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東南アジアに行くとドラゴンフルーツを食べるが、日本で買うと1個300円～500円ぐらいである。向こうだと数十円。味はキィウィフルーツのような感じで、サボテンの一種なので表面に棘のような突起がある。値段なんてあって無いようなものだが、需要と供給の関係が不思議な価格を生み出してしまう。しかしそれがあるべき価格なのである。旅行期間中は口の中にずっと口内炎があり食べる度に痛むような状態であったが、日本に帰国するとその存在を忘れるほどにあっという間に治癒してしまう。東南アジアの食べ物では栄養が足りなかったのだろうか。暑かったせいで冷たい飲み物を飲みすぎたことによって胃腸の具合が悪かったのかも知れない。飽食の日本人にとって食事の違いによるストレスやその他の不安から来る心労が、旅行中の不安であることは間違いない。他国の民はどうなのであろうか。日本国民よりも楽天的なイメージがあるが、それもまた人によるし、更には時と場合によるのかも知れない。
When we travel south-east asia, we usually have dragon-fruits in breakfast at Hotel restrant and we have them as welcome fruits in our room. About dragon-fruits, its color is bright red and its taste is a little sweet like kiwi-fruits. The dragon-fruits is a kind of cactus so it has protuberance like needle. If we buy them in Japan, it costs about 300 to 500 Japanese Yen. On the other hand, if we buy them in south-east asia it would cost less than 50 Japanese yen. The price which we usually see is meanigless but the strange price comes from relations of supply and demand in the world. Through the trip, I got some canker sore in my mouth so it was painful for me to eat something. However, after I come back to Japan, the canker sore was cured shortly. I am not sure about the reason why it was cured so quickly, but maybe it comes from amount of nutorition. Each contries in south-east asia is developping now, the people in such countries are not as tall as developped contries. Some food in that contries are maybe not so much full with nutrition. The reasons were not only amount of nutorition but also change of environment. Japanese people usually feel stress too much when they travell abroad because it is too much convinient to live in Japan. Change of environment like foods and water and langage barrier disturb Japanese. I do not know how other people in foreign contries feel, but they usually seem more optimistic than Japanese, so they are not so much disturbed by such changes. Of course it depends at time and depends on the person...
中国も未だ途上国に分類されているが、IOCの会長は北京オリンピックは比類なきものだと述べた。中国本土で言う上海、北京や香港に関して言えば先進国並の水準である。そのGDPはここ数年急激な増大を続けていて、間も無く日本を抜き世界でアメリカに次いで2番目となる。共産主義による様々な弊害はあるものの、市場原理を取り入れることによって経済的な発展を可能とした。しかしながら、その急激な発展により格差が広がったとの問題が取りざたされている。これは共産主義の失敗なのかは分からないが、貧しい人々を犠牲にした不動産や株による成金が多く生まれたのも確かである。また、チベット民族に対する情報統制など人道的に問題があるとヨーロッパでは多く取り上げられているようである。日本はお隣の国であるにも関わらず、マスコミが意図的に自ら報道を規制しているのかは分からないが殆ど情報が出回らない。
China is also clarified as developping country, but the chairman of IOC(International Olympic Commitee) told that Beijin Olympic was exceptional. Shanghai, Beijin in mainland China and Hong Kong are developped as well as developped contries. Its GDP is increasing for this several years and it will become second to USA which has biggest GDP in the world by overtaking Japan. There are many problems due to the communism, but the market mechanism makes China's economy greater. One of the problem is difference problem in mainland China. It is considered that the difference had been made by the rapidly economic growth and government policy failure. I am not sure that this is a failure of communism, but it is certain that many upstarts appeared because of the sharp rise in the market of equity and real estate with sacrifice of poor people. In Europe, people are interested in the suppression by the government to people living in Tibet. Though Japan is the next country, informarion about Tibet hardly appears. The reason why the information hardly appears is uncertain but it is possible for mass communication voluntarily to restrict the report for Tibet with taking the relation with government into consideration.
共産主義と資本主義との闘いは、冷戦を経て一応の決着が着いたものとされている。東南アジアでは、ベトナム戦争やカンボジアの内戦など、共産主義と資本主義との闘争により大きく傷ついた歴史を持つ。最近では、資本主義の帝国であるアメリカにおいて、資本主義への批判が起きている。これを共産主義化と言うのかは分からないが、バブル経済の崩壊に伴い大きな混乱が未だに続いている。景気の刺激策として、歴史的な低水準におかれた金利を1つの原因として、不動産市場のバブルに始まった。その後不動産市場の拡大に伴う景気回復で、株式市場が恩恵を受け、人々は永遠に経済が成長する幻想を抱いてしまった。結果として不動産価格の下落により、バブル崩壊の引き金を引き、株式市場および不動産市場が崩壊した。これに伴い、行き場を失ったファンド等の運用資金は商品市場に流れ込むこととなる。
It is said that the fight between communism and capitarism had finished for the moment through the collapse of the Berlin wall. In south-east asia, Vietnum and Kanbodia have history that they had been suffered significantly through the fight between communism and capitarism, the Vietnum war and civil war in Kanbodia. Recently, in the USA which commits to capitarism most in the world, some people criticize the capitarism. I am not sure that the increase of criticism against capitarism is called becoming communism, the turbulence which arise from the bursting of the bubble economy has been continuing. The bubble economy started with cutting the federal fund rate to historical low level. Cutting rate stimulates the real estate market into bubble and expansion of real estate market made an extensive economic recovery. Consequently, the equity market became bullish and participants of the market came to believe that the market would expand eternally(everlastingly). The decline happened in real estate market triggered the collapse of bubble economy and people drawed their money up from those markets. The money which had nowhere to go rushed into the commodity markets.
不況の時には株式と不動産が下がり、債券と商品が上がるのは歴史が示す通りである。商品市場でも代表的なものは原油市場である。急激な高騰により世界中で起きているインフレーションを先導している。また、原油に代わる代替燃料としてバイオエタノールが注目されているが、これによりトウモロコシや大豆の価格が高騰し、原油同様にインフレーションに影響を与えている。日本の自給率は世界の中でも低い部類に位置し、これらのインフレーションの影響を大きく受けている。生活必需品に関しては、インフレ率は5％を上回るという。平均所得以下の層にとっては、大きなダメージを与えている。その結果、内需が更に低迷して、日本経済はリセッション入りしたとの見解を日本政府は示した。
It is obvious that the price of equity and real estate decline during depression and the price of bonds and commodity boost sharply as the history shows. Crude oil is a major item in commodity market and the increase in price leads inflation all over the world. Moreover, many participants are attracted by bio-ethanol is for some substitutes of crude oil and that happens boost in the price of corn and soybean, which affects inflation. The self-sufficiency ration for grain of Japan is ranked lower in the world, so people in Japan are highly affected by the inflation. As the inflation rate of necessaries is over 5%, people who earn less than average are sensitive about the price. As a result, the domestic demand suluggish further, and Japanese Government showed the opinion that Japanese economy has already entered in the recession.