About twenty thousand ago, the duration of human being life is about forty years.

The numeric has not been changed for long time, and the average of present duration has become for even two or three hundred years.

Human being could get the present duration not by genetic struggle for life, but progress of medical care.

This is the fruit that we could not lose several changes to death by the medical technologies.

That means, "Age smell" that happens to appear from human body, especially, of middle age body

seems to be equal to "stench of death" of a person who has already been dead under normal circumstances

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Well, what I want to say is that, let us try think

"Age smell", many people become paleface is better than "stench of death"

and they could feel easier for middle-aged persons.

"could not they?"

Last week, I was in my country home in order for the process of my father's nursing care insurance.

For setting the nursing level, a municipal officer visit my father's house and have an interview with my father, so I am supposed to help my father.

I am going to tell you about the interview at the next time.

The daughter of my sister went to the municipal office to submit the document for the nursing care insurance.

I am very glad that I am really helped by my relations about several issues.

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My sister told me about the time when the daughter submitted the documents.

Sis:"She said that "the person of office started the process as soon as she found the name "Tomoichi Ebata" in the document"

Ebata:" I see"

Sis:"Did you do something to the office?"

Ebata:" I don't know at all"

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I didn't do anything about threat, intimidation, bribe, and other unfair actions to the municipal office.

In addition, I don't remember getting adversarial with the officer.

If anything, before going to the office, I study the process very hard by books and net, and I read and read letters of the law if necessary in order to go through procedure.

For me, I believe that I am kind and give a friendly response to the offices as an extreme level.

There is an elementary school on the way to my office from the station.

The ground of school faces pavement, so I can look at children who take a physical education and play on the ground.

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This morning, when I walk by the ground,

I could hear the voice of the boy who sang a superb song "Let it be", that is theme song of the movie "Frozen".

In addition, I thought it was very good.

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I thought that the future in Japan was bright.

""Stalker becomes this in the future” Jaguar Co. delivers the concept"

I was really surprised to see the news headline.

"Stalker", that has become more serious crime in the world, is going to be in progress from now. I feel that despairingly.

Also, I was astonished that "stalker" can become a concept of modeling as a future crime, as they could open the concept.

I have prepared some information of stalker for a column, so I was shaken by the news.

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When I read it again, it was a reading mistake after all.

""Smart Car becomes this in the future” Jaguar Co. delivers the concept"

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Not so.

Before long,

The time might be coming that "smart car" become "stalker"

So, nobody could predicate that my thought is out of the ordinary.

No good?

A few days ago, I wrote that all of my family has completed reading the book whose title "Memorandum of Okitegami Kyouko" by Nishio Ishin-san.

So, when I bought the book "Bake-monogatari (former)" and gave it to my junior daughter, she was addicted by the book.

No sooner had she finished reading the latter, I ordered "Kizu-monogatari" to Amazon.

The package of the book was broken without my permission, and the book that might had already read half of the book was left by the package.

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I thought this was a grave situation.

If I buy an erotic book from Amazon, and my daughters open the package freely, though I don' care it at all, they become to feel uncomfortable.

But it was all right, somehow.

Once they feel uncomfortable, they are going to try it again. This accident might be better before they find an erotic book in her first boyfriend's room.

(To be continued)

Yesterday, my junior daughter rushed to come to my room, and said

"Daddy! This "Kizu-Monogatari is really great". Amazing! So I'm gonna go to bed."

She talked her impression one-sidedly, and disappeared suddenly.

Going with this condition, it is like the matter of time that the whole series is going to be set.

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I think that it is good.

In our times, there seemed not to be books like "the story series" which are easy and enjoyable to read.

Though these books are sometimes called "Light novel", I don't like this.

If the book is easier to read, it is more valuable that the book to read hard.

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To tell you the truth, the books that we were forced to read in junior school were hell on earth.

According to the title of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology recommendation book, there was only the books of "they quarrel with a friend and are reconciled afterwards"

Ougai, Dazai, Soseki, Tanizaki, Mishima

Every one of them is hard to read, really gloomy, and is not fun at all.

