Monday, June 1, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today, the Pension System of Japan announced that a large amount of personal information had been stolen from its database recently. The Japanese government may be also interested in the same mystery.
For some reason, I had to register my seal with the nearest city hall this afternoon. My seal isn't made of ivory or horn. In Japan, an old-fashioned seal is still commonly used for various purposes of approval. It's my understanding that there is an unwritten custom for some sort of people to impose their convenient ideas on others in Japan, as written several times in my diary. My wife and I are worrying that somebody may be imposing his or her convenient ideas on us by cornering us into a difficult situation.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
An advance warning of fraud ill-using massive leakage of personal information from the Pension System of Japan has already been issued.
As a matter of course, a fraud should have no right to blame a target for not standing by a verbal promise made in a conversation that is designed to impose something convenient for a fraud on a target as a part of a fraudulent scheme, if a scheme is fortunately anticipated before it's accomplished.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A literal translation of the Japanese word "Machibuse" into English is "Ambush". This word reminded me of a love song that became somewhat popular in the Japanese pop music scene more than three decades ago. "Waiting for somebody with no appointment while putting on an air of indifference" may be a nice paraphrase of the song's title "Machibuse" though it's rather prolix. Nowadays this sort of behavior is considered to be a criminal act in many societies if it's too persistent. Come to think of it, the melody of "Machibuse" sounds rather witching.
Not only African Americans and Hispanic Americans but also people of Asian origins have waited for my wife and me frequently in various situations in the US previously. Those days, a few Americans suggested to me that Japanese and/or Japanese Americans accounted mostly for those Asians. They have continued their Machibuse activities in Japan, as expected. Recently, their tricks have been going a bit far. It seems to me that they do because they want to impose some ideas convenient for them on us consistently in their own fraudulent ways. A question often arises as to who those Asians really are. They may belong to the world of show business, politics, or private detective agencies in Japan. Some Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese, Indian, or other Asians may also be involved in these tricks. Probably, some Asian old guards ask them to do so for their benefit and then they cheat many people as usual.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen 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 tendency to fall back upon a non-constructive way of conversation only circulating around an illogically connected loop is one of the characteristics of Asians. Instead of a positive and logical discussion, they rely on their own shady ways to impose their ideas convenient for their own interests. In terms of the logical ways of thinking, the Japanese are somewhat better than other Asians on average because of their preceding modernization, though the gaps have been narrowing recently. A discussion groping for mutual understandings and benefits constructively should be desirable in most cases. Any exclusive press shouldn't be favorable in a respectable discussion.
Friday, June 5, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
If either an outstanding skill or a distinct technique is developed, a tool that enables many others to follow it or imitate it should be invented at the next stage. If either a covert truth or an original theory is discovered, a document that explains it in detail should be described and a method that enables many others to understand it as easily as possible may be devised. These new discoveries shouldn't be everlastingly kept secret but should be opened for the coming generations afterward. The proper timing to pass a tool, a document or a method should depend upon the subject and situation. In general, the Japanese have a tendency to grudge passing them to others. That was one of the weaknesses of the Japanese customs in history, and a relic of it seems to still remain.
From this point of view, the existence of the seniority system tends to cause hesitation in passing these heritages of excellent quality to the next generations, so that the progress of society falls stagnant as seen in most Asian countries until recently, though the weaknesses that accompany the seniority system may not emerge when a country is catching up the advanced counties by just copying many from them during its rapid economic growth period. Furthermore, the seniority system tends to make society corrupt by justifying harassment, cheats, and larcenies by the brazen seniors, so that it discourages the enthusiastic juniors. Some sorts of people are trying to familiarize the seniority system on the international stage in order to promote human rights activities though there are some arguments for and against this sort of its use. The old guards ill-use the seniority system, the juniority system, male chauvinism, sexual equality, and everything convenient for them sharply in order to protect their fellows while hammering down the new stakes that stick out. The condition whether he or she is young or old isn't so important. If he or she excels, his or her talents may be respected and valued. If his or her talent is eligible and useful in society, he or she may take a responsible position in society. The system that is designed on a merit basis while providing benefits kind to the weak and the unfortunate is much better than the primitive system that is designed on a seniority basis.
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Got up at five o'clock in the morning. Took a bus tour to the Enrei Bird Forest near here in order to appreciate the songs of various kinds of wild birds there. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta following an aperitif for dinner.
