Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
A couple of wrens come to my backyard very often and sing there incessantly those days. The wren sings loudly for a tiny bird. In mid-summer, it looks smaller than what it does in winter.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Japanese noodles for dinner.
A picture of a double who was used to deceive the rival showed up on a website. The point to discern the false from the true is a look in its eyes.
My view on anger management for Japanese shall be told today.
The root of the testy nature of Japanese males has to be traced back to the medieval period. The development of "Bushido", that is, the Japanese chivalry began in the Kamakura period (1185 ~ 1333) and significantly matured by taking Confucianism and Zen into it during the Edo period (1603 ~ 1867). Bushido is the code of honor, ethics, and conduct of the military (samurai) class for both the obligation and the loyalty to its lord (daimyo). In the pre-Edo periods, an impractical argument was rather treated lightly in Japan. During times of peace lasting for about 260 years in the Edo period, Bushido was extremely ideated and widespread throughout the samurai classes. One of the most widely known analects dealing with the samurai spirits is "Hagakure", which was written by retainers of Saga-han in the middle of the Edo period.
Hagakure says that Bushido is a way of dying. It exhorts a samurai to kill himself for his lord "as a mental attitude" every morning. When an unexpected incident happens, a samurai has to step into the jaws of death "without revolving in its mind", according to the teaching of Hagakure. This is the doctrine of a craze for death, which teaches that the continual confrontation with death enables a samurai to purity their feelings for their lord and lord's clan by abandoning self-love and family-love. It's uncertain how seriously a typical samurai was obedient to the teaching of Hagakure those days. However, it's true that Hagakure had been introduced to the education of children since the middle of the Edo period through early in the Showa period. It's interesting that an element of totalitarianism can already be found in Bushido clearly. This wasn't imported.
Almost all of the people where in the East or in the West today can't accept such an extreme code of conduct. Indeed, after WWII, Hagakure was regarded with great aversion and passed into oblivion in Japan. Without being noticed by the Japanese of today, however, there still remain a lot of elements of Bushido handed down in the educational and social systems and the national and local customs in Japan from generation to generation. From the Meiji period until early in the Showa period, a Japanese had been educated to render devoted service to the country of Japan, instead of a domain. Post WWII, a Japanese has pledged allegiance to a company. The irritability of Japanese males is one of the elements. Although it can be said that no one is pleased to step into the jaws of death in modern Japan, the greater portion of Japanese tend to get angry rather easily. Compared to other Asian countries and Western countries, Japanese males still have a problem with anger management.
What the Japanese should understand is the hard fact that it's a "weakness", especially when they are active overseas. Japanese should also learn from the mistakes of the past. Both the indiscretion and the fidgetiness have to be overcome. A "calm" mind with "deliberation" in an emergency has to be developed while maintaining good old traditions of Bushido.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
During the Tokugawa regime (the Edo period), Japan was nearly closed to foreigners. The last days of the Tokugawa regime had gotten underway with the US's demand on Japan's opening widely to trade with the West as a turning point in the 1850s. During a transition period lasting for about 20 years followed by the Meiji period, some samurais acted suddenly and violently without prudence and discretion as Hagakure teaches and others acted while thinking seriously about the matter. As you can imagine, their acts often led to numerous bloodshed in those days. Fortunately, overall, the majorities in influential clans in southwestern Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku gave careful thought and chose the way to both the anti-Shogunate and the opening of Japan finally, and formed an alliance in order to reform Japan. That was the beginning of the modernization of Japan.
It's an ironic fact that the main purpose of the US's demand for Japan's opening to the outside world in the 1850s was the US's own conveniences of its commercial whaling. In the 18th and 19th centuries, many countries in Europe and America hunted whales excessively in order to obtain whale oil to light lamps in their cities and to produce soaps. In the view that whale oil was one of the major energy sources in the West those days, it isn't difficult to realize how aggressively Westerners hunted whales recklessly. In Japan, vegetable oil had been used for a lamplight until that time. A large decrease in the whale population was caused as a result of excessive hunting in those days. Some species of whales were nearly extinct and others were really extinct. However, the world demand for whale oil significantly declined with advancing the exploitation of both petroleum and natural gas resources in the late 19th century. Out of step with the current of the times, unfortunately, Japan had begun deep-sea whaling for food since the early 20th century. It's more ironic that Japan also embarked on out-of-date imperialism in the nearly same period of time.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Naturally, the establishment of a risky new business as a pioneer is always attended with serious difficulties. The entry of either a country or a company into an existing market later than the pioneers also entails considerable risks. Mostly, the pioneers try every means available to interrupt subsequent participants in order to monopolize the market. This is the main cause of both the WWI and the WWII.
