(Around the North of Tokyo City Center; Do not shoot leaves of a morning glory.)Power Transition and Underlying Philosophy
Mr. Lawrence Summers is not going to replace Mr. Ben S. Bernanke as FRB chairman, subject to President Mr. Barack Obama's decision.
Yet, the President should know that Mr. Robert Rubin and Mr. Alan Greenspan are not highly appraised, as with Mr. Summers and Mr. Bernanke, by many non-nonsense economists, politicians, and journalists worldwide who have studied their behaviors in these decades.
Yet, we had better check influential and prominent figures around Next Prime Minister Doubtlessly-Promised Mr. Yukio Hatoyama of Japan, the second largest democratic/liberal economy in the world.
(Around September 4, Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is expected to form the DPJ-centric Cabinet after his overwhelming victory with a very stable number of seats in the Lower House Election on August 30, 2009.)
Mr. Ichiro Ozawa: An old fashioned expert of election campaigns. A national lawmaker since late 1960's without interruption. Looking like an elder brother of Mr. Yukio Hatoyama
Mr. Naoto Kan: An old fashioned liberal expert in political games. A national lawmaker since 1980. Still looking like a young hero of 1970's at the end of the Vietnam War.
Mr. Azuma Koshiishi: An old fashioned expert in leftist political games in public-school education fields. A national lawmaker since 1990, though born in 1930's. Looking like a boss of ex-Socialist Party members in the National Diet.
Mr. Katsuya Okada: An ex-elite bureaucrat of the Japanese Government. A national lawmaker since 1990. Looking like a trusted leader of young DPJ members, though he is several years older than Mr. Barack Obama.
Ms. Makiko Tanaka: An exceptional politician, as she is the daughter of legendary Kakuei Tanaka who assumed the office of the prime minister in early 1970's. She was appointed to Foreign Minister by Mr. Junichiro Koizumi in his first Cabinet in 2001, but fired in early 2002, thus leaving the LDP. Looking like going to have an unpredictable influence on diplomatic policies of the coming Hatoyama Cabinet, at least in terms of China and U.S. CIA.
Finally, I recommend Mr. Yukio Hatoyama to find some experts in economics, though the Prime Minister Yet-To-Be-Officially-Elected seems to have some friends who would even write a book or create a work of art for him.
Now, politicians, experts, journalists, top businessmen, and other people concerned not only in America but also in Asia and other regions must bring information they have had about Japanese politicians into check against the above "EEE WHO's WHO."
(Note that ruling of the nation Japan by the DPJ can technically continue without interruption for four years until 2013.)
SECTION I: Chinese Dynasties
Yuan ("Gen" in Japanese, AD 1279-1368) and Qing ("Shin" in Japanese, AD 1644-1912) are two Chinese empires established by a tribe who defeated and dominated the Han people, respectively.
If the whole Europe had been once defeated and dominated by Turks or Arabs, there might have been some analogy.
Indeed, the history of China since the first empire Qin is a history of wars between the Han people and Northern peoples of Asia.
And, twice in these 2200 years, the Han people were dominated and directly governed by foreign peoples, namely Mongolians (Yuan) and Manchurians (Qing).
Yet, the Chinese Civilization dominated those foreign rulers who were simply stronger than the Han people in terms of armed forces and capability of war.
Those foreign invaders of China had been living mostly in herding society in cold North East Asia, so that riches the Chinese agricultural society produced enchanted them so much and eventually induced their invasion.
Accordingly, those foreign rulers never tried to destroy the Chinese Culture while using Han elite for administration of the nation, but such ruling by other tribes made the mentality of the Han people complicated.
In this context, as Han toppled Yuan and drove out Mongolians to establish a new empire named Ming ("Min" in Japanese, AD1368-1644), People's Republic of China can be regarded as a result of the long strife with Manchurians, Russians, other Western powers, and finally Japanese to establish a new Han empire.
Yet, as it was in the middle of the 20th century, they needed Western philosophy and Marxism as an ideological base to unify various peoples and tribes on the Chinese continent and found a new empire.
In addition to Marxism and socialism, what helped leaders of the Chinese communist party was of course lessons learnt from the success of the First Empire Qin. Unfortunately, they did not try to rely on Confucianism and other ideal developed in ancient China before Qin.
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Distinction between religion and politics has been achieved in Japan since 1192 when the first samurai regime was formed at Kamakura, far east of Kyoto, the imperial capital.
The samurai class was in charge of politics and government since then until 1868; and successive emperors remained outside the realm of political hegemony just with religious authority.
So, there has been advanced order for long periods to date in Japan.
In Europe such separation was clearly realized, too, long time ago.
But, America and China do not look so simple in this context.
(To be continued...)
(Le soleil ne change jamais, c'est le ciel qui change. My love never changes; it is air of the era that changes. So, be higher or lower to avoid poisonous air.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/41010-yuuhinogunman.htm )
Luk 8:25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
Luk 8:26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.