"for I am a sinful man, O Lord"

(Hi Hi, Tokyo)


I Watched News Today, O Lord

The English Parliament lost its way.

I bought a book today, O Lord.

The Japanese media fought its way (as it so read).


SECTION I: The First Ex-Samurai Christian

In 1866, the Tokugawa samurai government sent 14 young samurais to England, including a 12-year old samurai boy.

The band of youths led and supervised by 35-year old Masanao Nakamura, an elite Confucius scholar in one of elite samurai colleges, was however soon forced to return to Japan as the Tokugawa regime fell in a civil war with Imperial samurai forces in 1868.

(The following Web site shows Nakamura, making a pose at the most upper left corner, and other 13 samurai students in London between 1866 and 1868:
http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai95-2/bak5.html )

After the Meiji Restoration, two of the 14 samurais who had learnt in London in 1860's became the chancellor of the Imperial University of Tokyo, virtually the successor to the samurai elite colleges including the one called "Shoheiko" where samurai Nakamura had worked before the 1866 voyage to London.

Masanao Nakamura, however, became more prominent figure in the Meiji society of Japan to be later called one of the six greatest educators in the Meiji period.

On board a ship back to Japan from London in 1868, Nakamura read "Self-Help," by Samuel Smiles, one of his British friends presented to him.

The book told Confucist samurai Nakamura why the U.K. could become a great empire. It opened his eyes. He decided to translate the book into Japanese in 1870 so as to open the eyes of the Japanese people; eventually his translation became a best-seller with one million copies sold.

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

Most interestingly, Confucist samurai Nakamura was converted to Christianity, while he worked as a professor, even served the Finance Department, and joined an intellectual society established in Tokyo by prominent pundits. Then, he translated "On Liberty," by John Stuart Mill, into Japanese, which eventually turned to be the start of diffusion of the idea in Japan:"the greatest happiness for the greatest number."

Indeed, the samurai code had nothing to do with the idea "the greatest happiness for the greatest number," though samurais were intellectually trained following Confucianism before 1868.

So, as today's Japanese elite bureaucrats are a kind of successors to samurai elites in the Tokugawa regime, 1603 - 1868, they can understand the ideal of British Christianity: the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

(Unlike Japanese mainstream bureaucrats of the central government, namely mostly descendants of ruling-class samurais, British bureaucrats are servants of Queen of England theoretically, so that their functions are essentially different from those of Japanese elite bureaucrats now fighting against the Hatoyama Cabinet that denies traditional implicit superiority of elite official circles in Tokyo.)

Yet, the era is now in the 21st century...Learn through "EEE-Reporter," somehow authentic in this context.


SECTION II: Global Financial Situations

The financial sector's status in Europe and the U.S. between the Lehman Shock in 2008 and the Greece Shock in 2010 can be summarized as follows:

The total potential loss of U.S. financial institutes is about $1 trillion.
However, the amount already wiped out or reserved against accounts for about 60%.

The total potential loss of U.K. financial institutes is about $0.6 trillion.
However, the amount already wiped out or reserved against accounts for about 42%.

The total potential loss of euro-zone financial institutes is about $0.8 trillion.
However, the amount already wiped out or reserved against accounts for about 42%.

The total potential loss of other European financial institutes is about $0.2 trillion.
However, the amount already wiped out or reserved against accounts for about 38%.

In summary, the U.S. financial sector has $0.4 trillion yet to be disposed.

In summary, the European financial sector has $0.8 trillion yet to be disposed.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/gfsr/2009/02/index.htm#c1figure

Put simply, America is still OK; Europe is given Out.

As for Japan, traders and brokers are now selling stocks in Tokyo Stock Exchange to get yen which is now appraised so high against euro.

Since yen is now so strong, stock prices of Japanese companies fell vastly in Tokyo yesterday and today.

So, the Japanese financial sector is expected to take this 2010 Greece Shock in stride as in the 2008 Lehman Shock.

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

Since you are born, if you have never experienced discomforts or fear caused by a lack of money, you would surely grow up as a very strange person.

Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama looks like being this type of person.

Of course, Toyota's president Mr. Akio Toyoda looks like being this type of person.

They are not ordinary Japanese men but not a dangerous kind.

Those around Mr. Hatoyama or Mr. Toyoda, who have experienced enough discomforts or fear caused by a lack of money, have true problems.

Yet, those born rich and raised to have more desire for pride, honor, wealth, and power are more dangerous, though such a person is rarely found in Japan since Japan is neither the U.S. nor Europe.

So, if I were non-Japanese, I would trust Japanese (yen) more than Americans (dollars) and Europeans (pounds, euro, etc.).

But, when will Japanese fall down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from us, for we are sinful men, O Lord!"?



Luk 5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

Luk 5:6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

Luk 5:7 And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.

Luk 5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

"Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit"

(Hello Tokyo)


The World Where No Changes Are Respected

It is not England, since it was once colonized by the Roman Empire.

It is a memory of an era for individuals.

By the way, today, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (C) reads a letter from U.S. President Barack Obama, which was handed by U.S. Cherry Blossom Queen Margot Pfefferle from Appleton, Wisconsin...

http://www.rr.com/news/topicdl/photogallery/dlt/06lF7Psg5T6IV

Two days ago, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama said in Okinawa, "I have realized importance of presence of U.S. Marines in Okinawa in linkage with other U.S. forces as I am learning security issues more and more..."

Did the Vietnam War have any influence on Mr. Hatoyama?


SECTION I: Industry of the Roman Empire

Pompeii is miracle ruins.

Without Pompeii, an ancient city in southern Italy buried and preserved for 1900 years by Volcanic ash in A.D. 79, we cannot easily or vividly imagine how Roman citizens lived in the first century.

It looks like that the God exercised His act on Pompeii to give warning to the Roman Empire that executed Jesus Christ, destroyed Jerusalem, and persecuted early Christians in the first century.

Only for this miracle of Pompeii, you should believe in the God and Jesus Christ.

Now, 2000 years ago, slaves accounted for one third of the population in cities around the the Mediterranean. In the Italian Peninsula and Rome, they accounted for 80 to 90%, since children of slaves were also slaves.

The Roman Empire consisted of two classes of people: the honorable citizens and the poor. However, among the 55 million population in the Roman Empire, the honorable citizens accounted for just 1%, namely 550,000. However, the Empire could maintain 300,000 regular soldiers and mobilize maximum one million soldiers, though slaves cannot be a soldier like in ancient Greek.

An honorable citizen, however, needs money to be a senator, one million sestertia ($35 million).
An honorable citizen, however, needs money to be an knight, one 0.4 million sestertia ($14 million).
An honorable citizen, however, needs money to be a councilman of a city, one 0.1 million sestertia ($3.5 million).

The largest fortune recorded in ancient Rome was 400 million sestertia ($14 billion) a senator left as his legacy. Yet, a certain enfranchised slave in the Empire had 4000 slaves and 60 million sestertia ($15 million).

The engine of the Roman Empire was a complex of military, slavery, and coins.

A city like Pompeii needed many coins and salves to build it and military to keep order.

But, that looks like having been all. Nothing else, only military, slavery, and coins to build and maintain a comfortable city.