Different from the case above, Japan's deep-sea whaling started rather smoothly without receiving any serious disturbance those days because many of the pioneers of deep-sea whaling had already withdrawn from it. This is because whaling wasn't profitable for many of the pioneers anymore for the reason of the discovery of petroleum mainly. In those days, the Norwegians and the British dominated whaling. However, in 1946, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established to regulate whaling internationally owing to concern over the extinction of many species of whale. Japan joined to IWC in 1951. As the campaigns to preserve the environment and to protect animals from extinction have risen since the late 1940s, the pressures from abroad on Japan to regulate whaling have gradually become strict. Since the mid-20th century, Japan and the Soviet Union have been two major whaling countries. The UN Conference on the Human Environment declared the moratorium on commercial whaling for the next 10 years in 1972 and IWC carried on it in 1982. In 1987, Japan once agreed to the ban on commercial whaling under pressure from the US. Japan still has waited for a chance to reopen its commercial whaling and continued to attempt deep-sea whaling on the pretext of research purposes while making the focus of vehement criticism internationally, especially from the countries in the West and Oceania for the last two decades.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a BBQ meal for dinner.
The following tells my guess about Westerner's feelings about whaling. Some academics in the West had cultivated the germ of the spirit of animal welfare in the long distant past and their thoughts had gradually spread internationally, mostly within the West. In terms of the preservation of whales, their effort bore fruit by establishing IWC in the late 1940s, and the UN ensured it by fixing a course of the ban on whaling for international public opinion in the 1970s. Thanks to its astounding largeness and gentle-looking eyes, the whale became one of the most favorite animals for the Westerners. It seems that the whale watching tours that have boomed since the 1980s decided its popularity. Indeed, acrobatic accomplishments help their possessor. The friendly personality of dolphins also helps both species.
Some Westerners know the fact that their ancestors hunted whales nearly to the point of extinction previously and others don't know it at all. With or without knowing it, the majority of Westerners currently like whales. Especially, female Westerners love whales. They simply dislike people who still continue to attempt whaling. Japanese understand Westerner's feelings about whaling to some extent, but they tend to underestimate the feeling. This is one of the problems of the Japanese. They shouldn't underestimate the power of the majority's feelings. In a real democratic society, the power of the majority's feeling is absolute. Although the government, the bureaucrats, and the major corporations in Japan can easily control the majority opinions of the Japanese, they are unable to control those in Western countries.
Some right-wing people in Western countries may have sympathized with the current situation in Japan regarding the whaling issue. Some of them, especially foreign livestock industries, may have encouraged Japan to continue whale hunting. Indeed, they want Japan to be a striking enemy of animal welfare societies forever in order to avoid burnt criticism by directing it at Japan. Some neighboring Asian countries of Japan may have also expressed their sympathy toward the current situation in Japan. They are happy to see that Japan has been missing the opportunities in the West. South Korea and Taiwan learned from Japan's past mistakes. Don't be a good example of how not to behave.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner.
Next, this section tells why the Japanese persist in whaling. In the postwar period, a Japanese has pledged allegiance to a company, as written four days ago. The story that a common Japanese has given top priority to a company over an individual and a family is still told with undiminished admiration, to my knowledge. Therefore, it's very serious for both the government and the economic organizations to protect any industry in Japan. Although commercial whaling is a typical has-been industry, Japan, which is a resource-poor country, cannot easily abandon whaling from the high seas.
The elementary and secondary education systems in Japan at the present time are designed to regiment students as the members of staff at companies. Japanese standardized in their childhood have gotten uniformly biased information from all the media. To my knowledge, in Japan, it's really hard to find any item in textbooks or any topic in news media supportive of the moratorium on whaling in my youth. One of their typical comments on the ban on whaling especially from the US is that it's unfair that the US forces Japan to stop whale hunting because America slaughters a lot of beef cows every day. In a sense, it's right. Indeed, animal welfare vegetarians and members of animal welfare organizations sometimes try to set a target at powerful livestock industries here. In the other sense, it's nonsense because beef is one of their staple foods in both the US and Japan. Whale meat isn't a staple food in Japan. A beef cow is a domestic animal but a whale isn't. If a person really wants to protect a domestic animal too, it should become a vegetarian. Then, there is a certain authority to what it says.
