an event at CC Cafe in Fukuoka

  On 19 Dec. I went to Fukuoka city by car.
  I had an appointment at 6 o’clock, and I intended to drop in my son’s place before it.
  I left Hita at 2:30. As the street was crowded I arrived at my son’s place at 5:20. I gave him some oranges and went ahead to Maizuru.
  As I was unfamiliar with Fukuoka, I got lost. I thought I was near the parking place I had chosen before I left but I couldn’t find the way. I parked my car at the edge of the road and asked a taxi driver, thanks to him I got to there.
   I visited CC Cafe.   https://www.facebook.com/55english/?fref=ts
 I had heard there was an event having fun with English conversation.
   There were roughly forty people. Most of them seemed young. Some seemed to be business person and the other seemed to be university students.
   I chatted with several people. I met some women and a man I had been met at EF Fukuoka.
   I talked to a young man, I found him the Cafe’s owner. He explained that at day time there was an English class and at evening there was an English cafe. People who intend to talk someone in English came. He worked out this good idea. There was no other place like this in Fukuoka.
   I talked to a young man, he was an exchange student from Minnesota studying at Seinan Gakuin Univ. He wanted to be a teacher of English.
  And I talked with other students, one of them was practicing English at the ESS club. I thought he was an earnest student. I wish I would go back to my young days and tell me to be earnest.
  We enjoyed games suggesting what was the movie by gesture, moving a cookie from on the forehead to the mouth.
 It ended at 8 o’clock. I considered to go to KBC Fukuoka to see a late show. I knew “the FAREWELL PARTY” was on screen.
   But I was not sure if I could back home safely after it was over. I was exhausted by then. Thus I went back home.
   The Tenzin area was still hustle and bustle. Usually I drive with taking care not hit a wild boar through the road of no signals. It was completely different.

12月19日クルマで福岡に行った。
６時の用事があったのでその前に倅のうちに寄ろうと思った。
日田を2時半に出た。道が混んでいたので倅のところに着いたのは5時20分だった。みかんをあげて、舞鶴へ向かった。
福岡はよく知らないので道に迷った。来る前に決めておいた💉💉駐車場のそばまで来ているとは思ったのだけど、行き方がわからなかった。道の端にクルマを止めてタクシーの運転手さんに聞いて、行き着いた。
　CCCafe に行った。英語で楽しむイベントがあると聞いたので。
　ざっと40人くらい来ていた。ほとんど若い人だった。社会人みたいな人もいたし大学生みたいな人もいた。
　何人かとしゃべった。以前EF福岡で会った人たちと会えた。
　若い男の人に話しかけたら、その人はオーナーだった。昼間は英会話の学校で夜はイングリッシュカフェなんだと教えてくれた。英語でしゃべりたい人が来る。彼がこのアイデアを思いついた。福岡には他にこんな場所はないそうだ。
　若い人に話しかけた。彼はミネソタからの交換留学生で西南学院大学で勉強しているとか。英語を教える先生になりたいと言っていた。
　　それから別の大学生たちと話した。そのうちの一人はESSのクラブで英語を練習しているらしい。熱心な学生だ。自分の若いころにもどって、真面目に勉強しろと言えたらなあ。
　しぐさで何の映画かあてるゲームとか、額に乗せたクッキーを口まで動かすゲームとかをした。
　８時に終わった。KBC福岡にレイトショーを見に行こうかと考えた。「ハッピーエンドの選び方』をやっているはずなので。
　でも映画が終わったあと無事に帰れるか心もとなかった。それまでにすっかり疲れていたから。
　それで家に帰った。
　天神はまだ人混みでにぎやかだった。 ふだん、信号のない道でイノシシをひかないよう気をつけて運転しているのに。まったく違う。

20 Dec. 2015

discrimination against women

　On 16 Dec,the supreme court declare if the civil law against the Constitution. I’ve been interested in it. People have paid attention the regulation which makes six month time-limit of remarriage after divorce only for women. And wondering the choice of family name, at present, few men choose their wife’s name. It forces women to change their family name.
  In 1988 the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women commented about the Japanese women’s situation.
 The Committee felt that the de facto situation of Japanese women legged far behind the legal situation.
 Whether under the Constitution all people are equal, there are discrimination in the political, economic, or social fields.
 I think all adults should make efforts to exclude them. But law itself should  have equality. The Civil Code used to be unfair.

 I’ve read the news to see the supreme court declare the time limit should be 100 day, and the civil code forcing the same family name is constitutional.
 I’m disappointed so much. There is inequality between men and women in choosing their family names. Women have difficulty to conserve their identity, which is personal rights. The Constitution article 14 says all the people are equal under the law, but the Civil Code make women suffer. I think it is irrational.

17 Dec. 2015

日本と原発 ４年後

　On 12 Dec. I went to Cinema5 in Oita city to see a movie., “Japan and the nuclear power plants : after four years”.  The director is a lawyer, Kawai Hiroyuki and the co-director is also a lawyer, Kaito Yuichi.

 This movie explained how the damage of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had made and why the policy has not been changed.
  How the TEPCO and the government exchanged the information about the status of the four plants. And the worst scnario estimated by specialists.
 the two lawyers go to Iidate village to see the residents living surrounded the tons of Flexible container bags, which contain the soill lipped from earth’s surface. An elder lady says that she has been vexed, because her family cultivated and fertilized the soil generation after generation. Now the elementary schools and junior high school are empty. It’s so sad.the children have loved their home town but they have had to go off in all directions.
 In the movie, there’s a bright side. Takahama nuclear power plant was banned to work by Fukui district court. The court decided the power plant is too dangerous to run.
 The movie is shown from 12-18 Dec. I want everybody see it. It is worth two hours drive and 1800 yen for me. Whereas I can’t recommend my neighbor for it is too far. I hope the movie will be adopted to library version DVD and the local libraries will acquire it.
  The song of Iidate villagers was impressively beautiful. It is ironical as they can’t go the beautiful mountain.

  After seeing the movie, I went to Prefectural Office, where Prof. Saitoh Tamaki gave a lecture about “The truancy and social withdrawal”.
  He said the fifty percentage of depression are healed spontaneously, but the social withdrawal aren’t.
  To talk about truancy, it is important to seek the cause, but about social withdrawal it is no need to find the cause.
    The conversation between the person and other family members or between the person and the supporters should be kept on.
 If the person doesn’t come out from his/her room, you should talk in front of the door.
   To talk about the school caste, it arose from the tendency to measuring people by the communicative ability.

 The definition of the social withdrawal is having no social relationship over six months, not caused mental disease primarily.
 It often become long term, some years to some decades.  Their average age is 32.6 years old. It is difficult to resolve the situation by themselves.

 It is need to the family members to build the relationship which they feel safe.  Better being Sun than being north wind.  It is nicer being kind rather than loving them.
Refuse violence, if the person do violence, say “I hate it.”, don’t say “violence is wrong”. If it helps, call 110.
  Keep on conversation. Listen carefully what the person says. Then reply it.

15 Dec. 2015