Whale Fishing

There is a big issue between Japan and Australia which is Whale fishing. Japan has a food culture that a few Japanese people eat whale and they catch it around the Antarctic Ocean. Most people have never had whales so I do not know how much whales are caught by Japan. A group which is called, Sea Shepherd have tried to stop the fishing for some reasons. They say that it must be prohibited because whales are one of mammalia and they say that whales are clever, they have brains that are the same as 4~5 year-old human that is why the group against Japan. Some researchers have researched about whales’ brains. They are not that much smart as 4~5 year-old human. I am not sure which is correct but I would say that whales are not smart that much for sure. In addition, the fishing is not illegal.

It is said that because Australia has earned a lot of money with whales watching from tourists so the group is against Japanese fishing. The group is very violence to stop of Japanese whales fishing. The Australian government is support the group and most Australian people agree with the idea so many people make a donation of money to the group. However, about two months ago, the group attacked a Japanese whales-fishing-ship. When Australian people watched the video, they doubted what the group is doing in their country.

Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gATb8CMVVg

If there was no related to money with whales, there might be no issue about it.

Japanese Cars

When people think of Japanese cars, they may say that it is a good quality, strong, or it has good mileage. For Japanese people, these things are matter of course but if people compare an American car with a Japanese car, they also say that. TOYOTA is a one of greatest car company but their hybrid car, New Purius, which is very popular in the world, has a fault of their breaks so they have decided to recall these cars. In Japan, they also have started it. According to the news paper, Yomiuri News, TOYOTA was planning a program of perfprmance for selling a new car which is called Passo in Japan on 15th of February, however, today, they decided to cancel the plan because they may inconvenience their costumers. Another recalling news came up today, according the article, CNN, one of Japanese car companies, HONDA has decided starting recalling one of their cars because the system of its air bag have a fault and total 95 hundred thousand cars in the world.

These news have becoming bigger in the US than in Japan for some reasons. It is maybe many American people have these cars so media should tell people about it. We have learned media which has been controlled by someone so far so we may be able to think this way. The US has a big problem which is that a lot of American customers are leaving from US car companies then most of them have bought Japanese cars so it might be possible that the US government can mention all media to tell people about a bad image of Japanese car companies. On the other hand, if now an American car has a fault on their cars, the media would not mention it too much.

We have learned media from that kinds of angle so I am actually confused because I am not sure what thing is truth.

Sumo, the National Sport of Japan

Sumo is a combat sport. The sumo wrestlers are very big and ware uniform which is called “Mawashi” and is like T-backed underwear. They wear only that so it looks like a little bit strange. There is a ranking system which represents who is the strongest wrestler and this would change each tournament. The top wrestler is called “Yokozuna.” Sumo is popular from old people, not that much popular for young people but some famous and strong wrestlers such as Yokozuna are known by all Japanese and also sumo is very popular in Mongolia because now, two Yokozuna are from Mongolia. The two Yokozuna are hero in Mongolia.

One of the Yokozuna, Asashouryu, 29 year-old, announced retirement from sumo world two days ago. This is a big news in Japan but in Mongolia, this news is bigger than in Japan. He was very strong but it is said that he did not have a good or enough behavior as a Yokozuna or an athlete. He had had a lot of bad news such as an act of violence that is why he had to announce retirement. However, on the Mongolian media mentions that Japanese people have been jealousy about Mongolian wrestler so Japanese people drove retirement.

This is completely different information. People in Mongolia may have bad image about Japanese sumo world and Japanese because all top news in Mongolia mentions about this news and say “The Yokozuna is poor. Japanes sumo world is terrible.” I do not know which information is correct but I think that sumo has a lot of strict traditional rules so people may misunderstand about what Japanese media criticize the Yokozuna. I hope that the ex-Yokozuna, Asashouryu will mentions the truth in Japan and in Mongolia.

NASA

Do you believe a rumor that is about an alien? People may not realize what is truth. According to NASA, Pluto is located 59 hundred million kilometer away from the Sun and is covered with red and yellow. This information is kind of interesting but I am wondering that how much cost the government has spent for the projects. NASA also announces that in 2015, they will unravel the mystery of Pluto by the unmanned probe. Who want to know about Pluto more? I just want to know how much cost they have been spending about it so far.

People actually cannot know what is truth about space even thought the money come from our taxes. Even if the government said that there were many aliens around the earth, we still would not know what was truth because most people had never seen space so actually people just would follow their information. For example, if NASA reported that we might have a war with aliens so we need more money, people of course would agree to rise in tax.

People need media to understand what is happening in the world but it is easy to control them by making a rumor or a new information. It is important that people need to see information from several media, however, if these media have been controlled by same people, there would be no truth. In our history, there may have been a lot of untruth stories.