I took a good rest this morning. It has been raining since yesterday. Of course it’s in the middle of the rainy season. It’s quiet on a rainy morning and I like it. However, I can’t run, so I don’t want to have a long rainy morning.
I like snowy nights more. But as long as I live in Shizuoka prefecture, I can’t expect such a night. When I lived in Toyama prefecture more than 30 years ago, I had a wonderful snowy night.
I worked at a university hospital at that time, but it was the first time I lived in a snowy country. One day I finished work and went home at midnight. I was surprised when I got home that night. It was snowing and the wiper was frozen and I couldn’t drive home. In other words, I had no choice but to walk home.
I remember it took about an hour. Fortunately, the snow had stopped, there was no wind, and there was no blizzard. It was already midnight, so there was almost no car and it was a really quiet night.
I still remember vividly that night when I walked back home alone. It was a bright night, unexpectedly because it was covered in snow. The temperature dropped and the snow was frozen, so I could slip and fall, or I could get caught in a drainage ditch in the accumulated snow, so I went home with caution. I didn’t pass each other until I got home.
■ I ran this morning. I ran the usual course of 6.11km and accumulated 67.04km in 12 runs this month. With 12 days left, 32.95km have been left to run 100km a month.
The remaining 12 days require 33km, so if I run 6km once every two days, I’ll be in time. The calculation is within reach of the goal, but it is in the middle of the rainy season, so I can’t be careful until I reach it.
Since I had been running for three consecutive days this morning, I couldn’t feel comfortable, but I couldn’t help but feel happy when I bite cold tomatoes after running.
■ By the way, the Governor of Tokyo election will be announced today. About 20 people are expected to run. I expect that there will be a lively debate centered around Yuriko Koike, who is incumbent.
On the 17th, an online joint conference was held hosted by the Japan Press Club, where major prospective candidates discussed. I was able to see the interview online. According to one criticism, “Governor Koike, who lacks concreteness, and candidate Yamamoto, who has too little concreteness,” said.
In this morning’s Tokyo Shimbun “Special News Department”, a special feature of the governor’s election was set up. It tells us that the opposition joint struggle is turning. Although various interpretations have been made, it is an argument that he may be taking advantage of his current position in the sense that the opposition unification candidate was not established.
The biggest problem I think is that the Constitutional Democratic Party, which is the first opposition party, and the National Democratic Party are not seriously discussing how to get the support of voters for the general election. ..
As President Yamamoto has always said, it is important for the opposition parties to be in one lump, but it is true that it is not enough for the administration to succeed. That’s exactly what Mr. Yamamoto said that a tax cut to 5 percent consumption tax is the minimum condition for opposition party fighting.
It’s a pity that the Constitutional Democratic Party, the first opposition party, can’t decide on this point. When they claim that it is important to keep the constitution, there is no point in breaking the lives of the people. It is unlikely that Representative Edano only thinks about the lives of the people in the first place, simply by giving them a bail from the top. Then the opposition cannot beat the ruling party.
By touching the voters directly, Yamamoto must have realized this point with a sense of the skin. Shouldn’t the opposition lawmakers think seriously about that point and think about how to act to rebuild the lives of the people?
As it is now, people’s lives are falling to the bottom.
The Governor of Tokyo election is not a national election, but it has a great meaning in that it reconsiders the lives of the people. And each one must seriously think about how to steer the country from now on toward a surely held general election next year.
Nothing good has happened to the people’s lives due to the new coronavirus, but if voters can seriously rethink the future of the country, it is possible to “turn a misfortune into a blessing”.
I ran this morning. I ran 6.08km on the usual course, and I have accumulated 60.93km on 11 runs this month. It has reached 39.06 km in 13 days until it reaches 100 km per month.
During the rainy season, it has been successfully stacked. From tomorrow, the weather will be bad and it is forecasting rain, but since I only run in the early morning, I hope that I can keep it raining only during that time.
I don’t know how long I can continue to achieve the goal of running 100km a month. I think it is very important to live every day with clear and achievable goals. Because it allows you to regulate your life regularly. In order to stay healthy, a regular life is most important.
