Does death penalty really need? Does death penalty really need? I often hear that death penalty is reasonable for people whose family member or friend is killed by someone. On the other hand, I also hear that even if a person is murderer, it is against moral standard to kill him or her in the name of justice. Those opinions also insist that it is dangerous to let government punish us so much. So, there is some doubt that death penalty is being in many countries now. I think it is natural that people whose family member or friend is killed by someone want the murderer to be killed by government. It is severe that though their important person is dead, the murderer is alive even if he or she in jail. Moreover, the cost to keep prisoner living, for example, food or clothes expensive, is covered with tax we pay. If a prisoner must stay in jail so long time, until the prisoner die, it is reasonable to kill the prisoner in short time. Therefore, it is not anti-logical opinion that death penalty needs and must-done to a person who kill someone. However, opinions saying that death penalty is against moral standard is also has a point. It is accepted to almost everyone that killing is not right and we are never allowed to. There are so many reasons for this. To take an example, killing is against moral standard. I often hear that an adult is surprised at children asking that the reason why human beings must not kill other human beings. To us in common sense, it is never changed by anything. Moreover, it is true that letting government kill people in the name of punishment is dangerous. In those days, a king devoured profits and abuse his subjects. The subject had no power to resist the king. Therefore, many people died of hunger or sickness and were killed because of king having his own way. Now, most countries have a government elected by people of the country and people have freedom to choice any party. However, it is dangerous to stop keeping an eye on government and we should always doubt it not to repeat severe history. Does death penalty really need? Some people say that "yes". On the other hand, others say "no". Which answer is correct? I think the latter is correct. The reason is that government should not kill people in the name of justice. If people can not kill others, government also can not kill people. It is moral standard and we live in the flame of it. THE JAPANESE SCHOOL EDUCATION In Japan, education system is changing fast now. The content of education is reduced and students come to have free time more. Furthermore, 'total education time' is taken in all Japanese junior high school. I think this change is bad and Japanese government must change it to original form rapidly for the following reasons. Firstly, many young people this time cannot read or write basic words (Japanese 'kanji.') And, they cannot calculate, too. These things are need in daily life, even if they don't go to college or university. Originally, Japanese student got better score in reading and calculation than any other country's student few decades ago. For, reading, writing, and calculation were very important in Japanese society. Now, however, this good value in old Japan is being reduced. This is very large problem in Japan. Secondly, there is deep gap between the level of high school education and university education. Many students who don't learn the content of high school education cannot catch up with the class in universities. Furthermore, for example, I am medical student, but I don't learn biology in high school. And there are many students like me. In addition, the care of university to us is nearly nothing. So, the level of the study in technology, medicine and so is going down. This is very large problem in Japan, too. Thirdly, as the content of school education is reduced, at the same time, the curiosity of students seems reduced. The new idea and new device are coming from the curiosity, I think. So, the reduction of it means the down of possibility that the evolutional change in various field will happen. This is very large problem in Japan. In conclusion, there are problems like these in Japan, because of the reduction of basic education. Luckily, the Japanese government is planning to change the education system. I hope this change will be going back to old Japanese school education system. Why we have heard more criminal news these days than ever? We could have lived hearing very little criminal news here in Japan. And we really have had little crime. We had been proud of this great custom for a long time. Someone said that it was the reason why we had so little crime that we Japanese had a special manner whose name was 'Bushido'. eBushido' is the way of ancient Japanese knights' who are called 'Bushi'. But, we hear much sad criminal news these days. Certainly, we have more sad crime than we have had ever. And recent crime is different from previous crime. For example, we often have crime taken by teenagers these days. Five or six years ago, we were surprised at the criminal news that a boy (who was an elementally school student then) had been killed and only his head had been put on the gate of an elementally school. And we were much more surprised at the news that it was junior high school student who had killed him. Then the reason why we hear much sad criminal news these days is the increase of the crime taken by teenagers? This is true. But we must think why such crime has increased these days. I think School education I think that school education is important for children from the view point of their future social life. They learn their future life style through school education: how to get along with other people, how to keep good manner in the society, how to live their happy life. They cannot learn these things through their house life. They learn them mostly through school education. If it were not for school education, the society will be disorder. We must build the right school education in order to build the comfortable society to live in. School education has three main points: subject learning, club activity, school events. At first, I want to speak of school events. School events have school trip, school excursion, sports festival and culture festival. These events are important because they can learn how to behave in other people. Second I want to speak of club activity. They can learn discipline and moral mainly through club activity. They must think much of other club members. Third, I want to speak of subject learning. Subject learning is important in that it gives them the ability to think. I think that school education is important from these three points School education has some aspects in educating children. One of some aspects is to show discipline and moral for children. I think that school education has three main points: subject learning, club activity, school events School education School education has also various school events: school trip, school excursion, sports festival, culture festival Water problem in some village I am interested in rural development, so I want to choose the topic of the water pollution. I think that water pollution is related to sanitation and agricultural system because when I visited some village in Cambodia, villagers said to me that they were not satisfied with the quality and quantity of water. They had one of the water hand pomp and they used it for drinking and the paddy land. The quality of water from the hand pomp was not good because they didn't dig the land deeper to set the hand pomp. Then how can they get enough clean water? I think that the hand pomp is not enough to get clean water, so I want to recommend them to dig deeper well for public. I think that the deeper well has to be public for all of the villagers to utilize it. And I heard that the villagers also used water from rain fall but they had a problem with the quality of rain fall, too. Therefore I want to tell them to use a filter when they drink water from rain fall because they will be able to get cleaner water through the filter. I found that they had some problems with quantity of water when they create crops especially rice. They pulled water from the canal but it was far from the rice field, so they could not get enough water to grow rice. Some villagers dig another canal by themselves but the distribution of water was not fair. People living near the canal pulled much of water to their land, so I thought that the village had to establish the fair system of water distribution. Then how can they get fairer water distribution? I think that the monitoring system is important and the water union will be able to help villagers to distribute water fairly. Therefore I want to recommend them to establish the strong water union having monitoring system of water distribution. I think that the rural development will be achieved when the villagers are willing to participate in some activities voluntarily, so I cannot force them to join the promotion of development. The cooperation with the villagers and researcher will make better results. Therefore we have to hear the needs of the villagers. I think that the hearing process is so important. Should English education be introduced at primary schools? The Aichi Expo ended in success with far more people visiting the sites than expected. One of the most impressive things about the Expo was that loads of young children eager to talk to international staff working at each pavilion. Some pupils, interviewed for a TV programme, were quite excited because they were able to communicate with people from other countries in English. Others said that they were happy to use the language they were learning at school and make themselves understood. The government is now considering introducing mandate English education into primary schools throughout the nation. There are, however, people who oppose to such a prevalence of English lessons into people of young age. This essay discusses the pros and cons of the introduction of English education into primary schools. Today, an increasing number of primary schools teach the English language as part of the school curricula. The "integrated learning period," which is a new subject integrating all the existing subjects and attempts to foster the abilities to live in real life, seems to be a good opportunity for English education. Some schools ask for native speakers of English to visit their schools, making opportunities for pupils to communicate with them in English through singing, dancing and playing. Other schools, such as many schools in Aichi prefecture, are organizing project-type of lessons. They use English as a tool to discover something else in real life. For example, a school in Nagoya had their students interview international staff when they visited the Expo in order to make classroom newspapers afterwards about foreign people. However, there are bad points of teaching English. First, some people suggest that there will be less time spent on other subjects such as Japanese and math. A survey says that Japanese young children are less competent in math and science than five years ago. This may be attributed to the fact that more time is spent on the new subject. Moreover, many teachers are complaining that they are not good enough to teach English to children as they are not trained to do so. On the other hand, the proponents of English education at primary schools maintain that the younger children start to receive English education, the more proficient they become in the language when they get older. One of the theories from SLA does suggests that when they pass the critical period of age it will be difficult to master a second language. Furthermore, English education brings about international communications. It is an extremely good opportunity for young children to learn about the way people with different cultures think and behave. There are pros and cons in teaching English to younger children at schools, and we should not stick to one side of the arguments. The both sides of the arguments sound reasonable. What we need to do now, then, is to deepen these discussions and search for a better solution on a long term perspective. Violence on TV is important problem. But it is not so dangerous. I think that it is more dangerous to try to eliminate all violence on TV than allowing violence on TV, because violence in fiction is useful to make decrease real violence. Another reason is danger of check of expression in fiction. It is very important problem to protect our right to make all sorts of fiction stories. So we should allow violence from TV. Violence on TV is not so dangerous. But there are people who think violence on TV is dangerous. Most of them think that violence in other fiction stories is dangerous too. Always they say that children who watch violence on TV like violence. But it idea is no use. If children who watch violence on TV like violence, children who watch only education TV program like studies? I can't think so. I think that children who grew in that environment will be bored studies. Human mind can't be handled by education. All people have bad part of mind and it is no use to try to kill it. We should allow them to exist if they don't crime. And we should allow bad part of TV program for them. More dangerous thing is to kill all violence on TV. Violence on TV is useful to make decrease real violence. Human have bad part of mind. And we can't kill our bad part. We can only try not to do real bad thing. If we can so, we should allow unreal bad thing. If you have bad idea in your mind, you can get comfort from bad fiction stories. If you can't so, your bad mind will became bigger and bigger. And some day, it will bomb. Especially, when there are social pressures it can't allow to watch bad fictions. Below is the most important problem. We have a right to make fictions. It is no use to check goodness of fictions. Fiction is naturally free, and it is very bad to kill right to make all sort of fictions. Of cause all fictions in commercial base must checked from commercial system. The TV program which nobody watches is to eliminate. It is natural thing. But all checking by justice is no good. They will spoil all fictions. From above notes, I showed that to try to kill all violence on TV is no use and dangerous. Danger of violence on fiction stories is very little. Danger of no violence on all fiction stories is bigger. We all have bad part of mind, but we can treat them. And right of make all sort of fictions is very important. If we don't have this right, there can't be all sorts of arts. We can't live in good world. Good world is only in fiction. World have bad part, and we have bad part of mind. We can't eliminate them, but can handle them. Violence on TV is bad, but it is needed to handle our bad part of mind. So we must allow all violence on TV. What is important for education? In these days, I see the problem of school education discussed on TV and some magazines. In fact, present school education is different from the one when I was a student. In present, we hear "YUTORI education". What is the word "YUTORI" really means? What is important for students in society today? I consider about it in following sentences. I think it is important for students in elemental school to study not only academic subjects but also humanity. In these days, many students in elemental school study after school in sub-schools till late at night. They eat dinner alone or with friends without their parents. When I was a student, I and friends plays till the sun set and ate dinner at my house with parents talking about things I studied at school and about my friends. I also studied various things in playing with friends and talking with parents. I'm afraid that many students today can study academic subject but can't study humanity in everyday life. I don't think "YUTORI education" really gives students extra time for studying something which is important for humans. I think the most important thing in thinking about education is to focus on children. Children are brought up among their family and society and school. We are tend to consider that children can't study without our help. But children can consider about something by themselves for example friendship or love. And there are many things can be studied only outside of school or sub-school. I think it is important for students to study something which is not academic subject in society today and everyday life. I think "YUTORI education" should help students and parents to study some important things in society and family. You should continue SPORTS Do you play sports? There are many kinds of sports in the world. Whatever you play, it is important to continue to practice it. I played kendo in high school and it told me how important to continue to practice a thing, even if it is too hard. Of course it is truth to not only sports, but also studying, working or everything. Whatever you try to do, it is important to continue to practice it. And I first learned that from kendo. When I was a high school student, I belonged to the kendo club in the high school. I was attracted by a smile of a member of the kendo club when I was looking around clubs in first year. And I joined kendo club soon because of her smile like the sun. I am not good at playing sports and I had not played kendo. But the smile told me how fun kendo is, and how friendly the members are, so I decided to belong to the kendo club. At first, I become good at playing kendo day by day even though I did it first time, and it was very fun. Every time I went to practice, I got something new. But gradually, I could not play kendo well however hard I practice it. It was hard time. The other members who had started kendo from high school together became better and better. On the other hand, I could not hit kote very well. I could not understand how to fight my partner. But my friends taught me, cheered me and practiced together. With their supports, I continued to practice kendo. One day, the end of my first year, I found my change. I can play kendo, I know how to hit my partner. It was exciting. From then, every time I fought in a tournament, I could win at least twice. And I realized that I can do anything else if I would not throw it away. It is important to continue. In the conclusion The school education in the future In Japan, the worth of education is changing these days. The quality of school education has become increasingly different from school to school. It may depend on where the school is located or whether it is a public school or private school, or whether it has a connection with a further level of education such as a university. The aims of school education are also various now. However, it seems that they give more importance to the high-level ability of studying. Of course so did they in old days, but I feel the gap of the quality of school education between each schools has been extended. Moreover, that gap can be caused by the gap of wealth. I have heard that Doushisha University and Ritsumeikan University set a new elementary school of their own and they aim to make children get a good ability of studying. What surprised me in that article was that those schools serve lunch cocked by famous hotels' chefs. They use the local foods that are safety and good for health. All these are for the good education for children. Of course the fee is so expensive that ordinary people can't afford. That to say how good education we can take depends on how rich we are, though I can't say what the good education like here. It may be welcomed that we have more choices as there are many schools with various characteristics. However, we can say so only when all of us have the equal opportunity to choose what school we want to go. School education occupy the most part of time in childhood, so school education is no doubt essential for how one grow up and lead one's life. The issue about school education like this will occur because every kind of services is absorbed in market economy, which makes winner and loser, wealth and poverty, as well as social and medical services. It necessarily doesn't cause only bad things, of course, but we need to discuss how we maintain people's basic need that is important to live a good-quality life. My topic of this essay is "school education." The reason why I choose this topic is that school education is one of the important issues which distress today's Japanese society. Many people, usually older people, often complain that "children do not study as much as they used to and they tend to get poor grade" or "the children in these days tend to freak up easily." Most of these complain is the manifestation of the problems that the contemporary "school education" in Japan has. In the following, I would like to discuss why "school education" causes such problems. One thing which can be regarded as the cause of tendency of the poor grade got by the children in today's Japanese school education is that they are required to study less than they used to. The Ministry of Education has reduced the amount of requirement of each subject children have to study. This is often called ichiritu sannwari sakugenn, reduce the amount of study requirement for each subject by 30 percent. It is not difficult to imagine that if he / she are required to study less, they do not study more than the amount they are required. The reason for why children in today's Japanese society easily freak up is that they haven't been trained to put up with or manage their emotion when they get irritated or are annoyed. At home, parents, usually in their twenties or thirties, do not or cannot teach them how to manage the uncomfortable and undesirable emotion because they themselves have a problem in managing their emotion. If children do not learn how to manage their emotion at home, can they learn it in school? The answer is no. Teachers and the system of today's Japanese school education do not have the ability to teach them the way to control the bad emotion, because teachers are too busy to do other job and the number of teachers in most Japanese public school are small. Because of those reasons above, "school system" is the one of the most important issue that we have to discuss. I think that there is no easy solution for this issue. But to realize that there is something wrong in today's Japanese school education and to continue to discuss what is wrong could be one solution. If we stop discussing about it, there will be no one who dares to change the system of today's Japanese school education appears in the future. Education problem I would like to talk about 'school education'. As a university student, I study now. And I studied very hard to pass the entrance examination. I spent such time without feeling that there is a problem. But some professionals tell that today's education system lends us bad future. That is why; I am interested in education problem. I study 'education' in the common education now. In that class, my teacher gives me many ideas. They are new for me. For example, we must take the entrance examination to enter the university and high school. Some students take the entrance examination to enter the junior high school. Such system may have to be changed. The teacher said 'If university are changed, high school, junior high school and elementary school. Or, to change university, there is a strategy that we change high school, junior high school and elementary school. But high school or junior high school have entrance examinations. That is why; elementary school seems to be changed. I think that there is not an answer in the education. But thinking that time, students will be taught in needs. There seems to be many things to change. Getting money I started working about six months ago. When I was a high school student, I wanted to work and get money. I wanted to do shopping more, and I needed money for that reason. However, I could not work at that time since my parents did not allow to. Now, I am working and getting money, and doing shopping more than ever. And I think about money more often than ever. In this essay, I want to write what I think about money. I usually work 5 days a week. In fact, it is a little hard for me. I sometimes get tired after working, and go straight to my bed as soon as I have dinner, and think "Why am I working so hard? And my parents often ask me the same thing. Why are you working so hard? Do you want to buy or do something? The answer is no. There is nothing I eager to buy or do. However, working is interesting. The harder I work, the more I get money. It's so interesting. It's similar to studying. The harder I study, the higher score I get at examinations. The more I get money, the more I buy things, I guess. When I see how much money I have in bank, I tend to think what to buy with that money. For example, cloths, shoes, bags, books, cosmetics and so on. I know I should think again and again when I buy something, or I would spend all of the money I have soon. However, I sometimes spend money more than I planned. So, recently I started checking how much money I am using. Everyday I write down the amount of money I used. I think it is good way to prevent me from spending much money. As I said above, there is nothing I especially want to buy or do. I often think, "I want to decide the purpose of getting money. I sometimes ask myself, "Do you want to go abroad?" "Do you want to buy computer?" "Do you want to buy more cloths?" I have not decided yet. And I want to decide it. If I do so, I could enjoy working more, I think. I wrote about what I usually think about money, and working. We can think about various things through money. Money is interesting thing. Effective Sports Do you like sports? When you play sports, you would feel good and sometimes fun. Recently people get easily stressed in school, workplaces and so on. There are a lot of elements that make you feel tired or irritated. In these societies, how can we refresh ourselves? Here I suggest that appropriate exercise is a possible way to be free from stress. Our lifestyle has been greatly changing along with the civilization. We can work or play during night turning on lights. We can have meals anytime and anywhere we want with a bite of snacks or instant food. Then we can go anywhere faster than before with the improvement of transportation. As a result, the clock in our body has been totally confused. One of effective solution to the problem is sports. Try to play any sports on holidays. Appropriate exercise makes you feel tired and you will be able to get a good night sleep. And it would lead to the regulation of your life. Then the number of people who have some problems in communication with others has been increasing. Some students might be getting Ijime physically or mentally. Some business people might feel so nervous or tired when they face a big competition. In these cases, they must be under strong stress. If you are in a similar situation, why don't you take a little walk in a park and get some fresh air? It makes you feel good and even relaxed. By the way, it is said that our brain can be stimulated by physical movements. If you are solving a difficult math problem and have no idea, you should do some exercise forgetting about the problem for a while. Then you might have a solution afterwards. Likewise when you feel bored or sleepy at work, take some time to move, and it might give you a good productivity. Sports are fun to watch as well as play. And there are many places or opportunities found around you. Whether you do or not is totally up to you, but I claim that you should use your body some time. Any exercise will be sports. I am not saying that you should be an athlete. Just walk to school instead of taking a bus. Run yourself with your dog every day. It is clear that sports bring you a good lifestyle and happiness. Problems at school I think schools have a lot of problems. Now I want to look for the way we solve the problems. There are a lot of students who do not like to study or do not like to even go to school. And teachers have many things to do. Parents also have many things to do, so they often ignore what children are like at school. I want many children to enjoy their lives at school, because I learn education at university and have a lot of interest in school. Almost all of the children are reluctant to study. They cannot understand all of the things they have learned. But it is impossible for students to understand it at school, because there are many students and teachers teach them not properly even though teachers want to teach better. When children go back home, they have some question. So, we try to find other good ways to teach. Another problem at school is that teachers have to not only teach but also work at desk or prepare for events. They have too much things to do. So, they cannot care for children enough. Even if children have some problems, teachers could not notice it. Some of the students may have some trouble with school and may be able to tell nobody. Finally, I think the family is one of the important parts of school. If children are annoyed about school, parents should notice and try to look for the solution with their children. But, today, several parents think that teachers have all responsibility for students at school. They always have little interest in school except there are some problems. I think parents have some responsibility for school, so they should help each other. It is very difficult to find good ways to solve the problem. We must make a lot of effort to teach better, reduce teachers' job, and cooperate everyone who involve in school. We cannot make these into practice immediately, because that will need a lot of money and time to change how to think. But we need to try hard not for teacher and parents but for children. Sports and communication I want to talk about sports. Sports play in order to have a good time over the world. Major sports in Japan are baseball, soccer, tennis and so on. I play tennis in tennis club now. Sports are said very good thing to keep healthy and to diet. But I think that sports have more important roll. The roll is communication. Sports have power to make friends. Now a lot of boys and girls in Japan are not seen in a park. And, they are often play video game in the house. So they lose chance to communicate with friend. It is unfortunate thing. My conclusion is that sports must be played with children. Childhood is important to make personal character. So, I think sports are played to communicate with friend. Having good friends is happiness. How do you prevent bad effect of violence on TV from your children? I would like to write about violence on TV in this essay. Usually, the generation of our parents criticizes the violence on TV, because that is not good for education to children. And from that reason, sometimes parents say their children "don't see such a TV program". And many people are seemed to think that TV program lead to violence among children in real. So, is the action which bans children to see violence TV program and don't make such programs really correct action? I am going to say that action is not necessarily need to prevent bad effect to children. When the childhood, they are given from big effect from TV, so I think what children see in their childhood is very important to their future. For example, when I was 7 years old I saw the first movie in my life. The title movie is "Komando" in Japanese. The actor is Shwaltzneger. Of course, the content of this movie is fight by using guns. When I saw this movie, I thought "the mathle man is very cool". From that time, I started training. What I want to say in this part is what children see in their childhood effect their way of thinking, so parents have to think carefully what program give children. In the TV program, everything is done very easily even if that action is impossible in real and actor do even if it is crime in real. For example, in the movie which draws gun action, if an actor killed someone, he is not arrested and judged. In short, if children misunderstand what will happen after the action, I think they get to think same thing which happened in movie or TV will happen in real world. Of course, they can understand real world is not same in movie or TV in proportion to grow up. But, when they are junior high school, they sometimes do bad thing very much such as violence, stole etc. And sometime such action is cause which decides his future. In conclusion, I think the important thing is parents teach to their children what is bad thing by seeing violence TV program or movie together. And I think TV companies have to draw attention which explains what will happen after these actions in real world in final part of the program. It is true, in today, after finishing the program TV program says like this, "this story is fiction and the name which is used in this program does not exist and not relate to real". But it is very short time. It should be longer. I think above way is also prevent children from bad effect from violence on TV. To know working is what. I had wanted to do many things after examination to the college, for example sport club, traveling, albite, and so on. I was really looking forward to be a college student and to enjoy what I wanted to do. For the first I entered basketball club. But I gave up to continue basketball, because it takes me an hour thirty minute to go my college and the practice was so hard. But I could made friends. After that I started to work at a restaurant last month. I meet various people and I think there are so many people and how to think. I feel it is difficult to speak with people but I also think it is interesting to speak people. I got not only money but also I learn more important things, for example manner, how to use keigo. To get money is important thing and I have many things which I want to buy. But the best thing is maybe to know working is what. Recently I sometimes sleep in my class. But what teachers are teaching me are very important, and my parents pay expensive money for me. I should remember what I thought before examination, and I want to enjoy my rest college life never to regret. The environmental problems These days, all over the world, many environmental problems have come out and got more serious than before. And, they can be seen in the form as we cannot miss. For example, many trees are being cut down at large space in many forests, and the earth temperature is getting higher little by little, and the soil and the air of the earth are still being polluted by those who are in the developed countries, including us. So, we are just facing these environmental problems, and in future, we will have to think about these problems more seriously more than we do now. All of these serious problems, I focus on the water pollution problem. Water is essential material not only for the people, but also for the plans and animals in all over the world. But, now, the water we all beings need to live are getting polluted by the part of the people who live in the industrial countries, which are the United State of America, Canada, European countries and also Japan. The reason water is polluted is the purpose of the industrial technologies improved in the rich and developed countries. When the water used for the industry, a little toxin contains in the used water. And then, it is brought into many rivers, seas, and solid. In such fields, many crops like rice, corns and wheat cannot grow out. And then, we will be in short of food. Though those who live in the rich countries can buy these foods from other countries, the poor people living in the developing countries such as the East Asian countries and Africa, cannot get enough food and nutrition, then finally many children may be dead. I think that is unequal and that cannot be allowed. Now, I major in Agriculture and often face such problems. These environmental problems, including the water pollution problems are the global problems. So, we should think these problems are of all our problems, and think more deeply and on the global level, in order to solve these problems. How effective are Sports! What kind of sports are you often do? For example, there could be a person who swims in the gym after his or her work and plays and/or watches baseball on holiday with family etc. Sports are important things for human beings, people who live in urban area and in rural area. I would like to talk about how sports work effective to us and our lives. First of all, we often do sports with a lot of fun. Playing with friends or family often make us refreshing and talking with other person then make us close like having a chat over a cup of coffee or having a dishes with other person. We enjoy playing sports itself and also enjoy the human relationship. Then there are some kinds of sport doing alone, for example, swimming in a pool, dancing ballet, doing yoga and stretching. Those are the kind of the purpose only for themselves. Taking their time for solely themselves is one of the way of relaxing, refreshing, thinking things slowly, concentrating, and remove their tiredness in their daily lives. Those make careful their health and keep us from catching a cold. Of course, doing sports itself made us tired, but what important is getting tired become one of the "REST". Some of you might think it sounds wired. But it actually IS. Some says "Doing sports (for example, walking, swimming etc. is called "positive rest", while taking rest (for example is sleeping, lying on the couch etc. is called "negative rest". Sport is one of important rest as well as sleeping everyday. Finally, sports give us other fun. Not only people who play sport but also people who are around them, which are, for example people who are watching a baseball game on TV at home etc. When reported on TV news in the morning before leaving for school and office etc, at night while having lying on the couch in living room in the cold day with a lot of snow and watched abroad with who goes to foreign country for business. So sports are wonderful tool for all the human beings, whenever in their life stages, whoever children, student, business person, and the elderly and so on, wherever they are, and whenever they like. And that make people coming closely each other, getting healthy, careful and enjoyable! How to enjoy sports. Which do you like playing or watching sports? I think some people likes playing sports, other people likes watching sports on TV. I like playing baseball, tennis and swimming. If I was not able to play such sports, I would watch them on TV. I watch basketball games on TV, because I can not play it well. But watching the game is fun. Playing sports is good for our health. We can make many friends and get strong physic. If you played very hard, you would feel so good and tired very much. We need play sports in our life. Watching sports is also exciting. I like watching World Cup and Olympic. I was surprised at special skills. We can learn how to play very well. Both playing and watching makes us good. 'YUTORI KYOUIKU' This essay is about 'school education'. These days, the 'YUTORI KYOUIKU' is focused again. A few years ago, in the elementary school 'YUTORI KYOUIKU' was started. At that time, people think that it is not good children to study only. Children need to have skills to think themselves and to solve the problem and so on. In order to have 'Yutori' for children, the time of class is reduced. On that background, the 'YUTORI KYOUIKU' was started in the school. At the result, the time of class was reduced. And the class of the study, for example math and science, were also reduced. Children have much time to have free time. At this situation, there are more differences how to spend the free time. Some students go to 'JUKU' to study more. And some students play. On reasons to go to 'Juku', one reason is that school education in not sufficient. If the school of education is good and sufficient, the parents don't have the choice that their children let to go to 'Juku. There is problem of the cost. 'Juku' is very expensive. If children have to go to 'juku' in order to take sufficient education, the family's economy will be problem. In this situation, we cannot make children have equal education's chance. Specially in elementary and secondary education, the educational equal is needed. To give the educational chance equally, we have to renovate the school education in order that children can take good and sufficient education in school. Sports give us good things How many people enjoy sports by either watching them or playing them? In school days, like at elementary schools, every student is supposed to take P.E. classes and enjoy them. It continues to collage days. Many people like to play and watch sports. Today, I would like to talk about the things that sports give people who play it or watch it. First, I will talk about sports will help people to know each other well. Second, we will see sports as a good tool to communicate. Third, I would like to show the effect by watching sports. First, we can know each other by playing sports together. I want to tell you about my story. When I was in U.S. as an international student, I lived in a dorm on our campus. We had a tournament game of flag football. Though I had never played it and I could not speak English well, I had to take part in this game as one of the dorm's players because of lacks of members. I was very nervous at first. However, as time went by, I practiced flag football with members, we could understand each other. We lost our games but our friendship got tighter. So, playing sports together helps people to get along with well. Second, sports also help us to have fun with anyone whom you have never met before. Watching and playing sports is a good tool to spend time with them. Take soccer for example, the rule of soccer is the same in the world. In Africa, china, Canada, Australia and so on, we can play soccer together if we have a ball, and we can watch and talk about soccer games. Even if we can not make understand in same language, we can play soccer together. As I already mentioned, people can communicate with sports. Third, sports give us kind of energy. It occurs when we see players who work hard. For example, Naoko Takahashi, who is a marathon runner, got first prize again recently, though she lost her right to participate in next Olympic. I heard that many people were impressed by her energy to win or her strong feeling to run again. We can say same thing for Ichiro. He plays baseball in U.S. as Japanese, and broke many records. By watching people who play sports, we can feel that we can do anything that we want to, if we try hard. In my opinion, sports help us to know each other. We can have fun without any language. And sports give us energy to try whatever you want to do. Playing sports is good for you to expand your world that you live. If you do not play sports, it is okay. You can watch sports and feel something from players. It is no doubt that everybody can enjoy sports many ways. Sumo getting international A few days ago, Asashoryu, the current grand champion wrestler of sumo, won the 15th season champion cup. And today, Kotooshu, who had betrayed Asashoryu this season, prompted to the rank; Ozeki. Either of two strong wrestlers isn't Japanese. Asashoryu is from Mongolian and Kotooshu is from Eastern Europe. In these days more and more foreign wrestlers are ascending the sumo ranking. And some of these foreign wrestlers are much strong compared to Japanese ones. Moreover they are very popular among sumo fans. Especially Kotooshu is now the hottest wrestler in sumo. His good-looking face and muscular body attract Japanese middle aged women. So what I thought during watching recent sumo is that sumo is becoming more and more international. I am writing about sumo which is getting international in this essay. There are both positive aspect and negative aspect in this internationalization of sumo. First, I dare to say we can be proud that one of our traditional sports is become world-wide one. While the world has become international, many kinds of traditional sports from each country have been introduced to each country. Some sports have got the popularity from all over the world, and purveyed. And others haven't. These sports were regarded as old and people came to seldom play them. Because there are more enjoyable new sports which were imported from other countries, like soccer and baseball. People became to play these new sports instead of their old sports. So it is necessary for sports to become international. Otherwise, they would become extinct. Now sumo is getting international. I think it means sumo has the essential that attract people all over the world. And sumo wouldn't extinct for a long time. We shouldn't stop the current of the internationalization of sumo. Second, there would be problem if strong foreign wrestlers come to fight sumo as professional. Japanese are kind of the weak nation compared to foreign people. If the current become over-heated, we may not able to see Japanese sumo wrestlers on TV. This is strange because sumo is not just a sport but a religious event. Sumo is regarded as festival which is devoted to gods. So wrestles have strange hair style and play strange performance before fights) In 2002, the sumo association decided that one Heya (group of sumo wrestlers) is forbidden to get more than two foreign students. This seems to be a discrimination against foreigner. But I think this is the kind of best way to keep the balance of the internationalization of sumo. The Death Penalty isn't Over Excuse? This essay is made to consider the needless of death penalty and support the idea that death penalty doesn't need in our society. When we consider about death penalty, we hit upon two of the mainly problems. First problem is follow;" Even if the prisoner had committed a crime, to kill him is truly correctly idea?" In fact, there are many crimes which are never apologized in any persons' thought, especially in victims'. In these cases, should the prisoner be killed because we want? In my opinion, the practice is same the prisoner had done. Of course I don't want him to become free and live together in our city. He should be arrested in the prison and try to be apologized his crime by the victims. If he practices that, I don't want to be killed by judgment. But doesn't... we should try to change his idea until his life long. Second;" How about the case that the judge was proved of incorrectly one." All human could judge incorrectly. The prisoner too. If we would take his life permanently by incorrectly judgment, I guess, we should take the death penalty. By these over items, I think that we don't need death penalty and prisoners should live in prison all his life. ... Is it enough? Death penalty is needed This sentence is talked about death penalty. Some world have death penalty's low and The others are not. It is always become a problem 'death penalty is right or not.' I think that death penalty is necessary. The two reasons show from next paragraph. First, death penalty is to save the many people. Some of murders do same crime again and again. If we don't kill him a person will be killed by him. Of course a murder may change a ordinary people by prison life. But human's habit can't change easily. To cut the cause reach to safe society. The person who is did too big crime must be killed. Second, it is for victim's family. Victim's family injured in their mind. To kill a murder may not reach to care their mind but if victim's family wished death penalty , it should be did. His existence makes feel bad them. Some people said death penalty is not fill the human rights, but I don't think so too. Human rights is for weakly people. Murder killed weakly people . So he can't say the human rights. Sic is cured by braking the cause. To keep the safely society need to brake the cause by death penalty. Today, more and more people are concerned about recycling. The word "eco," which stems from the words ecology and economy, is so prevalent that you come across the term almost every day in your life. The Aichi Expo emphasized on this "eco" issue, attempting to create an environment where nature and technology can co-exit. Recycling was one of the most important issues in the event. Using state-of-art technologies, almost all the materials used to build the facilities at the Expo were recycled, producing minimum wastes. Thanks to the Expo, more attention has been paid to environmental issues and an increasing number of people are getting interested in recycling. This essay will discuss why it would be a good idea to recycle and how recycling should be proceeded, along with some problems concerning the process. There are a number of reasons why recycling is a good idea. As stressed in the Aichi Expo, it is good for the environment to recycle. The Japanese economy had developed by consuming items before the "bubble economy" burst in the late 1980s. At that time, people just pursued new items one after another. The burst of the economy, then, directed people's attention to how much they spent for wastes. Companies also have started to recycle their products. So some energy which would have been used to produced new items is now saved. Some people, however, say that recycling does little to the protection of environment. They argue that more energy needs to be consumed when items are recycled than produced. So it would just be a waste of energy to recycle. Moreover, some people concern that this trend of recycling is just a boom, which might fade away as people lose their interest. What can we do then? Development of further technology may be one solution. It would be possible to come up with a method that enables recycling with less energy used. Second, we should not let this recycling trend end in a boom. Everyone should bear in mind that recycling is good for the environment and it saves you a lot of money as well. This essay discussed why it would be a good idea to recycle and how recycling should be carried out, along with some concerning problems. As the global fossil is decreasing at a threatening rate, we should recycle as many items as possible while making every effort to continue this trend of recycling. It is said that there are three activities humans have to do for their healthy lives. We must to eat, to sleep and to do exercises in a dairy life. But today, people in Japan work too head and don't have enough time to spend doing such things. They work in their office until late at night, and they like fast-food restaurant to have more time to work. Especially people have less chance to do active exercise, despite sports acts a very important role to have a healthy life. Recently there are more and more fat people and it became one of the heaviest problems in the world. For example in America, about 40% of people living in the country have body trouble because of their too fat body. The main reason that we must not too be fat is because we become sick. There are many illnesses because of too fat body and makes us dead. We can solve these problems by trying to do exercise or play sports for a few minutes every day. Playing sports isn't good only for body health, but also for good feeling. It is a nice chance to have a brake and think about something that don't relate to their works. By having time to do something except to their work and being refresh, they might do their work more smoothly and finish that more early. Sports also give us chance to make friends. We can communicate with a parson who we have not seen before through the experience to play sports together. When we meet a person first, we often cannot find how to talk to or what to talk about with him,. It is very important that each of us thank for our health and try to keep our healthy lives. For that, we have to go out actively and do exercises or play sports consciously. It is nice to make new friends through sports, too. Sports do very important roles in our lives. Recently, there are many problems of violence on TV in the world. Especially, the problems affect to children. Then I take account of the problems in this essay. First, it becomes to a problem that a number of children give the violence to their parents in the houses and to the teachers or other children in the schools. As the one of the background of the fact, people consider violence on TV. In Japan, therefore, a TV program which deal with the murder and violence --"gift"-- was over several years ago. In the TV program, a main actor used knives and killed people by using them. After the program was broadcasted, the number of crimes by children obviously increased. They took around the knives and used them when they gave harms to the people, for example their parents, teacher and friends. Second, we must consider the effect from the internet. Everyone uses internet recently, and it is certainly convenient, but at the same time, it is including the large number of harm. Children watch the scene of violence on it easily, when they have the consciousness which they want to watch or not. And then, we cannot protect them from it. There are still many programs which deal with the violence on TV, in spite of the number of crimes by children. We watch the scene with the violence on TV, not only the TV programs but internet. We, including children, can access to internet and use it easier now than before, therefore we have a lot of opportunities of contact to the scene of violence. As long as the existence of multi media, for instance TV and internet, we cannot avoid the harm effect to children; however we have to make effort to protect the children from the harm of the violence on TV. In evening news, we have been heard crimes occurred almost everyday. Although we have been civilized in the long history, crime is something that cannot be vanished from our world. "Are human beings essentially good or evil?" is a long standing question that has not been answered. Although I may not be old enough to conclude this, I sense that nature of the human beings have both good and evil aspects. Some people are considered to be naturally evil, who seem to have no thoughts to the others, and some people are very kind of helping the others without hesitating sacrifice themselves. A point that separates us into the two different groups is which aspect is greater than the other. In other words, every one of us is both good and evil. When the evil aspect exceeds the good one, people commit crimes. I live in Nagoya which is a Japanese city that is growing rapidly in the last few years. I have not checked the result of census conducted a few months ago; however, I strongly believe that the population of Nagoya has also been increasing sharply. Many people are coming to this city from many parts of the world for the job, business or their own purposes. This increasing population helps growing the city on one hand, but on the other hand, it boosts the crime rate as well. Most of the murders filed this year are occurred in the area including Nagoya. It is natural to think that there may be some kind of relationship between the city's growth and the increasing crime rate. One of the reasons behind the increasing crime might be the number of foreign labors. This year, Aichi prefecture in which Nagoya belongs held the world EXPO 2005. World EXPO includes many pavilions that display items that represent the culture of many countries all over the world. The city employed hundreds of workers from other countries and provide them short term visa in order to make them work legally. The EXPO ended a several months ago, those workers who have temporal visa must have returned to their home countries by now. Yet, the truth is the opposite. Most of them are staying in Japan without legal status because the salary in Japan is generally higher than that of their countries. I am not saying that they are committing crimes, but this shows the weakness of Japanese immigrant systems, which leads to increasing illegal immigrants. If this continues, Japan will be considered as a country which is likely to be sneaked in by gangs or terrorists. In order to save the city from the high crime rate, reinforcing the police is indispensable. The government now is in charge of cutting budget of the public workers salary. It is unwise to decrease the number of policeman who is a key to reduce the crime rate. Another important policy for the city must be the control of immigrants. Labor from foreign countries is an important human resource for the economy. Yet, the government should not continue to have such lazy immigrant systems, and make it more sufficient to control the foreign labors. Leaving this problem will trigger more serious one to the society. In conclusion, due to the nature of human beings, we cannot eliminate the crime completely. Therefore, we need to think very serious to this matter in order to save our society and ourselves. This paper addressed about divorce in general, and the role of parents. Recently, divorce rate is getting worse and it influences on children's mental and life in the long run. As most people agree, children should be saved and raised by their both parents. The ways of thinking of children are basically constructed by parents' attitudes. The time which children have to be raised up carefully is very important factor, so I will describe some ideas about ways of thinking toward divorce between America and Japan, and the role of parents. In Japan, to divorce is regarded as a bad habit and people are worried about "sekentei". Moreover, a person who divorced once is named "batsu-ichi", and twice is "batsu-ni" and it affects their next marriage. Those are regarded as a stigma in Japan, so people in Japan seldom divorce. In addition, another reason is a money problem. Most Japanese women do not manage and live by themselves. In other words, they are supported by their husband. One of the reasons which the Japanese seldom get divorced is a money problem. In contrast, however, the large number of people in America divorce against Japan. The reasons why there are differences between America and Japan are because that person's ways of thinking are completely opposite comparing to Japan. In my opinion, the American is more independent, and they do not care what others think and say. However, this does not mean that American people are selfish and that they put themselves first. In addition to what I have already mentioned above, the roles of parents are the most important factor for children. I would like to mention first that a father cannot be a mother and a mother cannot be a father. This is it. Children need both a father and a mother. Father must give children a strong will and a mother must give a kind heart, so the roles of fathers and mothers cannot be the same thing. The time of childhood is very precious, but unsteady. Children are influenced by many outside factors, and also inside factors which mean an environment of parents. They are influenced by both parents unconsciously, so if one of parents did not exist, children would not be raised up well. In conclusion, I have said that the ways of thinking toward divorce between the US and Japan, and also the roles of parents. I know I have not described enough, I hope that parents should think about their children before divorcing. I want to write about sports in three points. At first, when we play sports, sports is good for our mind and our body. At second, we can make friends with many people and keep good company with other people through sports. At third, when we can feel refreshed at seeing sports: baseball and soccer. Sports is good for our health not only in body condition but also in mind. For example, we can get balanced body through swimming. We can keep good function in our body by any sports. Many doctors advised us to play any sports to keep good condition. Some people can have any disease if they don't take any sports or exercise. We can meet many people and grow friendship through sports. That friendship is good and can keep going through our lives. For example, we cannot play games by only ourselves in baseball, soccer, basketball, rugby and so on. Teamwork is important and essential for these sports. We can find it important that we cannot play game even if one of these members is a good player. When we came home tired after work or our business, we can feel refreshed by seeing sports. We can sometimes remove any stress. For example, we can feel good if our favorite baseball or soccer team wins the game. If our national teams win the first prize in Olympic games, we can feel as happy as any pleasure. Sports is essential for our lives. We can live a healthy life through sports: not only at playing sports but also at seeing sports. If it were not for sports Suicide of student Some school student suicide today. Just young student die! They explain that there are too many stresses I agree with this thought. We are tired for everything. We feel that we must study more to enter a university. What should we do to deal with this phenomenon? There is a good community in old days. We knew a family which lives near our house. We help each other I think it may be illusion. At least it is better than a situation of today Many people do not know a family near their house at all today. People know just a name or a face of the family even if they know the family They do not a situation of the family exactly So we can not ask for others when we lose. We solve all problems in a just one family A student who feels that he does not study for university can not consult others except his parents It is not good. He can not contact another dogma which differs from going to a university. Of course most of students do not try to suicide to escape a real world. Some students may suicide though. Some student who do not have friends at school suicide It is very important to have a friend in life because we talk about something important which can not be informed to their parents. Some student can not make friends at school. They like to be alone all days. Probably they do not talk with their family. It is a problem of communicating skill. Today even a student of elementary school student has a cellular phone and a personal computer. I think they do not need these things Many parents give them to their children though They enjoy a game or chat in the internet for a long time in a house. I think they must play more outside with their friends. They must go a park or a ground of school more. In that way they get a skill of communications. Some parents think that it is too dangerous to make their children play outside. It is true. There are many cars in road in front of their house. On the other hand it is very important to play their friends. Student who has been studied from early days may suicide. They have gone to a clam school when they a young student. Some parents want their children enter a school of high class. So they make their children study hard when they are too young. Some children do not have an experience of playing much It is not good for student to study only They may look a life as tiresome or boring. We take care of student well. Of course we make student study. On the other hand we make student play It is a very a difficult to do it. Now I talk about sports which I played when I was a child. And I talk about what I play now. When I was eleven years old, I was playing DOGGI ball everyday. That was very fan. I liked playing with balls. I could play with many my friends. So I liked that. When I was a child, I really liked playing with my friends. And when I was eleven years old, I started field athletic club. I could run faster than every my friend. In those days, I wanted to be Olympic athlete. Since I dreamed running in the world field, I practiced at that club. When I was also twelve years old, I continued that club. And I was a very nice sprinter. I loved running. I practiced very hard. When I was a junior high school student, I also joined to field athletic club. But I was not sprinter. I ran short distance at elementary school. But I had to run very long distance at junior high school . That was very hard. Though I wanted to major in 800meters, I majored in 1500meters. I did not like running long distance. When I was a junior high school student, I could not dream running in the world field. I knew that I could not run fast. And when I was a high school student, I stopped running. I did not join to field athletic club. I did not want to run . I noticed that running long distance was hard. I joined to soft tennis club. But I resigned soon. I did not feel happy. Soft tennis club did not suit on me. And now I am a university student. My friends have joined to many club activities. I have joined to non club. For a long time I have not played sports. Really, I want to play sports. I want to play with many my friend, I enjoy this campus life! But I do not have brave. So I want to have a dream like I was a child. Now I must start something. I must not waste my precious time. Sure I can play everything. If you have energy, give me your energy to challenge new sports! Thank you. Now I am talking about suicide. In Japan, these days, the number of committing suicide is increasing. So, I am thinking about the reason and the results. In those days, in the 50s to 70s, those who committed suicide were almost young people. And they were almost men. What's more, they were almost teenagers and people in the 20s. They committed suicide because they couldn't find the reason that why we had to live such a dull world. And some young boys and girls killed themselves because they failed to become couple with their lovers. On the other hand, some young mothers killed their children and then killed themselves because they thought that they could no longer live in serious poverty. But, the suicide situation has changed dramatically in 80s and 90s. In 80s and 90s, those who kill oneself have been middle-aged men, almost in their 40s or 50s. The number of young people who kill themselves has been smaller and smaller. And the number of old women who kill themselves is increasing a bit. This phenomenon has been quite a new one. I think that the situation has been changing a lot. And what's the reason of this phenomenon? The key to find the reason is that paying attention to Japan's situation. Especially since in the later 90s, Japan has been depressed. People wouldn't buy anything expensive, and wouldn't go on trip. What's the matter of worse, almost all the company has started to fire the employees to make as much money as they can. And those who were fired by their company are almost middle-aged men. They have lost all of their will to work and live any longer. What's more, however hard they look for a job, Japanese companies can't easily let them work because they are afraid that the cost of wages they had to spend is so high. As a result, fired middle-aged men can't find a job and have to feel ashamed and they are afraid that their family(wives and children) have to live with poverty. And, what's the matter of worse, they lose any will to live longer and kill themselves. So, now Japan has been encountered serious situation, I'm afraid. We must do something and try to save all lives. In order to do this, what can we do? I think that we have to change our society as soon as possible ,and throw away the depressed situation and make a stable society of economy. And, to enable all of the people to find a job they can have motivation, we have to complete the recruit system for those who lost their jobs. I hope that works in the near future and save as many people who want to kill themselves as possible. Now, I talk about money. What is money? Money is that we pay for the goods we buy or for the service we take, that we can get by working. I will talk how to get money, the good point of money, and the bad point of money. And taking some example, I think of the value of the money. First question is how we can get money. The first way is the most popular. That is to work. If we work hard, the employer must pay for them. Then we can get money to live. It is easy way to get money. But the next is not. The second way is gambling. It is easy for anyone to get money by gambling. Because anyone can get the chance to be a millionaire only to bet something like the horse racing, casino, and so on. If the bet would be HIT, you get some money. It is not easy to get money. And this doesn't guarantee us the enough income. Third way is not good thing. It is to steel others' money. This is the easiest way to get money than any other thing including the first and the second way. If someone attacks the bank, he or she can get money in the little minute. It is illegal way. We must not do such a thing. Next question is what the good point of money is. It is different according to one giving the answer. I think it is our living purposes. One reason to work is money. If we want something, we work hard to get enough money to buy. And we can't live without money. If we don't have money, we can't eat. So we need money to live and to be satisfied with. Third question is what the bad point of the money is. It is also different according to one giving the answer. That is my view. If there is one person who doesn't have any money, what can you image? I image that he or she does any bad things like rubbing. I guess many people image like this. I think money is very important to live. So I think money have very big value. It often change human beings in something good, also in something bad. But without money, our life is not be there. If it were the world like that, we would have a lot of difficulty. My conclusion is money have value. People can not judge people. So there is law. Law judges people. Anyone is not allowed to kill anyone. What to say, "MENIHAMEWO,HANIHAHAWO" should not allowed. But in Japan, law allows people to kill people. It is "Death Penalty" In Japan, one who kills many people tends to be punished with death penalty. All over the world, death penalty is not used. But in Japan, still be used. In this essay, I talk about death penalty. I will think about the merit and demerit of death penalty. The merit of death penalty is first the force to stop people doing crime. People afraid of death penalty, so people do not do crime. If people did not afraid of penalty, people will fall in crime easily. But in the world, there is the country that change crime rate smaller after not using death penalty. If one kills another, the one will think "I will be killed with death penalty. So I will kill anther more and more." So the force of stop crime is no mean. Second, the merit of death penalty is the mind of one who be angry with crime. The mind is only saved to punish crime with death. But is this the way of saving the mind? There will be the hope of remind of crime. So death penalty is not only way of saving the mind. Do not think that everyone hope the death of one who do crime heavy crime. So in Japan, death penalty should be not used. This is the international mood. So Japan should follow the mood. Death penalty is the bad law. And Human must be important and anyone can not kill the others if there is any reason. What do you think of education in Japan? I think they are too lazy to study. Recently, part time worker increase day by day. It is very important thing in Japanese currently. Will Japan be lazy in the future? I look Japan from valuable side; teenagers are not interest in valuable things. Everything is feeling older, isn't it? Teenagers should take part in something all. Fist of all, I tell about my studying when I was high school days. I didn't always study. I usually worked my part time job or amusement with my friends or went back my house and slept after school. I only study hard when test preparation term. Why did I study usual? Because I needed not to study and I didn't want to study. Studying is one of the things that stressed out for me. Most Japanese teenagers don't like study and don't always study too. I think the Japanese education necessary to tell students to how to study and enjoy it. For example, how to be useful what studying myself. For students, educational study is not interest. I always think Japanese high school education system will want to be same system that university system. Basement education is enough to study in junior high school. high school student is the laziest in Japanese student's days. So high school education wants to attempt to more specialize. And that studying will be related with studying exam that enter university or job in student's bright future. If I get one hundred money, I want to use to travel all over the world. I hope to see a lot of place, people and to touch nature and culture. There is reason in my heart. First, I do not know only Japan, especially around my life. Living people in my town spend general time such as eat three time on one day, watch TV, read newspaper, have my house and so on. But all people spend same time. There are person can not eat, have no cloth, can not working, can not to stand too hungry. Do you know the story "if world is one town". If world is one town, there are thirteen person who has no food. There is one person who die. There is one person who spend rich life. There are fourteen persons who can not read and write. Do you know there is such as factory. I became sad at once I listened to this story. I have many unknown things. I want to learn in order to teach the other person. Second, I have gone to Hawaii at once when I was junior high school. I spent wonderful time there. I play marine sports in all day. There is very beautiful sea which is deep blue, I can see colorful fish and shell easily. I do not forget even now. I experienced my treasure time not Japan. I feel big nature. Japan is small but world is big, I think. I have unknown place, culture building nature, and so on. I want to know. Therefore, I want to travel all over the country. If I get one hundred money, I want to use to travel all country, to learn my unknown world. Now, Japanese TV program and books about low is a lot of. For example "Gyoretsu no dekiru Horitsu Soudanjo", "The judge" and so on. Then I will tell on crime. First I will tell what crime is. It is deed against law. But low is made by human that makes error. And it makes time-lag. For instance, if computer crimes yell, Japanese laws do not work or work to difficult. And can Japan solve nation low for instance North-Korean abduction? No, this problem have not solved for over 20 years. One of worst a nation crime is wars. You can remember the Iraq war? Who judge President Bush? And can American president judge Iraqi that? Iraqi president have to judge nation of that. And what difference is murder to kill anyone and war? I think the answer is the same. There are many novels treated this problem between old ,new, eastern and western. For example Koshi, Bokka, Chinese Physiologist and "Crime and Punishment" written Dostoevsky. Then why yell war? Because we have evil that is The Seven Deadly Sins. I think this Christian law does not allowed but saved. Any man is interested in sexual deed but most of man does not rape. If people have moral, crime disappear. A moralist must be national top. Those are Koshi's thought, but I think the exactly. So teacher must teach moral in the class escapes teaching knowledge. I'll write about suicide problem in Japan. These days, I often hear or watch the news about suicide on TV or newspaper. I think suicide was not so many before. Then, why are people who make suicide increasing? First of all, as the biggest reason, it is the change of Japanese society. For example, "risutora". Because of this, a lot of people became to lose their job than before. In many cases, it will become they can't take a good communication with their family. So they lose the place which they are. Then, they select the way "suicide". Last year, may friend's father died. It was suicide. My friend and her family were very shocked by his death. I think suicide will more increase in the future, so we have to stop this. Do you like watching TV program which is 22 antenna. I like watching it very much, because this is the story about "Kabuki-chou". I have never been to there, but I once want to go there. Kabuki-chou shows us a lot of dramas. So, now I'm going to introduce about one story. One day young men who called Takuya and lived in Ibaragi. He had a dream that to become No.1 host in Kabuki-chou. There are a lot of host in Kabuki-chou, so it is so difficult to become No.1 host there. When he graduated from high school, he decided to go there without say to parents. Then he found a nice host club on from-A which is job magazine. He tried to call there. Soon, the owner said "O.K, please come on Monday". After that he went to the store and buy a new suit. It comes the day. He went to the host club and had a "Mensetsu". The owner was so kind and said, "If you want to be No1 in here. You have to work harder than anyone. Then he started working there. As you know host have to customer to drink "Donperi". Because, when customer order it, a lot of hosts came to there and said "Donperi call" loudly. When customer hear it, she feels so happy. The first day at work. He couldn't get any reserves. When the host couldn't get any reserves, he have to support at other host. When customer ordered high price bottle, the host get a lot of money, and get a lot of present. For example, watch, car and cloth so on. But if the host couldn't do that ... He can only get a few money. Japanese students don't play sports. Why don't they? There are many problems in it. I want to write the problems. One is many students play TV game ever day. For example "Play station" and "Nintendo64" and so on. So many students play in house. If only one people in the house, he can enjoy. He very feels good in his house. Next is they don't have place to play sports. There are not park near house so if they want to play sports, they must go to sports center. It is many expensed. If you want to swimming, you pay much money in one month. Next is they have many things to do. For example he must go juku. They come home to school and soon go to juku. What do you think this? I think don't goods. They study very hard until tonight so they so they cannot run. There are many problems but we can play sports more easy. For example you can running to school wish your friends and don't play TV game so play baseball or soccer. Playing Sports is good for our health and mind. Japanese student must play more sports. I would like to write about teenagers. I'm teenager now but I will be 20 years old soon and I can understand teenagers' thinks so I chose this topic. I think teenagers have bad images for adults. Because those days there are a lot of teenagers' crime. For example, a girl kill her mother by poison, a boy kill a boy who are elementary school student and so on. They don't hate them but killed. So I think to kill a person is game for them. People who killed by teenagers were didn't bad thing so I can't understand them. Other reason because teenagers have bad images is they have no manners. In train, they sit down ground and speak loudly at mobile phone. In class they are talking with friends when a teacher is talking so they don't listen to a teacher's talk. Then they can't follow class so they will get fool. Recently they