前回は食糧問題について話し合いました。これからの季節、家庭からのフードロスを減らすと同時に食中毒に注意しましょうね！
さて次回は、コロナだオリンピックだと毎日報道されていますが、その陰で国民投票法、健康保険法、年金法、少年法、消費税インボイス制度、重要土地取引規制法などなど、私達の生活に直結する重要法案改正が通ってたり、こども店長、じゃなくこども庁など、行政改革がこそこそっと進んでいます。何のために必要なのか、その説明はありません。
今知っておかないとやばいこと、色々ありそうです。知ったからどうするんだって？それを話し合いましょう！キーワードは「立法事実」、legislative
factです。
TOPIC 1. Arabian Nights
I am under deep depression around May 16th, the day HIdeki Saijo passed
away. I was so depressed ending up with a bizarre idea which is; If I got
to meet the Lamp Genie of “Arabian Nights”, I’d ask him “Bring me back
to August 24th, 1979”.
It was a night of the legendary concert at Korakuen stadium in the extremely
heavy thunderstorm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nk6jzS7H_o
This is King Crimson’s “Epitaph”. 100% genuine sound of rain and thunder
reminded me of “Work of God”. Greg Lake was one heck of a rock legend,
but Hideki was even better at that night. I want to BE there.
Hideki, you are still my No.1 Japanese rock star.
Now, let’s get delusional.
1 If the Lamp Genie makes your dream come true only for once, what would
you ask?
2 If you could be anyone in the world for one whole day, who would you
want to be and what would you like to do? Past and present, anyone is fine;
a rock star, a baseball player, a politician, Elon Musk, or Oda Nobunaga...
3 If you could use a time machine just for once, when would you go and
what would you expect to see?
4 You can completely eradicate anything from the world. What do you want
to omit?
TOPIC 2. What’s going on?
Many important bills are being passed and administrative reforms are going
on behind the corona turmoil. Did you know that? As you know, the Japanese
are not very political and we are somewhat allergic to protesting demonstrations
and other political movements. Moreover, as we see the Olympic games, our
government does not listen to us at all, so we always give up and let it
go.
BUT, isn’t it our responsibility to know what is going on in our country?
The bottom line is, those reforms ALWAYS lack legislative facts, which
means our democracy is in danger.
We will be talking about the juvenile law.
1 The harsher the better?
An idea of Juvenile law is to reform criminal youth, not just punishment.
However, if a criminal is 18 or 19 year of age, Things will be different.
Why now? Juvenile crimes are NOT increasing.
2 Lost opportunities
Japan had a system that a juvenile prones to commit offense is protected
and reformed under supervision of a family court so that some can avoid
being a criminal. But, they will lose these rights. It means they are left
to be real criminals. Those reforms have been proved to be effective.
3 Media
Media will be able to report the criminals’ names, if he is 18 or 19. What
is it for?
4 What should we do?
This kind of changes are being made without legislative facts. Should we
go for a political demonstration if we are not sure about those? Or write
a letter? Twitter? What should we do?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/06/national/japan-juvenile-law/