It seems that 100,000 yen was transferred to each household in Yamaguchi Prefecture by mistake. That means the total amount was twice what was expected. Didn't they check the total amount? Also, if they didn't transfer to other households, the data is a parade of transfer accounts with no transfers. So it seems that they didn't have the habit of checking if they thought something was "strange".

If it's not refunded by the end of this year, it will become income. It will also become "miscellaneous income". I hope the National Tax Agency will tax it and exercise their investigative powers...

I think gambling is safe the old-fashioned way. You can't tell if something is fraudulent when dealing with a PC or computer software. So we should make casinos and make gambling legal there, and punish anything else severely. There should be a strict dress code for entering the casino.

I wonder if online casinos use the same methods as the old "malicious product trading". Also, the "small amount" is the bait. Then you get addicted. I got into Solitaire and Minesweeper. I found a way to cheat on FreeCell and extended my winning streak. In Win95, you can end the game before you lose. If you end FreeCell, it will record your loss. In XP, you can force quit using the task manager. I don't play Hearts because I don't feel like I'm being tricked.

I wonder if long-term governments are prone to problems. Turkey may be one of them. If China's economic growth slows down, it seems that they will become more active in turning the attention of the people outward.

To avoid problems with long-term governments, France seems to have shortened the term of the president from seven years to five years. The United States limited it to two terms, as was the case with the later President Roosevelt.

Merkel was in office for a long time, but she retired peacefully. It seems that in a dictatorship, there is no "peaceful retirement" unless it is extremely unusual. That's why Putin is afraid of NATO.

I think NATO is a military alliance of countries that can retire peacefully. The EU is a community of countries that are economic entities that can retire peacefully.

Korea is interesting. A change of government occurs through normal elections, but... The president didn't go to prison after retirement... I wonder if this is the bad side of Confucianism. This is what I thought after listening to Ryotaro Shiba's "Chat: The Road to Showa."

In Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party has been the only political party for a long time. There are lots of articles about it in weekly magazines.

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