one of the seven sages of ancient Greece

Speaking of Thales, one of the seven sages of ancient Greece, he was the philosopher and preached that source of all things is water. It was said that when Thales watched the ancient Olympics game, he died from heat stroke. The verse of poet posterity remained.

Everything is made from water and end up in water. It was ironic that Thales, who studied a sense of nature, died　of dehydration.
The sun's so hot there, but do not lose the sun of the East. I wrote in this column a while back, "without the voice of the cicada and the summer sun, somewhere lonely". I haven't provoked, but the heat wave continues across the country.
It's frightening to become accustomed. We are not surprised to hear extremely hot day. Even the brain is also familiar, but body takes an honest temperature. Without guard, we have to protect ourselves with the necessary hydration. Appropriate amount of salt is essential for normal, which tends to be hostile.
I found memories of dried plum juice in the column of Tokyo's voice. Crushing ume and putting sugar, and pouring cold water from a well. In the age of no refrigerator nor fan, my mother had served this juice to the letter-carrier who distributed letters in a bicycle under the hot sun. They surpassed the summer with wisdom and compassion.
When Wise man Thales was asked what was the most difficult, he replied, "To know myself". Safe guard yourself that is also true for the case of heatstroke. To be timid is just good.
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Rice plant cut by prayed desire.

I had received one book from the haiku association "Asuka" in Yokohama that collected only season words that related to rice farm before. There are written fairly a lot. It starts from "Choice of seeds" of spring, "Weeding" of summer and "Drying rice" of the harvest season. Totally, there are written 200 words. The number of words tells the history of Japan that is with rice farm.
The first harvesting in the year is called, "Sickle beginning". However, before the harvest of pleasure uneasiness of the rice farm farmer in East Japan is raised. It becomes impossible for the farmer who put it on the great care to ship if the radioactive substance more than the standard is detected.
A good rice making is said that we have to take care of them 88 times until the harvest as the Chinese character of "rice" show the meaning. However, even with the great care, human power and intelligence, the result is beyond human control. There is no way for us other than trying every possible way, and cling to blessing of the universe such as the sun, rain, and winds.
It is a man-made disaster of radioactivity there. Planting the rice field where it had escaped barely from the accident in the stricken area was written in a small column of May, saying that "Be to grow up fresh and green, and the rice plant that will wave to gold before long to encourage people surely". When the effort not to be defeated ends in disappointment, I cannot be endured from the bottom of my heart.
"Country of Mizuho" is a country where the rice plant bears fruit abundantly. The weight of rice has a special meaning for the Japanese. It is large to say nothing of the problem of the beef cattle and the vegetable. Moreover, if the rice harvest becomes a problem, it is likely to become a harsh blow in agriculture.
Chiba Prefecture announced the result of the survey yesterday　before harvest.　The tension continues still though there was fortunately no problem. The rice newly harvested is called "this year rice". Boiled rice and serve them to the dead and the living, Thanks to this year rice! Rice plant cut by prayed desire. We wish everybody be safe .

Extreme anti-Japanese movement

Talking about Kunio Yanagita's story following yesterday, I found the following passage, and underlined. "There seemed to be steps like a half-dried squid and a half-dried-bonito in the history it was." ("Spring of the snowy country. ").
It is not finished to dry like the dried cuttlefish and the dried bonito, etc. in a word.
It isn't still clearly the past though passed years. This idea overlapped with the article on a recent international aspect. It is said that the memorial cenotaph of the old Japanese Manchuria-Mongolia development member was removed after only ten days from construction in China.
The Prefectural Administration of Heilongjiang built the stone monument for friendship between Japan and China. The criticism occurred on the net etc., saying that "Why is invader's memorial cenotaph built?" though the approval of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was obtained. The criticism occurred on the net etc., saying that "Why is invader's memorial cenotaph built?" though the approval of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was obtained. It is said that the pro-Japanese prefecture is contraction-minded by severe criticism.
80 years have left since Manchurian Incident that a Japanese army invaded the Chinese northeast part, or 66 years since the end of the war this year. However, the history lies now, not becoming dried bonito. If it is cut, blood goes out. It might be one side of the fact where it doesn't go because it puts it in order by "Extreme anti-day". I cannot put it in order by "Extreme anti-Japanese movement".
Yanagida's passage was a deep emotion that had visited the locale after 20 years or more the Sanriku tsunami at the Meiji era. It is described, "The wound has already been healing completely if one people person's unhappiness is put on ignorance". If an official revival is disregarded, do the stream of individual tears. It doesn't change into the natural disaster in case of war damage either.
There are a lot of people who cannot think the war the past one now even after experienced dazzling prosperity in postwar days. Of course, it is not only Japanese. It is August of mourning and the repose of soul when to be cultivated imagination that transcends national borders.

