English Diary 2026
0904 The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners is not primarily concerned with conventional etiquette. Rather, it explores how we can navigate the minor but often acute predicaments of everyday social life with tact, kindness and dignity. . Others are others, and I am me. I will keep moving forward at my own pace, one day at a time. After all, simply being able to rebuild my life little by little after the disaster of 2011 is something truly wonderful in itself. 0903 At a time when messages such as Elon Musk's "academic credentials are meaningless" and stories about white collar workers losing their jobs while blue collar entrepreneurs become billionaires are so pervasive, I was actually more surprised by how strongly people in Japan still feel about academic pedigree. It made me realize just how deeply entrenched credentialism remains in Japanese society. In the English-learning world, some schools of thought, such as traditional sentence analysis and extensive readi...