Let`s enjoy English eleventh

【To the time of a coalition government】

〈He made an inappropriate remark, and was doubted his nature as Prime Minister〉

When Obuchi was in hospital, Yoshiro Mori took office as the Prime Minister as successor. Immediately after being installed as Prime Minister, Mori repeated making an inappropriate remark. He said Japan was a country of God of which center was the Emperor.

Every time he made an inappropriate remark, he repeated its not his real intention, if having been misunderstood, he was very sorry for it, so his nature as Prime Minister was doubted.

Ehime Maru which practiced...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈His inappropriate remark caused a doubt on his nature as Prime Minister〉

Ehime Maru which was a practicing ship for fishery belonged to Uwajima Fishery High School was bumped into a submarine belonged American Navy off Hawai and sank into the sea February in 2001.

Though Mori received the information, he continued to play golf, so he was criticized severely, and it was a decisive blow for him and he resigned from the Prime Minister as if he had been pulled down from his position, and Junichiro Koizumi took office as Prime Minister April in 2001.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A Prime Minister who put up a reform and henjin showed up〉

The one who Makiko Tanaka said a strange one became the Prime Minister. She said he was a henjin. 変人 means a strange man, but he said 変人 was the one who changes, so his slogan was a reform.

He appealed a post intraparty faction 派閥.

When choosing a minister, a candidate from each of intraparty factions was appointed as minister until then, but Koizumi refused it. He appointed Makiko Tanaka who was popular among the nation the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Immediately after the Koizumi...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A Prime Minister who put up reform and was Henjin turned up〉

Immediately after the Koizumi Cabinet was formed, its approval rate was over 80%, and was the highest in the past, and was higher than the Hosokawa Cabinet.

When answering in National Assembly, he avoided reading a manuscript prepared by bureaucrats as it was as much as possible, he tried to express with his own words, using gestures.

National Assembly changed so much. It used to be synonyms of low audience rating on TV, but changed into high audience rating on TV it had never been.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

Both of the title and the sub title were the same, so I omitted the subtitle.

After the Hosokawa Cabinet, even if its combination changed, the coalition government continues.

After the Pacific War, before the Hosokawa Cabinet, the coalition government used to be. For example,Tetsu Katayama Cabinet, Hitoshi Ashida Cabinet, and the coalition government was also formed in the second Nakasone Cabinet once, but all of them were short term.

On the other hand, after Hosokawa Cabinet, the possibility of single political power becomes lower, it is the time...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

...it is the time of full scale of the coalition government at present.

Even if the combination of political parties changed, the coalition government would continue from now on.

As to characteristic on the coalition government after the Hosokawa political power, except for the Japan Communist Party, all the political parties had experienced a ruling party.

Once having experiencing the ruling party, its policy became realistic like the Socialist Party, it has a tendency that we can`t understand the difference between the political party which had...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

...it has a tendency that we can`t understand the difference between a political party which had experienced a ruling party and the present ruling party easily.

〈The one which is requested for the coalition government〉

When looking back on the coalition government until now, it turned out that varied combination of political parties appeared actually, but Japanese politics has never changed basically.

The political power changed from the single political power by the Liberal Democratic Party to non Liberal Democratic Party, and combination of...

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【To the time of a coalition party】

〈The one which has been requested for the coalition government〉

...and the coalition government of the Liberal Democratic Party and varied other political parties. Though its combination changed one after another, its policy has never changed basically.

Every political power insisted on a succession on a policy, if but the policy was succeeded to the next political party, the political power doesn`t have to change, does it?

Changing the political power means announcing no to the policy by the political party which was in charged of the political power.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈The one which has been requested for the time in coalition government〉

But there has never been that kind of announcement until now. While the political power changed, the policy didn`t.

As we the Japanese have never had experienced the full scale of the coalition government, we thought the coalition government was irregular and temporary. The coalition government was a temporary resident for a political party which formed the coalition.

However it has been the time of full scale of the coalition government at present, so we should prepare for...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈The one which has been requested for the time in the coalition government〉

...we should prepare for and decide to face the time of the coalition government, and each of political parties which is representation from the nation would agree if there is a thing which they can agree.

The political parties should repeat political reference enough and establish system in which they join hands each other.

Though calling its names each other In the middle of election, after the election they formed the coalition right away. They have made fun of the nation

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈To the one which has been requested for the time in coalition government〉

An election is a judgement from the nation, so after the election, if the seat on the political parties which were in charge of the political power, changing political power with changing the policy should be done. It`s the rule in democracy on the time of the coalition government, the author said like that.

