Japanese Man Marries with Virtual Reality Hologram Hatsune Miku

News Resource:
Japanese man ‘marries’ virtual reality singer Hatsune Miku hologram -- Japan Times

I've heard many negative and emotional responses about this "incident" and Mr. Kondo. Those mainly are like: what sickness and trouble with this man that he went to find real love in virtual reality... and what's wrong with "Japan" (they didn't mention in what particular element of Japan, they just said "Japan": how abstract that is...). But, can we conclude this with just a matter of falling in love with virtual reality hologram, and is it a problem in only Japan? Let me blur my thoughts with this perspective:

Among men who fall in love with women hologram in the world of virtual reality, there are two types.

Type 1: Men who only interest in virtual reality, not real women.

Type2: Men who interest in real women (as human), but had traumatic experiences in attempt of making human relationship in their past, yet went virtual reality to experience "something nearest to loving women" instead. They, as who do not know what is loving real women, define that "something" as love.

For Type 1, we do not need to worry about. They only look at holograms, not real women, means that virtual reality comes as the priority. Just leave them alone, and they will be happy forever. They are one form of diversity, as Mr. Kondo commented in the article, and we need to respect such diversity.

For Type 2 are who we need to be careful of.  For them, virtual reality comes as the secondary, and real women still remain as the priority. But, who they experienced were only virtual reality. Low self esteem, rooted from their traumatic experiences, will not make any challenging spirit in making a girlfriend as a real human. But, they suffer with the dilemma that they still are in thirst of making relationships with real humans. But, they assume that real humans will not accept them. In some cases, such assuming will make curse in them against real human. When their curse explodes, they will go violent against the humans. Such violence, in many cases, towards against relatively powerless being (in physical aspect), women and kids. For sure not all of Type 2 people commit with such violence, but looking back history of crimes that we know of, we can't deny that there's a potential.

And now, let me say once again, "can we conclude this with just a matter of falling in love with virtual reality hologram, and is it a problem in only Japan?". (Note: I have lived in the US more than a decade and felt that I more often see people like Type 2 in Japan than in the US, but I can't be sure; there's no statistics to prove. But, if you ask any other Japanese people around you, most of them will agree with me).

There is a video provided by Al Jazeera English about this "incident", seeing this makes me think as he is Type 2 person.

This 35-year-old Japanese man spent $17,600 on his wedding to the hologram of a virtual reality pop star named Hatsune Miku. -- Al Jazeera English on Twitter

In the video, Mr. Kondo comments as: "For now, we can't touch or hold a conversation with a virtual character yet. But I think it's just a matter of time before technology allows us to do so".

What does he expect by being able to touch or make a conversation with her? There can't not be anything except feeling of human.... because, how can he expect anything else other than human? If he expects something else other than human, and if he can clearly explain his expectations in details, he can win a nobel prize.

17 Foreign Detainees Locked up for 24 Hours in a Room for 6 at Japanese Immigration Bureau

News Resource:
Foreigners Locked for 24 Hours at Osaka Immigration Facility -- Jiji Press

Maltreatment of foreign detainees by Japanese Immigration Bureau has been one of the latest exposure that collects public attention in Japan. This is another example.

In this case, taken place at the Osaka Immigration Bureau, 17 detainees were locked up for 24 hours in a room with capacity of 6 people. According to the article, the reason of locking them up is: detainees refused to leave the six-person room even though they were told to go back to their own rooms after their free time ended. What I see as the problem is the comment made by the bureau, according to the article, as: the measure of locking them up in the room was appropriate.
becuase of  "to keep order" after their belligerent acts, such as jeering.

Room capacity is generally set by the safety concern to prevent the physical danger of ones stay inside. If they locked up numbers of humans in a room almost 3 times of the capacity, for the considerable length of 24 hours, and they say it as an appropriate measure...., it means that they do not secure the safety of detainees in the facility. Here, we see the bureau lacks a safety management in the facility, and they seem not to be mindful about such lacking.

