"The Leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Leaven of Herod"

(Around the Tokyo Bay)


Rice and Samurai


When I was a student I happened to have a decent friend who happened to bring up an idea to spend a few days in an island in the south of the Tokyo Bay or just in a humble part of the Pacific Ocean.

We went there on board a ship full of young people and families going to spend their summer holidays on the island well known as a suitable spot for surfing.

I could not remember what I specifically did and what my friend specifically did on the island. He was not a type of guy who would frankly speak to a young woman in a tourist site or get absorbed in surfing or marine sports, since he was an elite student (the fact of which had to be, or was had better have, hidden in most of communications with strangers in those days).

Besides, in a next room of a Japanese-style tourist home we lodged in, a family of a young couple and a little child took up their quarters. They looked like having narrowly secured their summer holidays while working hard as humble and poor members of the laboring class in the Japanese society.

So, I think I was spending my own time there, riding on a rental bicycle, moving around, watching the nature and people.

Then at one point, I walked on white sands from a beach to a forest to find a small shinto shrine in it. With a white bright noon sun ahead, on the ground still covered with white shining beach sands, and surrounded by lively but tranquil green grass and tree leaves (though not of palm trees), there was a humble wooden shrine.

I really felt a very peaceful feeling there, standing and facing the old small shrine in the shade of summer greens on the white sands of an island south of Tokyo.

This is one of my memory about a serene summer vacation of decades ago.

It is so, since today is reportedly the peak of summer-holiday traffic jams in Japan, while the God has shown His displeasure to pleasure-seeking Japanese travellers over the Tokaido traffic line, the main part of Japan's transportation and industrial networks, by allowing for the occurrence of an earthquake of intensity 6 lower to shut down part of the expressway connecting Tokyo to western Japan.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_11.html



SECTION I: Samurai Economy

The Edo Period or the Tokugawa Period (1603-1867) of Japan is an era when the strongest samurai clan, the Tokugawas, governed whole Japan from the capital Edo, presently Tokyo.

The economy of the Edo Period was based on a rice standard system in addition to money economy.

Farmers paid taxes with rice. A samurai lord and his family members and subjects lived on the rice, but they could also earn money by selling redundant rice in market. With the money earned this way, a samurai lord and his family members and subjects could buy commodities, goods, and products and services from market or craftsmen and merchants living in towns and streets build around a big castle where a samurai lord lived.

The Tokugawa government (led by "Shogun") and samurai lords (called "Daimyo") all over Japan sold their rice mostly in the market set up in Osaka, a central city in western Japan. Accordingly, Osaka became the only major city that bore comparison with Edo in terms of economy, commerce, and culture, though the imperial capital Kyoto is not far from Osaka.

In this market system, dealing in futures, credit dealing, and other modern business sachems were fully developed in the Japanese society. The Tokugawa samurai elite tried to put the market under its control, but the sword could not win the power of free market. The huge rice trade market in Osaka grew as a free market.

Coins were struck and issued by the Tokugawa regime, as the central government, to circulate them nationwide. But, each samurai lord published his own unique bills (a kind of banknotes called "Han-satsu") that could only circulate in his territory. Even major merchants published their own unique bills ("Shi-satsu") allowed to use in their trade.

The Tokugawa Government issued three types of coins: gold, silver, and copper ones. But, the gold coins were mainly circulated in Edo and eastern Japan while the silver coins in Osaka and western Japan. (A large gold mine was in Sado north of Edo, but a large gold mine was in Iwami west of Osaka, both on the Sea of Japan.) In this way, Japan was clearly divided into the west (Osaka bloc) and the east (Edo bloc) economically just until 140 years ago.

(http://www.abura-ya.com/naruhodo/rekishi/rekish16.html)

It's time for the Japanese Government today to review merits of the rice standard system as well as "Han-satsu" and "Shi-satsu" bills allowed to circulate in a specified and restricted zone.

Indeed, structural reform in any country should be based on exhaustive study on its unique environment, culture, and history (due to a lack of which the so-called Japan's Koizumi reformation is yet to result in success after eight years of his and his successors' eras).

Truly, economists in the U.S., the U.K., and China and India should study the Japanese history before commenting on anything related to the Japanese economy.



SECTION II: Taira-Minamoto War: The First Major War among Samurai Clans


(To be conrinued...)



(Près de mes ancêtres "terre d'origine, ma princesse, il est le plus grand et le plus ancien sanctuaire sacré du shintoïsme, though it is not north of Tokyo. I can visit it if in autumn, winter, or spring as it is by the sea...

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/121-hokkikou.htm )


Mar 8:13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.

Mar 8:14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

Mar 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

"No Sign be Given unto this Generation"

(Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo...)


No Signs but History Long or Short


Nowadays more people are talking about future and past prime ministers of Japan.

(Even top TV journalist Mr. Soichiro Tahara is reportedly travelling here and there to help hopeful candidates of the Liberal Democratic Party to seek the seat.)

So, I might say also that some past prime ministers were unique and others were not so unique.

Former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi (in PM office b/w 2001 and 2006) was a long divorced man without a wife for decades, while one of his sons is going to succeed him as a national lawmaker in the upcoming election.

Former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe had no children though he had an active wife who even joined the Tokyo City marathon.

Former Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda had suffered no scandals in his private life and political life while his son cannot run for the coming general election as Mr. Yasuo Fukuda himself is going to run since the LDP is facing an upwind.

Looking back to their days in Japanese premiership, there was a big change in moods of voters during the Abe Administration. As poor and criminal handling of pension funds in a large scale by government officials was exposed, an approval rate for the then Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe plummeted down, resulting in a victory of the DPJ in a national election for the Upper House of the National Diet in 2007.

