Mer Cedo

Mer Cedo - A Record of An Age -Slashdot Journals &Comments in my journals

Manga Society

The Giant
[ 0 Comments #150583 ] Monday November 06, @12:52AM

SoftBank is going to buy MySpace Japan. Amazing. SoftBank not only bought the third largest cellular company -vodafone Japan recently, but trying to buy a popular social networking service MySpace. But MySpace 'Japan'. the number of registered users is still small as opposed to its counterpart Mixi, Japan's most popular one, that has 5.7 million registered users. SoftBank is Yahoo provider in Japan. It also bought Japan's professional baseball team Hawks recently.
The Small Government
[ 0 Comments #150577 ] Monday November 06, @12:33AM

The corporate tax will be reduced soon as the European or American level. East Asian level is less severe than European or American level. Government refused to reduce the corporate tax as East Asian level. Instead the current administration asked the corparate organisation to increase the salary of their employees. This is a perfect example the role of government has been diminishing greatly. This itself ought to be welcome. But I'm not sure whether the corporation will improve the benifit of their employees. I have nothing for it but to wait for the corporation.
Empty Spot
[ 0 Comments #150405 ] Saturday November 04, @04:23PM

The bureaucrats power will drastically increase under the new administration. In foreign relations this country's position will dramatically decline. More and more she will lose identity as a nation. The power seizure of this administration means a kind of appearance of empty spot in map. I don't mention which country.
Manga Society
[ 0 Comments #150401 ] Saturday November 04, @04:03PM

In a TV theatre, show, even in a movie, a serious debate show, etc I always notice all the participants don't like to deal with many matters seriously. Instead they always try to make fun of each other and make light of many serious matters. They know they have already lost the right of choice. They always follow what the stronger countries or international community made a decision. Huge bosoms, deshabille costume, and tentacle monsters are phenomenon of their unrealised dreams. They tend to realise their dreams in manga, not in reality which is nearly impossible.
Eighty-eight Temples Pilgrimage
[ 0 Comments #150399 ] Saturday November 04, @03:52PM

Kookai.-must have nothing to do with Japanese monk Kuukai-.. But if the concept of Kookai in fashion was based on the idea and thought of Kuukai, it is very fascinating. Still many ordinary people go on a trip in 88 temples in an island. It takes at least three months but it might be a wonderful experience when it completed. Kuukai ( 774-835 ) arranged 88 temples after he came back from China. His Buddhist preaching is esoteric, but he not only tsught his Buddhism but did lots of public enterprises like making a pond for drought. 88 Temples pilgrimage is not only held by elderlies but by youngsters too for those intend to seek the meaning of their life by this journey. We have to walk thoughout this journey. I intend to do sometime later in my life.

The Third Fire

Five Party Talk
[ 0 Comments #150397 ] Saturday November 04, @03:44PM

North Korea said Japan had better not attend the six party talk, because Japan is like one of the states of America. Especially in diplomacy Japan never fails to follow America. True.
The Third Fire
[ 0 Comments #150391 ] Saturday November 04, @03:04PM

At the end of 19th century, still no human could handle the fate of all humans, still the grip of destiny was tightly held by the hands of supreme being other than humans. Since humans invented the third fire, now humans are the ones that can decide what is good and evil. Humans are now beyond good and evil.
The First Cosmopolitan
[ 0 Comments #150387 ] Saturday November 04, @02:42PM

Jesus was a Jews, it was needless to say though, yet he spoke Greek, and New Testament was written in Greek. The Septuagint was already published in Alexandria, Egypt in 3 c B.C. Greek was used widely throughout the area in the age of Jesus. Jesus was a Jews in blood but he was the first cosmopolitan in mind.
Devided Koreans
[ 0 Comments #150385 ] Saturday November 04, @02:40PM

In East Asia some people used to call Korean as 'Jews In East Asia'. I was unable to realise why Koreans are called 'Jews'. I had no idea though today when I was browsing some classics I found the description that Jewish people were devided into two in some age in ancient times. They were devided into two countries, one is Israel and the other was Judas from 900 B.C. to 587 B.C. But in history there were many countries which were devided into two or three countries. Roman Empire was devided in 286, the Western Roman Empire lasted till 467 and Eastern Roman Empire lasted till 1453. And The Frank Kingdom ( from 419 ) was devided into three, that is Germany, France, and Italy in 843. We might start calling Koreans Romans or Franks if devision was the only reason. In conclusion I might have to say East Asians don't know many about Western cultures.
Offerings
[ 0 Comments #150383 ] Saturday November 04, @02:36PM

Offerings were edible.

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil
[ 4 Comments #150375 ] Saturday November 04, @11:19AM

Beyond God and Devil. The spellings of Good-God, Evil-Devil are similar. Are they mere coincidence?
Hamlet
[ 0 Comments #150371 ] Saturday November 04, @10:16AM

Some years ago I read Hamlet, in there I noticed the title Hamlet is not a Hamlet who loved Ophelia. I noticed the title Hamlet means father Hamlet. Please reread it, I'm sure you feel so.
Government-Hired Scholar
[ 0 Comments #150369 ] Saturday November 04, @10:14AM

In TV there are a couple of scholars who claim a very stange view judging from the street value. They are telling the truth, from the government point of view. Remember there're many truths. His truth is truth from one side, but false from other side.
English Education In Japan
[ 0 Comments #150367 ] Saturday November 04, @10:10AM

English education in Japan as a compulsory subject starts at age 13 in secondary school. Can you believe it? In South Korea ten years ago already English became a compulsory subject in primary school, I mean they start learning English at age 7. The difference is clear though the difference caused by this is unseen yet, Japan's decline is only visible.
Alienation II
[ 0 Comments #150365 ] Saturday November 04, @10:06AM

When I see Japanese ideograms, I feel as if I were watching pictures. Once Roland Barthes used to write in his 'The Empire of Signe', this country is full of ideograms. Once people here took meanings from them, but sooner or later many people here will start feeling they are mere pictures as I'd started feeling.