get angry soon when they are scolded by adults. Adults often say "Teenagers are bad!" but I think adults are bad too. They have no manners too so teenagers get bad. Adults will not get better, teenagers will get bad more and more. So both of them have to make effort to get better. You can enjoy with playing sports and watching sports. When you play something sports, you can refresh your mind. And you can make a lot of friends who like the same thing. Of course, you will be healthy and cheerful. So I think you should play something sports if you have a free time. Most Japanese like to stay home and watch TV in their free time. They want to spend time slowly. They don't want to be tired because it's holiday. But I think it's not so good. I think thanks to playing something sports you can forget daily tiring or worries. It's very very important. Also, if you play something sports with your family, you can be more friendly. When you watch something sports, you can be interested in the sports, you are excited in the sports, and you will move. I like to watch high school baseball game. I'm very looking forward to coming spring and summer vacation every year. Then I always stay in front of TV. They are very very cool. They are brightening. But for that, they practiced practiced practiced ... Maybe it's over my imagine. When I was a junior high school student, I was a member of the tennis club. The teacher was very hot man. I love and respect him. So I follow him. Of course, the other members also follow him. Our dream was going to the All Japan Tennis Tournament. We practiced weekdays and weekends, from morning until evening. There was a time I wanted to give up. But when the dream came true, I was very very happy. I thought I hadn't given up. I got coincidence. And I got very important friends. I don't want to lost them forever. Connection of sports is important and strong. So playing sports is good thing for you. Let's play sports with every body! What does people think about Death Penalty. I think half of people should do death Penalty, but other don't think so. I think I agree with former. I think death penalty doesn't need to accept all criminals because they need time to think about what they did. I want to write down whether Death Penalty should be done or not. Why I disagree with accepting death Penalty is that all of criminals need think about what they did and why they did those worst things. They need time which they do see themselves. If they have to accept do death penalty even though they don't understand their fault, it would be no meaning to do death penalty. The second reason is that it would be no meaning for low intelligence people. Those people absolutely doesn't understand what they did. That's why I don't agree with death Penalty. Criminals spend time in the jail and work for people and create correct life better than accept death penalty. I don't know but some criminals would want to start their new life again as right way. Anyway they need think about much of things. They should do straight up their mind. I want to prevent from wasting of people dying. I belong to cheerleading club. Our team will appear to Japan cup on December 24. The is very big and many people come to watch performance. Almost univercity cheerleader in Japan have training for do their best every day. So, our squegule is very hard for exercise. We have exercise about six times a week. We will try to difficult pair stunts and dance. I have important role to this stunts, so I'm often nervus. Because I don't make injure to member. Some time I think I don't want go to club. But I join club every day,because I like our member very much. So I can keep do my best for our succese. I am not team captain. But I think we should be think all cheerleader is captain. I think money is very important to life. So I work part time job. Someone money is important, but someone love is the most important thing to life. If the man who is fall in love haven't money, what do you think? Maybe I think it be more work. I have many things which I wanted. For example, jewelry, clothes, shoes, watches and so on. I want to get these, so I have much money. I start part time job to get money. When I start part time job, I think it's hard to earn money. Then I think money is very important. So I change how to money. Until now, I worked two part time. Both are laundry. One laundry don't fit me. Cooperation and job don't fit me. I quit two month after. Then I think it's hard to get money and should be more necessary and important for money. Two laundry is fit me. Because cooperation is very good and job too. We continue for one year. I think it's amazing. From I start this part time job, I enjoy to earn money. Much money enter my tsucho. It makes me happy. Until now I think to earn money is hard and hate, but now it change. If I marry man, I want the man have much money. I marry rich man as well as possible, but I think I can't marry like it. Because I haven't chance to meet rich person, and in fact I think love is important. This is Mujyun. Until this, I say money is very important. I think so, but it is very sad. I hear that I believe only money. I don't become person who can't believe people and can be believe money. And the man who love me have same think. I think if there is love, what things to be good. Power of love is mugen than power of money. Person who life for money is very sad person, I think. They don't know real love. If they experience real love, they addicted to love. Hello. My name is {{PersonalInfo}}. I 'm 20 years old. Today I am talking about my part time job. I'm doing in Star Bucks Coffee at Oasis21. Do you know Star Bucks Coffee? It is the most famous coffee store as Coffee Store in the world and is liked by all over people. I met it for the first time when I watched a movies "I am Sam". Those days I was 19 years old and first grade in this universities. I have interested in Star Bucks Coffee by that movie and determined what I will job at it this summer. I had to study hard about 2things when I started job at Star Bucks Coffee. The 2 things are service, knowledge of coffee and coffee beans. First, service is for customers. When customer comes here, we did our best for customer to come here next. So we always enjoyed doing jog and communicating with customers. Second, We are profession as coffee store. Star Bucks Coffee is poplar as coffee store. So we have to give a lot of information about coffee and coffee beans easily. We usually study about coffee menu and coffee beans after doing part time job. If I have the plan that I do job at the day, I usually go to there and study hard. Why do you study hard about coffee when you are free? a friends of mine usually ask me. I usually answered" because I like my job". I feel very happy to met customer's smile. So to meet it I gain a lot of information about coffee and coffee beans and give them a lot of information easily. Now I become barista. Do you know barista? It is coffee master and able to make all coffee. I can't feel happy only barista. My next dream is coffee beans master. I want to talk about sports from now. I think sports is important for our health. I have two reasons that I think so. First, I'm health now. I hardly catch a cold. I have never break bone. Because I think I have gone to swimming school in my childhood. I was swimming very hard. I was from three years old to thirteen years old. I was swimming for 10 years. So my body is health. Second, I often watch sports game. When I watch it, I cheer one team or player. I'm very interesting, and I cheer team with big voice. And, when I finished watching it, so my stress is disappear. I felt fun. From two reasons, I think sports is important for our health. I will write essay about sports today. There are a lot of sports in the world. But each of them, we can say that everybody can move. Even if only play but watch. When I was elementary school student, I started basketball. That was four grades. Then I had liked sports. And I liked running. When people run, we don't need anything. Only our body. And only physical strength. I fought with myself. When I was junior high school student, I belonged in field and truck club. I ran a relay race with my friends. And we could get championship on prefecture tournament. Club member practiced everyday and got win. We were glad with crying. And then when I was high school student I belonged in the tennis club. Also this time, I practice a lot of time. As a result of this practice, we could go prefecture match. And we could get best 8 titles. I was very glad. I moved so much. Only watching, I moved about marathon runner, Naoko Takahashi. Her running gave to world people courage. She thought about she will retire, but she came back. I thought that I want to be her, and I want to be people who give courage for many people, like Naoko Takahashi. Olympic was also give emotion. Athlete compete each other, and from this time, we can connect with another country people. I think this is very grateful things. Like this, we are given many emotions. Of course playing myself. We can play with our member, practice with them, and be glad with them. But also watching. We can be glad with many people who don't know. And then we can spread our vision. I'm going to tell about divorce. In Japan, divorce is getting major. Until a few years ago, divorce is considered as not good thing and people weren't willing to do, but now, society allow to do and prejudice is decreasing. What is happen to Japanese? The biggest change is that women have jobs and they can get enough money to live. That means they don't have to stand their husbands who bring money. For example, if you have a husband who uses too much money for gamble and you have job, divorce is a good way for you. Second, recently the number of children is decreasing and couple with no child is not so rare. It is easy for them to do divorce because they don't have to think about their child. If they have child and divorce, their child has more possibility to go into juvenile than child with parents and he/she would feel sad. Another point is that they don't care which one take a right to bring up their child. This problem often needs a law judge. Divorce with child is much harder than one with no child. Third, now people don't think divorce as like what used to. Our grandparents don't like to do that but our parents and we think it not so bad thing. View of society is changing and it makes easier to do divorce. For example, the word "single mother", "single father"and "jukunenrikon" are very popular in Japan. On the end, divorce might be a way to make your life much better but you have to think about risk really carefully. If you think you don't really need your husband' help, don't hesitate doing divorce. Anyway, you have only one life so don't regret and enjoy your life. I'm going to write about school education. About two weeks ago, I went to Nagoya International school to see class. They have class for young children who are before go to kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, and high school. At there, although the language when they use in class, they can choose which language they use on lest time, English or Japanese. And they take the American education style. So the students can get diploma of graduation from American high school. It is same as high school students who live in America. When I took part in kindergarten class, I was surprised at that they presented about work at font of other students in English very influent, for example, about fireman, pilot, teacher, and cook. When I was kindergarten student, I had never presented. Of course, we song at front of our parents and teachers, or we acted the old Japanese story like a "momotarou" at front of our parents and teachers. But it was just play, it was never class. And I was surprised at education style. It is very different from Japanese education system. For example, the teacher never asked for students to hand up when teacher ask something question for students, and they want students to answer. Students answer, when they want to do, if they have it. They never mind that the teacher asks for someone. They only mind the question. And I felt the students are very free. Because they can choose fashion, class, and so on. In Japanese school, we can't choose fashion, and class. We have to wear school uniform, have to clean up building every day, have to take class that have already decided by teachers, and so on. We are controlled by teachers, and we don't have so many free. I think that Japanese school has too many school low. Sometime it works for good, but sometime it works for bad. In addition, I think that Japanese students can't say their opinion honestly. Because they mind other people's opinion. They worry about what other people think for them opinion. I think that the cause is Japanese education style. Especially hand up. And Japanese students are not good at presentation. So I recommend to taking American education system for Japanese government. Of course I think Japanese style is not bad, but I think American education is superior to Japanese education. First of all I write about "sports". I think that recently children do not go out to play a lot of sports. For example, recently children do not go out to play. And, they play in their house now. Why do they go out play? I think that because they like TV game in their house. So they do not go out and to play TV game in their house. By the way, old children used to go out to play a lot of sports. For example, they play the baseball, soccer, tennis and kakettuko so on. That is to say, there is kotowaza. It is "children is kaze no ko". That is to say, many children can not playing sports. So I think that it is important to go out to play sports. I think that TV game is interesting. But children should play a lot of sports every day. Today, sports are very popular in Japan. For example, soccer, volleyball, ice skeet, golf and so on. Recently young people are going to go out all over the world. They take part in some event in various countries that offered like as everyday. Then we support and cheer athletes who are Japanese or belong to Japan. Yes, I do too. Why should we do such as? Every athlete does their best, so should we cheer everybody? However every person has a nationality. In general we are decided to cheer and support 'our' team. Especially math media help to cheer them up. TV, radio, news paper and so on do that. NHK -- Nihon Hoso Kyokai (broadcasting by Japanese politics, must do all things are equal) do that too. Cheering or supporting is symbol of nationality. Such math media or politics make it up. Sports often are said symbol of nationalism. Japan maybe have been thought no nationalism country, because Tennou -- emperor is no power to Japan. But now we tend to have nationality from sports maybe from no power by someone. So we can enjoy watching sports without thought. I write essay that I went to see soccer game to Toyota stadium when November 20. This game was J-league on Ganba Osaka vs Nagoya Grampus. Maybe it was the 31 section. Ganba is the first prize now and Grampus is maybe rank 18 or 19. It was first time to see soccer game to Toyota stadium to me. I went to there with my boy friend. He like soccer. First I did not interested to game (especially J-league). I like soccer very much but I am interested to only Spain or England's premiere league. There games are very exciting. They have extraordinary speeds and power. They have strong physical. I thought J-league has not them, so first I did not want to go there. When I reached stadium, I was surprised that supporters spirits. Especially grampus is home team, they shake many big flags and sing fight songs. Even Ganba Osaka supporters were very exciting. Gradually, I was interesting too. Before game, the player started warm-up. Our seats were rather near the field. Especially, I could watch grampus players. I often watch sports news on TV. Then I think many Japanese people recently try to play foreign country and succeed. They also won Olympics recently. For example, Mr. Matsui and Ichiro play baseball in USA. Mr. Nakata and other soccer player belong in foreign country team. Swimmer and taiso and judo player won a lot of medals on Olympics. Why it is? It has a reason, I think. It is global development. Much kind of media made Japanese people know foreign country culture, life and so on. Then many Japanese people got to go to foreign country and many people come in Japan. That is why Japanese people had view not Japanese but global. The Japanese player developed own talent by the global think so they wanted to tried to develop other place. Then they became success in foreign country. Then does this trend more increase than now? Yes it is. Media increases speedy so we have to accept to foreign culture, life and personal. If general Japanese people accept to it, more Japanese people will success in foreign country and it will make great country. Volleyball game was hold in Japan last week. I played volleyball when junior high school to high school so I watched volley ball game hard on TV. Children that don't sport degree today. Today's children don't play out, they play TV game and card game in house. So their ability of body is down. That reason why I think environment of their life. Space where children is a few so they play in home. For their ability is up, their parents should keep a space (not in home). Also, teacher should say students do club. Around people move, children change. I think so. I would like to write down about suicide in japan. Because one of my friend's father killed himself five years ago. I was shocked. I don't know what the real reason is, but it's true that suicide is increasing in Japan. I heard that suicide increasing among middle age men in Japan. Those people are high position and have a lot of works to do. This must be hard and stress for them. So ... is this the reason? I don't think so. I met a lot of worker in the world but they looks doing well. They know how to release their stress. When I met French man who is air plane engineer, he asked me. 'Why Japanese people mix up their works and their private? We have important job, but I also think stay with family is important.' I really agree with him and I think this is the true reason. Japanese is industrious. They work hard, they study hard. It is really important for human being I think. But we are alive. We have to have a fun. If people keep going working all day, they would get just tired. First of all, I would like to suggest that people has to have a time with their family. We have loveable family. Parents, ground parents, sister, brother, husband, wife, son, and daughter. They are our Second, I would like to suggest that people should have their free time. Stay with family is good for us, but sometime, people need their free time. I have a lot of hobby. I love swimming, snowboarding, cooking and reading book. When I swim, my feeling is much released. Especially after study, I can forget about tired. This is good way to avoid save stress. The reason of suicide is stress or presser. We have to release it or avoid it. We can learn how to do this from other countries. Especially Europe, America, Canada Australia and so on. It's not so difficult. Let us think our life. What is important? Why are we here? Answer is easy. School is a basic of our lives, I think so. Every child goes to school. At school, we can have many experiences. My school life was not bad, but I hope I could enjoy my school life more. When I was elementary school students, I really like to go to school. I like study and talk with my friend. The activities like sports festival, thanks giving, were very fun. The more, I like lunch time very much. So I enjoyed school days very much. After I went to junior high school students, I enjoy school life too. But I come across a trouble. It was a rule of the school. I don't claim at school uniforms or so. In my junior high school, all of students have to join some club activities. I don't want to do that. Because there was no club that I want to join. Though, my teacher didn't agree my opinion. So I become a member of brass band club. The time in that club was so bad. Actually, I had been played the piano since I was a 5 years old. So I was good at music very much. Though, I had to learn from senior student who can not read music. Can you image how that time was bad and had no means. I expected more rich time, so I hated to go that club. When I graduated junior high school, I had an inter-exam to get in to the high school. I study so hard and get the ticket to go Gifu-kita high school. It was public and high class school in my reason and almost every student wish to go to university. I was so happy before the school starts. When the class starts, I realize that study in this school is very hard. There was a mount of home work and lesson speed was so fast. I studied until mid night every night. Thanks to my hard work, I could pass the first exam. But after that, I failed down all the tests. Finally I couldn't catch up with other students. I failed out from a road of this school education. This schools education program was made for students who want to go to public or national university. To pass the test of public or national university, students have to all subjects deeply. So the school education system was made so tight. It was not only me who failed out the exam. I want to go to private university and for that I didn't have to study all subject. The more I wish to go to a course to study English, so I don't have to study math or chemistry not so hard. But to pass the exam, I had to study those subject to. Of course that means that all of my school days in high school were sad, but system didn't fit me. I think. I think all of the education should be for students. However there are many different from that point in today's school system and education. I wish that schools and education systems become more attractive and fit for students. Japanese governments say Yutori-Kyouiku loudly. It means makes textbook for tiny and give experience more. But I don't think so. Yutori must means to more lose rule not rude give much secretion for students I think. If I could have chance to do something not that club activity I could have more rich experiences. I hope school education become flexibility and student enjoy their school life more. I will talk about school education. Especially I refer elementary school. Today, elementary school students have 2 days off a week. It's called "Yutori Kyouiku" I'll consider the new system is good or bad. First, I refer to Yutori kyouiku. Actually I'm not sure about the new system very much. But I suppose they have more free time than before. Is it good thing or bad thing? For good thing they have a lot of free time, so they can play more with friend, and they can do what them want. For bad thing, they might hang out with friends at bad places (such as game center), and them parents make them go cram schools. For my opinion, I can't say good and bad. But both things is true. elementary school student's problems. The crime of elementary school student had happen such as killing their friends, bullying them friends. What's the more, some parents who have a lot of money get them take enough education, but the other's don't so, students will divide upper class and lower class. Before the system have done, Japanese were almost stereotype because of education. I guess, nationality will change in the future. Before the system have done, Japanese were almost stereotype because of education. I guess, nationality will change in the future. Recently, Education of elementary school was changed. New education system became more easer for children than old education. But, I think that system has some problem. Is easer education really for children? What is the real education for children? I think it is time to consider school education for children. If new education goes on in school, more serious problem will occur in future. So, I would like to think about school education. When I was elementary school student, we had class on Saturday, and text was more difficult than now. But, now, elementary school has yutori education, so time of class is decreased and content of text becomes more easer. Instead of that change, time of free activity is increased. I think it is important for children to do free activity because children may discover what they want to do in future. Only study in desk could not grow up children's talent. In fact, I couldn't discover my dream in only study, and some other experience had me to discover my dream and talent. So, children should do such free activity in teenager. But, because class time was decreased, many parents came to have children to go clam school after school. I think children have not time to play and do free. If children do only study all day, they will have more stresses, and become people which they think only study and to become a genius man. I think children should learn not only study but also human relationship through playing with friends. Playing with friends has them to grow up for real man. New education system has good points, but large part should change. I think many children will have only study in their heads, and they may not be able to think about their friends and may become people who think only themselves. Now, we have to change school education, and all of adults should consider that for children. I think money is very important. We can't live no money. We can buy food, cloth, house and so on. And we can also go travel. Of course, one say money is important, others say love is important than money. I think love is important, too. Because when there is love, I become happy. But on the live, I need money. On my life, I have one time that I needed money very much. It's when I reserve travel. When I check mail box, travel shop's employee said "You have to send eight million yen until 3 p.m., today". I was panic. Because I didn't have big money and cash card. And my mother wasn't in the house. I went to place that is my mother work there. I borrow my mother's cash card, and went to bank. I could pay money. I felt then that money is very important. When I take pay, I feel that money is important. I have a part time job. The shop decides time's pay, and I take money that is I worked time. I work 2 times a week, and 6 hours one day. In that work, I can't sit down. It's very hard. But when I take pay, I become happy. Because I think that I can buy my favorite things by that money. When I feel money is important, I speak nenkin. Because we doesn't know that whether we take nenkin. We doesn't know whether we take nenkin but we pay big money. On my life, I have no time that I have no money. But money is important on live our life. We are able to become happy by only some money. All over the world is filled with money and people living there completely believe the value of money. Some people say, "Money is everything." Other people may kill a person in order to get quantities of money. Now, I will talk about why money tends to be thought highly of. The primary reason is that we can get almost all goods by paying some money. Thought kindness used to be estimated at one time, what is required now is a thing such as delicious food, jewel, or a car. Some people are made to think money is everything because money changes into goods directly. Another reason is that people tend to estimate how much money other people have. For example, when a woman decides to marry a man, she will consider how much his income is. Additionally, someone is very eager to marry another person whose income is higher. Therefore, it seems that those people believe not in human kindness but in money. The rest reason is that we find what we would be forced to do if we didn't have enough money. For instance, it is difficult for those who are jobless to lead ordinary lives. Also we understand that it would be difficult if we should be poor. We have been living by using money, so we can recognize money changes into directly the conditions which we have to lead our happy lives on. That is to say we can purchase everything including love, friendship, or humanity, etc. I would like to write about sports. The reason I chose, I think it can be very important experience to do sports in life anyway. A person that has experiences of doing some sports can have wide view or thinking for anything rather than a person that don't have it. It is for oneself and surrounding people too. This time, I am going to write about various effects and pleasure through doing sports based on my experience. To do sports is included many merits. For example, it is good for health and strengthens muscle to make friends and so on. When I was child I like sports. So I entered basketball club when I was pupil. I had to practice it after school ever day; I was going to give up many times. But member of the club helps me, so I could keep on. When we loosed important match, we cried out and very sad and hard. I've never forget. But once I could have goal after loosing match, I could have challenging spirits at the same time. This is so important and necessary thing to spend my life. Even now, I have communication the member with strong friendship. I guess the memories can make us good relationship. You know, now most of people addictive about Korea in Japan. Especially, older women are interested in Korea ? culture, words, movie, music, drama. As long as drama, they like "Fuyunosonata", and they have loved an actor, Pe Yonjun. He has been most popular in Japan. Economic function seems 100milion dollars by Pe yonuun in Japan. Of course, consumers are women who are thirty through sixty years old. Why do they spend a lot of money about it? I try to see it. At first, why have almost women addictive about Korean dorama, especially, "FuyunoSonata". Second, why do they like an actor, Pe Yonjun. Third, why do they spend some money about Korean goods. Why have lady addictive about Korean dorama, especially "Fuyunosonata". I heard that people can remain of their younger age easily when they are watching that dorama. "Fuyunosonata" is a pure love story, so they want to match with their love in first in old days. They can also have images that they have love about someone, for example Pe Yonjun. The dorama give them some dreams and make them be happy. Most of women are housewife, so they are borling everyday. But they met the dorama, so they can have good interesting things. Why do they like an actor? They attractive Korean actor, because most of Korean actor are looks very kind. To say as long as Pe yonjun, people think his smile give them happy feeling. Why do they spend money about Korea? They are interested in Korean culture involve Korean movie, dorama, music and so on. Japan and Korea are so close about everything. For example, face is close, clothe is close, and culture hobbit is close, language is close. They can't feel different between Japan and Korea. They can feel to stay in Korea instead of Japan. So they can image they are an actress in the dorama. To be an actress, they need some sound, mood, pictures that are to be image easily. They have to buy some Korean goods. Of course, to have strong image, they can go Korea. People don't stop to have interested in Korea. Both governments think this issues are good for them, because they want to be communication each other. Death penalty is very difficult problem. There are a lot of for or against opinion to the death penalty. Against to death penalty people say "Innocent people can be killed by the death penalty." Of course I think that we have to consider about the death penalty. Then, the death penalty have to be done. But I for the death penalty. People of for the death penalty say "Criminal decrease because criminals fear the death penalty. They don't want to die." I think so. They say "Criminals of killing people have to die. The family of killed (father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter and etc ... ) want to die and don't want to be alive. I for the death penalty. I want to get a lot of money because I have many works that I want to do. I like to go shopping. I want to buy shoes, accessories, clothes and more. I have many things want to buy. I like to trip. I have many places that I want to go. I want to go to Canada, Spain, Thailand, Italy and more. I think to go abroad to study now. Anyway I need to get a lot of money. I have a part time job. I want to get a lot of money so I work hard on September. I worked hard so I get a lot of money but I lost my relax times. I did not have time which I want to do. I do not want to work and I hate my part time job on October. To work hard for money was not good idea. I understood that the time is more important than a lot of money. October is my birth month so I have been relax since I was child. I did not to study hard when I was in junior high school and high school on October. I did not want to study and to work hard at this year. I did not go to part time job. I have a lot of times to be relax. But I could not to go shopping. To go shopping is my hobby. I did not to do that I want. I think money is very important. I'm working part time job of "Okonomiyaki". I work usually hardly part time job. I work part time job about three times for a week. I'm working part time job and I think money is very important. Working some job is very difficult. I think thank you for my father. My father is working hardly for my family. My family is five people. Father, mother, two sisters and me. Working on my family is only my father. My mother doesn't work part time job. One sister and me are University students. The second sister is high school student. So my father work very hardly job. My family need to big money now. Because my family need to money for children in some things. For example, "travel of high school" and "cost of university of two children". I think my father is very busy. I work part time job ***** university in the first. I think working is very important. And money is very important, too. It is difficult to take some money. If my family have a lot of money, my family will be very happy. So I work hardly and take a lot of money for my family. This essay's theme is "violence on TV". I talked about a effort by violence on TV. Recently I often watch the TV program about the Violence. For example, violence ANIME about a war, murder, and so on ... Now, in Japan. ANIME's effort is great. Many Japanese watching the ANIME, and its almost ANIME is violence. So, ANIME's effort is sincerely. Especially, for children. Recently, Crime of children digreace more and more. I think that it is effort by violence TV. They want to a character of the TV or Comic. If they watch the violence TV or Comic, they want to its character. A few months ago, I heard the news that girls (Teenager) killed a mother by a pollution. And she written a essay on the Internet. This story is diary of until her mother died. And, how to write is look like a ANIME's character. Maybe, I think that she try to ANIME's character. Its effort killed a mother. Japanese want to do something of the violence. Now, Japanese society is peaceful than other country. But, I think that its peace diseace by violence TV program and ANIME. Japanese culture (ANIME) corrected to crame. Children still can't learn a lot of things. So they are not understand to different of right things and wrong things. Violence TV's effort is too great. I think that children should not be watch the violence TV. I think that country must be take a low for a children (teenager). I think that this (now) low is same to have nothing. I would like to talk about divorce. Recently the rate of divorce is more increasing than thirty years ago in Japan. I want to consider the difference of nowadays and past, and what to choose. First, I'll talk about society of 30's in Japan. In those days divorce didn't recommend for people, therefore a wife bared her husband violence if she didn't have faults. Previous economy of Japan was grown rapidly. Men worked harder and people lived in center of city. People weren't kind for neighborhood, a wife was alone at home. A wife didn't have friends, so she couldn't give an advice. It is a cause that she didn't divorce. The second reason is women were supported by men, so they were anxious that how they live alone. Second nowadays economy isn't good, and women can work in society. They don't need thinking of money. People think that divorce is good in a case. Society admit the idea gradually. I think that why the rate of divorce is increasing because women are becoming free. They can say anything than before, and they don't need to bare violence. They are thinking divorce is a choice of life. I will talk about money. We can't live without money, and it is necessary for us. I will talk about that money is important, and problem. I will talk why money is necessary. If we don't have money, we can't buy anything, and we can't eat anything. We earn for our life. Now, I am student and I can't get work yet. So I live by help of parents. My parents work and earn, and we can live and we can go to school and we can live at home. People have to work for get to money. Now, I am gave money, okozukai by my parents. But I want to get money more, so I do part time job. I earn at there, I buy clothing, snacks, and so on. We want to money more. And we work hard. I think that there are many people who work for money. We try hard to get money. But it cause problem sometimes. There are mans who stole the others' money and stole from store or bank. There are also mans dose bat things. And we have another problem of money. In the world, now there are many people who can't eat even foods of tomorrow. We have to contribute for such countries. Money gives us life and happy but we very busy for get to money. We only think how to use money, and we forget anything. Money is necessary. We don't have to forget necessary of money. We have to use for good. And it is necessary that we use money for pool country, people. It is necessary that help each other. I write my idea of sports. Sports are very essential thing for human. To keep your health, you have to do exercises. Sports are not only for keeping your health, but also for pleasure. When you do sports with your friends, you may feel happy and you become more friendly with your friends. In the case of sports player, doing sports is their work. They have to do a lot of training. So they feel to not play sports. But they do exercises hard for to win. There are a lot of people who like to watch sports. For example, soccer baseball, volleyball so on. Olympic is watched many people on TV. To watch sports is very exciting. So people like to watch sports. But only to watch sports is bad. You have to play sports yourself. To play tennis, soccer good and to walk, run swim is good too. You choose your favorite way to exercises. It is good that you should play sports a little one day rather than you play a lot of sports one day. It is important to last playing sports every day. Sports give you a lot of effects. So sports play a big roll for people. These days, in Japan, Almost people have a T.V at their homes, and they often enjoy watching T.V programs. We are always able to watch T.V whenever we want to watch, in other word, there is no time that any programs are not boarded on T.V. And more, we can choose the T.V program what we want to watch. However, there are many things to have been said about violation about T.V because we can watch many kinds of T.V programs such as news, comedies and dramas. Although lots of media is there, the good point of T.V is that we can get something by both visuals and sounds at same time. Especially, we can watch moving pictures with some words are put every scene on T.V, so it is easy to understand when we can use the word. The words that people use in their daily life are limited on the other hands, because we can see many kinds of scenes on T.V, we can hear variety of words. Although I said about good points, sometime these points may become bad influences for people. I want to write three examples at below. At first, we can watch many T.V programs whenever and whatever we want to, so it is easy for people even young people to watch not good T.V programs like poruno. Second, there are live. In this program, we can watch and feel the scene very attractive, but when something happened, they can not change anything, so audience who watch the live may watch it directly. Third, because of T.V, a conversation between families will be decrease. I think that it is important for us to think how to watch T.V. For example when we watch T.V, which programs we watch. In order to our watching style, we can receive whether good influences, or bad influences from T.V. This is sports story. Sports is popular all around the world. Many people do a lot of sports everyday. I think, sports is one of way communication. I white sports story of my memory of sports. First, my favorite sports. I like a lot of sports. And I do many sports well. The most favorite sports is basketball. I like to play basketball. But I don't like watching this game. First time I played basketball junior high schoole. I am this basketball team reader. I practice it berry hard. But I don't absent for the club. I play basketball at schoole. I played it at park for near my house. I played basketball everyday. Second, I play doddiball in Thailand. I went Thailand this summer. Then I play doddiball whith eleven Japanese my friend and many Thailand children. Do you know doddiball? Japanese know this game rule, But Thailand don't know doddiball. We teach this game rule that is berry hard. And I enjoyed to play doddiball. Children enjoyed to play it too. I think that sports is no border. I can't speak Thailand language. We and they live in different country, and speak different language. But we are frend. Sports is no border. All around the world's people play sport. They do sports together. They are friends across the country. Sports is communication way. Now, I would like to talk about money. I need money. If I have much money, I can buy what I want. Now, I have a part-time job on holiday. I work about 16 hours in a week, and I earn about 30000 yen in a month. But it is not enough for me. So, my parents give me money in a month. Why I need much money? Do you know? Now, I will explain the reason. First reason is lunch and dinner. I mostly eat lunch and dinner at outside. I eat lunch at university's lounge from Monday to Friday. And I eat dinner at outside Monday and Thursday and Saturday. So, it cost very high. Second reason is to buy clothes. I want clothes, boots and so on. These are very expensive. So I need more money than I earned. But I don't think only money is everything. Even though I have not money, I think I am happy. If I have only little money, I will play without money. And I will eat dinner at home. And I will buy cheep clothes. I think money is very important. But I also think only money is not important. Today, we can watch a lot of kinds programs on TV, we enjoy it almost everyday. We can't imagine the life of no TV. I like and enjoy TV and think it is good essence for my life. I see Savanna, Eiffel tower and New York City on TV. I study so many kinds of things to see TV. Some programs are so useful for people, but others are not. There is some violence expression in the program. Is it good for children? We should protect their freedom of expression? I introduce some examples and consider it. We like laugh. There are many programs for laugh in Japan and laugh programs so popular now. It is good thing to laugh for health, mentality. But today people who make us laugh do excess things. Sometimes it happen so dangerous things like felling down on the parson's head, taking into too hot water or something like that by them, but viewer is laughing. There is also sexual violence expression on TV. You have seen women wear no clothes or almost no clothes once or more. There is Bakatono and his made. They are used by him. Other example is throwing cakes to someone. The face of parson who are threw the cake is so white and dirty. Is it funny? I don't think so. It is bully. Nowadays children go to bed so late than 10 years ago. They see these programs at their home. Next day, they might use bad words or do violence things that they saw on TV last night. If almost student don't know that things in the class, a parson know it, it spread class. American and Japanese Education I will discuss school education in my essay. I chose this issue as my topic, because I went to the United States for a year, and I experienced educational differences there. I like American education better so far. I will explain why I prefer American to compare Japanese education with American one and then show the differences between them. I will talk about elementary schools, high schools, and universities. In mentioning those schools, I will uncover how teacher teach them and how students react in the classes. First of all, I will talk about elementary schools. I have never been in America when I was an elementary student, but I will try to discuss with what I heard from my friends who was in the U.S. when they were elementary students. According to them, there are so many things to do in schools. Teachers give kids a lot of homework everyday. The homework is, for example, to read newspaper and write essay about one or two articles out of the newspaper. When I heard this homework, I thought it is very American. Usually, Americans are required to express their opinion so often. I will talk about university education later, but it is the same in campus much later. They were not different from us in abilities of giving opinions, but they had to do that consciously and just are used to doing that. Back to my friend, she told me that she had really difficult time to get through those kinds of homework. Reading a lot and write how you think. Because of that, I think she never hesitates to say how she thinks, at least in front of me. That is just "practice makes perfect". On the other hand, we do not have many opportunities to show our opinions in classes or wherever. I have to be the same not to mess our harmony there. We try to make a great cooperate with others. You may hold back if your ways of thinking are different from others'. Therefore, we are not used to giving our opinions. We much prefer being on the same page as everybody else. Secondly, I will talk about high school education. I have never been to there at that time either, but I heard how it is from my boyfriend who comes from the United States. He said he can choose which level of classed he was in. I was so surprised at the fact. In Japan, we study about exact same stuff as other students in your age. You have to keep up with the other students, even though it would be just tough for you, because you are not good at the subject. That is why people are sometimes disappointed their abilities. On the other hand, in American education from at elementary to high schools, they can take classes as they like. If they or their teacher, it is tough for them to keep up with other students, they can do down lower level. You do not need to worry about your keeping up with others, if you are in the suitable classes. I like the education system a lot. I really think we should have the system in Japan. Then students can realize what they really like to study and what they are good at, so it is much easier to decide what they will study at college. Finally, I will talk about university education. I went to West Virginia University for a year and attend university classes. I saw many differences there. First, students' attitude is very different from most of the Japanese students'. I think it is one of the biggest differences between them. They speak out during a class. I barely heard student' saying what they think in any classes, except fro their chatting with friends. Actually, American students are much quieter during a class, but they try to show what they think. They seem much closer to professors than in Japan. In Japan, a professor is the one talking in a class and students just try to take a note what professor says. In America, even a professor makes a mistake or misunderstands. He might be wrong, and student can say "I think you are wrong". One more another difference is that college students are required to read a lot. I thought it was crazy. Sometimes, your professor might tell you to read more than 50 pages as a daily homework. Anyway, you have to read a lot and write a lot of assay. It is the same as elementary homework. On the other hand, universities in Japan are very easy. There is very few homework, and you can just attend classes. Even thought you had to go through very strict a entrance exam to get into the university, now you are just sitting to chat with your friends. That is why I like American education better. I wish I could have been in the United States. I think we really need to think Japanese education over now. I like American because you can put yourself very hard and get your abilities batter. I hope Japanese realize we are just different from others, and each a person has a lot of potential to do something. We should concentrate on the stuff that you really like and you are really good at. The form of exist death penalty In this essay, I will speak if death penalty should be accepted or not. I think death penalty should not be done. I have the three reasons for this opinion . These each were refer to the think of God, the think of border of penalty, the think of what do death penalty product. First, I believe in God . He products we, human and he decide the time our each lives go to the end. I think we should not kill other person even if we have right reasons, actually I wouldn't think this is right reasons to kill someone, regardless to the God's decision. Second, it is too difficult for men or women to decide a person who have a crime to go to death in the other man who have another crime to go to labor in the goal. How different these crime? In this society, it is natural that a person who kill many people and he or she doesn't looks like develop to the point that he or she will be a person who live in society not doing kill person . I think it is not clear. It is not decided when "How many" people were killed, and the death penalty will be done. And I think anyone can not feel the people who kill many people exactly. This decision can not show us exact border. Third, I don't think death penalty products something good. It products fear, sadness, anger and so on. It is bad point of death penalty. I think other penalty can product several things. For example, social people, things sold to society, labor. I think we should do what is productive. From the upper sentences, I think death penalty should be stop. But, it should be told from parents to child because it could be a reason for little child not to do bad things. I want death crime exist in that form. I will talk about sports. I like sports very much. I have done many sports until now. Swimming, basketball, Japanese archery ... and so on. I think that almost of people has experience that done any sports. Because going school, we have physical education class. If he hasn't done sports, but he have looked sports games. Sports are very close with us. But are sports important for us? If it were not for, do we have any troubles? I think sports are essential things for us. I will explain two points which I have such idea. First, sports can be exercise. If we don't move, our body will be worse and worse. To maintain our bodies better, we need sports. Second, sports can liberate us from stress. When I am doing sports, I can forget any other things. So I can refresh. This feeling must not only mine. Everybody can feel this feeling. Therefore I think sports are very important for us. Recently, "hikikomori' who doesn't go out is increasing. Because they are sick, they feel afraid to go out home. But I think every time they are at home, both their body and heart will be worse. If they do sports, their mind will be liberated even a little. So I want to them to do sports. Sports as commercial 1. I want to mention to sports in particular, soccer, baseball in this essay. Sports such as soccer or baseball are used by commercial purpose. For example, in Japanese professional baseball world, an owner of a team often buy a very famous and good player to increase fans of his team. In European professional soccer world, Cost of make soccer TV program is very high. To get much money from TV program, a owner of soccer club want to get famous and Popular player. But I think that this is not good. I want to what is not good, why this situation is not good, what I have to do to change this situation. 2.1First ,I mention to what is not good. In Japanese baseball world I think that a company that have a team have most of profit that they can get by this enterprise. They do not think how customers are satisfied with Their services. To them, if much profit is got, all ok. But because of this lazy attitude of such teams Fans of Japanese professional baseball is decreasing very fast. I myself was also disappointed in fact. I was born and grew in Nagoya. I love Nagoya very much. So, of course. I am a fan of a professional baseball team in Nagoya, Chunichi Doragons. When I went to Nagoya Dome ,home ground of Chunichi Doragons, I think that much money is necessary to do everything. For example, to get a ticket of the game, to eat food and drink something ,to get tools to cheer the team or to move to stadium from my house. Second, I want to mention to why this situation is not good. Once an owner of baseball team did not have to endeavor to collect fans to stadium. This is because fans of Japanese baseball liked it because they did not like nothing else except baseball. But now there are many good sports. There is tendency to like these sports. So, if this situation coutinues fans of baseball continue to decrease. So They have to change this situation. 3.I want to mention what I have to do to change this situation. An owner of baseball endeavors to please fans. They have to think that enterprise of professional baseball is not commercial jobs but jobs to please fans. When they think so, fans are satisfied very much and they get much profit in commercially. I I'd like to discuss about the issue on early age education, especially on learning English. Learning English from early age have become quite popular in these days, as we can see from many private English schools with young age classes or books and televisions. Many parents think it is a good idea to make their children to start English at an early age. However I have opposite opinions with many parents, so from now I'd like discuss about "learning English from early age" bases of my opinions. First of all, I think it is not good idea to make children star learning English before they become able to speak their own mother tongue. Children start hearing their mother tongue just after they were bourn, and they started to realize those about 5 moths to 1 years old. Especially until 1 years old, the input of their mother tongue are very important to growth their language skill, especially with vocabulary knowledge. If they don't have enough input, they might have hard time increasing their knowledge with even their mother tongue. Secondly, there are many things children should learn before learning English. I think social skills are one of them, and also important skills for us. Now days, I see many children play in public place without thinking about others, or paying bad behavior toward adults especially to elderly people. If they don't learn those of them, they won't have chance to learn them later on. It is hard to learn them by their own, they learn while children growth. If they don't learn the basic social skills, they might have misunderstanding with others, or not good attention. Thirdly, I think listening or learning music helps learning foreign language. English is the foreign language for us as Japanese, but not for the people in the States, for example. So, if English is our mother tongue, we will probably learn them by listening the adults' talking at first. We won't know how to write them, but we will probably realize the sounds of them after listening many times. We might also become able to pronounce them later on. So, even if English is not our mother tongue, I think it will help us to follow the steps what the English people do to learn their mother tongues. I discussed about "learning English from early age" form three points, and if I say in one word, I think we shouldn't start learning English from an early age. I believe there are many reasons why parents make their children to learn English even they are young, but I'd like to say that even they don't care what I think, I'd like to just say "Please listen to what your children think". If children have good feeling about learning English, it might be good for them, but the worth case is that they learn because their parents said so, and they don't like to do so. I believe that if people become not interested in learning English, it is very hard to become interested in. Today it have been said that recycling is very important for long time. Though we have limited resources, we used too much. Many people think so. Newspaper, cans and bottle have been known as what can do recycling. Actuary, for example, newspaper's recycling rate is very high, probably 80 percent I think. Many toilet papers are made from these. Others are frees, old clothes and many things. The furniture and electric machines have doing reusing. So people cannot be interested in recycling. But people make great mistake. They think recycling products are made from unusable things, so it is low cost and should be low price. If new products are more cheep than recycling ones, they will buy new ones. We should change our mind. Recycling products are not cheep. Recycling needs many special technique that is need many money to innovate. Recycling products must be high. But if we can have thought those cost is money of protecting the earth, it is will easy to use recycling products. This is about the role of sports in my opinion. I'd like to talk about how sports are useful to us. I will take two points bellow. First, sports have good influences for us and we will live healthy and fine everyday. Because we, human are a kind of animals in fact, and animals are basically moving creatures. But we lose recently opportunity to move the body, so that our social life becomes more and more useful and convenience in modern age. Therefore, we are not health day by day and need some opportunities to move our body for our healthy. A one of opportunities is sports. Second, sports can sometimes share fun between various people. Through playing international games, races or Olympics and world cup, we get to know about people and cultures in other country and can understand each other. Sports will have an aspect of intercultural communication. Sports may often become to have deal with nationalism in international games and a cause of quarrel between some supporters, because some people are too excited. But I find sports make us good feeling and have better aspects than bad aspects. I suggest we play better sports or something to move the body at least. Today, particularly in developed and developing world, we live in a mass production society, which leads us to mass disposal society. Accordingly, we are facing problems about how to deal with mass waste. Land disposal sites, combustion and recycling are three main ways to deal with this problem. However there are three ways to deal with trash, there is only one option which is environmentally friendly. That is recycling. Recycling has been recognized throughout the world and it has been taken action by many countries government, NGOs, and NPOs. I understand that recycling is thought to be a good thing universally, but it still faces many problems today. After the Industrial revolution, mass production has been flourished around the world. Since then people in this world has been producing a great deal of garbage. Japan is one of those countries that followed and took in mass production. After the World War 2, democracy was settled and mass production mass disposal has escalated year by year until "the bubble age" ended. After "the bubble age" Japan came in to deflation and mass production rate stopped growing. Before recycling was well known in Japan, main ways to dispose wastes were to leave unburnable waste in disposal sites, and put burnable waste in combustion sites. As the amount of waste grew, waste problem began to reveal itself. First, usable disposal sites are being filled up. Now we have to find new sites to leave our wastes. Second, trash combustion plants were found out to exhaust dioxin, which is poisonous for human body. Additionally, combustion plants use mass amount of fossil fuel that is said to be limited in amount. For those problems in present, recycling is getting attention from people. So forth, recycling is a very important to improve out environment and society. Additionally, it is not too much saying to say that governments have to take action in recycling unless they will lose people's support. People are pretty much concerned about their living environment. Although, many action is taken recycling still faces many difficulties, which is mainly technical problems. There is no efficient way to reduce amount of garbage yet, but recycling is getting known in societies. For example, at supermarkets, they ask us to bring our own bags. Recycling is something we all have to think about and take action together. It is clear that mass production will not last so soon or worse we can predict that developing worlds will increase mass production and produce more amount of waste. Even recycling does spread out and run very well in Japan, soon, the same problem will reveal in developing world and the third world. In that time, developed countries and developing counties have to come together and help out each other. Now education has a lot of shapes. Most of people go to school, but a few people do not go to school. More some of the person does not go to school study in their own home. I had gone to kindergarten, junior school, junior high school, and high school. And now I have gone to the Universities. I have done it without suspicious. But the more I think about going schools, the more I do not seem to know why I have gone to school. WHY WE GO TO SCHOOLS? Now I will think about the role of schools again. Now in Japan, school education is one of the most serious problems. For example, some do not go to school. They do it so because they have many reasons. For example, he or she does not like to study, relationship with his or her friend annoy him or her. And they seem to think that to blame to be is school. But school is student. We do not reserve education, but do we make the school? After all, here the reason I think why we go to school. Going school itself make us suit to society easier in the future. Why do we have to suit the society? I think does it because we cannot live alone. And we cannot live without supporting each other. School has a lot of students. Students make school. And I think that we learn the skill to live in the society and how person relate with other person. In this essay, I write about sports. Sports affect in several face of society. Especially, I want to say about effect of sports. Largely summarized, there are three effects of sports now. So, in next paragraph, I write one of three effects of sports. First, sports have a power to make the all over the world happy. This means that now the world is happier than when if there would not be sports. I take the example of soccer because soccer is world sports and the people who play soccer is especially large and big. Soccer is played by people who live all over the world. For example, in China, Japan, South Africa, Europe Countries, U.S.A. and small country such as the city of Vatican. The reason of playing soccer in all over the world is soccer is usual sports and soccer ball is used in every where not same as baseball goods. Back to the main theme, why dose soccer make the world happy? One of the answer of this is the rule of soccer is universal and common in all over the world such as in Japan and Brazil. If Japanese people and Brazilian people play game, they do not understand each language each other. But, they must not be confused each other, because there is judge man who have universal rule. So, judge man show attitude of fair, both teams will say nothing. And this things make the people who play soccer lead good way. So, soccer makes people good action. This thing makes the world happy. Last, I took the example of soccer and what I want to say is sports make people in all over the world happy. And sports lead all over the world good way, good condition and peace world. So, sports have special power to the people. Have you ever played any sports? Do you like to do? Sports is common all over the world. Sports is common in any age. we enjoy sports with anyone. I want to say how good to enjoy sports. First, sports is one of way to make friends in the world. Maybe you think why. However, please remember when you play some sports. Are you in trouble because you can't understand what your partner said? Do you feel discomfort because you don't know your partner? My answer is No. Of course, sometime we are in trouble especially when top athletes play in team. They have to win, so they need communication. However, when we just enjoy playing, we don't need language and knowledge expect the rule of game. when I was in U.S.A.,I went to swim almost everyday. I was athlete, but now swimming is just my hobby. One day ,a man who swam in same lane talked to me. Your form is wonderful! Where are you from? Then we talked about swimming and said goodbye. I was very happy because I have subject to talk with him. If I hadn't swim ,I wouldn't met him. I think we can make many friends through sports. Second, sports makes people positive. Players usually have their own goal. So they do their best to accomplish their goal. It is not only players, but also coaches ,their families ,or supporters. I heard the story of the woman who met traffic accident. She lost her leg ,and she felt depression, when the accident was happen. She even thought kill herself. However, one day she was recommended to swim as rehabilitation. So she began to swim. She found swimming interesting, and she began to swim as athlete. Her character Became very positive, and she got over depression. Now she is the gold medalist in palarinpic. If you play any sports now, please keep to do. Sports may give you a lot of value. If you don't play any sports because you don't like to do exercises, why don't you begin to play? There are many benefits. Anyway, you'll be more health! Recently, violence scene on TV has increased. It is showed on movie, drama, anime and TV game. This increase of violence scene is related to the increase of the cruel incident around us. We should think about influences of violence scene for children. Technology has been developing rapidly, so TV game is approaching the real. And TV game has great power for children into panic. They can misunderstand between real world and virtual world. Moreover, game player becomes the character in the game, so they can feel they kill other creatures. This feelings influence the real world. They may think that they can kill their friends and even their parents. I think that children should be limited to see the violence scene on TV for themselves. Of course, violence scene can remove to our stress and frustration, but we should not excessive rely on it. In fact, twenty years ago, people were living healthy and happily without the violence show like nowadays. If we don't know the violence show, we could do without it. That's the way the cookie crumbles. These days, we often hear the news about crimes in the school, as murder in the class room, molesting of the teacher to the children, "Gakkyuuhoukai", the situation that student never obey their teacher, and so on. Hearing such kind of news, many adults say, what is happening in the school these days? The quality of school education is going down! h And they (especially parents) want the school teachers to say sorry. But what I have been thinking is that it is not only the teacher's fault. Parents and teachers, and education system itself should do something together to improve school education. I'd like to think about some solutions. The biggest factor of the quality of school education is the quality of the teachers. I heard that teachers can't make student obey, and they are afraid of getting closer to the student and touching them, because they might be said "It is violence". How weak the influence of the teachers to the children is! The reason should be the lacking of the leadership ability of the teachers. Actually, my friend who is too kind and weak to make children obey has been employed as a teacher of junior high school. In order to improve teacher's quality, I think the system of employing teachers should change. The salary of the teachers must be higher, and the examination and interview to become teacher must be stricter. Then there will be only teaches who have good ability to lead children. The second factor is parents' attitude to the children. A lot of parents often say "we can't do anything to the school education, because we are not in the school. Only teacher can do something". But is it true? One of the reasons of school crime and "Gakkyuuhoukai" is the mental problem of the student. The best person to listen to the children's stories and to cure their heart is the parents. If parents can be the real partner of their children, they would never have mental problem, and teacher can lead the class more easily. Everyone can do something, or should do something. Stop saying, "It is someone's fault, not mine". If adults change from themselves, children may notice it. And they might change themselves to make the classroom's atmosphere better, because adults are always the model of the children. I think that I want to write about teenagers. I think there are many things which popular recently among teenagers. What are there things? For example, there are"Dennsha otoko","meido cafe" ,"hard gay" ,"matuken samba" and "mixy". "Dennsha otoko" is TV dram program and was broadcast on TV. First, there was popular in books. The story is interesting which a man change e-mail. And it was made interesting words. It is "moe ---". It means very pretty! Another is "kita ---". It means very glad! These words are used by young people. Particullary when they use cell phone. I think the boom is good. However mixy is dangerous. I want to think more next. I want to think mixy. What is the "mixy"? Do you know "mixy"? If these problems question teenagers, most of teenagers can answer. I think. Most of young people are doing mixy. Mixy is a kind of homepage. On the page we can anything! We can write diary, show pictures, profiles(birthday, from, ... . and When we watch movies, We can write how movies. It is thought very useful functions. More we can make friends in mixy. When you visit mixy, you can look up anything. For example, peoples who have same hobby with me. Peoples who went to same school. It may think very useful. However, there are bad things in mixy. Mixy is very interesting. First, It take long times. I think teenagers have to study hard. Some people always say "Studying is student's work". I think student is thinking "I have to study hard" but they can not study. too. Second, mixy can make friends who unknown. They are friends only mixy. There is no money but there is dangerous. If you meet friends who see mixy, It may good day or bad day. We need to judge. Nowadays, AIDZ is increasing in the young generation in Japan. AIDZ is caused by several reasons, which are luck of the education of sex, luck of concern about AIDZ, and luck of one self's defense. The former is related to school education strongly. So, now I'd like to write about the school education. Especially, I'd like to write about the education of sex in an elementary school and junior high school. When I was an elementary school student, I didn't learn about sex. Of course I had never heard about it in another place. Even if I graduated from an elementary school and a junior high school, I didn't know about it. It is often said that it is too early to tell elementary school students about sex. Is this right? I don't think so. Certainly, it is early to tell 6 or 7 years old boys and girls about it, but I don't think that it is early to tell 10 or 11 years old boys and girls about it. In my case, I learned about it when I was a senior high school student for the first time for only 5 years ago. I think it is a big problem. I know a person who didn't know about it completely and played it 8 years ago. I don't know that she have AIDZ or not now, but it is very dangerous thing. Why didn't the teachers in an elementary school or a junior high school tell sex to the students? Did they think that the students don't need to know about it when they are elementary school students or junior high school students? Or, did they think that we don't need to tell the students about it? I think both are bad idea. Even if they didn't have much time to tell the students about it, I think it was not allowed. I heard that now the first experienced people's age is younger than the past. If the teachers tell the students about sex in a senior high school, it is too late. To know the right knowledge about it in 10 or 11 years old, AIDZ will decrease a little. So, an elementary school (older than 10 years old students) and a junior high school should have the study course about sex seriously. If the students learned about it when they are junior high school students, they will be able to understand the terror of AIDZ and explain about AIDZ and think about sex. To decrease AIDZ, we, grown up must consider about the education about sex in an elementary school and a junior high school. Recently, school education is more changing. Formal school using flexible programs, instead of, children goes to cram school for examination. Some Parents says, 'I had my children go cram school for exam. But nowadays, there are many crimes in Japan. And the target is especially elementary school student. Why they are target by adults? Adults should be behaving in social manner. I don't know why this crime happened so many times. I'm very sad and angry to this. To solve these crimes, I'll talk about "school education" on my opinion. First, I'm very attention for crime that famous cram school teacher killed the student these days. The school teacher felt that the girl hates him. And this is cause to act this crime. I couldn't understand him. Even if you have frustration, don't go action in fact. It is manner for living together. Second, some crimes are that adults kill girls during back to the home. Obviously, girls are targeted. Adults killed weak people, girls. These adults lived incorrect way. Adults had education like recent children. I think adults might forget own school education. Finally, I think that education is not only teaching subject, but also mental parts are grown by school. In stead of school have flexible programs, more support is necessary. So adult crime and children's crime is more decreasing. Japanese education should be checked. I wish these crimes are not happened more. My thinking of sports This essay say to sports. Sports is very exciting action. Soccer and base boll is culture many country. For example, soccer club in Europeans nations is the case that happened riot. Other case that qualified game for Word cup was happened war between matched country. I think about why sports is exciting people that happened war, why people feel nationality, ideology though sports. More, I am interesting about why sports is one factor constructed culture. What's about sports? Sports is very exciting around Human's action. Top sports player have high potential to body capacity. Normal action that walking, eating, sleeping needs to life. But people plays sports to feel relax, build up body, but not to keep life. I will write about earning money, mainly on university students in Japan. In Japan, education for university is said easy. I think it is true. University students know it, so they play or do a part time job. Earning money by themselves is important. It is one step before we become "society person". If they have no money, they can not play. So they earn money hard. I do not have any jobs. I think that student's job is not earning money but to study. So we are called students. I also want money, of course. Why do I have a job? Because I enjoy staying this university, I can not have any jobs. To tell a truth, I do not like working. Maybe everyone say so, but I hate working. So I stay in this university and play with my friends. Once I come to university, I can meet a lot of friends. In the day that I can not meet my friends, I watch DVDs or videos ... or open the personal computer. That is the way of spending time for me, and I enjoy doing them very much. My parents said to me, "work!"but I do not. Then they say nothing to me. My little sister is working. She is a university student, too. She is enjoying working, and she is brightly. But that is her way. I am going my way. I enjoy every single day. Then my parents said to me, "you are students, and now you have a lot of playing time. So play if you satisfy your days". I thought then, my parents are good. There is many ways to enjoy themselves. I know the way that makes me happy. It is important to me, to yours, isn't it? To find the way of my playing, I became a university student. Now I am thinking so. Maybe this thought is said badly, but I am going to work after graduating this university, hard. Now I am saving that power. I want to work enjoying, and I want to enjoy my life. So now I play, and after I work. Have you ever seen foreign TV program? You may know like Sonata of winter, 24, Friends and so on. In Japan, we can watch foreign TV program through the video or other materials. Then, my Question is what do you think when you saw some violence scene on those TV program. When I was a high school student, I went to New Zealand for study abroad. At there, TV is one of great material to learn or understanding English. One night I turned on the TV as usual. Then, one of police drama had broad casting. The scene was that a woman who work at the police survey the person who already died, and tells to the main character how to dead that person. At that scene the woman use a special stick to measure, through his head, how degree the parson had got the gun shoot or something like that. When I saw it, I had got really bad feeling and headache by fear. It too realistic and grotesque so I felt children must not watch it. But sad thing is that even very young people can watch it because they can turn the TV on anytime and anywhere. Not only those programs but also Commercial Message can hurt you. During I watched above drama, I also saw many commercial and at that time I had a quite shock by one of it. It says about Fire. A man went to toilet during the TV