The idea of Marisuke

Running Children

2006-01-24T08:26:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing? I am little unpatient with small children.
When I went to Japanese supermarket, many mothers are coming with their small kids. And even if those children are running in the supermarket, nobody tries to stop them. Nobody! There are many eldery people who is upset with such high-speed kids around them. Their bones are too weak when they hit by even small kids. They might break their bones, and it might cause completely numb with legs or even death from their weaken strength to recover. Thus I really wish their mother or the supermarket's employees to warn them to stop running. However, they are just saying the word "Oh, please~, do not run..." without looking them directly. Why mothers should be begging to their own children. Some people say that children just need more times to understand mannars. Then, I want to ask "Then, who teaches them a lesson? if there are no mothers or fathers to teach? When are they learning those behavior?" Sometimes when I really lost my temper, I warn them to stop. Children looked my face with a puzzle, just again RUN off from me JUST after I warned them to STOP RUNNING!
There is no end to teach rude kids a life lesson for me and others who got the same opinions.

Kingdom Hearts II

2006-01-24T08:25:00.002-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing? I feel great to play Playstation 2 soft called "Kingdom Hearts II". Have you ever played "Kingdom Hearts" before? This video game soft was created by the cooperation with SQURESOFT and Disney. There is a main character called 'Sora' and he can travel to the world of Disney films like Beauty and Beast, Aladdin, Mulan, or Nightmare Before Christmas for searching his best friends (somehow, Pirates and Caribbeans too). Then Sora can use magic and key-liked sword to destroy monsters called Hearless with Disney chracters like Donald (Wizard) and Goofy (Defender). It is fantastic game and you should play it for fun and knowing how much Computere Graphic has been improved in recent video game. I am really impressed with creater's works. There are many beautiful action pictures; many lights and stars are sparkling around the characters. And the plot is very great. In some CG films or video games, they got no good stories or actors/actresses, only beautiful pictures. However, I strongly recommend this 'Kingdom Hearts'. If you like the way of Disney or Final Fantasy series, I am sure you like it!!:-)

Car Accident

2006-01-24T08:25:00.001-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? I am little upset with writing this blog because the tea is ready.
This year, one of my classmates got a car accident. She wounded very badly but recovered soon. I think she is very strong woman:-) However, the driver who hit her just ran off from her after he/she looked at her injury. I hate such rude and stupid drivers. Then she told me that police also reacted very weakly. She told them she saw almost of the car license number, but they said they cannot track the car if it is not whole numbers. They informed her wrong, because it is possible to track the car if there is parts of license number and memory of the color and model. She had to pay for her own wound and for repairing her motor scooter. I believe car drivers and police have to show thier honesty and faith. My greatgrandpa was dead because of the car accident. He was hit his either left or right leg by low-speed car, and it led to loose his weaken strength and pass him away just before my birth. My mother told me that she heard her grandpa calling her name once when she was asleep in the bed (of obstetrics and gynecology). She naturally woke up with one tear dropped from her eyes. It was the time when he is gone. Next morning, she knew that the clock of main city tower had just stopped moving in the time he was passed away. Then according to her, grandma said "He did it, his first and last greatful accomplishment":-p Well, please be careful with careless car drivers and confess your negligence if you commit something wrong.

How to control my dog's weight

2006-01-24T08:25:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? Are you doing your best to study for exam?
Well, do you have a dog? or other pet? I have one, it's a collie dog.
She is now 10 years old, already grandma. And my family and I have to control her weight.
However, there is a big problem. My family is living with my mother's parents and great grandma. And my grandpa is giving us a favor to take her walk everyday. Then, he gave her a piece of cream bun or spread bread with jam. It is too much calories a day to manage her weight. It is the same problem for human. Having too much sugar would develop diabetes to even dogs. Therefore, I explained what my veterniarian said and warned my grandpa not to feed her such sweets too much and take out jam or cream before gave it to her. However, my grandpa just ignored my warning and kept giving her sweet behind me. I felt strange because no matter what we do like setting a limit to have a meal or walking, she just didn't loose her over-weight. Hah...
How should I watch my dog's weight and my grandpa?? I should need to stop it for my dog, but it is little hard to say to my grandpa because he is helping her to walk everyday too. Well, I can ask my mother and sister to warn him, maybe.

Illegal DVD

2006-01-24T08:24:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing so far? I got an e-mail from my old friend and made me feel comfortable to know that she is doig fine in CA, America.
Have you ever seen some pirated edition/bootleg of DVD films or anime?
Well, it is quite illegal to buy such bootleg DVD, however it is still going on around the world.
For Japan, it has been a very serious issues. Because of the pirated edition especially made in China takes away Japanese profit more than 9 trillion yen. And my friend just saw many bootleg Japanese anime DVD in yahoo internet auction. It has already explained that what they selling is pirated edition in thier response. The playing pictures are little darker than usual. Also their adress is usually from Hongkong or other Chinese cities. Even it is new released DVD, it is pretty cheap to get them. It attracts even Japanese people in Japan. However, I think buying pirated edition of DVD is not greatful thing to do for creaters and national economy. Thus I recommend you not to buy those of DVD or other things.

