My favorite stamp of today

I bought commemorative stamps.
The theme is "International Skills Festival for All."
Especially, I like the picture of a plasterer.

Halloween

I got candies at the convinience store.
She said, "Because Halloween is coming."
I gave them to my students.

Honest is the best policy

I've written some postcards to my customers.
Honest is the best policy.
Thanks for all.

satisfaction

I've written an abstract of a paper.
It's about the argument by Abe Kin'ya, Japanese historian.
But I can get no satisfaction.
Because my theme is different from it.
The theme is Japanese social stuructures, for example.
I have not have an ability to argue it yet.
But someday I'll do it.

The effect of Ruth Benedict

I read a book, A new look at the Chrysanthemum and the sword written by Douglas Lummis.
This book is essays about the book, The Chrysanthemum ant the Sword written by Ruth Benedict.
The auther tells that he was moved by the book, but it mazed about the understanding of Japan.
Because R.B's book was lack of the analysis of the power and the artificiality of Japanese trandition by Japanese gorverment in Meiji era.
I think that the arguments of Japanese society has been in R. Benedict's discourses.

a tragic of a communists' sect

I read the comic "Red vol.1" by Yamamoto Naoki.
This comic is based on the real case of "United Red Army."
This book is not so cruel yet.
But, as the story progresses, the tragic fate is waiting.
Some good guys and girls will be killed by commrades in the snowy mountain.
In this case of the sect, isolation from the people was the most problem, I think.

A too stoic scholar

I've just read the paper, 'Publicity and Formation of a "Japanese Style" Modern State' written by Oguma Eiji.
He says that: in Japan, intermediary groups were the sub-system of the state, so an individual felt that I was alienated by them.
His argument is quite superior.
But he does not show how to solve this problem.
I think that he is too stoic.