Accordingly, consumption became the major industry of the Roman Empire, partly like today's America or America before the Lehman Shock.

Anyway, it is a big surprise that 1900 or 2000 years ago, there was a kind of America around Rome. Jesus Christ was really needed in any context.


SECTION II: Socialism's Boss Is Illiberalism

There is a great misunderstanding in the world about socialism.

Those who promote the term socialism as their principle do not ultimately aim at realization of society of economic justice. They aim at realization of illiberalism.

In this world, there is no socialist country where illiberalism does not prevail.

They say that illiberalism is necessary to realize and maintain socialist economy where everybody gets money and happiness. But, the underlying truth is that socialism is necessary to realize illiberalism where elites make a monopoly of money and happiness.

The term socialism belongs to the domain of politics but not economy. Socialism is nothing but the first step to illiberalism, like in the case of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and North Korea.

The underlying passion of socialism is hate for successful people in free economy. Enjoying freedom, lucky guys, strong guys, rich guys, and blessed guys, in addition to smart guys, become elites in society to further enjoy services from the poor.
So, "the poor should hate the rich. Let the poor hate the rich."
"Support them with theory of socialism."
"After the poor have won, let us be elites in a new society, introducing illiberalism." This is the truth of well-educated leaders of socialism movement.

So, sound politicians should not blame socialism but illiberalism. "That party is guided by hatred of illiberalism but not by an economic ideal of socialism." This is what they shout to voters, especially, in Japan today.

The agenda of the poor and the rich must be addressed in the framework of freedom, not by applying incomplete socialism inevitably subject to illiberalism, under the sanction of the God.

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

I saw a frying pan in a plastic bag on the edge of a roadway as if being left and dropping down from a waste-collection point on the sidewalk. Cars were running just a foot aside. Bicycles were expected to come soon along the lane edge onto the evil frying pan half hidden in the white fragile bag. So, I picked it up and put it safely on the waste-collection point beside a concrete power pole.

I wondered why the sky is so faintly blue nowadays. The sky was more bluer, like in a cartoon, even in Tokyo once...


("Time":
http://web.agria.hu/kepenu/pinkfloy/darkside/time.mid
Source: http://web.agria.hu/kepenu/pinkfloy.htm

It is said there are $100 billion in pockets of Greek citizens as they did not report some incomes to the government over many years. Indeed, an economic solution is always in pockets of citizens.

In addition, the number of those killed in traffic accidents in this Golden Holiday Season in Japan over the past eight days are 111, up 20 or so from the last year's. Life is more important than time, money, and leisure around Times Square or in Pakistan.)



Mar 5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Mar 5:6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

Mar 5:7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

Mar 5:8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

Mar 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

　　　

"the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers"

(Photos in this blog all taken by EEE Reporter around Tokyo over years...)



SECTION I: Languages Japanese Learn

According to an Internet Survey conducted in January 2007, foreign languages Japanese people want to learn are as follows in terms of ratios of respondents:

..Interested In.....Ratio
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#1...English......56.2%
#2...Chinese......4.9%
#3...Korean.......4.0%
#4...French.......2.2%
#5...Spanish......1.6%
#6...Italian......1.4%
#7...German.......1.4%
#8...Russian......0.4%
#9...Arabic.......0.2%
#..Other Asian Languages...0.7%
#..Other European Languages...0.4%
#..Others...0.4%
#..None...26.2%

According to an Internet Survey conducted in January 2007, foreign languages Japanese people are actually learning are as follows in terms of ratios of respondents:

..Now Learning.....Ratio
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#1...English.....18.8%
#2...Korean......1.7%
#3...Chinese.....1.3%
#4...French......0.7%
#5...German......0.6%
#6...Spanish.....0.4%
#7...Italian.....0.3%
#9...Russian.....0.2%
#10...Arabic......0.1%
#...Other Asian Languages...0.3%
#...Other European Languages...0.1%
#...Others....0.2%
#...None......75.4%

English, Korean, and Chinese are a kind of pragmatic foreign languages for Japanese citizens. Japanese like France and Itlay. Russia is also close to Japan. Spanish can be useful when Japanese go to America if not Brazil. German science, engineering, art, and culture are traditionally well studied in Japanese universities.

Specifically, university students in Japan are usually obliged to learn English and other foreign language. Most of students choose French, Chinese, or German.

(http://www.myvoice.co.jp/biz/surveys/10211/index.html)

But, almost one in thousand Internet users in Japan is learning Arabic, which is a big surprise, though 13 in 1,000 learning Chinese, which is reasonable.

However, two thirds of Japanese citizens never use English in person or read or write in a year, according to a survey in 2006 or so (except English expressions used as part of Japanese like in commercials).

(http://jgss.daishodai.ac.jp/research/monographs/jgssm9/jgssm9_8.pdf)

Yet, probably in China, 99% of people must never use English in person or read or write in a year.

To be an economic power in East Asia, the ability to speak English has not been needed among people in society, including elites, since higher education is provided in the mother language in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China owing to great translation work on Western cultural works by Japanese in the late 19th century.

And, historically the East Asian Culture, absorbing Buddhism born in South Asia, has been as advanced as ancient Greek/Roman Civilizations and Juadaistic Culture.

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





Dan 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Dan 5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Dan 5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

Dan 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Dan 5:8 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

Dan 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed　in him, and his lords were astonied.

Dan 5:10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:

Dan 5:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

"But her end is bitter as wormwood"

(Tokyo Times Square?)


Logical Thinking

If you have a child, you must protect him or her.

But, with violence, as the first and last means, would you try to protect your child?

Can you show a violent attitude to others while bringing your child on a street, as a warning that you would violate others if they start to violate your child?

Even in Japan, some stupid young father behaves so stupidly.

Be humble when you are with your child so that people around you would protect him or her due to your humbleness, since you have no power to destroy a police system of a nation.

The bottom line is if there is one such a stupid young father in Japan, how many of the similar kind are in America, Europe, India, and the Middle East since East Asia is the only region of Buddhism and Confucianism that teach humbleness with good manners?


SECTION I: GLOBAL WARMING MATHEMATICALLY DENIED

The global temperature increased in the period between 1995 and 2010 compared with the preceding period between 1980 and 1995.

But, It is not a simple linear increase as often stressed. Though between the above two periods the base temperature level was up, no simple linear increase of temperature is observed within the latter period between 1995 and 2010 as can be proven mathematically.

Anyway, carefully check the below figure showing temperature change prepared by an American university. You will confirm the above my assertion.

(click to enlarge)

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No statistically significant warming since 1995: a quick mathematical proof
Posted on December 26, 2009 by Anthony Watts

Physicist Luboš Motl of The Reference Frame demonstrates how easy it is to show that there is: No statistically significant warming since 1995...

By: Luboš Motl
...
The UAH 1995-2009 slope was calculated to be 0.95 [degrees Centigrade] per century. And the standard deviation of this figure, calculated via the standard formula on this page, is 0.88 [degrees Centigrade]/century. So this suggests that the positivity of the slope is just a 1-sigma result – a noise. Can we be more rigorous about it? You bet...