 If the detainees' act or attitude troubled the bureau officers, they have to make measures to 1) cease the act and attitude under their guideline (I wonder if they have one though, and if so, the problem goes bigger) then 2) make the detainees return back to where they were. If the bureau does not have a resource for doing 1) and 2), they shouldn't let 17 detainees gathered in one place. Here we see the bureau lacks a risk management of when the situation becomes beyond their capacity to handle.

Also, in this case, locking up the detainee seems the penalty assessed by the officers personally. But the officers do not have an authority to do so. Here, we see the officers' sense of the authority is distorted.

The bureau officers need trainings of logical, systematical, and efficient skill in safety and risk management, so they will not need to make any self-made penalty with their distorted sense of authority.

The last thing to add: during the detainees being locked up in the room, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit Osaka area.

Drunk Japan Airlines Pilot arrested in Heathrow after attempt being on board

News Resource 1/2:
Japan Airlines pilot detained in London after drinking alcohol before Tokyo flight --Japan Times

News Resource 2/2 (Japanese only):
Video of ANN news (Japanese) --ANNnewsCH via YouTube

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The pilot must be a superhuman if he can operate the airplane without a trouble after consuming alcohol exceeding of the legal limit significantly. And believing himself as a superhuman, in fact he's not, has him end up in the jail.

But the real darkness of this incident is, according to the ANN news video (in Japanese), he passed through the Japan Airlines' (JAL) internal pre-flight alcohol check. In this way, it is a organizational crime, with the lack of administrative righteousness. And the organization is the flagship carrier of my country....

The Japan Times article says: "JAL normally operates long-haul routes connecting Japan with the United States or Europe with three pilots in the cockpit — two captains and a copilot — so that they can take breaks in turn.". If the drunken pilot takes higher position than the other two in any social extent, or simply older, he could tell other two to operate the airplane all the way to Tokyo, so he can rest himself for the entire flight. Knowing that nature, JAL let him go for the flight??.... Just trying to undo the mystery with my imagination. But it will officially be investigated and sooner or later.

By the way, JAL was once bankrupt in 2010. Their reconstruction was made with the financial aid of 350 billion JPY (approx. 3.5 billion USD) from the national fund.

Happy Halloween from Japan

For the last 10 years, tradition of Halloween has rapidly been popularized, rather in the performing aspect than the spiritual aspect, in Japan as a party day for young people. News on TV this morning for most of the major nationwide channels headlined about the party people in Shibuya scramble and how crazy they partied…. It was the same last year and the year before and so on… Aren’t there more important things to broadcast? What is journalism for them?

What Halloween in Japan is like:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/tag/halloween/
Source: The Japan Times

Japan to terminate ODA provision for China

News Resource:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/23/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-turn-off-oda-spigot-china-projects-sources-say/#.W8_CxKEUmPw

China has surpassed Japan in GDP since 2010. It's shocking to know that the government of Japan, as the largest debtor nation of the world, budgets ODA provisions for the nation with larger economic power....

Is Japan the "Fraud Heaven" of Lucubration?

News Resource:
Researcher at the center of an epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him - sciencemag.org

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Once again with the issue of fact manipulation, similar to the one in the earlier post. But this time, it's taken place in the academic field instead of the bureaucracy. What the article says: an investigation team of British and Aussie scientists suspected of a Japanese scientist for repeatedly issuing fraud lucubration with unrealistic facts of research conditions. The team requested further investigations to the Japanese publisher of the lucubration, however the publisher denied the investigation request.


We cannot always live in our society with the ethical doctrine that all humans are without evil, because we've seen more than enough evils of humans in our own history. To prevent the evils taking practical actions and harming our living environment, we need an observatory force from the third party. However, in the Japanese academic field (as well as the bureaucracy), there seems no observatory function to stop the rampage of such frauds. Such nature will lead citizens to be clueless in trusting the society....

