A Genealogical Tree Since 1776

A Genealogical Tree Since 1776


Mr. Takashi Hirose, a prominent author in Japan, published a book titled "Sekai Sekiyu Senso (World Oil Wars)" in 2002.

He pointed out that oil incurs wars and wars incur arms business. In this context, he especially mentioned Mr. Adnan Khashoggi.

According to other source, "his 'services' as a 'facilitator' have never ceased throughout US administrations since Nixon, and lately, he met with Richard Perle, shortly before the American invasion of Iraq, in 2003" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi).

Mr. Hirose showed various genealogical trees in his book. The following scheme has been arranged based on public knowledge and an original genealogical tree in Mr. Hirose's book as of early 2002, in order to present a certain genealogy of public figures, which is mysteriously connected with Mr. Khashoggi:

"Till the beginning of the Age of Wars on Terror [2001], with
...
...
Mr. Adnan Khashoggi [1935-]
(a Saudi Arabian agent of the US military industry),
/
/an ex-husband of
/
Ms. Sandra (Soraya) Javis-Daly,
/
/???
/
Mr. Winston Churchill
(a grandchild of Winston S. Churchill, British Prime Minister),
/
/a son of
/
Pamela Digby [1920-1997]
(a backer of Mr. Bill Clinton; also the wife of Averell Harriman [1891-1986] who was the US King of Railroads and also a backer of the Bushes),
/
/a daughter of
/
Constance Pamela Bruce
(the wife of Edward Kenelm Digby, a nephew of the wife of Alexander Hugh Baring of a prominent UK financial clique),
/
/a sister of
/
Eva Bruce,
/
/the wife of
/
Albert Primrose,
/
/a son of
/
Hannah Rothschild
(the wife of Archibald P. Primrose [1847-1929], British Prime Minister when Indo-Afghan borders were settled),
/
/a daughter of
/
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
(the wife of Lionel Rothschild [1808-1879], the financier to the UK Government for buying out the Suez Canal),
/
/a daughter of
/
Nathan Rothschild [1777-1836]
(the King of Finance in England),
...
...
from the Declaration of Independence of the U.S. [1776]."
* * *

Humbly accepting the historical fact, it is God who would let it sustain itself or not at His will.

(Rich Israelites alone cannot enjoy wealth and power in Europe and thus the U.S. It is German elites in the 18th century that trusted and backed a certain Israelite family who became and is still one of the richest one in Europe today. Anti-Semitism is regarded as an internal conflict among Christians, at least, in this context. In addition, Semitism and Ant-Semitism were, and have been, very remote thing in Japan both before and after WWII.)
* * *

And, though Mr. Hirose does not rely on the Internet to gather information (his sources are printed materials open to the world), the Internet should not be used in any harming manner against any individuals and religions. Otherwise, as the Internet is originally an infrastructure of the US Department of Defense, DOD should take the Internet off the world market.

(Can't DOD introduce new technical and procedural specifications to allow every router set at providers and exchanges to shut down a path to a worldly-admitted illegal site? Could anybody identify all the routers in the world public domain and their routing tables?)
* * *

Now, you would not be surprised if Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, and Jesus Christ are studied in one context, though not in a direct family tree.

(Everyman has at least one personal pedigree: God---oneself)



"GOD IS KING FOREVER"

Another Episode

Another Episode


As another episode contained in the book written by the said notable Japanese author who studied political and financial scandals in the U.S. and Europe, Mr. Harry Belafonte, who last year made a controversial speech at Duke University, had once purchased a whole condominium building in New York to live in one apartment because an owner of the building had refused to rent it to him.

Also, as Mr. Harry Belafonte made a controversial speech on Mr. Colin Powel and Ms. Condoleezza Rice, he was, so to speak, summoned into that famous "Larry King Live," according to the book.
* * *

My concern is however also on such issues as Mitochondrial Eve (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve) who lived almost 200,000 years ago in Africa and became one of common mothers of all the contemporary humans including Africans and Japanese.

And, 98% of human genes are the same as those found in a chimpanzee.

Even a round worm called Caenorhabditis has 18,000 genes, while a human being has 34,000 genes in a genome, the difference in which is astonishingly small when considering that the worm has only 969 cells in its whole body but a human being has more than 60 trillion cells to be controlled.

(For God to terminate evolution of mankind would be as easy as His doing so to a worm, if we, as a young species, continue to neglect His will.)
* * *

Money cannot increase the number of genes. Only for this reason, you can be poor, can't you?



"PRAY ALSO FOR US, BROTHERS"

King Kong

King Kong


In 1976, the movie "King Kong" was released. In its last scene, the gigantic ape-man King Kong was climbing a World Trade Center tower in New York to protect a human woman he loves. However, US jet fighters flew in to fire at him. King Kong got fatally shot and fell from the rooftop of the WTC tower to the ground.

It is said that this movie depicts arrogance of human beings in a pathetic manner.

King Kong loves a human beauty and climbs a WTC tower trying to save her despite attacks by US Air Forces, which may be a laughingstock; but it is the WTC tower that actually fell down to the ground in 2001 (with so many ultimate sacrifices - Amen!).
* * *

I am not so sure if this episode is very appropriate or not.

But, a certain notable Japanese author who studied racism, money scandals, political scandals, and scandals in the War on Terror of the U.S. included this episode in his book.

So, what is a good lesson? Do not be a King Kong? Do not fall in love with a beauty in New York? Do not climb a WTC tower? Do not lose to US Air Forces?
* * *

The producer of "King Kong" is the one who also produced "The Bible: in the Beginning" in 1966.

The lesson given seems to surpass the intention of the producer (as with a Japanese American architect who designed the WTC towers).
* * *

Now, apart from an episode between mankind and other primates, focusing on the human race, our only resort is the Messiah.

It may look strange, but Jesus Christ did not order his disciples to go and preach specifically in Africa to strengthen people there to cope with invasion by Europeans expected to happen 1500 years later.

However, my interpretation about the Civil War in the U.S. is that it must have been fought with ultimate sacrifices of 620,000, in order to atone for the sin and crime of slavery.
* * *

If my son is white, I will tell him to be white as much as possible until he becomes proud of being white.

If my son is black, I will tell him to be black as much as possible until he becomes proud of being black.

If my son is yellow, I will tell him to be golden as much as possible until he becomes proud of being golden just like ears of rice plants (even Marco Polo reported on Japan as a country of Gold around 1300).

(Colors in the Heaven must be very different from those on the earth due to glorious light of God.)

Anyway, it is a family matter; only God should interfere.

So then, what about your respectable father?




"GIVING THANKS TO GOD"

Japan's Staple: Rice Plant

China's First and Last Madam Emperor

China's First and Last Madam Emperor


Wu Hou is the only Chinese Empress who rose to an imperial throne several years after the death of her husband, an Emperor. In other words, she is the only Madam Emperor in Chinese history, though debatable for some.

("Wu" means force of arms; "Hou" means a queen or an empress.)

She reigned from A.D. 690 to 705 in the Tang dynasty.
* * *

There are many reports on cruelty conducted under her reign. But, Chinese imperial history had been and was full of atrocities. She was not the worst Emperor at all.

On the contrary, she was nice to Japan. As she was so nice to Japan, it looks as though God set a lady at the Chinese throne when Japan was in its testing time.

In 663, Japan and China made their first full-scale war in the history on the Korean Peninsula for hegemony over a certain country therein. And Japan was defeated. Since then, for decades, Japan faced various serious situations, though Tang military did not advance to occupy Japan.

(In those days, the samurai class was not yet established in Japan.)

Even during this war, Wo Hou was actually in charge of Tang's politics, because her husband was ill.
* * *

It is during her reign and de facto reign in Tang that Japan changed its name from "Wa" to "Nippon" (Japan) and its chief's title from "Dai-ou" (great king) to "Ten-nou" (emperor), in order to gain more respect both domestically and internationally and thus recover from the lost war against Tang, while keeping complete independence from Tang.

As the only super-power in East Asia then, China could have rejected official recognition of such changes in the name of the country and its leader's title. However, the changes were remarkably smoothly accepted.

Unless China's Emperor was a lady who was especially pleased with sophiscated envoys sent off by the Imperial (Yamato) Court of Japan in 702, things might have gone wrong for Japan.

But, the fact is that China had at that age a Madam Emperor as the first and the last case in its long history.
* * *

For this reason based on the historic experience, Japan is not against a lady taking up any high position in the world politics.

I am not against you even trying to be a queen in a certain country, neither (, if you are not yet).



"DO THE WORK, FOR I AM WITH YOU"

Plants (introduced from the U.S.)

Chance and Certainty

Chance and Certainty


No one thinks it is a mystery that Jesus Christ was born in a specific place at a certain time of history; they think it is by chance.

If you believe in accidentalism and fatalism, while neglecting causality and logicality, a question such as why the Messiah was born at a certain time may not be your concern. However, you may still live under holy certainty supported by holy causality and logicality.
* * *

Specifically, in a generation after the well-known episodes centered on relationships between Cleopatra, Caesar, and Antonio, Jesus Christ was born.

(Why was not Jesus Christ born in Rome or Egypt to make things settled at one dash, for example, by taking charge of the Roman Empire and Cleopatra at the same time?)
* * *

King Herod's father went out to see Caesar and got his support for governing Judea.