Former Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda tried to tie up with DPJ in vain. So, next Prime Minister, namely active-duty Mr. Taro Aso changed a policy to defeat the DPJ in the Lower House Election relying on his popularity. However, many problems discovered during the Abe Administration are yet to be solved. Those problems seem to be a decisive factor in the coming election. Accordingly, the LDP seems to be taking a wrong course in pursuing their strategy.

Finally, the strategy of Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso looks wrong; probably he should study merits in underlying ideas of policies Mr. Junichiro Koizumi was committed to rather than aligning with Mr. Shinzo Abe's politics which however have been highly supported by Japanese loyalists.

(So, if you are a single woman, a woman without children, or a scandal-less woman, your victory in election is not necessarily promised nowadays in Japan...)


SECTION I: Modern History of the United States

America could not prevent the Great Depression in 1929.

America could not prevent the rise of Stalin in the U.S.S.R. in 1930's.

America could not prevent the rise of Hitler in Germany in 1930's.

America could not prevent the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941.

America could not prevent the rise of the Chinese Communist Party after WWII.

America could not prevent the Korean War in 1950.

America could not prevent the Vietnam War in 1960's.

America could not prevent the Israel-Arab wars and the Oil Crisis in early 1970's.

America could not prevent massacres in Cambodia in early 1970's.

America could not continue to send astronauts to the moon since the middle of 1970's.

America could not prevent the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980's, while American politicians have boasted that they enticed Soviet troops into a messy war with Mujaheddin.

America could not prevent the Sadam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

America could not prevent AlQaeda's attacks in 1990's and 2000's, including the 2001 September 11 attacks.

American could not prevent the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.

However, Americans successfully elected Mr. Barack Obama as first African American President in 2008.

Indeed, modern American history began with the Civil War (1861-1865) sacrificing 620,000 lives.

Truly, today no Americans think that America is not the No.1 country in the world, since all the people except few in the world think so.


SECTION II:


(To be continued...)







(C'est un bon moment, ma princesse, qui vous s'il vous plaît. It is so since a great singer died in the summer of 1985 around Tokyo with other 520 or so passengers and crews. Indeed, 24 years is just like 24 hours as we have not seen any other signs of the era. I mean "Think of other unhappy people before you die."

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/70909-sutekinatiming.htm )


Mar 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

Mar 8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

"The Seed is the Word of God"

(Tokyo, the most engineered city in the world; click to enlarge.)


Islam Fallen, India Fallen, China Fallen, but Japan Standing


There is one interesting Islamic empire in history that existed from 1299 to 1922 to prevent Western powers from invading and colonizing the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire.


( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire)

It is not only geopolitics implications but also religious implications what the fall of the Ottoman Islamic Empire in the early 20th century counts.

Or from the opposite direction, we have to see that new economy launched and deployed following the industrial revolution in Europe broke the barrier of religion that had been set up, intensified, and maintained since 1492 by holy grace:

---------
When Christopher Columbus first journeyed to the Bahamas in 1492, the Ottoman Empire was at its zenith, an economic power that extended over three continents. Modern Ottoman studies think that the change in relations between the Ottomans and central Europe was caused by the opening of the new sea routes. It is possible to see the decline in the significance of the land routes to the East as Western Europe opened the ocean routes that bypassed the Middle East and Mediterranean as parallel to the decline of the Ottoman Empire itself...

Within the social and political system they were living in Ottoman administrators could not have comprehended or seen the desirability of the dynamics and principles of the capitalist and mercantile economies developing in Western Europe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
---

Up until the nineteenth century, European feelings towards the world of Islam was always a complex mix of respect, awe and fear. In the middle ages Islam had even come so far as to threaten the very existence of Christianity in Europe. However, the technological advances of the Industrial revolution meant that European powers had long ceased to see the Middle Eastern countries as being any kind of threat. Instead, the Ottoman empire was seen as a very weak organisation, falling apart at the seams.

All the major European Imperialists saw opportunity in the demise of this ailing power. What is surprising is that the Ottomans lasted as long as they did in very unfavourable international waters. France, Russia and Britain were the principal beneficiaries of the gradual sheddings of territory forced upon the Ottomans over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

(Regions in Red Colonized by the U.K. before WWII)
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/mideast.htm
---------

At this point of history, Islam could not function effectively to cope with the modern economy developed in the European Christian Civilization based on the industrial revolution.

At this point of history, India could not function well.
At this point of history, China could not function well.

At this point of history, only the Empire of Japan could function well effectively to cope with the modern economy developed in the European Christian Civilization based on the industrial revolution, since the Empire could carry out its own industrial revolution leveraging its cultural and spiritual superiority to the West.

Accordingly, even today all the Muslims are dreaming of going and living an economically rich life in Western Europe or America.

Accordingly, even today all the Indians are dreaming of going and living an economically rich life in Western Europe or America.

Accordingly, even today all the Chinese are dreaming of going and living an economically rich life in Western Europe or America.

Hence, if even today all the Japanese are dreaming of going and living an economically rich life in Western Europe or America, it would be a perfect victory of the European Christian Civilization to the rest of the world, which America actually assumes as the new leader of the European Christian Civilization.

Yet, some Japanese have come to realize significance of Japan's existence, since New York had to suffer from the 2001 September's terror attacks and the 2008 September's financial crisis, both of which impacted on the Japanese people not only in a tangible and material manner but also in an intangible and spiritual way.

Mankind can be integrated but not under the sole hegemony of the U.S. and the European Christianity Civilization that have overwhelmed the Islamic Civilization, the Indian Civilization, and the Chinese Civilization in these centuries as symbolized by the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

It is so, since lessons of the Empire of Japan should help Japan in the 21st century play a new decisive role in history.

Indeed, the Islamic Empire in the way side, India on the infertile rock, and China among thorns could not stand against Western devils in the 20th century.

