The drama "Delicious School Lunch" is so funny -- it's already crazy funny. I'm laughing so hard.

In connection with the movie "Samurai Sensei," I looked for a movie starring actor Hayato Ichihara, and this "Delicious School Lunch" came up immediately.

In any case, the concept is amazing.

A teacher who says, "I love school lunches. It's no exaggeration to say that I come to school for the lunches.

It is no longer an exaggeration to say that this is a new standard for gourmet dramas and a paradigm shift in the image of teachers.

This weekend, I watched Season 1, the movie, and Season 2 all at once, which is an unusual way to get hooked.

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When we talk about "school lunches" in the Ebata household, it is interesting to see that there is a generation gap, and of course, regional differences even within the same generation.

I didn't have a chance to eat the "rice", but my wife seemed to eat it as usual.

I was also surprised that I did not share the concept of "soft noodles" with my daughters.

Looking back, I used to get excited on days when "Curry Noodles" and "Oboro Miso Noodles" were delivered

On the other hand, I was less excited about the raisin bread (my wife said she was more excited).

On the other hand, thanks to school lunches, I learned (1) "Happousai" are delicious at "Gyoza no Ohsho" that , and (2) there are truly delicious breads in the world at "HOKUO"

Looking back, I think school lunches were the "key sentences" in English education, the "solutions to two-dimensional equations" in mathematics education, and played the role of "national standards" for the food culture of the Japanese people.

Aside from that.

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I've had enough of tedious human relationship dramas such as internal factional struggles, romantic relationships, and emotional reunions.

"I live my life as a teacher only for my own desire (to eat school lunch)"

"Students, schools, and colleagues are only means to that end."

What a refreshing way to live.

What we lack today is the spirit of selfishness that says, "As long as I am good, I don't care about anything else".

In this drama, morals, relationships, common sense, and other such things are all just noise.

In addition, the setting is wonderful, as the purpose behind the noise is "school lunch," something that can be scoped out on a daily basis.

We don't need to go out of our way to set goals that are hard to obtain.

This drama also gives us the courage to say, 'We can find things that make us happy in our daily lives".

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So I recommend you to watch "Delicious School Lunch".

If you think you haven't laughed in a while, this is a good place to start.

The percentage of online submissions that are ignored (online submission ignorance rate) was calculated by linking political organizations related to Diet members by politician name.

I have calculated it, but have not been able to review it, so I am looking at it now.

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(1) Organizations that have implemented online submission

As expected, the members of the organizations of Yoshihide Suga and Toshihiro Nikai seem to have good governance.

Masaki Ogushi, Rimori Oshima, Takayuki Kobayashi, Toru Koyama, Takashi Shinohara, Dai Shimamura, Keisuke Suzuki, Ryota Takeda, Iku Tashiro, Masayoshi Naya, Ken Noma, Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Takuya Hirai, Kenzo Fujisue, Motohisa Furukawa, Hideki Makihara, Hotaka Maruyama, Yoichi Miyazawa, Kunihiko Muroi, Hiroko Mori -- thank you for your hard work in submitting online!

(2) Organizations that ignore online submissions.

Taro Aso, Ichiro Ozawa, Naoto Kan, Mizutake Sugita, and Muneo Suzuki -- I have a feeling of resignation that their organizations will probably not make it in the future.

Shinzo Abe, Akira Amari, Shigeru Ishiba, Nobuteru Ishihara, Tomomi Inada, Yuko Obuchi, Koichi Hagiuda, Junko Mihara -- your organizations are 'no good', aren't they?

Yukio Edano, Satsuki Katayama, Shinjiro Koizumi, Sanae Takaichi, Kiyomi Tsujimoto -- as far as your organizations are concerned, "absolutely not," right?

In addition, all the people who were not mentioned above are "ignored groups".

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I would like to follow up with you every year from now on.

Open Street Map (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a freely available, yet editable, map of the world.

