レッツ　エンジョイ　イングリッシュ　19th

【Japan where problems piling up】

《Contaminated water is released into the ocean...》

China stopped the import completely August in 2023, and Russia followed it and took the same steps to Japan, though its transaction amount on importing the marine products from Japan isn't so much.

On the other hand, China is the biggest one which Japan exports the marine products,so the damage of forbidding export isn't small for Japan.

But the step on both of China and Russia has little scientific ground, so they use political and economic dependence relation as weapon.

The government in China incited...

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《Contaminated water is released into the ocean...》

The government in China continued to incite the risk on food by the contaminated waterthe so much that consumers felt uneasy on the safety on the whole marine products and they abstain from buying the marine products ironically.

On the other hand, in Sough Korea, consumers who were worried about started to panic buying on the salt in the beginning, but the President Yoon said he made much of the scientific and objective view from IAEA, so any of big commmotion has never broke out there at present.

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《Contaminated water is released into the ocean..》

The meeting on the Minister on trade from the nations of G7 was held at Osaka and Sakai city October in 2023, and joint statement of asking for withdrawl on the steps of prohibiting import marine products from Japan was issued then, without calling China by name, though keeping China in mind.

Moreover, the U.S. army had a contract with Japan for a long time on the thirtieth day same month,buying scallops from the Sea of Japan, though China used to import it from Japan than any ohter nation until then.

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《Contaminated water is released into the ocean...》

It was the second トモダチ作戦 which was done in the support on the Great East Japan earthquake from the U.S.army, the American abmassador to Japan said the best way escaping from the economic pressure from China is making the nation which is the target for China bind together and helping.

Tanks including the conatminated water are lined in a row on the site of the first nuclear plant in Fukushima belonged to Tokyo Electric power comapany, and flowing the large amount of water including radioactive material...

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...and flowing the large amount of contaminated water including the radioactive material into the ocean, the two of things don't have any of good image, but the government in Japan needs to express both in Japan and outside Japan sincerely and tenaciously. Japan is apt to be passive against the criticism from overseas in the past, but as to the problem, Japan has to send a message to the world actively.

《Where should we store the nuclear waste?》

Twenty years passed from the nuclear power plant accidentin Fukushima prefecture, the waste of disposal on the...

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《What should we do the nuclear waste?》

...the work of waste of disposal has started from 2023, and we have to think over the policy on energy in Japan this time.

Roughly speaking, the power generation is three kinds,thermal power, hydrolic and atomic power, though there is the power generation of wind power,sunlight, and geothermal, their ratio is little.

Making a generator which has huge fan rotate and the electricity is generated from each of power generation.

Falling water from dam and making use of the power of droping water rotate the turbine.

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《What should we do the waste of nuclear?

The hydroelectric power is done like that.

Burning petroleum, natural gas and coal amd making water boil and making its steam rotate the turbine. It's the thermal power generation.

On the other hand, the fuel rod in which uranium is stuffed gives off heat, and msking the water boil with the heat.

If making the neutron hit to the atomic nucleus, the atomic nucleus breaks up. We call the phenomenon nuclear fission. High fever generates from the nuclear fission. Making use of the high fever and steam is made, and ...

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《What should we do the waste of nuclear?》

...and making the turbine rotate with the steam and the large amount of electricity is made.

Nuclear power generation is different from the thermal power generation, so the carbon dioxide isn't generated in the process of generating electricity at all, and being able to win the large amount of energy with little fuel, but the spent fuel rod of the nuclear fuel causes strong radiation, and it's problematic.

The radiation passes through the human body and then destroys the cell on the human body. If small amount of...

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《What should we do the nuclear waste?》

If we are exposed to the small amount of radiation, it's no problem on our health, but if being exposed to the large amount of radiation, the cell composing of the human body can't regenerate,so it's dead or becomes cancer.

The nuclear waste including the radiation is always generated from the nuclear power generation. What should we handle it? It's a big problem for us the human being.

Roughly speaking, there are three kind of radioactive material in the spent nuclear fuel, the one is uranium which we can reuse it....

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《Where should we store the nuclear waste?》

...the one is plutonium which changed from uranium and another is the waste of nuclear which we can't reuse.

The waste of nuclear is the radioactive material of high level and it's after hundred thousand years that the harm to the human body from the amout of radiation decreases to the level which has no influece over the human body automatically.It's a mind boggling story.

We have to seclude the nuclear waste in a safe place and to store for a long time until then. We call the place the final disposallocation.

