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Investing in Japan's posterity | The Japan Times Online

Investing in Japan's posterity | The Japan Times Online Shared via AddThis I think intensive employment support for second-generation baby boomer - often called "dankai-junior" who have missed the opportunity to be regular employees is needed. Although this generation is one major part of Japanese population, many of them hesitate marriage or having children because they have weak financial base. And there are few policies, from both ruling and opposition parties, explicitly support this generation, although I hear several plans to support younger generation who has more job opportunities. Supporting second-generation baby boomer will help make third-generation.

A point which a non-native English speaker lacks

When you study English at school in Japan, you are always required to be perfect although anyone is hardly possible. Every mistake you make will be corrected. Meanwhile I realize that we don't use so perfect Japanese among family or friends in daily conversation. Sometimes a TV program points out errors of usages of idioms or phrases in daily communication, but not so many people seem to care. So I'm beginning to doubt that language proficiency is determined only by how correctly you can speak the target language.

A small step on YouTube

This is my small step on YouTube, but I realized that it's a little bit better to post the most trivial work than imagining that you are posting great works and actually arn't able to post anything.