(Tokyo View from South to Central-North)Flowing like a River
They think everybody feels and thinks the same way.
Watching $1 million at somebody's hand, everybody feels and thinks the same way as they do.
But, some people have additional thought and feelings sometimes, which makes a difference.
That is why everybody cannot be a historian though they may think everybody feels and thinks the same way as they do for things of the past.
Now, you have to leave them and listen to EEE Reporter, since they think EEE Reporter is the same as they are in thinking and feeling.
SECTION I: Shanghai b/w Great Depression and 1937
Shanghai in 2010's might look like itself of 1930's.
Shanghai after the Lehman Shock might look like itself after the Great Depression.
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Shanghai in the 1930s A Legendary Chinese City both Modern and Decadent
Share Article | Jun 30, 2009 Eric Niderost
While the rest of the world grappled with the Great Depression, Shanghai entered its most prosperous era. In 1930 its population was around 3 million souls, ranking it fifth among the world’s great cities in population. As the city grew in wealth and sophistication, it became known as the "Paris of the Orient," a mecca for the rich and famous of the era...
Shanghai Enters Its Golden Age
The metropolis on the Whangpoo (now Huangpu) River was divided into three distinct political spheres: the International Settlement, the French Concession, and Greater Shanghai. The International Settlement was largely dominated by the British, while the French Concession was a colony ruled by a Governor General appointed by Paris. Greater Shanghai, which surrounded the foreign enclaves like a giant cocoon, was administered by the Chinese central government.
Skyscrapers, Art Deco, and Capitalism
Shanghai’s wealth created a building boom of unprecedented proportions. There were more skyscrapers in Shanghai than in any other place outside of North America. Art Deco was all the rage, and soon the city’s skyline was festooned with such streamlined masterpieces as the Paramount Ballroom, the Grand Theater, and Sir Victor Sassoon’s Cathay Hotel...
Shanghai as Sin City
The pursuit of pleasure was second only to the pursuit of wealth. Both foreigners and Chinese patronized nightclubs, movie theaters, and dance halls. Thousands flocked to the Shanghai Jockey Club’s great race course in the center of town, eagerly betting on the strange little Mongolian ponies shipped in for the purpose.
But there were other, more sinful pastimes to be had as well. Opium was readily available, and thousands of prostitutes plied their trade. A criminal entrepreneur named “Big Eared” Du presided over a vice empire that included brothels, gambling, and drugs. In an ironic twist, Du was appointed the head of the anti-drug Opium Suppression Bureau. Du’s Green Gang, a criminal organization some 20,000 members strong, had political ties to China’s ruling elite.
It was a common saying that if God allowed Shanghai to endure, He owed an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah. Bernard Wasserstein’s Secret War in Shanghai quotes a Chinese journalist as saying it was "a city with forty-eight storey skyscrapers built upon twenty-eight layers of hell."
A Sanctuary for Refugees
After the Russian Revolution anti- Communist White Russians were forced to flee their homeland. Stateless, without passports, they came to Shanghai because it was one of the few places that would accept them. Many were upper- class aristocrats forced to do menial labor. The men often became bodyguards, the prettier women dance hall hostesses.
In the late 1930s a second wave of refugees poured into Shanghai. This time it was European Jews, fleeing from the Nazis. Most settled in the Honkew (now Hongkou) district, poor but happy to be alive and free of persecution...
http://chinesehistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/shanghai_in_the_1930s
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Rationally thinking, it is unlikely that the Empire of Japan planned to destroy prosperity of Shanghai by exercising its military power, making war with Chinese, and driving out so many American/European businesses to completely occupy the city and cause recession.
Actually, the Imperial Government in Tokyo never took an initiative to send full-scale Army divisions to the Chinese mainland through Shanghai in 1930's, though it allowed the Imperial Military to respond to Chinese offence properly.
SECTION II: Lunch with President
In Washington D.C. next week, Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is reportedly to take a lunch seat beside President Mr. Barack Obama's when leaders in the world get together to talk about nuclear weapon issue.
In Copenhagen last December, Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama took a dinner seat beside Secretary Mrs. Hilary Clinton's when leaders in the world got together to talk about the climate change.
Nobody in Japan thinks any political agenda P.M. Mr. Hatoyama will raise on the lunch or the supper will be taken properly by American leaders, since any agenda the prime minister faces is so critical to his Cabinet in Tokyo while American leaders are too busy with their own.
Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should have said to Secretary Mrs. Clinton, "I hope that America and EU will cooperate to contain Wall Street."
Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should say to President Mr. Obama, "I hope that America and China will cooperate to contain Wall Street."
And, Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should say to Chinese leaders, "I hope that Japan and China will cooperate for success of the coming Shanghai Exposition."
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Recent research on perception of the state of the economy conducted with Japanese businesses has shown steady improvement of the situation.
Japanese businesses are being supported by strong demands from Asian markets. What once caused deflation in Japan might turn to be a catalyst for a boom in Japan. Payback time might be near.
But, Korea might be more in a good situation, exporting nuclear power plants and iron mills in other Asian countries; Taiwan might be more aggressive in exporting high-tech products to China, including semiconductor ones.
Indeed, Shanghai can be a center of finance in East Asia with a huge hedge in Tokyo even in terms of regional security.
(http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~pst/douyou-syouka/03nihon/hana_s.mid
Source: http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~pst/douyou-syouka/03nihon/hana.htm
Cherry blossoms were still sustaining themselves around Tokyo as I have still used an electric heater today... )
Mar 4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mar 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Mar 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.