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《Where should we store the waste of the nuclear?》

What should we do the final disposal location? Each nation which has the nuclear power plant in the world are worried about it. It's Finland and Sweden in northern Europe alone which being able to decide the place as the final disposal location until at present.

The government in Japan decided the policy of burying the waste of nuclear with the dpeth 300 meter from the ground or more deep place with the law in 2000

Where should we bury it concretely? It has never been decided it, so the government ...

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《Where should we store the waste of nuclear?》

…so the government announced it would provide the grant to the local government which accepts the waste of nuclear when being investigated during the two years, and the grant is up to twenty billion yen.

It’s Suttsu town and Kamoenai village which responded to the call from the government and are near the atomic power plant of Hokkaido prefecture.

As to the town and village, investigating the data on geological feature and on volcanic activity, and making sure whether or not it’s suitable for the final…

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《Where should we store the waste of nuclear?》

…and making sure whether or not either of the town or the city are suitable for the final disposal location. It’s called literature search, and the first investigation reached finale as of October in 2023.

If being able to succeed in the literature research, oversurveying view in the next, digging the ground actually in four years.

The grant up to seven billion yen is provided to the local government which reached the second stage.

If passing through the second stage, detailed survey is done in fourteen years.

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《Where should we store the waste of nuclear?》

The detailed survey is the investigation and test of the underground facility, in short, the full course on choosing place for the final disposal location reaches over twenty years, and the waste of nuclear continues to increase as long as the atomic power plant operates.

Decreasing dependence on the nuclear power energy and progressing the diversification on energy as the lesson from the accident in the atomic power plant. It was the basic plan by the government in Japan.

But the Kishida government has …

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【Japan where problem piling up】

But the Kishida government decided a new basic plan so as to realized green transformation, including restarting the nuclear power plant, putting off the period of driving the nuclear power plant over sixty years, the government has changed direction with energy policy going back to the atomic power plant, making the most of the existing the nuclear power plant.

If Japan continues to take advantage of the nuclear power plant in the future as well, the construction on the final disposal location is time up.

《A hundred years passed from the Kanto Great….》

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《A hundred years have passed from the Great Kanto Earthquake. Understanding the earthquake in the past enough and preparing for the future》

A hundred years have passed, so the first day September in 2023 is the milestone from the Great Kanto Earthquake in which there were lots of victims. It was the Great Kanto Earthquake which caused the largest number of victims at modern Japan.

Its Seismic intensity 深度 was equivalent to 7 at present. The deceased were some a hundred and five thousand, and 90% of them were dead due to the fire.

As the damage in Tokyo is…

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《A hundred years form the Great Kanto Earthquake》

As the damage in Tokyo was emphasized, there has been a misunderstanding it was caused the earthquake direct below Tokyo, but actual seismic center was the northern south area of Sagawa Gulf.

Tidal wave of which height was no less than 12 meters attacked Atami in Shizuoka, and soil avalanche and landslide broke out one after another then

A train was forced to stop at Odawara in Shizuoka and it was flowed out with the home by the landslide and fell into the ocean.

The Great Kanto Earthquake broke…

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《A hundred years from the Great Kanto Earthquake》

The Great Kanto Earthquake broke out at noon when lots of houses made use of fire. Ordinary homes used to cook with a cooking stove or with a charcoal grill then, and wood and shoji screen fell down on two of the place where the fire was used so as to cook, and burst into flame.

To make matters worse, the weather condition then made the damage worsen. Typhoon was brought to.a standstill at Japan Sea then but strong wind blew from the south to the typhoon, so the fire ended up spreading.

Lots of people…

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《A hundred years from the Great Kanto Earthquake》

Lots of people evacuated to the ruins of the factory making military suits at the present Sumida Ward in Tokyo prefecture. The fire blowing in the window caused a tornado made of fire, and thirty eight thousand of people were dead at the place where the people evacuated.

After the Kanto Great Earthquake, we learned to plant the lots of trees of ginkgo as boulevard tree. Its leaf is thick and including lots of water.

At the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake, lots of boulevard trees were burning.

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《A hundred years from the Great Kanto Earthquake》

On the other hand, the trees of ginkgo which was hard to burn prevented the fire from expanding. As there was the Great Kanto Earthquake in the past, the tree of ginkgo becomes the one in Tokyo prefecture.

An image of causing fire has been planted on our heart after the Kanto Great Earthquake.