Wind power

2006-01-24T08:23:00.001-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing so far? I want to watch the film called 'Oliver Twist' and 'Flight Plan'. Oh! also 'Narnia'!! My instructer lied to me....Never mind this please.
When I was studying about renewable energy, I learned that nuclear power is not completely renewable energy. However, now like the UK, Japan tries to rely on building nuclear power plants to maintain our life-syles. Thus this fact puzzled me. However, more as I read many journals about environmental problems, using less polled energy efficiency is little weak to stop global warming or other disaster, it seems. We need to have more renewable energy like Germany tried to use more wind power. But in Japan, we do not have much sight to see wind power generators unlike European countries. I thought why is that. Maybe now Japan tried to have more nuclear power plants nearby sea, have more dams to activate hydro electric engines or desturbing beautiful Japanese sight? However recently I saw the windmill in the half way of Shinkansen train. It was my first time to see the real one. It was far away from when I was but huge! I think it was in a coast line of Atami?? Sorry, I am bad at using map. But I wish Japan tries to use more renewable energy to live with environment and other living animals. The earth is not only for human beings, I believe.

Ipod

2006-01-24T08:23:00.000-08:00

Hello, everone! How are you doing? I like to watch American soap drama called "Tru Calling".
Have you ever had an Ipod or just seen them before? Well, I have one of them, and it is not nano. Anyway it is very easy to play music and install from CDs or online internet music stores. Personally I really like to listen a music, and there is a tiny problems I am facing everyday.
It sounds nonsense, but I am pretty addicted by having Ipod. If I forgot to bring it with me, I feel very boring and cannot be relaxed. It sould not be Ipod, might be. However, I cannot live without having a opportunity to listen musics everyday. Then somehow, I heard that Ipod has been sued by American user because of the low battery to listen for 8 hours or so. I got the same problems too then. My Ipod cannot listen more than 2 hours. So, it maybe portable as same as CD or MD player. If you want to have Ipod, the battery is same as your old CD player, so you should have Ipod which can install equal more than 800-1000 songs. That is my small advice.

Sleepy Days

2006-01-24T08:22:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing today? I am so sleep.
Because of the final test weeks, I need more times to review my all class lectures and papers.
However, I am not so good at time managing strategies. Therefore, I feel very sleepy those days and even now. I begin to sleep while I am having a class or late to go to. Even worse, I just slept over from the class yesterday because I forgot to set alarm. Hah, I am stupid student.
I need times to study hard more but also the time for having a sleep to rest my body at the same time. Anyway, I am looking forward to know my grade of the class 'History of English Literature' because I worked pretty hard to review and felt confident while I was taking the final exam. But my Enlish Grammar class, I was doomed.

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny

2006-01-19T10:09:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! how are you doing? I am little bit not patient with noizy kids outside of the streets...
Before writing this one, I little bit talked about the Gundam Seed. This time, I will talk about the next version of the film called Gundam Seed Destiny. Gundam Seed Destiny is the story which is the world after heroes and heroins ended a great war and two years passed. This time, main character named Shin is a boy who experienced to see his family dead when they are evacuating in the last war, and entered to military for revenging on people who killed his family. Shin's justice is that there is no mercy for people who destroy precious lives and disturb his ways. That is why Shin keeps fighting in order to bring eternal peace until his enemy has all gone. I think this story is also reflecting our real life. People start to have a war for trying to get peace. Each person has own justice and freedom. However, like Shin's idea, eliminating all enemy and to revenge are just impossible to bring back peaceful moments. And I believe that a war does not make any sense to answer all complecated questions.

Stray dogs in Japan

2006-01-19T09:19:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? I am surprised to see snows yesterday.
Three or four weeks ago, I watched the TV program which shows the stray dogs in Bangkok, Thailand. In Bangkok, everybody loves and feeds stray dogs because officially those dogs are under protected by the government. Because their king established rules not to kill any dogs, every dog has to be taken and released by officers after had vaccine for hydrophobia. I think that is totally different from Japan. In Japan, people kill approximately 19-400,000t of captured stray dogs per year. And the way to kill them is to let them eat poisonous meatballs or put into a small room filled with monoxide. Last year, one dog died for eating up a poisonous meatball in the half way of walking with his master. Those meatballs were setted as a trap for decreasing numbers of stray dogs or cats. But is that really okay to kill stray dogs and cats without reminding humans to think about their precious lives? Setting poisons and killing tons of them are indirectly coming from pet booms in Japan. there are many dogs and cats hotels to teach tricks and promise spaces to have pets. But in my opinion, if people cannot teach any tricks and have spaces to take care of animals, they shouldn't have any pet at all then!! It is too selfish for having pets, animals' lives. There seems no responsibility for it.
I wish people will realize how to live with animals in urban cities someday.

