Hi viewers,
Today, I'd like to explore the policy of Prime Minister Koizumi during his office, since his term of service is almost expired, due to the coming presidential election.
Ok, let's get into it.
Firstly, Koizumi contributed our society in a certain way, like enacting the postal privatization last year, and made a great success. Maybe we can’t ignore at this point when evaluating Koizumi during his office.
Secondly, what I can bring up is the economic recovery that enabled the bulk of unemployed to get jobs to a certain degree. As the figure indicates, the unemployment rate has been on a decrease these days. It is grateful to us citizens when making a living in this society. I can also evaluate at this point.
However, he was a kind of selfish in his diplomatic strategy, even his tactics seemed to me as deplorable when making much of developed countries. While taking his office, Koizumi visited Korea only twice, whereas he visited the ally, namely the U.S, many times, or other European countries as well.
But he seldom visited other neighboring counties, including ASEAN, and that was a real shame.
There still exists abduct issue in North Korea, or the disputed islands issue, where a certain young fisherman was shot by a Russian guard the other day.
There are a lot more issues, including economic aid toward the third countries which are still down and out because of starvation. They are still up in the air, due to his prejudiced views in terms of his diplomacy.
As for the domestic issue, it is more obvious how he seemed to be notorious in the eyes of some knowledgeable people.
As you know, the Class A criminal has been enshrined together with the war dead since 1978.
But should we really regard it as only a domestic issue?
I don’t think so. It is true that his statement surely rubbed them up the wrong way to Korea and China, when he said he must have been blamed for it, whenever he visits Yasukuni- Shrine and says a prayer.
What’s more, the structural reform which was stated in his speech during the presidential election at the LDP seemed so vague to us citizens, even went by halves completely.
Finally, Koizumi showed a charisma at times when appealing his platform, and it worked very well at first.
According to the public opinion poll, the approval rate was totally more than 85 percent when he was inaugurated in 2001.
But as time went by, it plummeted by 30 percent or so.
Chances are that we ended up with misjudging Koizumi as a leader, because of his complacent tactics. It went completely debacle after all, especially in foreign affairs, no matter how he affected at home and abroad during his office.
So what do you think of it?
Bye for now!
take393
Monday, September 04, 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006
My greatest experience
Hi viewers,
It’s really grateful to report how I spent my holidays to all of you guys, because you can’t imagine how I felt good and comfortable during this period of times when I had had such great experience which I never know.
In a nutshell, my old school, namely Waseda-jitsugyo won the championship at the high school baseball tournament in Koshien-Stadium the other day which is familiar with the enthusiasts throughout a country.
Not only us graduates but also other baseball fans all around the country kicked up their heels during the games of course, since 2 games were so excited, and I believe they must have gone down in history.
As soon as Waseda-jitsugyo made it to the final when Saito pitched shutout the opposing team, kagoshima-kogyo, by 5-0, I left home and headed out for Osaka as to root for my old school.
When I got to Osaka, I was looking for some business hotel to make a reservation for staying, however almost all the hotels were fully booked due to the final baseball tournament. So I ended up with wondering around from place to place for about 2 hours, finally I was able to check in the sauna, where bedrooms were available at the place.
Next day, I got up before 5, and was heading the Koshien-Stadium to purchase a ticket.
As you know, you’ve got to line up for several hours whenever you watch the final game since it gets so crowded, and of course, I’ve got to wait for 3 hours before the tickets were sold.
Then I entered in and got a seat successfully, but it was still 4 hours left before the game.
My skin got sunburned, even worse, my face looked so ugly… you know, ‘Cause I didn’t protect anything at all for my skin, whereas the temps showed around mid 90s in Fahrenheit which is equivalent to 35 degrees in Centigrade with the high humidity.
I’ve got to keep hydrated all the way until the game is all over.
As for the game, it was far beyond my expectation, because both teams, namely Sojitsu and komadai-Tomakomai played excellent games.
Moreover, it was breathtaking when both pitchers allowed base loaded in the same 11 innings, respectively.
Still, both Saito and Tanaka showed excellent performances and didn’t allow the additional scores, whereas it was not very surprising that both teams could possibly get a chance to win at any time when the situation looked so oppressive.
Neither Saito nor Tanaka gave up until the last minute. After all, the first game ended in a draw, and both teams were forced to play another game the very next day.
