Something Japanese

Yesterday, my roommate found very old Japanese dictionaries in her room. They are "Chinese character dictionary" for foreign people who are studying Japanese. They were published in 1959, old but very rare!! There are lots of characters which we don't use anymore, and I can't read most of them. So, I doubt myself "Am I really Japanese?" I want to show these dictionaries to my grand parents, they might learn these old characters..

Can you see "JAPANESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY"?

Umm, I can't read..

very complicated and difficult..

...

And today, I found news about Japanese high school student. It said "Japanese students have despair about their future compared with U.S., China and Korea. Their interests are 'to become popular in a class' , 'TV dramas', 'cell phones' and 'comics', not study "... Oh no, what's happening to Japanese young people? I'm just worried about our future.. I think I have to do something for our future... ;-(

If you are interested in this article, please check it. ↓ (sorry, Japanese only)
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20060301-00000014-yom-soci