Earthquakes and Awe of God Common to Japan and the War Area

Artificial Water Fall
(Une chute d'eau artificielle)


Earthquakes and Awe of God Common to Japan and the War Area


On Sunday night, Japan's Fuji TV news program reported on some victims of the recent earthquake, namely, mostly innocent, handicapped, humble, very old, very young, or good-natured people, though they have made Japan the second largest economy in the world in these decades, inevitably without relying on the vast land and abundant natural resources, as so fatally missing at this holy End of the East.

One of them is a schoolchild in the lower grade who has been haunted by a fear of another possible earthquake. Since the earthquake that happened last Monday, the little girl always checks where her mother is and cannot sleep in her room on the second floor of her house. She rather sleeps at an entrance of the house at night with a backpack always placed by her side or carried on the back.

When the earthquake hit the region near the Sea of Japan, it is said that even an adult was so heavily jolted, pushed up, and a kind of thrown from the ground or a floor or luckily forced to hold on anything fixed nearby.

The earthquake disarrayed and knocked down all furniture and every other thing inside most of the houses in the devastated area (which includes a nuclear power plant and a key component supplier to Toyota Motor), if a house was not destroyed.
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If you experience an earthquake once a year, regardless of its magnitude so long as you can feel it watching a floor and a ceiling of your house being shaken, you would surely come to be held in awe to the nature and a god.

If you never experience an earthquake so often, you may lack a notion that there is something in this world that you cannot, too clearly, control, cope with, or even predict unlike other natural disasters, since an earthquake is related to billion-year-scale movement of continental plates or in-land crush of a fault mostly unobserved from the surface of the ground. You can be more easily humble to the concept of the God.

I think that the little schoolgirl will in Niigata Prefecture grow up as an exemplary Japanese citizen in future with sound and adequate awe in the nature and God.
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Some Japanese virtue should be really formed and grow through this process of experiencing earthquakes and the deep fear they invoke. Put simply, to understand Japanese mentality, you have to experience earthquakes in Japan.

Indeed, the U.S. could not understand mentality of Chinese and Koreans, resulting in failure in the Korean War and subsequent death of millions of people in China and North Korea under inhumane regimes.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong)

The U.S. could not understand mentality of Chinese and Vietnamese, resulting in failure in the Vietnam War and subsequent death of millions of people in Cambodia and neighboring areas under inhumane regimes.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot)

If the U.S. can not understand mentality of those living in Afghanistan and Iraq, their military operations today might result in failure in the War on Terror and subsequent possible death of millions of people in the Islamic region.

But, the war between the Empire of Japan and the U.S. during WWII was an exceptionally well organized war between the two civilized nations in Asia/Pacific. The U.S. could rely on Imperial Japan's civilized functions in the war, which allowed for rational approach on the U.S. side unlike the above three subsequent cases that requested and still request more deeper understanding of mentality of those the U.S. was and is fighting against.

(Truly, the military of the Imperial Japan never intentionally targeted US citizens even in its attack on Pearl Harbor. Comparison of the 9/11 terror to the Pearl Harbor attack really misled the U.S. to wrong strategies against AlQaeda.)
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According to the world earthquake information , not only Japanese but also those around AlQaeda in the north of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border seem to have felt a warning in a form of an earthquake last week.
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.php)


Truly, they should listen to Japanese if they remember the great one that occurred a few years ago in Northern Pakistan.



(If you are to ask a question to possible US Presidential Election candidates, you had better ask how much they understand mentality of Muslims and AlQaeda.

For example, Mr. George H.W. Bush once said that AlQaeda was nuts.

Do you think that Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton can understand Allah enough, so that she can handle the ongoing war while preventing possible death of millions of people in the Islamic region after near-future withdrawal of US troops, like in the cases of the preceding wars in the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula?

I mean if you can do more, you have a mission. You can be greater. Yes, you can.)



"THE SON OF MAN IS THE LORD OF SABBATH"

Around 4 p.m.

"...How Happy Are Those Who Believe Without Seeing Me..."

Where Are You Going, Ms. Americas? Go and Vote!

A Park on a River
A Park and a Dog(s)

A Park like a 3D Cross
(at various locations around Tokyo or Tokio)

Where Are You Going, Ms. Americas? Go and Vote!


Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards made a TV appearance in "Larry King Live." I was very much drawn into the CNN open interview by Mr. Larry King.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Anania_Edwards)

President Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice-President Mr. John Edwards? Or, President Mr. John Edwards and Vice-President Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton (with Mr. Barack Obama as the Secretary of State)?

In my view, some international political and financial group has been pushing Mr. John Edwards to join the Presidential Election Race. As a successful citizen on the first track of the finance-oriented society, Mr. John Edwards had to inevitably respond to such a request and expectation, in my personal view.

(A Japanese newspaper today reported on specific relationships between financial businesses and Mr. Lawrence Summers, the daughter of the Clintons, and so on politically unignorable, in addition to the state of financial contribution from such businesses to major candidates for the 2008 Election.)

However, what impressed me in today's "Larry King Live" was the determination observed in Mrs. Edwards trying to contribute without reservation to coming success of her husband in the current campaign.
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I do not think American husband and wife are blessed more than those in other countries. They may be rather closer to the hell in America due to so much material freedom and unrestricted individualism. (Unless love becomes stronger with time, how can they stay together while their love becomes weaker with time, when there are so many other things outside their home that raise much stronger love?)

But, when man and wife are advancing to a certain common goal, an American couple looks traditionally more powerful than those in other countries.

Indeed, it is not the state of the Garden of Eden that any Ms. America should be dreaming of in her life, but a mission like the one St. Paul pursued with Early Church in the first century, since it only strengthens love along with time.
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Mrs. Edwards looks like going for a mission, too, though very secular.

Then and now, where are you going, other Ms. Americas? I recommend the mission St. Paul began 2000 years ago, for it only strengthens love with time.

Truly, St. Paul is great as Jesus Christ so chose him with dazzling light from the sky or in his spiritual space, so that his love in God got stronger and stronger over time.



(Jesus Christ never blessed specifically man and wife together at one time. Hence, only when man and wife together have pursued a holy mission, I suppose, they together are admitted to Heaven.

Anyway, most of them in Heaven seem to forget who they married on the earth.

Or who do you want to be with, if you get eternal life removing your need for any money?

Indeed, you, good girls, need a holy mission to enter Heaven with your loving one or your petit ami.)



"...God's Wisdom is however Shown to be True for All who Accept it..."