King Herod himself after assassination of Caesar went out to see Antonio and Cleopatra in Alexandria and further went to Rome to get Rome's support for governing Judea.

King Herod himself after death of Antonio and Cleopatra swore loyalty to Octavius (Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus) who became the First Emperor of the Roman Empire.

And then, during the last years of King Herod of ancient Israel, Jesus Christ was born among Israelites according to prophets of Daniel or God's promise to descendants of Abraham.
* * *

I do not think that God chose that time by chance.

1) King Herod, as a representative of descendants of Abraham, completely forgot glory of his tribe, more than fully surrendering to the Roman Empire.

2) The Roman Empire had its first Emperor, which indicated a change in a certain character of the empire that could not make the world any safer. An Emperor in Rome vs. the Messiah in Jerusalem seemed to well match, though from a human point of view.

3) As Jesus Christ never mentioned Pyramid, Cleopatra, and those drastic wars fought in the eastern Mediterranean just preceding His birth, it is apparent that He did not like those historic events and monument.

You have to explain an implicit relationship betweeen Cleopatra and Jesus Christ, not between Mary of Magdala and Jesus Christ, as the sequence of events was clearly connected around true A.D. 0 or the so-called 1 minus.
* * *

For Jesus Christ to be born at the age itself saved the world under the threat of destructive civilization of the Roman Empire.

It even paved the great way for future birth of Islam 600 years later which succedded in suppressing mighty Persia.

It even enabled Japan, the only Imperial country in the world today, though nominally, to emerge 1900 years later.

It might even make possible your success where Cleopatra failed.



"SHAKE THE DUST OFF YOUR FEET"

Corner of Imperial Palace (Ex-Edo Castle of Shogun)

(picture omitted)

Will She Win and If Not

Will She Win and If Not



I was embarrassed to see Mr. Anderson Cooper of CNN get embarrassed on his interview with Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It was more embarrassing to see Mr. Cooper remain embarrassed after the interview.

Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton's being a future President of the U.S. is, of course, one possibility at present.

What I am afraid is that if Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton is defeated in the coming presidential election, dignity of America might be influenced, though partly, negatively.

Terrorists hiding in the Islamic world might further lose respect to their archrival, the U.S., if an ex-First Lady looses her face in real politics.
* * *

Ms. Maria Sharapova was recently defeated by Ms. Serena Williams in Australia, though Maria, an inhabitant in the U.S., has kept her ranking, No.1 among female tennis players in the world.

Maria is now in Tokyo, preparing herself for matches including one against, probably, Ms. Martina Hingis.

Maria has had many interviews by Japanese media who love her popularity in Japan.

Though she hinted, in an interview, that she thought she was more matured than other 19 years old girls due to her endeavor to be a top athlete, she carries a kind of a felling idyllic.
* * *

Mr. Michael Moore once enthusiastically wrote that he wished Ms. Oprah Winfrey to run for a U.S. Presidential election.

The only billionaire African American lady, Ms. Winfrey, is said however to have gone to South Africa to establish a girls' school.

Has he had an interview with her; or has she had ever an interview with him?
* * *

An autocracy, including the USSR, seldom allows women to lead the society, since armed forces are a core of the establishment.

But, will the fact that a lady can be the president of a nation or a billionaire appeal to Muslims?

However, a system in which young ladies can enjoy sports freely must appeal to young Muslims.

I mean the background that allows for a female President in the U.S. might be more profound than ordinary Democrats and Republicans domestically consider.
* * *

In Japan, the issue of admitting a female Emperor (or an Empress on a throne) has been a social issue for some time, though we had actually some in the long imperial history lasting almost 2000 years.

In this context, the position of the Pope in Rome might be the last challenge for ladies.



"LOOK AT FLOWERS IN THE FIELD"

Vicinal Plants

Top Creditor to the U.S.

Top Creditor to the U.S.

To: Outcasts in the World and Benevolent Women
Not-To: Respectable People Regardless of Races, Ages, and Weights
From: EE(E)Reporter
Date: January 30, 2007 (Japan), the forenoon


It was said, when the current-account deficit in the U.S. was larger than its GDP (gross national product) by 5%, that the U.S. needed more than 60 million dollars per hour as cash infusion to sustain its economy.

Now, it is said that the current-account deficit in the U.S. is larger than its GDP by 6%.
* * *

The main financing sources for U.S. economy are Japan and China who are actively purchasing U.S. treasury bonds.

As of August 2006, Japan, as the top creditor to the U.S., has US bonds worth US$672.8 billion.

China, in the second place, holds US bonds worth US$339 billion.

If Japan and China stop buying U.S. bonds and money flow is stopped, U.S. long-term interest rates will increase due to shortage of financial resources needed in every sector of its various industries.

Then, land prices will fall, business will be declining, and jobs will be lost in the U.S.
* * *

Japan has been for a very long time buying the U.S. bonds as a tested and proven financial ally.

But, China is new in this circle of money flow.

You may trust in China due to its economic success; but there are some points to be considered.

According to a source, Chinese earnings from selling counterfeits account for 8% of its GDP. Chinese counterfeits account for 60% of products produced and exported by the autocratic country.

Japan is estimated to have already lost 80 billion dollars due to Chinese counterfeits and patent infringements, or copies of Japanese original designs and idea.
* * *

Chinese economy is not tested yet (including its 1.2 billion people).

U.S. economy will face another test (including its 0.3 billion people).

Japanese economy will continue to be challenged (including its 0.12 billion people)

(However those who ask God for help will be saved.)
* * *

Jesus Christ said, "Those giving more are blessed more than those receiving more."

Now, we know that Japan is more blessed than the U.S. and China.

What really shows a majestic appearance is wealth accumulated in the Heaven but not a powerful "City" and a "Street" as well as a "Square", isn't it?


Best regards,


"THEY WILL BE LIKE DUST UNDER YOUR FEET"

Tokyo Station since 1914

Reading a Saudi Arabian Editorial

Reading a Saudi Arabian Editorial


In a certain newspaper released today in Japan, a summarized editorial of a certain newspaper of Saudi Arabia was introduced.

It argued that the U.S. had invaded Iraq on false grounds; the U.S. should have had effective plans to administrate and police Iraq after its surrender; and immediate pull-out of U.S. troops would extend conflicts and battles to the entire Arab regions.
* * *

North Korea was supported by China and the USSR in the Korean War in 1950's; and thus the U.S. could not win a complete victory.

North Vietnam was supported by China and the USSR, while being linked in various negative ways with the adjacent turmoil country Cambodia, in 1960's and early 70's; and thus the U.S. could not gain victory at all.

Iraq is directly surrounded by Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc., each of which seems to support different party in Iraq; and thus U.S. might not be able to get any kind of victories it wishes.
* * *

Nonetheless, this time, Saudi Arabia along with Kuwait, etc. is, unlike China and the USSR in the past, actually an allied country for the U.S.

More specifically, it seems to be Saudi Arabia along with Kuwait, etc. that will decide the ultimate fate and outcome of the U.S. military operations and presence in Iraq.

It seems that the U.S. cannot withdraw its troops from Iraq, leaving Saudi Arabia along with Kuwait, etc. vulnerable under military threat of hostile parties, without mentioning crude oil to be secured against the hostile parties.
* * *

There are many opinions on this issue in the U.S. as well as in the world.

But, if the surrounding countries and warring parties in Iraq do not mind possibility of the continuation of the present situation, with scores of civilian casualties per day, further for a decade or more, I am afraid that situations would follow their will despite wish of U.S. voters, taxpayers, and consumers.

But, will U.S. citizens really accept it, as long as Saudi Arabia along with Kuwait, etc. cooperates with the U.S. in preventing occurrence of another 9/11 terror on the mainland of the U.S.?
* * *

As I happened to read a reference to an editorial of a Saudi Arabian newspaper, I have decided to leave my memo here as God wishes.

(Today, it is actually Sunday in Japan. Yet, newsapapers are delivered, programs of politics are on air, and the Internet is busy. Yes, even if I live in the country, I will have to check these out, though with half a heart on Sunday.)



"GO BACK HOME AND TELL WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU"

Light and Gravity on Space

Light and Gravity on Space


Mankind has so far found only four types of force (gravity, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force), each of which causes specific interaction between entities in the universe, say an atom, an electron, and more elementary particles building an atom and having mass or charge.

Top scientists have been trying to unify all these forces and understand what happened on the Big Bang, the beginning of the universe.

My concern here is about the two among the four: gravity and the electromagnetic force.

The former necessarily works on, and is generated by, mass; and the latter is free and does not work on mass itself.
* * *

Energy of light is not interfered with by gravity.

If you shed light onto an atom or an electron, its mass does not increase. Sunshine does not increase your weight.

It is also difficult to convert mass into light, probably, except in cases such as a nuclear fusion, of which principle is applied to a hydrogen bomb, amd a collision of an electron with an antielectron.

An entity with big mass can change a course of flying light; but it is because mass can distort space in which light is flying, as predicted by Albert Einstein.
* * *

Gravity and light dos not interact with each other directly.

You cannot nullify the effect of gravity by use of light; and essentially, light is not influenced by force of gravity.