In his famous "Tono story"

It is an anniversary of Kunio Yanagita who is father of the folklore of Japan today. In his famous "Tono story", a husband met the soul of his wife who died of the tsunami caused in Sanriku Coast in the night. She turned and smiled when the name was called. However, the wife said that she married a man who died of the tsunami.
When he asked her, "Isn't the child lovely?" , she changed the face and wept.
And, she left at a quick pace and disappeared. I was stifling when I thought of painful of man though it was a wonderful short chapter.
Yanagida often walked in the Sanriku shore. I hear that the surviving person grandly burnt firewood in a certain village at night overcome by the tsunami at the Meiji era. He wrote down in other story that there were many persons who swam from the sea aiming at the fire in the dark.
Time flows, and this summer becomes the first bon festival for the victims of the tsunami at the Heisei era. The fire that welcome the soul will be burnt everywhere. They go home, and the all of family meet again. It is time when several days from the receiving fire to farewell fires deepens most Japanese passion.
Person's life and the person's death have the meaning only in the nature and the community which embrace people. However, it is destroyed, and we has trodden on the accelerator in the direction where the connection is severed in recent years. It asks renewing the crime in the summer after the earthquake as the Isao. The distinguished services and the crime are asked again in the summer after the earthquake.
Returning to "Tono story", the husband who lost sight of wife's soul had returned and got sick for a long time. Person's mind doesn't change even if the age changes. We can see something to consider in the sad sight.

The atomic-bombed nation

In the magazine for children, Mr. Sakyo Komatsu who had died at the age of 80 learnt the new word of atomic bomb during the war. It was dropped to Japan several years later though it make-believe story. “I thought what the development of the science and technology on earth did the human race. It was one motive that he decided to work on SF in full scale. “　He talked to small paper.
The person wrote by the last writing in recently published 'Future of 3.11' . ｢I want still to believe man's intellect and Japanese passion. A little more I want to live and make sure how to solve this difficulty.
Mr. Komatsu thought about the nuclear weapon, and believed making good use of the science and technology. He thought the use of nuclear power to be "The human race's big challenge" , though he was hating. It was a very general standing position till 3.11.
Atomic bomb and nuclear power plant. The invention of the 20th century with the sound that looks like both uses the heat of nuclear fission. One generates electricity, another murder. However, the radiation doesn't make a moral judgment. In taming this fierce animal in the land of earthquakes, the difficulty is a lesson of Fukushima.
It has been understood that there is no amount "If it is this or less, it is safe" in the exposure according to the follow-up survey in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to Professor Kodama Tatsuhiko of The University of Tokyo had explained in the Diet the radioactive substance of as many as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs (uranium conversion) dispersed from Fukushima. The amount of remaining cannot be imagined. The areas and the lengths of the influence cannot be known.
Mr.Fujiroku Taguchi said that the nuclear power plant is not bad but it is scary. The blessing of the peaceful use fades, when we think of fear and the unpleasantness that we feel with the skin now. I want to think the attempt of the breaking with nuclear power generation to be reason for the atomic-bombed nation rather than the defeat of the science.

