Let’s enjoy English 20th

【The news on economy】

《There is the market where the crude oil is bought and sold》

The one like that company bought up the crude oil.

If the price on the crued oil goes up,the large amount of money flows into the nations in the Middle East which dug up the crued oil and sold it, and those nations thought of increasing money and tried to buy up the crude oil and to make money.

In short, they could make money becaue the price on the crude oil rose, and bought up the crude oik with the money.

But the problem on the subprime loan made the economy in the world go wrong, and the people...

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...and the people who started to think as the economy was in slump the consumption on the petroleum would decrease, and at the same time the price on the crude oil also would go down sold the crude oil, so the price on the crude oil dropped drastically.

The thought on the investors makes the price on the crude oil drop or rise.

《Why did the price on the food go up?》

The rise on the price of the food was a serious problem at the summit of summer in 2008. As the price on the food rose, there were people who couldn't buy the food in poor nation, and it was problematic.

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【The news on economy】

《Why did the price on the food go up?》

Why did the price rise?

The author expressed the meaning of the Chinese character of 食料 and 食糧 before thinking it over.

食糧 is the one which is eaten as staple food like rice, wheat and corn.

On the other hand, 食料 includes other one like meat,vegetable and fish.
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The rise on the price of the food of 食糧 like rice, wheat and corn became problematic in 2008.

The rice in this case is different from the one which we the Japanese usually eat.

It's Indica rice and its grain is slender, long and narrow. The rice is the Indica ...

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《Why did the price on the food go up?》

The rice is Indica one for the lots of countries in the world.

On the other hand, the one which we the Japanese usually eat is Japonica one, and its price is higher than any other one in the wrold, so almost none of the peopple overseas have the chance of eating it.

One of reasons why the price on the food went up is the nations of the people who used to be poor until then become wealthy in China and India and have learned to eat meat.

For example, the people who ate the corn alone learn to eat the beef. What's happened then?

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《Why did the price on the food go up?》

Making the cattle eat the corn which the people used to eat mainly until then and raising the cattle and the people eat the meat of the cattle.

It means consuming the large amount of the corn, so the people learn to need the corn more than before, so the price on the corn goes up.

If the people who ate the rice learn to eat bread, we need the wheat which is the raw material of the bread, so its price rises, but there is other movement which is related to the rising the price. It’s ethanol.

Both of the price on the gasoline…

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【The news on economy】

《Why did the price on the food go up?》

Both of the price on the gasoline and petroleum went up from around 2007, and instead of the gasoline, ethanol learned to be paid attention. Ethanol is made in varied ways, but as to its main way, the corn is used.

In short, the corn is changed into the ethanol and is burnt as the fuel for car.

As the corn which the people originally eat and making the livestock eat is burned, the edible corn is insufficient and its price goes up.

As the price on the corn rises, the farming family which grew wheat or soybean until then learned …

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《Why did the price on the food rise?》

…the farming family which grew the wheat or soybean until then learned to do the corn, so the product on the wheat and soybean decreased, and the price of the two of them also rose.

Thus as the price on the food started to go up, individualities or companies which thought the price on the food would rise more and more buy up the food, so its price goes up actually.

If the price on the food rises, the nation which grew the large amount of rice learns to decrease the export of the rice, for it tries to secure the food of its nation.

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【The news on economy】

So the price on the rice also goes up.

Thus the price on the food rose all over the world. What should we do?

At first, we shouldn’t use the food as material so as to make the ethanol, and food should be produced more and more all over the world, and we need to control the movement of buying up the food.

I’m wondering what happens to the ethanol at present.

【The news on politics】

《Mr. Aso was chosen as the Prime Minister》

Suddenly the resignation on the Prime Minister Fukuda September in 2008 made the National Assembly choose the new Prime Minister.

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《Mr. Aso was chosen as the Prime Minister》

The presidential election on the Liberal and Democratic Party was done and Mr.Aso was elected as the president, and after that he was chosen as the Prime Minister in the National Assembly.

Though the Aso Cabinet was born then, when did he disband the House of Representatives and carry out the general election? Everyone paid attention to it.

Five candidates on the president of the Liberal and Democratic Party went around Japan and made a speech. It was the election choosing the president on the Liberal and Democratic Party.

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《Mr. Aso was chosen as the Prime Minister》

Mr.Yasuo Fukuda said he would resign from the Prime Minister, and he wasn’t only the president in the Liberal Democratic Party but the Prime Minister in Japan. He said he would resign from the Prime Minister, and it means exactly he would resign from the Prime Minister and the president on the Liberal Democratic Party, so the presidential election on the Liberal Democratic Party was done.

