When I released the column about "Hatsune Miku", I found a comment on the web board, that is "Ebata was just the company provocateur".

_ I made a small talk unconsciously.

"Are you really silly?"

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Who (especially "I") made profits, how, where on earth by my columns?

I would like the person to tell "Do you have a pea-brain?”

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The other day, when I calculated the birth-rate in Japan with blood in my eye, my daughter asked me

"Did you get jobs from the Japanese government?”

Um... it makes a sense.

If the research organization of the government asked me to speak for another about what they never open by themselves, my daughter's question might be natural.

But unfortunately, I think it might be opposite.

I am afraid that the research engineers got mad with me, because I pointed out the problems in the white paper about the declining birth rates strategies.

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First of all, it is almost a subside attitude that the hired engineer wrote the nuclear accident in detail.

But the reason why I keep writing such dangerous columns is to inform my wife and daughters the facts.

If they say "we don't understand the accident", their father should be used to investigate the reasons and processed of the accident.

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When I accepted the column job, I declared the followings,

I choose themes, and

Nobody interrupts my decisions.

The other hand, I don't care "company provocateur". If asked, I am going to write any column.

I am not a journalist, so I am not interested in the moral hazard of journalism.

(Honestly speaking, I want to meet such persons who ask me the column)

But I am a just engineer, so I don't write atheoretical documents. To be precious, I can't write them.

We, engineers, had been completed not to be able to write atheoretical documents at all.

In a station, we often hear the phrase "Please refrain from rushing to get on a train".

I think this phrase should be applied for several fields.

"Please refrain from rushing to study or work"

I want someone give me the warring.

If they add the following word in the phrase,

"Unearned"

It is going to make it perfect.

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I really think that if I had used the time for more relax and enjoyable things, nor for trying unearned challenges, I could have been happier.

For example,

At the time I remember failure project, after entrance examination, after taking a test

After taking a test .

After taking a TOEIC.

(Continuation from yesterday)

Ebata:"In my case, I always come to like anything, and almost hang enthusiasm and time an I think I did something. But I have not made an effort to came to like "a human being" at all.

Daughter:"It is an opposite direction of the invention.

Well, "human being" is trouble, has many parameters, and non-linear.

Daughter:"It is O.K. So what am I doing?"

Ebata:"After all "study" is quick. It is readily fun, even if there is no "results" that is strange instrumentation, no "pass" that is weird border, and no "educational background" that is a kind of assets."

Daughter:"From the view of high school student, "study" is absolutely equal to "results", "pass" and "educational background", and we don't think anything except for them."

Ebata:"It might be true. I can agree with you. Well I sympathise with you."

Daughter:"I don't need your sympathy at all."

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"After all, if you can live your life with "what you like", the best way to realize is to like anything you are facing now."

"Of course, I know it is difficult, so I suggest that you make the "invention". If you fail, you can change the target and try to make it again."

"And,"

"You don't have to worry it seriously, because your life is not so long"

"Above all, even if you persist your life of "what you like to do", there is so much variation in your life."

Recently, the technology of physics simulation that can show them to a web browser has become amazing.

I came up with this technology and thought about the method to solve the problem of yesterday,

"It is impossible"

I finally decided the above.

First of all, I do not have time to master these techniques, and I judged that the condition was too complicated to make the physical model.

It cannot be helped, and I will try to make a simple model.

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By the way, at the present moment, there seems to be no one who tried to simulate the "railroad accident scene" as a physical model.

Old sight of both my wife and me, is progressing dynamically, as stated in my previous diary.

So, we can find "reading glasses(\100)" anywhere in my house.

However, whenever I read a newspaper in the living room and use the glasses on the desk, I am going to take it to my room.

As a result,

"There are a few glasses on my desk."

will occur.

I know that human beings cannot use more than two "glasses" at the same time, but this "glasses inflation" is meaningless.

This phenomenon stands out every weekend.

Because I am doing writings or experiments in my room all the day.

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So, every Monday morning, I present, not

"Double handful of flowers"

but

"Double handful of glasses"

to my wife,

with saying "this is for you, my dear wife",

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She looks like joyful, I think.

(Continuation from yesterday)

However, even if I cut down that big tree at a stroke, I have no place to put it and I can not secure my safety working.

So, I decided to take the strategy of cutting down at the end of the pine in units of 30 cm little by little (yearly).

However, if I do this with saw, it will take a long time and my fatigue will not be serious.

I investigate something good, and there is a household electric chain saw - not so expensive (6500 yen).

"Chainsaw", what I had only the image of it, is a special equipment of forestry workers, or a tool that "Jason" cuts a person on Friday,

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I immediately went to a nearby DIY shop and bought an electric chain saw and tried it,

"Trees of diameter 10 cm can be cut in 3 seconds"

This feeling is "to cut tofu".

