"Springing up into Everlasting Life"

(It took more than 900 million years for a multi cellular organism to grow to mankind, passing through an era of the fish 450 million years ago; It will take 900 months or 900 minutes for a man to see the kingdom of God.)


"Springing up into Everlasting Life"

Charity-Based Religion


(In Preparation...)

American Christianity is a kind of charity-based religion.

They contribute to charity organizations from three motivations:
Natural one
Worldly one
Spiritual one.

If an American is good-natured trying to improve environment in which he/she lives while respecting the teaching of the Holy Book, this respectable person would surely provide aid for a charity.

But, to whom or through what organization?

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Charity Rankings Giveth Less Than Meets the Eye

The Ratings of Nonprofits Are Often Uncharitable, Sometimes Failing to Credit Crucial Factors Such as Success

Call it a false sense of humanity.

It may make you feel better to know that your charitable donations are going to organizations that have been highly rated by any number of online charity rankings. But these sites fail to quantify the most-important and most elusive charity measurement: success in achieving its mission.

...



It's hard to know how much these ratings influence donors. Surveys have asked them; 92% of visitors to Charity Navigator who fill out the site's survey say their visit influenced their decision. But Prof. Rooney said that due diligence for charitable giving is "like God, Mom, and apple pie" -- things people are inclined to tell strangers they value even if they don't. Fully investigating a charity is, for many donors, "not worth the due diligence it would take."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122963299671419401.html?mod=article-outset-box
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Anyway, let's check reality of rating charity organizations:

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AMERICAN INDIAN AIP GRADE
American Indian College Fund A-

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AIP GRADE
Africa-America Institute B+
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund A–
UNCF/The College Fund A

HISPANIC AIP GRADE
Hispanic Scholarship Fund A

ASIA & ASIAN-AMERICAN AIP GRADE
Asia Foundation A
Asia Society B+
Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund A

WOMEN’S RIGHTS AIP GRADE
Catalyst A
Global Fund for Women A
Women for Women International A

CRIME & FIRE PREVENTION AIP GRADE
Prison Fellowship Ministries B

DRUG & ALCOHOL ABUSE AIP GRADE
Drug Policy Alliance B+

http://charitywatch.org/toprated.html#crime
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Apart from the theme in this section, I have now a feeling that Hispanics and women will play a major role in the coming 2012 Presidential Election of the U.S., since they look like going "A" all the way.

The agenda must be the relationship between the American Dream and the American Charity.

The general finding is that if you think you have attained your American Dream, you would like to give donations to some charity.

But, if you have been sacrificed for others' American Dream, you would like to receive help from some charity.

In my view, charity is a concept by which we measure absence of the kingdom of God.

(To be continued...)




(How can they be satisfied with such success? Parce qu'ils sont satisfaits de ces femmes.

http://www.gagirl.com/music/unchainedmelody.html )



Joh 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

"Light is Sprung Up"

"Light is Sprung Up"



(In Preparation...)


Defense Budgets Per Capita of Major Countries in 2007

Country.....Defense Budget Per Capita (US Dollars)
Israel.........1149
USA............1138
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France.........636
UK...............590
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Germany.........383
Australia.........388
Italy............383
Russia.........333
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Taiwan.........336
JAPAN.........290
South Korea.........266
North Korea.........214
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Iran............67
Egypt............41
China............37
Vietnam.........29
Indonesia.......29
Thailand.........27
Pakistan.........17
India............13


Due to the Pacifist Constitution, Japan has military forces only for self defence of the nation but not for war.

The U.K. and France are two major ex-colonial rulers.

The U.S. is currently the only global military power.

Ratios of defense budgets per capita of these three categories of nations are:
1:2:4

If you are an Asian living somewhere far from Japan, you might understand why Americans look four times more arrogant than the Japanese.

If you are an Asian living somewhere far from Japan, you might understand why the British and the French look twice more arrogant than the Japanese.

And, you may reasonably muse, "Indeed, Israel is the most natural and possible part of the U.S."

At present, I don't think I have to take into consideration the size of population of each country in trying to get the perspective of the international power relationships, since the War on Terror is in its decade-long attrition phase and Wall Street is in its decade-long subdued phase.

*** *** *** ***


(To be continued...)








Mat 4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Mat 4:12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

Mat 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

Mat 4:14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

Mat 4:15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

"The Mystery of the Kingdom of God"

(Thus two White Whales were spared...since there were greens...so young and hopeful...)



"The Mystery of the Kingdom of God"



First of all, not all the people feel and think in the same manner you do.

Somebody hates the number "4" and others hate the number "13."

Today, I saw three different cars each of which had the license plate number "1."

I mean that their license numbers were all literally "...1" but not "00-01," though you may regard it as "00-01."

For the first time in my life, I have encountered three different cars in a time interval of 10 to 30 minutes each of which has the license plate number "...1" while tens of thousands of cars are running on these streets around Tokyo...

(There is a rumor that you can buy such a lucky license number from its legal and original owner through private negotiations.

Only vehicles owned by the Japanese Self Defence Force seem to have a different and unique license number system in Japan.

My old cars had always humble license numbers as are usual for all the commodities around me, though I know what they are who are in the opposite situation...)

*** *** *** ***

Now the year 2003 is part of history, since President Mr. George W. Bush left the office some time ago.

