Recently Yomiuri News reported the following:
「日本国内（の業務）で全部、英語なんてバカな話はない」――。ホンダの伊東孝紳社長は２０日の記者会見で、社内共通語を英語にする考えに否定的な考えを示した。
国内企業では、インターネットサービス大手の楽天が先月、２０１２年中に社内で英語を公用語とする方針を打ち出した。 ユニクロを展開するファーストリテイリングも、外国人社員を交えた会議や海外店への文書を原則、２０１２年３月から英語に統一する予定だ。自動車業界では、仏ルノーと資本・業務提携している日産自動車が役員会などで英語を使用し、書類の日英併記などを進めている。
"It is not all foolish to speak English inside Japan (when doing business)", President Takashi Ito of Honda at the press conference on the 20th showed a negative attitude towards the idea of making English completely an in-house common language.
Among the domestic enterprises, Rakuten the major company in Internet service had come up with a policy last month that English would become the official language in-house by 2012 .
Fast Retailing that developed Uniqlo also planned to set the principle that in conferences that were for the exchange of ideas with foreigner employees and in documents sent to an overseas shops, English had to be used uniformly starting from March 2012. In the car industry, Nissan Motor Co. that had formed a tie-up with French Renault in capital and in business, had used English in board of directors meetings, and parallel writing in Japanese-English in documents was in progress.
Japanese company employees would be more busy in learning English to help them doing business. This arrangement would help connect Japan with the English speaking business world.
2010年7月30日 星期五
The China White Paper 1949 (XXV)
Having noted the development in Changchun and the general situation in China, General Marshall felt that the National government had inadvertently given the CCP opportunities to point an accusing finger at them on several occasions. They included (i) the situation in Hankow (杭州) where a large amount of National government forces had surrounded the Communist troops (ii) the Nationalists violated the cease-fire agreement in moving troops into Chihfen in Jehol Province (iii) the National government shut down the Communist newspaper in Peiping and searched the homes of CCP personnel (iv) the Nationalist authority in Canton (廣東) refused to recognize the existence of Communist troops in the province, and (v) the detention of CCP field team personnel at the airfield in Mukden (瀋陽). General Marshall regarded these action by the Nationalist government as stupid that would not benefit the Nationalist but arouse the suspicion of CCP and thus eroded the basis of co-operation. General Marshall held the pinion that originally KMT had an opportunity to settle the matter in Manchuria peacefully, but now the Communist took advantage of the situation and became stronger everyday. Militarily the Nationalist was in a dangerous situation because it had over-stretched its forces.1 (to be continued)
Note:
1.United States, Department of State. The China White Paper-August 1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967, page 151.
Note:
1.United States, Department of State. The China White Paper-August 1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967, page 151.
2010年7月28日 星期三
The China White Paper 1949 (XXIV)
Russian's delay in withdrawal had helped the Chinese Communists' penetration into Manchuria. They were even able to take over weapon stores left behind by the surrendered Japanese with the direct or indirect help of the Russians. This situation gave people inside the Nationalist government who were suspicious of the CCP an excuse to reject political solutions offered by the Communists. On the other hand, one area that the Communists had accused the National government was the transportation of National Government troops using American transportation. On April 15, 1946, when Russians troops had just withdrawn, Communist troops attacked Changchuan (長春) and captured it three days later. This incident gave some anti-communist people inside the National government a reason to support their radical political viewpoints. According to this White Paper, the military success of the Communists in Changchuan area had been benefited from the military equipment taken over from the Japanese which included medium artillery and tanks. (to be continued)
Note:
1.United States, Department of State. The China White Paper-August 1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967, pages 147-150.
Note:
1.United States, Department of State. The China White Paper-August 1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967, pages 147-150.
2010年7月25日 星期日
The China White Paper 1949(XXIII)
After the cease-fire agreement of January 10th was signed, General Marshall noticed that trouble could happen in Manchuria and the situation there could erode the confidence between CCP and the Nationalist government. The armed forces of both parties might clash when they competed to occupy the vacuum left behind by the Russian troops after withdrawing from China. Russian's continued delay in withdrawal from Manchuria began to add to the suspicion of the Nationalist government that the Russians were helping CCP. At this moment the National government was determined to occupy Manchuria totally. The Russian withdrawal was started on April 6, 1946 and completed by April 29. When they had left, the Nationalist government found that they had difficulties to transport enough troops to occupy the area soon enough to prevent the occupation by the Communist. One reason was that such action was delayed by the Russian who refused to allow the Nationalists to use Dairen as the port of entry. (to be continued)
Note:
1.United States, Department of State. The China White Paper-August 1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967, pages 145-7.