Aegis

Alienation
[ 0 Comments #150363 ] Saturday November 04, @10:02AM

In my daily life Japanese language exists around me, but when I speak Japanese, as if I were not real me but someone else. I am not cut out for speaking Japanese, so in the future I intend to put myself in circumstances where I don't need to speak Japanese anymore. In order to get back real me.
Oxygen Bed
[ 0 Comments #150361 ] Saturday November 04, @09:58AM

Usually My sleeping hours are slightly over than 5 hours. But I was unable to get enough air, my sleeping hours tend to get longer. On the contrary if I can get enough fresh air, my sleeping hours are getting shorter than 5 hours. So if I can get enough oxygen constantly while I am sleeping, my sleeping hours will be much shorter like 3 hours. 20 years ago in some department store, Ginza, Tokyo I tried oxygen bar for 5 minutes. When I talked about it, my coworker taught me there's a machine that provides oxygen concentratedly for two hours after the game of some sports. In the near future people start entering the capsule that provides oxygen while we are sleeping, then our standard sleeping hours willl be 3 hours. We live such a very busy society.
Aegis
[ 0 Comments #150359 ] Saturday November 04, @09:49AM

Aegis - said to be the shield of Zeus, that can protect anything. This Aegis fleet has been equipped only both in America and Japan. Aegis -but the people of this country Japan have already lost what they ought to protect. Above is the theme of the movie - Aegis -Japan movie, and it reflrect well the situation of this country. They know they are not universal, but they don't know how to get universality.
Japan's Strange Spiritualism
[ 0 Comments #150357 ] Saturday November 04, @09:46AM

Four out of 12 managers of Japanese professional baseball team are American. I think American managers have more data than Japanese counterpart. The manager of Japanese national football team has been from abroad for three times from the beginning. The worst inclination Japanese managers tend to have is they are often inclined to rely on 'spriritualism'. They just tend to demand 'fight, fight, fight' in here no scientific data aren't available.
To Love
[ 2 Comments #150353 ] Saturday November 04, @09:30AM

It is difficult to love someone. It needs trust first then we can start loving. I was unable to start loving someone that day because I failed to trust the one. To love is beautiful because it's so unattainable.

Natural Selection

Company Society
[ 0 Comments #150351 ] Saturday November 04, @09:26AM

Japan is so-called company society. The right of individuals is strictly restricted, even those who invented new technology in company, the technic is not regarded as individual's but company's. The loyalty is rarely paid to its individuals. Sony made battery caught fire in Dell, Apple in the past, but today at last even in a computer made in Japan -Fujitsu made, the Sony made battery caught fire. The feature of company society is when they made success, they attribute their success to company, but when they failed they attribute their failure to individuals.
Economic Freedom
[ 0 Comments #150349 ] Saturday November 04, @09:22AM

Freedom Of News & Report Finland, Holland, Iceland, Ireland....top 1 Germany - 23, England - 27, Korea - 31, France - 35 Japan -51, America -53 Japan was located in 37th last year. Freedom of speech is very much related to the country's economic freedom.
Science? Technology?
[ 0 Comments #150347 ] Saturday November 04, @09:19AM

Investment to research and development in the field of science and technology is 3% of general domestic product. It's not high percentage, they say. But it's unnecessary to spend a big money on reserch and development. It's a matter of laughter for this country to talk about science and technology. I am unable to find science and technology in this country.
Ministry Of Education & Science
[ 0 Comments #150345 ] Saturday November 04, @09:16AM

It's not only unnecessary but harmful to young people. 222 public high school had not met the criteria this ministry imposed. If 25,000 students need to take 50 minutes times 70 classes of world history till their graduation next March, they will be unable to cope with university entrance examination. Lenient to students. If this ministry imposed such stupid classes on innocent pupils, I must say this ministry was not only unnecessary but harmful to young prosperous generations.
Natural Selection
[ 0 Comments #150343 ] Saturday November 04, @09:12AM

When the Black Ships arrived at Japan, 1853, the number of people who speak English and Japanese were almost the same. After 150 years later now the number of English speakers are at least 5 times as many as that of Japanese. Englsh speakers are found all over the world, but Japanese speakers are only limited within small four islands. Once when I started writing the contents of meeting in a company in English, people around me claimed that I write it in Japanese, but I ignored and keep on writing it in English. Now nobody daren't to say I write it in Japanese. But if I were told again, I prepare to say if you want to use Japanese, get out of Japan. From my eyes Japanese business scene is extremely inefficient, in other words, inept and stagnant. If Japanese people don't start introducing English more and more in various scenes in our daily social life, those who make the most of more efficient system will take the place of Japanese.

Her Crime & Punishment

Her Crime & Punishment
[ 0 Comments #150341 ] Saturday November 04, @09:07AM

As to a woman my works are dedicated to... Her crime was born to be too beautiful Her punishment was she had to live among ordinary Japanese -they were not as pretty as she was. I think we can find a few examples around us.
Public? Or Private?
[ 0 Comments #150339 ] Saturday November 04, @09:01AM

According to the news related to education, more than 20, 000 high school students will not be able to graduate because they failed to take enough unit of compulsory subject such as world history. World history was made compulsory as of 1994 by a ministry of education, but many universities don't require that examinees take it. So high school students who are not required to take world history in entrance examination don't like to take world history. Therefore high school had quitted imposing world history on examinees. High school authorities had been reporting falsified statement that all students took world hisory course. The problem lies not in high school, universities, but ministory of education. One hundred years ago the University of Tokyo was made to nourish a public servant, it was taken for granted that many excellent students be public servants. Nowadays many excellent students enter into private work force, not government. In this particular case as to world history is a typical example that government people decide things according to what they think it favourable, hopeful. They had needed to decide which subject ought to be required according to what subject university entrance examination requires. People here used to live as what public servants ordered them to do so. That time had passed forever.
White Collar ' Exemption '
[ 0 Comments #150337 ] Saturday November 04, @08:52AM

