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Journal SPAM: At a platform

Suppose you are waiting a train in a platform. The train arrived. One person is only on board. Who is the person you see in a train when the door opened?
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Journal SPAM: A perfect number

In a real world 6 is called a perfect number since it is divided by 2, 3 an 6.
7 is not a perfect number of course but in Bible it is regarded as a perfect number.

Perfect number in a real world is not perfect in ethereal world, that proves it a place nowhere.

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Journal SPAM: Memory of condom

15 year old girl and boy were walking on their way home after they finish a cram school. It was already dark after 8 o'clock.

We both stopped in front of the vending machine. She asked what this is. I replied it's condom. She grinned.

Later she became a medical doctor and got married. She had three kids, living in Tokyo. She must have used it with another guy.

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Journal SPAM: Smoker's image in cinema

One fugitive was hiding in a warehouse. He started smoking there. One criminal investigator fires a gun without trying to aim at him. The fugitive was hit by a bullet since it was heat censored.

One criminal investigator arrived at the site a crime was committed. He started smoking there. A smoke censor at the ceiling started detecting it and sprinkled water. Investigators had to evacuate from the site. A criminal was able to flee from there.

The criminal investigator concluded the fugitive must have died when he saw a part of clothes the fugitive wore. The clothes were deliberately cast in an attempt to have them believe he must have died.

Smoker tend to die before the drama ends. Smoker investigators often die before the drama ends and in the last scene of the French connection, at a harbour a drug dealer started smoking some time after he went on board, where he was hit.

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Journal SPAM: Time goes by..

Four years ago we were discussing whether Republicans or Democrats win US presidential election. Eight years ago we were debating the same issue. Now US presidential election had started.

Whoever won the race, four years from now same issue would be discussed.

Conservative or Liberal, it will be discussed till the end of time since it's an eternal theme for humans.

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Journal SPAM: Right & Duty

Someone said in a TV drama that no one has a right to take someone's life. But in reality many people take someone's life. How do we explain that?

No one has a right to take somone's life but there is some time some one has to take someone's life.

It must be permissable if it's a duty to take someone's life.

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Journal SPAM: Calmness before the storm

Big typhoon is approaching in a very slow pace.
Why it's so calm before the arrival of gigantic typhoon.
Because it gathers even a very little energy of wind around it.
These two or three days atmosphere around my residence is unusually quiet.

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Journal SPAM: Big earthquake & the dowfall of city

Kobe -population 1,3 million was a prosperous city and a target of our yearning. But 1995 Kobe earthquake changed its position. Kobe was dead and are still struggling to get out of the situations this city suffered.

After the Great Kanto earthquake that hit Tokyo in 1923 not only Tokyo but Japan was never be able to recover herself from the damage until the defeat of World War the second in 1945.

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Journal SPAM: Scent of wind

Today was holiday. I got up in the early morning as usual and I took a walk near our house.
I had a deep breath, then I caught the smell of strange sweet wind. It was not stimulus or irritant, but I thought it is harmful to our health.

Our house is 10 km away from the centre of industrial area where giant chimnies give off exhaust gas. I had no real time to take a deep breath since I an working indoors, but what a nasty smell!

We have factories of about ten chimnies 3 km away from near our town, but owing to the current economic recession no chimnies have emitted any smoke in these four months, so I had felt like I can keep on living in the town.

I came to Kokura -population 400,000 six months ago for some reason. I have half a mind to go back to Fukuoka early next year. Fukuoka -population 1,2 million has no factory.
 

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Journal SPAM: Hello to Sidotti

The name of Sidotti 1668 -1714 appears in Japan's history. In 1708 he came over here from Italy via Manila. He was a jesuit missionary. He was arrested soon after he landed in Yakusima, one of the sourthern islands in Japan. Then he sent to Nagasaki, and finally Edo. He must have been in custody untill his death under the house arrest in Edo.

