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1. Reportedly, physical strength of 5th-graders turned out to be a record low.
Sports Agency Commissioner blames smartphone and game and TV.
But as is already pointed out, children's physical ability is developed by playing outside, but current children are deprived of places and time to play outside and build up physical ability.
Do Panjandrums know the reality how adults are treating children as nuisance and enclose them indoors until children can play with only smartphone and digital game?
There are parks forbidding children from playing -then what's those parks for? Place for elderlies' gossip? Firebreak?
-Surely, adults always accuse TV and digital gadgets as harmful for children, though.
Incidentally, I'd like to leave a fantasy that National stadium should be changed into a huge playground for children after upcoming Olympic game.

2. I saw advertisements on train about automobile insurance with dashboard camera.
According to this ad, their vehicle traveling data recorder has drowsiness monitoring system to place on company vehicles.
Since this insurance seems to be aimed at corporations,
It's true that in case their employees cause drowsy driving accidents as a result of overwork, it can be not only company liable but also shame.
Thus, I'd like to place that in order to prevent employees' drowsy driving, before introducing drowsiness monitoring system, employers must assure that their employees get the right amount of sleep.

3. When I was having early supper at a family-style restaurant, a couple with a baby came in.
A staff asked them non-smoking seat or smoking seat.
The couple answered non-smoking, and the place was not so crowded, so this family didn't have to wait.
It's wrong to criticize the staff's reception asking customers with a baby whether they want to get a seat in the smoking section, because this staff could be just following the manual in this restaurant.
If there is a problem, it must be parents who take their children to smoking area and expose them to passive smoking, regardless whether they smoke at home.
Parents who smoke in room with children are out of question, though.
At the same time, may I take this opportunity to place a proposal for all the restaurants that they must usher groups with even one minors to non-smoking section unconditionally?
This is on the assumption that they have completely closed-off smoking rooms.
The easiest solution is to abolish smoking zone from the beginning, though.
In a word... smoke-free society is one of the important factors for our country to come out of child-hostile nation.

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