英語あれこれ

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1. Today is December 8.

What do you call December/ in the lunar calendar?

We call it ”師走”/ in the lunar calendar.

What is the counter word/ of lunar?

2. Speaking of December 8 ,/ what do you remember?

It's the day/ when the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service/

attacked on Pearl Harbor,/ the U.S Naval base,/ in 1941,/ 78 years ago.

3. The following day,/ December 8 in American time,/ the U.S President

Roosevelt/ declared war on Japan.

4. In this way,/ the Second World war began.