This notion might be from America because the word is English. Usually we work 8 hours in a day and 5 days in a week. Total working hours are supposed to be 40 hours. But in fact many people are working 10 to 12 hours in a day. Total working hours are about 60 hours in a week. Working extra hours itself is not against the law, but almost all cases they don't add extra working hours in their regular working hours. So I have to admit that they are working much more than they stated. But today 'white collar exemption' is about to be implemented from next spring. If this law is introduced, white collar will be permitted to work as much as they can. Current working hour 10 to 12 is going to extend more to 15 or 16. If those who are self employed, it depends on themselves as to how many hours they work though. I believe Japanese people tend to work longer in a day, but worse problem is they usually don't take or are unable to take vacations in a year. They keep on working around the clock 365 days in a year without taking holidays more than consecutive 5 days. Their worst problem is that they don't classify matters. Many things are not arranged yet, everything is in confusion, chaotic. This chaos is mainly caused by the complexity of Japanese language. They haven't used alphabet yet, in other words they are still using very complicated 1850 ideograms and 50 phonetic signs. Their job is not done well despite their hard work. White collar exemption is to try to make up for the inefficiency caused by the complexity of language by consuming more hours. They had better start changing their language in public use. From Japanese to English.
English Circle II
[ 0 Comments #150333 ] Saturday November 04, @08:43AM

I went to a regular meeting by an English circle on the 15th of October with my wife. For the first time of course. The number of attendants were 31 in which 23 were female and 8 were male. Almost all men had come there with their wives, few men had come alone, and many wemen had come by themselves. For a guy like me whose age is 45, it is uncommon to attend there alone. We spent there just one hour. On the 22nd of October again we attended the meeting. Many attendants of this meeting are English teachers. I felt very secured. I intend to participate in this meeting next week too. With my 'common law' wife, of course.
Truth Of The Battle Of Jieting
[ 0 Comments #150331 ] Saturday November 04, @08:40AM

In 228 the battle between Shu led by Zhuge Kongming and Wei led by Cao Cao, Zhuge sent a general Ma Su here and ordered to position at the bottom of the hill. But he positioned Shu army on the hill since it was written in a book of military tactics. There's an exception for everything, in this area because water was obtained fully at the bottom of the valley he had to place his troops under the valley. Shu army was surrounded and defeated by Wei army. Later Ma Su was captured by Zhuge Kongming and said to be executed. Ma Su had been very well evaluated by Zhuge Kongming, but he executed Ma Su without mercy. He should have given him a second chance, but he took his life for his one time failure. Zhuge Kongming had been admired one of the most intelligent figures in the Thee Kingdoms Era, many his enemies feard his wisdom. After the death of Zhuge Kongming in the Battle of Wuzhang Plains, 234, Shu had no wiser strategist than Zhuge Kongming. If a wise strategist like Ma Su were alive, Shu would not have to keep Zhuge Kongming's death secret.

Philosopher's Path

Japan's Business
[ 0 Comments #150329 ] Saturday November 04, @08:19AM

It's sluggish. It is like a sworm that's eating the edge of leaves from upside to downside, like a man who are dragging with his legs chained with sandbags. In America people have wings to fly from flower to flower. The gap was already incurable.
Philosopher's Path
[ 0 Comments #150327 ] Saturday November 04, @08:16AM

1981 in Kyoto. I stayed in Kyoto -ancient Japan's capital for a year. I stayed in Kyoto not for study, not for job, not for pleasure, but for meditation. I was trying to know the mind of Japan by visiting tens of temples and I spent tens of time to walk the path. Usually I make it a rule to visit one temple in a weekend, and I walked in the pedestrian path in a day or evening. Many times I was asked from my friends who live in the same dormitory where I was going out. Everytime I was asked I kept smiling without saying anything. I left Kyoto when my hair reached my shoulder. In Kyoto it was everywhere where I was able to find philosopher's path, although there was a real Philosopher's Path along the small stream in the east in Kyoto, it was too long to walk through. I found just nothing in this year, but I must tell you that it was necessary for me to calm my nerve down. Creation was such a hard work that I was unable to do anything for two years afterwards.
For Use At Home Only
[ 0 Comments #150325 ] Saturday November 04, @08:12AM

Some years ago I needed to carry tooth paste in my bag to stay in my company. When I opened my bag I found the cap of the tube was taken away and tooth past was spread at the bottom of my bag. I told this to my friend and said that many things that made in Japan are made not for all purpose. But he said that it's only natural because the product isn't made for use in travel.
Privacy In Celebrities
[ 0 Comments #150323 ] Saturday November 04, @08:11AM

The privacy of celebrities is often revealed. These phenomena were sometimes called celebrities tax, they have to pay extra money only because they are famous. It would be only acceptable when they make enough money to make ends meet for their revelation
Technique In Printing
[ 0 Comments #150321 ] Saturday November 04, @08:08AM

Some years ago one English dictionary was printed in some country other than the country the dictionary was edited. This country ordered printing to other country probably to cut cost. But it cost much more when they found some misprint in that version. Now they never ordered printing again to other countries. I've got one dictionary, which is very famous English dictionary originally edited of course in England but printed in Japan. I found one misprint in it. I don't rely on any country other than one.

A Woman Who Crossed The Rubicon

Economic Sanctions
[ 0 Comments #150319 ] Saturday November 04, @07:59AM

We'd better not make light of the effect of economic sanctions. Definitely economic sanction is the very first form of act of war. If some country is about to collapse the economy of his country, they will do whatever they can to acquire enough food, etc. this will be the beginning of the concrete form of conflict. Japan had to fight the desperate war after they were prohibited to import rubbish iron from America.
A Woman Who Crossed The Rubicon
[ 0 Comments #150317 ] Saturday November 04, @07:54AM

Yoshiko Okada, born in 1902 in the movie Woman of Tokyo (1933), after she appeared in this movie, in 1938 with her lover she crossed the border between Japan and Russia in Sakhalin island. The lover was executed soon after they crossed the border. In 1972 she returned from Russia. In 1986 she returned to Russia again and died there in 1992. On the 20th of October, 50 years ago Russia and Japan normalised their relationship.
Manga
[ 0 Comments #150315 ] Saturday November 04, @07:48AM

In short Japan is a manga society.
Japanese Logic
[ 0 Comments #149945 ] Thursday November 02, @01:14PM

The drug ipratropium is not acknowleged in Japan, so not prohibited either, therefore it is not against Japan's rule. They ought to say that it is against Japan's rule because the drug is not acknowledged in Japan, it is just needless to say that it is not prohibited.
Challenging
[ 0 Comments #149943 ] Thursday November 02, @01:10PM

A couple of hard liner politicians have been expressing publicly their view as to the possibility for Japan to hold nuclear arms.

