Saturday, August 1, 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. Maximum temperatures of the days after this rainy season are higher than the average of those for the last four decades by about 2 to 4 degrees C.
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Got up at six-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a very hot day.
Monday, August 3, 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. It's a very hot day.
The conditions appropriate for mental labor have been presumed to be an amenity, availability, activity, necessity, clearness, openness, competitiveness, positiveness, and so on. In ancient times, crowds of people gathered around the places where they could live conveniently and comfortably. The concentration of people promoted the activities, the necessities of deliberation, and the availability of information sharing among them in certain societies, where they were civilized thereafter. With the progress in the quality of people's living in terms of food, clothing, and shelter, people were able to dwell more comfortably in the colder latitudes, so some crowds of people were able to migrate there. From the Middle Ages downward, the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment took place in relatively cold regions. In modern times, however, the developments of the air-conditioner, refrigerator, other electrical appliances, and transportation have enabled people to dwell comfortably wherever nearly possible on the ground of the earth, including desert areas and frigid zones. Both the advancement in various communication technologies and the popularization of mass media and the Internet have significantly advanced the availability of information for people who live anywhere. Therefore, nowadays, the conditions of climate, the density of population, and the degree of urbanity aren't considered to be so important to improve the outputs of mental labor anymore.
Tuesday, August 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. It's a very hot day.
Actually, for the individuals who are well educated, the arrangement of the other conditions such as activity, necessity, clearness, openness, competitiveness, positiveness, etc. should depend upon them, nearly aside from the environment where they live. The most important for each educated individual should be the financial situation that allows him or her to set up the above-mentioned conditions and the timetable conveniently. On the other hand, however, the clearness, openness, competitiveness, and positiveness rooted in the nature of locality still influence the outputs of most of the organizations because the locals compose the organizations for the most part. Naturally, each individual is usually insufficient for managing the conditions rooted in the nature of locality in the organizations.
If an investor, an executive officer, or a government official has to find the place that is most appropriate for building new facilities and investing their energy in managing the employees or educating the students at these facilities, the temperaments of the locality related to the clearness, openness, competitiveness, and positiveness should be more importantly evaluated than the conditions of climate, the density of population and the degree of urbanity should. Of course, the evaluations of the high education level, the high diligence nature, and the low personnel costs of the locals should also be indispensable. The locations that are suitable for establishing new research facilities should satisfy the above-mentioned conditions.
Wednesday, August 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 dish of Italian pasta for dinner. It's a very hot day.
The NHK BS news reported last night that Russia has been constructing many facilities for space exploration including a launching pad, some training buildings, an international airport, a few railways, and some accommodations at a vast expanse in Vostochny, Amur, the area of which is about half of that of Tokyo, spending about 800 billion yen ($ 6.4 billion). The details of their estimated spending for the Vostochny cosmodrome (space center) wasn't covered in the news report, but it's quite surprising that the first phase of the construction of its new cosmodrome will be only about three times as expensive as the estimated construction cost of a previously proposed plan of the Tokyo Olympic 2020 main stadium. In the case of Russia's new cosmodrome, the current international situation concerning a mild relapse of the Cold War Structure should worry us. Russia's falling behind the US in the modernization of space technologies, some of which can be diverted to military uses and may be a critical factor, was one of the reasons why Russia has had to make some compromises with the US since the late 1980s. Of course, Russia's new initiative to reenergize its space exploration should be arousing the strong interest of most Western countries.
Thursday, August 6, 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 very hot day.
Late in the eighteenth century, a German chemist found uranium in uranium ore. Late in the nineteenth century, French and Polish scientists discovered the radioactivity in some isotopes of the elements, including uranium-235. In the 1930s, Italian and German scientists discovered the fission of uranium-235, devised the methods to enrich the radioisotopes, and identified the artificial fissionable radioisotope of plutonium, i.e. plutonium-239 that was transmuted from the non-fissionable major isotope of uranium, i.e. uranium-238. Some of the Jewish-German scientists who escaped from Nazis Germany to the US recommended the then-US government to develop nuclear weapons in either the late 1930s or the early 1940s. In the view of the world affairs of those days, despite there being no definite evidence that any German scientist under the Nazi's control had engaged in the development of the atomic bombs, the 32nd president of the US may not be keenly criticized for the decision to command their scientists and engineers to develop the atomic bombs ahead of the Nazis Germans. At that stage about half a decade before the first nuclear test, any political figure was incapable of imagining how destructive the new weapons could be. They started to develop the atomic bombs in a frenzy of mingling hate and anxiety that had been stirred up in West Europe since the pre-WWII period, and they actualized these bombs for the first time in the early summer of 1945, only a few months after the Nazis Germans surrendered. In compliance with the actual uses of the atomic bombings against Japan that the 33rd president of the US authorized, the grave misfortunes came down to Hiroshima claiming the lives of more than one or two hundred thousand people, and to Nagasaki claiming the lives of several ten thousand people in August 1945.