The 99% confidence interval is (-1.59, +3.49) in [degrees Centigrade]/century. Similarly, the 95% confidence interval for the slope is (-0.87, 2.8) in [degrees Centigrade]/century. On the other hand, the 90% confidence interval is (-0.54, 2.44) in [degrees Centigrade]/century. All these intervals contain both negative and positive numbers. No conclusion about the slope can be made on either 99%, 95%, and not even 90% confidence level.

Only the 72% confidence interval for the slope touches zero. It means that the probability that the underlying slope is negative equals 1/2 of the rest, i.e. a substantial 14%.

We can only say that it is "somewhat more likely than not" that the underlying trend in 1995-2009 was a warming trend rather than a cooling trend. Saying that the warming since 1995 was "very likely" is already way too ambitious a goal that the data don't support...

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/26/no-statistically-significant-warming-since-1995-a-quick-mathematical-proof/


Note: The "slope" means a temperature change trend (up or down). To say something about up or down, the confidence level must be first lowered to 72%. At this level, a slope zero (a levl line) occurs, and the probability of a "negative" slope and a "positive" slope outside this level-slope domain is considered each as 50%, namely 14% substantially (=[100-72]*0.5), indicating no wonder mathematically if global cooling is now occurring.
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In summary, for various complex reasons, the global temperature increased in the period between 1995 and 2010 compared with the preceding period between 1980 and 1995, but no simple linear increase of temperature is observed within the latter period between 1995 and 2010 as can be proven mathematically.

In this decade or 15 years, the temperature level was higher than in early 1990's, 1980's, and 1970's, but no further trend of a simple increase in the temperatures can be proven mathematically within this latest period.

As the number of sun spots has dramatically decreased in past two years, it is likely that the global cooling has begun last year, though some heat already accumulated in the ocean can still continue to locally influence some regions on the earth. That may be why the central part of the Pacific Ocean over the equator got heated abnormally and the total CO2 absorption by the ocean suddenly decreased last year.

You may also check the status of ice expansion in the Arctic Sea as reported by the National Snow and Ice Center:


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http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index.html
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The ice covered area around the north pole has decreased through 1970's to 2000's. It recorded the minimum in 2006. But, the ice prevailed wider in early 2010 than in early 2007. As the sea contains more heat longer than the air or the land, there can be time delay for some effect of global cooling to come up to the surface of the Arctic Sea.

When the ice extension in the Arctic region has started to explicitly increase again, the world will admit global cooling.


SECTION II: When Israel Is Evacuated

First of all, if an Israeli today cannot prove his or her concrete and specific family tree that can be traced back to the era of Jesus Christ or at least the time of the first Jewish-Roman War (66–70 CE), that person has no right to live in Palestine legally.

If a pure native American person converts to Judaism today, he or she has no right at all to live in Palestine or the nation Israel.

Japanese are very compassionate to Judaists living or killed during WWII. But, Japanese are also very compassionate to Palestinians being suppressed by the Israeli military today.

But, as China has increased its military capacity along with its economic development, Palestinians might have more military power if their economy is improved.

If Syria and other anti-Israeli nations also succeed in economic growth like China, they would have more military capability to overwhelm Israel. So, the issue is whether Syria and other anti-Israeli nations can achieve high growth in economy like China.

European nations and America will not help Syria and other anti-Israeli nations achieve high growth in economy like China. Probably China will not, either, since Islam is a potential enemy of China.

Only Japan can help Syria and other anti-Israeli nations achieve high growth in economy like China.

In future, when Israel realizes that it cannot fight and win against Syria and other anti-Israeli nations that has developed like China in terms of economy and military, Israelis will evacuate the nation Israel, since Israel today exists only based on military superiority over Syria and other anti-Israeli nations.

But, where will they go?

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

In the Japanese National Diet (Parliament), if one camp has more than two thirds of seats in the Lower House, they can override any resolution the Upper House has adopted.

The camp led by ruling Democratic Party of Japan (with the head of P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama) is 10 seats short of this 2/3 majority. Its allies the Social Democratic Party has 7 seats and the People's New Party has 3 seats. So, the ruling coalition has in theory the 2/3 majority. But to make it sure, the DPJ might take other party into the coalition. Then, it needs no majority in the Upper House, which was the case for the former ruling party LDP.

In this context, the coming Upper House election can be a secondary matter to the DPJ and Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, the senior lawmaker for P.M. Mr. Hatoyama.

Mr. Ozawa and the DPJ might take, for example, New Komeito occupying 21 seats in the Lower House, into the coalition, realizing the 2/3 majority so handily.

Put simply, the moment Mr. Ozawa and the New Komeito party have reached this agreement, significance of the Upper House election scheduled this summer might be lost. Accordingly, Mr. Ozawa can keep his influence even if he is forced to step down from the position of the Secretary General of the DPJ due to possible prosecution for violation of the Political Funding Regulation Law.

Nonetheless, the approval rate for the Hatoyama Cabinet will drop to a 10% level, an impossible line.



(http://www.just-oldies.com/1964/world_without_love.htm

If it is global warming or cooling, Israel's defeat or victory, or Mr. Hatoyama's resignation or not, this is the world without love for some...)



Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

"thou hatest all workers of iniquity"

(Tokyo)


ONLY ONE MORE THING NEEDED FOR SMILING


Some Japanese naturally smile when facing others or human souls.

Even, at a certain person almost all the Westerners smile simply.

But, I cannot believe that Jesus Christ will smile at Romans and Americans.

Of course, Allah is the God of anger and subsequent mercy.

Anyway, do not smile like an American on a stage but like ancient Greeks except Socrates.

(Yet, President, Mr. Obama, what that wide smiling to cameras with now globally respected Prime Minister Mr. Hatoyama as he was chosen by Time Magazine? Key voters are now not smiling, though...)


SECTION I: JAPAN & PALESTINE

I-1. JAPAN'S OFFICIAL AID

Major Donors' Assistance to the Palestinians (Excluding contributions to UNRWA)
Assistance by donors (disbursement basis, 1993-2003, except for data for 2004 which is on commitment basis:MOFA & MOP):

International Disbursement in 2004

http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/middle_e/palestine/summary.html

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Embassy of Japan in Jordan
Press Release on March 3, 2009

Japan began assisting UNRWA in 1953. To date, the amount of Japanese aid to the Palestine refugee Agency totals US$ 549 million dollars. Japan has been one of the top donors to UNRWA. The latest assistance from Japan was directed to Gaza to help alleviate the crisis, including an in-kind donation of 8,000 plastic sheets, 29,000 blankets, and 20,000 sleeping mattresses, as well as a US$ 3 million contribution for emergency food aid. Japan is currently exploring other ways to assist UNRWA and the Palestine refugees.

http://www.jordan.emb-japan.go.jp/eng_release/09Mar_unrwa/en_release_aid_0304_unrwa.htm
Note: UNRWA stands for U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
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Specifically, the total amount of Japan's aid to Palestine reached $1 billion between 1993 and the end of 2008.


