A week ago,
But, yesterday...Tokyo...
Monday Agreeable to Destiny
(compréhension lundi)
The Shanghai Expo 2010 was over finally.
Another expo was also over in 1970 in Japan, having been enjoyed by 64 million visitors including 1.7 million foreigners.
The Vietnam War, the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations by university students, the Apollo crews' moon landing, and the opening of express highway linking Tokyo with Nagoya (connected to the Nagoya-Osaka-Kobe express way) symbolized the era around 1970 in Japan.
Dear, 40 years is equivalent to the time span between the death of Caesar in Rome to the birth of Christ Jesus in Israel!
SECTION I: Japan's/Okinawa's Senkaku Islands
Some people in the world, including Americans, Chinese, Taiwanese, South/North Koreans, Russians, South East Asians, and Japanese nowadays seem to come to realize that the Senkaku Islands belong to Japan.
So, let's enjoy the confirmation!
As a special point to notice, the Beijing City Authority published a map indicating the Senkaku Islands as part of Japan in 1960. But, today, some Chinese are searching for this map to destroy it.
Some Chinese frequently visit book towns in Tokyo, looking for this map. Whenever they find it in an antiquarian bookshop, they buy it no matter how high the price tag is. They look like working under instruction of the Chinese Communist Government.
The portion of the map indicating the Senkaku Islands as part of Japan is as follows:
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Japanese government — assert the foundation for Japan's territorial dominion over the Senkaku Islands!
TAKAHANA Yutaka Chairman, TEIKEI Inc
...To begin with, both China and Taiwan have acknowledged the fact that the Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory. Under international law regarding "uninhabited remote territories" (the granting of dominion to countries with exclusive possession of lands that have no occupants), a cabinet decision on Jan. 14, 1895, assigned the five islands — including Uotsuri Jima — and three reefs that make up the Senkaku Islands to the prefecture of Okinawa as a result of a ten-year investigation there. Maps of every nation, and text books in China, acknowledged publicly that they were Japanese territory...
Instead of using the Chinese name of the island, Diaoyu Dao (釣魚島), the name is printed in the original Japanese as Uotsuri Jima (魚釣島). A line is drawn between Yonaguni Island and Taiwan in accordance with UN Convention on the Law of the Sea....
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/53_S4.pdf
Note: Diaoyu Dao (釣魚島), the Chinese expression of Senkaku, is pronounced as "Cho-gyo Tou (jima)" in Japanese.
And, Uo-Tsuri-Jima (魚釣島) is the Japanese name of the main island of the Senkaku Islands.
Chinese adopted the Japanese expression but not other way.
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Check past postings of EEE-Reporter for more discussions based on historic facts.
Refer to: http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2010/10/yesterday-two-miracles-however-you.html
SECTION II: Urban Mines in Japan
According to the Web site of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMES) of Japan, Japan's urban mines can rank with the largest and richest natural mines in the world.
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Japan's "Urban Mines" are Comparable to the World's Leading Resource Nations
Calculating the Scale of the Urban Mines Accumulated in Japan
2008/01/11
Abstract
1. Amid concern about future shortages of metals, Dr. Kohmei Harada, Managing Director of the Innovative Materials Engineering Laboratory, who is also Manager Director of the Strategic Use of Elements Interdisciplinary Cluster at the National Institute for Materials Science (President: Teruo Kishi), calculated the amount of metals which have been accumulated in Japan to date which are recyclable for use as metal resources in the future. These metals, called "urban mines", are found in a wide range of products, but are generally not recycled when products are discarded. The results of this study revealed that Japan’s urban mines have reached a scale comparable to natural reserves of the world’s leading resource nations.
2. According to these calculations, Japan's urban mines of many metals exceed 10% of world reserves, including gold, (approx. 6,800 tons, or about 16% of the world’s current reserves of 42,000 tons), silver (60,000 tons, or 22%), indium (61%), tin (11%), and tantalum (10%). Many other metals, including platinum, also rank in the top 5 in comparison with reserves by country....
http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2008/01/p200801110.html
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Parties concerned in the world also have admitted it even with a focus on rare earths.
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Japan Recycles Minerals From Used Electronics
By HIROKO TABUCHI Published: October 4, 2010
... Although Japan is poor in natural resources, the National Institute for Materials Science, a government-affiliated research group, says that used electronics in Japan hold an estimated 300,000 tons of rare earths. Though that amount is tiny compared to reserves in China, which mines 93 percent of the world’s rare earth minerals, tapping these urban mines could help reduce Japan’s dependence on its neighbor, analysts say.
