17.10.14 Saki ni Umareta Dake no Boku EP01 Selected Narumi Script Part I [English, Spoiler alert]

[School opening ceremony]
Narumi: Everyone from Keimeikan High School, I am the new principal, Narumi Ryosuke.
Teacher: (Disapprovingly) Well, look at his fresh face.
Narumi: Thus far, I (boku)...
Mashiba: Boku?
Narumi: Work for Kashimatsu Bussan, the mother company operating this school. This is my first time working at a school. And then, probably, I may be the youngest principal of Japan.
Teacher: (Disapprovingly) Is it a selling point?
Narumi: In my high school time, I thought about this. “The speech of principal is too long.”
(Students agreed)
Narumi: So this is the end! (All were surprised) From now on let’s support me!
Vice Principal Kashiwagi: The speech finished?
(Principal Narumi left his green slipper on stage when he walked down, and then he went back to pick it up).

[Principal Narumi and VP Kashiwagi met bank staff]
Staff A: Secondment from mother company. So a staff of Sales Department became principal?
Narumi: I would fully apply the skills cultivated in business workplace onto school operation. Rather, it is my advantage that I know nothing about education operation, I can implement bold reform.
Staff A: Keimeikan High School is financially independent from the headquarters.
Staff B: There is no funding from the headquarters.
Kashiwagi: Because of this, we hope Wakaba Bank would offer us loan.
Narumi: Please offer loan to us.
Staff B: The main school income sources are examination fee, enrollment fee, tuition fee, allowance from local government.
Staff A: As for Keimeikan-san, in the first place, there are not many applicants for admission.
Kashiwagi: It’s the current situation.
Narumi: As soon as I can, I shall improve the operation and achieve a positive balance.
Staff A: What would your concrete measures be?
Narumi: Yes. First of all, to thoroughly supervise our company staff… our teachers to suppress wasteful expenditure. School teachers have very dim cost consciousness, they don’t have the idea of using the back of papers.
Kashiwagi: To my shame.
Staff B: Things like using the back of papers don’t improve operation.
(All but Narumi laughed teasingly)
Narumi: Ah… (thinking) Of course there are other measures. First of all we shall consider increasing tuition fee.
Kashiwagi: Principal! That would…
Staff A: If the tuition fee is increased there will be less and less applicants, right?
Kashiwagi: Right so!
Staff B: From the coming year, not to take freshman, there is such option, right?
(Narumi and Kashiwagi were surprised)
Staff A: Well, is it better not to get into the business of education? Kashimatsu Bussan-san.
Kashiwagi: No no no!
Narumi: Then what is my meaning coming here (poured tea on Staff A)

[Stand-up restaurant]
Narumi: In short, the bank says that Keimeikan High School should be increasing the number of examinees.
Kashiwagi: Right so.
Narumi: In such case, income on examination fee will increase, there will not be under-enrollment too, a stable foundation for operation will be created.
Kashiwagi: Food here is delicious!
Narumi: What to do to increase the examinees?
Kashiwagi: I should have ordered the large serving.
Narumi: Chief!
Kashiwagi: Yes.
Narumi: What to do to increase the number of applicants for admission?
Kashiwagi: Had I known this, there wouldn’t have been such toughness. Ahahaha.

[Narumi plans to do sales at tutoring school]
Mashiba: Sales?!
Narumi: I want to go to the tutoring schools for secondary schools to ask them to recommend their students to take examination at our school.
Kashiwagi: Principal, what sales it is...
Narumi: Then what should it be called?
Mashiba: Why should I go together?
Narumi: Mashiba-sensei is the class teacher of the special promotion class, right?
Mashiba: Teacher responsible for entrance examination is Oikawa-sensei.
Kashiwagi: That teacher is no way. After such long time, to change the school, there is no way for Oikawa-sensei to take such lead.
Mashiba: Even so, to ask me to do sales…
Narumi: Please think it as your work.
Mashiba: … When shall we go?
Narumi: Of course after work.
Mashiba: (Surprised) After school there is club activities.
Narumi: Club activities?
Kashiwagi: Mashiba-sensei is the consultant teacher of Japanese archery club.
Narumi: Eh? It is you teachers to teach the students this?
Mashiba: I am consultant, not coach. Our students do practice themselves.
Kashiwagi: Among year three students there is a splendid kid. She practiced archery since childhood, and is with skills of second grade.
Narumi: (To Mashiba) Then it’s fine for sensei you not to attend the activity.
Mashiba: (Surprised) What?