King James Version Time, My Venerable Readers!

"Le ciel, le soleil et la mer"
"The Sky, The Sea, and The Sun"

"Sora-to Umi-to Taiyou-to"

King James Version Time, My Venerable Readers!


Luk 20:01 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,

Luk 20:02 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?

Luk 20:03 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:

Luk 20:04 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

Luk 20:05 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?

Luk 20:06 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

Luk 20:07 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

Luk 20:08 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
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Indeed Jesus Christ will exercise his authority on both the U.S. and AlQaeda in 2008, respectively, for example, by allowing for a surprising new leader each to emerge, which is even more likely in the theory of wars, while I am humbly so wishing on Vatican in a peaceful manner.

Though I hope that the U.S. and its citizens will never be under terror attacks forever, the year 2008 must be very critical, while, for example, the Chinese Communist Party will be busy hosting Olympic Games and working on North Korea.

Hence, with a wish for peace on you, I may be listening to Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 that was written in 1804 – 08, namely just 200 years ago when Japan's GDP was greater than that of the US, to your surprise, though I really doubt that any conductor nowadays can truly interpret the movements so that Beethoven himself, on his new discovery on his own gift, would respect the conductor with great gratitude.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Beethoven)

Before Fate knocks on your door, you had better knock on a certain door that leads to the Kingdom of God, so intangible and very, very great.


(If you are a member of the Anglican Church or the Roman Church, I do not mind. A human body someday goes back to the earth or a graveyard any symbol upon which I am not interested in.

Hence, my dream is bodily whirling up or floating up to Heaven like Elijah and Jesus Christ. Of course, I may be back bodily upon you as the God so wishes.

Truly God is great; God or Allah is the only god for us, especially for 2008!)



"...Pull up the first fish you hook, and in its mouth you will find a coin worth enough for my Temple tax and yours..."

Warnings Here and There

Ok, A Peace Kite!
The Happy Party Boat!

(The Tokyo Bay in winter [topside] and summer [downside])

Warnings Here and There


Monday's earthquake in Japan hit the car component maker Riken Corporation (http://www.riken.co.jp/e/index.html) and stopped its operation. Now, Toyota Motor Corp. and other five car manufacturers have to stop its operation, due to the lack of necessary parts to be provided by Riken. The all-out suspension of production in Toyota is expected to continue to tomorrow, while Riken's production lines need the next week for full recovery.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/index-e.html) was also hit and has been also forced to stop their operation at the nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture which was the major disaster area of the earthquake that took lives of 10 people and has forced more than 4,000 people to stay in shelters even today. Tokyo Electric Power has reported more than 50 malfunctions or accidents, though small, in their nuclear power generation site situated on the Sea of Japan (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/world/asia/19japan.html?hp).

Toyota and Tokyo Electric Power are two of top-tier corporations in Japan. However, their precaution for crisis or awe in God is now doubted. Especially, in October 2004, they experienced an earthquake almost in the same area.

Now, the Japanese Government should consider whether the capital Tokyo is sufficiently prepared for a large natural disaster, such as the Second Kanto Earthquake horribly expected to happen around or off Tokyo at any time.

It is of course desirable to relocate government agencies and corporate main offices from Tokyo to nearby prefectures as long as official functions and civil services as well as business are not fatally influenced.
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Even in New York, large steam pipes have exploded with huge vapor columns in the middle of the city (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/nyregion/19explode.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin); in Brazil, a notorious airport has at last taken 200 or so lives while having so many warnings beforehand (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/world/americas/19brazil.html).

You really need somebody who can serve God spiritually. And, we have to help such persons. It is all for the nation and the people, say, of the U.S., Brazil, Japan, or any other country.


(The God sometimes gives a symbolic person to each tribe or nation. He or she should be spotlighted by Angels to see if others are pious enough or not through their relationship with such a person.

Conversely, if one person in a city is found to be pious, the whole city might be spared. For example, the peace in New York now may be proving it.

Indeed, if the Second Kanto Earthquake takes only hundred lives instead of 10,000, it is said that Tokyo will be very lucky. Truly, we need more pious people here and there.

["Kan-to(u)" means a region Tokyo belongs to, literally meaning "the East (tou, originally higashi) of the Checking Station (kan, originally seki)."])



"...I Will Tell Them Things Unknown Since the Creation of the World..."

Divine Comedy 2007 (VI)

A Summer Place? Pearly Face?.....lying in wait?
Divine Comedy 2007 (VI)


1. Compromise and Consecration
In this ugly world, some bad guys are really dreaming of making a killing or making a million dollars.

However, Jesus Christ said to love God and our neighbors with full might.

If you are a responsible leader of a nation, you should take this into consideration.

Young ambitious politicians in Japan are usually taught by seniors to be broad-minded enough to show tolerance toward all sorts of men.

All I want to say is to prepare yourself to meet a decisive moment, though maybe once in your life time, when your choice on devilish compromise or patriotic consecration will affect many people including your family and relatives for so long afterward.

2. One Trillion Dollar Operation
Mr. Takurou Morinaga, a very popular economist in Japan, wrote that Japan should start the operation of its national pension assets, totaling about one trillion dollars, in the world money market.

He said that as Japan has been in a very difficult position in terms of national finance, while wild foreign funds are rampant with a dubious business manner in Japan's money market, the Government should take a risk and venture into the global money market.

However, he did not forget to point at that a Japan's government branch failed in such operation, resulting in 10 billion dollar deficits a few years ago, though it got a 14% (high) return in the last fiscal year.

He wrote that when the public office lost the big money, everybody blamed it, but when it got a high return, nobody including the media praised it.

It is true that Japan should now responsibly consider its attitude toward the global money market as well as its domestic operation as a challenge of the people, since we cannot trust in the ability and sincerity of the administration officials in terms of pension nowadays.

If anybody, including foreign economists and relatives of the Rothchilds or the Rockefellers, can present an effective scheme, the Government can buy it even at one billion dollars. The Japanese Government should invite public participation to get a promising strategy for its one trillion dollar pension funds.

Mr. Takurou Morinaga (http://blog.goo.ne.jp/info/morinaga_pro.html) should specify his idea in a detailed manner.


(Being an economist or a politician means having a big chance to become an insider of the money market. They can know what will happen beforehand. This must be one of the most critical issues for their professional ethics.

Then, what about your code of professional ethics? I always try not to tell what my left hand is doing to the right hand; otherwise everything will be forgotten while traversing from the right to the left.)

