Deep Mirror, A Modern Japanese Samurai's Views

Is Second Korean War Going to Happen?

2010-11-29T15:58:00.000-08:00

The article of the linked website introduced a perspective and the possibility of Second Korean War. Let's take a look at it!

For grad job seekers, only 19.7% could get a job!?

2009-05-18T20:51:00.000-07:00

According to CBS, the percentage of grad job seekers in 2009 was just 19.7%, which dropped from 51% in 2007.

It seems that some of those who couldn’t get a job tend to go to a graduate school, but I feel that it may end up being just a waste of investment (at least if this happens in Japan).

I feel that education is a big business industry and many of young people tend to be victims of the business (at least in Japan) because degrees do not work in real society.

Old formula will not work for current young people. Current young people have to get out of a traditional way of life and establish a new life concept or own life formula, and then, they have to live with it.

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Chaos Japan--What IS Invisible Force?

2007-11-04T01:59:00.000-07:00

A leader of Democratic Party of Japan, opposite party, expressed to quit the party leader a little before today. The reason was that he caused the chaos and distrust in his party.

Impossible to understand. I think that very few Japanese people can understand what is going on in Japan now. Pretty scary.

I feel that a big plan is moving behind the series of play. Things are going too rapidly.

From the idea of coalition between Liberal Democratic Party and Democratic Party of Japan to the today's announcement, I can only assume that somebody tries to do something rapidly.

Coalition report 2

2007-11-02T06:06:00.000-07:00

It seems that the opposite party, Democratic Party of Japan rejected the request from Liberal Democratic Party for the coalition. What's going on!!!??? Too rapid...Really, really, impossible to understand...What's really going on in Japan??

What's going to happen in Japan? Autocracy? Emergent News...

2007-11-02T05:44:00.000-07:00

Prime Minister Fukuda in ruling party asked the opposite party, Democratic Party of Japan to work with coalition. Emergent news has just been announced now.

If the two parties get together, it means the autocracy. They can pass any law.

Who's moving behind? The law to send self-defense force to help America may be related. Or tax?

Anyways, if this happens, the last lower house election in which Democratic Party of Japan won largely becomes meaningless.

Citizens may have been just shown a well-planned play, called politics.

Prime Minister of Japan Decides to Step Down.--From Japan

2007-09-11T21:44:00.000-07:00

Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has determined to quit on 12th and told it to top officials of the ruling party. Yomiuri newspaper has just reported it.

He is going to have a press conference afternoon.

Finally, but there was a news yesterday or two days ago that he said something like, "If I cannot extend the special law for Iraq with which Self-Defense Force will keep on joining in Iraq war."

Soon after he said it, he decided to quit today. What does this mean?

Of course, there are so many reasons why he has to quit. Piles of domestic matters. However, the timing of his decision to quit was quite bad or too late.

From beginning to the end, it seems that he has shown that he is quite unfit for the top position, Prime Minister.

A Retirement Allowance with 50% Increase for a Police Who Murdered a Woman--from Japan

2007-08-31T06:00:00.000-07:00

There was a surprising murder caused by a police in Japan, but there was one more surprise.

The senior policeman who stoked a woman tenaciously and finally killed is supposed to get 1.2 million Japanese yen, a retirement allowance that is 50% higher than usual case. Lots of claims occurred from Japanese citizens. Of course...

The police killed the woman with his pistol and committed suicide afterwards. What kind of organization gives the retirement allowance with 50% plus to a person who murdered? This happened in police organization of Japan. Can you believe it?

Why? It is said that it's the law. Law. According to the law in Tokyo, it seems that the retirement allowance should be paid except for such as dismissal in disgrace. However, he is criminal. How can he get the retirement money that is paid by tax? Plus 50%? Oh my goodness!!

This incident shows that government organizations focus on the laws more than common sense, tenaciously. Can't laugh...

Middle Class Is Disappearing? Is this an effect of globalization?--from Japan

2007-08-17T22:55:00.000-07:00

More than 30 % in total workers is not full-time worker in current Japan. The number seems not to decelerate.

Is Japan totally going to the American structure where the rich and the poor are nearly completely divided? Maybe. If houses are picked up from middle class, America may face a disastrous disorder of society. I hope that America would not repeat the similar situation of Japan after bubble exploded.

The number of car sales in Japan is quite tumbling. The president of Toyota looks puzzled, but he should know why. Youngsters. Youngsters are getting the short end of the stick. How can they purchase cars? Even clothes shops cannot attract people, including youngsters so much. Broke.

I though that Japan is in a bit dangerous situation thinking about the soaring debt, but it seems that America may be more dangerous... while I feel the power of China (though I cannot imagine the depth of their internal matters) or India. Talking about the hope for future, youngsters in China or India may have bright vision compared with those of Japan.

The time is really changing. As history shows, a big country cannot maintain forever. A turn is coming.

Is the Relationship between Japan and America Going to Change? Japan May Withdraw from Iraq? Another Ichiro Shows the Fang.--from Japan

2007-08-08T03:31:00.000-07:00

Ichiro Ozawa, a head of Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) that got a big win in the last month's Lower House Election, declined to extend the dispatch of Self-Defense Force in Iraq. Japan media reported.

Ozawa met ambassador Schieffer on 8th afternoon. Shieffer asked him to extend the special anti-terrorism law, but Ozawa said, "This is the war that America started without gaining the international consensus. So, we could not join the operation."

Japan's ruling party is still Liberal Democratic Party that hugely lost in the last month election. Because Prime Minister keeps on showing his incompetence in his position, he is now getting fired by colleagues in LDP.

If there is a snap election in the near future, it is highly possible that LDP gets a tremendous defeat. If so, it's the turn of Ozawa though it cannot be sure whether or not Ozawa wants to be Prime Minister. Anyway, DPJ holds the control of Japan in that case.

If all the scenarios become true, it is interesting to observe how America responds.

After subprime matter, America may face another prime issue.

The Master of Positive Thinking--A Prime Minister of Japan

2007-08-03T21:06:00.000-07:00

Liberal Democraptic Party (LDP) in Japan lost with tremendous loss of its seats, but Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, still believes that citizens did not reject him.

The Prime Minister said in a debate between LDP and Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) that got a landslide victory, "Which person is suitable for the Prime Minister of this country, I or opposite party leader?"

Where is his memory? The problem was not only his memory but the ability to judge.

The Prime Minister decided to make a Minister of Farm Ministry who brought a controversial matter about his spending without opening the receipts quit finally. Why didn't he do that before the election? For this judgment, even the politicians in his party have claimed hardly.

What the Prime Minister has done looks absurd. Ironically, this series of stupidity seem to tell us that anybody can be Prime Minister of Japan because this country is controlled by government officials as somebody said.

P.S. I'm sorry if there is a misspelling.

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

2007-07-29T06:20:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-21T23:44:00.001-07:00

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

2007-07-16T02:40:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-11T07:11:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-09T02:57:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-02T23:55:00.000-07:00

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.

Debt Keeps Updating the Worst Record, but Bonus is Going UP, too. An invitation for Mr. Michael Moore--from Japan

2007-06-29T05:45:00.000-07:00

Today, 29th, public servants in whole Japan got a summer bonus. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the average amount of the bonus in general administrative post except for management positions was about 624,000 yen (average age of 34.7) around 900 yen UP from last summer. And the average of the bonus of public servants in local areas was around 597,000 yen (average age of 36.5) UP around 100 yen. Japan media reported it today.

General Japanese citizens' query for them: Why can public servants get the bonus that even increased under the critical financial condition of government of Japan and the unreasonable amount of retirement reward?

This question is getting stronger and general Japanese citizens are furious over it because citizens' burdens such as tax or insurance are skyrocketing.

A couple days ago, it was announced that the debt of Japan marked the worst number: 834,000,000,000,000 yen at the end of 2006. That number means that each citizen is given the debt, 6,530,000 yen.

I think that if Mr. Michael Moore has difficulty finding good topics, he should come to Japan anytime. Many awful truths are waiting for him.

Kiichi Miyazawa, Past Prime Minister Passed Away--From Japan

2007-06-28T07:21:00.000-07:00

Past Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa who carried out fully economic measures in late '80 and '90 in the financial crisis. He is praised for having saved the bankruptcy of Japan Economy but is blamed for having left lots of debt.

It is true that he may have relied on public money too much with Keynesian theory and left the minus property, a lot. However, the matter of accumulated debt will, actually, lie in the structure of government organizations that has never been changed though Yubari City was forced to change after it went bankrupt.

In around 1998, a Japanese writer of economic paper has already mentioned that Japan has to cut the government workers or those who are related to government organizations.

In my memory, when that Prime Minister was alive, Japanese general citizens have not known about the financial condition of Japan so much. Just recently, we, general citizens start to know a bit clearly (too late…).

Bureaucratic system will not change until it gets a critical damage like Yubari. It's not the organization like private firms that have to change flexibly to survive. The concept for salary is light and shade.

Devastating Defeat of Liberal Democratic Party is Getting Real. National Crime of Social Insurance Agency Gave Them Coup De Grace--From Japan

2007-06-25T07:12:00.000-07:00

The time that the LDP in Japan gets an ultimatum from citizens is coming next month. Japanese citizens will no more be cheated. I feel that Japanese citizens are not such stupid.

The pension matter caused by Social Insurance Agency showed what the government organization is to citizens in a dynamic way. This was too critical for LDP because the matter of pension gave live and real damage the people whose voting rate is high. Those citizens whose ages are relatively high finally felt the pain through their own body. They will show the anger in the election.