But, Japan on the good ground of its traditional culture and spiritualism could survive, while sacrificing the era of the Empire of Japan but further developing into democratic, hard-working, and peace-loving Japan of today, as Jesus Christ predicted 2000 years ago...






(To be continued...)



(Nice mélodie n'est pas nécessairement accompagnée par des mots doux, ma princesse. Oh, how dear can you do dance steps so well while so many stars are falling nowadays?

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/90105-kemekonouta.htm

Source: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/900-bgm/bgm.htm)


Luk 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Luk 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

Luk 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

Luk 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

Luk 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

"That Which Waxeth Old is Ready to Vanish Away"

(Around the Diet Bldg. to Supreme Court and Old Socialist Party Bldg., Tokyo)


Homework for the Summer Vacation


There must be students in various countries who view, read, and study EEE Reporter.

Different from those viewers who have already built their careers in society, those young people have a great chance to have a right mind set and find a right direction so as to avoid future temptation to sins.

The choice is to pursue wealth with a mean disposition or to pursue truth in awe of God.

In other word, it is how to respond to a fact that one cannot be rich at all without doing something bad and sinful behind other's back. Indeed, you have to be also a bad guy to be liked and trusted by a bad and rich boss. But, it is so absurd for you to cry in your mind, "I will be as bad as necessary to be rich like my bad boss!"

However, before accepting this principle of education and discipline, you have to recognize the power of God so manifested in history through His interference with disappointing tribes, races, and civilizations.

Now some historical questions are as follows:
Q1. What were Sumerians?

Q2. What is the relationship between Hebrews and Sumerians, though the Mesopotamia Civilization could influence the Indus Civilization, the Persian Culture, the Arab Culture, and the Greek Civilization?

Q3. Why could not Egypt, with ability to build pyramids, occupy the whole Mediterranean regions and Rome and further Europe and Asia?

Q4. Why could only Greek civilization develop science in the ancient world?

Q5. Why did not Christianity prevail in the Middle East after the first century?

Q6. Why did not Christianity prevail in Asia and Africa after the first century?

Q7. Why have not Popes tried to go back to Jerusalem with his churches instead of simply sending Crusaders, though Islam occupied it, after the fall of the Roman Empire?

These questions might help you believe:
- God chose Sumerians but not Egyptians as ancestor of Hebrews, since the Egyptian religion did not please Him; on the other hand, Sumerians could not meet God's expectation to directly lead the world eventually.

- Hence, God allowed Greeks to develop their civilization based on the Mesopotamia Civilization, though Greeks could not meet God's expectation to directly lead the world eventually.

- Hence, God allowed Romans to succeed Greeks.

- Yet, God secured direct descendants of Sumerians in the form of Hebrews, so that He expected Israelis to unify the Egyptian culture and the Greek culture and then to cope with the Roman Empire and guide Roman citizens, Arabs (and Africans), and Persians (and Asians) into a right religion, which Israelis could not carry out.

- Accordingly, God allowed Christians to emerge from Israelis and prevail in the Roman Empire and thus guide at least Roman citizens into a right religion.

- God created Islam as the Vatican was no more holy enough to administer Jerusalem.

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

Economics is important to understand how money is circulating in the society, being influenced by interest rates (I) and exchange rates (E).

But, economics must contribute to a decrease in unemployment (U) and a national budget deficit (N).

Free market may grow but break with various indicators (M), reflecting a sense of happiness or unhappiness of a majority of voters in a democratic society which can be translated into an approval rate of a president or a ruling party (A).

Now, you have to specify or describe A as functions of I, E, U, N, M, and Others (O):
A = F(I, E, U, N, M, O) + s
or you may assume there is a linear relationship:
A = xI + yE + zU + wN + vM + tO + s
or you may think of a possibility of occurrence of a revolutionary incident (R):
R = f(A, I, E, U, N, M, O, s) + s2

It will take at least a decade of study to define and confirm these formulae. But, you might be able to find what economists are saying about this kind of formulas even during your humble summer holidays.

Please note that s and s2 are super-sub-functions that can totally change the right-hand side of the equations or a whole paradigm of the equations depending on specific conditions.

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

Yesterday, I saw a report on a symposium held this July in the main auditorium, which ancestors of Ms. Yoko Ono presented in 1925, of the The University of Tokyo through a cable TV channel.

-----
The University of Tokyo and the Yomiuri Shinbun collaborated for a special symposium on Global Leadership Studies on June 3, 2009 with H.E. Dr. Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Mrs. Sadako Ogata, President of JICA and Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as the keynote speakers. The African Diplomatic Corps (ADC) in Japan was among the invitees who attended the seminar and the reception.

http://www.adc-japan.org/en/view.php?vid=49
-----

Mr. Kofi Annan told that the most difficult decision he had made in his assignment in the United Nations was what had been related to the Iraqi War then U.S. President Mr. George W. Bush had launched.

But, what made me focus on the session is Japanese students delivering questions in English to Mr. Kofi Annan and Ms. Sadako Ogata.

Their Englsih, though with some spread in fluency, was rather not the so called "Japan-glish" ordinary English-speaking Japanese have spoken with a Japanese tempo in these decades.

Rather, an attending professor of the University spoke English with a clear trace of old "Japan-glish."

So, I reckon most of those questioning students had some experiences of having learnt or lived in the United States. They must be able to think in English in their brains.

Yet, there is a very dangerous aspect in thinking in English for Japanese students, even if they are groundlessly extremely proud students of the University of Tokyo.

Thinking in English in your mind is sometimes very efficient, but it makes your mind poor and simple. English was born in a poor natural environment. Original English speaking tribe had no rich culture and traditions. Their community and domain were barren and monotonous.

So, too much thinking in English in your mind would make you psychologically poor or simple even if you were born in a far more blessed and rich environment like Japan.