The time that I can find that their books become fun is in the immediate past.

Forced such a book on a child, I really think that "Does Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology want to promote this detached room of the child?"

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Some fools think that the reading regards as "some kind of training", but I believe that the essence of reading is "entertainment".

So,

"Daddy! This book is really great. Amazing! So I'm gonna go to bed."

This is the right reading like this saying of her.

(To be continued)

I have finished reading "Contemporary history, I got it!" written by Ikegami Akira-san.

I am really astonished at his understandable explanations at all time.

I wrote the same thing in the diary of yesterday, I think that the book to read easier is valuable for that reason.

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However, it is difficult to judge whether the book is easy to understand, because it depend on each person's thought.

For example, "Monogatari series" that addicts my daughter, an adult researcher doesn't like it, because he feel "difficult".

That aside,

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We cannot avoid to use the word "Zionist" when we have to talk "Jewish problem" and "Palestine problem".

We cannot discuss this problems without this concept.

However I, who is also a Japanese, cannot help reading "Salt-ist".

"Salt" also has a mean of "money", and in fact, salt was used as paycheck for soldier in ancient times.

I heard that the origin "Salary man" was derived from the word "salt".

That means,

Nobody blame me if I say "the person who has a principle of free economy might be called "Salt-ist""

I am thinking that some worthless thing darkly in this weekend.

I am afraid that many prominent actors and actress passed away recently.

Whenever I hear these kinds of the news that some and upper generation’s celebrities pass away one after another, I feel that I am also going to pass away in the near future.

So I think something deeply in the present.

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The other day, my senior daughter attended a funeral, and was given a gift in return for a funeral offering. (It was the assorted laver.)

My second daughter asked me what that was, I explained about the gift.

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Daughter:"What kinds of the gift are there?"

Ebata:"Dried bonito, condiment, and tea leaves, for example"

Daughter:"Only foods?"

Ebata:"The food gift might mean that we should forget the deceased as soon as possible, and let us live our life in a constructive manner".

Daughter: "What gift do you want to give them in your funeral?"

Ebata:"I think that I am going to include my life in the gift"

Daughter:"H'm."

Ebata:"Extremely hot curry in vacuum packs is the best. I want to make and keep them by myself before my death"

In this step, my wife interrupted our talks.

Wife:"Absolutely NOT. I will be shamed"

Ebata:"I will have already passed away before giving others to the gift"

Wife:"It is displaying a lack of consistency that "forgets the deceased as soon as possible". I think that a worldly desire to keep your life with violent impression.

Ebata:"Oh..."

Wife:"For the second thought, I don't have to care, because I will pass away before you."

I decided that "I take a diary off at the day that my column is released".

I have to spend my time because of the modification of my homepage and resizing my illustration.

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"Let's go to the world with a number" An environmental problem: Is "Shut-in" eco-friendly? -- watching CO2 with a number.

Thank you for your reading it, and giving me your impression.

I heard the presentations that the three persons who were awarded Novel prize.

I thought that these were wonderful and excellent presentation.

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I thought that the presentations were very similar to the English we has used in general.

As for at least us as the engineers, we are not conscious of pronunciation anything of the Ls and Rs which a Japanese English teacher minds pathologically. I do not mind even intonation.

We keep English conversations even if a strange phrase happens (If not, we cannot finish our tasks), we speak same phrases again and again, if we cannot understand the questions.

I think that the most important thing is to use English itself, to have an intention for English communication.

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I said the above again, again and again, but someone don't want to understand it.

According to my column "a concept of Japanese English", some persons insist on saying "he cannot make any job with his English"

"So, what were I going to do abroad?"

"Wasn't that work"

Why do they want to believe me, even I keep saying "no problem"?

I doubt whether they have some reasons not to believe me.

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I think that number of people cannot understand that communication is a kind of continuous feedback system.