Before The Fall

Narrow Strait
[ 2 Comments #149941 ] Thursday November 02, @01:06PM

Chinese special envoy visited North Korea. Condoleezza Rice and South Korea and Japan counterpart met in South Korea recently to confirm their cooperative action. Here only lies just a very narrow strait between these countries. I hope their mutual differences also narrower.
Before The Fall
[ 0 Comments #149939 ] Thursday November 02, @01:04PM

King Zedekiah reigned before the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC. In his reign he emancipated slaves in the first place and soon after that he captured slaves again. When the society lost its dynamism the fall inevitably followed.
Maid Cafe In Akiba
[ 0 Comments #149937 ] Thursday November 02, @01:01PM

Nobody knows what 'Moe' in Japanese means. 'Moe' is palpitation, the inner feeling when spring comes. Ten something Japanese slashdotters held an annual meeting in a maid cafe for the first time this year. I was invited, of course I didn't go. Akiba is a famous district in Tokyo where lots of Otaku ( Nerd or geek ) get together.
American Managers
[ 3 Comments #149935 ] Thursday November 02, @12:56PM

One of professional baseball team Orix Blue Wave hired a new manager. His name is Collins from America. The manager of Nippon Ham Fighters is Trey Hillman from America, the manager of Chiba Lotte Marines is Valentine from America. The manager of Hiroshima Carp is Brown. Indeed four out of twelve managers of professional baseball team are going to be occupied by Americans. I am sure that generally American managers have more scientific data than domestic managers.
Deep Impact
[ 2 Comments #149931 ] Thursday November 02, @12:52PM

The race horse 'Deep Impact' is going to retire in this year. At the Ark of Triumph Cup in France the prohibited drug 'ipratropium' -medicine for treating asthma was detected. This medicine is not prohibited in Japan. We are not glad if it were the reality of its strength. I recall ' Haru urara '- the race horse always positioned last. This name means 'warm days in spring'.

The Meaning Of Sacrifice

Cellular War
[ 0 Comments #149929 ] Thursday November 02, @12:50PM

As of 24th of October, number portability system has already started. We can use other company's cellular without changing our number. Right now the share of major three companies is Au 28 percent, SoftBank 16 percent, DoCoMo 55 percent ...There will be a service war next.
The Meaning Of Sacrifice
[ 3 Comments #149923 ] Thursday November 02, @12:43PM

The meaning of sacrifice contributes to the origin of the nation.
Northern Territory
[ 0 Comments #149921 ] Thursday November 02, @12:40PM

That is small four islands at the end of festoon of Kuril islands. Japan is claiming these tiny islands belong to Japan, aside from its historical background, Russia now rules the region. It is alright to claim, but the colour of these four islands in Japan's atlas is red, which means Japan territory. As I mentioned the effective ruler is Russian over these islands. But because people have been taught that the islands belong to Japan, fishermen enter the area without noticing they are violating Russian law. Education ought to be based on reality, oughtn't to be based on wishful thinking.
'Around Situations'
[ 0 Comments #149917 ] Thursday November 02, @12:38PM

Japanese people don't like to mention something directly. They use circumvent way -'around situations' are nothing but a military action. Japanese politicians are arguing whether the nuclear test is an 'around situations'. One out of ten politicians say yes, but nine out of ten say 'no'. If yes, it will be a matter Japan's Self Defence Force concerns. They say 'defence', but usually people call it a war.
Mozilla
[ 2 Comments #149915 ] Thursday November 02, @12:36PM

The word Mozilla is a combination of Mobile and Godzilla, probably. Godzilla is a famous monster but few might know that Godzilla is a intermixture of Gorilla and 'whale' Whale? Yes, the Japanese word for whale is 'Kuzilla'. When I found the word 'Quizilla', and when I found the figure of Quizilla, I smiled. Because the figure of 'Quizilla' was so similar to 'Kuzilla' or whale. Word travels.

Region

Wal-Mart Is Going To Merge Trust-Mart
[ 0 Comments #149913 ] Thursday November 02, @12:33PM

They purchase the Chinese company in 100,000,000,000 dollars. This money certainly exceeds the annual budget in some countries.
Population Of America
[ 2 Comments #149909 ] Thursday November 02, @12:29PM

That has already exceeded 300,000,000 -3 hundred million. Japan's population is 125,000,000. I think America can afford much more people than current population. Around up to 7 hundred million, as opposed to the population of China, which is 1,200,000,000 -1.2 billion.
The Magic Of Five
[ 0 Comments #149907 ] Thursday November 02, @12:26PM

I often go to supermarket to buy something. Today they held 'a market at 5 o'clock', in which one item was so so cheap and many customers were buying it. In this supermarket, once or twice in a month they hold ' 5 percent off by using a credit card', many customers come and buy many items. 5, 5....at a glance when people see the figure 5, they might associate 50 percent discount, especially in Japan's terminology 5 ** means 50 percent discount, it is so ambiguous just the figure 5 means 5 o'clock, 5 percent off. People are easily disguised, people keep on coming without knowing why they come.
Content
[ 0 Comments #149903 ] Thursday November 02, @12:24PM

I went to the English circle with my love on Sunday. It is so natural for a guy whose age is already 45 to attend such a meeting with his wife. She is not a wife though. The rate of participants - total 31 people, female 23 people, male 8 peple. I feel content.
Region
[ 0 Comments #149901 ] Thursday November 02, @12:22PM

Japan is already a region, not a country.