TIME Magazine's Asian Heroes Collection of 2003:
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Satoshi Fukushima
Sightless Visionary
By Jim Frederick/Tokyo

Satoshi Fukushima was not born into a world of darkness and silence—it closed in on him slowly.
...
Fukushima says he has one major goal to accomplish: he wants to establish the Japanese equivalent of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, a pioneering educational, research, vocational and rehabilitation center for the deaf-blind in America.


Ryuichi Sakamoto
Good deeds on the cutting edge
By Jim Frederick

At a recording studio in Tokyo's forever-young Shibuya district, Ryuichi Sakamoto pushes up the sleeves of his rust-color sweater and leans back in his chair.
...
"I'd love to play a concert among a sea of windmills which are powering the concert itself. That," he says, grinning broadly, "would be beautiful.


Hideki Matsui
Godzilla Vs. the Americans
By Robert Whiting

It was finally time to face the cameras. Baseball slugger Hideki Matsui looked at the heaving battery of reporters in the banquet room of Tokyo's plush Imperial Hotel and cleared his throat.
...
"It was a valuable lesson for me," he said. "From that day on, I resolved never to lose control of my emotions in a game again."


http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/
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To tell the truth, Japanese heroes in 2003 were Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi and five Japanese citizens who had been abducted by North Korean agents in 1970's but were allowed to return to Japan late in 2002 through diplomatic efforts by Mr. Koizumi and Mr. Shinzo Abe, then Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary.

*** *** *** ***


Since 2003, the American defence industry took advantage of a boom. Incredible business chances must have been offered to them with the launch of the Iraqi War. Accordingly, rich men, very rich men, and super rich men in the industry got further richer. And, who would do a number on them as they were waging Stars and Stripes?

Yet, your concern must be whether they could comment intelligently on Mr. Barack Obama's startling accession to the U.S. Presidency, since the War in Iraqi served as a precursor for Mr. Obama's presidency.

And, of course, the decisive factor for realization of President Mr. Obama is that fall of Wall Street in September 2008.

In short, the realization of the first half-African/half-European American president owed to the Iraqi War since 2003 and the fall of Wall Street since 2008.

But, which is more significant in history: the first half-African/half-European American president or the combined American crisis of the War on Terror and the fall of Wall Street?

Anyway, there are three historic incidents already in the 21st century: the War on Terror; the Fall of Wall Street; and President Mr. Barack Hussein Obama.

But, the main concern of EEE Reporter is the Vatican, 100km from which a great earthquake occurred recently.

It is so, since complete change in religion of the Vatican would have an influence on the world graver than the combined effect of the War on Terror, the Fall of Wall Street, and President Mr. Barack Hussein Obama.

I think it can be the only incident for mankind where one might be able to have a glimpse of, say, the kingdom of God, so long told and interpreted all in vain to comprehend it.



C'est tout pour aujourd'hui, mon cher ami.



(If someone stopped me, why not am I allowed to draw the evil-destroying sword against this villain, since I am dreaming of a voyage on golden and silver waves of an ocean while drinking under sakura cherry blossom trees in the high garden of the First High School of the Empire of Japan, sang Imperial students of Japan once but a century ago...

Donc, je vais boire sous cerisiers en fleurs lorsque les ennemis sont 100 kilomètres loin.

http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/ryoka/d1higashi.html)





Mar 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

Mar 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

"In Right Paths"

(Japan in Spring)


"In Right Paths"


(In Preparation...)


Rich men, very rich men, and super rich men never study history in earnest.

Rich men, very rich men, and super rich men never follow teaching of religion.

It is because history and religion tell them to abandon their wealth and power.

Moreover, they think they do not need history or religion to enjoy their life.

But, what is worse is that they encourage young people to follow them, neglecting history and religion so as to be rich, very rich, and super rich.

Now, the state of history in the early 21st century is as follows, since we have to study history to follow teachings of the God.

The state of Japan in the early 21st century is expressed in the article below:

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REFILING: Japan's 2007 net external assets hit record 250 tril. yen+

TOKYO, May 23 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: FIXING TYPO IN 1ST GRAF)
Active securities investment overseas by Japanese investors outpaced nonresidents' investment in Japanese markets in 2007, prompting the balance of Japan's net external assets to hit yet another record high of 250.22 trillion yen at the end of the year, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
....
After Japan, Germany ranked second with net external assets worth 107.57 trillion yen as of Dec. 31, 2007. It was followed by China, Hong Kong and Switzerland, with figures for all three based on data as of the end of 2006.

China's holding more than doubled in 2006 to 78.75 trillion yen at the end of the year. The United States was the world's largest debtor as of the end of 2006 with 302.09 trillion yen worth of net external debts.

The balance of net external assets is calculated by subtracting the total amount of loans, direct investment and other forms of investment in Japan by nonresident investors from those made overseas by Japanese public and private sectors as well as individuals.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90R0QP85&show_article=1&lst=1
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The state of the world in the early 21st century is shown in the figure below:



Among those major financial powers in the world, only Japan is unique in that its economic success is based on its unique civilization that can stand against the European civilization.

The U.S. is just on extension of the European civilization; Brazil is on extension of the European civilization; India's modern infrastructures were built under the British colonization; and Chinese social systems and governmental functions are based on the European philosophy, though from the beginning modern Chinese are materialistic.

That is why politicians, economists, journalists, and pundits in the world often sense something difficult to understand in the Japanese success; and thus they hate it rather than respect it.