In general, it is often used to mean a map information file named "xxxxxx.osm" file.

These oms files are very helpful for researchers who are working on map-based traffic simulations.

However, OSM's maps are made with the cooperation of people from all over the world, and in the first place, maps are always expanding and changing.

There is no such thing as a "perfect map.

Especially when using oms files in my own research, I may want to modify the map information correctly if necessary.

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That's why I've been trying to edit the OSM map since this morning.

The following is a map of the grounds of Yokohama National University, which I have just added to the map because it did not include a "car road".

How do I know my way around a university campus? Well, I can't tell you how many times I've driven around this campus by car and foot, taking data with my GPS logger for my work (field demonstration).

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By the way, I was stunned to see that this correction of mine this morning was registered in the OSM Map Information with the click of a button.

After the revision, the map I described will be reflected all over the world.

"What if the map is tampered with due to my negligence or malicious intent?"

I came to feel quite uneasy.

After all, this is my first trial with this modification.

Even in that case, I'm hoping that maybe "someone will correct my falsification" and "if I continue to be wrong, they will expel me from OSM membership" -- but I'm not sure.

Anyway, I really feel that "a collaborative project to create a freely available, yet editable world map" is a great idea.

I watched the N-SPE program "Digital Hunter: Chasing a Mysterious Internet Research Group".

This is a documentary program on "Open Source Investigations", which uses only publicly available information (Open Source) to hunt down governments and criminal groups.

- Identified the location of the massacre and the people who took part in it from the video of an unknown source.

- identified "quarantine facilities", that Chinese Government Calls for "Vocational Training and Educational Facilities for Anti-Terrorism" - Looking at buildings in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, analyzing satellite images

- Identified the existence of a secret base placed by the US government in the deserts of the Middle East.

- Identified suspects, including senior and former members of the Russian government's intelligence community, in the case of Russia's involvement in the downing of the Malaysian airliner.

These are the result of their efforts.

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Although it is far from this scale and results, I have also conducted psychological analysis of people who were victims of delays due to personal injury by analyzing Twitter text.

As a result, I found out some interesting things.

For example, there were many retweets about the accident, but surprisingly few tweets expressing their own opinions.

"I see, it's natural to 'let others say what's hard to say, without saying it ourselves"

I was impressed.

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Open source alone can tell you quite a lot about what is going on.

Moreover, equipment costs (x time resources) are surprisingly low.

"Their only weapon is a laptop computer"

This phrase is also quite catchy.

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I've been thinking about my own school days and wondering, 'Why couldn't I have taken this approach back then?'

Well, back then, there was no Internet, and there may not have been a FOIA request, but...

"I could hunt down the powers that be and the authorities with nothing but data and numbers."

As a science student... I am a little depressed.

Well, maybe it's because of those repercussions that I'm continuing with this series.

Copyright Infringing Doujinshi Allowed at Comiket? A manga artist's "tacit license".

I contributed to a column titled, before.

At this time, I had the opportunity to interview the manga artist Ken Akamatsu.

I remember learning a tremendous amount about copyright law, creative common license, child pornography laws, etc. before the interview.

Since then, I have been doing a lot of research and writing my own views (yet I have not been able to review up to the latest revision).

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Mr. Ken Akamatsu has announced his intention to run for election to the House of Councillors from the Liberal Democratic Party.

I was a little relieved to hear that Mr. Akamatsu would be the best person to handle this problem.

But I'm also thinking, 'The Liberal Democratic Party.... It's going to be tough to make it in there,' I think.

The LDP is a hydra-like monstrosity with a myriad of heads: on the right, more radical than neo-Nazis, and on the left, a far left that even the JCP refrains from.

This is a party that usually works in isolation, but when it comes to the election campaign, the myriad heads become one -- doing whatever it takes to win.

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By the way, I have given the prize to one person who applied for it, as mentioned last week.

Just to report.

