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最近、同姓のメンバーが増えています。出欠欄の記入は必ずフルネームで
お願いします。特に田中さん、渡辺さん、鈴木さん、山下さん、中村さん、
岡田さんはフルネームで！


こんばんは、デモらです。

参加された方は皆ご存じですが、前回の例会ではフージャーズ土曜会史上初めて
インド人の方が3名参加されました。3名の方には2次会の最後まで参加して頂き、
メンバーの皆さんにとって、有意義な国際交流の場となったのではないでしょうか？

さて、今回のトピックはストレスについてです。職場や学校、家庭等々、ストレスの
原因は様々ですが、皆さん何らかのストレスを今感じている、あるいは感じたことが
あるのではないでしょうか？

我々の生活と切り離せない、ストレスとの付き合い方を考えてみましょう。

☆★☆　今回初めて参加される方へ　☆★☆

参加される方は、DMで一度アクセスしてください。詳しいメールが届きます。


できれば、以下のトピックを印刷してお持ちください。

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No end to stress in modern Japan

Until about 50 years ago, Japan was "stress-free." Sure, there was kutsu (pain), kurushimi (agony), fuan (anxiety) and hiro
(fatigue), but it was
only in the wake of World War II that the term "sutoresu (stress)" entered general usage here to describe a physiological condition.

The accepted term for these stress-inducing stimuli is "stressors." In ancient times, these could have been wild animals or a
violent enemy, for
which the intense response was completely appropriate. Today, stressors can be found almost everywhere and vary from individual to
individual -- from
extremes of temperature and noise to human relationships and living and working environments -- though they are not always really so
important (do
we really need to get so upset over spilled milk?).

Shizuo Machizawa, a psychiatrist and professor at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, says the growing number and variety of illnesses
classified in his
field gives a clear indication of the multiplied stress factors today. "About 30 years ago in Japan, we had a few cases of such
disease as
anorexia," Machizawa said. "But the number of patients has increased so sharply that it has become a common disease."

Why me, why now?
Machizawa believes that the reason why stress has become so detrimental to this nation's health is that people are becoming more
vulnerable to
stressors. Traditionally, he says, social and cultural conditioning used to help Japanese people accept, or at least put up with,
unwelcome situations,
regarding them as being in some way "inevitable." From infancy, too, children were taught -- much more so than they generally are
now -- to
control their desires, he says. But with the drastic changes in social values and lifestyles amid the
postwar economic growth, Japanese people became somewhat spoiled. More people had the means to maintain a comfortable existence,
expectations
became higher and patience, adaptability and forbearance declined.

This can be held partly responsible for the rise in stress levels among children. Parents, as they prospered, put more priority on
satisfying their
children's needs, material and otherwise, and thus making them more accustomed to comfort and less tolerant of anything less.
According to a survey conducted by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in June 2000, 35 percent of boys and 43 percent of girls
aged 12 to 14 said
they had recently felt stress. Of course, the suffering affects more than just the younger generations.

Men in their 50s taught to dedicate their lives to the company, he says, must now contend with colleagues for whom work is simply a
means to earn
money. They're also faced with the looming threat of corporate restructuring. These working circumstance can, in some individuals,
create
so much stress as to lead to suicide, which has risen steadily over the last several years to its current level of about 100 a day.

So now what do we do?
We are indeed living in hard times. So, how best to fight stress? Calling a friend to unload? Doing aerobics to sweat it off? Having
a drink to escape?
Soaking in a bath to relax? Well, you won't find the answers here. As the physical and mental response
to stress varies from person to person, no one way will work for everyone. For Sato, it took medication to relieve the chemical
imbalance.

What you need to do, of course, is find your own way of dealing with it, says Kikunori Shinohara, an expert in physiological
anthropology and an
assistant professor at Tokyo University of Science, Suwa in Nagano Prefecture. Shinohara's research has found that one person's
stressor is
another's relief.

Take pachinko, for example. A noisy game often played in cramped, smoky aisles, it can bring on stress for many. But Shinohara's
research has found
that regular pachinko players have lower levels of cortisol, a hormone secreted when people feel stress, when they play.

"We can discuss general ways of relieving stress for people based on [for example] their physical reaction to stress and their
personal history of
having dealt with it," Shinohara says. "But, more simply, I suggest people do something they like and want to do repeatedly. That
should be your way of
relieving stress."

Social anthropologist Roderick Kaim has even more straightforward advice for coping. Throughout human history, he says, stress tends
to be created in
situations where people try to control something they cannot. "So," he says, "it's important to try not to have a feeling of being
too much in control."

Q1.If you face a problem in your business (life) or in your school, how do you cope with it? Or when you actually faced it, how did
you overcome it? Please give a concrete example.

仕事や学校で問題に直面したら、どのように切り抜けますか？あるいは実際に直面したとき、どのように克服しましたか？具体的な例を挙げてください。

Q2.The writer says men in their 50s have been taught to dedicate their lives to the company. Do you agree with dedicating your lives
to the company?

筆者は、50代男性は会社に生涯を捧げるよう教えられてきたと言っています。あなたは生涯を会社に捧げることに同意しますか？

Q3.Machizawa says people are becoming more vulnerable to stressors. Do you agree with this opinion? Why or why not?

マチザワさんはストレスの原因に対して人々が弱くなってきていると述べています。この意見に同意しますか？なぜですか？

Q4.How can we be immune (invulnerable) to the stress? How can we bring up our children immune to it?

どうすればストレスに免疫ができるでしょう？どうすれば、ストレスに強い子供を育てられるでしょう？

Q5. How do you feel about a custom of wearing a tie? Is it necessary even in summer?

ネクタイを身につけるという習慣をどう思いますか？夏でも必要でしょうか？