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

2006-01-19T08:50:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing? I am little bit sleepy.
Have you ever wathced a Japanese anime called Gundam Seed?
I love this anime very much because of very cool characters, robot fighting scenes, and interesting science fiction anime. This anime is famous for robot animaiton but also famous for making plot based on war. In this Gundam Seed, the war is occured becasue of the conflicts between "natural" and "coordinator" people. "Natural" hate and "coordinator" people because their genes has been made up for the better memory, strength, and immunity. And after their fightings heated up, Natural forced them to relocate from the Earth to Space. Then Natural fired an atomic bomb to one of Coordinator's space colony and killed millions. This is just a story of kids' anime, however, it shows the way how to teach unexperienced wars to small children and others. I am also the one who have never experienced a war. Thus I need to know every single stories based on war from televisions, books, internet, and chat with people who experienced WWII. My great grandma is 96 year-old this year!!

Small kids have been in danger

2006-01-18T20:40:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing? I got a little cold and it makes me pretty stressful.
Do you like small kids? I like polite one but not noizy. Recently, there are many criminal cases that attacks small children in Japan. And it is becoming more serious than ever before. I have no idea why mad people attack innocent and powerless kids. Today, I watched an article that informs a man who is arrested on the suspicion of committing indecent conduct to about 40 elementary school girls. It said that after he succeeded to move a girl into an empty block, he asked her to open her mouth and licked her tongue by his own. In addition, he also asked her to lick around his neck and face. I can't believe such ridiculous and cruel people are living somewhere in Japan. I hate people who trick children by abusing their innocent minds. I think this kinds of crimes make children think that adults cannot be trusted.

Animal Farm

2005-12-04T04:54:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you today? I am little bit sleepy but having fun with typing this.
Have you ever read the Animal Farm written by George Orwell?
The book is talking about what will happen to the society if people chose the communism.
I think that is very interesting book to read because it tells me how the Soviet Union kept communism, and how it collapsed. In addition, it seems impossible to have both freedom and equality. If people chose equality, there is no freedom.　If people chose freedom, then, there is no equality?-maybe it is difficult to have equality. However, I think that is possible to make the society chosen freedom can work hard to establish the equality to people.

Japanese Ambulance

2005-11-29T02:28:00.000-08:00

Hello, how are you doing? I am fine but have little bit pain in my shoulder...why really...?
In Japan, calling ambulance is free to everyone. However, now Japanese government is now considering that Japanese ambulance should cost about $50-$100 per use or not.
Because recently many people calls the ambulance for stupid reasons; like somebody tricks to call for a help, stupid parents calls it for their children who just got ordinary cold, and drunken people calls it to talk about their unconsidered complaint about their boss.
Japanese ambulance or firefighters are worked hard by having salary from Japanese budget=our tax. Thus it makes Japanese government worry about that matter.
However, I think that they should not make people pay for calling ambulance. I know those facts should not be ignored. But if it happened, like in America, many poor people cannot call an ambulance to save lives because they can't pay for it. So, I think the Japanese ambulance keep free or at least cheap to pay with medical bill. Umm, it is complicated a bit.

Meet with my father in Tokyo2

2005-11-29T02:05:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? I have just finished to eat dinner;Ma-bou doufu.
Well, I went to Tokyo to see my father who is living in Saitama prefecture to work.
While my father and I were woking in the street of Tokyo, I felt uncomfortable to look around the city. Because it was less trees, the air smelled like CO2 ( I think it's air pollution), every river I saw was either full of algae bloom or gray-colored waters with garbage. I have no idea how people clean such duty rivers at first. Even in Hirakata city, Osaka prefectre, I saw that one big garbage bag placed in the middle of river that seems somebody tossed it to there from a balcony. In the city, I wondered how people feel relaxed with seeing nature. Japan got four seasons, however, how can we feel it if the city got environmental issues like deforestation, durty river and air pollution? And there are no wild birds except doves or craws, no beautiful butterflies, no red-dragonflies. Red-dragonflies represent the coming of autumn in Japan. But if people don't see them, I think it is pretty sad. I hope that many people watch to clean the environment to keep living with other animals more frequently. Don't you agree? -Thank you-

Meet with my father in Tokyo

2005-11-27T09:26:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone. How are you doing so far? I am little sleepy now.
I visited to see my father who is living in Saitama prefecture, Japan from November 19th to 21st. Then I experienced to use the Nozomi Superexpress(Shinkansen-train) for the firtst time. It was very quiet, fast and clean, actually it was pretty cool. I loved to use the Sinkansen.
BUT! There are always noizy people in the public train. There were three people who kept chatting loudly, eat smelly food, and distrubing all the business (wo/)men and others like me.
I did not understand just since when people became so unpolite to each other. I thought that Japanese people are quiet and behave politely in the public. but now there are a few of them who understand the idea. People are pushing violently to move through the crowd of people, using cellephones to talk nearby priority seat for pregnant women, children, and elders who got pacemaker, doing make-up, eating smelly food in the public trains.
I hope many people including myself and you become more kind and learn more lessons of manners in the public area. Why don't you start it in your home? Oh, maybe it is more difficult for some reasons. Be nice to everyone who you met and love.