"Why do smart cities keep failing?"

"Is data collection a bad thing in smart cities?　Why Toronto and Sidewalk Labs Failed"

"Lessons from cities where smart city plans did not go 'smart'"

There are articles with provocative titles as the above.

In my opinion, the reason is "IT".

To put it more simply, it's because "we don't know what they're doing".

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Naturally, those who design smart cities grasp the city from a "God's perspective," as if looking at it from air

However, smart city users do not see such design - literally "top-down design" - as such.

In this sense, we can understand what is being done in buildings, facilities, transportation, or "hakomono" such as government buildings, schools, community centers, museums, and theme parks.

In addition, those "failures" and "successes" are also clear from the user's perspective.

Above all, it is important to clarify who to blame (both individuals and corporations) in case of "failure".

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I believe that smart cities can be understood by users if their effects can be clearly stated.

For example.

"We'll cut our city's energy use in half, but we'll still be able to maintain our mobility services."

or

"In this city, you don't need to have your own car to get by"

It is enough if they can say it properly in the "user's language".

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However, the fact that the service provider for smart cities will be the "government" is troublesome.

"We will halve the number of people at City Hall, but maintain the current level of government services."

The question is, can they say the above phrase to the people at city hall themselves?

Promoting smart cities strangles the people who promote smart cities --

This is the dilemma of smart cities.

This weekend is the weekend before the deadline for my column manuscript -- the Weekend of Carnage

Please bear with me as I only have pictures of my interview notes for my second daughter.

The other day, when I was watching TV, I heard the story.

"The guys who were popular, got good grades, and were popular with the opposite sex in school have not been successful in society.

I had been thinking that way for a long time, so I was deeply convinced that it was true.

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I have a hypothesis about the reason for this.

"Those who were popular, got good grades, or were popular with the opposite sex when they were in school will mistakenly believe that their working life is on the same continuum as their school days"

Of course, being easy and smart in a college period, can come in handy in the working world.

However, the life of a working adult is long, so, being the time for easy and smart becomes short.

At the end of the day, seriousness, honesty, diligence, and persistence are more important for a working person.

Why? It's not because they have value as human beings.

To be honest, it doesn't really matter.

In a nutshell, it is because working people have to fight a long-term battle.

I'd be in trouble if my partner is just easy and smart in a long-term battle.

I call this "integrity as a strategy".

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So, what I'm trying to say is...

I'm not easy, I'm not smart, and I'm not serious, honest, diligent, or tenacious.

I just think that it is natural that "I'm not socially successful".

Cao Cao", who appears (basically as a villain) in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, seems to be famous as a human resources enthusiast.

He collected all kinds of people who were skilled in military valor, art, and technology, as well as military strategists.

However I think that

"What was he going to do with a bunch of military strategists?"

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A military strategist is a person who advises the monarch or general commanding an army on strategic command.

I think that if there were many such people, all of whom had different opinions, monarchs and generals would have a hard time planning their strategies.

General Eisenhower, who planned the Normandy landings, said, "I will not accept the command of the operation unless I alone am the final decision-maker.

(I haven't been able to find any evidence of this.) I was also told that the core of Microsoft's Windows OS is basically built by a team of a few people.

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It is a common practice for organizations to put people into a team that is in a death march, but it causes a lot of confusion in the field.

This is because the cost of training new members takes up a lot of the team's resources.

I was put on such a flaming team once, but I didn't do anything because I wasn't ordered to -- for three months, actually.

Over the past three months, I have been able to study the Linux kernel code at length.

Of course, I had to make up some random story to report at the regular briefing.

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I believe that the majority of the military strategists gathered by Cao Cao were also doing random things to earn their stipends.

Because, after all, there are only about three military strategists for Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and those three are usually the ones who propose the strategy.

Today, my whole family went to see the play "Singin' with Santa Claus" by the Caramel Box Theater Company.

