Rachel's Writing

 The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has governed the whole of Vietnam since they won the war against the USA. But the government adopted a capitalist economy because CPV had decided the new policy called Renovation (“Doi Moi” in Vietnamese) in 1984. They have opened their market and invited foreign companies and their money, and stably have been developing little by little. Especially, their economy has been growing at over 7%, increasing every term over these past several years. It is the highest rate of growth among ASEAN countries, and it also has attracted investments from foreigners. As wages have been increasing, Vietnamese could pay more money for various things. Investors are expecting they will be not only good laborers, but also consumers supporting the big market in Vietnam.  Japan made more investments than any other country in Vietnam in 2017 and 2018, but it was outstripped by South Korea in 2019, because Samsung Electronics had built big factories in Vietnam. ...

 In February 2017, one of the members of Toyonaka-city council, Makoto Kimura, sued the Japanese Government, because they had rejected his requirement of information disclosure. That’s because Kimura wondered if the state-owned land in Toyonaka had been discounted illegally to Moritomo Gakuen. Moritomo Gakuen was a private school corporation in Osaka, Japan, which was operated by Yasunori Kagoike.  Asahi Shinbun reported that Kagoike and his wife had a strong connection with Akie Abe, who is the wife of former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Additionally, their kindergarten has educated children about Japanese nationalism that connects to the worship of Imperialism.    This political scandal was reported widely, and most Japanese were shocked to watch the video in which preschoolers worshipped Meiji Emperor with recitation, which had been forced upon children in elementary schools before 1945. Moritomo Gakuen was planning to establish the elementary school that educates ...

 I watched the movie “ The Mule ”, which was directed by Clint Eastwood and he played the main character, Earl Stone. A ‘Mule’ is a hybrid animal between a donkey and horse, and they are used to carry heavy burdens, so it also means a person who traffics drugs in American slang. Earl was a successful horticultural farmer, and he had been so busy traveling for business that his family estranged him.  Especially, not attending his daughter’s wedding ceremony decisively broke their relationship. 12 years later, Earl’s business failed because he couldn’t follow the trend of the Internet.  When his grandchild got married, his family kicked him out of the party. One of the attendees of the party greeted him to introduce a job, which was just to drive from Texas to Illinois with some baggage by someone’s direction. Earl undertook this job without any doubt. He enjoyed this job because he used to drive across the whole country for his business even though he was over 80. However,...