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.
I was going to run this morning, but I didn’t. I took Belsomra, an orexin receptor antagonist, as a sleep inducer last night. The medicine was recommended by a Kampo teacher who is currently undergoing medical examination.
I used to use lendormin before, but considering the side effects, I was advised to use the melatonin receptor agonist Rozerem as the first choice. But it didn’t suit me. I couldn’t work because my head was full of thought the next morning.
So, I took another orexin receptor antagonist, another sleep-inducing agent, for the first time the day before yesterday. This agonist has no such side effects. However, when I drank it last night, I felt a slight palpitation from dawn this morning and could not sleep. I have taken it only twice, so it may be quick to conclude, but it seems that it does not suit my constitution.
The two kinds of herbal medicines that I had prescribed prevented my palpitations from happening a lot, but I started to see them again due to oral administration of Belsomra. Only Lendormin seems to fit my constitution.
According to the weather forecast, it won’t rain until tomorrow, so I decided to run tomorrow morning.
As usual, I got up at 5 o’clock this morning, but I didn’t feel like eating much and lay down for about an hour. It was the day of garbage disposal, so I carried it to the designated place, picked up the newspaper, came back, and looked carefully at the paper.
■ I started reading a book yesterday. This is “Tekina Osamu’s book on the national bandit Shinzo Abe and his friends.” It analyzes over the past seven years that people who are in a position to protect Japan are selling Japan. Meanwhile, many Japanese people continued to tolerate.
It reminded me that the book “Escape from Freedom” by Erich Fromm, which appeared in the book, became a designated book in a lecture in sociology during college. I didn’t have the will to read through to the end, but 75 years after the war, I found that the analysis of this book was still valid. It is also written that Soseki Natsume, a great writer, had a sharp view of the end of modern Japan.
75 years after the defeat, 150 years after the Meiji Restoration, we reached an end in modern Japan. That was the Abe Cabinet’s eight-year period.
When the new coronavirus spread and the crisis came, it can be said that we finally noticed the actual situation of politics over the last eight years with AbenoMask and the concrete measures that politics showed us.
There is a truly desperate battle to rebuild Japan in the future, but we cannot escape.
I took a good rest this morning. I have run four times this week and have almost achieved the goal of 25km for one week, so today and tomorrow are rest days.
Normally, I participate in the Chitose JAL International Marathon on the first Sunday of June. I used to fly from Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport to Chitose after the morning clinic was over.
However, this year’s Chitose Marathon was canceled due to the spread of the new coronavirus. I canceled everything from the plane to the inn I was staying at. The marathon event committee canceled the application in March and it was being considered for a while, but eventually it was canceled and part of the participation fee was returned.
Since I applied for the Adult Half Marathon, the participation fee was 5200 yen. 2700 yen minus the operating cost of 2500 yen was sent as a Quo card with a towel specially made for the tournament, and we were informed on our website.
At this time of year, Hokkaido is a perfect time for a refreshing run. I have participated for 6 consecutive years since 2014. This year was the 40th memorable tournament, but it’s a pity that it was canceled. Each of the six times I participated, I have some precious memories.
There was also the famous guest runner, Yuki Kawauchi. Of course he participated in the full marathon, but by the time I completed the half marathon, he had finished the full marathon and had just flew back home during the day.
At the ceremony before the start, he was smiling at the JAL flight attendants and had the image of a really refreshing young man. Perhaps last year, he was married, had a family, and started a new competitive life. I think he is really a hard worker.
After all, he is a great runner because he won the Boston Marathon. I hope he has another chance to win the marathon.
■ By the way, today’s Tokyo Shimbun read column “Writing person” is about Kazuhisa Todayama, director of the College of Liberal Arts Education, Nagoya University. The subtitle is “What is true education?”
In this, Todayama defines a liberal man in this way.
Liberal artisans are people who are aware that they are the leaders of society, and through discussions in the public sphere, try to improve and maintain society for the future.
I think of the mass as the opposite of this liberal man.
For example, I recall the postal elections by the Koizumi Cabinet, which can be said to be the origin of the current social situation. I feel like I was witnessing something like the enthusiasm of the masses for the first time. Of course I was fully immersed in it.