Power not to be discouraged

First of all, we assist in the team in the birthplace, and the team in the town that lives now. We can enjoy high school baseball of Koshien long because there are some teams that we assist. The team in the town that lived for the transferred person is anxious. An affiliated school of the alma mater is anxious, too. The school that wanted to support it increased again this year.
The representative in the struck prefecture appears from the first day continuously on the third by high school baseball in summer that will start tomorrow. Seikou Gakuin (Fukushima) is 61 successive victories in the prefecture, and participates in Koshien 5 years in a row. The first big flag in Tohoku seems not to be a dream. We can have the expectation also in Hanamaki Higashi (Iwate) where famous pitcher Mr.Kikuchi Yuusei played the year before last and the debut Furukawa Kougyou (Miyagi).
There is a member who lost near relatives and the house though three schools in the inland escaped the damage of the tsunami. It is no wonder that they become hard, saying that "We will win through without forgetting the desire of the coast school" either. However, they may not think to be exaggerated to shoulder the stricken area.
They go out to Koshien in year when local encountered the catastrophe. It only is an important task.　It is this summer by chance that years of the effort had borne fruit.　We will not say about the earthquake in Koshien. We want them to concentrate on the fight.
We want them to enjoy the sacred ground as much as they likes like "Nadeshiko" that was able to be energetic in the country with brave feeling. Victims and rapid cheering squad get vigour from the appearance. They don't have to strain themselves , saying that "We want to give something." because we get energy from them without permission.
Mr. Kikuchi, the pitcher is talking by the extra number of Weekly Asahi. "It is thought that the true, suitable good sheath sweetness appears in the alive state where it lives by one's best. "Utmost run offense and defense puts on the sea wind and carries "

Mailbag program "Mitokomon" of the TBS Network ends fully this year.

Mailbag program "Mitokomon" of the TBS Network ends fully this year. This "Good government" is not compared unfavorably with each "Shogun" of 15 generations in Tokugawa. It is a long-term political power followed in 50-year Shougun Ienari's Government.
This program was certainly a mannerism. Koumonn-sama and his party punish single-mindedly big and small evil on the trip. There was a household trouble seen many times. Moreover, the workman fell in love. There were various dramas in each region. The finale following "Does not it catch one's eye?" is stone-still.
When there is an easy life, there is worry, too.　The theme song of the bolero style taught the viewers the way of life and made them to be energetic. There was a scene where attendant's woman ninja was soaked to the hot water, too. Will it be , for instance, a long-established spit dumpling that doesn't make the habitue get tired?
Recently, the amusement that the three generations can slowly enjoy is few. In the voice column in Tokyo, there was a letter of "The grade-schooler was regrettable" and mother who regretted it. I hear that a brother and sister who watched this program with the grandpa and grew up was calling this program "Life" from this song. When they heard this sad news, they muttered, "Life ended"
Kotaro Satomi of the fifth generation Koumon-sama feels bitter , saying that "It is thought that I have been cut from the back." It is really regrettable to attack old Koumon-sama. It must be a suspicious person named the audience rating.　A national program whose audience rating before was 40% is about 10% now. The scolding of "The head is high" and the Mito mayors' direct appeals will not be suitable.
The historical play of the commercial broadcast disappears from the regular program, and becomes only a re-broadcasting from now.
We want to see the simple world of only right and wrong fiction because tomorrow of the world can not be seen.

