Among the people with too much anxiety and automatic ego-defensiveness

I hear that steal is nothing out of the ordinary at the nearby supermarket and the employees, security guards and policemen are not willing to act for the victims, saying "There is nothing I can do for you."
People learn to give preferential treatment to irritable people, swearing in low voices, and to postpone gentle people, with welcoming addresses, in the world today.
I run a juku, a private tutoring school in Japan, receiving money not as tuition but only as sign of gratitude.
I suppose that the key to success is the people who has independence beyond too much anxiety and automatic ego-defensiveness.

In Japanese....
近所のスーパーでは盗難が日常茶飯事で、店員も警備員も警察も「どうしようもない。」と言って動こうとしないらしい。
今の世の中では、人々は、怒りっぽい人を小声で罵りながら優先し、穏やかな人を歓迎しながら後回しにする事を習い覚える。
私は、謝礼制の塾、つまり、授業料としてではなくただ感謝の印としてのみ学費を受け取る塾を経営している。
その成功の鍵は、過剰な不安と自動的な我が身可愛さを超える主体性を持つ人々の存在に在る、と思う。

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What a fool nation we Japanese are!

One month has passed since the Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami.
It has caused the Fukushima I nuclear accidents.
It seems to have not only been left unresolved but also deepened the disasters.

We Japanese are the first and only nation who experienced radiation exposure, as a result of the atomic bombings, in the world.
Since then, we have complained and cried anytime.
But now we make ourselves radiation-exposed.
What a fool nation we are!

YouTube - TEPCO conference nuclear plant Hide those who're responsiblefor dumpin Radioactive Water : Fukushima

YouTube - SOS from Mayor of Minami Soma City, next to the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan

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For what do Japanese apologize?

It is said that non-Japanese wonder why some Japanese apologize in some instances.
I read one of them in the essays written by Nakayama Miho, the popular singer and actress.
She, who lives in Paris, France, talked that she spilled water on her own clothes at a cafe and said "I'm sorry." and was said by a French cafe staff member, "For what do you apologize? For you?"

Maybe I would also apologize in that instance.
I know that the damage was done to my own clothes and water given to me, whereas the cafe didn't suffer damage very much.
But I would apologize on the instant for messing up his/her performance to serve water to me and for disturbing the sight there as there is the word meaning apologizing for showing anything unsightly in Japanese language.
That would be the agreeable manner for me.
It would be laborious for me to force myself not to apologize in the instance.

Nakayama Miho, on a TV show on 9 October 1986

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The Japanese Long Version

Enjoy my passing summer!

In spite of September beginning, it is still hot.
But a student of mine, who is a grandson of a fisherman, said:

Summer wind is gone on the sea.
Fall wind has come there.

Until when will summer stay on the land?
At any rate, Fall is coming.
Enjoy my passing summer!

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Links:
Daily Weather Reports and Weekly Forecasts | The Japan Times Online

HBM!

Happy Birthday to Me!

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All killers in history textbooks

There are all killers at wars or conspiracies or conflicts in history textbooks.
Why in the world should we learn and teach killers' biographies?
I want to learn and teach the biographies of the people who set examples for us by the way they lived.

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