Extracurricular activity in junior-high / high school is common in Japan.

In China, there is no concept of "Extracurricular activity in junior-high / high school" and Chinese people grasp that it is a kind of fiction or fancy dream.

I was moved to hear the story with thinking "different culture".

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"School committee for discipline" often happens in Japanese comic and animation.

It is about to appear in love stories. I think that the opposition between "love" and "moral" amuses readers.

To tell you the truth, I thought "School committee for discipline" is a fiction

until yesterday.

I was very surprised to hear from my wife "it was existed".

By my narrow thought

"School committee for discipline"

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"Enforcement on personal privacy" by school

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"Restriction against freedom of expression by government"

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"Special political police in WW2"

The above funny sequences have been completed, and I have kept denying the existence of "School committee for discipline" unconsciously for a long time.

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But I kept crack down on student's free expressions (hair style, clothes, others) as a member of student government.

Now, I keep crack down on coworkers to enforce to company rules("5S", etc) as a member of safety and health committee.

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"A person who advocate free is a person of coercion" is in day-to-day situation.

Today, I am going to give two story about English in long time.

(1)The first

The other day, I wrote a columns whose title is "The mindset of Japanese English"

English will be transformed in each country, I advocated my theory that we Japanese don't have to copy pronunciation and grammar of English of England or USA.

But I knew that the idea was not special, but it is natural in some oversea countries.

For example, in Singlish that means English in Singapore, ordinarily

Subject is omitted.

The emphasizes of adjective is to use the adjective twice, not to use adverb like "very" and "marvelous".

Persons in Singapore, use it as local English based on their own rules, and

It is working well.

(To be continued)

I think that my children is a very good material to understand the human being.

I can deeply understand that "human being is not interested in human other than their own".

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"Daddy, you had been running away from the air raid of B29 aviation bomber,hadn't you?"

"Dad, you had been waving the flag in front of riots of the Houses of Parliament hadn't you ?,"

They are not only on time series, but also I had been even born.

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Thus, human being is trying to understand wildly together that "all of the older person that their own experienced all of the old events"

(To be continued)

I have a word of honor that

"I will not make me an annoying old man who begins to talk a story from the phrase of "When I was young....""

Such old men are really annoying many people.

I, who is one of old men, can understand the feeling of the old man, who wants to craves other approval of burdens of his past.

However, such hard luck story has a asymmetric feature that "people who speak it, is fun" and "people who hear it, is hell"

In many cases, the side of the old man (including mentors, bosses and executives) has a power.

In addition, the old man is also going to be unhappy, because the younger escape from him with saying "I would rather play a game in my room to go drinking with you"

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This is a story of family trip in Taiwan last month.

Our hotel had no quarter room, so we reserved tw0 double rooms.

When we went back to the hotel at night, and gathered together in one room to talk about action plans for the next day,

the senior daughter's smart-phone started ringing, and she rushed to the next door, grasping the phone.

She said "from LINE, a report of my friend's passing the university was coming in", and she used a LINE phone and talked with a friend in Japan.

I thought I envy her.

(To be continued)

To the person who can say "Anyone can do such a thing, even if do it","It is easy"

"Please show me what you do."

You can do such a thing ?

Is it easy for you?

I prepare to change places with you.

- Usually bothering with cost and results, an executive who suddenly broadcasts a preaching email such as "everyday greetings are important".

- A department manager who suddenly reports impression of sightseeing on business trip place

On the day after the "NHK Special" program, a boss who begin to say "Now, XX becomes important."

Please be careful. Your subordinates are making fun of you.

You are ridiculed, because you do with rising of temporary emotions,

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This is a privilege for me, who

can do foolish "street preaching" every day using the diary (blog)

with a bold face.

It is not something that an amateur can do easily.

Recently, I have been thinking about infection simulation for coronavirus (COVID-19).

We talked about this simulation and about releasing it to the public.

My wife, the editor in charge of my columns , and that "rude junior", said

"Stop it"

Well, this column will be a risk that goes beyond "setting foot in the minefield"

A half-heartedly persuasive column (whether or not you agree) may be a factor in causing social confusion.

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This is life-threatening.

I should not work with ease.

Government(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) that did not disclose to the public about the simulation results of the emergency rapid radioactivity impact prediction network system (SPEEDI) after the nuclear accident occurred immediately

might have thought the same things as I think.

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I think my column basically falls into the category of "amateur shit".

So I don't think that I need to be as cautious as the government.

However, even if it was "amateur shit", I know well that when formulas and computers come in, people tend to be silent.

"Numbers become violent". I know this very well.

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I am thinking now "What should I do?"

It's been a year since I received that shocking email from my "Dr. Shibata of the Run-Over".

I was eating lunch at the lodge of a ski resort for a one-day solo skiing trip when I read that e-mail.

I was so engrossed in reading that I didn't even notice that I dropped a side dish from my spoon.

For me, that e-mail was the turning point in my involvement with the "new Corona".

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I feel like I'm being overwhelmed by the daily news, and the whole picture is getting blurry. So, here is a monthly summary of the major developments related to the new Corona.