Accordingly, this is what I like to advise on all the students worldwide learning global issues while English is not their mother tongue. Do not think too much in English!

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




(To be continued...)



Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

NO MORE HIROSHIMA, NO MORE NAGASAKI, and NO MORE ADOLF

(Japan's National Diet Bldg. since 1936 in Tokyo and a nearby subway station)

NO MORE HIROSHIMA, NO MORE NAGASAKI, and NO MORE ADOLF

The No.1 animation character after WWII in Japan is "Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy)" or "Iron-Armed Boy Called Atom."

This "Atom" is from the atomic bombs (nuclear bombs) used by the American military force to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki in air raids, in August 1945.

With a mega hit and popularity of this manga animation title, the hate for atomic-bombing America was however strangely diluted; the fear to the term "atom" was incredibly diluted; and trust in science was surely restored among the Japanese people in 1950's and 1960's.

It was so since the hero "Tetsuwan Atom" was a pure-hearted, courteous, but brave super-robot boy.

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

Yesterday, an NHK TV channel presented a special program featuring Osamu Tezuka, Japan's legendary king of manga comics and animation.

--------

Dr. Osamu Tezuka (Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 – February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, animator, producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka
--------

I usually do not watch this kind of superficial culture program of NHK TV; but as there was one interesting guest in the program, I decided to spend the night by watching this hours-long program.

Mr. Soichiro Tahara, a leading or No.1 veteran TV journalist in Japan, said that he respected Osamu Tezuka and read "To Adolf" intensively 25 years ago (since it was serialized in a magazine for grown-up citizens).

When the Second World War ended for Japan in August 1945, Osamu Tezuka was a (junior) high school student and Mr. Soichiro Tahara was an (5th-grade) elementary school pupil. The both have shared anti-military and anti-war ideals.

Mr. Soichiro Tahara, respected by so many politicians including ex-prime ministers, recommended a Tezuka's work of manga titled "To Adolf" which is actually a long novel expressed by a series of cartoons.

I am not a great reader of Tezuka's work. But, I have read some; yet I have not picked up "To Adolf," since the title did not sound good at all. Nobody should use "Adolf" in any work of art, if it actually or remotely means Hitler. So, I did not take up the series of comic books titled "To Adolf."

The NHK TV program last night characterized Osamu Tezuka as a kind of specializing in "war story comics." Tezuka's experiences of American air raids on Osaka in 1945 made him hate war, since he was almost killed in an armaments factory where he was mobilized to work, stopping his school life. A majority of his titles are said to be related to war and battles on their negative side against humanity.

But, my opinion is different.

He was one of the middle-class elite, though not of the upper-class elite in the Japanese society (who would surely benefit from any possible war like the American upper-class elite).

He was a professional manga artist with a background of a middle-class culture in Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe, the region most blessed with traditional and rich Japanese culture backed by a long history.

So, Osamu Tezuka smartly adopted the title "To Adolf" in his work in early 1980's (in the middle of the Cold War and the Israeli-Arab armed conflicts), based on a groundless theory that Adolf Hitler had a Judaist ancestor.

I did not like this title, so that I never tried to read it. But, as the TV program last night focused on this work, I checked its story for the first time on the Internet. Then I found it not a nice story at all, though prominent journalist Mr. Soichiro Tahara praised it. It was an entertainment story. It did not show respect for German people, Judaists, and Arabs as well as the Empire of Japan.

Even if Osamu Tezuka had been my senior friend of school, I would have surely advised that he should not have linked Japanese things during WWII to the tension between German Christians and German Judaists during WWII as well as between Israelis and Arabs after WWII.

If he had really wanted to do it, he must have stopped being a rich and successful manga artist. He had to sacrifice himself more. The title "To Adolf" is graver than he must have thought. He had to stop being a Japanese commercial manga artist so as to learn Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and anti-Christianity.

And, what I want to say to Mr. Soichiro Tahara and the like is that it is Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and anti-Christianity that the Empire of Japan should have learnt more (than Hitler and Stalin) before it launched war in the Chinese Continent and the Pacific Ocean against the Western powers.

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

My favorite work among Osamu Tezuka's 700 works is "Mitsume-ga Toru (The Three-Eyed Boy Marching)."

It is so since the boy has supernatural power as he has the third eye on his forehead.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%B8%89%E3%81%A4%E7%9B%AE%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8A%E3%82%8B%EF%BC%881%EF%BC%89-%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E6%89%8B%E5%A1%9A-%E6%B2%BB%E8%99%AB/dp/4062604868

Yet, in his last days in late 1980's, Osame Tezuka was super-busy in his humble workshop in Tokyo drawing endlessly cartoon manga on sheets of paper with a small TV set always turned on beside him, while he was casually flying from Narita to foreign cities, including Paris, for any professional occasion.

He was truly a successful and celebrated professional manga artist in Japan, living between the high society and ordinary or poor workers in the society.

Anyway, I myself often read manga magazines named "COM" and "GARO" when I was so young even before starting to live in Tokyo...

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

This morning, Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso attended a yearly ceremony held in Nagasaki City to commemorate victims of the Nagaski Atomic Bomb Attack of August 1945.

Next Saturday, August 15, is one of the most important days for Japan as WWII ended on the day in 1945.

However, most of Japanese workers are expected to take their summer vacation next week, though the beginning of fall already came on August 7 in the lunar calendar.

Nonetheless, as a start of the general election is scheduled to be officially announced on August 18 and the voting day is scheduled on August 30, the heat of the summer will surely remain all through September, no matter if Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso and his LDP should succeed in retaining power, or his rival Mr. Yukio Hatoyama and his DPJ should just walk away from their rivals to form a new Cabinet for the Japanese Government.

Anyway, it needed the September 15's Lehman Brothers Shock to pave the way for the first African-American President...




