Japan, Korea, China, each country's idol

Japan, Korea, China, each country's idol                                                                      2014. 3. 31

Hi!! I always wrote about news since December, so I want to write happy thing today!!

I saw TV show yesterday, and it said about idol. They compared which country's idol is better in Japan, Korea, and China. I don't have interest to idol, but it sounded interesting, so I will write it from now!!
In TV show, there were many idols from each country appeared to it, and be proud of their country's entertainment world. But at conclusion in that TV, every guest said Japan idol is the best. No one said K-pop is good or China's idol is the best, so I will write my opinion of each country's idol.

1. Japan

Japanese idol is famous in the world, such as AKB48. To take example of them, they went to some countries, and had world music tour festival. In China, they had concert in big stadium, and made fan excited. It also contributed good relationship between China and Japan, even government were fighting.
So, not only Japanese be crazy of Japanese idol, but also people in the world are enthusiasm in it. AKB48 was just a little part of Japanese idol. There were many and many idol, and they have been active since 1980s. So Japanese idol have a long history, and all of it has originality.



2. Korea

Even Korea's entertainment world late little bit than Japan, Korean idol is famous as Japan. It known as K-pop and it include, idol, veteran singers, and men idol. You know Japan has a lot of idol, but it can't compare to Korean idol's scale. If you hear idol, you will image beautiful women or handsome men, but in Korea, there are many interesting, and original idol. For example, fatty idol. Even they are fat, but there dancing skill are not lower than other Korean idol. You know in America, there is a boom that some men loves fat women, so fatty idol have been accepted by American. And also K-pop had big concert more than thousands times, so there are many fan than Korea. Mainly, K-pop have been active in Korea, but now, they are being active in America.



3. China

There are many criticize to Chinese idol. Typical opinion (criticize) of that is Chinese idol is pretending Japanese idol. In China, the most famous idol in internet is AK98. It seems resemble to Japanese idol, AKB48 right? But the owner of AK98 said it doesn't resemble to AKB48, because they are acting in TV, but AK98 are acting in internet. Even some Chinese think they are resemble. But even there are many criticize of Chinese idol, it has some good thing too. Let's take example from old men and old women idol in China. They were worked in Chinese military, but after they reach to retirement age,they begun to act as idol. And also there are small children idol, military idol. So, one thing that i can say is Chinese idol have a lot of genres, and even there are resemble parts with Japanese idol, they need confident to be proud of their entertainment world.



4. Conclusion

At TV show, there are many criticize to each country's idol. But to say the truth, obviously, they want to proud of their own culture, so they always say their country is best. Actually, I think, we should not compare and ranking which country is best, because we have own different culture, thinking, tradition, and sense.



But, but to be honest, I like Japanese idol best. Because I lived in Japan a long time, so I am familiar with Japanese culture.



That was my opinion for idol that in Japan, Korea, and China. Thank you!!

Current News

Current event                  - Consumption tax increase -

In Japan, our life will have changed from 1st April. Prime minister Abe said that he will raise consumption tax 5% to 8%. And in 2015 it will raise on 10%. Therefore, prices will increase, and we need to spend money more than now.So, now (until 3.31.2014), many supermarket have sale event, so that help us can buy things more profitable.



So, what kind of thing relate to our life. First thing is food. We can buy food at supermarket, convenience store, and 100 yen shop. Normally, in 100 yen shop, goods are always sell in105 yen. 5 yen is consumption. But from April, it will increase 3 yen, so it will be 108 yen. It just increase 3 yen, and it looks like small increase, but if you buy one bread in 100 yen shop every day, it will increase 1095 yen in a year. Also in supermarket, people always buy food in there so, if people buy 1000 yen lunch in supermarket every day, they must pay 29200 for the tax in a year. It is expansive, and it will change our family budget.



Next thing is transportation. People mainly use train to go to school or work place. Train company, JR said from April, fare of train will increase. Obviesly we use train every day, so absolutely, our high expenditure will not be escape. Trasportation is not just train. Also it relate to cab (taxi) or bus. Espasially in Japan, fare of cab is so expensive (1km=760 yen). So to compare with train, definetly over 80 percent people are using train. So when tax increase, more and more people will use train. So that invite cab's company's economy depression, and in the worse case, some cab companies will bankrupt, according to some economistics.



Last one is income of worker. Even if we pay more money, worker's income is same as now. Because tax is not for company, it is for government. So even price of goods raised, it is because tax increase. So worker's income donsen't increase. On the contrary, it will decrease. Because, if tax increase, people don't want to buy so much, so customer will decrease. So that will invite depression of company, and worker can't get income than now.




Abe said tax increase will help economy better, but some critic have opposite opinion between government. This is not just problem between government and critic or economistics though. It relates to our life, I think, seriously, we (citizen) need to think about it. But to say the truth, citizen dissapointe to government now. Because there are lot of bad incident that relate to government. So first government need to do things properly, and we need to discussion with government someday.

5 key words
Consumption tax - It is a tax that consumer must to pay.
                               Consumption is the act of buying or using money.
Expenditure - The act of spending or using money.
Fare - The money that we need to pay when we are going to use transportation.
Bankrupt - When the company stop to do their work because of no money.
Contrary - Opposite from something.

Current News

Current News　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　2014. 3. 8
 

There was sad news in last week. More than 300 Anne Frank's diary were found vandalized in public library in Tokyo Suginami. Police said it is not clear who did like this very bad thing. After this incident, Israel's embassy in Japan has donated Anne Frank's diary to library.

By the way, do you know who is Anne Frank? Anne Frank was normal junior high school student same as us. But she dead in 15 years in detention house that Nazi was managed in in 1945. She was Jew, and Nazi very hated Jew. The chief of Nazi was Hitler, and he hated Jew than anyone. He started to catch Nazi and kill them. Anne and her family worried and they decided to escape to Netherlands. In Netherlands, authority of Nazi was week than Germany, but they were not able to be careless. Because there were few solider in Netherlands too. If solider found Jew, they had been killed or went to detention house in Germany.
So they can't go out, even daytime. So, Anne can't go to school, and she need to stay home every day.
She liked to write essay. So her father gave her diary, and she wrote to it everyday. Because diary is just a one thing that Anne had interest. One day, finally, solider found them, and they went back to Germany. Anne dead in 1945, and her family too(except her father). After war, Germany liberated Jew and her father read Anne's diary. He cried after he read, because the diary was impressed him. He decided to public this diary, and it became famous.



So, many people feel upset through this incident. Anne's diary tell about cruelty of war.
Many people really don't understand criminal who tears Anne's diary.

I hope through this incident, people also learned about horrid facts of history. Maybe this time, criminal hate our thinking and hate Anne, but even criminal hate Anne, he can't vandalize diary, because it is our important property.