Although the Germans didn't intend those civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki harm at all, it can't be denied that what their scientists and Radicals gave birth to at the laboratories and all over their country of those days made Hiroshima and Nagasaki become the other tragic places like Auschwitz through the hands of some of the US military authorities after some twists. The then Japanese government should be mostly blamed for those man-made disasters because they started the war against the Allies including the US while forming the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis and continued the war until that time even when both Italy and Germany had already been defeated. Aside from Germany's responsibilities of clearing the most important hurdles of nuclear technologies and of plunging the Jewish-German and American groups into the invention of the atomic bombs and Japan's responsibility of starting the avoidable war, however, the decision on two atomic bombings by the 33rd president of the US shouldn't be agreeable. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unfortunately chosen as the first and second ground zeros of the atomic bombing because there was a high possibility that some Japanese experts in the development of naval armaments lived in the urban cities near the major naval ports of Japan. In any case, nothing can justify the use of any weapon of mass destruction in the urban district because a large majority of casualties were innocent civilians.
Friday, August 7, 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 very hot day.
Relatively soon after the discovery of nuclear fission releasing nuclear binding energy inside an apparatus at a laboratory in Berlin, it's ironic that the strenuous attempts to divert it to military uses started in its hostile country, i.e. the US without understanding the mechanism and theory in detail underlying its phenomenon. The further developments of nuclear weapons have continued in several countries since the first atomic test and actual bombing. Against the background of the Cold War structure, various kinds of nuclear weapons including hydrogen bombs were crazily developed one after another for the following few decades after WWII and a massive amount of the hydrogen bombs were rapidly produced and have been stored in their arsenals. The accurate theory describing the strong interactions of the subatomic particles, which are the origin of the nuclear forces between the nucleons and the source of nuclear energy, was originally introduced by some American physicists in the 1950s and finally acknowledged through the 1960s. A chain of those events tells us that once a phenomenon of nature that can be diverted to weapons is discovered and the materials that are necessary for the mass production of the weapons become available, things go on shortly in general.
Progress in science should be made everlastingly as long as human beings exist. Anyway, the scientists will discover the phenomena, some of which can be diverted to the weapons, and the effective methods that can generate the materials necessary for their mass production. What human beings have to do for future generations is the establishment of a central governance of the world that can watch out for new discoveries and prepare for prompt responses to regulate the diversions of these discoveries to the weapons of mass destruction, and the intensification of its authorities. The responses have to be promptly conducted because the diversion to military uses follows the discovery relatively quickly, as mentioned above. Rather than the ineffective concealment of the phenomena known to be divertible to the weapons of mass destruction by some religious and political groups, both the ceaseless examination of whether the new discoveries are divertible to the weapons of mass destruction or not and the tight control of the effective methods to generate the materials necessary for their mass productions by the central governance, should be desirable. Therefore, in order to lift people's reliance on the United Nations, which is the only archetype of the future central governance of the world at the present time, the neutralization in terms of various points has to be improved significantly. Needless to say, the abolition of the existing weapons of mass destruction including the nuclear weapons has to be advanced, no matter how complicated it is now.
Saturday, August 8, 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 Japanese pasta for dinner. Maximum temperatures of the days this week are still higher than the average of those for the last four decades by about 2 to 4 degrees C.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's a very hot day. Seventy years have passed since the first and second atomic bombs were dropped in Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Monday, August 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 very hot day.
A postcard without name and address which was delivered to my present address today motivated me to rewrite this message that my wife and I have never bought any lottery ticket and have never gambled since 2006 in my diary. It seems to me that some gangsters in politics, industry, sports, and entertainment worlds want to impose some ideas convenient for them on me. Their peculiar way of imposing their opinion reminds me of the Machibuse activities by African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asians in the US. A series of annoying happenings are clearly suggesting who the people corresponding to Mara are. Mara isn't a witch but a Devil who uses the witches. The people corresponding to Mephistopheles are the Western friends of theirs.
Tuesday, August 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 dish of Italian pasta for dinner. It's a very hot day.
