Sian Leah Beilock : Why we choke under pressure — and how to avoid it

Sian Leah Beilock at TEDMED 2017  (transcript)
Why we choke under pressure - and how to avoid it.
Summary
We really want to know about how to avoid pressure because we often face the situation that we have to accomplish something under pressure. No, we think that we have to accomplish something well, thus it seems to put us under pressure.

Why do we often fail to perform up to our potential under pressure?

It's because stressful situations is that we worry about the situation that, in fact, what others will think of us automatically. It's that all eyes are on us, we know that we are evaluated,  and then our performance changes.

We concentrate too much. The phenomenon is over attention. If we pay attention to details what we do, our performance is slower and more error-prone.

Simply, we unhook the situation that we concentrate too much. For example, singing a song, pay attention to your pinky toe, and jotting down your thoughts and worries before a stressful event. It's less likely to distract you and you can perform your best when it matters most.

Additionally, adult anxiety is contagious. Parents and teachers are not worried about students and kids but they spend with them to improve their skill with enjoyment. It helps them perform better.

Let's work hard together

Words in this story
humiliate /verb/  embarrass, mortify, humble, disgrace, chagrin
choke /verb/ cough, fight for breath
distract /verb/ divert, sidetrack, draw away, disturb, put off
contagious /adj/  infectious, communicable, transmittable

Dread Scott : How art can shape America's conversation about freedom

Dread Scott at TED2018  (transcript)
How art can shape America's conversation about freedom
My comment
Not only I but also many people must think that the American flag shows freedom, thus the flag that the speaker used wouldn't be better, even if the court prevented the government from demanding patriotism be mandatory.
Changing anything is important. It requires courage and boldness of action, though, the way is not worth to risk but not even humorous. Don't justify to burn flags.
However, it might be important that the court prevent the government from demanding patriotism be mandatory. In fact, Japan has its issue. I'll explain it next time.

Nikki Clifton: 3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking

Nikki Clifton at TED@UPS  (transcript)

3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking
Summary
Sex trafficking is to buy and to sell human, especially girls are sold and usual businessmen can buy in the afternoon while working without hesitation. However, it's become one of the bigger businesses than the city’s illegal gun and drug trade combined.

The speaker suggests 3 ways to stop the customers in the middle of the workday from buying sex. Those key points are making a policy, educating, and trying its business not to work completely.

A policy is to make the clear policy that the company prohibits sex-buying during work with company resources or on company time. 1)

Education is to educate the workforce. If you don't buy, you have to call where sex trafficking happens. There is no penalty. Not to buy is not sorry for girls because they're enslaved but don't want, additionally, customers don't know it. 2)

Not to work means, for example, backpage.com and affiliated websites are shut down because they use online sex sites that sold commercial sex and to give girls good jobs is effective not to need working there for them. 3)

The problem is difficult to solve. It's a high possibility that the cities get money from the business so if you set up, step up, and hold signs, it isn't enough.

Martin Jacques : Understanding the rise of China

Martin Jacques at TEDSalon London 2010  (transcript)
Understanding the rise of China
Summary
It was better for me to read his another article. It made me understood.
The speaker tells us in the story three points what China is, two expectations for how China will become, and his opinions on why we don't understand.

Three points of what China is are the notion of civilization-state against the race, the nature of the state, and the relationship to society.
First, China is not really a nation-state but a civilization-state. The notion of civilization-state against the race is that we learned from his previous article. Over thousands of years, many processes, culture, racial, and ethnic have been weakened by many races that comprised the ancient Chinese called the Han. There's much race, however, it weakened no longer significant. 1)
A civilization-state doesn't work on the basis of one civilization with one system. It works on one civilization with many systems like there are Taiwan and Hong Kong in China. 2)
The Chinese state enjoys more legitimacy and more authority amongst the Chiese than any Western state. 3)

Two expectations for how China will become are below and note that 8 years have passed since the story was told.
China is a huge developing country with a population of 1.3 billion people and it will grow more. 1)
China which is a developing country will become the dominant country in the world. It's for the first time in the modern era. 2)

His opinions on why we don't understand are the reasons that our predictions about what's going to happen to China are incorrect when we try understanding China.
We look at China through Western eyes, 1) and we are ignorant. 2)

China is not a democratic country and the power of the Chinese state has not been challenged for 1000 years. There is no other country like China and we have to think about China is a completely new country in the world.