A true librarian would have well understood the awkwardness and danger of that frenzy.
The Tokyo Governor’s election four years ago is also a typical example. When the enthusiasm goes away, the only thing that remains like a lie is the ruins. The reality is not in any good direction.
I think that the person who can understand exactly what it means in such an enthusiasm and talk about how to act is a true liberal.
It seems to me that in the future, such liberals will be needed more and more for society.
I took a good rest this morning. I ran on Monday and Tuesday, so I had a rest day every three days. June has just begun, so the long battle will continue. Rest is also important.
It is expected that Tokyo will issue a “Tokyo alert” to warn Tokyo that the new coronavirus infection is spreading in Tokyo. On June 2, 34 new cases were reported, and the average number of people infected in the last 7 days rose to 16.3. The weekly increase ratio also exceeds the standard of official announcement.
At this stage, Tokyo is only strengthening its call for refraining from going out, but it seems that if the situation worsens, it will re-request business closure. It is expected that if the behavior is eased, the number of infections will increase, and that the situation will return to self-restraint. There must be a long battle ahead.
■ By the way, this morning in the Tokyo Shimbun, there is an interview with Kazuo Hara, who directed the documentary film “Reiwa Ikki”. Japan’s leading documentary film director Kazuo Hara has completed a new work following the election campaign of Professor Ayumu Yasutomi of the University of Tokyo who ran as a proportional representative from Reiwa Shinsengumi in the House of Councilors election last year. An interview was held.
Director Kazuo Hara, who has always taken a long time to scoop out the inside of a person with a strong personality, but in this movie, it is necessary to finish shooting during the election period, mostly preliminary knowledge I had no choice but to start shooting.
So he decided to make a movie of the words the candidates uttered to voters. According to Hara, I was impressed by the words of each candidate, not the policy.
Yasutomi sought to protect his children, and other candidates also sought to change the world with their own words. He added that the combination of 10 candidates was outstanding, and that the words allowed us to take a picture of the precious scene that moved people.
In the end, Hara says:
“There are a lot of people who don’t want to see it when Japan is in a terrible situation. That’s why I want to continue filming documentaries that are not lukewarm.”
■ In the House of Councilors election held in July of last year, I was watching the “Reiwa Shinsengumi” election campaign launched by representative Taro Yamamoto on the Internet. I thought the election speech was a boring one, but each candidate spoke to the audience in a truly human and life-specific language.
Taro Yamamoto’s speech was the most emotional of all the election speeches I’ve heard. I have a lot of excitement every day wondering where to go next to give a speech.
Perhaps it was the day before the voting day, one of the audience from the platform of Shimbashi station shot on the smartphone and posted it on YouTube about the situation when Yamamoto made a speech in front of Shimbashi station. The enthusiasm was really terrifying. I even expected that the world would really change.
There are various commentators who commented on the battle of Yamamoto, who won more than 2 million votes and sent two candidates with disabilities to the House of Councilors with priority, but for me it was a “bloody and lively” election campaign.
However, after all, half of the voters are voting, and only 60% of the voters vote for the current government, so only about 30% of the people get the support.
Nonetheless, the current administration is conducting politics with a thorough policy that it is distributing the tax of the people to its friends, “just now, only money, only myself.”
However, many Japanese didn’t notice it until the Corona Eruption was attacked. The media did not convey the reality to the people. Reiwa Shinsengumi was rarely featured in the media. In that sense, last year’s House of Councilors election showed to the voters the true image of Japan, which is at the exact opposite of the beautiful Japan advocated by Prime Minister Abe.
As a result of the Abe administration, which had such a high approval rating, responded to measures against corona infectious diseases and the revision of the law to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the approval rate fell to less than 30%. I wonder why such a government has maintained a high approval rating until now. They haven’t changed anything, and they will never change.
People’s lives are far below their friends in terms of priority. Even the measures against coronary baldness are actually started by giving taxes to your friends, and then giving them to those in need.
In terms of just pretending to be doing, both the country and Tokyo are similar. Only empty words fly around there. The people are really unhappy because such politicians are at the top.
If the people are aware of this as soon as possible and take no action, Japan must be truly tattered. There is little time left.