The second game which was the very last seemed rather predominant to Waseda-jitsugyo, because our players did quite an excellent job in the early innings.
Besides Saito showed a great performance in his pitch and made a lot of strike-out as well.
Furthermore, each fielder, especially the shortstop, Goto, and the left fielder, Funabashi did a great fielding all the way, so the opposing team had to struggle, whereas they had made some single hits from time to time.
At the very last inning, Saito allowed the second homeruns from Nakazawa, the third batter, everybody went black, even felt a sort of anxiety that our team might be captured. All of us had to rely on Saito’s great pitch of course, and he met our expectation fully.
Saito himself seemed rather self-possessed no matter how he had spent hard times with the series of ordeal, bounced back in no time, finally made a very last strike out from Tanaka, the pitcher, and we’ve got it made!
Sojitsu won the championship for the first time in the summer’s game ever since the baseball team had been established in the early Taisho-era.
The last game made my day to a full extent, and I can’t forget this feeling, even though the times go by.
Thank you all!
Take393
It’s really grateful to report how I spent my holidays to all of you guys, because you can’t imagine how I felt good and comfortable during this period of times when I had had such great experience which I never know.
In a nutshell, my old school, namely Waseda-jitsugyo won the championship at the high school baseball tournament in Koshien-Stadium the other day which is familiar with the enthusiasts throughout a country.
Not only us graduates but also other baseball fans all around the country kicked up their heels during the games of course, since 2 games were so excited, and I believe they must have gone down in history.
As soon as Waseda-jitsugyo made it to the final when Saito pitched shutout the opposing team, kagoshima-kogyo, by 5-0, I left home and headed out for Osaka as to root for my old school.
When I got to Osaka, I was looking for some business hotel to make a reservation for staying, however almost all the hotels were fully booked due to the final baseball tournament. So I ended up with wondering around from place to place for about 2 hours, finally I was able to check in the sauna, where bedrooms were available at the place.
Next day, I got up before 5, and was heading the Koshien-Stadium to purchase a ticket.
As you know, you’ve got to line up for several hours whenever you watch the final game since it gets so crowded, and of course, I’ve got to wait for 3 hours before the tickets were sold.
Then I entered in and got a seat successfully, but it was still 4 hours left before the game.
My skin got sunburned, even worse, my face looked so ugly… you know, ‘Cause I didn’t protect anything at all for my skin, whereas the temps showed around mid 90s in Fahrenheit which is equivalent to 35 degrees in Centigrade with the high humidity.
I’ve got to keep hydrated all the way until the game is all over.
As for the game, it was far beyond my expectation, because both teams, namely Sojitsu and komadai-Tomakomai played excellent games.
Moreover, it was breathtaking when both pitchers allowed base loaded in the same 11 innings, respectively.
Still, both Saito and Tanaka showed excellent performances and didn’t allow the additional scores, whereas it was not very surprising that both teams could possibly get a chance to win at any time when the situation looked so oppressive.
Neither Saito nor Tanaka gave up until the last minute. After all, the first game ended in a draw, and both teams were forced to play another game the very next day.
The second game which was the very last seemed rather predominant to Waseda-jitsugyo, because our players did quite an excellent job in the early innings.
Besides Saito showed a great performance in his pitch and made a lot of strike-out as well.
Furthermore, each fielder, especially the shortstop, Goto, and the left fielder, Funabashi did a great fielding all the way, so the opposing team had to struggle, whereas they had made some single hits from time to time.
At the very last inning, Saito allowed the second homeruns from Nakazawa, the third batter, everybody went black, even felt a sort of anxiety that our team might be captured. All of us had to rely on Saito’s great pitch of course, and he met our expectation fully.
Saito himself seemed rather self-possessed no matter how he had spent hard times with the series of ordeal, bounced back in no time, finally made a very last strike out from Tanaka, the pitcher, and we’ve got it made!
Sojitsu won the championship for the first time in the summer’s game ever since the baseball team had been established in the early Taisho-era.
The last game made my day to a full extent, and I can’t forget this feeling, even though the times go by.
Thank you all!
Take393
Thursday, August 10, 2006
How to explore the polarization between haves and have-nots?
Hi viewers,
Recently, I’m successively joining a certain activity where I can get things off my chest fully. What’s more, it fulfills my desire to learn something new, of course.