A Way To Resolution

For Use In Japan Only
[ 0 Comments #149897 ] Thursday November 02, @12:16PM

I always noticed how many items are only designed for use Japan only. That apparently protects Japanese domestic industry. Japan is for Japan's sake. Outside people cannot use such devices as designed only for Japan's product. If Japanese standard is very universal, there might be no serious problems. But the standard of this country is very different from other countries' standard. Thus 'For Use In Japan Only' means Japanese people are narrowing their possibility on their own. How pity for they don't realise what they are doing!
English Circle
[ 5 Comments #149895 ] Thursday November 02, @12:13PM

I'm going to attend one English circle later today. The regular meeting is held twice in a week, each is 2 hours length. Attendants are teachers, company interpreters, docters, and a writer -only me. The number of participants are roughly 20 to 30. Their way of speaking English differ from each other. Some are very America, very British, very educational standard, etc. My English is very British. It is just a great fun for us to have some hours only English is used. I might take my girlfriend to the meeting today. Those who got married tend to get together with their wives. Their wives can speak workable English, my girlfriend is learning how to speak English.
Fragile Society
[ 3 Comments #149893 ] Thursday November 02, @12:10PM

Japan is indeed incredibly fragile society. Japanese language is logically speaking almost all opposite to logical order. Phonetially speaking it is too simple to express complicated concept of many ideas. Scriptively speaking still it is a irrational combination of phonetic signs and ideograms- it is not an alphabet. In short Japanese language will die away. Society based on this illogicality must be fragile.
A Way To Resolution
[ 0 Comments #145045 ] Saturday September 30, @01:37PM

Hello ***,
Thank for for your instructions. First thing today I went to an Internet Cafe near my house. Firstly I was unable to see my inbox in the same way as in my personal computer, although I clicked 'inbox'.
All I saw was just blank. Then I clicked 'compose' instead of 'check mail' or 'inbox', then strangely enough I was able to see my inbox. I tried it many times then, but it was not always that I was able to see the list of inbox. I can often see only blank. Only occasionally I was able to see my inbox.
Back in my home, this time I was able to see my inbox just in one click. I was happy, then I closed all and tried it again. This time I was unable to see the contents of inbox again. After I tried it many times - six or seven times, finally I was able to see it. I believed something wrong has been mended since three days ago.
I started deleting many unread e-mails. I had 155. The domain of my account is com. so it cannot receive Japanese characters properly, but I had received many Japanese mails, many are commercial ones, and oftentimes Japanese characters are changed as the meaningless combination of signs, figures, and alphabet. Otherwise very long lines of complicated Chinese characters appeared, whichever they are I couldn't understand. We often refer to this phenomenon as 'trasfiguration of characters', so that might have caused clumsiness, slow performance, sometimes only blank, freeze of the screen.
After I deleted almost all vast unnecessary e-mails now I can get access to all e-mails properly. I intend to delete unecessary emails from now to keep my account clean.
I will consider the change of browser, my computer, ISP for future task, but now thank you very much for all your instructions.
-Mer
Wait & See
[ 6 Comments #144665 ] Wednesday September 27, @11:47AM

Still my inbox is unseen. I got a message from the customer service that they will mend the error soon. I wait and see.

Inevitable Dependency

Bug Report
[ 0 Comments #144491 ] Tuesday September 26, @04:22AM

As of the night on 24th of September I was unable to open the inbox of my free mail account.
Although I clicked it, the next scene I can only see the blank. I submitted the bug report for help to the administrator, but so far I have been unable to see the contents of my inbox.
I tried making another account at the same domain name. I can get access to it as usual.
Any suggestion, help...Welcome.
Inevitable Dependency
[ 0 Comments #144283 ] Saturday September 23, @10:17PM

It's Sunday today...I am free from any obligation today, free from job of course, free from dating with my girlfriend, etc. Besides it's very fine today. In short it's a perfect autumnal holiday.
About a week ago I declared that I won't see her. I don't intend to keep on our relationship any more. My attitude has been unchanged though, she asked me to see her. Last Tuesday we had date. We will have date with next Tuesday. I had date with her because she repeatedly asked me to see her and she told me she longed for meeting me.
Separation only in Slashdot, but in reality things will be slightly different.
I keep on seeing her mainly only for pure physiological reasons. But we don't live together, if our relationship continues as it is now, it's not a bad thing itself. Even though we turned out that we live in a different reality, still we need one thing to help one another, which itself is not a bad thing.
Autumn Is In Full Swing
[ 0 Comments #144163 ] Thursday September 21, @02:58PM

The season of love and enthusiasm is just over. Now I am concentratiing on reading and writing.
I plan to go to see cosmos garden as is the same as last year.
With whom?
Typhoon
[ 0 Comments #143880 ] Sunday September 17, @06:09AM

We are having a very big typhoon. Extremely strong rainfall and gust are here. As if my house is about to be flown away.
The Internet
[ 0 Comments #143878 ] Sunday September 17, @05:23AM

I noticed that the Internet is a reflection of my spiritual world.

Temperance

Separation
[ 0 Comments #143604 ] Tuesday September 12, @01:29PM

Separation always comes after we loved one another, not before we start loving. So I gladly accept our separation. For three months we loved just enough to be able to separate.
It's been rainy outside all night long. We separated with leaving no feeling one another.
Temperance
[ 3 Comments #143592 ] Tuesday September 12, @10:35AM

I started reading Book of Jeremiah one week ago. Two years ago I stopped reading the book in Chapter 14, now I'm reading Chapter 31.
My love is gone. I won't see her any more.
The Weekender
[ 0 Comments #143452 ] Saturday September 09, @12:38PM

We have been seeing one another once in a week for these three months. I really don't like this situation, I might be about to lose myself if I continue this plight(?). I've got nothing for it but to keep on our relationship. Do I love her? Yes, I do, but I hope she can speak English.
Autumn Begins
[ 0 Comments #143228 ] Tuesday September 05, @08:12PM

Summer 2006 was a very frustrating one. I wanted to love her more but only I found I was unable to.
But the summer was just over, the season of love and emotion is over now. Usually I spend many hours in reading and writing in autumn. The time has come to arrange my thought. My love lives still in a different city and it's just hard for us to see one another frequently.
She's coming to my room on 16th of September, till then I forget her and intend to devote myself to especially reading some of the classics. Let's arrange the things. Love is not the only thing that I've been in pursuit.
Impossibility Of Love
[ 2 Comments #143194 ] Tuesday September 05, @12:01PM

For these three months I have been suffered from lack of love rather than the aquisition of love, and now I realised I cannot keep on our relations any more.
Our love was impossible, of course there are many loves that are possible. But our case was impossible. If I finally reliased our love doesn't work any more, I should leave.

