I am interested in “Infectious diseases,” “Clinical depression” and “Dementia.” Before getting Dementia, there is also Forgetfulness, but it seems to be the difference between cases without Dementia and potential Dementia. Of course, in this blog, I would like to focus on myself, analyze and appeal if possible. I would like to introduce them, but there are too many, so I would like to introduce them in moderation.

Let’s consider infectious diseases first:
Viruses, starting with COVID-19, are the enemies of mankind, but they seem to have overcome a lot of them (in the past, yellow fever and rubella, which is still ongoing, and the recent one is COVID-19).
The method of cure for these diseases is being established day by day. I, SUCHITOO don’t like going out in crowds, so I am currently free from COVID-19.
However, since I was born in Japan, I have been bitten by mosquitoes and have gotten sick many times since I was a child, and since I became an adult, Tropical Onyx mosquitoes bit me in Thailand and infected Dengue fever twice.　 If the cause of the disease is known, there are medicines and cures, but there are a lot of unknown diseases. It is necessary to take measures before the treatment, but the water for humans to live flows from trees and becomes a water source, but mosquitoes carrying pathogens live in the forest, so they are stronger than us. How should I be careful? Humans lose to them, so “Stay away,” use preventive medicine if available, don’t drink raw water, don’t go into the jungle, don’t rely on the government, etc.　 Experience points are the way to deal with them. There are also syphilis and sexually infectious diseases contracted by humans and pets such as cats and dogs.
There are a lot of insects, animals, and plants that attack humans in tropical regions.  I hope there to come up with treatments for that.

Think about Depression:
It is a “mental disease” that many people suffer from stress, and many of them are serious. It is the reality for me also, when I’m depressed, and it can cause problems one after another, make me feel sick, and sometimes, alternately repeat between mania and depression. The recommendation is to get away from this cycle is important to live relaxed for a serious person. And to be diligent, or not, both will be needed in life.
There are many hospitals and depression researchers, but Dr. Yuichiro Tokunaga, the author of “Not only antidepressants and counseling, but nature and the power to stimulate the five senses organs, can change people.’ And some other doctors are working hard to make a full recovery.
SUCHITOO says that one of the things that cause mood disorders is a lack of energy in the brain, by which sometimes makes him depressed. If you feel tired quickly, cannot sleep, have any appetite, Lack self-confidence, or cannot adjust the balance between your mood and emotions. You should have time to rest and maintain your common balance without relying on your doctor. I recommend it because I am doing things like eating, and other things, such as hobbies and lifestyles, sometimes hot springs and travel are the best medicine.

Now think about Dementia:
Dementia is attracting attention because deceived by the phrase of rumor that affects one in seven Japanese. It is a disease that reduces the function of the “brain,” so it will be difficult to recover. In the future, someone develops many cure methods (including medicine) will be available, but I would like to distinguish them from schizophrenia, gambling, and many other addictions.
These types are known as dementia diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Lewy bodies, and Frontotemporal, but there is also juvenile dementia. The definition of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan is the deterioration of cognitive functions, such as memory, judgment, and thinking, which is brain function deterioration.  So that it is difficult to recover and annoys and causes surrounding people troubles (wandering, Violence/verbal abuse, paranoia, etc.).
Therefore, that is regarded as a problem. It also appears to be associated with diseases of the duodenum, liver, kidneys, and lungs that affect the body. The treatment methods include medical therapy, which is not very good, occupational therapy, music therapy, exercise therapy, and reminiscence therapy. Acquaintances recommend farming and horticultural therapy.

Then I find out my solutions:
Advertisements, such as treatments for depression and dementia, are published in general Japanese newspapers. The Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) had an article about “the power of nature” (Dr. Tokunaga) against dementia, and I found the existence of dementia and rehabilitation study group on the website. Also, to prevent depression and dementia, a psychiatrist Hideki Wada and others have published books on how to think about how to live, and they seem to be selling well. However, I would like to point out that there are not many studies and books on infectious diseases that are common in the tropics, and there are few specialists (there are two hospitals specializing in tropical diseases in Tokyo). I have an acquaintance who died after being mistakenly diagnosed as having a cold by a town doctor in that situation.
I do not want to agree with standing still in the 100-year lifespan, but I think it would be good to refer to the comments from experts, hospitals, and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

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Wat Paknam Bhascharoen in Thon Buri, Bangkok, is not a tourist temple but an international meditation exercise hall and temples, the theory and practical method of the monk Phra monkon teep-ni, the founder of meditation, are spread throughout Thailand and the world. It is not the founder of Paknam Temple. It is a monk of restration monk. He recently learned from a phone call from a monk of the Obaku sect that the Somdet, the No.2 of the Thai Buddha, died a few years ago. It seemed to be 96 years old, but I remember taking pictures together in January 2016.