I-2. JAPAN'S PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT

Tｈere are scores of private sector bodies in Japan that support people of Palestine.
(http://a.hatena.ne.jp/andy/?gid=11013 )


I-3. JAPANESE IN PALESTINE

Ms. Ayako Sono, a very notable Japanese female author, once visited Palestine. She talked with a Palestine female teacher. Catholic writer Ms. Sono pointed to the fact that the No.1 donor to Palestine was America and No.2 Japan. But, the female teacher got excited and spoke something harshly in Arabic. Yet, conservative Japanese author Ms. Sono was accompanied by an Arab woman, as a kind of guide, as she married a Japanese and possessed Japanese nationality. According to interpretation by the Arab Japanese woman, the female teacher said, "America must give us more money, since America is wrong. We must take more money from America! And, this Japanese woman must be abducted (as she is so pro-American)!"

Ms. Ayako Sono wrote in a newspaper column that she avoided even taking a taxi in Palestine after this incident.

Her comment has been discussed by some Japanese in their blogs and sites on the Internet, with and without sympathy for Palestinians.

As other example, a few days ago some Japanese lawmakers of the Liberal Democratic Party visited Palestine to talk with Arab politicians, though Chairman Mr. Mahmoud Abbas was in Shanghai. Palestine leaders asked them about the present situation of Japan's Former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi who visited Palestine in 2006. The Japanese Diet members also visited Jerusalem to even take a picture of the Wailing Wall.
(http://blog.goo.ne.jp/newseko/e/76463f065a5d36090a9a19fdd0a593af )

Anyway, Japanese, who respect any valuable and authentic religion, are so interested in Palestine, which the world does not know.



SECTION II: EEE-ECONOMICS

Every player in economy of a nation must exercise responsibility to maintain the sound state of economy, since even Hitler and Stalin can lower an unemployment rate to near zero or minus (through execution of some members of society).



R = T + P + O

R: Real economy
T: Factors explained theoretically by economics
P: Political influence
O: Other reality concerning human beings, society, the world, and history

Economics is part of real economy. Real economy is not a bad part of economics, which brainwashed economists believe.

Economics is a kind of integers while real economy is the whole set of real numbers.

Anyway, a specific unemployment rate of 9.7% in the U.S. and 5.2% in Japan is each explained as follows:
R = k*T + l*P + m*O, where "k," "l," and "m" are coefficients.

Note that here "m" and "l" are far larger than "k."

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

There are many reasons that nonparty affiliated voters in Japan who supported the Democratic Parth of Japan in the last summer's election are turning the back to the ruling DPJ and the Hatoyama Cabinet, while the Upper House election is scheduled for this summer.

One reason is quality of female candidates and lawmakers of the DPJ, whom mostly Secretary General of the DPJ Mr. Ozawa chose.

It is as if Mr. Ozawa were trying to make the Japanese Diet a kind of tavern or barroom with women who actually worked in such an environment, including an indecent comedian group.

Nonparty affiliated voters who realized the regime change in Japan, so focused on globally, must take responsibility in the next elections. However, the rival LDP was also acting foolish, trying to have a local female lawmaker the media called the most beautiful among female politicians in Japan run for the coming election.

Anyway, as Mr. Ozawa assigned deliberately offices of DPJ female lawmakers in the congressional office building to rooms close to his on the same floor, it is time for nonparty affiliated voters to do justice on the DPJ.





(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaRYgVB8--s&feature=related

What is hotter than a summer place? A passion for gambling of any sort?)




Psa 5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

Psa 5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Psa 5:3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

Psa 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Psa 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

DNA PATTERN OVER 70 GENERATIONS

DNA PATTERN OVER 70 GENERATIONS


Last night a Japanese TV channel presented the film "Da Vinci Code," maybe the second time.

It was a stupid movie based on a sinful novel.

But, as Jesus Christ had several siblings, it is very possible that still some descendants of Mother Mary and Father Joseph, the so-called biological parents of Jesus Christ, continue to live.

If such a person lives today, he or she is probably the 70th generation in the holy family line of blood.

After the death of Jesus Christ, His legacy could be relayed generation after generation among families of descendants of His siblings in a very secret manner.

As miracles are the essence of Christianity, the existence of the 70th generation of a brother of Jesus Christ is very possible.

But, where is he or she, the holy 70th-generation of His family?

There are four possible places: Israel, Rome, New York, or Saudi Arabia.

This can be a great non-nonsense story: There are four persons each in Israel, Rome, New York, and Saudi Arabia with a specific DNA pattern that proves their lineage which can be directly traced back 2000 years to the holy family in the first century in Palestine.

Accordingly, Judaism, Vatican Christianity, Modern Judaism/Christianity Complex, and Islam can be integrated through this story.

But, what pattern of holy DNA, as a miracle, should be looked for?

I might come to have an idea, since I learnt a bit little of biology, in university, though long time ago...

(http://www.dna-rainbow.org/ )



p.s. I have of course nothing to do with the Saturday night incomplete bombing incident involving a smoking Nisssan car parked and abandoned in Times Square, New York, since I was busy writing a history review around Tokyo, though I introduced the song Saturday Night Fever on Friday, Japan Time. (It looks like a kind of conspiracy rather than an act of terror by an Islamic group.)


Supplement:
Even the devil likes a good-mannered slave, like a well-paid priest, who thinks that money must be respected. That is why I propose revolution for non-money economy as the first step toward the Kingdom of God.

http://www.midicenter.com/midi/midi_files/classical/wamozart/wamk284.mid
(Source: http://www.midicenter.com/midi/midi_files/classical/wamozart/pianosonatas.htm)

Anyway, work of a genius is essentially of charity, even for Mozart, which is why it can survive in history evolving and washing away memory of desire of men.

"the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David"

(Tokyo Prefecture has now 13 million residents, accounting for 10% of the Japan's population, though its area accounts for just 0.6% of the whole territory of Japan.)



EXPOSITION ON WARS AROUND SHANGHAI IN 1930'S


Today, every Japanese thinks that the war with China in 1930's and 1940's was a big mistake, a big failure, a big mystery, or a big crime.

So, today's security partnership of Japan and the United States is based on this notion.

However, there is a context in anything, including the American War on Terror and the Chinese violent occupation of Tibet and Islamic regions.

Indeed, it is time to review incidents around Shanghai in 1930's, since if Japanese were so bad as the Chinese Communist Party claims, there could not be such an economic recovery after WWII in Japan and after 1970's in China due to huge aid and support from Japan.



SECTION I: CONCLUSION FOR GENERAL AUDIENCE

Through this March to April, I have reviewed the Japanese history with a focus on Shanghai in 1930's though Shanghai was then a state of quasi-colonization by the U.K., France, America, and the Empire of Japan.

Shanghai was extremely prosperous despite the Great Depression with economic and security contribution from the U.K., France, America, and the Empire of Japan.

But, the Chinese Government and armed factions started to occupy Shanghai by force.

Then 1932, Chinese troops launched a large-scale attack on Shanghai only to fail due to mighty defence by the Imperial Navy and Army dispatched from Japan over the East China Sea.

Again 1937, Chinese troops launched a larger-scale attack with 650,000 troops on Shanghai only to fail due to mighty defence by the Imperial Navy and Army mobilizing 250,000 troops from Japan over the East China Sea.

