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ZEISS Lens, I have not known before.

 (Contax Carl Zeiss Distagon 2.8/28)

As for "Carl Zeiss Lens", it seemed to be German product for any camera geek..
But it was a Japanese lens which I get cheap as a used.
"Contax"was such a Japanese brand for believers of legendary Zeiss camera lens.
Not so few Japanese camera freaks are obsessed by the peal of "ZEISS".　
In fact, Zeiss don't product camera lens so much now. On the more, it had to compensate Nikon for infringement of "stepper patent"with huge reconcile money. But Zeiss does their business with rendering only their brand value to Japanese consumers.
By the way, I used Japanese Zeiss" Distagon".
It was needed to renovated to mount on Canon SLR. It was high color contrast lens (especially azure of sky).Resolution was not so high as Nikon.

Arrest On Different Or Misdemeanor Charges

Prosecutors often take a nasty way to get someone entrapped. When AUM shinnrikyou incident (1995)happened,Many adherents got arrested on misdemeanor charge,for example offending parking prohibitions. They could have got arrested on treason,but didn't.
 By the way, Some collaborators or conspirators for WikiLeakes might be arrested on TREASON.
It is an unnatural fact that Assange got accused of a rape. In fact,it is easy for nasty administration or prosecutor to forge someone a sexual offender. Any woman who had relation with him can claim his sexual abuse. All Prosecutors have to do is to coax such a girl.
 Establishments might feel like avoiding to arrest someone on TREASON. Because to do such a thing is to give him an opportunity to manifest his political belief. It will be backfires. "Arrest him on disgraceful charge.and give no chance for his political manifestation" Will Assange quit being a fugitive?

Nikon EM

 Classic SLR "Nikon EM"keep on working. This camera was  well designed and  has a peculiar charm still now. I bought one and try to take some photos.

 

 nikkor 28mm f 1/2.8 "chrysanthemum" 

sigma 28-80mm

"Messerschmit

Bf109-G"

Bought The Farm

Why does the phrase "bought the farm" mean to die in action ? I can't find etymological origin of the phrase still now. If the phrase were to be "bought the tombstone" I could comprehend it. It might be the most unique phrase for non-native speaker of English.

We shall all die. But I don't want to die in a hospital. We were all farmer. and Someday may buy the farm.

Linguistic Deiversity

Why has English got the status as the global medium language? Because of the same reason, Windows,Microsoft  subdued  OS system in the PC world.
 Almost people feel tough to learn foreign language, and if one take a minor language as a first foreign language, he might repent it, and be bewildered to say"The arduous lesson to master language which is used for few people, was only waste of effort"Of course, It was the reason for many people to select English as the first foreign language.
  local languages will disappear sooner or later, and several global languages will prosper. Spanish, Chinese will still remain global language except for English. This three languages can be told as a language imperialism.
  German might be difficult to survive. German was only dialect,and German nobles spoke French before Goethe's Era. German language has accompanied with Nationalism. German can master English much easier than other language speakers. But, on the other hand,English speaker feel always tough to learn German, and Many German use not German but English so often abroad.
 Moreover, Many German singers sing their songs in English as much as"Schlager(Hits)" sung in German. Many people might think "It is convenient to dispense with German language."
 Japanese will survive absolutely. Because Japanese can't master English so easy and English speaker can't do Japanese alike too. Not to be intelligible may be advantageous in survival of languages.

Language Business gets tough on a docile people in Japan.

My plan to build up my English skill has been decided,and all I have to do is the regular exercise everyday.
In Japan, Leaning English is the opportunity for various business. Many Japanese worry about their own skills of English, and feel  pressure for it. English teaching shark threatens poor skilled employees. "Without English skills, You shall be dismissed!"
English has come to be a kind of "Fear Industry"in Japan.  Will English force Japanese to discard indigenous language ? It might not to be .Japan was defeated at WW2. But Now language battle between English and Japanese will end in Japanese winning before long. Because Japanese won't be able to use English so well.
Some teachers say foreseeing ,"Children will lose their interests in English, blaming it on utilitarianism in education . After all , not all of us need to speak foreign language, do we?"
 Majority of Japanese will get nothing from learning English, even though businesses recite a cliche "English is indispensable for business."

Smo---King

Why does smoking is banned legally ? I have already surrendered myself to arbitrary anti-smoking fascists. Unpleasantness come to cling to smoking now, and if I resume smoking after now, I will have to endure bad flavor which is arising from" Anti-Smoking Politics".
 If smoker disappeared, how would Anti-Smoking movement become? I am sure not to be a idiot. Anti-smoking fascist needs always his enemy. Without enemy, his politics can't exist. He might plead in his mind " Please smoke,Please more, otherwise I would lose Turkey Shooting. You smoker are easy bags."
 There are many harms for our health in the world. How many unhealthy things are still left to be unquestioned! Of course.tobacco is not more harm than liqueur.
 Smoking ban won't be implemented. A scapegoat is inevitable element in a society. By the way, anti-drinking ban was perfect fiasco. You know?

Can You Understand These Quotes?

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/
It became very easy for language leaner to search various expressions in English. I thought" Brainy Quote "useful to learn English expressions, so I will pick some quotes up from it.
Stalin; It is very easy. 

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
 
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

 Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

By the way, what quotes are there about Heidegger ?

 Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. 

 Language is the house of the truth of Being.

 Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

Moreover 
 Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
　
This is the last quote to you.

 Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Vocabulary

How does a linguist measure the vocabulary size? I tried to check my vocabulary seize on the web for various vocabulary check.. Depending on some tests, my Japanese vocabulary seize was about 65,000, and as for English, it was from 3,000 to 15,500. (English is a foreign language for me.)
  It was strange that the vocabulary seize wasn't fixed at all in English.
 Possibly, I suppose that I remembered several difficult words, though I missed easy ones or spelling.
 I always miss spelling in English very much. So, my score was so low when there are spelling checks in the test.
 By the way, I've not known these following words till now.

BUFFOON
INFLAMMABLE
SCURRY
SPIRITED

These are 13-14 year old level. (SAT native) 
 Whereas,
I answered correctly
MATRIX
PERSONA
SYSTEMIC
MIRAGE
ADJUNCT
SUPINE
These are high school graduated level (This level is too difficult for me.)

I am a man of brave.

My English skill turned out to be equal to 8th grade of middle school in English-speaking regions. Nevertheless ,in English,I write various themes in this blog. HOW BRAVE I AM !

Jobless Society

Whenever I am studying English, U.S social problems annoy me. I can't stop following social issues in U.S. If I could, I would neglect them. I don't live in America.So I don't like learning English. All I can enjoy learning without worry is a word game for kids education.
 Jobless  or working poor issue under free trade system is common problem among developed countries. I am practicing a small business now, but Whenever I have no client, I am almost jobless. I heard Security guard is a typical low waged in U.S, in fact, I had been practicing it. Generally, A high educated like me, seldom does such a job.
 The most serious problem I foresee, is a high educated jobless. High educated jobless, especially the man who has various engineering knowledge and unmarried, will have anti-society thinking or want to upset establishment. Perhaps , I afraid , unprecedentedly, many high educated will loose or miss such a job that deserve their self-confidence in U.S.for long time.  

Learning language is quite tedeous itself.