In other word, Japanese rich men belong to the Japanese civilization; but rich men in the world usually belong to the paradigm of the European Civilization.

Accordingly, I once declared that mankind has only two types of its members: Japanese and the rest of mankind.

If you cannot accept it, observe carefully rich men, very rich men, and super rich men in the world. The more you check them, the more they look like each other.

Indeed, Japanese spiritualism makes the Japanese people oriented to being poor, no matter how large wealth the nation Japan has.

Truly, Jesus Christ said that people are divided into the poor and the rich.



(To be continued...)




(La bonne réalisation, plutôt que de faire un bon travail cette semaine!

http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/beatles/_050888/HereComesTheSun.mid

Source: http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/beatles/AbbeyRoad.html)



Pro 4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Pro 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Pro 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

"Living Water"

(Spring Evening and Dusk around Tokyo; Flowers, Birds, Wind, and the Moon...)



"Living Water"


Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso is said to have been raised in a house where a butler took care of him.

But, I would only hire myself in case, if I have to one.

So, you must not misunderstand me, if you think I could hurl a very big shoe to Wall Street over the Pacific Ocean at any time, whenever Allah so wishes.


(In Preparation...)



So then, folks, say, in New Orleans, what's going on in Asia now so godlessly?

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Kabul reviews controversial law on women's rights
Tuesday 07 April 2009

After a flood of criticism by Western governments, Afghanistan plans to review a law recently approved by President Hamid Karzai accused of violating the rights of Shiite minority women. The law notably includes legalising marital rape.


Two Tibetan protestors sentenced to death
Wednesday 08 April 2009

Two Tibetans were sentenced to death for their part in the 2008 Lhasa riots, Chinese media reported. According to the Chinese-appointed court, the two rioters were responsible for the death of 21 people.

Pyongyang vows 'strong steps' if censured by UN
Wednesday 08 April 2009

A North Korean diplomat has warned that Pyongyang would react strongly to any action from the UN Security Council over its long-range rocket launch, saying any censure would "infringe upon the sovereignty of our country".


Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 02:20

Captain held as US crew battles Somali pirates


http://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific
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Europeans and European Americans must have a sense of superiority in viewing these deplorable situations in Asia.

But, they cannot have such superiority to one Asian nation: Japan.

...Country....No. of Nobel Prize Winners....
1...USA...............305
2...UK................106
3...Germany..........80
4...France.............54
5...Sweden.............30
6...Switzerland........22
7...Russia(USSR).....19
8...JAPAN............16
9...Holland..............15
10..Italy................14
...
16..Israel..............8
...
23..India...............4
23..Egypt...............4
...
27..China.............2


Now you must know why their attitudes toward Japan and China in the G20 London Conference were so wrong and shameful.

(To be continued...)



(Qui ressemble à une femme de Samarie, même si vous n'avez jamais, depuis que je suis? Indeed, the earth is a planet of water as I once studied water molecules in this blog to praise God the Creator. Do you remember it?

http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/L%92amour%20c%92est%20comme%20la%20mer%20(Andr%E9%20Clavier).kar.mid

Source:http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/abc.htm)



Joh 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

Joh 4:8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

Joh 4:9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

"Him Only Shalt Thou Serve"

(Mt. Fuji, Shinto shrines, sakura flowers and good-natured people are what is highly respected in Japan.)


"Him Only Shalt Thou Serve"

(Alexander the Great and American Dream)



(In Preparation...)


President Mr. Barack Obama in Baghdad, Iraq, itself is telling a change in a mood of the world.

However, what will come after the end of this global financial crisis might be the then-forgotten War on Terror.

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Updated 3/16/2009 11:18 PM | Comments 1,411

Poll: More view Afghan war as 'mistake'

By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — American support for the war in Afghanistan has ebbed to a new low, as attacks on U.S. troops and their allies have hit record levels and commanders are pleading for reinforcements, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.

In the poll taken Saturday and Sunday, 42% of respondents said the United States made "a mistake" in sending military forces to Afghanistan, up from 30% in February.

That's the highest mark since the poll first asked the question in November 2001 when the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban government that sheltered al-Qaeda terrorists responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks.

In January 2002, 6% of respondents called the war "a mistake."
....


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-16-poll_N.htm
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Yet, as Alexander the Great was stopped at Afghanistan 320 B.C. or so, the American Glory is to be stopped in the Afghan War in the 21st century.

And, as Alexander the Great lost his life in Baghdad 2300 years ago, the American Glory might be truly put an end to through its military involvement in Mesopotamia in the early 21st century.

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Obama, who opposed the invasion of Iraq ordered by his predecessor George W. Bush, has used his debut overseas tour to reach out to the Islamic world and attempt to restore America's battered image abroad.

Ending the war which sparked an insurgency that cost thousands of lives would mark a new era of US diplomacy including "principled and sustained engagement" with Iraq's neighbours Iran and Syria, Obama has said.

Bush was the last US president to visit Iraq in a trip overshadowed by a local journalist who hurled his shoes at him.

Iraqi TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi gained global fame and was seen as hero in much of the Arab world for his farewell gesture to a deeply unpopular president.

He was jailed last month for three years by a Baghdad court, but the sentence was cut on Tuesday to one year by an appeals tribunal.

http://www.france24.com/en/20090408-obama-says-iraq-faces-critical-18-months
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No matter how humble the act was, it was a kind of terror.