[Went to tutoring school]
Narumi: We come to ask for your favour. Would it be fine if you would recommend the students of your school to take entrance examination at our school? Let us build a win-win relationship with each other.
Teacher: Ahaha. No no no, Keimeikan High School is only private school up to high school with no university as connection?
Narumi: Yes.
Teacher: Your school doesn’t have such merit of guarantee of pursuit of further education, the rival is public high school.
Narumi: … Yes.
Teacher: Normally, everyone aims at public school with no tuition fee. To be frank, Keimeikan-san is just the tray for the kids who don’t manage to go to public schools.
Narumi:... Eh.

[Went to another tutoring school]
Teacher: In order to increase the applicants for admission, first of all, the level of your school should be increased, right?
Narumi: What do you mean by increasing level…
Teacher: The standard score of the Keimeikan-san currently is 44. The standard score of the volume zone where most applicants gather is 50, at least the level should be there.
Mashiba: 50…
Narumi: However if at first there are splendid students entering our school, the standard score will be up.
Mashiba: Principal! This…
Teacher: Splendid kids have no reason to choose Keimeikan-san. First of all, the level should be increased from your side.
Narumi: This becomes the debate on egg first or chicken first…
Mashiba: (To Narumi) No! (To teacher) Excuse me.

[Went to another tutoring school]
Teacher: Keimeikan High School? Recently it becomes less popular, right? In the past there were five classes in one grade, now there are only three classes. The classrooms are empty, right?
Narumi: (To Mashiba) Is it the case?
Teacher: To be frank, there is no characteristics of your school. “To foster global talents”? The idea is magnificent, I think there is no real facts accompanying this. Even there is special promotion class, as for entering great universities…
Narumi: What should be done… so that your students would take entrance examination at our school?
Teacher: This, if Keimeikan-san becomes a popular school, right? If many of your students go to great universities, naturally your school will become popular.
Narumi: Though it would be so…
Mashiba: Many of our students did not manage to go to public schools, when they enter our schools they are already with frustration, in some way, they give up...
Teacher: If you want to increase the number of applicants, there is no way but to improve the current students.
Narumi: But to make it done in one or two years…
Teacher: Ahaha. This should be done in three years.

[Walked out of tutoring school]
Narumi: Three years… Until then I can’t go back to the headquarters… Mashiba-sensei. Please make all the kids in the special promotion class into first-class universities! Make Keimeikan High School a popular school.
Mashiba: If I can do this I would have done this! You know nothing about the real situation, please don’t simply say this!
Narumi: Then what should I do…

(To be continued... it's not even the half of the episode...)

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Saki ni Umareta Dake no Boku
先に生まれただけの僕
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14 October 2017 22:00~
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17.10.09 News Zero Ichimen - House of Representatives Election Pledge Comparison ① “Education” [Eng]

2017 House of Representatives Election - Comparison of Pledges ① “Education”

On 22 October, there will be casting and counting votes of the House of Representatives Election.
“Ichimen!” will look into the pledges of various political parties
about the “point of controversy” closely related to our lives.

Today what is paid attention is “education”.
In particular the decline in birth rate casts shadows onto the future of Japan.

There is such a survey.

For instance,
“Though in fact I want two children, I do not bear the second one” etc.
when the reason of not having their own ideal number of children
was asked to couples, an overwhelmingly large number of responses was
“economic reason” such as
“Because the expenditure on childcare and education is too much”.

There are also international data to support this.

As for the expenditure on early childhood education
In the occasion of Japan, the ratio responsible by the government is 46%.
The remaining would be responsible by the individual and household.
However the average ratio responsible by major countries is 82%.
There are many countries which the burden of individual and household is light.
Furthermore, as for the ratio for higher education such as university, Japan government is responsible for 34%.
In contrast, the average ratio of major countries is 70%.
Compared with the world, in Japan
the burden on individual and household is heavy.

“Cost on education is too much”.
How would the politics address this present situation?
The pledges of various political parties are illustrated as follows.

Looking in this way
such as free education, the pledges of various parties, to certain extent
seem to have common points...

During the election campaign
“When will this be achieved?”
Also, “What to do with the financial resources?”
Such issues are to be concerned.

Each vote of the election is “What sort of policy do I want to achieve”
it is also a chance to convey our requests to the Diet.

The election day will be on 22 October.
If you would not be available to vote on the election day
you may attend the early voting.

Source: News Zeroイチメン (http://www.ntv.co.jp/zero/ichimen/2017/10/2017-1.html)