Viewed objectively, Japan had to quit whaling with good grace because it was unprofitable considering all the things above when IWC declared the ban on whaling in 1982. It cannot yet be said that Democracy has deep roots in Japanese society. The government, the bureaucrats, and the major corporations in Japan tend to underestimate the feelings of the majority because it's well controllable in Japan. Unfortunately, they are also insensible to the feelings of the majority in the West, which is out of their control. The important point is that Japan isn't necessary to be likable but it shouldn't be shunned.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Japanese noodles for dinner.
A tropical storm hit Texas today. It brought heavy rain to the central part of Texas.
Tracing the history of modern Japan, the decade of the 1980s was Japan's golden days but also its turning point in the postwar period. What a short period of time it was! There were many drawbacks becoming known in those days. The whaling issue is one of the causes of drawbacks. Some careless trades are also. The bubble economy that burst in the late 1980s is the biggest one.
Since the Meiji Restoration in the late 1860s, the modernization of Japan has progressed very rapidly. Although its defeat in WWII led to a serious reversal in the mid-20th century, Japan had bounced back from it for a relatively short period of time and its economy had continuously grown until the late 1980s. The economic activities that propelled the Japanese economy forward vigorously were mostly the manufacturing industries, as well known. The uniformity of both Japanese characteristics and regional economic regions, the excessively regimented societies, and the imitation of existing cultures, systems, and products followed by the remaking of them with typical of Japan enabled its rapid developments. Fortunately, the geographical position, the national isolation policy in the Edo period, and the regimented education system post-Meiji Restoration strengthened the uniformity of the Japanese. In a nation where there is uniformity in the member's character, a ruler can easily govern its nation and an administrator can easily manage its organization. The irrepressible passion fostered prior to modern Japan impelled it forward. Japanese people who think logically were picked out and appointed to posts in the manufacturing industries mainly. It isn't an exaggeration to say that the strict quality control of factory products is the fruit of their efforts that brought success to Japan.
In the late 1980s, the quality of Japanese products has reached the summit and Japan has taken its place among the ranks of major economic powers. At the peak of the bubble economy, many Japanese walked on air and misunderstood grossly that in terms of most fields of areas, Japan had already overtaken the West, without having any foundation. Because of a habit of copying, a slighting of higher education, and an unbalanced personnel structure in academic and economic activities, Japan still has been undergoing development in many fields.
A thinker who has a tendency to be fascinated by their own words may say that Japan should go back to what it used to be in the Meiji Restoration, as mental attitude, in order to reform Japan again. Obviously, modern Japan doesn't need any group of killers. Probably, so saying, he just encourages the Japanese to regain their old enthusiasm. However, it's really difficult for people in an economically developed country to regain full of enthusiastic motivation. On the contrary, the Ministry of Education in Japan chose the way to the so-called pressure-free education in the 1980s. It seems that a pressure-free education wasn't necessary. Instead, Japan had to attach great importance not only to natural science, medical science, technology, and other practical studies but also to other courses such as social science and human science at the institutions of higher education. Here, only attendance to classes, graduation from a university, or the obtainment of an academic degree isn't recommended. At this level, the education that stresses memorization isn't advised at all. People should try to set themselves the challenge of solving difficult problems at the right stage.
The unbalanced personnel structure in both academic and economic activities has already been somewhat corrected by enlisting the aid of mass media since the mid-1980s. However, it had to be carried out while restructuring the manufacturing industries. If the unbalanced personnel structure had been rectified by reducing the number of companies in a market down to an optimal gradually, Japan might have maintained its international competitiveness in product development and manufacturing at the level of its 1980s while supplying deliberate logical thinkers to the other areas. Indeed, there are still too many companies entering the market in Japan.
People who are incapable of thinking logically led to the bubble economy that busted in Japan in the late 1980s. The correction of the unbalanced personnel structure started in the same period by chance. Possibly, it will be some time before the solid improvement in the economy becomes apparent in Japan. Because of Japan's seniority system, it would take about 30 to 40 years. Counting from the late 1980s, a certain level of true improvement might be seen in the 2020s or 2030s.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese-style meal for dinner. The weather today was unstable, alternating between cloudiness and showers.