They are independent. They are orthogonal against each other.

A sheer horizontal force in space cannot interact with a sheer vertical force.

Gravity is vertical and light is horizontal, while "space" itself is a more fundamental physical element than mass and light; or rather "space" is a source of the four types of interaction in the universe.
* * *

My idea is roughly that the whole universe is made of a table-cloth type of space.

If, at one location or point on the table cloth, there is a small dent in the vertical direction, we call it mass. Moving the dent while keeping its three-dimensional shape across the table cloth needs a mechanical power due to a kind of friction.

If a small, regional, and horizontal pattern is on the table cloth, we call it light. Moving the pattern while keeping its shape across the table needs no mechanical power, since no friction happens as the pattern is just horizontally skidding over the surface like a skating on an ice rink.

Gravity is vertical, light is horizontal, and other two different forces in the universe have their own direction for interaction respectively. That is why there are four "independent" forces in the universe.

As their direction of existence on space is each orthogonal, or a kind of 90 degree crossing, they do not interfere with one another.

Therefore, there must be four "independent" directions in space of this universe, each orthogonal to one another.

(The space is "three dimensional (3D)" geometrically, but the 3D structure simply represents "one direction," or directions are over-lapped or intangible on the 3D phase of space. The geometry for these "directions" is different from the conventional geometry based on "dimensions."

Therefore, terms such as "directions," "horizontal," "vertical," and "90 degrees" are rather conceptional.)

The whole universe is a kind of a table cloth with an uncountable number of various dents (mass) vertically as well as an unlimited number of patterns (light) horizontally, which follows the relationships like the follwoing:

F(gravity) x F(light) = 0
F(gravity) + F(gravity) = 2F
F(gravity) + F(light) = F
* * *

Now, in a human psychological and social space, there are also "directions."

If you go vertically, friction is generated. If you skid horizontally, no friction is generated against people around you regardless of races and religions (though it is far better to discuss anything openly with sound passion).

In this context, we may be able to understand why Jesus Christ behaved so mysteriously after His resurrection.

He changed his mode of existence from a vertical manner to a horizontal manner, which might have allowed Him even to get through a door of a room without being noticed by His followers who were hiding in the room after the so-called His death on a cross.
* * *

Angels are living in a horizontal direction; maybe a newborn baby is, too.

Getting older, people mostly tend to become more vertical.

However, as we live in this physical space, an old thing with accumulated vertical and horizontal effects is sometimes more valuable, like in a case with wine.
(I like wine put on a gemutlich table-cloth for me to relish.)



"CHRIST HAS BROUGHT THE LAW TO AN END"

Around the Palace (Japan)

(picture omitted)

Greeting to the Sun

Greeting to the Sun


This winter is warm.

People are afraid that Tokyo might not have snow this season.

A cold air mass from Siberia and warm air from the Pacific Ocean usually get balanced over the Japanese Islands. However, Siberia itself might be getting more and more influenced by global warming.
* * *

In the Bible, Jesus Christ in a snowy day or a rainy day is not depicted.

However, he said to get on the alert and read a trend of the world just like we predict tomorrow's weather based on a condition of today's sky.
* * *

So, let's be optimistic as the Sun looks when it greets us.



"GREET ONE ANOTHER"

A City (Japan)

Diamond or Electricity

Diamond or Electricity


Strontium titanate is a material for making a synthetic jewel such as artificial diamond.

Nonetheless using this material, Japanese scientists have recently improved thermoelectric conversion for application of power generation.

The efficiency of thermoelectric conversion has been made twice higher than in a case of using conventional materials.
* * *

Solar batteries are a good example to get electricity without using large equipment. They convert the energy of light to electricity.

In thermoelectric conversion, difference in temperature between two locations on a piece of metal causes an electric current flow.

Without sun light, as long as you have a heat source, you can generate power for a device based on the natural law of thermoelectric conversion.

There are already a few products, such as a wrist watch, to which this technology is applied, though not so popular yet.
* * *

If heat caused by friction can be applied to a piece of metal to get current or voltage needed for an appliance, people just have to use their muscle to supply power to equipment such as an LCD TV, a mobile gear, a digital camera, and an electric bulb.

If you can use waste heat in a facility or a plant in an industry in a large scale, the thermoelectric conversion technology will provide non-nonsense electric power.
* * *

Jesus Christ said that we have to be more zealous or more unperturbed in our practice of faith (without bringing up awe of God's anger by way of excuse).

Indeed, with such a difference in a state of mind, a blue streak of lighting should run and work in and around one's presence, making the situation better and promoting improvement of a social atmosphere.

(Strontium titanate is reportedly 1000 times commoner in the nature than other materials so far used for conventional thermoelectric conversion.

It looks very hopeful for poor people and bona-fide or white investors.

Even a future U.S. President might mention it in his State of the Union message to Congress, one practice of which was broadcast live this morning in Japan and reported later widely with a focus on the approval rate of President George W. Bush as well as his greeting to the female House Speaker.)



"BOTH WILL KEEP IN GOOD CONDITION"

Bay of Tokyo 2 (Japan)

Bay of Tokyo (Japan)

Environment, Electricity, Emission, and Elections

Environment, Electricity, Emission, and Elections


Recently Mr. Al Gore visited Japan for promoting his movie on conservation of the world environment and prevention of green-house gas emission.

Almost at the same time, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her entry in 2008 Presidential Race.

I wonder how many people who can better serve the nation than any other incumbent politicians are in the United Sates.

An order of millions or not?
* * *

In Japan, a shock and a commotion ran Sunday night in the political community.

A new governor was elected in a certain prefecture (with a population of 1.2 million) in western Japan where a former governor had been arrested for some scandals and forced to resign.

The new governor is a middle-aged ex-entertainer who had once put a halt to his show business after some scandals and entered a university in Tokyo, his playing field, to learn local governing; then having dropped out of the university last March, he ran for the emergent governorship race in his home prefecture this January and won on Sunday night, making forecast of all the media helplessly wrong.

Other two hopeful candidates, supported directly or indirectly by the two major political parties in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan, lost to the entertainer.

The parties have lost face as with those candidates, each a guaranteed ex-elite bureaucrat.
* * *

The TIME magazine has recently reported on Kyoto in light of environment issues. (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580391-1,00.html)

(The report mentions Japanese Government's "Cool Biz policy in 2005, under which offices save energy by keeping summer temperatures at a stifling 82.4°F (28°C)," which was promoted on the initiative of then woman Environment Minister whose charm seemed to nicely contribute to bureaucrats' compliance.)

This might be simple coincidence. But, Mr. Al Gore should be encouraged to pursue environment protection in the world regardless of his possible presidential candidacy for 2008.
* * *

As for green-house gas emission, people should stop burning naively fossil fuels as soon as possible, or introduce advanced technology to significantly reduce CO2 emission from power generators.

Following is CIA statistics on world electricity production ranking in https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2038rank.html:

No. 1 US______3,979,000,000,000 kWh
2 China_______2,500,000,000,000
3 Japan________974,400,000,000
4 Russia________952,400,000,000
5 India_________630,600,000,000
6 Canada________573,000,000,000
7 Germany______566,900,000,000
8 France________540,600,000,000
9 Brazil_________380,900,000,000

Tackling the environmental issue means to deal with the big powers in the world as well as the future great powers, most of which have a huge population.

The issue is different from managing a prefecture of 1.2 million residents based on one's experiences as an entertainer and a student, while driving out a dishonest governor.

You really need tested ability for handling the world players in the 21st century, though sometimes even devils empower man's ability.
* * *

I do not especially recommend you to invest in a certain industrial sector in a certain country for your own profits.

However, if I have funds, I will think about electricity in other poor countries.

Which, then, regardless of your religion, will you serve, God or Mammon?




"THE TIME IS COMING AND ALREADY HERE"

Hidden and Real Admirers

Hidden and Real Admirers


The followings are from recent articles of newspapers in Japan:

- The Japanese steel industry is enjoying the largest boom in three decades due to strong needs in China.

(China should become a pro-Japan country. It is really ages ago that Mao Tse-tung failed in boosting steel production in China after WWII, while China is now the No.1 crude-steel producer country, due to technical and financial support from Japan for decades, with 350 million tons of production followed by Japan with 110 million tons in the whole-world production of 1.13 billion tons.)

- A journalist in Turk was assassinated. His article about conflicts between Ottoman Turks and Armenians, which occurred in the late 19th century sacrificing 300,000 people, touched off a serious argument in Turk.

(Turk is a pro-Japan country. We hope that justice will be surely done in Turk.)

- Staff of U.S. Department of Homeland Security is going to be stationed in Narita Airport, Japan, based on agreement between the Governments of Japan and the U.S.

(America has been regarded as a pro-Japan country for decades. However, a certain influential writer in Japan wrote, in his well-known book, that he would never visit the U.S., for he does not like to provide his personal information, including his finger prints, for US authorities concerned. )
* * *

I hope the U.S. will become a pro-Iran country; and Iran will become a pro-U.S. country.

Energy-resource hunting China and another Middle-East potential power Turk must be highly embarrassed if the U.S.-Iran relationship gets into a real quagmire.

