
今から写真を撮るために外で歩こうと思う。。。
The title of my training session last week was the Mind Gym. It was really interesting. It's a new way expand how you think and wake your mind up. Super creative. Those of you who are English speakers should check it out. I bought the book today.
今日代々木公園に行きました。とても面白い事を見ましたよ。8人の男の人はエルビスのままでアメリカの1950代のロックに踊っていました。ずっと革の衣服を着ているし、髪の毛のスタイルはスゴク大きだったんだー。日本ので珍しいだと思っていた。
Kirsten
3月24日のDaily Yomiuri Shimbunを読みながら、あきばのメイド献血センターを見つけました。 あそこでメイドさんは手のマッサージサービスをします。気もしわる意だね。メイドカフェはひどいけどメイド献血センターはちょっと非論理的だと思います。セックスと献血が混ざらないだと思います。理由があって、1993年に献血者は721万人だって、2003年に562万人になりますた。日本は少子高年齢化で重大な問題けど献血者を増すのためにセックシーな事をするのはちょっと。。。
I was perusing the March 24th edition of The Daily Yomiuri Shimbun (Newspaper) when I came accross something that makes me question ethics. I don't know if you have heard of maid cafes in Akihabara in Tokyo. Here is a link to one of the websites. In maid cafes the waitresses are all young and cute and wearing french maid uniforms. They greet the customers as a husband who has just returned home. That itself is a little distubing to me. But a blood donation clinic in the tech-geek capital of Tokyo, Akihabara, has started having "maids" who give hand massages to encourage the tech geeks to donate blood. Should they be using sex to get blood for needy people? Imagine all the lewd looks the girls drawing blood get. One word DIRTY! They have a reason for doing so. In 1993 the number of blood donors was 7,210,000 but in 2003 the number had fallen to 5,620,000. In a rapidly aging society that is serious trouble. But using sex to encourage people to donate blood?!?!?!?
Kirsten
A joint venture between the large securities firm Nikko Cordial Securities and Lawson in July 2004 saw the convenience store operator open a branch inside
Nikko’s brokerage office. The branch distinguishes itself by featuring an impressive 13m2 screen shared by both businesses. The giant screen tracks investment programs and lists various stock and financial information, thus encouraging possibly risk-shy middle-aged and mature investors to seek financial advice in the non-threatening sales environment of the friendly combini....This also reflects a wider shift in Japan, with consumers reexamining
their personal definition of what’s valuable and worth their money. This new trend would find it logical to drive to a combini in a brand new European sports car to buy a 500yen ($5) bento lunch.The peculiar mix of factors that is modern Japan may be the perfect environment for convenience stores to grow. The shortage of physical space, the lack of concern over customer satisfaction with government agencies such as the national post office (where you can’t even buy envelopes people, envelopes!), and the loneliness of a workaholic nation attracted to the warm, midnight glow of the combini make these stores the most highly tuned, rapidly evolving stores, possibly on the planet.
Kirsten