I happened to think a little about my life on a day just before the post retirement age.

In the long-term depression, I am not interesting in a tendency that the mass communication, statesmen and scholars highly praise restructure.

Many friends quit the company.

It must not recovery of economy by the discharge under the name of restructure.

If unemployed persons increase with the restructure, consumption decrease then investment decrease of course.

Then, an economy become worse.

It is just A,B,C of the economic principle.

The usual retirement greeting of the "I want to enjoy an overseas tour with the partner after the retirement age" is fruitless, too.

Let's enjoy things that I want with forget business.

This several summer I take a tour for London to study a development economics that is my life work.

However, though I used easily the word of the life work, it may not correct.

We sometime call hobby for reading and appreciation of music.

But correct word may a pass time.

It must be call pass time strictly that reading and appreciation of music.

Pass time means such as a change, kill time.

If we call it hobby, it may necessary such as a certain plan, hypothesis, analyze and follow.

I have to say hobby instead of life work.

England is the country that cradle of the Industrial Revolution, and proud of the prosperity, the Union Jack fluttered in every land on the earth, day and night.

When landing at the Heathlow airport the big signboard attracted me.

A signboard shows Subway is the street crossing, Tube is the subway.

It seems to be cautions to the American tourist.

The discrepancy of English and American English is interesting.

England is the railroad cradle, a subway have already run in the Meiji Period, too.

Because electric locomotives wasn't invented yet and the subway was the steam locomotive.

It was constructed open excavation method that excavate the road, then make many exhaust outlet, then filling concrete and filled up soil.

An electric locomotive was invented after that, and the subway which excavated a cylinder-shaped tunnel directly underground like the present was opened.

It was called tube because it was a pipe-shaped tunnel compared with the square tunnel for the steam locomotive.

London university is located in the vast site which adjoined the great Britain museum center of the city.

I took a hotel in front of the London university then renewal evidence of the library for one year first.

The reading room is divided into the one by the college in London university library.

The department of economics is the room of the black painting of a name to say as Golden Smith.

The incandescent lamp is on one by one in the reading base.

There are a few readers because of summer vacation.

The original book of Adam Smith who is father of the economics and so on stands in a line in a row, and a peculiar atmosphere floats.

This is the holiday of the man.

It is the best extravagance.

Japan has many famous person, who learned in London university, too.

Many Japanese students were learning in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Meiji Period as well.

It is said that an Japanese students strode in Samurai hair style, with the high Japanese clogs through London university.

Imagine it , it is pleasant

A famous author Soseki Natsume was one of student in London university, wrote the subway filled with smoke.

However, it seems that he felt neurosis and couldn't became friendly with England.

Compared with Tokyo, London is a little town as same as Paris.

A little walk take to Thames, London bridge and Piccadilly Circus.

I happened to find London office that I joined.

The head is a superior who I know well.

I just rushed into the office.

The senior stood me a dinner at a special England pub and exchanged business information.

Contrary to enthusiasm the man's holiday ended on half way.

December 10, 2003 Y.Noguchi