Monday, June 8, 2015
Got up at six 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.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
The rising tendency to promote the introduction of automation utilizing various kinds of robots and computers should be the right path for many worlds related to manufacturing, distribution, and service of the advanced counties in order to reduce the routine work and dangerous tasks and to improve the productivities, the qualities, and the cost-effectiveness. The balance of both degrees and pace between the introduction of revolutionary robotization and the reliance on outsourcing should be wisely adjusted, taking the numerous domestic and global issues into consideration from a perspective viewpoint.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a nice warm day.
Which of the two physicists was able to do better in a typical IQ test, Prof. Albert Einstein or Prof. John Robert Oppenheimer may be an interesting question. It seems to me that Oppenheimer did better in the IQ test, though this is only a weak guess. This guess is grounded on the known facts that Einstein didn't do so well in primary and secondary education at school and that he wasn't a good English speaker. Probably, however, most scientists assert that Einstein was more gifted with the talents for physics than Oppenheimer was. Einstein cut a figure when he advanced to higher education or thereafter, ripening into his greatest achievement of the theories of relativity. Probably his brain wasn't oriented towards the fortes in the massive memorization and simple & quick quiz but towards the comprehension of difficult matters and the excellence in insight, imagination, and creativity. In short, Einstein was a genius.
What Einstein exceptionally had is what the Japanese lacked in and have compensated for it by importing its harvests mostly from overseas throughout their whole history. These are what AI is helpless to deal with at the present time and in the near future. On the other hand, even an ordinary computer is much superior to a human in remembrance and a state-of-the-art AI is becoming superior to a human in a simple & quick quiz.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen 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 recent growth rate of Chinese in terms of many areas including their education level is remarkably high. When its high economic growth may slow down or come to an end within the next few decades from now, China may also face the same problems that Japan has been facing these days because of some similarities in their characteristics and customs. Some Chinese may be optimistic about it because China had its great ancient past when some of their ancestors thought of it very originally, unlike the Japanese. It's unquestionably true that some of their distant ancestors were capable of being creative and imaginative but there is no guarantee that the Chinese of today and the future can do. It seems to me that, as long as they are prepossessed with some of their original primitive precepts, the Chinese won't become comparable with Westerners in this timeframe.
In the first place, the Japanese have to admit what Einstein exceptionally had to be highly valuable. Japanese may attempt to modify their education systems at the institutions of higher education somewhat in order to develop their creativities and imaginations no matter though it's a plan difficult accomplishment and progress is only a little, or at least they have to stop spoiling the potential for the creativity and the imagination.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. My wife and I have never bought any lottery tickets and have never gambled since 2006. The highest prize in the lottery that I have gotten in my life so far is only about 1$. As a result of the drawing, a picture book about an active volcanic island drawn by Mr. Takeo Takei was given to me as a gift at the Enrei Bird Forest last Sunday. My wife was gratified at this unexpected gift.
China's recent activities trying to save the lives of the passengers on a sunken ferry in the Chang Jiang River appeared to be well-controlled and properly decisive, but unfortunately, the outcome was unsuccessful. It seems that their lifesaving activities demonstrated the present capability of their army to some degree.
