Women with a Gun in the U.S.
A Japanese woman put her impressions of an American novel in columns of a Japanese newspaper.
The novel was about daily lives of policewomen in the U.S.
The point of issue is that they shoot the suspected to death without hesitation even when they are off duty.
This feeling cannot arouse sympathy of Japanese female readers.
"American women with a gun are so quick to kill petty offenders!"
* * *
Of course, it is a result of long-term, horrible experiences of American policewomen, in my view.
But, Americans should be alerted to a kind of deterioration in their social environment.
It is also alarming that one in 35 citizens in the U.S. is a criminal or an ex-criminal.
* * *
To your astonishment, you cannot buy a handgun at any shops in Japan.
No family has a handgun technically in Japan.
Though it is yet to be the case in Japan, if everybody in a town has the same amount of money and assets in their pockets, none should carry a handgun with himself / herself on the street for any purposes.
* * *
It may also be an issue of a kind of psychological syndromes.
What they need is courage to seek a right solution, love for neighbors, even though those policewomen still have a right and duty to be armed with a handgun.
"JESUS HEALS MANY PEOPLE"
Monday, July 24, 2006
Friday, July 21, 2006
Nazareth Attacked
Nazareth Attacked
I heard a rumor that Hezbollah's rockets hit the town Nazareth, killing tow boys, brothers, of a Muslim family.
(Refer to http://www.examiner.com/a-183199~2_Young_Boys_Killed_by_Missile_in_Nazareth.html.)
I am afraid that it foretells the future of Palestine and the surrounding regions.
I mean that I cannot believe that Jesus Christ would not present anything serious and significant to mankind on this occasion of armed clash in his birth place as a member of mankind.
* * *
The last year's G8 meeting in the U.K. was synchronized by terrorist attacks in London.
This year, we have had North Korea's missile launchings, Mumbai trains bombings, and battles between Israel and Hezbollah, in addition to another tsunami disaster in Indonesia, the largest Islamic nation in the world.
Indeed, I did not expect that Japanese Prime Minister would run through all these incidents so closely in this period.
Did God use him to have people focus on Palestine as the Japanese prime minister made a state visit to Israel which had been postponed since former prime minister of Israel had been taken with serious illness?
If so, you had better anyhow check the Bible and al-Quran, in addition to some reports from Japan.
"LOOK! A MESSENGER IS COMING"
I heard a rumor that Hezbollah's rockets hit the town Nazareth, killing tow boys, brothers, of a Muslim family.
(Refer to http://www.examiner.com/a-183199~2_Young_Boys_Killed_by_Missile_in_Nazareth.html.)
I am afraid that it foretells the future of Palestine and the surrounding regions.
I mean that I cannot believe that Jesus Christ would not present anything serious and significant to mankind on this occasion of armed clash in his birth place as a member of mankind.
* * *
The last year's G8 meeting in the U.K. was synchronized by terrorist attacks in London.
This year, we have had North Korea's missile launchings, Mumbai trains bombings, and battles between Israel and Hezbollah, in addition to another tsunami disaster in Indonesia, the largest Islamic nation in the world.
Indeed, I did not expect that Japanese Prime Minister would run through all these incidents so closely in this period.
Did God use him to have people focus on Palestine as the Japanese prime minister made a state visit to Israel which had been postponed since former prime minister of Israel had been taken with serious illness?
If so, you had better anyhow check the Bible and al-Quran, in addition to some reports from Japan.
"LOOK! A MESSENGER IS COMING"
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Bread and Soccer since the Roman Empire Fighting in Gallia
Bread and Soccer since the Roman Empire Fighting in Gallia
The World Cup Soccer Games were over as one billion audiences were reportedly watching.
However, sport-loving children in the world might be highly confused watching the struggle between a French player and an Italian player.
As I had felt beforehand something wrong in this World Cup Games 2006, I did not expect even the Japanese team to leave any monument on this occasion, while waiting for a kind of revelation from Heaven.
Japan lost to Brazil; Brazil lost to France; and France finally lost to Italy. And Italy has been suffering from frauds and degeneracy in its soccer sector and related business.
No one was a true hero or winner. Every team should be regarded as failed.
That is why God had beforehand guided me to avoiding holding any positive and joyful expectation in the World Cup Soccer Games 2006.
* * *
But, I was impressed by African French players, rather many in numbers, running after, kicking, and heading the ball so dynamically.
Italian players might still carry DNAs of ancient Roman Empire soldiers as they showed effective defense formation in front of the goal.
Truly, the Roman Empire conquered enemies in the north (of the Alps) and the south (of the Mediterranean).
However, the Empire resolved itself due to Christianity that eroded the wild-spiritual basement of the Empire and guided the people into peaceful mode of living.
* * *
So, you had better teach children that ancient people in the north and the south of the Roman Empire were fighting that way against Roman soldiers.
Therefore, be a believer before becoming a soccer hero in your school or community.
* * *
I hope that the World Cup Soccer Games Extra 2007 will be held in Iraq or Afghanistan to raise money for supporting victims and their families.
In that case, I will a hundred percent want the Japanese "samurai" team to work on matches.
"THEN THE TEMPLE WILL BE RESTORED"
The World Cup Soccer Games were over as one billion audiences were reportedly watching.