It’s an English club which is popular among enthusiasts, consisted of Japanese only.
I’ve once heard there used to be some native speakers around, those who attempted to mingle with in the past, but somehow they vanished in the haze within a short period of time, and it sounds a real shame to us non native.
Ok, let’s get into today’s theme.
Today, I’d like to explore something that is too much at stake here considering the current problems globally. Which is, haves and have-nots…in other words, you can also say like the polarization between rich and poor.
I think it’s a big theme, also we held a discussion concerning the topic at the club shown above yesterday, but it was still up in the air, during the session, since it was quite a big theme. Actually I didn’t expect too much about whether to reach any conclusion or not regarding the topic. Some participants were so motivated that it seemed to be today’s movers and shakers as long as I heard about their strong opinion, while others were a bit apathetic toward such kinds of complex issue. Although it didn’t reach any consensus unanimously at all, it was basically a heated discussion.
The reason why I brought up this kind of topic was a little more than a ploy to let some youngsters draw attention to that stuff, where they can not only expand their imagination, but able to foray into social realms, and same thing applies to me as well all the way.
From my view of solving this kind of stuff is…in short, you know how to inspire younger generations to exercise vote.
As you know, it’s a notable thing that less than half of voters those ages are in their 20s exercise votes on a referendum, every time. But it’s peculiar to this country, and doesn’t seem to apply to any other countries at all. So why is that? I think the main problem is that they attribute their apathy toward politics to the lack of performances conducted by law makers, or government officials. Such as political maneuvering, or the ensuing corruption that seems nothing out of the ordinary makes especially youngsters feel down and out, so that they try to hide away from it.
Given that the aging society has coming out at a break neck speed, young people’s indifference toward politics is nothing but crucial. To make maters worse, the bulk of Japanese office workers are care free, whereas the oil prices have been skyrocketed over the past few decades, even worse, our paychecks…I mean the salaries are likely to be plummeted due to an increasingly high deduction costs, including income tax, or anything else.
It is obvious that the bulk of citizens feel despairing more or less, and some people may attempt to flee from the state in order to set them free, sooner or later.
Well it seems I went off on a tangent for awhile.
Ok, let’s get back to the table. I think it enables you to become riches to a certain degree when you try to make endeavors no matter how you were ill fated, even how your academic background were so scarce.
But is it enough to stop a gap between haves and have-nots?
When all is said and done, it is extremely difficult to figure out the problem concerning the polarization between them. So better we try to attempt the get rich quick schemes, like investing stocks, or winning a lottery?
Ok, gotta run!
take393
Recently, I’m successively joining a certain activity where I can get things off my chest fully. What’s more, it fulfills my desire to learn something new, of course.
It’s an English club which is popular among enthusiasts, consisted of Japanese only.
I’ve once heard there used to be some native speakers around, those who attempted to mingle with in the past, but somehow they vanished in the haze within a short period of time, and it sounds a real shame to us non native.
Ok, let’s get into today’s theme.
Today, I’d like to explore something that is too much at stake here considering the current problems globally. Which is, haves and have-nots…in other words, you can also say like the polarization between rich and poor.
I think it’s a big theme, also we held a discussion concerning the topic at the club shown above yesterday, but it was still up in the air, during the session, since it was quite a big theme. Actually I didn’t expect too much about whether to reach any conclusion or not regarding the topic. Some participants were so motivated that it seemed to be today’s movers and shakers as long as I heard about their strong opinion, while others were a bit apathetic toward such kinds of complex issue. Although it didn’t reach any consensus unanimously at all, it was basically a heated discussion.
The reason why I brought up this kind of topic was a little more than a ploy to let some youngsters draw attention to that stuff, where they can not only expand their imagination, but able to foray into social realms, and same thing applies to me as well all the way.
From my view of solving this kind of stuff is…in short, you know how to inspire younger generations to exercise vote.
As you know, it’s a notable thing that less than half of voters those ages are in their 20s exercise votes on a referendum, every time. But it’s peculiar to this country, and doesn’t seem to apply to any other countries at all. So why is that? I think the main problem is that they attribute their apathy toward politics to the lack of performances conducted by law makers, or government officials. Such as political maneuvering, or the ensuing corruption that seems nothing out of the ordinary makes especially youngsters feel down and out, so that they try to hide away from it.