commercial. Near by the sofa, there is a cigarette which has small fire on. That moment the man moved from that sofa, the cigarette drop on the carpet. Then only 3 minutes later, his house got a fire and we could hear the people's shouting and crying from his house. This commercial makes me so surprised, and fearful. My image of foreign TV program is too "Real" and they even don't trying to conceal it. Telling the truth is not just a bad thing I guess, for example, fire commercial is good alarm and good way to remind us to be careful, but still we should covered it from children's eye. It's too cruel for them and it may become the seed of new murder and crime. TV has full of information and we have a chance to know anything through that material. But on the other hand, we must remember that it will become one of the most dangerous items of dark side. I think I am going to tell that people need money for sure but too much money makes people go worse in this paper. We have to recognize that thing and we have to think what to use money. Money is not purpose but means. Constant money is necessary for us. In other words, we can not live without money, which means death. We need to eat something everyday. But if I don't have any farm, I have to buy food in a store in this modern time. So I have to have money to get food. I am sorry that this is an extreme example, but I just want to tell you that money means life and money is necessary for people in this developed country. If I have a little money which is not enough money, I cannot live as a normal people today. I will choice working but studying, reading, hanging out with my friends. In developing country, many children have to work not study. But in such a situation, things are going to go worse. People have to study to make society better. It is a problem for people on the earth. What people have enough knowledge to make society better and save earth from disaster is great. If they are richer, they can study and buy books. Money can make people cultural. We can live better for sake of wanting more money, which is true. We cannot but make efforts to get money. Possessing much money means grittier fame. Everyone wants to be rich and live rich and comfortable life. Everyone cannot be such people, which is dream for us. But it is hard to be millionaire. But such dream makes people study, work and make an effort. And fortunate Millionaire can tribute for save the earth, poor people. But wanting money strongly make people go worse. It can make people criminal. Bank robber is good example. Robbers jealous and want other people's money. The desire to get money is too big and too much money makes people worse. If I have much money, I will lose desire and dream and forget to make an effort . If can get anything, maybe I don't want nothing. What is worse, I will lose desire to live. Desire or dream makes people active, vivid, intelligent and smile! Through such sentences, I would like to tell you that money is great for us but using it needs thought or correct believe. Money is means, the concept is important for us. They are free and have any thing, many friends, time, money, dreams and special one. The teenagers have a big power. When I was high school student, I thought I can do anything, not I think maybe I have a special power and confidence at that time. The school uniforms have a power. When I wear it, I didn't care about someone watch them. People look them like 'High school student' that mean is special. When high school student wearing uniforms are little rude act, they think that are high school students. Especially, they talk a loud, make-up or on phone in the public space, sitting on the street and walking together in the line. They do that when they want and what they want. If they don't wear uniform, can they do an act like that? I would like to talk about sports. I think sports are very important. Not so hard exercise is good. But these days I don't sports. So I am gradually fat. I must sports. Sports make us healthy. Unless you sports, your muscles are gradually weak. So as soon as we active, we are tired. Our body is so weak. Sports make us happy. And encourage. Many athletes make us happy. And we are impressed. We are moved. But, in the sports world, it has very serious problems. In term play, some athletes think we must win. They have big pressures. So they are dangerous. They have some tricks. For example, they attack rival team member. Judge person doesn't notice. So not commit penalty. There live is very dangerous. I think they must have sportsman ship. We enjoy sports. No drug, no tricks. Now I try to sports, only 3 minutes. For on diet. Every day I keep exercise, I keep healthy. I encounter old man and lady every day jogging, walking. They continue it. It is very important, good habits. In sports, many people keep good relationship; enjoy talking, good time, and comfortable time. I want to spend good time in sporting. More exercise, more health, more happy. But too much exercise is not good and unhealthy. So be careful. And keep a good manner. Environmental issue is one of popular topics for us to live in the 21st century. For example, the issue of air pollution, global warming, decreasing trees and so on. Recycling is one of those which we all have to size the current situations and take it to the good direction. To do recycle something, we separate garbage into each category before recycling. This activity is so close to our daily life that easy to start doing. On the other hand, we usually have difficulties to change something in our custom. In this essay I would like to introduce the difficulties that I experimented before. In the city where I live in, we started garbage separation about 6 years ago. Before then, we just separated burnable or not-burnable which was very simple and easy to understand. Time went by, because of several social problems, the kind of separation was not enough anymore to control the quantity of garbage. Out city decided that the garbage was separated into 8 categories. Although neighbors understood the importance of that, in the reality they were complicated. The couple of weeks after the rule started, they were in tension for garbage and the place for throwing garbage away was not organized. Now everything goes smoothly. You cannot forget a lot of efforts that they had a group discussion or seminar in order to follow the role. As for The Expo 2005, it was the one to particularly consider of the global environment. I have watched the documentary program about the Expo the other day. It reported the difficulties of promotion which tells how to separate the garbage, why we do. For people who is used to do everyday, it worked but for people who was not, it didn't work at all. Almost the people who was not was from developing countries. The program showed the process that people from developing countries found the way of garbage separation and realized the importance of it. Usually when we accept or start new things, it takes time and patients. Garbage separation is the activity which needs attention. However once you get the way how to do it, it is very simple and you are able to do it faster. The everyday things make our society healthy. Individual efforts change the society and the world. Who saves the world? Who destroy the world? The answer is always us. To play sports, I think we can be refreshed and reduce stress. Now, I do not play any sports. But I played volley ball in junior high school club, and played many sports in physical education. For example, basket ball, kendo, swimming, skis, and so on. I like volley ball the best now. In the club that I belonged to in junior high school, I could not play the game. It is why I could not play volley ball very well. So, I did not enjoy playing volley ball then. But when I was a high school student, there were volley ball games in my school. I could play the game. So I enjoyed volley ball and liked it. I experienced swimming at physical education in college. Until that, I could not swim well. But now, I can swim "hiraoyogi", "seoyogi" and "batahurai". Although I was tired when the class was over, I was relaxed very much. I played kendo in junior high school. Then, the thing I only memorized is cold because it is winter. When I was a high school student, I played skis in the school trip for three days. It was really cold but I enjoyed very much. I can ski now better than then. I think it was important to have play these sports. I do not hate any sports. But now, I do not play any sports for the long time. This is because I think to play is too tired. When I run a little, I am tired rapidly. And now is winter, so I hate going out of my house. Maybe in spring it is warm and we feel the wind so relaxed, but I will not want to go out of my house, too. I recognize that it is not good. I do not have the chance to play some sports. I am a college student. There are the physical education classes only in first grade. I do not take the class at the latter year. I said my self, "You should have taken the physical education class." My life which there is no sports is bad, I think. So, I want to play some sports again, in particular volley ball. For that, I will join the volley ball club and enjoy it, although it may be late a little. When I play it, I will be able to be refreshed, and I sure that I can be looking forward to coming spring. I chose this topic because I am majoring the agriculture and water pollution is really familiar to me. Water pollution is one of the problems we must solve as soon as possible. The reason is that we can not live without water. So, in this essay, I want to write what I am thinking about the problem. Water pollution is now heard around the world. But it was not known 100 years ago. We have been making progress, but until these days, non of us ever thought about the water pollution. It is because the self-cleaning power of the river used to be stronger than the pollution by human activities. What in the world has happened in this few decades? There are 2 ways to answer this question. The power has become weak or the pollution has increased. I think both happened at the same time. And the pollution has over the capacity of river accepting the pollution. Therefore, the speed of pollution is very fast. This means that to solve the water pollution, we must make the power of self-cleaning strong at the same time we reduce the amount of pollution. Then, what can we do? I think this kind of environmental problems can not be solved without the cooperation of the whole human being. Maybe it is possible to make something good for the environment by a single researcher. But as we keep thinking the environmental problem has nothing to do with us, the problem will never be solved. What is most important is to know that we are the one destroying the beautiful nature and we are also the only one to keep and regain the beautiful earth. Let's make a bland new step for a better future together! I like sports. I like playing sports, although I'm not so good at it, and I like watching sports, too. These days we can see many sports on TV. But I don't think I know all the sports in the world. I think there are thousands of kinds of sports in the world, which I don't know. Actually sports are increasing time to time. Many people discover or introduce new sports to enjoy to the world. I had heard that English are good at making new sports. There are many sports made by English men. I'd like to introduce some of them. First of all, we can't start without talking about football, which is called soccer in America to distinguish from American football. Football must be the most famous sports that English introduced to the world. Most English kids play football. Most English people watch football games on TV or at stadiums. And many money moves. Although England is the country which made the sports "football", England doesn't win the world cup champions so much any more. They enjoyed the new sports they made, many people were involved in it, but they are not so strong at it now. Let me talk about the second sport, Cricket. It's not a major sport in Japan. But in England, It is very popular among many people. Maybe it might be more popular than baseball in England. It seems quite like baseball but actually, it quite differs from baseball. Rules are less complicated than baseball but more interesting. The reason why this sport doesn't get major sport is, I think, that it takes too much time. Sometimes it takes more than a day in some occasion. Even if the world isn't so much interested in Cricket, English still loves it. Cricket match between England and Scotland (I thought it was Scotland but I'm not sure. Sorry. It might be a different country. are held every year. England has been losing this game for years. Many people say it's a shameful matter, losing the game made by them selves. But still many people enjoy play cricket. Even if it takes along time, Even if many people don't know it, even if they aren't so good at it. In the end I'd like to introduce a new sport English made, Aqua Hockey, which play hockey in the swimming pool. It seems very weird. Many men wearing swimming pants and goggles, chasing a small ball in the pool, just so seriously. But they are really enjoying the new sport they discovered. By looking through the sports and English people, I can know that they are really enjoying the sports. Not only enjoying the sport but also enjoying the life itself. They don't really want to be famous or want to get money by playing sports. They want to enjoy there life. I think sport is something to enjoy. Make your life happy. Thinking many new sports and playing sports are wonderful tools to enrich our lives. Time cannot be back when we think about our past time. The moment of teenager is one of the precious times that we would like to go back for everyone. We often looked back the time of teenagers. Teenagers are from around 10 years old to 19 years old. Then it is said that teenagers can everything without hesitation. They can do whatever they want. Therefore, I would like to mention the reason why the moment is really important time. Firstly, when we were born, everyone was someone's baby. Family is the first people who we face, so family affects the kid very much. My grand mother owns the small shop in Fukuoka, so sometimes I helped her to sell cigarette. The time was really marvelous time for me because I could talk to people from the young to old. That experience made me social and outgoing person. Secondly, after graduation from primary school, almost everyone goes to junior high school. The studying will be the center of their lives at this time. On the one hand, they have to study to know and prepare for getting a job but the other hand, they need to go out to absorb circumstances. Because compared to American teenagers, for example, Japanese teenagers study too much. They go to a cram school after public school. It is getting normal situation in Japanese society. Teenagers should hung out with friends more often. Thirdly, it is very important for teenagers that having hobbies. Because it would make them more enrich person. In my case, as I liked writing letters, I would find pen pal from Australia. I was a second junior high school student at that time, so I couldn't understand English much. However, I tried to communicate with her as much as possible and asked correcting my English letter to the dependable teacher. After that I have broaden my horizon and English became the useful tool for communication with people from all over the world. If I did not have a pen pal at that time, I would never thought English is the must tool for me. Consequently, the period of teenagers are the most important and precious time in the whole life. The experience that we had in teenagers time through family, school and hobby made characteristic of the person and never changed it. I like any sports for instance tennis, baseball, swimming and so on. But, especially, I like soccer. Now, I play soccer twice a week. And I am interested in 2006 World Cup in Germany. So I will write this essay about it. I started to play soccer when I was in a junior high school. So I have played for 14years. But I am not a good player. My position was defender in a senior high school, side wing in a high school. But now I play soccer as a forward. In my experience, if you play any positions, you will enjoy soccer! In 2002 World Cup was held on Japan und Korea. That was very interesting und exciting. The final was BURAJIL and Germany. The winner was BURAGIL. Japan national team was best 16. I wanted watch a game. But TOYOTA stadium was not elected as a hole. And I was a senior high school student. So I had classes. That made me not to go watching. In 2006 Japan team's opponent is BURAJIL, KUROATIA and Australlia. I think Japan will be third or forth. But I want to watch the games in Germany, because I could not go to watch in 2002 World Cup. I think that in 2006 World Cup the winner will be BURAJIL again. BURAJIL is very strong now. The players were very very good at soccer. At any rate the World Cup 2006 in Germany is very fun. So please watch the games on television. If you watch them, you will be interested in soccer. And I hope that I am going to go to Germany to watch the games. These days soccer world have a lot of problems. For example, trade of the player, bad relation between the player and coach and between the coach and front, media's divorce according to nationality and so on. Especially nationality of the player or coach is the most important and biggest problem. Sometimes some have the thought that they attack their enemy not only in soccer game but also in private. For example, Chelsea is one of the biggest soccer clubs all over the world, but this club has a number of problems. Chelsea was made up of a lot of nationality. Robben is from Netherlands, Duff is Irish, and John Terry is from England. Some are Africans some are from Europe. For this reason, sometimes a player has bad term with a coach. And then this club owner is the rich, so Chelsea has a lot of money. Chelsea is attacked by other soccer team and people so that this club uses a lot of money to get a lot of good player. Lately the soccer game which was Turkey VS Switzerland was held in Istanbul. This game is the play-off of the World Cup 2006 in Germany. And there is the game like war. Supporter of Turkey attacked Switzerland's supporter and player. And Alpay who is the captain of national team of Turkey attacked one player of Switzerland. FIFA - national soccer association- think how they dispose national team of Turkey. A lot of soccer team has many problems, but which is inescapable . Although soccer is sometimes like the war, because soccer is the most popular and the most loved sport all over the world. It is said that crime rate in Japan is getting higher these days, but I think it is still safer than other countries. I haven't been involved any kind of crime in Japan. I don't think that I was just lucky. I had six Japanese colleagues in Indonesia and a half of them were snatched or robbed. The possibility to be involved to crime is low here comparing to Indonesia. I am going to write what happened to me. Only in 2 months I started living in Indonesia, I was snatched on the road. One day, I was trying to cross the road and wait for the traffic light changing. I was standing at the corner by holding a bag in my hand. I noticed that two men on a motorbike approaching to me, and the man on the rear on motorbike took my bag away. I was just at a loss and couldn't do anything against it. I told it to my friends. Some of them showed me their sympathy. On the other hand, some criticized me. They said it was my fault to hold a bag in my hand. I felt sad a little because I was blamed but not the robber. Until I was snatched, I haven't thought seriously that I should protect from the crime by myself. But I was robbed, I strongly keep it in my mind that I should take care of myself . The thing we can do now There are many environmental problems in the earth where we live now. For example, warming of climate, water pollution, air pollution and deforesting of the rain forest. Because all of these problems were caused by us, we should do something to recover the environment of the earth. There are many things we can do for the earth, so we should think about what we can. One of the things we can do for the environment of the earth is recycling. There are many supermarkets which products can be recycled are collected. If there is a man who hands out reusable product as burnable garbage, you should tell him not to do. Reusable products are the package of milk, can made of aluminum or steal and pet bottle. But, when I see a can falling on the way, I feel sad. To reduce the garbage falling on the way, we should do more movements by local community center. Although there are other points we should improve, all of those are very easy thing and everyone can do. The more there are people who think about environments seriously the better we can improve the environment of the earth. To realize it, let's start doing one thing to preserve the environment, and tell your friends to do the same thing. Such as a movements should be done by a city, a nation, borderless. Unless we are the one, we couldn't recover the environment of the earth. "The True Value of Money' I will say about "money." I have different ideas about money when I was a high school student and now ,or I am a university student. I say why I changed ideas of "money." When I was a high school student, my father used to give money (5,000yen) once a month. However, I used up all the money at beginning of month. Because, I wanted different things ;cloths cosmetics ... and so on, and because I loved to go to Sakae with my friends. At this time, I spent my money for riding on subway, for singing in karaoke, and for talking in cafeteria, and for playing with Prikura. print club)When I used up my money, I always ask more money for my parents. I thought that my parents works and they have much money and they should give thier child ,me, more money. When I entered this university, I began to work. I work Sundai Yobikou and Mr.Donuts. At Sundai, I work as a private teacher. Now I teach one girl to want to enter private junior high school. She study hard and she say "I think happy when studying for you. f When I feel "To work is good." At Mr.Donuts, I work as a "Hatarakitesan", this work is washing dishes, cleaning, and cooking Yamutya ... and so on. At this office, I make friends with many people in lifing in different situation. I learned many different things from them. Thing that I learned though working 'expectation of working', 'difficulties of earning money' and especially "importance of money." I thought about me when high school student. I regretted me at that time. I changed my idea about money at this time. Now, I bought many things by 'my money'(This money is not money from my father but money from my working. By using my money, I use things more carefully than past. I feel very good thing to work when student. I awaked the true value of 'money' for working. I think death penalty needs to do in the justice problem but we must make a rule about it in the world. Because the penalty doesn't same each countries. We need to make the rule in the world. People who killed by the murder don't feel the same death penalty each country. So we must make a rule about the penalty and how to justice the person. For example, in China, the person who got the death penalty is killed by guns but in USA, the person is killed by electric chair. I think we must justice the person who got the penalty by same penalty. So what police kill the person who got the penalty is not same whether penalty is important or not. If the person who got the penalty is killed like China, they kill many people at once. But in USA, the police can police the person who got the penalty each electric chair. So person who is relation to the accident felt the penalty is importance or not. And also one of East Asia country, the person who got the penalty is killed by people who throw away many stones. It takes much time to death the person. But the person who got the penalty is killed by the electric cahier can death at once and easily. The person who got the penalty doesn't feel the death is good or not. They can't feel death penalty is same each country. We must take same time to kill the person who got the penalty. I would like to Japanese system. In Japan, the police kill the person who got the penalty by the rope. The person stands up stairs in front of the rope and takes the rope to his/her neg. When he/she decide his/ her death, the police remove the stairs and dead. The death penalty likes like suicide. And also, if the person can alive for two hours, the penalty is cancelled. They can alive and become free. But some countries, the police kill the person who got the penalty until the person dead completely. It is not same. Now some countries do the death penalty and almost of countries in the world don't do death penalty. But I think for the person who is relation to the accident felt the murder should be dead. I think if the feel is strong, the person who is relation to the accident do the revenge to the murder. So we must do the death penalty and make a rule of death penalty in the world. And the penalty should be same penalty and kill the person who got the penalty is killed by same things. If the world decides the electric chair, every country kills the murder by it. If the world decides the gun, every country kills the murder by it. Now we must make a rule for the death penalty in the world. ABOUT MONEY I'm interested in this topic so much. Now I do part time job about for three days a week. Because I want money. I spend this money for clothes, foods, books, and so on. I have so many things that I want to do. For them, I need more money than now I have. I'll tell my ideas about money. The reason why I do part time job is almost to get money. Of course, it's not only for money. To do part time job is worthy for me. I can experience many things at work that I can't experience at school or home. I know it but still I think I work for money. I'm not interested in co-workers so much. If I feel comfortable at work place, it'll be okay. I think they are only people who work together. So it's difficult for me to think that I want to be friend with them. If we aren't best friend each other, we'll work together. I think to earn money is like the way. Another reason why I think part time job is only for money is it' not jobs that I really want to do. I'm interested in some jobs. However I can't do that job now. So I feel nervous. In fact, I want to work not only for money. Money is important for me. It's not change. I want to travel abroad and there are many things I want. However, I hope to work at place I really want some day. And I earn money. It's wonderful thing for me. I'll try my best. People must have thought about suicide at least once in their life. Although living in a country that has almost everything, why do they need to think about that. In fact, there are more people who suicide in those countries. Why is that? What is the problem? Nowadays, almost 30 thousand people suicide while almost 80 thousand people die for the poorness. If you add other countries number of the suicide people, it is sure to go over than 80thousand. It is a sad thing that a man who wants to live and a man who wants to die are both on the same plant Earth. Although the problem is both in the"poorness". What I mean is developing countries have a problem in foods, cloths,and place to live but developed countries have too much wealth that they don't need to struggle in any thing if you had money. By buying you be saticfied but all the time you aren't really feeling great. Only the time when you really struggle makes you feel great. We had developed our country to a place were man can live in peace but is a place where you think to suicide is the place a human really wants? Watching TV programs about developing countries I see a lot of smiles. Living in Japan,including me I cannot find people that is really smiling from their bottom of their heart. I really don't want to make developing countries to be like these countries. In because they are not developed yet I want them to become a real peace country. The real important thing for a peaceful country for a man is a also a man. A man who aren't poison and having a fine heart. For a peaceful world what we need is a satisfaction having been as a human. The development of science could be later or even it might not have to develop any more. To solve the number of suicide people we should sometimes look the developing countries. These days, in Japan, there are a lot of crimes going around in the cities. Most of these crimes are done by teenagers or young people around the ages of twenty five or so. In this essay, I would like to talk about the crimes that happened in Japan recently and also I want to think about the reason why the teenagers and young people intend to kill or hurt people by their purpose. This is because I don't think the crime is the only way to help murders' stress and I think there are many more ways to help those murders. Last months, two tragic crimes happened in Japan. Both of the crime victims were little six year old girl whom were walking back from the school to their house after school. They were both stabbed by a knife and dies from a loss of a blood. Why did these crimes happen? Why did the murders started to think killing other people? Weren't we able to save these girls? I can't stop thinking these things. The first crime occurred in the end of November. According to the speaking of neighbors, the girl was last sawn by a police officer in front of the police box about ten minutes after she left the school. It is said that the murder find her few minutes after that, and he approached to the girl to come with him by showing the chocolate. From this, you can tell that the murder is used to children. The murder was Peruvian, and he had two children in the Peru. After the arrest, he said that he doesn't' know why he killed the girl, and he said there were devils in him when the crime occurred. The second crime happened about five days after the first one. This girl was also had been killed on a way to her home from school and was found in the place about five kilometers away from her house. She was with her friend before she went into a bush to cut the way and get home early. The bush was dark place even in the day time. But the girl often used the road to short cut. It was not the way the school decided to be the tuugakuro. This murder is still not arrested. I think both of the crime has a lot in common. Both of the girls were killed by getting stabbed by knife and died of the loss of blood. Both girls were on a way to get back home. From this, you can see that there are no places where are safe and that the little children can't walk around alone. The safe place has been stolen from these murders and even going to school is being dangerous these days. To stop these crimes and make the cities safe, I think the parents and the adults need to patrol around the town and give eyes to the cities. In the world, many countries have a low, which allows death penalty. Japan also has death penalty. Although people cannot be allowed killing people by the low, why can a low be allowed killing people? In my opinion, I disagree with death penalty. I would like to write about the reason why I disagree, and some examples. Sometime, a person arrested with crime, although there is another true rubber or murder. If he or she who arrested by misunderstanding receive death penalty, and it would be done, it means a low kill a person who didn't do any crimes. After that, if he or she would be realized that he was not guilty, how can we pay for him? If he received the penalty, which he has to be in jail his all life, he would be able to go out from jail with alive after he realized not guilty. This is the first reason why I disagree with death penalty. However, for the victim's family, a murder that had killed one of their family is too hateful to allow him living. They might want to kill him. They might kill him as revenge for victim. Instead of them, a low might be allowed killing people who did very big crime. Basically, we don't have to kill people because there is always someone who feels sad about someone's dead. From beginning to here I wrote "a low is allowed killing people" but actually the judges about death penalty are decided by men. It is the same as someone kill a person. Death penalty is regal killing through the low. My favorite sports" I would like to talk about my favorite sports. I think there are many kinds of sports in the world, and a lot of people like sports very much. We can play and watch sports whenever we want. I like both playing and watching sports, too. For example, swimming and figure skating, running, soccer, baseball, volleyball. I will choose three sports and I would like to talk about why I like these sports. The most favorite sport is swimming. When I was four years old I started learning swimming. I like both swimming for competition and swimming for fun. When I can swim faster and cooler, I feel very happy. These are the point that why I like swimming for competition. Then, swimming for fun is exciting. We can swim many places. For example, in the pool and sea, lake and we also can play with Ukiwa and beach ball, so I like swimming for fun. I often go swimming in the summer, and especially when I was younger, I got sunburned every summer. I sometimes go to gym to swim. The second, I like figure skating. I can skate but I can't figure skate because it's too difficult for me to play, so I only watch figure skating on TV. My favorite a figure skating player is Mao Asada, because she is very pretty and I like her performance. She is a young figure skating player, but her performance is very well. She is a good figure skating player and she has ability to take part in Olympic Games, but she is too young, so she can't take part in Olympic Games. I hope she can take part in next Olympic Games. The third, I like scuba diving because I like diving and watching fish. So, when I was university student second grade I went to Australia to get a scuba diving license. Why I went to Australia, because I think the Australia's ocean is more beautiful than Japanese sea. When I dived in the Australia's ocean I felt the beautiful ocean. Recently, I don't scuba diving, so I want to do it and I want to dive many ocean and sea. I like playing and watching sports, especially I like swimming and figure skating, scuba diving, because these sports are exciting sports for me. I think doing sports are good for health, so I want to recommend for my friends who often spending a time inside. Recently I don't start any new sports, so I want to try some new sports. I write about my favorite sport and write about importance of challenging new things I have been interested in volleyball since I had watch international volleyball game on TV. So now I play volleyball at gym with my gym's friends from businessmen to house wives every Monday afternoon. 5 months ago, I have been became gym's member. At first I didn't join in volleyball game. Because I am very shy so I scared challenge new things. But I tried to join in volleyball game. Gym's members are so friendly and soon I could become their friend. And I look forward to meet them on every Monday afternoon. But I will a businessman next year, so I won't play volleyball at gym with my gym's friends. When I think that thing, I miss them. Then I made my original volleyball team with my friends. But friends joining in my volleyball team are only 6 persons. We played at Nagoya city sports center about 3 times a month. Of course we are student, so everybody works part time jobs. So we could not play volleyball with all 6 friends. Then I and two my friends who join in my volleyball team joined local mother's volleyball team to learn how to practice volleyball. Members of mother's volleyball team are very kindly, friendly and they regarded as team member soon. We can know how to play receive and so on. After all, a little courage led me to meet some people to know importance of challenging new things. I want to challenge several things without scaring. I write about school education. Some people say that Japan's school education is good, other people say that Japan's school education is not good. I think that Japan's school education is not good. I write following some reasons. I write school education advantage. First, nowadays students can study in small class. So they can study more. They can ask teacher various things. Second, students can study not only Japanese, math and history but also society education and about myself. I write that Japan's school education is not good reasons. First, I think nowadays student can not to think about various things. Students tend to weak thinking. Because in Japan, personal computer is developing so they use it. They don't have to thinking. Second, students don't go park. They play game in home. I think that teachers should to teach them play outside. Students are important to touch sun. Third, nowadays parents don't angry to children. Fourth, most students go to academic school. So they don't study in school. They think about academic school is more important than school. They prefers to tend to academic school than school. Nowadays, to kill people is increasing by children and students. Mostly reasons have in home and life. But I think that the reason have school education a little. Because learn to basically things about life in elementary school. How should I live? How should I be? How should I study? Now in school, students can study relax. But is it good? I don't think so. They are decreasing to study time. They should to study more. Student's ability is becoming bad. Ability decreasing has to stop us. I think that studying quality is not raise. So teachers have to think about this problem. In world, Japan's ability is down. In China, Korea and Sweden land is good. Nowadays children are decreasing gradually. In society should to think about this problem. Otherwise school can not to last. Classroom becomes small. We have to think about school education in the future. I like sports. I like volleyball. I played volleyball when I was a junior high school student. I belonged to volleyball club. I had played volleyball for three years. I had a lot of good friends then. It is very important to do their best to each other. I got a lot of important things then. I have never forgot a lot of volleyball club's friends. We practiced volleyball every day. We practiced from 7 to 8 in morning. We sometimes practiced from 5 in morning. We practiced from 3 to 6 in evening. It was too hard. It was too hard to want to be absent from volleyball club. But I had practiced for three years. I got a big power. I like to watch a volleyball game at TV. It is very fun. I remember to play volleyball at a junior high school student. I am very exciting when I watch a volleyball game. I have a big power when I watch very fun volleyball game. I like professional volleyball players. They are very kind, honest and smart. I want to be like a volleyball player. Volleyball club memories are very important for me. So I like volleyball very much. Sports is very good for health of my heart and body. I have three good things by doing the sports and watching the sports. They are good partner of my healthy life of my heart and body. Sports is very interesting to watch, their tough mind and the figure cheers me up. I watch spots on TV, sometimes. I don't know the rule very well, I don't know the name of athletes so much, I don't know the importance of each competition so much, but I enjoy watching them on TV. Thinking about their hard way to reach the competition which I watch on TV, it must be very hard and strict way. I imagine how difficult way to win each stages. To think of them, they seem very beautiful and shinny. I watch such kind of TV especially when I am working hard for a study or lots of tasks, because their faces always cheer me up. For example, while I was working hard for the preparation of the entrance exam, I watched the videos sometimes. Atheist support me very well by working hard for their dreams. To watch sports is good for health of my mind. To do sports in my daily life is also good for my heart and health. I do them very often. For example, I jump with a rope at my home, twenty-min, per a week. I sometimes run around a park which locates near my house. It is very good to refresh my self, so it is very good for my health of my heart. To do them, my legs became tough, and I can breathe easier while I am running or playing the flute compared with the days before I do sports, like running or jumping with rope. So I can say that sports are good for my health. After I began to sport in my daily life, I became to listen my voice of health condition little bit carefully compared with the other days before I do, because without them, sports can be bad effective tool for my health, so I began to listen the voice of my health conditions every day. By doing that, I can do something good for my health if my vital condition is law. To hear the voice of my health condition is very good to manage my health, and I can begin them by doing sports in my daily life. Sports is not the necessary parts of my life, but it is very useful to take the balance of my health of body and heart. To being healthy is very important to work, to study, to live, to enjoy, to do anything I want to do. And the sports are my important partner to keep my healthy life. It is said that studying foreign language is important to Japanese people these days, so English class will have at elementary school near future. I think it is very good idea that elementary school students study English at school. When I was a child, I was studying English at cram school. I have been to there since I was 5 years old. When I was 5 years old, I couldn't write even Hiragana and Katakana by myself. So I think I didn't understand English then. But I could study English with playing games in English, so I enjoyed studying English anyway. I think it is unusual to study English when I was a child. I don't know why my parents enter me to there. But I thank to my parents now. When I entered the junior high school, I had already known almost English words which we have to learn at first grade. I think I was studying English naturally because of English cram school. I think we need to start studying English since a child. Because children are interested in many things and they get many new things soon by themselves. So I agree with Japanese government. If elementary school students take English class at elementary school, they will enjoy the class. And they will be interested in foreign countries. If they become interested in foreign countries, they will think about the world. Studying English will have many good things to us. I would like to write an essay of water pollution. When I was twenty (3rd grade in university), I went to Thailand for 8 days. I visited khurhontoei slam in Bangkok. This place is the biggest slum of Thailand. A lot of house which is very small and crowded people is built on the pont? Place that is mixed dirty water and solid) This place was so bad smell that I felt coming back to bus. I head NGO staff (to helps slum's people) that most slum people was born north east area They come to the place to earn the money. Some people were sick to live a dirty place and water pollution. NGO staff said I felt that water is very important for us to live. I can drink water everywhere In Japan. But developing countries can't drink safety water. Many people died for water pollution. Last year it held an Aichi EXPO in Aichi prefecture. Main theme is nature and environment. I think that Expo used water that is reused and recycle. This things was very important in the future and for around the world. I think that I think about water pollution in the future. Why school education? I would like to discuss about the roles of school education in the context of nation state. I think there are mainly three roles of school education. They are the means of transmission of knowledge, growth of the pupils and national unity or integration. Firstly, I would like to discuss about the means of transmission of knowledge to pupils. It is obvious for us to state this as a role of school education. And I think everyone agree with this point. It is because to be a member of a society, we have to learn lots of things, such as arithmetic, natural science and languages. If pupils do not obtain the knowledge of calculation or if they are illiterate, they cannot take the train nor read newspapers. These are very much important to national industrialization, development, and so on. So, national states put emphasis on it and every country provide school education even length and quality depend on the countries. Next, I would like to consider the point which school education promotes the growth of the pupils. In my opinion, schooling is one of the big impacts to pupils to be socialized. They have to go to school and take classes under some rules which already decided and also they have to obey the school regulations and to follow advises by teacher. And they lean how to communicate each other or how to resolve the conflicts which happen among them. Therefore not only obtaining the knowledge but also learning some disciplines is one of the roles of school education. I would like to discuss about the national unity or integration at last. Although decentralization of government system in education sector has been a global trend nowadays, school education is still mainly provided by the national government. School is the place where pupils with various backgrounds like different religion, ethnicity, languages, classes and something are together. Almost all countries in the world are multi-ethnic or multi-cultural society and they have diversified nationals. So national government develop the national curriculum and some programmes in order to promote national unity integration, because they are keys to national development. And we can point out that being stable by promoting national unity or integration is essential to defend the country from some threats outside the country. In conclusion, there are mainly three rules of school education which are to transmit knowledge to pupils, to grow pupils both mentally and socially, and to promote national unity or integration. But I think that role of education is very controversial, because the society has changed rapidly under the effects of globalization. That is why we should be sensitive, when we think of issues relating to school education. Why people kill themselves? Today, many people kill themselves in Japan. In this paper, I would like to examine the reasons of suicide and propose the way to solve it. Why people choice the way to suicide? A lot of reasons can be thought. First, those who commit suicide cannot find hope. Second, the young people may kill themselves because of the tiredness. Third, it may be thought that people cannot recognize why suicide is evil. These problems may occur because of the system in Japan. We must make the system better. I think that the people, especially adults, kill themselves because they cannot find hope in their life. For example, there are a lot of people who have to retire the job. They do not know what to do next. If a father has to quit the job, he could not support his family. They may get depressed. Therefore, the people who kill themselves miss the hope. The young people also commit suicide. In Japan, it is thought that if a person enters the good university, he/she can success. So, parents tell their children to study in order to win other children. They study hard and get tired. On the other hand, the problems of izime, buries attack a person, sill remain unsettled. Therefore, the young people stop living. Next, it can be said that people cannot recognize why suicide is evil. Today, there are a lot of web pages which lead people to suicide. I often hear the news that people with no connection kill themselves together. Suicides are close to our life, so people cannot find it is too bad thing. The reasons why people commit suicide are as follows. First, they cannot find the hope. Second, they get tired in their life. Third, they cannot recognize that suicide is evil. These problems will occur because of the system in Japan, so we must build another system in which people work and live lively. Let's play sports! Today, there are many TV games and many children are playing TV games. In a while, they don't often play sports. Some children seem to play sports in a class only. But sports have a many good effects for children. First, with playing sports, they can communicate with their friends. Second, sports make them more good condition. Finally, they can learn a social rule by playing sports. I will tell you about goodness of playing sports, and I want children to start playing sports. First, with playing sports, they can have the good communication with their friends. However, you may think they can communicate with the friends by TV games. But they cannot share the suffering things and cannot feel content by TV games. There are many things which can be learned by sports. Specially, with the sports which many members join, that effect will bigger. For example, soccer, baseball, American football. Because ... they can communicate with teammates. Second, sports make their condition better. They cannot make their condition good with TV games. Moreover, their eyes property will decrease. Some mother often said to the children, "Stop playing TV game because TV game has bad effects to your eyes. TV game has many bad effects for their body. But sports will make their body tough. Little by little, they can feel their own body change. Moreover, they won't go to the hospital so many times 20 years later. And it is often said that sports stop the effect of cancer. Sports give many effects to the body of children now and later. Finally, they can learn a social rule by playing sports while they will often run away from real world, and learn many violent words by playing TV games. There are many opinions often said, "The manor of children is bad, today. But with playing sports, there manor will be good. For example, there is a comment in a major book, "NOMURA NOTE" "Players must learn the social rule before play baseball. No, before playing all sports. Many directors think so, so children can learn the social rule naturally by there director. This effect is good for not only children, but also their parents. There are many good effects for children with playing sports. It is clear that sports are better than TV games for children. First, with playing sports, they can have the good communication with their friends. Second, sports make their condition better. Finally, they can learn a social rule by playing sports. From above, you can understand the goodness of sports. Now, let's start playing sports! Violence on TV is not so Dangerous Today, TV is one of the most important tools in our daily lives. Everyone watches TV at least a couple of hours per a day and gets a lot of information. We also get a lot of violence through TV dramas or animations, such as murders, blood, destructions. Someone say that it is the cause of real crimes. Is not it a problem? It is not so important because the relationship of violence on TV and crimes is not proved scientifically. It is much more dangerous that the government tries to control TV. Someone say violence on TV affects on people's ways of thinking and becomes cause of the crime. It may be partly true because some of those who were under arrest said so. They are, however, only special cases. Not all people behave in the same way. According to one research, people get more aggressive when they play a train simulator than a fighting game. It shows that violence on TV may have something to do with people's behaviors, but only a little. Those who hate violence on TV often insist controlling TV programs. It may be right to control too terrible or sexual scenes. However, too strict control also breaks human rights. What should we do if the government distorts information? Violence on TV is not so dangerous. The relationship of violence on TV and crimes is not proved scientifically. Too strict control is much more dangerous. Whether the English study should be started early? Today, in Japan, the many problems of school education are discussed. One of the most important problems of them is whether the English study should be started early, for example, from elementary school. So this paper treats the problem. First, in other country, the English study is started from elementary school. Second, it cannot be said that modern students really gain English. Third, English is the common language in the world. Whether the English study should be started from elementary school? First, in other country, the English study is started early. For example, in Korea, the English study is started from elementary school. As the effect, the student of elementary school in Korea can speak in English. And the all level of Korean student in the world becomes high. Studying English early shows good effect. Second, it cannot be said that modern students really gain English. In other words, modern students know English words and so on, but they can not speak English. The cause is that they study English lately, and the study of English becomes the study for exams. So in order not to become the study for exams, the English study is started from elementary school. Third, now English is common language in the world. Gaining English needs in order that Japan act in the world. Without English, we can not communicate with people in other country. Moreover, without English, it seems that we will be rate from the situation of the world. So in order to act in the world, we should start English study early and gain English. As one of the problems of school education, there is whether the English study should be started early, for example, from elementary school. The country starting English study early gets big effect. And now the Japanese student can not really gain English. It may lead that the power of Japan in the world decreases. So we should start the English study early. No Divorce! Recently, an accounts of divorce increase more and more. Indeed, the account of divorce in 1995 is 199,016, but one in 2000 is 264,255. This situation occur some problems. One of them is that people will misunderstand connection of married. Another problem is reflection on their child or children. When we discussion them, we would like to disagree with the recent situation of divorce. Let us look at first problem that people will misunderstand connection of people. Certainly, rules of divorce are written on Civil Law, which decides rules of contract and some connection of people involving connection of married. However, I think that it does not mean connection of married is simply contract. A connection of married is a deep connection of people. Fundamentally, a connection of contract may be erased easer, but a connection of people should not be erased easily. However, this situation that an account of divorce increase is clarify that people understand connection of married right, and it is bad. Secondly, we would like think a problem of reflection on their child or children. Child is sensitive. So, if his/her parents divorce, he/she receipt bad reflection. For example, my mother who is a teacher of junior school tells me that when a child, who is used be a good, does bad situation, his/her parents divorce after some days. Thus, if we think that we give children a good situation of rising, increasing of account of divorce should be stopped. We think the problems of divorce. Increasing of account of divorce can not give us a good effect. When connection of married is simply contract, we misunderstand the connection of people rightly. Moreover, a divorce gives children a bad circumstance. So, we should decrease the account of divorce. Let's Play Sports. When I was high school student, I belonged to baseball club. Playing sports is wonderful. Because playing sports have good points. First, playing sport trains our physical. Second, it decreases our stress. Third, it helps us our communication. There are many chances of playing sports in our life. Let's play sports. Playing sports will help our physical health. Because we use muscles all around our bodies in playing sport, we will sweat very much. This helps our temperature, not too hot and not too cold. And playing sports burns our fat. Moreover, it develops the power against virus. There are only good points for our bodies in playing sports. Playing sports is good, not only for our bodies but also for our mental. It is said that people increase stress in our bodies easily in Japan now. For example, study, work, communication, education. Then, playing sport erases our stress. What wonderful it is. There will be causes clarified by studies, but which our stress punishes by playing sport or not really can not understand. To understand this is, only, to play it really. I think that our stress will run away with sweat. Then, let's sports. The third good point of playing sport is to help our communication. There will be people that are bad for communication. But, in playing sport, talking begins naturally both players. So, we can friendly to their easily. It is very nice. Playing sport has many good points. First, it trains our bodies. Second, it decreases our stress. Finally, it helps us our communication. I think that it should have good points more. People who is good for playing sport and is bad for it should play sport because it is clear that playing sport has many good points. Then, let's play sports. Should recycling be more promoted? Recycling is a kind of popular trend in Japan these days. We can see recycling shops everywhere in the city. When I think of the reason why recycling become such popular, it seems there are several good points in recycling. In this essay, first, I would like to look at what of recycling attracts people, and then, I would like to consider whether recycling should be more promoted or not, and finally, I would like to answer the question, "Should recycling be more promoted? First of all, recycling is good for our society, for recycling is one of the best ways to reduce the amount of gavages. Today, Japan has a big problem about the place to throw them away. There remains almost no place for gavages. Especially, furniture and electronic machines are difficult to be dealt with. So, they are illegally thrown away in the mountain or in the forest, and the people around that illegally thrown area are troubled very much. Under such situation, we may be able to say that recycling gave a hope to us. That is because by the promotion of recycling, most people will sell their useless things instead of throwing them away. It means that recycling is eco friendly. Second, I can see a good point in the aspect of individual. At recycling shops, we can usually buy the goods cheaper than we do at normal shops. For example, for college students, recycled goods are very useful. Students who live alone only while they are going university usually use furniture and electronic machine only for 4 years. So, it costs too much to buy all of them at normal shops. Under that kind of situation, they are likely to choose recycled ones than new items, and that means that recycling is also economical friendly. However, there are some big problems in recycling. Yesterday, I watched the news of a judge of the court. It said that recycled inc was judged illegal by the court. That was because the act of recycling inc hurts the right of inc producing company in that the company, Canon has a right to use a certain skill secretly in producing inc. For another example, whether selling books cheaper in second hand should be approved or not has been a controversial topic for a long time. They are both on the course of strengthen the power of non-shape rights. So I can say that recycling may harm our life in another aspect. In conclusion, then, should recycling be more promoted? I would like to answer yes to this question. Increasing amount of gavages is the biggest problem for the economical development of Japan. While they are dealt by the government with much money, it is better that they are recycled by the companies. Moreover, it helps the house budget, too. However, there are some problems rising up in recycling. So, what we have to do is to be careful to other people's rights, and chose the best way for all of us. Nowadays, almost all families have TVs. Some families have TVs for each family members. However, it is said that TV programs have a bad influence for the growth of children. Typically, violent scenes are said to make children bully. Even it is said that these scenes trigger crimes of teenager. But, do they influence so strong? It may be true that violence on TV some effect on children, but TV can use effectively if we get along with TV. We should think how to use TV for our life in this essay. Violent scenes are considered to have bad influence on children. Certainly, many children watch TV, and some programs for children have violent scenes. Some books or magazines owe the basis of crime of teenagers to violence on TV program. Many parents are worried about the influence of these programs and try to make their children stop watching TV. However, there are no certain scientific basis between violence on TV and bullying of children. Not all children watch the program become bully. In addition, if the program has some another intend, for example, the importance of peace, it may be good effect on children. The important thing when children watching TV is not the level of violence, but the type of watching TV. If children watch with adult, TV may have good influence on children. Do sports give us good effect? Do sports give us good effect? We will generally answer "Yes" to this question. But is this really correct? I want to investigate this question in this essay. First I think sports will do good for us in physically. Second, I think sports will give good effect on mentality. From these viewpoints, I deal with the question that if sports are really good for us. First, sports will be good for physical. Some investigations shows that a moderate exercise give good effect for a long life span. According to these investigations, strength of exercise effects on life span and whether how many times you exercise in a week also effects. Recently many people exercise for example walking, running, and so on. They try to maintain their health with sports. Second, sports will be good for mental. Sport will give you new social relationship. We can make friends with through sports. A new relationship does good for you. And sports will reduce your stoles. After you exercise, you will feel good. I think I can show why sports good for us on above notes. First, sports are good for physically. And sports are good for mental. That why I think sports give us good effect. Think about school education again! Most people go or went to school in Japan. We do not doubt why we should go to school. And, little attention is paid to school and education system. Why we do not think about school system? In Section1, we address that how people think about school. In Section2, we deal with problems of school system. In Section3, we consider study and learn. The purpose of this paper is to be better system. In this Section, we consider that how people think about school. It is said that graduating a "good" university leads to good life. Many students encourage passing the tests of "good" university. Some parents want their child to go to "good" school. What is "good" university? Many people have this opinion that good university is famous university. And it is necessary to go to "good" school for passing the "good" university. What is "good" school? Parents often think schools that teachers give students "good" lessons. What is "good" lesson? Most people do not know what "good" lesson is. We should reconsider "good" school. We must consider next is bad points of school system. Remember your own childhood. Probably childhood is more curious than now. Baby and infants are very curious. They want to touch and know about around them. However, we do not think so now. Why our curiosity decreased? We think that this answer is school system. In primary school teachers give pupils lessons. These lessons are not interesting. So, pupils do not want to study. Most important thing in school is to promote pupils Teachers should Finally, we think about study and learn. We studied or study many things in school. For example, we study kanji, triangle, alkali and Nobunaga. However, what we learned in school? Some people say manner, and other people think communication. These opinions are right. We forget the things we studied. However, we remember the things we learned. We addressed about school system in the lights of many points. We do not know and think good school seriously. School system has problems. It is different study and learns. We should think about school system again. Abolish of death penalty A many people are agree to death penalty. However, some people doesn't agree to this system. Which insist Is true? We must thinks some sentence. First is why death penalty is permit. Second is we must thinks that government is kill some people. Can we permit for death penalty? First, why death penalty is permit for Criminal low? Criminal low show the generally people that if someone crime, he or she must receipt penalty. About this one is death penalty. But, it is not equal that permit death penalty This system not have a means. Second, death penalty our government is kill the people. It is very important problem. Government is prohibit murder. But, the government can kill a people about this system. Is it links for a war? If we permit the kill about government, it is equal that we permit war. We mustn't permit that the government kill Generally people have a lot of thinks about death penalty. But, this system is not useful. And if we permit this system, it is equal that we permit war. I think that we can't permit death penalty. Can Tyuunichi Dragons become a champion? Tyuunichi Dragons, professional baseball team, can not be a champion in Japan in 2005. Ochiai Hiromitu is reader in this team. His and teammates' purpose is that they become a champion in Japan in this team. Can they become a champion really? We think it thorough 3 key players, Tatunami Kazuyosi and Nakazato Atusi. Does Tatunami kazuyosi play better in2006 than in 2005? Does Nakazato Atusi recover from injured? Does Tatunami kazuyosi play better in 2006 than in 2005? He is a star player in this team. He has a lot of records in this team and Japan record. He has played in this team since 1988. He is a center of this team. He has a lot of records in this team and Japan record. In 2005, by Dragons lost him, teammates could not do good play. He is necessary to be a champion. Now, He plays hard to survive. So he will be able to come back in 2006. Does Nakazato Atusi recover from injured? He is a hope in this team. Maybe, His present is No. 1 in Japan. But he had injured 3 years ago. Now, he practices hard to recover. We think that he can recover why he has a strong spirit. Can Tyuunichi Dragons become a champion really? Tatunami kazuyosi will be able to come back. Nakazato Atusi can recover. So I think that Tyuunichi Dragons will become a champion in Japan in 2006. And People in Nagoya will be very happy in autumn. School Education for Children In Japan, some children and teenagers like their schools. And others do not. Why many Japanese youngsters don't like school? In the world, there are many children who cannot go to school because they do not have many or their town does not have schools. And many of them hope to go to school and study. But in Japan, many children who can go to school do not want to. Why? Maybe there are many reasons why youngsters in Japan do not like their school lives. I think one of major reason is school education. My sister, Kaori, is a high school student. She does not like her school. She says she does not like her school life because she hates study. But I do not think so. When she was a little girl she liked to study. She was interested in math and she tried to solve nijikansu when she was seven years old. And she likes reading. She reads not only Japanese books but also books written in English. So, I think Kaori like study, but does not like school study. In school, she studies Japanese, English, math, history, chemistry and so on. But she cannot be interested in them. So she does not like her school because school study is not interesting. Then why school study in Japan is not interesting for children? Because it is made only by adults who do not hear children's voices. Children like to become to know many things. And what one boy wants to know is different from what others want to. The time a girl needs to understand is different from others need to. So children need many styles of education. But their schools and their teachers give them only style education. Then children cannot study what they want to know. Or they cannot understand what they were told because they were not given time. And they become to hate study. So I think Japanese school needs change for children's school. What must be done is not education what adults want to do. What must be done is education what children want. If school education becomes what for children, children like to study, and want to study more. Most important role of school education is make children like to study. What is important when we play sports? Today, many people enjoy sports. There are a lot of ways of enjoying sports, for example, watching TV, playing the sports by yourself and so on. And, today's sports have a lot of role. First, it has a physical effect. Second, it is playing a role of communication. Finally, there is a social mean in the sports. In this essay, I want to discuss how to relation with such sports. First, I will take a physical effect of sports. Now, a lot of people play sports to their health, especially, to keep their style or "diet". It is sure that walking, running, and almost all sports have such effect, but important point is that we must not do sports by wrong way. We have so much knowledge about sports, including the collect and wrong. We should do sports by good way, if we want to get good physical effect. Next, sports have also an effect that it develops our communication. The best example of such effect is the Olympic game. We can communicate with a lot of people who cannot understand your words. In the Olympic game, many people communicate without words. So, it is important that we keep rule when we play sports. All sports have rule. But if one people break the rule, the others feel bad. Finally, I discuss a social effect of sports. Today is an economical society. Sports also have the economical mean. But, I need not such mean. That is why sports have a lot of good effect and many people should share such effect. If we need a lot of money when we play sports, poor people cannot enjoy sports. Most important point of sports is that we can enjoy sports. So, it is important that we have collect knowledge, keep the rule and get rid of money from sports. CHANGE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION Today, education has been changing in Japan. Several years ago, the government of Japan has decided that elementary and junior-high school time should be cut down in order to make students study more slowly. More parents learn to want their children not to go official school but private ones, and education has been transferred to "juku" from school. In this paper, I would like to consider. Does the change of school education cause these problems? Japanese government has changed schedule of school education a few years ago. This change was proposed so that students learn about living more slowly. Although this goal is nice, decreasing of school time was problem. And official schools have been said that go worse. So parents do not regard official schools as nice. And parents make their children go juku after school to study more harder than school. These problems are connecting and should be resolved at once. Thus, school education has been changing and causes many problems to be resolved. We all should think about returning the schedule of school education. Government has to make action to make official schools more comfortable to learn and lift up the level of education. Now, to stop this course, we should consider and discuss about school education. Why there are many people who commit a suicide? Today, many accident reported by TV program. Many of them are traffic accident and murder. However, indeed, there are many people who commit a suicide. They want not commit a suicide, but for economical poor, violence in school, and not want to live longer, there is only way to commit a suicide. How can we deal with this problem? One of them is to know these causes, and to talk the people who want commit a suicide. First of all, the main cause of a suicide is not money whether old person or young person. Japan economics is poor now. Many people can not get the job, and can not obtain the money for their living. Many of them work on part-time job, but this urge of part-time job is lower than that of main work. Young people can not get the desire to work harder in this money. Old people are more being ill than young people. They need more money for their health. If they lack of money, it means to kill them. Many people need money for their living. Second main cause of suicide is violence in school. The student who has been violence in school often needs a help for their teachers, friends, and their parents. However, if the people around the student not pay the attention this help, he choose commit a suicide. One of the resolutions is to receive their help with tender. Third cause of suicide is not want living at all. This cause is not clear, because the people who want to commit a suicide for this cause are want not to live or commit a suicide. They have no desire to live longer. They often commit a suicide with other people who want to commit a suicide. Many of them can not commit a suicide alone. It seems that if they can have desire to live for some reason, they want not to commit a suicide. There are many people who killed them in Japan for economical poor, violence in school, and no desire to live. However, their family, friends, and many people want them to live longer. The time a man died is must come. We prevent a suicide to understand their feeling, and to receive their help. THINKING ABILITY Today, the problems of school education are often discussed. A lot of experts of education and teachers discuss about how educate children on TV and magazine. In Japan, the government carried out "yutori education" about six years ago. Yutori education" is the educational system which has an aim that the children improve their thinking ability. However, this system leads to decreasing their studying ability and fails to improve their thinking ability. Therefore, the government is changing this system. What educational system is good for the children? I think it is important to teach them studying something is very interesting and fun. I want to think about the problems of the university students. COM: Recently, most young people graduate from their high school enter the universities. However, some of them stop going their university, or cannot graduate or cannot find their job after graduation. They cannot find what they want to become or they cannot understand why they have to go to their university. The cause of this problem is that they have not good thinking ability. Because they thought about how pass the exam and how mark good point in the exam and they were advised to go to famous university, they had no chance to improve their thinking ability. Their teachers should have taught them why they have to study and how interesting studying something is. They must have improved their thinking ability through enjoying learning and thought about everything around them. In conclusion, the most important thing is teaching children how interesting studying something is. The elementary school is the most important place because children studying something for the first time. The teachers must understand they play an important role and teach the children this important thing. Is divorce bad or good? There are more and more divorces done by couples. Many people insist that this situation is not ideal and once they are married, they must be together until one of them dies. On the other hand, there are some people who claim that if couple can not get along with each other, they may well divorce. Nowadays, form of family changes rapidly. So, we should not simply deny this situation and think of it carefully. Many people insist that couple should be together and that should not divorce. First of all, they say that family should be together especially in case they have child. Child need both of his or her mother and father, because parents give their child not only money and food but also emotional effect. Second, they insist that human beings must protect "this form of family" in order to survive. They think that even if society changes rapidly, this "truth" can not be changed. Finally, they say that divorce is a result of young people's idleness. If couple can not get along with each other, they should try to get along before they finally give the life up. So, many people are against divorce strongly. On the other hand, some people claim that divorce should be need for us all. First, they insist the danger of domestic violence. Domestic violence is often-seen problem. If we were not allowed to part with our partner, we must be "wife" or "husband", and be hit or done something worse at home. Second, they say that divorce should be done all the more for their child. The reason of this opinion is that if parents can not get along with each other, child can not be relax at home, and child must always pay attention to his or her mother's feeling or father's feeling. It is not good circumstance for growing child. Even if child has one parent, it is enough for child to be loved Mother or Father. Finally, they insist that society has changed. Now woman can get all but every kind of job and earn enough money to live with child. So, the necessity for keeping couple does no longer exist. Because of the reasons above, some people insist that divorce is necessary for us all. Moreover, the form of family has changed rapidly. First, there are many people loving a person of the same sex. In some countries, for example, man can marry man and woman can marry man. They keep "their form of family" and often adopt child whose parents are gone or dead. And they also divorce if they can not get along with each other. I have never heard that people are against this divorce. Second there are some people who do not legally marry but have their own child. For example, I know