Though the Imperial Government was very reluctant to expand the war zone inside the Chinese Continent, Imperial generals on front thought it was time to eradicate the menace of the Chinese Military, though they had to address almost a million Chinese troops.

And behind the repeatedly invading Chinese troops into Shanghai, Imperial generals saw Nanjing, 280 km west of Shanghai, the then capital of China surrounded by long and mighty walls, where Chinese generals and soldiers fled looting villages on their way after the failure in invasion of Shanghai. The Imperial Army troops so swiftly chased them into Nanjing where many Chinese soldiers already exchanged their uniforms with civilian clothes as they knew that they were abandoned by their leaders and generals.

And further behind Nanjing, Imperial generals saw Chongqing, 2100 km west of Nanjing, where Chinese leaders and generals fled leaving soldiers and citizens in Nanjing in the middle of battles without instructions, support, and means to officially surrender to the Imperial Army. Imperial Army could not advance to Chongqing due to difficult terrains, so air-bombed Chongqing. While losing face and a half million troops, Chinese leaders started to shout, "It was the Imperial Army that first fired and invaded Shanghai," which Americans started to believe.

And further behind Chongqing, Imperial generals saw Washington D.C. and Pearl Harbor (6,430 km east of Tokyo), since the U.S. started to supply financial and military aid for China. Further, America stopped export of crude oil and iron to the Empire of Japan, requesting total withdrawal of the Imperial troops from mainland China.

Therefore, before fuel of the Imperial Navy depleted, the Empire of Japan had to make a decision on cease-fire with malicious Chinese troops or extending the honorable war to Pearl Harbor, the U.S.

Americans in Shanghai were protected by the Imperial troops through their sacrifices, twice from invading Chinese troops. But, now Americans believed the lie Chinese were diffusing in America so as to blame the Empire. It was a kind of inevitable decision that the Imperial generals, who dominated the Imperial Government in Tokyo then, accepted the challenge so irrational for them.

The attacks started by Chinese troops on Shanghai in 1932 and 1937 led to the Battle in Nanjing and the air campaign of Imperial air squadrons to Chongqing, and finally the Imperial air-craft carriers' attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, since the U.S. joined the Chinese Mafia who called themselves legitimate politicians and generals of China suffering civil wars for so long since the fall or the last days of the the Qing dynasty in 1911.


(The key to judgment of the war is that the Imperial Government, the National Diet, and political parties and businesses of the Empire in 1920's and 1930's had no official plan to occupy and colonize whole China through war; even Imperial troops stationed in Manchuria had no plan to launch war to the Chinese military so as to occupy and govern whole China, and its occupation of Beijing and North China was regarded as tentative but necessary for prevention of Chinese attacks. However, Imperial generals never refrained from aggressively responding to attacks from the Chinese side. In other word, nothing was systematic in this war on the Japanese side.)


SECTION II: APPENDIX

The Battle of Nanjing was fought only for 10 days. The 120,000 Imperial troops advanced quickly from Shanghai to Nanjing taking one month, fighting all the way.

Chinese troops were already half destroyed on the path from Shanghai to Nanjing, thus only 100,000 soldiers were engaged in fighting in Nanjing, resulting in 80,000 deaths (and 10,000 prisoners of war). This number means, however, almost uncountable casualties at the front, namely all the dead bodies lying as far as you could see in and around Nanjing, and more on the path from Shanghai.

1. Even today, it is said that 200,000 citizens or 1,000,000 citizens were killed being involved in the Battle of Nanjing. However, it is no wonder, since China mobilized 650,000 soldiers for the attack and invasion of Shanghai in 1937, which were completely destroyed through intense combats between Shanghai and Nanjing. And, it is plain to see that there was no reason for the Imperial troops to aimlessly kill Chinese citizens while they had to continue to fight another half a million Chinese troops before starting to govern whole China.

2. For Chinese leaders and generals to escape Nanjing and reach Chongqing, any great turmoil and mess in Nanjing were desired. They had to buy time. They must have left many soldiers in Nanjing, ordering them to carry out a guerrilla fighting. Though the great Nanjing Battle lasted only 10 days, Chinese leaders did not let citizens first escape the city with necessary arrangements.

3. First of all, Chinese leaders and generals had thought that they could easily drive out Imperial Naval ships and Imperial Marines from Shanghai and suppress all the Western soldiers stationed in the great port city. They had not taken into consideration a possibility that they would be defeated by the Imperial troops to be dispatched over the East China Sea, since Chinese leaders could use half a million troops and 200 fighter planes for this invasion of Shanghai. In short, the Imperial troops and air squadrons, equipped with enough cannons and advanced planes, were far stronger than Chiang Kaishek (Sho-Kaiseki in Japanese) and Mao Tse-tung (Mo-Takuto in Japanese) had thought before.

4. "When Nanking fell, the Nanking Safety Zone housed over 250,000 refugees" who were almost total residents then.

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

Most of these 250,000 Chinese citizens survived the Battle of Nanjing. However, if 5% of them were later involved in the guerrilla fight, the number of citizens wounded and killed would have been over 10,000, which is quite large for any witnesses, including Western ones.

As a reasonable conclusion, the Battle in Nanjing is thought to have caused 100,000 casualties on the Chinese side, regrettably, though 90% or more were of soldiers.

5. After WWII, it is said that the Communist Party led by Mao Tse-tung and the National Party led by Chiang Kaishek fought for hegemony over China, causing about one million deaths. This data and any other data about deaths of Chinese soldiers and citizens in any incident under the Communist regime are not objectively verified. Then how can you say how many citizens were killed in Nanjing in 1937, while 500,000 of 650,000 Chinese soldiers who had been initially mobilized disappeared or dispersed between Shanghai and Nanjing through one of the fiercest battles in the history?


SECTION III: Pearl Harbor in 1941

Shanghai, Nanjing, Chongqing, and Pearl Harbor were directly connected in the above context.

"Who helped, supported, and accepted the Chinese attack on Japanese in Shanghai in 1932 and 1937? It is America!" This is the final finding of the Imperial Government in 1941.

Every American older enough in December 1941 never forgot what he or she was doing when the news about the Pearl Harbor Attack first reached him or her.

But, few thought, "Japanese have finally come from Shanghai and Nanjing and through Chongqing to do justice!"

Indeed, America should have cooperated with the Empire of Japan in 1932 and 1937 to prevent Chinese attacks on Shanghai, since it was the true cause of the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941.

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

Now, you know why I do not go to Shanghai.

I do not go to Nanjing, Chongqing, and Pearl Harbor.

It is because where one is one must show his respect to the God.

And, Jesus Christ said that even from a stone on the wayside a descendant of Abraham is created by the God.

You can be made a descendant of Abraham if you are a roadside stone. And a roadside stone never moves around so foolishly like the Imperial Army around Shanghai in 1937.

"Stay there around Shanghai. Face 10 times more Chinese attacks and invasions to repel them until Americans come (to rescue Rockefeller and other American residents in Shanghai)!!"



(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-senzen/herijunzailai.html
A Chinese song made in Shanghai in 1937.)