(From Japan to Turk through China and India as well as Iran is a kind of orthodox Asia since before the emergence of Islam, which is overwhelmingly wider and more colorful than the U.S. alone, the contemporary sole superpower.)
* * *

Japan is a pro-United Nations and pro-U.S. country.

(The U.S. is the No. 1 contributor to U.N. with US$420 million followed by Japan with US$330 million and Germany with US$150 million in 2006.)

And, Japan is a pro-Jesus Christ country or a hidden and real admirer of Jesus Christ, since there is no single respectable person in Japan who declares that he is an enemy of Jesus Christ.
* * *

Truly, even today, I have confirmed that Japan is blessed in this difficult world under globalization (with underlying forces of the so called Christianity, Islam, and Communism rooted in a knot of Judaism as a mainstream).

The issue might be how long it will last and how much more it will be given (though it is more blessing to give as much as possible).



"TO LIVE UNTIL I COME"

Regrettable Victims

Regrettable Victims



(Jesus Christ said to people that unless they have never committed a sin, they should not sling a stone at a woman under an accusation to execute her.

This mandatory rule applies to any cases.

You should not stone and execute white, privileged, student athletes in any universities as well as African American young women in any professions, since the existence of such categories itself is a sin of the society which makes all the members of the society a sinner [though, to a different extent according to wealth one has].

The issue is devising and implementing a solution to nullify adversary effects of the existence of such categories in the society.

And the best solution is to understand how much the whole society, including European Americans who control the American economy, owes Jesus Christ and thus has to follow his teaching, that is, not to execute anybody since you are also a sinner.)
* * *

Now, I have remembered that the late Peter Jennings attended a court trial on the late Saddam Hussein.

Peter Jennings left this world earlier than Saddam Hussein.
* * *

There is one journalist in Japan who ventured to visit the site where the late President of Iraq had been hiding when he had been captured by US troops.

The underground, small cell was still there.

He was a notable journalist who once successfully criticized the president of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) for various scandals, which finally led to the president's resignation.

But the journalist sometime after having returned home from Iraq got hospitalized for surgery; he blessedly recovered and appears regularly on TV nowadays.
* * *

News coverage looks like a matter of life sometimes.

I am awfully sorry for other unlucky professionals in this field, especially, who were involved in the Iraqi War.

This is my sincere comment intended to be taken as such.



"THE HARVEST IS LARGE"

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ



Somebody said that Jews killed Jesus Christ. They also talked about slavery.

American news programs viewed in morning business hours in Japan might not get a wide audience base; yet it must provide valuable information for those working in Japan's news sector and probably its education sector.

Yet, US religions, slavery, and gender are especially very remote issues here.
* * *

Indeed, it was reported in the Bible that Jesus Christ had been almost killed in his home town when people had surrounded Him on a cliff. Eventually Jesus Christ had walked through and left them who, driven by malicious passions, had tried to push Him off.

Then, as everybody knows, the so called high priests of the Jewish society 2000 years ago made an accusation about Him to a Roman Governor who eventually ordered his soldiers to crucify Him.

According to these reports, it seems that there were some Jews who were determined to take Jesus Christ's life but could not for specific reasons, and thus resorted to Roman army of occupation.

If majority or significant part of Jewish population then had joined the plot, they should not have troubled the Roman Governor.

Jesus Christ was not crucified under the name of the Jewish tribe which had been for generations under occupation of the Roman Empire.

The Roman Governor had a decisive power in this case, since he could have also killed any Jews at his will, including those who had made an accusation about Jesus Christ. Under the name of the Roman Empire, the Governor formally killed Jesus Christ.

It is noteworthy that some Jews who became an enemy of Jesus Christ and His followers had no capability to attack Him and His followers as well as the Roman Governor; they were absolutely deprived of armed might, probably, due to so many secret and strong followers of Jesus Christ among their tribe.
* * *

And, the present European and American civilization is a successor of the Roman Empire. The civilization has to carry the glory and the sin of its parent Empire, if a certain criterion is applied.

Following the criterion, ancestors of present European and American civilization killed Jesus Christ. (But, it is quite correct to say that mankind killed Jesus Christ.)

Nonetheless, I believe that if you had been a cool Roman Governor of Judea 2000 years ago, you would have naturally laughed at those Jews who had taken a legal action against Jesus Christ without arms, and rather provided Him with an elite platoon to protect Him.
* * *

It is a matter of the Jewish society 2000 year ago, in which Jesus Christ had decided to live as a member. We should not judge it unless we are a member of the society of the very age. In addition, behind the high priests in bad faith, there might have been some unknown pagans who are still unknown to date.

Without Jews who honestly believed in Jesus Christ 2000 year ago, mankind should have completely failed in following, praising, and honoring God.

Though the Jewish community of the age as a whole did not decide to follow Jesus Christ, some of them saved the whole mankind of future generations by believing in Him personally respectively.

Accordingly, the faith and belief in Jesus Christ became an individual matter since then, not as a religion of a race, a tribe, or a society.
* * *

Jesus Christ was killed by the Roman Governor who accepted, though he could have denied, a request by some people with wealth, social status, and religious fame rather than, say, by His countrymen. (You might as well say that rich, high-class, and religious people killed Jesus Christ.)

Consequently the Roman Empire was later forced to become a Christian Empire; the Pope in Rome even today plays a role of a Roman Emperor, on behalf of the European/American civilization, who shows his surrender and apology to Jesus Christ incessantly.

It tells who killed Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.

On the other hand, Israelites, some of whose ancestors became the first followers of Jesus Christ, are still allowed to exercise traditional rituals of their tribe completely and freely, which is the greatest reward that any tribe in history has been given by God Almighty.

It tells who did not kill Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.
* * *

My impression about all these arguments is that how Jesus Christ could keep His temper while mankind is still using his name in combination with those horrible words such as "kill."

I cannot help but hesitate to discuss, detail, and extend this issue any more unless the Lord God Almighty so wishes.
* * *

Have you ever seen Jesus Christ in your life? I suppose there are some who really have.

He seems to appear sometimes to those He especially takes a kindly interest in, which however is rarely reported in a world news program.

If you have, please report it to mankind (properly and orderly as they did in the first century).



"AS A FOOTSTOOL UNDER YOUR FEET"

Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Terror from Indonesia to Turk as well as in Japan, EU, and the U.S.

Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Terror from Indonesia to Turk as well as in Japan, EU, and the U.S.


Early in the morning on January 17, 1995, a great earthquake hit a western part of Japan, sacrificing around 6,000 precious lives.

One author described that the damages of the Kobe City reminded him of US air bombardment in WWII.

On January 17, 1994, the Northridge earthquake occurred in California, sacrificing precious 57 lives and injuring 5,400 people.

On January 17, 1991, the Persian Gulf War began.
* * *

We do not know when a great earthquake will hit Tokyo in future.

We did not know the day and hour when the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 began and the large-scale terror on the mainland of America in 2001 started.

Nonetheless, there is no excuse for us; we have to enhance preparedness for potential disasters as well as efforts for comprehensive peace with parties and countries concerned.
* * *

On September 29, 1993, an earthquake killed 10,000 people in southern India.

On May 10, 1997, an earthquake killed 2,000 people in eastern Iran.

On February 4, 1998, an earthquake killed 4,000 people in northeastern Afghanistan.

On May 30, 1998, an earthquake killed 5,000 people in northern Afghanistan.

On August 17, 1998, an earthquake killed 16,000 people in Turk.

On January 26, 2001, an earthquake killed 20,000 people in western India.

On December 26, 2003, an earthquake killed 30,000 people in Iran.

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake and tsunamis killed 300,000 people on the Sumatra Island, Indonesia, and other Indian Ocean coasts.

On October 8, 2005, an earthquake killed 100,000 people in Pakistan.

On May 27, 2006, an earthquake killed more than 5,000 people on the Java Island, Indonesia.

From Indonesia to Turk, Muslims have been suffering severely beyond imagination of citizens of advanced countries.

They also suffered terror such as Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, Istanbul bombings in 2004, and Mumbai bombings in 2006.
* * *

Those incidents seem to have been coincident with terrorist movement in those areas and actual acts of terror in target countries as well as related operations by countries concerned including the U.S.

It is not only a continental draft of the Indian Subcontinent toward the north, pushing up the Asian Continent and building the Himalaya Mountains, but also the lack of help and support to prepare for disasters that should be perceived.

If the U.S. and EU continue to leave and neglect Muslims in those disaster-torn regions in tragedy, anything horrible, I am afraid, such as terror might be directed, in the worst case, to them as they experienced in the US East Coast in 2001, Madrid in 2004, and London in 2005.

You have to read and comprehend holy codes hidden in the above historic record of disasters in the regions that may be potentially more concerned with US and EU security than Iraq is.
* * *

Jesus Christ said to stay where you are and not to go back into the house for anything left.

Only God knows the day and hour.

I have to trust in Him.

Yes, in Him we as mortal man have to trust.


"YOU GO AND PROCLAIM THE KINGDON OF GOD"

"MUHAMMAD ALI: His Life and Times" Symbolizing Situations

"MUHAMMAD ALI: His Life and Times" Symbolizing Situations


"MUHAMMAD ALI: His Life and Times" by Thomas Hauser, published in 1991, was translated into Japanese and divided into two parts, each of which is sold separately.

