Shrinking Country

Japan is shrinking! according to the article "The incredible shrinking country" by The Economist on March 25, 2014.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demography

The message is very simple; the population in Japan is decreasing to 87 million until 2060, currently 127 million people, and increasing up to 40% which will be 65 or elder.

The solution seems simple; somebody says that Japan has to accept the immigrants, otherwise we will suffer with shortage of labor power.

It may right solution but I am still not sure if Japanese people accept the immigrants due to the history.

However, the question is; we, Japanese people, really wants to provide the opportunities for elderly people.

Sports day and Olympics in Japan

On the 10th of October in 1964, the opening ceremony of the first Olympic games in Japan was held in Tokyo and set as a national holiday in 1966 named as "Sports day" for a memorial. It was a symbol of Japan's reconstruction from World War II and good opportunity to develop Japanese economy, then Japan moved to the high economic growth era.

After the first summer Olympic games in Japan, the winter games hosted twice in 1972 at Sapporo and 1998 at Nagano. Particularly, Nagano Olympic left a lot of debt and local goverment was forced to repayment prior to civil services.

6 years later, Tokyo will host another summer Olympic games and Japanese government motivates people to make it a success in several aspects; the economic revitalization, the opportunities to share the Japanese hospitality and courtesy, so-called "O-Mo-Te-Na-Shi",
activation of tourism in Japan the trigger new inventions and services.

The reason why today is a national holiday is because of "Happy Monday System" which has been legislated to encourage to take five days workweek system and Sports day has been set on the second Monday in October since 2000.

Japanese men suspected for planning to join ISIS

According to PANGEA TODAY, Japanese men suspected for planning to join ISIS.
(http://www.pangeatoday.com/japanese-men-arrested-for-planning-to-join-isis/)

This article didn't touch upon why they were suspected guilty.

NHK NEWSweb mentioned that they were suspected for planning to fight against other countries with personal reasons. It will be the violation of criminal law.

The arrest of Japanese men brought hot discussions in the net. Someone said, "How is about those who are working for the manufacturers producing military goods or equipment in Japan?" and "this is a violation of the freedom of travel, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of religion."

We could say, at least, the authority is trying to supervise and control our activities.

Brain and Mind

Paralyzed Man Moves His Hand through Mind Control "

This article is from RareJob official article on September 20, 2014.

http://rarejobdailynewsarticle.blogspot.jp/2014/09/paralyzed-man-moves-his-hand-through.html

I am just wondering what is the difference between brain and mind.
An answer is not so simple, it depends if we believe mind controls our brain.
Otherwise, mind exists within brain and mind is also projected by brain.
Whoever came back from near-death experience saw the same scenery such as watching themselves through the bird view angle and feeling the"Calling "from heaven with flash beams.
Those scenery has been told by their parents for long time in their childhood.
So brain remembers those scenery as memories and those are projected at the moment of death.

It will be helpful for us to understand by listening to what those who came back from near-death experience or heavy injury in brain.

Minimum Wages

America's working poor is interesting topics because working condition seems to be alike in both US and Japan.

According to The Huffington Post, minimum wage in US is around $8/hour, and this is very close to that of Japan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-t-akins/the-hourly-rate-of-povert_b_5837780.html

http://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/koyou_roudou/roudoukijun/minimumichiran/

In addition to them, in Philippine, most areas have around $7/day besides Manila.

http://www.nwpc.dole.gov.ph/pages/statistics/stat_current_regional.html

President Obama is trying to raise the wages up to $10/hour in two years because the hourly poverty level is now $9/hour.

Now we know that the wages in working class is almost the same in both US and Japan, and that those in US and Japan are 8 times higher than that of Philippine.

Other question is; " is the productivity 8 times higher?" , or "are daily life cost and living cost 8 times higher?"

I need further investigation and I will report it when I have done.

Endorsement

Endorsement from famous people is very popular these days, so that commercial products looks more attractive, trustworthy and gets popular among other hundreds thousands of products.

Something important is to be consistent among the types of products or services they endorse, otherwise they will mislead and get people confused in the attitude towards those who endorsed things inconsistently.