Treacle

Poisn To Poison
[ 0 Comments #143106 ] Sunday September 03, @01:58PM

Poisn to poisn. Illusion to illusion. I ejected an illusion to oppose another illusion.
This is effective in practice, but it is dangerous. I don't recommend at all. More often than not we need a negative option to oppress another negative option. Minus times minus is plus. But this is a totally unfavourable option.
Treacle
[ 0 Comments #143105 ] Sunday September 03, @01:43PM

One word comes up in my mind....'treacle'. Originally it means 'antidote against venom'. I need treacle to oppose to venom, venom which is 'illusion' in my terms.
I don't hold any illusion. I only believe what I see, so I love her when she is present before me. Otherwise I don't love her. So I am unabble to love her in her absence. But I have to keep on loving her in order to see her at weekends. So for five days on weekdays she is nothing but an illusion. And I can't love illusions.
Self That Tore Apart
[ 0 Comments #143103 ] Sunday September 03, @01:08PM

At weekends I am happy to be with my girlfriend. On weekdays I want to be with my girlfriend but she is not here.
I need a woman who can be with me every day. Or I don't need a girlfriend at all.
I still love her, but I have been unable to find how to handle with this situation. I am about to be tore apart. My self is about to be tore apart.
Incompetent Summer
[ 5 Comments #142772 ] Monday August 28, @02:23PM

My summer is over. The season in love has just ended. I found my summer this year very frustrated. I was suffered more than I enjoyed. I had much longer period that I was unable to see her than I was able to see her. It's absurd, really absurd, and stupid. I was stupid not to realise the impossiblility of love between people in two cities.
At The End Of This Summer
[ 3 Comments #142732 ] Sunday August 27, @10:49PM

I spent a happy weekend with my girlfriend. A bit mannerism we felt though it was a happy date.
We intend to keep on our relationship from now on. We spent happy two days but we have to endure another harsh weekdays. They will last full five days. I cannot get accustomed to this peculiar life pattern. From my nature I hope I can see her every day or I don't see her at all.
Next time I don't fall in love with a lady who lives other than my city. I am facing a risk of neurosis now. This is an expression of my very honest feeling. Another harsh week has just started.

Midsummer Night Dream

Ah Again, Then Slashdot
[ 0 Comments #142498 ] Wednesday August 23, @04:01PM

I feel very sleepy. It's 5 am. So see you again.
Midsummer Night Dream
[ 0 Comments #142352 ] Monday August 21, @01:50PM

She divorced some ten years ago and now lives with her 17 year old daughter. I have a place to live and a job here, mainly because she has to live with her minor daughter, she is unable to live with me. Her daughter will be 18 in February next year, and once she get independent she doesn't need to live with her mother/daughter. So she asked me to wait for her till her daughter be independent. Till around next February, she can't live with me.
She told me in her personal email that she's OK to see me just once in a week. She said she doesn't want me to move to her town. She said she has to rethink whether she can live with me in future if I moved to her town right now. She said she doesn't want me to move to her town, and she intend to move to my home after her daughter start living separately. She said she can put up with the situation right now.
Midsummer night dream is over but my nightmare continues.
Hardship
[ 8 Comments #142308 ] Sunday August 20, @08:45PM

I have to choose.
1...Separation.
2...Always be with her.
In order to choose 2, I need to quit my job right now here and move to her town.
I will choose 2.
Now let's start acting.
Typhoon Landing
[ 0 Comments #142144 ] Thursday August 17, @03:08PM

I went to the beach to feel that strong gust caused by a typhoon off Japan. This typhoon is hitting our land soon directly. Owing to this natural phenomenon, we might be unable to see one another this weekends.
Calmness before stome. I hope this replay will work some way or other.
Personal...Too Personal
[ 0 Comments #141856 ] Monday August 14, @11:03AM

From 10:30 p.m. on Saturday to 8:00 a.m. on Monday, we were together all the time. We spent two consecutive nights for the first time. I didn't write anything, I didn't read any thing. I just talked to her, ate with her, slept with her. As an ordinary person she was watching TV as usual. I wanted to be with her always so I watched it together. It was an wonderful exprerience to be with her for two whole nights and one day.
I felt as if I came back from the country called Japan when I stated listening to BBC and browsing Slashdot.
If I were asked from police which nationality I am, I undoubtedly tell them that I am a Slashdotter without hesitation.

