Monday, September 1, 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.
It isn't necessary for everyone to seek perfect personal beauty. However, personal appearances are always important in public. Indeed, this is the easiest way to improve their appearance.
Tuesday, September 2, 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.
In art, there are some styles to make the works of art impressive by intentionally putting shape and/or arrangement off balance, shaking off convention of melody and/or harmony, emphasizing line, color, tone, and/or texture, conducting simplification and/or adding dissonance. These styles require a highly developed sense of art. Usually, some artists trail in such styles after they solidify the foundation for their fields of art.
In the same manner, people who have a highly developed sense of fashion may be able to make a stubbly beard, untidy clothes or eccentric dress look nice on them. Actually, it isn't easy to know how to dress in this way without spoiling the stylishness. Before trying to enter the variational state of fashion, it seems to me that people need to acquire the manner of wearing clothes to keep them neat, which is a necessary condition.
Wednesday, September 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.
Casual clothes may be compared to the pops. Both the pops and casual wear are really diverse. It seems that the above-cited tendency may be applicable even to the comparison between pops and casual wear.
Thursday, September 4, 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.
The people on the executive ladder in an organization who may be assigned to the responsibilities to revise the manuals need to have an adequate amount and a suitable variety of on-the-job experience there or in a similar environment in order to foster their proper judgments for this task. There are many ways to listen to what on-site co-workers in an organization have to say currently and to reflect them in the revision of the manuals.
Friday, September 5, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Western meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Recently it has turned into a seesaw battle between two industries or more in Japan and the US for the investment funds or something else, which may be supposed to pour into the industries related to science and technology. One of the major industry groups in the present conflict may be the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and the other may be the casino and the hotel industry. The former industry group has a tendency to use the threat as a negotiating chip by enlisting the aid of some public health organizations, and the latter industry group has a tendency to lead into temptations by enlisting the aid of some entertainment- and sports-minded types.
It seems to me that backers for the latter industry group asked someone to leave two messages in my voicemail this afternoon. These messages under the pretense of a wrong number were about the unknown trading on the recent stock market. Backers may want to impose their opinion upon me, by relying on the same way as before. Actually, backers for the former industry group tried to impose in the same way about a few months ago. As written previously, this is one of the usual unscrupulous measures of a sort of Japanese to impose their convenient opinion.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Sunday, September 7, 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.
Monday, September 8, 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.
In my middle teens and younger I often enjoyed watching TV in Japan, as many people do. Reading books drew my attention more than TV did in my late teens and twenties. Partly for learning informal English listening and partly for pleasure I often went to movie theaters in the US in my thirties and forties.
After a long interval, present TV programs in Japan give me a different impression from what those gave me during my childhood. The TV programs that are produced by Japanese commercial TV stations nowadays are clamorous, euphoric, and rather maniac. It looks as if the special TV programs designed for the New Year's holidays are on the air every day.
Tuesday, September 9, 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 important thing isn't whether one is senior or junior but whether one is capable or incapable. Any hindrance to either a proficient senior or a talented junior for the purpose of convenience of some factions is inconsistent with reason.
Wednesday, September 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.
A crime syndicate is an organization that resorts to violence to obtain profits as their usual measure. In political history, there have been a number of political activists and politicians who have fallen so low as to use the same measures as the gangster organizations have used, that is, terrorism. Sometimes, they asked the gangster organizations to carry out terrorism by proxy.
There are many types of terrorism, such as the reign of terror, government-sponsored terrorism, capitalist-sponsored terrorism, antigovernment terrorism, far-right-wing terrorism, far-left-wing terrorism, religious extremist terrorism, and so on. Unfortunately, the recent tendency of terrorism is the growth in violence on a massive scale involving many civilian casualties.
Thursday, September 11, 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.
The coordinated simultaneous attack against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US in 2001, which is known as 9/11, is the deadliest act of terrorism in recent times that has gotten public recognition as so. The 9/11 attack claimed the lives of about twenty-eight hundred victims including many civilians. The recent tendency of terrorism isn't only the growth in the number of casualties but also in the ratio of civilians among casualties.