failure of eyesight2

2005-11-27T02:25:00.000-08:00

Hello, everyone! How are you today? I am fine, thank you:->
Recently, I have a difficult time to deal with my eyes. Thus I went to the eye hospital to check my eyesight more specifically. Then, I found out that my left eye is now .8 and right eye is 1.0.
And the doctor said my left eye is an astigmatic one! It was shocked to know that fact.
In addition, right now my right eye is clearer than left one, but in the future my right eye would be lost the eyesight by glaucoma(an eye-sickness that is losing the sight(view) little by little and then become blindness). He said it is coming from hereditary reasons. However he said that I might not get the possiblity to have glaucoma in the future, like nobody knows.
But I keep going to the eye hospital as regular exam. It will tell me that I got some worse situations or not. So, if you feel something wrong with your eyes or some parts of your body, you should go to the hospital immediately. And ask many questions come up from your head!

failure of eyesight

2005-10-30T02:06:00.000-08:00

Halloween, how are you? I am fine at this point.
How long have you ever watched the screen? :-p
Recently, I visited to Kaisei hospital in Rokko, Hyo-go prefecture of Japan.
Then, I got a medical examination in there. I found that I have poorer eyesight than which I had 4years before. I had once 1.5 each, however, I lost 1.2 for left eye, and 1.5 for right eye.
Huh... it is absurdly hurting my feeling because I have been very worry about my losing eyesight, how horrible to know it. I personally the eyesight is very important for human being.
If I could not see the thing well, I think it is little bit boring and dangerous to understand the world. Thus this result of examination really discouraged me:-<
I think I should be careful from my too much time for wathcing T.V.
BUT! I love to watch T.V. especially Japanese anime, commedy, movies, and western soap dramas. I should be called myself "T.V. -kko" in Japanese which means "T.V.-kid" in English. A person who loves to watch T.V. Even now, I am typing my words and watching M-TV US all at the same time. I am not sure why I have so much time to watch T.V. like T.V. addicts.
Maybe, because I am staying in my apartment alone and there is nobody to have communication. Uhh, it's sad to say. I maybe watching T.V. for about 8hrs per day. Well, it might be long to see if I don't take a break to rest my eyes.
Be careful with your eyeballs too! Bye-bye:-)

The earthquakes in the eastern Japan

2005-10-19T01:29:00.000-07:00

Hi, how are you doing now? I am fine to type my ideas:-)
Before I came to Hirakata city, Osaka, I had experienced to live in Mito city, Ibaraki where is one part of the eastern Japan (Kantou area). Mito city is famous for Natto, and Mito Komon whose name is Mitsukuni Tokugawa (One of Tokugawa shogun family lived in Mito).
Recently, the eastern Japan including of Ibaraki has kept having a few earthquakes. I am getting worry about 2nd Tokyo earthquake. If today we got a big earthquake like M.7-8, it destroyed the eastern part of Japan, it would affect Japanese economy, health cares, and defense forces against other countries like N. Korea. Japan might be defenseless to protect civilians. One of my friends is worry about the recent earthquake too, because she is working in day-care center for people who retired. She said if the earthquake occured, there would be many people who cannot have enough time to evacuate to safety place especially at night. And also there are problems like not enough medicines to care like a lack of insulin, and not enough water to drink and clean themselves.
I think if we do not think more frequently about this future big earthquake, we do not know who to do when it really occured.

Domestic Violence1

2005-10-19T01:04:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone! How are you, today? I have just finished to have my nap-time~.
Today in my class, I heard one presentation about domestic violence.
It is very shocked to know that some cases did not have any panishments for killing victims.
Personally, I had read a book about honour killing last year. And it told me that some countries do not have women's rights, therefore they cannot be saved by laws.
While I am watching Japanese News TV program, I knew that 12 year-old boy killed his mother by hitting last night. According to the report, the boy and his mother were living in just two of them. And they both had been fighting about the amount of study-time for the boy since he was 7 or 8th grade. In his school, he is very quiet and smart boy thus he got the highest score in his Final. However after he entered to junior HS, his mother began to say "more study" to him. Then just like that, they fought again and when he hit her, her body became never move again. He left her body in the living room and got sleep. But even though many hours were passed, she did not move. He called to his father who is living in Tokyo, and the father called to his junior HS teachers. Then they found the dead body. Now the boy has been arrested in Hirakata police department.
In my opinion, this case brought me sadness and worry. Because I do not know why his mother forced him to study more if he got such high score on his Final. More than that, I wanted him to find something fun to do like other teenagers. I do not know much about him but personally I think this case brought by misunderstanding and less-communication time between the son and the mother. I am worry how many children are now having dark feeling toward their parents or others. I think somehow their classmates, friends, or neighbors can help to decrease such DV cases.