Why is a language text so tedeous? I am now reinforceing my English skill. I need still studying English now. So I get several texts or materials for learning English.(from intermediate to advanced).
 " How to speak on the telephone?"" Let's Enjoy campus life.""What does a boss command his subordinates?"" Happy Honeymoon travel?"
                     ......So What?

 Social Themes in texts for English learner are, for Example, Global warming, The importance of equal opportunity, and anyway,these have no actual appealing. and often based on the LEFT political views.
So, The more advanced in English skill, the more the learner tend to the liberal unconsciously. In Japan, people who are good at English often say"Democrats are right".
 Because I have already read so many books and got various knowledge about U.S or UK in my first language too, and Almost themes are already known  and considered for me. I am bored with such a sentence.
 As a matter of fact, I have no chance to use English without writing now. It is difficult for me to keep my motivation for study.What is the best way to master language?

What would you do if the summer didn't end?

Too hot to sleep.There is no air conditioner in my room. It is already at the end of August. Usually It will become cool in this season every year in Japan. But It looks as if this summer never ends in this year. And soon later Typhoon or hurricane season will begin.
 It is cloudless and quiet in an eyewall. I seem to be as if in an eyewall. Japanese politics took sudden turn in this summer. It will become the incident since 1930's. Japanese Political establishments are now going on a collapse. Mr Ozwa looks like a suicide terrorist.

A Unworthy Daughter Guiliani

It is troublesome to use polite expressions in Japanese. "Fushyo(不肖 =Unlike）" is often used for speaker itself to be humble to the other. It means "Unworthy"in English.  For example, "Unworthy son,me represent my father and appreciate your helping my father."Unworthy son often brings disgrace on his father.

Broken windows theory couldn't explain a mentality of "unworthy"person at all. Self-respect is no less important than an environmental factor for restraining crimes. "Unworthy person"often want to feel he or herself worthy for someone. "The less worthy, the more affection unworthy Daughter get from her father." Harvard? ...hmm.

Swiming like Submarine

（a Japanese cormorant；Nikon D80　NikkorAF-G 75-300mm）
I am a good swimmer and catch a fish.  Today is very hot. Once submerging into the water, you will miss me.

 Some of our comrades are captured and catch the fish for the master. Many were kept on a leash and go fishing together with the master's boat.

Economics,It has become already a Fairy Tale.

We got lost an interest in Economics. Because I come to be unable to know only the difference between the truth and the false. We can not predict future status in economy at all. Latest financial technology is not exception too. Any comment seemed to hold water plausibly at any rate. Supply and Demand would explain everything. And now it does nothing. Nobody can find a way in a foggy world economy. Non-precedential deflation appeared first in Japan, and It will loom on America soon later.Any economists can not explain this deflation well. and deficit of the government increases rapidly under super low yield.Nobody can stop it. Though every Japanese thinks national deficit need to be reduced. Politicians can not integrate various opinions at all. and prime minister changes year by year.
 Why did Great depression happen? At that time, Nobody knew. But It was sure to cause Fascism and World War. Nobody knows the correct answer.This is a history.
 Even if each person or government behave clever, actually we cannot predict how to be in total. There is a precedent. It is same thing as we can control the future.
 

Liberal?

The title of the book"Liberal Fascism" sounds odd to me. It is as if "cold summer"or "slow racing car". Why American democrats are called "Liberal"? I can't understand.
 I am sure that Feminists are Fascists. They are so intolerant that they grill Barbie doll for trivial sexism. What on earth are they"Liberal"?
Of course, I understand the definition ,"Liberal means political left". But What does it stem from? I couldn't find the answer in the book "Liberal Fascism".
 In Japan, sometimes students say "He is a sympathetic and flexible teacher". This is the same" He is a liberal teacher". On the other, "He is a square."means "He is conservative". A student needs to be respected on his own initiative. Dewey had much influence in Japanese education system. 
 But Liberal policy of education caused the serious standardization in Japan. 

What is "Liberal Fascism"?

  I have read the book "Liberal Fascism" to the end just now. It has not been translated into Japanese (my first language)yet,so it took three weeks to finish to read.
"Left" seems to lose it's influence on young people among the developed countries. It's is becoming to be only for the old generation(New Left). Otherwise still now,it seems  to spread progressive images over the societies through mass communication.
The author "Liberal Fascism"will unleash such the control of liberals. But What shall we become after that? Al-Qaeda ,Aum ? Of course,No, is it? I will comment more another time.

Changing Images of America after a dicade.

My view to America would change every ten year. I am not an expert about America, and also haven't visited there. My assumption about America depends on only a few source. I list three examples for this  20 years as follows.
 1 The book "The End of the History and the Last Man(F.Fukuyama)
 2 I met one American girl by chance.
 3 The book "Liberal Fascism(Jonah Goldberg)"

 1, This book was rather "liberal"and I read it at 1991. I thought American society would recover self-confidence. This book told me that  "America is most progressive and the goal of the world history."
 2 Though she was neat, I felt something bad omen about American society.I would not explain it well to the others. It was something mysterious.Soon later, 9.11 incident occurred.
3 This book astonished me. Will American go back to 18th century? This author goes beyond my image of America. The book"Liberal Fascism" is an American Apocalypse for me.

What was Playmate?

Many magazines have already disappeared. Pin-up magazines may not survive all over the world. I recently founded Playboy(Japanese edition)disappeared from book stores. I have even forgot it, though my acquaintance wrote some articles for it(Japanese edition).

 I worked at publisher in the past, and Playboy came already to be old fashioned in Japan. Playmates were so cute but they were different from "race"in Japan. It was the very high wall of race and taste. At the first, it sold well, but Japanese men lost interest soon. Especially young adult didn't buy it.

 On the other hand, Marilin Monroe (ex-Playmate) is popular in Japan until now. Many people are watching her movie. Actuary it is very subtle how difference there is between to get popularity and to miss it.
 
 I have read the News about "selling of Playboy publishing "just now. Zeitguist will change.

Liberal Fascism in Japan

Mr.Goldberg don't write about Japanese fascism in his book"Liberal Fascism". But, F.D.R declare the war against Japan as "Battle for Democracy against Fascism". He might understand nothing about Japanese history,although he know about Hitler and Mussolini very well.
  Fascism is associated with a dictatorship commonly, But Japanese Emperor was not a dictator at that time. America resigned to accuse emperor after the war after all. Depending on scholars of Japanese history, Japanese fascism was military fascism. Before the War, socialism was growing in Japan too, lefties claimed for various social rights. But Greater Easter Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere(大東亜共栄圏dai-to- a- kyoeiken)replaced socialism soon later. It is regarded as Fascism.
 American Liberal Fascists had no interest in Japan, so it is natural for Goldberg to omit Japanese Fascism.  Fascism may be "Fascism stemmed from European culture" I assume. Japanese Fascists would be "Europeanized intellectuals". and they often admired farm. By the way ,Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto(山本　五十六　planner of Pearl Harbor Attack  ）graduated from Harvard Univ. and ironically he was the most Americanized person in Japan. At that time, Military officers were educated in a westernized way. Both Fascism and Liberalism were "Europeanism"for Japanese.
After the war, occupied Japan was rebuilded under the"Liberal Fascist"of America.(American planners of occupied Japan were mainly "New Dealer Democrat"Especially Deweyan was famous in education system reformation) Modern Japanese Left often depends on this American Liberal Fascists policy until now.
  