Not only in war but also in any political incidents, the number of civilian casualties has to be minimized. It's an absolute truth that a world where people have no war, no terrorism, and no crime is ideal, but the realization of it is nearly impossible. In the course of time, a world with no war may become a reality, though it will take a long time and even there the acts of terrorism and other criminal acts will still survive probably.
Friday, September 12, 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.
A recently growing craze of terrorism for claiming the lives of a greater number of civilian casualties has to be calmed down. Most people in the countries in Europe and America tend to regard the terrorist organization as a criminal syndicate. On the other hand, the terrorists may be armed with the ideology that their organization should be considered to be like a religious state. Perhaps, they think that it's the war so they don't mind committing acts of terrorism involving many civilian casualties from hostile countries, in retaliation for the past wars involving no small number of civilian casualties from their countries, neighboring countries, or religion.
According to the wisdom accepted by more than a few people, the extremism and the exclusionism in the nationalistic spirit and religious mind and the existence of the conflicting interests between them are mostly responsible for the recent retaliatory terrorism. Although some extreme idealists might blame the idea of a nation or a religion itself, it seems that such an attempt won't guide people on the right path. Running into isolationism feigning ignorance about the interests may be somewhat reasonable for some limited countries for a while, but they never yet kept at it for long because of some unavoidable reasons, especially in modern times. The essential things are how extremism can be moderated, how exclusionism can be denied, how the national borders can be lowered to the level of the state or prefecture borders for mutual interests, and how the world's policemen on neutral ground that all the world's countries or at least a large majority of them will ratify and participate in can be established in the future. In other words, the unnecessary conflicts in the situation without the world's authorized police force have to be taken care of constructively. When the movement toward this direction gathers momentum in the future, the world's grave situations will be remedied to some extent. I believe that I've already described them briefly in my diary previously.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta followed by an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, September 14, 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.
Monday, September 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 for dinner.
As written a few days ago, it's nearly impossible to actualize a world where people have no criminal acts including terrorism. Therefore, the police who armed themselves to control the criminals are always necessary. Giving some consideration to the question of whether it's really impossible or not may be rather interesting. Some of the curious ideas that might help move it forward to some degree may be identified. In most cases, however, such ideas may have already been advocated somewhere previously and regarded as being fit for science fiction stories.
Tuesday, September 16, 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.
It seems to me that these ideas can be grouped into three classes. The first class is the thoroughness of police administration, the second is the enforcement of improved upbringing, and the third is the obligation of specialized medical treatment. These classes are arranged in order of more feasibility and less efficiency. Firstly, the improvement of police administration including both the external and internal investigations should help reduce the number of criminal acts, though their exceeding of reasonable limits should cause unpleasant negative effects on various parts of civic lives and human rights. Therefore, the importance of an internal investigation into official misconduct will grow with enhancing police administration, in order to avoid the repetition of past mistakes. If this idea is driven to extremes, society may have the notorious political police, which appeared a number of times in world history.
Secondarily, a drastic reform to take care of the feebleness of home education for the disciplining of students by their parents, for instance by introducing a mandatory system requiring all the students to live in school dormitories on weekdays when they are in elementary and junior high schools in order to manage their acquired characteristics at the earlier stage. Students are allowed to stay at home with their parents only at the weekend. The advantageous side effects of this idea are the convenience of the two-income household, the reduction in both the number of school commuting times and the danger during commuting, and the increase in students' free time. Although it's conceivable that this idea may help reduce the number of potential criminals at the early stage when an upbringing is well considerate of students, liberal and individualistic parents probably dislike the idea, which would be unavoidably attended by some harmful influences, such as the possible lack of individuality, the undesirable leveling-off of students' potentials, the weakening of parent-child bonds and so on. These negative aspects may be somewhat compensated for by figuring out a good way to discipline them. Indeed, not only liberal parents but also parents in the establishments may disagree with this idea because one of the factors of their predominance might be undermined. The idea similar to this is probably found in an SF novel with a satirical angle on an excessively regulated society.