If you hurl anything, such as a shoe bomb or a plain shoe, to a man unarmed, no matter how high his rank is in military establishment, it cannot be an act of a brave man.

Accordingly, I do not regard it as an act of heroism.

Nonetheless, I am not against the court decision to shorten the term of imprisonment for the culprit.


(To be continued...)





(Vous êtes censé servir uniquement à Dieu, même quand un tremblement de terre se produit, car Dieu est mon Seigneur.

http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/latin/sanstoimamie.html )




Luk 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Luk 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

Luk 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

Luk 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

"The Lord Thy God"

"The Lord Thy God"


(In Preparation...)


The Lord God said to me that there would be a miracle in the sky and wonders on the ground.

Indeed, North Korea failed in its relaese of an artificial satellite to a space orbit by the Taepodong-2 missile rocket on Sunday.

Truly, a great earthquake hit a city some 100km far from Rome, Italy, on Monday, taking 150 and more lives and destroying tens of thousands of houses.

http://www.france24.com/en/20090406-rescue-operations-toll-rises-italy-earthquake

In other word, North Korea has failed in posing a threat to Japan and the U.S.; Mt. Fuji, a great live volcao, 100km far from Tokyo still stands still.

*** *** *** ***

There is an American report book that seems to have heavily contributed to realization of the first-dark-skinned President of the United States of America:

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. During a literary lunch with one of her editors, distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich was persuaded to join them and find out how an incredible 30 per cent of the population manage to survive on eight dollars an hour or less (answer: they do two jobs). With a start-up fund of a thousand dollars (more than most of these wage slaves can hope to save in a lifetime) she left her home in Florida and her partner behind her, took the cheapest lodgings she could find and accepted the first job she was offered (waitressing). For the next two years she worked her way around the US, in a succession of dead-end jobs - cleaning, care work, folding clothes at Wal-Mart. She lived, like her colleagues, in trailers and dingy motel rooms (few can afford the deposit and first month's rent on a decent apartment). The world she inhabited was governed by insane, Kafkaesque rules familiar to anyone who's ever held down a casual job - no 'comfort breaks'; no minimum wage for waitresses, because of the tips they (theoretically) receive; humiliating drug tests that exclude the most counter-productive drug of all (alcohol); personality tests designed - in the most transparent fashion - to sort the troublemakers from the team players. Of course, Ehrenreich had a get-out clause which she could invoke at any time, and she resolutely refuses to feel sorry for herself. She also knows that few of her co-workers have that luxury. They are the foot soldiers of the American Dream - understaffed, underpaid and underfed. Determined to remain detached, Ehrenreich still cares. Her reportage is tough and committed. It is also laugh-out-loud funny. A New York Times bestseller, the book carries a typically passionate introduction from Polly Toynbee. Don't buy from Wal-Mart. Buy this book instead. (Kirkus UK) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/0805088385
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The most important reminder must be that President Mr. Barack Obama has never been a native hero in the domain of American poverty at all.



(To be continued...)




(http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~har-snow/addio_napoli.mid

Source: http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~har-snow/music.htm)




Mat 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

Mat 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Mat 4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

"An Offering unto the LORD"

(Last evening I saw miracles in the sky. Several jets were unusually crossing the dusk sky, as if racing. Then I heard a news report that North Korea failed in delivering the satellite from its missile rocket over the Pacific Ocean... )



"An Offering unto the LORD"

(North Korea Failed in Satellite Release)


(In Preparation...)


"North Korea failed in its highly vaunted effort to fire a satellite into orbit, military and private experts said Sunday after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload fell into the sea. Some said the failure undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary able to hurl deadly warheads halfway around the globe."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/asia/06korea.html?_r=2&hp


North Korea failed, since there is a reason for its failure.

The despotic nation has a radar capability that can only cover a 1,000km range, while depending on technical reports from Japan and the U.S. in tracking its long-range missile rocket, according to a military source of South Korea.

North Korea failed, since it has not released Japanese citizens abducted by them.

*** *** *** ***

In the G20 Economic Summit in London, they must have discussed a special measure to force rich people in the U.S. and the U.K. to buy evacuated homes due to subprime loan payment default.

It is very controversial for any government to force any rich citizens to buy any specific goods as a duty. However, in light of the scale of the financial crisis for which the U.S. and the U.K. are very responsible, they have to enforce such a measure so as to vitalize economy.

If the U.S. government order 10 million rich people to buy houses under foreclosure proceedings, credit supply to poor citizens can be improved and expanded. It will help economy get back on the track.

Even in the 1929 Great Depression, the U.S. Government should have ordered rich citizens to purchase something real, commercial, industrial, and international and invest in the Empire of Japan and other countries. Such ultimate enforcement must have really saved the world in 1930's and 1940's.

(To be continued...)




Gen 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

Gen 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

Gen 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Gen 4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

JAPAN vs North Korea's Missile Rocket

JAPAN vs North Korea's Missile Rocket

North Korea plans to launch a satellite with a missile rocket sometime between April 4 and April 8.


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For this reason Japan's UN ambassador, Yukio Takasu, yesterday requested an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss possible sanctions against Pyongyang saying that the launch violates UN resolutions that ban further ballistic missile tests.

But China, North Korea’s main ally, is almost certain to veto new sanctions.

For their part the United States, Japan and South Korea have threatened to intercept the missile if it flies over their territory.


http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14908&geo=27&size=A
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Japan plans not to intercept the missile rocket if it flies over its territory without a threat to Japan as planned by North Korea.

