Screams from Toyota Philippines

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

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.

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

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

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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