Hi viewers,
Recently I’ve been truant because of my overloaded job and house work, and I must admit that I tended to leave it over in regard to posting my updates.
But one fellow, a charming young lady who also had had some mental problems over the past few months fired me up to work on it.
Then I thought there’s no way I could shy away from it, and that’s why I’m here now.
Ok, enough of preliminaries, let’s refer to today’s topic.
Today’s theme goes way back until the late July shortly after I had changed my job.It’s something to do with my then uncle who had died last Aug.
Almost a year passed by, something sprang to my mind … say, my aunt in low.A letter from a certain attorney came to me a few weeks before, saying that I was entitled to take over my uncle’s heritage, since my dad had already died a year before uncle god rest his soul.
It was kind of a mixed blessing when I had got the letter, even had no awareness until the attorney kept me posted.
I surely told her that I would abandon it when my aunt in low gave me a call concerning the problem.
‘Cause I knew aunt’s plight after being lost her husband, and I thought I must have felt quite sorry to her if I took it over as well.
But I was chicken out of saying that I would abandon it to the attorney at the last minute when I met him, because so was I surely strapped for cash, I could barely make ends meet at the moment.
I still had a kind of complexity after I had taken it over without my real ability, yet I couldn’t give up my dream as to mingle with the different society outside Japan.
When I caught a glimpse of a certain newspaper ads letting me know about some info regarding the Internship programs, I was dying to join the seminar at all costs.
The seminar being held in the late Sep really made my day, so I started to wade through a lot of info about my beloved country, namely the US.
Needless to say, today’s US market is one of my major concern, where you could figure out the index of its economy.
But as the figure indicates, the recent US economy is not favorable enough to keep it up with in terms of housing sales, or whatever.
Moreover, it is said that it’s hard enough to measure up the business forecasting ahead of being settled in the future.
In my case, I currently have some U.S dollar though… it doesn't fulfill totally the same amount when you exchange it to JPY.
The exchange rate is now going up and down around the late 116 JPY per USD.
It could be skirted around the losses, which is coming from the fluctuation, if USD goes up to 119 in JPY.
But I think it’s far beyond my expectation when considering recent stagnation in the US.
As long as I read the Nikkei News Report, the survey shows the sluggish economy being conducted out there, it does connect to the recent exchange rate, and it can't be helped as well.
But then again, the interest rate is added up automatically to the total balance, there's nothing wrong with withdrawing the cash in USD out there.
The problem is you know the employment rate, especially in the manufacturing industry is currently on the slight decrease.
What is worse, no matter what you want to do, it should be disadvantageous for us alien when it comes to being hired out there in the first place when taking that of local staff into account.
It’s not an easy task to get a job under such circumstances, even though the purpose is to join the Internship Programs that you cannot earn a penny at all.
“Such sort of vicious circle of recession is surely related to an interest cut, if so, it is no doubt the society will cause inflation”, says one of the chief executives.
Almost anyone may not be able to stop deceleration of its economy as well.
But is there any option you can ward off danger?
What do you say to selling JPY a lot more, like distributing into some retail stores, or wherever?
The notorious investors around the world for example―sounds like a scathing expression―may as well purchase USD, as EUR is skyrocketing since this currency has been introduced. It’s too much at stake here when EU causes inflation as well.
“A temporally dollar drop does the trick to restrain the trade deficits in the US, but an extended depreciation of it may cause harmful effects to those exporting countries, such as Asia, or wherever”, speculates the other experts.
As you know, it is obviously beneficial just for the short visit when USD is getting lower against JPY.It can be said that you've got to take a closer look at its economy or society, let alone language itself, prior to living in the US in a long period.
Well, any ideas?
See you next time!
take393
Monday, December 11, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Pretty Tough Days
Hi viewers,
Sorry...I couldn't get around to work on it for a long period, since I had got involved in a series of trouble one after another.
Well...it’s just an excuse though, maybe that’ll explain when it comes to describing my own family...say, my mom.
I don’t wanna mention details about how things are going at the moment, because it’s sort of a mental problem, and I know most people feel reluctant to hear of it.
In a nutshell, my mom needs be taken care of mentally, as she’s been a depressive, which seems to be quite strong than I was expected.
I’ve only got mom after I had lost sibling and dad respectively over the past few years.
Actually she’s been very serious... um...the symptoms are mainly visual and auditory hallucination that cannot be imagined for most sound people.
After spending a few days with mom, I ended up calling an ambulance in the morning for immediate need.
It was last Sunday when I tagged along mom to the hospital, but the doc said she was not really bad physically, but needs to be taken care of in no time in a mental hospital for awhile.
Then I went black, but had to take controls as to go over some hospitals for her immediate care. But of course it didn’t go by leaps and bounds. I went through a series of setback, but a certain hospital accepted after I had persuaded doc to allow her to be hospitalized.
A few days passed by, nothing went wrong for the time being, it’s kinda a bit relief to me.
Ok…enough of that.
Talk to you later!
Take393
Sorry...I couldn't get around to work on it for a long period, since I had got involved in a series of trouble one after another.
Well...it’s just an excuse though, maybe that’ll explain when it comes to describing my own family...say, my mom.
I don’t wanna mention details about how things are going at the moment, because it’s sort of a mental problem, and I know most people feel reluctant to hear of it.
In a nutshell, my mom needs be taken care of mentally, as she’s been a depressive, which seems to be quite strong than I was expected.
I’ve only got mom after I had lost sibling and dad respectively over the past few years.
Actually she’s been very serious... um...the symptoms are mainly visual and auditory hallucination that cannot be imagined for most sound people.
After spending a few days with mom, I ended up calling an ambulance in the morning for immediate need.
It was last Sunday when I tagged along mom to the hospital, but the doc said she was not really bad physically, but needs to be taken care of in no time in a mental hospital for awhile.
Then I went black, but had to take controls as to go over some hospitals for her immediate care. But of course it didn’t go by leaps and bounds. I went through a series of setback, but a certain hospital accepted after I had persuaded doc to allow her to be hospitalized.
A few days passed by, nothing went wrong for the time being, it’s kinda a bit relief to me.
Ok…enough of that.
Talk to you later!
Take393
Monday, September 04, 2006
The assessment of Prime Minister Koizumi
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
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
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
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