The reactor # 1 of the Sendai nuclear power plants in Kagoshima prefecture restarted operating this morning, according to the news reports. The control rods had been pulled out from its reactor core gradually while checking the conditions, and it will go critical by the end of today. A few days later, it will start generating electricity on schedule.
Wednesday, August 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 Japanese meal for dinner. It's a cloudy day.
Thursday, August 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. It's a rainy day.
A warehouse near the harbor suddenly exploded due to an unknown cause in Tianjin, China last night. A series of the following explosions blew extensively the buildings, the containers, the vehicles, and others at the harbor site and its neighboring sites, claiming the lives of more than fifty people so far. According to the TV news programs, one of the two major explosions there corresponds to the explosion of a few dozen tons of TNT. The explosive powers of the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which resulted from the fission reactions with low efficiency, are about one thousand times stronger than that of the chemical inflammables or explosives stored inside the warehouses in Tianjin. The explosion of a thermonuclear (Hydrogen) bomb, which arises from the fusion reactions ignited by the highly efficient atomic bomb, is millions times or tens of millions of times stronger than that with the chemical inflammable or explosives in Tianjin. These nuclear weapons are much more destructive than other conventional weapons because the nuclear forces between the nucleons are much stronger than the electromagnetic interactions between the molecules. The difference in the nuclear binding energy before and after a fission/fusion reaction is so large that it's identifiable by the measurement of the mass defect, which provides us with proof of the mass-energy equivalence. To make matters worse, the radioactivity from the residues of the nuclear bombing is very poisonous.
Friday, August 14, 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. It's a hot summer day.
The reactor # 1 of the Sendai nuclear power plants in Kagoshima prefecture has already restarted generating electricity on schedule.
Saturday, August 15, 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, August 16, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock 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. It's a very hot day.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Got up at seven-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 rainy day.
The Japanese government announced that Japan's GDP growth rate during the last quarter (4 to 6) was negative.
Tuesday, August 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. It's a hot summer day.
As might be expected, the stock market index of Shanghai declined by more than 6% today. The fall of its stock price shouldn't be unrelated to the occurrence of last week's explosions at the harbor site in Tianjin. A disclosure of their sloppy management of a massive amount of explosive and hazardous materials, a lingering suspension of the businesses at its major harbor, and an inscrutability following the explosion case may somewhat cancel out a favorable impression of the expectation of China's exports on the investors obtained by success in bringing the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to Beijing and some recent manipulations of Yuan.
Wednesday, August 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. It's a hot summer day.
The Shanghai stock prices got back yesterday's loss today. The unstableness of its stock prices may hold for a while. It seems that China can't completely avert from facing various kinds of difficulties as long as its government continues to maintain the solid one-party rule by its Communist Party and its democratization continues to be frustrated while building up military strength and coming on strong.
As written before, what Japan has to pursue for the next several decades is to remain the most modernized country in Asia while guiding other Asian countries including China to modernization safely. Any Japanese government's attempt to relapse into the practical one-party rule and the factional politics within it has to be avoided. Such a phony conduct should be a bad example for other Asian countries.
Thursday, August 20, 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's a rainy day.
The stock market index of Shanghai declined by more than 3% today. China's unstable stock prices have some negative influences on the stock prices of many other countries including the US stock prices. The Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq stock market indices have also sagged noticeably for the last few days.
In essence, the tack of the world energy uses has always been influencing the economic situations of most countries. The crude oil price is also dropping. Currently, it's about $40 per barrel. A low crude oil price should favor most consumers directly, but what's leading it to a recent low may not favor them. Some industries and businesses of some countries may benefit from the reduction of the crude oil price but other industries and businesses of other countries may not. The era of shifting from coal to oil and natural gas as the primary energy resources while making much of the energy-saving measures will continue for some time. The overt climate changes due to the progressive accumulation of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere have demanded a shift to renewable energy and nuclear energy from us. However, either a big leap to the fast breeder reactor, which is currently under improvement, or a further big leap to the fusion reactor, which is currently under development, should cause some unavoidable difficulties for now and near future. Some of the powers in quite many countries will suffer in their pockets when the values of the coal, oil, gas, and uranium depreciate won't allow the others to go ahead with a leap to either the fast breeder reactor or the fusion reactor without any resistance. In terms of nuclear nonproliferation, the international system that satisfactorily controls the fissionable and potentially fissionable materials hasn't been established yet.
It seems to me that now is the time to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, especially from the US and China, which are the biggest and second biggest carbon emitters of the world, without relying on the above-mentioned leaps. Therefore, too much reduction of the crude oil price isn't good from this point of view nowadays because it doesn't help habituate the American and Chinese peoples to economize energy.
