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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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