Though opposite party, Democratic Party is also not reliable enough, Japanese citizens will know who have run this country where citizens are bleeding greatly if Japanese citizens could keep the accumulated anger until the election without being disturbed by some entertainments that may be put before the election.

What this Social Insurance Agency has done is totally national crime, but nobody has got arrested so far. This sort of unreasonable treatment for government workers and organizations is getting quite clear and citizens finally start to be awakened.

The game of LDP over years is about to be over.

A Politician from a Wrestler Decided to Retire in Just One Term. Don't Wanna be an Election Tool. --From Japan

2007-06-23T21:48:00.000-07:00

Atsushi Onita who was a popular wrestler among youngsters at that time and became a politician decided to leave the ring without seeking the seat in the coming election.

He said, "the election of the House of Councillors is not a tool to collect popularity for the office of Prime Minister".

Ruling party, Liberal Democratic Party, started to use famous people to collect votes since 2001 when the system that people can vote writing an individual name was established.

Japanese citizens also know that almost all of those politicians called, "talent members", have done nothing except for collecting votes.

It will be true that government more than the standard of citizens is not established. Because citizens tend to vote for the celebrities without thinking about what they can do for citizens, government has applied the method.

LDP is trying to recruit a famous ex-teacher called, "Yankee Teacher" in the coming election.

The Special Law on the Nation's Support for Iraqi Reconstruction Extended

2007-06-22T05:21:00.000-07:00

The special law on the nation's support for Iraqi reconstruction has been extended for two years, allowing the Air Self-Defense Force to continue its transport mission, aiding in the reconstruction of the country. Yomiuri newspaper reported it.

Opinions for this government decision are divided in Japan.

Though mass media discussed the extension, personally, I want Japan mass media to talk about the government's attitude about the weapons of mass destruction. So far, government of Japan have not mentioned about it. Citizens know that the weapons did not exist.

This government's decision may mean that Japan will follow America under any condition as usual.

Clean the Garbage Completely in Social Insurance Agency--from Japan

2007-06-18T22:02:00.000-07:00

In a meeting of 15th, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about the Social Insurance Agency that is getting tons of claims because of unbelievably rough jobs for the citizens' pension, "It's a serious problem for bad working habits to have been spreading over long years."

Japanese citizens' anger to this organization will not be stopped without strong and firm action by government. The approval rate for PM is falling and the distrust for the Social Insurance Agency is adding the oils to the fire.

It seems that PM finally recognized how serious it was. He said straight in the meeting, "We have to clean the GARBAGE completely".

The word, "garbage" was a bit surprising. It may be a performance before coming election, but it was pretty straight thinking of the words of PM.

Yep, what's going on in Japan now about this case shows how dark and rotten the current Japan society is. Citizens mention on internet that this case is the national crime and citizens are cheated.

The Social Insurance Agency said that more than 50,000,000 records of pension disappeared.

Nobody has been arrested for this terrible case. How can citizens imagine bright future for this country? The citizens' future is covered with dark fogs.

Is English Business Getting Difficult in Japan? The largest English Language School's Bad Business

2007-06-14T06:22:00.001-07:00

Nova Corp., the nation's largest English-language school chain, was ordered by the government Wednesday to partially suspend business for six months for lying to customers about its services. Nova will be banned from selling long-term contracts for language lessons starting Thursday, officials of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said. Japan Times reported it today.

There are so many English schools in Japan, but this school is well known over years. However, it seems that they have been focusing on their business much more than the quality of their English class.

It is said that this company, Nova, has created a manual to handle claims by customers. This means that they knew what they have done.

English has been a big business industry in Japan, but recently, some English schools have been closed down. One of the problems will be the cost and the development of cheaper ways to learn on internet.

As you may know, Japan's English education is quite terrible and proved to be a waste of time over decades. Ironically, teachers in schools have been showing it. Therefore, that sort of private school has been popular though not sure for future.

I feel that we can see a kind of capitalism in their business system. They have to keep on providing fantasies for people to earn with good reasons. Effect is not the first priority, but the money is the king. English language schools in Japan know it quite well.

The society where supply is far over demand will show lousy parts of the capitalism. In essence, I personally feel that companies will do anything to survive.

I'm not a supporter of communism at all. It seems that history already showed it is wrong. However, the capitalism is also on the turning point.

I feel that next policy will be "harmonism" that added good, tender, or etc humanity to the capitalism, but it will not be achieved so soon.

Female Self-Defense Force, Appealed Sexual Harassment with Tears--From Japan

2007-06-11T18:42:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! New week has started. Let's have wonderful days. All, right, I'm going to deliver my post today:

"Give me back the time of youth" Female Self-Defense Force appealed in court opening her mouth about the reality of sexual harassment. Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., LTD reported in 11th.

She was 21 years old and have not quit yet.

Reportedly, the plaintiff, the female officer in the self-defense force, was forced to be kissed or touched by colleague in her working place.

She reported to her boss, but reversely, the boss asked her to quit. She claimed the compensation for loss, 11 million yen to the government.

It was reported that she was bullied again after she appealed to the court.

How insidious the self defense force!! She totally wasted her pure heart.

Imagining her feeling and sending a message for pure young females who want to join in the organization, I want to express my feeling through a poem that is a little bit like Japanese Haiku style:

Unexpected

Really necessary is

Self-defense

How to Earn Easily, Simply? Just Parachute!!--from Japan

2007-06-10T06:57:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! How is your weekend? Here is my post today:

It was found that seven people who experienced a position of the head of Social Insurance Agency that has been showing the terrible comedies to Japanese citizens seamlessly had received around 930,000,000 yen in total. Mainichi newspaper reported it in 7th of this month.

They immigrated from a public organization to another public organization many times, and they have got crazy amount of money every time. Japanese citizens already know why the financial condition of this country got worse.

This Social Insurance Agency has been handling pension, and it has been recently uncovered that they mishandled in 50,000,000 cases!! Under this super controversial matter happening, the unreasonable reward will make Japanese citizens want this government organization to add the axis of evil.

Now, ruling party, Liberal Democratic Party, is trying to enact the bill about the reform of government officials. Even if it is successfully enacted, the effect is dubious because citizens know how much government officials have built the HUGE Debt that is the worst standard in developed country and even concerned about the bankruptcy. How expensive the parachutes were!!

I want to express the feeling through a poem that is a little bit like Japanese Haiku style as a representative of general Japanese citizens:

Migratory birds

More serious than

Mexicans

Senior Policeman and Old Boy of Prefectural Police Were Arrested--From Japan

2007-06-09T05:37:00.000-07:00

Hi!! How've you been? I've been a bit busy though I feel comfortable about it. All right, I'm going to deliver a post:

A senior policemen and a old boy of prefectural police in Aichi prefecture were caught for violation of local public service law. One of them has not accepted yet.

It was found that payments were sent to an account of the suspect. So, a case for bribery is going to be built.

The crimes of government officials have been found continuously in recent years in Japan, but what is serious is the crimes that police has been doing are included. And they are really serious.

We Japanese citizens got shocked when the cases of slush funds they have built up secretly came out. However, thinking that their crimes do not show any declines, I think that the root of their problems in their organization is deep.

Now, the ruling party that is full of troubles in front of coming election is trying to pass the law of reform of government officials. Except for it, they have piles of bills to pass in the present term. Because of a series of terrible blunders caused by Social Insurance Agency, the ruling party is totally stuck.

So chaotic is Japan. Instead of just signing, I want to express the feeling through a poem that is a little bit like Japanese Haiku style:

Thousands of bills

Have to pass with sweats

Have to get with smiles

Plunging Working Motivation. What's Going on in Japanese Who were Called "Worker Drone" Long Time Ago? --from Japan

2007-06-05T07:04:00.000-07:00

Are Japanese getting lazy? It was found that the ranking of working motivation of Japanese was the second worst among 16 countries. Nikkei business reported yesterday.

The investigation was conducted in 2005 by Towers Perrin, a consulting firm of personnel and organization.

According to the investigation, 41% Japanese said that their motivation to work is low. This number was the second worst number next to India.

In the past, Japanese working motivation and loyalty to company were high and famous in the world. Japanese were called, "worker drone" at that time. However, time changed.

I think that this does not mean that Japanese workers have become lazy but environmental change made a bit influence on them.

Salary system, no more job security, and etc. Old generation who enjoyed the bubble wave tend not to understand the young workers, either…and so on. To put it simply, everything is messy under transition.

This is not only the matter inside companies but rotten society, especially unreasonable sweet working environments of government workers, corruptions of top government officials, etc have made the workers in private firms feel stupid to work hard because tax they have to pay is going to their purse with lots of holes.

What companies and government have to do is to make reasonable and fair environments in order to let citizens want to work hard with health.

Under current situation, I wonder if even past Japanese samurais could keep loyal heart to the government or the organizations that is not worth being loyal.

Thanks a lot for your visiting!! Have a nice day!!

Why Japanese Citizens Hate Government Officials: A Head of Social Insurance Agency Got a Reward, 300 Million Yen Through Golden Parachuting--from Japa

2007-06-03T22:12:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!! How are you doing? Again, a scandal that rob motivation of Japanese citizens took place. Please read my today's post:

Under a terrible problem that the around 50,000,000 cases in pension is said to have disappeared, next is a crazy problem that ex-head of the Social Insurance Agency got around 290 million yen as a reward and retirement bonus from an organization where he parachuted after he stepped down from the Social Insurance Agency. Japan media reported it two days ago.
This is a typical government officials' way to steal citizen's money.

A politician said, "This is a usual course that those who experienced a position of head go. Other departments have similar cases, and the case found this time is just a tip of the iceberg."

Citizens are quite fed up with the government officials' matters. Because of the series of corruptions and scandals, the approval rate of government tumbled to around 30 level.