Civilization state versus nation-state

Article
Civilization state versus nation state
Summary
I think that it'll be better to add backgrounds on 2011 January 15 when the article was updated, the speaker who seems to live in Europe doesn't tell us, though. It'd be important because, certainly, the end of 2010, it's confirmed that China eclipsed Japan in GDP.
And then, on March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred and the internet in our hands started telling the world how Asia countries are, people didn't have smartphones before, though.

Thus, l think that China and Japan are competitively known by many people in the world.

China covers a large area and has a big population that is over one billion. The most important difference that the speaker tell us and we couldn't understand is that China is a civilization-state. Why we couldn't understand is that we think about it through our thought that is a nation-state, and no other tradition or history or culture can compare.

The nation-state is a state inhabited by a homogeneous group of people who consider themselves to be a distinct nationality. It's like the countries of Europe and The United State in which national identities are overwhelmingly a product of the era of the nation-state.

In China, the sense of identity has primarily been shaped by the country's history. This is the Civilization-state. The characteristics are that China is the exceptional longevity country and the sheer scale diversity geographically and demographically.

Simply, China has been enormous scale about all things, though, it's not a democratic country.
The point is that over thousands of years, many processes, culture, racial, and ethnic have been weakened by many races that comprised the ancient Chinese called the Han. It's weakened no longer significant. There are no other countries like that. This is China where we have to think that it's a completely new world that is presently unfolding before us.

P.S. In the story, the word “enjoy” really made me troubled. It's appeared many times. I think that this must be one of the unable understand part for us. Quote: the Chinese state enjoys greater legitimacy than any Western state.

Words in this story
homogeneous /adj/  of the same composition, like, similar, consistent, uniform
distinct /adj/ clear, well-defined, unmistakable, easily
Civilization /noun/ the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.
Nation /noun/ a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
geographic /adj/ relating to the structure of ground and areas.
demographic /adj/ relating to the structure of populations.

Sachiko Takahashi : Exposition personnelle du 5 au 11 octobre 2018

Sachiko Takahashi
Exposition personnelle du 5 au 11 octobre 2018  (information)
My senior is going to hold a private exhibition of paintings in Paris, France in early October 2018.

I'm cheering her on and I'll translate her message into English below.

She thinks that for telling French people Japan's brilliance, she prepares her 34 paintings which the world of Hyakunin Isshu, the representative scenery of Japan and so on and also for visitors the sound of koto that means a Japanese harp to be able to feel "Japan".  The team is purely Japanese.
She expects many visitors to come, to appreciate the delicate, graceful, and beautiful world of Japan, and understand the Japanese spirit for treating nature. She thinks to be able to stand here thankfully.

Who is a first private astronaut?

BBC NEWS  (article)
Yusaku Maezawa: The Japanese billionaire who wants to fly to the Moon
My comment
SpaceX's Elon Musk set to announce first private passenger flight around the moon.
I didn't know this plan because I thought that he Elon always thought about only Mars and then I was very surprised that the first private passenger that he announced was Japanese.
The news must make not only me but Japan and the world happy.
Although some people say that a Japanese man who is chosen because he is rich, there are men who are rich but they are not chosen.
Japan must have a proud that there is a man who is going to go to the moon and I imagine a picture that two astronauts put up flags on the moon that are America and Japan. Thank you, Elon Musk.

Elon Musk : The future we're building — and boring

Elon Musk at TED2017  (transcript)
The future we're building — and boring
Summary
When Elon Musk would be as old as Donald Trump, he must be a president of Mars.

How many companies does Elon Musk want to run?
Just the number won't be important. He only does what he wants to do.

He started The Boring Company to create tunnels. In the tunnels, your car can run at 200 kilometers an hour. The point is using your car but creating new subways to alleviate traffic congestion. His thoughts seem to be that continuing creating cars is important for Americans, economics and his company Tesla, but energy problems are important, thus Tesla offers electric cars and another company is going to create a house which has a solar roof to capture the solar energy for cars and your life. It addresses safe hands - off cars to decrease car accidents.
Cars should not fly because it's dangerous and you can imagine that cars smash into tiny pieces on your head.

After all, the key to autonomy is how much better autonomy needs to be that a person before you can rely on it.

What SpaceX changed is to reuse rocket and to think that rockets can take people and baggage into orbit. Thinking to build a city on Mars with a million people on it additionally, in our lifetime is important it's to have a future that is inspiring and appealing.
This is a future Elon Musk is building and he is a man. Human dreams must be like that and it might be the thing that we might forget recently.