Note:
1.United States, Department of State. The China White Paper-August 1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967, pages 145-7.
2010年7月23日 星期五
東北大学研究大容量電視錄影
Recently the Yomiuri News reported the following:
東北大学とソニーは２０日、テレビ録画などに使われる大容量光ディスク「ブルーレイ」より２０倍以上も記憶容量が大きい次世代光ディスク向けの小型レーザー光源を開発したと発表した。
高精細なハイビジョン映像はブルーレイでも映画２、３本しか録画できないが、この技術を応用すると、５０本以上を記録できる計算で、数年内の実用化をめざす。 光ディスクに情報を記録するには、強いレーザー光を断続的に当て、１と０のデジタル信号を書き込む。記録容量を増やすには、より小さな面積に信号を高速で書き込み、光も強くしなければならない。
このような光は長さ１メートル弱、価格１０００万円以上の実験装置でしか作れないため、これまではテレビの録画機に組み込めなかった。開発陣は既存のブルーレイのレーザー発光素子を基に、強さ１００ワット以上のレーザー光を１秒間に１０億回も繰り返し出せる能力にした上で、長さ約２センチまで小型化することに成功した。
On the 20th Tohoku University and Sony announced that they had developed a small laser beam source for the next generation optical disk that compared to the large memory capacity mass optical disk "Blue ray" now used for the television recording, the capacity was over 20 times larger.
They aimed at achieving practical use within several years. Now with blue ray recording only 2 and 3 movies in high-definition television image was possible, by calculation, to use this technology 50 or more could be recorded. A strong laser beam was intermittently applied to record information in the optical disk, and the digital signal of 1 and 0 was written. It was necessary to make the light stronger, and to write the signal in a smaller area at high speed so as to increase storage capacity.
As the pilot machine that could make such light was slightly less 1 meter in length and with a price tag of over 10 million yen, it could not be fitted into the television recording machines now we had. The development team based on existing blue ray laser light emission element aimed at achieving the laser strength of 100 watts or more, and in a second that could repeat operation as many as one billion times, and miniaturizing it up to about two centimeters in length.
Its seems that Japan is still taking the lead in the research and development of laser disk technology.
東北大学とソニーは２０日、テレビ録画などに使われる大容量光ディスク「ブルーレイ」より２０倍以上も記憶容量が大きい次世代光ディスク向けの小型レーザー光源を開発したと発表した。
高精細なハイビジョン映像はブルーレイでも映画２、３本しか録画できないが、この技術を応用すると、５０本以上を記録できる計算で、数年内の実用化をめざす。 光ディスクに情報を記録するには、強いレーザー光を断続的に当て、１と０のデジタル信号を書き込む。記録容量を増やすには、より小さな面積に信号を高速で書き込み、光も強くしなければならない。
このような光は長さ１メートル弱、価格１０００万円以上の実験装置でしか作れないため、これまではテレビの録画機に組み込めなかった。開発陣は既存のブルーレイのレーザー発光素子を基に、強さ１００ワット以上のレーザー光を１秒間に１０億回も繰り返し出せる能力にした上で、長さ約２センチまで小型化することに成功した。
On the 20th Tohoku University and Sony announced that they had developed a small laser beam source for the next generation optical disk that compared to the large memory capacity mass optical disk "Blue ray" now used for the television recording, the capacity was over 20 times larger.
They aimed at achieving practical use within several years. Now with blue ray recording only 2 and 3 movies in high-definition television image was possible, by calculation, to use this technology 50 or more could be recorded. A strong laser beam was intermittently applied to record information in the optical disk, and the digital signal of 1 and 0 was written. It was necessary to make the light stronger, and to write the signal in a smaller area at high speed so as to increase storage capacity.
As the pilot machine that could make such light was slightly less 1 meter in length and with a price tag of over 10 million yen, it could not be fitted into the television recording machines now we had. The development team based on existing blue ray laser light emission element aimed at achieving the laser strength of 100 watts or more, and in a second that could repeat operation as many as one billion times, and miniaturizing it up to about two centimeters in length.
Its seems that Japan is still taking the lead in the research and development of laser disk technology.
