Some things always stay the same in Japan. In the countryside, farmers grow rice, like the farmers of hundreds of years ago. Year after year, people stop to see the beautiful blossom on the cherry trees. In a small wooden house,tea is made, and visitors watch carefully.
But some things change very quickly. Better robots and newer phones! More exciting computer games! Taller buildings and faster trains! This is Japan – the old and the new together, always changing, and always the same.
在日本，總有些地方是經久不變的。農民在鄉(xiāng)間種水稻，和數百年前并無差別；櫻花盛放于枝頭，引人駐足，是年年可見的場景；茶道儀式在小小的木屋里舉行，訪客們仍屏息觀看。
不過有些地方瞬息萬變。那就是更出色的機器人，更新型的手機，更讓人激動的電腦游戲！樓房越建越高，列車越來越快！這，就是日本—— 傳統(tǒng)與現代的融合，日新月異而經典永恒。