When I got the call in May 2019 that they had suspended their activities, I was stumped, 'What am I going to do about our family's Christmas events now?'

Since then, we have been unable to find a replacement for Caramel Box and have been forced to suspend the Ebata family's winter theater events.

I was delighted when I heard that it was back after two and a half years.

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My wife asked me for my "preferred date and time" for this play.

'You don't care about my work. The time we get the ticket is my schedule,'

I said.

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We laughed, we cried, and we fully enjoyed the stage performance of Caramel Box, which has never failed us.

Yes, after all, Caramel Box plays are the best.

Yesterday, I wrote about watching a play by the "Caramel Box".

And now, I'd like to find out about the actors, however,

I'm having trouble linking to the actors on this page.

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So, I have a suggestion for the staff of the "Caramel Box".

- Is it possible to have the actors' names put on the posters? Would that hurt their pride?

Or,

- When we click on a person on a poster on the Web, we will be taken to that actor's page.

I think it's a bit technically difficult.

If so...

How about "gently drawing QR codes next to the actors on the poster"?

They might say that it will ruin the quality of your poster.

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At the stage yesterday, I felt a little sad because I was the only one who couldn't laugh while the audience was "laughing hysterically at the inside jokes".

So I wanted to follow up with them now.

I think it would be better if you replace the introduction page with a photo of the actors in their stage costumes, so that I can identify them -- how about that?

I recently watched "Sinking Japan -- A Man of Hope" on TV on NetFlix.

I've just reviewed two episodes in about five minutes, skipping around.

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What I was thinking when I watched this was--

- The people who are talking about government conspiracy theories with the COVID-19 vaccine are anti-power windbags like "Dr. Tadokoro."

Since I "deserve" the new coronary vaccine, I guess I am a bureaucrat or a government academic who is obsessed with profit-making, promotion and career.

Well, I won't deny it.

I am confident that I will continue to be a "business person who obeys his boss and authority" until three days before the sinking of Japan.

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Dr. Tadokoro seems to be doing the coding of the disaster simulation on his own.

The feeling of "I can't trust my calculations to someone else" -- I understand very well.

From the screen capture, it seems that the language Dr. Tadokoro is using is "Visual C++".

I am sure of it, because I have mass-produced more programs in this language than any other in my life.

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You will see a screen where a government scientist who is in conflict with Dr. Tadokoro is accused of "Data tampering".

Data tampering" is an absolute no-no.

As a scientist and an engineer, this is unacceptable behavior.

If you're going to do this -- you should tamper with the algorithm of the simulation program.

This is because it is very difficult -- though not impossible -- for someone else to read the contents of a program you have written.

Furthermore, even if you wrote the program yourself, it is already "hopelessly" difficult to falsify the program so that it outputs simulation results that are convenient for you.

This is because a program is usually buggy if some part of it is tampered with, and the effects can appear unintentionally.

It is a kind of art to falsify a program in such a way that you can get the output result you want, without any contradiction, with no problems at all.

In that sense -- I am proud to say that I am a "first-rate artist".

Tomorrow, I'm going back home to help my mother transfer to the hospital.

Since snowfall is predicted, I am thinking of a backup plan.

That aside.

Today, the temperature rose at noon, so I took the opportunity to clean the exhaust fan.

This has already been a routine process, so I was able to crunch through it.

A few liters of oil (used for 8 years) is poured into a tray and the exhaust fan parts are thrown into the tray and washed.

This has already been a routine process, so I was able to crunch through it.

These gloves are especially "motivating" for the depressing task of cleaning the exhaust fan.

I'm glad that I can put my hand into the oil.

It seems that "cleaning around the ventilation fan" has become a target for media outlets to gain viewership.

Even in the Ebata family, my wife has acquired these know-hows and is 'passing them on to me'.

"No problem if my wife cleans the exhaust fan"

However, cleaning the exhaust fan has the advantage of exempting me from other cleaning tasks, so well, it's an exchange condition.