I thought the house owner must be a descendant from this Sidotti when I found a nameplate near Fukuoka international airport. It is very rare to find the name plate of Chinese characterised 'Sidotti' in any household in Japan. But pondering the fact that he had been in custody throughout his life in Japan, the house owner must be an immigrant from other Sidotti family.

It was already 8 years ago when I found the plate, I for unknown reasons recall it.

I might have been feeling a strong alienation in my job.

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Journal SPAM: 'I mode' 2

iMac, iPod, iphone...there are many 'i's in digital world. All are popular and successful. But I think few know the first one that used the term 'i' in front of some computer product is 'i mode'.

By the way where's ATARI right now? The company was famous when I was a graduate student in mid 80's.

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Journal SPAM: Bipartisanship & Cohabitation

Japan's Prime minister resigned. He had once proposed to his counterpart - leader of the main opposition party to cohabit in the same cabinet. His counterpart declined as a matter of course.

I can't assert whether his attempt was good though in general bipartisanship is effective in some areas as defence, humanitarian issues, but it's not always necessary in various other issues that relate to our ordinary daily life.

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Journal SPAM: Final Responsibility 2

Tsutomu Miyazaki, arrested for allegation of little girl abduction and murder, was hung to death on the 7th of June. He committed his crime in 1987, so it was long ago.

Yasuaki Uwabe sentenced to death finally at the supreme court. He killed 5 people at the local station in 1999. He will be hung sooner or later.

Both two are recognised as mentally insane or similar, yet court admitted that does not affect to their ability to be responsible.

Insanity won't be a reason for them to be acquitted. I think this is the current in recent judiciary.
 

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Journal SPAM: Last smile

I believe people are liable to fall in love with someone at first sight when the situations surrounding him changed very drastically. In my case the chance came abruptly when I decided to move to Kokura, my birthplace about a year ago.
I met her in the station I always use. It is a local station so I started talking to her in a very casual way. But she didn't want to talk to me. It was just one time we had a word. It seemed she didn't like to talk to me any more so I stopped trying to get access to her, but there was a public station and I needed to use it one time in a week always on Saturdays to go to part time job at some time past 9. So I always see her around 9 o'clock every Saturday.

I knew it was in last October when I talked to her first and last time.

I found her wearing a marriage ring after that, which was also another reason I stopped talking to her. But we are forced to see one another always on Saturdays since we were using the same train at the same time. I start working at 10 and so does she. And we had several occasions to be near in the station and a train.

On the 15th of March this year I was questioned by two men - railway policemen.

They say she is upset because I am always with her in a train and a station.

This was not a criminal investigation but it was I who got upset.

I promised them not to get access to her any more intentionally from then on. I started using another train twenty minutes earlier. It lasted two or three months.

I tried using the train I used to use after three months. She was not there. Now I use the train I used to. She must have stopped using the train or changed her residence.

I didn't have any chance to ask even her name.

Her one shoe was taken off at the staircase when she was walking in front of me on the day I was questioned and she gave me the mysterious smile when I saw her in a station we always got off.

It was her 'Last smile' thinking back from later on. It turned to a cruel moment.
   

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Journal SPAM: Hand phase

Life line, fate line..I found strange words in the lyrics of 'Last smile'. I got curious about so-called 'hand phase'. This is mainly used to predict someone's future.

Talking to a hand phase, I recall my cousin.

He didn't come to my wedding ceremony more than ten years ago. I got married to some woman at age 34. At that occasion, I heard from other relatives that he was already dead. He was two years junior to me, so he must have died in his twenties or early thirties.

As my bio suggests I had been always leaving best results in my schools. My evaluation was always 5 or most excellent from 5 stage evaluations in almost all subjects except for a physical education. On the other hand my cousin was always 1 or 2. He was a poor performance pupil.

I'm not sure when but one day I had a chance to see his hand phase in a playful manner. His was something like an explosion of bomb. His didn't show any particular lines.

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