The Prime Minister is chosen at the election by the Diet members in the National Assembly. The House of Representatives and the House…

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【The news on politics】

《Mr. Aso was chosen as the Prime Minister》

The House of Representatives and the House of Councilors appoint the Prime Minister respectively. If two of them appoint other.ones, each of representatives gathers and talks which one they should choose as the Prime Minister.

If it isn’t settled with the talk, the one who is appointed by the House of the Representatives is the Prime Minister, for the House of Representatives has more powerful than the House of Councilors a little.

If two of the Houses confront because each of opinion is different, it’s troublesome, so the…

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《Mr. Aso was elected as the Prime Minister》

…so the House of Representative is powerful deliberately.

In short, the top of the political party of which majority on the House of Representatives in the National Assembly is elected as the Prime Minister.

It’s the Liberal and Democratic Party of which majority in the National Assembly at present, so the president on the Liberal and Democratic Party is chosen as the Prime Minister.

As Mr. Fukuda resigned, the presidential election was done, and Mr. Aso was supported from a lot inside the political party, and was chosen…

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【The news on politics】

《Mr. Aso was elected as the Prime Minister》

…and was chosen as the president in the Liberal and Democratic Party.

The presidential election on the Liberal and Democratic Party is a thing which is just inside the political party, but it’s decided our Prime Minister is chosen, it is reported greatly on the news by TV or newspaper.

How is it decided? Ordinary one when the term on the president was over and choosing the next one, all the members and friends of the Liberal and Democratic Party can vote.

But Mr. Fukuda said he would resign both of the president on the….

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But as Mr. Fukuda said he would resign both of the president on the Liberal and Democratic Party and the Prime Minister, the next president was decided in a hurry, giving three votes to the representatives from each of prefectures and the single vote to the House of Representatives and Councilors and the president was elected by their votes. It was voted like that then.

《The nations choose the Prime Minister indirectly》

As Mr. Aso was chosen as the president, he should be appointed in the National Assembly in the next, and he was supported a lot and was chosen as…

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《The nation chooses the Prime Minister indirectly》

…and was chosen as the Prime Minister.

The member of the Liberal and Democratic Party alone who can choose their president. Except for them, no one can do it.

But the member of the Diet member who were the representatives from us chose the Prime Minister in the National Assembly. In short, our representatives have chosen the Prime Minister. We call it the indirect election.

On the other hand, the nation can choose the President direct in the election is called the direct election like America.

To tell the truth…

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《The nation chooses the Prime Minister indirect》

…the nation chooses those in the president election, and they choose the President in America. Strictly speaking, it’s the indirect election, but they vote for the presidential candidate at the election, so it’s like the nation chooses the President direct actually.

The one who becomes the Prime Minister makes its own policy speech, announcing it wants to carry out the politics as the Prime Minister.

Then the people in the opposite party examine the content of the speech of the Prime Minister enough, and….

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《The nation chooses the Prime Minister indirect》

…and the representatives in the opposition party questioned the Prime Minister in the National Assembly, listening to or criticizing on the content what the Prime Minister is trying to carry out the politics.

After that, what did the Prime Minister do?

Both of the Liberal and Democratic Party and Komeito thought of making the Prime Minister disband the House of Representatives at once and carry out the election of the House of Representatives on the twenty sixth day October.

If the Prime Minister Aso was born, the…

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【The news on politics】

…and the approval rate from the nation would rise, when the approval rate was high, carry out the election and made lots of members in the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito elect. Two of the political party intended to do it.

But the Prime Minister Aso found it important do the job on politics like economic measures and put off the dissolution of the lower House of parliament and the general election.

《What is the dissolution on the House of Representatives?》

When did the Prime Minister Aso dissolve the lower House of Parliament? It was paid attention, for…

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【The news on politics】

《What is the dissolution of the House of Representatives?》

…for when being dissolved, the general election would be done. If the Liberal and Democratic Party lost in the election, Ichiro Ozawa who was the representative of the Democratic Party of Japan may have been the Prime Minister.

Whether or not did the historical event break out? So it was paid attention.

There is the House of Representatives and of the Councilors in the National Assembly.

The term of office on the House of Representatives is four years, and the House of Councilors is six years. The member…

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《What is the dissolution on the House of Representatives?》

But the member on the House of Councilors always serve as the Diet member for six years, on the other hand, the House of Representatives don’t. They aren’t sometimes the Diet members in the middle of their terms. It’s the dissolution on the House of Representatives.

It’s the Prime Minister alone who can make the House of Representatives dissolve. After the Lower House was dissolved, the general election is done and new Diet members are elected.