Six years later, on a rainy day, September 29, 2022, a gloomy atmosphere remained in Wat Paknam when I visited this time. I went to the Bangkok Mass Transit System airport station from Chiang Rai since I thought I could have a chance to go again during the transit of 8 hours to the flight to Japan.

When I arrived at the station, an information clerk told me that trains were not moving because of car inspections, so he guided me to a luxury limousine tour company, its clerk talked to me in Japanese, so I thought I might have to pay too much. After making line at the general taxi stand at the airport for 4 hours, a driver from Chiang Rai seemed to be relieved with a polite response, so I asked him if he could wait for about 30 minutes at Wat Paknam on the condition of returning to the airport. He replied that I was glad to do so. The suitcase was on a night flight, so I didn’t leave it, and there was no corner to leave, so I could put it in a taxi and go back and forth was 1000 baht round trip (about 4,000 yen).

When I heard about the transition in a nearby office with a statue of Phra monkon teep-ni, and heard about the deputy priest, Phra Chai Kittisaro, it seemed to be still there, and when I visited suddenly, I was still in the same temple lodging in the same place. I had no time, so I apologized to him for my short visit of only 10 minutes, and we could not communicate for a long time. I got his phone number, so I promised to meet again in April 2023. The taxi was waiting at the parking lot outside the temple, so he could let me go to the airport soon after greeting them.

Also, when I went to a toilet for ordinary people outside the temple, I saw a large Buddha statue, and a photo of the Somded was seen below it. I knew that the pagoda with the highest towering interior in Thailand was completed before that, so I didn’t know that the Buddha statue was created. Is it a memorial Buddha statue of the transition of Somdet? (It’s too early), or is it a monument of his life? Phra Chai, a deputy priest, said that it was not a grave (mausoleum). Even so, it was big.

@ Wat Paknam’s website has a photo of the decease memorial service. Please visit Wat Japanese website regarding this.
http://marsk.html.xdomain.jp
In addition, there are many personal posts on the pagoda of the Paknam temple.
@Two photos are from Wat Paknam’s website. The photo of the Buddha statue, and the one with Somdet was taken by Suchitoo during his trip in 2016.

It has been ten years since we established a Japanese Buddhist temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand. The plan was to have the facility open to the public. Traveling to the northernmost tip of Thailand is a challenge, but so has the hustle and bustle of the capital, Bangkok, and the second-largest city, Chiang Mai.
Chiang Rai has a JET capable airport, but no trains yet. It is a quiet ancient city at the end of National Highway 1, about 1000 kilometers from Bangkok, at the foot of a plateau. In addition, the Mekong River is a famous tourist destination, a large river on the border of Myanmar and Laos, known as the Golden Triangle.

There is a connection there, and it will be exactly ten years in January 2023 since the opening of the Japanese temple (Wat Japan). Rustic nature and mountain lovers will love it. The landlord, Lenna (this is from my Japanese name given by me, SUCHITOO, and her real name is a little long, so the locals call it Tim), was originally (and still is) a student at a Japanese school. She has been operating a cafeteria in the village for over 30 years, and it is a delicious and hearty Thai restaurant with a good reputation.

“Guest house” is 500 baht (about 2000 yen) per person per night, and the rates cover all meals at the guest house. The more people you have, the cheaper it will be.　In principle, up to 3 people can stay in one group per day. It is a one-building charter method.
It operates by the landlord, Mongkol Lenna the restaurant owner.
The opening is on February 1, 2023.
@Place: Meakautomtashut village, Chiang Rai, Thailand
@Reservations; Please contact us at +81-48-863-5932 or send an e-mail to “m999matsusan9@gmail.com” Details will be announced later on the Wat Japan home page.
＠Please refer to the website of WATJAPAN (THAILAND) for directions, surroundings, and the relationship between Thailand and SUCHITOO.
If you have difficulties with Japanese, please use Google translate to see the website.
http://marsk.html.xdomain.jp
http://kawai.servebeer.com/~masahiro

@ This article is the first; Let us guide you in the series. It is planned for “surroundings”, “Lenna Shokudo”, and “questions/inquiries”.
@ Reservations will start on December 1, 2022.

