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4. From this July, design of bank notes in our state was changed.
Since then, a new mysterious manaa came up.
At wedding, guests are to present monetary gratuity with the largest crisp bill.
They say that using current design of ten-thousand bank note for monetary gift for wedding is bad manners because of its portrait.
The Businessman whose portrait is printed on is said to have kept many mistresses, so the new bank note is inappropriate for wedding handsel.
Since an etiquette expert accuses that this Rule is completely irresponsible, it would be necessary to question:
Bank note with former design will be eventually unavailable, at least as freshly minted bill, since it's not printed anymore.
Do those White-hat wannabes understand it?
Will they use five-thousand-yen bills with portrait of female education pioneer instead?
Or taking this occasion, how about abolishing wedding handsel and condolence payment?
As a matter of fact, gradually more and more couples reject monetary handsel at wedding -so did we.
In addition, less and less couples have wedding ceremony.
Also, the number of people getting married is declining, too!

5. New Year's greeting card has been the customary among our nation for a long time.
But gradually more and more people rethink this habit.
Some reduce the number of cards to send, and some officially notice that they stop sending New Year's greeting cards.
The reasons are:
　Especially for elderly people, writing dozens of cards is hard work.
　　Some feel it's insignificant to send and receive greetings just on form.
　　　Some think it's a waste of time and money and paper while their main communication tool is e-mail or social media. and so on.
From this October, mail charge soar, so was New Year's postal cards.
This mail fee rise will accelerate New Year's greeting decline.
And still, Postal service authority says that they want to keep up New Year's greeting card culture.
Then they should have prepared postal cards dedicated to New Year's greeting with lower fee from the beginning.
And it's possible enough, just like they kept New Year's postal cards at the price back then when the postage was raised last time.

6. This summer, whole nation suffered from rice shortage, at least until first rice crop of this year came to stores.
One of the origins was:
In the middle of August, there was a big earthquake, and following the earthquake, a massive earthquake warning was announced.
And there were people who cornered rice, trying to prepare for earthquake disaster.
In case of actual natural disaster, how do they cook raw rice without gas or electricity?
Lamentably, some who snatched up rice beyond necessary seemed to plot resale.
What has our nation learned from mask shortage panic under Pandemic?

(Translation: Unable-to-think-up-handle)

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