The third idea is to make harmless the inherent characteristics that show a marked tendency toward serious crimes, with the use of genetic manipulation before people are born. This may not be possible for now but will be in the near future. It sounds as if this idea were just like an SF novel, but it's true that this idea is more effective than the other two ideas because it roots out the main causes of the crimes without relying on any education and any punitive sanction. However, there are some problems in distinguishing between the genetic information related to potential intellectual criminals and that related to the abundance of liberal and logical ways of thinking, which is necessary for higher education in most academic areas, and between the genetic information related to the potential violent criminals and that related to strength in the passions, which is necessary for arts and sports. After all, the pursuit of this direction may guide people to the preposterous world of mediocrity. If the characteristic mental orientations that lead people not to be antisocial and destructive but to be creative and constructive are innate substantially and the genetic information related to them might be identified someday, the treatment on it could bring a revolutionary change. However, it seems to me that this characteristic isn't the result of a predisposition in essence. Anyway, some ethics and moral committees should raise an objection to it, as a matter of course.
The first idea may be somewhat agreeable and practical among these three as far as it's kept moderate. However, the second idea isn't probably so though it may improve public order effectively and bring some additional advantages. Many people should disagree with the third idea even if it may become available soon and improve public order significantly. This is why it's 'nearly' impossible to actualize a world where people will never be annoyed by any criminal act including terrorism, unfortunately. Overall, though a world without any war is certainly a possible future, a world without any crime is probably not. Therefore, the world needs the world's policemen and the local policemen continuously.
Wednesday, September 17, 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 trend to make the information terminals for general users lighter is continuing. Recent developments of some sort (e.g. watch, glasses, etc.) of the small wearable device enable the users to access some functions of a main device with a thinner body and a larger display (e.g. phone, tablet, notebook, etc.) without directly operating it while keeping it inside either a pocket or a bag. The necessity for both lower power consumption of electronic parts and higher capacity of battery is as strong as ever.
For heavy users of photographing and video shooting, some information terminals specialized for these purposes have been appearing on the market recently. It still seems to take a long time to develop an information terminal that has a highly functional simultaneous interpretation.
Thursday, September 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.
There is no reason to stop pursuing the truth of natural science even though the scientific ascertainment of it by experimentation isn't possible at the present moment.
Mathematics is basically the study of the abstract concepts dealing with numbers, quantities, and geometries, which has been formalized with being mutually complementary to logic, has grown in developing analysis, statistics, set theory, topology, etc., and has been applied to the research of natural sciences as the language of science, the development of technologies and the analysis of economy. In mathematics, what's studied is not necessarily a physical truth but maybe just an abstract concept. The established theories in philosophy, logic, mathematics, and other logical fields may have been proven to describe the logical truths previously, but there is no guarantee that all of them accurately describe the matters of our real world. Some of them should be unnatural.
Although it can't be ascertained by experimentation for now, the effort to come up with a new theory shouldn't be given up. As long as the researchers understand the essence of science that they are studying and the fundamental difficulty of it that they are facing, such an effort in physics shouldn't be regarded as so futile, compared to those in philosophy, logic, and mathematics. The continuous efforts seeking novel methods that enable us to ascertain the proposed theories that can't be currently ascertained may be more precious than the pursuit of the physical truth itself though the answer to it would never be known with certainty. In every respect, there is no reason to be hasty for such sublime pursuits.
Friday, September 19, 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.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese one-pot meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Sunday, September 21, 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 following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
In many principal cities of the world yesterday, a lot of people gathered in order to denounce the indifference to the earth's climate change. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets of New York City concurrently with this UN climate summit. The growing number of protesters reflects how seriously people are thinking that recent changes in the earth's climate are unusual. What a large majority of the protesters on the streets are currently blaming for climate change and on the basis of what they are looking for the climate to return to normal or not to become worse than it's now is rather interesting.
Tuesday, September 23, 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 bombings by the US on ISIS extremist militants in Iraq intensified and expanded into Syria today after gaining support from several Arab countries as if a well-armed Texan had subjugated the White House successfully. The F-22 fighter jet Raptor was first used in battle, according to the news on some websites. Indeed, there is no mission in the air of the Middle East appropriate for the F-22, which was developed to be the most powerful stealth dogfighter in the period of the 1980s to 1990s.
