『日本人はなぜシュートを打たないのか？』"Why don't Japanese people hit the shot??
Nipponjin ha naze shot wo utanaika?
Nipponjin = Japanese
naze = why
utanai= do not hit
The author thinks that Japanese people are not good at taking risks. He's a soccer coach, and he felt himself afraid of taking risks when he used to be a trainee in German. He thinks players have to be positive and responsible, which make the team more strong! I liked that he describes soccer as a free sport. I didn't know that soccer balls were so rough that you would not be able to expect their bounds.
『「ひきこもり国家」日本―なぜ日本はグローバル化の波に乗り遅れたのか』
"Why is Japan behind globalization? The country staying indoors (means not sociable or active)"
Hikikomori = staying indoors, (Hot word)
Kokka = country, state
The author thinks the reason that Japan is behind globalization is golden time postwar. Japanese people were too rich in general(people don't have to think about food or houses everyday.) So people forgot to make effort to live. But the truth is that Japan is not so strong as it used to be. The author rings an alert to train yourself by having more than one professions, learning foreign languages, etc.
『不都合な真実』"The inconvenient truth"
Futugou= inconvenient
Shinjitsu= truth
The author alerts the environment of the earth. I actually felt so scared when I read this for the first time. But this book is not so negative. We need to change ourselves.
