Bay of Tokyo!!
Not the Uo-tsuri (angling)-jima Island of the Senkaku Islands!
Jokes Save the World?
(Blagues sauver le monde?)
"Take care of you business everyday!" Do you know this phrase?
Business is indeed a less sinful act of mankind than politics.
The point at issue is a talent of business.
Like in any field of trade, there is someone that is not fit for business. But, to such a man, business can be a way to conquer himself and meet the God. Yet, to those fit for business, business cannot be a stage where they can conquer themselves and meet the God.
So, you have to say that you are in the world of business not for money.
In this way, I once worked in some companies though I have never been suspected of spying, since I really worked very hard at the same level of colleagues.
Now, China must free the last one among the four innocent Japanese corporate workers having been arrested for spying or in retaliation.
SECTION I: Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai) in 1972
In 1972 in the wake of President Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka wanted to restore relations with China. And, fortunately, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai invited Yoshikatsu Takeiri, the leader of the opposition Komeito party, to visit Beijing immediately after Kakuei Tanaka assumed the office of Japan's prime minister in July 1972, as Takeiri had already visited Beijing a year before, namely in June/July 1971.
On July 28, 1972, Japanese lawmaker Y. Takeiri met with Chinese No.2 leader Chou En-lai in Beijing. Their conversations were (officially) recorded and can be checked on the Internet by courtesy of the University of Tokyo.
In Japanese:
In Chinese (not honestly and fully written down):
(Click to check.)(http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~worldjpn/documents/texts/JPCH/19720728.O2C.html )
As President Richard Nixon surprisingly visited Beijing in February 1972, the Tanaka Cabinet of Japan was compelled to do something to cope with the change of the international trend. Nixon's visit was intended to put an end to the Vietnam War the U.S. was losing, since China, with the Soviet Union, provided huge aid to North Vietnam.
So, P.M. Kakuei Tanaka met with Komeito leader Tekeiri who just returned from Beijing to Tokyo. Takeiri assured P.M. Kakuei Tanaka that Zhou Enlai would never fail Tanaka if he should visit Beijing. P.M. Tanaka trusted Takeiri, so that he flew to Beijing in September 1972 with Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, though the U.S. was yet to conclude a diplomatic tie with China.
P.M. Kakuei Tanaka's visit resulted in normalization of the relationship between Japan and China as the two leaders signed the Japan-China joint communique during Tanaka's visit. However, without Takeiri's reporting to Tanaka two months before, this historical event was impossible, since the great strategist Zhou Enlai could freely handle Chinese foreign affairs only around 1972; nobody except Zhou could carry out this adventurous negotiations with Japan in early 1970's.
( http://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/metadb/up/LIBOSIPPK/20-17_n.pdf)
In the meeting with Yoshikatsu Takeiri On July 28, 1972, Chou En-lai said:
"Indeed, you do not have to raise the issue of the Senkaku Islands. You must not have been much interested in this issue, Mr. Takeiri? Neither was I. But, historians have raised this issue due to a matter of crude oil. In Japan, Mr. Kiyoshi Inoue has been exhaustively studying this issue. But, you do not have to take this issue seriously. It cannot compare with the relationship between China and Japan to be restored based on the Five Principles for Peace. If newspapers should mention this issue, they would actually put their oar unnecessarily in our diplomatic efforts. Now, issues related to Taiwan were finished. Let's discuss the Japan-U.S. relationships. As America is yet to have a diplomatic tie with China, they must hope that Japan will wait for America to get prepared for establishing a diplomatic tie with China."
If Chou En-lai had had compelling evidence on China's right on the Senkaku Islands any Japanese would admit, he should have been able to simply show it to Japanese politicians, including Kakuei Tanaka and Yoshikatsu Takeiri, even if on a private basis.
But, Chou En-lai's claim or belief on the Senkaku Island as a Chinese territory seems to be, however, mostly based on study by Japanese scholar Kiyoshi Inoue, which also means that the most notable Chinese premier in history had no compelling evidence, on his side, any Japanese would admit.
Note also that Chou En-lai included the Senkaku Islands issue in the Taiwanese matter. It means that Chou En-lai might have believed that the Islands belonged to Taiwan rather than mainland China.