I recently bought its second part, consisting of 441 pages including foot notes, at 1200 yen (US$10), which was renewed for pocket editions in 2005.

It would cost more if we buy an original and imported version of the book written in English.

Most of Japanese people read famous American books in their Japanese versions for various reasons, including prices and difficulties in reading English.
* * *

One interesting report contained in the book is that one of close associates of Mr. Muhammad Ali once said, before a match, that a Muslim was for the first time in history going to fight a Christian on the ring. And, Mr. Ali won.

The issue is whether this kind of facts on Mr. Ali has had significant influence on young Muslims all over the world up to this day.
* * *

It is not so very rare to spot African Americans in Japan, partly due to existence of US military bases in Japan. Generally speaking, they look like well respecting the Japanese society.

Perhaps they could see the difference in various human aspects, such as distinction between a Christian and a Muslim among their races which Japanese cannot easily.
* * *

My belief is that God admits Japanese as he does with Christians and Muslims regardless of their races.

Besides, if the ancient Persian Empire had defeated the ancient Greek Coalition, there would not have been Alexander the Great as well as the Roman Empire; and thus neither European dominance nor discovery of New Continents by Europeans.

Therefore, my belief is that God admits Japanese as he does with European Americans and African Americans regardless of their religions.
* * *

Mr. Muhammad Ali is still very famous in Japan, mostly because he symbolizes super success of an individual in whatever profession, especially in America.

Or, whatever race or religion he belongs to, worldly success itself might matter to most of Japanese.

Conversely, whatever race or religion a saint belongs to, spiritual authority itself might matter to most of Japanese.

If God is pleased with Japanese and Mr. Muhammad Ali, we assume that there are no problems between Japan and African Americans, and Japan and Muslims.

(In conclusion, we have to symbolize something valuable to succeed even if God promises our success.)




"PLEASING TO HIM, AS USED TO BE"

Japan's Supertanker Hit by USS Newport News at Hormuz for Prophecy

Japan's Supertanker Hit by USS Newport News at Hormuz for Prophecy


The USS atomic-powered submarine Newport News (6,000 tons, 110m) hit the Japanese super-tanker Mogami-Gawa (300,000 tons, 333m) at Strait of Hormuz of the Persian Gulf on January 8, 2007.

In the worst case, it could have resulted in a large scale of oil spill in addition to a disastrous fire on the sea, which might hamper navigation of tankers delivering crude oils to the world market.

(The Mogami-Gawa, one of three or more tankers passing through the Hormuz straits specifically to Japan per day, was carrying an amount of oil equivalent to a half of that consumed per day in Japan.)

This incident instantly reminded me of the collision between a Japanese fisheries-high-school's training ship named Ehimemaru and the USS Greeneville, of the same class as the Newport News, that occurred off the Oahu Island, Hawaii, on February 10, 2001, taking nine Japanese lives.
* * *

I once wrote:
"...no one remembered the passage of the book “Moby Dick” written by Herman Melville just before the Civil War:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States",
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL",
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN",

which should be read as:

"In 2000, Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States",
"In early 2001, WAILING VOYAGE BY THE EHIMEMARU ",
"In late 2001, BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN",
..."
* * *

And, actually as prophesized, though regarded as by chance, the War on Terror has been still going on, taking many lives of various parties and nationalities.

The speculation on the recent naval incident is that the USS Newport News was then being dispatched to the sea area off Somalia while US fighter-bombers were attacking an Al-Qaeda base in the civil-war-torn country.

Nonetheless, Somalia is not the only focus in this context; we are inevitably aware of presence of Iran near the Strait of Hormuz.
* * *

In the story of “Moby Dick,” Captain Ahab of a whaling ship Ishmael got on board was chasing and pursing the white whale called Moby Dick.

It may be read as Arabs are aiming at the "White House," in which a president nicknamed "W" resides and a vice president called "Dick" works, while "Islam" and "Israel" are involved in a historical context.

And, to make the long story short, Captain Ahab and his companies finally failed in killing Moby Dick while the whailing ship was destroyed by the gigantic white whale, and one Ishmael alone got rescued by another ship.

It means, as a prophecy of my version, that Arabs attacking the White House would finally fail and their organization would be destroyed; yet, the nation Israel and the great religious community Islam will survive.
* * *

But, most astonishing thing is that this revelation was brought with the Ehimemaru tragedy near the Pearl Harbor in early 2001, reminding us of the lightening strikes of Imperial Japan's Navy on US Navy fleets, in the naval port in Hawaii, 60 years ago.

Subsequently, Washington D.C. and the New York City were attacked in the kamikaze style by some Arabs on September 11, 2001.
* * *

Early this year, again, a USS submarine hit a Japanese ship.

This time not off the Pearl Harbor, but it happened at the strategically most important strait in the world: the Strait of Hormuz of the Persian Gulf.

However, no injury and loss of life as well as leakage of oil were reported.

Yet, we have to take this as another warning from Heaven.

Both the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran should take it as such.
* * *

The name of the tanker damaged, though minor, "Mogami-Gawa," is taken from one of famous rivers in Japan. The meaning of Kanji characters used to express "Mogami-Gawa" is the best and top river.

The flow of crude oil from the Middle East to Japan should not be interrupted and stopped by any military operations by the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which might be the warning from Almighty God and Allah after all.

You should not interrupt and stop any holy missions now being carried out and delivered here and there.



"REJOICE WITH JERUSALEM; BE GLAD FOR HER"

The Late Peter Jennings and Windows OS Tested on September 11

The Late Peter Jennings and Windows OS Tested on September 11


Recently Mr. Bill Gates accepted an interview and said:

"If you want to point to why the Windows PC has become such a successful, central thing, that enabling of partners, including all those great hardware partners, I'd say that's been very big. Here you see Toshiba doing SideShow (a Vista feature that enables a secondary display). You see Sony doing this beautiful Media Center, living room-type device. You see HP bringing in this touch-screen capability on a very nice form factor... "
(http://news.com.com/2008-1041_3-6147885.html)

You can enjoy contents and functions of advanced equipment. Such equipment consists of hardware whose control needs complicated and accurate procedures and operations only software can perform in a very short time.

Hardware can be easily replaced with other maker's, but a type of basic software cannot. It is because electronic formats of contents would be uniquely based on each maker's software unless comprehensive standard is forcibly adopted by the industry. If a dominant software maker refuses to accept such a standard, users cannot use old files in a different maker's software system which might be cheaper and more efficient.

(Just like you cannot buy and use another TV set that cannot receive a presently most popular broadcast frequency or channel.)

Users want to use a great amount of old files; Microsoft seems to have refused to adopt universal standards on file formats and other functions; and Japanese hardware makers cannot effectively offer more user-friendly solutions (except the TRON embedded OS project), but continue to design PCs that can only work with the Windows operating system.

Nonetheless, why are not a number of Windows-compatible operating systems being designed and produced by various software makers in this free and democratic world?
* * *

Accordingly, Mr. Bill Gates has become the richest man in the world.

However, when he was interviewed with in person by the late Peter Jennings in his home in Washington State, Mr. Bill Gates did not even look like the richest man in the United States.

(I suppose the interview was conducted just after or before Peter Jennings' coverage tour to Iraq in 2003 or 2004, where he encountered very nearly shootings between US troops and insurgents.)

It might because Peter Jennings was not in excellent physical condition that his attitude toward Mr. Bill Gates looked a little too cool while the billionaire was showing the famous anchorman around his home with full of IT systems.
* * *

Software is not a "king" in the IT system. But, users are as with other consumer goods. Further, public information even as goods is a little more different.

When the society is hit just like 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, it is an excellent anchorman that can calm down people as well as situations through his "presidential" manners but not super-rich IT industry leaders.

A profession that is accompanied with some human value is more valuable than a profession that is concerned only with monetary value at its core.
* * *

The 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 forced Peter Jennings to perform his duty in front of a camera under a specific pressure for very long, contiguous hours, which might have tested his health with a delayed effect leading to his death in August, 2005.

I don't know how they tested Windows OS, apart from the Internet designed for specific flexibility, on the day.

Now, how were you tested on the very day that is September 11, 2001?
(After all, to be blessed or condemned by God?)


"THE NEWS ABOUT THIS SPREAD ALL OVER"

Faith, Honesty, and Manners to Lead Soldiers

Faith, Honesty, and Manners to Lead Soldiers


Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), an extremely influential and notable, historical person of culture, introduced many Western works, such as "Declaration of Independence," to Japan which was then on its way to westernization in the 19th century.

He also introduced European and American jokes in his book published in Japan in 1893, such as follows:

"One day, parents wanted to see what their boy had an aptitude for. They handed to the boy the Bible, a hundred-dollar bill, and an apple. Then they went out for some time, leaving the boy alone. When they returned home, they thought, if the boy was reading the Bible, they would advise him to become a priest; if he was playing with the hundred-dollar bill, they would encourage him to become a banker; but if he was eating the apple, they would probably have to expect him to be a farmer or something like that. When they returned home, they found the boy with the bill inside a pocket, sitting on the Bible, and munching the apple. The parents then believed that they could make a politician of the boy."
* * *

Contemporary Americans may also like to test their children with the Bible, a hundred-dollar bill, and an apple, too.

