Let’s enjoy English 15th

【Kake academy and national strategic special zone】

《Though it has never been founded, it will be enlarged》

…but the policy making the new foundation possible in the limited zone where there is none of university cultivating veterinary was announced January in 2016. There is the organization which is the same as the veterinary medicine at Osaka prefectural University in Kinki area, so it has been pointed out the policy’s intention is excluding Kyoto sangyo university.

As there is the veterinary medicine nearby, the application isn’t accepted, it means that the regulation isn’t got rid of.

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【Kake academy and national strategic special zone】

《Though it has never been founded, it will be enlarged?》

Anyway, judging from the sequence events until then, it was criticized there should be the Kake academy from the beginning, but the Prime Minister Abe started to say it didn’t have to limit to the Imabari city alone. We want to aim at developing it in the whole Japan. If there is willingness, the government will accept the new foundation on the veterinary medicine.

It seemed that he wanted to make an evasive answer that it means that there is the Kake academy from the beginning.

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【Kake academy and national strategic special zone】

《Though it has never been founded, it will be enlarged》

What is the national strategic special zone? Carrying out a thing which didn’t come true in the regulation in the past, specifying its area, verifying its effectiveness. When judging it should be developed on the whole nation, then it should be.

When the Prime Minister Abe said it didn’t have to be limited at Imabari city alone, the Kake academy wasn’t approved as school then, it was done after two months form the Prime Minister’s remarks, and new students went into the Kake academy…

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【Kake academy and national strategic special zone】

《Though it has never been founded, it will be enlarged?》

…and new students went into the Kake academy in the next year. They graduate from the school is in the future then. It means that the result on verification isn’t clear then, but without waiting for the foundation on the new school, the Prime Minister said he would accept the other new foundation. It doesn’t fit the basic policy on the national strategic special zone.

When receiving the comment from the Prime Minister, the minister taking charge in the national strategic special zone…

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…the minister taking charge in the national strategic special zone said if there is a concrete additional proposal, he is going to consider it positively. He explained the situation to the Prime Minister, he narrowed down the new foundation, adding to the phrase on the condition being in broad area so as to prevent the veterinarian medicine from founding in the whole Japan.

The author said the situation enabled him to see the situation that the minister ran about in confusion. There should be some people who want to say the Prime Minister went mad

【What is for the report? Political..】

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

A inconvenient person for the political power falls from power by being broadcast its scandalous picture on TV. It frequently happens in Russia.

There was the one who led the opposing political party which criticized Putin Government. The picture on the voyeurism 盗撮 of the one who seemed to be the one who led the opposing party was broadcast April in 2016. He and a female executive in the political party was in the same bed and both of them were stark naked.

After that the power on the one who led the political party lost.

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

The opposing political party was defeated completely at the election on the lower house. Why did the TV station broadcast the picture? Its motive is clear.

An attorney general commanded the investigation on a corruption case in which a close aide of Yeltsin was involved. The picture on which the man like the attorney general and a young woman were in the same bed was broadcast on TV.

Though the identity of the man like the attorney general wasn’t clear then, but Putin who was the head of the FBS affirmed the image was genuine.

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

FSB is an abbreviation of Federal Security Service of Russian Federation. As a result, the attorney general fell into a downfall, so the investigation didn’t make progress. After that Yeltsin appointed Putin as the Prime Minister. Soon the Prime Minister Putin became the successor for the President Yeltsin.

It’s a story in Russia, and it has nothing to do with Japan which is the democratic nation, but it seems the situation in Japan has changed lately.

When reporting the existence on the sentence which is disadvantageous for…

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

When reporting the existence on the sentence which is disadvantageous for the political power, a newspaper reports the scandal on the former government official who tried to accuse of the existence on the sentence, and the power on the accusation is cut off. It’s happened in Japan at present.

A newspaper reported in the morning paper on the plan the Kake academy founded the veterinary medicine in the national strategic special zone . An acquaintance of the Prime Minister Abe was the director in the academy.

The Ministry of…

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【What I’ve thought】

I’m afraid my English here in the bulletin board has never been anything hopeful, so when reading you will be disappointed at it. It is shameful of me to say, but I’ve seldom watched any news program on TV, even if watching it, I can’t understand very well, so the book of which title is 速すぎるニュースをゆっくり解説します is useful for me.

On the other hand, I’m sorry for it if when reading my English you are discouraged, but I will finish expressing it before long, though it continues this year maybe. I want to choose something positive in the next, but it depends on. Have a good weekend

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

The Ministry of Education was told from the Cabinet office which was in charge of the national strategic special zone that the highest level in the official residence said it or they heard it was the intention from the Prime Minister. It turned out that the content existed as documents.