Wednesday, September 24, 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 things that catch the public eye happen to attract the malice of evil people who either dislike strongly or on the contrary like devotedly them unexpectedly. Villainous mind strategists arouse feelings of enmity against an outstanding thing in a crowd of people. Especially in Asian countries, the greatest care should be taken in dealing with the trend of the public ill will.
Thursday, September 25, 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 recent revival of a hippies boomlet brought some misfortunes such as the increases in both the drug trades and the serious crimes related to the use of drugs. According to common knowledge, the use of some kinds of drugs can make an ordinary person hallucinate, develop their brutality, or drive them totally crazy. Frequent occurrences of grotesque murder cases these days are suggestive of the correlation between these cases and drug use. It goes without saying that the use of such psychedelic drugs doesn't give a person any insight into the truth.
The introduction of pressure-free education that avoids squeezing young children into the established pattern and ideas, the insufficient respect for the importance of a code of mass media ethics for children, and the popularization of the Internet and social media may have helped prevent from checking the growth of their ability in liberated thinking to some degree but have provoked the rise in the number of criminals as a side effect of it. It's my belief that a liberated way of thinking is necessary for higher university education in most academic areas. Although the potential of young children in terms of liberated thinking shouldn't be suppressed and ruined with a very strictly regimented education, moderate strictness in discipline is necessary, especially in their childhood.
Friday, September 26, 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 region where a species of black widow spider was migrated from Oceania by freight vessel in recent years is gradually expanding in Japan, according to the recent news. So far, I have never encountered a black widow in both the US and Japan. Here, a vespa, which is a match for a black widow when it comes to harmfulness and can be more dangerous when it appears as a cluster, often makes its appearance. It's fairly big.
Saturday, September 27, 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.
An active volcano in Nagano prefecture began bursting into eruption around noon today. So far, volcanic ash from the eruption of Mt. Ontake hasn't blown down from the mountain.
A volcano erupted in the prefecture I live today. According to the news sources, the earthquakes frequently shake the cities of Japan these days. Fortunately, however, I have never felt any earthquake in both the US and Japan for about two decades.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, September 29, 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. There is no recognizable accumulation of volcanic ash here. Because of the direction of the wind, it's being scattered to the south probably.
The result of the analyses of Japan's economy since the first stage of the increase in the rate of consumption tax from 5% up to 8% was made at the beginning of this second quarter seems to suggest that the time isn't ripe for the second stage from 8% up to 10%. The increase in the rate of consumption tax in two stages up to 10% following 8% makes just a negative impact on its domestic consumption for a longer period of time than that in one stage from 5% up to 10%. Indeed, the previous government party should have taken charge of increasing the rate of consumption tax.
Tuesday, September 30, 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 for dinner.
From a government official point of view, especially in countries, with administrations in which bureaucrats play the predominant role, the promotion of democratization is fearful. Democracy is fearful for them because it's the system of administering the government of a country or other organizations that entrusts the choice of the leader and the decision of the matters to the majority of votes by its ordinary citizens or constituent members, who may not be knowledgeable enough and maybe undesirably susceptible to inside retrogressive influences and outside undesirable influences.
The government system of democracy was thought light of from ancient to feudal times when ordinary citizens didn't acquire a level of general education. As the education levels of citizens in many countries have gradually improved since then and the values of fairness and justice have significantly risen in latter-day times, the situation has changed. Although democracy is fearful and far from ideal and democratization generally weakens its organization, in modern times the government has to try to promote democracy while making up for its weaknesses if it's proud that it's providing its citizens with an unembarrassing level of education and building up its basic strength and tolerance against inside and outside unbeneficial influences.
Some of the conservatives may say that the government of a country needs to manage to keep the education level of its citizens at a certain suitable level by restraining their motivations in order to nip off the potential of future reformists and subversive elements and make up for one of its weaknesses. It seems that such a strategy is quite pathetic. The improvement of education should always be necessary though there are some different opinions regarding the degree and the timing of education oriented to the liberated thinking that isn't bound to established ideas and rules and the necessity of some eccentric educations for gifted young children.