a professor at Nagoya University who does not legally marry but has his child. They do so for different reasons, but that is their choice and they grow their child with responsibility. So, divorce should be also done naturally. There are many discussions on divorce. Many people are against divorce. On the other hand, some people are for divorce strongly. Moreover, the form of family has changed and so have our feelings about it. All those things considered, we can not simply deny divorce and think carefully about it. Violence on TV needs not to be stopped TV is the biggest media in Japan. TV has influence people. So, violence on TV becomes the important issue. It is often called that violence on TV has teenagers tend to crime. And it claimed that violence on TV stop broadcasting as possible as we can. Is this claim right? It seems not. We do not need to stop broadcasting by the following reason. In Session1, we will show that violence on TV and crime do not have relation. In Session2, we will tell media has the right of express. At first, we will consider the relation between violence on TV and crime. In general, it seems that violent image encourages people to commit a crime. However, it has not proved by the viewpoint of science. The claim that violence on TV encourages people to commit a crime does not have evidence. So, we should not believe this claim. It is improper that people are influenced easily by TV problem. Almost of all causes of crime probably are other things: character, poverty, social environment and so on. Thus, we should not think that violence on TV and crime have relation. Next, we will show that media has the right of express. The Constitution of Japan contains the right for people. People and media entitled the right of express. It is one of the most important right. Though it is often limited by the viewpoint of common profit, it should not be limited easily. By the before Session, violence on TV encourages people to commit a crime, so to limit the light has no reason. As we can be seen, we should not think that violence on TV and crime have relation. And, right of express is important. So, we do not need to stop broadcasting violence on TV. Children who don't go to school These days, the number of children who don't go to school are increasing. When I was a junior high school student, there are 5 classes and each class had at least one student who did not come to school. I think children don't go to school because they cannot find the value of going there. The society is involved with the long depression and many people have no jobs even if they graduated famous universities. The environment problems give us many negative images for the future. School needs other new values of going. First of all, I talk about the children who don't go to school. When they wake up in the morning, they feel sick and don't want to go to school. There many reasons that make them feel sick. For example, some friends bully them, they can't do well at studying, teachers always scold them and so on. But these troubles may be experienced by everyone who goes to school. Why more and more children don't go to school today? Let us see the two possible reasons below. The first reason I propose here is today's economic depression. It makes children feel uneasy about their futures. Many people don't have jobs. Many university students cannot get their jobs. Even if they can get jobs, they may be fired suddenly. In 1950s to 70s, the economic situation was very good and the harder people worked, the happier life they could get. In those days, if a child got some trouble at school, they could stand them because school was certainly useful for their success. Today, on the contrary, a good student who gets high score at school doesn't necessarily get good job and wealthy life. When children can't get along with their friends at school, they may think that they don't want to go to school. Does today's school have enough value for children to go in spite of their suffering? Children can't find the value in the air of uneasy and they may be absent from school easily than 40 years ago. The second reason is the environment problem. Global warming, atomic pollutions, and many kinds of pollution by various chemicals give us the feeling that we will not live happier in the future or more over, we will die out in suffering. The children who are in trouble at school think that now going school is not exciting, and in the future they will not find exciting things either. Then why they have to go to school? The most important thing for them is that they are excited now. Today, many children don't go to school. The economic depression makes them think that there is no good for going to school. The environment problems feel them uneasy for the future and they think that The society is afraid of the future. If school can't find new value to make children think they want to go there, further more children will leave school. Recycling is important. This is said by many people in various places. I think almost everyone in Japan know that, because we learn it at school. However, I recommend you to think again why recycling is so important. And have you ever felt "I do not want to do recycling if possible," because recycling is sometimes not so easy. I often feel like that. I wonder if recycling can become easier. I would like to think about them and write what I think in this essay. First, let us think again about the importance of recycling. A lot of people would say that recycling is important to keep beautiful environment. That is true. If we do not do any recycling, our world will be full of a lot of things which is not good for many living things to live. And human being is one of the members of "living things. I think we know that not doing recycling makes us hard to live. However, we cannot feel that seriously. That is not good. Because of that, there is a problem which I write next. Then, we will look at the problem. As I said above, we can hardly think about importance of recycling seriously. So, we may sometimes feel like this. I don't want to do recycling. Why? The answer is simple. Doing recycling takes times. So I don't want do such a thing if possible. I sometimes think so, though I know that recycling is important. Of course most people also know recycling is important. However, many people hate recycling. When compared with not doing recycling, doing recycling sometimes takes times and increase what we have to do and costs. However, if we do not do recycling at all, all of human beings must die in the future. So, I think we should think again about importance of recycling. Finally, what can we do to encourage us doing recycling? Couldn't we make recycling easier to do? Actually, I have no idea about it. However, I will keep thinking about it. If we do not think about it at all, the situation will not change. And we should try doing recycling even if it is sometimes takes times, increase what we have to do, and costs money. Whether we human beings live or die in the future depends on what we do now. I have written my opinion about recycling above. Recycling is very important but it is difficult for us to think about recycling seriously. So many people hate recycling and do not want to do it if possible. Recycling sometimes takes times, increase our works, and costs money. So I think we should think about importance of recycling again, though we already know it. In fact, I do not know if making recycling easier is possible. We have to try recycling though we hate it. Recycling is very important and the thing we have to do. Mao Asada's problem Last year, one thing was decided: one figure skater Mao Asada cannot participate in Tolyno Olympic Game, and it became a big problem. I want to explain the reason is why. Next, I'll also mention people's opinions. Then, I'll show you my opinions, including some reasons. In this paper, I'll tell you about young famous skater, Mao Asada, and consider whether she should participate in Torino Olympic or not. Why Mao Asada cannot take part in Torino Olympic as a player of figure skating? She did very well in several competitions, and sometimes got a first prize. So her total point (that is based on the ranking in each competition) was the best: even larger than that of Miki Ando, she can play skating on ice in Torino. According to the TV or newspapers, the leader of Japan Skating Constitution broke Mao's dream because of her age: in other words, she could go to Torino if she were born a little earlier. That is to say, Mao cannot go to Torino because she is young: based on an inevitable reason. People have several opinions: one say that she should be elected as an Olympic player, and another it is quite common not to elect such a young girl. I (and you also may) feel "for" opinions are much larger than "against" ones. And more, I guess that such situation rises because of very simple reasons, such as "she is very cute", "she can play difficult style of skating. Some people may feel that is only because she is very popular. In conclusion, she was almost supported by heart-warming opinions of Japanese people, but she couldn't make her dream come true. Next, let me show you my opinions: I am against Mao's participating to Torino Olympic. I can raise three reasons. At first, she will have lots of opportunities to participate several kinds of competitions, of course Olympic Games are included. Second, she must train more, and get mental powers to play well at any stages. At last, she is a student of junior high school: she must have more experiences, and she will be elected as a player of Olympic Games. As I have noted, I'm against because I want to see "more strong her" in 2010 Olympic Game. In this paper, I introduce you one figure skater, Mao Asada, and consider whether she should participate in Torino Olympic or not. In real, Mao cannot go to Torino because of an inevitable reason: she is too young. She was almost supported by heart-warming opinions of Japanese people, but she couldn't make her dream come true. But I'm against because I want to see "more strong her" in 2010 Olympic Game. She will be back, and I believe that we can watch her playing very well on new stage. Japanese students' attitude Recently I hear that Japanese college students' quality of education has falling dawn. I think it is true though what is said so is very pity. Then why the Japanese students are said so? In this essay, I consider that the reason and the solution step by step. First, I state why college students lose attitude to study. In Japan, college students must take an entrance examination to entry a college or university. At a result, they point out study only to enter a college. And the tethers in high school also teach point where they ask in examination. Because the students have not had basic power such us writing report, discussing each other actively, in the college they have to study an unrelated study. Its study is not so much interesting. Second, I say solution about the students' attitude which they want not to study, and want to do part time job because of getting money. First of all, we have to change Japanese education system from the present system as Center Examination. Then we think European education system is good example. In Europe, it is easy to enter a college, but it is difficult to conglasiate it so that they must study hard. In Japan also in order to isolate the students' attitude to study it is better that we introduce European education system. In this essay, I say that Japanese students' attitude to study have fall down. And I mention that why they lose vigor to study: the present Japanese system is bad. Then I say the solution. Now we have to study for ourselves and enjoy our limited school life. Money is important! We buy a lot of things to live our life, so we need a lot of money. When we buy something or take some service, we need money. Money is essential for us to live. Of course, I do not want to regard money as the most important thing in the world. But we need money and earn money. We will see the importance of money. We use money everyday. For example, when we eat, get a train and see a doctor. Whenever we take a service, we pay money. We do not pay money to some volunteers or people who we have a good terms with, even though we get some service. In order to take some service, we need much money enough to pay. However I do not mean money is the most important for our lives. I do not deny those who think the money is more important than anything, because we can not live our lives without money now. I think they are so pity. There are many things which are better than money. But those who like the money the most do not notice or do not pay attention to them. If we concentrate only on money, maybe we are tired of our life or miss more valuable things. Finally, we will consider earning money. How much money will we earn? I think that if we can both ends meet, no matter how we make money. But a lot of people want to make money more than they need, and want to spend money for entertainment. Though it may be natural for human being, I would not like people to work hard. Too much work is bad for our health. We have to take care of our bodies. Some people hate those who think the money is the most important. But it is inevitable that some people love money, because we need money to live in this world. Needless to say money is important. However, we must not forget that there are more valuable things than money, and ourselves are as important as money. Then we will recognize the value of the money. An elite education and competitions between countries in our future What I want to discuss in this essay is that "How should Japan carry out an elite education? In this essay, I will suggest three themes: present situation in Japan, an example of South Korea and the way we practice an elite education. From these viewpoints, let's think about an elite education. In this paragraph, we will see that how Japanese people regard an elite education. It is often said that Japanese people don't like an elite education. I think it is true. Because Japanese people like that everyone are same. In their school, they dislike a few students are especially bad or even good. So, although a politics which insists that we can not deny various personalities each child has has been heard, it has been not succeeded. Japanese people dislike an elite education like this. Next, I will show an example of education in North Korea. South Korea come to carry out an elite education especially in a field of science technology. The government spends much money on this politics. For example the government set up the school for elites who will make South Korea developed country in their future. And the government practices other programs. North Korea does these practices because the borders between each country have disappeared in many fields. This means that the competitions between countries will be hard. That is, South Korea is trying to make the national power strong by educating young elites to survive the competitions. So, Japan should see world and think again Japan should introduce an elite education. Finally, let us think about an elite education which should been carried out. I think that it is wrong to educate limited students. I have read the book which said that government has to educate all people in Japan to raise the level of national power of Japan and universities should educate elites to catch up to the competitions in the world. I was convinced when I read it. It is true that Japan needs to grow some elites but it is also needed to keep academic level of Japanese people high. Because the develop Japan made so far was due to high average level of Japanese people. We have discussed an elite education so far along three themes: present situation in Japan, an example of South Korea and the way we practice an elite education. Japan should watch the world and introduce an elite education. If Japan refuse it, Japan will not able to catch up to the other countries' progress. What to learn, not how much to memorize. In resent years, a problem on school education has been often discussed. What caused these discussions is a new curriculum of school education in which students learn fewer subject than in a previous program. Teachers, parents and many people are involved in the discussion whether children should learn more or less. But I insist they should not talk about quantity of memory but about quality. In 2003, a new program of school education started with many people arguing on it. A major point of the discussion was raised by the concept that children should learn fewer. There are some people who oppose the new program and suggest that students should learn much. They insist that the new curriculum makes student less intelligent and this nation will be weakened. On the other hand, others support the idea of the new curriculum. They suggest that children have been too busy under the previous curriculum. In my point of view, they seem to end up discussing only how much children should memorize or, at best, children effectively memorize. In fact, argument on the quantities to learn has been often held throughout the history. And the curriculum has often changed. But all they changed has been the quantity of subjects. In the present, what students have to learn is, I think, skills to use their intelligence. For example, presentation, discussion and academic writing are needed. In this essay, I introduced two opinions about the new curriculum. But I suggest another point of discussion. I hope, through the argument, Japanese education will be better. The method of maintain good partnerships Newspaper reported that Total population number of Japan become decrease in these days. Many analysts discuss many reasons. But it must be right that increasing rate of divorce is one of the reasons. In this essay, I would like to try the difficult problem how to escape the divorce. Divorce is mainly caused by lack of love. Let us think about it. Probably they have a time that love each other, because they marriage. The situation of lack of love is caused by your laziness. Not to think mistake it. Is has big difference between your efforts and efforts that partner's thought. This is derived from sex difference. Man and Woman use quite different thinking method. We have to think men and women are different life before you act. For example, question means different meaning between man and woman. Woman usually asks only she want to share her mind with partner. She doesn't need the answers. She will satisfy when partner can understand her mind. And woman asks although problem is very small things for her. On the contrary, man asks only he is very confused. He wants solutions. But man has high pride, so if women suggest the answer without his question, men think she don't trust him. So women must not suggest the answer before man ask her. As is mentioned above, man and woman have quite different thinking only thinking about question. If you consider these difference, you can go well everything. Another important thing is skin ships. Touch with other people effect good feelings. Some researcher said people who have lack of skin ships in baby become bad feelings in adult. So skin ships make a good function. You don't forget the skin ships after you marriage. I hope you have a good partnership for ever. What is the reason why we pay much attention to the Olympic Games? In 2006 winter, The Olympic Games in TORINO will be held. People of the world are paying so much attention to the event. Off course, we are also paying our attention to it and athletes who will join in the event. Why is the Olympic Games paid so much attention? In the following paragraphs, I consider the reason. I think that one of the reasons is that sports is a common thing which people of the world can have and enjoy. For example, The World Cup of soccer is held in once in four year. In The World Cup in 2002, people, in particular, people in Japan and South Korea were excited. The reason why they excited and enjoyed the event is that the rule of soccer and the pleasure of playing soccer are not change even if people who playing it are belong to different countries. All sports which are played in the Olympic Game are also common rules. That is why we can enjoy watching the Game with all people in the world. The second reason is that The Olympic Games is the highest level competition in the world. To win and to get the gold medal have a big meaning and honor for the country which the athlete is belong to. So many athletes train every day to be elected the member of the Olympic and in the Olympic Game, we can watch some battle in highest level and most beautiful performances. To watch the Olympic Games is to watch the most wonderful performances in sports. The third reason is that we can feel the importance of the world peace. The Olympic Games is one of the international big events. We can understand different cultures and people in different countries through the event. Athletes who battled in the same match praise their courage and effort with each other. In this event, we learn the important of cross cultural understanding and world peace. So, we pay so much attention to the Olympic Games. There will be many reasons which I can't refer to in the above paragraphs. In Torino 2006, we will watch many wonderful matches and performances. And we will also understand or realize the importance of the event through watching it. Let's watch the Olympic Game and find many reasons why we pay so much attention to the event! Influence for children from violence on TV It is provided a lot of programs to have the nature of violence on TV every day. However, we usually don't recognize the nature if it is not crucial. And we tend to think that especially programs for children, for example anime, don't have the nature of violence. Is it a truth? Let us thank about it carefully. I would like to mention two steps in the violence on TV as following paragraphs: the nature of violence in anime, and influence for children from violence on TV. First of all, let us think about the nature of violence, taking for example, "Anpanman". Anpanman" is popular with program for children. It is watched by major from around 2 years to 5 or 6 years old children. Story is that Vikinman who is bad does something bad for children. But finally, it ends as Anpanman who is hero defeats Vikinman. Then both children in anime and watching TV are glad to that. Hero allows violence to the bad. And even adults are glad to it with children. Next, let us think about influence for children. It has several studies about influence for children from violence on TV. Some say that children who watched TV to have the nature of violence are easier to do with violence than ones not watch it. It has risk to promote violent to children. Finally, as consider these steps, I want you to think about programs on TV again. There are a lot of programs with violence. Can it is allowed violence for justice like hero, Anpanman? We especially adults have responsibility to provide good education for children. We must think ourselves, and teach children what is bad, what is good, what is justice. The reason of that we can't waste death penalty system. Death penalty is the very difficult problem. In this essay, we will see the three points of the problem. The first is that death penalty is useful for prevent murders, especially in Japan. The second is about a bad point of death penalty, but I will show that other penalties have the bad point too. The third is the good point of the death penalty. In the end, we will find that we should use death penalty in our society. The first point we will see has the connection with the Japanese tradition. Do you know the Japanese word "ADAUTI"? This word means that the relationships of the killed person kill the murder themselves. Of course it is illegal now, but the tradition of ADAUTI is planted in Japanese mind deeply. Japanese very likes ADAUTI stories (ex. The TV program of CHUSHINGURA, the story of ADAUTI in EDO period, is seen by many Japanese people in December). ADAUTI is bad in low, but it may good in Japanese mind. It may be from Japanese good mind of kindness, because ADAUTI is murder for the other person, not for oneself. Or, it may be from the mind of loving their relationships. In the modern Japan we rarely see ADAUTI news, but if we waste death penalty, it may be not rare thing. In the society of no death penalty, if your relationships were killed, the murder can't be killed. And even if you do ADAUTI to the murder, you won't be in death! The second point is the badness of death penalty. People who think death penalty is bad thing say that the person who got death penalty for the mistakes of a judge can't be cared. It is true, and the important thing. But the other penalties, especially the penalty of free, can be cared? I think the answer is no. The penalty of free robs the important part of living time. This can't cared by money. The different is only that death penalty robs the whole living time perfectly. It is the important difference, but the difference of amount. We will care the relationships of mistake death penalty person by money. It is not perfect system, but if we decide it is bad perfectly, we can't use all penalty low. The third point is the great shock of death in our mind. Death penalty is so big penalty, that we can't afraid it. Of course murders too. Many people against of death penalty for the strength of this penalty. The evidence of the usefulness of death penalty is it. Death penalty may be the bad thing, but it is needed for the impact of badness of death. We saw the points of death penalty. In the first point, we found that death penalty is needed especially in Japan. In the second, the biggest bad point of death penalty is not only point of death penalty. In the third, we see the impact and strength of death penalty. For the above points, we should use death penalty, although it has many big bad points. Playing sports for health Do you play sports everyday? We know that playing sports is good for our health. However, most of us, especially business man, do not play sports at all. There are three reasons. One of the reasons is that we have no time to play. Second we do not have chance or place to play. Final reason is that reason is that it is hard for us to play so hard. Then how can we solve these problems? Let us think about these reasons. First, why do we have no time to play? We have to work or study at school. However, do we work or study everyday? The answer is "no". We have holiday and so on. So we can make time to play sports. If you have nothing to do at holiday, you should go out and play sports. And if you are busy then, you should decide to play sports later and try to find time. Second, why do we have no chance and place? In school days, we had sports class, but now no one have us play sports. There is no place to play. So we have to find the place we play. And almost sports need some players without us. So we have to find members to play with, too. It seems difficult, but there are a lot of people who want to play sports. We should ask them to play with. Then we can play sports with a lot of members. Final, why is it hard for us to play so hard? The answer is very simple. It is because we have not play sports at all for several years. So we do not need to play hard at first and only enjoy playing. After we enjoyed playing, we become to play harder. Every one knows that playing sports is good for our health. However, there are many people who have not play sports at all for several years. If you have not, please try to do three things as follow. First, you try to find to play sports. Next, you ask people around you to play with. Final, you enjoy playing. Then, your health will become better. Let's join the recycling! These days, the earth environment becomes worse. Some people compare this problem to the cancer and say the earth we live in caught a serious cancer. And until the earth die, we must see it and help it. The most useful way to heal the earth is recycling, I think. In this essay, we discuss three reason why recycling is good for the earth. In the first place, why recycling is good for the earth is that it enables us not to make other things. When we make some things in the factory, we need some materials. To make some materials, we maybe need some trees, or steels. And these things come from this earth. To join recycling is to save these materials, and we don't need cut many trees. We must take effots not to use all living material. It is good for the earth. Then, we propose the opinion that recycling means we can reduce the gomi. If all the people join to recycling, our gomi will be reduced. And it makes the factory dealing with burnable things works less. It means that the CO2 made from the factory and it lead to prevent the onndannka syndrome. It also means the place to bury unburnable things on decrease. It save the mountains used for put the unburnable things and the animals and insects living this mountain. Finally, we consider the feeling we have while we join recycling. Today, many people aren't interested in the environment problems. And for that reasons, many people take un important to earn profits, people delay to deserve the earth environment. If many of us join to recycling, our consciousness we should think our environment more seriously will increase. Some people would be interested in the earth environment problem. And more and more people would take efforts to save our earth. The feeling we must deserve our earth is most important. Recycling is good tool to make our interest increase. In this paper, we proposed three idea why recycling is good for the earth. First, it saves the material things. Second, we can also reduce the dirty things. Finally, it makes our interest about the environment problems go up. From this idea it is good for us to save the earth and save our future. To live in the earth for along time, we should join recycling more. I hared that the education level of Japan had been decreasing. I wonder this came from the school education system, above all it is school library system. In this document I will tell you the situation on a system of school library. First paragraph will show you the current problems. Second paragraph will discuss about problems on system change. Finally I will tell you about my opinion of the way to solve. Educational ministry decided to set on the school teacher librarian on each school which has over 12 classes. It has been 4 years since then, however school teacher librarian can't work on as a professional of information. Generally school librarians stay in the library and teach students the way to search, but in Japan they often work as a normal teacher and a school librarian at the same time. This situation will terribly effect on not only school librarian but also students. It is clear that this situation must be changed to make better. Originally librarian's social status is raw in Japan. It is said that it's easy to have license of librarian. On the other hands it is high in other European countries like Germany, and I wonder they are very proud of their job as professional. Therefore what we have to do first is to change a mind or image about librarian. They are just not stay in counter, but guide the methods to look for the answer. Solution is not so difficult, because once you ask librarians some questions about materials you want, you can realize how useful they are. Librarians are professional of information. In Japan most people don't know this point. Therefore the action to be known library and librarian is effective. Now librarian do something to show their functions. In this way, if the social status of librarians gets stable status, school library work on well in Japan. And then students get a place full of high quality information. It exactly gives some good effects to students and might solve the problems of school education system. In recent years, students in Japanese schools tend to study only for their examinations, including their mid-terms and finals. Students most commonly stay in their rooms or go to 'juku' to memorise every little thing in their textbooks just because they could appear in their examinations. This is a problem in the current school education in Japan, and three suggestions for improvements will be presented below. First, university and college entrance examinations should be changed. Second, students should avoid rote-memorisation, or memorising everything in their readings and what their instructors say. Lastly, cooperative group learning should be encouraged. An entrance examination of a university or a college should be a test to judge whether if the applicant has the will and the ability to study at that institution. However, most entrance examinations currently implemented are only tests of the "facts" the students had memorised. A student might have memorised many "facts" only the night before. Even if this was true, when that student marks well on the examination, it is probable that she or he will pass, which should not occur. To change the situation, each university or college should have their own ways of testing the applicants. For example, integrated-subject style problems, as used in the entrance examination of International Christian University, Mitaka, Tokyo, could be a good style. Interviews or short essays asking for the applicants' own views might be another idea. All entrance examinations should become tests to judge the personalities of the students, but not what they have memorised. Secondly, schools should teach students to think and to avoid rote-memorisation. Students should not memorise everything that is given to them. Only doing their homework and memorising their readings make students unable to decide for themselves the points which are important. It would be better to stimulate students to think of their own works themselves. Encouraging students to make reports on subjects which are related to what they have learnt in classes is a good idea. By doing so, students will learn to think themselves. Schools should be changed so that they can encourage students to think for themselves and form their own ideas. Japanese schools should also encourage students more to work in cooperative groups. Japanese students are generally too shy, perhaps, to speak out in classes. However, by learning in cooperative groups, they can learn how to communicate and to cooperate with each other. This can also stimulate the students to think and decide themselves. In addition, it would help students to understand and to think of other members. Lacking group learning will cause students to be unable to communicate, to be cooperative, and to think of other people. There must be many improvements employed into the school education system in Japan. As discussed in the paragraphs above, the system should be changed so that the students will learn to think and make decisions for themselves, to communicate with other people, and to be cooperative. These are the elements lacking in the current school education. It's been a long time since lowering Japanese college students' academic ability has been pointed out. It is well known that Japanese colleges are easy to graduate in spite of the rigorous college entrance exam. Japanese colleges' administrators are fully aware of this, but they have not yet found a way to solve the problem. This issue will be more problematic when entering colleges would become easier because of the decreasing number of children. Japanese college education is now facing the revolutional change, and I strongly believe that it must be done cooperatively by both administrators and the Japanese society. In order to change the education system at Japanese colleges, we need to know which part of the system to be changed. In comparison with the US education system, several points are considered to be changed. First, Japanese education system do not allow changing majors. In most cases, freshman already decided his major when they enter colleges, and cannot transfer from one to the other, which means that high school students have to decide their majors before they take the entrance exams. It is quite difficult for seventeen-year-old boys and girls to decide which area they want to study. There are some teenagers who have clear future visions, but I must say they are not many. On the other hand, US college freshman do not have to decide their major until they become sophomore. Moreover, they can change their major relatively easily after they made decisions. I admit that delaying the decisions will delay the progress in their learning, but it is much better than having no choice when they find out what they want to study. Second reason is in the class. Comparing with US colleges, it is much easier to graduate from Japanese universities. Japanese university classes do not assign homework very much. From my experience, US University assigns homework triple as much as Japanese university to say the least. If students are not assigned homework, it is quite reasonable that they choose other activities to do instead of studying. There is another difference is in the contents of the class. US university professors focuses on developing students' basic knowledge while Japanese university professors tend to ignore building fundamental knowledge of the area, and teach their own professional interests, which is sometimes too advanced for bachelors students. I think that Japanese professors do not expect full comprehension from their students, and that leads to the reason why Japanese classes are easy to get credit. Finally, Japanese society is also responsible on lowering university students' academic performance. Many of my college colleagues have jobs which do not relate to their professions they learnt at the college. The fact revealed that Japanese companies do not expect professional skills or knowledge from university students. This is quite obvious from the questionnaires at job interviews. Companies want to know students' personality, or skills and certificates that are often obtained outside the college. If the skills and knowledge acquired at colleges do not lead to obtaining jobs, it is likely that Japanese college students think that it is unnecessary to study at colleges. That is the very reason why I believe that the both society and colleges are responsible on the issue. In summary, I insist that both the Japanese society and colleges have been lowering Japanese college students' academic skills. To solve the problem, I propose that Japanese colleges should give more flexibility to students in choosing their majors, and offer classes that develops students' basic knowledge of their professional subjects. While colleges offer more flexibility to students, Japanese companies should be more aware of their responsibility in assessing what the candidates learnt at schools. This will take a lot of time and effort, yet the Japanese college education system must need such a revolutional change. Recently, the number of divorce parents is increasing in Japan. It appeared that there are several divorce patterns such as divorce of young couples, middle-aged couples and elderly couples. Especially, the divorce rate of young and elderly couples is increasing. However, there are reasons for increasing divorce rates. In this essay, why the divorce rate is increasing is discussed. About sixty years ago, in post-war period, an arranged marriage was very common in Japan. At this period, young women had to get married with men whom their parents had found out. Therefore, both wife and husband had tried harder than modern young people to get along with each other. Divorcing may be thought as a shame of their family in old age; therefore, they are not willing to get divorce so easily. Further more, there were more women who keep their virginities until they get married, and this prevent unwanted pregnancy and unexpected marriage. On the other hand, in this age, young people have freedom to get married with whomever they want and the love marriage become common thing in Japan. Fortunately, because of lack of moral and increase of freedom, young people tend to have a relationship before they get married and there are young women who get pregnant unwontedly. If these couple get married because of unwanted pregnancy, it may be hard to get along with their partner. This is because these people are most likely very young so they are often not well prepared to be parents in terms of economic problem and maturity. Therefore, the number of divorce young parents may be increasing. In addition, there are not only young parents but also elderly parents who get divorce. In Japan, more men works outside of home and more women stay inside to do housework. However, wives may be very depressed of their husbands who do not seem to be interested in housework and only think about their jobs. Wives are given no thankfulness, no kindness and respects from their husbands. It may sound unbelievable, however, in most cases, husbands have never noticed about their wives disappointment until they have really notified by their wives. Japanese married couples may have serious communication issues that result in an elderly divorce parents. For these reasons, the divorce rate of young and elderly couples is increasing. People have more freedom and choices for their marriage, but because of this, there may be people who think about divorce lightly, and more people who think their choice is only divorce. It is said that modern people should be more patient and think about marriage very carefully before they actually get married. For young couples, they may need to be more mature persons and try to not rush into anything because marriage is a lot of responsibilities. For elderly couples, it may be better to have more conversations and have respects for each other. In Japan, school education starts when children get seven years old. First, children go to elementary school for six years, and then they go to junior high school for another three years. These nine years education is required for any children in Japan. After they graduated from junior high school, they have choices to go to high school or do something else. However, some students tend to go to high school for no reasons because they do not know what they really want to do or they just follow others. This may be a cause of increasing free arbiters who do not have full-time jobs after school education periods. In this essay, how Japanese school education system is related to free arbiters is discussed. In elementary school and junior high school, students get basic education for each subject. Most likely, students find out their favorite subjects and their worst subjects. For example, English is my favorite and Mathematics is my worst subject. However, there may be some issues in Japanese education systems. In English class, grammar is taught as most important thing so that students appeared to be not good at speaking and listening English. Further more, teachers teach English as subject for high school entry exams. Therefore, students may be forced to learn impractical English. In another subjects, it is appeared that teachers also teach students subjects for high school entry exams. This may take motivations of students who do not go to high school or want to learn practical elements of each subject. This is why students may go to school without specific reasons or tend to follow others. If students enter high school with no reason, it may be difficult to keep up with classes and may loose their motivation towards their future. Also, they may often think they have nothing to be proud of and they do not know what to do for the next step. Some students may quite schools and do nothing or keep having part-time job but never become full-time worker. After high school they have another choices to go to college, University or get jobs. However, there may be a few students who have very specific dreams or have something that they really want to do by the time they graduate from schools. This also may be because of Japanese school exam based education. Students appeared to be stacked between school, sports activities and part-time jobs. They have too many things to think about their future, get confused about anything and finally loose their hope. As discussed above, school education really affects children's motivation. To prevent increasing of free arbiters, it may be better that teacher give students practical lecture and flexible learning environments which gives students enough time to think about their future, and what they really want to do or are able to do as full-time job. On January 10, another Winter Olympic started. 10 days have passed since its opening, but Japanese team hasn't gotten any medals yet. I wonder what is happening to Japanese athletes. And here is my opinion about it. These days, I have heard professional athletes saying like, "I'd just like to enjoy the Olympic atmosphere". Every time I have heard these kinds of comments, I feel something strange. To enjoy sports is nothing bad, of course. But they are professional sports players and not ordinary people like us. Behind them, there are many people (team members, coaches, fans, family, etc., who support them officially and privately. If they are aware of it, they would never comment as if they play for themselves. I would not say that they should play for our country, but, at least, they consider people supporting them more. And I feel some Japanese athletes are not so strong mentally. I have read some article that world top athletes trained themselves with 120-150% so that they can overcome some unexpected accidents at games. Especially at a big game like Olympics, they have so much pressure that we cannot imagine. Some have damaged body; some have difficulty adjusting their condition to the new place. Even under such circumstances, top athletes win medals without showing their hard times to us. I don't know what is needed to make ourselves stronger, but I assume people can become stronger and stronger every time we go though tough times. The number of medals is not so important. Still, I would like to watch those strong athletes (physically and mentally) play a wonderful game and get medals for them and for us. We still have some more days left in Torino Olympic. I am really looking forward to seeing Japanese top athletes do their best and show us a wonderful moment. According to the report, people who suicide has been increased these days, particularly young people. It is that this has becomes a serious issues. I'm the person who is definitely not agree with to take away your live by yourself. To suicide has became a one of national issues. The decrease of population means the decrease of national power. Why do people suicide? There will be many reasons. For example bullies at school or lose their jobs. People often think that the factor exists in the society. That's why when students kill by self, TV news focus on what is the school like, what is the teacher like. Audiences try to find out the reason in the present school system, family problems and so on. There may be problems in our resent society. Something may make people suicide easily because of the globalization tendency. However again I am the person who is definitely not agree with to throw away your live by yourself. Nobody, nothing can do that. This is the answer that I have got; the main problem is in own heart. It is very bottom of your heart. I would like to point out following tow examples to explain the details. At the first, people don't understand what death is. When people know that, will stop doing that and stop even thinking. The other day I saw a program on TV. That made me thought a lot about death. This program showed that a writer showed the death using his body. The writer who was still mid 30th found out that he had a cancer. His doctor implied that his live-long would be at most tow years. From that time he started considering what he could do the rest of his life and set goals; to enjoy his life as much as he could, leave something which showed that he was in the world and inspired people to enjoy your own life. In short, he published his original book and passed away. His way of living encouraged many people and changed young people who want to die. The reason the people changed their mind is that they do not understand what death is for sure. At the same time, people don't know what to live for. That is people don't live by themselves. People are always lived by something and someone such as your family, friends, everyone around you. Parents and school teacher don't teach such an important thing to children. The society in Japan has been rich. People can get anything they want. There are a lot of mid-class people. They can live their daily life without thinking, even if they don't have any goals. If they don't understand what to live for, it is difficult to find picture their future and the think to how to die easily. Nowadays you have been lived in a very complex society. However there are a lot of things which doesn't change, shouldn't change whenever and wherever. I believe that suicide is the one of them. It is said that children's physical balance is getting worse in Japan. One reason for this is that they seldom play outside comparing with their parents' childhood. This paper represents the solution for the problem doing sports. As I have already mentioned, Japanese children rarely play outside with their friends, rather playing video game inside of the house. This gives bad influences on their health and physical balance. As a result of it, problematic things happened to their life style. For example, it is hard for them to jump and land. In addition, they cannot skip correctly. One of reasons for this is that they are not making fun outside of the house as I said before. I would like to show the some solutions for it. A number of studies have shown that doing sports is needed and gives us some benefits. By doing sports, it is good for our mental, physical, health and so on. There are only good things to do sports. Moreover, the population who are doing sports is getting increased. Nowadays, winter Olympics is being held in Torino, Italy, and world cup soccer will be held in Germany. It is coming up soon. Most of the Japanese children will watch it on TV, so media should set forward for them doing some sports. It is a big chance to enhance the benefits of the sports and a duty for them to make fun outside of the house through sports. The reform of school education system has been done several years ago in Japan. This new system, which is called "Yutori kyouiku" aimed at providing children more free time as well as variety of options to widen and deepen their knowledge on their surrounding environment. One of these options is the International understanding program. With the internationalization of the Japanese society due to the increasing number of migrants and tourists in Japan and the globalization that facilitates people to access the international society, the International understanding program is highly required in school education. Through this program, children can discover the different culture and thus they may understand the diversity and dynamism of the world. However, one can doubt whether or not this program is successfully implemented in the school education. Do schools have any scheme to adequately carry out this program? Do schools have enough human resources to organize this program? Based on my experience, I would say "NO" to the above mentioned questions. I have been working for an organization, Education for International Understanding Program (EIUP), for a few years. This organization, EIUP, aims at supporting teachers and facilitating them to realize the International understanding program in their school. Through my experience in the EIUP, I recognized the teachers' capability to conduct this kind of program is extremely limited, because they themselves don't have enough knowledge on the international society. In short, they don't know what to do for this program and even though they have an idea, how to do to make it possible. I assume that the concept of the International understanding program is nice in a sense that children can easily assess the foreign culture. This may widen their view and deepen the understanding on the different world. Yet, if this program is not ideally implemented in the field, this wonderful concept would just end up as idealism. So, to successfully implement this program and achieve its objective, the ministry of education has to take the initiative with the help of voluntary organization such as the EIUP. The ministry can provide some financial assistance to these organizations and build up the linkage between these organizations and schools so that they can share the information. And the voluntary organizations can support schools to adequately mange the program though providing human resources and schemes. Not to make this magnificent program failed, the linkage among these three actors is necessary. There are so many things that students can learn at school, not only to learn basic subjects along the text books, but also the way of learning something. How can the teachers help their students? School education has been have a lots of problems, for example, some students lack of their will to learn something, and some students cannot find out the reason of their learning, and some students cannot discuss with people in front of many people. How can teachers motivate their students to learn something? What is an important thing in a school education? I would like to think about those very important questions in this paper. Teachers can teach their major subjects, of course. I think that a teacher have a responsibility to help their students learn enjoyably. It cannot be realize if the teacher do his tasks along with a teaching manual. His class should be very interesting. A teacher must prepare for a class very well, and think of a way of teaching sometimes. For example, a text book should be very attractive and interesting which a student keep their eyes open and read through like a child who reads "Harry Potter". The materials and questions should be helpful to learn and think something for a student. A teacher must be able to answer by a question from his student. The key of school education is to customize to think, I think. Because to keep thinking is the most powerful motivation for a people. Kiku Nishizaki, who is the first lady pilot in Japan said, "Have a dream, Work hard for it, and your dream will come true.", and I would say to a student if I am a teacher, "Have many questions, keep to think of them, and you'll find out the answer of your question. Teacher can help to give a chance to learn something, and teacher can share the joy of learning, and teacher can help their students if they're in need, and teacher can think of a theme, for example, "What is to live" together, and teacher can ask their students, for example, "What do you think? "What do you want to be?" "What are you willing to do?" or so. But cannot be the student. Teacher can ask and help, but after that, to enjoy the study or learn something, are depends on the each student. To learn something is to learn the way of learning something. To teach something is to share the joy of learning. The important thing in a school education is to customize the way of learning, and it is to customize to think and do. Through this process, students will enjoy to learn and get their way. School education have a big role. This essay is about crime in Japan. I will report about the crime in detail throughout my friend's experience. Recently, the crime is incredibly increasing especially stealing, murder and kidnapping. My friend, the other day was just about to get home at night around 8pm and was walking in Motoyama. She was on the phone so that she wasn't really careful with her bag, but just holding it. Suddenly, she felt like somebody was following her and at the same time, one guy hit her and stole her bag. She was very scared, so she could not say anything or scream, but try to get her bag back. Though, she wasn't strong enough to against him. The crummier pull her hair and hit her, then, disappeared. It seemed this is a story from the TV news, but this criminal might be happens around us too. Also, murder is increasing. The point is that the more and more young people are murdering like 6th graders. 2 or 3 years ago, there was a girl who murdered classmate and has sent to the child jail. The reason she did it was just because she was annoyed. Also three years ago, one high school boy high jacked the bus and killed one woman. Also in this situation, this kids caused it just because he was in the irritating mood. Kidnapping, especially to little girls happens all the time these days. The offender are often old guys like middle 30's to 40's and what they always says is "I did it because I can not communicate with woman or woman do not care about me at all. Those three of crime is a very foolish act and I think this is of course the responsibility of their self, but their parents, school and the environment around them too. We have to educate people well for not causing this kind of things and since people get stress out easily today, we need to have a place to council them. This essay is about school education in Japan. I will talk about exam hell in detail and what the problem is. Exam hell, it means to study hard for entrance examination. Mainly there are three exam hells. First, junior high school exam hell for the elementally kids who wants to go to the good private junior high school, because the education in private school is much better than usual public school. Students from 4th grade to 6th grade go to cram school about 3 days a week and even on the weekend to take practice exam. So that they don't have much time to hang out with friends or even communicate with their family. I think this is a huge problem that they don't even have time to talk with their family and get frustrated when they are still child. Secondly there is high school exam hell. This is for the junior high school students who go to public junior high school and study for the public and private high school. Just like elementally kinds, they also go to cram school most of the days. What the problem here is that they have classes at cram school at late at night like from 7pm to 10pm, because there are classes for the elementally kids before their classes begin. So that they get home really late and can not get enough sleep. Since they are in the process of growth, this is a big problem too. Also there is special entrance exam system for the students who have high-level grades. They can enter high school with teaches recommendation, grades and interview. I think this is a good way to Thirdly, there is university exam hell. It is for the high school students or anyone who wants to enter the university. This is regard to ages. High school students, usually, are in the same situation with junior high school students. They go to cram school and might be have tutors. Of course they have to study hard, but in university exam, there are variety of ways to enter like returnee system, sports system or Ichigei exam, which is for the people who really have a talents in art or something. So I would say university exam is easier than any of them just a little bit. What am I trying to say here is that the Japanese entrance system is so strict and hard so that students often get so frustrated. So the country needs to reconsider about it I think. This report is about sports. The winter Olympic was held in Torino, Italy this winter, however Japan did not do well. The only medal we got was from a figure skate. There were 3 women athlete who participated in this figure competition. Fumie Suguri, who also participated Salt Lake City Olympic and had a great success, was ranked in 4th this time. Her great expression was highly evaluated and she was very thriving on adversity. For teenage athlete Miki Ando, it was the first Olympic. She has been so popular since she had great success on 4 turning jump. Though, after Mao Asada who is only 15 years old became in the limelight, Miki was so tired of comparing with her and her motivation was decreasing. Also gossip magazine carried about her high school life or daily life and this just made her stressed out. Because of being in this stressful environment, she couldn't get any medal and even couldn't come in anywhere. Lastly, the winner Sizuka Arakara left the great effort. She is the only one got a medal in the Olympic. She was also compared with Mao, but she was strong and smart enough to bear it. After she had decided to participate the Olympic, she changed her skate choreographed and just tried to do her best. Her performance was great and it seemed she wasn't nervous at all. Everybody who saw performance was impressed. Although they had a huge pressure, these 3 women athlete did great job I think. I bet there are so many factor that not a lot of people were able to get medal, I hope their effort will lead to next Olympic. I will write about the dangerous of school education, especially in primary school. I think the most dangerous point of primary school education is "the influence of the school". It can be said "the influence of teacher" in other words. In short, school teacher share the time with students very long time in a day, and child's parents tell their child to follow what teacher says well. In result, I think children will have big trust to their teacher. If what child's parents say is different from what child's teacher says, which will children trust? I think the possibility to trust what teacher says is very high. In real, I usually said my parents "but teacher said like this" in my childhood. I think I can say from above that school teacher can give big influence to children's future. I guess the experience in primary school will made the core of the way of thinking or feeing of the human, so if the teacher is like the person who give good feeling to students they will follow what teacher say. Contrary, the teacher gives bad feeling to students they may be the person who can not trust adults and they may hate school. If he/she will be so, this experience may affect his/her whole life. School is the society for children, so the child who can not join the school means he/she may be not able to join the society in future. To reject such thing, I think it is important that the teacher is the person who can live in society and can love students. In other words, the teacher should be the person who can communicate with others well. Recently, it usually happened that the accident like teacher violate primary student. I think the cause of like these accident is the teacher does not know the way of communicating with children. I guess the violence is the form of the puzzled feel of the teacher. From above, I think the school for teachers is one of the resolve the dangerous of primary school education. Some teachers may no be able to communicate with students, but some teachers can communicate with students on the other hand. The teacher who can not join the circle of students should consult with teachers who can join. I heard such place has been already. If such place will expand more and more, I think it will give good effect to school education. For some years, school education has changed in various ways. For example, the law that we regard Saturday as a holiday, and so-called "Yutori-education" , and so on. But I cannot believe all of these ways, because I don't think that giving the 'free' time to children is equal to the escape from children's stress. Recently in Japan, some children must study not only at school but also at "juku", usually in the age of primary school. As the result, there is a large difference about the level of ability between children who study hard and children who don't. So adults gave children more 'free' time. At school, education is limited in the basic level, and teachers tried to teach what all of the students can understand. And on holiday in the 'free' time, some child spends them studying much hard, the other playing a TV-game. But is the time truly 'free'? I don't think so, particularly for the children studying hard. If child (or his parent) needs more high-level ability, he studies at "juku" even on holiday and prepares for the examination of junior high school or high school. So finally he doesn't have the 'free' time, and has much stress than before. Adults tried to decrease stress from children, but in fact, they gave much stress to children. What we must do for the children who have stress, it is to decrease it from them. For the sake of it, we should tell them the importance of studying. Studying is not for the examination, but for the themselves, in particular at the grade of primary school. Adults must make them think that studying is simply interesting, and very meaningful. If children have interest in studying, probably their stress decreases little by little. For children who have responsibility of the next generation, we should lead them to the better way. However, when people try to consider this issue by changing the system of education, there is a limitation and as the "Yutori-education" has stopped, they didn't get the good result in fact. We should rather try to make children change their mind. It is very important for children to make consider that studying is simply interesting and meaningful, not the work only to enter the high-level school or the university. In this essay, I will show the own idea about water pollution in Japan. Last month, I watched a TV program produced by NHK. That program focused on the Minamata disease. Minamata is the name of a city placed in Kumamoto city. If you are Japanese, you may have ever heard that name and the incidence which had happened in that city. Because this disease had a tremendous impact on Japanese society and it caused the suspicion about companies' attitude to environments and compensational systems to the local victims. In the case of mine, I have read about an article about Japanese history when I was a primary school student, and junior high school textbook and high school one also mentioned about that disease. At that time, we students were interested in the disease and got angry to the irresponsibleness of the company which caused it and the reaction of Japanese government and professionals and doctors to the local victims, but after finishing those classes that dealt with the problem, out feelings were gotten to lost day by day and the problem was dunk in the many daily issues which is occurring every day and every time. Contrasted to the reaction of general Japanese (especially young people) as me, victims of Minamata disease are continuing to fight in the law courts. While many Japanese people are getting to forget this problem and most of the people who related to this problem directly becoming older year by year, the conflict between local victims and Japanese government and Chisso (which is the name of the company caused the disease) is not finished yet. Based on this fact, I can say that even today, environment issues which is focused on by many people and mass communication have possibility that neglected by government or big companies. Through the NHK program about Minamata disease, I got understand that the organizations which have great power and influence to Japanese society can protect their faults by the overlook by politicians or theoretical reasons which is given by famous professionals such as researcher, doctor, and university professor. I considered that these kind of structure have still continued and the victims by public pollution are suffered from disease it self and also prejudice and neglect by society. In that sense, we cannot recognize that all the promises and treaties are made to protect all the national people and after problem is happened, government can help and support us appropriately. Even today, we have to protect us by ourselves in terms of the care of the environmental pollutions. We had learned many things at elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university. Teachers taught us various subjects; Japanese, English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, and we also learned sports, songs, cooking, drawing, how to use a computers, how to communicate with friends, etc. However we have not been taught "how to spend money". We need money whenever we want to get something, and we can't live without money in recent society. All of us must have chances to spend money by ourselves, then, when do we learn the way to spend money? Though children should study the way to spend money, there is no the only good answer. Each person has his own way of spending money based on their experiences. It relates to what they have interest in. For instance, I like spending times talking with my friends and relax over cups of tea with my friends, so I think spending money as social expenses is good to get along with my friends and have my life full. I often spend a lot of money on travel. However, some people may think that spending much money on such things is foolish. So it is very important to have my own standard of spending money. In order to have the standard, we have to find when we feel the most glad or what we are most interested in. But in fact, children have no chance to think about that, so we have to give children the chance by teaching at a classroom. Because in many cases their parents don't have their own accurate standard, they also should know varieties of person types in spend money. They can spend their own money on anything they want freely, but spending the money must give a good influence on their own lifetime. For that reason, though we don't have the only answer, children should learn the way at schools. By teaching children how to use money at schools, the crimes relating to money will decrease in the future and they can have nice lives. We don't need money any more but it is necessary to learn the good way to spend the money we have. The Twentieth Olympic Winter Games which has been taking place in Turin (or Torino), Italy ended this morning (JST). Here in Japan, the games and competitions were televised live via satellite and it kept people awake at midnights. It was certainly an exciting 16 days of winter sports, broadcast round the clock, although the only medal that Japanese team managed to win was the Gold won by ARAKAWA Shizuka of women's figure skating. Sports is often said to be good for health. When you do too much, however, as to hurt yourself, it is certainly not good. This means that not only exercising for too long, but also exercising too heavily, could cause damage to your body. The advice is not to go overboard, overwhelmed. When you go out to ski or to skate, you should not think that you can do what the Olympic athletes can do; you can only do what you can do. Watching the TV and listening to the radio broadcasts of the recent sports event, it is noticeable that even the professional and near-professional athletes get injured by simple mistakes and misjudgements. Exercising too long can cause illness when you do not take enough fluid and enough rest. The illness is caused by being heated up too much. It is the same as the automobile overheating. When you are overheated for exercising too long, your body begins to malfunction. Thus, taking enough fluid and enough rest is important when you take part in sporting activities. Heating up also causes you to misguidedly conduct yourself and might cause you injuries. Heavy exercises also cause problems. Continuous heavy load on your body, bones and muscles, can cause injuries such as disc herniation, stress fracture, or muscular pain. Everyday sports can be easy exercise, and heavy exercises should be watched out for. Habitual heavy exercises should be avoided so that you do not get chronic injuries. Easy sports are recommended rather than heavy exercises to keep your health, as seen above. Swimming and walking could be a good idea. This should keep you healthy. Taking part in easy sports activities will also help to keep your mental health. Sporting events help to make friends, to refresh yourself, to forget about something that has turned you off. For such efficacies, team sports might be preferable as there will be training and playing partners. However, individual sports will do if done in harmony with good mates. Sports do not necessarily have to be what you see in world cups or in the Olympic Games. You do not have to be so aggressive and competitive. Sports should be a fun activity without injuries. This is not to rule out those world competitions; however, thinking of sports in day-to-day life, too fast, aggressive, and dangerous sports are not the choice. Some people should be aware of this, so as not get into trouble by severely injuring themselves. I'd like to write about school education in Japan. Firstly, I would propose some merits and demerits of educational system in Japan. I would introduce Japanese educational system through my experience. Secondly, I would like to mention my own opinion to improve the educational situation. There are some good points and bad points in Japanese educational system. Here are some good points: One point is that everyone has the right to be educated. In some other countries, it is difficult to be educated. Even if they really want to go to school and study a lot of things, the country's situation doesn't allow them to do so. Another point is that it is possible for us to learn a lot of things at school. Here are some bad points: One point is that our educational system is too much concentrated on the entrance exams. So, many children think it is important to mark good score or go to famous schools and make their parents happy. As a result, children tend to be keen on not what they thought or learned but their score or the level. They tend to be disappointed or be satisfied with their grades. Second point is that there is not enough time or chances to express their own opinion or thoughts during the classes. Sometimes it is even difficult for them to have their own idea, because we mainly use our time to memorize many things or answer lots of questions to be correct and not to make the same mistakes again. Thirdly, children tend to be nervous during the classes. Some students are really worried to speak in front of many people. This forces students to be silent and not to have their own opinion or express their own ideas. To resolve these problems, I would show some proposals. I think that it is very important for children to have their own ideas, express it, share the ideas with a lot of people and discuss by using what they've learned at school. So, we need to change our educational system and the entrance exams' system. Some exams tend to be easy for teachers to check the answers. They check only some kind of easy signs like A, B... or 1, 2, 3... and children pay too much attention to whether they mark correctly or not. Exams should have some kind of essay or something to know each person's idea or way of expression. It is also necessary to make a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere during the class so that children can express themselves. I'm going to write about sports here. I enjoyed playing so many kinds of sports as a child. When I was an elementary school student, I enjoyed spending a lot of time outside. I played basketball, volleyball, soccer and even ride on a unicycle. When I was a junior high school student, I belonged to a tennis club. I played tennis everyday after school. I seldom caught a cold or was absent from school. I think that playing tennis prevent me from being sick. It is often said that there are a lot of good points to play sports. For example, we can stay healthy by playing sports. I have an experience that sports saved me from being sick. When I was a freshman, I worked at an amusement park as a part time job. My tasks were to stay one particular small store alone and sell tickets or drinks there then, I moved to different store and sell souvenirs. It was so stressful for me to work more than 10 hours a day during the hot summer. I worked 6 days per week. Gradually I tend to eat too much especially some kinds of sweets or something including a lot of fats. I couldn't stop eating, because of the stress. Sometimes people complained about me even when I didn't do something bad or wrong. However, I didn't stop working there, because I didn't want to give up in a halfway. After finished working, I put on weight and felt so bad. I was so disappointed. I felt that I needed to do some exercises. So, I decided to start going on a jogging. Gradually I recovered and became feel good. I felt that to play sports removed me from a lot of stress. Finally I lose extra weight and become healthy. Playing sports is so exciting and watching sports is also exciting. I enjoyed the Olympic games during this month and the last year. People who attend the Olympic games are professional sports player. It is possible for them to attract a lot of people by showing their play. I was so surprised because, their plays' levels are incredibly high. I can't imagine why human beings do such an unbelievable play sometimes: Some sports in the Olympic games look so dangerous. Every player spends a lot of time to improve their techniques. Many sports players have some accidents and sometimes they hurt themselves or even break their arms or legs during the play. However, they continue making a lot of effort to make their dreams come true. Each person's story of sports and their activities bring us a lot of energy and make us delightful. I will keep enjoying sports and trying to be healthy through sports. Sports are something that make people energetic. Sports sometimes save people from both mental and physical diseases. I think that sports are something beyond age, gender and race. Some people play sports very well and some do not. Sports, however, attract most of the people all over the world. Many people like or love to watch sports whether they can play well or not. Why is it so? Winter Olympics had been held until the day before yesterday and it had excited many Japanese people, although Japan got only one medal. Many Japanese people might not have been able to sleep very well at night as they watched it till early morning while Olympic Games had been held. At many offices and schools people talked about the last night's games, discussing about how well or not Japanese players did or other players did and how exciting and interesting the game was. Everyone agrees that people were fascinated by the sports themselves. People get excited when skiers and skaters can ski and skate really fast and jumpers jump really high. Beautiful performances and high-level techniques attract people very much. This is why a lot of people like to watch sports. Is this the only reason why people like to watch sports? Is this the only reason why people even cry when they watch sports? During Olympic there are many TV programs which not only broadcast the results of the games but also introduce backgrounds, personalities and even parents of the players. People must be very interested in how