A Fukuokan's Notes from Sapporo

On windy days, kite-surfers appear in my nearby beach.

When I noticed them, as a law-abiding citizen, I thought I had to report them to the police in order to get them arrested for being a public nuisance. In fact, it seems OK to do some marine activities in this area unless you annoy other people (to be honest, I couldn’t find where I could ask about this issue, the bureaucratic system is too-complicated-to-explain). If my observation (you might say just a guess) is true, the system is very rare to this area where everything has to be under control. Of course I prefer this ‘use-your-commonsense’ way.

Actually, there is a private rocker room for a local government-approved NPO that offers wind surfing classes to young people.

This (allowing someone to set a private rocker room in public spaces, and probably giving some more help that I don't know to those NPOs) is called ‘Get Young People Ambitious’ scheme founded by the prefectural government.

I wish there were a scheme intended to get jobless 40-somethings ambitious, which might be called 'Get Housewives Spoilt'. No thanks to marine sports, though.