But, Japan is ready to intercept the missile rocket only if it should get out of the planned orbit and fall onto the Japan's territory by accident.



(Maybe to be continued...)


One hour after I wrote the above portion of today's special posting, North Korea actually fired its missile rocket to launch the so-called 2nd artificial satellite for North Korea since 1998.

One hour before now, namely 11:30 of Sunday in Japan, as I am writing this around 12:30, North Korea launched the Taepodong-2 missile rocket which flew over the Japanese territory without a trouble; but the final success of its space mission is yet to know.

(Maybe to be further continued...)

If North Korea would not come into negotiations for peace with Japan, especially, to address the freedom of a hundred or so Japanese citizens having been abducted by North Korean secret agents having been acting on mainland Japan since the Korean War, its success of launching a ballistic-missile-type rocket, which can reach Washington D.C., shall not be respected by the World.

Iran must not purchase such rockets from North Korea.

"Thee Things Which Must be Hereafter"

"Thee Things Which Must be Hereafter"



A few years ago, Nippon Television Network Corporation, a major Japanese TV broadcasting station, conducted a popularity poll that resulted in the following ranking of historical characters:

No.1....Oda Nobunaga
(a 16th century warlord of Japan)
No.2....Sakamoto Ryoma
(the last hero of the samurai era in the 19th century of Japan)
No.3....Thomas Edison
(an American inventor)
No.4....Toyotomi Hideyoshi
(a 16th century virtual king of Japan)
No.5....Konosuke Matsushita
(the founder of Panasonic of Japan)
No.6....Tokugawa Ieyasu
(the first shogun of the last samurai dynasty of Japan)
No.7....Hideyo Noguchi
(a Japanese medical scientist)
No.8....Mother Teresa
(a Catholic nun having helped the poor in India)
No.9....Helen Keller
(an American handicapped heroine)
No.10....Hijikata Saizo
(a samurai hero at the end of the Tokugawa samurai regime)

(http://www.pag1u.net/hajime/ijin_ranking.html)

It is a surprise that five of the top 10 heroes are samurais. Two Americans are also highly respected by Japanese TV audiences. While only one Japanese successful businessman is ranked in the top 10 list, three humanitarian-field heroes are highly appraised.

For reference, Cleopatra is No.70; Princess Diana No.12; and Jeanne d'Arc No.83.

But, who and what is Oda Nobunaga?

("Oda" is his surname and "Nobunaga" is his first name. But, a name of a historical figure of Japan is expressed in a Japanese manner: a surname first and a first name next.)

Put simply he is the leading samurai or bushi of the age of bloody provincial wars in Japan from the middle of the 15th century to the late 16th century.

Owing to Nobunaga's bloody success, Hideyoshi could put whole Japan under his control to be a virtual king of Japan. And, owing to Nobunaga's bloody success, Ieyasu could succeed Hideyoshi through fierce civil wars to set the foundation of the last samurai dynasty that lasted from the early 16th century to the late 19th century.

However, Nobunaga owes his success to Western products. He was the first Japanese samurai lord that adopted matchlock guns or harquebuses in a large scale in real battle fields. Nobunaga was also known as a great protector of Catholic missionaries from the Vatican to accept them into his territory, while fighting fierce battles against some Buddhist-sect insurgents. He also promoted importation of Western goods useful for his venture to dominate the whole country with arms and soldiers.

No matter how bloody his success was, Nobunaga acted and behaved like a real hero. He truly looked like having a new paradigm at least in the art of war. He is the No.1 iconoclast in the Japanese history, though he had commonsense enough, for example, to respect support of a samurai's faithful wife.

Yet, put simply he is the leading samurai or bushi of the age of bloody provincial wars in Japan from the middle of the 15th century to the late 16th century.

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The G20 Economic Summit in London was over. Some people are now talking and telling that the era of G2 of USA and China has come.

From the beginning, this economic crisis was triggered in New York and London while China was not cooperating with Japan for global financial stability. Every underlying condition of the G20 Summit does not justify its venue and attitudes toward China.

Finally, let's check the trend of direct investment from Japan to China in the past two decades:


(Source: http://www.fsa.go.jp/frtc/nenpou/2006a/04.pdf
Arranged by EEE Reporter)

And it is all for today.

C'est tout pour aujourd'hui.



(http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~har-snow/Reve_Angerique.mid

Source:http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~har-snow/music.htm)



Rev 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

Rev 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

Rev 4:3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

Rev 4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

"Go through Samaria"

(A naval gun used by the Imperial Navy of Japan in WWII)


"Go Through Samaria"

(For Whom It is to be Fired?)


In the summer of 2001, Japan launched a new large-size rocket named H-IIA.

http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/h2a/index_e.html

After eight years of successuful operation of the H-IIA, a new version of H-II, called H-IIB, is now under development in Japan. It will have a capability to launch 16.5 tons of cargoes to the orbit 300km above the ground.

The H-IIB is expected to be first launched during 2009.

Comparison of Large Rockets of the World:
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Country.......Type..........Height...Payload
Russia.........Proton-K........57m........19.8t
Europe..........Ariane-5G......54m........18.0t
USA.............Atlas5-401.....58m........12.5t
JAPAN.........H-IIA........53m......10.0t
China...........Long March.....62m........8.4t
USA.............Delta-4M.......63m........8.1t
Russia..........Soyuz-U........55m........6.9t

(http://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/tyousakai/cosmo/haihu20/siryo20-1.pdf )
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The basic paradigm for the 21st century economy must probably be created around the space-scale of the future view of mankind.