people come to be able to achieve such high performance in Olympic and to become world's most honorable sports player. For example, Japanese TV channels were so eager to broadcast when and where Japanese only medalist Shizuka Arakawa started to play figure skate, how she was grown up by their parents, how she overcame her difficulties, how generously she practiced before Olympic and even how she lives daily lives and what kind of person she is. Especially people pay attention to how she could be able to overcome her most challenging times when they watch these TV programs. People are moved by the efforts made and the process completed by the sports players in order to reach the goal of their own as well as their performance. Also, some people are very much touched by the drama that every player has in their own lives. In this Olympic a Korean boy was very much focused by TV programs of the world. He takes off his mask right after he finishes his play. This is because he wants to look for his parents who gave up raising and left him when he was little. Some might have felt worried as if they had been the parents of him. Others might have felt restless as if they were he himself who search for his parents. In the end people are always eager to imagine the "stories" of the players, and that is the another reason why people like to watch sports. In the next Olympic Games in 2006 in Beijing it is you who might cry for the players' stories which lie behind their high performance, and you would be more and more addicted by sports. I will write about school education below. This is my experiment of school life. I will write how different education each school has. First, I'd like to say my elementary school lives. I have lived in Yokohama city for 14 years ago. That time I felt free and fun in the school, because actors, who are not famous, have sometimes visited the school and they have played for us. We have looked forward to it. And we have entertained many events in the school. But I had to move to Nagoya city. And I have entered other elementary school. The school was so different from former school. Actors have never visited to the school, and we had to make play ourselves. I think there is a big difference between "seeing a play" and "playing ourselves a play"! Furthermore, there were not interesting events at all. We were afraid of teachers and we had to do anything hard. The school was like a military. Then, I'd like to say my private school life. I have entered private junior high school and high school. The school is mission school, therefore I have read bible, prayed to god for something or someone and song for god every morning and got Christian thought. I consider recently this is a unique experiment, because many people learn about religion in school. I think school education must differ with some variable; for example, teacher, region and purpose. Idea Recycling This story is "Idea Recycling". Recently, we use a lot of things and we through easily. It is bad for our earth to through a lot of things. The garbage is increasing by year. We have to consider it. Then, I consider what I could do. I noticed that I liked to make something for changing. It is easy for me to recycle anything. After introduction, I would like to talk about "My Idea Recycling". If anyone would like to try to recycle, I pleasure to teach how to make that. Fast, I changed newspaper when I was elementary school student. I did not read newspapers, but they always sent my house. They were increasing more and more. My father had to make a piece of thing every week. I though that it was hard for my father to make it. And, I considered if I make to change anything. I decided to make Papers. I collapsed newspapers. Then, I prepared to enter the newspapers and five cup of water. Next, I mixed the newspapers and the water. After mixing everything, I destroyed the water. Last, I dried the papers. I used to write it. Second, I changed milk packed when I was high school student. In my family, we have to cut milk packed for bringing to garbage house. I did not like to cut then. I do not want to do that. So, I considered a couple of minutes. I decided to make My Box. I bought character seals. Then, I cut the milk packed by half. Next, I put in the seal. Last, it was very cute box for changing. My mother though she wanted to make it, too. So, we have a lot of boxes in my house. Third, I changed my used closes when I was university student. One day, I cleaned in my room. I noticed that I had a lot of closes of not wearing. But I could not through away. So, I decided to make Tissue Cover. I looked for wearing "Santa close". I did not wear it. I had my cithers and I cut close smoothly. I would like to put cute button. So, I cut them. Last, it was wonderful for me to change. I always use it in my car. Would it be possible to change something? I always look for changing something. How about you? You through away anything, do not you? I think that things of thronging away are crying. They can use something for changing. I would like to notice you could use. Shall we consider making for changing anything? A couple of decades ago, divorce showed "you are not enough as a human". People who divorced tried hiding the truth. Weather good or not, recently divorce has become popular and recognized one of ways to live your life. Double divorced, triple divorced, we do not tend to hide your divorce past. This year, elderly divorce has become popular word. The kinds of documentaries or programs come up and a lot of people are paying attention. The situation has changed for sure. In this essay, I am going to see a divorce from a marriage. Why do we get married? You will say human beings are essentially depending on somebody to live. It is very clear that in our globalized socity, any nations can not do everything in your country. You sometimes help other countries and also you receive some help from others. This is not only the national point of view anymore. As these countries do, human beings need to help each other to live. To live, we have own role to contribute to the society such as work for a company, have a family, rise children, support elders, neighbors. Marry is a one of the concrete way. Marriage is a one of form to create relationship. Although to build a relationship is a most lovely action that we can do, we often have troubles here. People are not good at facing anyone, people don't have a communication skills. Our present life style which is full high technology has brought non-face society. Moreover we do not pay attentions our humanity way of lives. There are a lot of people who don't have relationships with anyone. If they try to get married someone, it is very easy to end to divorce. The point is to look at what marriage is and what relationship is, not at divorce. Divorce is one of choices in your life but divorce is not always to solve the relationship problems. Moreover we need to stop becoming the popularity. If you want to know a divorce, think about marriage. That will clear your mind and see your relationships more. Everyone has loneliness somewhere in your heart. However nobody teach how to handle your heart because nobody knows the right way. I believe that the solution for that is very simple. Just to say hello to your family, neighbors and friends. Don't hesitate to communicate with people and smile at people. Pay attention around you and try to spend rich life. Sometimes a simple is the best way. "International Education at elementary school" I insist that International education was promoted at elementary school in Japan. There are 2 reasons why I think so. First, students can have global view through International education at elementary school. For example, elementary students met and talk to people all over the world through Aichi Expo Friend ship program. When they joined fried ship programs at their school they noticed that there are many countries and many races in the world. In addition, they wanted to study their culture more and continue to contact with persons who live in their friend ship country. So, elementary students can learn the global view in the process of contacting to people all over the world. Then I insist International education was promoted at elementary school in Japan. Second, students can notice their local problems in the process of learning international problems. For example, there are a lot of common problems, like envelopment problems and poverty problems. In the process of learning about like these problems in the world, they notice that they have common problems in their local place. Then I insist that it is important to learn international education at elementary school in Japan. From above reasons, I claim that international education at elementary school provide for the view of international so, we promote that more. Yesterday, Japanese national team played the final game of WBC (World Baseball Classics), and fortunately could win the game. At the ceremony, the manager and all players showed best respect to "Hinomaru" (National Flag of Japan) and "Kimigayo" (National song). And spectators also did it. I wonder why Japanese shows them at sports although normally doesn't. Here, I would like to argue about Nationalism which is shown in sports. In this essay, I define "Nationalism" to the sentiment or expression of peoples' patriotism. In other county of East Asia, players and spectators always show extreme nationalism. It is obvious not in Baseball games but also, or more impressive in Football Game. Some remember the enthusiastic which Korean people showed in the former World Cup game. I saw the news on TV that young and aged Korean people gather to every stadium and place of public view and cheered Korean national team loudly. In WBC, it was same. In Seoul, many people (I don't know the number exactly) gathered to the public view and send enthusiastic cheer to National team. As China and Taiwan (in WBC, it was named Chinese Taipei), it seems the same case. I don't remember the condition in Football nor Baseball game exactly, I perceive people are always enthusiastic to their National team. On contrary, people not players always don't show extreme enthusiastic to sports in Japan. It is easy to say that it is due to cultural differences. But I would like to insist that it is due to the differences of the nationalism. We Japanese don't learn about the importance of national flag or national song in school. So many young, perhaps including me, don't know nationalism. Why do the schools and teachers don't teach? It is because they can't teach it. Japan has complicated history. In World Way II, Japan occupied vast area of East Asia, like Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and etc. The former empire state, like United States, United Kingdom, France, also dominated vast colonies. But they and their nations always show the nationalism, especially U.S. The difference is the result of WWII. Japan lost, others won. So Japan has both history of empire and colony. As result, we can't express directly our nationalism, I perceive. If we show extreme nationalism like Korea in WBC (I remember after winning to Japan, Korean players hanged their national flag on pitcher's mound. East Asian countries and people will offend to it. Thorough this discussion, I noticed the two reasons to which we don't and can't show nationalism. First, education. I perceive that the reason to which we don't express nationalism is because we don't know and aren't taught how to express it. Second, history. As I mentioned before, Japan have both history of empire and colonial. So Japan is situated in difficuly situation that Japan is always blamed to empire. And this complicated history makes it difficult to teach Japanese nationalism in school. So what should we do? Should we express extreme nationalism even if former Japanese colonial offend? I don't think so. In this interdependence world, it is risky to be isolated in International Society. So, we should start from understand our history thorough education. We should and have right to know the real history. After that, we should select our own nationalism. It is possible that our nationalism is not "Hinomaru" of "Kimigayo". In summary, the problem about Japanese nationalism is that we don't know the reality, I perceive. I think that recycling was once only for the person who think about the environment seriously and have a tender heart and strong will. Because living in the mass productive and mass using society, people around the person who care about the environment or natural resources has not been care about environment or natural resources seriously. Why is that? Because it is trouble some. However, nowadays, we simply can't say so. We can't finish the story of environment of the earth just saying "It's troublesome. In this paper, I want to write one of the reasons why we can't ignore recycling. I also want to write one thing which I think often when I hear "Recycling is kind to the earth.", in a mass production and mass using society. Because of the limited natural resources, recycling is the something very needed in this era. It is not possible to make some goods by not using the natural resources, and the natural resources are limited, so the natural resources are very important goods. The fact that natural resources are limited is well known as the serious problem of people as well. So recycling, which has a big role to reduce using natural resources, is very important for production. The goods which can be produced by using the used goods should be made of them, so that we can reduce using the limited natural resources. So, one of the reasons why we can't ignore recycling is that recycling is one of the big role to solve the problem of limited natural resources. We often hear that "Recycling is kind to the earth.", so we sometimes feel that recycling is only for a person who is kind to earth. To think about those words, people who forget about the earth in a daily life or people who do not try to kind to the earth in a daily life are look like do not care about the future of environment or natural resources. Living in a mass production and mass using society, I think that recycling had been in a shade of using new goods. To think about the life of goods, people feel happy when people buy the new one, but the last of the life of the goods, people just through away the goods. And the person who think about the life of the goods, for example, "what is this made of? Where is this goods going after I use?", and the influences of them, are tend to be thought as a "tender person". It may be, but the problem is that many people think that "I am not tender so much. And the words leads a way of thinking "I am not tender and good man like doing recycling. I think that people must think about the problem of environment is quite serious, and need to just do and began recycling. Why The Health Improvement Law was enacted. In Japan, many people can be seen smoking in shops or restaurants, not only adults but also teenagers even smoke cigarettes. Of course, teenage smoking is prohibited in Japan, but actually there are many teenagers who smoke, and its popularity has been growing in Japan. In Chukyo University, there had been some students who used to smoke in the hallways, but not any more. Chukyo University prohibited smoking on campus since The Health Improvement Law was enacted a couple years ago. Why was The Health Improvement Law enacted? The reason is to keep people healthy and offer useful information about people's health like diet, excises, relaxation, smoking, and drinking. According to The Health Improvement Law's home page, the law was first enforced because the numbers of people who have diabetes or cancer are increasing in Japan, and our society is rapidly aging, so the government thought that people needed to take good care of their own health and look after their life styles. As a result of this law, the government now investigates people's nutrition and researches their health. The government then practices those examinations and gets information on the increasing incidence of diabetes and makes it the basis of health improvement. Additionally, a concrete proposal of preventing passive smoking was brought up. Also, our nation is supposed to show the basic way of health improvement, setting an aim and evaluation of achievement and providing a policy of health improvement plan of the prefecture and the community and promote them. Secondly, the law promotes health services throughout people's lives. It unifies the way of enforcing medical examinations, so that it gets easier to have a physical checkup. For example, all kinds of medical examinations to assess the health of mothers, students, workers and the elderly, which used to be done in a different ways are now executed according to common rules. The government provides people with health information in a standard style via the health notebook execution, for example, which is a record book in which individuals can document their medical information. These measures raise people's consciousness by encouraging them to take an increasingly active role in their health. Thirdly, the law fosters a positive environment for non-smokers. One of the examples of this law's effect is the prohibiting of smoking. The law says that non- smokers should not be bothered by smokers in public places like schools, hospitals, train stations, shops, restaurants and so on. Prohibiting smoking in shops or train stations was very unbelievable to smokers. It is hard to say that every smoker understands this law, but it is obvious that many people prefer having clean air and good health. Generally, it is said that passive smoking is more harmful than aggressive smoking. Probably, it is important for smokers to smoke to relieve stress, but it is not good for their health. It is forgivable if it effects their health only, but it also has negative influences to the health of people who don't even smoke, and it is not fair. Now, not only social workers or governments but also many companies and institutions are starting to follow this law. This Health Improvement Law is favorable to non-smokers, but thinking about smokers, there are still many problems with this new law. This law doesn't impose any fines or punishments, so how much effect can be expected depends on people's consciousness. However if more people understand this law, there are going to be many advantages in the future. Living Alone or at Home At University, there are some students who are living alone. Personally, I am living at home, and I really recommend it. I know that some people have to live alone because their homes are away from schools, but others are living alone just because they want to. I think it is very expensive to live alone, especially if students go to private universities. Additionally, I think people have to do things like housework by themselves, so that they don't have much time to do things like watching TV, doing homework. If people live at home, they don't have to pay living expenses. In most cases, for people who are living alone, rent takes the highest percentage of income. Rent can vary because it depends on the community, room size, the construction of the building and the conditions people demand. The average rent which the student or their parents pay is about 65,000 yen a month. Of course people can't live by paying only rent, they have to pay living expenses too. Average living expenses run about 67,500 yen per month. Then, the total cost is more than 130,000 yen. I don't think I could afford that much money by myself. If people live at home, they don't need to pay rent or other living expenses like food, telephone, lighting or heating. That means a saving of at least 100,000 yen a month. We also can have more time to do our own things. If people live alone, they have to do housework like washing dishes, cleaning their rooms, and laundry all by themselves, and they are not able to have much time to do their own thing. On the other hand, if people live at home, a parent does house work for them, so they don't have to cook or do anything and instead they can do homework. Most boys who live alone are not good at cooking, so they tend to eat out or just buy instant food everyday. If they use 1,000 yen for supper every day, they spend 30,000 yen a month just for one meal. I think they are wasting money. My opponent may say that if people live alone, they will realize how important their family is. Yes, some of the peer group members who live alone say they have really learned about the importance of family, but I don't think all of them miss their families because some people are happy to be free or even lie so if they lie, they are becoming further away from their families. In fact, there are some people who say that one of the advantages of living alone is freedom from their parents. I don't think these kinds of people think their parents are important. My opponent may also say that if people live alone, they can live their own lives, but I think this causes the same problem as above. I agree with the opinion that it is good to live alone at least once in one's life, but I really think that people should try it after they graduate from school. I think the only people who miss their family are those who are already close to them, and even people who don't live alone can still feel the warmth of family life. If we live at home we can save a lot of money and use it more usefully in the future. It was just two days ago that the Japanese team won the inaugural World Baseball Classic. We were disappointed when the team lost two games with Korean team, but once it revenged at the third game, it ran up to top of the world. The viewing rate of the final game achieved above 30%, which proved that many of us were thrilled and excited with "Yakyu", the Japanese national sport, winning the world champion. I was a big fan of baseball who had been wished that one day Japanese baseball players play at the world baseball championship. I was fully aware that it would get more people's attention since football's World Cup succeeded to gain many fans, and it came true. People are now talking about the WBC here and there. It can be said that the first WBC was successful. Yet, it also showed that there are some points to be considered. First of all, it is schedule that has been argued even before the WBC started. The first WBC was held in March that is when professional leagues are about to start in many countries. So, that means players may not be ready to play in good conditions. Some players can perform well from the early season, but some are considered to be slow-starters. Obviously, it is not proper if all, or at least most, players are in good shape when they play to decide the World champion. More over, it is not only a matter of players' individual differences but also a matter of countries. Japan and USA start the leagues from April, but Cuba and some other countries starts their leagues before March. Obviously, teams did not play in fair competition. I think schedule needs to be moved up to October when the professional leagues finish. Another point is in the system to decide which team to play. From Round one to semi-final, Japan and Korea played three times in total. After all, it was good for the Japanese team since it gained a chance to revenge. Yet, it is not reasonable that team plays with the same team three times, while it does not have any chance to play with some other teams. One possible solution is that shuffling teams at semi-finals. For example, if team A came up to semi-finals from Group A, then the opponent must be a team from other groups. In doing so, the situation where the same team plays three times can be avoided. The most controversial shortcoming of the inaugural WBC was not the system or players, but the judge. At least, Davidson who misjudged twice was not a proper person who judges the games. It was obvious it was his mistake from the video-tapes, and it was not his first time. Due to his unreliable judge, he is not allowed to judge in major league baseball, but minors. How can a judge like he be chosen for the world championship? Major League Baseball committee who hosted the WBC must have lost its credit for this misplacement. It cannot be helped that this can be considered to give advantages to their home teams. I strongly hope that the committee should consider this matter seriously. The next day after the WBC final game, morning news did not say anything about WBC. It seems USA try to ignore it. I can understand their feelings but I do not forget about WBC and continue it for a long time. To make the WBC better, revising is indispensable. By giving fair conditions to all teams, WBC will be a tournament in which a true world's best team can win. How much amount of trash we throw away in our daily life! It has been often said that we need to recycle in order to keep the resource of the earth, which are expected to be run out in the near future if we consume that at the present pace. That makes me pay attention to recycling. However, it doesn't take so much time to find that how much I make an effort to do that, it isn't easy to achieve that. Because there is so much amount of trash that I have to deal with and it makes me idol in recycling. Here, therefore I would like to recommend making an effort rather in reducing trash. I think reducing trash is better than recycling. While many kinds of recycling require some trouble or energy, reducing trash doesn't take any cost except for our own trouble to try that. Recycling material costs much energy. Moreover what we shouldn't forget is that recycling doesn't mean that the things or conditions come back to be as they were. However, I also found that there is a big problem in reducing the amount of trash. Even if I try to make less trash, I forced to make trash. The reason is easy to find if you imagine the things that are sold in supermarkets or any places that sell something. They are packaged neatly with plastic films or plastic cases. Even vegetables or fruit are packaged each. Some plastic cases are so nice and taught to be able to use again and again, I think most people throw away soon after they consume the content. Therefore, I think the productive systems must be changed to reduce trash efficiently. The present productive may be based on the idea that it is convenient and effective to use things only once, throw away, then buy new one, or the idea of 'Tsukaisute'. And in 'tsukaisute' societies or system we will be forced to make much amount of trash and find no worth in recycling. In challenging the global issues such as the environmental issues, it is said that our each efforts is important. In the same time, however, the changes in the larger levels are also inevitable. I am interesting in school education because I major in English education at the university now. And I have a teacher's license. Recently it is said that many students have lost their attitudes to studying, and I think so. I guess one of the reasons is "YUTORI" education in Japan. It means that the country, which is Japan, make all schools decrease the number of classes for example English, mathematics, and history, and then, instead of these classes, the classes for instance "sogo gakusyu", increase. This means the time which teachers can use freely. Some teachers use this time to keep up with the class which is later than the class around other classrooms, and the other teachers use the time to do their original classes. The new classes, "sogo gakusyu" are very interesting plan because students participate in them with their interests, but some teachers and scholars disagree with this class. Indeed, they think that the time of "sogo gakusyu" causes losing students' attitudes to studying. The reason why students cannot take their necessary classes for example English, mathematics, and history because of "sogo gakusyu". I agree with some teachers and scholars' opinions and I think country, which is Japan, should make many students take the classes, for instance English and so on. We can promote students' attitudes to studying more and more by doing so. I have said about school education above. Now I disagree with "sogo gakusyu" in other words "yutori" education. I hope that we have to approve school education in Japan in the future. New era, new crimes Japan used to be one of the safest countries in the world, but now it may not be so. Hideous crimes are reported every day on TV and newspapers. Some people point out that the types of crimes have been changed dramatically in this decade. Then how should we cope with this worrying situation, reducing the number of crimes in Japan? Before discussing some solutions to the issue, it needs to be pointed out that we are now facing new types of crimes that have come about in accordance to the development of technology. Crimes on the Internet are so prevent that you come across news articles concerning such crimes almost every day in your life: computer viruses are everywhere on the Internet looking for vulnerable computers that can easily attacked. You might even have your secret ID and password stolen when you enter them on the computer that has been infected by vicious spy viruses. Another technology used for new types of crimes is that many products can be designed much smaller now. Video cameras, which used to be bigger than your palm, can be downsized as small as the tip of your finger. Then you might be videotaped everywhere without noticing. What can we do to prevent those high-tech crimes? Experts on crimes say that we need to be aware that the more convenient things become, the more danger we have of being involved in crimes. Convenient things are convenient, but we always remember the fact that bad fellows are always looking for chances to attack you. So the safest and easiest way to escape high-tech crimes is to stay away from convenient life: you don't use the Internet and credit cards. Most of you, however, cannot stand such life. Then you should get all the information to fight against various high-tech crimes, reminding yourself that you cannot avoid such crimes completely. The information and knowledge to cope with high-tech crimes, in fact, can be used to prevent ordinary types of crimes, such as burgling. The door lock to your house can only be opened by the registered fingerprints, making it extremely difficult for thieves to unlock the door. And even if they make it to the inside of a house, they can be monitored by the cameras you installed in your house, which are connected to the Internet and alarm you via your mobile phone immediately. You can even have your voice heard through the speakers in your house that are connected to your mobile phone. High-tech is the key word in this decade and will remain so in the future. We need to remember that convenient things are not all good, with negative effects on the other side of the coin. It seems that we are left with only two choices: discarding the convenient life we enjoy now or struggling to learn all the knowledge necessary to cope with high-tech crimes. Which would be your choice? Many parents worry that violence on TV, especially on entertainment program, gives bad influence to their children, and they criticize that broadcasting corporation shows violence. Some are trying to ban to show violence on TV. I don't think it is necessary to ban showing violence on entertainment programs. Violence or any vulgar behaviors in those programs are only for entertainment. They are all fiction. Parents should tell their own children that they should not behave as the entertainers act in TV programs when they see their children imitate unacceptable behavior they saw on TV. It seems the parents, who try to ban the violence on TV, consider TV as teachers or nannies who lead their children to right track. I think those parents give up taking care of their children's mental development. In spite of those parents argue the bad influence to their children by showing violence on TV they don't mind children watch news, which shows "real violence" one after another. I don't mean that parents should not let their children watch real violence on news. I believe children should know the realities which happens somewhere in this world. I presume it is the most important thing is that parents watch TV with children if they really worry the bad influence from TV program. When they watch TV, they should talk about the contents of program. Even if children watch awful violence scene on film, children will understand that is only fiction when parents give some comments about it by watching it. Or it would be helpful for children to understand why violence or tragedies happens if parents give their opinions when they watch news. Introducing English Language in Elementary Education in Japan The Ministry of Education, Sports, and Science in Japan has finally decided to introduce English language education in elementary school from 2008, despite the long lasting controversies among administrators, researchers, teachers, and parents. Since the advancement of globalization, Japanese government has been pressing on its people to become "Japanese able to communicate in English" following the examples of many successful neighboring Asian countries. However, from my own perspective as an English student, teacher, and a parent, the time is certainly not ripe for the reasons below. First of all, it has not been proved by any scientific data that the English language education at early age as schoolchildren is successful. There have been strong beliefs that children are always better and successful in learning a foreign language by interpreting the critical period hypothesis inappropriately. It is true that a lot of research has been conducted to find out the affect of age to various variables such as the amount of exposure, the age of learning, the specific skills and, etc in the study of the second language acquisition, but there are many questions to be solved to proof the hypothesis. Secondly, the present number of elementary school teachers who have been professionally trained to teach English language are far too scarce. I have several school teachers who are forced to teach English just because they are the tannin, the allocated teacher in charge of the class. One such friend teaching in an elementary school in Gifu, calls me every time she has to do a demonstration class in front of the principal periodically. As she was an art and craft major, she has never studied nor received any training of English teaching. She would ask me to translate such a simple sentence as "Let's repeat the expression in class. She is not to blame, but I cannot feel sorry for those students who have been taught by such novice or rather inexperienced teacher English for the first time in their early life. What the Japanese government should do is not to take a quick solution but to consider deeply the impact of the children in the long run. For example the government should first all plan the overall educational system to nurture the education major students in universities and train the on-site teachers English language teaching especially for school children. And it is also important to conduct a longitudinal study to collect data the effect of the language program before implementing to the present elementary education. The violence on animation or cinema has occurred a problem. Because so many young people in the prison because of their violence. So many people think that violence on TV influence to young people. Also they hope violence on TV is gone. But I think that discussion is not useful for young people. Because the reasons that young people's crime has not only one reason and not such a simple. So I think that important things are not exists on TV. I think important things on young people surrounded behavior. If young people feel their parents or teacher loves their, they cannot do fool thing. So young people's violence can stop. Recently, more and more people are interested in school education. For example, this topic is used by many TV programs. Why do people considerate this topic? I think it is related to children's crimes, a problem of decreasing baby, and so on. I'm interested in school education, too, because my parents and sister are teachers. I often listen to the situation of recent school children and their parents and teachers. It has been changed for 15 years, they said. When my parents were young, about 20 years ago, teachers had a strong force. Parents agreed with them and students had to obey. However, the situation has changed. There isn't a clear reason, but now, parents are stronger than before. And they are always complained to teachers. I think that this changing situation and children's crimes are linked. Parents and teachers can't grow up their children like 20 years ago. In addition, the Video game which is violent makes worse. Some children don't know what is wrong because they can't understand hurts of other people. So it is a possibility that they hurt their friend with word violence, sometimes physical. In contrast, children who take entrance exam of private school are increasing . especially, less than 12 years old. They want to entrance private junior high, elementary school, or even kindergarten. This expression is not collect. I think that "their parents want them to entrance private school." is better. Parents who are anxious of public school expect the high quality education to private school. But to enter the private school is difficult for children and parents, as you know. Children have to study and parents must prepare much money. I don't think school education of private school is always best, but I expect a revolution of education of public school. The really important thing Money is something vital to us. No one can live without money in this developed society. Few people would say they don't like money and it is true that many people do crime for money, even sometimes will kill someone. It is said that time is more precious than money, or health is more important than wealth. It is absolutely so, but we often tend to forget these things and lose their precious things instead of getting money. Money is really dangerous, if you can't control it, then money will control you and change your life. My parents are very strict and they have never given me much money. They just give me some money for books or stationeries, and if I say I want much money to buy clothes or go out to play with my friends, they would say "You use our money, so you can't use it easily . If you want much money, then you have to earn by yourself. Earning money is hard thing. So I always think my parents are Dutch, and envy my friends whose parents buy many things for them. I wanted to grow up earlier and earn much money, buy anything I want. Now I have grown up. I can do part time jobs when there's no class. I remember last spring I was so excited by my new life. I can earn money by myself! My dream will come true finally! I soon started working as a waitress at a Japanese restraint, as a teacher at two cramming schools, and worked at cake shops. I worked really hard, almost everyday. At that time I had not seen my little brother for many days even we live together, because when I get up he has gone to school (I was too tired to get up early and I often don't attend first class), and when I got home ha has fall asleep. It is natural that I have little time to communicate with my family. My mother says they can't understand what I'm thinking and we often had quarrel. Yes, I had got much money and bought many expend clothes, bags, shoes I wanted. I ate many delicious foods, go to skiing and travel to somewhere freely because I don't have to worry about money. I had enough to do what I wanted. But these days I suddenly found I had used all of the money I earned and there's nothing left. I lost my family and friend relationships because I have no time to talk with them. I lost time to think what I really want to do and just working as a robot . I should study harder to be a doctor but I had no time to learn medicine. I had got weight because my lifestyle is not good. Now I realized money is must, but it's not all. There are a lot of important things in my life and I must not forget it. I will attempt to write about if the suicide is good or bad for each people such as the people who commit suicide him/ herself, his/ her parents, friends and other people who were around the situation of the suicide. Firstly, we focus on the people who commit suicide himself. Why do people commit suicide? We can consider several reasons like people was suffering from his situation, he was bullied, didn't have money, bothering about his future, etc. However these reasons cannot be driving force to make him commit suicide because there are a lot of people who are suffered from the same situation. If these reasons are directly related to the commitment of suicide, the population of the dead will be more and more. Anyway, some problems which people are holding would be a starting point to make people commit suicide. Some are losing their lives with committing suicide like throwing out, others are trying it after considering deeply and putting strong decision. Anyway their purpose of committing suicide is to finish their lives. They will mention others' thinking and worry, but the commitment of suicide is the biggest. In this point, they are thinking about only themselves. Thus, suicide for the people who commit suicide is good for them because they can achieve their purpose by committing suicide. Secondly, we will focus on the parents and friends of the people who commit suicide. The reasons why people care for and make friends with are because people think about others as precious one each other. Thus, if someone will commit suicide, the around people of the person who commit suicide will be sad. Why they will be sad are, merely they lost their relative or one of friends, they could not be the force to stop his suicide. Though at least we put suicide as the free of choice, the actor who committed suicide ignored his memories and communications with others are big sin for him. Also his suicide would influence on others in another aspect such as his parents or friends have difficulty to fill their hole which was opened by the people who commit suicide. This kind of situation will effect badly on people's mental situation. According these points, suicide is bad. Finally, we can think about the others though who are not related to the actor who committed suicide, they are influenced on by it because they were close to the situation such as the suicide was happened in the train station and it made the train schedule confused. This kind of situation will effect on seriously huge amount of people even they don't know the people who commit suicide. Thus, for people who commit suicide, it is good thing because they can achieve their purpose, though it is bad for their parents, friends and others who were close to their situation. I would like to write about pro or co of death penalty. Generally, the reason why death penalty is needed is that it makes the crime rate be low. In short, the fear of death makes people stop to do crime. On the other hand, those who opposite death penalty argue that it does not make the crime rate be low and it will leave sadness to family of person who got death penalty. When I think about pro or co of death penalty considering above two arguments, I support later opinion. Actually, today Japan has death penalty but I have never heard the crime rate became low because of death penalty. If death penalty is applied to people who did crime easily, it may make crime rate be low. But thinking human rights and so on, it is not realistic. I have heard an episode about death penalty and I would like to introduce it. When the court gave death penalty to person who did crime, one of the people who listened to the decision said "You are murder" to member who gave the decision. For example, in Japan, when someone killed someone, he/she is given death penalty. In short I think the weight of the crime is the weight of the penalty. From the view point of this, death penalty is needed for those people who killed someone. But from the other viewpoint, for example from the sadness, death penalty also leaves sadness to the family of person who will be death. And I think we can say the person who gives the death penalty decision to them is also murder. But they are protected by the law. Of course the interpretation of the meaning of the death penalty will be different by each people. But I think it is same that someone will be death and after that happiness will never been there. From above I do not support the existing of the death penalty and I think we should decrease death penalty gradually. Recently, I read an article about the suicide in Japan. It said that the number and ratio of suicide is increasing year by year. I forget the exact rank Japan among the countries in the world about high ratio of suicide, but it was within 10th, I think it was ranked around 5th. North European countries are posed high rank as usual, because the weather is so heavy for human and they cannot consider the lives as positive one. On the other hand, the weather of Japan is so great for human life and we can feel energy from the natural landscape. It means that the cause of suicide in Japan is not come from natural aspects, and we can guess that it comes from social aspects. I'm not sure but according to my ambiguous memory, the article tells that the layer of over 50 (50 to 60? years old men shows highest ratio of suicide among the all layer of age and sex. In Japan, after the bubble was collapse, many people lose their job. The people who worked for huge companies were restored and lost their social prestige as well. I think that if they were elite and have not experienced difficulty to the society so far, they will be drove to death, because they cannot endure to feel ashamed of losing job. And the people who worked for middle and small companies also cannot continue their works, because they couldn't repay their debt and bank or the companies which invested to them quit to lend money any more. After they cannot continue to work, bank or another organization take their assets as deposit, it means that they were deprived their means to continuous lives. As wee saw above, I can conclude that the social impact drive people to commit suicide. It means that the ratio of suicide can be the indicator of the serious problems in Japanese society and it can show that what kind of national policies or institutions are needed. If government can success to current kouzoukaikaku and Japanese economy is recovery, we can reduce the number and ratio of suicide. These days, the rule of taking off the garbage "Gomi-dashi" is more and more strict. Especially in Nagoya where I live, the rule is complicity. We have to select things, for example burnable things, glasses and plastics and so on. Sometimes, we feel the rule is very complicity and we may not select things. By the way, why the rule of garbage is so complicit? If we know the reason and process of "Gomi-syori" more, we will be more cooperative. Recycling is also important for the environment. What things are able to recycle? The clothes you already wear, the papers, the plastics and glasses and so on are able to recycle. In the shop, we can see the recycle-paper, the recycle-pet bottles and the clothes made from pet-bottle. If we recycle things, we can save the garbage. It is good for recycle and save the garbage. Of course, recycling and the rule of "Gomi-dashi" is also a little complicity. We have to wash the cans and glasses, and we have to wash clothes before recycling. But we do so; we can save the things and reduce the garbage. And at the result, we can save the resources of earth! Recycling system: is it really working well? I would like to discuss about the recycling system in my town, NAGOYA. I think the recycling system is not working well even they changed the system of collecting garbage about 5 years ago. In this paper, I would like to talk about the changes of the garbage collecting system in Nagoya, and the reason why I think system is not working well. There were two main changes to the garbage collecting system in NAGOYA, and the first one was that they made us to bring the garbage in front of our house instead of bringing them to the so called "garbage gathering place". The purpose of it was to prevent the person who does not care about the rules, such as person who brings the garbage on different days or who don't separate the things which can be burned and which can not be burned. The second changes was that they made us to separate garbage into 6 items for daily things, daily garbage which can be burned, recycling garbage which can be burned and which can not be burned, the things which can not burned, and bins and cans. The purpose of this was to do the recycling more effectively. There were changes in garbage collecting system, however I think that is not working well. For the first changes, it seems that the system working well, however there are still problems remaining such as people who live in apartment because we can't know who took them. The serious problem that we have is how do we take over the person who does not care about throwing garbage and gather everything together. If there are such a people remaining, I think we can't keep the recycling system well even many people tries. For the second changes, I think the guidelines are not clear enough to understand, and sometimes they are so similar. There are also problems of the way of collecting, which there sings are not clear and we can't understand which is which. To care about Recycling, I think we have to start from thinking the way of throwing the garbage. To make the garbage system working, I think the government should inform us more clearly. Also the most important things are everyone has to think carefully and seriously about the recycling and throwing garbage. I think that even the only one person's behavior will waste the everyone's time and energy for taking care about recycling. The academic level of children in Japan has dropped dramatically in past few decades. Abilities which were considered to be the strength of Japanese are becoming to be the weakness. For example, the level of mathematics which once was the subject that Japanese children overrode children of other countries, is now far behind other countries. Grammatical ability of English was also one of the abilities that Japanese used to be high in. There was a time that people said, "Japanese people are not good at having English conversations, but they can read without problem, and they can write grammatically. Nowadays, Japanese are neither good at having conversations in English, nor read fluently and write grammatically in English. Japanese government and the Educational society have taken this problem seriously, and several attempts have been made to reestablish the academic level of Japan. Although there are several attempts being made to change the system of Japanese school education into better system, what is missing is the consideration of home education. School education system is always being accused of having the only responsibility of lowering academic level in Japan, but the biggest change in Japanese society is not the system of school education, but the style of home education and the family relationship. Independence of woman in society is one of the indirectly affecting factors of the lowering academic level. The purpose of doing sports When I think of "Sports" the first words come up to my mind is "I don't like it". To tell the truth, I don't like sports especially because I'm not good at playing it. Until I graduated from high school, I had hard time spending "Physical Education" class. I had to do try many sports, but I was not good at it except swimming. However in these days, I think doing sports is important. There are two reasons why I think the sports is important. The first reason is that doing sports keeps our health. In these days, there are people who sit in front of the desk for a long time doing there duty including myself. If we sit in front of the desk for a long time, we feel sick especially our body; especially it is even hard to move because of the stress. So it is important to do sports, such as everyday exercise such as walking or stretch helps our body to keep healthy and relieve the stress. The second reason is that doing sports also helps our mental health. We feel many stresses from the daily life or work, and sometimes they are hard to solve it even we think hard. When we feel bad, we feel we don't want to do anything. If we don't to anything and stay by ourselves, the situation won't change well. By doing sports, we can be together with somebody and won't think by ourselves. I believe that doing sports will help our health physically and mentally. However if we try new sports hard or start doing sports hard, sometimes they damage our body. I think it is important to start from easy training and make it harder if we feel good. Also it is important to enjoy playing sports. Sports are the resource of health because we can refresh and forget the pressure which we feel everyday by playing sports. Moreover, we can get the abilities to pay attentions to something and grow the abilities to concentrate on something. I like playing sports though I cannot do so well. I had been belong to tennis club my junior high school and high school days. I remember I had enjoyed playing tennis with my friends. And then, I had enjoyed being with my friends too. When I was high school student, we, my tennis club members played tennis to diet, which means keeping our body slim. In the club activities, we went for a walk around the school, of course with talking each other, sometimes we played volleyball. I went to high proficiency level school, which means almost all students go to more famous university, so I had to study very hard. I have ever heard those who play sports can pass the enter exam of universities because they can make an effort to study the same as playing sports. In this reason, I started playing tennis and I could pass the examination. I continued playing sports for example badminton and volleyball after I entered the university as possible as I can. And then, I could pass the examination to enter the graduate school 2 years ago. By playing sports, I think I could get the ability to pay attentions to something and grow the ability to concentrate. As I said above, we can refresh and forget the pressure by playing sports because we pay our almost all attentions to playing sports. Now I cannot play sports because I am busy to study toward master thesis. But I should play sports to refresh my brain and get the new ideas now, when I am busy. And to live longer and enjoy my future life with health body, I have to and want to continue playing sports. Is Death Penalty Really Necessary? Some people say that death penalty is necessary, others not. It is quite controversial to discuss death penalty for it is a matter of ethics or values that one nation or one culture has. Japan is the country that still carries out death penalty. I used to agree with this system but I disagree with it now. I have changed my opinion about this issue for some reasons below. Firstly I reckon that the human being cannot judge the human being. You might say that this idea is based on some religions like Christianity and that it is not the case in Japan. However I am still sure that human is a creature that makes a mistake and is not always right. Secondly the crime one has committed cannot be compensated for the death of the one. In my opinion death is just the end of life, which means he or she has not compensated yet and cannot forever. However the crime has to pay and suffer as long as he or she lives. In conclusion I would suggest that Japan adopt the real life imprisonment system. In the current system in Japan, even if one was sentenced to life imprisonment it is possible that the one could be released in some years. Therefore I am very sure that Japan must adopt life imprisonment instead of death penalty. The Power of Sports The spread of the sports worldwide is very important in nurturing people's sense of universe. It is very favorable to see Japanese become more and more globalized through sports. It has been quite a long time since various kinds of sports have been introduced to Japan from many countries including baseball, volley ball, tennis and etc. Some unique and unfamiliar sports, such as sepatakuro and curling have also been received favorably by Japanese people. The most recent and typical situation would be the craze of Japanese fans watching the Japanese baseball players in the major league in the U.S. Japanese seems to be very open to foreign sports and are willing to master them. On the other hand, there was a time that some Japanese seemed to be unsatisfied with exporting Japanese traditional and national worldwide. For example in sumo, not more than a decade ago, when the former sumo wrestler Konishiki was about to become a yokozuna, many members of Yokozuna Shingikai(Yokozuna recommendation committee) have said to resist in recommending him just because he was not Japanese. In addition, even though the population of judo practitionares has increased and many tournaments have been held around the world, some Japanese insisted in their keeping the traditional Japanese custom of judo outside Japan. For example, Japanese did not feel comfortable in seeing blue judo uniform worn in the world tournament by foreign wrestlers. However, with the wave of globalization, sports gradually changed such a way of thinking. People's desire to enjoy sports beyond borders could not be resisted. Since then, many sumo wrestlers of various nationalities have been promoted to yokozuna also many Japanese judoists play in colorful uniform in the world-class tournaments. The power of sports is universal and eternal. Traditional Sports There are many kinds of sports in the world. Some of them are known to global. However, if we trace the origin of a sport, we may find that every sport derives from only one country or region. For example, tennis from British, baseball from USA. Japan, of course, has the original sports. I want to talk about some of them. First, Judo-----Judo is now very international sport because it is one kind of Olympic Games. There are two grate players in Japan, Nomura and Tani. They got gold medals at the last Olympic Games in 2004. For Nomura, this is the third gold medal in Olympic Games. For Tani, it is the first time to get a gold medal, but she already has two silver medals in the past Games. Except for them, there are many Japanese players who got gold medals of Judo. When we watch this sport, we want them to win the game because this is a traditional sport of Japan. Second, I'll talk about Sumo, which many people maybe feel that this sport is like a symbol of Japanese sport. There is also a big player in this domain, Asasyoryuu. He is now top class player in Sumo's hierarchy, and he became champion many times. He came from Mongol, but he is like a star in the Sumo' s world. Now there are many foreigners Rikishi in Sumo, and some of them are very strong like Asasyoryuu. I don't know in detail of Sumo, but I think that the two strongest classes, Yokozuna and Ohzeki, have more of foreigners than Japanese. I'm glad that Japanese traditional sport become global, but I'm sorry that Japanese Rikishi can't win the foreigners. As long as we watch Sumo now, Japanese Rikishis are weaker than foreigners. Sumo is the Japanese traditional sport, so we want to watch the games which Japanese are strong. Sumo doesn't have international game like Judo, but if it does, maybe many medals are going to hand in foreigners. I don't want to watch the games like that. Except for two, there are many kinds of Japanese traditional sports like Karate, Kyudo etc. But I talked about two big Japanese sports with considering players' quality. What I really want to say is "to become strong at traditional sport". I think Judo has ideal form. Japanese players are strong, and foreigners follow them. Maybe each country has each traditional sport. National people hope that the strongest player would be the own country's player. One sport becomes to be more active, this way is the shortest, I think. Sports as merits for our society Although some people might prefer other activities to playing sports, it is possible to say that sports can contribute to our society in many respects. I will explore some of them in this essay. First, in our world where people are often set apart due to political, religious, economic, or other reasons, sports can build bridges between each country or each region. Sports events, like the Olympic Games, can give such opportunities not only to participating athletes but to many TV viewers all over the world. Sports can play a very important diplomatic part in our society. Second, sports can produce substantial educational effects to children and youths. They will have a lot of useful experience through sports activities and such experience can be helpful for them in their physical and mental aspects. Although some ideas from the Individualism causes many problems in their schools and their communities these days, people active especially in team sports will overcome such difficulties which they might encounter since they learn a lot about how to behave as a member of groups and how to contribute to their groups. Finally, from economic viewpoints, sports activities and sports events are really important. Those who are active in sports in any standpoint, from people who make it a rule to walk every morning through members of local baseball teams to professional athletes who earn more than ten million dollars a year, are really helpful for our economy, because they benefit our economic constitutes including local vendors, equipment manufactures, event staff, TV crew, and so on. Sports should be paid more attention to from the points concerning our economy when we talk. Considering these points above, it is possible to say that there are many important points we should not miss when we talk about sports. Some of them might be more interesting when we put primacy on effects to others, not on effects to ourselves. Problems caused by the change of the Japanese education system Recently, it is said that there has been a marked decline in the levels of attainment by the students in Japan. In my opinion, that is because our compulsory education system was changed and that has been causing many problems. I will explore some of them in this essay. First, students now go to school just five days a week. Compared with the past when students went to schools six days a week, it must be a critical demerit. Teachers have much difficulty in producing enough educational effects in their restricted time. In addition, as Saturday classes were moved to weekdays, recent students have to take more classes on weekday afternoon. As you might experience in your school days, it was really difficult to concentrate on afternoon classes. If students can lose their concentration easily, such classes must be just a burden to students. Second, recent students tend to take lessons in preparatory schools or cram schools on Saturdays because, as mentioned above, they do not need to go to schools on Saturdays. If all of the students went to such schools on weekends, the levels of their attainment would be improved. However, things are different. Only good or rich students can go and study in preparatory schools, and students whose parents cannot afford to let them go to such schools, in contrast, have no choice but to study by themselves. I think that they are suffering because they cannot keep up with their classmates and neighboring friends. Since they might feel some kind of inferiority and such emotion can keep them from enjoying their school lives, we should try to find less unfair ways to give study opportunity, which must be public schools. Finally, we should not miss the point that students tend to spend their free time very freely. Although some students might spend their free time studying hard, others might just idle away their free time. It will make the difference between them wider, and this makes teaching more difficult for teachers. In order to avoid the situation like this, it would be a better solution to go to schools as often as possible. Considering these points above, the current education system has a lot of problems and it must be altered as soon as possible. Otherwise, more demerits will be caused and there will be more terrible decline in Japanese students' attainment. The popularity of futsal in Japan Futsal, five on five football, is gradually becoming popular in Japan. The popularity of futsal is naturally based on football. Although there are a lot of people who want to play football as a hobby, they have difficulties in securing large places to play football in big cities such as Tokyo or Nagoya. Compared with football, futsal can play in smaller places, and we easily find places to play. This point makes futlsal popular in Japan. Until recently, the sport, which is rooted in South America and Europe, is called "mini soccer" in Japan. As the number of players increased, "mini soccer" became known to the public as futsal. Futsal players need to be more skilful than football because futsal court is quite small. Good ball control and a fine passing move is a key to control the game. Without good ball control, futsal players will easily miss a chance. Although controlling the ball with bottom of foot strays from basis of football, to achieve such good ball control, futsal players control the ball with bottom of their foot. This might be a major difference between futsal skills and football skills. In spite of such a high quality of skill required, futsal is also popular among Japanese women. This might be because the following difference between futsal rules and football rules. Although charging by shoulder is allowed in football, it is not allowed in futsal. This rule enables female players to play together with male players. And this contributes to the popularity of futsal in Japan. The popularity of futsal in Japan is not just a boom because the popularity is supported by some advantages mentioned above. Literacy and school education School education at the primary and secondary levels is often criticized by the public. Usually this is because the public believes the decline of the academic or social quality of the children. However, such criticism is rarely free from the media influences such as TV or news paper. We often neglect the need to examine what has been achieved in the process of school education. Here, I will look at the important roles of primary and secondary education. In Japan, despite the difficulty of the writing system of the Japanese language, literacy rates are very high, as most people are able to read. Such high literacy rate is, however, not the case in other countries. It is great that the literacy level is so high in Japan. Unquestionably, this is a robust achievement of school education. Many Japanese overlooked the truth that we cannot read without literacy education at the primary education. Naturally, literacy is not the only aim of school education. What is at stake here is criticism for school education is objectively-unfounded. It is only consequences of growing sense of anxiety in the society. In Japan, at least, people are generally well informed and do all sorts of things with the knowledge and skills they've acquired. Japanese also behave in communally acceptable way as well as live quite long because of good habits in diet and exercise. School education is not as bad as it is sometimes made out to be. Spring has finally arrived in Japan with cherry blossoms blooming everywhere. It's the best season for doing sports. I see many people walking in the park, playing tennis in the court, and playing football in the field. Sports are very popular in Japan, but why do people spend so much time on them? Some people play sports just to have a good time. For them, sports are something that can relieve them of everyday busy life. Commercial tennis schools are always crowded with business persons who work hard in their companies every day and night. They pay for the lessons because they can "refresh" themselves by playing tennis. Climbing is getting more and more popular among people in their fifties and sixties who are freed from parental work and have enough time to enjoy themselves. They say that they cannot forget the moment when they reach the top of a mountain and have a beautiful view form there. Other people do sports for health reasons. A growing number of people are getting more concerned about their health. They try whatever is said to good for the health. TV programmes feature on health issues. One of the most popular programmes suggested that doing moderate exercise every day keep you stay healthy. Then walking has caught in among elderly people who feel a bit too old to start hard sports as football and tennis. No skills are required to start walking. All they have to do is just "walk" for as long a time as they can. Many children play sports just because they want to be a super star player such as Ichiro Suzuki, a major league baseball player or Hidetoshi Nakata, a former football player. Ichiro has been playing for the Seattle Mariners for three years. Nakata played for some European football teams. They both have become a worldwide super player and earn more than 10 million dollars a year. They have presented dreams with many children. Now a professional baseball player and a professional football player are some of the most popular occupations that children want to take in the future. Many elementary school kids are practicing hard on a baseball or football team, hoping that they will play like Ichiro or Nakata someday. People do sports for various reasons. Some people play tennis to relax, some walk everyday to stay healthy and others play baseball or football to make their dreams come true. There seems to be one thing in common in sports, that is, many people love them. Should transferring of Japanese athletes abroad be restricted? In the spring of 2007, Japanese famous baseball player, Daiskuke Matsuzaka, has made a memorable debut in the Major League. The U.S. media has paid great attention to every move of Matsuzaka, calling him by his newly given nickname "Dice-K". When Mariners - Red Socks match was held, the world was seeing it as the game of Ichiro and Dice-K. All the local newspapers in the U.S. not to mention Boston and Seattle, have taken up the news of this two Japanese baseball players on the top page. Before Matsuzaka's transfer to Boston, there had been a wide range of controversy concerning this issue of competent players' moving abroad. People who are against transferring abroad say that there is no need for Japanese baseball players to join the Major League, since Japanese baseball is proven to be number one, beating the American team in the latest World Series. Transferring of competent players overseas does great damage to Japanese baseball, bringing down its fame and popularity, which leads to a serious economical problem. People who are not concerned about the management of Japanese baseball are mostly willing to see Japanese players paying on the international stage. This public attitude is questioned by one of the critiques saying that, where in earth is there a boss in a company who feels nothing (or even happy to send him off) when his competent worker gets a head-hunt from a rival company. This is not the only problem in the sports field, but also in the academic field where brilliant Japanese scientific researchers moving out to institutions overseas. But can we just criticize these talented people for abandoning Japan? There must be a good reason for choosing to live abroad rather than living in Japan. One reason must be the amount of payment toward these gifted people. To give an example of Matsuzaka, he received tremendous amount of salaries from Boston Red Socks, impossible to gain in Japan. Generally, Japanese society is very important school name. I thought same thing when I had never go to overseas. But now, I don't thing like that. I went to Thailand for 3 years ago. That time, I talked about Japanese and Thai education with Thai people who is my brother's wife. She said, Thailand society is more important school name than Japanese society. For example, If Japanese graduate college, they get job easier than Thai who graduate college. But, If Japanese graduate master degree, they don't get job easy. Japanese think young people get skill faster than old people. So, Japanese company want get younger people. However, In Thailand is very different Japanese style. Thai student, they get master degree better. They can get job easier and expensive income. That's why, I changed my mind when I heard Thai education system. Also, Thailand is more important school name than Japan. I think that Thailand still have very poor people. They can't go to any schools. So, school name is very important in Thailand. Japanese and Western countries people, they can go to school however they don't have money. In Thailand, poor people can't read words and write words. That reason is They couldn't go to school. I think, educational system is very important for every people. Not good system is hard to education for people. I disagree with English teaching in elementary schools for three reasons; the feeling toward English, the number of English classes, and teachers' ready for teaching. First, I don't see much need or motivation for English if you live in Japan for your entire life. Even many parents want their children to become Japanese-English bilinguals; most Japanese don't have to speak English for business. Actually, English communication skills are good for business promotion. In some companies, those who want to go further step on business have to get certain scores on English tests like TOEIC. But if you don't want business promotion battle with your peers or don't care about your future promotion, you don't have to speak English. You can live so-so in Japan without English. I think it is one reason that Japanese don't feel like learn English so hard. It's useless to teach English in elementary schools. Most students later become monolingual Japanese. Second, in elementary schools, the students have only thirty-five English classes a year; it could be just an entertainment by teachers. As language classes, only thirty-five classes a year are very little amount. In addition, the learner usually uses only Japanese outside the classrooms in Japan. This means that they don't have enough situations for input and output of English. It would be a good opportunity to make open-mind for foreigners and foreign cultures, but I doubt if those positive feelings toward English or other languages can last so long. When the students enter junior high schools or high schools, English will become just one subject to pass the entrance exams for universities. So if we want children to learn English for real use, we have to change the whole curriculum on English from elementary schools to universities (but I don't think we can do it before in 2011 when English teaching in elementary schools starts). Finally, the backup for the teachers are not enough. Japanese government, Monbu-sho, and the Board of Education have given just little workshop for teaching English to elementary school teachers. For a long time, most Japanese elementary schools had stopped teaching English so that many elementary school teachers are not English teaching experts. If they want to teach English effectively, they have to study recent researches on SLA. But they have a lot of things to do such as preparation for other subjects, club activities after classes, etc. and they don't have enough time to learn how to teach English. They even have to communicate with foreigners who came to their school as an AET. Isn't is too tough for the teachers who don't major in English? Japanese government should give them more time to get ready for English teaching, if they really won't to success early English teaching in Japan. In conclusion, I disagreed with English teaching in elementary schools, especially for emotional and technical reasons like motivation, curriculum, and support for teachers. But if those reasons are improved, I might agree with English teaching in elementary schools. English education in elementary school is one of the most discussed topics in Japan. If I were a child I would have loved the new subject to learn at school. However, I do not think English education at elementary school level is necessary. I am going to present three reasons why I disagree with the government's educational reform. In Japanese elementary school, homeroom teachers teach almost all the subjects (with some exceptions; music and art). Unfortunately, most of them are not well prepared for teaching English at all. That's natural for most of them are not trained to teach English before. Here, you might say "We've got ALTs for English classes. Yes, nowadays there are many schools which are provided some ALTs from either Board of Education or private dispatch company. However, the number of ALTs is absolutely small to provide all the students with English class on a regular basis. Is Board of Education going to hire more native speaker of English as ALT? Probably not. And as far as I've heard, private dispatch companies are not that healthy industry like English schools. Suffice to mention to NOVA, the former biggest English conversation company which went down publicly. Most of the dispatched ALTs seem to quit their job in few years due to the ill-conditioned contract. Therefore, there wouldn't be many skilled ALTs in Japanese education. The second reason, on which I really want to stress its importance, is elementary school students must study what they are supposed to study such as math, history What I am saying here is, we should take the declining PISA score of Japanese kids more seriously. Since the now infamous Yutori-education had begun, what school teach kids got lesser and lesser, leading to the lower score on PISA. I strongly feel we should be alarmed by that. English education is of course necessary today, but not that important enough to waste the limited time at elementary school. It is getting easier to study English at home, too. For most of Japanese family has access to the Internet now, kids can reach to plenty of English which can be used as studying material. School don't need to provide something kids can have at home wasting the time for other studies. Lastly I would like to shoot a rather weird question, a kind of suggestion, not an objection against English education itself. Why it is only English that elementary school kids are to be taught? English is already a main subject in junior high and high school. Why not give the kids something different instead? Studying English is really popular in Japan and it is quite easy to find where to study or what to do, but when it comes to the other foreign languages it is totally different. We don't get much opportunity to study foreign language