Just yesterday, Prime Minister made a speech in Tokyo in order to turn down the fire, but it was reported that citizens' eyes were cold. Of course.

The penalty of government officials is too light. Just the other day, in China, a top official in Shanghai was sentenced to a death penalty for the corruption. On the other hand, in Japan, there is almost no penalty. Nobody seems to take any responsibility as long as they are government officials. Insane.

General Japanese citizens wonder when the party of government officials finishes. Citizens are forced to dance to entertain them.

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Top Two Comedians Show a Hot Stage on Movie Screen--From Japan

2007-06-02T21:26:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! How are you doing? Here is my today's post:

Takeshi Kitano, a well-known movie director in the world, and a magnum-force and greatly influential comedian, Hitoshi Matsumoto, meet on movie screens.Matsumoto's debut film, "Dainihonjin (Big Japanese in English, approximately) invited by Cannes the other day is released today as well as Kitano's latest film, "Kantoku Banzai (Director, hurray in English, approximately)"

Although I seldom watch movies, I'm interested in the debut film of Hitoshi Matsumoto because I like his comedy style that is quite awesome!

Once he appeared in TV screen, it was clear that the Japanese comedy changed. He created a world that we had never seen. It was almost an art rather than just a comedy. It cannot be analyzed easily. Even for Japanese, elders can almost never understand the creative comedy style.

Yesterday, Hitoshi Matsumoto came on many TV programs including some TV programs he had never appeared before. And Matsumoto said, "Company invested in the film more than 1,000,000,000 yen."

So many Japanese people, especially youngsters, seem to want to compare him with Kitano, but this is meaningless. As a Japanese, I just want to celebrate their respectable talents.Problem? It will be that citizens, especially youngsters, may accelerate not to pay attention to politics that is on the critical corner before coming election, just a month away.

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Don't Bring Dirty Matters Like in Politics into Sports!! --from Japan

2007-06-01T06:05:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! How's it going? Today is the first day of June, and my birthday is coming. Yep, I have to work hard to make this month wonderful to celebrate myself! haha.. Aside from it, I hope that everyone can have a meaningful time in this month, too. Yes, we human beings should be a creature of growth!

Excuse me, it was a bit gibberish. All right, It's 10:14 pm here in Japan. Here is my today's column:

A baseball team, SeibuLions in Japan has shake a Japan baseball with the matter of slush fund.

It was found recently that the SeibuLions donated cash to amateur players or people related to them. Around 170 people related to the players were given from 300,000 yen to 10,000,000 per person as a gratuity. It is surely prohibited in the rule of Japan baseball.

A scout in Seibu said, "Other teams will be doing the same. We could not be behind."

The popularity of Japan baseball is declining. The reason may be largely because big players such as Ichiro or Matsui went to Major League in America, but this sort of dark air is critical to show the corruptive inside situation.

Corruption in politics is serious and never shows any sign to decelerate the dirtiness in Japan. However, it will be quite sad if the sports industry is also corrupted like the politics.

Those workers who have to back up the baseball industry and baseball players should not rob the sanctity of sports, baseball though we are quite welcome to see Ichiro's steal.

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Japanese Struggle in Working Places

2007-05-30T01:20:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! What's up? It's 5:20 pm here in Japan. I'm gonna deliver today's column:

Japanese people in working places are getting lonely, and the bosses divert the responsibility because of the performance-based system. With that title, Sankei Newspaper reported about the problems in working places of Japan today.

The article picked up a case.

An accident happened in one of the quite famous Japan makers in Japan. A man who was 30s was doing his task assigned, and it was found that his job was quite late. A day that the accident was found was just one day before the date of completion.

Until that day, nobody including his boss and colleague noticed the big delay of his work. A partaker mentioned, "we extended the working day and put a lot of colleague in the job, but it was still not enough. And finally, we had to hire dispatch workers."

As a result, this largely delayed job affected other sections and damaged the company a lot. The man who caused this matter said, "I couldn't say it because I didn't want to be looked as an incompetent person."

The article of the newspapers says that the trust relationship in working places is getting poor and poor. The phrase that bosses say represents it, "I leave it to you, so you do it in your way."

Some specialist analyses that the phrase comes from a purpose to hide the incompetence that the bosses cannot give suitable advices or create proper relationship. They do not want to share with responsibility.

Umm...This matter is actually really complicated. Many things, so many things are changing in Japan. The situation is quite chaotic. It seems that western value and traditional Japanese value deeply existing inside are fighting. Japanese are basically collectivism, but value of individualism starts to be dominant. This conflict of the values will be so hard to solve.

Prince Shotoku once said, "Treasure conformity".

It seems that the room to treasure the traditional culture, value, is getting narrow.

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Recovering Total Unemployment Ratio, 3.8% in April. 3% Level For The First Time in 9 Years!! However...the Truth is... --From Japan

2007-05-29T00:20:00.000-07:00

Konnichiha (Hi) again!! How are you? It's 4:20 pm here in Japan. I'm gonna deliver today's second column:

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced today that the total unemployment ratio in April was 3.8% with 0.2% up from last month. Mainichi Newspaper reported it.

3% level of the total unemployment ratio has not appeared for 9 years. Is this a sing that Japan's economy is getting back? No way...

We have to focus on the number of non-full-time workers that are crazy soaring!! The percentage of the non-full-time workers reached 33.7% in whole workers. It was the highest number since the investigation started.

Part-time workers or dispatch workers who mostly do not have hopes in their futures are just included in the announcement. Except for traditional elders, Japanese citizens will no more believe this kind of announcement.

Suffering citizens know the truth of society.

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Darkness of Politics, People Suicide One After Another. What is Going On in Japan? --from Japan

2007-05-28T19:54:00.000-07:00

Konnichiha (Hi) everyone!! How are you doing? Something is strange in current Japan. Yesterday, a minister of Farm Ministry committed suicide for the first time after World War II as I wrote yesterday. Today, another person who is related to the matter died in jump again. Here is my today's column:

A person who was found dead in a parking in Yokohama this morning, around 5:15 am was the person of a director of an organization, "Forest Development Corporation" that is the past organization called, "Green Resources Organization". This "Green Resources Organization" was involved into the controversial golden parachuting and the minister of Farm Ministry who committed suicide just yesterday was related.

It seems that both of them who committed suicide closed their mouths with death.

Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office was investigating both of them. However, dead people can never say a word.

Japanese citizens must feel something quite dark and deep existing in this matter. They must have died for saving a route where many people such as politicians, gang group (this is one of the powerful force like police, politicians, top class business people) or top government officials may have related.

This series of suicide will have a big influence on the coming, critical election.

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A Minister of Farm Ministry in Japan Committed Suicide by Hanging at a Public Dormitory for Diet Members--from Japan

2007-05-27T23:22:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! It's 3:20 pm here in Japan. There is emergent news from Japan. Here is my column related to it:

On 28th afternoon, around 12:18 pm, in a room of public dormitory for Lower House, Minister of Farm Ministry in Japan attempted to commit suicide by hanging. It was confirmed that he was dead afterward. Mainichi Newspaper reported it.

Recently, he has been criticized strongly for his political money matter in his office and the matter of donated money from a related organization that was accused of collusive bidding at an initiative of government officials under Farm Ministry by opposite party and public opinions.

Although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe protected him saying, "he is playing a legal role", dark donation was found, and then, even Liberal Democratic Party demanded him to step down.

Well, however wrong he has been doing, it is a bit pain to hear this news as a human being.

I just feel that he could not cheat himself finally. He must have suffered from the voice of good heart that never disappeared from his mind. This is a human system.

So many corruptions in government organizations are belching up. There is no symptom to stop. What do those who are related to that kind of matter feel observing this Prime Minister's suicide?

They can never cheat themselves forever. The longer they cheat themselves, the deeper they may get punished by themselves.

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Japan Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe Enjoyed Watching a Big Horse Racing Event, "Japan Derby" with his wife. He Won!! However...

2007-05-27T05:29:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! How's your holiday? I had a good time with my wife. Everyday will be different depending on our thinking. Even common days are filled with happiness. Yeah, we have to treasure the peaceful time. Common is uncommon. All right, it's 9:33 pm here in Japan. I'm gonna deliver my today's column:

Japan PM Watched the Japan Derby with his wife today. It was a historical race that a mare won the race for the first time in 64 years. In this historical race, his betting slip hit!!

He is the third Prime Minister who joined the Derby in office following his grandfather and ex-Prime Miniser, Koizumi.

He said, "I was impressed by the beauty of thoroughbred horses and race track."

Japanese citizens who heard the comment must have noticed the word, "beauty" because this Prime Minister has emphasized his policy often, "Towards a beautiful country." "Beautiful country, Japan". The citizens must be detecting like, "Oh, again. This is just a performance."

Yeah, I also think so. And I sympathized with him a little because he already used his luck. He shouldn't have concerned about this game but concerned the coming election that will be a much tougher race.

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Social Insurance Agency is Going to Be Dismantled. An Example of Government Officials in Japan--from Japan

2007-05-26T07:22:00.000-07:00

Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito conducted a vote in 25th of this month on the bill related to reform of Social Insurance Agency that has been showing awful dysfunction of the government organization that has handled very important money, citizens' life, called pension.

This organization has been giving so many topics to mass media and shown general citizens what the government organization has been doing, why this country started to lose power and money.

Though general citizens can never make sure that government can really change the organization of the government, the rotten organization will become a hot topic of the coming election. Citizens' eyes to government officials are getting sharper naturally.

