・Recently, a new regulation that restricts comics and animations including excessive sexual description has begun. I don't claim myself as a fan of comics andanime, but I confess that Prohibition Law
occurred to me, which ended up in failure due to infestation of bootleggers -although it's nonsense to compare with a law in a different country before World War II
. Argument over freedom of expression aside, such regulation doesn't sound so practical since too many contents that they label as harmful are already everywhere, including on Internet. Anyway, why don't they stop placing advertisements of pornography magazines in trains first? ・There was a state that declined after the development and the zenith of prosperity in the Middle Ages -I saw on a newspaper
.
On this article I saw, this was compared to the current declining birthrate in Japan. -But I suspect that what causing this problem now might be more like pessimism than a wish to maintain the status quo. I've heard about a New Age idea that babies choose parents when they come to the world
. On this hypothesis, a conjecture would be possible that lower birthrate might mean less and less babies choose to be born in Japan... ・How about this question?: Your children are always playing video game or on-line game at home all day on holidays. You scold them and tell them to play some sports outside. Then they talk back that this is not video (or on-line)
game but " E-sports
". Do you allow this excuse? -On a discussion program on TV, they were talking that this "sport" is as popular as soccer and baseball in a neighboring country, and proposing that they should encourage spreading this "sport" in this country as a major industry in the future. When I was watching this with family members, one of us was enraged that such movement was unwholesome. Another of us said that according to one estimate, chess would be regarded as sports on a definition of sports. -Me? I was taking it for granted that this "sport" was exercise using the next generation video game consoles and contents which allow users to enjoy various fitness games with new type controllers and balance-board machines. As I was grappling with this composition, I recalled a short comic on an English workbook showing the usage of auxiliary verbs when I was a junior high school student.
A boy was watching baseball on TV. His mother scolded him that he should play baseball with his friends if he liked baseball. He telephoned his friends and invited to playing baseball. That afternoon, the boy was playing baseball video game with his friends when his mother came into the living room.