Also, for some reason, making New Year's cards is my job.

However, my daughters have already stopped making New Year's cards, and I have changed to a "ping server" approach, sending New Year's cards at the beginning of the year.

That is why I am forced to check my wife's friendships (within the scope of her New Year's cards) only once a year.

I'm Ebata, a fundamentalist of the novel "Japan sinks" and the movie (the 1st) "Japan sinks"

I have always said, "Don't be stingy with other people's creations. Be silence as my criticism". Hence, I would like to refrain from giving my thoughts on TV dramas in 2021.

I just tell you that I agree with the criticisms listed on the Internet.

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I like the fact that in the novel "Japan sinks" and the movie (the 1st) "Japan sinks", there is not a single bad guy.

I think the theme of "Japan sinks" is a fierce exodus in which everyone, from ordinary people to scientists, the Self-Defense Forces, and politicians, all work together desperately, risking their lives.

"In the face of a catastrophe of unprecedented scale that could sink Japan, who would be so carefree as to engage in "political affairs"?"

I come to think so.

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As for the mechanism of the sinking of Japan, The novel "Japan sinks" devotes an enormous number of pages to a thorough explanation.

I was so worried that the readers would lose motivation if the explain is so technical at such length.

In the movie "Japan sinks", they had a real seismologist explain about the mantle convection (He was a professor of Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo).

The realism of it scared me.

I also heard that the number of students majoring in seismology had increased since then.

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What the great about Sakyo Komatsu's "Japan sinks" is

"In what areas is the behavior of fluid mass of different temperatures on Earth most clearly understood?"

As represented by this line, the paradigm of meteorological models has been brought into tectonic models.

Of course, this model may be unreasonable, but science fiction is science fiction.

And then, that is it.

"In the worst case scenario... . ..this is regardless of the size of the earthquake. ...In the worst case -- most of the Japanese archipelago will sink below the surface..."

No matter how many times I reread the phrase, it still sends shivers down my spine.

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In the novel "Sinking of Japan," the compound word "Japan sinks" appears in only seven places (I checked on my Kindle).

I don't think this word was used much in the movie.

I think it is very important to make the reader understand the theme of creation without using power words.

Today, new my column is released, so I take a day off.

The paradigm shift in the field of education, even in STEM education under Corona disaster.

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I have a fierce sense of urgency about Japan's IT backwardness because I am an IT engineer and researcher.

Perhaps people in the medical field are terrified of Japan medical backward, and people in the economic field are madly worried about Japan's financial crisis.

In the same way, I think people in the judiciary are worried about the courts that keep running away with "highly political decisions," and people in the legislature see a hopeless future for Japan in the situation of "no progress in revising Article 9 of the Constitution.

I think people in the education field are heartbroken by the current devastation in the education field, from "bullying" to "indecent teachers".

And people in the SDF may really believe deep down that 'Japan must be nuked.

And the rest of the people above are probably thinking like that

"They're overthinking"

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I think I lived in the middle of the Cold War era, but in the end, World War III did not occur.

As far as I know, not a single person predicted the self-destructive collapse of the Soviet Union.

People who strongly advocated the Soviet invasion of Japan have yet to properly sum up the fact that their predictions were wrong.

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So, in conclusion.

(1) That no matter what I worry about, 'what will be will be'.

(2) That there are many things in the world that can be done, if only time would pass.

(3) That people who agitate for a crisis are usually irresponsible.

I guess I can say that.

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Therefore, I believe that STEM education and programming education will probably be "what will be," and that we will probably be able to "work it out".

In the end, people who think "work it out eventually" can live the most carefree life, even if it makes me feel angry.

The policy of a country's education system determines the national policy of that country -- I'm pretty sure this is true (not that it's the exclusive business of dictatorships).

It is natural for countries to have different historical perceptions.

