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Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply. I understand your idea.

> It boils down to “tradition”

Yeah, I think you are 100% correct, but I don’t think everything can be justified for that reason. For some countries, say, Sodomy Law is still tradition. In the U.S., people still use weird unit system, refusing adopting Metric system. I know they are extreme examples.

Celebrating new era is wonderful, but I hope people reconsider the use of this peculiar year counting system. It is a good time, I guess. Everything boils down to “tradition”, like you said, but I don’t think we have to stick to the same tradition.



Yes, I should have added that a lot of tradition/convention is arbitrary and dumb as well! Of course.


とにかく、昭和時代の音楽は一番。




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