Kudzu New Deal

  There is a long history of people's life with Kudzu green in Japan. The nature of Japan is almost jungle differently from other areas in East Asia. Kudzu is such a representaion as a Japanese nature. Japanese Imperial Army was also tough in Jungle battle.
By the way, It is so dreadful that such Kudzu is covering over the south in America. In Japan, Kudzu must be cut as soon as to find it.
 Why is Such Kudzu growing in the south in America? The Answer is "F.D.R are responsible for this disaster."Depending on Wikipedia, The Civilian Conservation Corps was established by F.D.R, and Kudzu was planted around on the ruining land by it's activity.
 This was "Green New Deal" in the past .and Now it become "Kudzu New Deal."

Thus Spoke Feudalist

I have read "Liberal Fascism" a half just now.That remind me of one modern Japanese critic "Tomofusa Kure"(呉　智英）.(My first language is not English.)   Thanks to Kure's work, I can managed to understand Author Goldberg's ironical lines .Well, Kure has a notable critics "Thus spoke Feudalist". He declare to battle against Democracy as a feudalist and assault it."Democracy is a Stupid justice. Democracy is a Fascism itself."He is a denial of Japanese modernization. so to speak, it is a premodern rebel. Depending on his definition, Fascism is equal to a democracy and modernism. He is a ex-New Left, and expose perverted minds of the New Left. and He insists "Only Feudalist have battled against Fascism." I don't always agree with his idea, but his writings are very fine. He is very familiar with chinese classics and Bible and comics.

"You have to doubt French Revolution's authenticity."This thesis is a common question that both Goldberg and Kure have. Mr.Goldberg may be also a premodern traitor against modern age.

(Thus spoke Feudalist; Tomofusa Kure)

Ready To Leave The Nest

(Nikkor AF-S VR Micro 105mm;Nikon D80)

Young swallows are already too big to remain in the nest now.

Swallows are master plasterers. They make their nest of mud like plaster.

Annotation

I wonder why white supremacist is not Holocaust affirmative but denial. Even they admit things like Holocaust are wrong and criminal against humanism.
 I assume they are a kind of communitarian. They looks like "virtual tribalism".I am sure Nazism or Communism appeal to nostalgia for tribal community.
19th century, White supremacy was a bad common sense in Europe. Therefor, they didn't have something to do for their supremacy at that time.

White Supremacist, You've got it all wrong about Nazism.

I have no interest in racism. Therefore I have not heard what white supremacist insisted. On the other, Nazism is still important issue for my reading and thinking..So I have get the book"Liberal Fascism ;Jonah Goldberg"just now. I will write simple critic after I finish to read it.

By the way,I knew the existence of "White Supremacist"but I didn't know how they are. By chance ,
I 'v got known how they are. When I answered about "National Socialism"for some U.S conservative blogger, some follower taught me about "White supremacist".He answered "They believed in Bible. Of course their doctrine or credo is completely false."

  Nazism was composed of childish worldview and coherency on the complex background. One of important doctrines was eugenics. Leaders of Nazis was obsessed by the idea of "Reforming Race" and moreover, They used the pagan symbol "SWASTIKA(Sanskrit)"it originated in Buddhism or Hindi. And then they had much interest in Asian Buddhism.


To be short, Nazism itself was almost Atheism,
although Hitler didn't deny the authority of church,and sometime made use of Christianity,
(Some religious scholars point out "Buddhism seems to be Atheism")
.Nazism theory originated in non- christian philosophy and most influential philosophies in German 20th century (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schopenhauer,Wittgenstein,Freud,Darwin,Marcuse ...) were non-Christian philosophies. Needless to say,20th century was "The death of God (Nietzsche)"indeed.

Hitler hated Jews, and even white German was pushed into the gas chamber.on the other hand he had no interest in black people and sometime flattered or look down Japanese.
To be quite different from white supremacist,Nazis had friendly relation with Iranian Muslim(Iran means "Aryan"and some Neo-nazi groups support Iran)  He wanted only to make German pure excellent race"Aryan".But,THE"ARYAN" was only a illusion.

How odd white supremacists are! They adore Adolf Hitler.

I haven't known about Sweden at all until now. 1

Japanese prince went to Sweden to attend the wedding party of Swedish princess. BP's CEO is a Swedish. So,I surveyed some materials about Sweden. I watched "Tony Hayward Hearing" His word" small people" made American anger.Some media used the title with him" The most hated person in America" By the way, I discovered Swedish comment about this in Wall Street Journal. He commented " Swedish often misuse  "small".Hayward was sure to use the word "small" as follows."We care about people who are at a loss and helpless against disaster ".


Give a simple conclusion.

  1. Swedish often misuse the word "small" in English.

Japanese Fascists Love Sweden.

I know a little about Sweden. One of my few knowledges about Sweden, is the fact that one of "ABBA"members was born in"Lebensborn"(It was established by SS) Many Japanese misunderstand about"Free Sex country" It must not be "Anyone can have it with whoever you like."But Japanese often think Sweden so. Of course It means "Gender Free"or"Whether You are male or female, either will do."
Well, Japanese Fascists reffer to Sweden very often. They seems to think "Japan must to be the Land just like Sweden." Sweden ,it is Japanese Fascist's ideal land.
  Before the war, Japanese Fascist expected Germany. especially Army was so. firstly it modeled French. Imperial Navy had no interest in Germany so much.To be different from U.S, Japanese didn't know Mussolini so much.
After War, Japanese Fascist changed to be Pro-American and conservative. And Socialism came to be powerful.
 But Socialism reduced the power gradually.and New type Fascism emerged. "Liberal Fascism".
New type Fascists prefer to destroy a family. And if they were right,Children should  be standardized by their sex education under the pretext of equality of the sexes. Liberal Fascism politics  is the very example of "bio-politics" Michel Foucault (French philosopher)pointed out.
By the way, Foucault famous work " Madness and Civilization" was written in Uppsala, Sweden.
 Many conservators in Japan feel unpleasant whenever Liberal Fascists refer to Sweden.

 Please forgive me if Swedish people feel unpleasant to my blog. I almost know nothing about Sweden.

Speculation will destroy a government finace.

How dreadful it is! Speculation will force government surrender.Of course, the crisis
was mainly caused by huge amount of deficit, but another bomb are looming. CDS(credit default swap) is a mass destruction weapon"I have heard just now. Speculators can take a chance in the national misfortunes by CDS. People start to talk about the next"Will it be  Portugal or Italy?"
 German government are desperately defending Greek national bond against CDS investors,but It may be vain. Perhaps German banks will lose much assets again like the lehman shock.

Manierisme

As for Greece (financial crisis happened ) , Famous painter "El Greco(Es)" meant "The Greek". Once a man see to his works, the strong impression might possess his mind. Flamboyant and deformed figures have something to debauch although religious paintings.
There was nothing abnormality in his carrier.I think he was gifted but a common person. This is the very difference from the character of his paintings.The way to draw made the effective expression. Would I copy the style well?

