On the last day of this year ( New Year's Eve)

2008 is coming to an end and 2009 is approaching quickly.
I couldn’t make me share time to attend the Mass at Chirstmas day.
What a shame.
I feel sorry about this to Father.
I was too busy to share my time in Church activities.
I didn’t have any kind of ‘minute’ to take a look at myself .
I always have incredible many things to make my decisions every time.
I really need to organaize things around my daily life.
I really love my Church.’Cause it is devoted to Hail Holly Queen.
When a Catholic church is built, it is devoted to the saints,
and their names are engraved within the site.
To build a new church means to dedicate it to a saint that has passed, which we refer to as a consecration of a church.
For example, the Kawaramachi church in Kyoto is dedicated to St. Francis Xavier
and thus has his name engraved to show the consecration of that church.
The church that I am affiliated with is dedicated to St. Maria who is also the patron saint of that church.
I will attend at the First Mass definitely in New Year tomorrow morning.
Wishing Holy Mother bless me!

Our trial in Cambodia

In Cambodia, since the situation of Land Mine Victims
was publicized worldwide, the government,
by providing grants and other aid for support
to the Physically Disabled,
although gradually beginning to function as a policy,
support plan for the Intellectually Disabled and the Mentally Disabled
is almost non-existent under the present condition.
International Judicial Court has been in session
since 2007 to try for the great massacre of Cambodia.
For this trial, the Japanese government has thrown in 2.6 billion dollars,
and appointed a Japanese judge to take care of the fact-finding trial. In such a situation,
grasping the real number of the Intellectually Disabled in Cambodia,
and investigating the needs, is necessary,
and simply exceeding any academic values,
is clear that it deserves a position as
irreplaceable contribution to the humanity.
Dr. Borin at Siem Reap Provincial Hospital in Cambodia,
by cooperating together with Cambodia UNICEF,
to be of help to people suffering from social discrimination,
and under disabilities,
I asked for Professor Sopal’s cooperation in this investigation.
I'm supposed to be able to receive cooperation of Cambodian government,
and Prime Minister Hunsen, as well as the Department of Health.

Being myself in Japan

I can’t help staying in Japan in this August
because of incredible fuel surcharge,
I am in the habit of going abroard every summer.though.

My friends in Canada are waiting for me, but I don’t come to see them.
What a pity!
I had been spending in the Denmark ,Germany and Canada in these three years,
going to universities on the spot,

and just as I was getting the hang of it I had to return to Japan.

Japanese have lived in overseas, when they return,

they find that the experience has changed them and their views.
Women, especially, find that their confidence has grown,
and come back with many ideas.

But, it’s difficult to keep being oneself.
Being myself is not acceptable in this country,I think,
because of Japanese particular culture, thinking,attitude,etc.

I'm not familiar with them, so I can't do it quite right.

I sensed that things were not going as they should.

Things go by contraries in this world.

What is proof?

My friend which he is a professor always told me
‘ onward and forward’
that means to encourage me.
He used to say that it’ s important to keep going
according to my real spirit if I believe it’s true.

‘ onward and forward’- That is your integrity, he said.
I remind it of me.

I found out it’s true. But I’ve gone too far.

Starting again our trial in Cambodia!

Now that I’m back in Cambodia again after 6 month’s absence.
I’m very happy to meet my friends again.
I can refresh myself and breathe a sigh of relief again!
I wish I could stay here as long as I can.
I mean it forever.

I have been spending over 10 years to work out in this country
for various kinds of handicapped people: Mentally ill such as Schizophrenia, Depression,
…and Physical handicap–cerebral palsy, land mine victims
; Intellectual handicapped –mental retardation, down syndrome and developmental handicap–Autism…
And also the weak people– HIV/AIDS.
I rush to work in Siem Reap, Phnom Penh.
I am also a International Committee Member and Steering Committee
in Japanese National Conference for Mentally Challenged
and Mental Illness

I’m here again to start on establishing and Supporting
the acts to transform “The Working Group for Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and Special Education–WG-PSR&SE”
to be “The National Sub-Committee for Psycho-Social Rehabilitation
and Special Education–NSC-PSR&SE”
This is our first trial to establish special education school for handicapped people.
I try to continue the reports of our trail as my obligation.

Every time I visit here, I can find out something good,
meet with someone and precious opportunity.
I love this country from my heart.
I always feel myself I don’t want to come back to Japan which doesn’t look like my home country, I never feel relax.

language reflects myself.

Each language reflects country it belongs, its customs, traditions.
It shows the spirit of a state.
This I can say about Japanese that opens me its different interesting sides every time when I learn it.

