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The following is written in German. 《Continuation of the First Part》 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【③ HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY AND YOUNG PEOPLE】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD YOUR OWN FUTURE HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY! THE POWER TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY'S HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY ACTUALLY LIES IN THE HANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE! That said, this message likely won’t resonate with most young people. What will hit home the most is this: Future medical and nursing care costs will DIRECTLY AFFECT THE YOUNGER GENERATION! That’s the one and only truth! Currently, people start paying “nursing care insurance premiums” from the age of 40, and the payment method is a system where it’s AUTOMATICALLY DEDUCTED FROM YOUR SALARY. 🔺Some high-ranking officials in this country have proposed: "Since Japan’s national finances are tight, why not start the payments from the 20s instead of from the 40s?" What would you think if this became law? If that proposal passes... A first-year junior hig...

The following is written in German. This time, I will talk about the "Motivation Switch." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【What is this “Motivation Switch” about?】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What is this “Motivation Switch” about? Of course, it’s about “Healthy Life Expectancy.” I want people to pay more attention to healthy life expectancy. This might sound a bit extreme, but I honestly wish there were regular school lessons just on the topic of “Healthy Life Expectancy” starting from junior high school. Some readers might say, “Wait, junior high students are only teenagers, and healthy life expectancy refers to men at 72 and women at 75— that’s way too far in the future for them!” Indeed, if we only focus on age, that would make sense. However, in MITSURU’s view, this is a serious issue that must be considered from your teenage years. I’ll share my thoughts on that as well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【Topics Covered in This Article】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ① What is Healthy Life Expectanc...

The following is written in German. This time, I would like to talk about "WHAT IS THE 2025 ISSUE?" What can each of us do? It’s certainly not a cheerful topic, but it's an important turning point for Japan, so please stay with me until the end. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【WHAT IS THE 2025 ISSUE?】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ To put the “2025 Issue” simply, it refers to the fact that the "Dankai Generation"— the large generation born during the baby boom after World War II— will all be 75 years or older in 2025 , officially entering the category of "late-stage elderly." ※ A baby boom is a phenomenon where the number of births temporarily increases rapidly during a certain period. In Japan, there were two major baby booms after World War II. The first one was from around 1947 to 1949, and this generation is called the "Dankai Generation." 【During this period, about 2.7 million people were born annually】 In other words, this year (2025), abou...

The following is written in German. This time, I will talk about 『 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FITNESS CLUBS AND SENIORS 』 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【LOOKING BACK ON THE PREVIOUS POST】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In the previous MITSURU Blog No.59, I asked: "Why do people pay monthly fees just to go to a fitness club?" If the goal is simply to exercise, a walk, jogging, or running can make you sweat, and at home, you could watch YouTube and do yoga or pilates, right? For people who don’t usually work out, this kind of question is a “simple and honest doubt.” Something like: "Even 5,000 yen a month adds up to 60,000 yen a year! What could I buy with 60,000 yen!" It sounds like a reasonable point, but to those who actually exercise—especially SENIORS— this kind of response doesn’t resonate. We’ve received real comments like: "That’s such a young answer!" "I wish people knew more about what it’s like for the elderly (especially the latter-stage elderly)....

The following is written in German. This time, I would like to talk about “Elderly Participants in Dance Lessons.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【WHAT AGE IS CONSIDERED ELDERLY?】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ So, what age is considered elderly? ※ Generally speaking, the term "elderly" refers to people aged 65 and over. In Japan, people aged 65 to 74 are classified as "pre-elderly," and those aged 75 and over are classified as "late elderly." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【COMMON IMAGE OF THE ELDERLY】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dear readers of this blog, What kind of image do you have of the elderly? ・Gray or thinning hair ・Wrinkles or sagging skin ・Looking after grandchildren or participating in community events ・Interested in health, caregiving, or pensions ・Not good with digital devices or modern technology? ・Enjoy walking, gardening, playing Go or Shogi ・Go on bus tours or visit hot springs ・Like health programs or historical TV dramas ⭕ Walk slowly and use a cane ⭕ Seem to...

The following is written in German. This time, I would like to talk about "The Daily Life of Customers Attending Sports Clubs." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【RECAP FROM THE LAST POST】 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In the previous MITSURU Blog #57, I mentioned that "Customer evaluations" are directly linked to "the evaluation of the club." I believe you now understand how important these evaluations are for studio instructors. So now, as MITSURU the Customer Watcher , I will share: "How I observe customers," "What I’ve learned from conversations with them," and their behaviors and "real voices." ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ 1️⃣【CUSTOMERS HAVE A KEEN EYE】 ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ They have incredible stamina, taking multiple lessons a day! ※ The expression "keen eye" refers to the ability to distinguish valuable or high-quality things based on rich experience. It goes beyond simply "looking"—it means they can understand and evaluate...