If I was born in Korea, I would argue that Korean history is legitimate, and if I was born in China, I would argue that Chinese history is legitimate.

There is no such thing as "correct history," only "the history that a country claims to have" as many countries as there are countries in the world.

It is only natural from the perspective of national interest that the history that is convenient for the country is adopted.

But that's beside the point.

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The policy of a country's education system will determine the digitization of that country -- I am sure of this, too.

As mentioned here, iPad is currently the most used device in the GIGA School Initiative.

So, for the next 10 years or so, I think iPad will be the definitive tablet culture in Japan.

At this point, even I, who have been resisting Linux and Android, need to "get with the times".

So, as a first step, I'm currently typing on the bullet train with my iPad, wireless mouse, and keyboard.

I also brought my familiar Windows laptop, but I can learn a new system for me by being forced to use an inconvenient environment (like on the Shinkansen).

Or rather, if the children who will be active in society in the future use iPads, then it is the fate of seniors to pander to them.

Writing on an unfamiliar iPad can be stressful for me, but that's what "pandering" is.

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We, seniors, have no choice but to live with our children.

We have always laughed at seniors who cannot use a computer.

It is our turn to be laughed at.

It's cause and effect.

I have repeatedly urged my daughter to go get the "cervical cancer vaccine".

However, she has refused to go, saying she was busy.

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Well, it's obvious from the side that she is actually busy -- I also have a science background, and I understand the intense workload in the sciences.

However, observing how busy she have been with reports, experiments, and productions since her first year of college, even I feel like I'm losing my mind.

-- Are all universities (science courses) like this these days?

I think it was in my third year of the seminar (instrumental research) that I really started to work hard.

Well, I can't remember any time during my college years that I can think of as "free time" either.

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However, I think

"Can 'busy' be a reason to vaccinate against a cancer that kills 3,000 women a year?"

To be honest, I'm frustrated with my daughter's lack of awareness, but I can say that I've given her more than enough warnings as a parent, so I won't say anything more.

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And while doing that, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to offer the opportunity to get the "cervical cancer vaccine" for free on the 23rd of this month.

The conditions are,

- Only for women aged 16-24 (born between 1997 and 2005)

- Vaccination period is only for 3 years from April 2022.

This eliminates the 50,000 yen that the Ebata family will have to pay -- and as for me, I'm not feeling so lucky.

If my daughter insists that she will be vaccinated by April 2022, I (the Ebata family) will pay the money (50,000 yen) (seriously).

I believe that the risk for 3 months is worth 50,000 yen.

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Cervical cancer is caused by sexual intercourse (sex).

It is estimated that more than half of all women who have ever had sex will become infected in their lifetime (50%).

Ten percent of them are infected (5%), and some of them progress to "cervical cancer".

Specifically, the following people are currently considered to be at risk of developing cervical cancer.

- Fecundity

- Smokers

- People taking oral contraceptives (pills)

- Women who have many sexual partners.

- Women with younger age at first sexual intercourse

- Women with weakened immune systems

In an absolute sense, the only people who don't need to get this vaccine are women who have decided to 'not have sex for the rest of their lives'.

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The trouble is that the most appropriate age for this "cervical cancer vaccine" is before they start having sexual intercourse, and the current free vaccination period is "6th grade to 1st grade of high school.

This means that parents and teachers have to explain to the girls about "sex" as a prerequisite for vaccination.

I think we should talk more frankly about sex at school and at home -- no matter how embarrassing or painful it may be.

It is the "lives of the girls" that are being weighed in the balance by the adults who hesitate to do "it".

I subscribe to "NHK Plus" so I can watch NHK programs on my computer (free of charge if you pay the subscription fee).

NHK Special "What's Happening in the Taiwan Strait: The U.S.-China "New Cold War" and Japan" can be viewed until January 2.

If you are interested, please watch.

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"It was so interesting and scary"

The simulation of the Japanese government's response to a possible Taiwanese emergency was very realistic.