In that sense, the goal of running 100 kilometers a month is the best for me. I understand that I really have to go for longer distances and once a month for LSD, but it’s quite difficult in practice.
Anyway, it seems that I can run 100km a month for a while, so I have no choice but to continue until I can. If I get hurt or get sick, my goals will be lost. I am sending every day carefully to avoid only the two.
■ Well, I started to make an English version of this blog on April 26th. I am using Google’s translation service and DeepL, which is a German site service, etc., but I have noticed an unexpected by-product.
I am translating the Japanese I wrote to English, so reading the completed English version is not a pain. As I continued, reading the English text itself was much easier than before. It used to be difficult to read English even in short sentences, but since I started writing an English blog, I can read it much longer than before. It’s a big harvest for me.
The other day, after a long time, I reread Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” It’s a book I’ve read 10 times more, so I can start reading the first part very smoothly, but the number of pages I can read is much higher than before. I was surprised at this.
Hemingway’s writing is concise and powerful, and the more you read it, the more delicious it will be. The movie “The Old Man and the Sea” will be broadcast on BS TV tomorrow. I had seen it before in a movie starring Spencer Tracy, but since I reread the original, I wanted to see the movie again. I made a reservation for recording. I’m looking forward to seeing it again from the beginning.
I ran this morning. I couldn’t run in good sleep yesterday, but today I ran 5.99km on the usual course, and this month I have built 54.85km in 10 runs this month. It’s 45.14km in 14 days until 100km/month.
When the total mileage exceeds 50 kilometers and enters the second half, the remaining distance will visibly decrease each time I run. It is very encouraging. After all, the first half of 50 km is like an uphill road, and it feels like labor is hard to reach no matter how much you run. I repeat the same thing every month, but this month I feel relieved after crossing the 50km pass.
■ By the way, yesterday, it was announced that Taro Yamamoto of Reiwa Shinsengumi will run for the Governor of Tokyo voted on July 5.
The promise is to pay 100,000 yen to all citizens as a measure against the new coronavirus. In addition to promptly paying 1 million yen to all businesses, universities and vocational schools have also set a tuition exemption for one year. He says he will insist on the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Of course, there are various opinions, but I think it was good that Yamamoto ran for it. Another opposition party suggested to Yamamoto that he wanted him to run as a candidate for unification of the opposition. The proposal did not come true because the Constitutional Democratic Party did not agree with the reduction of the consumption tax to 5% in the general election that Mr. Yamamoto claimed.
The consumption tax has been increased to 10% last year, making people’s lives harder, and more and more people are actually unable to live due to the new coronavirus infection. On the other hand, if you are serious about people’s lives, you cannot avoid reducing the consumption tax. It is possible that executives such as former Prime Minister Noda and former Prime Minister Kan, who once permitted the tax increase during the Democratic Party’s administration, are opposed to the tax reduction.
But to me, this is a idiot. It’s like proclaiming yourself as a politician who doesn’t look directly at the lives of the people. In that sense, there is no difference from the Abe administration. Even if such an opposition party takes power, it is unlikely that the people’s lives will be enriched. In other words, the existing opposition parties cannot save the people.
After thinking deeply about such a thing, Taro Yamamoto may have been nominated. It means that we have to create a new political force. The existing opposition forces only think of themselves and their seats rather than the lives of the people. That will not save the people.
People who have not participated in previous elections. People who had been given up if nothing went the same even if they went to elections. By appealing to those people, politics may change, as Yamamoto said.
The Abe administration has taken a thorough policy of lowering the voting rate. By making voters think that the world would not get better even if they went to elections, they lowered the voting rate, held a large number of votes only by their fixed supporters, and carried out an all-you-can-eat policy.
Whatever the case, we must bring people who haven’t voted before to the polls to regain politics and our lives. As it is, Japan’s future is truly dark.
I took a good rest this morning. The alarm rang at 5 o’clock, and I was sleeping very comfortably at that time. I wasn’t so tired that I couldn’t get up, but I was so comfortable that I fell asleep again.