Citizens Furiously Reacted to the Lawmaker Mio Sugita, Said LGBT People are Unproductive

News Resource:
LDP lawmaker Mio Sugita faces backlash after describing LGBT people as ‘unproductive’ - japantimes.co.jp

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Mio Sugita is a female lawmaker, belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan. What she meant as "unproductive" is the matter of giving birth. Such statement violates the basic human right of not only LGBT but also anyone who do not "produce" with any reason.

Also, another horror read in the article is the statement made by Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party; "Different people have different views, let alone their political positions". Regardless of what political party they belong to, can we let alone this kind of freedom that potentially leads to violate the basic human right? Definitely no. Then, what can we imagine about Sugita making a low by utilizing her freedom of political view...., operating national "human mills" and locking up all LGBTs there, like how nasty bleeders run lousy puppy mills??

Japanese Ministries Reported Tampered Data about Employment of Disables for over 40 Years

News Resource;
Japan ministries may have fiddled numbers of disabled employees: media -- reuters.com

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For over 40 years, the Japanese ministries have reported tampered data about numbers of disabled employees. Actual employment has of course been less than reported.

When a person tries to gain understandings of something, refering statistical data is one secure and exact way. But, what if the statistics was tampered, and what if it was a matter of basic human rights, and what it was done by our administrators... What can we, as citizens, believe then?

Tokyo Medical University Intentionally Lowerd Female Exam Scores

News Resource:
Tokyo Medical University 'changed female exam scores' - bbc.com

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A scandal of Tokyo Medical University was recently revealed that they had intentionally lowered the female exam scores at their entrance exams for years, for securing more male students.

This is one example of gender inequality that men are thought as more effective labour force than women, since women potentially give birth, quit job then become housewives. With such inequality, having a difficulty to enter the college, we can imagine about their situations in getting jobs...

Another obstacle for Japanese women, especially for working mom, is insufficient infrastructure. Capacity of the child care in many urban area is far smaller than the child population. This causes numbers of capable mothers to quit their jobs and be housewives. On the other side, the Japanese medical industry has been afflicted with the shortage of human resources, especially for doctors (see statistics here: it's 2013's but current situation hasn't been changed much). To avoid further shortfall, the solution that the university came up is limiting the number of female doctors.

For this particular case, the conflict between insufficient infrastructure for working moms and shortfall of labour in the medical industry is the mechanism of the gender inequality.

Japanese High School Forced a Student to Dye Her Natural Hair Black

News Resource:
Japanese Teen Says School Told Her to Dye Her Natural Hair Black or Drop Out - Time.com

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Complete lack of basic human right of one keeping his/her natural physical apperance. Does the school expects all Japanese people must have black hair??

Another shock is that this happened in the public school.

I remember that my cousin's highschool only allowed two kinds of hair style: shaved or slightly longer resembles to buzz-cut. It was over 20 years though... His high school was private school established by one of the highest ranked Buddhist priest. That sounds like the school only allows wannabies of Buddhist monks...

Introduction

This blog mainly supplies a curation of the internet news resources about the dark realities of the Japanese society, mostly about how the authority oppresses the relatively powerless citizens "in the Japanese way". The oppressing "authority" does not always mean the government or any large-scale administrative party. It can be anyone who can relatively be stronger than others with their social role: supervisors at work, teachers, parents, coaches in sport teams, and etc.

Following this blog, you will find numbers of gauntlet cases that harm, exploit, and consume the peaceful life of citizens, caused by the nonchalance of individual human rights.

Please note that I am not a naysayer about anything Japan offers; this country of course has plenty of "bright side" that has enriched many people's life here. But since you might have already been inputted about those by other media resources or your Japanese friends around, so I go with introducing the "dark side" that you probably have much less opportunities to be informed.

Please also note that though lots of political topics may be raised in this blog, neither I do not intend this blog supporting any of existing political activities nor I personally do not support any political party in or out of Japan. I am just a boatman of the information.

The author of this blog is a Japanese man in his early middle-age. He spent about one third of his entire life out of the country (somewhere in the democratic Western world) who once viewed his own country with the perspective from the outside world.