Rev 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

Rev 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Rev 5:3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

Rev 5:4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

Rev 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

"I have meat to eat that ye know not of" - Japan's Influence on China

(The Incredible Tokyo Bay)

Globally Influential Japanese?

[Updated on Dec. 1, 2011]

It cannot be Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, since his idea of 25% CO2 reduction was originally an idea of Foreign Minister Mr. Katsuya Okada.

It is Minister in Charge of Financial Affairs and Postal Reformation Mr. Shizuka Kamei that has changed the Koizumi Postal Privatization Policy and controls the world No.1 financial institute Japan Post Group.

But, the Japanese politician China expects, supports, and approves the most is without doubt Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, though his mentor Mr. Ichiro Ozawa is also ardently respected by Beijing.

Rather, I think it is Mr. Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation with its headquarters in Toyota City (Nagoya Area), Japan.

Mr. Toyoda should accelerate introduction of electric cars before tens of millions of cars in China start to emit CO2 and other undesired chemicals to the air.

Then, he might again make an appearance, say, in the Larry King Live as an honorable industry leader of the world, though Nissan is now chasing Toyota so closely in Japan.

Anyway, check CIA files about influential Japanese before judging Japan's elites.


SECTION I: Shanghai & Beijing in 1999

The Shanghai Airport was built with $450 million ODA provided by Japan in 1999.

(Wikipedia: "The airport was significantly funded by a 40-billion-yen (~450 million USD) Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Pudong_International_Airport )

The Beijing Airport was built with $330 million public aid from Japan, which accounted for 25% of the total $1.3 billion costs of the airport construction in 1999.

(Wikipedia: "The airport's 1999 extension (Construction of Terminal 2) was financed by ODA (Low interest loan) provided by the Japanese government"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Capital_International_Airport )

The Beijing Subway System No.2 was built with $220 million ODA from Japan, which accounted for 22% of the total $1 billion costs of the Subway system construction in 1999, while the Subway System No.1 was extended with $170 million ODA from Japan in 1991.

(Wikipedia: "On January 26, 1991, planning began on the eastward extension of Line 1 under Chang’an Avenue from Fuxingmen with the receipt of 19.2 billion yen low-interest, development assistance loan from Japan."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Subway )

After WWII, especially, after restoring relationship with China in 1970's, Japan donated, provided, and offered a huge amount of money to China, which the Chinese Government seldom made public to the Chinese citizens (which is why you should not blindly believe what the Chinese Communist Party says about Nanjing of 1937...):

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Japanese Loan to China 

Reuters,  Published: March 21, 1991 

TOKYO, March 20— Japan released $318 million last week in aid to China, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The loan, which was signed on Friday in Beijing, is part of a five-year, $5.95 billion package of Japanese aid to China. Similar amounts were released in November and December. The latest loan bears interest of 2.5 percent and the repayment period is 30 years, including a 10-year grace period. The money will finance the construction of roads, railroads, airports and utilities, the statement said.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/21/business/japanese-loan-to-china.html?pagewanted=1

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Until fiscal 2000, Japan provided $2.2 billion of ODA for China, which was used for nine projects to construct express highways over 1200 km (700 miles).

Japan also provided $550 million for China's expressway construction through the Export-Import Bank of Japan.

While China was not an economic power admired by Wall Street, Japan provided total $30 billion aid to China through 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and even 2000's.

(http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~nippon/jogbd_h12/jog146.html )

China should not have its Naval fleet sail around the Japanese islands, foolishly and childishly trying to threaten Japan and the U.S. as it did recently.

Even in 1920's and 1930's, the Empire of Japan helped build various modern infrastructures in and around Shanghai, though the Imperial Army and Navy fought back against invading Chinese troops, numerically several times larger, sacrificing some city facilities.



SECTION II: Global TV Shipments

You may watch the World Cup Succor games on TV.

Globally, makers delivered 211 million TV sets in 2009. And, the trend is with the flat panel TV set, such as an LCD TV.

But, no companies in Europe, North American, and China cannot compete with Japan and South Korea in this industry sector.

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Global LCD TV Shipments Reached 146M Units in 2009, Faster Growth Than 2008 

Table 2: Q4‘09 Worldwide TV Brand Rankings by Revenue Share 

Rank...Brand...................Share Q4'09
#1 Samsung (Korea)................23.6% 

#2 LGE (Korea)..............13.0% 

#3 Sony (JAPAN).................11.5% 

#4 Panasonic (JAPAN)..............8.0% 

#5 Sharp (JAPAN)..................5.4% 

# Others................40.4%
http://www.displaysearch-japan.com/release/2010/02/r23.html

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Everybody has or uses a TV in the world.

But, only three Japanese companies and two Korean makers provide total 60% of all the flat TV sets used in the world.

Of course, Japan has provided funds and technologies for development of the electronics industry of Korea in these decades.

But, those Japanese economists who have never worked in TV factories or learnt TV-related technologies are singing with Wall Street economists, "Japan is over! Japan is out! Japan is defeated!"

The truth is that America is over, out, and defeated in the TV industry competition since decades ago.

If America has a reasonable TV set maker, tens of thousands of Americans, unemployed today, must have a decent job.

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

I had a portable mono color TV set when I was a student (as I was a poor student enjoying some NHK public broadcasting station's programs and animations on this Sony TV).

I took it out as the garbage when I moved and decided to study a certain subject in real (though I bought anew a special Sony radio set to listen to broadcasting from various countries).

Even today, students and professors do not need a TV set but books to study a certain subject in real.

That is why I do not respect those professors making a TV appearance so often.

Indeed, a high school, a noodle shop or a fast food shop, and a TV station have been three major stages in life for high school girls for decades in Japan.

An educational TV program is indeed wanted to stop an obscurantist policy malicious politicians might promote with help from super rich men and a sort of the Mafia calling themselves elites.



( http://www.karenlynngorney.com/stephanie.htm

Saturday Night Fever, one of symbolic songs at a change of the era...)



Joh 4:30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

Joh 4:31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

Joh 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.

Joh 4:33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?

Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

"immediately he putteth in the sickle"

More Money Or More Rest?

There are two things even the Japanese Mafia of any sort respect: traffic signals and yen.

It is however a long story how Japan has addressed the challenge of the exchange rate against the U.S. dollar.

Even China is yet to be tested.

Other developing countries, namely non-European dominant nations, must also first tackle this issue, since even a foolish British prime minister knows their advantage in the exchange market over, say, African countries or India.

(http://electronic-journal.seesaa.net/article/16157147.html)


SECTION I: 25-Year Disparity in Exchange Rate

If 1 yuan = 15 yen and 8 yuan = $1, then 120 yen = $1.
If 1 yuan = 14 yen and 7 yuan = $1, then 98 yen = $1.
If 1 yuan = 13 yen and 6 yuan = $1, then 78 yen = $1.

However, China has wisely set 1 yuan at 14 yen and 7 yuan at $1.

But, will someday the rates be fixed as $1 = 1 yuan = 100 yen?

Now, the following figure shows a rate of yen against 1 US dollar and 1 China Yuan, respectively, though recently 94 yen per dollar and 14 yen per yuan.

