“All priority seats” is the concept for more people such as elderly and handicapped passengers; however, Hankyu Railway already did away with it, because of ineffectiveness to give up a seat.

Yokohama Subway still continue it, carried out a customers survey, some opinion is, “I think I don’t need to give up my seat.” or “Sitting is difficult for younger.”

Each people should know the concept, and should improve their consciousness, I think.

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2. Evans is 17 years old and he has brothers. Their house is very dirty.

3. Their parents died of AIDS and they had watched their mother die.

4. Evan stopped going to school to make enough money to feed his siblings.

5. He does not think about future because he simply does not believe he has one.

6. There are 700,000 orphans in Malawi because their parents died of AIDS.

by Risa Nishizawa

sources

http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/special/malawi/index.asp

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

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A4

2.  Neglecting, namely not taking care of children is also child abuse.

3.  In Japan, about 381,000 child abuse cases were reported in 2006. Every year, the number is increasing more and more.

4.  Why do such sad things happen? People who work to prevent child abuse think that extraordinary stress –for example, poverty, divorce, sickness or disability of a child and lack of parental skills are major causes of child abuse.

5.  The tendency that people who were abused in childhood will become child abuser is found.

6.    Therefore, child abuse will increase more and more, if we       don’t try to stop it from now.

Sources

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

http://www.mhlw.go.jp/houdou/2007/07/h0710-3.html

②    It said that the history of a motorcycle began in the middle of 1800s in France.

③    The first motorbike was not powered by petrol engine. It was powered by steam engine.

④    For good mobility, it was improved greatly during the world war Ⅱ.

⑤    But with the spread of cars, motorcycle market becomes slumped.

⑥    Now, motorcycles are not used practically without such purpose as delivery service and police motorcycle in Japan. Many people purchase and ride on motorcycles as their hobby.

Sources

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

http://www.bikez.com/

http://www.bikez.jp/howto/howto_setumei_01.html