(North of Tokyo)The year 2009 is Jinmu Era 2669 in Japan, according to the Imperial calendar, since Jinmu is the first emperor of Japan who, as legend goes, assumed the throne on a certain year of the calendar.
This is based on the sexagenary cycle of years first formulated in ancient China.
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The Chinese sexagenary cycle, also known as Stems-Branches, is a cyclic numeral system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles, the ten Heavenly Stems and the twelve Earthly Branches.
This traditional Chinese calendrical system is used as a means of numbering days and years, not only in China but also in other East Asian nations like Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The Sexagenary system is also important in Chinese astrology and Chinese fortune telling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle
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His Majesty the Emperor is the 125th Emperor of Japan, so that his birthday is celebrated as a national holiday on December 23.
His Imperial Highness of Crown Prince, the Emperor's eldest son, was born on February 23, though his grandfather Showa Emperor of Japan was born on April 29, 1901.
For your reference, Pope Benedictus XVI was born on April 16, 1927; Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom was born on April 21, 1926.
Lord Jesus Christ was born, as legend goes, on December 25, A.D. 1.
SECTION I: CAPITAL & LABOR
A record on the San Francisco's General Strike of 1934:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32912172@N00/2666313912/in/photostream/
A record on the Sitdown Strike at GM of 1937:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYjJxstGl7Y&feature=related
Despite the Great Depression that started in 1929 and continued in 1930's all over the world, no revolution occurred in the United States.
Laborers continued to be laborers and capitalists continued to be capitalists eventually.
It is because nobody ordered capitalists to pay wages to all the workers equally, with authority Jesus Christ had had when He ordered to an owner of a vineyard 1900 years ago.
(Success of American workers in 1930's, regardless of its level, put the U.S. more on the justice side than the Empire of Japan during WWII, in my humble view.)
SECTION II: Prophets and Religion
Will any one want to hear a prophecy a servant of the Devil delivers?
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In religion, a prophet is a person who has been contacted by, or has encountered, the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other humans...
In the late 20th century the appellation of a 'prophet' has been used to refer to individuals particularly successful at analysis in the field of economics, such as in the derogatory 'prophet of greed'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet
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The main function of a prophet is thus to protect people, of course, not for any financial profits.
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I once read that some Japanese pilots, actually university students mobilized for a kamikaze mission during WWII, played the piano in a classroom of a primary school near their air base secretly on the eve of making a one-way sortie to the Okinawa area from Japan proper, since they loved Beethoven or so so much.
(Japanese National Anthem [though not played or directed by a Japanese]:
http://www.daisyfield.com/music/jpm/mp3/ZMS01-Kimigayo.mp3
Source:http://www.daisyfield.com/music/japan.htm)
Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.