It's often said that, without some strong foreign pressures from Europe and North America, the Japanese government can't change any major issue bound complicatedly with its old-fashioned customs in modern times. Nowadays, the tactics of Japan's neighboring countries have indirectly touched Japan gradually, through the pressures from their friends in Europe and North America, in proportion to their growing financial strengths. Let's suppose that the Chinese will slough some of the primitive precepts that their ancestors advocated more than two millenniums ago earlier than the Japanese will. In this case, China might be able to grow up to be a country comparable with Westerners, so that as well as Westerners it could put a more muscular pressure upon Japan directly for a change in the future. This should be a nightmarish situation for the descendants of some sort of Japanese.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Got up at six 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.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Monday, June 15, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
I have sometimes noticed the implications incorporated in some news reports written in English by journalists. Their techniques are rhetoric, logic, and sometimes irony. I have also noticed the implications incorporated in some news reports written by Japanese journalists. Although I don't know when it arose clearly, there has been a clear difference in the ways of implications in their news reports. Recently I noticed some affinities between Japanese journalists' implication techniques and Japanese advertisers' techniques. There is no gainsaying that their ways of implications contain a sense of comic skit with a wicked tongue. In Japan nowadays, these techniques are frequently used to make many audiences not only have a prepossessing impression on either some people or organizations of high renown but also have an unprepossessing impression on others, probably for the convenience of their sponsors. These ways of implications in the news reports like an advertising poster may be developed originally in Japan or may be imported from the US, France, Italy, or Germany in recent years. The use of these ways to degrade others should be unfavorable socially.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen 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 upper classes of some European countries tend to love the stars. Some of them are absorbed in finding new talents and being the patrons of the stars whom they found, from dusk till dawn. The situations in which they are protecting the aged stars are essentially different from the situations that the Asian seniority system brings. The existence of a very limited number of talented stars in either an organization or a society may help urge it onward, especially under an adverse or serious situation, even though they get rather old, contrary to the Asian seniority system that makes it stagnant in general.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
It seems to me that, as long as the aged stars don't exploit the younger talents around and their capabilities don't so terribly decline, the continuous patronage of the aged stars may be somewhat acceptable. The lives of the stars may be directed dramatically and gloriously, by the grace of their supporters. Some people of other European and American countries may regard the outstanding stars in the political and business worlds as dangerous, by claiming that they look and behave like the rising dictators. As long as the terms of the presidential positions in the political and business worlds are raided appropriately by law, however, there seems to be no anxiety for the safety of most people.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A catchphrase from an advertisement by Google found on a Japanese website has drawn my attention recently. It says, "What's the true reason why Japan wasn't conquered?" To be honest, I don't see what a catchphrase really means. Probably, it tells about the critical situation of Japan during the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Since the end of the Yayoi period, the mainland of Japan has never been invaded, fortunately, within my knowledge. Both raids of great size by the Mongol Empire "Great Yuan" accompanying Chinese soldiers and Korean soldiers upon Japan where the Kamakura Shogunate administered were baffled on the sea twice due to the typhoon hits in the latter half of the thirteenth century. Japan was simply lucky. Superstitious Japanese people called those strong tempests the "Kamikaze (the Divine Wind)".
During the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the middle nineteenth century, the pressures from European and North American countries accounted for the abolition of Japan's national isolation system. Japan may have been threatened with some risks of being invaded by them, like many other Asian countries, in those days. Because the central government of the Tokugawa Shogunate or the Meiji government subsequent to it didn't choose the path to start a war against European and North American countries but chose the path to start rapid westernization those days, Japan evaded the danger barely. In view of an abundance of natural resources and labor forces, full colonization of China may have been considered to be much more profitable for them. Thoroughness in the feudal system of the Tokugawa Shogunate may have appealed to them, as an assistant on their behalf or, from a friendly viewpoint, a star in East Asia. The stream of power games between European and North American countries on the board of Japan and some wise decisions by Japan's government of those days as a result of a lot of internal conflicts made for good fortune.
Friday, June 19, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen 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 Russo-Japanese War created the next critical situation early in the twentieth century. Japan won a narrow victory so it was able to evade the danger barely. The war somewhat proved that the past judgment in choosing Japan by some Westerners was right. Probably, the outcome was good beyond their expectations. During the post-Russo-Japanese War period, although its industrial modernization continued gradually, either a swinging back to the past or a hesitation in the modernization of its ethics and moral standards grew in Japan. Japan steered itself to the path of becoming a partner of some of the great Western powers of those days and being faced with difficult conflicts with others.
The end of the Pacific War, when Japan was defeated, was the next critical situation. Through the First and Second World Wars, the colonial period had already begun to come to an end, at least on the surface in the world. That stream operated against Japan before the war because of its rather belated embarkation on expansionism, but ironically the intensified stream operated in very favor of Japan after the war. Japan entered war while giving its back upon that stream and it was helped by the grace of the stream after all. The old-fashioned expansionism by counting largely on military powers had certainly wandered off from the ethical and moral standards of those days driven by the progressive Westerners. It can be said that the ceaseless changes and modifications for the better in the streams of international ethics and moral standards were either the Divine Wind or the Divine Wave for Japan to stay away from the worst.