Historical style like "El Greco" is called "Manierisme"now. By the way, his son tried to be a painter like his father, but failed after all. Even for his son,to imitate the style was too difficult,wasn't it?(I referred to the book " 1911, Greco or the Secret of Toledo;Author Maurice Barrèshis)

How one becomes what one is.

Antipathy toward social group or community which submit a lonely spirits to belong to,has been an important but negative motivation to critical thinking. Nietzsche disliked German people although he was a German.He wrote a lot of sarcasms toward Germans in his works.
  China thinker Confucius was an ancient Chinese and a traveler through his life as a thinker. Whom his negative critics were against, were Chinese people or governors at that time.
This make it difficult and troublesome to read classics. Lonely alienated reader might feel a sympathy with such a writer and touching classics will give readers consolations."Nobody admire me,but there is my friend in classics." Such the way of reading is fruitless indeed.
 The value of reading classics is to learn style of writing or speaking. I wasn't ashamed of being a copy-cat.Originality,It's only a myth.Copyright should be more loose in the IT era. To copy a good phrase is better than to console oneself.I believe" To copy a style is more difficult than to copy meanings."(Norinaga Motoori 本居宣長 Scholar 1730-1801)

Being honest or Missing a good chance

(Tortoise;Pentax67,smc135mm,Macrof/4;Electronic flash,Metz36C-2)
 A tortoise lives a long life.To live a long life,man has got many shame.To be honest may be dishonor for the time being,but To tell a lie might be a life long dishonor.
Well,Japanese prime minister Hatoyama resigned. Ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe(LDP) criticized  Hatoyama"He is as if like a marriage swindler."It was a nice sarcasm. To tell the truth honestly might make a person angry and miss a good chance, So, many Japanese often believe in "To lie crafty is better than to be honest and clumsy. especially to girls.(Hatoyama told a lie to female minister Fukusima and lost his post .)
As for Oil spill accident, BP seems too defensive to solution the problem, Even when crisis happen like this, is to prepare for the suit  more important than honestly?
I hope such a thing won't continue any more.

Her character is very simple and easy to understand.

Mizuho Fukusima is a Japanese minister.And She has just been dismissed now because of the problem of U.S Army facilities in Okinawa. 
 What she says is interesting but has no influence among people.The more eager she is the less interests with her people have.
 Ironically She believes in American constitution for occupied Japan until now.She is a pro-American socialist.
Of course, that is America in 1945.She is an attorney and a symbol of Japanese deadlock  of thinking.
Her enemies are Family system and Army. "Had it not been for them, the world would be more wonderful than now"She always thinks so. To be short, she is a child.
  It is hard to realize "Free Marriage system"without destroying Family system.So,she is an anti family socialist. Japanese prime minister Hatoyama appointed her the minister of the family problem stupidly.Japanese politics seems now "the end of the world".

Spill the glue

Now I'm busy in making display model for a house maker company. I assemble same models day after day. The appointed date of delivery will come soon. I can't almost go to bed.I must glue many acrylic resin boards.I sometimes spill the glue over the transparent board and it is a troublesome loss.Whenever spilling the glue, I feel almost dead than alive. Fine model become shabby at once.
Well, Mainich Newspaper reporter Nishiyama got a scope from female member of foreign ministry in the bed.and Japanese government astonished but ferreted out who "let the cat out of the bag". 
Conservative and prosecutors did devastating campaign against Mainichi Newspaper company and the reporter Nishiyama "Nishiyama and Mainich are unfair and immoral."Many citizens felt so and denied the excuse the Newspaper company made to justify itself. Mainich Newspaper company became bankrupt and Nishiyama lost his job.This incident is thought to be one of important judicial precedents.( The right of  refusing  to testify about the News source.).......END

It's no use crying over spilt crude oil.

As For "spill the beans",it means to divulge a secret.In 1971, "Nishiyama incident 西山事件" happened. Nishiyam was the corespondent of the Newspaper"Mainich shinbun(毎日新聞).At that time, occupied "Okinawa(now there is serious disagreement between Japanese ministers and U.S government about Army facilities )"was due to be returned to Japan from U.S.Japanese and U.S governments had a secret about the burdensome cost for the land owners. Nishiyam approached to the female staff of foreign minister and had an affair with her. She leaked the secret that Japanese government would pay compensation to the landowners in stead of U.S.He leak the secret to the opposite socialist party.He seemed successfully to have an influence on politicians.
 .But this brought Mainich Newspaper a crisis after that.
..............continued

Lens mold

How do you feel when you find a mold on your camera lens?You might be discouraged very much.
Why on earth a mold grows on a camera lens? I suspect someone harassing. He might steal into our closet and disassemble our cameras and put a mold on the lens and then reassemble them when we are not there.
 Probably I may be the man of a lens mold. because I enjoy cleaning a lens to remove a mold,that is to restore a camera lens and call someone "You are no less than a lens mold(especially Japanese politician)".
Mamiya lens with a mold (It is a option lens "Sekor" for RB67 SLR) came to me very cheap($20), and I cleaned it almost perfect. It is easy to disassemble Mamiya Sekor lens for RB67. I used a  polishing compound for a car window glass.It is easy to get.

PENTAX67

(PENTAX67 ) 

I bought used PENTAX67 cheap.  It seems to be 14~18 year old.I tried to use it at once after getting.

It was the most amazing longtime sale in the camera market that PENTAX67 has been a current model since 1969. But This awesome middle size camera will retire soon. The production (current model PENTAX67 AE Ⅱ)has already ended last year.

(Kodak PORTRA160,SMC TAKUMAR105mm f2.8) 

In Japan, because of the odd huge looking of this camera,it is called "BAKE PEN"(monstrous PENTAX)

A Stranger

We are all stranger to each other. Parents and brothers are first strangers to a baby.Unrelated strangers make couples too.In English,I can't find a good phrase about this fact. Japanese sometimes use a phrase"A couple is the beginning of others".

(image;AKEBI FLOWER)
 Why does a family exist in the human world? Anthropologists answered "Because We are forbidden a incest and have to exchange daughters."The distinction between related and unrelated is brought about by a marriage system.A society depends on a marriage system itself among anthropologists.


By the way, Nietzsche said "We are all strangers to ourselves. So we misunderstand ourselves inevitably." "I am a stranger to me.so I don't know about myself."I might attain the enlightenment.

How does a person become an adult?

Nowadays, to use a word"Adult" needs to be careful. It means almost "things which law forbids a child ".I wonder when it became so.
Formally It meant having an career and preparing for marriage. but now nobody seems to use it as  such meaning. I come not to hear "You are a grown-up,aren't you".Nobody can't know What is to be an adult.
 well,I try to define it as follows.
An adult wash his hands after using bathroom.
An adult don't pick up magazines  remained on the road.
 An adult don't read a comic book.
An adult mustn't say to a bride "Congratulations !"at the wedding party.
An adult woman mustn't be a dog in the manger to more pretty young girl than herself.
An adult blogger posts comments after he read the blog exactly. 
An adult mustn't take it on others when his favorite baseball team lose a game.
An adult subordinate can put up with a boring preaching of his boss.
An adult dog don't cling to a lady.
I may be told by someone"You are still child."

Man can't avoid trouble. Nietzsche and I.

