2018年6月23日

At which age is appropriate to be adulthood?

Topic 1
I feel there are too many necessary things in one smart phone.
Schedule, contact list, photo, payment, point card, music, many things are set in one box.
If I lost the smart phone, I am not sure if I could recover such all information.
How should we use the smart phone? or should we use other new gadgets, and the conventional tools?

Q1) Please share your recommendations for using some convenient tools in your daily life, or in your office.
Q2) How do you protect your important information, such as contact list, schedule or any other information from unpredictable accident?
Q3) Do you have any favorite conventional tools, instead using smart phone apli.

Topic 2 Age of adulthood

The new law which lowers the definition of adulthood to 18 years old from the current age of 20 was passed on this month.
The definition of the adulthood has existed to protect under-aged people, but it sometimes deprives their rights from the young.
The new law is to be effective from Apr.1 2022.

Agenda : At which age is appropriate to be adulthood?

Age 18, Marriage (Both male and female) / Credit card without parent's permission / 10 years effective passport/ a foreign adult qualifies to be naturalized in Japan/Doctor,/certified public accountant or other qualification
Age 20 Smoking /Drinking/Gambling/Pay Pension

Q1 What do you think the reasons the age definition of adulthood has existed?
Q2) What is your concerns on lowering the age of adulthood from 20 to 18?
Q3) At which age should we treat young people as adult?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/13/national/crime-legal/japan-enacts-law-lower-adulthood-age-18/#.WyWWwKf7TIU