Sunday, June 1, 2014
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 30.9 degrees C (87.6 degrees F) in the Okaya-Suwa district of Nagano prefecture, which is situated about 1000 meters above sea level. Tropical days will last in many cities of Japan until the rainy season begins.
The last gamble other than a lottery on which I placed a bet was horse racing. That was late in the autumn of 1995. Needless to say, my wife and I didn't gamble on the Japan Derby today. The TV programs showed that the racehorses galloped quite unconcerned in a fiercely hot atmosphere.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 31.7 degrees C (89.6 degrees F). It felt just like being in Texas.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
King Juan Carlos abdicated. Crown Prince Felipe will become the king of Spain.
Today's maximum temperature here is 30.1 degrees C (86.2 degrees F).
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
"Kidô" is the word that's found in the Record of Japan in the History of Wei. A direct translation of Kidô into English seems to be either the Preaching of Demon or the Path of Devil. According to the record by Chinese historians, Himiko, who was a queen of a kingdom of ancient Japan, Yamatai, used Kidô to hold sway over the minds of its people through various magical practices. Chinese historians in those days sensed something ominous in that way of administration.
The strangeness of the mass media of modern Japan may have its origin in the customary practices of ancient Japan. Probably, this interpretation is reading a bit too much into the matter.
It's a cloudy day. Today's maximum temperature here is 26.3 degrees C (79.3 degrees F).
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The reasons why the wiretappers have been following my wife and me have been very interesting to me. The nationalities of the people who have participated in eavesdropping on our conversations and encroaching on our right to privacy when we live in the US are Japanese, Indian, Korean, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Canadian, Russian, American, and so on. Many sorts of people originally from a variety of countries have taken part in the plot. Especially, Asians, Indians Hispanics, and African Americans have actually done something. Obviously, they wanted to listen to some sort of statements in my everyday conversations.
It seems that they listened to my communications only by wiretapping my international calls to Japan when I lived single in the US. Soon after our marriage, they began to eavesdrop on my conversations with my wife at home. Even now, they are still listening to our conversations. Indeed, when they started it is uncertain. It might be much earlier than the above-mentioned time frame. Today the topic concentrates on the issue of who they are. The people who have been challenging the capitalist system that American capitalists dominate are the answer to the question. More exactly, the old guards in the private sectors and other organizations of Asian countries including Japan and/or the socialistic public services and the religious peoples in some countries naturally including the US and Japan took active roles, probably for the purposes of collecting fragments of information, hammering down and broadcast sowing. Some influence on it by the Europe powers that have been exercised about the values and the powers of the US capitalists can't be denied.
The Meteorological Agency of Japan announced today that the rainy season here has begun.
Friday, June 6, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's topic will deal with why they did. To put it briefly, they did this because they wanted something and they wanted to get extra benefits by supporting others. As far as I could guess, they wanted to gain information for in-company use. Before I started having a suspicion that somebody was listening to our conversation, I sometimes had some time at home to prepare the presentation for the next day's meeting. If people outside the company were really listening to my practices on the presentations in English at home, they may have gained some of the company secrets unfortunately though there's no proof. More weirdly, we observed a few evidences of their trespassing on our previous house one day in 2006. Nowadays, the avoidance of working at home is one of the surest ways to protect a company's business secrets. The use of a modern wearable tool like new Google glasses may help omit the practice of the presentation.
Not only the old guards in some Asian and Latin countries but also the human rights groups tend to rely on the seniority system in order to protect their seniors from a promising figure. There are a number of their usual measures, as explained in the diary previously. The following is one of their usual measures. The old guards ask some people in a cooperative human rights group to cause a rising figure some trouble. Usually, they just wait for an outcome that they expect. If they are unable to gain any expected result, then they attempt craftily to find a fault with the behaviors and the conversation of a figure even by eavesdropping on his or her conversations over the telephone, at the office, and at home. Even if they can't find any of the words that they expect in his or her conversation, they force a responsibility for what a conversation partner speaks onto him or her.