My previous summary on June 2017
The future we're building — and boring
Summary
Why are you boring?
I thought that Elon Musk is bored or he is a boring person, but there are no reasons he is bored or his life is boring. In his previous TED, he and his companies which are Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity always face exciting things.
However, his new company called The Boring Company seems to have a little problem. However, no one believes it a problem for him. It’s like a hobby for him.

The Boring Company is digging a hole under LA to create big tunnels where electric cars can run 200 kilometers an hour. His thoughts are first energy problem, electric cars are created, and next, there are cost, traffic jams and time problems there. Alleviating congestion leads to saving time, running a lot of cars and reducing costs.
Then, I also thought that it'll be very dangerous when flying cars are allowed in our sky. Tunnels can avoid sky’s accident and tie-in with Hyperloop.
Tesla works about a self-driving car and a long-range semi truck both run by electricity.

Although it'll take for about 15 years, having solar roofs will be usual in your cities. Now, a hundred gigawatt hours of batteries a year is produced.
SolarCity is really needed for the next generation.

SpaceX designed an outrageous rocket which is like a 49-story skyscraper.
Then I think that there is a big difference between we optimistically do something and ambitiously do it.

There is an inspiring and appealing future there and we can look at the future from the standpoint of probabilities. We use energy, it means we will run out, however, we have to help the advent of sustainable energy.

Everyone likes his today's last words: "I just only do it and work a lot. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad".
We can have more big dreams.

Steve McCarroll : How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain

Steve McCarroll at TEDMED 2017  (transcript)
How data is helping us unravel the  mysteries of the brain
Summary
We can't know about living brain well, however, today, big-data has been possible to make an atlas of all the cells in the human body, especially in the brain. It means that we can understand in precise detail how specific genes work and scientists can analyze individual cells at a scale that was never before possible. It's called “Drop-seq”. The atlas will be showing what causes many diseases soon, that are even cancer, schizophrenia, and depression.
Big-data approaches are transforming not only in our economy but also biology and medicine.

Words in this story
synapse / a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.

Luhan Yang :How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant

Luhan Yang at TED2018  (transcript)
How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant
Summary
The story is about xenotransplantation. It means a process of transplanting animal organs into humans and it's famously known that some pigs carry organs with similar size and physiology to human organs.
The speaker explained that there are two problems with that, I thought that there are many other moral or ethical problems, though.
The two problems that she had were rejection and a virus.

The problem of rejection is that when the human immune system sees a new organ as foreign, it will reject it. Her team succeeded that by a process of cloning, the birthing piglet can carry organs whose genetic makeup hopefully wouldn't be rejected by the human immune system.
The next problem of a virus is that every pig carries a virus that is benign to the pig, but can be transmitted into humans. They succeeded also to take out all the virus, to modify within a cell and to eliminate the possibility of the dangerous virus being transmitted into humans.

Now, a lot of people need a lifesaving transplant, organs are shortages, and they won't be able to wait for humans' brain dead to transplant. The pig that gives one organ can still be alive. This will be a  world where no one dies waiting for a transplant.

Words in this story
xenotransplantation / the process of grafting or transplanting organs or tissues between members of different species.
benign /adj/ (of a disease) not harmful in effect

Dean Kamen : To invent is to give

Dean Kamen at TED2002  (transcript)
To invent is to give
Summary
The title is to invent is to give, though, the truth is to invent is to give is difficult but no one knows that whether the inventions have reached someone who really wanted to do and wait for it or not. This is the difficult problem that might be called the last mile is the problem.

I didn't know about the iBOT that was a powered wheelchair developed by the speaker. In the cities, I see many wheelchairs, however, I've never seen the iBOT that will be very useful because this is a wheelchair that you can walk up and down stairs while sitting on without assistance. He told us that technology was great, though, this had another problem that was the transportation.
About transportation, we've solved all the long-range, high-speed, high-volume, and lager-weight problems of moving things around.  However, the fact is that there is the problem of the last mile. It might be an energy problem or a pollution problem or a density population problem.

And then the speaker invented a new way of moving that it can be seen as a pedestrian and the small engine is able to burn any fuel. You don't need to choose buses, taxes, and parking. It solved the energy problem, the pollution problem, and the density population problem, however, no one uses.
The speaker thinks that it must solve the water problem also.
It seems to be called the Segway.

I think that the invention can be used for some problem and for solving a problem, something is invented are different.
People must think that this is the worst problem that a woman has to go to a distant place for water, though, it's just that only she wants to do that. The problem with the solution has a lot of challenges.