My writing often depends on Nietzsche.But of course, I don't recommend his way of life to you. His life was an experiment and politely going off the rail as a path of life.
I have had many troubles until now,and they were the things I had imagined at the time of teen age at all. Troubles truly showed many possibilities of man, and I realized some common nuance of unfair and dishonest.  These experiences lead me Nietzsche's books.
 He was sure some scandal against the modern people.He maybe too honest to flatter others. He must couldn't endure dishonest characteristics of modern people.

 For him, Christianity was only a supporter for modernism too.So his criticｓ to Christianity meant a secularization of religions was a typical bad nihilism.
 By the way, There was a famous Nietzsche's translator"Michio Takeyama竹山道雄"in Japan before WW2 and after the war.He was a German literature teacher. and his many students died in war, and He wrote the famous novel"Harp of Burma".It became movies some times.

No news is good news

Now I have no interests with news in the world because I am very busy.By the way,It is good for a workman to hear no news about what he did.If there are news about his workmanship,they are often bad news and he will be condemned for his bad workmanship.
 Please forgive my laziness to writing."No news is good news"

Fear Industry

To take advantage of a weakness is often to bring about a tragic incident. Medical industry is a typical FEAR INDUSTRY.Fear for health is a weakness all people have.
  Why fear industries can make much money? The answer is simple. Because too many people pay money by their threats. The more threat, the more money,that's a fear industry.
  To watch old Japanese movie, "YAKUZAヤクザ（Gangster)"often threat quiet citizens and they escalate their request on the pretext to keep peace. The more quiet citizens are, the more escalation they have. The weakness of citizens is a mind to avoid trouble itself.
After all someone on the side of citizens burst his outrage.and it finally to come blood rain.

An Oversupply Destory The Society

I have no time to follow the medical insurance issue in U.S(Many Japanese show much interests with this too.)I only heard that medical cost is incredibly expensive in U.S because the medical profession is  oversupplied.
An insurance depends on the invisible social reliance.But this oversupply seems to damage fundamental elements of social reliance. Modern society has no way to resolve this problem yet.Economics may be useless.A doctor is too clever to compete with low price each other.An oversupply of profession is essentially exception of market balance.Market can't reduce the amount of the medical profession.An oversupply does more harm than good.

The line's busy.

Once,a telephone operator used to connect lines whenever people called someone.And if the receiver was occupied by the other caller, then the operator would said"The line's busy".Off course.now such a thing is not done.

 "This line is busy"seems difficult to be translated into Japanese. Once Japanese American operators often said from US to Japan in Japanese"Sen ga isogasi( The line works hard at it)"This"busy"means "occupied".It was one of strange Japanese phrases.
(This photo was taken at AT&T office in early70's )

I am very busy now.

I am very busy now. So,my original writing will stop for the time being.
Please,look forward my posting soon later.Thank you for your reading.

Born to be Child

This land is a heaven for children. If you are a child, all you have to do is what you want to do.Politicians are all children too.Even a manager of TOYOTA car shop is a child.What a generous!I heard gavernment of this land give much money to children.Of course,If you become adult,You shall pay off huge amount of national deficit.Naturally,all people don't want to be an adult.This land is such a land that CHILDREN HAVE THEIR BABIES.

Healthy Imperial Force.

To be unhealthy is a criminal in this land. Saying precisely,to make an effort to be healthy is a sacred obligation. People in this empire shall devote themselves to lead all person to awake the supremacy of health. In this land,the earth must be healthy too.Because Even the earth is an maidservant for the glory of HEALTH.They say always
"We were born to be healthy, So We don't mind doing any job for health." 
There are many unhealthy enemies in this world. The healthy warriors in this land shall battle against an unhealthy invader.
They pledge"We will be healthy KAMIKAZE to eliminate any unhealthy menace.
In this land,even Kamikaze pilot must take care of his own health just before the suicide attack and then they TAKE OFF.
There is no way for a fool to correct his own stupidity without death

Early Cherry Blossom

(Early cherry blossom ;Nikon D80 SigmaDC18-200mmF3.5-6.3D)

The nearby cherry blossom already blooms now.This is an early variety.
As for cherry blossom,it has been sung in many popular songs inJapan.  "Seiko Matsuda松田聖子"'s song is well known. Old military song"Cherry blossoms in the same class同期の桜Douki no sakura"is very famous.

Naked Ape

Desmond Morris(zoology,UK) is famous for "Naked Ape".There is another book"Man watching"written by him. It was used as a language text in English class in my University. It was described the analysis of non-verbal communication. It bored me so much that
I looked for the other book to know what person he was.The book"Naked Ape" already had been in my room.I didn't only find it.Because my room was too messy.
I found a zoology is quite tedious at that time although animal watching was fun it self.He only replaced a man to an ape and described it like Freudian.My negative point of view to a zoology arose for the first time.What to be taught in school, doesn't have always positive effect. If the text  had not been used in English class,I couldn't have known even the existence of a zoology.
"Man is not a Naked Ape,but an ape with underpants on"Some Japanese anthropological economist (Shinichiro,Kurimoto,栗本慎一郎）said about this. I prefer this opinion.

Praying to the Ass

Japanese proverb says   
Even the head of a sardine can be a charm against evil if you believe in it.鰯の頭も信心から.
Recent environmentalism seems to be such a thing. In the last part of "thus spoke Zarathustra" the superior humans are praying and speak to the ass. This may be a ridiculous but humorous trap which anybody might fall into. The Ektenia is prayed to the ass by them in "thus spoke Zarathustra"but the ass in response brayed only Yea-Ah every time.
 Well, this word"ass"is often used as an obscene meaning. I don't know where this meaning derived from at all. So,if someone say "praying to the ass", he might be looking in the wrong direction.

It is infectious.

Famous king "Ludwig Ⅱ"was famous for his mental illness. Moreover it was a terrible fact that his doctor in charge became a patient like the king after all. A man has no ground of normality in himself,So It is probable to say "Who keeps company with the wolf learn how to howl"about insanity too.(reffering to Jaccques Lacan;France Psychoanalysis)

Saying from the other side,a crazy may have a deep influence to the other.This is so-called"There's only slight difference between a crazy and a genius.天才と気違いは紙一重。”in Japan.Who thinks by a different way to others, may be by the border of sane. Nietzsche became a lunatic at last too.

Cuckoo's Nest

 A cuckoo don't make it's own nest.
I wondered what "Cuckoo's nest"means. I've not watched the movie titled this words yet.
 A shrike makes it's own nest diligently
and hatch a cuckoo's chick.
Nesting season will come soon.
Are you wondering whether I am normal ?
Of course, Yes,"NORMAL".

Negative thinking

Surely,an abnormal person exists(pentagon shooter).
Please let me define "Negative thinking"as "a way of thinking without certificate or positivism"in this post. This usage is referenced to C.G Jung.  Of course This is difference from common use.
 A lunatic often is a person who has a way of thinking like this.
All things in the universe can be explained by Conspiracy theory.For example,whatever you see, someone prearranged or it is no doubt for some mastermind to conspire demolishing "Twin Tower".
This type of negative thinking often obsesses a lunatic.
In addition to Conspiracy theory,Radio wave theory sometimes control negative thinking persons too. Such a person receives some electric wave in a hallucination.and he is driven to make trouble by the wave.Suddenly he shouts" I've received a radio wave now."
 Formerly,TV comedian sometimes would play lunacy and say "I've received a radio wave"in Japan,but it is unable to be done now because of a protest of human rights associations.
Once to be obsessed by Negative thinking,it is hard to escape from it without others aid.