Phoenix

Phoenix
[ 0 Comments #141753 ] Friday August 11, @09:16PM

I feel incredibly secured when I am with my love only because it is very natural as a woman and man in the middle of their forties.
We had to separate from our previous partners for some reason or other, and we cannot look them back. Past is past. Our previous partners must have maintained their private lives each.
I feel insecured when I am by myself. I live alone from Monday to Friday. I oftentimes feel irresistable to see my love. Of course I can't. The objective of my love outside the scope of my view is as if it were a dead, as a matter of fact I have been giving up her for dead during these hard weekdays.
I or we want to see her or one another everyday. I have no good idea how to solve this problem. Giving up her for dead for good is a perfect answer. She is as if Phonex. Phoenix itself is a good symbol. But I want to have a small bird every day, I don't need a Phoenix if I can only see it once in a week. I will see her tonight. I intend to talk about our situations.
The Scent Of Autumn
[ 2 Comments #141749 ] Friday August 11, @07:46PM

All these two weeks I was wearing nothing when in bed. No, no, I don't have a partner to sleep with in every night basis. I live alone. I only see my love one time in a week on weekends. I mean because it has been very hot these ten days or so, I took off all even if I went to sleep after I wore something. Besides I often open all the windows in my bedroom. Thanks for these treatment I had been able to sleep well until last night. So..last night was different. I was forced to wake up at 4:38 a.m. because I felt chilly from the air outside. Still I didn't have a blanket to cover with me, I had to keep on lying till 8:00 a.m. I fell asleep soon after midnight.
Before I started going out with her three months ago - before 24th of May, I had always gone to bed at 4:00 a.m. and woke up at 9:00 a.m. My life pattern started to change about one month ago, and now I often fall asleep soon after midnight and wake up at around 5:30 a.m.
Her lifestyle is similar to my current one. She usually sleeps sometime between 10 to 11 p.m. and wakes up at 6:30 a.m. I'm now in the middle of my forties and I lost all the loves in the past, but I was always living together throughout my thirties. I always get up earlier than my partner. My sleeping hours keep on being slightly over 5 hours. My partner usually keeps on sleeping 7 to 8 hours at least so I always wake up earlier if we start falling asleep together.
My lifestyle has been adjusting to this life pattern, I will sleep with her tonight and we fall asleep together, I will wake up at 5:00 a.m. and I intend to enjoy watching closely her sleeping figure and face. It's my secret pleasure.
Total Abstinence
[ 0 Comments #141581 ] Wednesday August 09, @10:33PM

I decided to practice total abstinence for 5 days from Monday to Friday. We can see one another on Saturday and Sunday, so...
Today is still Thursday. For three days I feel like dragging chains in my feet.
On And On -by maria kizirian
[ 3 Comments #141530 ] Wednesday August 09, @02:11PM

One of my best friends maria kizirian is an ambitious person. She is eager to show her up in MTV2. She raised her hand to show herself up in there, and she needs to get tens of thousands of votes from her fans and supporters.
I am eager to help her because she is a very 'responsible' person. That is the most important human factor to be famous in the first place.
Here is where she needs your vote. I think she will be eligible to be very famous because she is very 'responsible'.
Love Nowhere
[ 2 Comments #141400 ] Tuesday August 08, @09:11AM

From the 5th to 6th of August, I loved her 7 times. I want to see her right now, but I can't. Do I have to endure ? For what?

Sir Jeremiah Cornelius

Sir Jeremiah Cornelius
[ 0 Comments #141352 ] Monday August 07, @11:53AM

Jeremiah Cornelius was known as one of the distinguished liberal ideologues at least among slashdotters. Soon after I read his comments almost two years ago I thought highly of his standpoint, subsequently I befriended him soon.
He stopped posting comments about one year ago leaving his photo in his only one journal. But today I found his name in my fan's list. Since he has been my one-sided friend, I felt very glad.
I am not totally sure whether he return to slashdot since he already wrote episode, but I am sure he checked slashdot at least one time since then.
Welcome back, and thanks for checking.
On The 6th Of August
[ 2 Comments #141301 ] Sunday August 06, @01:33PM

On the 6th of August, it was a calm day. My girlfriend came to see me on Saturday night and stayed in my house. She stayed here until 5 p.m. and we went to Oh'hori Park, main park in our city. The park was made in 1925 after West Lake in China.
On the way back to my room, I dropped by a bookstore. I bought Longman Dictionary. Now I have Oxford, Cambridge, Collins, Longman dictionaries. I will hold five main dictionaries if I bought Chambers next.
It is also a birthday of one of my closest friend. It was a calm day.
Cruel Summer
[ 3 Comments #141196 ] Friday August 04, @10:00AM

When I asked her to sleep with me two months ago I had thought one time in a month is enough. Both she and I live in a dufferent city, so it is physically impossible to see every day but I thought it has nothing to do with our encounter, relationship, love in general.
But how about today's me? I am crying to want her. I have been crying since last time we met one week ago. I am about to lose my sense. I am in danger of collasping my temper. I am at risk.
I never love someone who lives at distance. This is very cruel, it is cruel summer this year.
One of the best ways to solve this problem is move to her town.
maria kizirian
[ 0 Comments #141195 ] Friday August 04, @09:15AM

One of my friends maria kizirian asked me to click this to vote for her. She said she wants to perform in MTV. Those who want her to appear in MTV, please vote for her.
Cruelty
[ 0 Comments #140940 ] Tuesday August 01, @10:13AM

I want to see my love every night. I am very much frustrated. She is very frustrated, too. We both love one another, just because of the situation we both face, we are unable to meet. Sometimes when we know we are deeply in love with one another, we feel it's extremely cruel to be unable to see every night. It's cruelty as such.

Command A Fine View

Command A Fine View
[ 0 Comments #140804 ] Sunday July 30, @03:26PM

I stayed in her apartment for the first time. It was incredibly small according to both domestic and American standard. She lives with her 17 year old daughter. She was divorced ten years ago. Their incomes are so limited.
So I couldn't say it's very nice even as just a compliment though the landscape from the window upstairs is very beautiful. The apartment itself was located in rather high hill, we were able to see the vast rice field and the calm sea. So I said so and I said again ' In English we say 'command a fine view'. But she was unable to repeat it saying 'it's very difficult'.
Mozart; Piano Sonata K333
[ 0 Comments #140802 ] Sunday July 30, @02:52PM

We went to a piano concert. This was held annually by a private piano school, it was free of charge. One of her 26 year old daughter played the piano in the concert and we went to see her playing the piano. Aside from her play, we noticed a 10 year old girl play Mozart's piano sonata K333 very well. After the concert I walked to her mother and said, 'You are a mother of that player, she was playing very well. I think it is right to play Mozart's as flowing.'
One Local Theatre
[ 0 Comments #140801 ] Sunday July 30, @02:27PM