America today, like 100 years ago, seems to be full of priests, financial sector workers, and apple-pie eaters in addition to real and virtual politicians.
* * *

No parents want their children to volunteer for military service unless it is the only way for them to be recognized as a patriot. On the other hand, the Defense Department or the War Department would not mind an aptitude of a boy for soldiers in wartime.

But the true issue is, as the joke could be regarded as implying, whether a politician has an aptitude for leading the people while he most probably lacks faith, honesty, and manners among the people.

I do not think highly of public estimation such as "a man of integrity."
* * *

In the half part of his life, Yukichi Fukuzawa was a samurai. In 1860, as a member of an envoy of the Tokugawa samurai regime, he visited the U.S. They were taken into a photo as presented in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi.

It was said that Yukichi Fukuzawa had been the supreme master of swordplay, which could be felt in his picture as a samurai, though no reports on his fight with a sword. Today, he is remembered as a pioneering author as well as the founder of the Keio University.

A boy who might become a Fukuzawa would, when left alone in home, soon start to read his favorite book, such as a biography of George Washington, without paying much attention to other luxuries.
(No girl is expected to be left alone for any testing, of course.)


"BUT YOUR LIFE WILL BE SPARED"

See, Go and Befriend Iraqis

See, Go, and Befriend Iraqis


One of astonishing addresses I have ever heard in the US political community is that America will succeed in Iraq as it did in Germany and Japan after WWII.

It is just like believing that every American citizen today on a street is carrying a gun as every cowboy in the West 200 years ago was doing so.
* * *

People act according to what they have learnt in tradition of their society. When they find their behaviors are not respected by foreigners occupying their country, they will find a cause to run for insurgency.

It is said that there were many US soldiers, among occupation forces in Japan, who befriended Japanese citizens with a kind of compassion; accordingly, no guerilla attacks were conducted on the US troops that had landed on Japan after the end of WWII.

In Germany, young US officers like Mr. Henry Kissinger, who was born in Germany, contributed reconstruction of the devastated country that had been led by a defective and malicious ideology of the Nazis for a cause of protecting their Christian and tribal society.

Apart from culture, history, and traditions, there were very important human and individual aspects in the success of US occupation of Japan and Germany after WWII. And the two countries have cooperated with the U.S. all through the age of the Cold War to the 21st century as the second and the third industrial power in the world.

(Before the WWII, the four strongest countries in the world were the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan; however, before the War on Terror, Iraq did not take such a position at all.)
* * *

Therefore, I hope US soldiers in Iraq to befriend Iraqis if they are not interested in any academic matters on Iraq.

It will make their presence in Iraq meaningful and valuable even for their lives after coming back to the States.

Sending more troops to Iraq should mean to send more American friends to Iraqi people for reconstruction of the civil-war-torn country.



"HER LIFE RETURNED"

Wars Abroad and Homelessness Home

Wars Abroad and Homelessness Home


President George W. Bush made the long-awaited speech on Iraq and his new policy on the War on Iraq.

It was broadcast live in Japan. The President talked about military situations in Iraq and involvement of Syria, Iran, and Al-Qaeda. CNN analysts were also arguing about situations in Baghdad.
* * *

Meanwhile, ABC News reported that "there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005, according to the first national estimate in a decade." (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2785098)

It is likely that there are many ex-US soldiers, who fought in the Gulf War, among the homeless people.
* * *

When did this sequence of military situations start to happen?

Since the end of the Gulf War, the US and UK air forces had continued air patrol and attacks, when deemed to be necessary, on Iraqi territories through 1990's and to 2001. And then, the War on Iraq was initiated after the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S. mainland.

The true sequence may be considered to have begun with the Viet Nam War, and then led to USSR's Afghan invasion and further to the eruption of the Iran-Iraq War.

After all, when those wars were over, suddenly Iraq invaded Kuwait in August, 1990, resulting in the start of the Gulf War in early 1991.

Al-Qaeda was formed in the wake of the defeat of Iraq in 1991. Terrorists started to launch attacks on US assets and resources, including the one on the World Trade Center in 1993. On September 11, 2001, the decisive attacks were carried out on American soil, which led to America's wars on Afghanistan, Terror, and Iraq.
* * *

The current situations can be discussed from various viewpoints including Mesopotamia's ancient glory, Iran's ancient glory, Christians vs. Muslims conflicts and Israelites vs. Muslims conflicts as well as sectarian strife among Muslims, occupations of Arab by Turk and then the U.K., modern days' oil strategies of the U.S., and globalization of economy and democracy in the Third World in the 21st century.
* * *

I suppose most American citizens might not be well prepared to deal with these viewpoints and issues.

God might not expect American citizens alone to tackle these historic problems.

This is part of my idea on situations the U.S. now faces, since I got the report telling that there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005.
* * *

In Japan, it is said that there are 25,000 homeless people (though could be 300,000 in proportion to the populations of the two countries).

Accordingly, I do not recommend Japanese citizens to venture to involve in any conflicts in foreign lands regardless of cause.

Wars abroad and homelessness home cannot be a proof of our faith and trust in God Almighty.



"THE PERSON WHO SERVES ME AND WHO DOES NOT"

Moon and Space Antennas Aimed from Japan

Moon and Space Antennas Aimed from Japan


The Japanese HIIA rocket, late last year, launched very interesting antennas to the stationary orbit 36,000Km above the earth.

Each of the two antennas so launched has a size of a tennis court, which is the largest one mankind has ever launched. It is not intended for providing a tennis court in the space for future astronauts but serving a special communications need on the ground.

Each antenna was skillfully folded and loaded on the rocked; it was also expanded with dexterity in the space.

Japan is the third largest power following the U.S. and EU in terms of the amount of budget for space development.
* * *

This summer Japan will launch a lunar exploration satellite. It will fly on an orbit around the moon. It will observe and record the surface of the moon by 10Km square area, discerning a height of the ground as low as 5m while emitting electro-magnetic waves to probe as deep as 5Km inside the surface.

It has the most advanced scientific functions that even allow for analysis of a stone and a rock on the ground from the high above, though other countries such as China and India, without mentiononing NASA, also plan to launch their own lunar probing satellites.　

What's more, Japan's lunar satellite is going to take pictures of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon with a high-definition camera. The pictures may supersede the famous one a certain Apollo crew took during their mission over the moon in late 1960's.
* * *

The question is that Japan has not acquired big support and cooperation from other countries for its space program. The U.S. itself has many clients and stakeholders, and EU is full of intelligent parties and agencies from its member countries. Russia, China, India, and even Korea are just building up their ambitions with a keen sense of rivalry against Japan.

Indeed, Japan looks alone just like its king-size antennas taking a position in cold space 36,000Km over the equator of the earth.
* * *

There are many reasons that you have to wait for the summer.

Live pictures of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon taken by a high-definition camera and relayed to the earth would be one, even if you have no such reasons until now.

I really like to feel like flying over the moon to the earth like a superman, though no steps of my own on its dusty and fine surface, if God who also governs the moon allows.



"PAY TO GOD WHAT BELONGS TO GOD"

Military Female Fatalities in Iraq: 70!

Military Female Fatalities in Iraq: 70!


According to "Iraq Coalition Casualty Count," the death toll of female soldiers and officers engaged in the War in Iraq is 70 as of January 7, 2007.
(http://www.icasualties.org/oif/Female.aspx)

The total death toll is 3265; thus female casualties account for 2.14%.
* * *

Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc; 1412-1431) is said to be probably history's first military heroine.

She fought remarkably bravely against the English occupier for France led by Charles VII.
* * *

Now, France may have a female President, Germany has the female Chancellor, Britain had a female prime minister, and the U.S. has the female Secretary of State who has an institutional chance to act as a President in case.

These are the facts; however there might be a type of male soldiers who would fight against those who would employ female soldiers, officers, generals, or politicians, as a matter of the highest priority.

Only for the reason and the principle that they cannot accept female warriors, they may fight those who are against their principle before starting to take on any other enemies, including modern age's terrorists.

The cause might be justified by Spirits who have governed development of the human species from the far past to the unlimited future.
* * *

Give them better jobs and wages, and there will be no female soldiers in the human world.

Globalization of economy seems to be cool and very cool to such an idea.
* * *

Money and economy might be a true enemy for the human species.

Mankind had been well living for three million years (or at least 150 thousand years since Mitochondrial Eve) without money and economy.

But, now they are driving the human species to the animal sphere where no distinction, for example, between a female wolf and a male wolf in terms of attacking its enemy or a prey.
* * *

If Joan of Arc had been holy, what was Europe around 1430?

Probably, you might be able to predict, in 1430, coming wars such as WWI and WWII in Europe.

Similarly, what can you foresee with those statistics on the War on Terror?

Coming wars such as WWIII and WWIV in the whole world?

I will, in any cases or scenarios, fight for my cause and principle before taking on any guerrillas on any continents, islands, and space.



"LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, FAITHFULNESS, AND SELFCONTROL"

Dark Matter and Galaxies

Dark Matter and Galaxies


The total mass of materials known to man in the whole universe, including every star and atom as well as human being on the earth, accounts for only four percent of the total mass of the whole universe that includes materials known and unknown to man.