Greek crisis may be a bad omen.

There is no sirious problem than a national bond in the world now. Japanese governmental deficit already have become the precarious day-to-day management.Great part of U.S national bonds came to depend on China. Greek crisis undermineｓ E U collaboration.
A value of National bond depends on the credit to government and all the time to have the confidence in a government,a collapse can be avoided.
Learning history, governmental crisis often occurred after a financial crisis.Historical  sequence of  political terrors often had  such a background.The most famous incident was Nazi-Germany. A political terror is Hitler's usual practice.At the same time many terrors to politicians and business tycoons broke out in Japan.
Jumping from this topic to the other, I assume "Stupid wall" may have something to do with these problem."Stupid wall"have been already written in this blog.(please refer to the labels.).If I were requested to comment about Japanese politics,I would to say"Japanese politicians never listen to what others say."
This tendency began from the ex-prime minister"Junichirou Koizumi " 2001. He was the very man who never listen to others.But this is a bad tradition in Japan.Japanese terrorists often said"No more discussion!(MONDOU MUYO問答無用）".For them,a language was only a Junk tool.

Zeno's paradox

I sometimes use sophistry.Of course, it is a bad habit. We shouldn't mislead others by fallacy.
Well,do you know "Achilles and the Tortoise" ? The quickest runner "Achilles" can't overtake the slowest Tortoise. Whenever Achilles reached the point where Tortoise started from,Tortoise already advanced ahead of Achilles. So Achilles never pass Tortoise.
Shall I apply this to "deficit never surpass solvency"
 Anybody think this conclusion is false.But It is difficult to prove this false.
I found many students couldn't do division by time.To prove this false needs  understanding division by time and convergence.
"Achilles and tortoise converge same point  on same time ."
Can you understand?

A Portｒait of Democrat Teacher 2

  Do you know"the Pythagorean theorem." Everyone who wasn't good at Math,Please forgive me. This theorem is"A×A+B×B=C×C,
This equation holds water in any right-triangles."There was an odd mathematics teacher who took  half  a year to teach this theorem. He had such the belief " Every student has his equal ability to any other."and"No matter what,you mustn't say Women are not good at mathematics."These were his AXIOMS.

 Until the most poor student understand it,nothing made progress."A=3,B=4,C=5, then A×A +......"Same explanation repeated endlessly.Of course I studied mathematics by myself,and sometimes fell asleep.But this temporary delay ended at last.This teacher quitted my class  because of teacher trouble.

 By the way,Far right is a natural enemy to Democrat teachers in Japan.Every year the conference of teachers union hold in Japan somewhere.and many far right propaganda vehicles come there and activists shout terrific
loudly"Nikkyoso Bokoku日教組亡国" (the Japan teachers union treasonaous)in Kamikaze style.Nobody can forget this terrible disgusting sounds rather than the conference.
......(image;Japanese far right )

A Portrait of Democrat Teacher 1

When I was a Junior high school student,there was a teacher who was very friendly but had never influence on me.
He used to teach World History, Seeing him at the first,I questioned him about the book"Weimar Republic"which I was reading at that time.
Of course I was treated like an excellent student.
He eagerly criticized a family system on his odd sociology.
He said that Family system caused all social discrimination. I didn't want to submit myself to my parent like an old Japanese too.
Suddenly he said to me "I am not satisfied by only one wife, we should enjoy our life much more. you know?"
I had to pretend to be a naive boy and replied." I hate such an obscene thought."He laughed cheerfully"You are still a child .haw-haw"
Almost students had no interests in a world history,So He often seemed frustrated.
He spoke passionately about The Bastille or Latin America, But nobody would listened to him without me.

An Incomprehensible Phrase

Bible's phrase"Happy are those who know those are spiritually poor......."Do you know the meaning of this?
Any explanation don't satisfy me.In fact ,I have heard this phrase is not "Happy are those who know..."but "Happy are those who are spiritually poor"in Greek.Japanese translated Bible is often described so. To be short,this phrase doesn't mean "You ought to be aware of impiety."Some Japanese editions are described as following expression" Happy are those Who has no support without God."
"It's OK to be spiritually poor"I think so for the time being. Modern age people are overly self-conscious.

A Fraud and The Last Man

A crafty fraud is sure to look a stupid person.Clever citizens don't trust a man of intelligent.He has a face to look common,but nobody can remember his face. He knows many details of things very much, but truly know nothing at all.A smart person is tricked by himself and jump to a conclusion.Such his one-sided belief is an ideal job for a fraud.
This is a classic type of a fraud. A calculating bourgeois is neatly taken in.
In modern society, A person to trick is not the bourgeois but The Last man. The Last Man doesn't calculate.
He is discreet,but indecisive.He believes in modernistic justice( equal rights, opportunity justice,so on)but won't fight for the justice. Only principal which he is subject to follow,is to behave same as others do after all.
A Modern Fraud might be an agitator. He may instigate a flock of sheep to dash outside the green ranch. He is familiar with kindling a fire. He may be an arsonist rather than a fraud.Anybody dash outside if their homes are burned.and he reaps a fruit of confusion.Such a fraud may be a little man and have a loud voice. Because anything without a loud voice mustn't be conspicuous.
(The Last Man;Thus spoke Zarathustra ,Friedrich Nietzsche)

Tsunami will attack Japan after the huge earthquake soon.

It will be the biggest tsunami in recent Japan. Chile earth quake have caused damages to Japanese shore before.

Burning Books

Burning of the books and burial of scholars 焚書坑儒 is a phrase that refers to a sequence of events in the Qin Dynasty of Ancient China, between the period of 213 and 206 BCE.

And Emperor Qin Shi Huang（秦の始皇帝） regarded himself as the beginning of history.

Useless many intellectuals and books were a sign of the end of the world. and Burning of the books and burials of scholars was an Apocalypse for him. He needed only legalism（法家.Hen Fei Zi 韓非子）Scholar "Hen Fei" were trusted by the Emperor but he was executed too.
Chinese might think books represent a history. Burning architectures would have done well.
Someday Books will need burned too. Because a modern society is "The End of The History"now.

Great Foul Ball as if it were an almost Home Run.

But it was a wonderful misunderstanding. American Female anthropologist"Ruth Benedict"couldn't understood Japanese culture after all,although her famous works and studies about Japan.

"The Chrysanthemum and the Sword;Patterns of Japanese Culture邦題「菊と刀」"is an influential 1946 study of Japan by her written at the invitation of the U.S. authority in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in War by reference to a series of contradictions in traditional culture.

The book was influential in shaping American ideas about Japanese culture.during the occupation of Japan. and popularized the distinctive concept between guilt cultures and shame cultures.Although it has received harsh criticism, the book has continued to be influential.

To be short,she couldn't comprehend Japanese mind or ego, because she didn't have Japanese language skill, and it was natural for her to miss Japanese guilty sense or consciousness. We can only understand a pattern of behavior If it's mind we can't understand.A shame emotion accompanies with a physical response outside ,so it is easy for an observer to recognize it.To recognize Japanese guilt sense,You have to be familiar with a difference of usage of Japanese very much.Japanese often have guilty sense for the dead(especially KAMIKAZE is a some sort of martyr for many Japanese still now. ) this is all.(It is a Fact that she couldn't understand Japanese language at all.Was it a JOKE?)Whoever want to know other culture shall to make an effort to acquire it's language skill.