I’m sure I was tired yesterday, but I was more comfortable than I wanted to run. It’s June 15th today, so it’s in the middle of the month. The total mileage this month is almost half, so I’m able to stack as planned. The weather this week isn’t so bad, so it’s likely that I’ll be able to sleep well and build up more.
■ By the end of this week, candidates for the Tokyo Governor election will be closed. I really want the representative of Taro Yamamoto of Reiwa Sinsengumi to run. Tokuuma Utsunomiya is running for opposition. I think the opinion that opposition party votes will be distributed and will benefit Koike is reasonable.
However, if it continues as it is, there is a great possibility that Taro Yamamoto will be buried. Due to a coronavirus infection, the street address that Taro Yamamoto is good at cannot be done. In other words, we are unable to directly appeal to our voters for their claims. Although I am sending information firmly on the net, it is still difficult to get many people to listen even in terms of number, and it is possible to get more voters to understand by appealing on the street I think it is more important than ever.
Governor Kataya Koike diverts taxes to his election measures, and is appearing on TV including commercials. It is unavoidable that many voters get hooked during the operation of Governor Koike, who appears on TV to incite the fear of coronaviruses and pretends to take proper measures against it.
It is important for Taro Yamamoto to run as a candidate and let as many voters as possible know about the policies that have been appealed until now through the media such as television. I think his candidacy is worth it.
■ 100% change of government is not possible with the current opposition parties. In that case, Japan’s decline, poverty, and worsening security are inevitable. Japan is only deteriorating. At any rate, we have to change the flow.
We have to carry out politics with the most common sense. It’s a jargon word, but there’s a word that “you can’t stand without your trust.” In short, politics cannot be done without the trust of the people in politics. I read that Prime Minister Abe used to say this word before, but I felt that there were no more bad black jokes.
We must change such politics as soon as possible. All we have to do is to engage in politics in accordance with the common sense we use as the norm of behavior. Every day, we repeat the very obvious thing that a red traffic light stops and a green light progresses. Don’t let people get hurt, don’t trick people, this is also common sense.
However, such common sense is completely lost in current politics. All I want to do is to lie in front of the people with ease, tamper with the official documents, and even change the law. If things like this pass, society and the country will collapse.
In any case, we must make it a common sense country. There is little time left.
■今日は夕方から Sun と二人で、ララポート沼津に久しぶりに出掛けました。自粛要請が続いていて本当に久しぶりでした。一つはメガネを作る必要があったためです。昨年 12 月に白内障の手術を受け、眼内レンズを入れてもらいましたので、とても鮮明に物が見えるようになり快適な毎日なのですが、スマホの細かい字あるいは遠方を見る際にはメガネの助けが必要です。
Today was the Shin-Numazu Country Club Class B Minazuki Moon Cup monthly. We played with three great friends, Mr. Hisamatsu and Mr. Uematsu. Last month I was able to finish in 3rd place. Today was in the middle of the rainy season, so it was a battle with the weather.
It was almost invisible because of the fog. Of the 18 holes, there were only a few that could see the green and hit the pin. In other words, I had no choice but to keep hitting the ball into the fog.
Still, thanks to Caddy’s instructions, I was able to reach a score of 92. The swing was still unstable due to trial and error, and an OB came out from the second shot of the first hole, but it went up with an OB par, and it was a big harvest to be able to play without any major collapse.
As usual, Pat suffered from instability, but I wonder if there were only three pads twice. It was a pain that the approach didn’t come too close, but I still managed to survive several times with 1 put, so I have to say good.
■I went to Lalaport Numazu together with Sun from the evening after a long absence. It was a long time since I was asked to refrain from going out. One is because I had to make glasses. I had a cataract surgery in December of last year and had an intraocular lens put in, so I can see things very clearly and it is a comfortable day for me. However, glasses are required when looking at the detailed characters on the smartphone or looking far away.
Myopia is as low as -1.0 D with my naked eye, and glasses are not necessary for daily life. I can drive with the naked eyes during the day. Today, I bought a pair of light-powered reading glasses for work and a far-sighted spectacles plus polarized lens for exercise. Glasses with polarized lenses can be very useful when traveling and driving.