One person whose father is a local government official and grandfather was also a government official said on internet, "You know, my father is just a local government official, but his salary is more than 10,000,000 yen per year!! And my jiji(grandfather) who is 72 years old now is getting pension plus big money from an organization where he parachuted. The total is 15,000,000 yen per year!! S*cks!! Definitely this country goes bust!! Their personalities are decaying!!"

This country, Japan, may have reached the point of no return, already.

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How Citizens' Tax are Used, Government Officials' Way--from Japan

2007-05-25T06:01:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!! What up? It's 10:04 pm here in Japan, and I'm listening WOR radio on internet. Do you like to listen to online radio? Maybe, some listen to ipod, I suppose.

Anyways, I'm gonna deliver today's column:

Four public corporations that have received consultant jobs were charged of violation of antitrust laws. This is a case of infamous golden parachuting at the initiative of government officials that have been eroding Japan society. In response to this, task force of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office arrested 6 people.

Chiefs of sections in the department of 8 local constructions across the nation have made the original plan to distribute jobs for one year, and the headquarter of the department has collected it. And finally, the top has approved the allocation sheet. It's quite organized.

It is said that government officials in the places where they parachuted for unreasonable salary including crazy amount of retirement jobs without doing any job just give the jobs to connected private firms, and they just get the margin of profits with just sitting down.

The case found this time is just, just, just a tip of the iceberg!! Before the government makes general citizens suffer from increasing tax, social securities, etc, the government must root out their own problems!!

How vain a slogan, "Towards a beautiful country" is!!

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No Freedom to Choose Life. Struggling Youngsters Are Forced to Work with No Hope.--From Japan

2007-05-24T06:48:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! It is said that this summer is hot because of La Nina. Yesterday, the max temperature in south Japan was crazy for this season. Is this a warning for human beings?

All right. I'm going to deliver today's column:

Government of Japan decided to make a new system to support youngsters who are called NEET (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training) or staying at home with a variety of reasons by letting professional counselors visit their house. The purpose is to let those youngsters live independently. Japan Media reported it today.

The new system is considered to be a policy of support for the youngsters from 15 to 34 years old.

To put it simply, this system will be far from support but force the youngsters who are struggling in their life to work under hopeless conditions. The policy is clearly hypocritical.

The environments where Japanese youngsters are put currently are quite tough and hopeless. It seems that those youngsters who stay at home without being able to work or called "NEET" are just struggling in many ways observing that society. That is, except for some who are really just lazy (this kind of people exist in any period), this government policy may rob the youngsters of the freedom of choices in their life in order to increase tax instead of avoiding reforming themselves.

No Japanese general citizens can see when they are released from the rule of government officials who are the worst tax eaters.

It may be the time that obedient Japanese general citizens have to learn from farmers in China who are aggressively reveling against their governments.

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Unknown Payment Records of Pension, Active to Collect but Hesitant to Pay. That's the Way of a Government Organization--from Japan

2007-05-23T07:02:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone in the world!! What's up? It's 11:05 pm here in Japan. I'm gonna post my column today before I go to bed:

Among the records of payment of pension controlled by infamous Social Insurance Agency, the pension records that are not identified were found. The number in the sky was 50,000,000 cases. Japan media reported it today.

Too crazy! This means that there are so many general Japanese citizens who are getting much less money than they paid.

This organization is one of the symbols of government officials in Japan. So many citizens hope this organization gets scrapped.

They haven't only wasted huge citizens' money spending for extravagant buildings or expensive massage chairs but less active to pay the money that they have to pay to good citizens who paid the money of pension. No common sense!! However, almost all of the government workers in Social Insurance Agency are not fired keeping the salary that is claimed for too high compared with private firms.

No Japanese citizen will be able to predict when politicians stop to surrender to government officials who are actually taking control of Japan.

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Incompetent Professors, Time to Leave from National Universities--From Japan

2007-05-22T06:04:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world! How are you doing? It's getting warmer and warmer here. Summer is coming around the corner! All right, it's 10:00 pm here in Japan. I'm going to deliver today's column:

Ministry of Finance announced on 21st of this month that if they redistribute "subsidies from government" to national universities judging their results of the research, around 85% that is 74 national universities out of 87 will get lower budgets from the government.

It is said that many of the national universities will resist to that new policy. This means that they know that they cannot make good results, honestly speaking.

Yes, Yes. In my experience, so many professors or teachers in national universities do not create the value at all (not only national universities, I suppose). At least, I know well about the English professors. There were many English professors whose English standard was terrible. They could not almost speak English though their salary was amazing!! Yes, they are government workers who are never fired however incompetent they are!!

The principle of competition does not work in government fields at all. This is not only true of national universities but all fields of government sections that have been hugely consuming Japanese wealth over decades.

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Demonstration→Change the Constitution→Preparation for war???? From Japan

2007-05-21T07:27:00.000-07:00

In Fukuoka prefecture in Japan on 19th of this month, youngsters who are put in a position of low salary and unstable job had a demonstration.

The demonstrators put a stereo on a truck, and they screamed making a loud sound of dance music, "Can't stand any more!" "Give us decent jobs!" "We're not disposable part-timers!!". The bustling shopping and entertainment district was smothered by tumult at that moment.

Recently, Japanese youngsters are put in a tough and unfair situation, especially, in working places. The Japanese youngsters who are said to be quiet have finally started to show the anger in public.

The current government tends to ignore this situation. It seems that what the government of Japan is focusing on is to change the constitution. Many citizens, including intellectuals, doubt it. Yes, it is a bit strange and does not make sense, but a figure slightly comes up.

It's war. This may be an extreme perspective, but it can probably be thought that government intentionally let the number of youngsters who cannot get jobs with which they can make a humane living like the past generations decrease a lot, and then, the government may be thinking that those youngsters are forced to join a self-defense force that may be an official military if the constitution is changed. No job? Join the military. Like that way.

I hope that this is just a fantasy. No, it must be a fantasy because current government strongly and loudly keeps mentioning, "Towards a beautiful country". Yeah, don't need to worry, don't need...probably...

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Women Cannot Even Eat Stakes Alone Freely--from Japan

2007-05-20T05:37:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! How are you doing? I am happy to know that Japanese baseball players such as Ichiro (Seattle Mariners), Daisuke Matsuzaka (Red Sox) or Hideki Matsui (New York Yankees) in major league baseball in America are flourishing!! They are great hopes of Japanese!!

All right. It's 9:15 pm here in Japan. I'm going to deliver today's column: Around midnight in 9th of this month, a woman who is around 20 years old was in a restaurant in Osaka prefecture. When the restaurant was about to close, a manager of the restaurant and a worker threatened the woman together using a stun gun. They forced the woman to take a sleeping pill and abducted her, and raped her.

The two criminal were wearing the shop uniform in the crime and said, "We intended to keep her".

It is said that the criminals purchased the stun gun and the sleeping pill through the internet, and they were hunting out a woman. They were clearly accustomed to doing it.

How scary. Just recently, the news that a British woman who was teaching English in Japan was killed terrified us a lot. Around one month has passed since the crime was announced, but the criminal is still running away.

Japan is still relatively safe, but it seems that situation is gradually changing. Especially for women, they cannot lower guards. Criminals who became mad in this stressful society or with some reasons may approach them wearing a nice mask.

Honestly speaking, Japanese who feel that the safeness in society is going worse are increasing. Strong light in the past is changing to the jet-black shadow.

P.S. When Japan society was active, the good news like baseball players that I mentioned in the beginning gave positive energy to general citizens and inspired us. However, because the reality of the society is quite bad, even great news seems to be just happening in another world as it is. This psychology may be one of the reasons why baseball in Japan that was quite popular in the past is getting unpopular or cannot let citizens hot like in the past.

Citizens do not have enough mental space to enjoy it, probably.

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Households That Less Than 500 million Yen in Annual Salary Became Clear Majority For the First Time--from Japan

2007-05-19T07:09:00.000-07:00

Tokyo carries out an investigation of welfare and health once in five years. In that investigation, it was found that the number of households that the annual salary was less than 5 million yen in last year was over 50 percent for the first time. The percentage was the highest since this investigation started in 1981. Mainichi Newspaper reported it in 16th of this month.

In addition, households that the annual salary is less than 300 million yen were nearly 30%, up around 10% from the last investigation.

Tokyo is the capital of Japan or a world city. When general Japanese citizens hear the news, "Japan's economy is getting better and better!", they will think that it is just happening in a part of Tokyo and local cities are just going down and down... However, even in this Tokyo where there are much more job opportunities than any other city and wage standard is almost best in whole Japan, finally, it became clear that low income class is clearly increasing. This was a bit shocking for me, too...

For the money resource, 28% of the households said pension and social welfare. And the households that do not have jobs reached 22% that was the worst so far.

Reading the article and thinking about the real case, I seriously thought that this country may be quite dangerous.

I wrote the book, "Falling Japan" and selling on Ebay now. However, I'm getting a bit scared imagining the default of Japan. Of course, I NEVER want it to happen. I strongly want the government to be serious about the economy AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!! They do not have any room to protect government officials including underground world in order to save this country, Japan!!

Recently, Japan currency, yen, is getting weak and weak. Isn't it telling something important? I may be thinking and worrying too much, probably...

Sorry to let you read this kind of gloomy news. This is none of your business and the matter that Japanese have to seriously think and solve.

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All Japanese Citizens Are Killed by Bad Government --from Japan

2007-05-18T22:46:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!! How are you doing? It's 2:40 pm here in Japan and rainy in my place. All right, I'm going to deliver today's column:

It is not reported so much, but bankruptcy of companies are exploding recently again. Nikkan Gendai that is said to be anti-authority reported it today.