And B newspaper also reported the existence on the documents in the evening paper. Then the reporters who interviewed the news heard the voice from the direction of the Prime Minister’s Office, the voice said the scandal on the one who tried to…

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

…the voice said the scandal on the one who tried to accuse of the existence on the documents will appear soon. What was it talking about? It was a topic among the reporters, then an article appeared on the C newspaper after five days.

The content on the article was an assistant administrator 次官 goes to an obscene bar regularly, what is called dating was on the general page which stood out on the newspaper.

The author said he was surprised at it, for the former assistant administrator retired from its position then, and he…

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【Why has the report been done? 】

…and he didn’t have any suspicion on a crime direct, but the scandal on him was reported. Its content is poor, and if it’s in 週刊文春, it would be interviewed more thoroughly. The content would never be reported on an ordinary newspaper in the past, but it appeared on the space of the paper. Why?

We could see the intention of disparaging his character and making the accusation the existence on the document which was the damage on the political power thinner in the background of the article.

《It’s against the confidentiality obligation. Is it all right?》

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

《it’s against confidential obligation. Is it all right?》

It has never been clear that the C newspaper got the information, but if it’s a decent journalist organization, it’ll understand it means the report on the scandal for the assistant administrator at the time. Even if a reporter caught the information, there is someone who stops it, saying wait a minute and putting the brake on the report, but without putting the brake, the report was done.

The Prime Minister Abe said in the National Assembly if wanted to him more….

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【Why has the report been done? …】

《It’s against confidentiality obligation. Is it all right? 》

…if wanted to know him more closely, please read the C newspaper carefully. There are lots of full time employees who find it shameful, and they said it’s miserable, but the author said he was surprised at the conversation so much between a reporter and the former assistant administrator at the press conference.

The reporter asked disclosing the information during its service was equivalent to being against confidentiality obligation, but a lawyer avoided the question, saying it was no comment.

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【Why has the report been done? Political accusation and scandal】

《It’s against confidentiality obligation. Is it all right?》

How does he interview everyday? As being based on data from the authority and wrote his manuscript, he asked the question like that, the author thought. Interviewing a former government officers so as to verify a policy decision in the past or listening to them so as to investigate history is often done. Then making them show documents is done sometimes, but if they refuse it, saying it’s against confidentiality obligation, what would the reporter do then?

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【Why has the report been done? …】

《It’s against confidentiality obligation. Is it all right?》

As to the Trump government in America, each newspaper in America interviewed inside the information on FBI and CIA unflinchingly. If the reporters who interviewed valiantly know the situation on the Japanese reporters, how do they thought of it? It’s shameful, the author said like that.

Even if the reporter on a newspaper, on a broadcast station, or on a weekly magazine, it does its best so as to know the truth as much as it can, so as to be close in on the thing it interviews.

If exaggerating…

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If exaggerating, isn’t the reporter engaged in its work so as to serve the right to know for the nation? But it can’t interview because of being against confidentiality obligation as shield. It it all right? The content which the authority wants to inform alone is announced, but the inconvenient information for the authority is refused to announce under the name of being against confidentiality obligation. It’s all right if being the nation like that. The reporter who asked the question at the press conference on the former assistant administrator thought without being aware of it.

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate and newspaper】

The consumption tax was 8%, but it is raised to 10% from October in 2019. It would be raised earlier, but the Prime Minister Abe said he couldn’t increase consumption tax as his campaign pledge, appealing to the country whether or not his judgement was right, he took the plunge and the election of the House of Representative started December in 2014.

Carrying out the consumption tax was put off. Is it right or in the wrong. Asking the judgement on the nation with the election. It should have been like that, but after winning the election…

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate, and newspaper】

…the late Prime Minister said the campaign pledge on the Liberal Democratic Party could get the support from the nation with regard to the policy on the security guarantee.

The wording on the security guarantee is included on the policy statement in the Liberal Democratic Party, but lots of the nation could have thought the point of contention was putting off the consumption tax and what is called Abenomix. His way is skillful, cunning.

The raising consumption tax was postponed like that, but when raising it 10%, the reduced tax rate…

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate, and newspaper】

…but when raising it, the reduced tax rate planed to be introduced.

Though the consumption tax is 10%, the consumption tax on the necessity of life like food is 8% so as to prevent for the people with low income from being burden.

The rate on the consumption tax is high in Europe, so lots of countries there introduce the reduced tax rate, though the tax rate on food is no less than 25% in Denmark, but it’s an exception.