2010年7月22日 星期四
金賢姬會見横田的家人
Recently the Yomiuri News reported the following:
１９７７年１１月に新潟の海岸から拉致された横田めぐみさん（当時１３歳）の両親が２１日夕、長野県軽井沢町の鳩山由紀夫・前首相の別荘を訪れ、大韓航空機爆破事件の実行犯、金賢姫(キムヒョンヒ)・元北朝鮮工作員（４８）と初めて面会した。
「めぐみについて、わざわざ話すために来られたので、ゆっくりお会いしたい」
父親の滋さん（７７）と母親の早紀江さん（７４）は、この日昼過ぎ、新潟県聖籠(せいろう)町での講演でそう語り、講演後、車で約３時間かけて軽井沢町に移動すると、来日２日目の金元工作員と夕食をともにしながら、３時間余りにわたって懇談した。めぐみさんの弟で双子の拓也さん（４１）、哲也さん（４１）も同席した。
政府関係者によると、夕食をはさんでの懇談は「時間の制限なく、心ゆくまま語り合ってもらうため」。「妊娠中のめぐみさんに会った」と証言している金元工作員が、横田さん一家にどんな話をしたのかが注目される。横田夫妻は２２日朝、近くのホテルで記者会見し、会談の概要を説明する。
In the evening on the 21st parents of Megumi Yokota (13 years old at that time) who was abducted from the coast in Niigata in November 1977 visited the villa that belonged to Yukio Hatoyama the former prime minister in the Nagano Prefecture Karuizawa-cho to meet for the first time the former North Korea agent provocateur (48) Kim Hyon Hui (Hyon Hui the Kim), the direct perpetrator of the bombing of a KAL airliner.
"Purposely I am able to come to speak about Megumi, and I want to do the meeting slowly. "
Father Shigeru (77) and mother Norie (74) in the afternoon on that day gave such a talk at Seiro of Niigata Prefecture, and after saying that, they went to Karuizawa by car for three hours, to chat more than three hours while having supper with Kim the former agent provocateur who was on her second-day visit in Japan. Megumi's twin brother Takuya (41) and Tetsuya (41) also sat next to them.
According to people related to the government, the chat took place when they enjoyed the supper "in order to have a satisfying and fulfilling discussion, there were no limit on time ". While what story Kim the former agent provocateur had said would attracted attention, the Yokota family was told "the pregnant Megumi was met". Mr. and Mrs. Yokota would hold a press conference at the nearby hotel on the morning of the 22nd, and to explain the outline of their talking.
In Japan, abduction done by its unruly neighbouring country is always a nightmare, on top of the missile testing, atomic bomb testing etc.
１９７７年１１月に新潟の海岸から拉致された横田めぐみさん（当時１３歳）の両親が２１日夕、長野県軽井沢町の鳩山由紀夫・前首相の別荘を訪れ、大韓航空機爆破事件の実行犯、金賢姫(キムヒョンヒ)・元北朝鮮工作員（４８）と初めて面会した。
「めぐみについて、わざわざ話すために来られたので、ゆっくりお会いしたい」
父親の滋さん（７７）と母親の早紀江さん（７４）は、この日昼過ぎ、新潟県聖籠(せいろう)町での講演でそう語り、講演後、車で約３時間かけて軽井沢町に移動すると、来日２日目の金元工作員と夕食をともにしながら、３時間余りにわたって懇談した。めぐみさんの弟で双子の拓也さん（４１）、哲也さん（４１）も同席した。
政府関係者によると、夕食をはさんでの懇談は「時間の制限なく、心ゆくまま語り合ってもらうため」。「妊娠中のめぐみさんに会った」と証言している金元工作員が、横田さん一家にどんな話をしたのかが注目される。横田夫妻は２２日朝、近くのホテルで記者会見し、会談の概要を説明する。
In the evening on the 21st parents of Megumi Yokota (13 years old at that time) who was abducted from the coast in Niigata in November 1977 visited the villa that belonged to Yukio Hatoyama the former prime minister in the Nagano Prefecture Karuizawa-cho to meet for the first time the former North Korea agent provocateur (48) Kim Hyon Hui (Hyon Hui the Kim), the direct perpetrator of the bombing of a KAL airliner.
"Purposely I am able to come to speak about Megumi, and I want to do the meeting slowly. "
Father Shigeru (77) and mother Norie (74) in the afternoon on that day gave such a talk at Seiro of Niigata Prefecture, and after saying that, they went to Karuizawa by car for three hours, to chat more than three hours while having supper with Kim the former agent provocateur who was on her second-day visit in Japan. Megumi's twin brother Takuya (41) and Tetsuya (41) also sat next to them.
According to people related to the government, the chat took place when they enjoyed the supper "in order to have a satisfying and fulfilling discussion, there were no limit on time ". While what story Kim the former agent provocateur had said would attracted attention, the Yokota family was told "the pregnant Megumi was met". Mr. and Mrs. Yokota would hold a press conference at the nearby hotel on the morning of the 22nd, and to explain the outline of their talking.