When feeling the ground shake, we should extinguish the fire at once, the slogan spread out among us. But the one who tried to put out the fire in haste and the people who fell over or got burned one after another.

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It was caused so many in the earthquake of Kushiro offshore in 1993 or Mid Niigata earthquake in 2004 that the slogan has been updated, protect yourself.

As to lots of gas appliance and heaters produced lately, when detecting a shake, they stop automatically, so when the earthquake breaks out, protect ourselves at first, and after that, we put the fire out. It’s changed nowadays.

《How should we prepare for the massive earthquake of Nankai trough?》

The trough is a hollow in the sea of which depth is until six thousand meters. The one which is deeper than…

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《How should we prepare for the massive earthquake in the Nankai trough?》

The one which is deeper than six thousand meter is called an ocean trench.

There is the hollow on the seabed over seven hundred kms from the Suruga bay in Shizuoka prefecture to eastern offshore in Kyusyuarea. We call it the Nankai trough.

It has been worried about the massive earthquake of Nankai trough will break out in the near future.

There are lots of natural disasters in Japan, so the Central Disaster Prevention Council has set up in the government, and specialists have…

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《How should we prepare for the massive earthquake of Nankai trough?》

…specialist have predicted the biggest damage in the worst case of the massive earthquake of Nankai trough breaks out, for there was damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake unexpectedly in 2011, and it was problematic, so we’ve thought trying to disappear unexpected things.

As a result, if the massive earthquake of Nankai trough of which magnitude from 9,0 to 9.1 happens, its worst damage is like the next. The number of missing and dead people are some thirty two hundred thousand, and…

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《How should we prepare for the massive earthquake of Nankai trough?》

…and the number of houses fully destroyed is little less than two million forty hundred thousand houses, submerged area is some thousand square kms, the population of the inundated area a million six hundred twenty thousand. The expected value is like that.

As to the economic damage like assets, it has been expected one hundred and seventy trillion yen by the big shake, tidal wave of which height is over 10 meters and a fire, moreover to make matters worse, if the bullet train in Tokaido…

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《How should we prepare for the massive earthquake of Nankai trough?》

…if the bullet train in Tokaido or the expressway in Tomei are broken and no one can use it, the people and things can’t go and come between east and west, so the production declines. Its damage is expected fifty trillion yen, and two hundred and twenty trillion yen is the total damage.

The expectation on the damage has never been thought so as to make the people be afraid. It was summarized so as to decrease the damage as much as possible.

For example, going ahead with the earthquake…

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【Japan where problems piling up】

《How should we prepare for the massive earthquake of Nankai trough?》

…if going ahead with the earthquake resistant on buildings, the direct damage becomes half, and the damage of declining production by 70%. It has been thought like that.

The massive earthquake of Nankai trough will break out within thirty years from now on, and its probability is from 70 to 80%, though some specialists point out the numerical value is by far lower.

The things which we can do personally is thinking that the massive earthquake of Nankai trough breaks out, and simulating on..

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【Japan where problems piling up】

….and simulating on evacuation always in our head, and preparing for water and food in both emergency, and for stock. As to the national disaster, the more we prepared for it, the less its damage is.

【Epilogue, if Trump…】

If Mr. Trump comes back to the President in America, the military support to Ukraine will stop immediately, for he has his own view, as to the problem in Europe, the people in Europe should handle it for themselves.

Ukraine manages to endure the military invasion from Russia at present, for there has been the large amount of military…

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【Epilogue, If Trump…】

…for there has been the large amount of the military support from America. Without being supported from America, Ukraine will be defeated.

Mr. Trump who always evaluated the President Putin in Russia will support Russia. If Russia which disrupted the international order openly and invaded Ukraine wins, the world will change drastically

The former President Trump stopped contributing money to UNRWA which supports the refugees in Palestine in his term of office. Mr. Trump who was close to Israel looked upon Palestine as enemy, so Palestine was in confusion greatly.

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【Epilogue, If Trump…】

Japan and EU contributed the money, filling the gap in the UNRWA after America stopped.

After the Biden government was born, America started to support Palestine again, but if Trump comes back, Palestine will be in trouble again.

The former President withdrew from Paris Agreement which tries to stop the global warming, and the President Biden joined in it again. If Trump comes back, he will withdraw again, and America will learn to give off the large amount of carbon dioxide.

He thought of withdrawing the military force in South Korea, and his close aides stopped it …

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【Epilogue, if Trump..】

…and his close aides stopped him desperately, and said to him, how about doing it in the second term of office?, and Mr. Trump said he would then.