Introduction on the reduced tax rate would start in Japan at last, and the Ministry of Finance has presented the…

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【Consumption tax, reduced tax rate, and newspaper】

…and the Ministry of Finance has presented the idea on the reduced tax rate, but to my surprise, it isn’t the reduced tax rate, to be exact, it’s reduced tax rate in Japanese style.

The idea from the Ministry of Finance is the reduced tax rate 8%, but when buying goods at the store, it’s 10 %. The one who goes shopping brings its individual number card on which its individual number is on, and makes the number on the card read at the store and goes shopping.

When going shopping, the amount of money which it buys the food and beverage….

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate and newspaper】

…as to the amount of money the customer buys food and beverage, the overpaid tax is transferred on the individual bank account in the financial institution later. It‘s what is called a benefit.

Even if we don’t think we want the Ministry of Finance to know our number on the bank account, it’s useless, for as to our bank account at the financial institution, we are supposed to inform our individual card to the financial institution soon.

In the first place, the individual card is the measure against evading tax.

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate, and newspaper】

The individual number is registered on a payment record. What is the payment record? It’s a document and the revenue office makes use of it so as to grasp exact payment on taxpayers.

When a company ordering work for a freelancer and paying its reward for the freelancer, the amount of payment and the amount of withholding tax 源泉徴収税 are adding up to the payment record.

The revenue office compares the individual card on the payment record with the one on the bank account of the financial institution and grasps the exact income.

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate, and newspaper】

When buying goods like cosmetics, a medicine for hangover, hair grower, cabbage and tomato at a store, the revenue office can recognize the data on the payment, how much we paid with the individual card, so the revenue office can transfer the money of 2% from the consumption tax to the bank account on the same individual card.

Introducing the individual card can’t only grasp the individual income but the individual privacy when going shopping.

【Komeito and Yomiuri newspaper are violent repulsive】

It’s Komeito which is indignant with…

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【Consumption tax 10%,…】

《Komeito and Yomiuri newspaper are repulsive violently》

It’s Komeito which is indignat with the idea from the Ministry of Finance. Komeito was eager for introduction on the reduced tax rate at the general election on the House of Representatives. It put up the campaign pledge of carrying out the reduced tax rate on the post for the election.

But when buying goods at the store, we have to pay 10% tax, so we are forced to feel it’s heavy duty. Some of us may have thought the consumption tax isn’t reduced, and as the amount money on the payment to the tax is 10%, it…

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【Consumption tax 10%…】

《Komeito and Yomiuri newspaper are repulsive violently》

…it prevents us the consumer from paying money, stopping consumption, moreover there is no privacy when going shopping. The dissatisfaction would cause like that, though even if I buy a cheap meat or expensive one like Matsuzaka one, it doesn’t mean that the revenue office checks it one by one.

The one who can’t afford to pay the tax isn’t limited to the consumers alone. A device is indispensable for a small store managed by an individual so as to read the number on the individual card. If the payment is done…

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate and newspaper】

《komeito and Yomiuri Newspaper are repulsive violently》

If the payment is done with credit card, the small store managed by the individual has to prepare for two kind of devices. It has never been accepted from ordinary people pleasantly, in particular, Yomiuri newspaper lost its temper, and wrote critical articles everyday like the next.

The Ministry of Finance has showed the idea of benefit as measure of easing the burden on consumers for their tax reducing 10%. As there is the consumption tax of 10%, we are forced to think we…

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【Consumption tax 10%…】

《Komeito and Yomiuri newspaper are repulsive violently》

…we are forced to think we suffer from the heavy tax. We call it 痛税感 in Japanese, and the the idea on the type of benefit doesn’t connect with easing the 痛税感, and is forced to consumer to do a complicated procedure.

The degree on criticizing the reduced tax rate by Yomiuri newspaper was more severe than any other newspaper. The article criticizing the reduced tax rate continues.

The ones who have promoted the idea are a few executives in the ruling party. They belong to the taxation bureau 主税局 of the Ministry…

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【Consumption tax 10%, reduced tax rate and newspaper】

《Komeito and Yomiuri newspaper was repulsive violently》

They belong to the taxation bureau of the Ministry of Finance or to tax commission in the Liberal Democratic Party. They regard themselves as professional on tax system but carried out the system which is far from the public opinion, so we’re going to research its background.

The newspaper has showed the history in the past like the next.

The idea from the Ministry of Finance has been repulsive violently from not only the nation but ruling and opposition parties. The Ministry of…

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【Consumption tax 10%…】

《Komeito and Yomiuri newspaper are repulsive violently》

The Ministry of Finance failed to judge the voice from the nation and was forced to give up in the past, saying that and adopting the taxation system at the Hosokawa government. We call it 国民福祉税 in Japanese then, the newspaper continues.

