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She moved to Australia in 2000. She worked for a Japanese-affiliated travel agency, and then started her current position at a construction company in 2014.On her days off, she enjoys making soy candles that is a hobby of mine and walking on the beach.She hope to share rare lifestyle information from the local area with you.

  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • 2020.09.18
  • Australian Ethical Goods
  • Have you ever heard the word “ethical”? “Ethical” is the English word meaning “rinriteki” in Japanese, but these days it’s a word that implies environmental conservation and social contribution.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • 2020.07.02
  • A Holiday Mountain Walk
  • If you drive for about 50-minutes inland from the Gold Coast you’ll find Springbrook National Park, which is listed as a World Heritage site.
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  • 2020.06.19
  • Enjoying Fresh Seafood
  • When you think of Australian seafood the first thing that comes to mind is salmon from Tasmania, but you can also get other fresh seafood like raw oysters, shrimps, tuna, trevally, and skipjack, as well as salmon.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2020.05.13
  • Farmers’ Markets
  • I buy as much as possible of my fruit, vegetables, and other food, at a farmer’s market. Farmers’ markets are like Japan’s asaichi (morning markets) and are held only on weekends with tents pitched on the grounds of schools, parks, and racing courses.
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  • 2020.04.17
  • An Election in Australia
  • In Australia, an election is held to select local governments (mayors and councillors) once every four years. An election was held in my home state of Queensland this year to decide on councillors for a total of 77 councils, plus the mayor of the City of Gold Coast.
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  • 2020.04.06
  • Saving Water
  • There is a growing awareness in Australia around saving water, partly due to the big wildfires here. Water-saving restrictions were brought in at the end of last year in some areas.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2020.02.10
  • Food & Wine Expo
  • I recently went to the Food & Wine Expo held each year on the Gold Coast. As the name suggests, it’s an exhibition of foods and wines.
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  • 2020.01.27
  • Nippers: Adorable Lifesavers
  • Australia’s beaches are subject to some powerful tides, and as I mentioned in an earlier article, there are a lot of drowning accidents. Because of its many beaches, a special effort to train lifesavers is made in the Gold Coast—of course so that they can protect themselves as well as others.
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  • 2020.01.09
  • 2020 Calendars in Australia
  • Recently I came across a pop-up shop in a shopping center selling 2020 calendars and ended up having a quick look at them. There were calendars with beautiful photography, calendars for children, calendars with animals, and others that were kind of joke calendars.
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  • 2019.12.24
  • Beautiful Beaches but Lots of Dangers
  • The beaches in Australia are really beautiful. When you walk on the white sandy beaches, the sand makes a squeaking sound. Now once again it’s the season that makes you feel like diving into the clear blue sea.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2019.11.13
  • Correspondence Education in Australia: Part 1
  • I recently obtained a qualification in accounting and bookkeeping in Australia. In English, there are four levels of A qualifications in accounting, from 1, the lowest, up to 4. I obtained a “Certificate 4,” which, however, is not the highest level.
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  • 2019.11.05
  • Open Air Fitness
  • The Gold Coast enjoys good weather every day. It doesn’t rain very much, which means water shortages are a bit of a worry. People do all sorts of activities in the open spaces along the beach where I walk.
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  • 2019.10.15
  • Australian Work Clothes
  • The work clothes of the people on construction sites in Japan are relatively sober colors, like navy blue, gray, and beige, but the people who work on construction and works sites in Australia wear very bright work clothes in colors like fluorescent yellow, orange, and pink.
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  • 2019.10.01
  • Irresistible Miniature Giveaways
  • From time to time Australia's leading supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, run campaigns where you get stickers, kids’ toys, or other giveaways when you spend more than a certain amount on your shopping.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • 2019.09.04
  • Cigarettes in Australia
  • My Japanese friends are really surprised when I tell them about the price of cigarettes available in Australia. That’s because cigarettes really are expensive.
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  • 2019.08.19
  • Eco-friendly Grocery Stores
  • In a previous blog I wrote about supermarkets not giving out plastic bags for free anymore. Now, a year later, I no longer forget to bring my shopping bags when I go shopping, and I carry a folded up environmentally friendly shopping bag in my bag when I’m out and about, ready for the occasional time when I have to buy something even though I hadn’t intended to.
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  • 2019.08.01
  • Miso-making workshop
  • Many Japanese people live along the Gold Coast. I’ve lived here around 18 years myself, and there are plenty of other Japanese I haven’t met yet. Now that I work from home, I have even fewer opportunities to meet them. The community is steadily growing, too.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2019.05.22
  • Dry-Aged Aussie Beef
  • Perhaps there aren't few who, when thinking of Australia, think of Aussie beef. I also enjoy Australian beef, and even though there are more Aussies going vegetarian than there used to be, steak remains a favorite.