■ Now, the Tokyo Governor’s election is approaching. The re-election of Governor Koike is considered to be influential, but questions such as the problem of spoofing educational background and its political methods are becoming more and more apparent.
Governor Koike creates a virtual enemy every time the election approaches, directs himself to fight the enemy to the voters, and ignores the statements so far as if it had never been said. What she is doing is just like Prime Minister Abe. It matches exactly like a mirror.
How long do these kinds of politicians continue to trick you into waking up Japanese voters? What has been lost since the Koizumi administration is too big. “Againing Japan”, which Prime Minister Abe once exclaimed, is nothing but a black joke.
I can’t help not having politics above the level of voters, but I’m keenly aware that it’s time to wake up.
■昨日は録画してあった映画を見ました。「翼よ、あれがパリの灯だ」です。原題は「The Spirit of St. Louis 」ですから意訳してある訳ですが、この日本語の題名は名訳だと思います。昔、原作を読もうと挑戦しましたが、確か途中で挫折した記憶があります。上下二巻本だったと思います。勿論、その偉大な冒険飛行は素晴らしいのですが、本の解説によればむしろ、それ以前の準備段階での慎重さ、あるいは用意周到さといったものを褒め称えていました。飛行中のさまざまな苦難、特に睡魔に襲われる部分は見ていて本当にハラハラドキドキでした。
■ I ran this morning. I woke up twice in the middle of the night, went to the bathroom, and didn’t feel deep sleep. I started hard and ran the usual course for 6.12km, and I accumulated 48.86km in 9 runs this month, and I reached 51.14km to reach 100km in 17 days. I ran under the overcast clouds in the rainy sky. It seemed like it was going to rain soon, but it never fell to the end. Due to the heat and humidity, my hat got quite wet with sweat before I finished running. After running, the cold watermelon was the best.
■ I watched the movie that was recorded yesterday. “Wings, that is the light of Paris.” The original title is “The Spirit of St. Louis,” so it’s a free translation, but I think this Japanese title is a good translation. I tried to read the original translated book in the past, but I remember that I was frustrated on the way. I remember it was two volumes up and down. Of course, the great adventure flight is wonderful, but rather, according to the explanation of the book, he praised the preparation in the preparation stage before that. I was really thrilled to see various hardships during the flight, especially the part that was hit by drowsiness.
■ Yesterday, I took out the closed fan. Last summer is over and it’s been a year since I cleaned up. It was the first time in a year, so it was covered in dust. I took it apart last night, cleaned the wings and removed dust. At the beginning of the week I removed the filter from the air conditioner, which also removed dust. The dust accumulates in no time.
■ The Tokyo Shimbun this morning says that Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has announced her return to the governor’s election on July 5th. A book has been published and has become a best-selling book that wonders if you really graduated from Cairo University.
There is no doubt that Governor Koike has continued to deceive voters, even if the truth about it is sideways. Aside from the problem of academic fraud, I think that this point is a bigger problem, and voters should thoroughly examine it.
Anyway, the basic stance is that the winner wins and the voters will soon forget it, so no matter what you say, there will be no problem. A voter who is often deceived by such an attitude is no different from a consumer who is often deceived by the scam.
Every time the election is over, Japan becomes poor and society becomes distressed. Since we are wasting our limited budget and limited resources in the wrong direction, society and the people’s lives cannot be enriched.
In that sense, Prime Minister Abe and Governor Koike are very similar politicians. The two are exactly the same. Voters must open their eyes firmly.
■ I ran this morning. It rained all day yesterday, and the rain started to increase from midnight. The wind was getting stronger and it was as if a typhoon had come. I found Sun closed the landing window in the middle of the night. Because it was likely to rain in my house.
Last night I took Lendormin, which I had been taking before, for the first time in a long time and took a rest. I don’t know if that was the reason, but I think I had a good sleep. I woke up after four o’clock and was wondering if I should get up there or take another sleep, but I fell asleep until five o’clock. I had a little difficulty getting up, but I managed to get up, carry the garbage to the designated place, and started after the preparatory movement.