But the nation reacted sharply against the taxation system, and the taxation system was withdrawn then. After that the Hosokawa government lost its power and was compelled to retire.

The newspaper expressed as if the Hosokawa government had failed the introduction on the new…

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《Komeito and Yomiuri newspaper are repulsive violently》

The newspaper expressed as if the Hosokawa government had failed in the introduction on the new taxation and been forced to retire, but actually it could have retired over unclear transferring funds.

Why is the newspaper angry? The author said he could see the real intention on the newspaper in the background of its anger.

What about the reduced tax rate on subscription fee for the newspaper? Because it didn’t seem the idea of leaving the subscription fee on the newspaper as 8% appeared.

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Which is the one who is repulsive, the nation or the newspaper?

After that the idea from the Ministry of Finance was withdrawn and the government decided the introduction on the reduced tax rate on which the newspaper and Komeito insisted. The government gained the favor from the newspaper.

【The difference between three arrows and the new three arrows】

The National Assembly in 2015 were in uproar over the deliberation on the national security bill, but the Prime Minister tripped abroad one after another, and without being able to hold the extraordinary Diet, 2015 was over.

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【The difference between three arrows and the new three ones】

Without being held the National Assembly, no one pursues the scandal on new ministers.

Nobusuke Kishi who was the former Prime Minister and the grandfather of Shinzo Abe achieved the revision on the security treaty and retired. After that Japan moved to the high economic growth period in a straight line under his next Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda. Japan was in the middle of prosperity then and Shinzo Ame seemed to aim at repeating it.

A slogan on the Ikeda government was doubling national income, and the one on the Abe government…

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【Difference between three arrows and new three arrows】

…the slogan on the Abe government was new three arrows. What’s happened to the three arrows? When starting the second Abe government remarkably, the three arrows were released. Without summarizing the three arrows in the past, the Abe government released other three arrows.

What are the three arrows? Its origin is the tradition on Motonari Mori who was a military commander, ruling over the Chugoku area in Japan at what is called the Sengoku period. He called his three sons and taught them a single arrow was broken easily, but breaking…

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【Difference between three arrows and new three arrows】

…but breaking three arrows at the same time is impossible, and the father admonished three sons to join forces. By the way, what about the three arrows on the Abe government?

The three arrows were released at the point of escaping from deflation. The first is bold financial policy, the second is flexible fiscal policy and the third is a growth strategy which causes an investment.

As to the bold financial policy, the president of the Bank of Japan established a goal of raising the consumer price by 2% and escaping from deflation, and…

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【Difference between three arrows and new three ones】

…and the president made progress on the bold financial measure. Then the weak yen went ahead and the stock average on Japanese economy raised sharply, the price began to move in the beginning, and it seemed to go smoothly, but after that the price repeated bumpy ride 乱高下, and the rate of raising consumption tax didn’t reach to the goal. Though the arrow was release, it didn’t reach to the point.

As to the second arrow, it means starting the public word all over Japan again. Though construction companies were enriched in the whole nation…

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【Difference between three arrows and new three arrows】

…the price on material for construction went up and the cost of construction worker went up significantly, so the estimated price on construction which each of local authorities try to order across the board rose, so construction companies which hate the construction appeared one after another, for they said they couldn’t undertake the construction with such the low price. There seems to be lots of unsuccessful bid.

It seemed that though giving a camphor injection so as to be energized, after that being tired too much.

And the third…

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【Difference between three arrows and new three arrows】

…and the third one, the growth strategy causing investment. It appealed the society where women play an active part vigorously or liberalization on the sale of medicine in the internet, but none of them are fruitful, so the arrow dropped in front of the point, far away from the point.

As a result, without bringing home the bacon by the three arrows, other new three arrows were released.

《As to the six hundred trillion yen on GDP, looking back at the criterion value》

The new three arrows are the next ones. Strong economy causing hope…

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【Difference between…】

《As to six hundred trillion yen on GDP, looking back on the criterion value》

Strong economy causing hope, supporting to help bring up children in which we can have a dream, the social security leading to the peace of mind.

As to the strong economy is changing the GDP which was four hundred and ninety trillion yen in 2014 into six hundred trillion yen in 2020. It’s an ambitious trial. Increasing the GDP by no less than 20% in no more than five years. We have to accomplish the growth rate by 3% every yeas so as to achieve it. The growth rate was 1 % at long last lately.

