I'm having trouble with "the Book,

that is in my house somewhere, but I don't know where it is.

It's especially hard when I am looking for citations for your column and I have a deadline looming.

Because I don't have time to spend looking for it.

In addition, I have a habit of littering books, and sometimes I don't even know if the books really exist in the house.

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As a result, I may end up buying the same book over and over again.

However, the only difference is that this is an e-book.

Up until now, I've always insisted that paper books are the only thing of value, so my daughter has scorned me for saying, 'Dad, it's so easy to change your opinion.

But I don't care because I believe that my value is in this "sobriety apostasy" or "light-hearted turnaround".

It's a rule of thumb in my life, that "Gone from the guy who has a policy of "stubbornness""

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This time I purchased "Japan Sinks" by the late Mr.Sakyo Komatsu.

I really wanted to reread a scene in this novel, and I bought it as an e-book -- and I'm really glad I did.

This is because the search function of the e-reader alone allows me to jump to the scene at once.

By the way, when I reread, I usually only repeat certain scenes that I like.

In "Japan Sinks", the scene of

"Right after the massive earthquake, air traffic controllers did not give a stop order to a passenger plane, and let it take off and go into the air"

is the best.

This part of the book makes me cry, no matter how many times I read it.

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God!

Even the controller in charge, who was usually an unbeliever, shouted in his mind on this occasion.

(Omission)

You can't stop! Open the throttle! Pull back on your stick! Let's get to the sky! A terrible destruction on the ground is coming soon.

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I read the book again, and I kept being overwhelmed by the tremendous amount of simulations.

Poor numerical simulations such as the one I'm doing are not at all telling

I was appalled.

At my age, when I re-read this book, I am struck by the people who are fighting to rescue the Japanese.

The struggles of politicians and academics, in particular, almost bring me to tears.

In this corona disaster, these people continue to fight in a way that we can't see.

And I thought that we who don't even know it must be throwing out fawning, mindless comments from a safe distance.

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Aside from that.

I'll reveal why I purchased "Japan sinks" in this month's column.