Friday, August 21, 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 rainy day. July 2015 is the hottest month ever recorded.
According to the news reports, a large number of dead fish were found in the river near the harbor site. There is a certain possibility that it's caused by the hazardous chemical substances that were brought from the surface of the ground around the exploded warehouses with running water during recent rainfalls.
The stock market index of Shanghai declined by more than 4% today. The Nikkei has also been declining gradually since the recent announcement of Japan's slack GDP growth rate and was dragged down below the twenty thousand yen mark today.
Saturday, August 22, 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 dish of Japanese pasta for dinner. It's a hot summer day.
The US stock market indices declined by more than 3% on Friday. This week, not only the largest, second largest, and third largest economies but also most economies of the world slumped.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Got up at six-fifteen 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. It's a hot summer day.
Monday, August 24, 2015
Got up at seven-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 hot summer day.
Two chemical explosion cases caused some flutters in China in the last two weeks. In Kanagawa prefecture Japan, this morning, some of the oxygen gas cylinders that were kept together with a lot of other nonflammable gas cylinders inside a small warehouse at the US military base exploded after midnight, and a large warehouse at a private iron foundry under demolition also exploded before noon.
Today, both the Shanghai and Nikkei stock indices sagged by about 8.5% and 4.6% respectively. These closing stock prices today are as low as those half a year before. There should be no direct correlation between the fallings of the global stock prices and these recent explosions in Japan.
Tuesday, August 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. It's a rainy day.
The US stock market indices declined by 3 to 4% yesterday. The crude oil price dropped to about $38.2 per barrel. The Shanghai and Nikkei stock prices still sagged by about 7.6% and 4.0% respectively.
Wednesday, August 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 dish of Italian pasta for dinner. It's a rainy day.
The European stock market indices rose yesterday. The announcement about an interest rate cut by China's central bank, which is considered to be an orthodox intervention by the government at the present time compared to an assertive manipulation of the Yuan, somewhat favored the investors, traders, officials, and others. The other global stock prices were in fair or good shape today.
Thursday, August 27, 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 rainy to fair.
It's my belief that the mental state of selflessness in religion is basically identical or similar to the view of objectiveness in science. Indeed, the word the state of selflessness contains a broader sense than that of the view of objectiveness. For the people outside the religious worlds, their having the view of scientific objectiveness seems to be appropriate.
Since antiquity, western countries have turned out a lot of great scholars and scientists who have possessed scientific objectiveness as the requirement for their professions. The number of this sort of scholarly people increased rapidly there in the Middle Ages and has been increasing since then, though the people of great achievements are always rare anywhere. On the other hand, such a mental state had been regarded as a special ground that only a limited number of people could reach after training in Asian countries until modern times. I sometimes wonder if, even now, most Asian people don't recognize what scientific objectiveness is. This is what the future generations of Asian people not only in the science and technology fields but also in the economics, politics, and other fields have to develop.
Some old guards in Asia, who correspond to Mara, may interrupt others by imposing only the extra part of the idea of selflessness suitable to the religious upon them.
Friday, August 28, 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. It's fair to rainy.
According to the news sources, the Apple Watches have sold well beyond their expectation. However, whether its successful installation has led the sales of the watch industry on the whole to a rally or not is unknown. I am still wondering if these devices are really what women want. Anyway, it's certain that the popularization of wearable devices should increasingly boost the necessity for low-power and high-performance chips.
The IAEA announced today that it made an agreement with Kazakhstan, which has the second largest uranium reserves in the world, to found the Low Enriched Uranium Bank. Under the IAEA's watch, as usual, Kazakhstan will operate the LEU bank making the LEU available for its member states. The avenue to the hope to fulfill the administration of the nuclear materials by the central governance is still far off, but its process may be going on slowly but surely.
A postcard without name and address which was delivered to my present address today motivated me again to rewrite this message that my wife and I have never bought any lottery ticket and have never gambled since 2006 in my diary.
Saturday, August 29, 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. It's a rainy day day.
Sunday, August 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. It's a rainy day.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Got up at seven o'clock in the morning. Went out shopping early in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's rainy to cloudy.
The presence of the Secretary General of the United Nations at the coming ceremonies of China including its military parade seems to be inappropriate because it helps some of the permanent members of the Security Council stick to the archaic nature of the United Nations. It's my belief that the United Nations has to be reformed correctly to satisfy the necessities of the times.
