Thailand's prime minister Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra ordered to step down

Yesterday, the Prime minster of Thailand Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra was ordered to step down by the constitutional court which found her guilty of improperly transferring power to her national security chief Thawil Pliensri. Anti-government protesters had been rallying since November 2013.

So what are all these lines for? Not familiar with the tennis court? Well then..

The lines confuse me. That's what I was told the other day. That reminded me of my gym back in Japan. The gym floor had so many lines for all the sports (Volleyball, Basketball, Dodge ball who knows what else.) Yes, nicely they were all in different colors but does not matter still very confusing.
So if you are still confused about the lines on the tennis court…not to worry so much, at least they are all for tennis, just tennis…This is Matsushita.

Congratulation to Kanon for winning first title!

Hi, this is Sakai and I can not wait to share the great news!

Kanon Iwakuma(12) has won the girls under 14's in local TOYOTA tournament. It is her first title.
Also, Koki Matsuda(13) is a runner up in boys under 16's, Mami Hagiwara(11) placed 3rd in girls under 12's, Masaki Koga(13) finished best 8. All of them practice in our players class. So proud of them!!

Woman's tennis suffers a heart blow

Our hearts go out to former British No.# 1 tennis player Elena Baltacha who passed away on Sunday with liver cancer at the age of 30. (photograph: telegraph.co.uk) She had been fighting with the disease since the age of 19.  She retired from tennis in 2013.

Recycle used tennis balls

Other places around the world have organisations to help recycle used tennis balls. I feel that Thailand should also get on this bandwagon.  Three hundred million tennis balls are made worldwide each year and are discarded into landfills each year. We should do something about it!

Did you know???

Hello, everyone!! APF Academies was recently featured in the local free Japanese news letter magazine called WISE. Pick up a copy and check out the ad even if you don't read Japanese. (In it features our CEO Hideki Kaneko and of course, myself..Tsukada."

Peek: Portable eye care examiner on mobile device

One of my favourite channels to view on youtube are the TED:TALKS.  Just the abundance of interesting information and knowledge one can gain is amazing!  I recently came across a presentation which introduced a smartphone device that works as a high-tech portable eye examiner.