I took a good rest this morning. I ran over 10 kilometers yesterday, so this morning is a rest day. Still, I set the alarm to 5 o’clock.
It was a garbage day, so I brought it to the designated place, picked up the newspaper, and returned. I’m not running today, so breakfast is lighter than usual. I have 7 kilometers left to reach my goal of running 100 kilometers a month, so I can reach it tomorrow.
A USB memory for installing the basic software called NN linux is being created on another Windows PC. It is NN Linux that Japanese high school students improved their own Linux, which is a basic software that can be freely used unlike Windows, and made it easier to use.
Looking up, there seem to be some other distributions that Japanese high school students have assembled. I felt very reliable.
Linus Torvalds, a Finnish university student, called for Linux in 1991 to encourage people around the world to use the program created as a hobby through the Internet. There are literally innumerable distributions, but each has its own personality.
Obviously, it doesn’t make sense for each distribution to use the language of the country correctly. The works created by Japanese high school students based on their interests are designed so that Japanese can be used from the beginning without any inconvenience.
This work seems to have been trimmed of excess parts as much as possible with the primary purpose of being able to move lightly even with a weak computer. Inevitably the distribution will grow because it is more convenient and has more applications. On the contrary, it can be said that this work was made into a haiku by narrowing down to the minimum necessary. I was very surprised and delighted that high school students were working on the work that was created with the purpose of cutting down waste and how to operate quickly.
There is basic software called TRON. It is the most installed software of all the moving devices in the world. This is made by Sakamura Ken of Japan.
Unfortunately, it has not become mainstream as the basic software for personal computers, but it is not inferior in terms of influence.
Japanese people tend to downplay software that runs hardware. Finally, there was no perspective in Japan that Bill Gates had perceived that it was software that held the hegemony. Even now, there is no change in the trend of lightening software, or business owners lightening programmers.
There are, of course, good programmers or great works, programming languages such as ruby in Japan, but most are dominated by American products.
After all, giant IT companies, so-called GAFA companies, are changing the world with software. Is the day when Japan will catch up?
I had set my alarm for 5:00 this morning with the intention of getting up, but as expected I didn’t have the energy to get up. I ran for an hour and a half on Sunday and then again yesterday, so today was a rest day.
The month of May will be over next Sunday and it can’t be long before this most refreshing season of the year is over. Every year, a month goes by with the same kind of feeling.
It’s already the rainy season in Okinawa, and in Southern Kyushu, the rainy season usually starts at the end of May. On my run this past Sunday, I found a small plum tree in the park with a small plum fruit. The rainy season is about to begin, and the fruits of the plum tree will gradually grow.
Since the beginning of this year, Sun and I have been drinking plum wine with bourbon. In addition, carbonated water and ice are added to the drink, which is quite good. It’s really little in terms of quantity, but I feel like it’s good for my body.
During the Lehman shock in 2008, I bought a car at the request of a friend who runs a company that manufactures automobile parts. It is a third generation Prius. It was time to change the car I was driving, so I bought a Prius, a hybrid car that was a hot topic at the time. I remember it took about 3 months from the time I ordered it to delivery. It was very popular.
It’s been a decade since then, but this time it was a coronal shock. The chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. expressed a sense of crisis as the company’s cars almost stopped selling.
I decided to buy a Subaru Impreza this time. Last year, I participated in the Jyoshu Ota Subaru Marathon with Taku. Ota City in Gunma Prefecture is the castle town of Subaru, and since it is in Gunma Prefecture that Taku took his first step as a lawyer and has been nurtured by the company, I would like to repay the debt, even if only a little, by purchasing a car.
Subaru is so popular in the United States that more than 60% of its sales are made in the United States. Although it’s not exactly selling well in Japan, with just over 10% of its sales in Japan, it has a lot of enthusiastic fans and is known as a “Suvarist.
I have no regard for cars at all, so the idea is that any car is fine as long as it gets the driver to his destination safely.
After driving a Prius for 10 years, I feel that it is a well-built car. The fuel economy is close to 20 km per liter, which is enough for someone like me who only rides twice a week and only needs to refuel once every two to three months. The run is quiet and I think it’s really well done.