The tea party resisted the extra issuance of national bonds

The value of Euro fell in last autumn. At that time, the home-delivered pizza shop in the vicinity distributed the handbill of "Appreciation of the yen reduction". It is said that the marginal profit was caused in tomato sauce and the cheese of "Italy direct import".
When it informs them of the price cut, it advertises that the taste of Italy is good.
The enterprise that deals to the foreign country by this super-strong yen might be every day of fluctuating between hopes and fears. As for the big enterprise, the appreciation of the yen of one yen loses several ten billion yen a year. All exporters are worried. On the other hand, overseas tourists add the shopping list, and the pizzeria thinks about the next advertisement.
Yen exchange rate has approached the highest price at one dollar = 76.25 yen temporarily set immediately after the earthquake. The anxiety about the demotion doesn't disappear though the United States bond came off default, that is, the crisis of the state bankruptcy for the time being. The current business is also insecure.
It is said that it is a result of "Weakness comparison" of the dollar and Euro that yen is bought in spite of the earthquake. There are financial assets of households of one quadrillion yen or more in Japan, and the consumption tax rate is also still low. However, the debt of the country is almost 900 trillion yen. It becomes impossible to cover by "Funds on hand" sooner or later.
The hard-liner of the Republican Party that called the tea party resisted the extra issuance of national bonds in the United States to the last minute. They request the small government, and oppose the tax increase. They will brew up a disturbance in next year's presidential election.
Appreciation of the yen might be a good chance to think about "Credit capability of the nation". There is no time left for the fiscal reform of our country enough due to the earthquake. How is the pizza of the annual revenue that shrinks by the falling birthrate shared? The tax increase and the annual expenditure decrease should be balanced well.

The person who goes slowly gets far.

I hear saying in Europe, "The person who goes slowly gets far". It is "The person who does rushing it fails." in Japan. The tenth passed after the high-speed train had done the derailment fall. Chinese government seems to want to end the accident impatiently.
Driving is restarted, and the cause investigation is uncertain at once. The ransom of 30 times the average annual salary was shown the bereaved family. Domestic medias were prohibited to report and comment originally. It is because the rapid-transit railway of a national business is not lengthily stagnated. The massive rock of national policy keeps being exceeded people's carcasses and rolling.
If the nuclear power plant influenced outside the country is built this conditioning, we are embarrassed. The reckless driving of the national policy is exactly asked about nuclear power also in Japan. Anyway, because Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency of the watch post was black clothing that promotes the nuclear power plant
The electric power company was asked by the security academy, and mobilized the employee to the symposium and made them to do "Example question". It is the same crime depth as "Prearranged performances mail" that the Saga Prefectural governor urges it on Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. in the point that public began.
To begin with, the structure that the security academy hangs in Ministry of Economic and Finance, which promote nuclear power plant, is strange. Another accelerator to have the shape of the brake exists next to the accelerator. Such a defective vehicle could do nothing but break through the guardrail only of the name.
It is not statism only to exercise state power that surprises the world like China. It is an obscure public opinion inducement that created the safety dogma refined more. We want to make the reflection that was not able to become a brake post provisions, and to complete the responsibility of media.

It is known that the etymology of "Rival" is "Brook (rivus)" of Latin. The original mean is "Person who fights over the river water". It might be a pledge how water was valuable from old times.
The blessed rain is called "Welcome rain" and "Rain of pleasure". However, the heaven sometimes loses balance.
〈If it rains too much by time, it becomes people's griefs. Please stop rain! Eight King Dragon! 〉
It is a poem that a young Mr.Minamoto Sanetomo , the Kamakura Shogunate, prayed to Buddah in the summer of 1211 when the damage of the heavy rain continued. And, the misfortune was repeated this year when 800 years were passed.
In an unprecedented downpour of Niigata and Fukushima, the evacuation directive and the recommendation went out to 400,000 one person. The river became a muddy stream, rampaged, and there were the dead.
It is as before that person's mind doesn't extend to the heaven in old times though the forecasting technique has advanced.
It is rainy much and twice the global average rain in Japan. However, a lot of the rain is brought in the rainy season and the typhoon. And, damage occurs somewhere every year.
On the other hand, there is the earth of a serious drought if the world is looked about. It is said that 3.7 million people are the starvation states in Somalia in Africa. The child who becomes thin small is miserable. It is not possible to go with the rope binding the clouds though I want to give the cloud of the shower.
Eight King Dragon of the poem means the god who rules water and rain. Heavy rain falls locally in the earth made clement now. I hear tending to the extension of the region where it doesn't rain moreover. It is necessary to note the climatic variation. It is "Day of water" today.