Yet, we had better check the present state of the space industry today:

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San Diego, California – June 11, 2008 – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) today released its 2008 State of the Satellite Industry Report, showing a 16 percent growth in global revenues for the commercial satellite industry. Worldwide revenues in 2007 were $123 billion, representing an average annual growth of 11.5 percent for the period from 2002-2007...


Satellite services revenues continued to drive the overall industry, with a 60 percent total share of industry revenues. Detailed findings of the report indicate that:
- Satellite services revenues grew more than 18 percent, with satellite television contributing nearly three-quarters of the $73.9 billion in 2007 satellite services revenues.

- Launch services revenue grew to $3.2 billion in 2007, increasing nearly 19 percent from 2006.

- Strong sales in consumer hardware resulted in a 19 percent rise in ground equipment revenues over the previous year, posting 2007 revenues of $34.3 billion.

- More satellites were launched in 2007 than in 2006, but satellite manufacturing revenues dipped slightly from $11.6 billion, reflecting a higher number of microsatellites launched.


http://www.sia.org/SIAIssues2008StateofSatelliteIndustry_6-11-08_FINAL%20_2_.pdf
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What inhibits deployment of mankind in the outer space is not technology.

It is a level of humanity of mankind.

With such greed and malevolence in addition to disregard of the poor and the weak, which are often observed among successful Americans, Europeans, and Chinese, mankind must not be allowed to advance to the universe.

Yet, technically, mankind needs an economic paradigm of the 21st century with a greater view on the earth and its future, namely in the scale of the whole planet.

In this context, a frontier spirit toward the space is more acceptable than a greedy spirit being embodied on the subprime loan-based money making on Wall Street.

If you without enough love to your enemies don't discover how much tainted or crooked your mind gets when looking up at the blue sky in the spring, your spirit might not be sound and righteous at all.

Anyway, the future is for young people; and I suppose they love the space.

Let an old paradigm pass, since a cannon can deliver the dirge of the end of an era.

It is so, since I don't care sometimes whether it is fired or even not.


(Quel est le temps et l'espace, tout comme l'argent et le confort sans la foi et l'amour, mon ami? Yet, the fearful God sometimes directly commands time and space surrounding your existence and life. Have at least a natural fear of God, if He is so benevolent to mankind...

http://www.geocities.com/neil2bn/telstar-theventures.mid

Source: http://www.geocities.com/neil2bn/thesixties.htm)



Joh 4:1 When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

Joh 4:2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

Joh 4:3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

Joh 4:4 And he must needs go through Samaria.

"But By Every Word "

"But By Every Word"

(Farewell to Wealth and Abominable Dream)


I don't know who the Japanese is, though he sporadically writes blog messages from Wall Street, New York.

(http://wallstny.exblog.jp/)

Therein he has introduced a letter an AIG employee wrote to his boss, by quoting an article of The New York Times.

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DEAR Mr. Liddy,
It is with deep regret that I submit my notice of resignation from A.I.G. Financial Products. I hope you take the time to read this entire letter….

You and I have never met or spoken to each other, so I’d like to tell you about myself. I was raised by schoolteachers working multiple jobs in a world of closing steel mills. My hard work earned me acceptance to M.I.T., and the institute’s generous financial aid enabled me to attend. I had fulfilled my American dream...

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At this part, I thought that I found that mentality of such an elite employee was one of the reasons for the AIG's debacle.

You should not use such words as "M.I.T." or "American dream" while you write something to appeal to very poor people in the world.

Anyway, let's continue to check it.

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That is why I have decided to donate 100 percent of the effective after-tax proceeds of my retention payment directly to organizations that are helping people who are suffering from the global downturn. This is not a tax-deduction gimmick; I simply believe that I at least deserve to dictate how my earnings are spent, and do not want to see them disappear back into the obscurity of A.I.G.’s or the federal government’s budget. Our earnings have caused such a distraction for so many from the more pressing issues our country faces, and I would like to see my share of it benefit those truly in need….

On March 16 I received a payment from A.I.G. amounting to $742,006.40, after taxes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&th&emc=th
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It is enough. It is still a long way for this American to become a true hero in the world where "MIT," "Wall Street," and "American Dream" never earn respect.

But, if a young bureaucrat of the Japanese Government repents in his way of professional life and starts to work in NGO or something like that to help poor people, say, in Iraq, Afghanistan, or a Caribbean country, he would actually give up a life-time benefit of hundreds of millions of yen or millions of dollars.

All an ex-AIG employee should say is "This is not a right thing for an American Christian to do! The AIG business is not righteous business."

Indeed, life insurance must not be provided on a business base. Capitalism invaded this forbidden sector by mistake a very long time ago. From the beginning, AIG and the like are wrong companies.

*** *** *** ***

This evening Ms. Hiroko Kuniya, a veteran Japanese female TV presenter, addressed a state of learning English in Japanese business communities.

In Japan, you can be as rich as those rich Asians and Africans who speak English and French very fluently, even if you cannot speak English at all, since Japan itself is one independent and affluent civilization.