In recent years, there always exist many waves occurred on the surfaces of the streams of international ethical and moral standards that in essence Westerners still have mostly regulated on the stages of politics in European and North American countries, the United Nations, etc. that may be separated from religions ideally. Some waves look ideal, other waves look reasonable, others look unreasonable, and others look absurd. The streams of the international ethic and moral standards flow through all their fortunes and misfortunes, as time wears on. Japan shouldn't think lightly of any of the waves that have been growing to influence the mainstream. It seems to me that these waves can correspond to the Divine Winds in recent years and the future, from a perspective viewpoint. It's desirable that Japan will be able to generate some new forward-looking waves and bring up these waves to be influential in controlling the international ethic and moral standards for the better someday. The abolition of nuclear weapons could be a wave appropriate for Japan to lead, but Japan's leadership for it and its progress haven't been satisfactory so far. The Kyoto Protocol was another wave, but Japan's contribution to the protocol subsequent to it had slowed down. Japan may be able to play a part in advancing the separation of religion and politics in the United Nations further. It's rather regrettable that Japan can't keep up with not small number of the major streams even now.
Since the end of WWII, Japan had still been considered to be either an assistant or a star of the free world in Asia, against the country's lean toward communism. However, Japan's roles became more restrictive than before. Indeed, Japan refused some of its expected roles. Around the early 1970s, some European and North American countries started considering appointing the elite of the People's Republic of China with the free market and the H-bombs to be a large part or all of the roles that Japan had played since the middle nineteenth century. The idea of letting the elite Chinese bring the Westerners great profits mostly from China while letting the Japanese bring the Chinese a lot of know-how in the technologies, productivities, and education that Japan had accumulated until then, directly and indirectly via their neighbor counties, wasn't inconsistent with their good sense of those days. As many have seen, the growths of China's economy, armaments, and others have been very remarkable since then, especially after the end of the Cold War structure. Rather disappointingly for some of its Western backers, China has maintained the one-party rule by its Communist Party firmly and its democratization has been frustrated. China hasn't been active in walking toward the ethics and moral standards that the Westerners have essentially regulated while persisting in its own ethics and moral standards and attempting to popularize them. It's coming to light gradually that what China is aiming at is either a competitor against or a successor of the US, rather than either an assistant or a partner of European and North American countries.
Japan had to summon up all its efforts to make good the rest of its roles since the 1970s. Through the hustling periods of the Bubble economy in the 1980s and its burst early in the 1990s, however, Japan didn't. As a matter of course, after the end of the Cold War structure, the role of Japan disappeared. Since then Japan has faced difficulties in maintaining the rest of its roles and this tendency had snowballed in the 2000s. The spread of the rest of its roles among other Asian countries has been progressing, though a recent mild relapse of the Cold War Structure and an expression of China's obstinacy may have created some opportunities for Japan to keep a certain part of its roles up.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Got up at six forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Japanese noodles for dinner.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a Japanese meal for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Asian people are inclined to leave some vagueness in many kinds of matters, ideas, systems, and so on. Although of course, it isn't necessary to unveil everything, Asian people should try to speak as specifically as possible about the matters that they can unveil and to establish the systems that minimize vagueness. The attitude which they accustom themselves to holding positive, constructive, and patient debates should help bring the vague points into daylight, so that they may take the opportunity to better their ethic and moral standards.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Occasionally the mass media reports on news articles about some sort of vegetarianism founded on either a religious belief or a non-religious belief in European and North American countries. Vegetarians aren't only a small minority of people in these countries and some South Asian countries. Not so small a portion of common restaurants and cafeterias offer some vegetarian meals daily. There exist no small number of vegetarian restaurants in the cities of the US where there is a long tradition of livestock farming. The diversity in various respects characterizes the US.
On the other hand, although many Japanese believe in Buddhism, I seldom hear any domestic or international news articles about vegetarianism from the mass media in Japan. Nowadays a considerable number of Buddhist monks usually eat meat and fish in Japan. Probably, Japan these days is a country where the people who aren't seriously pious about any religion live. Japan is behind the other developed countries in diversity, as often criticized.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
It should be very easy to understand that the people who pet dogs and cats don't like to buy the items produced by the people who kill and eat them if the items produced by the people who don't are available in competitive qualities and at competitive prices. It should also be very easy to understand that the people who love whales and dolphins don't like to buy the items produced by the people who kill and eat them if the competitive items produced by the people who don't are available. Here, the bottom line of this topic is that whether a seller is likable or dislikable is important for the business on the whole in the long run. In general, a seller has to choose one out of the possible measures to improve the situation. Walking toward international ethical and moral standards should be a safe measure to take in most cases.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen 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 following recites the answers to the question of what has made the Chinese less competitive with the Westerners in terms of imagination and creativity until recently than the Chinese in ancient history. Briefly speaking, one of the answers is that the Chinese were unable to attain success in finding science, which the Westerners were able to do. After the discovery of scientific methods, the abilities of Westerners in terms of imagination and creativity have expanded rapidly under the stimuli of the new discoveries one after another, and the necessities grown with the revolutions in various industries. The answers to the question of why the Chinese were unable to reach science should be the rest of the answers to the question above. The Chinese reconciled themselves to their original teachings and foreign religions because of the obedience of agricultural people to the existing precepts and doctrines. Some precepts and doctrines in these teachings and religions given by their distant ancestors and ancient foreigners brought stagnation in their minds. The education systems in which they had attached exaggerated importance to remembrance had spoiled their abilities of imagination and creativity from the late sixth century until the early twentieth century.