other than English, but if we let the elementary school kids to at least know a little bit about other foreign languages at school? Although English education in elementary school came true, they wouldn't get the lecture on grammar or such. Rather they would just have some fun using a new language. Then it sounds more fruitful to give them the first chance to feel the touch of another language other than English (which is of course most of them are going to learn at junior high). Given the chance, some might really get into the language and they even might keep studying it for life. I gave three reasons why I disagree with English education at elementary school level. I honestly feel it is unnecessary. However, it is not useless either. It is just too early to start English classes at that young age, for English education is soon starting in junior high school. I think that college student should have part-time job. If they have part-time job, they know how to get money and money is very important. Of course, some student give up them job, others use money about unimportant thing. But I think that is also better than student who don't have part-time job. Students who have part-time job are getting to know how to get the part-time job which apply to them or how to use money which they got. So, if they have part-time job, they know society them self and they ready to work at the company before then graduate at the college. I had some part-time job before. Some time, I got big money and used to unimportant things. That's why I noticed that money is very important things. Now,If I buy something, I think that is very important thing to me or not. So, I think long time front of that I want to buy one. If I couldn't choose buy or not, I choose that don't buy. After,I want to buy one, I buy one another day. So,I have thinking time that something buy or not so long. This choice is not false. I don't have to lose big money. And, I use money for very important thing. That my action is learned about have part-time job. Almost student, they graduate at college and work at the company. So,they have to choose the job which they apply them-self. Students who never have job don't know which job is better to them. That some student get not match job to them, and give up early. So, they easy to lose job. Everyone have to work in the society. They are starting to get family. They work for not only them-self but also for their families. So working is very important. That's why, I think that college student have to get experience which have part-time job. I think that university students should do part-time job because of payment for universities, knowledge of business, and new friends. First, if the students do part-time job, they can earn money for the universities by themselves so that they and their parents can save money for other urgent needs like serious sick. Also, if the students pay that money for classes in the universities, even just a part of it, I think they can have feelings to take classes more seriously. I can be sure about it because I am now in that situation; when I was an university student, my parents played for my university and I often missed classes or slept at classes. But now I go to graduated school and have to pay for it by myself. I've never missed classes since I entered the graduated school. So are other students, I think (well, some students didn't sleep at all, even if they don't pay for it by themselves, but they are very few). Second, the students can have good opportunities to realize what working is like. Most of the students do not have experience to work before entering the universities so that they can just imagine what job is like in their mind. But if they actually work at somewhere, they can see a part of the business world. It could have an influence for their job selecting, too. Personally, I've experienced a cash register as part-time job for 4yrs. I didn't like that job for the first month and think I'm not a good cash register. But after I got used to the job, I can think its fun and I really enjoy that part-time job. The students might be able to find the new aspects of them, too. Of course, there are also many disgusting thing when working, but it can happen in any fields of business. I think even they would be good experience when they remember later (after they start to work). Lastly, the students can have other kinds of friends/peers or bosses outside schools. There could be many kinds of people who work there such as students from other schools, foreigners, younger bosses, etc. The students can have relationships among them, which they cannot get in schools. If they have some problems at school and don't want their school friends to bother, they can ask peers for advice at part-time job. They might have different experience form the students in the same university, so they can give different points of view to the students. They could be very good friends as if they were friends in neighbor since their childhoods; I have some friends like that at my part-time job and we go drinking once a month now. In short, I think that the university students should do part-time job to pay for classes seriously, to know their business value, and to get new relationships. Why is the money always the issue? Why do people care so much about it? Is it the only factor that makes us happy? My answer is that it certainly does make us happy in some regards but it is not the only factor. Does it simply mean that we are happy, if we have enough to live? I, personally, doubt it. With the money, we might be able to do many more things. The money can enrich our lives in many perspectives, but we often take it so much for granted that we do not appreciate it. In addition, we may need something else to make us happy such as hobbies. Without the money, there are a lot of things that we cannot do such as getting higher education. The lack of the money can limit our lives. It is perfectly true that the money gives us a plenty of opportunities, but we do not necessarily feel content with our lives even if we have much money. For instance, nowadays people in the industrialized countries are very eager to developing new technology or earn more money to enrich our lives, which can lead a lot of them to mental disorders like depression. This is because they lost their minds and did not know what they are doing any more. Meanwhile, it is often said that people in the third world feel happier or more satisfied with their lives, even though they are quite poor, economically speaking. They often say that they are happy because they have families with them and they love the way they live. As we go through the example above, the money can be dangerous. Surely, it can provide us with many opportunities, but we have to realize that there are other options than the money that bring us happiness. Regardless of the major importance of the money, we must remember that it can cause us trouble. Some people say that Japanese primary school students should be taught English. But I have different opinion. I think students do not have to study English in the primary school. There are two reasons why I say so. Firstly, English is too difficult for Japanese primary school students to understand. I think they do not perfectly understand even Japanese or kanji. They may be confused if they learn English in primary school. Students who hate English might increase. In that situation, people who can use English naturally do not increase. I think that it is important for all people learning English to learn correct English. Ability to use English is needed to communicate with a lot of people all over the world. Therefore, we should teach Japanese language and literature before we teach English to Japanese children in primary school. People who cannot use their mother tongue cannot understand the right meaning of conversation in English. Secondly, if students are taught English in primary school, some of them might gain wrong knowledge about how to use English. It is not easy to forget things we studied when we were small children. For example, we do not forget hiragana or kanji which we learned in primary school. So, more students may gain wrong information about English, because they are too young to learn natural English. I think that Japanese education should not be easier than before. When I was an elementary school student, every student did not have to go to school on Saturday. And what we must study was less than before. I was happy then, but studying ability of Japanese students began to be bad. Recently, I watched TV program about Chinese education. I knew an elementary school life in China. It was very different from Japan. First, students did a lot of homework as they could not play with their friends. For example, a student on TV also studied after he had eaten dinner every day. Second, teacher in the school said names who got high score on the test in front of every classmate. In recently Japanese school, school likes that must be very few. The reason Chinese education is harder than Japanese is related with different way about importance of university. In Japan, if you have good ability of working if you did not graduate from any college, you may be able to work for famous company. However, in China, if you did not graduate from famous college, you may be not hired. Which college you enter will decide our future in China. In addition, parents teach their child hardly, because people have only one child in China. I do not like education system in China, but Chinese students will be certainly able to have studying ability. So Japanese school should teach many kind of study not to be late other countries. I disagree with teaching English in elementary school. I have some reasons why I disagree with it. First reason is the problem of Japanese. I think age of elementary school student is an important year to learn mother tongue, Japanese. Mother tongue is the most important language not only staying in ourselves countries, but also going other countries. If we go to other country, people who live in the country ask our languages, or culture. If we could fluently speak English, I want to talk about my own country. But, it is very difficult to explain. Because, and we need to know our country well. When we talk with Japanese, we do not have to know a lot of words. But, when I teach Japanese, I have to say difficult things with easy words, so we need more words. Elementary school student is a good age to memory a lot of words. If we want to be an international person, ability of teaching Japanese is also needed. Second reason is we study English from junior high school student, but we cannot speak English. So if we study from elementary school student, it is vain. Other country like China or Korea, almost students can speak English. There are students who go to college to study English, but only few people can speak English. Of course, they have skills like grammar and so on. But English is a language. We study English to speak English. I think education system in Japan is bad. We study only to read and write. I think speaking is most important so schools change to teach speaking ability. If they do not, and only to do is to start education in elementary school, it is same as now. Last reason is about quality of teachers. Teachers of elementary student are not teachers of English. So,I do not think they can teach English well. Some schools have ALT. But they come to school about once a week. It depends on a city. If a city is rich, it hires ALT. But,it has to money to pay ALT salary. It is not fair. Some school has class for teachers to teach how to teach English to students, but it depends on school and a city or prefecture. Teachers who are worried about teaching English teach English to students. I do not think students will speak English. In my opinion, system of teaching English that make importance of reading and writing should change to make importance of speaking. And Japan should learn from other countries about how to teach at school. It is more important than teaching English from elementary school. In Japan, I think many children are not good at English. In fact, Japanese are to learn English for a long time. They start to study English when they are junior high school students. And most of them keep studying English when they are growing. But, most of them cannot speak English very well. Why? I think it difficult to study English because English has different forms of speaking from Japanese. English grammar is thought very difficult by Japanese especially junior high school students. Some people say that Japanese is more difficult to learn than English. Japanese has many types of words, for example Kanji, Kana and Katakana. On the other hands, English has only Alphabet. Japanese can't speak English well. Why? How about other countries? In other countries, many people can speak English well. For example, India and European countries. Why can they speak English well? I have heard that these countries' people can't get along with other people who live near countries. They have different culture each other, so they need a tool to communicate with other countries' people. And English is a good tool to communicate with other people smoothly. That is, English is an essential tool for these countries. That is why; they can speak English well than Japanese. In Japan, some people think that we should start to educate English to elementary school students. They think it more effective for children to start English education when children are young. But, can we start it? Many Japanese students can't write Kanji correctly and remember when the World War Two started. Can they master English? Can teachers force student to learn all subjects? I think it very difficult to teach all things to students. However, in this world, everyone is to need English as a helpful tool. Japanese must master English. So we should change our mind. We must learn such basic subject as Japanese, math and history, and have time to speak English. If they have times which they cannot help speaking English, they can master English. If English education system includes such times, this system can work usefully. But if doesn't, it is useless system. I think it needs hard efforts by teachers, children and schools to make such times. But its efforts are needed. It is good for university students get part-time job. The reason for it is that they have a lot of time. When they are high school students, they may share most of the time for studying and club activity. The two things are important in university life, too. But it is also a fact that life in university is very different when they are in high school or junior high school. For example, they can make their plan of classes by themselves. So, if they want their free time, they can make it. The time may be used for club activity, their hobby, go shopping, part-time job and so on. Part-time job is important. First, when they have a part-time job, they can get money. If they use the money for their tickets for trains, text-book, clothes or hanging out, they will get feelings of their independence of parents and they will be interested in facts that they can do some of their things by themselves. The feelings are important because they should work as adults in society after graduating. Second, opportunities of working enables them to learn lot of things they can't get to know in their school or home only. If they work by waiter or waitress, they should speak politely. If they work by home teacher, they should find the way their students can enjoy studying. They are wanted to be a person meets the works. Other many works are the same. They sometimes make them sad, angry or other negative feelings. But those hardships help them to be more sophisticated persons. The experiences of part-time jobs will be a treasure of their life. Third, they may get friends through their part-time job. Friends are very important because they can share their feelings with them. So, have a part-time job and getting money is good for university students. Money is important. If you study in university, you will have to pay much money. And when we buy food, clothes and something, we need money. It is true that we can't live without money. But all poor people aren't unhappy, isn't it? There is something which is more important than money in the world. For example, family and friend. Even if we have a lot of money, we would feel lonely if we have no friend. I think that there are wealthy children somewhere who receive a little love from parents because their parents are busy. Are the children happy? I don't think so. My parents are not wealthy, but my mother advises me, and my farther listen to my nayami. I rarely feel lonely at home. Surely, I sometimes wish we had more money. If my family had much money, I can buy favorite clothes and books. But now, I'm not unhappy. Because I have great family and friends. So, I think all poor people aren't unhappy. We need some money to study, to play and to live. We almost every time have some money, but where do some money come from? As you know, we can't get money without working. And we can feel difficulty to earn money by oneself. However, we have cost much money to grow up for a long time. For examples, meals, clothes, medicines, bike, notebooks and so on. Our parents must have done hard-working to earn money which they use to feed us. What's more, our grandparents must have done more hard-working, too. So, we can live happily, I think. Now, I am 19. What can I do to make money to live? I think that I must get a part-time job. My parents said to me "We have given you and your sisters much money to bring you up, so you may give your children much money to bring them up. But, you can study and enjoy your school-life. When you graduate from university, you can get jobs with your confidence." When I heard it, I was surprised and felt happy. I thank my parents for bringing up me. I think it very hard to earn money to live and bring up my family. But, someday I want to do same things for my family which my parents did for me. I want to study hard in order to earn money and live happily. In this world, there are many people who lost their jobs and their money. Some people lost their houses, their family and their hope. This situation is very serious for all families over the world. Most of them who graduated from university can't get jobs. They can't earn money even they are no longer students. I think it difficult to recover from this bad situation, but we should do something to overcome the money problem. And government should do some help for everyone to live happily. People hope to live happily with their family. I will tell you about school education. First, I think that English classes are very important for elementary school. Now not every elementary school in Japan have English classes and the classes is very different from the other school. In junior high school and high school there is a curriculum about English class. I think if there were specified curriculum for elementary school, students could learn English earlier and better. I heard the more early children start studying English, the better children are at English. Children who learn English at the elementary school can learn more difficult English at the junior high school and the high school. For these reasons, I think that elementary school should have the English classes. Second, I think that junior high school should have some classes which members are almost same level. There are many students who can study well and many student who can't study well. This is a very important point. For example, a problem presented in the class is too easy to answer for some students or too difficult to answer for some students. In this case, some students spend no meaning time. One's ability to answer the problem differ from the others. If classes are composed of almost same level's students, more students will be satisfied with the classes. For these reasons, I think that the classes that are separated in students' level are better. The two thing are what I tell you about school education. It is important to learn English for elementary school student. If children start to learn English early, they will be able to speak and write English early. So, they will make friends with different country's people and learn different country's culture. I think that now, companies need international people who can speak two or more languages or know international knowledge. So, be able to speak and write English or other language is useful for employment. However, there is not only good point but also there is bad point. For example, introducing English academic in elementary school cause government to increase academic cost, and so on. I cannot speak and write English but I want to be able to speak and write English so I study English hard. I have wanted to travel many countries and talk with different people since I was young. I wish I learn English in childhood, I could speak and write English well now. So I should start to teach English for elementary school student. I think it is good for us that we study English in elementary school. It is important for English study to study with long time. But when people belong to elementary school, English study should be easy, interesting. If it isn't so, children will think that English study is boring, difficult, and not useful and so on. This result is so bad. For not to cause this result, English study should be fun. However we mustn't forget Japanese study. When we belong to elementary school, this term is not only necessary for English study but also Japanese study. We must study Japanese hardly. Lately children don't study Japanese. I think today children don't know Japanese words and things about Japanese than before. I want children to know Japanese as our own country. If introducing English study is bad for Japanese study, I think it is bad for us to do so. In my opinion, the main of my English study was the study for entrance examination. When I was a high school student, every day I read English sentences, wrote English sentences, listened to English conversation. Thanks to them, I could read English, wrote short English sentences. However lately many months have passed since I entranced to university, compared to then, my English skill has been bad. In short, it is good for English study to keep study every day. Because we don't study hardly when we belong to elementary school, the English study in elementary school is good to keep study English frequently. It is good chance. Some people think teachers should not teach students English in elementary school. But, my opinion is different. I think that teachers should teach students English in elementary school for three reasons. First, children can learn things more speedy than adult do. So, it is better that student learn English as soon as possible. Children can learn many things about English, if children start to learn English early. Second, English can be used all over the world recently. If you can speak English, you can communicate with many foreigners. It is very useful when you go abroad. Also, because we live in global society, English is important on business place. When children grow up, to speak English will be useful. Third, it takes you for a long time to speak English fluently. If children start to learn English in elementary school, they can have learned English for 12 years when they graduate from their high school. Children who have learned English for 12 years can speak English more fluently than children who have learned English for 6 years. For these reasons, I think that children in elementary school should be taught English. Education at school is being required a lot recently in Japan. Teachers have to not only teach subjects but also bring students up to be adults in many respects. It is even said that the burdens of teachers are so much that they cannot have their own private lives. Here, I would discuss what teachers have to do at school and then think about solutions with school problems. As we all know, the main task for teachers is to teach subjects in class. Teachers must have enough knowledge to provide students with, give lectures, and encourage them to study more deeply by themselves. Those who want to be a teacher should work on getting as much information and much skill as possible to operate classes as a teacher. However, I often hear from teachers that teaching subjects is only half of their whole work. In Japan, almost all schools impose club activities on teachers. They have to give instructions or manage a club, which kill teacher's out-of-work-time. In other words, the time spent for club activities is not added to their work time. It not only is very brutal to teachers, but can make school education worse. Nowadays many parents or society as a whole require many more to teachers such as socializing, that is, teaching them social disciplines. It is certainly true that teachers have to try to socialize them at school, for students spend a lot of time at school every day and they interact with others. In my opinion, however, people and society cannot accuse only teachers for not educating them to be a well-mannered or well-behaved. All of society, parents, and school should be responsible for child education. Lately, teachers or schools have been criticized with their education in many perspectives as mentioned above, but people have to respect their private lives more. Not surprisingly, teachers seem to have a lot of work to do every day and often complain about not being able to have their own free time. This may result in bad quality of school education as well as humiliating their human rights. In order not to burden teachers any more, what can we do? How can we deal with those issues? I think that we have to work more to increase the nation budget for education, which can resolve many issues in education. For example, we can hire professionals or college students for club activities, which, by the way, can even distribute opportunities with more people. Secondly, people have to make sure that child education is not so easy and it is the continuum between school and home. When we educate children at both school and home, children learn to be socialized effectively and appropriately. To conclude this, the quality of school education itself can be improved by more support from society and parents so that teachers can focus more on their duties such as teaching. Or, those who want to be a teacher must recognize their additive work and prepare for them in advance, which means that they know they have to put their priority on work and sometimes give up their privates. It sounds hopeless to me though. Does having more money make our life happier? I suppose so. But that doesn't mean life would be unhappy or worthless without money. It doesn't make our life complete either. It just enables us to have more options which would be a help in some way. Coincidentally I am reading a novel "Confession of a shopaholic" right now and it is a story of Rebecca, who is addicted to shopping and cannot manage her money properly. Due to the huge debt on her credit card, she tries to cut back and save money. It turns out that she cannot resist the excitement and satisfaction of shopping even though she doesn't need to buy that stuff. I haven't finished the book yet so I don't know how this story ends up but apparently she simply enjoys spending money. To Rebecca, money is necessary without question. She needs to keep spending it to stay happy or at least content with her life. Well, this is an extreme case but we people actually simply enjoy spending money like Rebecca. It's fun. It cheers you up. If you have more money, you'd have more to spend. This is one of the reasons why having more money can possibly make you happier. Honestly, I'm not that into spending money as Rebecca is. But still I feel more money means happier life. It doesn't absolutely promise the completely happy life, though. That seems true especially when I think about the food I eat daily and the medical care I'd receive occasionally. Once there was a time when I had to eat out often and didn't have much money, so I went for McDonald's for a week straight. Just only for lunch though. That time I just ate a 100 yen Mac burger plus a mid-sized coke (it wasn't small size, I think) for every lunch. It was good. It seemed good at first. Later on, I began to feel miserable for eating such a crappy piece of vegetable and unknown part of beef. It made me stuffed, satisfied my appetite. But when I thought about the poisonous effect I get from cheap materials used for the burger, I felt I'd rather eat nothing. I was relieved when I didn't need to eat out anymore after the week. When I have more money, I can choose something healthier, which is much happier of course. Also when I don't have money, I would have to refrain from going drug store to buy appropriate pills because I'd think (or persuade myself to think) I can just overcome a minor illness by sleeping longer. Human needs to a proper care for their physical healthiness. This is another reason is why having more money would make your life happier. Here, happiness equals to healthiness. I guess I just recognize them nearly identical. Sometimes money isn't crucial for a happy life. Money matters. Money helps in many ways, but there's something money cannot buy just as the old phrase. Like my relationship with my dog. He is adorable. He is the best dog ever (or so I think). I love him blindly, so I tend to spend too much time just watching him or talking to him. Since I spend great portion of my time on him, he knows I love him (or so he seems). I feel the strong connection with him when I see him coming toward me when I get home. It certainly isn't what I got by spending money away. Even if I had much more money, it didn't change our relationship to anything more or anything less. But I also have to admit that taking care of dog needs some extra money. We need to provide him with their food, their small house outside, vaccines they must get shot, and so on. But it doesn't feel that expensive as spending money just for fun. After all, money definitely makes your life happier with much more choice, but it doesn't prove everything for your happy life. It is good to have but it isn't complete. Money matters, but isn't crucial. Are we happy, if we have a lot of money? And, are we unhappy, if we do not have a lot of money? Most of people want a lot of money and assume much money make them happy. I think it is right on some points. For example, if you have a lot of money, you can buy whatever you want, enjoy having a trip whenever you want, and live a big house. Also, you may not have to work for your life, and you can wake up what time you want to do and go to bed what time you want to do. It is very comfortable for you. But, I think that if ever you do not have a lot of money, you can be happy enough. Now, I do not much money, but I am happy. It is lucky that I do not have serious disease, my parents love me very much, and I have a lot of friends. However you have a lot of money, you are not happy, if you are sick. I think it is enough to have some money which you need to live. It takes you no money to enjoy chatting with your friends. You can enjoy your life if you do not have so much money. For these reasons, I conclude we can be happy without much money. It is said that English education should be started in primary school. In fact, in this global world, English is important to communicate with people all over the world and people who can speak English are needed in many fields. But I disagree the plan. I think to study Japanese is more important than to study English for children in primary school. From the time they were born, most children have lived in Japan and they are getting skills of speaking Japanese in their life. But their Japanese is under growing. Do they know enough "kanji" to understand textbook, books, advertisements and so on which pour around them? Do they know enough words to express their thoughts? Do they write correct "hiragana", "katakana" or "kanji"? I can't tell you "Yes". So, they have to learn Japanese hard at least in this term. Japanese is important not only for their daily life but also their learning for future. If they miss these chances, their life would be difficult. I think too early education of another language make it difficult that children focus on learning Japanese. Besides there is a few of another reasons. First, there are many private schools to learn English. Some children who want to learn English can go these schools after their primary school and get some skills of English. They can study English whenever they want to. These children share their time for the schools by their will so I believe they also learn Japanese hard. Second, when they have a chance to talk with foreigners and be asked about Japan, what can they introduce about their country? It is natural for people that they have interests in different culture. I think they have to know some about Japan. I think Japanese education can be the clue or something. Today, English is very important. English is often used in our daytime. The name of musician, food, drink, or something in English recently increases. Japanese business at different place in the world also increases. So we have to speak English when we communicate foreigner who works at global company. So, English is more important than the past. So, it is said that elementary school students should study English. It is true that elementary school student learn anything more quickly than adult. And the longer we study English, the better we may be able to speak English. But I'm frightened that elementary school student can't have enough time of studying Japanese and other subject. We have to learn about Japanese language and Japanese history. Children should know about their country. The time of elementary school is very important. It isn't late that they study English after learning about Japan. But I think it isn't bad to decrease the stress of learning English. So, I think that playing game in English at elementary school is pretty good. Usually, children don't understand how hard earning money is. At least, they might know an importance of money but it's difficult to make them really understand the hardness of making money. I think there are many reasons for this but the biggest one is that children don't or can't work because they are prohibited working by law. They are supposed to learn what work is at school and be told by their parents or family about their work. But they don't know about money in terms of earning. So, when do they realize how hard earning money is? I think they understand this for the first time when they start working. In Japan, Most of children get first experience of working when they become high school or University student. They begin to work at supermarket, restaurant or any kind of shops as a part time worker. Usually, the payment for a part-time worker is not so high. They can get more or less 850 yen per an hour and then they tend to think this; what can I do by such small money! It is very hard to earn money! At this time, they finally understand the hardness of earning money and the greatness of their parents or family who have grown them as well. Before working, they get money from their family every month or at the new year as a "Otoshidama". If you were born at a rich family, you even had gotten money anytime you wanted! So now, you know how tough earning even 1,000 yen is. I think this is a big progress for children and they will the importance of money more than before. When it comes to teaching this at school, what should teachers do? Many schools -mostly junior high school- have students work at some shops or companies as a volunteer activity. This is a just volunteer, and the aim of this is not how hard earning money is but an importance of helping people or doing something for other people. So, they don't learn the hardness of making money, and they ask for money to their family at home. Of course, having an experience of volunteer work is important for young children but school also should teach the system of getting money. If school does so, our future workers can grow positive attitude toward working. I think a lot of money don't necessary make people happy for some reasons. First, if people don't have any friends, they never become happy. If ever people have a lot of money, they can't use them well because they can't share its enjoyment with anyone. Of course, they can buy anything they want, for example an expensive car or many clothes, but they can't show them to anyone. So they can't enjoy their life if they have no friends. Second, a lot of money cause some problems. If one person gets a lot of money suddenly, his or her personality changes and he or she becomes arrogant. Of course, people who are very kind may not become arrogant. But most people who get a lot of money suddenly can't see people surrounding them, for example their friends, and use them whenever they want to use them. In addition, people fight over money. Some people betray their friends easily because they want money. And some people use money to make people do something they want them to do. Eventually, it goes without saying that almost all of people want a lot of money because they think money is the best treasure. So I think the world war happened about seventy years ago. Sometime money changes people's life badly and makes them arrogant. So I think a lot of money don't necessary make people happy. Of course, money makes our lives easy, but money can't let us get real happiness. I think a lot of friends can make people happy rather than a lot of money. I think friendships are more important than money. Today, many college students have a part-time job. Should they work? I think the answer is yes. I have some reasons to support my opinion. Fast, I think to work and get money is precious experience. In the future, We will get a job and work almost every day. To do a part-time job is good practice for the future. We can learn social through the part-time job. Second, We can know how money is precious! When we start to work and get money, we think hard to use money. I had started to work and I stopped use money for the things which it wasn't so need. Third, I think it is very important that you enjoy working or not. It is very hard to work but, I am happy when I am needed. I work at cram school and teach almost every subject. I usually teach elementary school students and junior high school students and sometimes I teach high school students. I love children, so it is very fun for me to work at cram school. Not only teach but also chat with my students. The most happy time is when students understand what I said and think to study and know things is fun! However, some people don't agree with me. They will say that college students should only study! In fact, the most important things students should do is to study. But students need money and working experience teach the students not be taught in the college. I think it is better that college students study hard but have a part-time job to mature themselves. When we become college students, we need a lot of money. For example, traveling somewhere with friends, joining club activity and having a rich lunch. As most college students have enough time and feel ourselves become adult, they use money a lot. They need to save money to do these things, so many college students work part-time. Then, should they spend most time working part-time? Surely, money is gratefully important to make our lives and enjoy daily life. Money give us relief feeling. However, is it right for college students to spend most time doing part-time job by only these reasons? We can experience various things by working part-time joy, especially in case cram school teacher. However, we should think seriously what college students should do. Most people may think that what students should do is to study. Especially at the university, they can enjoy professional study. In campus life, they should learn a lot of things in which they have interested. So, their possibility to the future naturally increase. And more, there should be things which only students can experience. For example, joining school festival staff, joining club activity and so on. I think that students should have something to which they do their best in school life. So to speak, money is surely important and saving money gave us precious experience, but for not only college students but also all students what is the most important things are not these things. If we graduate from university and start working, we can save money hopefully. So, they should not spent most time working part-time. I want college students enjoy campus life and believe saying that Time is money. I'm going to think that college students should have a part-time job or not. I agree that college students have a part-time job. This is because they are enough adults, so they should pay for their money which they use to go out with their friends. And also my mother said that I should have social experiences when I entered this university. One of my mother's friends told her that her son never have a part-time job until he graduated from his college and he had many difficulty in his company. For example, he cannot greet loudly or use polite words. I work in Kawaijuku to help teachers now, so I have to greet everyone and speak politely to teachers. If he worked, he would not have difficulty. But some people would say that students have to study, so they don't have to have a part-time job. In fact, one of my friend rarely study, because she is very busy to work. She works five days in a week. I think she should reduce work to have more time to study. If she have a dream to study abroad, I agree with her works, but she only want money to go out her friends and to buy clothes or something. She live alone now, so her parents don't know how she spend her campus life. But they will be disappointed if they know that. I think we should both study and work, and keep that we are students in mind. How we spend our campus life depends on ourselves. So we can make our own life better or worse. However I think that college students have a part-time job and should have know how serious society is now; payment, holiday and so on. Having a part-time job is good experiences for college students. A most important thing is that we should work but not too much. I think studying English is important for Japanese students. There are three reasons here. First, English is most popular languages in the world. Chinese also learn English. And many other country student study English. If we can speak English, we can talk with American and other countries people. If we don't learn English, more difficult to contact with foreigners. Second, recently, many foreigners visit Japan. So, we meet foreigners many times. If, we can speak English, we can talk with foreigners in English. We can talk about Japan. So many foreigners can know about our culture. Third, we can easy to visit other country. When we visit other country, if we learn English, we can speak it. So we will have a good time, and we can learn other culture. But why we study English in school? Because we study earlier, we speak better. And now many children go to English school. But, some children can't go to there. If we can't study English in school, that is unfair. Every children must have right to study English. In Japan, every children go to school. So, everyone can study English. In globalization, we will use English many place and many time. And we will often exchange e-mail with other country people. We have to speak in English more and more. So, we must study English hard now. And it will be very useful for us in the future. I agree with English class in primary school. But it is not really class. I think this class makes students like English is good. So it has to be interesting. For instance, singing English songs, playing games in English and so on. Also inviting English teacher from foreign country is great. Really English gives students good effects; clear pronoun, speed and HOUGEN. Actually, when I was a primary student, there was English class like this. In those days, I enjoyed it and came to like English. I tried to talk with foreign teacher in English. Also I was used to sing English songs with my friends in my home way. If I have not had English class, I could not have liked English. Because of this, time that children contact English is important. If children come to like English in the childhood, they start to study English. In this way, we will be good at using English. Now speaking English is important in different situation. For example, sightseeing, at work, shopping ex. For these reasons, I think that early English class is useful for Japanese fortune. It is a difficult problem to teach English for elementary school students. Now, because of Internet and invention of airplane, world become small. People living in Japan can know world news quickly. And then, people around the world can know news in Japan. The smaller world become, the larger need of learning English become. Therefore, there is an opinion to teaching English earlier. In the future, English skill must need. Big Japanese companies ,for example TOYOTA, HITACHI,HONDA and more, is spreading in America, China and so on. The earlier learning English start, the more English skills we get. For instance, only to listening English is good for children. But there is an opinion not need to study English so earlier. If we start teaching English in elementary school, a lot of students will not study English seriously. Many student will become dislike English. Some people says ,first of all, elementary school student should learn how to make friend, importance of studying, saying hallo to friends and teachers. And some older people think that children should play out with friends. So I think following thing. English skill have three part, writing, reading, and listening. In elementary school, we teach English by listening mainly. Listening English is not so hard for children, and they will be able to enjoy learning English. Then, it is better to teach easy writing. For example, hello, Good morning, see you.... Be able to writing English must attract children. Because of this reason, I think teaching English for elementary school students is good, but should not become so hard. I disagree with an idea children study English in the elementary school in Japan. I have three opinions for this idea. First, children have to learn many classes. For example, there are Japanese, math and science. Because these classes are important for study of high school and university, students study so hard! English study plan of elementary school may be nice idea, but they don't have time to study English. Second, students have much time to study English in the high school. When they are high school students, they learn many words and have interest with a lot of things. If they want to read an English book they have interest, they study English hard to read the book. If they want to watch an English movie, they always listen to English. I think elementary school students have less interest than high school students. Third, children should play. It is important for students to study. But also, playing is important for them to study many things except academy. A few times to play by studying English is bad. These are reasons I disagree with the plan of studying English at the elementary school. I think the thing people who have much money or less money and the thing people feel happy or unhappy are other problem. Generally, a lot of people think a person have much money is happy. This is because that your life can be better if you have money. You can spend dreaming life. For example, you can travel much country, you may live in big house, and you don't have to work. A lot of people think such life is very happy life. On surface, they are happy. But is it true? Some people spend a happy life without much money as long as I know. For instance, they are like to work or have many hobbies. Also, some people have much money spend a bad life. It is said that some of them are alone and aren't good to communicate with others. You think they are unhappy if they are rich. How to use money is more important than having so much money. If people have much money and hardly use money, there might be no money. They must be unhappy. On the other hand, if people use money for their nice life with a few money, they must be happy. You should use money without only having much money. Are people who have a lot of money always happy? Are people who have little money always unhappy? This is a very difficult problem. In the world now, we can't buy anything if we do not have money. For example, if we do not money, we can eat nothing and we can't go university. Or when you are sick, if you have no money, you can't have treated by doctor. Because of this, truly, we can think "people who have a lot of money are happy, and people who have little money are unhappy." But I have heard a following famous question. Which do you like? A. A family that has a lot of money but is not familiar, interesting. B. A family that has little money but is familiar, interesting. I predict that many people choose type B. Many people including I think money is not all! More important thing than money is in your heart. Sometimes, money change personal character. Some sad things had happened caused by money trouble. In fact, people who have little money will have trouble in the future. But I think really unhappy thing is not having little money but feeling unhappy about having little money. We should get positive thinking! There is much happiness that is not need money. In Japan, there are lots of controversial matters of English education in high school and one of the hottest topics is about a new curriculum of English education. Recently, the curriculum plan has been changed, and, according to this, teachers have to teach English to students in English. This new plan will start from 2013, and this makes teachers bothered a lot. It is commonly said that English teachers in Japan are quite good at English grammar and reading. But, in terms of speaking, most of teachers have serious problems toward it. Of course, some of teachers, especially young teachers, can speak English fluently because they have experience of studying abroad or attended private English school before becoming teachers. But most of teachers do not have such a kind of experience. Although they had studied English education, English literature or something else related to English at university, they hardly had many opportunities of improving their speaking skill. Even after becoming teachers, they have not spoken English much. The reason why they have not spoken English is mainly because the curriculum have been focused on English grammar and reading. Thus, they did not need to speak English at teaching. That is why teachers are good at grammar and reading but not speaking. So, many teachers are getting upset by this sudden change. It is pity that those teachers who cannot speak English have to change their teaching style completely for a new curriculum. You never know how hard they will make an effort for it from now on. However, many people also suspect that high school really can change their curriculum into the one that focuses on communication or not. They think that if you would like to change the curriculum, the system of an entrance exam for university should be changed first. Questions of the exam for university is mainly based on checking the knowledge of grammar and reading. So, high school has been focused on teaching them to students. Usually, when students or parents choose high school, it is one of the important reason of judging that the high school can send students to better university or not. So, you can say the reputation of high school depends on this. To make this achievement, high school teachers have been tried hard to teach grammar and reading. Therefore, even government makes a curriculum, high school might keep change their teaching style unless the system of entrance exam changes. Today, I'll think that elementary school students should learn English or not. I agree that elementary school students learn English. I have two reasons for it. I'll tell you about my opinion. One reason is that students who learn English when they are a little have good ears for English and speak it fluently. It was five years old when I began to study English. I went to YAMAHA English school with my friends, and we started to learn English songs,greeting,and easy words. The way wasn't to study but to enjoy English. Thanks to the school, I speak English more fluently than students who began to study it after they entered the junior high school. And also I am good at listening tests. Second reason is that many students don't like English. They insist that English is so difficult. But this is because they started to learn English rules, I think. Everyone would dislike English if they start to learn difficult things. It was good for me that we started to learn easy English. Thanks to the way to learn English, I became to like English. And people who like English usually study hard, so they are good at English. These are my opinion that elementary school students should learn English. But I often hear that some people are against the opinion. They insist that young people can't use Japanese rightly these days, so what we need is to become to use Japanese rightly at first. And students have little time to study more, so introducing English class is very difficult. We have also another problem about the number of English teacher. Recently the number of teachers have reduced to cut the cost. But I think we should think the problem, separating Japanese and English. This is because Japanese and English are different things completely, so it is not learning both to make us difficult. And I think we should stop to reduce the number of teachers. Their works are increasing more and more; not only teaching students but also club activity. We should help teachers more. Although we have many things to make better, that's why I agree that elementary school students learn English. Recently, whether elementary school students should study English or not is being argued. I think children should start to study English when they become elementary school students. I have some reasons. First, children are more likely to understand other foreign languages than adults because child's brain is just developing. If people start to study English or any other foreign languages when they are young, they can probably speak that language fluently when they grow up. Now children start to study English when they become junior high school students, but they mainly study English grammars and reading. So almost all of them can't speak English because of shortage of speaking practices. To be able to speak English is the most important ability these days. Second, English is becoming a very important language in the world, so to be able to use English well is a good advantage. There are many countries whose people speak English as a second language, so it is very useful for tourists or students who study abroad to be able to speak English well. When one person goes to Europe, they can manage to talk with the country's people with English if he/she can't speak the country's language like French or Spanish. In most cases, people study English if ever their second language is not English. Considering from these reasons, I think elementary school students should start to study English because it is very useful for modern people to speak English well. In the modern world or future world, the ability of English is by all means necessary for us whenever we go abroad to study, travel, and business. To keep up with modern society, people need to be able to use English well, so people had better begin to study English when they become elementary students to obtain the ability of English. Today, the students in Japan start to learn English in junior high school. Is it a right time to learn the second language? In fact, there are many different opinions. But to my opinion, it is a little late. I think it is better to learn earlier. I have some reasons to support my opinion. First, Japanese society is international now. There are many foreigners in Japan and there are many Japanese who is a great state in the world. Japanese need to use English in order to communicate with all over the world people. So, Japanese must study English hard. Of course, the earlier they study English, the better they can use English. Second, I think English is a very rismical language. So, Children can enjoy to learn English! When I was three years old, I started to learn English. I enjoyed to sing English songs and to play English games. I didn't feel English is very difficult language. I didn't understand the whole meanings in the English but I was able to understand what they thought. I think it is not difficult for children to learn English before they go to junior high school. And also speaking and listening skills will be better , if they start to learn English earlier. For this two reasons, I think the English education in Japan should start in elementary school. Recently, people in the world study English as a second language. Similarly in Japan, junior high school students start to learn English in education system. For example, writing, reading and listening skills. Now, English is becoming more and more important language. So, it is necessary to study English hard. However, when do we should start to study English and how do we should learn English? Especially do elementary school students should study English? Firstly, when we think about English education system in Japan school, we mainly study grammar. And more, we don't have opportunity to experience native English. Maybe we can't speak English if we go abroad alone. Surely, we can't understand English if we don't understand grammar, but only this things don't give us true English skills. What we are required now is maybe a communication skill. Then, what should we do? As it is impossible for us to change the Japan school English education system, I think it is best to introduce English education system to elementary school. However, we have to consider how elementary school students should learn English. As one of this answer, I think they should experience native English. For example, study English with a native English speaker and listening to English songs. And what is more important is to enjoy English purely without thinking about grammar. In brief, there should be suit way of studying for each grade. If we start to study English grammatically from junior high school, it is seriously important to experience native English before it. Then, why don't you think about English education system in elementary school? I think that we can find a hope for English education in Japan there. In Japan, I think that we have little time to use for ourselves in junior high school and high school. First, we have to study all a day. Like, Japanese, science, history, geography, music, art and so on. We have so many subjects to study that we can't use time for ourselves. If the rule is changed, our life style will be better. For instance, treating subjects for ourselves is a good idea. We can only choose the subjects that fit us. So, choosing subjects is a very important task. We must think about that carefully. Choosing only subjects that we like is not so good. We should think and choose for our future. According to that, we have used the rest time efficiency. We can play sports, go to museum, help household task for our family and so on. Second, we have little thoughts to do by ourselves. We tend to live along the route that is made. It is important to challenge something. My ALT teacher said that he worked all over the world as a volunteer member in high school student. He applied for the task by me. He got a lot of good experiences and wonderful thoughts. These things are the story that he told me for the first time. I was surprised at the story. And I think that I should act by myself as soon as possible. If all of the students especially in junior high school and high school have thoughts to act, the system of school may change completely. Finally, educating term for students is too short. The more long the educating system is, the better our lives is. We start the class at about eight thirty and finish at about four. It is too long. We tend to be tired because of it. Also, lunch time is short. Fewer one hour is common. The time is finished only eating. It is not a good phenomenon for us. Communicating with our friends is a necessary acting for young children. If the going school term is long, we can do like that. We can enjoy the other things except studying. Changing the system of educating will be very difficult. But it is a problem that is worth thinking. These are the reasons of my opinion. Time for young students is so important. Think deeply about the time in junior high school and high school. We should not see only the situation that is spreading in front of us. We have to look large area all over the world. When you act like that, you will find something new and wonderful things. I think it is better that people begin to learn English at elementary school. The first reason is that our brain can work best when we are young. The more we get age, the more it is difficult to learn anything. Children able to learn a lot of things, but it is hard to learn things when we are adult. Second reason is that it is hard to pronounce English if we have not learned it when we are little. People have learned English when they were infant will be a good speaker. They used to be hear English, so they pronounce it easily. I think it is more important that people can speak English than read and write. Many Japanese cannot speak better than read and write, so they struggled to communicate with foreigner. It makes people to be shy that they cannot speak well. Today, it is necessary to use English. Children should learn it as possible as they younger. Today, places where English is used are increasing. So we should be accustomed to using English from our childhood. Many junior schools teach English as necessary subject and foreigner teach with easy games. In some schools all classes are done in English. I think that such classes are done in schools is important because chances children use English for future are increasing. But there are some problems. First, in junior high school, we start to learn many vocabulary, grammar so on. Learning in junior school is good for learning vocabulary. But in grammar, it doesn't mean. In fact, I go to English speaking school for it. Second, it has dangerous to decrease chance to learn Japanese. Learning our culture with Japanese is important for our identity. Considering these things, English education in junior school needs to be done with balancing Japanese English class at the elementary school has advantages and disadvantage for students. First, they can be interested in English with easily by learning it with games or songs. Moreover, they would be interested in the foreign countries and its cultures. Also, because young people can remember or learn something well than older, they can learn English well. But, when they become high school student, they must learn grammar and very long sentences which are difficult to read. So they may lose interests on English at that time. In addition, perhaps, they can't get good Japanese ability if they learn foreign languages when they are young. Because of this, when they become old, they can speak English well, but may not use collect Japanese. I do not think that person have many money is happy and one have not any money is not happy. People say that person have many money is happy. But rich family has many problems. First, rich family is busy. Father and mother is not home usually. So children do not see parents all day. Breakfast is sad time. Because of this, children cannot get parents' love. Second, rich family is hated by people. Children have trouble making friends in school. Because they are rich, other children will avoid. Everyone dislikes one is different from ourselves. Finally, there are a lot of dangerous things. Bad people target their money. So children are taken and they get money. Also they may try to kill rich man. Because of these, I think that rich family is unhappy. But there are happy family have many money. On the other hand, are poor people unhappy? No, they are happy. Actually,they do not have money. But they have big love. Poor family work hard. Little children have work at home. Although all member work, they can share the problem. So they are comfortable. In addition, their breakfast is happy time. All member can join. In this way, the poor is happy. Of course, some is unhappy. I am happy though I have not many money. I have good family and friends. Man's happy is not decided by whether he or she have many money. Is this collect that the people who have a lot of money are happy? I don't think so. For example, there is a person who have a lot of money but don't have family and any friends. He works hard every day. So he get a lot of money. But, he eat dinner alone every day. He get home, there are no other people. He doesn't have his birthday party. In fact, he have a lot of money. But, he really happy? On the other hand, there is a person who don't have much money but he have family and some friends. He works every day, but his company is small, so he get short money. But his wife cooks dinner every day. And his children are smile every day. They can't eat expensive foods. They can't buy many clothes. But he talk with his family every day. If he has a cold, he is taken care for his wife. He doesn't have much money, so is he unhappy? Some people who have a lot of money are have a good life with their family. So, I don't think all people who have a lot of money are unhappy. Some have happy life. And In the world, many people who don't have any money so they can't live. Some people are unhappy. I think, "Happy life" is not associate with money. I don't have a lot have money, but I have a good life. I talk, study, eat lunch, and go shopping with my friends. And my mother cooks dinner, my father works hard every day. I think I am happy. If there is a person who we think unhappy, he thinks "I'm happy". We can't know really happy. If we can get a lot of money, we don't always become happy. "Happy life" is different for every people. But we should do anything to think happy and become happy. I think that university students should have a part time job. There are many reasons for this. I would like to share my experiences to give the reasons. I work at juke right now. I started to work there in the summer. My friend introduced me to it. But I didn't need to work, because my parents gave me some money every month and I also get shougakukin. It was enough for me. My parents wanted me to concentrate on my studies so they were even against of me working. So I was thinking of just working during the summer since university student's summer vacation is very long. On the first day of my work, I wanted to quit right away. It was harder than I thought. I chose to work at jyuku because I like children, the pay is high and I always teach my younger brother. However, the children there had many characters. One child was so shy that she doesn't talk to me, another was too active and can't even sit for 10 minutes, another was very rude and so on. I could not handle them. Come to think of it, my brother is a high school student and the children at jyuku are elementary school and junior high school student. They can't be the same. Though I wanted to quit, I couldn't because I didn't want to let down the other teachers and my friend. I tried hard to get to know the children better and them to get to know me. By talking to them a lot, they became very friendly to me and started to listen to what I am saying. Teaching them is also a difficult task but I feel so happy when they come to me with their good grades. There are many difficult things at work but I think it is a great opportunity to make you bigger and stronger. Also it feels great when you overcome the problems. As I play and eat with my friends, I started to want more money. I want more clothes, shoes, bags and books. I want to travel abroad. There are many things to buy and to do right now. And some of them are things that I can do only now. So I have to earn it myself and experience many things. University students need a lot of money. That' why university students should work at a part time job. It is a difficult problem whether having more money is happy for us or not. Money is essential for us to live. When we bought food or clothes or living place, we need money. Thus, we can't live without money now. And we can enjoy our life by extra money. For example, we can go abroad and enjoy sightseeing by buying plane ticket. Also, we can read books or listening music by buying books or CD. More money makes our life better and better life makes us happy. But, money is not everything for our life. There are many things which can't be getting by money. Those are, for example, family or peer or invisible things such as love or credit or relationship with someone. Those also make our life better. We can't live without money. We feel happy in better life. But if we live in life without family and friends and several important invisible things, is our life really happy even if we have money? It is too difficult to decide. I agree with the idea that college students should arbiten . There are a few reasons to say that. First, college student needs to money to play with friends, to eat out, to buy closes so on. Second, arbitening is a good chance to learn new things and find enjoy in working. That experience is useful for considering future. Because we can find which works suits us and what we want to do for future through that experience. Finally, we can learn importance of working for society. If one miss work, only that one are scolded, but whole shop is resemble for that miss. Therefore, each individuals can understand one is working for all. For these reasons, arbitening for college students are important. One day, a high school teacher asked us "What do you want now?" Most students answered "I want money." People want money, but it is not our really want. Money is not helpful only to be owed. We get many things by paying money. So we want things over to money, for example, foods, clothes, books, bags, watches and cars. Why people think that they want money? The teacher asked us again "What do you want now? This time don't answer money is." Many students couldn't answer. They don't get idea what they wanted. People's idea about money is strange a little. Money is only sub things. It cannot give us energy, care our disease and make us warm or cool, but we want money more than main things. People may not realized it. Is it true that people who have a lot of money are happy and people who have little money are unhappy? I don't think like that. It depends on case by case. If a person has much money, he can buy anything which he wants. For instance, toys, games, pets, cars, personal computers and so on. His room is filled with a lot of things. He will be satisfied with that. Another case is about one boy who went to a junior high school student. I met him for the first time in November. He was in trouble about studying. His math score was not so good. I taught math and English as a home teacher. After two months, his grade was gradually rising. In this spring, he could enter a high school which he wanted to enter safely. Why could he enter a high school that he wanted? Of course, his mind to was strong. But money was essential. It takes a lot of money to hire a home teacher. If his house had little money, his score might not rise completely. However, it isn't always going like that. People who have a lot of money tend to depend on money. People tend to threw things which is only old. People tend to waste much money in large area. It isn't good things. They have to use money efficiency. Using money is easy, but saving money is more difficult. They should consider about money before using them. If a person has little money, he cannot live comfortable. Now in Japan, a lot of people live along the river and in the station. They have little money in their pockets. So, they can't borrow some apartments, buy enough food and drinks, take a bath every day and sleep in the warm beds. They look so dirty. Probably, when they have a chance to use a lot of money, they are able to carry out everything. By the way, it isn't always like that in that case too. They have thoughts about not using money. They are very wise about that. They are good thinker about money. No one can defeat them. These are reason why I insist that people who have a lot of money aren't always happy. We must notice a real value of the money. We have to think a real usage about money. When we can do that, we will get a wonderful life. Many university students do part-time jobs. We often see the students who are very tired because of hard work. However, I think part-time jobs give us a number of benefits except getting money. First, we can learn how to communicate with customer through the work. I started to work to restaurant these days. This is my first part-time job. We have seen variety of people for this tree weeks. Sometimes customers ask me difficult question or order. While I can't answer the customer's needs, other staffs treat many problems speedy. It was the time when I felt that I had many thing to learn. I have learned from other staffs and customers. Perhaps I have never notice this thing if I didn't start part-time job. Part-time job has another good thing. If we do the part-time jobs, we can make friends who we can't meet at university. At university, most students are the same or near old to us. Friends at work place are different from that. We will know people who are different schools or generations. Having friends out the school make our lives more happy. We can see the many points of view from casual talking with other staffs. Most students will graduate from university in several years and get jobs. We may indicate one occupation throughout the life. It will give us good experience that we do part-time job and see the many sides of society. Knowing how working is before we get jobs will help our future. I agree about learning English in elementary school. There are some reasons to it. First of all, we all need to speak English in the future. English is necessary to communicate with people from abroad. You don't have to work hard to learn many languages. Most people in the world can speak English. In other words, English is the only language to communicate with people. That's why English is so important. Some people say that it's too early to learn English in elementary school. They say that we should learn more Japanese instead of a language from abroad. And they even say that young people today can't use proper Japanese so we should take more time to learn Japanese. I think that's wrong. Young people today can use proper Japanese and some who can't just didn't study. It's not because of English. And I believe that the younger we start to learn English, the better we get use to it. For example, my friend started to learn English in junior high school but her brother started it in elementary school and after three year and a half, her brother was way better than her. Especially, the pronunciation had a big difference. Another is that I started to learn English in 2nd grade of elementary school. To me, learning English was not like studying but like playing so I didn't have a hard time. It was so exciting that I started to want to use it so I made English friends, took some tests for my grade and so on. Eventually my English was better than anyone in my class and my favorite subject was always English. I am not saying that we should reduce our time learning Japanese and take time to learn English. I am just saying that we should take a little more time to study and learn English because it's such a wonderful language! I want to speak about my dream. I'm interested in fashion and hair-make and design. But, if I get these job and don't success, I don't get enough money. So I think Nagoya Uni is get a job that can get enough money. So I go to Nagoya Uni. The reasons I go to Nagoya Uni is famous and brand school and good for get a job. So I enter OT. But, its job don't need school brand and need worker's kindness. So I think it didn't need to enter Nagoya uni. And OT's school life is very hard. Because of medical, three and four grade go to hospital for training. And OT don't get much money. Moreover,OT didn't match for me. So It means nothing that I enter Nagoya Uni. So I want to become designer and open my shop. When I graduate Nagoya Uni, I want to enter fashion school and go Europe to study fashion. But, in my case, OT won't get enough money, so I don't become OT. If I enter nurse course, I don't know I will choose whether nurse or designer. So I think Everyone choose whether bad job, but enough money or good job, but enough not money is different from each other. But In my case, I will choose bad job, but enough money. Because enough money can buy my favorite fashion. I want to talk about three bad points of Japanese English class. First, We mainly have studied reading in English class. It is very important to study reading text. But, we don't study listening and speaking in English class at all. Some of my friends go to speaking lessen school of English. So they are good at listening and speaking English. But I can't good at listening and speaking English. I think we become to be able to talk with foreigner is the most important thing. So Japanese English class must take more and more time of listening and speaking class. In the second stage, Japanese English class start 4 grade of elementary school. It is early to start studying English. In the 4th grade, students aren't perfect to speak, read and write Japanese yet. So they can't get both perfect Japanese and English. I think study only Japanese in elementary school. And, in junior high school and high school, they study more and more English. Finally, English teacher speak Japanese in English class when they order students. So teacher speak more English in English class. Moreover, To speak only English is also good. Then, if students don't understand English, It is very important to nareru English for student and they listen English more carefully. Sometimes Japan's education systems are discussed by professors. Education systems of Japan are different from that of other counties in some points. English class systems in Japan are one of them. In Japan, English lessons start when children enter the junior high school. Teachers try to teach students mainly vocabulary, grammar, reading skills. Children study it in order to pass the entrance examinations of high schools. In other countries, for example China