Moreover It was a ridiculous shameful response that many Japanese intellectuals accommodated themselves to her odd theory.

Bury head in the sand

...Like an ostrich,burying head in the sand is ridiculous but anyone might do so. Japanese use similar idiom too "you hide only the head ,but not the hip.Evil thing can't be hidden.頭隠して尻隠さず"Recently this is often used as follow meaning"If only you hide the face,you behave shamefully without discretion."
An ostrich has no sense of shame,so of course it is only for a security to bury head in the sand. In English,this idiom means to refuse to confront or acknowledge a problem. To face a problem may be equal to use discretion and to be modest.

Don't look at it.

Perseus killed Medousa by his mirror shield. Anyone who look at Medousa became a stone. Using mirror shield,Perseus cut Medousa's neck without seeing it directly. and He assaulted his opponents and made them to be stones by the head.
It seems like a truth that we shouldn't look at a mirror on the contrary. Had it not been for a mirror, there wouldn't be the famous story "Snow White". A mirror betrays anyone by the image which is reflected in it.
Whatever is reflected in a mirror seems to be dangerous for YOU.

A planting season will come again,whatever may happen.

(Rice field,Nikkor AF-S VR Micro 105mm,kodak100)
One day,farmers said each other."Whatever we are doing never change""Naturally,they do."
"Now let's resume our farmwork."
"Hold down a job after this."
It is impossible to win a battle without food.The German civilians death by starvation amounted to eight hundred thousand in World War 1.What an Unbelievable number!( Blockade of Germany)

Traitors 3

(reproduction from Wikipedia;Florian Geyer1490-1525)
The word "a Nerd or a Geek",may have a slightly pejorative nuance for Guy who want to be popular with girls.Pretenders to a delinquent boy or a outlaw might afraid to be insulted as a Nerd.Such persons feel like calling himself "Traitors",I assume.
In Japan,showing off a trivial knowledge,such a person may be called names"Otakuおたく".This Japanese word is almost same as "Nerd".
The Peasant's War(1524-1525German) began as a farmer's rebellion.and After this incident,German land was mercilessly devastated.and There had been remained a ruin for a long time.
Legendary traitor "Florian Geyer" lead peasant cavalry called"Black Band".In spite of sympathy with peasants,Martin Luther change his attitude abruptly after all and Florian Geyer and Thomas Müntzer was defeated by rulers supported by Martin Luther.
After all Martin Luther branded Thomas Müntzer a traitor.(Japanese may say a type of Florian Geyer"Seinen shoko青年将校"indignant young officers)
By the way ,the tragedy of Florian geyer came to be sung as a German Folk song and Communists adopted it for a unity. Adolf Hitler regarded Geyer a heroic figure,and SS Cavalry Divison"Florian Geyer"was organized.So,topics of military Nerds about Florian Geyer, are almost about this SS Division.

Traitors 2「逆賊」

(printed T-Shirts;Fist of the north stars "Juda")
According to my knowledge of history,The Confederate Army soldiers were called"Rebel",if I remember correctly.
On the other hand,I thought that Lincoln had branded The Confederate traitor,The difference between "traitor"and "rebel"is difficult for me a little.I have just learned that the word "Traitor"was associated with Judas betrayal. I assume the word "traitor"may be used to describe a person or a group who has a character of betraying or conspiracy.
Japanese word "Gyakuzoku逆賊”is a famous word which was used under the pretext as the Emperor Hirohito's(Showa Tennou昭和天皇) command to the rebel troops in February 26 incident. Generally the word "rebel"is used to describe this incident.But This word(逆賊） seems like closely to "traitor" rather than "rebel".

Traitors 1

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(comic cover"IGANOKAGEMARU";cartoonist Yokoyama Mitsuteru　横山光輝1934-2004)
If there had been no traitor,we might not understand a history as a story or a legend.
Karl Marx brought the concept "A class struggle make history"up,In some meaning,it seems like the truth.
So,a treason is a core of nation history as a story.
I heard Osama Bin Laden branded Moderate Arabs Traitor,but according to his old career, he himself is the very traitor as anyone know.
There are many odd traitors in Japanese history too.
" Shosetsu Yui 由井正雪（１６０５－１６５１）"was one of such a traitors. He was teaching tactics at his private school and got an offer of a government post.His talent was outstanding.
But the shogunate had to forced many "Samurai(ruling class)"to give up his status at that time. So he masterminded lordless samurais to overthrow The shogunate.
After all his conspiracy failed. but this incident came to be told as a many entertaining story. Above image is very famous Ninja comic "Kagamaru Igano"(1961-1966)and this comic was modeled on this incident.

Early 70's

(I got old negative film . I scanned it into positive.I don't know where was this taken.this place must be somewhere in U.S)
I sometime scan negative film which was taken in 1970's.They are not taken by myself.
Everything look like calm and carefree in 70's. Gradually these air like this disappeared from photo after 80's.

Tibetan mystery

In my childhood, one stigma was associated with Tibet in my sense.The documentary" Tibetan Sky burials",that was all about Tibet for me. Tibetans leave a corpse exposed to the vultures. How different from modern view of life and death it is! A corpse is only a food for animals there.
Some masterminds of Nazism were obsessed by Tibetan Buddhism （Ernst Karl Haushofer). THIS IS A FACT. Tibetan Buddhism have had a mystic power for traitors. Recently, Guru Shoko Asahara was one of such traitors.
In Japanese history, the most famous traitor "Emperor Godaigo1288-1339" tried to use mystic power and it was thought to have same origin as Tibetan Buddhism .
Both Buddhism as a anti-violence and detestable act are never easy to be comprehend same time at all.

All Greek to me.I can't understand PC.

The more difficult, the more right. To be disappointing, it is truth. I often was pointed out "your writing is too difficult to understand or too abstract."But sometimes, the truth is very clear.So, I sometime use an allegory. An allegory story is difficult to use. It looks like a knife. POLITICAL INCORRECT expression is often useful very much.
"Nothing is more dangerous than a crazy having a knife."(気違いに刃物）Japanese often use this expression behind.This phrase is a banned phrase in Japanese media for the human right of mental disorder persons.
It means that an abnormal person shouldn't have a dangerous object. Having respect to PC code, I must say as follows." We must help a mentally challenged person to be dispense with tools by which we might have unfortunately accident."
Anyway, No doubt,SHOOTERS in UNIV. and street slasher(AKIHABARA) on busy street are in lunacy. Of course,they are not worthy to question their motives.