If we misuse an opposite meaning "Yes/No", and we skip to use definite articles, any misunderstanding becomes to coverage with flameout.

A belief that a perfect understanding of the phrase by just one time, keeps us away from English.

In addition to this, the belief is strengthened by the system of entrance examination of Japan, and TOEIC, whose styles are "just one time" way.

Thus, our country becomes completed as "the system which does not let us speak English".

The other day, my senior daughter seemed to go to the movie with her friend. She went out in the early morning, and come home late at night, so I asked her where they went after the movie.

"So, it is movie"

"Yes?"

"Two set match for both "Kyoto Taika hen" and "Densetu no Saigo hen" for one day"

"....really?"

Why are you crazy for "Rurouni-Kenshin”?

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She has already completed watching these movies with me at all my cost.

I am left speechless for not only going same titles but also watching them all day.

"My friend is also fan of "Kenshin""

Does this matter complete using the word "fan"?

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I could not make an image of using luxury time and money in my youth.

That was the time I thought "I was soundly defeated by her"

The US often imposes economic sanction against some countries that they regard as "axis of evil", and do asset freeze.

This means that the country's account in the US is frozen by the administrations, and their depositing and withdrawing become impossible.

Though we, ordinal people, cannot click with the terms, the impact of this sanction is bigger that we expect.

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When I finished my work in the US for two years, and went back to Japan, I was going to close my account before leaving for Japan.

But the banker told me that I have to submit the paper of

"Certification of not staying at the US"

This was a wonderful rule, I thought.

When I want to close the account, I was in the US. So I cannot close the account.

"You said that I have to take proceedings for electric fund transfer from Japan"

She said "Sure" with smiling.

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I felt miserable.

I have to try an English conversation to realize the transfer with calling her from Japan.

If I fail in the action, our little saving was going to be frozen in the US.

I was not "axis of evil".

So, what I did in the final week in the US, was

To try a simulation of the conversation about the transfer with the banker in advance.

I wrote my serif in a paper, and confirmed that she could understand what I wanted to say.

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"Not being loved by English" is a really tragedy that I have to give a morbid response.

A few days ago, I watched the TV program "Expanding Zero-reading. What happens in Japanese" in NHK docutainment.

In conclusion, it was an ordinal story "No reading, no logical thinking".

"Dumb"

I changed the TV channel soon.

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Man:" I haven't read a book for one year"

Woman: "One book each for three years"

I think that their phrases are true, and it is also right that the reason is to be using smart phones.

I am a person who robs them of their reading time (and writing this diary).

The other day, I wrote that reading is a kind of entertainment, so it is natural that they lose the time to read.

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What I was annoyed that the program tried to lead a conclusion "No reading, no logical thinking".

To tell you the truth,

Many people cannot think something logically, even if they read a lot of book.

The program tried an experiment that dividing students who read frequently from students who don't read firstly, make both students write a report. Finally, the program concluded "Students who often read books can make a local report".

I am very sorry that there is absolutely no relationship between logical-thinking/reporting and reading habit.

"Being logical" is going to realize by the logical-thinking and technical writing trainings and the strong intention to think logically.

If you think that you make you a logical person by reading books only, I am going to thunder out

"Don't be spoiled!"

(To be continued)

Reading is entertainment, so the effect is to "enjoy reading".

But there are some additional effects, and one of them is that the reading becomes easier by reading".

To begin with, human being had not had a custom of reading, so reading is the newest entertainment for human being. (And one example of the oldest custom is to sex)

Reading is high-cost task that the human being has not experimented.

Reading makes us happier, because the task becomes low and we can realize the positive feedback of "making us happier easily".

If there are other entertainments that are more fun than reading, we don't have to cling to reading.

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Personally, on the other hand, according to the persons who read my columns, I would like to keep reading.

The reason is NOT that "I want you to live your life wealthy".