It seems like a miracle because it took 20 minutes (including breaks) so far.

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This time, since I bought a chain saw just before I got home, I could not get enough time. However during this year-end and New Year holidays,

"Erase the masterpiece of my father's life at all"

It seems to be busy with the works.

This month, I was tossed by the system that has not worked.

I have witnessed several times at these scenes on the job.

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In these cases I keep telling my team colleagues:

"At this stage, I don't say "Don't overdo it"

"Just don't fall down. If you fall down, the work of other people will increase and other will also fall down after another."

"If you feel you will fall down, go to sleep for an extra two hours a day. As a general rule, don't come to the workplace for work you can do at home"

"I am not interested in your " health" at all. I'm just thinking about finishing the project"

"By the way, I don't adopt any idiots like "proving "working hard" by falling down""

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In addition, I add the followings.

"If you still have to fall down, scream "your responsibilities and the progress" before falling down"

"Never forgive you if you fall silently"

"Do "death cry" responsibility"

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This time I had a conversation like this.

Ebata: "I now take sleeping pills just before going to bed and then take a stabilizer in the morning to secure sleeping time"

When I disclosed my "sleeping" method, my colleague said to me

Colleague: "Mr. Ebata. I think that method is something wrong."

Today, new my column is released, so I take a day off.

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My company's research department has quite a few researchers, and each one of them is very good -- or rather, very serious.

It feels like if they are left alone, they will start studying, researching, calculating, and creating materials on their own.

Of course, I'm not saying it's "always a good thing".

This is because corporate research is a world where "the research will only make money".

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However, when I come across something I don't understand in the writing of a column, I am usually very grateful to find a specialist in that field.

On the other hand, my connections are smaller than the hole in the needle, so I don't get the full benefit of my company.

But the "rude junior" who appears at the end of my column finds the "specialist" from somewhere. It's a big help.

And the referred "specialists" are very helpful and willing to share their valuable time and compelling knowledge, based on years of their research.

Really, It feels like a

"jewel box of good intentions and knowledge".

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However, it is also true that there is a certain "protocol" for opening this "jewelry box".

To have a sincere courtesy and humility as one who is taught and

"To study (prep) to the best of my ability at that time"

This is an absolute requirement.

Conversely, it can be said that by doing the "maximum amount of study (prep)", the "courtesy" and "humility" will appear in the nature.

Is it too abstract?

Now, let's get specific.

"Read at least two or three technical books in the field, to the extent that the books are full of red hot underlines. After that request a visit"

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I would like to inform (some) of you in the media industry, who don't study in your own way, couldn't even write a mail with common sense and, don't even respond to my mail.

- I don't know what the protocol is in your world

- I'm not interested in that and I don't want to know that.

- But if you want to listen to me, go ahead and contact me according to our "protocol".

I want to just say that, though.

We Japanese tend to think that "only Japanese people are bad at English".

However, there are foreigners who are not loved by English language -- probably a lot of them.

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In September of this year, I was remotely presenting and auditing at an international conference.

The event started at 18:00 Japan time and ended at 02:00, which is an unbelievable time, however,

Still, considering that I had to get on a plane, stay in a hotel, have trouble with the menu at a restaurant, and listen to a lecture in my worst condition due to jet lag..., this is a

"Paradise"

In the questionnaire after the conference, I gave a rating of "5" on a 5-point scale when asked if I would like the conference to be held remotely in the future. I also mentioned this in the comments section.

Well, that's beside the point.

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At the conference, I was listening to a presentation by a young researcher (female) from Eastern Europe, who seemed unsure of herself, her voice was quiet, and her argument was not clear.

"Oh, this is a college student. And she's probably the type of guy who was pushed into doing a presentation by her professor.

I've seen it through.

So, as expected, she could not answer any of the questions from the chairperson (the chair of the session).

I experienced a painful time when I heard the chairperson telling the presenters who couldn't answer the question what the word "evaluate" meant, and the air was heavy.

This question period ended when time ran out, but it was a very bad aftertaste.

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The correct answer in this case is

"Even if I don't understand the question, I don't stay silent, I just go on and on with my bullshit answers in bullshit English"

This is practically the same thing as "silence".

However, the effect is that the audience will look at me with "guffaws", "ridicule" and "warm, kind eyes".

Also, "engineers who don't love English" like me can understand my strategy (use bullshit English, push through bullshit answers).

If it goes well, the session will be a lot of fun.

"Let me try a question, if the guy whose English is this bad is asking such dumb questions"

Such feeling seems to coming to the audience, I think.

As a result, the session I attended was so exciting that the delighted chairperson even took a commemorative photo remotely.

