Share Glory, Money, and Radio Wave
Did a miracle happen around you on the Christmas Eve or December 25th?
It happened to me.
So, I hope all the more that those who are poorer than I would receive more blessing than I.
Now, what do you hope?
SECTION I: Japanese Obamas
There were two brothers who both assumed the Japanese premiership. The elder one, Nobuske Kishi, was Prime Minister of Japan between 1957 and 1960. (Former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe is a grandson of Nobuske Kishi.) The younger brother, Eisaku Sato, kept the prime mister post between 1964 and 1972; he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.
However, in the future we may have other two brothers the both of whom may take the position of the Japan’s Prime Minister.
KUNIO HATOYAMA (The Liberal Democratic Party)
Mr. Kunio Hatoyama became Minister of Justice of the Fukuda Cabinet in 2007. He was also chosen as Minister of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications of the current Aso Cabinet three months ago.
He graduated top of the class from the faculty of law, the University of Tokyo, to be a secretary of the notorious politician Kakuei Tanaka, the then Prime Minister of Japan.
Mr. Kunio Hatoyama is regarded as the strongest supporter for current Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso, though they belong to different factions within the LDP.
Interestingly, Mr. Kunio Hatoyama once challenged Mr. Shintaro Ishihara in the Tokyo Metropolitan Gubernatorial Election in vain.
http://www.hatoyamakunio.org/
YUKIO HATOYAMA (The Democratic Party of Japan)
Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is one year older than his brother Mr. Kunio Hatoyama.
Their grandfather was one of Japanese Prime Ministers during unquiet times after WWII; and their father was an elite bureaucrat and politician, too.
Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is the actual founder of the Democratic Party of Japan, since he seems to have advantaged financial resources.
If the DPJ comes to power after the next general election, Mr. Yukio Hatoyama will take the second influential post in the possible Ozawa Cabinet, since he is now No.2 in the DPJ next to Mr. Ichiro Ozawa.
As Mr. Yukio Hatoyama once specialized in engineering in universities, he might become a unique type of prime ministers of Japan, if he should be able to get enough support among his colleagues and voters.
http://www.hatoyama.gr.jp/
SECTION II: This Week’s Business Model
In the United States, an unprecedented economic recession has hit not only the financial sector and the automobile sector but also the media industry, including TV interests.
In Japan, the TV stations also face a financial slump, though publicly-funded NHK might have no such a sense of the crisis, since its announcers always deliver news in a bright voice as probably instructed technically.
When a government gives a broadcast license to a company or an organization, it must stipulate that a few hours a day of its broadcasting time must be assigned to other company or organization.
The 100% exclusive use of a specific radio frequency must be avoided.
Therefore, any TV station licensed for using a certain radio frequency should transfer, at least for a few hours of the day, to other party who would be allowed to use the identical frequency for their own service. Even public broadcasting companies, such as Japan’s NHK, should observe the rule.
This system would pave the way for more market-oriented competition in the media industry. What's more, it must also give a chance to a party trying to address pioneering challenges in the media market. Politically, the system might also contribute to enhancement of quality of democracy.
Even an NGO or a foreign company may be allowed to join this scheme. In that case, ABC, CNN, or BBC might be allowed to use the partially assigned time-slot to broadcast their own program in Japan, though just an hour or so, on an ordinary local TV channel of ground-based broadcasting. Audiences will of course view them for free, as many sponsors and their commercials will cover the costs.
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Let me say one thing: Toyota’s yearly net profit after tax was more than one trillion yen ($11 billion) in each of past five years, assumedly resulting in $55 billion assets in total.
(http://moneyzine.jp/article/detail/69482/)
(http://www.gamenews.ne.jp/archives/2007/05/2223868300.html )
Now it is going to suffer a 150-billion-yen ($1.6 billion) operating loss as Toyota Group, as of March 2009.
How should Toyota fire in haste so many workers in their plants, if those working in an irregular employment system belong to outside employment agencies or temporary agencies?
Toyota needs ability to launch a new business model. The auto company can venture into, for example, agriculture, forestry, fishery, or new energy development in addition to health care.
Toyota should contact any persons of good idea, including EEE Reporter.
(I heard voices, of a man and a bewitching woman, saying that it was going to take time more; but there is no time like the present. Indeed, better now than later, when hitting upon the idea of any good thing. So, I made a rare phone call somewhere. I may even send an e-mail, though it is business-related, since December in Japanese, "Shiwasu," means that even a master runs to make end meet before a new year comes.)
Mar 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mar 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.