(Source: http://www.zyoutou.com/report/currency/data/report2%20(3).html)

A Big Mac hamburger is sold at $2.3 in America.
A Big Mac hamburger is sold at 13 Yuan in China.
A Big Mac hamburger is sold at 250 yen in Japan.

A Chinese Big Mac can be sold at 190 yen in Japan as 1 Yuan = 14 Yen.

A Chinese Big Mac can be sold at $1.9 in America as 7 Yuan = $1.

The price reduction ratio in Japan is 76% (250 x 0.76 = 190).

The price reduction ratio in America is 83%.

However, China accounts for only 11% of America international trade.

China accounts for 17% of Japanese international trade.

In total, Japan receives 1.7 times more deflation pressure from China than America does.

If a wage of a worker decreases from $10,000 to $8,000 in America due to this China-deflation effect, it will decrease from $10,000 to $6,600 in Japan.

If sales of a company decrease from $10 million to $8 million in America due to this China-deflation effect, it will decrease from $10 million to $6.6 million in Japan.

If the Government tax revenue decreases from $1 trillion to $0.8 trillion in America due to this China-deflation effect, it will decrease from $1 trillion to $0.66 trillion in Japan.

In this way, the Japanese Government can collect only 66 trillion yen at best while it can collect 80 trillion yen, if the condition is the same as in America.

For 25 years, the deficit caused only in this context can accumulate to 350 trillion yen.


(But, an average annual salary of city workers in China is 30,000 Yuan [30,000 x 14 = 420,000 yen].

So, a Japanese company has to pay only 420,000 Yen to hire one worker for one year in a Chinese city, though 420,000 Yen is a 2 to 3-month work wage for one part-time worker in a Japanese city.

Japanese businesses must like this status despite the financial quagmire of the Japanese Government.

[ http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2009&d=0410&f=national_0410_042.shtml])


SECTION II: Golden Week Holidays of Japan

From April 29 to May 5, included, can be a continuous holiday period for many (tens of million) Japanese workers as this period includes five public holidays and one Saturday.

Most of offices of businesses in Japan will suspend operation.


My recommendation to people for their holiday trip is that they travel to the Okinawa and Toku-No-Shinma Islands, since the area is important for Japan's defence.

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

Once a Japanese comedian traveled to Africa, moving around on the continent, sitting on the seat of a coach, smoking and looking outside the window of a train running through an African grassy plain.

After coming back to Japan, he looked somehow like an African boy grown up in Japan.

So, Jesus said that your soul belongs where your treasure is.

However, it is no so common to see a Japanese whose treasure is a memory of Africa in his or her mind.


(http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~naka222/index57.html

Source: http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~naka222/)




Mar 4:28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

Mar 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

"But he passing through the midst of them went his way"

(Going through the Tokyo Bay Area; this is not the NHK TV station, though...)


Peace Inside And Outside A Nation


Everybody in Japan is now wondering if the Secretary-General of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan Mr. Ichiro Ozawa will be eventually prosecuted through voting by the Committees for the Inquest of Prosecution, though the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office gave up indictment of Mr. Ozawa a few months ago.

The first voting of yesterday was resulted in request for prosecution of Mr. Ichiro Ozawa for violation of the Political Funding Regulation Law. If the second voting expected in a few months should be again resulted in request for prosecution, the most powerful Japanese lawmaker Mr. Ozawa will be indicted by law.

Such a big prosecution was conducted with late former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka in 1976, and 17 years later with the then most powerful politician Shin Kanamaru in 1993. And again 17 years later, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa is facing the possible fatal action, since Kakuei Tanaka and Shin Kanamaru were Mr. Ozawa's intimate bosses when he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

In Japanese, it is said that what happens twice will happen three times.

Lower-House member Mr. Ichiro Ozawa should retire from politics as soon as possible, since he has been a member of the National Diet since 1969 when Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama just graduated from the University of Tokyo.


SECTION I: GLOBAL PEACE INDEX (GPI)

New Zealand is the most peace-enjoying country in the world.

Japan is the most peace-enjoying country among G8 or highly advanced influential country in the world, so honorably.

Japan with 125 million population is also the most peace-enjoying among countries with population of more than 10 million, quite honorably.

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Global Peace Index Rankings

The table below provides the GPI rankings for the 144 countries analysed in 2009...

#1 New Zealand
#2 Denmark; Norway
#4 Iceland
#5 Austria
#6 Sweden
#7 JAPAN
#8 Canada
...
#16 Germany
#19 Australia
#30 France
#33 South Korea
#35 UK
#36 Italy
#37 Taiwan
#74 China
#83 USA
#85 Brazil
#99 Iran
#104 Saudi Arabia
#118 Thailand
#122 India
#123 South Africa
#131 North Korea
#136 Russia
#137 Pakistan
#141 Israel
#142 Somalia
#143 Afghanistan
#144 Iraq

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/rankings.php
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Despite the 15 year economic slump, Japan is still the second largest and advanced economy enjoying peace China and America cannot attain.

The value of peace and its translation into wealth are what the modern economics lacks.

In other world, being rich in America lacks a sense of peace, while being rich in Japan is accompanied by a great sense of peace.

Only foolish super/very-rich Japanese would go and live in America. Even Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, spending a personal allowance of $150,000 per month (not from his salary), looks like having no idea of going and living in America after retirement (which I highly recommend the prime minister to go into without delay before the G8 Summit).



SECTION II: Little Known Facts of Shanghai before WWII

In 1937, Chiang Kaishek (Sho-Kaiseki in Japanese) launched a decisive and large-scale offence to Shanghai with total 600,000 soldiers and 200 fighter planes, following a plan made by German General Alexander von Falkenhausen (who left Shanghai in 1938 after Nazi Germany ordered him to do so).

In this situation around 1937, Shanghai was full of Europeans and Americans who formed an administrative committee in their official settlements together with Japanese residents. In response to a call from the Japanese Consul, they made a request to the Chinese Government and the Chinese mayor of Shanghai City so as to stop invasion of the city by Chinese troops.

Despite the mutual effort by Japanese and Westerners in Shanghai, Chinese troops continued attacks on the city, even bombing international settlements by fighter planes, which took 2000 lives of civilians in one case.

The Imperial Naval ships and Marines stationed around Shanghai alone could not prevent this assault, thus asking the Imperial Government in Tokyo full-scale deployment of Imperial Army and Naval/Army air squadrons, resulting in the dispatch of total 250,000 troops, 500 fighter planes, and 150 warships eventually.

(Probably Chiang Kaishek thought that his half a million troops could easily drive out Imperial Naval ships and Marines if some divisions should have been sent from mainland Japan over the East China Sea.)

This battle around Shanghai in 1937 resulted in a great victory of the Empire of Japan and Western civilians and officials living in the great prosperous port city Shanghai. But, Chinese troops retreated to Nanjing, while destroying houses and looting assets of civilians living on the path from Shanghai to Nanjing. It was a Chinese official strategy not to leave behind anything valuable to the enemy, namely the Imperial Army of Japan in this case, despite desparate resistance from local Chinese residents and villagers.

In 1939, there was still the administrative committee in the official settlements of Europeans, Americans, and Japanese, owing to the victory of the Imperial Military.