Information on the internet

2005-07-10T23:12:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? I am little bit hungry.
If you live in Japan, many of you know that there are many numbers of killing occured by Japanese teenagers. One of them is that one boy who is 18 year old tried to attack a few of his friends by throwing a handmaid bomb into their classroom. Because of his handmaind bomb, many students are hurted. He testified to police officers that he was called a fly pesticide and other bullying words from his friends and got mad about it. Thus he learned how to make a small bomb by using internet sites which is able to know easily even people are kids. He also testified that he did not know that so many students will be injured so badly. I think bully is very evil thing to do, however, it does not excuse for his actions. However, I think that adults and teachers should have kept eyes on children's use of computer. Like in this case, people might know how to destroy others by using internet website. Today, Japanese police are considering to prohibit such poisonous sites. Some of them said writing how to make bomb, self-suiciding, or murder on the internet will be a knowledge to warn people. However in my opinion, it does not work to some kids and adults. Thus I believe people should set something to stay people away from websites which give nothing important for common human life.

Dugong is in troubles

2005-07-10T22:48:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing? I am litle sleepy.
This time, I want to inform you about Dugong. Dugong is vegetarian creatures and seen in Okinawa, Japan. Their main diet is sea grass. In Okinawa, Dugong has been officially designated as a "Natural Monument", and internationally, it is protected specie under the Washington Treaty. However, now the United States asked Japan to build Henoko Air base on the coral reef area about 207 ha where Dugong has used to live for searching sea grass. Their homw which means the coral reef area is so becautiful and important area for producing oxygen. We are facing the global warming problem all around the world. Thus we should not destroy another coral area by building the US air base. However, Japan also need a help from the US for preventing attacks of North Korea and toehr suspicious actions. In my opinion, I do not want another base on the coral area where Dugong live. I do not believe that setting another air force base on the coral reef area has more worth than Dugong's and coralarea's lives. many Japanese (Okinawa) people are protesting against the building projects with the organization called GREENPEACE . Please look at the website if you are interested in this issue, Thank You.
http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/

Honor Killing

2005-07-10T22:37:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? I am little getting tired of sitting in the front of computer.
Have you ever read a book called "ikinagara hini yakarete (burned when I was still alive)", written by Souad who is a victim of honor killing. The book tells a story about a girl who had once sexual relationship with a male and became a pregnant without having permission from her parents, and almost got killed by putting oil and fire from her family members. After I read the non-fiction book to talk about her real life, I fel deeply sorry for her and puzzled about her family's actions. Honor killing is the practice of a family member killing a female relative when that female relative has been considered to have brought dishonor to the family, often through unwarranted sexual activity(wikipedia.org). In her story, women cannot be allowed to go to schools, shopping, and to see males. Women should have kept working as slaves for own male family members who might be father, or younger brother. If a woman saw a male's face just once, people started to rumor about it, and her family kills own daughters without hearing any excuse from her. The book has taught me many unbelievable things about the law of honor killing. Then, I thought that is truly evil and preventing women's rights. I hopw many people will read this book and disagree those unfairness.

Schindler's List

2005-07-10T22:25:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing? I am now watching a movie called "Star Wars, episode 5".
Have you ever watched this film? Personall, I think this movie is very great movie to know just how terrible Nazi was during World War II. This is one of my favorite non-fiction movie. I was very moved the movie's main character , Schindler. He was also supporting Nazi for making own factory in the begining, however, he realized how Nazi was discriminating Jewish people and killing without reasons. Thus he requested Hitlar to play a card game to release Jewsih people from gas chamber. And because he won the game, he could save over 1100 Jewish people and their descendats could live on. In my English Literature class, my professor taold us that 2/3 Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust. Even today, many people are having conflicts and fighting for protecting individual religions. I don't know much about them and there are some religions that allows holy war to kill humans or not. However, I hope there will be no more people kill themselves to destroy other's lives anymore.

London got terrorism

2005-07-10T22:08:00.000-07:00

Hello, how are you doing? I feel terrible to know the terrorism in London, the UK.
I was so surprised that London got unknown attack after a day they celebrated their country where the next Olympic would held. As far as I know by watching Japanese News programs, there are more than 50 people had died by the attacks. At the same time, the total numbers of attacks had occured in 4 points of London city, and one of them might be a suisiding bomber(but it is not certain). I think that is so sad to hear even if it is far away from Japan. Because the attack, one or two terrorist groups announced to justify their actions and declare to fight against Italy, Japan and other ally countries of England and America. In my opinion, such taking away someone's life is not necessary for making the wolrd peaceful and better. If the terrorists were innocent, there would be a world that would make more wars and fightings to clean up every single human they opposed. That is destrucitng human's individual right absolutely. I cannot forgive the terrorists' nonsense attacks. And our prime ministers and presidents also declared that they will not stop fighting against such terrorism. However, I am little afraid to know what might happen next. Because of the frightened face of the leader of the UK, the threats of terrorists seems gaining their destructions more than ever. I still do not know what sould we do for having this serious issue yet.