〈After that, what`s happened?〉

After that a coalition government continued in Japanese politics.

When Komeito joined the Hosokawa coalition government, the Liberal....

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈After that what`s happened?〉

...the Liberal Democratic Party felt repelled violently by it, and criticized that Komeito and the religious group which supported Komeito had a relation of unity of religion and politics.

However the Liberal Democratic Party found it hard to manage National Assembly by single Liberal Democratic Party, it started the coalition government with Komeito easily.

In a small electoral district on the House of Representatives, without cooperation from Komeito nor the religious group, it is doubtful whether or not they elect.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈After that what`s happened?〉

There have been the lots of Diet members in the Liberal Democratic Party like that at present. What was the criticism against Komeito in the past?

On the other hand, Komeito joined hands with the Liberal Democratic Party and made most of the position of the ruling party. It made the Liberal Democratic Party accept policies which were welcomed by the nation like issuing ticket promoting local area or benefit of fixed amount, so it`s tried to be advantageous for itself in election.

Komeito used to be cautious in regard..

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈After that what`s happened?〉

As to sending the Self Defense Forces overseas, Komeito used to be cautious when being in opposition party, but it`s learned to accept it easily.

When the coalition government continues for a long time, its aim is apt to continue the political power, and the ones who were in charge of the political power tend to lose original aim, which they accomplish their policy of their political party through the coalition government.

そうだったのか！日本現代史 was over, and I`m going to show others who support me a gratitude in Japanese.

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【What I`ve thought】

I wanted to show others who support me a gratitude in Japanese in the next response though it`s a thread for English, but if using English, I`m afraid I can`t make myself understood.

My English grammar was in the wrong sometimes, I used to be criticized in the past like that, and it may have been so, but I make much of expressing my intention exactly. Though the grammar is important, but if being worried about too much, I`m afraid I can`t express myself in English any more.

Without of being afraid of making a mistake, I`ll do my best from now on.

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こんにちは、主です😄

主のスレを応援してくれてる方々、有難う御座います。😊

英語だと上手く感謝の気持ちが伝わらないので、日本語でお礼申しあげます。

英語は好きだし、一つの事に熱中するとそれに夢中になってしまい、長らく続けてきました。

暖かい励ましの言葉をかけてもらう事も度々あり、有り難く思ってる次第です。

コロナ関係の、へこむニュースばかりで、気が滅入る毎日ですが、頑張って乗り切っていきたいものですね。

皆さん、有り難う御座いました😌

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【I`m in trouble...】

I`ve wanted to build a new thread but I can`t, for my e mail address has never been registered in this bulletin board, but I could built this thread before without registering my e-mail address, but I can`t do it this time. Why?

It`s just that I have only to send what is called 空メール, but I don`t know how to do it, so I`m going to go to au shop tomorrow and asked a salesclerk how to operate the iPad. Though it is shameful of me to ask such a thing, but it can`t be helped.

I`ve been into Weblio lately, especially ability on judgement of vocabulary. I find it interesting.

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【Weblio】

There are twenty five questions, and they are varied from a basic one to a technical term, and others belong to shallow knowledge on a wide variety of subject.

It is marked on a maximum score of 300 points, but even if all the questions are correct, it doesn`t always mean getting a perfect score.

When answering questions, the faster, and more correct, the better, but I find it hard.

There is a time limit. Ten seconds per question, and even if its answer is right, without being able to answer within ten seconds, it isn`t regarded as the score. Weblio resembles a quiz to some extent

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【Weblio】

As to the questions of Weblio, the name of a town, and the name of a comedian in a foreign counties have been prepared. I`ve never heard both of them until I started Weblio. What is the use of learning it? Maybe it`s useless.

There is a question of an old woman. What does it mean? I couldn’t answer it, and its answer was your wife. I couldn’t help laughing it.

My score is at best around 240, so my status is twenty eighth. Its perfect score is 300, and the highest status is thirtieth but, to my sorrow I find it hard to win both of them.

But I don`t think I want to give it up.

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【The one which we can`t express in English】

I`m going to express a content on a book, 続•これを英語で言えますか？ in English. It`s the first chapter.

〈何台目？〉

A popular essay has been published in a weekly magazine, 週刊文春, and its columnist, Toshio Takashima said like the next, though it`s a summary.

