Introduction As a player of trading card games, I’ve noticed a sudden change in card shops lately. Card packs, especially of Pokemon cards, have suddenly disappeared from stores, and prices of single cards keep rising. Why did this sudden change occur? The answer is simple: scalpers. Scalpers are people who buy something and resell them […]
Introduction to Narratology
With an object in front of someone, how would the object be explained? To put it more succinctly, when we tell something to others ― telling a new car to your friend who is not unfamiliar with ― we need to make the explanation to be interesting for him/her. In this situation, we must consider […]
What are Night Schools, and what is becoming new?
What are Night Schools? Night schools are schools that allow people who did not finish mandatory education to complete the educational requirements. In Japan, the educational requirement is to finish junior high school. Differential reasons can result in people not graduating junior high school. This can include the poor environment the student had to or […]