The falling nation.

7.1 Trillion US Dollars.

Do you have any idea what is this money about?
The answer is: National Deficit of Japan.

Pension is involved closely with this problem.

Why?

Pension is usually managed by nation or large companies.
This works best, if the population is in pyramid shape - many young people to collect money, and few old people to pay money.
Unfortunately, population of Japan is far from pyramid shape.
Young people are decreasing and old people are increasing every year.

We are supporting every 1 aged people with 3.6 grown up people.
While the birthrate reached 1.28, which is lowest in all the advanced nation.
These numbers are getting worse.

What does these mean?
It's very clear,
it's either young people should pay more or old people should receive less.
Otherwise, National deficit keeps on increasing, and in worst situation, the nation collapses.

Of course, everybody doesn't want to pay more nor receive less.
But is there any other way?
All the other choices are just disguised them.

Honestly speaking,
there are only two ultimate choices.
WE PAY NOW, or WE PAY LATER.

Pension is such an immature system.
The major premise is that people keeps on increasing.
(hmmmm... I think I heard this in promotion of pyramiding or networking.)

Nevertheless, I don't want to leave this problem to our next generation.

Stop escaping from the problem,
it will never solve the problem.

Alternative energy.

Recently, Rokkasho gave up for inviting ITER and conceded to Cadarache.

So this is the review and further information about it.

The energy crisis is in a desperate situation.
You know the countries like Brazil, Russia, India, China and many more developing countries needs more energy for their development.
But the petroleum is DEFINITELY INSUFFICIENT for it.

It is said that oils will be exhausted by 2040, coals by 2070 and natural gases by 2100.
Mankind must look for alternative source of energy, even just to maintain our civilization.

Yeah, we have Nuclear Fission.
People says it creates a lot of power with low cost.
Well, that's one.
But it is in a political headwind, as you know.

Besides, it is not actually generating in low cost,
if we think of disposal of nuclear wastes.
(I personally don't like the idea of burying nuclear wastes deep down in the mountains, But mankind had never thought of any better solution for it.)

Is Fusion safer than Fission?
Well, one thing is that there's such thing as "melt-down" in Fission, but not in Fusion.
You know Threemile Island or Chernobyl, right? ^_^

Technologically,
When there's a crack in a container of both,
Fission begins to spread neutron and radiation from the crack.
Fusion rapidly cools down because of the outside temperature, and stops generating, since Fusion requires Hydro gens and Helium's to be in a state of "plasma".

Which do you think is safer?

Anyway,
human error exists in anywhere,
so there's no absolute safety.
(H2 - H3 Fusion generates hundreds times of neutron than Fission.)

How about Solar Power? Windmill? Bio-mass?
I just wish that they will be spread enough to cover the energy demand which currently petroleum supplies.

You can read "Ecology Business" in my post in my blog, if you haven't read yet. ^_^

Nevertheless,
Be kind to our Earth first, before our desires.
I wish that a century from now, Earth is still a beautiful planet.

Train Man.

2ch is one of the most famous bulletin board in Japan.

(This website requires a support of Japanese script.)

It got it's fame for "anonymity".
Yeah, many "Mr. Nameless" are chatting here.

There are many "residents" of 2ch, calling theirselves "channelers".
Well, some of them are "Akiba-otaku", the group of people who infest at Akihabara.
One of it's definition is "never had a girlfriend in his life".

On March 2004,
there was a person who named himself "Densha Otoko", meaning "Train man".
Train man was an Akiba-otaku too.

He posted a message, and many chanellers began having interest in it.

He said that in the train he recently rode, He saw a drunken man making a pass at women.
He stood up to help the women, and tried to restrain the drunken man.
Finally they went to police and the drunken man was caught, and he was thanked by the women.

Later day, he received a pair of teacup of Hermes(!) from one of the women as a gratitude.
But he doesn't know what to do!

With the helps and advices of channelers,
he tries to ask her to go to dinner as a gratitude for the gratitude.

Story goes on...

For 2 months,
Thousands of channelers kept a watch of the real time love story.

Yeah, it's a pure love story.

Conclusion:
It was happy ending.

"DENSHA OTOKO: The story of the Train Man, who fell in love with a girl, Hermes" was published lately.
(Of course the author is "anonymous".)
Just as it's published, it became the best seller.
It's also made into a movie and a drama.

(This website requires a support of Japanese script.)

Of course, I've read the book.

As a novel, it doesn't have sense.
The book is almost "copy & paste" from the threads.
Sentences are incomplete, with full of wrong spellings, technical terms of chanellers, and drawings using letters.

But it doesn't matter.
I had no difficulty in reading. Actually it's very easy to read!
It's a new way to deliver a story, which proved that what we learned in English (Japanese?) class is not the only way.

About the content:
As I read, I wanted to shout "do your best!" to Train man.
Yeah, I'm touched.

And I wish that other "Akiba-otaku"s to follow Train man.

...

Anonymity has a bright side and dark side.
In fact, there are so many Japanese think that 2ch is the place with all manner of abuse, and it is a truth.

But it's not the only side of 2ch.

2ch is a place where various sentiments of people are surging.
Thus, this is also an oasis in the materially-rich-but-mentally-poor nation's people.