Given that the aging society has coming out at a break neck speed, young people’s indifference toward politics is nothing but crucial. To make maters worse, the bulk of Japanese office workers are care free, whereas the oil prices have been skyrocketed over the past few decades, even worse, our paychecks…I mean the salaries are likely to be plummeted due to an increasingly high deduction costs, including income tax, or anything else.
It is obvious that the bulk of citizens feel despairing more or less, and some people may attempt to flee from the state in order to set them free, sooner or later.
Well it seems I went off on a tangent for awhile.
Ok, let’s get back to the table. I think it enables you to become riches to a certain degree when you try to make endeavors no matter how you were ill fated, even how your academic background were so scarce.
But is it enough to stop a gap between haves and have-nots?
When all is said and done, it is extremely difficult to figure out the problem concerning the polarization between them. So better we try to attempt the get rich quick schemes, like investing stocks, or winning a lottery?
Ok, gotta run!
take393
Monday, July 17, 2006
A polite way of speaking
Hi viewers,
Right after I had posted my last updates, I managed to get a decent job.
Every time I take job training at the moment, it will last until the end of September. It’s far beyond my expectation as well.
Of course, I need to acquire some expert skills before run. What makes me most difficult is, how to use polite language accurately, even though Japanese is my native tongue.
When you talk with your friends, maybe you don’t take much care about the accuracy of language, but when it comes to speaking in public, especially when you talk with your customers, you can’t get away from the accurate terms.
On one hand, it is often said that communicating allows you to know each other, able to sympathize what other people discussing.
On the other hand, it often gets you into troubles unless you clarify your points, or heed someone’s voice at times during the formal conversations.
When you attend the social gatherings, you’ve got to be more tolerant than speaking in private of course. Also your language should be far more coherent all the times, no matter how it got you frustrated, even some disparaging comments were showered upon you from your opponents.
What makes me struggle so far is, I can’t get the hang of using the polite way of speaking while at work, because I seldom paid much attention to my then customers who were likely to go insolvency. I had to urge them to pay their debts immediately as well.
I regarded those customers as untrustworthy, so sometimes my utterance might sound so harsh to them, that they couldn’t catch up with.
As of today, I made up my mind to change my thoughts.
In order to put it more specific, I show my episode down below；
A few days ago, I met some of my then coworkers to reminisce about old times. But I ended up with discouraging in a certain way, due to their menial topics while having a chat with.
Take my friend’s case, for instance.
He is actually talkative, even eloquent enough to argue when casting his views to other parties involved. Yet it was unfortunate to know that he still contented with his current status, no matter how I encouraged him to foray into interacting non residents, namely Caucasians.
I know it’s far beyond his thoughts when he tries to be a reconnaissance while taking into further steps to it, no matter how he is extrovert enough to interact with.
What I’d like to explore from showing above is, interacting people living in a different culture, or society definitely allows you to broaden your thoughts. It helps discover a formal way of speaking by doing language exchange as well.
Sticking to your current status is of course one way to look at it, and I don’t intend to ignore the way people doing that kind of things.
But how come you obstinately shut your door especially to non Japanese from which you can learn a lot more?
In order to achieve this goal, I’ll occasionally try to head out for social gatherings to get acquainted with. After all, it enables me to activate myself for sure, where I can acquire some polite way of speaking as well which is quite apart from what I used to be.
Ok, catch you later!
take393
Right after I had posted my last updates, I managed to get a decent job.
Every time I take job training at the moment, it will last until the end of September. It’s far beyond my expectation as well.
Of course, I need to acquire some expert skills before run. What makes me most difficult is, how to use polite language accurately, even though Japanese is my native tongue.
When you talk with your friends, maybe you don’t take much care about the accuracy of language, but when it comes to speaking in public, especially when you talk with your customers, you can’t get away from the accurate terms.
On one hand, it is often said that communicating allows you to know each other, able to sympathize what other people discussing.
On the other hand, it often gets you into troubles unless you clarify your points, or heed someone’s voice at times during the formal conversations.
When you attend the social gatherings, you’ve got to be more tolerant than speaking in private of course. Also your language should be far more coherent all the times, no matter how it got you frustrated, even some disparaging comments were showered upon you from your opponents.
