Rebirth from the disaster

Supporsedly most of Japanese gave affected
people and victims at 14:46 today.

Will this crystal give us bright future?

Will the search ship 'Chikyu'Chikyu, an about 56,700-ton deep-sea drilling vessel, bring hope from deep under the sea? We are waiting for the result of the prospective trial, drillng the hopeful crystal 'Methane hydrate'. The trial project has started at about 70km off the south east region around Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi prefecture.

People in Japan strongly hope that the icelike methane will become the "next generation" energy for Japan.

Methane hydrate was discovered only a few decades ago, and little research has been done on it until recently. By some estimates, the energy locked up in methane hydrate deposits is more than twice the global reserves of all conventional gas, oil, and coal deposits combined. But no one has yet figured out how to pull out the gas inexpensively, and no one knows how much is actually recoverable.

We hope that government and project team establish lauicelike methane as conventional energy.

Tribute to Whitney Houston

In a silent and dark banquet room, excited guests waited for their hosts to get inside. When the spotlight started to focus on the main entrance door, the song "I will Always love you" welcomed the bride and groom in a formal attire and holding a torch to ignite the candle. They held the torch together while entering the room.The couple rounded the hall to lit the candles on each guest's table. The moment Whitney reached the highest note of "And I will always love you," the couple was inflaming the main candle. Not only this couple but also all their guests felt the blissful happiness in the wedding ceremony. This was a typical scene in wedding parties in Japan.

Whitney Housten was one of the foreign singers who reigned Japan twenty years ago. Her golden age flourished during Japan's bubble economy.

 The most impressive movie that made her popular was "The Bodyguard." Many people went to the movie theater and bought her CD. She was one of the popular American singers in Japan. Her song reminds me of my studenthood. Twenty years have passed since I was a university student. I really feel that time flies like an arrow.

Tonight I'll try to reminisce my youth a little bit.

Kinjiro Ninomiya: Will Today's Children follow what Kinjiro paved? Part 2

Kinjiro Ninomiya: Will Today's Children follow what Kinjiro paved? Part 1

Do we really know what Kinjiro Ninomiya did in his life time? And do we understand how much he contributed to our mental education?  Although we have already known that he is the national icon of diligence in Japan, but most of us do not know who he is exactly. 

In Japanese history, He is known as a agricultural economist and philosopher in during Edo era.

His philosophy was succeeded to the education policy in Meiji era , then it was brought into the mental culture amomg Western countries . His symbolic essence was translated into 'The Book of virtue' written by American author William J. Benett.  

While he was struggling with many issues, he established his original methodology how to reconstruct public finance, what is called, 'Hotoku'. He concluded that social contribution wil reward the contributor in the long run. Additionally, he left many maxims. Here is one of his sayings,

'The Economy without virtue is crime, a virtue without economy is perfect nonsense.'

In 1787, he was born from a poor peasant family in Ashigara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kayama Ashigarakami gun Sagami province then. He lost his parent and became orphan at the age of 16. He started to live with his uncle. While he was recultivating the small land he rent, he read many books to improve his condition. Even though he went home, he kept on reading with wooden piles on his back. His continuous effort finally expanded his income by renting his small land to grow crops. He became a propety owner when he was 20 years old.

After he reconstructed his family, He was asked to rebuilt Odawara domain by one of samurai family Hattsutori. satisfied with such small success, so he moved to Odawara City to make his business more successful. He served a one of Samurai family. He tackled with many issue in his duty and he gradually got his trust from his Samurai family. One day he was requested by his Samurai boss to save from financial crisis. He tried to reconstruct and he made it. 

After he reconstructed Samurai family's finance, his fame had widspread across the coutries. He was asked to revitalize other Samurai family's finance.

He was a great reconstructor in Japanese history.

Francesco Schettino, the most irresponsible man in the world.

Absolutely people in the world will never forget this man forever. Francesco Schettino, the captain of Costa Concordia, has become by far the most infamous and irresponsible man in the world. He took  on 13 January 2012. Unlike brave Edward Smith, who was the captain in Titanic, he unguiltfully escaped from the leaning ship before anyone elses. He threw away his imperative duty to save passangers lives. While he is crusing Costa Cruises, he on capsized the luxurious and large scale ferry which accomodated more than 5,000 passangers. 10 lives are still missing now.

He intentionally re-routed the destination and approached Tuscan island of Giglio, where one of his crew member grew up. We just closed to the island so that his partner could wave his hand to the people in the island. He approached so close that his ferry was on the lock.

In his opinions, he accidentally fell to a rescue boat floating on the sea, after that he found that he was not able to go back to the leaned ship, so he managed to row the boat, finally he successfully reached shore sides alone with his disparate passengers on the leaning vessel. There is another rumor that just after his ship was on the rocks and leaned, he ordered his dinner in that ferry and ate it.
After the captain of Coast guard found him alone, he told Schettino that he should go back to the ship. Surprisingly he ignored his warning and picked up a taxi, then he was gone.
On his way home, he called his mother and said that he faced a terrible disaster.
After he came home, the police detained him on the accusation of negligence of his duty and manslaughter.

I worry that this terrible accident could put negative impact on luxury cruise businessEd in Meditreanian.    

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