I am impressed by the technological capabilities of the world’s Toyota in developing such a hybrid system. There is no doubt that the reason why similar systems cannot be followed by manufacturers around the world is that they are so difficult to develop and so elaborate. I think the decision to move to electric vehicles was made by the foreign powers who decided that they would not be able to catch up easily.
It doesn’t seem to me that electric cars will overtake cars with internal combustion engines, but technological innovation is progressing by the day. At the moment, the performance of the battery is holding them back, and electric vehicles have yet to become widely available to the public. Somewhere along the way, a technical breakthrough may be found. When that happens, it’s entirely possible that electric cars will take a big leap forward.
If electric vehicles, which are simpler in construction and require fewer parts, become commonplace, this will be a major negative for Japanese manufacturing. I can understand that the manufacturing industry is the backbone of Japan, but in today’s mature country, the share of manufacturing has declined dramatically.
It’s not manufacturing anymore that many workers engage in. Isn’t the biggest challenge of a post-corona society to create a society in which more people can enjoy the happiness of a very ordinary person?
I took a good rest this morning. I ran for 1 hour and 30 minutes in the morning yesterday, so today is a rest day.
After running yesterday, I took a short break in the morning and after watching about half of the recorded American movie “Little Women”, I went to Newell Sunpia Numazu’s bath with Sun. The refraining from business is that the daytime bathing is accepted until 16:00.
A university in Tokyo has a plan to build a four-year nursing department in Numazu, and Newell Sunpia Numazu was the first candidate for the school building. However, it seems that the discussion did not go well, and in the end it seems that the recently closed hotel near Numazu Station will be diverted to school. The Shizuoka Shimbun also wrote that kind of content, so there seems to be no mistake.
Then Newell Sunpia Numazu will continue to operate as before and we will be able to use the hot spring facility.
By the way, dinner is a monthly fun party. Tsuru-chan and the four of us enjoyed conversation, alcohol and wonderful food at “Hiroshigeru” in front of Hara station. In Shizuoka, the emergency declaration has been lifted and the number of people is gradually returning. However, it may take a considerable amount of time for the people to pull back to the original state after the ebb tide.
According to Satoshi Fujii of Kyoto University, when the state of emergency was declared and the infection status was confirmed after that, it was true that the state of emergency was not needed. In other words, many shops suffered the bottom of pain because of a meaningless declaration of emergency that was not based on scientific evidence.
Unlike developed countries, Japan was not a declaration of emergency with leave compensation, so our policy is to voluntarily refrain from sales. I think self-employed people are really tough. If you open a shop for your life, you will be called a non-national person, and if you close the shop silently, you will be in need of life. It is in a state like the Japanese army during the war, with hell going forward and hell going back.
■ By the way, this morning, the Tokyo Shimbun reported that there was a large discrepancy in the explanations about the process of deciding to give notice to the prosecutor Hiromu Kurokawa, who resigned from Tokyo Koken, between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Justice Minister Masako Mori.
Mr. Mori, the Minister of Justice, explains that the Cabinet and the Ministry of Justice have substantially decided, while Prime Minister Abe emphasizes that the prosecutor-general is aware of the circumstances and took action.
The Attorney General is a “certifier” appointed by the Cabinet and certified by the Emperor. The appointed authority is the Cabinet and its chief is the prime minister. State officials stipulate that disciplinary actions will be taken by the appointed person, and in the past the Cabinet may have disciplined the prosecutor-general and the prosecutor-general.
According to Minister Mori, “I had various discussions with the Cabinet, who is the appointed authority, within the Ministry of Justice,” and “I finally told the prosecutor-general what the decision was made in the Cabinet. It may be a considerable disposition, ”and the prosecutor-general informed us that it would be an advisory disposition.”
On the other hand, Prime Minister Abe repeatedly said, “I understand that the prosecutor-general has properly disposed of it in consideration of various circumstances such as the content of the case.” It gives the impression that you are not involved in the process.
In other words, it seems that the Prime Minister himself wants to give the public the impression that he was not aware of this disposition, and that the decision was made by the Attorney General.
