Japanese Surgeon's Daily Life

Jugendaustausch

　　Ich bin dem Matsuyama Chuo Lions Club angehörig. Der dient der Gemeinschaft auf verschiedenen Feldern und eins davon ist der Jugendaustausch. Dieser ist die Tätigkeit, die Jugend durch das Netzwerk des Klubs in Ausland die Möglichkeit zu bieten, mit Familien zusammenzuleben oder andere Kulturen zu erleben.
　　In diesem Monat wird eine Oberschülerin aus Malaysien zu Besuch kommen und für eine Woche bleiben. Ich freue mich, sie zu sehen.

松山中央ライオンズクラブに在籍している。いろいろな奉仕活動をしているが、そのひとつにＹＣＥがある。これはライオンズクラブのネットワークを使っていろいろな国から若者に集まってもらって共同生活をさせたり、また派遣された国の文化に触れさせる活動で、１２月に我が家へマレーシアから高校生が来ることになった。我が家への滞在は１週間。どのような高校生がやってくるのか、今から楽しみだ。

 https://www.lions.de/lions-youth-exchange

 

Breakaway From the Postwar Regime

　　The topic of this entry is my translation of the phrase which Japan's Prime Minister, Abe, often refers to. You might wonder, what is the postwar regime?
　　Believe it or not, the general way of thinking of Japanese people is still distorted by the 7 years of the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II. Chinese, Korean, and other nations' agents are lurking deeply in the various media and the educational field. Most Japanese people who take information from the TV, newspapers or something like that are like a really low-hanging fruit to the agents. However, along with the expansion of the internet, lots of people became able to get information directly from the sources, no matter what the existing media insist on. This merit is utterly great.
　　The private lecture was delivered today, whose lecturer was former lawmaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Shingo Nishimura. The topics were a variety of current affairs. The lecture was scheduled by people who managed to wean themselves from brainwashing by the U.S., including me. The following picture shows the happy faces of people in his welcoming party after the lecture. I made up my mind to support him if he should run in the upcoming Upper House election.

(Vocabulary)
breakaway  (習慣・伝統的などからの) 脱却, 決別 [＋breakaway from]

Nuclear Disaster Drill

　　Do you know a technical term, "UPZ; Urgent Protective action planning Zone", whose concept was established by IAEA and it indicates the area within approximately a 30km radius from an atomic power plant. The government is strongly required to bolster countermeasures against nuclear disasters in UPZ.
　　My office is located within this UPZ of Ikata Atomic Power Plant and I had to attend the practice session concerning the emergency treatment for nuclear polluted people last year (link). Today, the nuclear disaster drill was carried out in a fairly wide area. As soon as news about the nuclear plant accident came to my office, all the staff members shut all the windows and ventilation fans. That's all we did, but people who lived close to the plant underwent pollution checks and were actually evacuated to even Kyushu by ferries or Navy vessels.
　　Lots of people were killed or went missing by the tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake, but nobody was killed by the radiation itself. The seven services of the bullet train, which were on their highest speed, stopped safely when the earthquake broke out. Japanese people have learnt much every time they suffered huge disasters after recorded history. I believe Japan's atomic power plants will be far safer by this unprecedented disaster.
　　The picture of the plant was taken by myself when I visited Okinawa in March this year.

(Vocabulary)
the Great East Japan Earthquake 東日本大震災



http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2014/01/nuclear-hazard.html

Star Wars Exhibition

　　Since its first installment, the Star Wars series has been popular also in Japan and I watched the first one in a movie theater in my student days. Its newest installment will be reportedly released soon in Japan. As a probable promotion of the movie, the Star Wars Exhibition was opened in the Ehime Prefectural Museum.
　　Props and costumes that had been actually used in the movies were displayed and those gadgets reminded me of my younger days when I watched the movie. I found a costume of R2D2, which was a short human-like-hearted robot and an essential character of the movie, and I was surprised to see it, because I assumed that R2D2 was a real robot controlled by radio. Judging from the existence of the costume, someone must have been in the costume. Taking pictures was not allowed and I don't have any pictures of the exhibits. It's really regrettable. I just took some pictures in the lobby.
　　Plus another story about an SF movie. Do you remember a movie "Back to the Future"? This year 2015 is the year that was set in the movie as the future. I recalled that I had wondered how I would be after 30 years in 1985. I got a picture which was cut out of the movie on the net, and I'll show you it below.