It's difficult to defend yourself against this sort of faultfinding. When you feel that everything is going well but some questionable people have started to bother you, you have to be very careful. Needless to say, I have never hurt anyone emotionally by using any racist word in any conversation in person after I arrived at manhood decades ago.
There were heavy rains in many cities of Japan yesterday and today.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Western meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Japan is a country where the ninjas and the private detectives have taken some lively parts in the espionage activities until the present time. In modern times, their activities are regarded as either a necessary or a necessary evil, as far as they work for an organization to investigate the individuals, and each organization keeps a tacit understanding that domestic spying among private organizations is taboo. Here, the right to privacy is treated a matter lightly. Therefore, it isn't surprising that somebody is still eavesdropping on our conversations in Japan.
Different from the sense of values in Japan, any infringement of personal privacy by either a private citizen or a private enterprise shouldn't be allowed in the US. There is no doubt that it was a criminal act, early in the 2000s and earlier. What kind of people were able to eavesdrop on my wife and me in Austin Texas for quite a long period of time while avoiding being reproached by some public organizations there is very curious. Such illegal listening in our conversations at home by foreigners such as Japanese shouldn't be an easy task there. What it comes down to is that Japanese or other people originally from abroad may have been able to listen to our conversations at home with the permission of the state officers of Texas. That's really disgusting. This may be one of the reasons why some coworkers intimated to me those days that not a small number of unfavorable rumors about my wife and me had been going around. They spread a number of rumors about my wife and me in order to gain permission to listen to our conversations over the telephone and at home. A series of the reductions in workforce since the late 1990s had invited negative emotions from the local people toward the company. The protection of some of the old Asians and Americans who belonged to or rendered some services to the old guards or the labor unions might also be another reason.
Most of these aspects clearly induce me to believe that some sort of Japanese had taken the major roles in those wiretapping activities. Now, it isn't so difficult to identify who they are. Without obtaining cooperation from some politicians or government officials of Japan, none of the private enterprises could do that. Someone who is neither a politician nor a bureaucrat but has some powerful contacts with the US politicians influential in those matters in that city might be able to do so.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Previously, some of my coworkers intimated to me that a number of unfavorable rumors about me had been going around. Strangely enough, some of those rumors about me at that time had some resemblances to either the actual occurrences in my relatives' and other acquaintances' lives that I knew, or uncertain rumors about them that I heard by word of mouth before that time. There were also some curious similarities between another rumor about me and the episodes that I encountered in the novels, TV dramas, and movies. Such malicious rumor spreading can be categorized as cheating relying on ambiguous ways of communicating. Probably, the old guards or their servants conducted based on their unique sophistries. I have sometimes felt that they would embarrassingly like to make the fabricated stories realized hereafter. There's a reason why they spread such fabricated rumors about me, other than the acquisition of permission to wiretap our conversations.
Not only by luring my relatives and acquaintances to mine the negative emotions such as jealousy, jaundice, covetous and reprisal intensified by the psychology of the crowd but also by taking advantage of their non-negative natures such as local patriotism, maternal affection, and competitive spirit, the old guards have guided them to participate in obstructing my business those days. The proverb that the stake that sticks out will be hammered down tells the other reason simply. In conclusion, the old guards may say that they are respectable because they don't commit such ugly bashings within their societies.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
For the purposes of the convenience of the old guards, the assistance for the women's liberationists, the evasion of responsibilities by the person in charge, and the inroad into the Asian markets, some American organizations have gradually introduced the systems to make decisions while avoiding using the clear ways of communications and also avoiding arranging for the open and fixed procedures. To my knowledge, in most cases, the performances of the organizations that have adopted this sort of decision-making method should have declined rather quickly. The intemperate spread of this system in many organizations in the US may have been one of the factors that caused the recent worldwide economic slump, though it shouldn't be a primary one,
To be honest, I still don't know both the history and the origin of such a way of management. Nowadays the old guards and the socialistic labor unions may form an alliance if it brings results to their mutual benefit. It seems that people belonging to either side have been taking advantage of their opponent's weak point in the lack of the necessary information. After I moved to Austin, Texas in 1997, I had been nearly free from that disagreeable custom for a few years. However, that came after me, probably from the Asian countries including Japan. At that point, for the first time, I started wondering what was going on. Since then, I have come to realize gradually that something unfair has continued and that some of the people around me knew the fact that I wasn't informed of the necessary information for it at all and others didn't know the fact.