(The Sound of Silence really appealed to me in the world without PCs, the Internet, cellular phones, cheap air tickets to Los Angeles and New York, and easy ways of making big money...but with so many students around me...

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/104-soundofsilence.htm )

"All Green Grass was Burnt Up"

(To Tokyo Subway)


GLOBAL DESERTS CONVERSION PLAN


SECTION I: EEE GREEN

The amount of CO2 a tree absorbs is equal to its weight including its trunk, branches, and leaves.

The weight of a dried tree is equal to the weight of CO2 it absorbed while it was alive.

One hectare (2.5 acres or 110,000 square feet) of a forest can absorb 42 tons of CO2 per year while retaining 550 tons of CO2 in bodies of tress.

(http://www12.ocn.ne.jp/~take03/j23co2.htm)

The Amazon is estimated to absorb 1.3 billion to 5.6 billion tons of CO2 per year.

Presently, yearly absorption of CO2 all over the world is 11.4 billion.

(http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1118032896)

Therefore, if we can create another Amazon, the CO2 threat can be solved, thus avoiding unnatural global warming.

The key to solving the global warming is not emission-rights trade but love and respect for the nature and afforestation and tree-planting.


SECTION II: PRINT BANKNOTES FOR EEE GREEN

If the U.S. Government print one trillion dollar-worth of bills without recording them in the FRB balance sheet and provide them to the U.N., it will cause no problems as long as the U.N. spends all of the dollars for the EEE Green Project.

If the Japanese Government print 100 trillion yen-worth of bills without recording them in the BOJ balance sheet and provide them to the U.N., it will cause no problems as long as the U.N. spends all of the yen for the EEE Green projects.

The dollars and yen used for payment for the Project will increase domestic products and services corresponding to their value, without triggering inflation, since mankind has now a capacity of production and provision enough to supply demand and needs based on one trillion dollars or 100 trillion yen.

In the developing countries where another Amazon is created with countless desalination facilities (for converting sea water to plain water) and irrigation networks, newly boosted agriculture will also allow for industrial development based on infrastructures built together in the EEE Green Project.


SECTION III: Global Natural Resouces Limitation



(To be continued...)




(Das is gut, so gut, und sehr gut.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/60305-summerplace.htm)


Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Rev 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

Rev 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

"Great Joy in that City"

Possible Next Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama at Hirsohima (NHK TV)
Reporting with Atomic Bombed Dome behind (NHK TV)
Hiroshima Prayers on Asahi TV
Hiroshima Bombing Hour 8:15 on Fuji TV as Aug. 15 ended the War
Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso at Horoshima Site (Fuji TV)(All viewed by EEE Reporter around Tokyo)


NO MORE HIROSHIMA BUT THREE MORE AMAZONS


SECTION I: From Hiroshima in 1945 To Changes in 2009

Every Japanese was appalled at the American military who attacked Hiroshima with an atomic bomb in August 1945.

Yet, every Japanese was equally appalled at the Imperial Military who could not protect Hiroshima from the American atomic bombing in August 1945.
　
Then, every Japanese made up his or her mind to go on living to revive the life and living and the country under a new political regime pursuing a wiser relationship with America.

As the time goes by, the American military had to be engaged in war in the Korean Peninsula, the Indochina Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan...

And, Japan has enjoyed respect from the world as a super peace-loving country, which has given huge credit to Japanese enterprises, the only mass of businesses comparable with American ones in the global economy.

Anyway, the alliance of the U.S. and Japan as the two leading advanced powers in the world after WWII, and especially after September 2001, gave a great sense of security and stability to the rest of the world.

However, a new era seems to be opened with the financial crisis in September 2008, leading to the inauguration of the first African-American President in the U.S. and the expected first regime change in Japan from the very pro-America LDP-centric government to the one administered by other major democratic party.


SECTION II: Reasonable Solution to CO2 Threat

The most efficient CO2 absorbers are plants.

So, we need more plants to reduce the amount of CO2 in the air more.

Accordingly, I have identified some regions suitable for increasing a number of plants as marked with white circles in the following map:

(A standard Japan-centric map commonly used in Japan)

We had better make a more effort to forest those areas and plant trees as many as possible there, in order to reduce a percentage of CO2 in the air.

The key is of course water supply and irrigation.

To provide a huge amount of flowing water into those dry lands requires a gigantic scale of public-works projects, which must however bring about an effect specified by John Maynard Keynes in a global scale.

Specifically, the United Nations must request the U.S., Japan, the E.U., and China to print banknotes and provide them for the projects.

For example, each economic power must print one-trillion dollar-worth of paper money, and the U.N. must collect them, and place orders with businesses in each country for the project works, paying from the collected funds.

So, these afforestation projects and tree-planting campaigns will boost demand for industrial products and services, increasing employment in each country.

As it will be the end of the 21st century that these projects are completed, mankind will be free from recession in this century.

I rather propose naming these projects "EEE Green" as a generic title, since EEE Green will generate three more Amazons with a huge capacity to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, respectively.

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





(To be continued...)



(Une des actrices japonais est décédé de la maladie récemment, ma princesse, comme vous l'avez entendu. She looked smart, matured, and ever modern and super cool, though she looked like crossing the world against which I have ever lived at right angles. She was once remote ahead of many young men and now more remote somewhere forever. At last she was a heroine in the world where nothing is to be blessed finally... So, I did not look like a hero to such young ladies at all.....Anyway, my heel is getting better.

http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/thwin/heal/h010.htm

Source:http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/thwin/heal/index.html )



Act 8:5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

Act 8:6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

Act 8:7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

Act 8:8 And there was great joy in that city.