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  • 2019.05.09
  • Non-alcoholic Beer Has Arrived in Australia!
  • In Australia, you often see people with a beer in one hand at a barbeque, having a beer or two with work mates at a pub in their work clothes before going home (by the way, in Japan you eat snacks or some edamame [green soybeans] with your drink, but in Australia plenty of people just drink their beers without eating anything), or carrying a carton (a case of 24 cans or bottles of beer) on their shoulder.
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  • 2019.01.28
  • Aussie chips are really delicious!
  • There are all kinds of different potato chip varieties in Australia, and they’re actually really good. You can get ones that are thin-cut, ruffled, or even thick ones that deliver a big, satisfying crunch.
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  • 2018.12.11
  • Your Choice of Safe Products
  • Demand has been growing in Japan for organically grown vegetables and foods that are safer for your health, such as products without added chemical seasonings or preservatives.
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  • 2018.11.29
  • Eating Seafood in Australia
  • Surrounded by ocean, Australia has the second largest fishing zone in the world after the US, but the country rankings for fish catch show it is surprisingly low, at 56th.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2018.08.24
  • The Australian Version of Sasuke
  • It’s been quite a while since I last wrote about an Australian TV program. Currently on TV here is the Australian version of the Japanese sports entertainment program Sasuke, which has been showing on American TV since 2006 as American Ninja Warrior.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • 2018.06.20
  • Japanese food in Australia: Part 1
  • After the United States and China, Australia is said to have the third largest Japanese population outside Japan. There are many Japanese people living in Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns, and the Gold Coast. There are also grocery stores selling Japanese foods and you can get almost anything that is not an import ban from seasonings to natto (fermented soy beans), frozen seafood, and dried foods.
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  • 2018.05.29
  • Father’s Day and Mother’s Day
  • In Australia, Mother’s Day is on the second Sunday of May, the same as Japan. Father’s Day is on the third Sunday of June in Japan, but in Australia it’s on a different day, the first Sunday of September. But both are held on the same day of the week, Sunday, and they are both days intended for expressing our feelings of gratitude to our mothers and fathers, which is the same throughout the world.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2018.05.07
  • An Aussie Style Long Distance Road Trip
  • It’s about 850 km from the Gold Coast to Sydney, which is 1-hour and 20-minutes by air, or 9 and a half hours by car. Going further south to Melbourne is 1,700 km, or 18 hours by car, which is an astounding distance, but lots of people in Australia like going on long road trips in their cars, even if takes a lot of time.
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  • 2018.01.17
  • Thrift shops called OP Shops
  • In Japan, we’re always struggling with how to dispose of furniture, electronics, kids’ clothes, and other household items that we no longer need. Even throwing them away costs money.
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  • 2017.12.07
  • Leisurely rural living in the hinterland
  • About an hour’s drive from the Gold Coast, there is a small rural town 60 km inland called Canungra. People think there is nothing on the inland part of the Gold Coast that is called the hinterland, but there are actually many sightseeing spots.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2017.07.20
  • Ugg Boot Season
  • Australia has moved into winter, the season for the pleasant warm feeling of wearing Ugg Boots. Ugg Boots are made from sheep hide,
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  • Australia Gold Coast
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  • 2017.04.07
  • Australian Aroma Oils
  • I’ve written in this blog before about eucalyptus oil, one of the well-known oils extracted from Australia’s native plants, but there are other commonly known oils, for example tea tree oil from the tea tree, and the oil from a plant called lemon myrtle.
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • 2016.10.11
  • TV Program Talk
  • Let me tell you about an Australian TV program.It’s The Bachelor Australia 2016, a program centering on a bachelor who is seeking a partner and a number of beautiful women who apply and are selected to compete with each other,
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  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • Australia Gold Coast
  • Chieko Suganuma （maiden name : Nagura）
  • 2016.06.07
  • Discount Drug Stores
  • In Japan, I think that yakkyoku are well known to everyone in English as “drug stores,” but in Australia they’re called “chemists” or “pharmacies” after the British custom. Here in Australia, there are several stores similar to the discount drug stores in Japan. Just like in Japanese stores, fliers touting advertised products and bargains are prominently displayed.
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  • 2016.05.20
  • Byron Bay Market and its wafting hippie scent
  • Come the Australian weekend and markets will open up in each and every town. In today’s blog, I’ll write a bit about Byron Bay Market, which opens on the first Sunday of every month in Australia’s easternmost town. It’s a large-scale market by local standards and attracts considerable numbers of both locals and tourists alike.