3. Earthquake, Thunder, Fire, and Tough Old Man
In Japan, traditionally, it is said that there are four horrible things: an earthquake, a thunder, a fire, and a bad-tempered old man (Jishin, Kaminari, Kaji, Oyaji).

Earthquakes happening in Japan account for 10% of all that happen in the world every year. It may be no wonder, since even the North American Continental Plate reaches the Mainland Japan and sinks under Mt. Fuji to the Sea of Japan.

Indeed, once a Japanese father was heavily respected and thoroughly being afraid of by children, usually several in a family.

If children have nothing to be fully afraid of, they may lose a chance to learn something important that requires humbleness to comprehend.

But, it may be more worrisome that we have a fewer politicians who deserve people's respect and awe.


(There is something the timing of occurrence of which you cannot predict. Not being shortsighted is really a blessing. Indeed, the recent earthquake that happened in the sea is really terrible.
Build your house on a rock, like in the Manhattan Island, as Jesus Christ and Buddha said. )


"...You will even be able to say to this hill, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea'..."

Everybody Failed (Except Japan), Looking to the 22nd Century

Lo, again!
Hold your horses!

Everybody Failed (Except Japan), Looking to the 22nd Century

Per-Capita GDP of Major Players:

..............1820........1900.......1950.......1973.......1992
Japan......704.......1,136......1,837......11,017......19,425
USA......1,287.......4,096......9,573......16,607......21,558
UK.........1,756.......4,593......6,847......11,992......15,738
FRG.......1,112........3,134......4,281......13,152.......19,351
France...1,281.......2,849.......5,221......12,940......17,959
Italy.......1,092......1,746.......3,425......10,409......16,229
Russia......751.......1,218.......2,834.......6,058.......4,671
China.......523..........652.........614.......1,186........3,098
India........531..........625.........597..........853.......1,347
(unit: dollar)

Note 1: FRG: the Federal Republic of Germany
2: Value adjusted for the US dollar in 1990.
3: In 1820, GDP of China was No.1, India's No.2, and France's No. 3.

[Source: Data created by Angus Maddison and introduced in "Nihon-no-Keizai (Japan's Economy)" by Osamu Ito;
http://www.chuko.co.jp/new/2007/05/101896.html]

It is said that the Soviet Union/Russia was not so bad until the West became materially so rich and their citizens came to pursue their material desire almost freely and with less and less restrictions, and until citizens of the Soviet Union were influenced by the West so badly.

Maybe Islamic countries will be said in future that they have not been so bad until the West have become materially further so rich and their citizens have come to pursue their material desire actually freely and with the least restrictions, and until Muslims have been influenced by the West so badly.

Indeed, China, Russia, and India, all once having solely relied on law and order based on Marxism or its derivative socialism, are now trying hard to be materially so rich and citizens are coming to pursue their material desire almost freely, in a sense, and with less and less restrictions.

Maybe Islamic countries, all relying on law and order based on the religion to a varying degree, may be now trying hard to be materially so rich and citizens are being tempted to pursue their material desire almost freely, in a sense, and with less and less restrictions.

Indeed, if you become materially super-rich, what do you need except entertainments which accordingly would become more and more sinful almost freely without any restrictions?
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Ancient Greeks thought: "Let slaves do hard work, and we will think and argue about valuable concepts."

Ancient Romans thought: "Let slaves do hard work, and we will think and argue about the Greek Culture."

Modern super-rich men think: "Let poor people do hard work, and we will enjoy entertainment."

I have meant that there are serious defects in the Greek Civilization and their descendants including the Roman Empire and the European Civilization.

The significance of Judaism and the work of Jesus Christ is concerned with it.

However, historically, Judaism failed, Christianity failed, Islam failed, Hinduism and Buddhism failed, Taoism and Confucianism failed, and Israelites of the modern age and Marxism also failed in these 2000 years.

From this point of view, you may think that the material-desire oriented civilization, having expanded from the Greek Civilization to the contemporary Western Civilization, is still rampage all over the world, even using a disguise of freedom and democracy. Then, liberalism and democracy failed, too, in the beginning of the 21st century.

Becoming rich and immoral is a natural course for mankind, which is however the core of warnings Jesus Christ gave to His followers 2000 years ago.

The God will turn His back to mankind when they become so rich and so immoral.
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In the above context, if the U.S. society has become more moral than in September 2001, it will be saved from the fears for terror by the God.

Now, your mission has been clearly defined: Being more moral than in September 2001 whether in the White House or the Central Park, if I may say so.


(In addition, I do not think that the Japanese Civilization failed in these 2000 years like others, say, such as Vatican.

I do think that the Japanese Civilization will help mankind keep from becoming an insane primate being so immoral as is not seen in other primates.

Anyway, the God will win and Japan is on His side. In the 22nd century, your descendants will be proud of being related to Japan, if any, which is of course entertainment for me, though I may be nowhere on the earth in the next century as with you.

Indeed, who would remember us in the 22nd century, if we win or lose, or are rich or poor?)



"LET THE WHEAT AND THE WEEDS GROW UNTIL THE HARVEST"

Today and Last Night, "Let's Get Up Into the Ring"

"I am leaving, I am leaving," but the fighter...
Lie la lie, la la la lie la la lie...

(The Arakawa River on the upper side and the Tonegawa River on the downside)

Today and Last Night, "Let's Get Up Into the Ring"


Today Japan is in a national holiday (Marine Day); it is in the aftermath of Typhoon No.4., the mightiest one as those coming to Japan in July, but I really wished that it would only proceed on the sea in the south of Japan and it did.

Last night, a Fuji TV news show reported on enthusiasm on "Eco Bags" a certain famous bag company has launched worldwide.

As the program had introduced the environment-friendly bags with a specific brand a week ago, a few days ago when the sale of bags began hundreds or more citizens surrounded the shop of the company on one of high streets in Tokyo from a night before, resulting in confusion and messing like cases days before in Taipei and Hong Kong.

(Now the bag is reportedly traded on the Internet at 20,000 yen with a premium put on it, though originally priced at 2,200 yen; 1.2 yen = 1 US cent.)