SECTION II: Kakuei Tanaka and Chou En-lai in 1972
On September 27, 1972, Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka talked with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in Beijing. Tanaka raised the issue of the Senkaku Islands, but Chou did not follow it:
Tanaka: What do you think about the Senkaku Islands? Some people came to me for this issue, with various opinions.
Chou: I do not want to discuss the Senkaku Islands issue on this occasion. It is not good to talk about the the Senkaku Islands. As crude oil was discovered around the Islands, this issue has surfaced. Without crude oil there, anybody, including Taiwan and America, would take no notice of the Senkaku Islands. How many months will it take to appoint and send ambassadors to each other?
Ohira: We will take necessary measures as soon as possible, but it is impossible to specify in the joint communique the number of months within which we are to send ambassadors to each other...
(http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~worldjpn/documents/indices/JPCH/index2.html )
Again, if Chou En-lai had had compelling evidence on China's right on the Senkaku Islands any Japanese would admit, he should have been able to simply show it to Japanese politicians, including Japan's P.M. Kakuei Tanaka and F.M. Masayoshi Ohira, even if on a private basis.
As knowledgeable Chou En-lai was the second-ranking leader of China next to Mao Tse-tung in the period, it shows the best the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party knew about the Senkaku Islands. They did not know anything that could easily demolish Japan's claim on the Islands as its own territory since the era before the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), even if China governed by Mao, Chou, and other Communist leaders was a legitimate successor of the Ching Dynasty.
In conclusion, Chinese citizens should be allowed to access these documents freely, so that they will know that like the Ming Dynasty and the Ching Dynasty the Chinese Communist Party had only a vague idea on the Senkaku Islands, since they were not interested in remote islands traditionally. Neither of them declared that the Senkaku Islands belonged to China (through a due process) while the Empire of Japan did in 1895 before the end of the Sino-Japanese War and transfer of Taiwan to the Empire.
(The Ching Dynasty had a chance to officially make an objection against occupation of the Senkaku Islands by the Empire of Japan before/during the Sino-Japanese War or separately transfer the Islands to the Empire of Japan after the Sino-Japanese War, but they did not.)
SECTION III: Chinese Americans, Still Chinese?
Some Japanese do not like Chinese simply because their manners are so bad, in comparison with Japanese.
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Fifty ways to know if you are Chinese
3. You have more than one college degrees, especially more than one Master's.
8. You beat eggs with chopsticks.
20. You make sounds when you have a bowl of soup.
21. You don't dry-clean clothes, even if they need to be dry-cleaned.
35. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table.
44. You drive a Japanese car.
http://www.yellowbridge.com/humor/chinese-50ways.php
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If you earn a higher education and drive a Japanese car, you cannot be always respected.
But, more stupid might be some Japanese politicians:
Chief Cabinet Secretary Mr. Sengoku said:
a) If the respectable 14 crews would rather kindly return to China, I thought we could have entered a new phase (though the skipper of the illegal Chinese fishing boat was still put in custody)...
b) I thought the Chinese judicial system has been modernized and changed so much, but they, respectable, would rather not kindly change the system in this regard (as they still keep four innocent Japanese in custody)...
c) I understand respectable Chinese marine research vessels would still rather kindly navigate around (Japan's Senkaku Islands)...
Accordingly, a reporter of a certain Japanese newspaper has written down State Minister Mr. Sengoku as being in a strange mental state, since he used respect language so much even to Chinese ships.
(http://abirur.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/1820394/)
So I recommended Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan to replace Chief Cabinet Secretary Mr. Sengoku after the 11-07-2010 Upper House election.
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Somebody might call me Al the Japanese.
But, I would rather say Al the Al.
It is so, since this Bible-course blog seems to be getting international.
So, if you can now see the world in a different manner from before, I charge you to have no one know it.
(http://www.ezgeta.com/Zorba_The_Greek.mid
Source: http://www.ezgeta.com/midi.html
In this movie, two women died; two men survived though losing assets and a kind of family...
The facts of life are all imperfect. Accordingly, a film is welcomed by people.
But, what will become of you if you simply lose your assets and family, without faith?)
Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Mat 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
Mat 9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.