Firstly, what Japan has to do seems to be a fair self-evaluation. Japan should accurately know in which areas it has already reached the highest level and in which areas it lags behind. Japan should also know in which lagging areas it has to catch up to the West. Naturally, it isn't necessary for Japan to follow the West in every area. Secondly, the number of companies in a market should be optimized (reduced). Indeed, there are wasteful uses of time and energy there. Thirdly, as "an economically developed nation", the balance of foreign trade has to be corrected to some extent, and in the case of Japan, too protectiveness in trading has to be moderated. Japan may need to bring profits to its trading partners in other developed countries up to a certain point intentionally by importing more products and services from them. The excess unbalance of foreign trade in Japan for decades has made a nuisance of itself. In another way, a mild win-win situation has to be created and maintained in order to be a successful developed nation continuously. Seen from the medium- to long-term and wider perspective, it will bring more profit to a nation. This must be one of the basics of the business. Fourthly, any careless trade indifferent to international affairs has to be avoided even though it's very profitable, needless to say. This is a very serious matter. Especially recently, the exports of nuclear power stations and nuclear fuels have to be meticulously dealt with. International common sense ought to tell Japan that. Japan should avoid getting grilled by the West on such a trade. Fifthly, without lacking balance as a whole, people who can think logically should be assigned to fields other than science and technology, such as international economy, international politics, and so on. The talents of naturally gifted people, especially in invention and discovery, should be found and cultivated in the right place at the right stage. It's easier said than done really.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Although strict rote learning may be necessary in primary and secondary education to some degree, at the level of higher education the education that stresses memorization isn't recommended at all, as written two days ago. In modern society where the portable device that enables its user to access the websites wirelessly at a high speed and/or to look up a word comes into general use, indiscriminate learning by heart is more injurious than beneficial. People need to memorize only rough ideas of the subjects, and they can consult the dictionaries on either a portable device or a website at any time if necessary. A person who is good at only memorizing things can be substituted easily.
The following letter was sent to a real estate agent:
My real property cannot be sold at the price of $209,000.
The current listing price of my real property, which is $229,900, has already reflected the bad appearance of one of my neighbor's real properties, such as his broken fences and so on. However, a discount of x% off the price of my real property may be acceptable. It seems that about $xxxx is enough to redecorate some interior walls of a house.
There are some errors found in the section 2. "PROPERTY" of the document entitled "FAMILY RESIDENTIAL CONTRACT". The Lot and the Block of my real property are "13" and "A", respectively.
There is also an error found in the section 11. "SPECIAL PROVISIONS" of the same document. As told several times, the broken fence doesn't belong to my real property. Therefore, the repair of the fence isn't my responsibility. My expectation is that a buyer should remove all interior wallpaper retexture & paint to match other walls, as he or she would like.
You have already received the two pieces of evidence that prove who the possessor of the broken fence is. It's my understanding that you have already agreed to it. Why haven't you explained to either a possible buyer or a buyer's agent that the broken fence belongs to the real property, the address of which is 1xxx6 Twisted Briar Ln. Austin TX 78729?
Regards,
Yasuhito Shiho
Friday, September 10, 2010
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and pieces of Newman's Own pizza for dinner.
The following letter was also sent to a real estate agent:
Just to be on the safe side, let me add the information on the fence.
My wife looked back on the occurrences related to the troublesome fence that is located inside the yard of one of my neighbors by a distance of about "10 inches" from the borderline between his yard and my yard. According to my wife's diary, a large portion of the fence collapsed on a stormy day of year's end of 2005. My neighbor left the fence as it lay for about a week after it was fallen down. On 4 January 2006, my neighbor's wife told my wife that the fence was their property. She also told my wife that she would get her husband to remove parts of the broken fence lying over the borderline. The next day, my neighbor got parts of the fence out of the yards, as his wife promised. After a quiet while he cut a couple of remaining pillars down. He has never repaired his fences but he completed the work of destruction.
A chain of events above also tells that the broken fence belongs to the neighbor of mine who lives in the real property at the address of 1xxx6 Twisted Briar Ln. Austin TX 78729.
Regards,
Yasuhito Shiho
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate an American meal for dinner.
The following letter was also sent to a real estate agent:
Is there any feedback from Austin Realty Executives? It's my belief that you have already informed its buyer's agent that the broken fence belongs to the neighbor of mine who lives in the real property at the address of 1xxx6 Twisted Briar Ln. Austin TX 78729.