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  • 2016.05.02
  • A fun day-off: Gold Coast watersports
  • Even in the so-called “autumn gloom,” the fine weather still continues in Gold Coast, with the days still beaming with warm sunshine. In addition to the ocean (of course!), Gold Coast is surrounded by several lakes and canals. Water is thus ever-present in people’s lives, and the locals feel intimately connected to it.
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  • 2016.04.19
  • Supermarket Self-checkout Service
  • Australia introduced self-service gas stations even before my home country, Japan. And as for supermarkets, whereas the German ones have staff sitting behind cash registers, it seems Australians – who are not so insistent on receiving polite customer service – have readily accepted self-service checkouts too. 
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  • 2016.03.29
  • How to spend your holidays on the Gold Coast: The Mountain Climbing Chapter
  • While you may think that the beach is an integral part of Gold Coast lifestyle, in actual fact, if you go a little further inland, you can find many forests and mountains designated as national parks. Australians can certainly enjoy their leisure time in this hinterland too! You only need to travel 30 or 40 minutes by car to get some of them, and it’s this sheer accessibility which is another of the Gold Coast’s charms.
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  • 2016.03.01
  • The handy Eucalyptus oil
  • Australia is known for the cute koalas, and these koalas’ main diet is the Eucalyptus leaf. The oil taken from these leaves, called Eucalyptus oil, is sold here at supermarkets and pharmacies for a reasonable price roughly equivalent to 500 to 600 JPY, with Australia being its country of origin.
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  • 2016.01.29
  • Convenience Stores in Australia
  • Australia’s convenience stores are located throughout town and also attached to gas stations. Here, I’d like to introduce their differences compared to ones in Japan. First of all, the prices can be shockingly high. They’re more expensive than at supermarkets, and the price setting differs by store and sometimes by city. For instance, a soft drink that sells for $3 a bottle at a convenience store in Queensland may sell for $4.50 at stores in Sydney. 
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  • 2015.12.24
  • Christmas Light Competition
  • Australia, a country whose seasons are opposite from Japan, welcomes Christmas in the middle of summer, but winter has a more Christmassy mood, as illustrated by the fact that when we think of Christmas we think of a “white Christmas.” In Australia, somehow it just doesn’t feel like Christmas. But, even so there is something that gets you into the Christmas spirit—the Christmas Light Competition run by the city of Gold Coast. In this contest held every year, homes and yards are decorated with Christmas decorations and winners are chosen by votes submitted by residents. 
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  • 2015.11.27
  • Melbourne Cup – GI Racing Holiday
  • In Japan, we tend to link horse racing with gambling, and imagine a bunch of older men glued to the racetracks, holding a racing paper in one hand.In Australia, however, big races like the Emperor’s Cup of Japan are enjoyed as a kind of carnival by the entire nation. As difficult as it might be to imagine in Japan, Australia’s biggest of the horse races, the Melbourne Cup (now officially called Emirates Melbourne Cup after 2004 when Emirates Airline became the sponsor), is observed as a holiday in Melbourne, the city where the race is held. This race is held every year in November on the first Tuesday at Flemington Racecourse. This year, the day of the race fell on November 3 (Tuesday).
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  • 2015.10.30
  • Organic Farmers Market
  • In Australia, markets are held in various places on the weekends. Some markets even use schoolyards, open areas in parks, and parking lots at horse racing tracks and shopping centers. There is a growing number of markets in different areas that include markets that primarily sell goods such as plants, and fresh fruits and vegetables; markets that mostly sell Australian souvenirs to tourists; and markets that started appearing around 5 to 6 years ago selling stylish, fashionable goods, such as clothing, bags, accessories, antique furniture, and art. Shoppers can relax while listening to entertainment such as bands and guitar performances while sitting at makeshift cafés and food stalls. I, too, enjoy making the rounds and visiting markets on days off when the weather is nice.
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  • 2015.09.25
  • Australia’s Home Improvement Stores
  • Australia has several stores that are similar to Japan’s “home centers”  and Bunnings Warehouse is most likely the largest chain of such home improvement stores. It’s a large-scale store where you can find everything you need for renovating your home including tools, paint, cement, lumber, tiles, piping, outdoor goods, gardening goods, plants and storage goods.
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  • 2015.08.28
  • Gold Coast Walking Course
  • The Gold Coast is in Queensland that is located in northeast Australia. It has a population of about 500,000, which is the second highest in the state after Brisbane with 1.6 million people and sixth largest in Australia.
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