When teachers who were in charged of English class were having a chat in Japan long ago, how we should express an order on each Presidents in America.

For example, as to Lincoln, as having wanted to ask, it seems that we do like the next.

Where does he stand in the order of American presidents?

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【A thing which we can`t express in English】

But an appropriate way of saying occurred to no one then. Though I`ve expressed, it was in my electric dictionary. It`s not my own expression.

As no one was sure how to express it, they asked Shozaburo Saito who was called like the God in relation to English then, but any suitable phrase didn`t occurr to him as well.

He said he was making a Japanese English dictionary then, and he would include the phrase at any cost.

He completed the dictionary after three years, and the dictionary was published. When looking up the phrase in the dictionary...

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【A thing which we can’t express in English】

...there was a phrase how meanieth in the dictionary no one had never seen until then. It was published in 1928.

As there was none of appropriate phrase for it, Mr. Saito was forced to invent the phrase, so it was his coinage. In general, it had never been allowed to use it. He added annotation like that.

Mr. Takashima said how the Japanese English dictionary expressed the phrase lately. Two of the Japanese English dictionary were at hand, and the one saying, where in the order of American presidents does Lincoln come?

And there was one more,...

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【A thing which we can`t express in English】

And there was one more, and it was by far more simple.

What number president was Lincoln?

Does the phrase make a sense? If so, the predecessors didn’t have to take pains at all. Mr. Takashima said like that.

As there wasn’t any way of saying 何代目 in English, none of the Americans nor the English have consciousness on 何代目, don’t they? His essay came to an end like that.

It seems that there are varied appropriate ways of saying. A translator for Japanese literature said like the next.

The what-th president was Lincoln?

It seems to be better...

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【A thing which we can`t express in English】

It seems better than how manieth.

The translator said the interpretation of what number presidents was the most frank, but he found that the what-th President was Lincoln was interesting.

However an American editor who belonged to a publishing company of 講談社インターナショナル, which offered me this topic, said there seemed to be more suitable one.

He said, which president was Lincoln?

But others said, did it make sense really? The editor said it was all right, and it was the best interpretation as English. He was full of confidence.

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【A thing which we can`t express in English】

Then an English journalist happened to be in the editorial office, and he said like the next.

As to the expression of which president was Lincoln, the Americans who were always conscious of American Presidents may understand what it meant, but when the English listened to it, it would take three seconds to understand the question.

As to what number president was Lincoln, it was easily to understand. As to other interpretation, where in the order of American presidents does Lincoln come?, it was too wordy, but he thought how manieth 〜 was better...

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【A thing which we can`t express in English】

...but the English Journalist said he liked how manieth 〜 personally, for it was a profound meaning of coinage like James Joyce.

By the way who was James Joyce? At first I`m not sure whether or not its spelling is right.

There was an English editor who was a direct descendant from a famous Admiral Nelson.

When asking him 何代目? He said fourteenth or fifteenth.

Those contents were included in essay published from 文藝春秋, and a Japanese who studied abroad America contributed like the next.

When reading the essay, he found it interesting, and ...

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【A thing which we can`t express in English】

...and he asked all the Americans around him 何代目？ Then an American who wasn`t worried about the order of the Presidents asked him on then the Japanese prime minister, 何代目？ The Japanese could not answer it.

None of us the Japanese are worried about it. This is an ending of the story.

By the way, as you know I belonged to a temporary company, but its shift on work is irregular, as a result, my day off was the same.

I`m mainly engaged in physical distribution 物流. Lots of goods are collected at a delivery center, and we the employees sort them.

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【Flavor on some fish】

An encyclopedia has been published from Kodansha, and it tried to express all of Japanese things in English.

Mr.O who was in charge of the encyclopedia checked out a gallery of final proofreading. Then he happened to see a translation on a movie,秋刀魚の味, directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Its title was the flavor of Mackerel.

He was impressed with the translation in the beginning, for 味 was translated into the flavor, but he began to worried about that the mackerel wasn`t 秋刀魚.

When looking up it in dictionary, the mackerel was 鯖, and 秋刀魚 was saury, so Mr.O went to a staff....

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【Flavor on some fish】

...so Mr.O went to a member of staff who translated and was an native English and asked him whether or not it was in the wrong, and the native English said he knew it was in the wrong but he did it deliberately. He continued like the next.

There is an English word of saury in dictionary, but when hearing of the word, almost none of native English didn`t know what it was. They didn`t recognize it was even a kind of fish.