Regards,
Yasuhito Shiho
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Japanese noodles for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
The following letter will be sent to Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation tomorrow:
Dear President and Chief Executive Officer of Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation, Mr. Jim R. Gillespie,
The letter of complaint about the service of an agent of Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation is addressed to Mr. Jim R. Gillespie. This is the second time I have contacted you about some difficulties in the selling of my real property through Coldwell Banker (see the attached [1]). As well known, some cities in the US have the reputation of being exclusive and uncompetitive. Here, being overprotective toward people in a local community makes a city a difficult place for people from other places to live. This time, the troubles that both a local community and Asian pressure groups have brought me are the presentation of incorrect information about my real property to buyer's real estate agents and potential buyers, the ignorance of a mistake and its correction, and the neglect of duty, through your agent.
My real property has been put on the market with the assistance of Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation since May 2010. From the beginning, there has been a difference between your agent and me in view of the broken fence that belongs to one of my neighbors. The fence is built inside my neighbor's yard by a distance of about "10 inches" from the borderline between his yard and my yard. A large part of the fence of my neighbor collapsed in 2005 but it hasn't been repaired for about five years. The opinion of an agent of Coldwell Banker is that the fence belongs to me and the responsibility for its repair rests with me for some reason or other. The first problem is that an agent of Coldwell Banker insisted that the fence is partly my property. It's uncertain whether your agent really believed so or whether either a local community or Asian pressure groups got him to tell me so. Because of his explanation, most potential buyers mistakenly expect me to repair the fence of my neighbor before selling my property, unfortunately. This is really disadvantageous from the viewpoint of the trading of real estate.
A buyer's agent of another real estate company (Winkler Co.) visited my house for the seeing by his clients about one month ago. Fortunately for me, he asked your agent to provide me with the evidence that proves who the possessor of the broken fence is. Your agent asked me to send him the evidence. Your agent received one of the evidence about two weeks ago and the other about one week ago (see the attached [2]). Although your agent should agree to my opinion at this stage, he hasn't said anything about it. In the middle of last week, a potential buyer who visited my house for the seeing this Tuesday sent me the document entitled "FAMILY RESIDENTIAL CONTRACT" that claims the repair of the fence by the seller. This fact suggests that your agent still hasn't agreed that the broken fence doesn't belong to me and he still continues to present incorrect information about my real property to buyer's real estate agents and potential buyers. Although my letters of inquiry about this issue have been sent to your agent three times since then, he hasn't sent me any reply so far (see the attached [3] to [5]).
I would appreciate it if you could help your agent and me resolve these dealings.
Sincerely Yours,
Yasuhito Shiho
Monday, September 13, 2010
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Today, my view on international or interracial marriage shall be told. Because of my character keeping away from any complicated relations in my personal life, my spouse in marriage is originally from the same country as myself. My wife is Japanese (homemaker). A person who is working hard at a place of work with diverse cultures, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities may be in general agreement with my view. Another brimming with much vitality may be able to enjoy the complexities in both its workplace and home. In the world today, there should be various opinions on this matter. In most cases, in almost every nation, a nationalist tends to dislike international marriage. Mostly, a liberalist is tolerant of it. Indeed, this topic doesn't interest me so much.
The term "races of mankind" is sometimes confused with the term either "ethnic group" or "nation". It's apparent that there exist racial differences among people on the earth currently though the definition of the concept of race has become obscure scientifically. In the world today, there are some ethnically homogeneous nations. Some of these nations are also racially homogeneous to some degree. Genetically speaking, however, it can be said that all the people existing today are mixed in a broad sense. Even in a racially homogeneous nation, the mixing occurred long ago and has already become saturated. The object of concern about it in everyday conversation is mostly limited only to the recent intermarriages between the people. The topic above doesn't interest me because it's no fundamental issue.
Some people desire to make the world more homogenous than the present in terms of race and ethnicity, but others don't. With strengthening the homogeneity, people become less discriminative but more unindividual, as a whole. In this age of globalization, homogeneity will gradually advance in most parts of the world as if it were following the principle of increase in entropy, but it may not be in rest parts because mankind is intellectually quite complicated. Let it yield to the free will of the people and the trend of the times.
