Eco Touring at Biwa-ko (Biwa lake)

There is lots of water in Japan. We don't have to prepare about drought.
Last week, I participated in an eco touring in Harie, Shiga. People who live that town make the best use of water, stream and spring water.

Each house has a water place called "Kabata" inside or outside the house. Kabata is composed of water from stream and spring water. In the water from stream, there are carps and other small fishes.

People use spring water for their drinking, cooking and cooling vegetables and fruits. Some people use that water for washing their faces and teeth. In the other hand, people use the water from stream to wash their dishes. When washing the dishing, the carps are eating leftover meals and make the water clean. That is really sustainable water system. Many carps keep the water clean and people can use it for their lives.

This place became famous because a documentary about Kabata by NHK earned an international prize. I was heard from a guide that ABC from US covered that place before our touring. It was really good countryside in Japan.

Tibet Uprising

I'm worrying about the situation in Tibet.
I've been interested in Tibet. People in Tibet have been facing hardship. They are fighting with the power which tries to overwhelm Tibetan culture. Chinese Government requests their obedience and its attitude looks superior.

What shoud I do for Tibet? All I can do is only looking at the extinction of the culture? I hope lots of individuals in the world keep attention for what is happening in Tibet now and find opportunies to empower them anytime, anywhere.

Pursuing geographic teritory is out of date. The goal we have to aim is to become an independent individual. The government and the nationarity is secondary.

Nice Song

I zapped the net and found a nice song.
It's old (80s?), but cool french pop.

Cool Car by TOYOTA

I love small cars. But most of car companies were not serious to manufacturing small car so far.

However the age has changed. TOYOTA released new concept of small car. I hope they keep its design when they start production model.

Whale hunting issue in Japan

Recently we can see articles about Japanese whale hunting.
Many countries and NGOs are aganst this Japanese action. Australian activist "Sea Shepard" threw away anything like chemicals to Japnaese suvey ship. I think this is too radical and dangerous.

However I also think Japanese Government is irrational. My opinion is to quit the hunting right now. But I agree that hunting whales were one of Japanese tradition. When we didn't have enough food after the war, whales were important proteins for children in the schools. But eating whales was just one of our culture. And now we have enouh food and there is no need to eat whales.

I know some people who demand hunting think "Western people killed tons of whales for only their oils, while Japanese made the best use of them. Why do they regard us as bad men?" I feel sympathy with this opinion. But yet I think we don't have to hunt whales. Becasue we can't find a certain reason to persist whales. We kill animals to keep our lives. We kill cows and pigs to keep our lives. They are common in our food. But not whales.

Japan has lots of other serious problems such as aging population, grobal warming and education. We should forcus on these issues. Whale hunting looks sensational, but essantially tiny problem to be solved.

IT as a tool

Demands of people against IT are various.
It's impossible to embed all possible functions in a package. So I guess the ideal software is based on Internet, on demand, download required software, it's real time events. That software looks infinite for users because of lots of combinations of functions.

Basic function is classified as units and people select them like LEGO toys.
All information about the software is open and companies make money by consulting and maintenance.

The software encourage people as a individuals because every application differ as user wants. People appeal their demand and that movements introduce democracy on the Internet. That change of mind affects our real lives. The customizing our software will be an opportunity to get back an initiative of life from the governments and companies.

IT should be a great tool for the people who are in weak position so far.