I started to study Danish approximately three years ago.
Why did I decide to do this?
I wanted to know more about north European countries.
I really love everythings in Denmark,people respects me,
I know some occidental languages, study international relations.
That is why I understand that it is not enough.
Our cultures are different and we should know more about each other in order to collaborate.
And the knowing of the language can help me to obtain the goal.
So I began.
But I did not imagine what waited for me.
First of all it is so interesting!
Secondly it differs too much from languages I know and
it is difficult to memorize so much information.
But I want to know it.
At the same time we learn Danish culture, customs, everything that concerns to the country.
This issue and our teachers help us.
Because of them I have very positive image of Danish people.
And I want all of us know more about each other.

I hope relations between Europe and Japan will be closer.
We can understand each other.
Our countries are situated so far but in the century where globalization exists it is not the problem.
But we should understand each other.
And only if we know the language we can do this.
That is why I learn Danish.
I want to understand this interesting part of the world.
I recognize it is impossible, but I want to try to open at least its little part.
And it is so pleasantly when I really understand it!

Heart Disease, Why me? ?

I'm currently feeling a little under the weather。
Actually I 've been in bad condition from January.
It seems I ' m suffering from some heart trouble,
I always have pains on my heart and back.
I experienced great hardships ,It means I suffered from heart attack twice.
Doctor says you should get plenty of sleep and eat right,
since you're not feeling well.
When I go to the hospital,
there are naturally a lot of other people there who don't feel well.
Having to sit in the waiting room
with them makes me feel even worse than before.
Recently I always have thinking of what is left of my life.
I count on my rest year of my life.
How long year I can get to live.
I have had many such moments in my life,
and this is the kind of feeling I get.
It makes me feel down.
Anyhow ,what's up on my condition?
It's creepy.

My review about the Daily Security Law (生活保護法）

I ' ve been busy to preparing for the publification to meet the deadline.
I am killing myself finishing my review for the publification.
I 'm writing and writing right now.(I feel pain on my back)
This is my summary below.


Problems and Controversies of Legal Protections for Minorities in Japanese Domestic Law.
（社会的弱者に対する現行法運用の不備と問題点）

Social Security Law in Japan is designed to support a wide variety of people who fall below the poverty line including; the elderly,
the handicapped, the divorce,single parents, people who lose their jobs and accident victims.

Social Security Law was enacted to guarantee the livelihood of elderly people living in poverty on the assumption that unexpected risks occur when people live beyond the average life expectancy

Families who have difficulties in daily life because of their low
income are given a Public Assistant Benefit to ensure a minimum standard of living.
A supplemental allowance for disabled persons is available, the amount of which is determined according to the severity of the disability.

The right to live is one of the fundamental human rights guaranteed under the constitution.
But this rule does not apply in every case in common law.

We have another law regarding Sick Travelers and the Death of Travelers (referred to hereafter as the ‘Traveler’s Law’) was enacted to aid travelers who fall ill, or for the burial of travelers who die during their stay. Each Local government has jurisdiction and can determine how The Traveler’s Law is applied. This scheme may apply when a person has no fixed address (E.g.; a person who is staying in someone else's home), or if there is no one who can or will cover medical expenses, when a person is taken to hospital by ambulance etc.

However, these two laws are ineffectual for homeless people,
as the Japanese government has interpreted article 30 of
The Daily Life Protection Law to regard an address
as a necessary condition to applying for protection under the law, thereby preventing the homeless from gaining protection.

The fact that the Traveler’s Law is ineffectual for the Homeless is a serious contradiction.

In addition, Local Welfare Commissioners have been unwilling to interpret the law in a way that would assist homeless people.
This unwillingness on the part of government officials is rooted in the public’s established belief that people become homeless because of laziness.

In 2002, The Special Measures Law to assist the Homeless was enacted to make up for the lack of protection.

It provides for homeless placed in public facilities.
But most homeless and the NPO’s that support them are against this policy.
They see it as form of forced eviction.
Local governments have been telling homeless people that,
unless they move to these public facilities,
they are not eligible to receive any assistance.

The law defines the homeless as those who dwell in public parks,
along the banks of rivers, on roadsides, at stations, etc.
This definition is much narrower than the one widely interpreted in Europe,
which includes all "Persons who don't have a house with the right to live.”

ETHOS (European Typology on Homelessness and housing exclusion) classifies homeless people according to their living situation:
 rooflessness (without a shelter of any kind, sleeping rough)
 houselessness (with a place to sleep but temporary in institutions or shelter)
 living in insecure housing (threatened with severe exclusion due to insecure tenancies, eviction, domestic violence)
 living in inadequate housing (in caravans on illegal campsites, in unfit housing, in extreme overcrowding).

These 4 conceptual categories are broken down into operational categories which are applicable in all countries.
The sub-categories take into account national differences in order to have a better understanding of the perception of homelessness in the different member states.
Different target groups (children, women, men, older people from different ethnic or immigrant populations and with different disabilities/difficulties) can come under one or more of these categories.