Even a bag with a sign "I Am Not a Plastic Bag" sells so well as with examples in New York and London. Then, as I wrote a week ago or so, humble paper bags with your name on may sell a million, profits of which should be distributed to poor people living around Smoky Mountain in Manila, the Philippines, since the paper bags should be made of old newspapers, which is the poor people's proprietary idea.
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Today Japan had a big earthquake on the coast area of the Sea of Japan in the north of Tokyo Pref. around 10 a.m., which killed several persons, injured hundreds of people, destroyed partly or fully hundreds of houses and business buildings, and halted a few nuclear power generators as well as some semiconductor plants and Shinkansen Express trains; I also felt the tremor, living a few hundred miles away from the epicenter.(http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/; or

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/world/asia/16cnd-japan.html?hp)

Last night, when I went out at 8 p.m. or so, I spotted a lone white star shining in a void of the heavily clouded and unsettled dark sky up in the Southern direction, that is, over the Tokyo Bay.

Later when I was walking back home, I found a car with the license plate number "6666" passing through a cross over point. Indeed, I was thinking about a little financial matter.

The Fuji TV news show later reported on young people living on day labor and actually sleeping or resting in a small dedicated space within the so-called the Internet Cafe around Tokyo, while new university graduates are welcomed by booming companies. It is nice for Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, a notable critic, and Ms. Yuko Andou, the main personality of the program, to present compassionately those weak young people who probably hate ugliness of competition and human relations based on material desire in society.
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Today Japan is in the middle of the Upper House Election campaign. A week later, when the voting day is over, it is expected that the ruling parties will lose a majority status in the Upper House of the Diet. Will young Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe continue his regime, though it is often said that other senior LDP leaders are far less popular than Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe?

Last night, nobody sensed that a big earthquake was going to happen next day, while they were enjoying consecutive holidays. Indeed, a disaster always happens this way. And the NHK TV station has been now reporting on the earthquake-related matters and situations continuously for several hours.

As I began this EEE Reporter blog on the earthquake that occurred in October 2004 in the same prefecture, today's earthquake in Japan has been taken gravely even personally. And, as you know, in December 2004 the Great Tsunami Disaster occurred in the Sumatra Island and the Indian Ocean, raising the extraordinary fears to Allah in hearts of many Muslims.

The Prime Minister urgently visited the devastated area by helicopter this evening. Will this earthquake be a portent for him and Japan? Or is it a portent for the world like in 2004? Otherwise, whose love or anger has been synchronized with it?


(If there is a holy girl or a divine lady close to EEE Reporter even in the cyber space, remember, please, I don't think I am supposed to die under a broken structure, as I am not leaving a ring.)



"...I will use a man on the Mount Zion as a sword, to fight men of Greece..."

Nostalgic GDP

Wise men say only fools...
but I can't help falling...

Nostalgic GDP

Comparison of GDP of major countries over years:

(please choose a small letter size in the View setting of Internet Explorer)

..............Japan.........USA.......UK..........FRG.....France.....Italy
1820.......218...........124.........348.......164........381..........220
1885.......314..........1,860......1,229......611........869..........475
1936......1,515........7,993......2,713.....1,929....1,762......1,309
1950......1,565......14,576......3,449.....2,140.....2.184......1,614
1975....12,238......34,685......6,578.....8,059....6,904.......5,853
1990....22,915......54,648......9,359....11,819...10,086.....9,195
(Unit: US$ Billion)

Note 1: Canada is omitted in the original source.
2: FRG: the Federal Republic of Germany
3: Value adjusted for the US dollar in 1990.
4: In 1820, GDP of China was No.1, India's No.2, and France's No. 3.

[Source: "Nihon-no -Keizai" by Osamu Ito;
http://www.chuko.co.jp/new/2007/05/101896.html]

1) Why did GDP of the U.S. expand so drastically between 1820 and 1885?

2) Based on data in 1936, what could we say about WWII?

3) Why did GDP of Japan expand so drastically between 1950 and 1975?

4) Is it wise to think that as Japan and Germany became fully democratic countries after WWII, the U.S. can easily make Iraq and other Islamic nations fully democratic countries, since Japan is like Latin America and Germany is like the U.K.? And is geopolitics more effective than historical economic analysis in judging potential and characteristics of nations?

Truly God is great, and God or Allah is the only god for us!!


(Typhoon No. 4 is now moving along the Pacific Ocean coast line of the mainland Japan. All cloudy and sometimes raining even here. Wise men say only fools challenge a typhoon by surfing. Anyway, I'm a busy man nowadays, at least, psychologically.)


"A SINGLE STONE WITH SEVEN FACETS"

People's Hero and the Sword

"Have you ever heard..."
"crying angels singing..."

People's Hero and the Sword


Japanese language learners all over the world, especially at a professional level, should read "Nihongo: Omote to Ura" by Mr. Tetsuro Morimoto.
(http://www.e-hon.ne.jp/bec/SA/Detail?refShinCode=0100000000000005242665&Action_id=121&Sza_id=B0&Rec_id=1008&Rec_lg=100813)

Note: "Nihongo" means the Japanese language; "Omote to Ura" means the surface and the back side.
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In the book, there is a reference to a certain story of the samurai age, which was originally written in another book on notable swordsmen who really existed in the past.

The story is about a famous and strong samurai named Tsukahara Bokuden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukahara_Bokuden).

One day he was on a journey and crossing a big lake on a humble ferry, of course, some 450 years ago in Japan in a state of civil war between samurai lords.
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On board a ferry, there was a hooligan samurai, wild and noisy among other gentle passengers of merchants, farmers, craftsmen, monks, etc.

He was behaving violently, challenging peace of other timid travelers. None tried to speak up to him. But, as the wild samurai found another samurai, that is, Tsukahara Bokuden, he decided to challenge Bokuden without knowing who he was.

So, the wild samurai told Bokuden if he had guts to fight with real swords as they were both samurai warriors. Bokuden replied, saying that as his martial-art style was called "Mutekatsu-ryu" (meaning winning without hands or a sword), he had no intention to defeat others but would be content with avoiding his own defeat; and thus he would not fight to win there.

The wild samurai, still challenging, asked Bokuden why he then belted the swords (usually a samurai has a long sward and a short sword waist-mounted).

Bokuden answered, "My swords are not for cutting an enemy but for cutting my arrogance."

Then, the wild samurai realized that Bokuden was making a mock of him.

The wild samurai got violently angry, shouting at Bokuden, "Then fight against me! Surely, you without a sward!"

Bokuden said that as the violent samurai so strongly requested the fight, he would have to accept the challenge; but as the humble ferry happened to come close to large rocks in the middle of the lake, Bokuden also said that they should get out of the ferry and fight on the rocks.

The wild samurai violently jumped out of the ferry and waited for Bokuden following him down to the reef.