In short, the mackerel which was popular among the Westerns and what is called a blue fish was better than the saury, the member of staff thought .

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【Flavor on some fish】

Then Mr.O was in trouble. When cooking, making a fire on sitirin with lots of smoke and eating with grated radish. The fish was composed by a poet, Haruo Sato, and has been familiar with the Japanese. Should it be Mackerel? Is it all right?

Which one should he adopt, mackerel or saury? He was at a loss what to do, and consulting with other staff including native English speaker who was responsible for the translation.

In a word, the mackerel was adopted.

If the saury was adopted, no one knew an original title of the movie directed by Yasujiro Ozu, but as to the...

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【Flavor on some fish】

...but as to the mackerel, the Westerns knew it was a name of fish at least. They judged like that, but it seems that Mr.O has been worried about it whether or not it was right even at present.

But the English word of saury is hard to understand, and it`s changed into a mackerel pike in some of Japanese English dictionary lately.

There is a problem that there is no English phrase which was equivalent to the Japanese in the episode, but for example, if looking around at a market in Okinawa, there are lots of vegetable and fish which we`ve never seen, so we don`t know...

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【Flavor of some fish】

...so we don`t know even their names. Even if in Japan it was like that, it may be rare that there are fish and vegetable overseas which equivalent to the ones in Japan.

One more thing. There is difference between culture on eating meat and on eating fish. Speaking of beef, they are hard to please. Whether or not it`s veal, as to the distinction of sex and part of the beef.

On the contrary, they are indifferent to the fish. Even if deploring that smoke rising from sitirin was mackerel doesn`t look good, no one could understand in the world except for the Japanese.

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【My father 】

I hate my father though he was dead several years ago. I have to forget him as early as possible.

I have few memories from being praised from my father, for he said he wanted me to rouse myself by his criticism.

While he found fault with others including me, he hate to be criticized. If other family members, including me, blamed him for it, he said like the next.

As for me, it’s all right. You don’t have to said like that. Mind your own business alone. He was so selfish that he was forced to be isolated from other family members, but in general,a father tends to be like that.

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【Myself】

I suffer from Asperger Syndrome, so I’m different from others. On the other hand, my father wanted to be same with others desperately, so I had been condemned from his severely. It can’t be helped.

As for we men, even if father is so outrageous for their sons, it’s all right, I’m sure. The more outrageous fathers are, the harder their sons try to overcome the hardships, but the hardships make the sons improve, though I couldn’t get over the hardship while my father was alive.

Why did I hate him so much? I wanted to be connected with him. I depended on him, for I’m immature.

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【Myself】

I have to be mature. I must to be a true grownup who is independent from my father, though it’s too late.

After being mature and a grownup who got over the hardship, I should have thought whether or not I hate him. Otherwise, I remain a kid forever.

I can’t blame him alone. I’m also in the wrong. I’m not an excellent one who can blame him alone.

By the way, why did my father blame his family members so severely? I’m sure he wanted to be connected with others. In a way he was also dependent on others even if he was hated from other family members so much. He was also lonely.

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【What I’ve thought】

The relationship among my family members including me is dependent each other. It’s just dependence. I’ve regretted it. I should have supported them. Though I’ve hated my father even at present, it’s other story. It is no use crying over spilt milk.

Even if my father is stupid, it doesn’t always mean that I have to be stupid. I’m stupid but it’s my own choice. I can’t blame anyone for it, and I can’t condemn my father. It’s meaningless. The hatred against him is in the wrong.

I have to be mature. I need to be a true grown up. Considering my age, it’s too late.

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My condition isn’t so good that I can’t express myself in English here so much. I feel chill, tiredness, and my body temperature is high. Yesterday, it reached 39 degrees, but today it drops 37.2 degrees. To my joy, it seems that I’m going to advance to recovery.

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【What I’ve thought】

He is a villain professional wrestler, though he has been sick in bed and undertaken rehabilitation for come back, but everyone like other patients, a doctor and a nurse has never thought it possible, except for the villain professional wrestler himself.

The villain professional wrestler said to other patients like the next.

I’m the one who is labeled as handicapped one. If once being labeled, getting rid of it is very hard. Villain, coward, rowdy, being lazy, liar, chicken, poor, skunk. Others call me like that.

Even if I said I’m not, no one removes the label for me.`

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＞＞488

Remained labeled, no one treats me as an ordinary one, accepting the situation obediently. The ones who support me are the ones like that.