According to the official annual report of 1939 issued by this international committee in Shanghai,
- there were 70 camps and 50,000 refugees in Shanghai managed by the committee at the end of 1938, and 28 camps and 33,000 refugees at the end of 1939;

- there were 6,000+ Judaists fleeing from Europe to Shanghai in April 1939, and 10,000+ in June 1939, resulting in restriction imposed by the committee on acceptance of new refugees, though Judaist refugees from Europe were mostly accommodated in the Japanese territory in Shanghai;

- The committee discussed and took actions on various agendas in 1939, such as protection of children, financial assistance to refugees, flood control, and even the monument building for British soldiers killed in the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864).

( http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad-Forest/1429/colo/shanghai.html)

As I once wrote, even a young American woman could travel from Tokyo to Nanjing through Shanghai in 1940 so safely, though she observed, along a rail road to Nanjing, evidence of victims and the fierceness of battles between Japanese and Chinese troops in addition to the effect of the Chinese strategy of leaving nothing behind for its enemy.

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

A Japanese TV station presented an interview with Ms. Arianna Huffington, since she is advocating "move money" or withdrawal of deposited money from big banks, namely JP Morgan/Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.

President Mr. Barack Obama also delivered a speech in Wall Street recently.

As I discussed in this blog, the central bank, the private banking system, and the government must be first changed before forcing a change in the industry/consumers domain.

However, this effort can mount to a level of a civil war or a revolution without fire arms. Courageous men and women are more wanted in America today.


( http://www.ongen.net/free/trial_download.php?id=tr0001413969&file_id=fl0000000001&stream_flag=1
Source: http://www.ongen.net/search_detail_artist/artist_id/at0000001066/

You have your own tomorrow no one can see through your eyes, though...)



Luk 4:28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

Luk 4:29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

Luk 4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,

Luk 4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

"So is the kingdom of God"

(Around the Tokyo Bay)


Executive Summary

My recent discussion on history of Japan is as follows:

Shanghai's prosperity in 1920's and 1930's, though under a quasi-state of colonization, was protected by some Western police and soldiers (including U.S. Marines) stationed in the foreign settlement districts and some Imperial Naval ships and Marines of Japan stationed around the city. But, Chinese irregular and regular troops recklessly tried to occupy and govern whole Shanghai to launch military invasion of Shanghai, resulting in fierce battles with Westerners and Japanese. Yet, finally the city so prosperous in the era of the Great Depression was defended by Imperial troops dispatched from mainland Japan over the East China Sea, while the Imperial Government in Tokyo was so reluctant to authorize requests from the Imperial Military for sending more divisions to Shanghai. This is the situation till 1937, when Chinese political leaders and generals launched decisive offence onto Shanghai defenders. However, I do not support the act of colonization of Shanghai by Westerners and Japanese.

My recent claims concerning economics and history of Christianity are as follows:


SECTION I: Dream Economics

People must be respected and allowed to exercises their rights to enjoy life with goods and services.

But who provide goods and services? Yes, corporations and businesses.

They must be from the beginning allowed to exist and function so as to fulfil their duty to supply goods and services for people.



As you see, money is not necessarily needed as means to realize salary and expense payment.

Indeed, people can use "numbers," that is, simply numeric figures, instead of money.

A company pays 10,000 to a worker instead of $10,000, for, for example, work in a car factory. A worker pays 10,000 to a company instead of $10,000, for, for example, provision of a car by the company.

It does, since it is just a number and not money. There is no value in 10,000 unlike $10,000. The value is in goods and services as well as in people's rights to receive goods and services.

Mankind should start to use "10,000" instead of "$10,000" as a step toward non-money economy.

Anyway, it is not in banks or governmental agencies that create goods and services which are the base of value for human material life.

Without rectifying current warped relationships between corporations and workers, economy cannot be truly improved.


SECTION II: Pompeii

A great volcano erupted in the first century 230 Km or 140 miles south of Rome.

There is a report on this volcanic disaster that destroyed city Pompeii and took life of 10,000 to 25,000 people.

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Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD, the day of the elder's death...

The largest body of Pliny's work which survives is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends and associates. These letters are a unique testimony of Roman administrative history and everyday life in the 1st century AD...

Especially noteworthy among the letters are two in which he describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 during which his uncle Pliny the Elder died (Epistulae VI.16, VI.20), and one in which he asks the Emperor for instructions regarding official policy concerning Christians (Epistulae X.96). Pliny's attention to detail in the letters about Vesuvius is so keen that modern vulcanologists describe that type of eruption as Plinian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger
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Pliny the Younger as governor of a Roman territory was in charge of handling religious matters.

In those days, Christians were suspected by Roman authorities to be members of an evil religion or cult. If identified as a Christian or an ex-Christian, people were executed to death.

But, Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the Roman Emperor that he wanted to apply a rule that execution would not be exercised on ex-Christians. Even against those accused of being a Christian, Pliny the Younger wanted to first ask whether the accused was truly a Christian while informing him that a Christian would be subject to capital punishment.

Emperor Trajan accepted the policy Pliny the Younger put forward.

It is not clear what influence the eruption of Mount Vesuvius had on the mind of Pliny the Younger. But, as he lost his great uncle in the great natural tragedy around Pompeii, Pliny the Younger must have come to more think of the God of Christians.

Mount Vesuvius took life of 10,000 to 25,000 people but it could be regarded as saving more Christians through Pliny the Younger.

The recent volcanic eruption of Mt. Eyjafjallajoekull harassed million travellers, but it has probably served as a key factor for promotion of the faith in Christ or the fall of the Vatican.

The Toyota's car name Prius means "prior to" in Latin. Indeed, the Toyota problem happened prior to the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland.


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A man can easily and correctly see, hear, or feel a subtle change in a very quiet environment without missing it.

A man can easily and correctly see, hear, or feel a huge change in a very wild environment without being overwhelmed.

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Where dp is the differential change in perception, dS is the differential increase in the stimulus and S is the stimulus at the instant. A constant factor k is to be determined experimentally.

dp =k*ds/s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law
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If k = 1, ds = 10, and s = 100: dp = 1*10/100 = 10/100 = 1/10

If k = 1, ds = 10,000,000, and s = 100,000,000: dp = 1*10,000,000/100,000,000 = 10/100 = 1/10

It means: if you have $100 and wins $10 more, you can be as happy as someone that has $100 million and wins $10 million more.

Otherwise: if you have 100-point merit and win 10 points more, you will look as remarkable as someone who has $100 million-point merit and wins $10 million points more.

In theory, a poor husband finds grace more often in his wife than a rich husband in his wife, contrary to a popular belief.



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Mar 4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

Mar 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

Mar 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

A Messenger from the Angel of Death

This is the 1410th posting if with some minor error.

Today, a miracle occurred on me, so that I did not go out.

I saw a messenger from the Angel of Death on a nearby street.

I might have been saved today as I stayed near hear..., since only the God knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBGZgyl72_g&a=Pj9Rs56u8YY&playnext_from=ML
Call YouTube and ask if this is an infringement of a copy right.

...Now this Sunday night is going to be closed here around Tokyo...Hope for you to start to work refreshed on the Monday morning!