Today, I saw last flight of Virgin Atlantic Airways (VS) at Narita International Airport.

I got this novelty from VS staff. It’s very happy 🙂

(In English: “London to Tokyo … Thank you for twenty five years.”)

About ten years ago, my wife lived in London. Then, she used VS frequently. And, we used VS at honeymoon 🙂 Because, VS offers originality service than other airlines. So, VS was hold a lot of memories to us.

Twenty five years years ago, VS entered service to Narita. Now, four carrier(British Airways, JAL, ANA, and VS) are operating from Tokyo (Narita and Haneda) to London. But, today abandoned by VS. According to rumor, the abolition occurred by national policy. We called it “Narita Regulation” (Ref (Japanese): 「成田縛り」ルールは崩壊するか。ヴァージン撤退でANAがコードシェア失い、羽田運航ができなくなる？ | 旅行総合研究所タビリス). If the rumour is truth, we are so sad 🙁

It’s fine today but cold and windy. Many aviation enthusiasts gathered to Narita to see last flight. I’m one of them 😀 I was taking another airplane while was waiting for take off in the two and half hours. It’s chill that pierced into the marrow !!!

Soon, the time comes …

Good bye Virgin Atlantic Airways. And, good bye our memories …

We hope to see you again at London 🙂

Do you know ‘EdTech’ ? Meaning of EdTech is computer technology education. In Japan, computer software programming education events are held one after another.

Let me introduce TENTO. TENTO is private programming school for elementary and junior high school students which established in Tokyo in 2011. I’m a volunteer teacher at the school.

TENTO differs from other programming school in Japan. It has following three unique features.

Firstly, individualized teaching, NOT uniformed teaching. Because each student wants to create software program that is different. Then each volunteer teacher teaches one by one using different programming language, style and technology. We call this ‘Terakoya‘(寺子屋) style !!

Secondly, continuous education. Many programming school and events are still one off style in Japan. One off style is able to tell kids to enjoy programming. However, TENTO believes that continuous education brings up students of programming skill.

Thirdly, TENTO really value presentations. Software program is valuable to use, not to just create it. Therefore, we held two events in twice of year. One, hack-a-thon. Two, presentation on software. Students learn modelling, programming and presentation skill through creating the software in the events. And, students have shown the benefits of study at the school 🙂

Apart from TENTO, there are not many teachers who teach computer technology in Japan. Then, some passionate teachers and computer education scientists are groping for much better programming education methodology in Japan.

I don’t know what is better programming education to whom. Nonetheless, I wanna do programming education to students. I think it is better to start studying programming from young age. They have unfettered thought. And programming skill makes our business and life much better !!!

Hi! I’m Yuichiro Saito. Call me ‘koemu’.

I already have a blog, but it written by Japanese. Then, start this English blog.

Let me introduce myself.

I was born in 1981 at Osaka. Osaka is second largest city of Japan. At the graduate school, studied for Computer Science and Computer Engineer Education. Now, I’m occupied in Software Engineer at Management Service Provider (MSP). MSP is management service to servers for public web service. At MSP, I’m developing automation system for server management. That activity action is currently called ‘DevOps’.

I like Ski and Bicycle. I have been to Ski every week before we got married. Now, I go to Ski every month in winter. Following photo was taken by my graduate school teacher at Shiga Kogen.

I’ll do my best for blogging from now on 🙂