Ruling Party Debacle. The number of seats Will be completely REVERSED!!--from Japan

As I said in this blog before, ruling party, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is about to lose crazy number of seats. Top officials in LDP made some comments, "I have never experienced this sort of toughest election."

LDP predicted the line of winning and losing as 51 seats, but it is going to be around middle of 30, or in the worst case for them, it may be around 30 or less than that of it. Amazingly low.

I understand how general Japanese citizens are in the flame of anger for the current ruling party.

Honestly speaking, I feel that citizens also do not know what the Democratic Party that will jump quite a lot can do with confidence. However, there is a firm fact that citizens have felt disgusted with the ruling party.

The result that will be firmly decided tonight or earth tomorrow will show how tough and angry Japanese citizens are feeling in the current life that has been going worse and worse and worse under currently party, LDP.

Mass Media Not Relying on Advertisement Revenue Can Keep a True Journalism? --from Japan

Mass Media such as newspapers or TV relies on big companies about the revenue. This may be preventing them from being a true journalism.

In Japan, MyNews Japan that is an innovative internet media not relying on the advertisements from companies is getting noticed, and it picked up "Shinbun(newspaper) Red Flag" being published by Japan Communist Party. It has been run without getting any advertisement from companies as well.

MyNews Japan, an online media, praised the "Shiubun Red Flag" saying, "There are many social matters related to big companies such as Canon, Toyota, or Matsushita and to politicians' corruption.

Traditional big newspapers started to follow the matters after the "Shinbun Red Flag" picked up. This means that the dominant newspapers do not work as journalism because they cannot criticize the important matters that are truly for citizens. The perspective of citizens is lacking.

The reason why traditional newspapers are decreasing the sales is not just because of the development of internet but the decline of the quality.

A Country That Deceives Citizens, Japan--from Japan

I found an article written by a well-known Japanese business consultant, Kenichi Omae. in the website of Nikkei BP. The title was a bit stimulating.

Personally, I think that the fact that the government cheats citizens may be universal, but as a case study, I want to roughly summarize the article:

Very unfortunately, we cannot count how many times government has cheated citizens. A recent example of the deleted pension shows it well. The matter is so critical that the nation may fall down. However, in the website of Social Insurance Agency, there is no serious reflection except for routine apologetic phrase that the government officials often use.

Government has mainly three ways to cheat citizens.

First, change the name of organizations without seriously changing inside. For instance, high-way related public corporations were privatized, but no government officials were fired. No system was changed.

Second, don't tell anything to citizens. For instance, so many government officials of baby-boomer generation have started to retire from 2007. For their crazy amount of retirement fees, so many local authority bonds were issued. It's a debt that the general citizens have to pay. If the private companies are under huge debt, how can they pay for the big retirement fee?

Third, pretend not to know. For instance, though Japan has three antinuclear principles, America have brought it to Japan freely without letting Japanese citizens know.

That's it. Yes, I quite agreed with the article. Since traditional mass media have not disclosed important things, citizens have not known what's going on in underground. However, some people start to disclose them on internet. And finally, even traditional mass media seem to have no choice but to pick up a part of the matters that citizens start to know though just a part.

Now will be the time that we have to think as independently as possible.

A 52 Years Old Japanese Died from Starvation Having Been Rejected to Get Daily Life Protection--from Japan

Do you still believe that Japan is a rich country? It may be true up to the angle you see, but the fact that some people die from starvation will cast a strong doubt to you.

In north Kyushu city, a 52 years old man died alone at home from starvation. He was writing a diary in which he wrote, "I want to eat a rice ball."

It is said that he was getting the daily life protection, but it was cut in April of this year.

The North Kyushu city explained the reason why they stopped to provide the final protection, "When we recommended the person to work, he said yes."

However, in the diary, the person was writing the dissatisfaction about the terrible treatment.

This sort of event is not the first time in this city, actually.

"Beautiful country, Japan". This slogan is often emphasized by the current government, but citizens start to get aware of the true meaning. Japanese citizens start to notice that the slogan is useful in punch line.

Inconvenience Truths are Waiting to Be Discovered? --from Japan

Government said good bye to the people, bye to the people, for their benefits.

I may have a bit bad memory about what Abraham Lincoln said, but it seems not wrong thinking of the pension matter in Japan government.

The ruling party keeps claiming Social Insurance Agency for the disappeared records, around 51,000,000 cases (publicly announced number). However, some people on internet are talking about the "Eaten Money" not disappeared records.

Thinking calmly, some citizens begin to notice that the number of the disappeared cases is too much. It will be true that the government workers in the Social Insurance Agency have done terribly wrong, and if the same thing happened in a private firm, so many people would have been arrested and fired. But, another truth is that the money must have been used by other government workers and people in public corporations.

Some citizens start to feel that the saving of the pension does not exist actually having eaten out by government related people. That's why when politicians in Democratic Party asked the ruling party to show how much the remaining value of the accumulated pension is, the ruling party could not answer at all. Of course, they will be unable to tell the money that has gone away already.

Though the politicians in the ruling party say that a labor union in the Social Insurance Agency is connected with the Democratic Party, but the fact is that this opposite party disclosed and pursued the matter of the pension in the Social Insurance Agency.

In addition, Japanese citizens may have already forgotten that a politician in the Democratic Party who was about to disclose the truth for the pension problem was KILLED around 5 years ago. This means that there IS a fact that government officials NEVER want citizens to know about this pension matter.

When the government loses the trust from citizens completely, the destruction of nation will truly start.

Which Party Is Selected in Coming Election? --from Japan

The election of the House of Councillors is finally coming in this month in Japan.

The approval rate for the current government is less than 30% that cannot have seen in recent years. It seems that the number is predicting the change of the party to lead Japan, but it may not mean the change.

Opposite party, Democratic Party, has not been approved by citizens enough. The supporting rate for the Democratic Party is said to be around 16 % according to the article of Asahi newspaper today.

A number of citizens do not support any party… Distrust for the politics seems to be getting deep and deep. However, in the next election, those who voted for the ruling party in the last election may stop to vote for it because of a series of ridiculous failures and problems such as pension or improper words of cabinet members.

Citizens' feeling may be like: LDP cannot do anything though Democratic Party is not reliable, either. However, taking what's been going under LDP into consideration, Japan's society has been going worse for general citizens. If so, just let the opposite party try to lead this country.

For citizens, no choice. Anyways, citizens want politicians to think about general citizens seriously and hope that the politicians stop enjoying a "party" being held somewhere underground.