The answers to the question of what had made the Japanese uncompetitive with the Westerners until the middle nineteenth century should be similar to those above. Rapid westernization has improved the intelligence of the Japanese to some extent by introducing scientific approaches since then, but remembrance is still made much of in their education systems even now. Some old customs borrowed from ancient China have still been making Japanese societies rather stagnant since the end of a rapid growth period. China had been timid or shamed of its rapid westernization in the nineteenth century, but it attempted to slough off its thirteen-century-old education system early in the twentieth century. After China's first trial of communism failed in because its economy fell into the gutter due to an intrinsic weakness of communism, in the 1970s China decided finally to enter the period of modernization by introducing the free markets and by learning at first from Japan and then from European and North American counties afterward. A lot of Chinese elite have studied various subjects at universities and institutes in European and North American countries for the last few decades. The majority of the elite Chinese whom I met in the US are talented and well-educated, but they aren't venturesome. Unlike the Japanese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Korean, and other Asian peoples, it seems to me that the elite Chinese have a tendency to give higher priority to meritocracy than to seniority, judging from what I saw and heard in the US, though to be honest I don't know how they behave and how the common people behave in China these days. However, it's certain that the modernization of the Chinese elite in their minds has deepened considerably.
What Japan has to pursue for the next several decades is to remain the most modernized country in Asia in many, if not most, respects while guiding other Asian countries to modernization safely and maintaining a reasonable partnership with the US in order to fulfill its expected roles in our continuously changing world. My view on this subject isn't newfangled or retrospective.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Naturally, there is a limitation on the abilities of the human brain. If one is very excellent in all points, e.g. memorization, quickness, comprehension, insight, imagination, creativity, etc., it should be most desirable but it sounds as if one has to be superhuman found in the SF. The formation of teamwork like Sherlock Holmes and Watson is an old-fashioned approach to attaining a challenging goal. Nowadays the full use of an advanced computer on behalf of Watson is a modern approach.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Got up at six-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.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast and a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping this afternoon. Ate a Japanese meal for dinner.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Japanese pasta for dinner.
The comparison between the SF TV drama series Star Trek and the SF TV animation series Star Blazers reflects for certain the differences between the US and Japan in the national traits and feelings after the war. Probably, Star Trek incited a Japanese cartoonist to produce the comic book Star Blazers, which was thereafter made into a TV animation series in the 1970s. The quality of the TV drama of Star Trek is worthy of being broadcast internationally. Unfortunately, however, the TV animation of Star Blazers isn't, mostly because of the intensely warped implications that are incorporated into it. A depressing international situation due to crazy competition in the thermonuclear tests overseas in those days may have given birth to some of those implications. In view of the international ethic and moral standards since the end of the war through the 1970s, however, the production of that animation for children seems to be a bit much. The heart of some problems in it shouldn't have been exhibited internationally. Most humanitarian Europeans may have been discouraged from supporting Japan if they happened to watch it. Germans, Russians, and Americans of an impulsive nature may have complained about the stories that were decorated with shining blazers. Some cynical Americans nowadays may say for their convenience that it should be broadcast worldwide. It seems that the exposure of it on the international stage should do more harm than good to Japan.
The news topic that Star Blazers would be made into a movie in Hollywood gave me a foreboding about a few years ago. Here, I would like to add that not all the Japanese sympathize with some of the non-educational and retrograded implications found in it. Hopefully, some poisonous and unrepentant factors will be removed from its movie version.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Usually, giving some specific explanations isn't sufficient for an expositor to let the readers or audiences understand well the main subject. The gist and the true aim of a main subject should be stated clearly, desirably before particularizing some specific examples. Japanese without a high educational background don't like to use this form of report in general. The true aim is clouded more often than not.
