Profession undoubtedly defines your way of thinking. When I hand my first PhD I already realised that there is no turning back. I will always pay attention to the things that most people seem to miss, enjoy them and talk about them. The recent events proved to be no different. When the world was gasping at each Coronavirus news, I was enjoying the news about terminology. Recently, due to the sudden outburst of the Novel Coronavirus Japan has learned new terminology such as “cluster”, “overshoot” and “lockdown”. They all came from the English language epidemiologic background and were presented to the Japanese as クラスター, オーバーシュートandロックダウン, in other words as the so-called カタカナ語(Katakana language). A short time later, […]