This approach confirms that homelessness is a process (rather than a static phenomenon) that affects many vulnerable households at different points in their lives.

In the 2003 Japanese national census,
there were 25,000 confirmed homeless people.
Confirmed means the number of people census investigators actually saw. However, some have asserted that there may be more than 40,000 homeless people in Japan, and this number doesn't include people living in hotels or staying with at a friend’s house.

Most homeless live in metropolitan areas, such as Tokyo and Osaka. However, there are some homeless who are transient, living in railroad stations, or erecting sheds along the roadsides, in public parks, or on dry riverbeds.

It is remarkable the laws concerning the protection of homeless people no longer function properly because of political interpretations.
In the interpretation and application of these laws,
regard should always be paid to the good faith intentions behind the creation of the law as well as to its conformity to international standards.

A "awoke", and only a "dream"?

I am living my dream, and
I believe it just keeps on getting better and better every moment of every new day.
I’d like to appreciate everyone have been supporting me and everything happened on me so much.


The obvious question is;
Was it all just a dream, or was it reality?
And by the way, how do you know that you are not dreaming right here and now?
Think about that for a moment.


Have you ever experienced these exact same sensations during your sleeping time,
only to awaken suddenly in your bed,
and realize that it was only something that you experienced while you were dreaming?"
How about you?
Have you ever gone to bed at night,
and at sometime during your "sleep", been in a situation that was so real,
that you felt disappointed when you "awoke", and remembered that it was only a "dream"?
I have experienced this sensation, a countless number of times.
I'll bet that, you have also.
Welcome to Dreamland.
I wish I could see you again during your sleeping time!

the article about my activities in Cambodia

How was your New Year's holiday?
Mine was very very relaxing, and now I'm both sad to see it go but excited to get back to work in this new year.
Have you made any resolutions for this year yet?
It sounds like you already have many resolutions in your life.
I made up my mind not to make any resolutions for the beginning of every year.
Because I never keep it before.So I decide not to make any resolutions.

Now that the university opens again ,
I 'm in back my usual busy days it makes my head spin.
I 'm swanped with my work right now. I hate these days.
Oh! Please take me to somewhere I can be relax….


I' m very happy to hear you had read the article about me in Daily Yomiuri newspaper dated on the Jan 6th .
I also really enjoyed reading about what I've been doing in Cambodia.
I think I understood the article pretty well.
Most of another my friends from abroad couldn't see and read it .
For some reason, They missed buying it at a kiosk,
can't understand Japanese,
are not interested in the voluntary supporting ,and so on.
but Some of them could see my pictures,so, emailed me.
You sound like you read it conscientiously.
Your e-mail brought me happy.Thanks!

This article is about the information we have the plan to build the special school for Handicapped People in Cambodia.
It's the first trial in Cambodia.
Cambodia goverment has no policy and system for the Minority (people in poverty,handicapped people,illiterates,orphans, landmine victims, mother-and-child families,uneducated women).
Cambodia manages to scrape a living by helping NGO from another industrially advanced nations.
Actually,we have almost no plan in draft ,no money ,no man-power.
So, this account is for making an appeal to the public for cooperation.
The reporter in the newspaper offered the proposal to help me kindly.

I received a phonecall from Yomiuri newspaper company on just the day before the date carried an account of my activities.
The Yomiuri has been taking an interest what I do ,
it's not necessarily whether it's a domestic action or overseas.
some reporters on the Yomiuri have been keeping touch with me.

I 'm always very interested in what the activities are, what I can do useful things for everyone, what for people do this , how I can make supporting effectively,etc.
Originally I decided to support the voluntary activites.
It was the first to take participate in the activities of the Catholic Church.
I was a member of a Catholic volunteer groupe for social work.
It was a good chance to broach the voluntary work.and
The fact that my Sister looked after in may childhood provoked me into starting to voluntary work in real earnest.
She still stays at the district area of outside Takeo alone,south of Cambodia,not safe area right now.
Do you remember I was very surprised at hearing you're a Catholic?
It' s very meaningful for me to be a Catholic.
'Catholic' is a kind of keyword in my life.
so,What a wonderful thing I have a new Catholic friend ! ( (^_-).)

I have many many reasons to pull my interest about the social welfare.
I'd like to say one more reason because of my major.
I have been spent much time to study the socail security system from my twenties,in my graduate school days.
It's the study of protecting against risks in people's life .
How can we help the people gets in serious trouble in their life by using law and policy ?
For example,getting disorder by accidents or disease, losing jobs , getting old , being one parent family, people get into a serious situation by any reasons, so that they can't expect the income. how we build up proper social system .This is my interest.

I wish I could see you again.
If you would have, Please make contact with me .
Yes, indeed,you can!