Archive for February 4th, 2008

04
Feb

Japan’s New Jury System

1. The law system of citizen judge will come into effect.

2. According to new law, citizens are chosen at random and hear criminal trials with judges.

3. If you were chosen, you can not refuse it unless you have a good excuse.

4. However we don’t understand clear criterion.

5. We also have the problem that how many days it takes for the trial.

6. I wish the law to be clearly arranged and accepted widely by people.

Reference literature

The Japan Times

URL「http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070531a6.html

URL「http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200711050051.html

裁判員制度

URL「http://www.saibanin.courts.go.jp/」

04
Feb

Ozone Hole

Over the earth, there is a layer that is called an ”Ozonosphere”

Recently this “Ozonosphere” is damaged with the fluorocarbon that humans put out.

As a result, fluorocarbon made a“Ozone hole”

The ozone hole is seen in Polar regions around September and October every year.

The ozone hole creates environmental damage and danger in various places in the earth.

Human should coexist with nature so as not to expand damage any future.

Sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%BE%E3%83%B3%E5%B1%A4

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%BE%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

04
Feb

Comets

1. Comets is made from rock, dust, and gases.

2. Comets is similar to a planet away from the sun.

3. But it’s not planet in solar system of the sun.

4. Difference point is that comets have a tail when close enough to the sun.

5. And comets have orbits that are either elliptical or parabolic.

6. Parabolic orbit are called to non-period comets and this comet appears only one time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%97%E6%98%9F

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

04
Feb

Nuclear Arms

A nuclear arm is a weapon. It is also known as an atomic bomb.

Atomic bomb was used to attack Japanese cities Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Today, 7 countries have nuclear arms. USA, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, and Pakistan.

And the risk of nuclear war increases as weapon are developed.

So, we should reduce the number of nuclear arms.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

by Shin Moriyasu

04
Feb

Less Strenuous Education

1. Less strenuous education’s purpose in students develop “power of life”.

2. Courses of study in the Japanese curriculum were greatly changed.

3. OECD reported that Japanese scholastic ability appears to be declining.

4. The Minister of Education acknowledged the negative effect of new courses of study.

5. Less strenuous education has advantage and disadvantage.

6. It is important to develop “power of life”, but we should avoid a drop in scholastic ability.

Sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%86%E3%81%A8%E3%82%8A%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2

http://www.mext.go.jp/ (http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/gakuryoku-chousa/sonota/071205/001.pdf)

by Yuna Negishi

04
Feb

Tech Outflow from Japan

①Recently, in Japan, talented technologists and engineers tend to go abroad. Why is it happening? Here are some reasons.

②In the US and some European countries, the social status of technologist and salary are much higher than those in Japan.

③And they have the efficient system that leads laboratories to market or business.

④ Now Japan is separated from a global trend called “a talented-people scramble.” We should consider the problem and make our system better.

by Tatsuki Tsukidate

Sources:

http://www.jcer.or.jp/column/kojima/index46.html

http://hisaku.rikoukei.co.jp


04
Feb

Tigers

1. The tiger is a mammal of the feline family. They are the largest feline.

2. Tigers live in a forest. They are not in a group.

3. Tigers hunt and eat insects and small animals. Sometimes they hunt a beast like a bear.

4. In recent years, tigers are put on a Red Data Book.

5. In other words tigers are on the verge of extinction.

6. That is because humans hunt them for fur. Hunters sell their fur at a high price.

7. We should protect them from danger.


Sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9

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Taisuke Tezuka

04
Feb

Hideyo Noguchi

1. Hideyo Noguchi was a famous Japanese bacteriologist.

2. He suffered a burn injury on his left hand when he was small.

His left fingers stuck together because he couldn’t consult a doctor.

3. Thanks to contribution from his teacher and friends, he was able to have an operation on his left hand. Then, he made the decision to become a doctor.

4. He acquired a doctor license at 20 years old and studied syphilis and yellow fever and so on. While working in Ghana, he was struck down by the yellow fever virus.

5. Dr. Noguchi’s portrait has been printed on 1000 yen paper currency since 2004.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo_Noguchi

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E5%8F%A3%E8%8B%B1%E4%B8%96

04
Feb

Global Warming

1. Now, ice gradually melts in the North Pole. The temperature has gone up.

2. My mother went to see “Nanu of the North Pole”. She told me “Since the ice is melting, food is decreasing too. Polar bears are endangered.”

3. The cause is global warming. The earth is surrounded by which doesn’t set heat free.

4. The element is included in automobile’s exhaust gas.

5. So, we should try to reduce the exhaust gas. All effort will bear fruit.

by Chisa Hirakawa

http://www.nanu.jp/

04
Feb

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels are fuels made of fossils that have been changed by pressure or heat for long years. Now almost all energy used is fossil fuel.

To use a lot of fuels causes various environmental problems.

Acid rain is one of them. It dissolves stones or bronze statue, and damages creatures.

What’s more, the gas which occures by use of fossil fuel causes global warming.

Fuel of the earth will run out in several decades. So now the development of new energy like solar energy is emphasized.