BSE

2005-07-06T23:03:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? It is hot today!
I posted about BSE and blood donation last time. Today, I want to write about BSE problem in Japan. Mainly Japan had inported beef from the USA. The United States is the biggest trading partner for Japan. However, after we faced the problem of BSE in American beef, Japan stopped to import beef from America until American people accept the request from Japan. The request is that America should check every single cattle whether cattle has been infected by BSE or not like Japanese farmers do each time. However, the United States has denied the Japan's request and pushing Japan to resume trading very much. Because I think that the test takes a long time to check all of them in the United States. Thus America suggest that they do the test of BSE on only cattle living over 20 months. However, the problem is they find the BSE cattle which live under 20 months, from a baby cattle. Therefore, Japan has hesitated to restart the beef business relationship. Right now, Japan has imported beef from mainly Australia and selling Japanese beef too. There appears to have a limit of continueing that situation day after day. But I think we should not restart the trading relationship now. Because I am afraid to eat beef which may contain the BSE virus, unsafe thing and also half of Japanese disagree to restart it in a survey. I cannot believe one of the representative of America said that there is less posibility to get BSE meat than having car accidents in daily life. It does not make any sense to me and all Japanese people.

BSE and Blood Donation

2005-07-05T22:42:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you? I am little tired of studying for English Grammar Exam.
In my campus, there is a blood donor is coming from somewhere and having a blood donation campaign. And many Japanese students willingly to step into the wagon, and gave their blood for people who need them. I also wanted to take my blood and wished them to use it for good. However, I cannot do it. Because there is one rule: People are not allowed to offer their blood if they stayed in countries like the UK more than a day in the past. And well, I had visited to London to see Big Ben and Buckingham Palace when I was 8 or 9. They set the rule because medical officers do not want the blood which may contain the BSE. England is really famous for the problem of BSE . Actually, I had never eaten beaf while I was staying in that country. But it would not be any excuses for the blood donation rules. Besides, because of the rule, now doctors are concerning about stock of the blood. Even now, there are many hospitals that has a few amount of the stock of the blood because of the rule. I think that is very big problem for me and other Japanese people who had ever been to the UK or other European countries. I think doctors should research the blood and make sure it is safe to be offered. Because I heard one guy who had the blood with hepatitis B virus, actually offered his blood to the campaigns more than twice by changing his name, home adress, and age. He said he wanted to offer his blood for somehting good, Ummm. I think both nurse and doctor should be more careful.... I want to offer my blood just like my friends and others!!

Yasukuni Shrine

2005-06-10T23:14:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing? Now Japan is getting hotter.
I want to talk about visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visits to the Yasukuni Shrine which is against the Japanese law. In Japan, all Japanese people are allowed to decide either having a religion or not having at all, which means the rights of the individual. In fact, public employees cannot put religious mind to their works. So in this case, Mr. Koizumi had signed his name for not individual, but signed as Japanese Prime Minister, and that is the problem.
Many other Asian countries got mad at his visiting to the Yasukuni Shrine. Because these Asian people think that the Yasukuni Shrine is erecting for class-A war criminals who killed thousands of other Asians, and other dead Japanese people during World War II. Well, this is also a small misunderstanding. Actually, the Yasukuni Shrine is built for remebering every single person who died in World War II including of Americans, Chinese, Koreans, and other foreign people too. For realizing how bad war that was and how terrible to make such fatality by starting the war. So, Japan built this shrine to promise that Japan will not make another war, never again. Not for supporting class-A war criminals and Japanese imperialism. In addition, class-A war criminals are meaning of that they were just top commanders or generals in that war; so maybe other lower level soldiers killed more people than they did. It was just decided by their ranks as military officers at that time. I hope many people understand what the real reason for building this shrine and what Prime Minister Koizumi want to do. Even though it is against the law, I think (this is just my opinion) that Mr. Koizumi just want to emphasize every human soul should be equally respected after they died ( and Really bad one goes down to hell). One country (I forgot which, maybe Indonasia?) agrees Prime Minister Koizumi to visit to the Yasukuni shrine. Well however, I want to know how do other people think about his action, so please if you have some opinions about this, please share your ideas to everyone. Thank you