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The Engineer Who is not Loved by English" is useful internationally.

Lower the threshold of the "field" as much as possible to make everyone relax.

Of course, you have to be prepared to be a clown in public, but if you have the courage, you can do it.

After that time, no one will remember you.

I suddenly remembered that decades ago, a junior (female) in my seminar said

"I don't think I'm like this. I think I can do more."

I remember my senior daughter was also saying something similar about two years ago.

Speaking of me,

"I've never thought that"

As such, I can assure you.

--- Excerpts from past columns ---

I have simply continued to carry out the mission I was given (a difficult and troublesome mission that was far beyond my capabilities), crying my eyes out.

To be more specific: "Damn! I'm not going to lose in a place like this!" --- It's not that kind of powerful, positive, hard work. "I want to go back to Japan as soon as possible! I can't wait to get it over with and go back to Japan!" --- It is the hard work of a loser.

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And now I have considered the cause of the problem.

I believe that firstly, 'I lack the ability to make dispassionate judgments about my skills and resources.

And then, without being able to make accurate predictive calculations, they start to do things, and later on they seem to have "terrible regrets and failures".

And second, I seem to have "no learning ability" to forget their "terrible regrets and failures" in a relatively short period of time.

And then I repeat similar regrets and failures.

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While looking out codes for two projects at work, lectures and report submissions and a huge pile of papers piled up, in front of me,

'I hope World War III breaks out and the world is destroyed.'

now I am quite serious about it.

This happens about two or three times each year.

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I hope that the rulers of Russia and North Korea are not 'gutless' like me.

I wondered whether I should write about it, but I'm prepared to be thrown into a cauldron of simmering oil and try to describe it.

"We will pay North Korea 2 billion yen for the return of one abductee without any conditions attached."

I have looked to see if anyone is advocating such a solution, but at this time, I have not found one.

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One can cite any number of reasons why our government cannot take this step.

In a nutshell, this means that "our country will succumb to terrorism.

("Terrorism" makes it seem like there is a cause somewhere, so I would rather call this a "despicable and vicious nation.")

Such a solution (negotiations with a terrorist state) would seriously diminish the prestige of Japan as a nation governed by the rule of law.

Furthermore, it would mean providing military spending support to a nation that, in violation of UN resolutions, foolishly launches missiles that pass through the airspace of other nations without permission.

Reference: "K-kun's Story."

The worst-case scenario involves the abrogation of the Japan-U.S. Security Assurance Treaty and the collapse of the Japan-U.S.-South Korea military partnership.

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However, if you ask whether such cases have 'never happened before,' it is not so.

This is a typical case.

This time, I looked into it again and found out a lot.

(1) In 2003, the Democratic Party of Japan proposed the concept of a "Basic Law on Emergency Situations.

(2) since the "Basic Law on Emergency Situations" has not been passed, the current Japanese legal system lacks a clear legal basis for the government's discretionary authority in emergencies.

(3) From (1) and (2) above, government action in a state of emergency will depend on decisions and interpretations within the framework of existing laws and the Constitution.

Hmmm...I see. So, it seems the government is customarily authorized to enforce extra-legal measures, although it is not explicitly stated.

And so, I can say,

"If the government recognizes the abductions as a state of emergency, it is "logically possible" to "recover the North Korean abductees in exchange for ransom."

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I do not believe this solution is a good one.

It doesn't seem suitable for the Japanese people's national interest.

Besides, the possibility of North Korea agreeing to negotiations is entirely unknown.

Nevertheless, I think there should be at least one or two members of Congress who make these kinds of statements.

(A legislator may have made these statements if I did my research correctly. If you know of any, please let me know. Besides, I think the government (Cabinet Office or Ministry of Foreign Affairs) has probably already considered it.)

If we verbalize these stories, we, the people, will realize that 'the Diet is severe and has started to beat the government.

The only way I could think of to move the issue along was to 'send the whole country into flames once with a statement like this.

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I do not know how much the government is currently budgeting for the abduction issue.

So, in my way, I "turned the numbers around."

Assuming that every Japanese person will bear 10,000 yen for this issue at one time only, 125.7 billion people x 10,000 yen = 1.257 trillion yen.

1.257 trillion yen (1257 billion yen ÷ 2 billion yen) = 628.5 persons.

Currently, the number of North Korean abductees officially recognized by the Japanese government is 17.

Some private institutions have suggested that the number is 470.

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I am prepared to accept the criticism that "Ebata's proposal is too wild, straightforward, simplistic, and low.

However, most of the public, myself included, does not understand the difficulty and complexity of this issue.

I have a hard time watching the news by biting my tongue.

Then, how about starting from "here," even if it is "wild, straightforward, simple, and low"?