スピーチコンテストの原稿です

投稿者:Makoto Abe - 投稿日時:2001年09月28日 00時52分53秒
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Ｍグループの阿部です。コンテスト出場は貴重な経験になりました。出場を決めた以上は、当然英文を暗記をしなければなりませんでしたが、これはプレッシャーのかかった非常によい勉強でした。本番で失敗したら恥かしいですからね！不思議なもので、なかなか覚えることができなかった文章なのに、何故か１週間たった今でも全文が記憶に残っています。これから将来も忘れないのでしょう。英語上達の近道は、自分で自分をいかに英語を使わざるをえない状況に何とか追い込むこと！？なのではないか、と実感しています。ご清聴ありがとうございました。

The last day of Takugin
2000.9.21
Makoto Abe
On November 13th 1998, I was a press writer covering Sapporo City. It was the last day of the Hokkaido Takusyoku bank, which was the largest bank in the prefecture and the center of the economics in Hokkiado. On that day, It stopped all business. From next day, As you know, the Hokuyo bank took it over.
Almost one year before to the day, on November 17th 1997,this bank went bunkrupt. Everybody was surprized, shocked, because it was said that a bank never goes bunkrupt due to suppot from the government. That didn't make sense at all.
I remember this incident very well because that spring I became a press writer, just after finishing university.
In the early morning of November 17th 1998, my colleages and I were ordered to go to some Takugin branches in Sapporo to get the comments of bank clerks and customers. I asked a lot of people coming to each branch, "Do you know that today is the last day of this bank? What do you think about it? What kind of memories do you have?" I had a variety of questions. Most knew this fact well, and were willing to answer my questions.
Some of them said to me, I feel sad to lose one of the historical symbols of Hokkaido.This bank has been popular among people, and was known as the friendly,"Takugin-San".
That showed the bank's intimacy with the people of Hokkiado.I understood how well this bank was loved.
Ｉ also tried to contact bank clerks, but no staff wanted to talk to me. Perhaps, all of them had been instructed not to talk to me. Say nothing to the Journalist!
But it was my important mission to get some words from them. I was standing out the back of the building hoping some clerk would come back for a long time. I never felt tired, because
I thought at that time, by concentrating I would be able to get some information.
After dark, around five o’clock, one male member of the sales staff came. I thought it was my last oppotunity to get a comment! Don't let him get away! Soon after introducing myself to him, I asked some questions, "As you know well, this bank will be gone tomorrow. How do you feel? It must be a very tough question for you…."
He kindly agreed to be interviewed for a short time and sighed,
"Today is my last day at the office. It is very sad for me to leave my colleages who have worked with me for a long time. I never want to experience something like this again…".
After returning to my office, my boss said to me, "This conment is realistic.　You did good job.” Every word he said to me was in the paper next day.
I really thought a chapter in Hokkaido's history was over. But still now, the trial for the former bank president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, charged with breach of trust, continues.

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