In addition to the simple report from the field on 20th September, I will post Mae Sai (Myanmar) coverage on 16th September and the 4th Friendship Bridge (Thailand/Laos) in Chiang Khong on 23rd September.

I wouldn’t say I like long posts, so I’ll post them in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. And this blog can only attach three photos, so please take a look at it, as the remaining posted on Facebook.

Thailand’s northernmost border is Myanmar’s Tachileik city across the Sai River. Japanese people living in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai also pay 500 baht for visa extensions and go on day trips. In addition, in the middle of the long Mekong River from Yunnan Province in China to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, a bridge was completed with international aid between Thailand and Laos in 1994.

In the past, we used to communicate with each other by boat from ports such as Chiang Khong for a long time, and SUCHITOO has also been to Buan Balabang, a World Heritage Site, several times from here.

Mae Sai was originally a town where many Chinese lived. It is a town with many Chinese from Yunnan Province since the defeated Kuomintang soldiers fled from China’s independence in 1949. In addition to Mae Sai, Doi Mae Salong, is more than 10 kilometers away. It located in the heart of the mountains, had been the drug zone, but it became production area for tea, shiitake mushrooms, delicious chicken, and a scenic spot for Chinese cherry blossoms. There are many Chinese temples in this northern region of Thailand, and we are also involved in various businesses such as hotels.

On the day I visited, the border bridge (approximately 50 meters) was closed in both countries, and it was “almost three years” (because of the COVID-19 pandemic and Myanmar’s military coup in February 2021), the guards who were wary of illegal immigration at night were lamenting.

However, even if there are no tourists or businesspeople, Chinese-owned hotels, jewelry stores, souvenir shops, and general stores are still open, even though many are closing or closed. It fled from China, but there is nowhere to run anymore! If they kicked out of Thailand, what happens next? In a sense, it is also an area where it is easy to get information, so I can’t throw it away.
Mae Sai is not one of big distribution bases, but it is the best area with many people.

Logistics base is in the ancient city of Chiang Khong. Sometimes I see more than dozens of Chinese ships that are not that big. Also, the Golden Triangle between Mae Sai and Chiang Khong was once full of Chinese tourists when I went there three years ago.
It felt like the place was taking over by the Chinese.

The 4th Friendship Bridge that spans Laos and Thailand beyond that is a splendid bridge that you can go back and forth after completing the procedures for your car. I went there for the first time. Mae Sai was closed to in coming people and things, but here it was allowed a little, which surprised him. Several groups of Western tourists were returning from Laos. The Lao government allows 2-night, 3-day trips, but this is only for limited buses, and while general car are still closed, there were about ten people lined up for the truck service procedures.

It is also seeming to be only allowed cars, and the parking lot around the bridge was full of closed cars. Five bridges span Thailand and Laos. Starting with Australian aid in 1994, the second (Japanese ODA aid), third, fourth (Chieng Khong and Faisak, 2013), and fifth international bridge booms.

A word from SUCHITOO: Should it remain closed forever?! I am worried about the children who went to school in Mae Sai from Tachileik. It is worrisome that the work opportunities for the hill tribes have become distant from the mutual assistance of the Chinese. We now have phones and cars, but the competition for jobs will increase and the wage cost of employment will decrease! Will the drug age return without a job? I’m worried. I stayed at a large Chinese hotel in Mae Sai, but there were only a few groups of guests that day, and I couldn’t even eat.

*An US student of dual nationality is experiencing a trial enrollment as a student in a Japanese elementary school.

I learned from the movie (Tokyo Kurds) that the children of Kurds living in Japan (all are applying for refugee status, nationality is Turkey) are also attending school. On the contrary, there is a story of a child born to a foreign woman living in Japan who did not recognize the child by a Japanese man and is stateless. The child could not go to school.

