My stepmother has lived alone more than fifteen years, but moved to a house for elderly today. The day we have to give up living alone surely comes some day. We have to think about how to finish our lives. I found one big problem. We can't afford the fee for the house for elderly with our pension. What should we do?
The old house I lived for seven years when I was young will have nobody to live any more. How will the garden be? Who will pick the persimmons there?
Yesterday was the first Friday of the month, and so, as usual, we appealed anti-nuke plant on the crowded crossroad. Every Friday evening people have come together around the Diet building to protest the nuke plant policies for three years. The government and those who want to keep the nuke power are waiting us to get tired of protesting and to forget the problem. So, we are trying to keep on saying NO! But it was so cold last evening, and I was the first to give up.
I asked an American who has married a Japanese woman and lived in Japan what he thought of Japanese society. His anser was "passive" "never ask why" That is true.
We, Japanese people have chosen the easy way to follow the strong power or authority passively. Where are we going? I'm scared.On the
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