"Let Him Hear"

(Tokyo in 2009; No tricks in photos unlike Robert Capa's "The Fallen Soldier"...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Soldier )


Nature vs. Money


This morning I watched live on TV Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso and opposition leader Mr. Yukio Hatoyama attending the Hiroshima memorial assembly.

It is this day of 1945 that the most significant incident in the 20th century, namely the "Hiroshima atomic bombing," occurred in Japan.

An American huge B-29 bomber coming by air over the west Pacific Ocean dropped a big nuclear bomb on a large city called Hiroshima in western Japan 64 years ago.

However, in the next summer, after the scheduled Lower House and Upper House elections, neither Mr. Aso nor Mr. Hatoyama might join the Hiroshima ceremony due to a change of the Cabinet.

Now, we had better stop speculating as to possible outcomes of the August 30 general election in Japan and the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, since people are yet to be free from money in Japan and the U.S., without mentioning the rising, young middle class in Asia, though prices of houses and buildings in Dubai have fallen to almost half from a level of the previous year.


SECTION I: Supply 1000 Trillion Yen ($10 Trillion) Now!

Last year, a Japanese Internet user wondered what if the Bank of Japan printed a number of yen bills worth 1000 trillion yen to wipe out the Government's deficit.

To his question, one answer was posted, explaining why it cannot be done:

(http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1019012620)

(1) If the Bank of Japan supplied 1000 trillion yen to clear the Government's debts, everybody would feel happy for a moment.

(2) And then people will start to use all the 1000 trillion yen in the market.

(3) Due to a multiplier effect, more than 1000 trillion yen will be additionally circulated in the society.

(4) Suddenly demands and needs for goods and services will be skyrocketed.

(5) Prices of goods and services will be also skyrocketed.

(6) Psychological effects will add an upward momentum to the price hike.

(7) In the international money market, the value of the yen will plummet down.

(8) Eventually Japan will lose more than 1000 trillion yen in terms of value of money it has.

This sequence has been found many times in the past history, and its inevitability has been proven in many countries.

Accordingly, the BOJ controls change of an amount of money based on the money supply theory and related formulas.

However, I think the situation has changed globally.

If the Japanese Government print and provide additional 1000 trillion yen to finance its national budget, I think neither inflation nor devaluation of the yen will occur.

Due to competition with China and other Asian countries, Japanese companies cannot now raise salary to domestic workers, causing a low level of domestic consumption. But, with 1000 trillion yen, they will sell goods at lower prices while paying higher wages to workers.

(What's more, Japan is estimated to have financial assets worth 250 trillion yen [more than $2.5 trillion] in foreign countries.

And, FRB has now $2 trillion assets in the balance sheet, while the outstanding balance of the issue amount of U.S. Treasury bonds is $11 trillion [1130 trillion yen] as of May 2009.)

In my theory, as mankind has now a huge capacity of production of goods and provision of services, so different from the era of John Maynard Keynes, inflation will not occur if all the people have twice more money each (Japanese total individual assets are 1400 trillion yen or more than $14 trillion; if combined with corporate financial assets, 2500 trillion yen or $25 trillion).

(http://ee-news.seesaa.net/article/117024992.html)

So, Ah, what a good idea to have the Japanese Government, if not the Bank of Japan, just print yen bills as much as it needs (up to 1400 trillion yen) for elimination of the budget deficit!



SECTION II: Environment Requests Poor Living

To your astonishment, after WWII, Japanese people started to build countless factories, plants, business offices, shops, public facilities, residential houses and buildings mostly by converting paddy rice fields to construction sites and building plots.

They have redeemed agriculture fields near a city or a town to build buildings of various sizes and for various purposes.

Hills, mountains, and valleys have　also turned into industrial zones, amusement (mostly pachinko gamble) facilities, and golf courses.

If it is rational and not crazy at all, it apparently lacks a respect for the mother nature of Japan.

Even some area around Mt. Fuji was contaminated by a cluster of large facilities a terro-associated religious group built and arranged (who eventually attacked Tokyo with a sarin gas in 1995).

Advanced and modern science and technology were brought from Europe and America to Japan. So, corresponding religion, Christianity and Judaism, must have been also introduced into Japan and studied exhaustively.

To cope with Western science and technology, Japanese unique religions and spiritualism are somehow ineffective and inefficient.

(In this contex, the most influential Buddhism-based religious body Soka Gakkai and its political divisoion New Komeito have disappointed many, many Japanese.)

This is the gravest issue to Japan since it had opened the door to the world around 1860 after 250 years of national seclusion.

Yet, it is very difficult even for any Japanese genius to realize the degree of this graveness.

It is so, since if such a genius claims that Japan should revive rice fields having been developed and covered for industrial use, he will be surely treated as a fool.

So, I here humbly say that Japan and Japanese can have any amount of money, but they must show their respect fot the mother nature by living poor (and providing yen to poor countries).
*** *** *** ***


(To be continued...)



(Un rythme grec pourrait bu pour aujourd'hui, ma princesse, car elle est la sixième août. I once stopped mastering a certain gamble, in order to keep pursuit of the truth.
So, I am more Hellenic than Romanic, amn't I?

http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Folk/fragos.mid

Source: http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Folk/Menu.htm)


Luk 8:4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

Luk 8:5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

Luk 8:6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

Luk 8:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

Luk 8:8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"How Many Loaves Have Ye?"

Refer to History before War or Election


Mr. Kim Jon-il looked happy to meet with Mr. Bill Clinton in P'yongyang, since he was smiling in some photos released today.

The major issue is however the relationship between North Korean leaders and Chinese leaders.

Referring to the long history between the two countries, it is apparent that North Korea needs American support to maintain its independence, politically and militarily, from China.

The truth is opposite to superficial phenomena.

"North Korea vs. China" more than "North Korea vs. America."

In this context, the best policy P'yongyang must take is promotion and acceleration of improvement of relationship with Japan.


