Yesterday, my wife asked me where the comic "Chinese bride" was.

I gave a reply to her "I don't know the book at all." She seemed to be confused "Koumei's bride" with "Chinese bride".

This book showed some difference of nation cultures, concepts, and belief from the viewpoint of a marriage, on which we cannot ignore the the differences.

I think that this book is not only pleased but gives us the significance of internationalization.

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As far as I am concerned, I have been lucky to have chances to meet many non-Japanese persons.

Thought they were intellectualize, logical, polite and internationally-minded persons,

I cannot remember how many times I had gotten mad with them.

In my case, I had gotten angry, wept and thrown up for the differences of deadlines and percentage completion of papers.

And maybe, they had also had inflamed with rage for my behaviors, "Ebata couldn't show the final decisions, and he had no intentions for his missions".

In fact, they told me the above face to face.

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It is terrible difficult to make the companies decisions for many Japanese big companies, and more and more period of time are needed.

If we ignore the above complex procedures, any work is going to stop absolutely.

And many non-Japanese person could not understand the Japanese culture background, so I cannot help be helped.

There are some authors who has written "Japanese don't have their own thoughts". To tell you the truth, I will tell you that,

They are unintelligent not to understand systems of Japanese organization.

In order to change the direction of mega-battle ship, we need rigid preparations and specified period of the time.

However, it is true that many companies in Japan have lost a lot of business changes.

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What I want to say is eventually,

The comic "Chinese bride" shows not resolutions of contradictions between nations but "inhere" comically,

I feel happier than reading papers of ignorance critics.

(Continuation from yesterday)

Firstly, I traced routes of transportation from the home to an examination school with a highlighter. After I decided a main route temporally, I tried to simulate some accidents resulting in injury or death, on the map.

I discarded the case of more than two accident simultaneously because of the low probability. I could not make a strategy.

The problem was a time lag from the accident to giving me the precise information. If I missed an initial action, I could not expect the arrival on time by the alternative route.

However, empirically, I know that railroad companies cannot give us a precise report just after the accident, and they cannot open an alternative route immediately.

Though Twitter is good as a real-time information resource, it was not useful in this case because of the time of early morning. Youngers didn't use the smartphone in that time.

"No use. It is difficult for me to judge the whole situation, riding on trains"

I thought that I had to grape the whole situation from the outside as a third person.

In addition, even if I could observe the situation from the outside, I had to use a car in order to escape from the accident.

Generally speaking, the answer was using a taxi. But many examiner and the guardians came to pour to taxi stop. To begin with, the case became to worse, because I could not predict the time of both the departure and arrival.

"How about my private car?"

Secondly, I traced routes of main roads from the home to the examination school with a highlighter.

However, thinking about accidents and traffic jams, it became to be worse than using trains. Because there were no alternative way against the accidents, like flat tire.

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I was troubled for two days.

Finally, I could reach a conclusion, while scowling at the map, opened on a floor.

"I will make a dual system"

(To be continued)

Time, a person can use, has it limit of 24 hours, so many companies in advertising should struggle against the scrambling.

You know, many people are likely to reduce the time of watching TV for smart-phone, and other media agencies try to rob then of their time.

One of the agencies is "train".

Recently, many trains have liquid crystal display(LCD) as destination screen of the train, and the train company is doing AD by movies (CM, so-called).

In trains, the CM should be silent movies, however, the most important merit of this CM is

"We cannot skip the CM like a "hard-disk player""

"It might be possible in near future"

I think that this is an important bigger advantage than other CM.

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To tell you the truth, I want to talk to you about the Odakyu-Dentestsu's contents.

(To be continued)

My eldest daughter got me a beer for a present of Valentine's Day.

I will get handmade chocolate from the second daughter (although it is a remainder).

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To young people. Look at me with keen interest.

This is a man in "winning group".

When I heard that my senior daughter had a date to Tokyo SkyTree, in spite of myself, I said

"Lovers are inclined to go high"

I also went to a bar and drink with my wife at the top floor of the highest building in Osaka. (After that, I moved to a pub at the underground of the building and had grilled chicken.)

Ebata:"There is a proverb of "smoke and foolish person are inclined to go high", so "Lovers become foolish accidentally" might be true."

Senior D:"as I recall, there used be a Twitter's comment of "When the Christmas comes, lovers are crowd around illuminated places. Are they insects?"

Ebata:"I thinks the lovers should become foolish insects. The time we become "foolish insect" is shorter in their life"

After hearing it, My wife said with admiration

Wife:"You tell a lot"

Ebata:"I talk about "love" enthusiastically."

Senior D:"I know. and it is long"

Junior D:"Repetitive"

Last night, I went into a barber of super baths for the first time.

It is very helpful for me that it is open until 22:20 at night.

I keep myself away from sleeping in a taxi or barber shop. Those who took charge today were women of a large body in their 70s with.

"I am not good at personal computers"

In one word, as my weekend writer, I was interested in her, and I was interviewing her implicitly.

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Ebata: "Is there anything you are in trouble without PC?"

Woman: "There is absolutely No, do you have anything in trouble?"

Ebata: "It might be convenient, for example, purchase of train tickets, shopping, getting documents to be issued without in the row of government offices.

Woman: "Well, that's fine because my husband do all. He is working on electrical work and drawing pictures on my computer".

Ebata: "Then, have you had any trouble without e-mail? "

Woman: "I'm doing e-mail on my mobile phone, ""short message"？ But, I don't use a smartphone.