It means 96% of mass in the universe is a mystery to mankind. We do not know the origin of the unknown mass.

Scientists call it dark matter and dark energy. Specifically the dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass of the whole universe; the dark energy 73%.

Recently an international team of scientists including a Japanese physicist made a new discovery on dark matters. Specifically they found that distribution of the dark matter in the universe is akin to that of galaxies.

Accordingly, it is assumed that the dark matter contributes to generation and formation of galaxies, to one of which our solar system belongs.
+ + +

Logically, there may be various types of dark matters and dark energy. It is also somehow strange that we cannot observe it around the earth while the earth belongs to the Galaxy.

The dark matter has gravity but no electromagnetic field and thus no light sources; we can neither see them nor catch electric waves it might otherwise emit.

However, it might have a very different kind of force mankind has never discovered.

Anyway, if the formation of our Galaxy was made possible by the dark matter, human beings owe its existence to the dark matter.

Conversely, if the dark matter, physical rules of which we do not know yet, gets malfunction, our Galaxy might go wrong, which may then terminate future possibility of prosperity of human beings traveling across the Galaxy.
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Did the invention of an atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb, based on the modern physics, change the world?

If so, a new type of super-bombs based on a new theory of physics related to the dark matter might change the human world.

The super bomb might blow out the Galaxy.

It might happen, so to say, in the late 22nd century.
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You cannot get anywhere just relying on weapons of mass-destruction in satisfying your desire eventually and ultimately.

It just reflects your dark soul.

You need light.
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There is one thing I like about the desert.

It is starry night, starry heavens, or a skyful of stars.

That is multi-billion dollars' worth of a show for free.



"A WORKER SHOULD BE GIVEN WHAT HE NEEDS"

The Bible, The Old Testament, or The Koran for Swearing-In

The Bible, The Old Testament, or The Koran for Swearing-In


Now, business seems to get started in Japan after happy new-year holidays.

Prime Minister of Japan began his duty by going and praying in the Ise Shrine, one of the most highly regarded shrines in Japan due to its direct connection with the Imperial Family. A prime minister usually gets on the Shinknasen super-express train from Tokyo for a few hours ride for this holy mission.
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In January, 1991, the war and battles started in the Persian Gulf. Then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected to withdraw his troops from Kuwait. Then U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered attacks on the Iraqi military.

In March, 2003, then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected to surrender to UN and US demands and accept full and complete inspection on weapons of mass-destruction in Iraq. U.S. President George W. Bush ordered attacks on the Iraqi military.

If a future historian, say in the 22nd century, studies these events, they might call it the "War between Saddam Hussein and the Bushes."
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This year the focus should be on Iran and North Korea.

As the year 2008 is for the Beijin (Peking) Olympic Games and China is desperately seeking for crude oil suppliers, no wars will be likely happening next year in oil-rich countries comparatively near China and strategically important countries for China.

Rich Americans, other people in the world as well as poor Americans should contribute to stopping any serious advancement toward a war in such regions.

Otherwise, when a future historian, say in the 22nd century, studies the advancement of events, might call it the "Wars between Saddam Hussein's Apparition and the Bushes."
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In the U.S., newly elected congressmen and congresswomen have joined a swearing-in ceremony.

I wonder, if an American Indian, who happens to be a serious worshipper of their tradition, is elected as a congressman, what holy book he would rather use for his swearing-in.

I would rather use a stone slab, a kind that Moses was given on Mt. Sinai.


"THEN THEY WILL FAST"

The First Day of the World Celebrated through Shinto in Japan

The First Day of the World Celebrated through Shinto in Japan


January 1st should be celebrated, because we have to commemorate the first day of the world; and January 1st is the first day of the year.

By celebrating January 1st, we praise the great feat of God, the creation of the world and the universe, which has eventually generated, so to say, you and your ancestors.

The first day is not linked with any saints, who are human beings, but absolutely linked with the creation of the world, God's great feat.

Or you may think that as we cannot go back to the first day of the world to celebrate God, we celebrate Him on the first day of the year.

You do not need any human saints or legends to celebrate January 1st.

As it is January 1st, we celebrate it for no other worldly reasons. And, it happens to be today.
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Japanese are the people who most sincerely celebrate January 1st.

Or there are tow types of God's people in this world: Japanese and others including Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and other believers.

You cannot judge faithfulness of Japanese by applying the same standards you may be allowed to apply to Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and other believers.

If you do, I suppose, Angels surely will be displeased, and they might report it to God.
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Today, January 1st, even at 5:30 p.m., the city sky was dark and cold, shops were closed, neon signs and electric billboards were humble, only few cars were entering a rotary, and almost no commuters were spotted. No businesses could appeal to consumers if they hustle on January 1st in Japan.

However, there was an endless flow of people apparently from one direction to the station. Yes, they were on their way back home from a shrine; I mean that almost everyone putting on a winter coat, a muffler, and a long boots (for most of young ladies) had just made a pilgrimage probably as a yearly ceremony.

Indeed, most of Japanese go and pray in a shrine nearby or notable on January 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. Shinto is this way practiced all over Japan.

Japanese, as a whole, are celebrating the great creation of the God through Shinto.

(If you do not celebrate the first day of the year, no matter if you celebrate every Friday, Saturday, or Sunday thereafter, I wonder if God is pleased with you more than He is on January 1st with pious Japanese. In this sense, today, something decisive is to be completed. It might be useless for you to wait for, for example, Christmas coming on December 25 this year.)
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All I want you to do is not to ask Japanese whether he or she believes in God in a sense of Israelites, Christians, or Muslims.

You should not ask what religion he or she believes, neither.

If somebody is Japanese, it means he or she belongs to the unique religion, which no foreigners can comprehend, that alone praises God on January 1st.

You should not insult January 1st by asking those questions to Japanese.
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Some people, on their way home from a shrine, were holding an arrow with white wings.

The holy arrow is called "Hama-Ya," literally meaning an arrow breaking an evil spirit.

You can purchase it at a shop inside a shrine; as a matter of course, it has no metal arrowhead.
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Now, January 1st will be closed in five hours or so here. And while we are sleeping, pagans might attempt something dangerous against Japan on their January 1st; but as we have already praised God today, we can sleep in peace.


"UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD"

Nothing Uncomfortable in Tokyo Station on December 31, 2006

Nothing Uncomfortable in Tokyo Station on December 31, 2006



Now the year 2006 is going to be left behind forever, maybe, like the fist day God created this world or the universe.

(Jesus Christ said not to keep looking back, though.)

The center of Japan is, for ordinary Japanese in their general point of view, the Tokyo Station.

The area around the station is the most secured business center as it is adjacent to the Imperial Palace, though some people might feel the streets there are a kind of high-blown.

Now a few tall buildings are under construction in front of the Tokyo Station.

When people saw such development of streets around any mega-stations in Japan, they used to look like feeling something specifically inspiring.

Now people may come to understand that glory does not lie in tall towers or huge buildings but in intangible assets.

Otherwise, people have become indifferent with whatever development going on in prime locations, since they are too much involved in or too much neglected by urban development schemes carried on an extraordinarily high-priced land.
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It might not be bad to feel heavy by seeing the late Mr. Saddam Hussein in a picture of a newspaper issued today in Japan.

We should not get used to such a kind of news; however, the newspaper also reported that 61 Iraqis were killed on the day of their former president's execution.
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Nonetheless I felt almost nothing uncomfortable in the Tokyo Station today while thousands or more people were walking fast or slowly with baggage or children around me, or otherwise waiting for or getting on trains during my short stay there.

If you never feel uncomfortable during whatever short stay in the center of your capital city, then it must be at least as hopeful as Tokyo is on Dec. 31, 2006.

(And, usually we wish "A Happy New Year" in writing a new year card which is a symbol of Japanese tradition still alive and practiced here and there.)


"BRINGING GOOD NEWS"

President Ford in Japan Specifically Memorized

President Ford in Japan Specifically Memorized


Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford passed away.

He visited Japan on November 18, 1974, which was the first as the official visit of an incumbent U.S. President to Japan in the history.

Then Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka welcomed President Ford in Tokyo.

But, a month later, Prime Minister Tanaka resigned for suspicion of money scandals.

A half year later, Saigon fell into the clutch of Vietcong and North Vietnam.

It is also known that President Ford signed an intelligence order to ban assassination of foreign leaders.
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Though it was 1968 that Japan became the second largest economy in the world in terms of GNP (Gross National Product), it is 1970's that the world really began to turn its eyes to Japan for its economic success and Japan itself started to feel its competitive edge in various fields.

The Cold War seemed to continue as far as we could overlook the ongoing history toward future.

Or did we miss something important in those days that could be a good lesson 30 years later.
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It is Americans that should judge if the late President Gerald R. Ford served his nation, then still suffering from aftermath of the Vietnam War, neither too much nor too little.

And, there will be surely a President in future just after the War on Terror. In this case, I suppose the whole world would judge similarly on the President.



"WE HAVE ONLY DONE OUR DUTY"

Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig in Japan

Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig in Japan


As an example, if you are a baseball fan and check how many hits the keyword "Sadaharu Oh" would return from the Internet, it would be around 45,000 hits in a Japanese search site.

