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Economy as an weapon

Recently I read " 武器としの経済学 " by kenichi ohmae and some articles are intersting. 1. About japanese national pension status (1) 60 % of japanese people pay national pension, that means 40% people didn't pay. He said that this pension plan has already been over.( yukio noguchi also say same thing) Ratio of age over 65 year was 23% at year 2010, 26.6% at year 2015, and will be 38.4% at year 2065, that means 2 of 5 people are over 65 years old at year 2065 so 1.3 people support one person over 65 years old. Current pension plan was made when population was growing year by year and now this premise is broken so this pension plan is over. (2) He propose 2 plan. One is to promote accepting emigration. for example, about 30% of population of California are emigration. On the other hand, ratio of foreiner in japan is only 2%. But this plan might be difficult to introduce in current japan. Second plan is to change the national pension plan. He pointed out reaganomics. President Rea

A story behind brain research

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I happened to find this article . I pushed this article to my kindle and read it. It's very intersting story. H. M w as a man who were unable to hold on to the present moment for more than 30 seconds or so. I knew the name of H.M. but didn't know a story around him and researchers so it's very interesting story for me. After reading this article, I saw another  article  in facebook. Two articles are related to a newly released  book. That's why I often find a story about H.M. The author of this book  Luke Dittrich  and female researcher  Suzanne Corkin  are both related deeply to H.M., former is grandson of surgeon who operated brain surgery to H.M. and the latter was a resercher who researched H.M. for long period of time. So it is why this book seemed to be very intersting. This author's grandfather did brain operation to H.M. which performed on both sides of his brain and intended to treat Henry's epilepsy, renderd himm profoundly amnesi

Sports is good for health, especially for brain

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I'm interested in relationship between stress and brain function. Mechanism of brain is very intersting because brain is very accurate organism. When we feel about fear, stress, brain alart to amygdala in brain, then amygdala make signal to hypothalamus then hypothalamus makes singnal to hypophysis ,then hypophysis make signal to adrenal gland then adrenal gland release cortisol which is stress hormone.This route is called "HPA" . Cortisol is circuited via blood around our body then affected many organ including brain. Cortisol is good when emargence situation was happend, but when we continuously feel stress alltime, cortisol level is always high and it is bad for brain, especially for hippocampus which is important for memory. My favorite book " Method of usage of waking up early " said that 3 important issue for health is "sleep 7 hours", "good food" and "good exercise". The author kisou kubota has jogging 3 days

Recently popular books in Japan.

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Recently, there are many how-to books or business books published, like how to stock and use informations (using internet services or notebook, etc) or the knowhow-books of memorize something. For example, we can see many books like, Kazuyo katuma , leverage thinking by Naoyuki Honma , Stydy Hacks by Ryusuke koyama , use one notebook for memo by Nobuyuki Okuno , method of memorizing by student of The University of Tokyo by Wakiko Tokuda , etc. Of course, such books had been existed before, but recently I think the number of such books are increasing. Maybe there are some reasons exist. One reason is the development of internet access (plus gear) and internet services, so we can easily get and utilize informations using Information Technology. We can easily get and send informations anywhere anytime by using mobile phone or wireless access by Note-PC in a cheap charge. And with such circumstances, the amount of informations are also increasing because many people publish informat