Month: January 2024

In September 2023, I sent a luggage by sea mail, and in November, a creditcard by registered AIRMAIL. I heard it would be late for Christmas holidays, Easter, etc. Anticipating this, I sent it in September, but it took two months and five days to arrive by sea, but AIRMAIL reported it as “lost.” Since the post office that shipped it is the same, I requested an investigation. The investigation was possible because AIRMAIL was registered mail, and sea mail I filled in, because the documents were getting complicated. Then, it took a little over a month, so when we investigated about the second month, An answer from the post office was “still on the ship.” The shipping time between Japan and the United States is about one week to 10 days, and even with the pre- and post-processing, the local authorities told us that it was “strange!,” and when we started making noise, the ship arrived in about ten days.

The international mail office may sent my registered mail to the US Post office for investigation its delivery issue.
I recieved a message just told us to investigate it and return in writing, but it never arrived. “Can you tell it’s stolen?” Since the contents are bank cards with credit cards, can you tell by touching them? I decided to immediately to cancel (stop) the use of the card and have it reissued.
In Japan, withdrawal, transfer of bank deposit, and savings will restrict to certin amount due to rampant fraud. Fraudulent Group doesn’t just use words, but he uses various methods to get his information. Will this card be misused as well? These days, even stolen passports are bought and sold with their photos changed.

@I received a call from the International Post Office saying that the reply I sent to the Japanese post office requesting an investigation was in writing. And I received the document (January nineth).
However I was informed that the registered letter delivered to my destination in the United States on the 13th and had been received (two months and seven days later).“I wonder why it is?” There is receipt sign on it, so even if the seal was brokened, amateurs don`t understand!
However, I do not know if they knew it was a bank card with a credit card and kept it separately, planning to misuse it later time. Is the result of the investigation just an apology for the loss and compensation? I am waiting to hear from you.
It was a disgusting time to speculate that the local postal authorities in the United States probably delivered it because it would cause it makes complaint!
Lesson: Please do not give in and raise your voice!
Above is as of January 24th, 2023

The National Dementia Basic Act has enacted in June 2023.
Next, each local government will do initiatives under its budget and guidance. I attended the training session. It has leveled up from the beginner level, and this is the third level-up seminar. It is still all classroom lectures and group meetings. The rest was a tag match between the Regional Comprehensive Center, a subordinate the government, and the general public recruited through the city newsletter (an information magazine for citizens). It seems to be there to learn about the voices, and actual situations of interested participants.

Below is a critical comment from Suchito, but it is Japan’s political form, social structure, and local government.
I will think about this as I introduce it.

At the invitation of Mr. E, a social worker and a staff member of a local comprehensive support center (community comprehensive support center), whom I met at a seminar, after I attended the workshop to improve my skills.
The third training session was about “Team Orange” and “case studies.” Why did you go out? Currently, I am not volunteering at a nursing home. Well, it’s for myself.
What will change after the training session for Dementia Volunteers “Team Orange”?

Then, I went to a local volunteer group(Team Orange). 19 people(including two infants) gathered to exchange information, and the Mayor of Minami Ward, Saitama City, brought a certificate of “Team Orange Certification No. 1” to be handed out. In other words, it was a group not only for dementia issues but also for people raising children, etc. There were elderly and their caretakers, but they were good people, and I felt a sense of comfort in their lives and humanity. It is a community-based association that provides love, kindness, and mutual assistance. However, the only men were Mr. S and Suchitoo, whom I met at the seminar. The atmosphere was conversation and behavior typical of women(sweets and tea). As long as Suchitoo does not get dementia, we’ll keep an eye on it and continue associate at the team.

I don’t know yet whether this will be a government welfare measure to combat dementia or a volunteer group specializing in dementia, but I will do what I can together with Mr. S.

The photo shows the certificate from the Minami Ward Mayor and the “Crystal performances” by the volunteer members. It will meet every month, and the next meeting seems to include a presentation from the local medical association.

It has said that “viewing light (landscapes, culture, and art)” * has changed over time from “leisure = Free time” to “restoration of humanity.” Even if the ideas and patterns associated with travel change, we want to continue the spirit of hospitality forever. I am a self-proclaimed “Asian culture traveler.” As much as possible, I walk alone and interact with the locals. We don’t ride in comfortable motor coaches or stay in big hotels. Travel is not for tourism operators. It’s for myself. Tourism pollution results the wrong actions of tourists and businesses who prioritize profit. Of course, since it is a business, there must be a fusion of economy and culture. Tourism in the future will require information and facilities that allow individuals to interact rather than in groups.

*About tourism

This article submitted for the Asahi Shimbun’s theme recruitment.
I will provide additional explanations and comments.

1. The number of foreign tourists has increased since Prime Minister Koizumi’s time, and in the recent years, it has reached 30 million. You should stop and think about it.
   
2. That is why the mass media follows actual figures on the lonely hearts of Japanese people, who believe that doing so will the economy developed, are backfiring. On the other hand, bankruptcies and incidents in the tourism industry are also occurring. Cases of unreasonable prices and rip-offs are pathetic.
   
3. Women traveling alone is a problem all over the world. In Japan, a French woman remains missing while sightseeing in Nikko. Report of incidents at tourist destinations will not filed, perhaps because they are trying to suppress them as much as possible.
   
4. According to VISIT Japan’s policy, the number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2003 was 5.21 million, but in 2019, it increased six times to 31.88 million, and the results distorted.

5. The definition and scope of the tourism industry is wide-ranging, including transportation, accommodation,
souvenir, food and beverage, entertainment and tourist facilities, are common for no users throughout the year.
There are also saturation of the market, which means the venue is full, sold out, and crowded. In addition, incidents
that result in dumping of garbage due to poor etiquette and the destruction of the lives of local residents are a wide
range of issues and problems that go beyond the term tourism'' and includepollution, damage, criminal trouble, etc.”
All the comments made by considered tourism experts (practitioners), are proponents of tourism.

6. The BLOG article “A word to the tourism society” (December 1, 2009), in which Suchitoo posted about the tourism
society that he was a member of for a while, is old but is often read. It was a meeting of industry-friendly researchers
and representatives of stakeholders. Currently, the purpose of tourism courses at universities and vocational schools
is to obtain travel business qualifications, and the only thing left to do is to acquire preliminary knowledge before
starting a job at a company, but I wonder how meaningful they are! There is No special knowledge required before
employment. It is a school that follows cost reduction measures for small and medium-sized travel companies.

7.What does the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Tourism Agency do? I understand that they
collect statistics, but I have a question about their reliability. How is the number of users of mass transit calculated?
Is there a distinction between general customers and tourists? And measures based on those numbers (the analysis
results are even more questionable) are a matter of disbelief. I believe that “Japan currently does not have an
appropriate and easy-to-understand tourism theory that no one can interfere with.”

@There is an article with the same purpose posted on September 14th., 2023.

@Suchitoo’s website: http://kawai.servebeer.com/~masahiro or http://marsk.html.xdomain.jp