For example, the members of the Lower House who were…

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《What is the dissolution on the Lower House?》

…the members of the Lower House who were dissatisfied with the job on the Prime Minister sometimes approved of no confidence resolution on the Cabinet. Then the Prime Minister has two choices.

The one is the Cabinet resigns in a body and choosing the new Prime Minister.

The other is the Prime Minister can’t be convinced of the resolution and makes the Lower House dissolve.

The Lower House is dissolved, and the election is done, and Diet members who are elected newly choose the Prime Minister again. If lots of the Diet….

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《What is the dissolution on the Lower House? 》

If lots of the Diet members who supported the Prime Minister were elected, the Prime Minister forms the Cabinet again.

In short, the Prime Minister asks the nation whether or not the nation supports the Prime Minister. It’s the dissolution on the Lower House and the general election.

Therefore, even if the Lower House doesn’t issue the no confidence resolution, the Prime Minister sometimes makes the Lower House dissolve, asking whether or not the nation supports him, asking from the Prime Minister itself.

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【The news on politics】

《What is the dissolution on the Lower House?》

As there were lots of the Diet members belonged to the Liberal and Democratic Party or Komeito who supported the Prime Minister Aso, so he was elected the Prime Minister.

Why were there lots of the Diet members belonged to the Liberal and Democratic Party like that? Because the Liberal and Democratic Party won at the election of the Prime Minister Koizumi in 2005.

After that the Prime Minister changed from Abe, Fukuda, and Aso, but it wasn't done from then.

Though the nation supported the Prime Minister Koizumi in 2005.

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《What is the dissolution on the Lower House？》

But it wasn't clear whether or not the nation supported the Prime Minister Aso. The situation was like that in 2008.

The Democratic Party Japan which are opposed to the Prime Minister Aso said like the next.

It doesn't always mean that the nation supports the Prime Minister Aso, so the Lower House should dissolve and carry out the election, asking the nation whether it supported or not the Prime Minister, so the Prime Minister Aso felt like dissolving the Lower House and asking the nation whether it supported or not him.

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《When it's advantageous for the Prime Minister》

It's the Prime Minister who has the power to dissolve the Lower House. It's just that all right as long as the Prime Minister chooses the time when it was advantageous for him and the Liberal and Democratic Party and makes the Lower House dissolve.

The term of office on the Lower House would expire September in 2009, so if dissolving, it's timing should be earlier than it, but when should it be done concretely?

The Prime Minister Aso has thought over the timing of dissolving, but he didn't say when to dissolve.

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So the members of the Lower House, the newspaper companies and broadcasting stations stewed over, when did the Lower House dissolve?

As to the members of the Lower House, the dissolution means that they aren’t the Diet members any more, so it’s hard for them.

The newspaper companies and the broadcasting stations have to prepare for the election, so they wanted to know when to dissolve earlier.

Thus there was the news almost everyday, when is the dissolution?

《The uproar over the Tax Rebate Check Plan》

The Aso Cabinet decided to deliver twelve thousand yen to the….

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《Uproar over the tax rebate check plan 定額給付金》

The Aso Cabinet decided to deliver twelve thousand yen to a nation as the tax rebate check plan.

On the other hand, an opinion whether or nod it needs to deliver the money to high income earners, so municipalities judged it. The confusion over the tax rebate check plan continued.

In the first place, it started from the story of trying to carry out the fixed amount reduction for resident tax.

The price on the gasoline rose from the spring to the autumn in 2008, at the same time the price on lots of food also rose.

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《The uproar over the tax rebate check plan》

To make matters worse, the economy isn’t doing well, so the opinion of helping the people who were in difficulty and carrying out of reduction of tax so as to recover the business condition.

If reducing the income tax paying for the nation, as the money left at hand increased, it would be useful for the people who were in difficulty, and everyone went shopping, the business would be doing well. The people on the government seemed to think like that.

Speaking of reduction of tax, there are two kinds. The one is the tax…

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《The uproar over the tax rebate check plan》

The one is the tax rebate check plan, and the other is the fixed-amount tax reduction 定額減税.

The former is the reduction of tax of fixed rate, for example the reduction of tax by 3%. In this case, the higher the income is, the more the amount of money on the reduction of tax increases.

On the other hand, the latter reducing tax with the same amount of money for both of the people who had high income or low income, and the rate on reducing tax for the people who had the low income becomes high.

The lower the income is, the …

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《The uproar over the tax rebate check plan》

The lower the income is, the harder the life is, so let’s carry out the fixed amount tax reduction. The opinion appeared like that.