But I think that a person who

- Probably has no concept called "reading" is not embedded in the life,

- cannot arrive at even the last page of my column,

- is emptiness of literacy and reading comprehension,

- is deceived for an catchy title of the column (unfortunately I do not have authority to make a title)

- doesn't read my column at all (or cannot read by his/her capability),

-shows me a comment that is fatuous and impossible to read

makes me annoyed endlessly

Last night, my junior daughter asked me a question with watching a TV program of early election report.

She: "Papa, Do you have a plan to go to election?"

Ebata:"In order to be elected, someone must vote me"

She:"Yes"

Ebata:"In order to be voted, I have to have "popularity", "honesty" and "belief" and so on."

She:" I see"

Ebata:"And my body doesn't hold “popularity", "honesty" and "belief" at all"

She:"Certainly"

I was able to be understood by her in a second.

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As a matter of fact, I have never asked her to say

"Oh! Don't hesitate in saying about yourself. You have already had "popularity", "honesty" and "belief" in your mind, A,ha,ha,ha,ha"

I have not given her the education to talk such argument without substance and dry laughing voice.

However, if I keep skipping the method of social etiquette, I am afraid that she will have a bitter experience.

In the trademark law, the administrator can reject a registration of mark, which makes the quality of good misidentify.

Without the registration, there are rules that make us prohibit using such a description. (Unfair Competition Prevention Law).

The purpose of these rules is that prohibiting such marks and descriptions leads to the consumer protection.

For example, "medicine that recovers from cold in three hours", without the effectiveness.

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I sometimes think that according to "diet books" "diet appliance", I wonder that there are no trials for not being the effect.

In addition, I think that the English teaching materials "to become fluent in English in three months" is also same.

In spite of ineffective, it does such a notation.

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But

About the book whose title is "You can speak English in thirty minutes"

I think it becomes dismissal with prejudice on the merits and/or a judgment of not guilty, even if you file a lawsuit.

Why?

(To be continued)

A quality misunderstanding of good or service is not going to occur.

Therefore, nobody cannot believe "we can speak English in thirty minutes", and cannot misunderstand the quality.

It is clear for everybody that this title of the book just just shows the content of the book.

For example, the name "delicious milk" is not suitable for quality misunderstanding. (The other problem might happen.)

I got the loan of this book from the library, and it was a good book.

It is very clear to think of rough concept of conversation skill, and I could get many tips (I like the part of sound production)

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On the other hand, I am very interested in comments of reviews that checked low-grade against the book.

One of them said that "Using such rough English conversation is going to lower our Japanese dignity"

However, it has little correspondence with my experiments.

I know well that not only non-natives but also natives don't speak the "correct" English at all in their diary life.

Though I had been poor persons who could not help but using the rough English abroad, I believe that nobody had looked me down.

It may be that I didn't notice their scorns.

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Even if that is the case, I don't mind at all. If someone looks me down because of my poor non-mother tongue language, I am going to look them down adversely.

They are non-intelligent persons who never have tried to study foreign languages, and cannot understand the variety of languages.

Every week I take part in the audio conferencing with Chinese engineers. They always try to speak Japanese with heart and soul.

I am strongly moved and impressed by their efforts at the every conference. I NEVER look them down because of their poor Japanese.

For me, if the book whose title is "You can speak Japanese in thirty minutes" is released overseas, I am going to help the expand sales absolutely.

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Don't let me lose my nerve.

The reader may possibly buy the book "You can speak English in thirty minutes", in order to speak English in thirty minutes seriously.

If so, it cannot help but measuring the bad reputation.

Why don't you claim your damages against the author or the publishing company and (the claim is going to be rejected naturally so) file a lawsuit? How is this?

The content of claim is "I cannot speak English in thirty minutes".

I really want to know the court ruling.

"Yukari! You are fast! too fast!!"

But she ignores my junior daughter's claims perfectly, and keeps reading aloud more than two hundred questions and answers lists of the science and history.

She is a voiceroid "Yuzuki Yukari"

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I really made a great buy.

