もうすぐ皐月(may)

In a recent message I received.

'I got an email saying that your blog is interesting,

I'm inspired to write it.


Thanks for your support!


Recently I've been working part-time in a bar two days a week and doing food delivery at a leisurely pace for three months now, since I quit my job in January this year.


There, I realised once again how tied up I was with so many different things.



In Japan, we are a people who are very sensitive to what people around us think, and if you deviate from that, you are often treated with great disdain.

I get the feeling that they don't want to nurture individual independence.


Therefore, parents blame you for deviating from the 'ideal rail' that was instilled in you from childhood, and you keep blaming yourself, and the more serious you are, the sicker you become.


I myself went to counselling and I think that if going to counselling makes you better, you should go to a lot of counselling.

However, I think we should not forget one aspect of the situation: there is a proliferation of counsellors and psychiatrists in name only, and they are increasing the number of patients on medication.


To begin with, though, every individual is different.

What they want to do, what they are good at, what they are not good at, their thought processes, everything.


I feel that lumping it all together as 'this is how it should be done' is the same as violence.


That's true even when you're a member of society.

It is the same in social interaction.


Japan is a seniority-based society, so even people who have been here since the economic boom are respected based on their length of service, even if they have not contributed to business performance.


For these people, any beneficial action is meaningless.

In the first place, I think especially recently that there may not be many Japanese who are able to listen to other people's opinions.


Is it because we don't have a debate culture?


They talk on and on about their own opinions for minutes on end, interrupting their opponents' rebuttals.

I think they will go to the coffin without ever realising that it is not only a constructive discussion, but also a breach of etiquette.


You don't understand the simple fact that you have to listen in order to be heard.


And with the economic crisis and the growth of power, ordinary working people in Japan are impoverished.


More than half of their income is taken in taxes, tax revenues are at an all-time high and yet they are still trying to raise the consumption tax.


The Diet members who are deciding on these issues are not atoning for their crimes and can continue to sit on their seats without being arrested and without the support of the public.

It is madness, to say the least.


Politicians are largely hereditary, and I believe that the growth of their power has led to today's corrupt political system.


There is supposed to be a separation of powers in Japan, but it seems to me that these too are not functioning due to collusion.


More and more foreigners are coming from overseas to visit, but Japanese people are not getting higher salaries, prices are going up, and everyone is suffering because they are getting less money in taxes.


We have not nurtured the craftsmanship that used to be a good cornerstone of Japan, and in 30 years we don't know what we invested in, it has become a blank, and everything is now outstripped by foreign countries.


Animation and culture are a bit of a relief.

Animators are paid very little and the environment is quite black.

It could be said that this is very typical of Japan.



Beautiful, diligent, hard-working, honest and unquestioning, it seems to have made Japan what it is today.

It only takes a moment for peace to be broken.


I wonder how long these peaceful days will last,

I was reminded of this when I watched the Prime Minister's speech on his recent visit to the United States.


However, this fact is almost never broadcast on Japanese television or in the media.


Japanese news reports are all about Shohei Otani.


I don't think we need such media.


It's a gloomy article and I have a lot of different anxieties.


Although I myself am happy in my own way, as it is my birthday soon and I am free every day,

There are many things that I find very depressing to think about.


How are you all doing these days?


See you soon.

Comments

  1. McGrumpetMay 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM

    O, the peddlers of medication! Mental illness is, naturally, a social construct. From a Western perspective, would ADHD have been a hindrance to an explorer of the New World? Should such a man have been medicated if that were possible in history? ADHD is only an illness in a society where all people, without exception, are expected to be stationed at an immobile desk for the greater portion of each day. (High-functioning) autism is only a flaw when all people, without exception, are expected to greet others with the same ritual politeness detached from all genuine humanity. And of course it is all done with money in mind, not the reparation of a broken society. Anti-depressants have never been demonstrated to work, yet they have been sold for many years. It's like sleeping on a bed of spikes and thinking that the solution is to bandage your wounds every morning!

    Japan is a shame culture. One way forward is to somehow associate idleness with shame. The great majority of people do nothing to end the problems that they know fill the world, and the rest remain willfully ignorant. In Japan, the domestic abuse rates have been increasing for over thirty years straight. Truly, there is nothing more shameful than allowing children to be tormented. It is time to reveal to the populace the degree to which they are complicit in the abuse of children through art and activism. What do you think?

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    1. あかねMay 26, 2024 at 9:45 PM

      You are right. It is the labelling and enforcement of people who deviate even slightly from the social norm as being crazy that is abnormal, but unfortunately people don't realise this and are drugged more and more. Is life fun when you are forced to take drugs? Japanese people are said to be kind, but I always wonder if that is true. We are kind when we are appreciated, but as the saying goes, "Mura-hachibu", or "the village eighteenth", in the old countryside groups, we can be very harsh towards outsiders. This was very apparent during the Corona disaster. The disdain for children's feelings doesn't change even in times like these. It seems that there are fewer parents between those who cannot discipline and those who abuse. I also feel that there are more mothers (especially in the case of sons) who can't separate their children from their children compared to the US and other countries. So I think a lot of sweet men like another commenter said are formed. Many parents give too much of everything and don't realise that they are plucking their children's wings.

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