In Japan, abduction done by its unruly neighbouring country is always a nightmare, on top of the missile testing, atomic bomb testing etc.
2010年7月20日 星期二
金賢姬探訪日本(II)
Recently the NHK News reported the following:
ただし政府は、警備上の問題があるとして滞在日程を非公開とする方針で、記者会見なども行われない見通しです。キム・ヒョンヒ元死刑囚の入国にあたっては、２つの課題がありました。１つは、北朝鮮の工作員だったキム元死刑囚が、１９８７年に起きた大韓航空機爆破事件の実行犯として韓国当局に逮捕されたあと、裁判で死刑判決を受けていることです。出入国管理法では、１年以上の懲役もしくは禁固刑が確定した外国人の日本への上陸を認めていないため、入国にあたっては特例措置をとる必要がありました。この点について政府は「キム元死刑囚の来日が、拉致問題の進展につながる可能性がある」として法務大臣の裁量で入国を特別に許可することを決めました。また、キム元死刑囚は爆破事件の際、「蜂谷真由美」という日本人名義の偽造旅券を使っていた疑いが持たれているため、通常であれば入国にあたって日本の警察当局による事情聴取の対象となります。これについて警察当局は、面会を実現させたい政府の意向を優先し、事情聴取は見送る方針です。
However, because of security problems government's decision was to assume the whole period of the stay to be closed-door, no press conference would be held.There were two problems concerning entering the country by Hyon Hui Kim the former condemned. One was that Kim as a former condemned prisoner and a North Korean agents that had received the death sentence in a trial by South Korea authorities after she was arrested for being the direct perpetrator of the bombing of a KAL airliner occurred in 1987. Under the Immigration-Control and Refugee - Recognition Act, a foreigner who had been sentenced the penal servitude or the imprisonment of one year or more was not allowed to enter and land in Japan, thus preferential measure was needed. On this point the government decided that the entering of the country was exceptionally and was permitted at the Minister of Justice's discretion because "There is a possibility that the visit to Japan by Kim the former condemned may lead to progress in the abduction matter". Moreover, Kim the former condemned had used the forged passport with a Japanese name "Mayumi Hachiya" when committed the bombing, therefore when she entered the country, she became the object for questioning by the police authority of Japan as a matter of routine procedure. The police authority gave priority to the intention of the government that wanted the interview be materialized, and the questioning would be a schedule for the future only.
To some Japanese families, Kim's visit would provide answers to some of the mystery on abduction.
ただし政府は、警備上の問題があるとして滞在日程を非公開とする方針で、記者会見なども行われない見通しです。キム・ヒョンヒ元死刑囚の入国にあたっては、２つの課題がありました。１つは、北朝鮮の工作員だったキム元死刑囚が、１９８７年に起きた大韓航空機爆破事件の実行犯として韓国当局に逮捕されたあと、裁判で死刑判決を受けていることです。出入国管理法では、１年以上の懲役もしくは禁固刑が確定した外国人の日本への上陸を認めていないため、入国にあたっては特例措置をとる必要がありました。この点について政府は「キム元死刑囚の来日が、拉致問題の進展につながる可能性がある」として法務大臣の裁量で入国を特別に許可することを決めました。また、キム元死刑囚は爆破事件の際、「蜂谷真由美」という日本人名義の偽造旅券を使っていた疑いが持たれているため、通常であれば入国にあたって日本の警察当局による事情聴取の対象となります。これについて警察当局は、面会を実現させたい政府の意向を優先し、事情聴取は見送る方針です。
However, because of security problems government's decision was to assume the whole period of the stay to be closed-door, no press conference would be held.There were two problems concerning entering the country by Hyon Hui Kim the former condemned. One was that Kim as a former condemned prisoner and a North Korean agents that had received the death sentence in a trial by South Korea authorities after she was arrested for being the direct perpetrator of the bombing of a KAL airliner occurred in 1987. Under the Immigration-Control and Refugee - Recognition Act, a foreigner who had been sentenced the penal servitude or the imprisonment of one year or more was not allowed to enter and land in Japan, thus preferential measure was needed. On this point the government decided that the entering of the country was exceptionally and was permitted at the Minister of Justice's discretion because "There is a possibility that the visit to Japan by Kim the former condemned may lead to progress in the abduction matter". Moreover, Kim the former condemned had used the forged passport with a Japanese name "Mayumi Hachiya" when committed the bombing, therefore when she entered the country, she became the object for questioning by the police authority of Japan as a matter of routine procedure. The police authority gave priority to the intention of the government that wanted the interview be materialized, and the questioning would be a schedule for the future only.
To some Japanese families, Kim's visit would provide answers to some of the mystery on abduction.
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