■Conserve resources to avoid 'divine punishment':
The environment is the current topic of “Shitsumon! Doraemon,” a delightfully illustrated children’s section that appears daily in The Asahi Shimbun.
I learned from it the other day that running the tap unattended for a full minute results in about 12 liters of water being wasted. It’s very nice to have running water whenever you turn on the tap, but that convenience goes hand in hand with waste.