Four months have passed since the plastic bag stared to be charged at all stores in Japan. Are you utilizing your own bag (reusable bag)?
I remember that charging bag is for reducing marine plastic waste, but I have simple doubt about it.
Because I don’t see many plastic bags floating in the sea.
I rather see plastic bottles and plastic liquid containers around our beautiful beaches. And I think that it is the real.
So plastic bottle should be charged, I think.
Similarly each of us are contributing to global warming with gasoline-powered vehicle.
Furthermore, carbon dioxide emissions is a problem, but nuclear waste problem is as critical to human beings as global warming.
Not like official document of Regional Finance Bureau about Moritomo Gakuen Problem or invited guest list of Prime Minister’s cherry blossom viewing party, we cannot make global warming and nuclear waste non-existent. We do need immediate measures. Can’t we expect each citizen’s awareness of the issues and voluntary restraints by all makers/producers?
Are there any movie directors of producers like Michael Moore and Davis Guggenheim in Japan?
Thank you and you have a nice day, doing the right thing.
from Yassan,
Manager of a Little Guesthouse under a Little Lighthouse TOUKA
( http://touka-kanmon.com )
Even in this country, every downtowns are decorated with orange color this time of year. This town is also no exception.
We heard that Shibuya, young people’s town in Tokyo, is requesting them not to have crazy Halloween party on the streets this year.
Every year late October, I always remember sad incident happened on the day of Halloween.
Do you remember the name, Rodney Peairs?
A Japanese high school student, who stayed in the U.S. 1992, as and exchange student, got shot by him, the resident of the house, on the day of Halloween, as the result of the student’s visiting wrong house for attending a party. It is way before Halloween got popular in Japan and Oct.31 in Shibuya was more quiet than recent 15 years.
Because of the incident, I was taught about Halloween, before I dispatched to the U.S. 1995.
If there is no such incident, the high school boy must be 44 years old this year.
I often wonder how his parents feel about the whoopee in Japan, customized/imported from foreign custom which was the trigger of sad incident.
There are quite few opportunity to be killed by guns but we wish young people to behave in a moderate way on Oct.31, considering about prevention of COVID-19 infection.
Thank you and you have a nice and peaceful day without any fears of the gun.
from Yassan,
Manager of a Little Guesthouse under a Little Lighthouse TOUKA
( http://touka-kanmon.com )