According to a data of Teikoku Databank that is a company providing information of firms or doing investigation of trust, the number of the bankruptcies only in April was 817 cases. It is the continuous increase over 7 months up from previous year.

A person in the Databank said, "People have not been aware of this because there is no bankruptcy in famous and big companies, but the bankruptcy is happening a lot in middle and small companies. Closed businesses are multi times of that. Big companies will be okay like in Tokyo, big city, but local economy are going destructive. Those companies start to be unable to endure the longstanding depression. People don't purchase stuff. Though Tokyo, area like midtown or new buildings, is bright, it is another world."

Yes, government emphasizes on the recovery of economy, but general citizens cannot feel it totally. However, it seems that government doesn't have any policies about economy. They will not reform themselves such as cutting the salary of government officials that have tremendously eating citizens' tax. Instead of thinking about the economic policies, they have been quite active about changing constitution.

Are they going to prepare for war hiding the dangerous financial condition? No general citizens want to prepare for wars with changing the constitution. They should focus more on redressing this terminal economy more than changing the constitution.

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Accelerated Reorganization in Media Industry, Thomson Purchased Reuters. How about Japan's Media Industry? Part 2

2007-05-18T03:33:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!! How are you doing? It's almost 7:30 pm here in Japan. I'm gonna deliver today's column. If you didn't read the yesterday's post, please read it first. This is the sequel of the post. All right, here is it:

The price of newspapers in Japan is unreasonably protected. The two systems mainly support their profits pushing the high cost to readers though youngsters have stopped to follow the tradition noticing the stupid system.

First, it is the no-discount resale system that stops the free competition of the price. The newspapers' price is quite protected under this capitalistic society (seemingly).

Recently, Japan Fair Trade Commission tried to rethink about the specific designation with which newspaper companies can keep the original price though the suggestion was quite rejected by the industry and some politician who are getting the profits from them.

And the system of the specific designation is encouraging the newspaper companies to force distributors to purchase papers more than the actual number of sales. This has been letting the advertisers and readers pay expensive money in order to keep their profits.

They are afraid of losing the profits. This means that they know the current value of the newspapers by themselves. If the free competition where other industries have joined long time ago already starts in their industry, they have to face the reality that they have been avoiding. The sales will go down and down.

So many people can use internet in this modern society. Why do we have to stick to the paper version? They must be able to reduce the crazy high labor cost and great amount of waste if they seriously join the free competition. In that phase, they will finally begin to try to make efforts to differentiate their articles.

If they want to get back the status of media respected by readers, they have to break the bad and old habits completely before they claim other companies or government's inefficiency.

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Accelerated Reorganization in Media Industry, Thomson Purchased Reuters. How about Japan's Media Industry?

2007-05-17T02:38:00.000-07:00

Hi there!! What up? Raining outside here... It's 6:40 pm here in Japan. All right, here is the second post today:

Internationally famous broadcasting news agency, Reuters, was bought by Thomson Corp in Canada. It seems that active reorganizations in media industry are accelerating in United States and Euro. Internet development is one of the big reasons to move the situation. So, how about in Japan?

Some Japan media picked up this buyout in their editorials talking about the importance of trust in media. It's true that media is very influential vehicle that can even lead citizens to directions that controllers can decide. Therefore, high ethics is essential as the editorials talked. However, Japan media will seldom reflect what they are doing. Yes, they ignore their internal matters.

Japan media, especially newspaper companies start to suffer from decreasing sales of newspapers, too. The symptom is strongly shown in youngsters who are accustomed to using internet. So, they start to cheat the number of sales in newspapers giving the burden to distributors who are quite powerless to the headquarters. Yep, ads revenue is their lifeline.

Trust is important, but people in Japan media are obstinately resistant to the new trend in order to protect their own profits. Therefore, the price of newspapers in Japan has been kept very expensive until now.

In addition, there are some unreasonable systems that newspaper companies have been covetously gripping.

Well, it will be too long to write all about it...Maybe, next time or in the near future, I will write the series of this article.

I want to say that Japan media will be unable to say such a word, "trust is important" for Reuters without looking inside of them straight.

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A 17 Years Old High School Student Killed His Mother--From Japan

2007-05-16T21:32:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! How are you doing? It's 1:40 pm here in Japan. It's halfway cloudy, and I rather think raining is better than this weather. Yep, weather will affect our emotions, I suppose. Anyways, here is my today's first column:

A 17 years old high school student was arrested for the murder of his mother who was sleeping in futon, and it is strongly suspected that he cut the part of head and arms on the spot. Japan Mass Media reported it today.

In the inquiry, he stated that he killed his mother who was sleeping. What is furry is that he cut the part of head and right arm with a saw.

Police reported that he said, "I just wanted to kill anybody. I cut the dead body with a saw." The criminal did not show any reflections or regrets.

How awful!!!! Everybody can see that he is quite psycho, but this is too cruel and inhumane.

I don't know the accurate statistic about the juvenile crimes or murder cases between parents and children, but it seems that child abuses by parents or the reverse are increasing.

Is this the product of stressful society? Even if so, murder is NEVER allowed. And if parents do not have enough confidence to make children happy, they should not have them.

Birthrate is low in Japan, but it seems that uneducated youngsters tend to produce babies earlier than those who have higher education. In addition, shotgun weddings tend to go higher.

Under current situation of Japan society, it will be more difficult to raise kids happily and safely. The low birth rate will not be welcome for government, but it is much better than causing tragedies.

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Depression and Suicide Going UP, Especially in 30s--from Japan

2007-05-16T03:30:00.000-07:00

Hi again!! How are you doing? I'll deliver today's third column:

Last Year, the Number of People Who Committed Suicide was 66 people that is the worst record (It's just the official number). The serious generation is 30s who has symptoms like depression. Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced. JIJI Press has reported just now.

Those who suffer from stress on their jobs or overwork (of course, forced) choose to commit suicide. The number of those who actually took the action was worst in 2006 in Japan.

Though you may not know, I can say with much confidence that Japan's working conditions (in private companies) are so harsh. Working hour is quite long with huge stress that comes from many complicated reasons including the uniqueness of Japanese culture, I suppose (It seems that so many youngsters begin to show the strong resistance to it.).

Seemingly, the economy of Japan is recovering now, but reality is far from it, and the reality of recovery is supported by so much sacrifice of general citizens.

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NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Sends Notifications Against Unpaid Viewing Fee Considering Judicial Action--from Japan

2007-05-16T00:54:00.000-07:00

Hi there!! It's almost 5 pm here in Japan. How's it going? This is the second post today:

NHK announced today that they are going to send notifications to business offices in Tokyo with an assumption of civil action. Yomiuri newspaper reported it today.

NHK is a public broadcasting organization that has forced citizens to pay 1345 yen per month whether or not their TV programs are so boring without trying to make any efforts to reduce their spending such as labor cost.

Because of their successive scandals in recent years, many people start to ignore the payment. In addition, with this trend, it was found that around 10,000.000 citizens are avoiding even contracting with NHK. This let citizens who had no choice but contracted with NHK following their good obedient heart feel quite unfair.

Now, this NHK is going to take action for getting contracts from those 10,000,000 people with legal action whether or not they are individuals or business offices.

Government, current ruling party, has established a committee to think about broadcasting industries, but they decided not to make the payment of NHK obligatory. They must be afraid of citizens' opposition.

There is quite vague rule about NHK. The staff of NHK have persuaded citizens into contracting right after citizens own TV. However, it is not totally illegal not to contract. It's a kind of rule.

So far, so many citizens have followed to contract with common sense, but because many scandals in NHK were found, citizens started to feel stupid about the payment strongly. Yes, I also watch their program just a couple of times in a month, but 1345 yen will go to their pocket. So expensive!!

The meaning of existence of NHK is not the same as past. However, it seems that NHK is used for a place of golden parachuting by government officials!! That's why they never try to lay off workers or downsize making citizens pay money forcefully!!

So many termites are grinning in the old buildings. Without clearing them, Japan will sink under sea in the near future.

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Posts for Babies, First User Made a Big Ripple.--from Japan

2007-05-15T20:23:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone in the world!! How're you doing? It's 12:30 pm here in Japan, and I'm gonna deliver today's column:

Facilities established to rescue lives of newborn babies emergently was wrongly used by irresponsible parents. Japan Mass Media reported it.

"Baby Post" put in Kumamoto prefecture got a boy whose age was around 3 years old. He could even speak and said, "I was brought by my father."

This system to set the posts in order to save babies has just started recently, but it was shocking for the post to have been used first in such a way .

The concept of this system is to save babies who may be thrown away otherwise. However, if this system fosters irresponsible parents to be more irresponsible...

Those who don't know the meaning of raising children should not have babies as a matter of fact. Nobody will be happy.

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Molestation in Train, A Professor in Graduate School of Tokyo University was Arrested.--from Japan

2007-05-15T05:21:00.000-07:00

A professor in graduate school of Tokyo University (top university in Japan) was arrested for touching the butt of a woman in a train. Yomiuri Shimbun reported it today.

The professor said in the inquiry, "I knew that it was illegal, but she was my favorite type, and I couldn't stand."

Embarrassingly speaking, this sort of case is not rare. We can find this kind of news almost everyday in Japan. How about in your country? Don't this kind of cases that let us stunned happen? Or is it just not announced because government doesn't permit the freedom of speech? If so, Japan may be better...

Though current Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, is trying to improve the education, I hope that he could focus on the rotten root. Reality has shown much stronger evidences than the ideal.

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Hire 152 people for government officials. Superficial Performance to Appeal the Government Policy--from Japan

2007-05-15T02:02:00.000-07:00

"Rechallenge society". It is a policy that the current government of Japan appeals to citizens. For a support of the rechallenge, government decided to carry out an examination of intermediate recruitment for 30s.

