(Finally Ikebukuro, Tokyo)"Power upon Earth to Forgive Sins"
The biggest news today is this morning's nuclear test conducted by North Korea in the region facing the Sea of Japan.
The former South Korea President committed a suicide while being investigated by the public prosecutors for a bribery case.
The former Taiwanese President is still under trial for corruption.
The former Thai Prime Minister is fleeing his country to avoid the arrest for corruption.
And recently even high-ranking officers of North Korea having been in charge of the Korean unification activities were executed.
However, in China, it is said 200 forcible protests are conducted everyday by poor farmers and citizens all over the nation with the population more than one billion. They are all violently crushed by the armed police.
That is why Japan, the true and largest democratic country in Asia, must be respected, especially in the U.N.
SECTION I: Voter Turnout
In Japan, as ordinary citizens or more than 90% of the population have been able to read and write in these 300 years, election voting is practiced usually by voter's writing a candidate name on a balloting sheet.
You have to write a name of a politician you are going to vote for on a small table in a partitioned space at a voting station.
Of course, if you have no choices, you can leave it blank and just put it into a ballot box.
Yesterday, a big city situated near Tokyo Prefecture held its mayoral election. With an increase of 7% of voters actually voting from the previous election, a former US-Republican-like-LDP mayor was turned down and a new US-Democratic-like-DPJ mayor was elected (the voting rate was 42.78% among the city population of 1.2 million).
As incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso is the head of the LDP, he might feel a threat this morning that the rival party DPJ is coming closer to depriving the LDP of power in the coming general election, especially if a voter turnout gets higher, say, by 7% in the coming national election.
http://elections.gmu.edu/voter_turnout.htm
In the American Presidential Election, Mr. Barack Obama was elected in 2008 just with a few percentage increase in the eligible or voting-age voters' turnout. But, it is the only case displaying the three-consecutive-elections increase in a Presidential Election turnout sine Mr. George W. Bush defeated Mr. Al Gore. This few percent increase in 2008 must correspond to a 10 percent increase in other years.
By the way, if you write "Jesus Christ" on ballot paper in Japan instead of a candidate's name, it is not illegal at all.
SECTION II: California
(To be continued...)
Luk 5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
Luk 5:22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
Luk 5:23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
Luk 5:24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
Luk 5:25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.