n voluntary activities the biggest headache is always transportation. Unfortunately, kindness and goodwill are not enough to deliver a collection of items. However, aircrafts are not required for voluntary activities. I strongly suggest the implementation of a government funded voluntary ships so that we can carry the huge contributions of commodity support, and the warmth and friendship that accompany them, to the needy destinations.

Under Japan's fishing laws fishing rights are nontransferable. When fishing rights under go a change or are revoked, the present stance is to carry out compensation through a cabinet decision process. However, when present fishing rights are revoked, it seems to be common practice to pay out a sum of money far and away above what the compensation criteria would suggest, and this becoming increasingly the focus of public criticism. Why are the present compensation criteria not working? This is not something that should be put to the greed of the fishermen. The reason lies behind the way most compensation is related to the legislation of government reclamation projects. The agreement of fisherman to the reclamation is a prerequisite in the procedure to get project legislation passed, and the canceling of the fishing rights isn't carried out until such permission is received. Placing this kind of contradictory legal system at the fore, the revision of how fishing and other user rights are to be controlled is an important issue that needs to be addressed in the near future.

The information dissemination of public bodies (administrative government and research institutes) is far from sufficient. Different from land or atmospheric data, information on the oceans and the resources that are contained within them, is mostly something that can't be seen by the human eye. As a result, there is a tendency for most of the population to misunderstand the related issues.