Hello, Johndiii..

I sent a couple of photos of cherry blossoms. Very blur. Forgive.. I'm going to move back to Fukuoka on 11th of April. I spent one year and three months in Kokura.

I left this hometown at age 20 and my homecoming was for the first time in 27 years.

I don't come back here any more.

Poems are cry of your soul. Nice magic of words!!

>The US, seen as a federation of states, is a very effective system at keeping inter-state disagreements in the political realm, and not falling into the military's domain.

Agreed.

>words are a broken medium for communication.

This clause beautifully expresses the essence of words.

In my opinion snowfall at its marginal area is most beautiful on earth.

If you live between latitude 34 to 35 degrees area of the northern Georgia, you must have several -three or four snowfall days in a year. I live slightly below than latitude 34 degrees so we have a few -two or three snowfall days.

Tokyo is located at latitude 35.5 so they have more snowfall days, but anyway less than a week.

One of the cities located at latitude 33 usually doesn't have any snowfall.

The city located at latitude 37 always has trouble of heavy snowfall evey winter. For them snow is not an objective of nostalgia, but simply it's something that has them feel fear to nature.

Snow is a miracle humans ever had. Let's keep beautiful snow, the symmetric beauty of its crystal suggests it's one of the most beautiful gifts from heaven as such.

In late 18th century when Admiral Perry comes to Japan with the four Black ship the population of the United States and Japan was almost the same. Just twenty years ago the US was two times as populous as Japan. Now population of US is over three hundred million, exceeding Japan almost three times.

The average number of kids in a family in Japan is one point something, by the year 2055 the populatin of Japan will be reduced to 89 hundred million accrding to a survey.

Culture without universality never prevails.

>Chesterton's system solves this problem rather neatly- only information is traded between communities, and the principle of subsidarity requires the factory be as close to the end consumer as possible, eliminating the need for shipping.

This is also a core of your thought.

Thirty years ago almost all information was monopolised in either Tokyo or Kansai region in Japan, so we were obliged to think about learning in either of the two regions. Because we couldn't obtain enough books in local area.

I started to consider moving to the US to learn more when I was the third grade at the University. Because I thought it was hard to acquire surroundings surrounded only by international common language. So I went to the US. About a year I enjoyed its ambience fully.

How about now? Do I have to go to Tokyo to obtain enough informatin? No. I can get it through the net. Do I have to go to the US to fully enjoy the flood of information? No. I can get it through the net.

Now the time has changed from the age of centralised, monopolised system to decentralised, multilateral world where we can find as many hubs of information and knowledge as possible.

I first saw the name Chesterton in a dialog between you and Mike Hawk and got curious since then.

Our age has come closer to his ideal more and more.

Irrationality is a feature of ordinary people. We can find rational people mainly in a mental hospital, where there are people who think rationality ought to control the world.

Rationality never controls the world. That is a reality we all ought to live along.