busy weekend

I'm spending busy, but fun these days.



















Last Saturday, I run up to Hiroshima for a day. The previous day, my mother stayed at my house, and she was planning to go alone. However, fortunately, it turned out that I don't have any assignment to do on weekend. So, she suggested me to go with her for just one day. I decided to go even though it going to be hard to go and come back in a day, because I heard that my grandmother started to seem dementia little by little, and she is going to enter the hospital for health examination. Last time when she went to the hospital, her doctor told that a lump of blood which was made by operation may causing her easy to forget. I hope she would be alright.

















When we arrived at grandparent's home, they were not so much change exept grandmother gave up to dye her hair, so her hair were all white. They said I became bigger as they always do. I didn't get big any more though. And we talked about my life in Osaka, cousin, and my family.

After eating lunch, I walked around house. I went to the path that we used to go for an adventure with my cousin. There were lots of change everywhere. Less wooden house, and more concrete, stylish, apartment. But there still good old place to visit. Also, I went to the field that my grandfather making various kind of crops. It used to be colorful, we could take and take whatever we want. However, the field now is seem to be not groomed so much. I feel like they are getting older than I was thinking. I'm thinking to visit them near future.

Alone at a time of danger

This time, I would like to talk about "Alone at a time of danger" which opinion was written by Peter Sidell. He responds about the news of the murder in Saitama prefecture. The woman was found dead by her colleagues who wondered why she did not come to work for two days. When she was found, her hands tied together and her head covered by stocking. Sidell said that she would not have died if the neighbors did something. Her neighbor said he heard her screaming and the sound of hitting the floor from second floor, but he did nothing and she was found dead after two days.

He also mentioned about the news of raped woman in the bathroom of the train. In this case, there were about forty passengers in there, but they could not stop or tell the conductor, because the man also threatened them. They just pretend they did not hear woman crying, and taken to the bathroom for rape. At last, it was woman herself that reported to the police.

By reading or watching these news, Sidell thinks that in Japan, no one would help you from the danger. So, you must protect by yourself.

Not so welcome to Japan any longer

Today's response is about an article, written by Kevin Rafferty. It’s about system that fingerprinting foreigners who come to Japan by November 20. This action will take to almost every foreigner. Rafferty thinks that it is useless. Even though America took this system, they could not avoid 9/11 terrorism. Then, how it helps Japan? Also, he mentioned that it is not just foreigners, but also Japanese, who cause problems in Japan.

I think it is not bad to take this system, even if it is mimicking of America, and it was no use in there. It might help something in Japan. Also, I think that it is important to do something rather than wait for something happened and think about what we can do afterwards. We should better take some action even if it is said to be useless rather than just wait and see what will happen to us.

Discrimination in Japan

In the article, "Which minority groups face the worst discrimination in Japan?” ,which is written by Shaun McKenn, six people from all over the world said their thought of discrimination in Japan. Some said foreigners like Chinese, Korean, or black people are discriminated in Japan, and some said about handicapped people or burakumin who are descendants of a feudal outcast class are discriminated.

To the article above, Mike Dewood write a response, "Ebb and flow of discrimination". As you can see in this title, he said that in some parts in Japan, the discrimination has been decreasing. However in other parts, it doesn’t. He has been living in Japan, and by his experience in Nagano, he said he was hit by a rock by the children, spitted in his face by senior, or had a note which said "foreigners go home". He said that not all foreigners are living in dishonor, but some having this kind of trouble when they come to Japan.

When I read the first article, I notice that all foreigner insist that foreigner in Japan are most discriminated. However, no one who is Japanese (I guess that from their family name) insist about that. We can think of some reason: Japanese don't want to admit that they are discriminating, they don't think that it is not so much a problem compare to other problem, or just didn't notice. Whichever the reason is, it is true that there are some differences of thinking between foreigners and Japanese.