THE DAY OF NO-INFAMY
I have not yet taken a swine-flu vaccine.
But, I am taking some precautions, such as not travelling to New York and Mexico City.
Indeed, some kinds of foods enhance immunizing power of the human body.
And, I purchased an alcohol spray-pump at a nearby supermarket.
Truly, a gate type of alcohol spray facilities normally activated should be installed at entrances of stations, air terminals, and public buildings all over the world.
Anyway, great is a sick man healed by Jesus Christ!
SECTION I: Hideki Tojo Saved 20,000 Judaists
If today 20,000 lives of Judaist Americans are saved by a Japanese, Israel would be forever thankful.
Yet, it happened in the border between Manchuria (Northeast China of today) and the Soviet Union (Russia of today), since Japanese generals held power in Manchukuo, a very special quasi-independent empire of the era.
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Kiichiro Higuchi (*, 20 August 1888 - 11 October 1970) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.
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As a major general and the commander of the Harbin Special Branch in 1938, he allowed approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Manchukuo. One of his subordinates, Colonel Norihiro Yasue, was responsible for feeding the refugees, settling them in Harbin or Shanghai, or arranging for exit visas.
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After the surrender of Japan, Stalin demanded that Higuchi be extradited to the Soviet Union to be tried by a military tribunal for war crimes. On receiving word of this, the World Jewish Congress quickly formed a lobby directed at the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, General Douglas MacArthur, to prevent Higuchi's extradition and trial. Higuchi, along with Yasue, were subsequently invited to the independence ceremonies of the State of Israel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiichiro_Higuchi
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But, General Kiichiro Higuchi had then a superior and very influential officer in Manchuria, General Tojyo.
Nonetheless, General Hideki Tojo (1884 - 1948) authorized General Higuchi's heroic decision while Nazi Germany raised a protest to the Imperial Government in Tokyo trying to prevent the salvation of the poor Judaists.
General Tojo affirmed his support for General Higuchi against an inquiry from Tokyo, namely the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs who received the strong protest from Nazi Germany.
Accordingly, those Judaists, who had fled Nazis to a Siberian autonomous region Stalin had established for Judasits but had found the Stalin's goodwill to be not substantial at all, could receive big aid from the Imperial Military and the Imperial Government in Tokyo.
Eventually these 20,000 Judaists were allowed to move to Shanghai and then as far as to the United States through Japan before the attack on Pearl Harbor of 1941 where 2,290 U.S. soldiers fell in addition to 48 U.S. civilians.
Yet, as prime minister of the Empire of Japan who authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor, General Tojo was executed in Tokyo after WWII by the Allied Powers, though from 1937 to 1938 he had been chief of staff of the whole Imperial Japanese Army having been stationed in Manchukuo.
(http://hexagon.inri.client.jp/floorA6F_hb/a6fhb100.html)
Note: Today, Tojo Hideki's soul is enshrined at Tokyo Yasukuni Shinto Shrine with other fallen personnel of the Imperial Military.
SECTION II: The First Japanese in Jerusalem
It was in 1619 that the first Japanese man reached Jerusalem in the Japanese and world history.
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Petro Kasui Kibe (1587 - July 4, 1639) was a Japanese Christian during 17th century and a Jesuit priest. Before reaching Rome, he became the first Japanese to visit Jerusalem. After he came back to Japan, he was martyred.
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In "1587," Petro Kibe was born in Kibe, Kunisaki in Bungo (At present, Kibe Kunimi-town Kunisaki-city Ōita Prefecture), Japan. His parents were both Christians.
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In 1614, he was exiled to Macau due to a deportation order of Christians.
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He went to Malacca and Goa in India by ship, and then left for Europe on foot via Persia, the Strait of Hormuz and Baghdad, finally becoming the first Japanese Christian to arrive in Jerusalem. After a difficult journey that lasted three years he arrived in Rome after sailing through the Mediterranean Sea.
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Father Kibe had a hard decision to return to Japan due to the risk of being a martyr as Japan oppressed Christians and Christian priests' entry to Japan was forbidden.
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He traveled around Southeast Asia, and then finally he succeeded in boarding a ship from Manila to Japan in 1630.
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He was sent to Edo (Tokyo at present). He met Christovao Ferreira who had already rejected his faith of Christianity, but Kibe strongly recommended Ferreira to return to the faith. Father Kibe was tortured severely, but he never rejected his faith. He even encouraged two other Christians in the "torture hole" who were also being tortured to death. As a result, the infuriated guards pulled him out of the hole and ran him through with a spear.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Kasui_Kibe
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So, this year 2009 is just the 390th year anniversary for the first Japanese visit to Jerusalem in the Japanese and world history.
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The first name of General Hideki Tojo and that of N.Y. Yankee Mr. Hideki Matsui (the 2009 World Series MVP player) sound the same; but Kanji letters used in Japanese writing are different.
So, Mr. Matsui's parents must have never felt any problem or restrictions in naming his son with the specific Kanji letters which simply sound "Hideki."
Rather, Mr. Hideki Matsui shares the same Kanji letter for the first part of his first name (Hide) with that of Japanese Nobe Prize winner Hideki Yukawa, the most respectable physical scientist of Japan.
Finally, the New York Yankees having been spellbound from 2001 to 2008 have been finally released from a yet-unknown curse, owing to the super base-ball player who came from Tokyo in 2003, while EEE Reporter was watching live on TV, around Tokyo, the latter part of the sixth game of the 2009 Major-League-Baseball World Series held in the brand-new Yankee Stadium.
Joh 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Joh 11:6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
Joh 11:7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
Joh 11:8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
Joh 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
Joh 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.