This is a quite superficial campaign for government to emphasize on their activity to redress the gap society that is quite controversial now, and this will not be effective at all thinking of the whole society.

The government has to immediately reduce the labor cost of government workers that is amounting to around 50 % of the tax revenue (excluding the invisible number in the underground world) and destroying the purse of Japan.

It is quite ridiculous to increase the government workers in the current trend in order to appeal their superficial policy with the superficial way.

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82% people in 30s are Worried about the Future of Their Jobs--from Japan

2007-05-13T23:22:00.000-07:00

Hi again!! How are you doing? This is the second post today:

Japan's working conditions have changed dramatically in recent years. Yomiuri Shimbun (newspapers) carried out an investigation for 30s who are said to be "generation in difficult time". And the result was that 82% of them said that they are worried about the future of their jobs.

The percentage in the question whether or not they feel stress in their jobs was also 82%. The reason of the stress was: Salary that does not increase (64%), Worry about the future of their companies or fields of industry, and stability (34%), Bad human relationship (30%) accordingly.

Roughly speaking, I feel that flexibility is necessary for current Japan. Many systems and thinking should be changed. For example, though current Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe mentioned "Rechallenge society", the reality is "rechallenge is not allowed." Once people drop from the mainstream way to live after they graduate from university, it is said that it is so difficult to get back to the line again. Job opportunities go down a lot. That's why those who want to change another course tend to stick to the current company and get ill mentally.

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Knock-Off on Mother's Day in Japan, Osaka

2007-05-13T21:40:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world!! How was your Mother's Day? It's 1:42 pm here in Japan and time to deliver my today's column:

In Osaka, a burglary who pretended to be a worker of a hotel visited a room and said, "I've brought a flower of Mother's Day".

Two wives in the room were cheated to open the door. Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper) reported it yesterday in electronic edition.

Reportedly, the man shoved a stuff like gun or knife to the women and threatened them demanding money. The police are investigating the criminal now. Nobody has been injured so far.

There are no rules for criminals. It can be easily imagined that it was a little bit difficult for the two women to doubt the criminal who cheated to give them a flower as a gift of Mother's Day.

Sadly, we may start to need to believe the ethical doctrine that human nature is fundamentally evil.

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On the Job Training for Foreigners, Chinese Women Ran Away Without Enduring Cruel Labor

2007-05-13T00:46:00.000-07:00

Hello!! How're ya doing? Today is Mother's Day. Let's appreciate mothers! All right, it's 4:50 pm here in Japan. It is time to deliver my today's column:

Working for more than 13 hours with a little bit allowance for overtime work, 350 yen/hour--Three Chinese women who used a system called, "Job Training and a system for acquiring skills for foreigners", ran away without enduring the cruel working conditions and low salary from a sewing company in Aomori Prefecture. Mainichi Newspapers reported it today.

The troubles similar to this case have taken place in recent years across the nation.

It was reported that those three Chinese women joined a corporate interview co-organized by a Chinese agent and four sewing companies in Aomori Prefecture in Japan, and they were selected out of 20 candidates.

The cost that the three Chinese women paid to the Chinese agent was around 300,000 yen that was around 2-3 years salary for workers in their area in China. They managed to borrow the amount from people like their relatives.

Their ideal Japan did not exist in their working place. One of them said, "We were almost like a slave."

The president of the company said, "They said before working that they don't need to take holidays because we are accustomed in China, and we want to work overtime a lot." In addition, the president said straight, "We would have not hired them if we had to pay the usual salary protected by law."

Now in Japan, the new rule for foreigners is under consideration trying to improve their working conditions and reduce the case like this example. However, for foreigners, especially, Asian people who do not have any special skills, I suppose that they should not expect too much about Japan.

Even for Japanese citizens, working condition is getting tougher and tougher. And it is natural for companies to break the law in working place. Under this condition, I cannot imagine that working environments for foreigners would go better.

Especially for Chinese who want to work in Japan, personally, I think that they should go to Shanghai or Beijing or some developing and active cities in China. There is no easy diamonds in Japan though the situation will be a bit different for very talented foreigners.

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Public Birds Never Stop to Fly

2007-05-12T02:54:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone!! Thank you for coming here!! It's almost 7:00 pm here in Japan. I'm gonna deliver my today's column:

Tokyo Stock Exchange is going to establish a corporation of self-imposed restriction this autumn, and a former member of deputy secretary in Ministry of Finance will get a seat of the first head director in that organization. The editorial of The Kyoto Shimbun Co., Ltd. reported it today.

In Japan, government officials' golden parachuting is pervading, and it is one of the biggest problems that have been eroding Japan society.

This is the strong signal to general citizens that government officials are masters of double talk. Although government of Japan tries to stop the habit, unfortunately, the birds cannot understand the human language.

Japan is a country that government officials take stronger control than politicians. Once a secretary of a politician said, "Anybody can be Prime Minister."

Therefore, even the government seems not to be able to stop the birds which eat the citizens' wealth avariciously and secretly from migrating under any seasons.

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Youngsters Sweep Over Agriculture

2007-05-11T06:54:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world!! What's up? Here is my today's column:

Recently, youngsters who try to work as a farmer have been increasing though farm management is not easy and full of difficulties. Swiss info reported it today.

According to the article dated on May 5 in their website, it was reported that the number of students in farm schools are skyrocketing.

The popularity has going higher since 2002, and it does not show the decline. In addition, it is said that some of those who had compulsory educations in other fields take the course of farm education trying to change their jobs.

This is the story in Switzerland, but in Japan, youngsters who want to be farmers are said to be increasing, too. Why do the youngsters start to have interest in farm industry? Are they tired of city life? Or are they fed up with material society or harsh money seeking corporate organizations?

They must have a variety of reasons, but it will be true that this is a signal to prove that something in modern society is going wrong. Those youngsters are definitely fed up with something in this current society.

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One out of Four Junior High School Students Suffer from Depression--Investigation of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan

2007-05-09T23:22:00.000-07:00

Hi there!! How's it going? I'm genki desu(fine). It's almost 3:30 pm here in Japan. By the way, do you like baseball? Daisuke Matsuzaka in major league baseball had a good pitch today and got 4th win. It was good news! All right, here is my today's column:

A research group in Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan announced that one out of four junior high school students are under condition of symptom of depression. The number of sample is around 600 students that is not large, but it will be a good data for reference to prevent suicide by children. Mainichi Newspaper reported it today.

The method used is an internationally recognized way. Students answered the 18 questions such as "no meaning to live, feel lonely".

A professor says, "The reason why children get depressed is not just bullying but a variety of reasons."

How sad and depressive news this is! Depression and suicide are quite problematic in adult society of Japan, but I think that this sort of problem should not take place in kids' world. At least, I do not want them to happen in their world.

This symptom is definitely the one that shows how sick Japan society is.

How about a society in your country? Healthy? Are people on the street smiling?

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Samurai's Purse Needed to Get Remedied ASAP!! Public Officials' Heaven, it's Japan!!

2007-05-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone in the world!! It's 11 pm here in Japan. I'm going to post today's column before going to bed:

Government officials in Tokyo and assembly members had been given special treatments or gifts that were nearly 1.3 million yen from 2003 to 2006. The public fees were spent by village mayors and chairpersons in two villages. Mainichi newspaper just reported today.

The number of government officials was around 100 people including top officials.

The Tokyo prohibited that kind of illegal payments no matter how much the amount is since the illegal payment of food by government officials in Tokyo was found. Tokyo government is going to investigate the problem.

As I wrote in my book (ebook), Japan's debt is the worst standard in the world, and it can be safely said that Japan's bankrupt may become real.

One of the biggest reasons is the crazy amount of waste of public spending. Citizens '(general citizens) efforts have been eaten by public officials.

So many termites are teeming in Japan. Government says, "Bye, the people".

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Cloud Museum on the Hill

2007-05-08T01:35:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world!! It's 5:40 pm here in Japan. It's the time to deliver my today's column:

The name of the museum is partly borrowed from a book written by Ryotaro Shiba, "Cloud above the Hill".

The editorial of Sanyo newspaper told a story today. In the fiction, Japan in Meiji period was described. Japan was winning in the Russo-Japanese War, 1905.

And in the fiction, a fact was repeatedly emphasized that Japan barely won, and it was like walking on thin ices. However, post-Meiji Japanese citizens could not understand it.

The editorial picked up the words shown largely in the museum such as, "Winning became absolute, and the mysterious strength of Japanese military was believed. In this moment, Japanese became stupid ethnically." "Loss of the war gave Japanese citizens rationality, and win of the war made citizens mad."

I think that this theory strongly works in modern times as well because we are living in the battle of economy, global economy. In that world, winning (earning) becomes absolute.

In France, Mr. Sarkozy took the helm with a decision that France will follow the America and British style market economy trying to win at the global economy. Excluding invisible forces and taking the result straight, it means that France citizens support the change.

I am a little worried that if the value in the world strongly goes to the same one, winning (earning) under any conditions and with any methods, horrible history may repeat.

P.S.
The feeling of France this time seems to be a bit similar to the time when the ex-Prime Minister Koizumi in Japan got the seat.

He also enthusiastically mentioned words such as change, opportunity, destroy the old systems. He tried to change the old society into the competitive society. And…he did so just by destroying the general citizens' lives. On the contrary, he protected government workers including the public sectors. Citizens were totally cheated.

As time goes by, France citizens would know that whether or not the new President is a true reformer.