Fire vs Electricity

2005-06-03T02:17:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! I continue posting my blogs to share my ideas and questions in my mind to everyone.
This time, I just wonder which do you think valuable for human life, fire or electricity. I think the electricity is more valuable than fire. But I thought if there is no fire, how less developing countries' people can survive? They use fire to get warmth, light, and cooking meals without much costs. So, I think both are really useful things for human. If you are living in a city or town where has electicity, I think you can have many lights and feel like it all free for all people. (Some may not) And if you have your own cell, you can charge its battery by inserting a plug in an outlet. We need more electricity to use many available electronic instruments like I am using my computer right now at my home. I have never thought that I need a natural fire; which mean the fire put by building from wood sticks and leaves or papers. I light the gas to cook, but without the gas, I would be confused about putting fire for cooking or taking a bath. People in developed nations are now focusing to create more electricity by thermal power, hydroelectric, wind power, and nulcear power generations. However, it is not enough and good for human and earth. I think we should save times to use electricity for the future earth. Using a lot of electricity or energy is making earth lifetime shorter. Thus this blog has been typed after I wrote a rough draft by using pencil and paper. Then, I hope I could cut time to use this computer. I know it is difficult to save electricity for busy working people. But please think something creative ways to save energy, and let me know if you have good ideas! Thank you.

Strange green bronze statues

2005-06-03T01:35:00.000-07:00

Hello, how are you doing so far? I feel sleepy, because I had been dreming.
Then, I had a dream about when I was in Europe. I visited to France, Switzerland, and Italy with my family members. I saw many favorite spots in these countries. I watched arch of triumph in France, the ancient ruins of Rome, and beautiful mountains in Switzerland. I was so young that I felt strange about broze statues representing famous people or founders in each country. Every statue in these countries are turning to yellow-green or white. I could understand why it turns to white, because of many dove droppings. The birds love to sit down on human-liked shoulders. However, I had no idea why the bronze statues looked so awful and difficult to see those famous people's faces. Then, I remebered that I asked my father why. He answered me that is because of acid rain; the acid in rain would somehow turn them into rust or something. He did not know about chemistry well but I little bit understood what he was trying to say. I could see that those bronze people seems like taking a shower. Thus if it represents human's sorrow, it becomes more realistic and has well attitude by that signs of acid rain flow down. Even though ancient artists really had done great job for making such statues, I thought at that time, those are like trash. I could not understand the values of those things. I felt sorry for them now. In Japan, I can see some bronze statues in Japanese temples or shrines turn to whiter green now. Acid rain is very obviuos thing to teach us how much pollution the earth got so far. Thus, I am curious about how to stop acid rains. So, if you have some ideas, please teach me. I do not think creating new materials not to get rust by acid rains is a solution. Because I think, that is as same as ignoring the acid rains problems.

Crying animals

2005-05-25T21:52:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! how are you doing so far? Yesterday, I have talked with my friends about each of our private events. Then I told them I had had many pets in my past like gold fish, a turtle, crayfish, beetles, snails, and now I have a coly dog named Kiara (coming from Roman Sister, Chiara). Then one of them asked me "Why do you continue to have some pets? If you felt sorry for their death?" It was striking comment for me at that time. But after that, having pets is very good experience for me to understand the importance of living creatures' live. I learned we should respect other living creatures from bags to mammals. If I found a snail is just working through the street where cars going across, I become to pick up the snail and leave him onto a big leaf, even a fly in my room, I grab him gently and release him from window. Now, many people in Japan are throwing their pets away from their house, because of some reasons like that pets are getting too much bigger for living with them. I think that is very selfish and not good reason for their action. Some pets like alligators or tortoises would be damaging ecosystem and dangerous for human. Because visitors from America released black bass to Japanese lake, it spread all over the Japanese lakes and ponds by eaten up many spiecies of Japanese small fish. And I heard some people are illegally hunting endangered spiecies. Some kinds of people disgrace living creatures that cannot speak up for a help. I think that is very awful. Thus I believe that people should be careful to take care of their own pets at first.

Air pollution

2005-05-25T20:29:00.000-07:00

Hello, everyone! How are you doing today? By the way, I thank you all of you who replied my blogs so far. It is very nice of you, I appriciated that. Today, I will talk about air pollution. Have you ever known that California where I lived in 2000-03 is the worst state for air pollution(exhaust fumes) in the United States. The state is continued winning seems every year. My mother's friends always ask me "Is the sky of California having beautiful sky blue?". And I said "NO, if you watched the bottom of the sky, you can find gray colored sky". They tortally seems to desappoint from my that answer. they said there is a famous song about Californian sky but I am not sure of it. Anyway, I am living in Osaka, Japan now, and I found the similar gray line between sky and land of Japan. Then I thought "Oh, my god. The deep blue sky is turning to like Californian sky!" I have just wondered how the ancient earth's sky look like. I do not like air pollution problem because I hate something smell bad for example (exhaust fumes, cigarette, and dirty ponds?). Now, because of the air pollution, people have to face the global warming. Thus I want scientists to invent more ecological and cheap car for protecting environment. Solar car is good for reducing fumes, but it is still very expensive to buy for consumers. And let's do keep recycling in your house!