By the way, when we say "simulation", most people think it is computer simulation, and in fact, that is how it is described in the Wiki -- but this is not correct.

Simulation is "an attempt to recreate a hypothetical situation and respond to it in a way that has not been done in reality".

The simulation in this program was "Taiwan Emergency".

People with experience in security-related legislation, former senior officers of the Self-Defense Forces, and current members of the Diet played the roles of the Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and Chief Cabinet Secretary.

The former top official of the Self-Defense Forces has prepared several hypothetical scenarios of a Taiwanese contingency, which were delivered to the situation in real time, and the cabinet members discussed and made decisions on the spot.

There are (as I understand it) two conditions for this simulation

(1) While adhering to the principle of "diplomacy for peaceful resolution through dialogue," invoke the right of self-defense in the event of an emergency.

(2) However, the use of force and other actions (evacuation of residents) must be carried out in accordance with existing laws.

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The first stage of the scenario was that an independent president would be born in Taiwan → Chinese forces would begin assault and landing drills + land troops would be assembled in the coastal areas.

Now, at this stage, what can the Japanese nation do?

If China attacks the U.S. military, Japan will be able to enter a combat situation through the "right of collective self-defense".

Now, the question is, at what point do the conditions for triggering "collective self-defense" come into play?

When the U.S. military prepares for battle? When U.S. forces are under attack? When the U.S. military launches a counterattack? When the US forces request the SDF? It is natural to think that there is a time lag between these activation times.

So, the SDF has a plausible argument that since time is needed to move the SDF, joint operations with the U.S. military will be meaningless unless it is clear at what stage the right of collective self-defense can be activated.

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As an amateur like me, I apt to think

"Why don't they just move the Self-Defense Forces when the military exercises by the Chinese military start?"

But the Self-Defense Forces is an organization that can only operate under the law -- well, all law-abiding nations under civilian control operate that way, though.

The SDF is tasked with the defense of our country.

From a legal standpoint, the correct stance is to say, 'I don't care what happens to Taiwan.

Because Taiwan is not a military ally of Japan.

Since the right of collective self-defense is activated only when "U.S. forces" are involved, the SDF cannot move even a millimeter when U.S. forces are not doing anything, however,

The real feeling on the ground is that the right of collective self-defense is meaningless.

And this case is also consistent with our common sense in our daily lives.

For example, in a company, if you are working on a project and you don't start working on it until it is approved by the executives, the project will not work.

The normal way of operating a project is to prepare the project until it is just about ready to move, and then wait for approval when it is ready.

This is not to say that the Diet was incompetent.

The use cases of the right of procedural self-defense were discussed in the "Korean Peninsula Emergency" and "Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz".

The "Taiwan contingency" was not in the scope at that time.

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The second stage of the scenario was the "blockade of the sea around Yonaguni Island by the Chinese military + launch of an attack on the Taiwanese mainland.

At this stage, joint operations with the U.S. military will become possible, and of course, the Chinese military will also be able to attack the Japanese mainland.

The SDF will not be able to fulfill its mission of self-defense if it does not have a complete interception system in place against an attack from the Chinese military on the Japanese mainland.

Furthermore, they found out that there is "no law" to support the SDF in evacuating residents in response to such a military attack, even though the law must be applied to evacuate residents.

"Why don't they just evacuate them based on the Disaster Relief Act?"

And, like me, some people in ministerial roles thought that this was an unreasonable interpretation of the law.

It was very impressive to see a person playing the role of a cabinet minister, opening a collection of legal texts and discussing them.

I was watching the program, muttering, "I know that feeling".

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Conclusion.

I wrote here that I have no idea about the current approach to "programmatic thinking (tekishiko-) education" in programming education.

Perhaps one of the ways to do this is through education using simulations like this one, I think.

However, I also think that this "simulation education" will be difficult to create the subject matter and the method (human or computer) to judge the situation.