(Two million people are expected to worship at this shrine during the first three days of the year, though it was ranked No. 9 among all the Japanese shrines in terms of the turnout for January 2008.http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamamosa/hatumoude.htm)
Congratulations, You are Going to be No.1
Now everybody is going to reach the final goal of Year 2008 as top runners.
Everybody on the earth is the number-one runner to finish in the 365-day (366-day, if you like) race all through the year of 2008.
So, congratulations, since we are on the same planet Earth, though it allows Japan to enjoy the first sunrise of 2009 ahead of any other major countries.
Nonetheless, we are going to hit the 0:00 A.M. of January 1, 2009 at the same time as the No.1 runners in the historical term.
January 1 for Japan
Yes, January 1 is the holiest day for Japan and the Japanese people.
So, please don’t bother Japanese on January 1.
Six Largest Religions in the World
There are largely two worlds on the earth in terms of religion.
The West: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The East: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Japanese Spirituality
Marxism and socialism belong to the West.
Japanese spirituality mainly consists of Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism.
Samuel P. Huntington
Mr. Huntington (April 18, 1927–December 24, 2008) was an American genius.
He was so, since he admitted the glory and the power of Japan in a manner no other professors, scholars, and pundits of America can simply do.
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Huntington expanded "The Clash of Civilizations?" to book length and published it as The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order in 1996. The article and the book posit that post–Cold War conflict would most frequently and violently occur because of cultural rather than ideological differences. That, whilst in the Cold War, conflict likely occurred between the Capitalist West and the Communist Bloc East, it now was most likely to occur between the world's major civilizations — identifying seven, and a possible eighth: (i) Western, (ii) Latin American, (iii) Islamic, (iv) Sinic (Chinese), (v) Hindu, (vi) Orthodox, (vii) Japanese, and (viii) the African. This cultural organization contrasts the contemporary world with the classical notion of sovereign states. To understand current and future conflict, cultural rifts must be understood, and culture — rather than the State — must be accepted as the locus of war. Thus, Western nations will lose predominance if they fail to recognize the irreconcilable nature of cultural tensions.
(Click to enlarge.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington
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Why are other professors, scholars, and pundits of America afraid of Japan subconsciously while genuine Judaists and Muslims are not?
This can be one of the themes for 2009, though even Samuel P. Huntington looks like an amateur for matters of Japan and the God.
Reviewing 2008
The most important theme for 2009 is not CO2 but agriculture, just like it was Wall Street but not the Beijing Olympic Games for 2008.
From the Tibet issue to the great earthquake in the southern China, and the Beijing Olympic Games, every greedy man and woman on Wall Street was planning to get big money from the Chinese economy.
Yet, that criminal scheme on the crude oil prices triggered the avalanche multiplication of the subprime loan-contaminated financial goods on Wall Street.
Indeed, the focus was not on China but Wall Street in 2008.
Mr. Barack Obama has become the Person of the Year; but it is rather a byproduct.
It is so, since good-natured and hard-working people of America found that Wall Street is not their friend but an enemy even if GM is not.
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That is all for today, since the God never changes today, tomorrow, yesterday, in 2009, in 2008, and even from 2000 years ago or since the era of Abraham.
(Oh, it is fine and cold here around Tokyo, though we have no snow, as I visited the very shrine this morning for you, truly. In a dream last night or early this morning, I was communicating with some VIPs, Dear, you would be surprised only to know! )
Joh 12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
Joh 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Joh 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.