I, these days, go to a driving school in Kyobashi. I had thought that it was easy to get a diver's licence, because in Australia all you have to do to get a driver's licence is just to answer twenty questions for a test. It cost only twenty dollars. There is no driving school there. If you pass the test, you can get a temporary licence, and it last for half year. During the time, you have to drive with a person who has had a driver's licence for more than a year, and if you didn't have any accidents for the half year, you can get a true-driver's licence.
However, here in Japan, we have to pay around three hundred thousand yen for going to driving school, and in addition when we take tests we have to pay exam fees again! If you fail it,of course you must pay extra money!
To get a temporary driver's license, you have to attend ten classes and drive a car for twelve hours at least. I have driven a car for more than fifteen hours so far,though I still don't think I can take a test for temporary driver's licence.
I strongly regret that I tried to get a driver licence in Japan.
2007年11月27日火曜日
2007年11月20日火曜日
Ameria,not Iran, is the problem!
Today's article is about America. Firstly read this article.
The point of this author is Americans do not have to be in Middle East any more, and if America does not allow having nuclear weapons, they also should not have it.
The reason why American went to Saudi Arabia is to stop the invasion of Iraq to Kuwait. This war started in 1990, and almost twenty years has passed since the end of the war. However Americans are still in Muslim's holy places. This made Al-Qaeda upset and it caused 911 Terrorist attacks. After two months of the 911, Americans attacked Afghanistan as revenge. In addition, George.W.Bush blamed Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "axis of evil", because they have nuclear weapons, in spite of the fact America, Britain and France also have one. He started Iraq War in 2003, however they finally could not find any nuclear weapons.
The thinkable reason of this outbreak of war is if America made Iraq democracy or pro-American, other Middle East countries will be same. This is the way called “domino effect” However there is also an intrigue which is since America has big businesses of weapon, they wanted to consume it.
The point of this author is Americans do not have to be in Middle East any more, and if America does not allow having nuclear weapons, they also should not have it.
The reason why American went to Saudi Arabia is to stop the invasion of Iraq to Kuwait. This war started in 1990, and almost twenty years has passed since the end of the war. However Americans are still in Muslim's holy places. This made Al-Qaeda upset and it caused 911 Terrorist attacks. After two months of the 911, Americans attacked Afghanistan as revenge. In addition, George.W.Bush blamed Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "axis of evil", because they have nuclear weapons, in spite of the fact America, Britain and France also have one. He started Iraq War in 2003, however they finally could not find any nuclear weapons.
The thinkable reason of this outbreak of war is if America made Iraq democracy or pro-American, other Middle East countries will be same. This is the way called “domino effect” However there is also an intrigue which is since America has big businesses of weapon, they wanted to consume it.
2007年11月13日火曜日
New rule
A new law forcing that every foreign tourist to Japan except only children under 16, diplomats and special statues is fingerprinted and photographed has been operated from November 20.
Japanese immigration think this will prevent from international terrorist activities.
However, there are lots of people who feel this is offended. For example, Kevin Rafferty who wrote this article says this is a discrimination against foreigners. He insists the terrorist are not only from abroad, such as Aum Shinrikyou and in addition, finger prints and photographs are mainly used for identification, not for finding blacklisted people.
Other foreigners also say this is invasion of privacy or the terrorist lists are full of mistakes.
Although, there are some positive foreigners who think the new rule prevents the re-entry to Japan of deported and other aliens banned from entry and by using the tool for identification, we can learn biometric system world widely.
Japanese immigration think this will prevent from international terrorist activities.
However, there are lots of people who feel this is offended. For example, Kevin Rafferty who wrote this article says this is a discrimination against foreigners. He insists the terrorist are not only from abroad, such as Aum Shinrikyou and in addition, finger prints and photographs are mainly used for identification, not for finding blacklisted people.
Other foreigners also say this is invasion of privacy or the terrorist lists are full of mistakes.
Although, there are some positive foreigners who think the new rule prevents the re-entry to Japan of deported and other aliens banned from entry and by using the tool for identification, we can learn biometric system world widely.
2007年11月6日火曜日
minority groups face the worst discrimination?
Today's two articles discuss the problem of discrimination in Japan, but these articles are slightly different.
First of all, please read this one.
There are a lot of opinions about discrimination, for example Japanese way of thinking about Chinese and Korean or attitude toward Buraku, descendants of a feudal outcast class, and handicapped people. However they insist that American people are treated well in Japan and they are not sure why so.
Secondly,please read the response of that, This author from U.S.A says that the discrimination depends on the place, because in spite of the fact that he is from U.S.A, he has been discriminated such as by being thrown rocks.
I really feel sorry that these terrible things still happen in Japan.We have to work together to solve this problem by educating. However, what I feel very sad is these victims think that every Japanese people hate Chinese, Korean or other foreigners. I want them to understand that there are so many people in Japan, so probably there are some people who hate or look down on foreigners,but on the other hand there must be also sort of people who welcome them.
Talking about handicapped people, I know that they have difficulties in getting a job and I sympathize with them. Although,the difficulty they have is not only finding a job, but also they are hard to work compared with healty people, because some parts of their body is out of control. In addition, if company hire the handicapped people, they will have responsibility to take care of them,so they are not wiling to employ handicapped people. That is why the government give subsidy to them, but I hope their life will be better int he near future.
Finally,talking about Buraku, I actually do not know how they are discriminated in detail, but I probably guess that they can not get a job as easy as other people. I have no particular solution of it,but if we keep teaching that Buraku people are also same people and we have no reason to distinguish them to children, this discrimination will be gone.
First of all, please read this one.
There are a lot of opinions about discrimination, for example Japanese way of thinking about Chinese and Korean or attitude toward Buraku, descendants of a feudal outcast class, and handicapped people. However they insist that American people are treated well in Japan and they are not sure why so.
Secondly,please read the response of that, This author from U.S.A says that the discrimination depends on the place, because in spite of the fact that he is from U.S.A, he has been discriminated such as by being thrown rocks.
I really feel sorry that these terrible things still happen in Japan.We have to work together to solve this problem by educating. However, what I feel very sad is these victims think that every Japanese people hate Chinese, Korean or other foreigners. I want them to understand that there are so many people in Japan, so probably there are some people who hate or look down on foreigners,but on the other hand there must be also sort of people who welcome them.
Talking about handicapped people, I know that they have difficulties in getting a job and I sympathize with them. Although,the difficulty they have is not only finding a job, but also they are hard to work compared with healty people, because some parts of their body is out of control. In addition, if company hire the handicapped people, they will have responsibility to take care of them,so they are not wiling to employ handicapped people. That is why the government give subsidy to them, but I hope their life will be better int he near future.
Finally,talking about Buraku, I actually do not know how they are discriminated in detail, but I probably guess that they can not get a job as easy as other people. I have no particular solution of it,but if we keep teaching that Buraku people are also same people and we have no reason to distinguish them to children, this discrimination will be gone.
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