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Screams from Toyota Philippines

2007-05-06T23:56:00.000-07:00

Hi!! How are you doing? It's 4:00 pm here in Japan. It's the time to deliver my today's column:

Toyota surpassing GM is going to be number 1 seller of cars this year, but protests by union members are spreading around the world. My News Japan (Japanese website), an innovative internet media, reported it in the first day of this month.

According to the media, it is said that the protest is active in Philippines, especially.

In 2001, around 300 union members were fired and stopped to work over the recognition of the union. The protest prolonged. However, in Japan, this sort of things has not reported. Amid all this, the chairman of the labor union in the Toyota Philippine came to Japan and appealed the unfair discharge in the headquarter of Toyota in Tokyo.

Actually, the terrible working condition about Toyota was reported by this media a couple of times such as death by overtime work or salary control.

This company, Toyota, can be said "a representative of Japanese companies" as people over the world know. However, the representative has been providing this kind of working environments. Of course, other companies in Japan have been following in many ways.

There are lots of unreasonable sacrifices behind the growth.

This internet media is getting noticeable in the way that they can report the real news that traditional mass media, almost all media in Japan can never pick up because they do not rely on the commercial advertisements. Other media are just profit-seekers who gave up the public mission being afraid of losing the trees of profits.

To know the truth, we have to have much more cautious eyes.

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Children's Day

2007-05-04T23:41:00.000-07:00

Today is a national holiday called, "Children's Day". Children will enjoy this holiday with family, but the volume of their voices is getting low.

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced yesterday that the number of children has been going down successively for 26 years, and it updated the worst record that was made last year.

The ratio of population in children to whole population is worst standard in whole world.

Government is trying to think about the ways to switch this trend. The typical example will be lump-sum allowance for childbirth and nursing. Of course, it is far from enough and it is kind of the benefit that is better than none.

I suppose that the matter is not just solved by the temporal benefit. People start not to produce kids thinking a lot about this society and the future of this country. That is, they have judged that the future of this country is not bright, and it is tough enough to maintain their own lives.

Government needs to show the firm vision to citizens and give them feeling of safety and brightness. For the time being, it will be impossible.

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An Officer Worker Arrested on Suspicion of Sexual Assault. 90 Cases of Similar Modus Operandi Were Found, Too.

2007-05-04T05:38:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in world!! How's it going? It's 9:40 pm here in Japan. Here is my today's column:

Japanese mass media reported today that an office worker, 27 years old man, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

In east part of Nagoya city over 3 three years, around 90 rape crimes took place. The victims were young women who were on the way to their homes. The way of the criminal was that he threatened the victims with something like a blade for the nape from behind around the entrance.

It is said that Japan is safe. Relatively speaking, it will be true, but it is also said that the citizens' real feeling for the security is going worse.

I have stayed in a couple foreign countries, and I can say that how secure Japan is. This is the honest opinion, but I also agree that real feeling of security is getting worse in Japan.

The feeling may be related to the instability of society where unhappy people are increasing.

Stress in society cannot be compared with the past Japan. The word "depression" is already not special now.

It seems that one of the most important reasons will be economical reason, but I feel something quite complicated.

It is difficult to take up the specific reasons, but multi complicated phenomena have made Japanese citizens (general citizens) suffering.

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60th Birthday

2007-05-02T22:55:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the globe!! How are you doing? It's almost 3:00 pm here in Japan. It's the time to deliver my today's column:

60 years have passed since Constitution of Japan went into effect. Today is the birthday.

The original ideal of the Constitution of Japan is great in the way that declared the renunciation of war.

Kobe newspapers cited a textbook of society for junior high schools at that time in the editorial today. The textbook described a story titled "A story about new Constitution". In the part of "renunciation of war", there was a description, "We will never have militaries, military ships, airplanes for war." It further described, "Please don't worry feeling insecure at all. We have just started a correct thing earlier than other countries."

As human beings are a creature that is forgetful, current prime minister may be also forgetful of the original concept.

Now, the reform of Constitution is debated in Japan. It will be true that some are not fit with current society, but many Japanese are worried that the reform may have a dangerous intention that induces citizens to be able to go to war.

Though Charles Darwin says that those who change can survive, there is a thing that we should never change.

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Ethics Should Not be Taught in Subjects of School--From Japan

2007-05-01T21:47:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone!! How's it going? It's 1:50 pm here in Japan and time to deliver my today's column:

A chairperson of Central Education Council (panel of experts in Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) announced in a press conference of Japan National Press Club (notorious for the closed nature) in 26th last month, "Ethics should not be taught in subjects, but adults including teachers should teach through their experiences." Yomiuri newspaper reported on April 26, 2007.

Youngsters including small kids are sensitive enough to know that how this society is going whether or not schools teach the ethics as one of the subjects in school education. Whatever government tries to teach them, real society will teach them what the real society is.

It is getting difficult for superficial education to maintain the effectiveness for long.

One of big reasons will be the development of internet. Surfing on the internet, we can find that so many people are dropping their complaints that tend to disclose the truths in many regards although literacy is necessary to judge the reliability of the information to some degrees.

For the education of the ethics, society where adults are living has to be corrected first. Kids will learn from this society sooner or later. If this society is out of order, their positive mind will get diminished and end up being under despair.

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Japanese Youngsters Scream on Mayday

2007-04-30T23:46:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone!! How's your holiday? It's 3:50 pm here in Japan and time to deliver my today's column:

"Don't throw away nonpermanent employees!!" "Pay overtime wages!!" "Pay the amount with which we can live!" "Don't rake off!!"

A demonstration by nonpermanent employees, mainly youngsters, was staged in Tokyo, Shinjuku on April 30 that was one day before Mayday. Japanese mass media reported it.

The Japanese youngsters who are said to be quiet have finally started to show their anger standing together. Many of them are dispatched workers or so called freeters (kind of part-time workers).

Current Japan's economy is largely supported by those who belong to dispatched workers or freeters, but their treatments are cruel.

In the article about this topic of Asahi newspaper today, there was an opinion of 50s man who lives in a park, "Recently, many youngsters have come to me to ask them to stay here one after another," He continued, "The life between living outside and not is getting near."

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The Reason Why Japan's "Companies" are Reviving

2007-04-29T02:48:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone!! How's your weekend? It's getting warm here. Okay, it's 7:13 pm and time to deliver my today's column:

Companies in Japan, especially big firms, are starting to talk tough. They boast the management efforts to make their businesses firm. However, it will be true that their efforts are concentrated on the hard reduction of labor cost that is skeptical thinking of the law.

Asahi newspaper reported today that Hitachi is under query that they may have done deceptive direct employment.

Reportedly, a factory of Hitachi has almost thrown away the labor management of contract workers who were changed from dispatched employees at the same employment agency. The wages and working conditions were same as before. It is said that Worker Dispatch Law is about to lose the meaning.

Yes, Hitachi is a well known company, but even this sort of company is using almost unlawful ways to reduce the cost and maximize the profit. That's why the stock index is getting strong, but consumer price will not get strong. Money does not run from companies to individual citizens.

Under this crazy condition, it may be difficult to complain some youngsters who say with no hope, "Workers are losers."

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Behind Statistics, What's Going on in Japan?

2007-04-26T19:15:00.000-07:00

Hello, everybody in the world! It is 11:20 am here in Japan. I am gonna deliver today's column:

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfares announced that current 20s-30s generation would be able to get pension (employee pension) more than 300.000 yen even though the low birth rate goes on as they expect. Hokkaido newspaper reported it today.

To put it simply, 99.9% of Japanese youngsters will never believe it. And furthermore, the article mentioned that the Ministry prospected that real wages will keep going up by 1.5%. How ridiculous! Their calculation said that the average wages of men after tax will be 620.000 yen per month in 2041 when current 30s reach 65 years old. Please somebody, call doctors!! Bring the government officials in their department to ER!! Soon!!

Whew...I cannot understand them, totally. Yesterday, I wrote about youngsters who have lost motivation to get ahead in society. Youngsters are completely fed up with the rotten society. How can the youngsters get motivated healthily? Fake and misleading information is enough!!

Oh, it may be, probably...possible that the dubious increase of wages in the future based on the ridiculous calculation is public declaration of bankruptcy that will cause hyperinflation...If so, the average wages will increase though it never means the true growth. Wow... Of course, I hope not...strongly...

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Lost Motivation, What are Japanese High School Students Feeling in Current Japan?

2007-04-25T23:30:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world! How're ya doing? It is 3:30 pm here in Japan. Please enjoy today's column as follows:

"We don't need to get ahead..." That is the typical opinion of current Japanese high school students. Mainichi Newspaper reported on April 24 that it was found that the motivation to get ahead in Japanese high school students is low, according to an investigation for motivation of high school students in America, China, South Korea, and Japan.

One of the questions was, "Do you want to succeed in the world?". The percentage of students who answered, "Yes, I strongly think so." was as follows: 34.4% in China, 22.9% in Korea, 22.3% in America, 8% in Japan.

I can quite understand this situation. People, especially, Japanese youngsters are quite suffering and struggling under a stodgy society. They are sensitive enough to know that current society and coming future are quite different from the past Japan where relatively majority of citizens could live positively by getting a wave of steadily growing economy.

When youngsters start to give up for their futures, it will be the time for the country to slip into a melancholy decline.

P.S. Having said that like above, actually, I don't think that Japanese youngsters are totally paralyzed. I can feel some buds in the depth of their mind that may be next theme of my second book.

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Today's Column from Japan:Towards a Beautiful Country?

2007-04-23T02:40:00.000-07:00

Current Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe is setting a policy called, "Towards a beautiful country". However, many cases that are opposite to the policy are swirling around.

