27 May 2008

One big problem












(Photo: Sony's LCD TV Bravia)

In April, I wrote the story about "Earthquake early warning" . But on Tuesday, team of Yokohama National University found the big problem of earthquake early warning. I mean, this is not problem of its system. The problem is how to tell us the warning. TV is one of the most major way to tell us that warning.

These year, Japan is changing the way of TV system. Now we can watch the TV both analog way and digital way. But analog way will end in 2010. We can watch HD quality TV in our house.

Digital TV is HD quality and good sounds but its data size is really big. And TV took a little time to show us the image. That the problem. It took about 2 seconds more than analog TV.

I wrote that earthquake early warning is not so fast. Because it is hard to know when it'll happen. Then 2 seconds is very important to take action. Maybe most of digital TV users won't be able to know the warning before its happen. We must think about that.

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21 May 2008

Don't kill kangaroos











On Friday, Australian Government changed their plan. They decided to kill kangaroos around Canberra not to migrate kangaroos to other area.
Australian Government is objecting whale hunting all over the world but they decided to kill about 400 of kangaroos around Canberra. I think, there are contradiction. They must not kill kangaroos.

I wrote about whale hunting and I'm Japanese. Japanese government is continuing whale hunting still. And I don't think it is good plan to hunt whale. Please stop whale hunting and killing kangaroos.

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18 May 2008

Bomb disposal

I always use Keio line because my school is located near the station of Keio line. And I can go Shinjuku & Shibuya fast. And its cost is not so expensive. I can go there with JR line but its cost is expensive. So, I don't wanna use JR line in fact... But sometimes I have to use JR line...

Anyway, now Keio group is planning to lay their train line underground. And they started construction for that plan. In March, they found the bomb. Every day trains were running very near of that bomb. But that bomb didn't explode.

Over 60 years have passed since the end of World War 2. But there are a lot of duds in Japan. Over 2000 of dud were found and disposed every year in Japan. Most of these dud were found in Okinawa. But sometimes dud were found in Tokyo like this case. These dud were dropped by US Air Force during World War 2. I don't know how many bombs were dropped by US Air Force to Japan. But I think it was over million bombs.

Today, SDF started remove of this bomb. So, Keio line stopped several hours. And about 15000 people were escaped. But it wasn't take a long time and removed perfectly.
That was really good news for us.

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08 May 2008

Diplomacy with Panda.

(Image from Wikipedia "http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ジャイアントパンダ")

Chinese president Hu Jintao came to Japan on Tuesday. And he said that they're ready to rent couple of giant panda for Ueno zoo in Tokyo. In 30th April, giant panda Ling Ling in Ueno zoo died then there are no giant panda in Ueno zoo. Ueno zoo is the oldest zoo in Japan and it is the most famous zoo in Japan. In 1972, first giant panda came to Ueno zoo and many people came to there to see the giant panda.

Now, there are 8 giant panda in Japan. But they are all belonging to China. So, there are no giant panda that is belonging to Japan. Ling Ling was the last giant panda that was belonging to Japan.

I think, it is good because there are no zoo around my house that are keeping giant panda in zoo. So, if Chinese government, Japanese government and Tokyo government will agree about this problem, I can go to Ueno zoo to see giant panda.

But I heard that the cost of renting giant panda is really expensive. Kobe Oji zoo in Kobe is paying to China 100,000,000 yen per year for couple giant panda. 100 million yen per year!! (About 957 thousands U.S. dollars. About 626 thousands euro.) Can you believe it? If they decided to rent couple of giant panda from China, Tokyo government will pay 100 million yen every year! And these costs will be paid from our tax. I think, it is not good... LOL

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01 May 2008

Increase again

Yesterday, Japanese diet restored gas tax. In April, the price of gasoline decreased because expand of Special Texation Measures Law. About 20 yen decrease from price in March. But now gasoline price became about 160 yen per 1 liter.

It's really expensive. And I heard that, some of gas stands are selling gasoline 180 yen per liter. I heard that on TV. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said like we need this tax to build and keep our roads. But many mass media broadcasting that there are wasteful in using this tax. For example, they used this for their massage machine.

I think, they have to think about this tax. But it was not good choice because we have to think about our environment. If we use more gasoline, our environments will get worse. So, it is not good to decrease price of gasoline. And we have to think, what is the most important tax for our environment and for our lives.

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