Similarly, if you use the keyword "Eiji Sawamura," it would be 3,700 hits.

Sadaharu Oh is the All -Time Home-Run King in Japan who produced 868 homers in his career as a professional baseball player. Mr. Oh is still engaged in this profession.

Eiji Sawamura was a pitcher of a professional base-ball team in Japan more than 60 years ago, but was killed in WWII.

Eiji Sawamura is regarded as the all-time super pitcher in Japan.

When his team ventured a tour to the U.S. in 1935, he took the plate in 30 games of all the 50 games and got the win in 24 games, though the opponent teams the Japanese went against were not major-league teams but minor ones.
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On November 20, 1934, the U.S. major-league picked-team met with the Japanese all-star team in a ball park in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in one of 18 games they had planed to play.

Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig, however, could not overwhelm the pitcher Eiji Sawamura. They were going to lose the game with nine strike-outs by Eiji Sawamura. Nonetheless, the actual result of the game was 1-0 for the U.S. team.

And, eventually, the U.S. all-star selections left Japan without any lost games.
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But, how could they beat the Japanese team on November 20, 1934?

Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig could not come up with hits due to Sawamura's curb ball that fell so drastically over the home plate. The curb ball delivered by Sawamura, who was then just 17 years old, must have been twice more effective than Hideo Nomo's splitter.

So, they tried hard to read Sawamura's habit when he threw a curb. Their efforts finally paid off. Gehrig, following Babe's advice, blasted a home run. It decided the outcome of the game that had so embarrassed and upset the U.S. major-league picked-team in 1934 in Japan.
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Later, Eiji Sawamura served the Imperial Army and was sent to the front in China. He then returned home, but again he was drafted. He returned home again, but again he was drafted for his third mission in the Imperial Army. This time he never returned. A ship he went aboard was attacked and sunk by a US submarine in December, 1944.

However, even today, there are many baseball fans in Japan who believe that Eiji Sawamura is still better than Hideo Nomo as well as Daisuke Matsuzaka who is to play in the Boston Red Socks in 2007.
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A Japanese poet once wrote for the late Eiji Sawamura: "War is sinful just because it took your life."

(How many times will American poets write so after the War on Terror?)
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Now, you know one reason why Babe Ruth is famous in Japan.

Indeed, it is because he for real played baseball in Japan in whatever professional sense we have to accept.



"TAKE CARE; BE ON YOUR GUARD"

One Christmas Eve in Japan in 2006

One Christmas Eve in Japan in 2006


I saw tonight in the city a very poor, old man, a couple of innocent westerners, and unusually spotted policemen.

This Sunday night or a Christmas Eve has made most people hurry to their homes or drinking parties, while the night outside is getting colder and sterner.

People in Japan are really starting to get prepared for the New Year Day and the winter holidays for children and students.
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My recommendation for a Christmas present is the 2006 Global Hunger Index at http://www.ifpri.org/media/20061013ghi.asp.

You had better download this document and print out its cover page.

Before any miracles are given to us as a Christmas gift, we have to probably love famine-ridden people as Jesus Christ does.

In this sense, Japan should be given another chance next year, too, deplorably.



"I AM THE SEER"

The Battle for the Layte Gulf in 1944 Loaded with Lessons

The Battle for the Layte Gulf in 1944 Loaded with Lessons

"SEA OF THUNDER" by Evan Thomas is now ranked the 27th in the list of hard-cover nonfictions by The New York Times.

It depicts the Pacific War between the Empire of Japan and the U.S. from 1941 to 1945.

It is a little surprise that this kind of theme has still some impacts on some sorts of people in the U.S., though millions of people there have had any associations with U.S. defense directly or indirectly.
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The last year a Japanese film maker released a movie featuring the battleship Yamato, the largest and the strongest warship ever built by human beings, at least before the age of aircraft carrier's dominance.

This year Mr. Clint Eastwood's movies on the Battle of Iwo-jima, fought in February and March in 1945, were released in Japan and the U.S..

Yamato was destroyed and sunk under U.S. air attacks during its Kamikaze mission to the Battle of Okinawa in April, 1945.

However, I would rather honor the Imperial Navy in a different manner.

The greatest naval war ever fought by human beings is called the Battle for the Layte Gulf, the Philippines, in October 1944 in which the Imperial Navy lost not only another Yamato-class battleship Musashi that was fatally damaged by 20 torpedoes shot by U.S. war planes but also the substantial capability to deal with the massive U.S. military advancement to the mainland of Imperial Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Musashi



After this great naval battle, the Battle of Iwo-jima and the Battle of Okinawa were fought without a hope of changing a tide or recovering a loss or ultimately achieving an advantageous armistice with the Allied.

The two super-warships Yamato and Musashi, with several 46cm big guns equipped on each, might have blown off any ambitions of General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. Seventh Fleet in and around the Layte Gulf.

But the history was different: the age of air battles over the ocean had already begun.

What is worse, in order to support the fleet, the Imperial Navy ordered an air squadron to conduct Kamikaze air-attacks, which was the first of a long series of this kind of suicide attacks that ensued until the end of the Pacific War in August, 1945.

The Battle for the Layte Gulf should be remembered most significantly as the last full-dress naval battle for the Imperial Navy with even a slight chance of winning as well as the onset of the Kamikaze attacks which should have been also the last and final or only once.




APPENDIX.

US Strength around Leyte Gulf, the Philippines:
8 fleet carriers
8 light carriers
18 escort carriers
12 battleships
24 cruisers
141 destroyers and destroyer escorts
Many PT boats, submarines, and fleet auxiliaries
About 1,500 planes

Empire of Japan's Strength toward Leyte Gulf, the Philippines:
1 fleet carrier
3 light carriers
9 battleships
14 heavy cruisers
6 light cruisers
35+ destroyers
300+ planes (including land-based aircraft)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf


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Now, Japan has other types of Yamato and Musashi in various fields of its modern industries.

But, where has the Kamikaze spirit gone?

It is one of my worries.

It should have gone to the highest sky over the Pacific Ocean forever.

Not to anywhere on the earth.



"THE SEEDS THE PEACEMAKERS PLANT IN THE PEACE"

A Marine in Iraq and His Japanese Father

A Marine in Iraq and His Japanese Father


When you hear some Christmas songs, you may feel like hearing a Christmas story.

All I can say is that Good News is to be preached to poor people. If you are rich and happy, you are not prepared enough.

However, it is one of my opinions I myself in a different occasion cannot mostly stand; Jesus Christ should be far more benevolent.
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According to a certain prominent journalist, once upon a time, a Japanese young man went to America to learn in post-graduate courses. He graduated a grad school and started to work in a branch of the U.S. Government. He got married to an American woman and got a son who grew up and one day, while learning in a university, decided to go into the service of the U.S. Marines for joining a mission in Iraq. He was actually dispatched to Iraq for a mission of the War on Terror, and then afterward came back to America to restart his learning in the university. He graduated and started to work in a certain industry.

One family in America is going to see Christmas this way: a family of a Japanese father, an American mother, and an ex-Marine son with a memory of Iraq.
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In my city, there are a lot of illuminations and displays imitating a Christmas tree. Japanese like Christmas.

Indeed, no family's Christmas in Japan is darkened by a shadow of warring Iraq, which might become possible truly by providence.

I meant that we are very sorry for American families who lost their son or daughter in Iraq.

But, will Iraqi victims allow us to enjoy Christmas?

Or will Jesus Christ persuade them to do so for us?

Otherwise, what should we offer as a sacrifice?



"BY THE MIRACLES THAT WERE PERFORMED"

Brazil Won Over Spain 1-0 in the Supreme Soccer Match in Japan

Brazil Won Over Spain 1-0 in the Supreme Soccer Match in Japan



Tonight I rather felt that the city was less crowded.

Indeed, there was a final match of top soccer club teams in the world.

The match was between a team from Spain and another from Brazil.

The latter defeated the former by one to nothing.

The Spanish team, representing 224,000 soccer clubs in Europe and employing ten players who have ever played in the World Cup Soccer Games in eight national teams, was lost to the Brazilian team with no such players.
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In a cold stadium of Japan's December and supported by Toyota Motor and other companies, the game was played with full audience.

As it must be globally televised, people in Spain and Brazil should enjoy it.

I am not a professional in this sport. I have not much to say.

However, I felt that the Brazilian team was really running, but the Spanish team was not, though I just observed the match only during the last 15 minutes.

A running player kicked the ball that flew to the face of the keeper trying to stop the ball with a lower posture, but the ball hit the head and flew further forward to the goal.
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Toyota reportedly plans to produce about 9.4 million cars next year, which would put the company on the position of the world number-one car manufacturer. GM will be the number two, accordingly.

Toyota can sponsor many sport games.
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December is called "Shiwasu" in a traditional and literary way in Japan, which means "a teacher is running."

In old days, people had to make the end meet on their financial contracts, loans, and rents by the end of December; therefore even a teacher who must show a good example of behaviors should be busy paying or borrowing money in this month.

December is a month when even a stern teacher should be busy running like a soccer player in an extreme case.

However, I like the expression "Don't run but walk."

Be a good walker even on a pitch, which would decide a success or a failure in a next moment when a chance ball is flying fast toward you.



"THEY WILL SHARE YOUR FATE"