(Going through the Tokyo Bay Area; this is not the NHK TV station, though...)Peace Inside And Outside A Nation
Everybody in Japan is now wondering if the Secretary-General of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan Mr. Ichiro Ozawa will be eventually prosecuted through voting by the Committees for the Inquest of Prosecution, though the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office gave up indictment of Mr. Ozawa a few months ago.
The first voting of yesterday was resulted in request for prosecution of Mr. Ichiro Ozawa for violation of the Political Funding Regulation Law. If the second voting expected in a few months should be again resulted in request for prosecution, the most powerful Japanese lawmaker Mr. Ozawa will be indicted by law.
Such a big prosecution was conducted with late former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka in 1976, and 17 years later with the then most powerful politician Shin Kanamaru in 1993. And again 17 years later, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa is facing the possible fatal action, since Kakuei Tanaka and Shin Kanamaru were Mr. Ozawa's intimate bosses when he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
In Japanese, it is said that what happens twice will happen three times.
Lower-House member Mr. Ichiro Ozawa should retire from politics as soon as possible, since he has been a member of the National Diet since 1969 when Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama just graduated from the University of Tokyo.
SECTION I: GLOBAL PEACE INDEX (GPI)
New Zealand is the most peace-enjoying country in the world.
Japan is the most peace-enjoying country among G8 or highly advanced influential country in the world, so honorably.
Japan with 125 million population is also the most peace-enjoying among countries with population of more than 10 million, quite honorably.
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Global Peace Index Rankings
The table below provides the GPI rankings for the 144 countries analysed in 2009...
#1 New Zealand
#2 Denmark; Norway
#4 Iceland
#5 Austria
#6 Sweden
#7 JAPAN
#8 Canada
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#16 Germany
#19 Australia
#30 France
#33 South Korea
#35 UK
#36 Italy
#37 Taiwan
#74 China
#83 USA
#85 Brazil
#99 Iran
#104 Saudi Arabia
#118 Thailand
#122 India
#123 South Africa
#131 North Korea
#136 Russia
#137 Pakistan
#141 Israel
#142 Somalia
#143 Afghanistan
#144 Iraq
http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/rankings.php
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Despite the 15 year economic slump, Japan is still the second largest and advanced economy enjoying peace China and America cannot attain.
The value of peace and its translation into wealth are what the modern economics lacks.
In other world, being rich in America lacks a sense of peace, while being rich in Japan is accompanied by a great sense of peace.
Only foolish super/very-rich Japanese would go and live in America. Even Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, spending a personal allowance of $150,000 per month (not from his salary), looks like having no idea of going and living in America after retirement (which I highly recommend the prime minister to go into without delay before the G8 Summit).
SECTION II: Little Known Facts of Shanghai before WWII
In 1937, Chiang Kaishek (Sho-Kaiseki in Japanese) launched a decisive and large-scale offence to Shanghai with total 600,000 soldiers and 200 fighter planes, following a plan made by German General Alexander von Falkenhausen (who left Shanghai in 1938 after Nazi Germany ordered him to do so).
In this situation around 1937, Shanghai was full of Europeans and Americans who formed an administrative committee in their official settlements together with Japanese residents. In response to a call from the Japanese Consul, they made a request to the Chinese Government and the Chinese mayor of Shanghai City so as to stop invasion of the city by Chinese troops.
Despite the mutual effort by Japanese and Westerners in Shanghai, Chinese troops continued attacks on the city, even bombing international settlements by fighter planes, which took 2000 lives of civilians in one case.
The Imperial Naval ships and Marines stationed around Shanghai alone could not prevent this assault, thus asking the Imperial Government in Tokyo full-scale deployment of Imperial Army and Naval/Army air squadrons, resulting in the dispatch of total 250,000 troops, 500 fighter planes, and 150 warships eventually.
(Probably Chiang Kaishek thought that his half a million troops could easily drive out Imperial Naval ships and Marines if some divisions should have been sent from mainland Japan over the East China Sea.)
This battle around Shanghai in 1937 resulted in a great victory of the Empire of Japan and Western civilians and officials living in the great prosperous port city Shanghai. But, Chinese troops retreated to Nanjing, while destroying houses and looting assets of civilians living on the path from Shanghai to Nanjing. It was a Chinese official strategy not to leave behind anything valuable to the enemy, namely the Imperial Army of Japan in this case, despite desparate resistance from local Chinese residents and villagers.
In 1939, there was still the administrative committee in the official settlements of Europeans, Americans, and Japanese, owing to the victory of the Imperial Military.
According to the official annual report of 1939 issued by this international committee in Shanghai,
- there were 70 camps and 50,000 refugees in Shanghai managed by the committee at the end of 1938, and 28 camps and 33,000 refugees at the end of 1939;
- there were 6,000+ Judaists fleeing from Europe to Shanghai in April 1939, and 10,000+ in June 1939, resulting in restriction imposed by the committee on acceptance of new refugees, though Judaist refugees from Europe were mostly accommodated in the Japanese territory in Shanghai;
- The committee discussed and took actions on various agendas in 1939, such as protection of children, financial assistance to refugees, flood control, and even the monument building for British soldiers killed in the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864).
( http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad-Forest/1429/colo/shanghai.html)
As I once wrote, even a young American woman could travel from Tokyo to Nanjing through Shanghai in 1940 so safely, though she observed, along a rail road to Nanjing, evidence of victims and the fierceness of battles between Japanese and Chinese troops in addition to the effect of the Chinese strategy of leaving nothing behind for its enemy.
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A Japanese TV station presented an interview with Ms. Arianna Huffington, since she is advocating "move money" or withdrawal of deposited money from big banks, namely JP Morgan/Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.
President Mr. Barack Obama also delivered a speech in Wall Street recently.
As I discussed in this blog, the central bank, the private banking system, and the government must be first changed before forcing a change in the industry/consumers domain.
However, this effort can mount to a level of a civil war or a revolution without fire arms. Courageous men and women are more wanted in America today.
( http://www.ongen.net/free/trial_download.php?id=tr0001413969&file_id=fl0000000001&stream_flag=1
Source: http://www.ongen.net/search_detail_artist/artist_id/at0000001066/
You have your own tomorrow no one can see through your eyes, though...)
Luk 4:28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Luk 4:29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Luk 4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
Luk 4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.