SECTION I: One-Sided Victory or Balanced State of Power

Mr. Barack Obama could not win a landslide victory in 2008, which is better for the world partly because the Koizumi-Bush relationship had greatly improved mutual trust between Japan and America that had been somehow harmed through the Clinton era after his landslide victory in 1996.

But, the Democratic Party of Japan is now highly expected to mark a kind of one-sided victory in the upcoming national election to be held on August 30, driving out of power the incumbent ruling party LDP former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi once led as its president.

On 2005 September 11's general election, the LDP led by Mr. Koizumi won an over-two-thirds majority in the Lower House together with New Komeito Party to eventually secure stability of the Japanese politics as the LDP and New Komeito lost a majority in the subsequent Upper House election. It was a rare type of reasonable landslide victory in a wider scope of politics.

But this time, as the DPJ led by a kind of upper-class celebrity Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is going to take the helm of the nation Japan for the first time, the Japanese people had better maintain the conservative and very-pro-America LDP with a some reasonable number of seats in the national Diet.

This respect for balance of power is a little scarce in the Japanese society, since the exhaustive centralization of power is a kind of tradition of the historical East Asian paradigm as is seen in China and North Korea of today.



SECTION II: The Seventh Empire, The Last Historical Global Empire

The United States of America is the seventh and last global empire in the human history.

It is just like that Islam is the third and last major religion as a successor of Abraham's religion that was initiated 4000 years ago.

Accordingly, the numbers "7," "3," and "4000" might come to look mysterious for some.

Even AlQaeda's major attacks on the U.S. and its allies have been already conducted seven times, which implies "no more."

Yet, the world war has occurred only twice yet, suggesting the third time possible.

Anyway, when the era of the American Empire is over, the whole world will be probably put under one single government of mankind, in my forecast.

The issue is how non-money economy should be realized there, if it is in the 22nd century.

Anyway, EEE Reporter has here predicted the coming of "non-money economy" on August 5, 2009, ahead of other economists.
*** *** *** ***




(To be continued...)




(The Google language system cannot translate "Sari Marès belle amie d'autrefois" into English. I once stopped mastering English so as to preserve my ability in Japanese. Le Dieu ne vous donne une épée et d'un stylo, dans le même temps, ma princesse, si vous n'êtes pas un empereur. So, live content with what you have unless in a holy mission.

http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Folk/sariemar.mid

Source: http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Folk/Menu.htm)


Mar 8:5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

Mar 8:6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

Mar 8:7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.

Mar 8:8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

Mar 8:9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

"A Testimony unto Them"

(In a Tokyo Skyscraper...)



Celebrities


Before September 2001, the U.S. followed by the U.K. launched a money war against Japan while Japan was the largest purchaser of U.S. Treasury bonds.

Then, Princess Diana died mysteriously in 1997; President Mr. Bill Clinton was impeached for his immoral acts by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998; and then JFK Jr. died mysteriously in 1999.

Who are then blessed so much as Japan, since a great earthquake happened in south China taking 80,000 lives in 2008, the year when China became the largest U.S. Treasury-bond holder?



SECTION I: Mr. Clinton in North Korea

If Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso could visit Pyongyang and take back any of some hundred Japanese abducted by North Korea in these decades, his Cabinet might be able to survive through the coming general election.

Yet, if former U.S. President Mr. Bill Clinton should leave the capital of North Korea without taking back the two detained American journalists, Ms. Laura Ling and Ms. Euna Lee, the Obama Administration might lose some international credibility.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/world/asia/04korea.html?_r=1&hp )

So, it might be a time for former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi to re-visit North Korea for a future diplomatic relationship between Japan and North Korea.


SECTION II: No.1 Economist Taken into Prison

Economist Mr. Uekusa's blog has been ranked No. 1 in these days in the Japanese political blog domain, though he was taken into prison while he and his supporters claim that he is innocent and not-guilty.

Mr. Uekusa has been one of the most prominent economists in Japan, having graduated from University of Tokyo, worked in the Kyoto University as assistant professor and in Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. as senior researcher, and then in the Waseda University as professor.

He also made many TV appearances. He has had a strong tie with some politicians who have been fighting against former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi and the ruling party LDP.

But, a Japanese court sentenced Mr. Uekusa, a possible kind of Mr. Paul Krugman, to four-month detention in prison for his immoral act, which the Supreme Court has supported.

Mr. Shizuka Kamei and Mr. Ichiro Ozawa must have protected him, since Mr. Uekusa has been a kind of allies to the two notable, veteran opposition leaders who have been fighting against Mr. Junichiro Koizumi and the LDP in this decade.

(http://www.ozawa-ichiro.jp/massmedia/2001/02.htm)

What I want to ask is what Mr. Shizuka Kamei and Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, having a strong influence on next Prime Minister hopeful Mr. Yukio Hatoyama of the DPJ, can do to protect their friends if they ever should win the coming general election taking over power from the LDP and Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso, while they cannot save Mr. Uekusa, an allegedly innocent inmate now somewhere in Japan.


(Nonetheless, when Mr. Uekusa claimed last summer that the largest issue FRB was tackling was inflation, EEE Reporter pointed out the possible Wall Street disaster due to an uncontrollable increase of risky, virtual money that is not based on American real assets any more...)



SECTION III: EEE Reporter

▼ EE(E)-Reporter himself is not a celebrity at all in Japan.

▼ You do not have to envy him at all, if you have two pairs of business shoes.

▲ Yet, it is true that all the postings in the EEE Reporter blog have been made by himself alone since May 2005.



(To be continued...)