or Korean, on the other hand, English lessons are taken when children are younger, often before entering the elementary schools. Children learn English skills by speaking English with teachers. They get to communicate with foreign countries' people by English, while Japanese people are confused when they are talked to by foreigners. Japan's English education systems effect on the shortage of English skill of Japanese people. Japanese people are remained out of the global society of the world, some people say. We take English lessons for 6 or more than 6 years, but we don't get to speak English. We should think this problem consciously. We must learn not to pass the test, but also to come to speak English and use it in our real life. This is one of Japanese education system's bad points. Japanese people tend to study in order to get high careers. They have no interesting in contents of learning. Thus there are some problems in the education systems of Japan. This must be difficult to solve because this is not only the problems of students, but also problems of society's tendency or education systems, education staffs, and so on. Though it will take many time to improve this problem, when everyone notice this problems and try to improve, something may change. In schools, students not only study with sitting chairs but also learn in communications between their friends and teachers. School education has a lot of mean. This year, studying English has begun in the elementary schools in Japan. I think that it is not good for students in elementary schools, because they should study Japanese better than study English. In elementary schools, they study the base of all study, which is reading books in Japanese, learning Kanji, understanding difficult wards, asking their teachers or their family and so on. All of that is the language activity. Students in elementary schools haven't finished learning this activity yet. It is the most important thing for them. Certainly, studying English gives students different culture between Japanese and English. But in Japan, junior high schools begin studying English. So studying English in elementary school is very faster. At university, students can learn a lot of genre of study as they like. It is very important. The time they are university students is useful. My major is Linguistic, but this year I'm having the class of English Linguistic and literature in English. Recently, I'm interested in literature in English very well. Reading books in English is very difficult for me but I'm trying reading them. Literature in English is not my major but at universityAI can learn a lot of things as I like. The style of the school education in Japan is usually teachers tell the knowledge and students get them. Or teachers ask a question to students, and students answer. Or teachers write something on the black board, and students take a memo. I think they are only one way, which is from teachers to students. Students have few chances speaking their own idea. Students are poor at speaking their way and fighting their own ideas and other student's idea. This activity has important skill because it gives them communication abilities. We have to live with others; we cannot live alone. Having a good time with others requires good communication. In order to achieve the good communication, we need to have linguistic ability. We communicate with using language. School education should give students a lot of chances, not only getting from books and teachers but also study by own interest. Although we, Japanese people take education in Japan for granted, the system has many different characteristics from other countries. Such different characteristics will become clear if we visit other countries or discuss about education with foreigners. Generally, people in developing countries praise achievement in Japanese education. First, Japan achieves high literacy rate. The literacy rate of students in Japan already reached almost a hundred per cent in Meiji era. Even European countries and the United States did not reach such high rate. Private schools (Terakoya) and prevalence of novels in Edo era may contribute to high literacy rate in Japan. Conversely, literacy rate is still low in developing countries, especially countries where civil war broke out or still continues. Second, Japan accomplishes high enrollment rate of students. Its enrollment rate reaches almost a hundred per cent not only in primary education but also secondary education. Even in tertiary education, enrollment rate exceeds fifty per cent. Even in developing countries enrollment rate in primary education is dramatically progressing due to international aid under the name of "education for all". However, that in secondary and tertiary education is still low. Third, Japan keeps drop-out rate very low. In developing countries students often stop attending to schools because of not following class, not paying tuition fee, and so on. Some scholars think that such achievement in Japanese education is one of the reasons of its economic development. However every coin has two sides. Education in Japan has many problems to be solved. If we compare with other developed countries, we can find such problems. First the way to educate students is not suitable for the 21st century. Generally, teachers in schools try to cram knowledge into students as much as possible, instead of teaching how to think. Such way of teaching is reasonable because examinations for next grade schools scrutinize students by the amount of knowledge they have. Such way of education may be suitable when Japan was developing countries. Since European countries and the United States already developed the model, it was enough for Japan to study the model and imitate it in order to catch up them. However, now Japan is one of developed countries. It needs to invent new model because of lack of such model. Second tuition fee in Japanese university is totally expensive. Tuition fee in public university is about 600,000 yen and that in private university is 1.2 million yen. Tuition fee in European countries is totally lower than that of Japan. And the United States provide huge scholarship. Such high tuition fee prevents competent students from entering into universities due to less financial resources. In this summer Japan experienced power shift. Long rule by the Liberal Democratic Party since 1955 was over and Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) took office. It is desirable for DPJ to reform Japanese education suitable for the 21st century. Begin It is difficult to say having money or not decide whether you are happy or not. However, this current market driven world where the economy has first are trying to make everyone think that the most important thing is money, and consequently this economic system causes the greater gap between the rich and the poor since those who are not involved the economic market cannot get benefits. This paper aims to talk about the gap between the rich and the poor. Personally, I conducted a group research in rural area of Chiang Mai, the north part of Thailand. New educational system, schooling were introduced in one of the communities in the area several years ago, even though there is some informal educational system where elderly people transfer the local knowledge and skills to survive in the community, to the younger generations. Fortunately or unfortunately, after the introduction of this new schooling educational system, the younger generations had started to think "modern" ideas are better and now pay less attentions to their local knowledge passed in generations to generations within the community. The "modern" idea includes the system of currency. Before, they were not involved in the economic system and exchanged one product with another product with their neighbors, yet now they has started to use the currency and they have to go to urban areas to work in factories or sell their local products for money. However, if they do not do so, they cannot survive anymore. It is obvious that they get some benefits from involving the currency system. They can get more various stuffs such as electricity or products from other areas which are used to unavailable in the community. Their life gets richer and "modernized" in some extents. Nevertheless, people who lives in remote area always has disadvantages because of the fact that they are far from the economic market, which makes the gap between the rich and the poor even bigger. Moreover, now the impact of the economic situation is more influential to their life. Certainly, the influence of the current economic crisis made their income far less than before. Nowadays, even in Japan which is one of the most developed and rich countries in the world, the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor has been gotten bigger and worse. Some got huge amount of benefits from the economic success, on the other, families, especially the ones with single mother as the main income resource, tend to suffer from serious poorness because of the influence of the current economic crisis. When seeing the other countries in the world, you can find the situation even worse as slightly mentioned in the previous paragraph. Currently, the market economy is taken granted as the world system, however we cannot forget the people called minority always suffer from the economic situation. Money Money is necessary to live, but is not the best important thing for me. Last year, I came to Nagoya city from my home city, Toyama. I began part-time job at the store near my house. To earn money need a lot of time, but to work long time take away my free time. The balance between part-time job and free time is difficult. Recently, I seldom work, but I spend free-time to read a book, study my major and English literature. If I busy for part-time job, I cannot learn as I like. It is hard to do homework only. But the university has a lot of chance to learn a lot of kind of thing. There are many kinds of books in the library. Difficult classes are held. Students from abroad have different culture. All I see is interesting. They are more important than money by part-time job. If we have a lot of money, will we become happy? The answer is no, I think. If we can buy all things I want, I can wear expensive dresses and accessory, travel abroad, have gorgeous dinner and sleep in the comfortable bed at the rich hotel. It is a part of my happiness. But it is only one part. The happiness for me may be everyday spending there. I pay no fee for having lunch and laughing with my friends. Talking with them at midnights and dancing with my teammate at the Toyota-Kodo are the same. When I go back home, my family are kind to me. They are my precious home, I cannot lose them. But honestly, I want to buy things to wear now. I like shopping. I 'm interested in the fashion from abroad; especially I think students in British is kawaii. And I'm also interested in the culture of Finland. I want to see the town, to meet the Finland and to look the nature in Finland. I have a lot of thing I want to do. In order to achieve that, money is necessary. It is confused and difficult to take a balance of money and demand. Certainly, if having no money, I cannot come to Nagoya, go university and meet friends. I really thank my parents. Money has a limit. So I should notice the real importance of money. Money is not all of the happiness. They give a chance to get happiness for me. Generally, money attracts people because the more money we have, the happier we are. Although people seek to get much money, they cannot always succeed. On the one hand a handful people can be happy because of their huge salary. On the other hand a majority of people suffer from a pity situation due to less or no income. For example, upper ten per cent people seize almost ninety per cent of whole wealth in the United States. We try to correct income gap between the rich and the poor through progressive tax system and other means. And some rich persons donate part of their property to Non Profit Organization. Should we correct such situation? Some people say that we do not need to modify the inequality because this inequality reflects the gap of competence. The more competent people are, the more money they can get. And the less competent, the less money. And they assert that modification of income gap reduces incentive of competent people. However, success of the rich does not always derive from their merit. Fortune affects to some extent. Income of baseball players is good example. Even he/she is a great baseball player, sudden accident prevents from his/her playing baseball. In the end of the year, he/she must reduce his/her salary due to bad record. We need to correct the gap between the rich and the poor because success of person is decided by contingent elements. Now that, the gap is wide spread all over the world, which has occurred in North-South or within one country. The problem of the gap is the inequality which comes out from the people who don't get an advantage of the gap, which means the gap brings the rich and poor and poor people are unsatisfied and have complains about their situation while rich people live a gorgeous life. The important thing is the situation can't be changed easily by themselves. Then, why did the gap occur? Focusing on the country base, the gap was bigger especially due to an appearance of capitalism, which means it enabled to earn money as much as people can. Capitalism started about around seventeenth century as a next form of manufacturing from home-manufacturing. From sharing their profit or working at a small home-based group within city, people came to earn money for their own profit. Gradually, the gap between people who can earn much money and people who can't was expanded. As a reason of the gap, there are an education and an inherit from their parents. Not all people can always earn money equally. Then, the people who have and people who don't have were distinguished. The situation can be seen all over the world, specifically the city is clear. Then, I'd like to focus on the American society case, which is one of the clearest cities which has gap of rich and poor. Once I went to Los Angeles, there was a mixture of businessmen who wore suits and people who begged money. It is even said the people of world is divided into twenty percent of rich and eighty percent of poor. So, how U.S. government deals with this complex problem for this unbalanced society? At first, it can be said the U.S. doesn't have a national insurance policy; therefore people have to take care of them by themselves. It could be possible for the rich, but poor people can't afford to save money for their future. After retired, their life must be miserable. For this problem, the government issues a food stamp which is given to people who doesn't satisfy the living standard 10,000 a month and they can exchange a stamp to food in contracted supermarket or shops. However, the rate of issue is becoming so big that until bush administration, the people who were given reached million people. Without concrete policy such as increase of employee, the only issue has been bigger. The administration should take a solution of independent support. As a way of solution, there is education. As same as Japan, rich people go to good private school and juku and it will not be changed even if the public school is free. Parent's idea is different. More poor work, less education poor get, moreover, since poor parents also didn't take a good education, they didn't realize the importance of education. It is bad spiral. So I think that government not limited to U.S. should take a policy not only give just allowance for poor but also the evolution of idea for poor. When poor people are young, they don't care about that they are poor because they can live within minimum standard like buying drink or cigarette and it is fun somewhat. However, as they got old or sick, the life will be dramatically changed, but they can't do anything. They are burden for society when they were young because they don't work hard and they don't bring profit for society, moreover when they become old or sick, government need to care or support even a little. So what government should do for this unbalance relationship is raising the all people's ability through education or religion. Telling children the importance of work, as America has continued to say to give the "equal chance", realizing the kind of society is important of the gap society future. I think there is a big difference between high school educational system and college educational system in Japan. To say broadly, it is a right of choice, which means that classes in high school are decided by a curriculum as same for all students; on the other hand, students in college can choose classes which they like. In a point from this, there will be a difference of syutaisei for a study. Let's see the style of class both high school and college. At first, in high school, almost classes are executed through 8:30 to 5:00 every day. It is hard work compared to college in view of time students are bonded. All students in high school have to go school in decided time and to take same classes, which may be seemed to be bored for a part of students. As representative classes, there is language, mathematics, science, history and so on, which all are basis for social person or preparing for college. That is a good chance for a student who doesn't have objectives what he wants yet to find things which are interesting. So, though a high school system is an enforcement which can't be rejected, by giving same chance to take same classes, students can both acquire a various fields of knowledge and may find their way to future. But there is an exception, which is a private high school system; some of them execute a little different curriculum compared to a national educational curriculum public or private school based on. In that case, students would be able to choose or concentrate a certain field of subjects, which enables students to acquire special skill. On the other hand, college system is a different from high school one. Because basically there are two categorized classes, which are one which students must take and another which allows students to choose whether taking or not. So, students are asked to have some specific interests for certain field when choosing. Even if they don't have it, they will be asked to have some specials through college. As another point of difference from high school system, since students don't have to come to school from morning or every day, they have to find time of studying while making friends, joining clubs or doing part-time job. College is said that a place where students study a thing which they are interested in high school. Within the limited high school classes, they had to find some direction to their interest for college or future. However, it is difficult because in high school, the classes are executed so automatically that almost students remain not to notice the subject's interest. It is not over saying that the life and attitude in high school decide the life in college. People who enter a college without deep thinking are difficult to achieve something in college. To avoid that situation, friends would be important because they give some chance to new world or another chance to interest. As a characteristic of college, there is another kind of person different to high school because people gather from all over Japan or sometimes foreign countries. Unless their interests to the new thing were bad one, students could find a new fun thing and would devote their effort. For this means, college gives wider choice to students than high school and extends each person's individuality from skill and interest. Comparison of Education in High School and University of Japan Education in high school in Japan and in university are different in many ways although they are similar in terms of not compulsory education in Japanese context. Almost all the students make decision to go to high school, but going to university is little bit different from going to high school. In Japan, high school locate in near from junior high school. Therefore, most people take it for granted that going high school after graduating from junior high school. However, going university can be another thing. In my opinion, because of not compulsory education in high school and university must be similar. However, they is very big gap between high school education and university. I would like to mention about it is its distance between teachers and students. Education in high school and atmosphere of it is similar to junior high schools' one. It depends on school but most of the high schools are similar to it. Classes are set by teachers and students take classes in their class room. Students always take cases which was selected by school curriculum. They do not have to chose by themselves. Also, one teacher always takes care of students in class for a year. In most case, teachers visit the classes in the morning and evening students go back their home so that the distance between students and teachers are closer than university counterpart. High school teachers knows students a lot. If some students are absent, teachers might call their home to check his or her situation. Students also have responsibility to explain their situation to teachers. On the other hand, in most case, it seldom happen in university. In some university, there are effort to make distance between students and teachers closer. However, it is very difficult for them to achieve it because teachers cannot see student's situation every day. Students select their classes based on their interest and there are no classes set by university. It might promote students' leaving school compared to high school. It is easier for students that leaving school in the circumstances which you are not known very much by the people surrounding you. In addition, students are expected to make decision by themselves. So, some people feel free to leave school. I would like to write about Yutori (relaxed) education at primary level in Japan. Have you ever heard about Yutori education? Yutori education has been set at primary and lower secondary level since 1990s to reduce pressure and burden from school to students. Yutori education has been discussed for a long time. Some researchers have been insisting that Yutori education caused low academic achievement and disparity at primary level, while others have been mentioning that it raised motivation of students. I think Yutori education has not really succeeded in Japan. It is because, although there are many positive effects, Yutori education brought many negative effects. One of the negative effects is, as some researchers insists, lower academic achievement. The government remade its educational curriculum at primary school when they started Yutori education. Because of the aim of the education was reducing pressure and burden from school, many contents and topics were reduced from textbooks. I work at Juku ( cram school) as a teacher for my part-time job, therefore I really feel that the textbooks these days are really easy to understand; many pictures, few advanced questions, few contents, and so on. When I was a primary student, the most important thing was 'memorizing'. We had to memorize many things and we had to just copy and follow what teachers did or said if we wanted to be good students. However, the situation became different these days. What student have to do are 'thinking' and 'creating' these days. Student-centered method has been used at many primary schools and students who have their own and unique ideas became to be considered as good ones. It sounds Japanese education became 'better' and modernized for many people, but we should not forget that it is not a 'best' education. According results of PISA, which is international examination, academic achievement in Japan became lower and lower, especially mathematics and science. It is because of the contents and topic education and the change of teaching method. Yutori education may somehow achieved its aim, such as reduce pressure and burden, but it missed other important point at the same time. Moreover, many parents started to send their children to Juku after Yutori education was set because they were worried about their children's future. Therefore, in that sense, it can be said that Yutori education did not really reduce the pressure and burden on students, but put other ones. Many researchers have discussed about Yutori education for a long time, but still we cannot find that the education is good or bad. However, I think Yutori education should not be continued as the same way. Is part-time job good for university student? Doing part-time job is very common for university student. Many university students in Japan engage in part-time job and spend so much time for it. I am the exception, I spend so much time and energy for part-time job when I was a under graduate student. However, spending so much time and energy for part-time job sometimes regarded as not good, because students' are expected to study hard. Yet, in my opinion, I regard part-time job is good for university students for their future since it might be able to enhance their capacity and motivation to enter the labor market. There are some reasons for it. First, through part-time job students might be able to learn what "Society" is like. For university students, doing part-time job might be the first time to touch with the non-school environment. There are many differences between society and school related environment. There are some rules to communicate with elder people, talking with customer and how to establish a ‚²good relationship with person who are in upper position in his or her work place. Learning these things can help students in many ways. In addition, it is difficult that learning these from the paper, therefore learning it from actual work is very helpful and can be applied to many occasions. It might be able to be the good opportunities for university students for preparing job hunting. Second, through part-time job, students can learn what kind of job is suit for them. Choosing company to enter is difficult for them since it will arise big differences for their future. Therefore, those who are hunting job always think about "what is good company", "which industry to engage in" and "what kind of work is suitable for me". These things are so important to think about because students might be spend many years, sometimes whole their live, at the company. However, in most case, it is not easy seeing and experiencing work to choose company which students work at So, part-time job can be the provider of experiences for replacing it. Of course, as we know, students cannot do everything what regular workers do. But, still it can be the good occasion for them to know what kind of job they want to do in the future, and in what kind of job they want to working at. Also, it contribute to know their ability which they have. Through actual work, students can learn and notice various things for the future. Third, of course, students can learn how much precious money is. Before experiencing part-time job, unfortunately I thought studying is the most tough thing to do and working and earning money is not so difficult. However, experience of part-time job totally changed my mind, and I started honoring my father and mother. Getting OTOSHIDAMA was very easy, but continuous experience of these things make my mind that getting money was easy. In addition, by doing part-time job, we can save money by themselves. So, it might good for their life and promote self-independence in their mind. I really understand that university students main task is studying. Of course, because they are students, they should not less prioritize their study. After arranging their schedule, they can engage in their part-time job. Coordinating time for study and part-time job can be the good exercise for students. Part-time job is full of opportunities to foster students, I would like to highly recommend university students to do part-time job and learn various things which contribute to their future. Is 'money' very important? Most of us would say 'yes', if somebody asked this question. But how about this question; 'Which is more important, money or love? The question had been asked by many people, and everybody should have their own answers. It is very important to have our own answers, no matter that others agree or disagree, because we may face the moment when we have to answer the question. I have my own answer. I had not thought about this kind of questions before, but I started to think about it after my little sister asked me the same question a few months ago. Therefore, I would like to say my opinion and explain why I think so in this essay. My answer is very simple; 'love is much more important than money'. There are many reasons why I came up with this answer, but the main reason is 'I can live without money somehow but I cannot live without love'. I do not mean that love only exists between male and female, but among family, friends, neighbors, and so on. I imagined my life again when my little sister asked me the question, then I found out there are so many people who have loved me and been loved. I do not think that I could be here and typing this essay without them. My life would be meaningless if I lose them. I have not known whom I will meet in the future, but one thing that I am sure is that there will be love. However, this may sounds too idealistic or a kind of strange for some people. They will say that they cannot live without money in this world. I think that is true. Especially in developed country, like Japan, we need money for almost everything. I agree that people hardly live without money in Japan. Therefore, may someone say that they do not trust people but money, or all they need is money for their lives. I do not think that their answer is wrong, but I cannot agree their opinions. Although they do not think love is more important than money, they cannot exist without love in this world. Nobody live without any relationship. Even somebody thinks that he is alone, there are many people around him whom he has not noticed yet. If the person totally does not have any money, people around can help him if they love each other. I do not say that we need love for money, but it is true. Money is very important for outlives, and we cannot live without thinking any issues connect with money. However, we have much more important thing than money in this world. It cannot be seen and hardly felt, even we can live without thinking of it, but we cannot exist without it; 'love'. School Education The English education has been introduced in an elementary school education the last year to make up "the lack of communication skills" of Japanese people. In this paper, we are going to discuss the English education in Japan from the window of introduction of English education in elementary school. Firstly, Japan does not have many foreigners and there is the lack of opportunities for children to use English outside of school. Although recently the number of people from abroad is getting bigger, the number keeps still lower compared to other countries. With this situation, even though you learn English in school, you might not be able to use the language outside of school or when you finish your education. There is the theory proving that more opportunities to listen, speak and write your second language, the more and the faster you improve in the language. This theory ensures that the lack of opportunities for students to use English in Japan is one of the obstacles for them to acquire English. Also, the lack of such opportunities reduces the motivation for students to learn English since they tend to think English is useless if they do not have a chance to use it. No matter when we start to take English education, the fact that we cannot have enough occasions to use English is a clear obstacle to acquire English for Japanese people. Secondly, the exam which is not aimed to measure the communication skills has to be modified, if the problem of Japanese people's English is "the lack of communication skills". It is innovative and a positive step to introduce English education in primary school level to make learning English enjoyable and more fun for students to reduce the learning barrier and their hesitation to use English in lectures when they learn English in post-primary levels. The problem is, however, English education in post-primary levels is not aimed to follow that direction and eventually becomes cramming lecture to get high scores in entrance examination for high schools and tertiary schools. The motivation and fun the students had in elementary school is diminished with the process and they cannot get communication skills as well. Thirdly, most of the teachers have some problems or troubles to conduct English education in elementary school level. Unfortunately the problems also might be happening in some teachers in junior high school and high school level since the central government issued the rule which forces the English teachers give lectures in English. However, the lack of teachers' skills is more severe in teachers in elementary school level since they had not had any experiences to give English lectures before. Moreover, the central government does not give sufficient teacher training for the elementary school teachers to give English lectures. In addition, there are some available training for the teachers to get prepared to give English lectures; still the number of teachers who has attended in these training is low. There is a huge gap between the law issued by the government, implementation and actual school. As a conclusion, this paper emphasizes the urgent needs to change the English education in post-primary levels, which are secondary schools, tertiary school levels. We are already devoting the huge amount of time on English education but we have not gotten the result we can satisfied with. It is clear that the content of English education is in the wrong direction. It is not too exaggerate to say that English is becoming "the world language" and apparently we need to acquire the language to survive in this globalized world. For this purpose, we have to improve the English education in these levels from multiple aspects including increasing opportunities for students to use English, entrance exams and teacher training. Does money make us happy? Most of us must work to earn money to manage our lives. If we do not have enough money, it is almost impossible to do anything, especially in modern developed countries. Moreover, poverty is significant problem which international society has faced for a long time. the first goal of Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) is "to halve the number of people living under 1$ a day The measure is also how much money people have - 1$ -. It will be discussed in this essay whether money makes us happy or not. In MDGs, poverty is measured by money, however there some kinds of measurement of poverty. measurement which uses money as a indicator is called "monetary approach" as MDGs do. In addition to that, there are "capability approach" and "participatory approach". Capability approach measures how much opportunity and accessibility people have to exercise their human rights, for instance, opportunity of education, accessibility to health care services and so on. Even if people do not have money but government provide enough social services to citizen, people can live happily and peacefully. Next, participatory approach uses the participation of people. It reflects subjective perspective of poverty rather than objective measurement. People themselves can decide what is poverty and who is poor in their region or community. We have to know that some group of people in some area do not use money to live, or use very small amount of money and normally swap things to live like food with each other. We Japanese have a lot of problem in our society although Japan has been known as one of the rich countries Many elder people die alone without being known in these days, and Many people commit suicide in both urban area and rural area in Japan. In addition, it has been said through recent recession that social safety net, for instance the bond of family as well as governmental social welfare, has collapsed. That is why people who are fired cannot go back and ask help to their own families or extend families and stay in street as homeless. On the other hand, many people having stable job have mental depression although they earn enough salary and some people commit suicide. Japanese people have been provided many services by government and have enough income compared with other countries, however, many people have big problem which we do not observe in poorer developing countries. people must have strong bond with others and stable mental condition other than money. I'm against for the plan of English education in elementary school in Japan. Now English is spoken around the world. Many many people speak English in a lot of situations; business, science study, communication with friends, etc. Lots of people need English skill. And so many Japanese go English school to train themselves. But English skill of Japanese is still low. Some says because of that is that beginning of education is too late. In fact, a lot of study of English education show that early training of language is effectible, particularly, for speaking and listening skill. And the two is some of weak points of Japanese English speakers. So early education seems to be a good plan . Early education is not perfect. Early education may have a bad impact for development of children's mother toung in Japan. If one's mother toung is French, studying English is easier than a Japanese studies it. On the one hand, English is come from Latin, so that French, Italy, Spanish, and other Romance languages are in the same group of English. On the other hand, Japanese have many common points with Korean; grammar, word, and so on. There is a huge gap between Japanese and English as a language. Thus I think that elementary school children are not ready for other languages. A mixture of two different languages may make a chaos in children's developing brains. In fact, some study show that it is difficult for some of children come from other countries to Japan to accomplish two languages. In Japan, English education in elementary school is not acceptable. If there is extra resource of education, it must be used for children after junior high school or adult English trainee. I think people have more foreign language classes such as an English class in the elementary school, junior high school and high school. First, people have better to have English classes in their elementary school. World become smaller and smaller. People can connect with friends in other country easily due to E-mail and Internet. A lot of foreign companies come to Japan and have shops in Japan. People often see much English word in their city and have chances to talk with foreigner. So they need same language to communicate each other. However some high school students who have studied English since they entered their junior high school can't speak English at all. Some of them hate English. So, people need to become more familiar to English since we are so young. They should have more chances to speak or hear English in our small age. Then people may speak English fluently and hear English easily. Next, I think people should learn not only English but also another foreign language. Certainly, English is the most famous language, so we need learn English. But I think it's not enough. Some people can't speak English. To communicate with such people and understand them and their culture, people must learn another foreign language. There are a lot of cultures and languages in the world. It's not so easy to understand each other. But I think that to communicate to foreigner is to try to understand them. People can't communicate each other without languages. And learning another foreign language is fun, I think. I want children to have chances to enjoy speaking and hearing foreign language. So, people should learn another foreign language in their young age. But it's difficult to study English and another foreign language in same time. However people can have chances to study another foreign language in junior high school or high school if they begin to study English in the elementary school. I think it's best to talk and communicate with foreigner directly. But it's very hard. So people should learn languages when they're young to be able to use it if they have a chance after teenage. Languages they can speak can be help themselves if they have problems. To learn some languages is very useful in their lives. Most of students in college or university are doing part-time job. But some of them spend more time to get money than to study. I think working for get money is important. After graduating school, people have to work to live. So people can practice working through part-time job during students age. The experience they get in the part-time job such as how to speak to customers is very useful. For example, a girl wants to be cook, so she have part-time job in restaurant to know how to cook. And money they get through the part-time job is useful. People can go shopping and eating with money they get. It makes their lives in their school more fun. In addition, they can get friends who go to different school. Sometimes meeting in part-time job become very important. Some of them in same part-time job may fall in love and may get marriage. But I think it's not good to spend too much time to get money. The job for students is studying. I think they should spend more time to study. People can work after graduating school, so they don't have to work so much. If they work too much and feel so tired, they can't study hard. Some people feel bad because of working. And some of them always sleep in the class. Then they can get a lot of money and great time with money, but they can't get knowledge. I know working is very important because we can get a lot of good experiences and good friends. But they don't have to work too much. It may make their health worth. And they may lose chances to get knowledge. And it lose time to be with friends who go to same school. Friends who go to different school is also important. If they have problem in studying or live in university, those who often talk about it may be friends who go to same school. But if they spend most of time to do part-time job, they can't rely on friends in same school very much. So I think they shouldn't spend too much time to do part-time job. In Japan some students seem to think that university is place for playing. I heard, students in Japan don't study as hard as students in USA. So knowledge they get in university sometimes isn't useful for their work after graduating school. Doing part-time job is important because of experience ,friends and money, I know. But I think they should study more hard and choose job in which they can use knowledge they get in university. Now in Japan, it is very important thing to be able to speak English. I started to learn English in "HOME PAL" when I was six years old, and at school I began to study English when I entered a junior high school. Now, many elementary schools have begun to teach English to students because younger students are, more effectively they can learn a language. There are a lot of discussions about English education in elementary schools, and I am for it considering my experience about learning English. I'll show the reason in the following sentences. When I started to learn English in "HOME PAL", I used books in which many illusts were written and music which were sung in very plain English. When I was six years old, I couldn't read or write English, but I was able to memorize alphabets and sentences. I was taught useful skills to speak English, and for me learning English was a lot of fun. I learned English without difficulty, as we have learned Japanese at home naturally. Then when I entered a junior high school and English education started, "English" for me changed. I used books in which hundreds of sentences were written and books about how to write English. I understood how to write what I had spoken before, and I learned how to make longer and more difficult English sentences. I was able to study English without difficulty in the junior high school, too. However, it was different for my friends who were started to learn English for the first time in the junior high school. Though they weren't used to hear English, suddenly they had to memorize and write and understand English. They learned English with difficulty and often dislike English. If they had been used to hear English before they entered the junior high school, they would be able to study English more easily and with more fun. Now English is necessary in a lot of cases, and we should learn English effectively. To learn English effectively, it is important to study English without much difficulty and with a lot of fun. So I think children should start to learn English before they enter junior high schools, or at elementary school. Money Money is one of our essential items in our daily life. Without money, it is hard to have economic activities in the world. As the world economy has been highly dominated by the currencies, especially in the highly economy oriental countries such as Japan, holding a currency shows how much one's life is filled with wealth. Thereby people tend to think the money brings happiness. However, here we need to be careful whether wealth means. Money is one of the main measurements for our life. In Japan, every year, the rank of greatest tax-payers in the year is created. By this rank, people can know who is the richest in Japan, and what kind of occupation the person has. People tend to think that those who have money has better life. Seeing this rank, people admire those persons who are listed and try to learn hint to apply tips for their own life. In addition to this rank, the rank of average salary for each occupation is disclosed. By these kind of information, people decide what kind of job they want to get to seek money to grasp the rich life. As money takes the role of the main measurement, people regard the money is the key of flourishing the life Thereby, the life plan often scaled by the money and money gives the indicator of the options for the life. However, those who are horrored by the money does not seem so happy. Drinking good wine makes happiness? Money cannot be the only measurements for our life. When we travel to other countries, such as least developed countries, where the economy is not highly equipped and the life standard of the people is considerably low in comparison with that in developed countries, such as Japan. When I went to Philippines, I was able to discover that people are so poor and they have not much jobs. In this country, as the economy is stagnated, job opportunities are low and unemployment rate is very high. When I went on the street for a walk, so many people from young to old stay at the street for chatting or playing games. As those who have no job have nothing to kill time, they just showed up to the streets with their friends or families. Of course, as they cannot earn money, they wore the broken clothes and seems poor from the outlook. However, I also found that I have never seen the sad or suffering face of them during the trip. They seemed rather happy. They had the biggest smile I have never seen in Japan and the eyes were rather shining. This gave me a big question what the meaning of happiness. Why people without money made me think that they are rather happier than those who have money. By this experience, I discovered wealth and happiness does not depend on only money. Money is the just a measurement to sustain life. We need to seek our way of happiness. Do the more money give us the better life? The answer is No as well as Yes. Money is very important for our life. Most people in the world cannot live without money. And in fact, extra money gives us good things. Much money provide us a lot of laxualies. If we have much money, we can buy a great computer, a new car, a large house, a diamond ring, and etc. Quality of life may be certain better with money. Thus many people wrestle with something to get money. Most of them dream that they will be happy with money. However, some social psychological research show that there is a little correlation between degree of happy and incomes. Not every rich people feels happy, and also not every poor people feels unhappy. Money is not a only factor of feeling happy. To be happy, we should get better "mental" quality of life. Much money can be one of factors, but we can feel happy from the others; smiles of our family, everyday exercise, hobby, and so on. Money is just one of method to be happy, and it can't be the goal. Therefore money gives us some happy, but it doesn't give all things to be happy. English Education in Japan It is said that most Japanese people are not good at speaking English as well as listening although we have studied English since 12 years old. Instead, Japanese English learners are good at reading and writing English compared with speaking. In my case, I got IELTS exam twice, and the score of speaking is always problematic as most Japanese shows. When I studied Spanish for a while, I realized that europian language have common characteristics in grammer and many of similar vocabularies. The order of Subject, verb and object is same and especially "long words," e. g. information and so on, are similar. My impression is that europian people have an advantages when they learn English. However, many of Japanese who learnt English in English spoken countries can fluently speak English. People learnt English for 1 year in English spoken countries can speak much better than people who have learnt English for 10 years in Japan. Why does that happen? It is simply because of the difference of opportunity in which we speak English. Even though the way of English class in schools in Japan are changing, the opportunity to think in English and speak out what we think in English is lacking. Japanese people's English command is not so practical for daily use. When I was a junior high school student and a high school student, I hardly had oral conversation class and neither oral exam of English. I had had only short conversation practice in our normal class. In the English class in my university, I took oral English class for the first time, however, it was held only once a week. I did not feel that I improved my English speaking command through the class. It is so difficult to improve speaking command through the class only once or a few times a week. Although Japanese have realized Japanese people need opportunities to practice speaking in English, education caricurram is not intended to do so. As a conclusion, English education in Japan have to consider about the disparity between speaking ability and reading or writing ability of Japanese. There are many English teachers from native spoken countries in Japan, and it seems to be easy to employ them as a English teachers. Japanese English curriculum has to contain more opportunity in order to Japanese people to have more practical ability on English. I strongly support the idea that it is better for college students to have part-time jobs. There are several reasons why I believe so. First, a part-time job provides every student with some job experiences before s/he starts their job hunting, which enable the student to consider his or her future career more realistically. Especially, in Japan, students have to find their job before they graduate from their school. Moreover, people hardly change their job and keep working for the same company all throughout their lives. In addition, in Japan, they say that finding a better job than the former one is almost impossible. Therefore, it is really important for Japanese students to find jobs which make them satisfied and pay them enough. Accordingly, I believe that a part-time job provides the students with really good opportunities to consider their future career more seriously and realistically. The second reason why I think that part-time jobs are good for students is the fact that part-time jobs provides the students with a lot of money. In Japan, students have a lot of free time and I would like to strongly suggest the students work as part-time workers and gain some amount of money so that they can enjoy their lives other than studying. With the money which they have earned, they can do everything they want to do. Moreover, the experience would be more precious than any other experiences which are realized with the money their parents gave them. For example, in my case, I had saved some amount of money and went to Australia for about a month when I was a freshman. I seldom spent my money on "useless" things such as expensive clothes and shoes. Instead of these fashionable items, I gained really special experience in Australia such as making friends with students from various countries, and improving my English skills. Likewise, I think that all students can do the same as me and have some special experiences with the money they have earned. In this respect, it would also be quite a good opportunity for them to think about their future jobs and lives more realistically. In addition, regarding my part-time job experiences, I think that I had become more sociable through my part-time job experiences and it also would be the case of other students. In my case, a job at a book store and a car dealer office drastically changed my attitude towards strangers For instance, before I started to work at these stores, I seldom talk to those who I do not know or I have never talked to. However, I had to talk to everyone who came to the stores during my job, that is, I could not avoid speaking with strangers. Through this experience, I had found that talking to others is actually really interesting and fun. Consequently, I have become more sociable than before. Accordingly, I consider that part-time jobs help any shy students to be more cheerful and out-going. I believe that this is also one of the tips to enjoy their school lives. As was mentioned in this essay, I think that part-time jobs help the students to consider their future plan more realistically and to enjoy their school lives with the money they have earned. In these respects, I support the idea that it is better for students to have part-time jobs. I think it is good to have a part time job when you are a university student. The first reason why I agree with this idea is you could learn how it is difficult to earn money. You could understand how hard you have to work to get your salary and since you work really hard to earn that money, you will use that money carefully. Also, you will realize how hard your parents work to raise you because it costs a lot to give you a good education. The second reason why I agree with this idea is you could learn what is working mean to you. You could understand what is working like and you may be find the best work that will be your future work. You may be find the reason why you have to work and that will give you energy to do job hunting. Third reason why I agree with this idea is you could make a lot of friends through a part time job. You could become friends with your colleague that are different generation or sex. You will be never become friends with other generation if you only be in the school. It will expand your view because different generation people or different sex people have differnt point of view that you do not have. You could see outside of your world. The fourth reason why I agree with this idea is you could use your money that you earn from your part time job to go abroad. I think if you are a college student, you should go abroad to see other country's culture and know what is other ethnic is like. May be there is no time or chance to travel other country if you graduate college because there is no long term holidays like summer vacation if you start working. It will be wonderful experience for you to travel abroad but a trip cost you a lot of money, so you have to work to earn money. College students have a lot of free time to have a part time job. You should use your free time cleverly. Finally, the fifth reason why I agree with this idea is you could understand working is not always fun. To have a job means that you have responsibility to do that job. You should be careful not to make mistakes and if you make mistakes your boss will be angry. Sometimes you may be feel disappointed because your boss claim your work but you will grow up and become stronger through part time job, and understand what is having responsibility means. Through part time job there are a lot of things you could learn from it. These are the five reasons why I agree with college students having a part time job. When we go shopping, we can see people who are doing albites. They are often young, or college students. It is said that college students should study more, because people think that college students are too playing. But in fact most of college students have experienced doing albites, and this is good or bad for them? I think that college students should experience doing albites. I will show some of the reasons in the following sentences. First, college students have to pay a lot of money to study in college. Textbooks which they use are expensive, and they have to pay much more money if they want to be members of some clubs. For example, I am a member of a brass band, and I have to some money every month in order to be a member, when I go drinking with other members, when we hold a concert, and so on. In such cases, usually students' parents pay the money, but I think the students are old enough to try to pay some of the money. So they should do albites, and they and their parents should pay the money together. Second, in albites, they can learn what working is like. When college students have graduated from their colleges, they usually have to work for a company. In companies, their bosses are strict and they can't be allowed to make mistakes. If they want to be used to work for a company smoothly, it is better for them to have experienced doing albites. albites are good lessons to work for a company and to earn in the near future. Third, college students can learn communication skills in doing albites. While they are doing albites, they can meet very different people. Some are young, and others are old. There are people who become suddenly angry, or who are quite friendly. But in college, people who are in their surround are usually almost same years, and it is not enough to develop their communication skills. So they should do albites and meet different people. When college students do albites, they may lost some of time when they can study. However there are many good points in doing albites. In order not only to earn money but also to live a fruitful school life, they should experience doing albites. The characteristics of Japanese Education system in Tertiary level. The Japanese education system has some significant characteristics which vary from education system in other countries. To compare between Japanese educational system and American educational system, the author discuss the characteristics of each countries. Before, the author limits the educational level to tertiary education for this essay. To begin with, the Japanese educational system can be explained with two perspectives. First of all, the entrance and graduation of university in Japanese system is different. Regarding the entrance of the university, it require much effort for entering to the universities than the universities in America. Here, it means the high school students have to suffer from studying to pass the entrance exam with the preparation of almost 2 years. For passing the exams, these days, students in high school go to academies, or cram schools for supplementing the studies. Of course, their parents pay extra investment for this kind of tuition in return of their expectation for entering to high-level universities. On the other hand, regarding the graduation of the university, it can be considered that it is burdenless in comparison with universities in America. After passing the tough entering exam, university students have tendency that they do not study much during the universities period. Here, not because student are lazy for studying, but because professors do not assign much home work and preparation for the lectures. In America, as most of the lectures are conducted with the style of discussion, it is requirement for students in universities to have preparation before the university to bring something to discuss with other classmates. In this way, the performance of the students in the classroom are evaluated. Without this performance points, it is hard to gain the grades. For this reason. students must work hard in the daily base to have grades to finish the university. Thus these difference bring the wisdom gap between Japanese students and American students after the graduation. Second, the teaching style of professors in Japan is very different from that in America. In Japan, the style of professors in Japan is more teaching base, and most of the times, students have no chance to say opinions during the lectures. On the other hand, lecture in America is rather discussion or debate base, which is more interactive between the professor and student. We cannot deny both style but it is better to examine the positives part of each style. In terms of the positive part of the Japanese style, the professors are given more time for explaining their knowledge in detail to students. The negative part is the students only hear the explanation from the professors and they cannot decide whether the knowledge from the professors are right or not by themselves. As to the positive part for American system, the interactions between the professors and the students positive bring thinking time to construct their opinions and listening time which modify and reconstruct their opinion by listening other voices. As to the negative part, the student must be constructive for sharing the opinions, otherwise the discussion does not have progress. By comparing the characteristics of each teaching style, it can be said the both are supplementary and the style should be combined into one. To conclude this essay, although it is hard to evaluate the differences between two educational systems in Japan and America, both can be located at two distant poles be. However to consider the output human resource, the author prefer the American system as the students are well trained for the thinking and constructing the opinions. To apply such positive points of American educational system, the Japan professors should try to study how to transport them to improve its educational system. It's not necessary for today's university students to have a part time job. I don't agree that the university students have a part time job to earn money only for leisure. Today, about half of the all young people in Japan enroll the university. Because it's very difficult to enter the university, many of the high school students go to the cram school It costs them a lot of money and time. Generally speaking, the high school students make every effort to get into the university. Many university students continue to depending on their parents' economical support during the university period because the parents want them to concentrate on studying. But actually, once the students enter the university, they are often said that they seldom study hard than before. A lot of them have a part time job like waiters, cram school's teachers and so on because they want money to play. In my opinion, the important thing for the university students is to continue and concentrate on studying for the future. But actually, the enrollment itself became the aim for the students. As is often said, the period of the university is the long pause for the university students. Many of students earn money through the part time job to enjoy that time. Some people say that having a part time job is a good way to know the difficulties to earn money. But I don't think it's important to have such experience during the university period. It's true that some of the university students have part time job because it makes them approximate their future. In such a case, it's good to have a part time job. For example, it's a good way to be a cram school's teacher as a part time job, if he/she wants to be a teacher in the future. From those points of view, I don't oppose to have a part time job itself. But I disagree to have it because of the money only for play. I think college student should work part-time job. There are two reasons. Firstly, they need a lot of money. Because they want to play with friends, want to buy cute or cool apparel such as coat, jacket, pants and shoes, want to eat delicious food, want to see the movie. They also want to go to trip around the world. All of these things need money. So, they cannot do anything without money. Of course, they are supported by their parents. So, many students are given money as "Okodukai" by their parents. But it might be unsatisfied with almost students. They must need more money. Fortunately, college students have a lot of time. They should use free time to work part-time job. So, they get more money than not working. And they might enjoy their school life more. Secondly, I think that college students are realized importance of money by doing part-time job. By now, they buy something by not their own money but their parent's money. So, they waste money by buying unnecessary thing. But many students don't waste their own money. They come to think the thing which they are going to buy is really necessary or not. They realize importance of money by getting money through part-time job. In several years later, teaching English in elementary school will be mandatory in Japan. I think it has both good points and bad points for that, therefore I will discuss both of them in this essay. First of all, teaching foreign language in such a lower age will decrease the feelings that studying not only English but also other foreign languages must be difficult, boring and some other negative feelings. In addition to that, the ability which the students communicate with foreign people by themselves can be made. However, there are a very few people who can teach English as an elementary school teacher in Japan, so they have to learn teaching English as soon as they can. But is it possible to be grown up a lot of good English teachers in only several years? I think it is too difficult to realize that in such short time. And, I am not sure, but I heard that it was already decided the English class would held only 2 or 3 times in a week. I think it is meaningless to do that if the goal of teaching English in elementary school is the grown up the "real" abilities using English, writing, speaking their own idea or listening and understand the meanings when native speakers talk to them, and so on. If they want to be grown up students who has such high-leveled abilities, they should teaching English almost day and night. Over all I discussed the good and negative points of teaching English in elementary. I t is not bad for students just enjoying to use English from such low age but if their goal is to be grown up real abilities of using English, I cannot agree with that. I agree to the idea that teaching English in elementary schools in Japan. In this essay, I will describe several reasons why I advocate this idea. First, I think that teaching English to young children would be efficient in terms of listening and pronunciation skill. I have read some articles or books saying that it is much easier for a young child to learn pronunciation and patterns of sounds in other, new languages. In particular, I have heard that children around the age of 5 to 9 can acquire language skills the most efficiently. Given this, it would be better for Japanese children to start learning English as early as possible. Therefore, I consider teaching English in elementary schools to be reasonable. Second, I support the idea of teaching English to young children because they have less "mental block" than teenagers who are struggling with a lot of mental problems. Such mental problems affect language learning quite badly. Therefore, learning new language should be started before children get suffered from the mental problems. Most young children, who are studying in elementary schools, enjoy everything, such as playing with friends,singing or talking in front of many people, and expressing their opinion, being straight forward. In contrast, teenagers, who are studying in junior high schools, are usually too shy to sing and talk in front of many people, and to express their opinion. Language learning involves expressing one's opinion or making mistakes in front of many classmates. In other words, in order to improve their language skills, it is really important for language learners to try to use the language even though they make a lot of mistakes. Therefore, it would be impossible for children who are so shy to make progress in using English. In this respect, I consider that it is reasonable to teach English in elementary schools. In addition, I think that young children have one more advantage, which teenagers do not have. Young children are really curious about everything, which is also really important for language learning. Language learning involves not only the aspects which are mentioned above, expressing one's opinion and making mistakes, but also being curious about the culture of the world where the language is spoken. Once one got interested in some aspect of the culture, s/he would feel like to study more and more about theother aspects of the culture including the language which is spoken in the culture or society. One of the triggers which makes children curious about other culture would be ALTs, assistant language teachers, who teach them English playing with them. Those ALTs are usually so much welcomed by the children in elementary schools; however, it is not necessarily the case in junior high schools. As was mentioned before, teenagers are too shy to talk to the ALTs and the opportunities to talk to native speakers are not fully utilized. On the other hand, in elementary schools, the ALTs can be like stars and children talk to them really aggressively, because young children are usually quite curious about new culture and always looking for new things. In this respect, I regard teaching English in elementary schools is reasonable. In sum, there are three reasons why I think that teaching English to young children in elementary schools isbetter than just waiting until junior high school. First, young children can acquire the sound and pronunciation more easily than teenager do. Second, young children have less mental problems which affect language learning. Third, they are more curious and get interested in new things more easily than teenagers, which makes it easier for young children to learn new languages. I think it is good idea to have exchange system in all high schools or junior high schools. The first reason why I think this idea is good is that there are very little chance that children going to abroad during high school or junior high school age. Children in these age don't know the outside of the world a lot, so they should go to another country to know different culture and different ethnics. This will help children to know that people are all different and all the people have individuality. The second reason why I think it is good idea to have exchange system is children in their high school and junior high school age have few friends in abroad, but if they use exchange system to go another country, they will have host family and they could be a good friends. Recently, we have Internet, so we could send e-mail to each other or do Skype or Messenger with your friend living in abroad. It will be really exciting and your foreign language skill will proceed. Internet helps us get in touch with each other more easily and often. I often use Skype to talk with friends living in abroad. I think it is very useful and it won't cost you money to use Skype, so every high school or junior school students can afford using Skype. The third reason why I think exchange system is good for high school or junior high school students is that they should have experiences to live without their parents' help. I think Japanese children is too reliable to their parents, so they should go abroad and live by themselves It will make children's mental stronger. Also, their parents are worrying and caring about their children too much. If their children go to abroad by themselves once, then their parents won't be too workable about their children. The fourth reason why I think it is good idea to have exchange system in high school or junior high school is if they grow up and become adults, it might help them to do their jobs or find their job. Nowadays there are many companies that have trading with other countries or have companies in other countries. If you have experience living abroad it will be good status when finding a job. If you have experience sending e-mail to your foreign friends living in abroad it might be easy for you to send e-mail in other language when you start working. The experience of exchange system will help you in many aspects of your life. It will be really good experience for you to live and study abroad. These are the reasons why I think it is good idea to have exchange system in all high school or junior school. Recently more and more students cannot go to school without any specific reasons. Those students are often called hutouko-ji and sometimes seen as idle or selfish. Are they really idle or selfish, or are there any serious problems in them? And what should the people around them do? Some students stop going to school because of bullying. In that case people around them like parents and teachers know how to deal with the problem and they can help the children because there is a clear reason why they don't want to go to school. On the other hand, it is sometimes quite hard for the parents and teachers to understand and support the children who quit going to school with no reasons. So they don't know what to do and as a result they sometimes blame for their children, which makes children more confused, for children themselves often don't know why they cannot go to school. There must be some reasons for the children who have no special reasons for stopping going to school. For example they may have some problems with their friends, teachers, or parents. Or they just cannot catch up with the study. The point is that the factors are much more complicated and twisted than we think, so you cannot easily tell which is the very reason. Children are struggling between the feelings that they should go to school and the ones that they cannot. It may be a kind of mental problem, so parents and teachers should not hurry in finding the answered to deal with. The attitude of the parents and teachers might become the pressure to their children, so they should be the safer place for children, not the one which gives children more pressure. People live in such a stressful world. Some people do well, others don't. The children who stop going to school may be the one who cannot handle their lives well. So we should understand their feelings and try to give them a hand to support them. "College calicuram is so free", I was surprised when I was explained about college's study calicuram. I can choose some classes which I want to learn, such as civil law, economics, literature. And I don't have to choose some classes which I don't like such as mathematics, science. I thought happy, because I can choose subject I want to learn. In high school, I couldn't choose my calicuram, so I must study science and mathematics which I didn't want to. So, high school students only need to study the subject which be decided by someone. But college students can study the subject which be decided by them, so they can make original caricuram by themselves. Making original caricuram is very important. Because people's interesting thing is not same. For example, I am interested in low and politics, but he is interested in physics. People should study the subject which they want to study. So, I think making original caricuram like college is nice idea. People keep working all their lives under much stress and fighting against the pain of their stomach. When you are asked why you must keep working, you may simply answer, "To make money". People cannot live without money. Sometimes it enriches your life, for if you have much money, you can buy anything you want, and go wherever you want to. So it is very natural that you want more money to live a better life. But be careful, it may destroy your life. Thanks to the development of IT industry, you can have some opportunities to get a great amount of money. You only have to invest your money using a computer. There's no need for going out, no bloody human relationship, no pain of your body, so you can enjoy making money. You may feel it's a kind of game, because if your judgement of investing is right, you could get more than 10 million yen in a moment. Some young people stop working at a company, other housewives with children starts "working". At first they may so serious because they have little technical knowledge for investing, but as they get more money, they learn to enjoy and want to make more money. It turns to a money game for them and they want to win the game. Since they don't deal with the real money, they don't realize the fact that they now have a huge debt. An economy changes every day, you cannot keep winning the game. But when they realize the truth, it's too late. Because of the debt, some people lose their family, and others choose to end the game with killing themselves. The reason people keep working for making money is to live. Money is not an easy thing to get, and making money is not a game. It should be earned with your great endevour. You cannot have your family with money, but you can lose your family with it. Money should not be everything to your life. English Learning in Elementary School Recently, there is a discussion about learning English in elementary school in Japan. I agree to it with two reasons which I show below. First, to learn English in elementary school is good way for the children to think English as a tool for communication. We Japanese usually start learning English when we enter junior high school. Because the teachers often give the lessons according to the text book, not a few students regard English as only one of the subjects they should learn. There are also few chances for the students to get in touch with the situation in which the students can use what they learn in their English lessons. Therefore, they can hardly