Showing posts with label JAPAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JAPAN. Show all posts

About Japan's 2010 GDP

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  • Sunday, January 23, 2011
  • Posted by filial23
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Japan's 2010 GDP was surpassed by China's. It's only a matter of time that Japan will be surpassed by India. It is by this, and other invisible pressures, that have many Japanese worried about the declining in the future. But I have a question. Is it true that Japan's growth has ended? Let's see the chart below. The blue line represents the population of productive age. Though the amount of the population of productive age is not shown in this chart, it's been declining 5 million since 1995. In spite of the declining population, Japan's GDP, as represented by the red line, has been increasing. When we focus on the GDP per capita, as represented by the orange fills, we see that Japanese individuals earnings are increasing year by year.

GDP per capita

What I want to say is that Japan doesn't have to compete with developing countries and doesn't stop growing. It will be possible to continue being prosperous if Japanese individuals earnings continue to increase or maintain.

Five Toe Socks

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  • Monday, October 18, 2010
  • Posted by Taka
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"Can you bend first joints of toes downwards?" When I went back to my parent's house yesterday, I was asked by my father. He said he can do now but didn't before he saw a judo therapist who has a skill of what we would call bone-setting.


It seems that we can get good posture after bone-setting around feet is corrected. Actually he had a very bad posture and stooped when he was walking about 10 years ago, but now he can walk with keeping his back straight.

If we don't walk without using all of bottom of our feet when kicking the ground, first joint of toes won't be used. That is why posture gets worse. In the worst case, we would suffer from bunion or bowlegs which can cause moreover back pain and stiffing in the shoulder. It means our body will be get worse from lower part to upper part of the body.

One of the treatment for this feet's problems is wearing five toe socks. The blood flow of the lower half of the body will be improved by wearing this kind of socks. But my father suggested that don't buy 200-300-yen socks at bargain prices but 2,000-3,000-yen socks which hold each toe firmly tightened.

Health and Sports Day

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There are three holidays in Japan from October 9 to 11.
Today is a national holiday called Health and Sports Day annually on the second Monday in October.

Even though Health and Sports Day is a day to promote sports and physical and mental health, I couldn't participate in any activities oppositely because of wearing a cast on my knee.


However tomorrow will be the last day wearing a cast.
I've been wearing a cast for two weeks, and it cost approximately 15,000 yen until I take off a cast.

  • Fist day's diagnostic - 7,000 yen
  • Magnetic resonance imaging - 8,000 yen

I have to abandon purchasing all what I want, e.g. new iPod touch or iPhone...