But, Bokuden took a pole from a boatman and forcibly pushed a rock with the pole to have the ferry leave the reef quickly. The wild samurai was left alone on a rock in the middle of the large lake.

The wild samurai with a sword in the hand shouted, "You Chicken!" But Bokuden replied: "You see this is my 'Mutekatsu-ryu.' Now, folks, let's continue our voyage!"
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Mr. Morimoto analyzed on how and why Japanese loved this story; but he argued that Westerners would not think Bokuden was great in this story as actually Bokuden cheated his enemy and would not fight bravely.

Indeed, Westerners might think that Japanese are all sly like Tsukahara Bokuden (en passant, "Tsukahara" is the family name in this convention).

The key to the story is that every reader knows beforehand Tsukahaea Bokuden was one of the greatest swordsmen, having been so proven by his career and testimonies from other strong and high-class samurais.

If he had fought, it would have been a routinely easy victory. But, Bokuden avoided the fight, as if he had been a sly and weak man. Yet, Bokuden achieved what other weak passengers wished, namely, peaceful solution and disposal of a violent and indecent samurai.

Yes, a Japanese reader knows that he must have been one of coward passengers in the ferry, if he had been there. And, what he could do at best is just behaving like Bokuden on the occasion, namely, cheating the wild and bad samurai to have him get out of the ferry.

But, it does not look heroic at all. It is weak man's wisdom and tactics. He, of course, wants to fight with a sword and defeat the wild and bad samurai, which is however just a fantasy for him, since every reader knows that he or she is not so strong.

But, lo! Despite his overwhelming strength, the samurai master Bokuden acted like a weak man to defeat the wild and bad samurai without using his expertise in manipulating a sword.

Now, weak readers of the story do not have to feel ashamed of their weakness and cowardliness in addition to their possible tactics of slyly cheating a strong guy, since the strongest samurai Bokuden also behaved like one of them taking the very sly, apparently, tactics.

This is Mr. Tetsuro Morimoto's argument. And, you have to understand this kind of Japanese minds to master Japanese language with notion to its surface and the back face.
* * *

A Japanese sword has truly enchanting power and an appealing shape based on its history of development over 2000 years since the Bronze Age of Japan when Japanese used a kind of glaives like ancient Romans or Chinese. In other words, Japanese developed the technical art of swords while Romans and Chinese could not.

(The Japanese sword is unique in that its edge angle and its blade warp require a special skill to manipulate it, since it must be pulled or drawn backward while acutely cutting into the target, which also requires special movement not only of arms and the upper body but also of foot work, more graceful than in Western fencing, in taking the best position for swinging it precisely at a specific angle while converging kinetic impact of the mass of iron to the target along a semi-circular orbit on a plane tilted flexibly according to the posture and movement of the target, unlike, say, Viking's blunt swordplay solely relying on poorly controlled muscle in the vertical direction only.

[If you become a master of swordplay in a certain school, you are conferred full mastership certificate, according to traditions.]
Also refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana.)

In fact, the Japanese sword, which even many wealthy Chinese centuries ago coveted for as a treasure, has been a symbol of Japanese society governed by the samurai class and their descendants for more than 1000 years until the end of WWII. Hence, I once wrote about it in this "EEE Reporter" blog before.


(Truly, there are many objects that the sword cannot apply to. Wild flowers may be one. And you, good girls, are more valuable than wild flowers and sparrows as Jesus Christ declared.

Indeed, the Japanese language (Nihon-go) is a true national treasure of Japan (Nihon), since my mind (kokoro) is with it.)


"AND YOUR PRESENCE WILL FILL ME WITH JOY"

Divine Comedy 2007 (V)

The third there! ..maybe the fastest!!

Divine Comedy 2007 (V)

The FEN (Far East Network) radio station, mainly broadcasting for US military servicemen around Tokyo, reported on the New York Stock Exchange index hitting another record high and the National Public Radio World Wide from Washington D.C. talked about something on Mr. Barack Obama among other issues, though I am not in a car now.
* * *

1. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
I once saw a movie on Gandhi and one on Malcom X. Both the religious and political heroes were assassinated retrospectively so mysteriously.

I think that "New York City" should be renamed "Martin Luther King Jr. City (MLK City)," since nobody in New York seems to be greater than Martin Luther King Jr.

I think that the nation "India" should be renamed "Gandhi," since nobody in India seems to be greater than Gandhi.

In Japan around Tokyo, however, allow me, folks, to directly follow Jesus Christ, though Lord Jesus Christ was executed by a Roman Governor, namely the Roman Empire, to resurrect and conquer the Empire later with the religion called Christianity.

Vatican should be renamed "Jesus Christ City."

2. Israelite Americans
Here I follow a certain conspiracy theory:
Japan has been made the scapegoat by Israelite Americans so often after WWII.

For Israelite Americans, Japan is an easy target for making the scapegoat.

Israelite Americans even today do not look like sufficiently pursuing justice on Russians and Germans. (Why will not Israel request Germany to persuade Palestinians to co-exist with Israelites or to make equally sacrificial efforts there?) And, Israelite Americans cannot lose friends in France, Italy, and Spain. They have to think great deal of the U.K. They desperately need friendship from other Anglo Saxon countries, including the U.S.

Islamic countries are mostly too poor and weak and Latin American countries are mostly too miserable. Asian countries except Japan and China are too weak. And, Africa is out of question.

China still relies on Marxism their fellow Karl Marx launched 150 years ago; thus, Israelite Americans do not want to make Chine the scapegoat. In addition, the Chinese market looks more profitable than Japan nowadays.

Consequently, Israelite Americans cannot help but make Japan the scapegoat.

This is not originally an individual inclination, but a tendency of the race that suffered so much of horrible and malicious persecution, oppression, segregation, and quasi-annihilation in the Christian civilization.

They need somebody to attack so that they can feel like fighting bravely for their pride, justice, honor, belief, and security.

And, after WWII, they found peace-loving economic power Japan, once allied　with Germany, a country nobody in the world can understand well due to its unique history and culture.

Israelite Americans, following a tacit will among their race, sometimes look like accusing and exploiting Japan, mostly financially, for so long. But, as Japan is too unique and Israelite Americans are still claiming their privilege, nobody in the world has realized this dangerous behavior of Israelite Americans on Japan.

The above stated conspiracy theory is based on research having been conducted by some specialists in Japan so as to defend the nation.

