Hi, ladies!
Alice, thank you for your detailed information about dissenters. Those were so informative that I became to think why such large number of dissenters appeared.
Sunflower, thank you for letting us know the website NHK world. There are a lot of news and articles on it, and I can find it very useful to study social issues in Japan.
Today I will write this issue:
Do you agree with the price reduction of food products in convenience stores? (from chigasaki method)
I don’t agree with the price reduction of food products in convenience stores, because of following three reasons.
First, discount sales of food products could trigger excessive price-cutting competition. It also may lead to the collapse of its business model. Convenience stores should sell any products at just the same condition across the nation.
Second, the problem is the way in which storeowners have to bear the cost of unsold food items. Even under company policy, they can’t predict demand more accurately to reduce the amount of unsold items. Instead store chains operator should have responsibility to bear the cost.
Third, the convenience store industry should pay more attention to reduce waste. Major convenience store chains in Japan dispose of a lot of unsold food products. Promoting the recycling of food products, for example, is a good way to reduce garbage.
The convenience store industry as a whole should bear its social responsibility to reduce waste and to improve the more eco-friendly industry style. As stated above, I don’t agree with the price reduction of food products in convenience stores. (180)
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Hello, Cherry & ladies!
Today we have a delightful weather, don’t we?
Hi, Cherry, I read your argument about the discounting sale of food products in convenience stores. It is an interesting and important issue for the stores themselves and consumers.
You are against the price reduction of food products. But I couldn’t understand your argument well. You mentioned three reasons for your objection.
Firstly, you are afraid of potential excessive price-cutting competition. I understand this because Japan is a capitalistic nation. However, I can’t fully understand your second and third reasons.
In the second reason, you sympathized with the stores, which have to bear the cost of unsold food. I think cheaper prices are better than a lot of unsold ones on the shelf.
In the third reason, they should think about reduce waste more seriously. Precisely for this reason, I think they should sell in cheaper prices. Of course, eco-friendly policy should come first today, under this climate change. Disposal of unsold food is much more waste, and I think it is impossible to recycling unsold food products, consuming more energy and making another wastes, and more garbage.
Well, my precious members, let’s see on Friday! Bye!
Hi, Cherry and friends:
All of you had a good summer break, I guess.
Congratulations, Alice, It is a great accomplishment that your paper was accepted by an academic journal.
One month and a week have passed since I got out of the hospital. Thank you very much for your inquiry or visit in July and August. I thought I would soon be able to recover physical energy to keep up my mind positive enough to re-work on various assignments. Actually, things were not so simple, though.
The breakthrough came last week with the finding of an interesting paper in relation to my research on the Internet. Reading the paper pulled me back to the track where I had been in June.
Criticism against the Japan Woman’s Christian Temperance Union concerning their social reform activities by Noe Ito in 1915
Arrogant, intolerant, unreasonable, rigorous, conceited, conspicuous rivalry over honorary posts, insulting attitudes toward heathens, inflexible way of thinking, charity for mare satisfaction of their vanity, benevolence as a duty driven from their strong class consciousness, lack of imagination for the feelings of the poor, explicit disdain toward prostitutes, thoughtless, etc. etc.
These are the words that Noe Ito uses in her contribution to Seito in 1915 when the Japan WCTU launched the campaign against the government plan that invited geisha as entertainers to the public cerebration in Kyoto at the enthronement of Emperor Taisho. Although her remark is rather emotional, her feeling could be shared among the general public.
At the time, Akiko Yosano set off the dispute, whose idea is partly in common with Ito’s. Ochimi Kubushiro had refuted in Fujin shinpo. She became a staff member of the WCTU in 1916. Kikue Yamakawa partly advocated WCTU’s standpoint. Various evaluation of the organization would suggest its place in Japanese society in the 1910s. In the late 1910s, Kubushiro and Tsuneko Gauntlett started to lead the WCTU, which might or might not change the character of the WCTU. One of their distinct backgrounds is being Christian. The condition would somehow differentiate them from those who also had knowledge of woman’s social reform activities in the Western countries, such as Ichiko Kamichika and Michiko Kawai.
Frankly, writing takes me a long time. Well…
I wish I were eloquent in English.
W0w, soybeans in the pod are boiling!
Cooking time!
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
I wonder how you enjoy 5 consecutive holidays or a silver week with your family or by yourself?
On respected for the Aged Day, I sent a sukiyaki set to my parents who live in Kobe. I sent 500 grams of super expensive meat
and some vegetables such as a fourth of a white cabbage and some shiitake mushroom and other ingredients packed in a cooler bag.
I came up with this idea a week before respect for the Aged Day comes
I sent the sukiyaki set taking advantage of a door-to-door parcel delivery service, especially using a cooler truck.
Surprisingly enough, I also got nice presents from my three-year-old grandson. My daughter bought a nice long scarf for me and handkerchiefs for my husband.
This was the first expeirence to have a presnet from my grondson.
NHK world reported that Japan’s oldest hippopotamus, 57 years old, which is equivalent to more than 100 human years, was presented with a cake of soy pulp during this holiday. She has a big appetite. She is also an easy-going type.
The key to be a long life seems to go at your own pace.
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