However, even if you do not have a nationality, you have the right to education if you know your age, etc., because it is an international treaty, so it applied in Japan. International marriages are on the rise, and some children have ties to Japan, whether in Japan or abroad. Because of that, he will accept it even during his temporary return to Japan*. Also, even if you are abroad and you are a Japanese national, they will send Japanese schoolbooks.

The answer from O Elementary School is as follows.

Covid-19 continues, but trial enrollment is possible. We have summarized what we have discussed with each person in charge with the principal.

It is customary to enter the third grade by experience. If you have any concerns about writing or reading, please let us know as parents can do so for a first or second grade.

〇Experience enrollment period: 5 days from July 4th (Monday) to July 8th (Friday), Since it is the end of the semester, I think that the number of tests will increase in the next week, so I set this period.

〇Please check the body temperature and physical condition every morning. Of course, if you have a cold in your family, you are not allowed to go to school.

〇Please be accompanied by a guardian when attending school. (Because it is a short period, you cannot belong to the school group.)

When you leave school, you will return home with your friends in the same direction, but it is okay if you come to pick me up. (No cars allowed)

〇 School attendance is from 8:00 to 8:15. On the first day, go up the stairs in front of the main gate (west side) and enter from the staff entrance on the 2nd floor. Please wait until 8:25 at “Bookland (library).” The classroom teacher for trial enrollment will pick you up.

〇 Please bring slippers (cleanly washed outer shoes are acceptable), exercise clothes, [swimsuit (June-July), swimming hat, towel]. You can look at without swimming.

〇Please prepare a pencil case (5 pencils, an eraser, red and blue pencils) and one notebook.
We will lend you necessary items such as schoolbooks and drills.

〇 School lunch can provide if the student has no food allergies. One meal is 260 yen x the number of days. Please pay for the money on the first day. Please bring a toothbrush and a tablecloth (a large handkerchief). If a student has a food allergy, you must take various procedures, so we cannot provide them. In that case, please prepare a lunch box.
(It is possible to experience it only in the morning every day. It is necessary to pick up a guardian.)

〇 You cannot rent Tablet PCs from the school. Since you cannot register for an account, you will not be able to attend online classes when your absence.

〇 You may not be able to continue your experience due to class closures. Please note that.
It is okay if you can prepare your belongings as much as possible. Do not buy a new one, but use your one instead.

＠＠ I think this is an excellent example of the educational rights of the Constitution of Japan and the education of children from international treaties **. However, the topic of Afghanistan, an Islamic country where education is not available because of women, is also reported by many countries. And a good story (an elderly female student**) made into a movie in an African country.

Children of the weak in Japan and every country have seen and heard about child labor in Nepal and other countries where they cannot get satisfying meals (the worst part of the canteen “Children Restaurant” is a relief). This disparity is not only in peace bokeh (taking peace for granted) but also in Japan, a country of satiety! Is this all right? !! We want more help, compassionate politics, and culture, not the economy (gold) first.

@@ He learned and interacted with each other, and those experiences will show the best future for Japan. I am grateful to the school staff for their cooperation. As a result, I heard from him that he learned about the differences in education between Japan and the United States (number of class students, sweets, etc.) and that he enjoyed interacting with them. And he said, “I want to go to school in Japan again!” (July 14th, 2022)

*It is an introduction to that case.

** The Convention on the Rights of the Child consists of four articles below

-Right to live: Children are born healthy, have safe water, adequate nutrition, and the right to grow healthy.
-Right to be protected: Children are protected from discrimination, abuse, and exploitation.
-Right to grow: Children have the right to education. That is resting and playing, getting information, and protecting one’s thoughts and beliefs.
-Right to participate: Children are free to express their opinions, get together to form groups, and work on things that are relevant to them.

In addition, Article 2 states “Prohibition of Discrimination.” The Contracting States are responsible for equally recognizing and protecting all children’s rights, regardless of race, language, religion, social status, or property, of the child or her guardian.

What I was most interested in (mystery & wonder) when I was in junior high school, were invisible things, electricity, radio waves, and magnets. The universe, matter, and human beings are composed of atoms, and there are many spaces between atoms, so there is no reality. What uses these atoms to shape and control this world? What is a human? What controls humans?