My advice to Israelite Americans is to bravely and fairly face Germans, Russians, and Anglo Saxons as well as Vatican even today in terms of justice and belief, though they all still look living in the aftermath of violent glory of the Roman Empire.

Japan has never tried to make Israelites the scapegoat in terms of justice and belief or financially.

3. Anglo-Saxons
I love Anglo-Saxons. I really like some music they play, though there are more than a dozen reasons.

4. Koreans
I respect Koreans. Japanese can learn Korean and Koreans can learn Japanese quicker than any other races do, respectively.

If I were a Korean living between the super-nation Japan and the one billion population country China, I would rather feel fear and lose a spirit of competing. But, Koreans have been bravely competing well so far.

So, keep in mind that as Japan respects Korea, it has helped Korea launch its industries in various ways and compete well, after WWII, during WWII, and even before WWII.

And, if they have a madam President, which is somehow likely in near future, I even personally respect them.
* * *

US Secretary of State Ms. Condoleezza Rice called yesterday Japan's new Defense Minister Ms. Yuriko Koike, according to a newspaper.

Is this an ordinary protocol between Japan and the U.S., though Ms. Koike may only keep her position until the national election to be held on July 29?

At least, they could probably exchange information on North Korea, as China cannot make North Korea the scapegoat so conveniently anymore, while 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing are getting near.

Indeed, despotic states are so sinful as they compel the people make an idol of their absolute leaders (in addition to de facto slavery sometimes reported as being so adopted even today, though illegally).

Democratic nations, such as Korea, the U.S., and Japan, should tie up to fight against them, even if not resorting to force, in spite of all difficulties.

(If you solve the mystery of the assassination of, say, JFK, we can more frankly talk about Martin Luther King Jr. and others, such as Marilyn Monroe, even as a table talk at home or in a WTC restaurant, for example.

Of course, there are many mysteries and secrets in the world I can pretend not to be aware of for peace, say, in terms of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shintoism.

Indeed, the less you have the faith, the less the holy secret and wonders remain in you.)


"HELP CARRY ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS"

Can You Feel Expansion of the Whole Universe?

Two Jet Planes in Parallel so Far and High over Mt. Fuji

Can You Feel Expansion of the Whole Universe?


In today's newspaper, they presented an image of the universe as is observed from a satellite. The source is a press release of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that launched a new space observation platform last February. According to JAXA (http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/snews/2007/0711.shtml):

"The infrared astronomy satellite AKARI started the regular observations in May 2006. In the last one year, AKARI has carried out the All-Sky Survey observations to map the entire sky, as well as thousands of pointed observations of selected targets. Here we show the beautiful images constructed from the AKARI All-Sky Survey data..."
* * *

According to Hubble's law, the speed of expansion of the universe is proportional to distance.

Therefore, in our observation from the earth, the expansion of the universe around the earth looks very slow.

However, if we assume that the expansion speed is the same everywhere in the universe (93 billion light years) and the universe has been expanding at the same rate since its emergence (13.7 billion years old), the speed of expansion of the universe is as follows, since one light year is 9.46 x 10**15 meters:

[Speed of the Space] = 930 / 137 x 9.46 x 10**15
＝ 6.42 x 10**16 (meters/year)
= 19 x 10**16 (feet/year)
= 190,000,000,000,000,000 (feet/year)

If this expansion is observed from an orbit around the earth at the altitude of 100km (60 miles), the incremental expansion per year on the earth is as follows:

[Expansion per Year] = 6.42 x 10**16 x 100 x 10**3 / (930 x 10**8 x 9.46 x 10**15)
＝ 7.30 x 10**(-6) (meters/year)
= 20 x 10**(-6) (feet/year)

[Expansion per Second] = 7 x 10**(-13) (feet/second)
= 0.0000000000007 (feet/second)

(Note: One year is about 30 million [3 x 10**7] seconds.)

However as the present satellites mankind has ever launched on orbits can only measure a difference in the distance on the earth as small as 0.1 inches or so if they perform one year measurement, we cannot confirm the expansion of the universe on the earth by simply employing such conventional technologies.
(Refer to http://oshiete1.goo.ne.jp/qa3072220.html in Japanese, if possible.)
* * *

The issue is that if there is somebody among mankind who can sense this very subtle expansion of the universe on the earth, what becomes of him or her.

I believe that Buddha could do, if he so wished.

I believe that Jesus Christ could do, if He so wished.

As every mankind is made of only atoms, and the size of an atom (including outer electrons) is about 10**(-10) meters or feet, you may try hard to feel the expansion of the whole universe "every second," which is about 1000 times smaller than an atom.

If you are an atom, the expansion of the universe per second is about your 0.1 inches.

Indeed, quantum physics based on mysterious observation and broken determinism of locations of particles should be reviewed in this context; there is no stable space around electrons and other elementary particles at all.
* * *

There may be some errors in order in the above calculation. But, it must be one digit or so. Still an atom is far larger than the absolute increment per second of space being expanded along with every other part of the universe, but it is somehow within a range of perception for an atom.

Maybe, the movement of the whole universe is being felt by every atom in our body in every second, implication of which is extremely significant.

From this scientific fact, I suppose millions of dreams may emerge.

(But, above all, you must respect Jesus Christ and Buddha even only for this reason, as the whole universe is expanding at a pace of 0.0000000000007 feet/second.

Now, God has put me in more awe of Him. I will surely obey Him more; How about you?)



"GOD WILL GIVE COMPLETE FREEDOM TO THOSE WHO ARE HIS"

Jesus' Economics (Jesusnomics)

Wild flowers: the wonder of the universe...not on the moon and Mars; not in the beginning of the universe which is like the core of the sun...

Jesus' Economics (Jesusnomics)


Japan's TV stations have been reporting on the horrible crackdown on a large Islamic seminary in Pakistan as well as mega-churches in the U.S.; but I like to concentrate on money, for your sake.
* * *

How much money do you think you need to live a decent life in your society and community?

How much security expenses nowadays do you think you need in such a decent life?

So, your Government can tell children how much they need when they grow up to live a decent life.

So, your Government should also tell children how much they do not need when they grow up to live a decent life.

And, your Government has to tell that income of any citizen from his or her profession should be adjusted to have him or her and his/her neighbors live a decent life each.

The President should tell the people that they do need neither a million dollar, 10,000 dollar, nor 1,000 dollar per day to live a decent life.

The President should tell the people that if they earn a million dollar, 10,000 dollar, or 1,000 dollar per day, they are great and can be regarded as heroes or heroines in a sense, but they have to simply take the honor and pride but give up the excessive amount of money to Government tax offices.

