Tokyo Haneda Airport Observed from 20-km West Yokohama
Wondering What They Were Watching...
So, we missed each other again, Dear!
(Did you get a message?)Sur Une D'argent, Samedi
To Asians, my standpoint is that as some European Americans have been so arrogant to Asians and Japanese, they are now forced to pay respect to their African American President who respects Asia, Indonesia, Hawaii, and Japan more than those arrogant European Americans.
If Japan enters a cold war with the Chinese Communist Party in coming days, months, and years, Asians will be rather beneficiaries in the situation.
Indeed, after WWII where the Empire of Japan played a key role in Asia, many Asians, including Hindus, got independence from Western Powers, though through their own efforts.
(Yet, Indonesia elites seem not to forget cooperation and help from ex-Japanese officers and soldiers who continued to stay and live in Indonesia after WWII so as to join Indonesians' efforts to get independence.)
SECTION I: Everything Coincident around 2001
In September 2001, the Washington Pentagon building and the N.Y. WTC were attacked by Islamic terrorists.
In December 2001, China was allowed to join WTO.
Then, while the American War on Terror was going on, Chinese use of coal was multiplied; its emission of CO2 was multiplied; and its GDP was multiplied on book.
High ranking officers, Secretaries of Departments, and even incumbent and former Presidents of the U.S. started to frequently visit Shanghai and Beijing.
One of the biggest beneficiaries from the 9/11 Terror in 2001 is what China has become today.
So, one or two of secrets of China's economic growth seem to lie in Washington and New York.
SECTION II: Japanese Leftists' Thinking on China
Perhaps no American experts on Japan are so interested in Japanese leftist politicians, since a majority of Japanese are essentially conservative and traditional.
And, even Former Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Yukio Hatoyama cannot be regarded as a leftist, though he praised Gandhi and cursed Wall Street, while he is a billionaire.
But now, a kind of leftist Mr. Naoto Kan is Japanese Prime Minister and a proven leftist Mr. Yoshito Sengoko is No.2 state minister called Chief Cabinet Secretary (CCS).
CCS Mr. Sengoku said, "As Japan invaded China in WWII, Japan must accept what China is doing to Japan today."
CCS Mr. Sengoku virtually said, "As Japan had been wrong for a decade till 1945, Japan must accept whatever accusation and actions China would do against Japan in retaliation today."
CCS Mr. Sengoku should think, "Though Japan and China were both bad 65 years ago, Japan virtually defeated China, since Japan was greater. Now, Japan is good; but China continues to be bad. We have to make China good."
CCS Mr. Sengoku should think, "Once Japan and China were two gangsters. But now, Japan is a law abiding citizen, while China is still a gangster."
What I want to say to the "shadow P.M." Mr. Sengoku is that he must be honest to his thinking. If he thinks still Japan is bad and China is good as each was so 65 years ago, he should leave Japan to get a Chinese citizenship, live in Beijing, and make efforts to win the Nobel Prize.
SECTION III: China Hates Truth
From a fundamental viewpoint of the Empire of Japan:
1) Coward Chinese troops of 600,000 started to attack just a few thousands or so Japanese and Western guards and some ships in Shanghai in 1937.
2) As the Empire of Japan sent eventually 250,000 strong troops to defend Shanghai and its guards, Chinese troops still several times larger than Empire's at the front were defeated and started to flee to Nanjing.
In this way, the International Settlements of Shanghai, where 1.5 million Europeans, Americans, Japanese, and innocent Chinese, in addition to 15,000 Judaists having fled from Europe lived, were saved by the Empire of Japan from Chinese troops equipped with European/Russian weapons and trained by European officers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_International_Settlement
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E7%A7%9F%E7%95%8C )
3) Chinese generals and politicians in Nanjing did not expect that their troops would be so decisively defeated in Shanghai and put into flight to Nanjing so fast being driven by Imperial troops.
4) Chinese generals and politicians tried to still encounter and stop the Imperial troops before they reached Nanjing, but found it impossible, since the Imperial troops were too strong.
5) Chinese generals and politicians, losing face and courage, decided to flee to Chongqing for themselves. But, they had to buy time. They ordered soldiers to defend Nanjing but did not advise Nanjing citizens to leave the city and hide in villages far. They advised soldiers to put away military uniforms and wear civilian clothes to fight Imperial troops coming into the city. Chinese soldiers half deserted without effective command lines got however ready for battles, slipping into completely deserted citizens most of whom narrowly fled to settlements in the city where Westerners lived.