So, basically there is no incentive for Japanese people to learn how to speak English fluently, since in Japan you can be as rich as those rich Americans who speak English very fluently, even if you cannot speak English at all, since Japan itself is one independent and affluent civilization.

Yet, I sometimes marvel at the ability some non-natural-bilingual Japanese experts exhibit in understanding what American counterparts say; One example might be Mr. Heizo Takenaka, a notable economist and ex-state minister of Japan.

But, if they can discuss all the agendas in Japanese in the Davos Conference and the G20 Summit Meeting, those sessions would be more fruitful, in my judgment, since the modern Japanese language completely covers both all the Asian concepts and all the European concepts in its representation space and expression feeling.




(Comment pouvez-vous entendre tous les mots de Dieu, tout en étant tentée par un fond mélodie? That is why not all the girls are allowed to enter Heaven...　

http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/latin/hohonikakarunamida.html)




Mat 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Mat 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Mat 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

"Some Thirty, and Some Sixty, and Some An Hundred"

"Some Thirty, and Some Sixty, and Some An Hundred"

(Good for G.M., Good for Toyota)


From April 1, fiscal 2009 has started in Japan.

Students start to go to new schools and graduates start to work in companies.

Even in TV stations, new programs start and some old ones are terminated. Or some TV personalities are replaced by new ones. Yet, Ms. Hiroko Kuniya is now making her appearance as usual on a notable NHK's TV program, reporting Japanese high-tech industry's strategies.

As NHK is a public broadcasting corporation supported by a Japanese national budget, only sophisticated and decent personalities are allowed to announce news, moderate a discussion program, interview VIPs and ordinary people, or presenting any such a program on NHK channels. Remarkably, in these decades, no one has been able to replace Ms. Kuniya, though nowadays bilingual newscasters and candidates are many around the Japanese TV broadcasting industry.

When she was studying in a university in the U.S. in late 1970's, G.M. must have been so overwhelmingly shining on American streets even in the post-Vietnam era, since Japanese youths then felt so lucky and rapturous to see a Cadillac though such an encounter was rare on a Japanese city road. And, she must not have wished to work in Toyota, a Japanese auto maker which was then not the number one company in Japan for students who were to graduate from schools soon.

And, if a prophet had told her then that G.M. would face real bankruptcy while there would be 300 million consumers in the U.S. 30 years after, she would not have even taken it serious and must have forgotten it instantly.

It was late 1980's when I first saw Mr. Kuniya on TV, but I could not foresee that she would still make a TV appearance for 30 minutes every evening 20 years after, though I felt in those days that she had a hard core in her clean-cut integrity, alienating me from a TV somehow.

Anyway, there is a reason why the U.S. automobile super-manufacturer has to face bankruptcy in the early 21st century.

The key is of course integrity of an entity.

The unbridgeable gap between the management in its headquarters and workforces in its plants must be harming and distorting the G.M.'s integrity for so long.

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Why Toyota Can Finally Take Over the U.S. Car Market

By 24/7 Wall St. Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009

...
Toyota's (TM) share of the U.S. light vehicle market is 18% and Honda's (HMC) is 10%. GM's (GM) share of its home market is about 22%. Fifty-five years ago, the No.1 U.S. car company had 54% of the U.S. market. By this time next year, GM's piece of the American car pie could drop another 50%, bringing it closer to Honda's.
...
Toyota has played a long waiting game. It played well. It made better cars than U.S. companies. It kept labor costs low. It built a reputation for durable and dependable products. The Japanese car company is being hurt by the global car sales downturn, but it never had the labor cost or corporate debt problems that plagued GM. It has the balance sheet to make it through the crisis. Maybe Toyota has been lucky for decades or maybe Toyota was just smart.
...
Whether it is due to wits or good fortune, Toyota will become the No.1 car company in the U.S. sometime in the next year, and an American car operation will never hold that position again.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1888571,00.html
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Toyota has been neither simply lucky nor just smart; the Japanese car maker has been just cautious. In other word, they mind fully psychology of American consumers: how much they are proud of GM or how much they are cool to G.M. Accordingly, it is more a matter of G.M. than of Toyota.

What's more, the U.S. media have not realized how much American consumers respect Japan in these decades.

*** *** *** ***

Twenty years later, Toyota may face real bankruptcy.

You might be reporting it, say, from ABC or CNN.

In addition, you must now know how important integrity is, since it is good for G.M. and Toyota if not so clean-cut.



(L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur. It is so since love is originally not from money.

http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/L%27argent%20ne%20fait%20pas%20le%20bonheur%20(Les%20Parisiennes).kar.mid

Source: http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/)



Mar 4:1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

Mar 4:2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,

Mar 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

Mar 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

Mar 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Mar 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

Mar 4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

Mar 4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"His Secret is with the Righteous"

"His Secret is with the Righteous"

(Evil Flow of Money?)


Traditionally, it is said in Japan that there are two things too much for Japan: Mt. Fuji and Sakura cherry blossoms, though they are the symbols of the Japanese spiritualism impossible to replace.

Today, there are two things too much for America: the California Poppy and the Rocky Mountains, or the Rose and the Mississippi.
(http://www.growerflowers.com/SENation.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_flowers )



SECTION I: Abolish BIS Requirements!

Mr. Yoshimi Suzuki, a very veteran Japanese economist, claimed that it is BIS regulations that should be blamed and corrected.