About a few years ago, a former Japanese professor was kind enough to answer the question of why I have been unable to get even the minimum necessary information about it. A former professor wrote in the reply to my wife's email that the Japanese have a strong tendency to conceal from a person the information that is supposed to be given to him or her according to the rule if he or she is promising but doesn't belong to their cliques. The stake that sticks out will get hammered down. It's a traditional Japanese behavior.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
There is only a slight probability that one can win a game if one doesn't know its rules. If the rules of the game are changing according to the convenience of a competitor or others, one's prospects of being successful are very slim. There is no hope to win if one doesn't even know whether the game is now going on or not. What an absolutely despicable manner this is!
A mild thunderstorm passed over here tonight.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A politician must establish the timetable for the commitments, and whether or not to disclose it. It goes without saying that the timetable has to be reasonable and achievable.
It's a fine day.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 27.7 degrees C (81.9 degrees F).
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Like the World Cup matches in the late half of the 1980s, the star soccer players have been making spectacular showings in this World Cup. It's hoped that the unscripted and unbiased dramas on the soccer grounds will do people's hearts good.
A former famous German striker is now given responsibility for coaching the US soccer team. The Texas Mauler of the US team won a goal, like a shot with the S & W M-29, in its first match of this World Cup. This rather unique combination may be reflecting the recent events of the US Department of Defense. The Vice-President of the US supported its team while having a seat at a stadium in Brazil today. The US President announced that the US was going to dispatch a few hundred of its troops to Iraq soon, in order to adjust to religious and political conflicts and to maintain the continued flow of oil there. It's rather strange that one of the US carriers has already taken its route to Iraq a few days before the announcement.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The following is my opinion on the question of whether any means of transportation will be substitutable for aircraft in the future. For the intercontinental travel, no means of transportation can be substitutable. For most routes of domestic and intracontinental travel and transportation and the limited routes of intercontinental transportation, trains, and automobiles continue to be principal. For luxury travel and the low-cost transportation of goods, ships are still valuable.
Emissions of carbon into the atmosphere have to be controlled down below a level that won't lead to serious climate change. The use of non-fossil liquid fuel such as bio-fuel, which emits a lower amount of carbon than conventional jet fuel, liquid hydrogen, and mixing liquid hydrogen & oxygen, which emits none of the carbon, should be possible. The electrification of aircraft isn't impossible but the practical implementation of the advanced electric aircraft will take a long time.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
There exist some exceptional districts in the world. It's to be desired that any plane flight at low to middle altitude over these districts is regarded as very hazardous and should be very strictly prohibited in the future. In order to prevent such flights from occurring, it goes without saying that the Aeronautics Laws are stricter than the existing laws need to be well promulgated and understood, and the security checks should continue to be controlled tightly at the airports as usual. It's best that any disaster should be obviated before it happens.
An aircraft that is approaching any of these districts must be given stern warnings. When an aircraft still continues to approach these districts following several stages of the warnings, it may be shot down as a last resort by military forces using a laser weapon or other accurate technologies without exposing anything in these districts to danger, unfortunately. Such intercept systems should be permanently deployed near the borders of each district. Therefore, the number of these districts specially guarded by the government in a nation should be limited in order to minimize the increase in the extra costs. These specially guarded districts have to be located far away from the urban districts and the currently congested airways in order to minimize the possibility of inadvertent entrance into airspace over these districts.