I really wish that there would be a new movement in the U.S. toward decent lives with very appropriate personal financial assets of the people, though, with astronomical sums of public funds and governmental budgets to be provided for people in poor countries and especially poor Muslims.

In that case, all the rich countries, including Japan and China, must surely follow suit.
* * *

Jesus Christ talked about taxes and wages. He said to pay them unconditionally, fully, equally, and timely.

This is on a "vertical" movement of money: from people to a government, or from an employer to workers. It must be unconditionally, fully, equally, and timely handled; and money should flow accordingly unconditionally, fully, equally, and timely, vertically.

However, there is another movement of money: a "horizontal" movement.

You should lend money to your poor neighbors, but you should not demand pay back. This is His teaching which is related to the horizontal movement of money. No interest and all the more no payback should be demanded.

This flow of money in a horizontal direction or on a plane symbolizes and embodies concrete love to neighbors, which really does away with the devilish character of money.

Indeed, Jesus' Economics or "Jesusnomics" is greater than Nobel-Prized (or "N"-Prized) economics.

(I would rather say, "Do not compete with Angels," even in market, since God Speed is on their side.)
* * *

Once, a black tulip became a symbol of speculations in Holland. A price of a black tulip soared up in a crazy market when Holland was so rich while occupying trade in East Asia. But, it burst like a bubble eventually.

Jesus Christ said to look at wildflowers and have a trust in God.

Truly the trust in God can lead to the thinking about a decent life and holy economics, which will advance us close to the Kingdom of God, truly, intangible.

O, God, when will the day come on which the word "money" will disappear from every dictionary on the earth?

Truly God is great, and God or Allah is the only god for us!!


(At least, your thought on a holy mission must be stronger than your thought on money. Otherwise, you may happen to be a billionaire. Can't you hear a sigh from both men and Angels?)



"WE WILL SHARE THE SAME LOAF"

John Lennon; The 50th Anniversary of The Quarry Men

Lo! Folks!

A Matter of an Angle.

John Lennon; The 50th Anniversary of The Quarry Men


It is truly unbelievable that we still today see Ms. Yoko Ono making public appearance in style. She recently performed her art exhibition in Russia, in addition to her joining "Larry King Live" and a promotion video clip of a certain Japanese music group.

John Lennon once used Japanese expressions in the song "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)." He sang: "Yoko-san suimasen." For what sacrifice or virtue on her side, was he sorry?

I once visited the John Lennon Museum in Saitama City, Japan. I found his driver's license, or something like that so personal and old, being displayed. He must have been, of course, truly a neighbor of some ordinary people in his original world where he played in the Quarry Men and met Mr. Paul McCartney.

(By the way, do you know "Sukiyaki," a Japanese song that once became US No.1 in The Billboard in 1963 when Ms. Yoko Ono was living in New York? However, Kyu Sakamoto, who sang it, died in a Jumbo jet air accident near Tokyo Pref. in 1985 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_(song)).

It was a song of loneliness or a broken heart though somehow forward looking in words and tune, say, like Ms. Yoko Ono's life, since its original Japanese title "Ue-wo-Muite-Arukou" means "Let's Walk Faceup [lest tears should course down].")



"THEN THEY SANG A HYMN AND WENT OUT TO THE MOUNT OLIVES"

Divine Comedy 2007 (IV)

The Arakawa River b/w Tokyo Pref. (near) and Saitama Pref. (far)

Divine Comedy 2007 (IV)


1. Boeing 787 Roll-Out
New York Times did not make it out into the open that Mitsubishi, a Japanese manufacturing company, accounts for 35% in production work of the new passenger jet Boeing 787 (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/business/09cnd-boeing.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin).

The ratio, 35%, is almost equal to the one for Boeing itself in their share of work in producing Boeing 787.

This sort of omission could, I am afraid, lead to some serious misunderstanding among Americans on Japan and Japanese.

For example, once Mr. Rubin said, "Why did Japan succeed while South America failed (There must be immoral cheating)." Mr. Wolfowitz once said, "Japan has never contributed to American security (So, we cannot help but neglect Japan's huge monetary contribution to the Gulf War in 1991)." Mr. Kissinger once said, "Japan might sometimes soon be armed with nuclear weapons (So then, let China hold North Korea)."

I mean that in order to cope with Airbus, Boeing needed and still needs Mitsubishi's help; So, congratulations on the roll-out!

2. Money, Money, and More Money as We are Americans
I do not especially recommend "The Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans" by Ms. Stephanie Faul (http://www.ovalbooks.com/xeno/Americans.html); however the book was translated and published in Japan in 1999.

The significance of her self-observation book is in that Americans talk about money, money, and money, since they are Americans.

But, to be honest, why do they talk about only money?

Indeed, to get much money, you have to be physically strong, good looking, smart in dealing, technically advanced, and aware of market information; in addition, you have to forget about everything except money.

But, to be honest, why do they talk about only money?

Without knowing why their ancestor could not succeed in their home countries, how much they owe to the world history and civilizations, and in how many things they are not No.1 in the world, they do not even realize that their vast land and natural resources are not what they created but once belonged to native Americans, Spanish, French, English, the Dutch, Russians, and Hawaiians!

Now the current balance of the U.S. is 700 billion dollars in red, corresponding to 6% of its GDP which is 12 trillion dollars, meaning it may not be sustainable until the world oil reserves are depleted in 40 years.

If 10% of 700 billion dollars the U.S. owe to other countries is spent for development of society in poor countries, such as Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Afghanistan, the God should be more pleased.

In this context, the God must love Japan more than the U.S. and Israelites.

3. Nomo in 1995, Ichiro in 2001, and Matsuzaka in 2007?
Daisuke Matsuzaka of the Boston Red Sox was beaten today by Gary Sheffield and Carlos Guillen of the Detroit Tigers. ("Matsu" means a pine tree and "Zaka (Saka, originally)" means a slope, just F.Y.I.)

Gary Sheffield was once a colleague of Hideki Matsui in the New York Yankees. Carlos Guillen was once a colleague of Ichiro Suzuki in the Seattle Mariners.

Hideo Nomo, a samurai pitcher, was a true hero in 1995 as he helped Japanese keep up its morale while Japan was suffering from a great earthquake around Kobe City that claimed more than 5,000 lives and the sarin gas terror in Tokyo that claimed more than 5,000 casualties. He also boosted up the MLB having suffered from the aftermath of major players' walkouts.