Water Pollution

2005-05-06T01:16:00.000-07:00

Hello, how was your vacation? I did visit to Douton-Bori and Ghi-on (Kyoto) this week.
And it was so interesting to look around. However, I thought there were something wrong... Then, I realized the river of Douton-Bori was so dirty. Kamo river was so-so. It reminds me about the water pollution problem in Sao Tome and Principe. Sao Tome and Principe is tiny little island settled in the South Africa, and I researched about it in my global issues class. I found in that country, there are water pollution problems occured by deforestation. If it rains, many small ponds will appear and many insects especially mosquitoes will rise up. And if human got a bit from the mosquitoes, people get malaria. And because of the less development of the system for purifying water, people will get cholera if they drunk it and three of them were dead by the disease three weeks ago. I had never known that there are many people suffering by water pullution problems in that country while I am living in Japan.
When I visited to Germany, I had to buy waters in supermarkets but not so bad to drink the water of sink (Caution! it is BAD to drink in Germany). I am not sure about this, but I thought watching clear ponds/rivers with small fishes are getting more rare in Japan. When I was a little kid, it is more beautiful and fun to look down my town's river; there are many fishes like carps, japanese killifishes, and crawfishes. For solving this problem, we should not throw garbages into a river, not pollute by using much amount of detergents, or focus on to use things to recycle/clean up the waters of bath and washers. And for countries like Sao Tome and Principe, I think we should support UNICEF by contributing money for buying clean waters, purification equipments, producing more vaccines to cure diseases from Japan.

How to make deforestation better?

2005-04-19T01:10:00.000-07:00

Hello, how are you doing lately? I knew that many people did not get what my question was in my last blog exactly, I am so sorry about it. I had just wanted to say that the Kyoto Protocol is really helpful to reduce the amounts of energy, or corbon dioxide even it will effect to the economical growth in each country and will it be able to continue with those countries like America. Anyway, today I want to talk about "deforestation". When I was in a fast food restaurant called M_d__ald's (you know where it is), I could see a lot of people use much table napkins more than they need. Those napkins are made from trees, I suppose. Because of the matter of deforestation, we have to face many issues like flooding for example. If humans kept cutting trees more and more, the place will be a desert, and then it will be a big flooding when it rains because there might be no trees to block. Moreover, the flooding would attack people's towns and citizens and destroy everything. I think we know that tremendous power of water after we watched the earthquakes in Sumatra on T.V. (In addition, the deforestation also cause the nitrogen cycle.)
Therefore, we should have better to make difference of deforestation immediately. Then, what can we do? Right now, all we can do is recycling papers, develop new things instead of using paper, and forest with other young plants by a contribution. Is there any we can do for stopping deforestation? If you have some, please share with me and others, thank you very much.

2005-04-17T01:31:00.000-07:00

Hello, how are you doing people? I am so far so good.
This time, I want to share my question about the meanings of Kyoto Protocol related to environmental pollution. (Kyoto Protocol is one diplomatic procedure to reduce the amount of exhaust gas or etc.) Well, I am from Japan. Therefore, I was actually very pleased when I heard that Japan has become one of represented country to establish Kyoto Protocol. However, Pres. Bush announced to drop off from this great global challenge. In addition, other countries especially EU has got so angry and Japan has been very confused for America’s action. Recently, U.S.A. has begun to think about Kyoto Protocol with Russia. I think that is good to hear, but is Kyoto Protocol having appropriated meaning to opposed countries?? I think that is still weak to collect everyone’s attention if I looked back the past process. I wish U.S.A. to consider how important to reduce the damages of environmental pollution and sign to the Kyoto Protocol. If you have an idea about my question, please reply to me. Thank you.

My goals for IES this semester

2005-04-11T18:01:00.000-07:00

Today, I want to state some of my goals for IES this semester.
First of all, I am really sick with my English grammar skills. And that is why
I had a very difficult time to spend my time for writing an essaylast semster.
Therefore, I need more study time to increase my knowledge about the English
Grammar skills. And second of all, I want to memorize more English vocab.
I still do not set my brain to get bland-new words. It is so hard for me to do.
However, I want to speak, wirte, and hear English more cleary and effectively.
For that reasons, I want to begin remebering new vocab. with my other IES classmates.
IES is very difficult and tough, however, I want to train myself with unfamiliar languages.
I sometimes have a problem with asking teachers to get some helps because
my English is poor. That is why I want to speak more cleary and talk as fast as other IES
classmates and English teachers if I set my goals in IES class this semester.
I know that is very difficult because I experienced last semester. So, my final goals is
not to fear to face the new things and not to back away from it no matter what.
I want to be more strong person to keep up with my friends.
Sometimes I maybe stressed very much, but if I could help other students, I want to help them
even I have in a trouble.

My first blog!

2005-04-11T17:42:00.000-07:00

Hello, this is my first blog. (^^)y