My daughter has been built up by her, and she could learn the key Japanese chronological table by heart.

I believe that the 6th grade girl, who can response the correct answer in 2 seconds, against the following question after Yukari's voices,

- Partial Test Ban Treaty(PTBT) in 1963

- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT) in 1968

- Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces(INF) in 1987

- Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty(CTBT) in 1996

is only my daughter.

If possible I want to go skiing for one day in the winter vacation.

Each year, I go skiing with my family, or alone.

Probably, if I continue to go skiing every year, I will happen to a broken bone accident, and after that, drop out skiing in my life.

A few days, during the above conversation, my daughter brought up saying that going a one day stay skiing.

Ebata:"Do you really want to go one day skiing with me?"

Daughter:"Yes."

Ebata: "Will you be have to be prepared, if you say such a thing?"

Daughter:"Yes?"

At that time, my wife interrupted us and said,

Wife:"Don't be careless! His skiing is not "skiing" but "his skiing"

My daughter had an incomprehensible look on her face

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My wife is one of the persons who know the story of "a night of martial law".

This weekend, I had to concentrate the deadline of a manuscript.

At lunch time, I went down to the kitchen, and I said something to my wife with boiling pasta.

Ebata:"Do you know the word "frequency spectrum"？.

Wife:"I don't know."

Ebata:"Quite so. We don't need such a concept in our life"

I am suffering from making the manuscript.

My family makes family photo of New Year's card every year, but my wife and I use the photo only.

My daughters has made the pictures of the card by themselves since a few years ago.

The reason why my wife and I insist on the photo, is not for a good way to inform our acquaintances the state of our family, but just a chance to make a family photo.

Family photos are very interesting, if being set out .

Though the people who get my cards, might be interested in my daughter's growing-up, I am fun of watching my "aged deterioration".

For me, the family photo is a kind of fixed point observation.

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Unfortunately, the spirit of my family becomes low year after year.

Yesterday, for example, I noticed that it was a routing work that we just went to the pass at a hill nearby and took a photo by a digital camera.

But once we starts the event, they begin to propose new pose ,go crazy and "get high". It is also our annual event.

Last week, I was asked to do speech for raising a glass at the year-end party by the organizer.

Ebata:"What kinds of speech do you want to ask me?"

Organizer:"Please you as you like, Mr.Ebata"

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"Ignorance is power"

He was a fresh person, so he could not understand what I am.

The draft I had made at the day, was described a description as follow.

I can summarize my activities in this year, like "Madoka-Magika".

That means,

"It started in hope, and, ended in despair"

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In fact, I hesitated to this speech because they were not drunk yet.

I didn't want to change the party with all-night vigil over a body.

Recently, I noticed that I feel more tired in holiday than week days.

In every weekend, I make some materials or numeric in front of my PC from nine in morning to one in midnight.

But I have kept these works since olden day.

In old days, they were "Linux install" or "device programming" though, now, they become market reports or columns

"What is the change? "

It is my age.

In old days, I believed that I could take a rest in weekend, Now I think that it become difficult to betray both my mind and body at the same time.

For my laboratory, I am often ordered to modify the material by boss, Though I don't know whether other companies or other jobs are same.

Making materials by the PowerPoint → Being reviewed the materials by others → Being ordered the modification → Remaking the material →Being reviewed the materials by others → Being ordered the modification → ....

The route of the order continues among executive, department manager, unit manager and me until just before.(It is really "until just before" as minutes and seconds without joking.)

I have believed that the time and energy make our decision making and the speed lower, and as the result of that, we lose business chances and competitive power.

Though I have not changed the thought of mine. I feel that I change the view of this issue.

In short,

"We discuss something with PowerPoint"

It could be called "PowerPoint communication system"

In other words, "I cannot possibly put up with the diary tasks without the thouth."

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If you have a fight with your lover now, would you exchange the PowerPoint sheet by e-mail?

You could make clear of your "problem" and "solution against the problem", and you could get happy Christmas eve night with your lover.