However, Ichiro Suzuki is more symbolic. It is 2001 that he first played in America. Over the terror on September 11, he delivered more than 200 hits to be the leading hitter of the American League and contributed to Mariners' 116 wins, the record-tying most wins in a season in the MLB history.

Japanese shocked by the 9/11 terror were really helped get out of a spell of the terror by watching baseball-hero Ichiro fighting his way up to his own glory of sportsmanship.

In this sense, the year 2001, especially due to tight days around September 11, was truly a testing year for Ichiro.

Now, in what sense will the year 2007 be a testing year for Matsuzaka, a good-natured super-pitcher from Japan to the Major League Baseball, though September is yet to come?


(Tonight, NHK TV in Ms. Hiroko Kuniya's program has focused on Hideki Okajima who has been chosen as a pitcher for the MLB All-Star Game with Ichiro and Takashi Saito, which is truly a big surprise for Japanese baseball (Yakyu) fans, though Okajima was reportedly crucially assisted by a Red Sox's coach.

Still, I really want to see a heroine from Japan this year even in a different field, since I am afraid that Ms. Paula Radcliffe, a super Anglo Saxon marathon runner who was however beaten by a Japanese runner in Athens, may be trying hard to be the blessed one in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

In addition, though Ms. Segolene Royal failed this year against a son of Hungary-born parents in the French Presidential Election, the U.S. still has a chance in 2008 to present the greatest heroine in the Western history since Queen Victoria!)


"WHO WILL WANT TO COMFORT HER?"

Commutable Sins

The Largest River that Flows into the Tokyo Bay: The Arakawa

Commutable Sins

A notable female Japanese interpreter/translator wrote in her blog that she encountered (on July 3) an unfamiliar word "commute" in the context of the case of Mr. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. (http://kotoba-asobi.net/tsuruta/blog_2/index.php?eid=233).

(In a dictionary I use, there is an example of a sentence: "The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.")

It is interesting that such a topnotch professional English user is still embarrassed by certain specific English terms (yet no one uses English in a daily life in Japan except some foreigners and their friends), though it is often said that English legal terminologies sound like a foreign language even to American students who first opened a textbook on law.

According to her blog, the CBS Evening News reported the other day that a draft statement was discovered in Washington D.C., which Richard Nixon had prepared for use in case he should have been able to evade the impeachment.

Japan has not adopted a jury system, but it is going to introduce a citizen judge system which is somehow similar to a jury system of common law.

The reason of this institutional reform is degradation of a level of commonsense among judges.

In a democracy, no one is above law. Even a president of a nation or judges should follow the constitution, laws and regulations. They can be impeached.

Nonetheless, Jesus Christ said, "Forgive your enemies. Do not judge others. Follow God's orders rather than rules man set."

I think that if all the Americans become rich, they will still have a challenge to tackle in this context. So then, I recommend all the people in the world to study and develop the teaching of Jesus Christ to realize it without making a detour like Americans.


"...God will do what is right; He will bring sufferings on those who make you suffer..."

No More Phantoms

No More Phantoms


Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly said, "It’s instrumental in life.”

It is The New York Times that ponders on her belief (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/us/politics/07clinton.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1183781306-8BoUunYU3qe5qybkajh7bg).

First of all, we live in the world of uncertainty. We have not set laws of the nature; we have not created the universe to implement the laws; and we have not known every detail of our evolution and development and expansion of the universe. We are simply allowed to live in the universe as an element of the nature. We are to be born, live, and die in the nature like any other creatures.

Yet, the God loved mankind and gave a higher spirit than that endowed to any other living things. This spirit is accompanied by wisdom that can appreciate the Great Wisdom of the Creator. However, the ability unique to mankind has been mostly used to win competition among mankind themselves. As mankind has not defined this ability, he or she cannot know its ultimate scope and implications. Thus, we live in the human society with inherent uncertainty surrounded by other fellows causing derivative uncertainty.

In that sense, indeed, to have a faith in the God Almighty who is the Creator of the universe as well as human souls and spirits is very instrumental in anybody's life.

Therefore, it is not so flattering to anybody to be informed that Mrs. Clinton said that it was "instrumental in life."

(Richard Nixon prayed to God with Mr. Henry Kissinger in the White House in their testing moment; accordingly, they both have survived, keeping their face in a textbook on the modern world history or diplomatic relations.)

Besides, it is not Americans that really need to hear her words. Citizens in the world can shape their views on Americans based on such words by the potential President of the USA.

Muslims may come to think that Americans are not like godless villains in their community, since the potential President of the USA is talking about her faith in God they know to be identical to Allah.

Indeed, Judaism and Islam are very useful or instrumental teaching for daily lives of pious people.

I hope that Mrs. Clinton's posture to the faith in God will prevent possible terror in the U.S. in the way any of her successors could not.

Her faith will be a key to US security if she becomes President; it is not for fun and games or nonsense like a phantom story.
* * *

A Fuji TV news program in Japan reported on a mission of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Self-Defense_Force). From a base in Okinawa, the most southern island prefecture of Japan, F4 Phantom jet fighters are frequently scrambling mostly to an attempt of mock invasion by Chinese military planes.

Most Americans have never been aware that China really worked well on the Clinton Administration in 1990's to virtually get tacit admission on their expansion and reinforcement of military capacity and capability.

It is a little worrisome problem that Japan still uses F4 Phantom jet fighters for scrambling (though it has 213 F15s); however, more worrisome is a concern as to whether Mrs. Clinton's possible Administration can say "No!" to the Chinese Communist Party for their unspoken request to the U.S. for another tacit admission on their further buildup of armaments. (Does Japan however really need, Madam Minister of Defense, F22s in this context?)

It is because Marxists like Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung never respect Christian faith, no matter if the faith is genuine or rather more instrumental, since they are followers of Marxism.


(Money has value based on social and political arrangement of people. Then, if you can control the arrangement, you will be richer than those who are just trying hard to be rich following the arrangement, which is why Marxism once so much appealed to ambitious persons in troubled states.

Love has value based on God's will. Then, if you directly follow the God's will, you can be blessed more than those who are trying hard to be loved merely relying on human desire.

A wife who likes to talk about the faith is better than a wife who likes to talk about business and politics.

Mankind can manufacture a big plane or a jet fighter but cannot create a living plant from primary materials. Faith in God can be the real thrill and more dazzling than, say, even the best part of business and politics. And the rest is just what is accompanied a holy mission with.)


"...'...Isn't he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon?'..."