Monday, September 14, 2010
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
The Eppraisal price for my real estate recently rose from $245,559 up to $248,127 by 1.05%. This is probably due to the withdrawal of a real property with a low listing price in the same subdivision as mine from the market a couple of months ago.
The average Austin local, Texas state, and US national home values as of July 2010 are higher than those as of July 2009 by 5.3%, 0.3%, and 0.8%, respectively. However, the number of sales trending in Austin significantly dropped in July 2010, as written previously. Such a sharp decline cannot be seen in the numbers of sales in the US peculiarly. There's something suspicious about the data of Austin real estate.
Tuesday, September 15, 2010
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
For unknown reasons, some Japanese and their fellows in the US have an interest in my sort of woman officiously. After my marriage, that should be none of their business. Inexplicably, their fellows also don't like the fact that my nationality is Japan. This is probably because it's inconvenient to them for some reason.
People who sense that they are in adversity, that they are inferior, or that they are eager to obtain a thing have often approached me mostly in the 1990s. The modus operandi they have often used is that they claim that they are needed here in order to support me in a matter. For instance, an Asian female said that she was going to help me in terms of an arrangement of a marriage meeting, without letting me notice. To my knowledge, at least five other people have ever used the same way. They had to fabricate a story favorable to them and widespread it. Their made-up story sometimes includes wrong information about my features, nationality, and ethnicity. Indeed, such a fabrication made me unpleasant because it shook my identity.
Our love marriage was registered in Japan on December 28, 2001, and our marriage ceremony was performed in Hawaii on August 25, 2002. The above-mentioned people were always unhelpful to me because they only tried to help themselves and their fellows. Indeed, from the beginning, their help wasn't necessary for me at all.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
In the morning, a neighbor, at last, removed the troublesome fence placed inside his yard near the borderline five days after my wife requested him to do so by letter.
A recent opinion poll reconfirms the easiness of manipulating the masses in Japan. Some Europeans may still hold the mass of Japanese people in low repute in terms of their indifference to the political creeds and the easiness of dealing with them. However, the US government may have found a convenience in its easiness to handle and may have been trying to bring in some essences of mass media in order to improve its homeland security.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
The following letter was sent to the CEO of Freescale Semiconductor via email today:
Dear Chairman and CEO Mr. Rich Beyer, and
Sr. Vice President, Human Resources and Security Mr. Michel Cadieux
It's a gratifying thing for me to hear that Freescale Semiconductor has been named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute this year for the third straight year. The news on Freescale Semiconductor let me expect an improvement in the ethical conduct among employees, especially in the human resources and security departments and also motivated me to send this letter to Freescale Semiconductor.
In a state of disorder due to the rumor-irresistible management, the habit of ambiguous communication, the abuse of the majority's authority, and the internal personnel disputes over some positions during the first few years of the post-spin-off period, both the human resources and the security departments of Freescale Semiconductor caused me some outrageous troubles (see enclosed.). One of the troubles that they gave me those days was that both my undergraduate degree diploma and my master's degree diploma in science mine were taken from a drawer of my office at the Ed Bluestein site of Freescale Semiconductor Inc. in January 2006. These diplomas might still have been kept somewhere in Freescale Semiconductor or might be unfortunately discarded in bad faith. Certainly, nobody mistakenly considers that my diplomas aren't articles of value because they are kept in well-decorated covers and are large in size.
I am deeply solicitous for their return to me. With this letter, I strongly demand that either the human resources or security departments of Freescale Semiconductor have my diplomas reissued if my diplomas were shredded already. At least, Freescale Semiconductor must be liable for paying its effort, time, and cost to recover my diplomas. It seems that Freescale Semiconductor Japan can help act for them. This time, I expect a great deal of help from Freescale Semiconductor, as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies should.
Sincerely yours,
Yasuhito Shiho
Address: 12720 Twisted Briar Lane,
Austin, Texas 78729
Phone: 521-258-0020 (Home)
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a piece of pizza for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate an international meal for dinner.
The same letters as yesterday were also sent to both a CEO and a VP of HR of Freescale Semiconductor via the US postal service today.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a piece of rice balls for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for dinner.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Scattered rain started falling in the afternoon.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Recently, the weather in the evening has become unstable because of the advent of early autumn.
Smoking has never grown into a habit with me in my life. This is simply because tobacco smoke is stinky and toxic. My dead father had a serious distaste for it. My wife has never picked up the smoking habit, either. However, about half of our relatives in Japan take to smoking.