The global rare earth market is small by mining standards — just $1.5 billion last year, although its value is rising as prices have surged in response to Chinese restrictions on exports.
Concern over China’s hoarding of rare earths has also been spreading to the United States. Although China has not specifically blocked shipments to any place but Japan, it had already tightened its overall export quotas of the minerals, announcing in July that it would reduce them by 72 percent for the rest of the year.
Last Wednesday in Washington, the House of Representatives approved a bill authorizing research to address the supply of rare earths, saying the minerals were critical to energy, military and manufacturing technologies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/business/global/05recycle.html
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SECTION III: My Opinions on the Chinese Bubble
China would fail in soft landing, trying to contain its bubble economy, in several years.
It would generate a greater shock wave to the world more horrible than the combined 1997 Asian Financial crisis, 2001 Internet bubble burst, 2008 Lehman Shock, and 2010 Greece crisis.
However, it can be contained inside China.
For this purpose, the cooperation between Japan and the U.S. is essential. The true G2 of Japan and America should be prepared for the large-scale hard landing of the Chinese bubble that has continued so far 10 years.
President Mr. Barack Obama should plan his future career along with this perspective.
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Chinese Real Estate Bubble Is Bursting Aug. 31 2010 - 2:05 pm
Of the 90 publicly listed Chinese property developers listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, almost two-thirds of them reported negative operating cash flows for the first half of 2010. No wonder the People's Bank of China asked these companies to estimate their level of write-offs if home prices were to fall by a humungus 60% instead of the prior target of 30%...
Trees don’t grow to the sky permanently. Real estate prices are 60% higher in China today than they were after the 2008 global financial crisis sent Chinese property stocks down 40% after a run-up of 10 times from 2005 to 2008...
THE BOTTOM LINE’S ADVICE: Pay special attention to any policy move by the People’s Bank of China because it has the power to produce
http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlenzner/2010/08/31/chinese-real-estate-bubble-is-bursting/?boxes=businesschannelsections-----------
China Hits A Great Wall Gordon G. Chang, 09.09.10, 06:00 PM EDT
The Middle Kingdom's rapid ascent will come to a crashing halt in the next decade.
...Instead, the State Council, Beijing's cabinet, decided in November 2008 to use government spending to avoid the pain of adjustment. So, after pouring a cool $1.1 trillion of stimulus into its economy last year, growth reached a scorching 11.1% in the first half of this one. Unfortunately, China has too much of most things. Residential apartments? Would you believe 80 million vacant ones? That might be an underestimate. The vacancy rate in new buildings is well over 50%. In Beijing it looks like it is over 65%...
http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/china-economy-population-2020-opinions-columnists-gordon-g-chang.html
Before another 100 million Chinese become as rich as those of today, the bubble will burst.
However, it can be contained inside China.
For this purpose, the cooperation between Japan and the U.S. is essential. The true G2 of Japan and America should be prepared for the large-scale hard landing of the Chinese bubble that will happen within 10 years.
SECTION IV: The Ground Self-Defence Force of Japan
Perhaps you have never seen troops of Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force, if you are living in Japan as a foreigner, say from Russia, for a decade:
http://east.tegelog.jp/index.php?itemid=7251
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According to a survey on Tokyo area voters by Fuji TV, Tokyo, the latest trend of support for the ruling party DPJ and the former ruling party LDP is as follows:
.......-.....-......Oct 21.....-.....Oct 28.....
Ruling DPJ:...27.4%......-.....24.2%
Opposition LDP:...19.8%....-...26.8%
So, Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan and his DPJ are steadily losing the trust of voters.
Yet, it is unlikely that P.M. Mr. Kan will be forced to resign or dissolve the Lower House for a general election in a few months.
But, this leftist regime in Japan, though not based on socialism but on anti-conservatism and anti-nationalism, will sooner or later lose power forever, in my feeling. It should be also understood that influential DPJ members are rather non-ideological leftists but not ideological leftists.
What P.M. Mr. Kan should do is to disband the party and form a new one without ideological leftists and the Ozawa faction, but with moderate and progressive conservative politicians. Then, he can maintain his political influence.
In closing, if P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan steps down without resorting to a snap election, the next prime minister of Japan would be probably DPJ Director-General Mr. Katsuya Okada or Foreign Minister Mr. Seiji Maehara.
But, the DPJ will be more likely a useful opposition party again against the restructured and reformed LDP, being conservative and capitalistic but probably becoming a kind of socialistic so as to win more votes.
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