What makes me struggle so far is, I can’t get the hang of using the polite way of speaking while at work, because I seldom paid much attention to my then customers who were likely to go insolvency. I had to urge them to pay their debts immediately as well.
I regarded those customers as untrustworthy, so sometimes my utterance might sound so harsh to them, that they couldn’t catch up with.
As of today, I made up my mind to change my thoughts.
In order to put it more specific, I show my episode down below；
A few days ago, I met some of my then coworkers to reminisce about old times. But I ended up with discouraging in a certain way, due to their menial topics while having a chat with.
Take my friend’s case, for instance.
He is actually talkative, even eloquent enough to argue when casting his views to other parties involved. Yet it was unfortunate to know that he still contented with his current status, no matter how I encouraged him to foray into interacting non residents, namely Caucasians.
I know it’s far beyond his thoughts when he tries to be a reconnaissance while taking into further steps to it, no matter how he is extrovert enough to interact with.
What I’d like to explore from showing above is, interacting people living in a different culture, or society definitely allows you to broaden your thoughts. It helps discover a formal way of speaking by doing language exchange as well.
Sticking to your current status is of course one way to look at it, and I don’t intend to ignore the way people doing that kind of things.
But how come you obstinately shut your door especially to non Japanese from which you can learn a lot more?
In order to achieve this goal, I’ll occasionally try to head out for social gatherings to get acquainted with. After all, it enables me to activate myself for sure, where I can acquire some polite way of speaking as well which is quite apart from what I used to be.
Ok, catch you later!
take393
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Honesty is the best bet...do you agree?
Hi viewers,
As Billy Joel sang back in 1980s, honesty is such a lonely word, I found that it was almost applicable to my circumstances such as having job interviews which were quite a lot recently.
Actually, um…I’m looking for a new job at the moment, after becoming jobless, and am forced to spend hard times, because of many tricky questions showers upon me from interviewers. Also those questions are so unrelenting which is pretty hard to get by as well. They turn out to be completely fiasco after all.
I of course tend to play the game whenever I am asked, but somehow it leads to misunderstand, finally they judge me as an unwanted person.
I discovered that being honest is not always good enough, sometimes playing the devil’s advocate really fits in to pass such job interviews.
I wonder if I pulled some strings, and of course it’s pretty much easier to come by.
But then again, honesty is my best policy…it’s really hard to change my thoughts. I know I’m kind of clumsy, but I need to be dishonest sometimes, in terms of getting a good job. In this society, I don’t agree with the term being said like honest is the best policy, maybe you should take advantage of being unusual from what you are.
To the contrary, such corruptions like embezzlement conducted by low makers or government officials can relate to the fact that they are voraciously honest enough to become riches.
But they are totally dishonest in terms of what the true politics are. As you know, they tend to be honest all the while, but it’s little more than a ploy to attract more people by casting their goodness in the guise of sobriety.
So which is your better bet, honesty or dishonesty?
Ok, talk to you later!
Take393
As Billy Joel sang back in 1980s, honesty is such a lonely word, I found that it was almost applicable to my circumstances such as having job interviews which were quite a lot recently.
Actually, um…I’m looking for a new job at the moment, after becoming jobless, and am forced to spend hard times, because of many tricky questions showers upon me from interviewers. Also those questions are so unrelenting which is pretty hard to get by as well. They turn out to be completely fiasco after all.
I of course tend to play the game whenever I am asked, but somehow it leads to misunderstand, finally they judge me as an unwanted person.
I discovered that being honest is not always good enough, sometimes playing the devil’s advocate really fits in to pass such job interviews.
I wonder if I pulled some strings, and of course it’s pretty much easier to come by.
But then again, honesty is my best policy…it’s really hard to change my thoughts. I know I’m kind of clumsy, but I need to be dishonest sometimes, in terms of getting a good job. In this society, I don’t agree with the term being said like honest is the best policy, maybe you should take advantage of being unusual from what you are.
To the contrary, such corruptions like embezzlement conducted by low makers or government officials can relate to the fact that they are voraciously honest enough to become riches.
But they are totally dishonest in terms of what the true politics are. As you know, they tend to be honest all the while, but it’s little more than a ploy to attract more people by casting their goodness in the guise of sobriety.
So which is your better bet, honesty or dishonesty?
Ok, talk to you later!
Take393
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