Divine Comedy 2007 (VI)1. Compromise and Consecration
In this ugly world, some bad guys are really dreaming of making a killing or making a million dollars.
However, Jesus Christ said to love God and our neighbors with full might.
If you are a responsible leader of a nation, you should take this into consideration.
Young ambitious politicians in Japan are usually taught by seniors to be broad-minded enough to show tolerance toward all sorts of men.
All I want to say is to prepare yourself to meet a decisive moment, though maybe once in your life time, when your choice on devilish compromise or patriotic consecration will affect many people including your family and relatives for so long afterward.
2. One Trillion Dollar Operation
Mr. Takurou Morinaga, a very popular economist in Japan, wrote that Japan should start the operation of its national pension assets, totaling about one trillion dollars, in the world money market.
He said that as Japan has been in a very difficult position in terms of national finance, while wild foreign funds are rampant with a dubious business manner in Japan's money market, the Government should take a risk and venture into the global money market.
However, he did not forget to point at that a Japan's government branch failed in such operation, resulting in 10 billion dollar deficits a few years ago, though it got a 14% (high) return in the last fiscal year.
He wrote that when the public office lost the big money, everybody blamed it, but when it got a high return, nobody including the media praised it.
It is true that Japan should now responsibly consider its attitude toward the global money market as well as its domestic operation as a challenge of the people, since we cannot trust in the ability and sincerity of the administration officials in terms of pension nowadays.
If anybody, including foreign economists and relatives of the Rothchilds or the Rockefellers, can present an effective scheme, the Government can buy it even at one billion dollars. The Japanese Government should invite public participation to get a promising strategy for its one trillion dollar pension funds.
Mr. Takurou Morinaga (http://blog.goo.ne.jp/info/morinaga_pro.html) should specify his idea in a detailed manner.
(Being an economist or a politician means having a big chance to become an insider of the money market. They can know what will happen beforehand. This must be one of the most critical issues for their professional ethics.
Then, what about your code of professional ethics? I always try not to tell what my left hand is doing to the right hand; otherwise everything will be forgotten while traversing from the right to the left.)
3. Earthquake, Thunder, Fire, and Tough Old Man
In Japan, traditionally, it is said that there are four horrible things: an earthquake, a thunder, a fire, and a bad-tempered old man (Jishin, Kaminari, Kaji, Oyaji).
Earthquakes happening in Japan account for 10% of all that happen in the world every year. It may be no wonder, since even the North American Continental Plate reaches the Mainland Japan and sinks under Mt. Fuji to the Sea of Japan.
Indeed, once a Japanese father was heavily respected and thoroughly being afraid of by children, usually several in a family.
If children have nothing to be fully afraid of, they may lose a chance to learn something important that requires humbleness to comprehend.
But, it may be more worrisome that we have a fewer politicians who deserve people's respect and awe.
(There is something the timing of occurrence of which you cannot predict. Not being shortsighted is really a blessing. Indeed, the recent earthquake that happened in the sea is really terrible.
Build your house on a rock, like in the Manhattan Island, as Jesus Christ and Buddha said. )
"...You will even be able to say to this hill, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea'..."