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《As to six hundred trillion yen on GDP, rethinking the criterion value》

Can we extend the growth rate so much? Specialists on economy tilt their heads, but there is a magic which we seem to be able to accomplish there.

It’s a change on calculating criterion of the GDP. The GDP is calculated, being based on the criterion on the United Nation, but the United Nation has rethought the criterion value in 2008, and the criterion value has been changed in Europe and America as well at present, and Japan will also change it in 2016.

For example, the expenditure on research …

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《As to six hundred trillion yen on GDP, rethinking the criterion value》

For example, the expenditure on research and development on a company. It had been treated as expense until then, but regarding it as investment causing additional value, counting it in the GDP.

The GDP in 2015 was expected to be five hundred and four trillion yen, but according to the new criterion, twenty trillion yen will be added on. Does it mean operating number alone and accomplishing the goal? The author said like that.

How about supporting to help bring…

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《As to six hundred trillion yen on GDP, rethinking on the criterion value》

What about supporting to help bring up children?

The birth rate was 1.4 in 2014, but raising it to 1.8 until the middle of the 2020s and maintaining the population on Japan is one hundred million after fifty years, it’s the goal, but the ground on the number of 1.8 is hopeful birth rate.

The hopeful birth rate is the phrase which is strange to our ears. It’s the birth rate when the hope of a woman who wants to get married and to have a baby comes true.

According to the research in 2010…

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【Difference between three arrows and new three arrows】

《As to six hundred trillion yen on GDP, rethinking the criterion value》

…the average on the number of children which a couple plans is two, and the rate on hope of a single woman who wants to get married is 90%. When multiplying the one number by the other, it’s 1.8.

If the government puts up the goal on the number of the birth rate, some people seem to criticize that the country controls a childbirth, but whoever a woman has a hope of having birth learns to be able to have a child, the birth rate becomes 1.8%. The way of saying by the…

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《As to six hundred trillion yen on GDP, rethinking the criterion value》

The way of saying by the government was like that.

As children of baby boomers reached to the age of having birth, so the birth rate was 1.4 in 2014, and there is a possibility that it’s just a temporary phenomenon, and 1.8 was the standard in 1980s, its number is hard to achieve.

The third one is the social security. There seem to be lots of people who have no choice but to quit job so as to look after their parents. The aim on the social security is making the number of those people zero.

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The number of people who are forced to quit job so as to look after their parents is over one hundred thousand a year. If increasing nursing facility, we can decrease the number of people who quit job, but we need a large amount of financial expenditure for it.

Without having a concrete plan for it and putting up the goal alone, it’s an armchair theory. The policy which the government calls is just showing three targets alone. When calling them three arrows, it’s beside the point.

【The side effect on silver bullet of negative interest rate】

If depositing money in a bank, we can get…

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【Side effects on silver bottle of negative interest rate】

…we can get interest for the money a little in the bank, but the common knowledge has been reversed lately. As the negative interest rate was introduced, we were shocked, for the interest rate on depositing money in the bank has gone down so much at present. It’s a joyful situation for the people who borrow money for housing loan, on the other hand, it’s a sorrowful situation in which the money doesn’t increase even if how much the money is deposited.

But it doesn’t mean that the money which we deposit doesn’t decrease. The part of …

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【Side effects of silver bullet of negative interest rate】

The part of money which a bank deposits in the Bank of Japan becomes negative interest rate. First of all, what kind of part does the Bank of Japan play?

The Bank of Japan is the bank for other banks. We deposit our money in an ordinary bank, likewise the bank deposits its money in the Bank of Japan. It’s the current deposit account in the Bank of Japan. The current deposit account has three roles.

The first one is preparing for an emergency. If the credit uncertainty on a bank spread over and depositors start to withdraw money from…

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【Side effect from silver bullet causes negative interest rate】

…and depositors start to withdraw money from the bank and the bank falls into being lack of money, then the Bank of Japan helps the bank with the money from the current deposit account, so each bank is obliged to deposit money in the Bank of Japan to some extent. We call it a lawful reserve.

The second one is transferring money between banks. Let’s suppose I transferred my money from the bank account of A bank to other bank account on the B bank, but the one who works in the A bank doesn’t bring my money to the B bank.

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【Side effect from silver bullet is negative interest rate】

Transferring money between bank is using money from the current deposit account of each bank. The money is sent by way of the net of the Bank of Japan which connects with the computer in the Bank of Japan.

When the Bank of Japan bought the national bond from an ordinary bank transfers the payment to the current deposit account on the bank. It’s the third one

If depositing the money on the current deposit account, we can’t get the interest for the money originally. The technical book on the Bank of Japan says no one can get interest.

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