But to begin with, the reduction of tax is for the people who pay the income tax, but some of poor people who have the low income don’t pay the income tax, so they aren’t objection for reducing tax. It couldn’t help the people who are in difficulty in their life, so not reduction of tax but the cash handout learned to be paid out to the nation.

Its amount of money is twelve thousand yen to a…

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Its amount of money is twelve thousand yen to a nation, and eight thousand yen is added to the people whose age are under eighteen years or are over sixty five.

It planned to pay the money to the nation through the municipality in the whole Japan until September in 2009, but a problem broke out then, for an opinion was issued like the next.

Does it need to pay the benefit payment to the people who had high income?

《Having the people who had high income resign?》

As the Aso Cabinet couldn’t reach the consensus, it left the judge to the municipalities. When each of ….

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《Having the people who had high income decline?》

When each of cities, towns and villages paid the benefit payment, it’s all right paying to all the people, and it’s also all right if having the people who had high income decline, and it caused a confusion.

Without deciding the plan as the whole of Japan, leaving the judgement to the municipality, it was irresponsible. The criticism was caused like that.

The municipalities which were left the judgement were screaming in agony, finding that the procedure to decline for the people who had high income.

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《Having the people who had high income decline?》

Some people said if paying the benefit payment to all the people, its procedure would be simple and it’s better.

Why did the confusion break out like that? Because it wasn’t clear whether the benefit payment helped the poor people or making the economy improve.

It doesn’t need to pay to the people who had high income if helping the people who had low income.

Paying the money to the people who had high income and having them go shopping with the money is effective if trying to recover the economy.

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Why was the benefit payment paid for?

It had been unclear but it was done, so the confusion broke out like that. It wasn’t surprising that some people say the government tried to throw the money around for campaign preparation.

It would cost two trillion yen in total, and the money belongs to the nation. What should we have done then?

【The news on the society】

《What is the jury system?》

The jury system has started from May in 2009, though almost none of people speaks of it lately around me, to my sorrow, my circle of friends is so small that it isn’t any help.

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【The news on the society】

《What is the jury system?》

The notice was sent to the people who were chosen as the candidate on the jury system before it started.

Our society has adopted the separation of the power. The aim on the jury system is trying to be reflected the opinion from the nation over the field of the judiciary, but there has been the puzzlement among the nation.

As you are chosen as the candidate on jury, so we inform you.

The envelope including the content reached to three hundred thousand people in the whole Japan from the Supreme Court December in 2008.

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《What is the jury system?》

Being the candidate is from the age of twenty, so some people have nothing to do with it, but their family members may have been chosen, and there is the possibility that we may have been chosen in the future.

The notice is informing the nation being the candidate of jury, and let us get ready for it. There may have been the people who can’t be the jury, and having them write its reason, and considering whether or not appointing them as the jury.

If returning nothing, it may have been called out to the court as the candidate of the jury.

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《What is the jury system?》

As to being the jury, the confusion seems to spread among the people. Why does an ordinary nation become the jury? It’s trying to reflect the voice from the nation on the trial.

We’ve learned the separation of power like legislation, administration, and judiciary and popular sovereignty at school.

The popular sovereignty means the nation is the greatest in the country, so the nation chooses the Diet members in the election, so the voice form the nation is reflected on the legislation.

Diet members choose the Prime Minister, and …

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《What is the jury system?》

…and the Prime Minister chooses each of Ministers, and Ministers supervise the government office which means the administration, so the voice from the nation reaches the administration indirect.

On the other hand, there had never been the system on the judiciary reflecting the voice from the nation until the jury system started, so choosing the representatives from the nation with a draw and sending them to the trial.

The trial which the jury takes part in is a district court alone. As to a serious crime like murder, robbery, and arson…

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…the jury judges the serious crimes with the professional judges. Lots of people who thought they don’t have the special knowledge on the law, but they don’t have to.

The important thing is reflecting the voice from the nation on the trial, so it’s all right as long as delivering the sentence with the common sense in the society.

As to the specialized thing, a professional judge will explain it to us.

There are three professional judges and adding six juries and deciding whether being guilty or innocent with the majority voting, and if it’s guilty how many years…

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…and if being guilty how many years the imprisonment is decided then.

《It’s different from the jury system in America》

The jury system is also in America. The jury who is chosen with a lottery judges, so it’s like the one in Japan, but without taking part in the trial by the professional judge, whether it’s guilty or innocent is judged in America.

If being judged as guilty, how many years the imprisonment is decided by the judges. The jury system between Japan and America seems to resemble, but they are different.