We went to see the movies in one local theatre. Here located in Kokura and a family of one of my friends in elementary school runs the theatre. We were able to see two movies in $10 each. This fee is according to Japan standard, it's very reasonable. We spend there enjoing the movies from 17:00 to 21:00. Both two movies were made in up-to-date topics and interesting to watch. I recall about 30 years ago he gave me two tickets saying sometimes how about relaxing since I was too busy studying. As if his spirit were alive inside the theatre.
Sunday Night
[ 0 Comments #140798 ] Sunday July 30, @02:10PM

It's Sunday night tonight. It's very calm. I had a busy time loving my love last night. What a big difference between Saturday and Sunday night! Yet it's a difference in hunan activities, nothing changes in the fact the Earth turns as is usual!
vague_ascetic
[ 1 Comment #140795 ] Sunday July 30, @01:30PM

Thanks for adding my name in your friend's list.

Transparent Bins

Transparent Bins
[ 0 Comments #140719 ] Friday July 28, @02:22PM

I often notice that some bins are not transparent so we are unable to tell how large the rest of portion that leaves. Transparency to bins and societies. Bins are not the same as women's costume.
Childish Society
[ 0 Comments #140716 ] Friday July 28, @02:09PM

I reminded that the use of a child's voice in advertisement song increase the effects more. Not only one but other premises started chanting their corporate or advertisement song in a child's voice. So now wherever I enter the shop, I am forced to hear a child's voice in their songs.
Ah, this society is so childish, This is a childish society indeed.
MySpace Age
[ 4 Comments #140715 ] Friday July 28, @01:40PM

I noticed some of the User of MySpace com deliberately made a false statement as to their age. We could see sometimes a woman whose age is 99 years old but the real one is much younger. In the case of 99 years old, we usually notice the User has been making a mockery of us and we'd better not take their statement too seriously. But there are some cases we are unable to tell whether their statement is right or false if both two different ages are likely.
For example some User express their age as 49 at first and later in their profile in detail their age was 16. Either two cases are likely so we were just unable to decide which is correct.
In their first profile their ages are automatically renewed according to their birthdays and month, year. We don't have to change our age and age changes when their birthdays arrive. So what would happen after 50 years, after 100 years from now? Probably my age will be 95 years old, 145 years old automatically. Age counting in MySpace com doesn't make allowances for our real age, but keep on indicating how many years will have passed since our birthdays.
That is called 'MySpace age'. We were able to acquire eternal life on MySpace. Our age will last forever!
Rainy Season Is Over
[ 2 Comments #140533 ] Wednesday July 26, @01:56PM

It lasted for ten days. But my season in love never ends.
Where's MySpace?
[ 5 Comments #140353 ] Monday July 24, @09:12AM

It was already four days ago when I wrote a journal here, the title of my journal was 'rain, rain, rain'. I was busy browsing MySpace.com for these four days to look for a beautiful woman. I am unable to see my love from Monday to Friday so I need to ease my lonliness by visiting other's sites on line. Today as had been these four days I tried to visit MySpace.com but I was unable to do owing to mechanocal problem in the site. The number of registered users right now in MySpace is nearly a hundred million. It was not in the least likely for MySpace to be overwhelmed by such a large number of new entries. It's still raining. It have been raining for over five or six days. MyIsland is about to be overwhelmed by tens of thousands of rainfall. But MySpace is not MyIsland. May MySpace last forever!

Touchstone

Touchstone
[ 0 Comments #140733 ] Friday July 28, @04:59PM

I recall a woman who I met in a foreigner's bar -The Big Apple, now it's gone, more than ten years ago. She was a nice person. One very late night I tried to touch her tabacco case, saying you smoke, aren't you or something. She was furious about me saying 'Don't touch it' with very loud voice. I was very amazed, and said I was just asking if she smokes. She said she extremely dislikes her any belongings to be touched by anyone. I thought she cannot be my friend any more. She might have thought that the act of touching changes the ownership, which is absolutely not.
Do As Romans
[ 0 Comments #140732 ] Friday July 28, @04:44PM

'Please do not get back the books you read.' -at the University library I used every day.
Here in our country we are supposed to get back the books we read. I saw this notice every time I use a library, but I was unable to read it well. I kept on getting back the books into the bookshelves for nearly 6 months.
Consideration
[ 2 Comments #140728 ] Friday July 28, @03:34PM

We are selling two different eels. One is 30 cm long, 7 cm width and the price is $7. The other one is 25 cm long, 5 cm width and the price is $10.
The only difference is one is made in China and the other is domestic made. I think the taste is completely the same but Japanese people prefer buying domestic ones, not imported ones.
Strangely enough the case of domestic eels is bigger and tough, that of imported eels is smaller and fragile, so there are a lot of room around the domestic eel in a case while almost no room can be found inside the case of imported eels. I thought it strange and I proposed my manager to change the cases being used by each eel.
'Imported eels are bigger so we ought to use bigger and tougher cases for them. Domestic ones are smaller and we ought to use smaller cases.' My manager's explanation was this. 'It's according to their prices, not their size.'
Of course I don't believe such an excuse. I think domestic eels are smaller but more expensive so we need to show that they are more splendid by using a luxury case, I think that's all.
Considerateness?
[ 0 Comments #140722 ] Friday July 28, @03:05PM

An unregular customer came to my kitchen and told me, 'All you have to do is to cut two slices of fillet and take away the skin of them.'
Next time please don't say 'all you have to', please say just 'please'.
This Is A Pen
[ 0 Comments #140721 ] Friday July 28, @02:47PM

Whatever the kinds of job we do, it is often necessary for us to carry a pen. For my part too I must carry a pen. But I don't like to carry a pen. Because I always lose my pens after I finish working in the day. I carried a pen today because especially I was told to do so. I had thought that I lose my pen and in fact I noticed I lost my pen when I finished working.
Probably I think I don't have to carry two pens. Next time I need to connect the one in some part of my trousers. A bit embarassed though I do.