What is self (consciousness)? What is the inner man?

Is there a limit to the universe, what is happening outside the universe, and is there another universe?
This made me emotionally unstable. There cannot be anything in front of you where there is nothing.

Outside where you are now, is not there anything?

Perhaps this universe is part of any material, and we are like its atoms.

I was thinking about that, and I felt like I was talking about something stupid without listening to anyone. The only one who was a priest of a temple called Meigetsu-in, a distant relative, who was a science teacher (forgot his name) listened to me, so I often visited the temple to talk about space, human-being, etc.

When I heard about the Big Bang at school, I immediately felt weird. It was a space that exploded and expanded into the universe. It’s a lie, an explosion can’t happen in the absence of anything. I do not think anyone thinks it’s strange. I didn’t believe it and still don’t believe it even now.

I thought more scared about the reality of myself where I am in a world of nothing.
Now I am feeling the same and try not to think about it. When thinking further, I try to have the concept of God (the God of Creation) in my mind

One day, when I found a space book in the library and read it, the theory that the universe was formed by exploding of the fluctuation of atoms, so what is the fluctuation, where is it, and why is it?
There is something (fluctuation) where there is nothing. Mysterious and scary. It is a logical failure.
However, he concluded that the universe is nothing and that the author would have to think about the existence of God.

Today, many scientists advocate that the universe was born by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. (The big bang theory)
It is an estimate of the result of the observation of the universe, but it cannot be seen further that an initial period.
But several scientists are starting to say it’s weird and theoretically should not happen.
They say nothing comes from nothing. I began to think that it was created by the God.
Now, science has entered the realm of quantum mechanics, and research has materialized. We are approaching the realm of God.

Then how do we imagine the God?

Since it is impossible to think of the Creator, it seems that the only way to think about it is to trace from this universe and us human beings who were created. Can we get there by examining ourselves, or is it in us and integrated?

What was the god’s purpose of creating this universe?

It also depicts in the Old Testament Genesis (Day 1-7).

Genesis 1
Day 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Day2. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep.
　　God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

What was there before day 1?

I don’t think human’s science can find the truth of the universe forever.
How does an extraterrestrial, more evolving inhabitant understand this universe?
If I meet one by some chance, I hope to learn from the one the truth of the universe.

To be continued..

Eiichi Shibusawa, who has many titles, is from the Fukaya city in Saitama Prefecture. The two in three great men from Saitama Prefecture, Ginko Hagino, and Hanawa Hokiichi were introduced by my Japanese blog, and I visited the Eiichi Shibusawa Memorial Hall (Hachiki Public Hall, which opened on November 11, 1995). I do not have enough time and paper to introduce him in all, so I would like to write about my visit and what I cannot understand until I see it.

Once, I visited Fukaya City, at a time of a local movie fan who bought a store of a former bank was playing a film, and when I went to care for a Thai who came to Japan for computer training in Saitama Prefecture.

The specialty product of Fukaya City is Fukaya green onion. However, Shibusawa Eiichi is revered as a great man and is proud of Fukaya, Saitama, and Japan. The location of the Tomioka Silk Mill, which has become a World Heritage Site, is in Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture, but Eiichi Shibusawa has been introduced to know raw silk and indigo dyeing and supported it, a brick manufacturing company has also been established, which is necessary for the factory building with him.

In 2024, the reason the portrait changes of Yukichi Fukuzawa on the 10,000-yen note was deciding to replace with Eiichi Shibusawa was “the father of the modern Japanese economy,” “the theory of moral economy,” and “the last 15th shogun of the Edo period, Yoshinobu Tokugawa.” Above is because they have a track record of “encounters” and “efforts in welfare and education other than the economy.” It is not just a god of management of only one company (involved in about five hundred companies), but this is saying that his skill is in the modernization of the Meiji era, so he is supported by many people and is suitable for becoming the face of the world.

“Modern Japanese Father Eiichi Shibusawa” (published by Fukaya City) is a leaflet printed in March 2021 before the NHK TV dramatized him, but it is well organized.

