. At least once they got the wrong person and kept him for 5 months. He had a common name.

3) Before the invasion, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. (Not true)

4) 2.5 million people died from aids in 2005 in Sub-Saharan Africa.

5) Prime minister Koizumi went to see the Kabuki theater in Dec.2005.

6) Most people in Iraq want the U.S. to leave.

7) Iraq helped the people who did the 9/11 attacks. (Not true)

8) University students around the world are protesting Coca-Cola for killing union leaders in Columbia.

9) In 2003, twin baby pandas are born at Shirahama Adventure World.

10) A Japanese man won the hot-dog eating contest in New York.

11) In 2005, the president of Zimbabwe destroyed the ghettoes and made close to one million people into homeless refugees.

12) In Japan, some people were locked up for 2 1/2 months for putting anti-war leaflets into the mailboxes of some members of the Self-Defense Force.

13) Japanese men are the largest percentage of sex tourists in Asia.

14) In 2004, the Israeli government killed 700 people including 150 children.

15) 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day.

16) Diamonds are mined in African countries like Sierra Leone. When there is a civil war, armies trade diamonds for weapons. People are dying for our diamonds.

17) A crazy man killed 2 sisters in Namba, Osaka.


  Difficult Vocabulary:
anti-war leaflets    反戦リーフレット
Cambodia    カンボジア
civil war    内戦
communist    共産主義
East-Timor    東ティモール
ghetto    ゲットー、スラム街
invasion     侵略
kidnap    誘拐
massacre    大虐殺
percentage    割合
protest    抗議
union    組合
uniqueness    特殊性
refugee    避難民
sex tourism    セックス観光
Sub-Saharan Africa    サハラ砂漠以南のアフリカ
torture     拷問
weapons of mass destruction    大量破壊兵器