Words in this story
context /noun/  circumstances, conditions, factors

Benedetta Berti : Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?

Benedetta Berti TED2018  (transcript)
Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?
Summary
I thought that it'll be better for understanding the story to explain what our security is more.
9/11 accident gave us an unbelievable shock. People have still struggled and they think that they have to do something, though, they didn't know what to do.

However, people must start realizing that the best way to guarantee people’s security won't be by defeating their enemies. It means that building sustainable security is not winning on the battlefield or is not crushing enemies but it must be protecting victims and building stability.
The speaker’s answer to the title is no. Now, the world has to rethink security.
Directly, we know that defeating ISIS may be a security achievement but stopping it and shelving the never-ending War on Terror are fear, though, many people in the world are struggling. It won't make us safer in the long term and the generation is always changing.

I want to tell Japanese people the same thing that the generation is always changing. For Japanese people, we have to protect our country with our own hands from China. We must not do the same thing as ever.
I would like to pray for those who lost their lives in 9/11 and wars.

Words in this story
impose /verb/ foist, force, inflict, press, urge, saddle someone with
take stock of / verify and  confirm the facts regarding something
perspective / outlook, prospect
perceptive /  insightful, discerning, sensitive
imminent /adj/ about to happen. impending, close (at hand)
shelve /verb/  postpone, put off, delay

Christina Wallace : How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps

Christina Wallace at TED2018  (transcript)
How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps
Summary
This is a story about a woman who succeeded in online dating!!

Somehow, I don't like this kind of story. I don't play internet games and don't use Facebook. I don't even watch TV.  I think that it's a waste of time.
Photos and profiles can be better than real things thus to see those and to be seen yours won't be important. People are too many on online sites and you can't choose one because they are too many. You have to spend much time before you meet someone in reality.

The speaker seems to have similar opinions, she doesn't seem to dislike using online, though. It's because she is smart, she graduated from a famous university, She thought that she wouldn't be chosen because she was taller than almost of boys in the university.

However, she knew that online dating sites don't work well, people look too great on paper, and it's important to meet reality, however, it has to avoid all sexual content.

She invented a new online dating app called the zero date. The zero is one drink, one hour, and one question. It means that you can meet in reality soon but you can step up little by little.

Indeed, is it right that chemical reaction comes from combining meeting in reality and using the internet even here?

Vilayanur Ramachandran : The neurons that shaped civilization

Vilayanur Ramachandran at TEDIndia 2009  (transcript)
The neurons that shaped civilization
Summary
You must think about why neurons and civilization are related in the title.

Neurons are on the front of the brain frontal lobes and it's called ordinary motor command neurons. Those neurons will fire when a person performs a specific action and maybe about 20 percent of them will fire when you are looking at somebody else performing the same action like neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.

And then it leads to involving imitation and emulation is important because those cause our great leap forward. There are sudden emergence and rapid spread of human skills like tool use, the use of fire, the use of shelters, language, the ability to read somebody else's mind, interpret that person's behavior and so on.

Those are the basis of the imitation of complex skills is what we call culture and is the basis of civilization.

We must think that the connection is surprising.
Thus when we think about the meaning of its own existence, consciousness, representation of self, what separates you from other human beings, what allows you to empathize with other human beings, and the emergence of culture and civilization, it requires neurons that is the foundation of a point of views.

VS Ramachandran : 3 clues to understanding your brain

VS Ramachandran at TED2007 (transcript)
3 clues to understanding your brain
Summary
The speaker is a neurologist and he studies the human brain and the functions and structure of the human brain.
This time, the way of approaching the function of the human brain is to look at patients with sustained damage to a small region of the brain.  It shows a highly selective loss of one function but not blunt.  Its intervention will map what the circuitry of the brain is generated.
He gave us three examples that are a Capgras syndrome, 1) Phantom limbs, 2) and  Synesthesia. 3)

The Capgras syndrome isThe Capgras syndrome is that the small brain part called the fusiform gyrus is damaged and people no longer recognize people's faces and they can't even recognize themselves in the mirror, however, they can still recognize people from voice.

Phantom limbs told sometimes is a curious syndrome that people continue vividly feel the presence of the missing arm or leg after amputating arm or leg. this comes from the brain learning. The brain learns something and it carries over into your body image, thus you feel the missing arm or leg even after amputating arm or leg. He says many times that the brain learns so even paralysis is also learned and when phantom paralysis is relearned again, it'll be overcome.  It seems to use mirrors.