If the military force withdraws from South Korea, North Korea will be pleased with it greatly.

If China invades Taiwan militarily, the military force in America will take the field, so the U.
S.army withdraw from South Korea, it is favorable for China as well. Then what will the U.S.army do in Japan?

In short, if Trump comes back to the President, it’ll have great influence over Japan. Events in the international society…

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Events of each place in the international society goes around the world and comes around to Japan, so it is important for us to know the situation in the world.

By the way, the book of which title 池上彰の世界情勢2024 was over, and I’m going to move on a new topic from now on.

The title of the next book which is based on my expression in English is 池上彰の　あした選挙に行くまえに

【Preface】

The right to vote has dropped to eighteen years old summer in 2016. If being at the age of eighteen, even a school in junior high school can vote. Then how will he or she judge in the election?

Why has the right to…

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【Preface】

Why has the right to vote dropped to the age of eighteen? Because the problem of what is called the silver democracy has been paid attention.

Japan has been a super aging society.

While declining birth rate progresses, senior citizens whose age is over sixty five continue to increase, and the senior citizens are well known for their high voting rate. Lots of senior citizens go to the election every time so as to vote.

Statesman should be fair, but there is the one who votes for him, it will carry out the politics for the one who voted the statesman.

While lots of senior…..

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【Preface】

While lots of senior citizens go to the election so as to vote, young people aren’t interested in the politics, and don’t vote, so even if carrying out the politics for the young people, there is high possibility it doesn’t lead to get to vote for the statesman, so the statesman thought of listening to the voice from the senior citizens. The politics listening to the senior citizens. It’s the silver democracy.

As a result, even if the facility for the senior citizens increases, building nursery school which is indispensable for child raring is apt to be late. If its child was…

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【Preface】

If the child was refused to enter the nursery school, the outcry of its parent, failing to enter the nursery school, drop dead Japan appeared in the internet.

Young people also need to go to vote.

Security related laws permitting the right of collective self defense force was discussed in the National Assembly by Shinzo Abe Cabinet summer in 2015, though it has been thought it wasn’t permitted before.

Then lots of young people gathered in front of the Diet Building and took into action criticizing the Abe Cabinet.

It has been said that the young people weren’t interested in…

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It has been thought the young people weren’t interested in politics in Japan, but there have been the people who took into action for their political thought. If the young people moves, the politics will do.

The author wrote this book for the young people, I’m wondering.

【Why has the riot break out in China?】

Because there has never been a democratic election there.

《The riot breaks out often》

China next to Japan has developed suddenly. New building are built more and more both in Beijing and Shanghai, and their roads are filled with high-end cars, super luxury building were born…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《The riot breaks out often》

…luxury buildings were born one after another and the number of wealthy people continue to increase in China, but the news of the riot broke out each place in China has been reported. The number of thousands of riot broke out in China a year, it means that the riot breaks out in China several times a day. The riot anti-Japan against the nationalization on Senkaku Islands by the government in Japan broke out in 2012.

The riot anti Japan was reported in China as news, but except for it, the riot in China wasn’t reported as…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《Riots break out often in China》

…but except for it, the riot was hardly reported in China as news by newspaper and TV, for reporting the riot is forbidden from the government in China, but when a big riot broke out in China, the information came in Hong Kong, the newspaper in Hong Kong reported it, and the mass media overseas reported it, and we learned to know the riot for the first time.

There is no freedom of the press in China, but Hong Kong is the special ward in China, so there is the freedom of the press there, and the news on the riot is…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

…so the riot on the news was reported in China.

The life on the people have been wealthy in China, but the riot breaks out frequently there. Why? Because there has never been a democratic election in China.

《One party dictatorship actually》

There has never been the democratic election in China. The politics in China is actual one party dictatorship by the Communist Party. Why did author adopt the word of actual?

Except for the Communist Party, there are other eight political parties in China, but it has been decided that the eight of political…

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【Why has the riot broken out often in China?】

《One party dictatorship actually》

…but it has been decided that the eight of the political parties obey the direction from the Communist Party. It is strange the political party who obeys the other one. It turned out that the eight of political parties exist so as to excuse that there are other political parties, except for China.

In short, China is dictatorship by the Communist Party actually.

Representatives from the people gather and decide something important for them in the meeting. The meeting is called the National People’s Congress.