If being chosen as the jury, it’ll interfere…

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【It’s news on the society】

《It’s different from the jury system in America》

…it’ll interfere with its job. There seem to be some people who are worried about like that, so at first, making them the candidate on the jury and gather before the trial starts, and a judge asks them their situations one by one.

As a result, some people don’t have to be the jury, and others can’t refuse. It depends on the judgement from the judge.

If the nation is chosen as the jury, all of us the nation will learn to think of a trial seriously. It’s the biggest goal.

《A Japanese has won the Nobel Prize》

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《A Japanese has won the Nobel Prize》

Three Japanese won the Nobel Prize in physics October in 2008, and in the next day it was announced the Japanese also received the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Though it’s joyful, the study on the two of four were observed in America. If there is the situation for the Japanese to study harder in Japan than in America, it’s regrettable a little.

Speaking of the most famous prize in the world, It’s the Nobel Prize. It has been chosen from six fields like medical science, physiology, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economy

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《A Japanese has won the Nobel Prize》

Alfred Nobel invented the dynamite, and became a millionaire, but the dynamite was used in the war and lots of people were killed by the dynamite, so he was sad and left his will, wanting his money to give some people who study or invent which is helpful for others. The Nobel Prize has started since 1901, being based on his will, and the Prize in economy was added after that.

Mr. Hideki Yukawa won the Nobel Prize in physics for the first time as a Japanese, and the poor people in Japanese were encouraged with them.

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《A Japanese won the Nobel Prize》

The Nobel Prize on Mr. Hideki Yukawa was in 1949, and we’ve hardly had a good news lately, so the Nobel Prize on the four Japaneses have been the good news for us. Three of the Japaneses who won the Nobel Prize in physics were observed in the study of the elementary particle 素粒子.

The elementary particle is the smallest thing which made up with everything around us. For example, a person is made up with cells of sixty trillion, and the cell is formed with a molecule, and atom gathers and the molecule is formed, and the atom is made…

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《A Japanese won the Nobel Prize》

…and the atom is formed with the elementary particle, and we can understand how small it is.

As the elementary particle is the base on everything in the world, if studying it, we can learn to understand gradually the origin on the universe. How was our universe born? and what will happen in the future? They’ve studied like that.

It’s Mr. Osamu Shimomura who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, receiving with two other scholars in America. He studied the mechanism on a shining jellyfish and discovered the green fluorescent protein.

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The research has been applied, making the cell which became cancer shine, and we’ve learned to pursue the movement on the cell of the cancer, so his discovery has taken a big part in the field of the medical science.

The study on the jellyfish is useful for the treatment on the cancer. What and how is it useful? We can’t expected in the least.

《We shouldn’t get too excited》

The award on the Nobel Prize this time is outcome on the study forty years ago. Why does it take a time so much until they can win the prize?

The breakthrough discovery like the Nobel Prize…

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《We shouldn’t get too excited》

The breakthrough discovery is so revolutionary that almost no one can understand when it was discovered, so after a long, long time passed and the people could learned to understand how wonderful it was.

By the way one of them who won the Nobel Prize in physics continued to study in America and got the nationality on America at last, so three Japaneses got the Nobel Prize in physics is in the wrong.

The newspaper reported an American and two Japaneses won, and the other one continued to research in America for a long time as well.

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If being in America is easier to study than being in Japan, we the Japanese shouldn’t get too excited.

《It has been decided to forbid to use the cluster bomb》

The cluster bomb used to be used in the war in the past. Even after the war is over, the large amount of the unexploded bomb remained, and lots of children have been victims.

It has been decided to forbid to use the dangerous bomb in the international assembling May in 2008, and Japan has disposed the cluster bomb which the Self Defense Force possessed.

What is the cluster bomb?

After the parent bomb is….

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《It has been decided to forbid to use the cluster bomb》

After the parent bomb is dropped from a bombing plane and decomposed in the air, small child bomb pops out from the parent bomb.

As the child bombs spread out over the wide area and explode on the ground, lots of soldiers on the ground were killed, and other destroys cars like a truck or an armored car all at once.

The cluster originally means the bunch of grape. The grape is separated from the bunch one by one, and likewise the small bomb is separated from the big one one by one, so it’s named like that.

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An ordinary bomb dropped on the ground and exploded and its damage was there alone. On the other hand, the cluster bomb spreads out its damage over the wide area, so its damage is serious.

The bomb is originally used for making enemy damage seriously, so the cluster bomb used to be adopted more often than the ordinary one.

《Lots of the unexploded bombs become problematic》

The large amount of the child bomb is scattered, so even if dropped on the ground, the large amount of the unexploded child bombs remained.

As the war was over and the people came back without…

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