Synesthesia is a mingling of the senses. All senses are distinct, though, these people muddle up their senses. There seems to be an abnormal gene and a mutation in the gene that causes this abnormal cross wiring. In the brain, for example, there are areas of the color and number. It's right next to each other, though, when there's some accidental cross-wiring between color and numbers, people see a number that is colored. They lose the ability to engage in something and also metaphors.

The brain has 100 billion nerve cells and little wisps of protoplasm are interacting with each other. It creates human nature and human consciousness. It's a basis of many uniquely human abilities like abstraction, metaphor, and creativity.  Thus even if a small part of the brain is damaged, something that is human nature and human consciousness is losing like his three examples. Understanding your brain will start like this.

Words in this story
paralysis /noun/ powerlessness, become immobile
numb /adj/  without sensation, without feeling

Mark Pollock and Simone George : A love letter to realism in a time of grief

Mark Pollock and Simone George at TED2018  (transcript)
A love letter to realism in a time of grief
Summary
Words in this story
This was a shocking story. It's because there are many important things for the living, for example, those are love, optimism, and something else, though, realism that we must dislike or think that we want to run away from has been important to live. We have to accept the brutal facts thus we keep hope alive.

The optimists rely on hope alone and they risk being disappointed and demoralized, but realists have managed to resolve the tension between acceptance and hope by running them in parallel and it creates identities for life that is why to live. It means that not to change our circumstances but to challenge to change ourselves.

Acceptance is tough and severe. We are alive to help it and this is something that we are imposed as humans.

Words in this story
realism  /noun/ the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.
demoralize /verb/ cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope; dispirit.

Janet Stovall : How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Janet Stovall at TED  (transcript)
How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Summary
In this story, inclusion must come from subsumption that is to include something within a larger and more comprehensive group.

It'll mean to include the problem of diversity within discrimination.

I imagined it from the speaker's three ideas that are to use real problems, real numbers, and real results.
It's because business can dismantle racism, though, college can’t do it now but diversity is a more important problem.
It doesn't really speak to in America, though, racial discrimination is more the most prominent form.

When people think about racial discrimination,  a problem of diversity tried being solved is plotted by her three ideas.
It's because that real results are to be able to work in the better environment and to be solved a problem of diversity.
Look, we must have a feeling that we can do it.

Words in this story
comprehensive /adj/  including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
gentrification /noun/ property value by selling property topeople wealthier than the current owners.
prominent /adj/ important; famous
segregate /verb/ separate, set apart
earnest /adj/ diligent
honest /adj/ sincere

Kevin Rudd : Are China and the US doomed to conflict?

Kevin Rudd at TED2015  (transcript)
Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
Summary
Are China and the US doomed to conflict? The speaker's answer is, of course, "No" and the speaker said that he is here to help. I thought that it's a great answer and I also wanted him to help that South Korea and our country Japan were really and strongly doomed to conflict.

First is his opinion.
In the near future, you know, China will be the largest economy country in the world and it'll affect all of us in ways including the air we breathe, the water we drink, the fish we eat and so on. Thus he said that we have to challenge to have peace, to prosper, and not to repeat the tragedies of war again with having will and imagination.
It means that the two countries don't solve all problems but think about a new start heartily.  It doesn't accept the radically different political system but knows them heartily. The speaker studied Chinese language and history and experienced that two completely different people brought together.

However, in my opinion, we have to think about those with our head and the speaker tells us to go with the heart, though, we can't do. We don't want to go, and Japan has already apologized, gave money and thought heartily, but the opponent overturns many times but says that we believe the opponent is wrong. Our economic help is continuing, though, what happens?

I think that the speaker will be too Chinese, he speaks English very well and he thinks that he is neutral, though. The fact he experienced that two completely different people brought together is different from a fact we want to do something that radically different countries do.
Yes, countries history will doom to conflict. We have to change.

Words in this story
doomed /do͞omd/ likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated.
bring together / set up a meeting between people

Angel Hsu : How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change

Angel Hsu at TED2018  (transcript)
How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change
Summary
All countries now have to fight pollution and climate change for our earth. This is no time to say that other countries should do and your own country does something to reduce.

China is always said that China is the world’s biggest polluter, however, China is a big country and has 1.3 billion people, even if each person only releases a little, it becomes the biggest number and China depends on coal energy is the reason that China is the world’s biggest polluter.

However, China’s government starts to tackle the pollution problems because Chinese people were becoming aware of its human health effects, the government was keeping it secret, though.
The government has been making an enormous investment to clean air and to use renewable energy like hydrogen, wind and solar.