At the beginning of the Weekly Bunshun press report, there was a view within the Ministry of Justice that “I do not understand that the retirement allowance will be paid in full,” but in the end, a full retirement allowance will be paid. It seems.
According to one journalist, this was a kind of mouthwash. It seems that there are many illegal cases that Mr. Kurokawa has squeezed for the Abe Cabinet, but it is an implicit understanding that you should never leave it even after resigning. ..
It is a cabinet that was fraudulently covered from beginning to end.
I took a good rest this morning. The usual pattern was to sleep at 10 o’clock at night and get up at 5 o’clock in the morning. I ran 10km yesterday morning, so I have to rest today, and tomorrow I have to set a running schedule towards my goal of running 100km a month. Fortunately, we have two more Sundays, so I’d like to make a big accumulation there and manage to reach my goal.
■ The Rotary club’s regular meeting, which has been a long time since March, was held yesterday for the first time in 3 months. I’ve met some people online through Zoom, golf, etc., but most of them haven’t been in a long time.
About half of all members attended. After all, it seems difficult for everyone to attend.
The Rotary club has only two months left in May and June this year. The seats at the venue were also rearranged every two months, and so the table members who attended the meeting were also updated. Normally, we hold a dinner party called a table party, and we talk about club activities, but this time it was also self-restraint.
■Since it is a garbage processing day this morning, I left it at the collection place in front of the park. Anyway, it’s a refreshing morning. Although it is raining every day in Okinawa, it may be the most refreshing time of the year here. Looking to the north, the fresh greenery of Mt. Ashitaka is painful to the eyes, and rice planting has started here and there.
The persimmon tree of my home grows branches and leaves day by day, and small flowers like a yellow waxwork should bloom soon. I feel that persimmon trees play a life in a year.
■ At Rotary’s regular meeting, I talked to Mr. Uematsu, the next year’s chairman, Mr. Yamada, the secretary, and Mr. Tsuchiya about Slack yesterday. The communication tool, Slack. It seems that it is being used quite a bit in the business world, and it is Zoom that has been working at home due to the problem of coronavirus infection and has been rapidly used.
However, one programmer wrote that communicating with Slack is overwhelmingly more productive than a conference at Zoom to carry out a project with colleagues.
I’ve never used it, so I don’t know how wonderful it really is, but I can intuitively understand what he meant.
So, I invited four people to try it once. What will happen? I hope I can use it well.
I rested early last night with the intention of running this morning, but I felt a slight chill, perhaps due to the cold from dawn. I changed the comforter to a thicker one and rested, but I stopped running because I was afraid of getting sick.
The sound of rain was heard before 5 o’clock, and there was no point in overdoing it, so after tomorrow, I have no choice but to do my best and build up. It seems that I have no choice but to do a long distance LSD on Sunday.
I still have more than 50km to go, so I need to take this to heart before I can reach my goal of running 100km a month. There are times when that happens. I have no choice but to deal with it calmly.
■This morning’s Tokyo Shimbun’s “Here’s a special report” is critical of the government’s response to the following: “School reopens rather than discussing September enrollment”, “Next fall will bring confusion over entrance exams and employment”, “Too complex an assumption and a huge financial burden”, “Shorten summer vacations and substitute Saturday classes”, “No effect on preventing the spread of infection”, “No pediatrician school clusters”, “Administration shock doctrine”, and “Swap public health issues for education policy”.
Makiko Nakamura, a professor at Keio University, said, “I feel that the reason why politics has suddenly started to focus on September admission is because they want to solve two problems. This is because overseas data shows that the average academic performance of children who are unable to study and those who are unable to study decline due to a lack of class days, and that both of these problems will have negative effects in the future, including a decline in lifetime wages.
However, the reason why the discussion of September enrollment came up in the first place is because of the longest school closure of three months. In late February, in order to prevent the spread of new corona infections, Prime Minister Abe arbitrarily called for the nationwide closure of all schools without consulting an expert meeting.
When asked if the school’s closure really helped prevent the spread of infection, pediatrician Hiroyuki Moriuchi, professor of infectious diseases at Nagasaki University, summed up his negative view and said the following
(1) Children account for a small percentage of cases of the new coronavirus, and most cases are transmitted in the home.
(2) Currently, there are no or very few clusters in schools and nursery schools.