(Il s'agit d'août, mais pas Juillet, ma princesse, si quelque chose est plus importante. Anyway a crime but not a mistake occurs when one forgets the God. Yet a selfless act prevents it.

http://www.hpmix.com/home/kitano/images/sc4_44_1.mid

Source: http://www.hpmix.com/home/kitano/C4_4.htm)



Mat 8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Mat 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Mat 8:4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

"With his Finger Wrote on the Ground"

(One of respectable jobs at Tokyo Prefecture Office Bldg.)


Do Not Judge but Forgive


SECTION I: Laying a Snare for Jesus Christ

They picked up a gaudy woman, telling her that if she had played a role of an adultery woman she would have been given some money.

Then, they brought her before Jesus Christ.

Yet, this stupid farce played by arrogant and foolish subordinates of temple-priests of Judaism and a poor, gaudy woman made Jesus Christ feel utterly scandalized at the mental level of temple-priests.

So, Jesus Christ asked them if they could stone this innocent, poor woman to death while she was playing a role of an adultery woman.

When those gangsters found that Jesus Christ knew their arrangement with the woman, they dropped stones they had carried to stone Jesus Christ and left the place in an awe, since Jesus Christ sat down on His heel with His back to those enemies holding stones.
---

This is what the Vatican should teach to Christians all over the world.

So, nothing is not a snare if a poor, gaudy woman is brought to a court.

Do not judge them; catch gangsters.

And, try not to arrest followers of Jesus Christ, for you might be stoned, probably not at your heel.



SECTION II: Everything British

Since the mysterious death of Princess Diana in Paris in 1997, many people in the world came to doubt any British things.

Indeed, even if a British system looks smart and reasonable, there is always a hidden serious problem or snares in it.

For example, old foxes in London made politics a game between political parties, thus taking away a chance of emergence of an individual hero in the British Parliament, which is bad and so bad as many ex-British-colonized people in Asia and Africa know well.

It is an individual politician and a human being but not a political organization that must fulfill political accountability to the God and the people.

Recently, Mr. Naoto Kan of the Democratic Party of Japan visited England to be taught something about politics, satisfying pride of old foxes in London.

That is why there is no chance for Mr. Kan to be elected as Prime Minister of Japan.

Japanese political systems have many defects but they are better than British ones, since Japan is the second largest economy in the world and the global leader in advanced technology and business, ranking with the U.S.

Mr. Naoto Kan and other leaders of the DPJ must be prideful enough not to fly to London to try to learn anything so biased and deceitful.

It is so, since Princess Diana was killed in a mysterious car accident in Paris in 1997.


SECTION III:



(To be continued...)




Joh 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

Joh 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

Joh 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

Joh 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

Seven Global Empires

(Within a Tokyo Skyscraper...)


Seven Global Empires


There have been seven global empires in human history:

1. Hellenistic Empire – Prevalence of Greek Civilization from the Mediterranean to Pakistan to prevent invasion of Persians to the Mediterranean and Europe, significantly but positively influencing Buddhism.

The era of the Empire started with Alexander the Great around 300 B.C. and ended with the death of Cleopatra around 30 B.C.

2. Roman Empire - Prevalence of Greco-Roman Civilization from the Mediterranean to North Europe to cultivate various European tribes, eventually as a vehicle of the Vatican.

The era of the Empire actually started with the death of Cleopatra around 30 B.C. and ended with the invasion of Hun from Central Asia to the Italian Peninsula in the 5th century.

3. Islamic Empire – Unification of Arabs and other tribes in the Middle East and Central Asia to prevent European tribes or the Vatican power from invading into the Middle East and Central Asia.

It began with the rise of Muslims in the 7th century and ended with the invasion of Mongolians into the Middle East in the 13th century.

4. Mongolian Empire – Introduction of a new global view by occupying regions from the Korean Peninsula to Asia Minor, while suppressing both the Vatican power and the Islamic power and then preserving Buddhism.

It started with their first emperor Genghis Khan in the early 13th century and eventually kept an influence over Central Asia till its descendant the Mughal Empire ceased to exist in India in the middle of the 19th century.

5. Spanish Empire – Colonization of Central and South Americas as well as the Philippines, paving the way for global dominance of Europeans and the Vatican.

It started with Columbus' adventure over the Atlantic Ocean and ended with the Spanish–American War in the late 19th century.

6. British Empire – Colonization of India, North America, Australia, part of East/South Africa, part of the Middle East, part of South East Asia, and part of China, establishing the industry/finance-based global power system and confirming dominance of European Christianity over Islam.

It fully developed with the establishment of the Indian Empire under control of the U.K. in the late 19th century but lost its hegemony through WWII.

7. American Empire – Established itself as the only Europe-origin power that could contain the rise of the then Asian super-power the Empire of Japan after WWI and over WWII, thus exercising its military, cultural, financial, and scientific hegemony over the world to date, while functioning as another or a new homeland of Judaists having been driven out of Europe.

Indeed, there have been seven global empires in human history as prophesied in the Bible.

Most importantly, as U.S./Israeli troops are now deployed from the border to Egypt to the border to Pakistan, mankind still lives in a great historical paradigm that started with the marching of Alexander the Great's troops to the east.

Accordingly, we can simply admit the three great global/regional cultures:
(i) European Culture...(Christianity)
(ii) Islamic Culture...(Islam)
(ii) East Asian Culture...(Buddhism/Confucianism)

However, the 21st century can be the last era for all these paradigms as above summarized, since the God might put an end to this flow of history...since people on Wall Street are so greedy and godless...

So, you have to say to the God, "As not everybody can be rich, I tried to be rich for myself" or "As not everybody can be rich, I tried to be poor for myself."

Truly, every rich man in any empire of any culture has died to be punished by the God.





(My heel suddenly started to ache on last Friday. So, I cannot go out this Sunday. Maybe I have to buy new shoes. Indeed, I have not bought new suits and shoes in these years except that I purchased certain black business shoes two years ago...)