Great Thinkers and Scandal

(Todtnauberg House,Heidegger the author"Sein und Zeit "Being and Time) )
There is no more difficult question than Blemishes which great thinkers left on their own careers.
Japanese Heidegger studies are active,and it might have influenced many intellectuals more over than in Germany.
As for Heidegger,a person who know his works, usually recognize the importance of his works,although even common German almost knows nothing about it.
Heidegger readers always have eagerly interest in Heidegger-Nazi problem.(please read Wikipedia" Martin Heidegger" )
His affirmative position to NSDAP, marked great stain on his works. This fact teach me "Common person in the world(dasein;Heidegger's term) may be possessed by diabolical principle just as a justice."
By the way, Foucault(French philosopher) had praised Islamic revolution in Iran.
I have great influenced by his works.but I don't agree with Iran.
And he was homosexual.(of course, I'm not)
Foucault studies seems like more popular in U.S liberals than in France.
What a misunderstanding it is!
This means obviously that he was opposed to Democracy(anti enlightenment), hated western culture, had no interest in woman and feminism.( If he were in Iran alive,he might be executed by death penalty.)His passion have enough of exposing dirty secrets of humanity as a Western in his works.and liberals are the very typical Westerns he disclosed. Foucault,himself might be a excellent juvenile delinquent or an anarchist.
Anyway he was a pagan enemy essentially against LIBERAL postmodernists rather than a friend.

Prescription for Athlete.

In Japan, anybody can't neglect praising news for Olympic athletes easily. Japanese athletes hardly win the gold medal in winter sports every times. It is natural.Because Winter sports is not so important culture in Japan,and number of winter athletes are small. Even public media shout "Japan,,Japan"repeatedly.　Shut up!
Well, to say the truth,Japanese often use pejorative phrase for athletes." His brain is made of a muscle, and it is natural for him to have no commonsense."
I will bring up to stop subside for athletes .
By the way, I used to do gymnastics.I was good at floor exercise a bit.
(Japanese male have got many gold medals at gymnastics until now,but female nothing.
It is a mystery)

Global warming is very cold.

(late 70's,Hokkaido;Olympus Pen)
I believe in "global warming",so I think "warming effect "causes"cold weather in this winter. Even TV commentator say seriously. Good God!　Everyone must be frozen because of "global warming". Fools like this shall ship on an ark for the other world to battle "Global War........ming"or"snowmageddon".(just as if "Aum shinrikyo";Japanese cult"guru,Asahara")
Forgive me for my rubbish joke.

Environmentalism,Left or Right?

Definition about political left and right is still vague.But this divide is common thinking in the world.And this is like nesting box.There is right sect in left and left sect in right.
Well, is an ecologist left or right?
Originally, environmentalism was left side. because environmental activism derived from communism and opposed against global capital or industry.
But now it is different from the former days. They don't always oppose to them,and common people agree with environmentalism itself.
So,Environmentalism is belong to Establishment now. and they often sponge even money off of some industries like a gangster. They insist not to change natural circumstances a bit.How conservative they are!
That is to say,A radical environmentalist is a FAR RIGHT HOOLIGAN. They will act just like a far right sooner or later. Be on the watch!

White elephant

I sometimes search English idiom to kill time. Internet is very convenient for learning English idiom and proverb.
Whenever I have nothing to do, I always do such a trivial. Well,a self-employed is likely to be out of work when he has no business.
So,I acquired many small arts .
A graduate from leading University hardly changes his type of job. If he changed his type of job, he would be "white elephant".
Unemployment become to be serious in U.S,and Japan.White elephants wonder what to do and are at a loss.
Description in WIKIPEDIA;
"U.S cruiser The U.S. Navy's Alaska-class cruisers were described as "white elephants" because the "tactical and strategic concepts that inspired them were completely outmoded" by the time they were commissioned – the Japanese heavy cruisers that they were designed to hunt down had already been destroyed."(by the way, this Japanese heavy cruiser class may be a Myoko-class that was the strongest cruiser in the world, but almost cruisers were sunken by U.S bomber)
After defeating enemy, we lose our job.
(I haven't known party game"white elephant". Employee and useless cruiser won't do like the game.)

Resistance against homogenized world.

By the Internet, whether personal or not, information penetrate everywhere.(China is exception.)
It is as if a culture rape to a multilingual ex-nationalist like me. I have a sensitive hart.
Such a information violence will make this world monotonous and homogeneous after all.
"Europeans must be far different from us" I used to image so in Japan.But now people are very alike in modernized countries.We can't have even a prejudice.

Economical inactivity will annoy such people all over the world. Because a wealth is made by the difference in culture or behavior.(This is the division of labor).

Education may be useless about this problem. Many students come to be very alike on their sense of value after all in every country.and they say to their colleagues."Are you doing well"(I had been an adviser for entrance examination to university and taught some subjects.) Images of happy life is alike each other everywhere.

Is education cost a sanctuary?

Now I have found a education cost become a hot political issue in Britain. It is not reported in other country(Japan,U.S)media and web.why?Education is not in a supreme status on social cost.
Times on line
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article7017924.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164ine

Modeling 3

(Reformed third. paper clay model)
How category does a modeling like this fall into?
It may fall into paper clay craft in Japan. I think it modeling work for myself. How about clay art?English is difficult.

Tax Office

Every year,in this time, I must make a income report on business and file it for
paying government tax.
Going to the tax office can be dispensed with,but I go there to see how the tax office comer to be.
Outstanding changes happen recently(this 10years).Foreign filler increase now. It seemed that the tax office worker can't discern my nationality. Filler has not to certificate his own nationality.So there is no problem.Times have changed.
By the way, substantial nationality is not so easy to judge. A legal procedure on nationality is not always substantial. It is only a document for certification.There is a troublesome in Nationality decision.

Inside Racism

(Hannah Arendt, philosophy Germany)
It is easy for people in modernized society to censure direct racism or naive discrimination. Sometime it means "sponge off"or”political threat".
Recently Japanese universities often make an essay examination from "Hannah Arendt". What does it mean?
I was surprised by her insight. and I came to be convinced as follows," The worst racism is to be done by the same race each other."and"urban, individualism, atomic and anonymous people caused FASCISM.
Japan has went through militarism.but it was far different from German fascism . There were no individualism in Japan at that time.
Conventional Asian farmers didn't think themselves supreme race at all.
What was such a racism? It was illusion of "pure race,Aryan".
Pure oriented person must eliminate impurities. therefor his sinister look is directed at impurities in the same race rather than other race. In fact,modern Japanese have these preconditions without EAST ASIAN.
Recently the term"Genetic pollution" is often used in Japan. Some biologists say "As for Genetic Pollution, I associate Nazism." It sounds like biological purism. Nazi racism is the very biological purism.

No matter what your specialty is, you can use it to get by.

(an etude,paper clay scale 1/12)
Japanese proverb say"If you have a skill,It will help your livelihood"
Commonly, It is used for recommending someone to acquire a skill.
BUT REAL MEANING is different a little.
He has the misfortune to use his own specialty.（芸が身を助ける程の不幸せ）
Some sort of person use own arts in the corner or dead end.
This proverb source is "senryu　川柳 "a humorous poem in Edo era.（precisely,it was a solo reciting poem"dokugin 独吟 Kinka ou ryushi 錦花翁隆志")

Human Relations always become complicated.

There is no more unpleasant behavior than pining a label on a person. Nobody can select their own favorite one by themselves. and We can't cast off a social role which such a label made to ourselves.
So everybody often wants to deconstruct a social relationship.I assume
I have gone through strange racial trouble in family. It was caused by the racial labels on me. I assume others (Japanese or German,possibly British female)pined complicated labels on me,and they were characterized by race and sexuality.