Due to releasing big pollution, reducing hasn't still caught up, though, you must make sure having an effect now.

Words in this story
greenhouse gases /noun/ a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation, e.g., carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons.
bankrupt / (of a person or organization) declared in law unable to pay outstanding debts.

Mary Lou Jepsen : How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains

Mary Lou Jepsen at TED2018  (transcript)
How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains
Summary
A new technology that the speaker invented is a system that you can see deep inside your bodies and brains by using red light and sound. It can track tumors, measures neural activity, and can possibly replace the MRI machine with a cheaper, efficient and wearable system.

It can say that it's extraordinary at finding blood, in fact, blood absorbs light and flesh scatters light. For example, you can see tumors that has five times the amount of blood as normal flesh, whether blood carries oxygen or not and deep inside of lungs by using the new system that she invented.

It means that you can detect early cancer, pneumonia, and stroke. 1)

Light and sound will become compact, portable, inexpensive medical machines, 2) and can reach your brain through your skull, you know, it can say this is brain-computer communication without surgery or implants.

This invention has many possibilities.

Words in this story
utilize /verb/ make practical and effective use of.

Rice field art in Gyoda city

By rice field art in Gyoda city, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, You can see the Nazca geoglyphs in Peur this year.
Diary
I went to Gyoda city in Saitama Prefecture on Wednesday to bring our company's products for a committee of rice field art in Gyoda.

Rice field art is an effort to plant some kinds of rice with different colors. It becomes fields to a canvas and to be expressed letters and patterns by growing rice plants.
Rice field art in Gyoda has ten years of history and in 2015, was certified as Guinness World Record as "the biggest rice field".

This year, "Hummingbird" and "Condor" which are very famous for the Nazca geoglyphs in Peur have emerged as the world's largest rice field art in Gyoda with another big condor and ancient lotus. The big condor was designed by a staff in Gyoda because the theme for this year was "Great Wings" and ancient lotus was a symbol of Gyoda city. In fact, the place where you can see the biggest rice field is famous for the park where beautiful lotus flowers blossom in July and early August.

I was happy that the staffs of the committee used our company's products and I could see the great rice field for the first time.
In Japan, there are many wonderful places where Japanese people don't know, we must learn about the world from there more, and do international exchanges with the world.
Furthermore, next year will be the 120th anniversary year when Peru has started accepting Japanese immigrants.

Words in this story
lotus /noun/ any of a number of large water lilies, in particular.
certify /verb/  verify, guarantee, attest, validate, confirm

Walter Hood :How urban spaces can preserve history and build community

Walter Hood at TED2018   (transcript)
How urban spaces can preserve history and build community
Summary
In the title, history shows our past, thus build community can show our future, so urban spaces should be places which can preserve the past and create the future, right?
People have various history. They remember them sometimes and they forget them sometimes.  They want to remember better things, but want to forget worse things.

However, great things happen when we exist in each other's world. 1)
Although we divide all things twoness, it'll be better that there's an ambiguity.  2)
People have empathy, 3) the traditional belongs to all of us, 4) and there are many different ways to remember something. 5)

Landscapes can help those.  A place you stand now might be a place where wars or fights occurred, or where black people and white people were divided, or where women suffered. The speaker works to create such places. Urban always changes new, though, people can remember history there.

Words in this story
resilient /adj/  flexible, pliable
resistant /adj/ : impervious to, unsusceptible to, immune, invulnerable to

Leticia Gasca : Don't fail fast — fail mindfully

Leticia Gasca at TED Salon  (transcript)
Don't fail fast — fail mindfully
Summary
We’ve heard that we can learn many things from failure thus don't worry and don't have to be embarrassed. The speaker created a platform where people can share their failure stories to help each other. They could know that by sharing, their bonds grow stronger and collaboration becomes easier.

However, business is a commerce and a trade. There is a mutual connection between customers and company. In the company also, there is the mutual connection between employer and employee. If one side fails, another side gets risks. Even if one side can have a great learning opportunity, another would stop receiving an income.

It’ll be important to put aside the idea of publicly humiliating failed entrepreneurs, though, we must put aside the idea that failing fast is always the best.

Business has a mutual connection.

Impacting the consequences of the failure of businesses,  being aware of the lessons learned, and being aware of responsibility included failure will be needed. The speaker suggests those called "fail mindfully".

Words in this story
mindfully /adv/ heedfully, advertently
humiliate /verb/ make a dent in, mortify, humble, shame