This morning I ran a regular course of 6.09km, and this month I have accumulated 42.73km in eight runs, leaving 57.26km to reach my target 100km in 18 days.
It was the 1,000th run to commemorate today. Today’s run was just the 1,000th time since I started recording on Epson’s running watch. Looking at the record, I recorded the first 5.15 km on November 21, 2014. Since then, I have accumulated a total of 6,955.08km.
Before that, I used Garmin’s running watch, so if I accumulate that amount, I have already run over 9,000 kilometers.
I’m running heavy today. Anyway The temperature was not high, so it was not a gloomy condition under a cloudy sky. Still, it is not a condition that is easy to run. In the morning when you can run, it is difficult to reach the target of 100km/month if you do not accumulate even a little.
■The following article was published in the Tokyo Shimbun this morning. “Temporary convocation is a constitutional obligation.” Opposition party Strengthens criticism of “unconstitutional”.
A Naha district court decision was issued that pointed out that the cabinet that was requested to convene an extraordinary Diet under Article 53 of the Constitution had an obligation to convene. In response, the opposition party announced on June 11 that it would call for an extraordinary session of the Diet if it closed at the end of the 17th session.
In the Naha District Court lawsuit, it was questioned whether Abe’s cabinet was unconstitutional in 2017 for not meeting the opposition party’s request for a congressional parliament for about three months. Judge Yamaguchi Kazuhiro dismissed the opposition party’s claims for damages in a ruling on the 10th, and showed no unconstitutional judgment regarding the Abe Cabinet’s response.
He also pointed out that Article 53 of the Constitution has the purpose of “making it possible to hold a parliamentary initiative led by a minority member of parliament.” “The Cabinet has a constitutional obligation to convene an extraordinary Diet if requested,” the judge declared.
The following words written at the end are all about the Abe Cabinet. Professor Asaho Mizushima (Constitutional) of Waseda University School of Law
As the judgment points out, convocation is a legal obligation. The Abe Cabinet did not hold an extraordinary Diet session in 2003, but convened it in 2017, but dissolved the House of Representatives at the beginning.
If the Abe Cabinet does not hold the Diet again this time with the strategy of not wanting the people to know the fate of the administration, there is no rebellion against the constitution.
We have chosen a cabinet that does not want to uphold the constitution. The LDP has fallen into such a political party.
That is the result of Japan’s post-war democracy, which arrived 75 years after the war.
The Tokai region finally entered the rainy season yesterday. It seems that it is about two days later than usual, but this year it is finally entering a gloomy season. It means that a dull day will continue.
This year’s rainy season in the new type of coronavirus is unprecedented. This rainy season has caused heavy rain clouds for many people due to fear of infection and deterioration of economic conditions.
All meetings and events have been cancelled, which has affected people in various occupations. If the event is cancelled, the income of those involved in the work will be lost. When various meetings and events are actually canceled, you can see how big the impact is.
In the medical world, academic conferences and study groups have been canceled for all sizes. Some of the academic conferences were held online, and surprises and unexpected benefits were sometimes discovered.
At a national level conference, it is often held at the Tokyo International Forum in front of Tokyo Yurakucho Station, but many topics are presented at many venues, so it is not possible to see all of them. Of the hundreds of announcements, choosing which one to attend is always a headache.
However, since it was an online conference this time, it was more fulfilling than I expected to be able to carefully check the slides while checking the title. I felt that if I looked at it purely as an academic society, I would rather learn more online.
Of course, there is no question and answer online, so you can only listen to the lectures unilaterally, but being able to check as many times as you have available time may be a further advantage.
The advantage of meeting with friends and fellow teachers for the first time in a long time is of course great, but when I first attended the online conference, I realized the unexpected positive side.
Since the effects of the new coronavirus will continue, it is quite possible that this type of online academic society will take root.
We are realizing that the impact of the new coronavirus can change society significantly. We can’t imagine what the current society will look like a year later, but we must have the wisdom and courage to turn a pinch into an opportunity.