Beat the good guy who is in spot light arrogantly!

The ones who support me shout loudly, though they can’t usually do it. I have to come back and to send message them.

Even if others label me, I can’t be deceived. I’ll never underestimate myself. How about you?

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【The real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse, written by Akira Ikegami】

《For the people who don’t know anything at all about the self defense force, military and any weapon》

Threat from the North Korea has been reported as news as if it were every day. Fishing boats and official ships which appeared around Senkaku islands became news before the threat from the North Korea.

If the Chinese Force lands on the Senkaku Islands, does the U.S.army defend us the Japanese? Some people seem to have the question like that, but there has been a big misunderstanding for it.

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military and any weapon》

It’s misunderstanding that if the Chinese Force lands on the Senkaku Islands, the U.S.Army takes the field at once. It never happens. It doesn’t always mean that the U.S.Army takes the field immediately.

As the Senkaku Islands belong to Japan, so if it’s invaded from other country, it’s the self defense force which goes into action first of all. At first, the self defense force is dispatched from Japan. If being able to deal with…

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military, any weapon at all》

If being able to deal with the self defense force alone, the U.S.Army doesn’t need to take the field. It’s too much for the self defense force alone. Then the U.S.Army goes into action so as to support the self defense force. We must not misunderstand it.

Therefore we need to know the facts on the self defense force.

If a missile comes flying from the North Korea to Japan, what kind of action does the self defense force go into?

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military, and any weapon》

We have to know it as well, for the self defense force is an organization which is maintained by our taxation.

How much money has been spent on the big mission defending Japan and the Japanese nation? Isn’t there useless spending? On the contrary, isn’t there insufficient fortify? We have to check up those things as well.

But those things have never been discussed easily. When trying to buy a new fighter aircraft, it’s discussed …

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【Real ability on the Self Defense Force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military and any weapon at all》

…it’s discussed in a National Assembly, but when a battle started actually in combat, how long does it endure? It’s hardly discussed.

There is a 川柳 written by a member in the self defense force. He expressed the situation masochistically like the next.

たまに撃つ、たまが無いのがたまに瑕

They shoot real bullets in a military training sometimes, but as the budget is limited, they can’t shoot a large amount. It’s a small flaw in otherwise…

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military, and any weapon》

Small flow in otherwise perfect object.

The self defense force has been a social outcast 日蔭者 for a long time since it was born, for an argument that the self defense force is against article five in constitution continued. Moreover there has been words by Shigeru Yoshida who was the former prime minister. He showed the organization of the self defense force direct. What kind of organization the self defense force is.

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military and any weapon》

An editor on graduation album for the first generation in Defense Academy visited the private residence owned by Shigeru Yoshida. The former prime minister sent him the message then in 1957 like the next.

Without be thanked, nor welcomed by the Japanese, your job at the self defense force may have been over when being engaged in it. Your whole life may have been filled with scolding and criticism. I think it’s a hard work.

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【Real ability for self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military and any weapon》

But the situation in which the self defense force is welcomed and pampered by everyone is the time when Japan is attacked from other countries and whether the nation can survive or not, or disaster dispatch operation.

In short, when the Japanese is in difficulty and Japan faces a confusion you are welcome. In other words, the Japanese nation is happy as long as you are the social outcast. I want you to endure it.

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military and any weapon》

The self defense force has learned to be paid attention recently when the very disaster relief operation was done. When suffering from unprecedented damage at the great earthquake in Eastern Japan, we were forced to take off our hats to the significant role by the self defense force by the self defense force. It is said that the ones who wanted to enter the self defense force increased when looking at the activity on them.

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military and any weapon at all》

The real ability on the self defense force has been argued on account of the threat on the North Korea. It may have been unhappy for the Japanese, but we must not overlook the group of organization which has powerful weapon.

Is there a minister who can command the organization well? We have to find out whether or not the minister has the qualities.

How should the self defense force exist? It will be asked in the argument…

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【Real ability on the self defense force. Ignorance is no excuse】

《For the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military and any weapon》

It will be asked in the argument on the constitution in the future. At first we have to know so as to argue. This book has been edited for the people who don’t know anything about the self defense force, military, and any weapon, the author said like that. Needless to say, I’m also one of them who don’t know anything.

【How much do you know about the self defense force?】

《How should be the Minister of defense? Its way of existing…》

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