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Japanese Police Box System ‘Which countries do you imagine if you are asked ‘Where is the safest country?’’ I’m sure most of you would answer ‘Japan’. Well, let’s look at statistical data and see whether our feeling match to the truth. Japan is famous for its very low crime rate compare to other countries in the world. Japan has 127 million people, yet street crime is almost unheard, and the use of drugs is minimal compared to other industrialized countries. Also, Japan's homicide rate has been steadily decreasing since the 1950s. Today, Japan has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Second lowest after Spain. The country's homicide rate is associated with a stable and prosperous society with low inequality and high levels of development. One of the lowest homicide rates is archived by the effort of Japanese police sector. According to the police data, 98 percent of homicide cases are solved. It is an undisputed fact that Japanese police has achieved a r e...

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Udon and soba are traditional Japanese food. Which do you like better ? I love both!! I eat soba when I am heatstroke. And when I feel sick or when I catch a cold , I eat udon that I can easily take nutrition. By the way , do you know which digest better ? Udon is said to be good for digestion from old days. It is a gentle intestine food that can be eaten even for a recovery meal of gastroenteritis and for baby food. Meanwhile , soba is also a grain called buckwheat flour , which is said to be a good food for digestion if it is soft and boiled. But the easiness of digestion will be different in the proportion of buckwheat flour and the way of boiling. Generally , udon is said to be better for digestion. The reason is that most of the ingredients are carbohydrates. The ingredients of soba is similar to udon , but soba make our stomachs full than udon. The reason is that dietary fiber contained in soba. It absorbs moisture and swells , so it takes time to move f...

    The number of people who write New Year 's cards is decreasing. According to data released by Japan Post on January 1 , 2017 , New Year's cards on New Year's day are about 1.6 billion pieces. It decreased about 6% since last year.     New Year cards account for about 30% of postcards handled each year. So , if the number of cards issued keeps decreasing , the impact on the business is very big. Therefore , in order to stop the New Year 's cards decrease , the popular idol group "Arashi" was appointed to Japan Post's CM for the second consecutive year. However , unfortunately the effect seems subtle.    There are several reasons why people who write New Year 's cards have decreased. What is conceivable is the spread of sns and the management of privacy become strict. But I think that the spread of sns and the management of privacy becoming strict are big reasons. Some of my friends say that they want to send but they don't know t...

Akira Kurosawa            Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, he directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. He won a prize at the big three international film festivals.          In post-WWII, at a time when Japan was being occupied by the United States, Kurosawa chose to look toward and embrace certain Western ideologies of filmmaking. He used Shakespeare and American pulp novels as source material, and embraced Hollywood narrative styles and filmmaking techniques. Combining these elements with his own training in the Japanese studio system, Kurosawa was one of the early purveyors of a truly international style, a refined alchemy of filmmaking. It was embraced by both West and East. contemporary Japanese filmmakers such as Ozu and Mizoguchi tended to focus on strictly Japanese elements with a...

Have you already received immunization of influenza ? It seems to be less vaccine this year. In the hospital where I often go, the vaccine was not enough, so I waited for additional vaccine to arrive. Some of my friends say that receiving influenza vaccination is meaningless. What do you think? Well today I would like to write about the effect of influenza vaccination?  It is said that the probability that a person receiving vaccination can prevent influenza is 60 to 70%. There are many people who think that it means that if 100 people are vaccinated 60 to 70 people do not take influenza. But actually, this is not right.  Let’s assume that 50 people will be infected if they are not vaccinated. But we reduced the number of influenza to 20 people by vaccination. So, we think that the preventive effect is 60%.  In other words, if you receive vaccination, 60% of those who do not receive it can be prevented. There are various opinions to whether this num...