Today's case is one of them. It was found that a well-known firm dealing with frozen food, Katokichi, was suspected that they had been doing fake round transactions just on bills for 6 years until 2006. The total amount is said to be more than a couple of ten billion yen.

Umm...This sort of cases is no more surprising to Japanese because it's been happening quite often recently.

One of the problems that makes Japanese youngsters headache in finding a job is that they have to find a company that is earning, "ethically".

How about in your country?

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Farmers in Australia Furious Over Common Sense of Japanese Public Servant

2007-04-20T23:44:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world! It is around 3:50 pm here in Japan. This is the second column today:

Recently, public servants in Japan have been disparaged by general Japanese citizens as tax eaters or unreasonably protected group. Those who lost words to them were not only Japanese but also Australian farmers.

According to an editorial in Nigata Nippo dated today, a Japanese government worker in Farm Ministry made Australian farmers angry over the extravagant treatments that they had to pay.

The editorial reported their comments, "Why business class though he is even not a minister? We paid a lot for restaurants or sightseeing excursions. Is it common in Japan?"

In the past, Ruth Benedict who was an American anthropologist mentioned about Japan that Japan has a culture of "shame". However, she may have missed observing the culture of government of Japan. To their shame, they don't have sense of money that they think it given from sky naturally although it is paid by general citizens.

When you notice the structure of Japan's society, you will know that why this country has the worst debt among all the developed countries.

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Today's Column From a Modern Japanese Samurai: Normal Before Being Mentally Ill--Why Did the Virginia Tech Shooter, Seung-Hui Cho get mental illness?

2007-04-20T19:49:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone! It is around 11:50 pm here in Japan. What's up? Here is my column today:

A couple of days have passed since aberrant shooting was done, and now, the images Seung-Hui Cho sent to NBC is controversial.

The aberrant way he took reminds us of the horrible terrorists of 9-11. They also used mass media fully to declare their curses to the society. What made them so mad?

It was said that Seung-Hui Cho was quite bullied in his school periods, and stayed at home a lot. And it can be guessed that he had been accumulating too much negative emotions. This negative clod must have distorted him gradually.

Seung-Hui Cho and terrorists must have been normal when they were born as well as other human beings. What they lacked along their ways is positive emotions that will let us know that living is not bad though tough.

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Be Blunt, A Prime Minister Who Took it Straight

2007-04-19T22:52:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world! It is around 2:50 pm in Japan now. It is the time to deliver my today's column:

Ex-Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Koizumi recommended current Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe to be blunt. It seems that Mr. Koizumi encouraged Shinzo Abe not to care about the low approval rating so much when he said it. However, Mr. Shinzo Abe may have taken it at face value.

A city mayor in Nagasaki Prefecture was barbarously shot and killed. With regard to the cruel tragedy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a comment at his office, "I hope that the truth can be unfolded." Referring to comments made by top officials in both ruling and opposition parties, NishiNippon Newspaper blamed it in their editorial dated today saying, "His remark was too light."

The reason why general Japanese citizens, especially youngsters, are disappointed very much at the politics may be because the politicians cannot empathize with suffering citizens at all.

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An Afternoon Column from Japanese Modern Samurai: Is It Unique to Japanese?

2007-04-19T01:43:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone in the world!! How are you doing? It is 5:47 pm here in Japan.

Surfing on internet in Japanese website, I found an interesting article that said, "There are many people (Japanese) who do not buy products from the affiliated links."

It seems that many of them tend to buy the products not entering the shopping sites from the links on blogs intentionally though they came to know the items on the websites.

The article said that it may be because of kind of jealousy thinking that they do not want the owner of the blogs to earn money…

It seems ridiculous, but I can slightly understand as a Japanese. I mean that I know the personality of Japanese (I don't like the village mind, though). It can be seen in a proverb, "The nail that sticks out gets banged down."

Yep, it may be one of the reasons why I feel more free and comfortable on ebay, and the open-mindedness will encourage the creativity.

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No Sweets! Watch Out!!

2007-04-18T19:57:00.000-07:00

Good morning everyone! How're ya doing? It is 11:50 am here in Japan now.

I am just a beginner on ebay, and I've not got any bid yet… This morning, finding a message to my auction, I was just a little bit happy to think that a person got interested in my auction, but it was just a strange message…

The person asked me to help him/her to transfer MONEY! I know that it will be a highly possibly scam. The person mentioned me that I can get some money as a commission.

As I have known and heard, there seem to be a lot of tricks on ebay. We've got to be careful always!

Thanks a lot for visiting!! Have a nice day or good night!!

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A Nightly Column from Japan: Another Shooting Tragedy that Happened in the Country Where Gun Ownership is Prohibited

2007-04-18T07:05:00.000-07:00

Good evening, everyone in the world! How's it going? It is around 11 pm here in Japan, and now is the time of nightly column from Japan:

A shooting tragedy that a city mayor in Nagasaki prefecture of Japan was shot by a gang cadre occurred in Japan in the next day of Virginia Tech Shooting that horrified the United States and whole country.

Gun possession is illegal in Japan, but the law is not perfect, especially for gang groups.

As I mentioned in the last entry, to control gun by law will not work as expected though it will decrease the possibility of crimes related to gun. Force cannot win always.

The stability of society is up to each individual's mind that will be bolstered up by each person's happiness.

What is the happiness? Umm... It will not lie in the external world of us, but it's inherent in us. We have to just discover it in the travel of life.

It's not easy, but if possible, the sooner the better. The sooner we could find it, the sooner we will reach the happiness.

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Samurai's Daytime Column From Japan: Human is NOT a Computer. What Can Be Thought From the Tragedy of Virginia Tech Shooting?

2007-04-16T20:10:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. It is 12:10 pm here in Japan. I want to talk about the horrible tragedy of Virginia Tech Shooting today.

I was so sad and scared to know the tragedy of the shooting this morning. As a general Japanese view, I thought, "Oh, again, gun…gun…gun shooting. Sometimes, this happens in America where gun ownership is prevalent."

Of course, I can never know the motivation of the criminal, and it will be difficult for me to say that if American society had a gun control policy by law, this sort of tragedy did not happen because the criminal may have chosen another way to cause the tragedy anyway though the probability of tragedies may be lowered.

To find a way to prevent this kind of tragedies is not easy, but there is a good grass-roots way to reduce the crimes from our society. It is that each of us has to be happier to live.

In this sense, "happy" does not mean an effortless life where human beings can get food from heaven sitting down without doing anything, but it is kind of generous heart that will bring cooperativeness and compassion to our society.

Of course, we cannot just smile always. It rains or we have stormy days sometimes. That's natural. It is the emotion that we own. However, if we have fine days, we can be more generous naturally. We have capacity to smile in fine days more than in rainy days. So, let's take turns.

Let's try to drop a happy seed even a tiny one if we are in the fine days. Anything will be all right such as giving a smile to people or dropping a happy word somewhere like blog. And let's try to keep the happiness more than 50% everyday in the whole world. If so, it will be more difficult for us to live unhappily because we are a creature affected by environments.

And someday, the seeds may grow strongly and brilliantly to embrace us gently.

This is a project to make the most beautiful flower in human history ever bloom that every one of us can join anytime, anywhere for free.

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Samurai's Daytime News from Japan: Say good-bye to "Hello Work"

2007-04-15T23:02:00.000-07:00

Hi, everybody! It is around 3 pm here in Japan. How are you doing? Now is the time of Samurai News from Japan. Please enjoy reading the following news:

Unemployment office called "Hello Work" run by Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has been making resistance to the privatization. Sankei Shinbun (newspaper) reported it in their column today, April 16, 2007.

For Japanese, it is quite common that government workers in Japan are unreasonably treated well and protected by government, and this policy by government is one of the biggest reasons why Japan have accumulated huge debt that is the worst standard in developed countries and keep upgrading the worst record.

It is reported that the unemployment office is run by 23,000 government workers in Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. The total budget allocated to the unemployment office is 190,000,000,000 yen. And their job performance is terribly low. The newspaper said that the rate for them to let the job seekers successfully get the job is just around 20%.

This is the truth why Japan's society is filled with sense of deadlock that foreigners cannot feel it just observing from the recovery of stock price of Japan.

A titanic that is burdened with rotten stones is about to get a big crush. Japanese general citizens are feeling the air.

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Unpaid Total Amount of Life Insurances, 28.4 billion yen

2007-04-15T05:46:00.000-07:00

38 Life Insurance Companies in Japan had not paid 28.4 million yen from 2001 to 2006. Japan newspapers reported it.

The investigation has not finished yet, and it is said that the total amount will go up more than the amount reported.

Financial Services Agency will highly possibly impose an administrative punishment on them.

Corporate scandals are flooding in Japan. This is just one of the cases. It is true that private companies should try to earn a lot of profits, but it seems that they start to lose the ethics.

I suppose that if even a tenth of the efforts that the workers in the insurance companies made when they got contracts was poured to their customers AFTER they sold, the matters like this time were not supposed to happen.

I cannot deny that this sort of corporate scandal with their having lost the ethics has eroded the society of Japan. And the Japanese youngsters are quite fed up with these problems.

What is ridiculous is to get the profits losing something important instead.

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An Opening Ceremony

2007-04-13T23:42:00.000-07:00

I am starting this blog to celebrate myself on having debuted as a writer.

Basically, I'm going to write social matters happening in Japan or things that can be seen and thought in the matters from the perspective of a general Japanese citizen in his late 20s.

Now, Japan is in a dynamic period of transition that has started to cause many problems. I want to look into them and provide some positive lights or learning materials for you.

I hope that this blog can contribute to make a better world even a little by learning a lot of things together.

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