Anyway, the above-mentioned is about the forecast for the future. However, it isn't about far in the future.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner. It's a rainy day.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Often encounter inappropriate explanations mixing up the superstition, the hypothesis, the established theory, and the truth of the theories on TV programs in Japan. Whether it's intentional or not, a hypothesis is frequently confused with a truth. It's doubtful whether they really comprehend the certainty of an established theory or not. The cause of failing to distinguish them may be attributed, in part, to laying disproportionate emphasis on a quiz format, a multiple-choice test, and rote memorization. For the evaluation in secondary educations and lower, which deal with the established facts and the verified theories in most parts, this tendency may be acceptable. For higher education, however, it isn't. In the present time, when other Asian countries are rapidly growing and trying to catch up with Japan, it should be a matter of regret.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
This morning, my wife saw two women standing and chatting in the neighborhood of the residence where we currently live. I have never met them. What my wife told me later on made me have a suspicion. The partners in the US whom the Asian old guards asked to eavesdrop on our conversations at home and over the telephone in Austin Texas more than ten years ago may still be cooperative with the Asian old guards in conducting in the same way as before. Unlike the rumors about us they fabricated in the US before, the Asian old guards may impose on us the reason why they are still eavesdropping on us by fabricating the other version of rumors about us in order to justify themselves for their spying acts.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
The latest quarterly pamphlet by a Nagano prefecture office that contained an article warning against a classic crafty way of swindling was delivered to us very early in the morning. On purpose or by accident, over the telephone, a woman talked about a similar import to what's explained in the pamphlet.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Recently, Hewlett-Packard announced the vision for its future System on a Chip (SoC) technology that is called 'the Machine', utilizing the photonic devices to make the connections between the system core and the memory banks through the integrated optical fibers for the purpose of high-speed and very low-power communications of mass data inside an SoC. According to its website, none of the photonic devices is used for the logical operations inside the system core. What material the photonic device is made from, either the silicon or the compound semiconductor such as GaAs, InP, etc. seems to be unreported there. Its website also shows that a sort of so-called universal memory device substituting for all the SRAM, DARM, and Flash Memory is used in order to achieve high memory density and low power consumption.
The semiconductor industry may be able to make remarkable progress in the practical implementation of the photonic device faster than expected. When 'the Machine' is released by the late 2010s, the next phase may be the replacement of the copper wirings on the SoC entirely, including those on the system cores, by the optical fibers. As written previously, because of the scalability of the photonic device, which is more difficult than that of the MOSFET, it will take a rather long time to reach the mainstream stage of the practical application of fully photonic integrated circuits.
(Retouch on July 17, 2017: The conversion efficiencies of the photonic devices on the integrated circuit are insufficient, the energy losses from converting electricity into light and vice versa at a high frequency lead to a bottleneck in terms of its energy efficiency. To be honest, I don't know how Hewlett-Packard achieved very low-power communications of mass data inside its SoC prototype.)
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Probably, an owner of the house next door where nobody currently lives put up several posters on a pole equipped with electric lighting and a hedge around, saying, "Don't toss away tobacco and other garbage in the neighborhood." It's agreeable since there might be a slim possibility that the careless dropping of cigarette butts starts a fire.
In the US about ten years ago, some Taiwanese, Vietnamese, African, American, and Japanese tried to impose their opinion on me that I smoked or used to smoke tobacco habitually, for some reason or other. Politics in the US and Asian countries may have been involved. As written previously, my wife and I have never used tobacco habitually though our unconscious inhalation of a small amount of sidestream smoke from the others' tobacco can't be denied. This is simply because I don't like the smell of tobacco.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The division of roles between the US companies and Japanese companies in the semiconductor industry has been on its way out since the remarkable rise of the foundries in Asia. Prior to then, Japanese companies took the leading roles in the development and supply of the DRAM in the 1980s and earlier. The rapid increase in the demand for Flash memory has led to intense price and performance competition among Asian countries since the late 1990s. The growth of the foundries in this industry was guided by not only the US and European companies but also even Japanese companies creating a strong momentum to transfer the technologies concerning the manufacturing of many types of integrated circuits and memories to a few growing Asian countries in the 2000s. At that stage, the division of roles became nearly meaningless.
Last week, Hewlett-Packard announced the vision for its future SoC technology 'the Machine'. All the components necessary for a system are integrated on a chip. If this is the future mainstream of semiconductor chips, the obsolete division of roles will completely disintegrate.