2019/12 Outbreak of pneumonia patients with unknown cause in Wuhan, China

2020/01

2020/02 Diamond Princess incident, request to close elementary, junior high and high schools

2020/03 WHO Pandemic Declaration, Mask Riots

2020/04 Emergency Declaration Order

2020/05 Emergency declaration extended→released

2020/06 Request for voluntary restraint on movement lifted, over 100 newly infected (Japan (not only Tokyo))

2020/07 "Go To Travel" campaign started, more than 1,000 newly infected people (domestic (not only Tokyo))

2020/08

2020/09

2020/10 "Go To Travel" Tokyo added.

2020/11 "Go To" Sapporo and Osaka suspended; Tokyo Metropolitan Government resumes request for shorter hours at restaurants.

2020/12 Healthcare system strained, Pfizer vaccine application filed, mutant strain found in Japan

2021/01 Recurrence of emergency declaration, complete suspension of "Go To Travel".

2021/02 Emergency declaration extended, vaccination started

2021/03 Emergency declaration lifted

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Looking at it this way, we can see that there was no significant movement in January and August-September of 2020.

And it is clear that the "carelessness" of January is being paid for in April and May, and the "loose estimates" of August and September are being paid for in November and December.

However, the government's response is generally reasonable from my point of view as a system engineer.

Preventing the annihilation of a system while switching it on and off is the basis of control systems, from home air conditioners to industrial robots to traffic control systems.

And a nation is a huge system made up of system elements called "citizens".

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The maximum number of people vaccinated (1st dose) from Feb. 17 to today is 70,000/day.

Assuming that this number can be increased to "triple" (200,000 people per day), the number of days required to complete the first round of vaccination for 126 million people would be 630 days, 21 months, or 1 year and 9 months.

Incidentally, the government seems to be estimating a six-fold increase. This is because "the vaccination of 36 million elderly people will be completed in 2 months and 3 weeks", which means 3600/83 days = 433,000 people.

In the U.S., it seems to be 2 million people/day, so the pace may be even higher.

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It may be possible to vaccinate the entire population (only those who wish to be vaccinated) with the first vaccine before the end of the year, but--

The only thing we can be sure of is that we won't make it to the Tokyo Olympics.

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When and where will the rebound from the "off" of the emergency declaration come?

No one can know this much.

On Friday, I knew of the "three-day weekend" and then decided that if I missed it, I would not have another chance this fiscal year.

So, over the past two days, I have been frantically writing a column manuscript and have just submitted it to the editorial office.

I'm going to bed now (10pm) with a bump of sleeping pills.

"Happy Skiing day of the year!!"

- I can arrive within 3 hours from your home.

- There are some extreme slopes (expert courses).

- Even in March, the snow quality is relatively good

Considering the above conditions, it is inevitably "Kawaba Ski Resort".

Thinking back, I have not been to any other ski resort but this one for the last 10 years.

Before I could change my mind, I also just purchased a ski pass online.

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So, I am completely off tomorrow, once a year.

I am going to a "ski camp" of only one person.

When I found this book, I thought,

"this is a book written for me"

"Examining the 'Cuban Crisis' with a 'Multi-Agent Simulator'"

Who else in the world would be a suitable reader for this book but me?

The only concern was the technical content regarding the "multi-agent simulator.

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For, example,

- Many books with "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence" in the title contain frightening bullshit about AI technology.

The author's "understanding of AI technology" of such books is so sloppy that it is hard to talk about it.

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However, without purchasing the book, I would not be able to check it out, so I pressed the buy button.

I was looking at a handful of books that had just arrived -- a relief.

At first glance, I knew, 'This book is the real deal'.

I am going to take the time to read this book with great care.

(I've told this story many times.) I think I was an alcoholic or a pre-disposed alcoholic.

I believe that the reason for the addiction is because of our aptitude for the field.

For example,

"I have never experienced a hangover."

No matter how much I drank, I never got drunk or lost my memory.

(This is an exception)

In other words, 'I had an aptitude for alcohol' -- no?

Anyway, I believe that 'dependence on alcohol by not being hurt by alcohol' is a new way of thinking.

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I think one of the reasons I did not become a gambler or a video game addict was probably because I was, in part, hopelessly vulnerable to gambling and gaming.

I can't win so that I won't do it.

Yes, It is also very revealing.

Female dependency, male dependency, domestic violence, stalking, etc., are all out of the question for me at this point.

I don't like people, so I don't depend on them.

(Not a very pleasant conclusion.) It is also very revealing.

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My alcoholism was linked to my insomnia.

These two are the worst pair ever.

I can honestly say that I have almost died.

In my case, however, I thought I could tolerate alcohol as long as I could solve my insomnia.

Insomnia can be surpassed to some extent by aptly prescribed medications (stabilizers and sleeping pills).

In other words, for me, alcohol and insomnia are a trade-off, and that is why I was able to make the move to sobriety.

What, by comparison, are the alternatives to gambling and gaming addiction?

I imagine getting out of these dependencies would be tough without alternatives.

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By the way, I suffered a lot from "depression" this summer.

I am still freaked out when the symptoms start to show up when I get overwhelmed at work.

I, however, did not have "depression" when I was an alcoholic.

I wondered if there might be a "negative" relationship between alcoholism and depression, and upon doing some research, I found the exact opposite to be true.

I found a strong positive correlation of 3.0 times.

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If I had gone through this summer without getting out of alcohol dependence -- "I might have 'committed suicide' from depression."

I am horrified now when I think about it.