He argued that the capital adequacy requirements the BIS has imposed on banks worldwide with an aim for BIS bureaucrats to control the global financial sector is one of the major underlying factors that have invited this financial crisis.

The BIS requirements have not returned banks and other financial institutions to healthy conditions, but they have amplified economic fluctuation, leading to the bubble.

According to his claim, the BIS requirements must be abolished, since the definition of equity capital or capital owned by an individual bank is very groundless.

(http://www.suzuki.org/)

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

International standards are of course needed to allow any bank of any country to join the respectable and honorable international financial sector.

But, as the international financial sector is now found not to be respectable and honorable at all, those standards and requirements must be abolished.

Now this time, not Anglo-Saxon countries but Japan must be in charge of drafting new standards and requirements to apply to any bank of any country wishing to join the international financial sector no matter how many dangerous and evil players are there.



SECTION II: A BIS REPORT

Any serious economic issue must be argued and analyzed at least in a time span of a decade.

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BIS Working Papers
No 244
Global monitoring with the BIS international banking statistics

...



ASIA OSC = Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Singapore; ASIA PAC = China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Taiwan (China) and Thailand; CARIB = Aruba, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles and Panama; CH = Switzerland; EM EUROPE = Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine; EURO = euro area countries; JP = Japan; LAT = Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru; OIL = OPEC member states (excluding Indonesia) plus Russia; OTHER = Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand,
Norway and Sweden; UK = the United Kingdom plus the offshore centres Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Jersey; US = the United States.

1 The thickness of an arrow is proportional to the amount of cumulative net bank flows between regions. Net flows between regions A and B equal the sum of: (1) net claims (assets minus liabilities) of banks in A on non-banks in B; (2) net claims of banks in B on non-banks in A; and (3) net interbank flows between A and B. Some regions include countries which do not report data. The thickness of the arrows is scaled by the overall flows cumulated over the respective period, and thus is not directly comparable across panels. In contrast to Figure 4, the size of the circles has no significance.
Source: BIS.


…
Figure 5 presents the net flow of capital channelled through banks, cumulated over two periods (1990–97 and 1998–2006). This allows for a comparison of the net flow of funds through banks before and after the Asian financial crisis. Each arrow in Figure 5 provides two pieces of information: the direction of net capital flows between two given regions and the relative size of these flows (indicated by its thickness).

Between 1990 and 1997, the United States and emerging Asia-Pacific stood out as the main net borrowers on the international banking market, whereas Japan was the main provider of funds (Figure 5, top panel). In line with the renewed growth of its current account deficits over this period, the United States experienced a net inflow of $433 billion via the banking market. Roughly 85% of this was provided by Japanese and UK residents. At the same time, residents of Japan and the countries that now comprise the euro area jointly exported $195 billion to Asian offshore centres and emerging Asia-Pacific, accounting for 74% of the overall net banking flows into these economies....

http://www.bis.org/publ/work244.pdf?noframes=1
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On Wall Street, they have been simply too proud in these two decades borrowing such a huge amount of money from Japan, which actually is proven to be an act of fools nowadays, though some of them still look so proud or rather evil on Wall Street.

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Jesus Christ kindly taught us not to pull out weeds in haste.

It is so, since wheat and other valuable plants might be harmed by such a hasty operation.

So, we have to let them grow together until the harvest time.

However, it is all for protecting valuable plants such as sakura, the rose, or the California Poppy.

In addition, it is the fleur de lis (iris) in the case of France.



(Si le ciel est bleu le jour, à régler pour lui si le voyage dans ce monde.

http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/c%27est%20l%27amour%20(Edith%20Piaf).kar.mid

Source: http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/)



Pro 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Pro 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

"From Heaven is above All"

"From Heaven is above All"



I was tired of practicing mediation.

So, I opened up my eyes to instinctively look out of the window of a Shinkansen train.

Then I instantly saw Mt. Fuji 20km or 13 miles far surrounded by the unique and overwhelming terrain.

It was snow-capped and gigantically occupying the space out of the window against the blue sky.

Its wide broad base facing the Pacific Ocean over the super-express railroads could be also fully observed, though a little skew.

As I had no camera, I could only let the scenery slowly moving behind against the 200km/h train.

And I realized that I had not even thought I might have been able to watch Mt. Fuji today while being carried out toward Tokyo along the Pacific Coastline.

I was thus greeted today by an Angel, in my interpretation.

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Top Four Volcanic Countries:
No.1 USA
No.2 Russia
No.3 Indonesia
No.4 Japan

Japan has the most volcanoes in terms of the number of volcanoes divided by the area of national land.

Top Three Geo-Thermal Generation Countries:
No.1 Indonesia 27,791 MWe with 150 live volcanoes
No.2 USA 23,000 MWe with 133 live volcanoes
No.3 Japan 20,540 MWe with 100 live volcanoes

(MWe = Megawatt electrical
Source: http://www.meti.go.jp/committee/materials2/downloadfiles/g81201a05j.pdf)

If a volcano erupted once in 10,000 years, it is classified into a live volcano.

An average life-span of a volcano is one million years.

Yet, Mt. Fuji is jut 100,000 years old.

To your surprise, Mt. Fuji is very young.

(But, have you ever seen a one-million-year-old volcano?)

Yet, it was in 1707 that Mt.Fuji erupted most recently.



Joh 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

Joh 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

"To Sunny

...................................AL The AL

I will be back on Monday night

Since I'm gonna get a ticket to ride."





Mar 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.