get knowing English is the tool for communication. If the children have the opportunity to use English, they will realize English is not only a subject with textbook but also the practical tool, and they will find it interesting to learn English. I think such an experience will be a motivation to continue learning it. Second, to learn English help the children enlarging their spectacle about the world. English can play the role of leading the children to unknown culture and life. I think they will get interested in those things by learning English. As you can see above, the English lessons in elementary school shouldn't be language lessons which are led according the textbook. The important thing is the English lessons there should be one with which the children have a fun to learn. To make the lessons interesting, it's one idea to let the foreigners as a guest come. The other idea is watch videos with which the children can see the actual situation in abroad. With such lessons, the children can see the English as a tool for communication and they make their spectacle enlarge. From those reasons, I'm agree to learn English in Elementary school. Money Since I became a college student last year, I came to be able to earn money. The first time when I earned the money is in May last year. My friend told me that if I teach junior high school and high school students how to study math, English, chemistry and so on, I can earn money. I hadn't earned money then, I didn't know how hard it is to earn money. I sometimes get tired and don't feel like working any more while I'm working. Earning money sometimes steals our precious time which we can use in order to enjoy our hobby and study what I am interested in, but without earning money we can't buy what we want and sometimes can't enjoy our hobby enough. Then, what should we do to be satisfied with the balance between earning money and enjoying our life? I thought about this issue and would like to describe three solutions which I think have a lot of merits and also describe each demerits. First solution is that you give up earning money when you are students and borrow the money from your parents. When you start to work, you can bring back the money you borrowed when you were students to your parents. Doing this, you can be free to enjoy your precious time to do your hobby, extracurricular activity and so on while you can use money to do them. This is a big merit of this solution. However there is a demerit. If you never haven't worked in the society until you start to work after you graduate a college, it will be hard to get used to working in the society. Second solution is that you work the place related to you hobby, For example if you like listening to music you should work CD shop. Working place related to your hobby don't get you so tired and you can enjoy working and earn money. This mean that you don't waste your precious time only for earning money and you can enjoy your life with earning money. However, this also have some demerits. The hobby related job are few and very popular, so it is hard to find something like this. Third solution is that we find the job in which we can earn a lot of money in a short time. This kind of job is sometimes hard work and we get very tired, but this kind of job allow us to use more free time to do our hobby than other kinds to job. This is the only merit third solution, and it has some demerits. This kind of job is also hard to find. And it sometimes needs more responsibility and so it is a hard work and we get more tired than other kinds of works. When I was a high school student, I studied harder than now and I was very satisfied with my diligence. However,I don't want to study so much now. I think,it is because I can't find the subjects interesting and I don't have to go through activities to get a job. I'm going to talk about education in universities. In universities, We aren't ordered for our marks. It is true that there is some evaluations, that is,"yuu (very good)","ryou (good)","ka (not bad)","huka (bad)",and We can get credits when we marked better than "ka". Thanks to this system, we are able to be evaluated only for our efforts. But we also think that we don't have to study so much if we can get credits. Many students who have to get a job after graduation or enter graduate school may make efforts to get a better mark, but some student, for example, who don't mind their future after graduate, or who don't have to get good mark in a university for their future. I am the latter one. In school of medicine, we can be a doctor only if we get through national examination to be a doctor. It is true that we also get a job in a hospital, but it is no matter whether we got good mark of bad mark in a university. I know,this way of thinking is bad not only for me, but also for the society. Then, I think, there are a lot of things which can be done for ours to study harder. The easiest way is making tests more difficult to get a credit. We can't graduate without getting credits we have to get, so it may affect very well. However,it is one of the strong points university students have that we can enjoy freedom well than we were in a high school. In some cases, We may study more in the society than a university. By the way, I don't like studying now, but I like some of subjects I took. I mean,German, Biology, and Basic of Medicine are interesting for me. It seems that many students are enjoying these classes. Does these subjects have some differences? In the German class, the teacher ask us in German and we answer the question. We can't think other things because we can't predict when he ask us. It seems to be very stressful, but it is interesting because we can use German in practice. We enjoy german,so we also enjoy the German class. Thinking the situations mentioned above, I think the lack of education system in universities is teaching students to enjoy subjects. I know we are to blame for our laziness and it may be difficult for teachers who teach subjects which are often thought disgusting, but if they think a subject is interesting, they could be able to take pains to teach us enjoyable. I agree with that university students should do part-time job. When I was in university, I did it very hard, because I have more free time than I was in high school and as a university student, I want more money to do something, like going somewhere for trip, buying fashionable clothes, and so on. I did not know how hard it was to get money before I had started part-time job. I think doing it is very important and good way to know how hard to get money. This is the first reason that I agree with that I mentioned in first paragraph. Second, it is good way to get to know adults or other university students you do not used to know. In my case, I was work in a small shopping center as a clerk when I was a first-year university student, so most of my colleagues were older than me. Most of them are kind, but some of them are not. Therefore, I learned how I should do to make them feel good. Third, by doing part-time job, you can be accustomed to be scolded by others. Sometimes you will be scolded, but it will make your mental capacity more stronger, if you are scolded many times. In addition to that, such experience will reduce your faults when you do something on job. Overall, I mentioned three points why I agree with that university students should do part-time job. It is that you are able to know how hard it is to get money, how to make adults to feel good, and strengthen your mental capacity. Such experiences may be your help even when you become a full-time worker and that is why I agree with that university students should do part-time job. Without money, we can't buy something we need, eat food outside and get the train. We can't live without using money. When we were children, our parents gave us money and we bought something we wanted with the money. Of course the reason is we were too young to earn money. Then, should we earn money when we are high school students or college students? Earning money for ourselves is very important. If we don't work, we will get money from our parents with no effort and we can't realize how difficult earning money is. And also we won't hesitate use much money. However, if we earn money for ourselves, we can notice value of money. For example I use much money for shopping before I have a part-time-job, but now I think well whether I should buy something I want or not before paying my money. So, earning money for ourselves teaches us how valuable money is. Moreover, through working, we learn social skills. If we work, we will meet people the kind of which we have never met and the experience will make our viewpoint wide. Through talking to these people, our communication skill will go up. And then, working is a very good way to learn social skills. In conclusion, students should earn money for themselves not only to get money but also to learn the value of money and social skills. It is a precious experience for student and the experience makes a good effect on the students. I would like to think about and describe what should we do in order to improve the school education system. These days Japanese junior and junior high school students are forced to study too hard so as to enter greater school. There are some elementary school students who are forced to study too hard to famous junior high school since when they are grade three for three years. In fact,I had studied since when I was elementary school students and passed the test to enter junior high school, but I didn't think that it was good to study hard since when we are too young. And I thought our junior and junior high school education system wasn't so good. I thought there are much time being wasted. Then what kind of things are being wasted in our school education system and what should we do to improve this? Firstly I think we should stop the system of the test to enter junior high school. At least until we are 12 years old we should play outside with many friends. This lead us to be able to communicate with other people very well and make us a socially great person. If we are forced to study too hard when we are too young, we would have little time to talk with various people. I think this is the reason why there are many people increasing who can't communicate with other people well. Secondly I think we should not force students to study too hard in junior high school. There would be various kind of students and students whose talent is not studying. And teachers should show students what kind of works is in our society and what parts of the works are fascinating. Teachers should show these things to each students and listen to each students and understand what kind of things they are interested in and help to find works they would want to work. If students have the dream which they are eager to realize, I think they would naturally start to study hard on their own. Finally I think people who want to study hard should study too hard and teacher should not force to study the concrete task. Students should study what they want to study. In this society, we have to have money to live. We can't enjoy anything, even foods without money. A lot of people think money is very important and so do I. It seems that we live for earning money and thanks to money, we live. When I come up this question, I think it is natural that many people think money is the most important thing next to life. Is money is so much important for us? We can get money when we work for someone or be very lucky with lotteries, and most of us earn money by working. If we work harder, we would get more money. If we can do something other people can't, we would get more money. It imply that who earn more money than others are tend to diligent or able. For example, lawyers or doctors earns much money because they can do what others can't do. I'm a student now, and I do part time job for a calm school. I like teaching junior high school or high school students so I enjoy this job. I can also get much money because I entered Nagoya University school of medicine. I know other people who are good at teaching is better than me in ability of teaching. The reason why I can get much money is that the number who entered school of medicine is small. It is the interesting fact because it is similar to things for sale. I work mainly for money now but when I become to a doctor, I'm going to work for people who need me. However,It doesn't mean that I will not be paid. Thinking of this fact, sometimes earning money can be secondary important thing in working. I think that who work for other people are happier than who work for money. For the reasons mentioned above, I think, when we see money, we see our efforts or abilities which is equal to money. Money is visible and useable evaluation of ours. There are mainly two types of junior high school students; junior high school students who can't go to high school without passing the enter examination of high school and junior high school students who go to private school and need not to pass the enter examination. I was the latter students. The former students must study harder than the latter because they must pass the enter exam. So, the latter students are often said to go bad. But is it true? Is the former type better than the latter? I think it's not. The former students are busy in studying especially at third grade and they don't have enough time to spend doing various things. On the other side, the latter students have enough time they spend freely, so they have many chances that they challenge various things, for example spending lots of time to anything they are interested in, going abroad for learning language there, the daily life of the country and the culture. The experiences like this will make their viewpoint wide and greatly help them for the future. Of course studying on the chair is very very important for students, but only studying must make students boring adults who have a narrow viewpoint. These experiences must be more precious than studying. So I think the latter type of school is better for students than the former type. Now, I'm going to write on the topic 'money'. There are many college students who works as a part time job. I think working as a part-time job is a good thing. One reason is that working as a part-time job, students can learn many things, which are not learnable in the university. We can think part-time job as an experience of job and many people cannot have an experience of job in the university. As we work as an part-time employee, we can make money as a payment. And we can use that money for buying something or traveling somewhere and so on. It is a very important experience for students because the students can learn the importance of money and learn how to use money effectively. It is true that there are some possibilities that some students may use money for bad purpose such as 'kakegoto'. But given that the amount of money that the part-time employee are paid is relatively small, we don't have to care about it so much. Rather I think good aspects for students are more important. Secondly, working as a part time job helps students pay the tuition and living cost and so on. If the parents of a student have much money enough to pay the tuition and support the life of the student, the student will be able to study in the university without caring about money. But this is not always the case for all the students. For some parents, it is very difficult to pay the tuition and living cost for their students. In this case, do they give up enrolling to the university? If students can work as a part time job and make some money, they will be able to get through, at least, their living cost. Part-time job is a helpful way to study in the university. Scholarship is another way to get money, but I know some friends whose scholarship are not adequate to pay their cost. They are working as a part-time job to make more money. These are the reason why I think working as a part time job is a good thing. Some people think they are happy because they have much money. But I don't think much money means being happy. Of course, we cannot almost all the things if we have no money and it is true that some people feel unhappy because they have little money and they can't do what they want to do. But when we talk about happiness and unhappiness, money is not the all things. Happiness is strongly dependent on the feeling and we might be unhappy even if we have much money. Many students in university work part-time job. I think there are many reasons to work part-time job. First, students need money to begin to live oneself, to enjoy everyday life with many friends, to buy favorite goods, and to travel. So almost all students are motivated to have money which is used themselves freely. It is natural. Second, students in university have enough time. Some students live alone, and when we over 18 years old, our active place(koudou hanni) and active time(koudou jikan) is expanded. Using this free time, students can work part-time job. I think this is so plausible. In fact, I work part-time job because of these reasons. But part-time job has more effective aspect. I have ever worked home visiting teacher(katei kyoushi), assistant of camp for children, and staff of bar(izakaya). All of them were good experiences for me. Simply speaking, we can get social experiences. The importance to do anything until it has done, the ability of communication with customer or job friends or (joushi), and the mind of service. These are very important things in society but we can't learn in any other schools. Working part-time job has many good things, so I think students in university should work part-time job. But probably, there are some opinions of disagreement. The essential point of university is studying. So it may bad that students consume certain hours to work part-time job. I think, even if a student only want to be a special job, working part-time job has many meanings. Of course the method is not only part-time job, but also volunteer and so on. Having only one term is not good. When we become the member of society, having many terms will be treasure for us. So don't mind about contents if you consider working part-time job. And it is better that you try some kinds of jobs. I think college students should have part-time job. There are many reasons to say so. First, I am a student now, and I work at izakaya, so, I have to face many problem on working. It was difficult for me to solve them, but I have learned many things and I think I grew up. Second, it is important for students to do part-time job before graduating from school. They must work and earn money to make a living, so part-time job helps them to work easily after graduation. Third, Japanese students don't know how important money is. Most students depend on their parents while they are students, and they think it is natural. So, they should work by themselves and understand value of money. But, I think there are some bad things for them to have part-time job. I hear some students' scholar competence fell down. Because, they spend time working too much. So, I think it is best for students to study hard, and they should have part-time job in free time. They can meet many people who they don't meet in ordinary life. So, part-time job helps them to get along with other people, and teaches many things It may be also useful to find the very job that suits them. They will understand good point of working. Thus, I think college students should have part-time jobs. It is not only earning money, but also getting many things. We university students need a lot of money, for daily life of course, and holidays. Especially we have to pay for studying in the university. To enter or study in the university costs us a lot of money. Most students may have their parents pay for it because it's too much for students. I agree that it's one of duty of parents to pay for their children's various kinds of outcome, especially for school. However, how about their money for hobbies or play? Whether we university students have to earn money by ourselves or not, it's a difficult question because our opinions are different individually. Some students have their parents pay for everything, some have a little, some don't have. There are so many styles how to get their money. However, I'm sure that we have to earn money by ourselves, but as long as we can. I think that we university students should work as a part-time job. First, working as a part-time job will be good and important experiences for us. Many students had never worked before entering the university because many high schools don't allow us to work as a part-time job, but universities allow us to do it. In addition, we have to work as a member of society after graduating universities. If we never work before it, we may have difficulties to get accustomed to be a member of the society, Working as a part-time job give us knowledge about how to work, how to make good relationship with colleagues, how to improve our skills, how to accomplish our tasks, and so on. They can be so important and useful in our future. Moreover we may find ourselves that we had never know for example, features, strong points, week points, things we like, and so on. These knowledge also be useful when we find or choose our jobs. Second, earning money gives us sense how to use money. Many students who get money by working as a part-time job can use their money as the like. We have to decide what we use money for and how much money we use. Most students had no chance to use a lot of money as they like before earning money by themselves. However we are given chance to use money freely now. Some students may make have mistake to choose what purpose they use their money for, or how much, and regret about their choice. However they all will be good experience because we can learn how to use their money properly. So earning money gives us good sense about money. Third, by working as a part-time job, we realize that our parents work hard to grow us up. We don't know how hard and difficult to earn a lot of money before earning money by ourselves. Many students feel thanks to their parents for working hard for them after experienced it. Actually I feel really thanks to my parents because they work hard for us three sisters. Growing three daughters may be so hard in that it costs a lot of money. I didn't understand that before working. But now, I realize how hard it is and now I and my parents have better relationship than before because I know that my parents love me and parents know that I know my parents love me and feel thanks to them. I think that experience of working makes good relationship among children and parents. Therefore, by these three reasons, I'm sure that we university students should earn money by ourselves as a part-time workers. It gives us not only money but also wonderful experiences, improvement, knowledge, and many other good things for us. We mustn't forget that studying is important for us of course, but we can improve ourselves by working as a part-time workers. I'm going to talk about the part-time job among university students. I agree that the university student do their part-time job. I have 3 reasons to support my opinion. First, we can understand what a work is. By the time I became the university student, I hadn't worked at all. I only studied hard, played tennis, and so on. I was very busy in my school life, so I didn't have time to do my part-time. I didn't know what a work is and I didn't know the importance of the money. After I became the university student, I had much time and I wanted to know what a work is, so I started to do my part-time job for the first time. I worked at the cram school (means juku) and I taught English or Math to some students, Teaching was a little difficult, but I tried my best. Sometimes I realize that the students' parents pay for money to me, so I think I have to work very hard, I have to help them to study. I understood that responsibility is accompanied by the work, Second, we can experience a lot of things to prepare for being the adult (means syakaizin). For example, I could think more than two things at the same time. Now I work at the restaurant, and I have to work while thinking the other thing. I have to see all the customer, staff, and so on, I always have to think what I should do. And I have to work flexibly. When I started this kind of job, I did only one thing. I concentrated on one thing. But now, I can think more than two things at the same time for example, I have to wash some dishes, serve some dishes to the customers, make some drinks or something. I think we can't do such a experience unless we do part-time job. But this kind of experience is very important to work at the company. After I graduate from the University, I have to work and I have to do a lot of things at the same time and work flexibly. So I think the things I learned from my part-time job will be useful. Finally, I can learn the importance of the money. Working is sometimes very hard for me, but when I think that I can get money, I am encouraged. And I know that I can't earn money easily, so I try to use the money preciously. If I work as a part-time, I can understand the importance of the money. But If I don't work while I am a university student and my parents give me some money, I can't understand the "arigatasa"of the money. Now I feel thank you to my parents. Like this, we can learn a lot of things from my part-time job. Perhaps some people say doing part-time job is a waste of the time and the university student have to study very hard, But I think that learning how to "ryouritusaseru" study and work is important, and we should learn how to use the time well. By doing part-time job, I can earn money and learn a lot of things. Getting two birds by one stone. Why is the gap between rich people and poor people increasing now? It is hard to say the answer. As I am not a specialist about sociology or economy, it is difficult for me to find the answer. However, I think it is natural trend. Since a child who is from rich family can have more opportunities to learn by his or her family's economic support, he or she will have more opportunities to succeed or become rich. The same thing can be said about a child who is from poor family. Less opportunity, less money. Since the world is becoming more competitive, the gap between winners and losers is also widening. In the US which is capitalist and democratic country, the survival competition is hard in not only the business world but also the citizens' life. Fist I would like to explain the situation in the US, then, I move on to the situation in China about the issue of increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Although the US is developed country, there are still millions of people who can not be covered by health insurance company. Many of them are poor and can not afford to pay for their health insurance fee. Why does the government take measures to help them? Private companies have a large share in health insurance market in the US. Therefore, it is difficult for the government to take aggressive actions. At the same time, some people strongly disagree with 'big government' in fear of its becoming too big and powerful. Under such circumstances, the US government can not make any significant progress in this issue. On the other hand, many Wall Street executives' bonus have been back to normal amount before the global financial crisis triggered by Leman Shock in September 2008. Some companies in Wall Street are recovering now thanks to monetary stimulus package for which American people's tax was used. Still, many low and middle income people are suffering from the real estate bubble shock. Some of them are forced to sell their houses with putting very low price. I think these circumstances are also decelerating the situation between the rich and the poor. Second, I would like to explain the situation in China. As you know, Chinese economy is rapidly growing now. Thanks to the government's swift and bold response to global financial crisis, Chinese economy was not give negative impact. In spite of the rapid growth of economy, the gap between the rich and the poor is also rapidly increasing. Especially, the gap between the people in rural areas and those in urban areas is widening now. In response to this situation, the Chinese government is taking special measures. Through this measure, the government is encouraging people in rural areas, especially farmers to buy home electric appliance. It is so called 'kagonoumin'. However, the gap between the rich and the poor is still increasing. I think that It is a kind of side effect behind the rapid economic growth. To have money is sometimes very important I think. Because, some people judge or measure a man by his economical aspect. Generally, a man who has a lot of money has social status and respect. But, money itself doesn't make people happy. What is important is the way of use. Rich people are not always happy, and otherwise, poor people are not always unhappy. Of course, If you have a lot of money, you can do most of things you want to do. But there are many things which are priceless. For example, you can't buy someone's heart or experience or memories by money. Money is sometimes very useless and it is not a special thing. And it is generally said that a rich family is so busy to earn money that they can't have enough time to talk with their family. It is so sad and poor I think. Moreover, people tend to think that they are not have much money even if they have a lot of money comparatively. People are not satisfied to the present situation and they try to make it more better. So, the hope of having a lot of money doesn't have the end and people don't stop making their money much more. My family is not so rich and sometimes we try to save money, but we are happy because we don't feel we are poor. We have enough money to live happily. So, not to have a lot of money but to have enough money to live is more important I think. The amount of money which people need is case by case and it changes by each people. But it is more important to think about how to be happy than about how to earn a lot of money. So, money itself doesn't make people happy and people should think about what makes his own happy. These days it is said that children in elementary school should learn English. In this essay, I'd like to talk about whether elementary school students should learn English or not. I think it is necessary to start learning English when we are younger than 10 years old. So I agree with teaching English in elementary school. I have some reasons for it. First, we should be used to hear or speak English. Babies absorb their native language naturally, because they hear same things many times and understand the word's meanings. For repeating same things many times, we need a lot of time. So we need to start learning English earlier. Second, young children are interested in new things. The thing we learned with interest, we can remember it easily. Finally, the students in junior high school or high school are more busy than those in elementary school. It become more difficult to make time for learning only one thing because of club activity, juku, and a lot of homework. For Example, when I was in elementary school, I had a lot of time I could use it free. So I enjoyed playing with my friends, and tried to many new activities, ballet, playing piano, and shuji. All of them were a lot of fun for me. But I entered in junior high school and belonged to volleyball team, then I lost free time. Everyday I was on the cycle that I went to school, joined some classes, practice volleyball, went home and did my homework. From these reasons, I think we should start learning English when we are in elementary school. I hope a system to teaching English is improved and become children can enjoy English. Today, many people say that elementary school students in Japan have to study English at school. However, I don't think so. There are two reasons. First, elementary school students have to study Japanese harder than English. Of course, English is used all over the world and one of the most important languages. However, in my opinion, they can't use English if they can't use Japanese correctly. So, they have to study Japanese hard before they study English. Secondly, elementary school students are too young to study English. It is enough to study English when they become junior high school students. They will study it for 6 years at junior and senior high school. Some of them will study more at university. Isn't it enough? I studied it almost everyday at junior and senior high school and study it once a week at university. Now, I can use English I need. It is OK that people study English at least at junior and senior high school. I disagree that elementary school students study English but agree that they become familiar to English at school. For example, they can enjoy English by singing popular English songs. If they are familiar to English, they can enjoy learning it when they become junior and senior high school students. I think that the education in Japan is not active. Generally, classes in Japan are formed like lectures. It means that the teachers are only speaking and the students are only listening. It is not so bad because the stile helps the teachers' speaking that they want to speaking. However, every students not always understand that teachers want to tell them. So, I think that students should talk to teachers in classes. In Japan, the child who talks about his opinions is not liked by other children. It is bad. Speaking about his opinions, questions, and answers is very important for himself. Also, listening to other students' opinions is very important for themselves. Moreover, listening to that helps the teacher of the class speaking better. Speaking and listening are very useful to understand every thing. Both give us a lot of site. So, at the educational places we should make more communication. Only speaking or only listening is not ample. If you know that you don't know, you should seek a lot of opinions to other people. It is not difficult. Japanese can be more active. I agree to do working in university students. First, I think that I can not easy to use money for eating out, go shopping, cost of club activities, date by parents sends me money that is enable me to spending on daily life. Second, the money that earning yourself is very easy to use what you want to do. If you want to something, that is expensive, you can buy it if you have enough money to buy. You need not pay attention to your parents. Third, spending on daily life only money that earning yourself, that experience is useful in the future. So if you think it is very hard and difficult, but you should do it. But I am spending on my earning money. it is very hard. I should do over work, it causes me not having enough sleeping, so I suffer from disk herniation. So I should pay a lot of money cost of inspection, treatment, anymore operation. By the way, I have an operation August 13, It cost is about 180, 000 yen. If you do work very hard to earn money, you should be careful your body condition. If your body is to be bad condition, you can not work until recover, and cost of treatment is very large. Finally, I think that do work and earn money yourself is more important than study. For sure, To study needs to graduate from university, but I think that the most important of living a life is not studying, playing, love, but is working earning yourself! Thank you. I think that part-time job is one of the most important thing for university students. I have some reason to express this opinion. Firstly, university students spend much money than ever. For example, shopping, traveling, watching a movie and so on. When I was a high school student, I could play by money that my parents gave to me. Many high school students are same, I think. But I became a university student, and my parents didn't become to give me money. So I have to do a part-time job and get money for my joy. Secondly, we have to know how difficult for us to get money. Money that we work hardly and get, we use that money for worth thing because we experience hard work to get that money. If I get the same amount of money from my parents, use that money for useless things, I think. Actually, I am careful not to use that money for pachinko, gamble and so on. Before we become business man, we have to know the worth of money. From these reasons, I think it is important for university students to do a part-time job and get money by themselves. I think money is deeply connected with human happiness. At first, poverty makes human unhappy. I mean by poverty the situation there is little food. Clearly, those who can't eat proper amount of food are unable to be happy. Money makes us rich. We can get by money almost everything we can see. But I don't think the more we have money the more we become happy. I think the more we have money the more things "we can't see" disappear. If we have much money, the necessity of communication and cooperation become smaller because we can do anything without talk about it and cooperate much. If we don't have much money, we cooperate to satisfy our desire. We try not to use much shower, try to arbite harder, and so on. I think this process is also important because it makes the happiness of achievement bigger and human relationship deeper. I think the human relationship is the most important thing to become happy! So I think the proper amount of money a person should have is which we can satisfy our normal desire if we work hard. I say "normal" because the feeling we are poor makes us unhappy. So not to get the feeling we are poor(if we work hard! I think the amount we can satisfy "normal desire"is best. Recently, I started working part-time and got my own money. However, I forgot writing money papers, so the first two days was no-paid working days. Although the manager did not explain about pay money enough, I also did not ask him. After that days another manager said to me, "You have to be more careful about your own money." I learned simple lesson that we are responsible for my own money. I have never used my own money before I started working part-time. All money I used for food, study, and everything was money my parents earned. I depended on them about everything economical. While money parents earned seems to be difficult for me to use, money I earned will be easy. If the value of money itself is same, two type of money is different to me. Some people say that the latter money is precious because it is their own money, but I feel the former money is more valuable because I can imagine my father and mother working hard with sweat breeding. The first episode about my money indicates that I have less strong emotion about my own money than my parent's. When I am working part-time, I feel "I am using my body for work." We students need to work part-time because I working experience teach us about what working in society is like. Of course students are not adult, but not child too. Working part-time is valuable in that it make us be responsible for my own money and teach us about difference between two type of money. These days school education is one of the most important problems in Japan. I heard that Japanese student's score of World examination is lower than a few years ago. When I was elementary school student and junior high school student, our education is " Yutori kyoiku ". Therefore, we wasn't able to study a lot. Students of many foreign country such as Korea and China were studying very hard when we were playing with our friends, or watching TV. But high school education system is not " Yutori kyoiku ", I felt high school study was very hard when I entered my school. I didn't have so many time to study things we had to study in elementary and junior high school, so it was very difficult for me to understand it. If I had studied very hard like foreigner, I could be more intellectual. Today, world situation changes fast. We Japanese need ability and power to work in the world. But most Japanese aren't proud of themselves and can't communicate with foreigner in English or other foreign language. I think that this is one result of Japan's education. I am university student now. Unlike high school, we can study what we like here. I want to study some foreign language and culture to develop my internationality. But I wish I studied English more from elementary school. So I think that school system which enables young students to study English and speak it is important. Japan's education system needs some changes. I think university students should work part time. The reasons why I think in that way are these. First, university students need a lot of money. Before they get into the university, they don't need a lot of money. High school students can't drink beer or sake, and don't spend money on such things. Nor do they go on a trip so often. Above all, the tuition isn't high. However, university students often eat out with friends of their clubs, classes and so on. After reaching twenty, they start to use money buying beer and sake. They sometimes go on a trip in their long vacations, and more importantly, the tuition is much higher than that of high school. Second, by working part time, university students learn how money is important. Before they become university students, most of them use money his parents have earned. Unless they earn money on their own, they won't understand how difficult it is to get even 10,000 yen. If they don't know the importance of money, they can spend it on unimportant things. Finally, working part time will become an important experience. That experience teaches them how hard it is to work at a professional place. If they only study subjects at the university, they can't learn "what is working, " and after starting to work, they may have a hard time getting used to their new jobs. The experience of working part time become useful at this time because people who have worked part time know the difficulty of working. Some people say universities are where students study and students should concentrate on learning academic subjects. It is true. Students get into the university to study and if they don't study, the high tuition loses its value. However, students' future success won't be determined by the studies at the university. There are many successful people who didn't study hard or even don't go to a university. There are also many unsuccessful people who studied hard at their university. What is more important is the ability to work quickly and accurately. If you don't work well, you can't earn money nor become successful if you study hard. I think the key to success in the future is the working ability, not the ability to studying academic subjects. University students should work part time and learn" what is it to work" as early as possible. Why do people work so hard? Because we must earn some money to survive. Then, how they think about the importance of money? In this essay, I'd like to talk about money for rich and poor people. In our daily life, money relates to almost everything. For example, we should pay to buy food, clothes, and furniture. Moreover, when we receive some services such as seeing a doctor, we must pay money. Money has became an essential tool to survive in this world. Rich people can use money a lot of purposes because they have much money to use. For instance, they travel around the world, live a luxurious life. But poor people cannot afford to buy so many things because they don't have more money than they survive. So they use it only to buy things which are essential to their daily lives. Thus, there are differences in the way of using money. I want to explain about the cause of this difference. I think it is caused by their emotions. When rich people use money, they may think "because there are much money, I can use a part of them free. So they use it easily. However, when poor people use it, they may think "because I don't have so much money, I cannot afford to buy such a thing. Then, they hesitate using it. I conclude money for poor is hundreds of thousands times more important than that for riches. If you are using money without deep thinking, you should imagine the life with shortage of money. You can understand the importance of money. These days, many university students often work part-time. Most of them have one part-time job, and others have two or more. I agree with that. There are two reasons. First, university students shouldn't rely on their parents too much. Also, most of them feel that they don't want to. According to my research, they think they should earn money that they need to their entertainment. They can learn how important money is and how difficult earning money is by working part-time. Second, part-time jobs are good for them and need many things that are needed when they work after graduating university. When I asked my friends at university "Why do you work part-time? I got an interesting answer. Of course, I work to earn money, but not only that. I also work to gathering experiences. they said. I was surprised to hear that because I thought they work just to earn money. They also think about their future. From these reasons, I think university students should work part-time. Someone may say studying is more important for them than working. However, in my opinion, studying is not only at university. They can also learn by working. Working part-time is as important as studying. Money is very important. You know, we cannot live without money in this society. Without money, I cannot buy foods and drinks, so I cannot eat and drink either. However, it isn't true that money is all. There are many things that we can buy with money, but there are many things that we cannot buy. For example, mind of other. If you had a lot of money, you might be able to have others do what you say. However, you couldn't control the mind of others. It is terrible to think that you can do everything with money. Then, you cannot understand what is the most important for yourself. Money is one of tools to be happy, on the other hand, it is one of tools to be unhappy. Without money, you couldn't buy foods. Without foods, you and your family couldn't live. It is unhappy for you. However, if you have a little money, you will buy a little foods. If you have a little foods, you and your family will be able to live. If all of your family is be alive and loves each others, you may be happy. It is very difficult for some people to be happy, but it is very easy for some people. Maybe, money helps you a lot of times. Money can be your good friend. However, it isn't good that your friend is money only. You should use money well, and make good distance from money. You will know how to be happy. Now are you happy? Why are you happy or not? I think some people say "I am happy because I have enough money" and "I am not happy because I have a little money". Many people think money is important for us to lead a comfortable life. So is money the most important in our happy life? Are we happy if we have much money? Some people may say "Yes". Today we need money in various situation. Without money, we can not do almost everything. When we want something which is expensive we think as if we have more money. Many poor people feel unhappy because they have enough money. But money is not the only thing which people need in order to be happy. Everyone need love. If someone have very much money and can buy everything, but he is not happy without loving person. While, if some have a little money and love someone, he may be very happy. It is difficult for us to become happy when we have no money. However, the most important thing is not money. The rich need love, too. When we feel love, we think we are happy. So if love each other, we can become happy together. I think the most important thing is not money but love. I think pupils in elementary school should be taught English. For one thing, the earlier you start to study English, the better the ability to speak English will become. When I researched on how to be good at English in junior high school, I found that people are born with the ability to understand what they can hear as a language only by listening to it, but that the ability ceases to exist until they reach ten years old. So if you start to study English after getting into junior high school, you can't benefit from the ability. It is true that the ability doesn't guarantee that you can speak English, but by taking advantage of it, you can be able to speak English much easier than not. Another reason is this. If you start to study English earlier, the total length of studying English become longer. For example, if you begin to study English in the first grade, you can learn it six years longer than those who begin in the seventh grade. The total length of junior high school and high school days is six years, so if you have extra six years, by getting into junior high school you might be able to finish studying what people learn in junior high school and high school, and after that, you can concentrate on practicing speaking English because the English grammar you learn by graduating from high school is enough to speak English. If you have finished learning English early, you can also study other languages or subjects hard, so starting to study English early can benefit you so much. Some people say that if you start to study English in elementary school, you can't study Japanese very much and that first of all you should study their own language. This is very true, but I don't say you should study English even when you should study Japanese. It is no problem to spend the six years studying English you study in your three-year junior high school days. If so, the burden of studying English would be lighter and in junior high school you can study English you learn in high school. In today's English learning program, there isn't the time to study conversational English nor to practice speaking it. No matter how hard you study English, it is in vain if you can't speak it, so to be able to speak English, pupils should start to study it as early as possible. English is spoken all over the world. In most of the countries, people begin to study English when they are a child, and they gradually acquire the skill of English. Foreign people tend to be good at speaking English, on the other hand, Japanese are not good at speaking English. The following statements support this tendency. First, in Japanese schools, they put more importance on reading and writing English than speaking. And most of the entrance examinations don't have the English speaking test. So students don't have to study speaking English. At last, they grow to adults without gaining the ability of speaking English. Second, Japanese are passive compared to foreign people. For example, if we have a discussion in a group in which the members are from different countries, American, European, Chinese, and other country's students are very aggressive and make a lot of speaking. But Japanese are very shy and couldn't speak well. This happens because of less experience of speaking English. To improve these problems, we should change the institution of English education in Japan. Teacher should teach speaking English more and more in the class. If students experience speaking English in the school, Japanese will be good at speaking English as well as foreign people. I will talk about school education. These days elemental school students are taught English class. But the contents are almost play. For example, singing, games, and so on. I disagree with this way, and think it is not study. Though I took this class when in elementary school, I got easy English words exactly when in junior high school. So, it is to have students study English as soon as possible one of bad education. Then, an year passed than I come university, I understand some different parts between high school and university. First, it is capacity of an class. In high school, a class has about forty students but in university almost room can have one or two hundred students. Second, students only listen to a teacher about a matter in high school but they discuss one with students and teachers. I think the high school education has to get the university one. If it comes true, students will have more communication or thinking skills. Finally, in university students have to select classes. In words, we can get ones we like. This is an nice way. By the way, it is not only problem for Japan, Bully is one of the most educational problem. I think we cannot delete it forever but can decrease. Teachers must look carefully at students. And his classmates must do, too. One bullied will have the bad thing for long time. Students should get understand with each other. That are some parts of my idea of education. Today, there is a thing which is essential for our lives. That is money. When we want something to drink or eat, we can't get them without money. Money makes our lives sufficient. But are people who have a lot of money all happy? Does money make us really happy? In fact, more money we have, more things or services we want we can have. For example, when we took some serious disease, and it was necessary to take operations, we need a lot of money. This means that we buy our healthy body by using money. If healthy body makes us happy, it means that a lot of money make us happy. However, there are a lot of things we can't buy by money. For instance, family, friend, love, smile, peace, and so on. They are necessary for our lives, but they are priceless. If we have sufficient money, but do not have these priceless things, we will be spiritually unhappy. It is a difficult question whether money really makes us happy or not. But if I asked to choose which is better, to gain a lot of money or to get peace and warm home, I absolutely choose latter. Do you think university students should do part time jobs? I think university students should do. Actually, many university students do jobs. And I do so. So why do we do part time jobs? I think part time jobs teach us something. First, university students use much money. And our parents give us most of the money. But I think we should not always depend on our parents. Even if we are students, we must not depend on our parents for everything. We should earn money as much as possible. Otherwise, we don't have the right that we play and use money. Second, part time jobs teach us something valuable. For example, the importance of money, the way of living in the society and so on. I do a job at a sushi restaurant and I can actually learn them. When I started the job, I couldn't greatly work. I observed senior who I thought could work better than everyone. That was because I tried to know the difference between I and she. I noticed the difference and I tried do the same. And now, I can work as good as her and she often depend on me. I learned how to do work. Also, I couldn't communicate with customers and job mate. If we don't communicate with people, we can't not only work but live. Now I am good at communication. I learned important thing to live in the society. I am given many important thing by the job. What I got was not only money. I enjoy jobs and I want to know more and more thing. I can grow through the job. And I want other students to think so. That is why I think university students should do part time jobs. Why don't you do? Some people say "I am not very good at memorizing. But people's memorizing ability is not limited and it can be developed. So, why is there the difference between the memorizing ability of a high school student and that of another high school student? Because there is the difference of the quantities which they have memorized. The quantities of CD or memory card are limited and they cannot be increased. So, when they become full, they cannot memorize anymore. However, people's brain do not become full. The more they memorize new things, the higher their ability of memorizing become. That is, if you want to develop your ability of memorizing, you should memorize a lot of things. It is difficult for many people to memorize historical word or science term when we are learning in order to pass the entrance examinations of universities. So I think we should start to practice memorizing when we are elementary school students. But today elementary school students do not practice memorizing enough. So I think teachers should let them memorize a lot of things and students should memorize hard. It will be more easy for them to memorize something and they can enjoy learning. I think that English education in elementary school is too early. Especially, students who are seven, eight and nine years old. I have some reasons. Firstly, I think that elementary school students have to study Japanese hardly. We are Japanese, so to learn Japanese correctly is the most important. If elementary school students aged seven or eight learn English and Japanese at same time, they can't understand both languages much. Secondly, I think that teachers who teach English for elementary school students easily aren't much. Elementary school students are not so smart. So if teachers who don't have less ability of English teach English for elementary school students, they can't understand English, I think. These reasons, I think that to teach English for elementary school students is not good for them. But to teach English for elementary school students who are ten, eleven and twelve years old is not so bad. I think how teach English for them is the most important. It is not good to teach many English words. This way make many elementary school students hate English. It is important that students enjoy English and to make students be interested in English. For example, singing an English song is good way. To teach English like this, I think that elementary school students aged ten, eleven, and twelve are enough age to learn English. I would talk about education of high school and university. First, I would talk about education of high school. That is aim to pass exam for university test. The high school student want to do their club activity, play, etc. than study. But if they do not study, they can not enter the university that is they want to enter. Moreover, in the future, if they want to enter the company, possibility, they can not enter it because their university is not famous for. So almost high school student study only for pass exam! They do not want to study! Second, I would talk about education of university. that is not teach, but is study student themselves. I think this is very good education. Because, if they want to something, they can do it. So I do not understand, why the university makes us study. I think university is not only study place but also play, club activity, if they want to do club activity, play than study, I think that they need not study! Finally, we have been studied since elementary school, about 12 years, so I think that we have right to do what we want to do between university student, about 4 years. But if they want to study in university, I think that is very good things! Thank you. We can't live without money in this world. Actually, I need a lot of money because I can many things I want to do if I have money. But, I don't think money is all. What are we wishing for our lives? Maybe, happiness. I think we can be happy and have a good time without money. For example, when I talk with my friends, see beautiful blue sky and so on, I feel very happy. Our daily lives fill of many happiness. However, as I said before, we can't live with no money. So we have to do work hard to get some money. But university students have to part-time jobs not to get money but to experience society. Through the part-time jobs we can feel happiness that we earn by ourselves and learn how important money is. Many people have trouble with money in Japan. Now, our government have plan to raise rate of consume tax. I disagree this plan because if they raise it, many people will be not able to buy some things they need. Government must practice economic policy by another way. To see from historical view, our human have made a lot of mistakes which were caused by money troubles. Also these days, there are many crimes all over the world. And many cases are related to money. It is very sadness that many people lose their lives in those crimes. In this respect, money is related to our happiness. If we help each other, however, our life standard will become better. Of course, it is much more difficult than I am thinking. But it is necessary for us to think money problems and solve them for happiness of our planet. Education in Japan is different from that in America in many ways. I feel that elementary school and especially high school students in Japan are not willing to join classes but forced to learn by teachers. In America, however, students seem to enjoy and be positive to classes. I believed that Japanese universities students also raise their hands and explain their opinions themselves, but real world was different. Many of them are only given lectures. I actually wanted to raise hands and discuss with them and teachers, but there are too little classes and chances like that at last so far. Education in Japan also should be what students can really join not staying there. If primary education is not changed significantly, high education will be also changed at all. Here I introduce some advise about education. First, Japanese educational institutions located more places to join classes positively, for example, making some rules that student must give one's opinion other students and teachers each classes. Changing school system is second solution. Dividing one classes into three or two groups and make students discuss in groups. I remember studying with only four mates all when I went to elementary school. Studying with small number of students was precious experience to me because I was able to talk with everyone in school every day. But this system would cost too much and there is a fact that I lived in rural areas and my school was closed down five years ago because of financial problems. Not every points of education in Japan is bad, but Japanese school should take some advantages of American schools especially concerned with how to give students good educational places. I think there is a lot of people who don't want to study in the universities. I think such people should not go on to universities. But I admit the experience of having going to a university is a good thing. The issue is that they go on to college just to get a good job. At first I think values of names of universities are due to this phenomena. I think same research should not be done in many universities. Then, values of names would disappear. And thus the grades of the students in the university become important. If the grades of the students become important, they would study harder. I admit that grades of the students are also important, but I think that values of names of universities weaken the diligences of students. Second, I think students should study what they want to study because not only to study what they want is more funny than to study what they don't want to, but also I think genius would be born when he is doing what he like. Some of my friends choose their profession considering whether they can get a job. I think the situation that they can't have a job if they choose a certain profession is also a problem. Thus I think good economics enable the good education because students don't worry about their jobs and can study what they like. I'll make my essay about university student's money. A theme is that students should do or don't part-time jobs. My opinion is not. These are three points: the object of students, useful time using, and scholarship. First reason is the object of students. It is, not to say, studying. If students do part-time job so much, especially, at a place where they have to stand up all time like food store, they become very tired. And because they often do till late night, they go to bed late and sleep until late morning. Because of their tiredness and bad life cycle, they can't concentrate on their study in day time. It means that they can't complete their real object. Second reason is useful time using. Students often want to do their part-time job so much time to earn much money. But if they use much time in doing their part-time job, they lose much precious time. I think after graduating from university, we can't have so much time as students. So, they should do what they want to while they are students ; such as going abroad, getting licenses, and so on. Third reason is that they can get or loan scholarship. Some people might say that they can't live their lives or do what they want to because of lack of money. Let's think of my case. I'm now university student, and not doing any part-time jobs. Alternatively, I'm getting scholarship, and I can live my life and sometimes drink or play by that money. Of course I have to return all of them after graduating from school, but returning rate is not so high. So I think I won't be suffered from that in future. Anyway, students should consider of scholarship before seeking part-time job. In conclusion, from these three points, that is, the object of students, useful time using, and scholarship, I strongly say that students should not do part-time job. Of course doing part-time job is precious time, too, but what is important is how to use their energy. One should not use much energy on earning money forgetting precious things. Today in Japan, some people say that children should learn English in elemental school. But there are some people who think children should not do. I agree to elemental school's English education. I think elemental school's English education gives us something good. I will explain reasons why I think so. First, we have many chance to active in the world. Children may work in the other country or in the world in the future. English is the world language. If we can't understand English, it is difficult that we communicate with people in the world. Japanese people should learn English from children and we should be good at English. In actual, many country teach English in elemental school. Second, elemental school students recently use the Internet in their class. And, they may use that in their house. Many web sites on the Internet are written in English. If they want to read the sites, they need to understand English. The Internet has many and many information and we get many information from the Internet. We have to understand English to get information. Third, learning other language gives children interest to Japanese. People learn own culture from knowing another's. If Children learn English, they will try to learn Japanese. And, children will be good at Japanese. Also, children may try to know more about Japan. Knowing own country is very good and useful in the future. Of course, they will try to learn not only about Japan but also about other countries where people use English. Finally, Japan is the one of the most developed country in the world. We should develop the world. We should have positive attitude to the world. When we do something in the world, we need to use English. We must learn English as members of the developed country. From such reasons, I think Japanese children should learn in elemental school. That gives Japan and Japanese people something good. And, that gives something good to the world. Through my school days for 13years,I think there are a lot of points to improve the education system in Japan. I'd like to suppose some of my ideas. They are as follows; First, We should not try "Yutori Kyoiku" again. It was absolutely a big fault. I am one of the victims of it. It caused a lot of problems. In this education system, children are forced to study so slowly in elementary school and junior high school. As a result, they have to study hard in high school. Many of them cannot follow the classes because of its change of speed. I think it's a better way to study constantly than to study slowly in elementary school and junior high school. Second, we should start to study English in elementary school. In Japan, there are so many people who cannot use English in their daily life in spite of their long term studying English. Why? I think it is because that we were not accustomed to English when young. So if we speak or hear English everyday during childhood, more Japanese can use it effectively. Third, I'd like to mention about education at University. Most of young people go to college these days. But some of them cannot go to college because of lack of money. I'm lucky because I could enter this University. However, my parents didn't have much money to let me do that. So I decided to get some scholarships. It was not easy way but I had to do that. And I don't think they are enough for me. Studying at University costs young people too much. Why don't you introduce more scholarships for poor students. They cannot earn enough money. But only if they study hard, the students and Japanese government can make more money after their graduation. Last, Japanese government should encourage University students to study abroad. You know there are few resources in Japan. So we have to work in world competition with strong knowledge. To do that, many people should speak English on duty. But as my second opinion, we cannot use English effectively. To change this bad situation, to study abroad is the best way. These four ideas should be improved, I think. Because of the system of education and being lazy for study, there are lots of problems like increasing NEET and the economic depression and so on. I think we have to study more hard. Today a lot of students work hard to earn money they will use. In fact, I also work very hard to buy a new computer, new clothes, new shoes, and so on. Now working hard and earning much money are natural for us. I agree with earning money while I am a university student. First, we have to learn about difficulties that earning money of our own. By now, our parents have worked hard to brought us up. Because we were children by now, we think it for granted that we brought us up. But, now that we are adults, we have to brought ourselves up. To do it, we need to earn much money. Second, we also learn about the system that the society makes. By now, we were high school students, and little pay attention to people. But, we have to act on the idea that we help with each other. And, we need to respect the people who are older than us. They are, what we call, teachers about a lot of things, for example, our business, study, and life. To do well in this society, we work as a member of the society, and we should develop ourselves. Third, we students spend much money in eating lunch, shopping, taking on a trip, and so on. The amount is large, and we cannot pay them off only with a little allowance. And, we need to save money to buy the things that we will want to buy in future. Many of them are very expensive, and we cannot buy them without saving much money. So we have to earning money by working. Naturally, some don't want to work so hard to earning money, and you are one of the people. But, working in the society is a good opportunity to learn about the system of the society, so if you have a lot of time and free, you had better work hard and experience the difficulties. I start talking about money. It has various of theme. When students enter university, many start working. I agree with their way. Because, if they work in school days, they will be able to get some merits when they get into society. First, ones working in school days know importance of money. Second, they might have communication skills. Third, they will work more effectively than ones that didn't work. Working is not so easy, but we university students should get job. Next, these days people who do not have much money differs from ones who have. But I think that if I have much enough money, I won't be happy. In words, we cannot get everything if we have much money. For example, we can't buy friends. Though we are poor, we can get small happy things easily. Do you think so? Then in Japan, casino looks illegal structure. But there are a lot of casinos in most countries. I raise my idea that official casino can be built. In fact, many "pachinko" or "slot" buildings are in Japan. Betting money might not be good thing, but most people who play don't bet much money and it is their hobby. Official ones will be more clear structure. I don't experience doing "tobaku", but some students have "majan" experiences or so. Betting games are getting more and more closely for students. That's some of my money's idea. I will write my essay about English education at school in Japan. Here, school contains junior high school and high school. Almost all of English education today at school in Japan focuses on translation of passage from English to Japanese though there is some extent. I think there are no schools not doing translation or kind of that in Japan. I partly agree with this way, but I think Japanese English education should change this strategy for two reasons; wasting time and leading misunderstand students against language. First reason is that doing translation is waste of time. Some Japanese teachers impose students as homework to write down all of Japanese translation of English passage on their notebook. Then, students have to spare their much of precious time only to translate and write down, and they can't do or study other things or subjects. This boring and hard work causes students to down their motivation against not only English but also other subject. I once heard that at school in China, there are almost no strategies of translations. Many Chinese friends can speak English better than many Japanese. I guess it is because they could spare more time in practicing speaking while Japanese students were making much effort in translation. Second reason is that by doing translation from Japanese to English, students misunderstand that Japanese and English have strictly one by one words or phrases. In fact, there are not always exist such one by one words or phrases between the two languages. Sometimes we need to change or think other expression in translating. But I think students may fear to make mistakes or being told some things from teacher if they change expressions by themselves. It leads students to translate strictly, and then they misunderstand that Japanese and English have strictly same words or expressions: in other words, Japanese and English are "same" languages. By these two reasons, that is wasting time and leading students misunderstanding, I have negative thought against doing translation. I agree partly with teachers to make students translate because they have to make them pass entrance examinations including many translating questions. But when thinking of practical ability of English, especially speaking or listening, translating strategy does not make much effect, I think. So, in conclusion, English education at school in Japan should change their strategy from focusing on translation to other strategy, though I don't know what is better, that will improve students' practical English ability. How do University students live ordinary? To live is to spend money. Where does their money come from? Maybe most of them can get money to live from their parents. I think they are not to be blamed. For university students, it is common sense to get money from their parents, especially their hometown is far from their college and live alone. However, I have a little different opinion about money. This is a challenge for me. In this essay, I'm going to talk about my way of thinking about money. First of all, I have to earn money by myself to live because I have 2 brothers and they had spent money to go to college, and also my father is sick in bed seriously. So I told my parents that they did not have to send me any money when I graduate from high school. In this situation, it is the best way for me and my family. I really appreciated them to have taken care of me. However, how can I go to college? Where did a lot of money come from? I have secrets how to get money. It is very easy. Just get good scores at high school and college. You want to say "it's not easy". But we can. I have to do that to live. For me, "earn" does not mean just part-time jobs. In Japan, there are a lot of scholarships for highly motivated students. I'm happy that I can concentrate on my study and my effort gives me more challenges to study. I sometimes hear that someone is crying over not having enough money. But I think they did not take any action. Why don't you get better scores on tests and apply for scholarships? If they were in this situation, I'm sure that they can spend more useful days. Everyone cannot get experience like this but to do the part-time jobs is good for all university students. We can appreciate both of money and our parents. Although I don't have much money, I have a dream in this young age. It takes a lot of money for me, but I will. Money is necessary for our life. We can not live without money you know. This is my private opinion, it is not good to travel or go outside and spend their parents' money because I think we should pay money for our entertainment when we are over 20. Anyway, it is good to think over the money during the college days. Today, in a lot of high schools and junior high schools, students study English. And, in a lot of elementary schools, students also study English. I agree with the plan of studying English in early time. First, when one studies foreign languages, the older he or she is, the more difficult it is for him or her to master them. For old people, mastering foreign languages with long time means spending a lot of time which they are going to do other things with on studying foreign languages. It is serious problem for them. But, for young people, it is very easy to mastering foreign languages, for their brains are more active than old people's, and they can spend a lot of time on studying foreign languages, unlike old people. Second, if one is put in the surroundings foreign languages are spoken in youth, he or she can speak their languages frequently. We always speak Japanese easily, but we cannot speak English frequently like Japanese. In other words, we cannot speak only the language which we are very familiar with. So, the earlier we are in the surroundings which we study foreign languages, the more frequently we speak them. Third, in a recent year, globalization is more and more spreading, it is essential for us to speaking English. English is spoken in a lot of countries, so we cannot communicate with foreign people without speaking English. And, we also speak English in business. Because we success it, we must speak English more frequently. As you can see, around us, a lot of foreign people are in many place. They are here for the purpose of sightseeing, business, studying, and so on. Now we are in globalization. Because we can live in this surroundings, we should study foreign countries as early as we can.