1. Father of the modern Japanese economy 2.The starting point of businessman 3. From the Joint Staff to the shogun’s vassal 4. Dispatched to Europe 5. From the government to the business world 6. The heart of mercy Social welfare activities 7. Efforts for international goodwill 8. The Analects Village 9. Eiichi and Tomioka Thread Mill 10. Origin of Eiichi’s “Seien” 11. Eiichi, Brick and Fukaya City 12. Boiled noodle with ｗelsh onion* 13. Thirteen items of Eiichi Shibusawa that are currently attracting attention.
Some titles are not understandable without reading, but they are almost covered. There were many signboards in the city, making the most of Eiichi Shibusawa in promoting tourism in Fukaya.

* I have never eaten Niboutou (boiled noodle with onion). However, Fukaya’s local food variety, a soy sauce-flavored noodle dish with plenty of vegetables such as green onions, radishes, and carrots in handmade flat noodles, is introduced in the pamphlet. There are many restaurants in the city with agricultural products sales offices in the suburbs, and the well-known shops I searched for in anticipation of Japanese buckwheat used Shinshu buckwheat flour.

*There are people who have discovered and invented Japan, the world, and everything from many towns and villages, not just Saitama Prefecture. The background for the episode will be known in future research and history. However, some cases do not seem to be great just because they appear in the media and textbooks. Just in case.

In the case regarding a passport, I sometimes forget where I put it while handling it every time. Often you will find it out its necessity for your next action. I took it out and forgot where I put it on because I was changing minds in something else.　Since I remembered it was on the desk, I had contacted him to keep while I was on the way. However, in Thailand, there are frequent inspections by border police officers and the military at strategic points on the road, and I haven’t carried it with me, so I have had a chilling experience.

When I was a fellow passenger in my acquaintance’s private car, they were tolerant of foreigners, and I was relieved that I was stopped several times out of 8 checkpoints but no passport checks for me for a round-trip on overnight trips.

What I forgot was to keep it on the desk in the dining room at the departure point until returning. However, since the copy* has been always in my wallet, it is recommended because you can quickly reissue it in case of emergency, loss, or theft. * Please be noted a copy is not trusted.

The second is the story of the theft case. A friend of mine took a long-distance night bus from Bangkok to Chiang-Rai, where I was, and when he put his bag on the bus seat and went to the toilet, he noticed that his passport was lost at the front desk of the hotel and reported it at the police as the theft. With the certificate, I obtained a temporary travel document for returning to Japan from the Consulate-General of Japan in Chiang-Mai, and it took me six days to get an immigration certificate and a temporary visa for immigration in Bangkok.

I had my photo, but I didn’t have a copy of my passport. At the Consul General’s office, I was coldly treated as to how I could tell that you were Japanese.

I remembered that I gave my passport number to an agent when I bought the ticket, so I checked with the travel agency and escaped the difficulty. When I returned to Japan, I was interviewed in a separate room at the airport.

Another friend, a former JAL staff member, is the secretary of the group trip, and when I put my passport on my desk for check-in on behalf of everyone at the front desk of the hotel, someone took it from behind him and escaped It is a method of a professional thief who skillfully slipped through the blind spot and the line of sight of his friends. As a rule, be sure to wear your passport.

The photo is a commemorative photo of grandchildren living in the United States when they went to the Atlanta Consulate to receive a Japanese passport. My grandchildren have Japanese and American passports, but this is the second time for the girl and the first time for the boy. In Japan, mother, and child (father and child) are listed together with the infants, but in the United States, they already have their own passports because of their individuality. If you are a dual passport holder, the foreigner’s booth for immigration to Japan is always congested so you can use a booth for Japanese to avoid congestion and can be used well depending on the country, which is the best.

The above was the episode about passport.
Thank you for checking!

I posted an article that I was getting to know Ms. Kato Fujiko paper-cutting artist at the fate of the Okinawa Flower Hobby Association on July 24, 2020.

Even before that time, her handworks were introduced in Facebook post for each season and event, and I was her fan since then.

And more than a year after I asked for it for the first time, since I thought that I would like to decorate my house, and the Wat Japan (10th anniversary in 2023) for which the center of the entrance and the living.

I would like to donate one for Renna the landlord of the temple.

So, I asked for three pieces to Kato, and she accepted it with kind heartedly.