The former owner of my wife's car probably smoked tobacco in it. Fortunately, the smell of tobacco had been mostly gotten rid of with frequent applications of the deodorant spray to its interior. It seems that no small number of Americans still have been smoking though the percentage of Americans who smoke is lower than that of Japanese. Even now, tobacco is a legal product of the US for both domestic demand and export.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
"This is an interesting topic found in the BBC online news today". The following is my comment on it:
Hopefully, housing market activity will also improve soon.
The so-called nuclear umbrella may be a meaningful protection against a country with a rather minor military power possessing outdated nuclear weapons. However, the deterrent of being under the shade of the nuclear umbrella against a country with a great military power possessing advanced nuclear weapons, ICBMs, and nuclear submarines is doubtful. This is a matter of course.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
As both the Internet and wireless communication were coming into general use more widely globally, rumormongers have been increasingly given chances to slander their opponents and to operate the majority opinion behind the scenes relying on their favorite skills. Indeed, the circulating outrageous rumor about 9/11 that was clearly stated as much publicly at the UN General Assembly yesterday came to my ears several years ago. The US government has had a malicious rumor spread about terrorist attacks, coming from both the inside and the outside of the US, since September 2001. It seems that the main purpose to circulate such a rumor around is both the concealment of major causes and the evasion of responsibility by people who are truly responsible for the cause of 9/11.
The establishment of both the systems and the habits that have rigid resistance against rumormongers has become necessary more and more. However, any exaggerated abuse of either eavesdropping or spying in order to find out where the sources of rumors are shouldn't be required. A vicious cycle of ambiguous communication, rumor-irresistible management, and an excessively regulated society are undesirable anymore. In the worst-case scenario, a person who is incapable of communicating clearly without giving way to unrestrainable emotions and is in the habit of giving groundless rumor currencies gets a post in management in a rumor-irresistible and excessively regulated society. How annoying such a society is!
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a BBQ meal for dinner. Went out shopping at grocery stores this evening.
For the last eighteen days, the Japanese government has neglected to make any effort to appeal to international public opinion on a matter with China, excepting an indirect claim on territorial rights of islands in the East China Sea. Japan only recently started harmonizing its internal public opinion after a sign of flexibility began to appear in Japan's stance.
On the other side, concurrently with the UN General Assembly, China has tried a series of means available to evoke favorable responses in international public opinion, especially from Western countries. From the beginning of the incident, China might have gained support from some organizations in the West or Northern Asia, various interests of which are involved in the situations of energy resources in China, out of the public eye. Who in China has mainly been taking the initiative in these diplomatic efforts on this matter is uncertain. My wife said yesterday that some Westerners, like Sam, might have been helping the Chinese government in this diplomatic strategic conduct. She may be right.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for dinner. Looked after the front and backyards of my house this afternoon.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
Ten days have passed since my last letter was sent to Freescale Semiconductor via both email and the US postal service. In this period of time, Freescale Semiconductor should have already received my letters. So far, however, Freescale Semiconductor hasn't replied to my letter. Therefore, the letter demanding the return of my diplomas of science in the well-decorated covers was again sent to the CEO of Freescale Semiconductor via email.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a piece of rice ball for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
A number of award seekers in academic, business, entertainment, administrative, and political areas have ever been offending both my wife's and my lives for some reason or other. Their small-minded and nasty way of doing this is that they offer us mean help while hindering us consistently behind the scenes. It's our earnest wish that any award, reward, or position will never go to those award seekers and their descendants in their entire lifetimes, but only retributions for their sinful deeds should overtake all of them instead. Naturally, any support from us will never be afforded to people unfriendly to us.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Which initiative in the diplomatic policies should be taken by, a dictatorial politician, a small team of politicians, a team of the mixture of politicians and bureaucrats, or a general opinion of senior bureaucrats in ministries and agencies, is one of the remarkable differences among nations depending on their political systems. The decision-making system above is arranged in order of quickness and the top-down tendency. It seems that China has a more top-down style of decision-making than Japan has. Which system enables a nation to respond to an international affair more opportunely is obvious. Although the faster a nation "responds" the more successful it isn't always, the more intensively and promptly a nation makes a "decision" the more successful it is in a highly competitive world.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Got up at six o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of cereal and a side dish of salad for lunch, and a dish of Japanese noodles for dinner.