6) Chinese generals and politicians, losing face and courage, fled to Chongqing. And, the tragedy happened in Nanjing, since plain-clothes Chinese soldiers making their way into innocent citizens attacked Imperial soldiers on the streets of Nanjing. But, the 300,000 loss of lives in Nanjing China today claims is mostly the number of fallen Chinese soldiers in fierce battles between Shanghai and Nanjing.
As those battles had been so raging and Imperial soldiers were so strong, Chinese generals and politicians, losing face and courage, fled to Chongqing leaving citizens and soldiers in Nanjing to buy time. The fear of the war is still relayed by Chinese leaders today, since several-times larger Chinese troops were defeated so overwhelmingly by the Imperial Army between Shanghai and Nanjing in 1937.
7) The most significantly, Chinese leaders have never duly appreciated those 300,000 Chinese fallen soldiers in a right manner. They died in fair exchange of fires with the Imperial Army between Shanghai and Nanjing. All of them did not change clothes to fight and die as coward plain-clothes soldiers in the city of Nanjing in 1937.
This is a basic viewpoint from the Empire of Japan on the Japan-China War in 1930's and during WWII.
But, let's check what Westerners think:
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Why China Loves to Hate Japan
By Matthew Forney/Beijing Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005
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Why keep up the propaganda onslaught 60 years after Japan's surrender? Many suspect China's unelected leaders hope to use anti-Japan sentiment to buttress their own legitimacy. Ever since the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989, support for the Communist Party has rested on the shaky foundation of economic growth. Nationalism, by contrast, could prove more enduring. "Reviving war memories keeps the nation united against Japan, and behind the party," says Beijing-based writer Liu Xiaobo. It's a risky strategy. Anti-Japan sentiment grew into rowdy street protests in Beijing and Shanghai in April, which the quickly government suppressed for fear they could spin out of control. But until China's leaders have some new pillar of legitimacy, Liu predicts, "the Japanese will stay devils in China."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0%2C8599%2C1139759%2C00.html
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If today's Chinese are materially true descendants of Confucius, they would not take such a strategy.
But, as today's Japanese are spiritually true successors of Confucius, they have take a strategy to wait for Chinese people to find truth in decades of friendship and economic aid Japan has offered to China, which has been however not informed the Chinese people of by the Chinese Communist Party and Government in these decades.
Anyway, remember that the Imperial Army advanced deep into China from Shanghai not to kill Chinese farmers and citizens without reason in 1937 but to take on irresponsible and arrogant Chinese generals and politicians as well as Chinese soldiers, whether courageous or coward compared with too brave Imperial soldiers trained with centuries-long samurai spirit.
As a proof, China still hates the Japanese people showing love and respect to fallen soldiers of the Empire of Japan at the Tokyo Yasukuni Shrine. Such pious behaviors remind the Chinese Communist Party to shame itself of the godless strategy Chinese leaders took in 1937 between Shanghai and Nanjing, and Nanjing to Chongqing.
To make sure, it is true that it was absurd for the Empire of Japan to chase fleeing Chinese generals and politicians while the Empire had already governed Shanghai, Manchuria, Korea, Taiwan, Sakhalin, and many islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It was time to talk with America, since America started to prepare war with the Empire around the Philippines, a too easy target for the Imperial Navy.
(One of crucial truths is that the Chinese Communist Party welcomed war with the Empire of Japan to expand their influences among Chinese victims through the great chaos in 1930's and subsequent WWII.)
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I have a feeling to go out tomorrow, since no great TV programs are expected.
But, it can be Monday, since the Monday is the Sports Day.
By the way, do you believe that there are 1,500 types of "trees" in Japan while only 50 sorts in Germany? As for "maples," there are 26 different types in Japan, while only 13 in Europe and North America, each. (As for total vascular plants or normal plants, there are 7,000 types in Japan, about 2,900 of which are indigenous species. For reference, Amazon has 60,000 to 90,000 types of plants; Great Britain has 1,623 types of plants.)
Anyway, that is why fall foliage in Japan is more beautiful than in Europe or North America.
And water. Water in the nature of Japan is replaced in a far shorter cycle than in Europe, it is always fresh. Even tap water delivered to each home is drinkable as it is. Accordingly in the Japanese Islands situated between the subtropical zone and Siberia, there exists the very unique and fine natural environment.
So, ancient Chinese philosophers said that in the "East Sea" there exists the Isle of the Immortals, namely Japan, which the First Chinese Emperor believed 2200 years ago, namely 100 years after the era of Alexander the Great.
(http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/60406-glassnojohny.htm
More, http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TECA-1001 .
I cannot stop thinking that Johnny died somewhere in a war he should not have been involved in...though not for anybody. What do you think?)
Gen 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Gen 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Gen 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
Gen 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.