1. Late "Happy New Year"
-I suppose all of us have already returned to daily lives, though. This year, new Emperor is acceding to the throne, andImperial Era name is changingonMay 1. In association with that, current Emperor's birthday is abolished from this year. It doesn't matter; too many national holidays are unnecessary. the explanation by Authority is concern about dual power
. Putting aside how many general public have appreciated current Emperor's birthday December 23
as pre-Christmas celebration holiday, I cannot help wondering why April 29
, former Emperor's birthday, is still national holiday, changing its name even twice. On the second thought... this national holiday could be still becoming to our country, As long as this society is ruled by moss-headed older generation men unable to get rid of illusion of glittering bubble era and anachronistic male-chauvinism. What if we call this year 2019 A.D.
not 31st and final year of current Imperial Era but 94th year of former Imperial Era
?
2.One-hundred-year of life People currently classified as elderly people and baby-boomers are estimated to live such long lives -may I construe so? Current younger generationsuffer from exploitationand poverty, and might live shorter lives compared to the current elderly people and baby-boomers. What makes me think such way? Mainly because- When I went to banks for legal procedures,I saw commercials of investment management to prepare for one-hundred-year of lives on in-store screens. Most of the characters consulting asset maintenance at bank were elderly couples preparing for mandatory retirement. eighty percent of financial asset in our country belong to over fifties
. That's about it for pessimism - needless to say, healthspan is much more important
.
3. In Hungary,after new labor law legalizing 400 hours of overtime work per year was approved, mass demonstrations are going on against this "slavery law" as they call. If they found that one-hundred hours of overtime work per month is legal in our country, they would regard our country asslave-holding nation, and our country side could have no words of reply. Regardless of how the situation of technical intern training program in our country is spread internationally, I'd like to take this occasion to place in this language, borrowing an online posting warning thatapplicants for technical interns must carefully deliberate on which is important, money or their own life, before they come to Japan.