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《One party dictatorship actually》

But there is no election choosing the relatives from the people. The ones who the Communist Party decided can attend the meeting. The meeting is done by the representatives from the people, but it doesn’t always mean they are the representatives from the people. It’s just that the Communist Party says they are the representatives from the people.

Though the election has been done in the level of choosing the town chairman in Japan lately, the except for the one who is chosen by the Communist Party can run in the…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《One party dictatorship actually》

…except for the one who was chosen by the Communist Party can run in the election lately, and the people can choose one from some candidates, but free election has never been done in the level of nation, city, town and village at present.

《Without anxiety of losing in the election, everyone is apt to corrupt》

So what’s happened? Neither of mayor of city, town nor the member of the representative from the people learned not to listen to the people from the city, the town nor the people in China at all.

Needless to,…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《Without anxiety of losing in the election, everyone tends to corrupt》

Needless to say, there is the one who listens to the voice from the people and does everything it can for the people, but a person is weak, so it’s apt to take into action to something easier.

Without doing anything tiresome like listening to the request from the residents, it can continue as statesman as long as obeying the executives in the Communist Party, so it learns not to deal with residents any more.

In short, without failing in the next election, so no one tries to…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

…so no one tries to practice good politics hard and to do its best so as to be elected in the next election again. Then the person corrupts and the voice form the people doesn’t reach to the politics.

There is a famous phrase, power corrupts, the absolute power corrupts absolutely. If having the power, the person corrupts easily, and having the absolute power which no one checks and no one can drag down, the power always corrupts. The famous phrase means like that.

《If dissatisfaction accumulates, it will explode》

If the voice from the residents…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《If being irritated so much, it will explode》

If the voice from the residents doesn’t reach to the politics, residents are irritated. Even if there are various problems around them, none of statesmen listen to the residents, so the problem has never been solved at all.

Besides, even if policemen and the people in the public office received the bribe, none of statesmen adopt it as problem, far from it! The statesman itself may have received the bribe.

The news media like newspaper , radio and TV has to obey the Communist Party under the autocracy by…

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【Why has the riot broken out in china?】

《If being irritated, it will explode》

The news media has to obey the Communist Party under the autocracy by the Communist Party in China. No one can speak ill of the Communist Party, nor criticize the politics.

The one who is an executive in the police is at the same time the one in the Communist Party, if adopting the corruption on the police as problem, it means criticizing the executive in the Communist Party.

As a result, the news media doesn’t report the corruption on the government officer nor the statesmen. Executives in the news media is the…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《If being irritated, it will explode》

Executives in the news media are the ones in the Communist Party, so they don’t try to report the skeleton in the closet. Without reporting, no one adopts as problem, so the corruption has never disappeared.

As those things continued, residents have been irritated so much. If filling with gas, explosion will be caused even with a single match. When everyone is dissatisfied with the police and government officers, if their acquaintance is hit by a policeman, all of them rushed to the police station and threw…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

…and threw stone or set fire on the police station. The riot breaks out then. Without democratic election, the riot breaks out like that.

《The election is a safety valve in the society》

If thinking like that, the election seems to be important quite. Everyone can run for the election, and vote for the one who everyone likes the best from the candidates. It seems to be natural for us, but it doesn’t always mean that all of the nations in the world are like that.

There has never been a free election in North Korea. The situation there seem to be worse…

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《The election is a safety valve in the society》

The situation in North Koreas seems to be worse than China. In the first place the election itself is hardly done there.

With a free election is done, a candidate who criticizes the government and government officer shows up. As there is the freedom of the press, the criticism on the government is reported, and a news caster and a commentator also do the same thing.

When watching at it with TV, the people would agree with them and some people would applaud for them, so their dissatisfaction is cancelled

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《The election is a safety valve in the society》

Even if it’s a little, the dissatisfaction is cancelled from the people.

As the result of the free election, if the one who was critical to the way of the government until then is elected, it will change the way of politics, and the society may have been better a little.

If the statesman is elected at the election, without working hard for the people, there is the possibility that it fails in the next election.

If the statesman thinks of failing in the next election, it will try to work hard.

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【Why has the riot broken out in China?】

《The election is a safety valve in the society》

The election seems to be useful unexpectedly.

If gas is filled with a container, there is fear it will explode soon, but there is the safety valve to the container which makes the accumulated gas escape outside, it’s gas venting, so the explosion doesn’t break out.

The democratic election plays a role as the safety valve in the society. Therefore in the nation which adopts the democracy, the riot seldom breaks out. It’s just fans who were dissatisfied with the result on a soccer game would make a fuss.

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