コロンバイン高校の銃声　エレファント 

Today,
I watched a movie,Elephant
that deal with the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre.
The director is Gus Van Sant.
He got prestigious 2003 Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes
through this movie.
Elephant.jpg



Do you know about the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre???
Two students at Columbine High School killed one teacher and 12 other students.
They wounded many others.
After the attack,the offender killed themselves soon.
So their motive remains unknown.

The plot and the camera work is unique and great.
The movie represents the fact calmly.

after seeing this movie,
you might feel down but should drop into deep thought.
Yes.
"Thought-provoking" is the exact word for this movie.

Are you interested in American Society?
Well then, maybe you should see the movie.

All Today 

three days ago,
My parents went back home from Hokkaido.
They went to the wedding that held at Sapporo.
And so i was ble to get fresh crabs as the gift.

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Yes,
it was very good.

My parents told me that
The airport at Sapporo was strictly guarded.
Can you get the reason?
Because,
A G8 summit will be held in Toyako, Hokkaido from July 7th.
It seems that World leaders will discuss
the world economy, environmental concerns, African development and so on...

I wish the summit complete without incident.
I'm afraid that terrorists attack.


行儀のよい日本人旅行者 

One of the on-line tour company, Expedia released
the best tourists ranking in the world today.
It seems that,
More than 4,000 hoteliers provided opinions on the best overall travelers.

Surprinsingly,
The Japanese won top prize
and are considered as overall the best tourists
German and British tourists got second place.

Expedia say
that Japanese is very well-mannered and polite tourist.

Americans are considered the most generous,
but they are also considered to be noisy tourists... (--;)

The French and Italian are considered fashionable tourist.
But a lot of french tourist don't try to speak local language
and they are consider stingy people.

Seeing this reslut,
I guess "this is the national character,isn't it ?"

I reccomend you to click the site
Expedia.co.jp



秋葉原の連続殺人に思うこと 

事件から約一週間たち、
報道もだいぶ落ち着いてきた。

なんというか、ショックな事件でしたね。ほんと。

今回もそうだが、最近の若者の通り魔事件で
「誰でもよかった」という発言がよくでてくる。
この発言について考えてみた。

犯人は、学歴に対する劣等感や人間関係での孤独感を味わっていた。
そして、派遣先の会社でのトラブルが事件への引き金となった。

戦争みたいな極限下だと、
人間は信じられない行動をとったりするのと同じように、
厳しい社会は人を狂気に走らせるのかもしれない。

犯人はきっと、社会から疎外されていると感じたんだろう。
日本のような厳しい競争社会の中で疎外されたということは、
生存競争に負けたということ。
生きる資格を剥奪されたということ。
だから社会が自分を殺そうとしていると錯覚したのだろう。

社会競争の中では、実際の戦争のようにはっきり敵は見えない。
だから「社会」という見えない敵に憎悪し、
誰でもいいから傷つけてやろうと思うんじゃないだろうか。
つまり、
敵が「誰だかわからなかった」だから「誰でもよかった」のではないか。

近年日本で、自殺率が上昇しているのも、関係があるように思える。
疎外されたと感じた人には、
�ー�分に絶望して、自殺する人
�⊆匆颪鯀�悪して、人殺しに走る人
の二つがあるんじゃないかな。
どっちに動くかは、それぞれ個人の性格や環境により異なるのだろうけど。

理解しがたい事件ではあるけど、
他人事ではないな、と思いました。




高層スラム　九龍城砦とは 

Have you heard about The Kowloon Walled City(九龍城砦）?

The Kowloon Walled City is big slum in outskirts of Hong Kong.
This slum was called the Casbah of the East,Asian gamble den.
And notorious for its excess of brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlours...

However,
The Kowloon Walled City was not normal slum.
The slum was composed of a lot of bank building.
Unplanned construction make it complex slum labyrinth...

九龍城


The Kowloon Walled city was originally military fortress.
When Britain made Hong Kong British colony,
the Kowloon became the enclave like buffer zone.
After WW��,
A lot of refugee flowed in the city.
So in 1990
it had 50,000 inhabitants on 0.026 km²,
making it one of the most densely populated urban areas on Earth.

This slum don't exest now.
In 1993,
China government torn down the walled city
and make it changed to the park.

When i lived in Hong Kong,
The Kowloon Walled City had not yet broken down.
I feel strange.


九龍城02