(Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall in Shinjyuku Ward)I Read News in Tokyo as They Ran
(J'ai lu des nouvelles à Tokyo comme ils courraient.)
SECTION I: 30,000 Citizens Ran 42.195km in Tokyo
Yesterday, there was a big marathon race in Tokyo in which around 30,000 citizen runners along with professional ones competed.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200802180045.html
I was also in Tokyo and looking at the Tokyo Prefecture Office buildings at which the start point of the marathon race was set though I had a newspaper aside to read.
In yesterday’s Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, they reported the independence of Kosovo, 80 people killed in Afghanistan in suicide bombing, and two million Germans virtually killed by Poles after WWII as they were violently expelled out of former German territories in Poland.
SECTION II: Two Million Germans Reportedly Killed
It should be never forgotten that 20 million people were killed by the Soviet Communist Party; 40 million people were virtually killed by the Chinese Communist Party through their wrong policies and strategies; and three million Japanese were killed in WWII, in addition to six million Israelite Europeans during WWII.
For the eye of mankind, only the tragedy of Israelite Europeans might be meaningful; but to the Eye of God, one German victim, one Russian victim, one Chinese victim, or one Japanese victim must have the same significance as one Israelite European, since life and fate is what is given to an individual human being by the God.
The nation Israel should not make an enemy out of Muslims as well as out of Germans, Russians, Chinese, and Japanese, since the latter in total lost 65 million lives around WWII which was caused by total sins of mankind to God of the Era.
And the former have been mostly victims of the British Empire.
SECTION III: A British Economist Praising “Obama”
The Tokyo Shimbun newspaper yesterday posted a comment by a British economist who highly regarded the candidate “Obama” and made some reference to Japan.
The British economist wrote that the candidate “Obama” would help the poor more than the candidate “Hillary” by allocating more US Government budgets to promotion of welfare of the poor.
He expects the candidate “Obama” to contribute to narrowing the gap between the poor and the rich, which will be good for total US economy.
I also hope that President Mr. Barack Obama will help the poor in the United States and other countries including Mexico and other Latin American countries as well as those in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But, what has made me cite the comment by the British economist in London is not his reference to the candidate “Obama” but that to Japan.
SECTION IV: True State of the Japanese Economy
The economist wrote that it is a commonsense in the global economist community that the reasons for the economic slump of Japan are the lower level of domestic demands in Japan and the increased gap between the poor and the rich in the Japanese society.
So, now you know how flippant the talks of those who gathered in Davos are.
As I once wrote that the economic slump of Japan in 1990’s is rather an environment protection issue than a pure economic issue.
As I wrote, if all the Americans living in the west of the Mississippi River were forced to love in the California state, the nature and the land of California would be devastated due to their economic activities in the confined land.
Japan has the land size almost equal to California and the population as many as 40% of the US population.
If Japan had continued around a 5% economic growth per year from 1990’s to the present day, its land and nature must be devastated and contaminated as bad as China is going to be today.
In addition, the mind and heart of the Japanese people would be also contaminated by evil of Mammon and foreign worshippers of Mammon coming from London and New York.
To protect Japan's land and nature and Japanese inherent ethical and spiritual culture, the Japanese economy should have been slowed down and the people of Japan actually did it by instinct.
Japan could have boosted its domestic demands; but if it had done so, the boosted economic activities would have severely damage the nature and the heart and mind of the people as we are observing it in China.
Another factor, the gap between the rich and the poor, is the very consequence of the Anglo-Saxon type global market system, though it also cannot be a decisive factor for the Japanese economic slump.
The U.S. and the U.K. have been domestically divided countries between the poor and the rich in the far larger scale and in a far longer period of time than in Japan.
Yet, both the country have enjoyed an economic boom more than Japan in this decade.
The truth is that this gap recently intenisfied in the Japanese society has been triggered by partly-forced introduction of rules and customs of the Anglo-Saxon-type reckless global market system based on the old paradigm of the Colonial Era but also the modern IT technology.
So, the true factor of the Japanese economic slump in this context is rather inappropriateness of introduction of rules and customs of the Anglo-Saxon-type global market system than the widened gap between the rich and the poor in the Japanese society which is merely part of the result of somewhat-forced adoption of that wrong market system.
So, now you know that how flippant the talks of those who gathered in Davos are, whether the British economist joined it or not.
SECTION V: Warnings to the U.K.
There are two countries having worked so much unusually on the US Government in Washington DC: the UK and Israel.
They have two things in common: their sinful relationships with Islamic states and their sinful and biased view on Japan.
Aside from the concern with Japan, the two countries are more responsible than the US is to the problems in the region from Palestine to Pakistan from a historical point of view.
(Indeed, when AlQaeda started to attack the U.S., it looked like an act of Iraq, since other Islamic countries, including Iran, were historically more damaged by the U.K. Conversely, they looked like attacking a wrong party. Therefore, it is no wonder that some people suspected involvement of Iraq, a friend of the U.S. before the Gulf War but a new enemy of the U.S. after the War in 1991, in the 9/11 Terror on the U.S. in 2001.)
However, Israel can repent as they are descendants of Abraham and remote relatives of Jesus Christ.
Nonetheless, it would be difficult for the UK to repent, since they did not repent on the occasion of the death of Princess Diana with an Egyptian who happened to be a nephew of a notorious Saudi Arabian arms dealer Israel might not like at all.
The British economist should ponder the influence of the UK colonial policy and the death of Princess Diana on the mind and heart of poor Muslims.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/world/middleeast/17youth.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Egypt&st=nyt&oref=slogin
(Now a new week has begun.
Every week we get older.
But, the words of God never get older.
And, certain news reports also cast a long shadow.
Tonight, a certain TV news program in Japan is to report on Pakistan still in the wake of the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto who was also just one of alleged grafters in the nation of so many yet-to-be-alleged usurpers and hidden armed insurgents worse than grafters.)
Appendix: They have reported on Pakistan. In addition, the Bushes are now in Africa. Secretary Mr. Rice will soon come to Japan. Indeed, something is thrilling...
“…Devoted Herself to Doing Good…”
(Sie widmet herslef zu tun gut)