(3) The closure of schools and daycare centers is not effective in preventing the epidemic, forcing medical workers to close their doors and potentially increasing the mortality rate from the new corona.
For these reasons, the risk of infection between children is low, and school closures have not prevented the spread of infection, he said.
Dr. Morichi said that the infection of the new coronavirus is different from the flu, which causes an explosion of infection among children, but rather, it causes problems in the mental and physical health and learning of children who are confined to the house, unable to see their friends or teachers. Unfortunately, parental abuse is also on the rise, as should be considered a demerit, he said.
Thus, even though experts have stated that there is no basis for the effect of school closures, it is unreasonable to introduce a September admission system on the basis of those closures.
Professor Tetsuhiko Nakajima of the Aichi Institute of Technology said. “I knew they would do something with the growing criticism of the administration’s management, but it’s a shock doctrine that it’s September enrollment. He is indignant that they are taking advantage of the disaster for their own benefit.
Eiichi Aoki, an associate professor at Tohoku University, pointed out that the policy objective of the school closure was a public health issue to prevent an explosion of infection, but now that the school has reopened, it has been replaced by an educational policy issue of starting school in September.
This is because the school was originally closed as a public health problem, and therefore the reopening of the school should have a public health basis, but the school was not closed for a proper basis in the first place. Once the school is closed, it is no wonder that there is a lot of anxiety about reopening. The government should make the situation more visible and show the basis for its policies,” he said.
■I also feel that this is true. I can’t help but think that the Abe administration’s policies are all capitalizing on the catastrophe of coronavirus infection, in other words, they are devious in the shadows.
The reality is that they continue to deceive the public by coming up with one catchphrase policy after another, diverting their attention away from it, without verifying the results. This is an easy-to-follow example of the shock doctrine, which is a method of taking advantage of a catastrophe to pass one big problematic law after another behind the scenes.
If we continue to “see no evil, say no evil, hear no evil,” the people will only go to hell.
■ It was a rainy morning, as the weather forecast said. It’s Tuesday, so it’s the day of garbage collection. I took them to the collection site in front of the park, brought newspapers on my way home, and started preparing for breakfast.
This morning breakfast was coffee, banana, yogurt and natto with okara powder. All the foods recommended by the Chinese medicine doctor Uebaba, who is currently in control of my body, are recommended.
I didn’t run this morning so I refrained from eating bread and red bean paste.
On the 18th, Shizuoka Prefecture announced that due to the spread of new coronavirus infection, the three mountain trails of Mt. Fuji managed by the prefecture will be closed from July 10 to September 10, which is the opening period. Yamanashi Prefecture has already announced that the trails will be closed, so it has been confirmed that Mt. Fuji will not be able to climb this summer.
Since Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures managed mountain trails only after the war, there are no records and all four trails are closed, except when it could not be climbed due to an eruption even when going back in history. It is believed that there was no closure. It’s an unusual event, a historical event.
The roads that are closed are the Yoshida route in Yamanashi prefecture, the Gotemba route in Shizuoka prefecture, the Subashiri route, and the Fujinomiya route. Since all 3 huts could not be resolved, all mountain huts first decided to close. Then, it was reported that both prefectures could not patrol and maintain the mountain trails, and could not secure the safety of mountaineers.
By the way, yesterday, the ruling party decided to postpone the enactment of the Prosecutor’s Office amendment bill at the current Diet session. While this is desirable in itself, the opposition fears that it will delay the completion of the National Civil Service Act amendment, which had been considered as one bill. This is because the opposition party has received support from the labor union seeking to extend the retirement age of civil servants.
When it comes to living longer, when to retire is a very difficult problem, but one thing I worry about when extending the retirement age of civil servants is that it may reduce youth employment quotas. ..
What is lacking in Japan today is investment in youth. In short, investing in the future.
According to Mr. Taro Yamamoto, the current administration looks like an austerity nation. While the supporters of the administration are spending a large amount of money, the current administration is only reducing investment in the future such as repair of social infrastructure, medical care, nursing care, and education. This will only darken the future of Japan.
It may be necessary for both the ruling and opposition parties to firmly hold discussions on that point.