The basics are lotus flowers and Okinawan hibiscus. “Lotus” is a Buddhist pedestal that is also useful in Buddhism. Nichiren saint is also named “Lotus” by the Lotus Sutra. I gave the name of Renna in about 10 years ago because I thought that the Japanese name, Renna, was also suitable for Thai people who have a serious faith. It was planned to commemorate the 10th anniversary.

*There are many types of lotuses. Can you tell the difference from water lilies?
You can see that has the long stem is “Lotus”.

There are Kurds (tribes) who live mainly in Turkey and live as refugees in neighboring countries and around the world (mainly Muslims and Kurds, which is said to have about 40 million people).

Most Japanese do not know that there are about 2,000 Kurd people living in Japan. Approximately 1,500 people live in Kawaguchi City, probably because they are a strong ethnic group.
* Approximately 500 people are temporarily released, and their lives are … (The Asahi Shimbun, September 16, 2021)

The theme of this movie is “refugee and immigration” issues. The Japanese government is actively engaged in exchanges and business with foreigners who are wealthy and willing to drop money, foreigners with technical capabilities, skills (power), and countries with diplomatic rights, but immigrants are not allowed. However, as a labor shortage, 3K (3Ds: Dangerous, Dirty, Demanding) workers are conditionally accepted from developing countries under the name of “technical intern trainees”. Other than that, there are few political refugees, but there are many illegal immigrants (persons who are engaging in activity outside scope permitted, over-stayers) and stowaways.

This movie is a story that reveals “accusation of immigration administration of the Japanese government” and “zero international sense” not someone else’s problem but from interviews from 6 years ago dating from 2021, instead of personnel affairs. If you have a chance, please must see this movie, and know this story.

Koti: Please contact the website of Shinjuku Q Flat Building 306, 5-4-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. Voluntary screenings are most welcome.

It’s a non-fiction, documentary film about two young people and their relatives’ uncle. Nowadays, it is a social situation that accepts refugees in various countries around the world, and the cause is that killing, and discrimination are rampant due to differences in domestic political positions, and there is also the involvement of suzerains. There must have been a time of the one-flag sect. Why do you flee to Japan from Europe (around Turkey) instead of talking about Japan’s neighboring countries? I didn’t do much in this movie, but maybe I happened to have the opportunity to choose a country called Japan, and my passport and visa would be legal. What does not accept families in Japan is the immigration control system of Japan’s foreign policy, which is cold for “exiles and refugees.”

However, it is a common understanding in the world that the right to study and live in Japan is equal, but that is lacking in the first place. (Can’t work with a special visa [provisional release permit], can’t join the welfare system, and don’t know when will be imprisoned [despite not being a criminal]).

An officer says that he always says to those who come to re-apply, “Get out of Japan and go to another country.” And the standards and human rights that imprison violators (not criminals) have not been published.

Of course, there are Japanese laws (although there are refugee policies that lag the rest of the world.), but it is the government officials who operate them. And the money that supports them comes from our taxes. This is the second problem (it costs money, so if you want to repatriate it, it’s wag-the-dog!). You should be more interested and know the reality. Even in my personal experience, there seems to be many immigration officials who are arrogant and ruthless.

The third, lack of international sensibilities is the reality of Japan, which is not only in the country but also in the region and everywhere. Public and private education are important for these improvements, but there are also problems with the awareness and awareness of schoolteachers, as well as in the media, politics, and academia. I think, especially there are many patriotic conservatives in Japan. There is a problem with people who has difficulties in interacting with foreign countries. It would be great if this could be improved. However, there are cases where things are changing little by little… Japan still has shameful cases that lag the rest of the world, such as ratification of the Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, delays in the equal gender system and the notification system for married couples, the abolition of the death penalty system, and the imperial system. There are still shameful cases that are less recognition compare with the world in Japan. We really hope that the democratic opposition party will play an active role and that lawyers and volunteers will support us.

The conclusion is that the Japanese (government) should take measures for more tolerant residence permit conditions (VISA) for foreigners and make efforts to guide and care for Japanese language and culture so that foreigners can adapt to Japan. I want you to do it, and I strongly request government to implement coexistence support measures in the area including housing agenda.

This post is written about international exchange and goodwill in the thesis. 

I learned that there is also a picture like the lantern (Buddhist temple Kanji-in in Kumagaya), and I felt that it might fit this article.

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