Ebata: "No, no doubt it is "you are doing" wonderfully.

Woman: "I use it only to get in touch with my daughter. My daughter is doing a nursing care now, so I can not call you anytime. "

(To be continued)

(Continuation from yesterday)

One of the other reasons "genius doesn't seem happy" is, I think,

"Genius himself is not aware of their ability"

What they do not realize that they are genius, is neither humble nor virtuous.

On the contrary, they are afflicting themselves.

Because they come to hate those who can not understand their ideas destiny.

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Speaking of that, a conversation, like this, appears in Jun Mihara's book "Hamidashikko".

Jack: "Is Graham an idealist?"

Angie: "What? If Graham is an idealist, what's wrong?"

Jack: "Yes ... if he is an idealist, he will destiny hate those who do not embody the ideal ..."

In short, that's it.

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"Engineers with high technical skills that no one can catch up with"

I have seen such people.

And I'm sorry for their misfortune and the bad luck of the world from the bottom of my heart.

So, I think that.

"I need to work hard and keep studying so that the world can understand their abilities."

I often hear the line, "Market valuation is..." in the news.

However, when I look at recent stock prices, I sometimes think that this so called "market" is actually "stupid".

In fact, it was the "market" guy who failed to calculate a fair price for real estate and plunged our country into an unrecoverable recession for 20 years.

The Lehman Shock that originated in the United States is same.

I don't own any securities, stock certificates, government bonds, or any other bonds. Therefore, I can't buy or sell them.

I am not a member of this "market" guy.

In other words, I have not been included in the 'market' from the beginning.

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I don't know why guys like "market valuation" are used so often.

I think that's probably the only way to evaluate the "atmosphere" of the world in numerical terms.

I wrote something like "California and Texas may become independent" during the last presidential election, and as planned, I missed my prediction.

However, with the appearance of the "President instigating the attack on the Capitol", I am proud to say that the direction was quite correct -- although it was more diagonal than I had expected.

This time, while watching the NHK news, I whispered to my wife,

I wonder if we can take advantage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to retake the Northern Territories."

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Thanks to Google Maps, the world map has become easier to read these days.

I was looking at a map while reading an article about Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, and I thought to myself, "I see".

The Crimean peninsula is located north of the center of the Black Sea, and by controlling this peninsula, not only Ukraine, but also Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, which face the Black Sea, can be stared down (in fact, it seems to be working).

In addition, Russia seems to have seized Ukraine's military equipment in the Crimea Peninsula.

On the other hand, if Ukraine joins NATO, Russia will have no buffer area. Moreover, the distance between Kiev and Moscow is also quite close (750km).

For Ukraine, it would be unbearable if it were to become a second annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, so it is understandable that it would want to join NATO and have NATO act as a deterrent.

Well, you can make a good argument that "how can other countries have any say in the military alliances of sovereign nations? But the history of war has been a history of overriding such things.

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Back to the story.

I don't think I should talk about the "Northern Territories Recapture Plan" because I don't have the qualifications or ability to discuss it, and I haven't studied it properly -- however,

I can't recall any case where a war initiated by Japan has been successfully closed.

I have always said, 'I hate people who hang their life theories on others,' so basically, I don't do that.

Even if there is a person in front of me who is certain to fail in the future, I would not advise him.

"Keep smiling and watch that guy sink"

That is my stance.

And, well, I have "sunk" many times in that way, and I am glad that I did.

Because I believe that I have the 'right to fail.

Even my own children, I take the same stance -- except when it comes to their lives and property.

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So, for the most part, I don't talk to my daughters about it, but they do ask me for advice (mainly my seior daughter).

To summarize her consultation,

"I want to work well with multiple perspectives"

Ebata: "Don't worry. Just getting older will give you a 'multifaceted perspective' even if you leave it alone. After all, we all are living in vain.

She: "Right now, I want to be 'so'."

Ebata: I don't know it is easy. Because 'young' is destined to be 'licked' regardless of ability.

She:"Isn't ability appreciated?"

Ebata: "Ability is difficult to evaluate. For example, when I was in my 20s, people said I was stupid or an idiot, but when I do it now, they say 'You are a brilliant person!"

She:"..."

Ebata: "So, I think it's good that you should just 'let other people's evaluations slide".

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'The most ridiculous thing you can do is stop yourself from doing what you want to do because of the opinions of others.'

Many people said that, however, I am afraid that they don't say

"You don't realize it until the last inning of your life"

At my company, all public expense transactions are to be made with a credit card issued by the company.

It is not impossible to do this with receipts, but it is both exceptional and cumbersome.

Every time I see the news these days, I think?

It would be sufficient to issue a credit card exclusively for members of parliament (and their staff).

Of course, there are some jobs that members of Congress can't do publicly -- for example, hiring Golgo 13 to assassinate political opponents or foreign dignitaries.

Therefore, this credit card will be established, including a new expense item.

"Matters Related to Secret Services"

We, the people, should also show consideration that "politics cannot be done neatly" and approve this "Matters Related to Secret Services" expense item.

I would like to know at least a sense of the scale (number of digits of the amount) of the 'confidential business matters,' even if it is inevitable that the details of the 'Matters Related to Secret Services' cannot be disclosed.

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Well, the main problem with this proposal is,

Will Golgo 13 accept credit card payments?"

However, I think that from now on, terrorists will not be able to do without cashless support.

In that sense, <North>'s "Theft of Crypto Assets through Cyber Attack" is an excellent case study.