However, sport-loving children in the world might be highly confused watching the struggle between a French player and an Italian player.
As I had felt beforehand something wrong in this World Cup Games 2006, I did not expect even the Japanese team to leave any monument on this occasion, while waiting for a kind of revelation from Heaven.
Japan lost to Brazil; Brazil lost to France; and France finally lost to Italy. And Italy has been suffering from frauds and degeneracy in its soccer sector and related business.
No one was a true hero or winner. Every team should be regarded as failed.
That is why God had beforehand guided me to avoiding holding any positive and joyful expectation in the World Cup Soccer Games 2006.
* * *
But, I was impressed by African French players, rather many in numbers, running after, kicking, and heading the ball so dynamically.
Italian players might still carry DNAs of ancient Roman Empire soldiers as they showed effective defense formation in front of the goal.
Truly, the Roman Empire conquered enemies in the north (of the Alps) and the south (of the Mediterranean).
However, the Empire resolved itself due to Christianity that eroded the wild-spiritual basement of the Empire and guided the people into peaceful mode of living.
* * *
So, you had better teach children that ancient people in the north and the south of the Roman Empire were fighting that way against Roman soldiers.
Therefore, be a believer before becoming a soccer hero in your school or community.
* * *
I hope that the World Cup Soccer Games Extra 2007 will be held in Iraq or Afghanistan to raise money for supporting victims and their families.
In that case, I will a hundred percent want the Japanese "samurai" team to work on matches.
"THEN THE TEMPLE WILL BE RESTORED"
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Heading for 4000-Year Glory
Heading for 4000-Year Glory
At last, Japanese Prime Minister is going to visit Israel and Palestine prior to joining the G8 meeting to be held in Russia.
The latitudes on which Palestine is located are almost the same as those of the southern part of the Japan's main island (called Honsyu).
People look up at the sky and stars at identical angles in both the holy regions.
* * *
An unbelievable fact about modern Palestine is that Muslims did not help Israelites establish their own country in Palestine after WWII in which millions of Israelites were killed by Christians due to the lack of a country of their own.
As Israelites and Muslims, in addition to Christians, share the same tradition as successors of Abraham in terms of faith, it is very unbelievable that Israelites could not get support and compassion from Muslims enough to reestablish their own country in their promised land so as to avoid future persecution by Christians.
* * *
If 4000 years ago an old man originally called Abram had not left a certain distinguished city in a region presently called southern Iraq following an order by God and heading westward, no Israelites should have been established as a tribe; no Christians might have ever appeared; and no Islam should have been given to mankind.
* * *
This is my fundamental idea about the three great religions an ancient Mesopotamian (or Sumerian) initiated.
I hope that you would also join me in this perception.
"THE LORD, THE SPRING OF FRESH WATER"
At last, Japanese Prime Minister is going to visit Israel and Palestine prior to joining the G8 meeting to be held in Russia.
The latitudes on which Palestine is located are almost the same as those of the southern part of the Japan's main island (called Honsyu).
People look up at the sky and stars at identical angles in both the holy regions.
* * *
An unbelievable fact about modern Palestine is that Muslims did not help Israelites establish their own country in Palestine after WWII in which millions of Israelites were killed by Christians due to the lack of a country of their own.
As Israelites and Muslims, in addition to Christians, share the same tradition as successors of Abraham in terms of faith, it is very unbelievable that Israelites could not get support and compassion from Muslims enough to reestablish their own country in their promised land so as to avoid future persecution by Christians.
* * *
If 4000 years ago an old man originally called Abram had not left a certain distinguished city in a region presently called southern Iraq following an order by God and heading westward, no Israelites should have been established as a tribe; no Christians might have ever appeared; and no Islam should have been given to mankind.
* * *
This is my fundamental idea about the three great religions an ancient Mesopotamian (or Sumerian) initiated.
I hope that you would also join me in this perception.
"THE LORD, THE SPRING OF FRESH WATER"
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Appealing to Japan with Seven Missiles So Launched
Appealing to Japan with Seven Missiles So Launched
As I had warned, North Korea fired some missiles, actually, to certain areas of the Sea of Japan along Russian coast lines.
And now, people are talking about brinkmanship-addicted North Korea, embarrassed China, cautious Russia, betrayed South Korea, and peace-addicted Japan.
However, so long as none of those missiles, reportedly test-fired, does not fly over Japanese islands to the North Pacific or the Bering Sea near Alaska, there is nothing to worry about seriously, though North Korea is believed to have some nucleus bombs.
North Korea has no options ultimately but to get great support from Japan.
They fired some missiles, as if they had been urging Japan to do something to help and rescue them.
* * *
But, it might be interesting for some people to confirm the following facts that happened around July 5 in the East Asian time zone:
- Japanese Prime Minister returned home from his state visit to the U.S.
- The U.S. was celebrating the Independence Day.
- The Space Shuttle was about to be launched.
- The USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was in port at a Japanese northern port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The flag ship of the US Navy's seventh fleet was in port at a Russian port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The North Korea diplomat branch was busy dealing with Japanese reporters invited to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, to give some information on an abducted Japanese who has been the focus of the social interest in Japan.
- Leaders of the largest opposition party in Japan were on a visit to China to meet Chinese leaders, including Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
- The G8 summit meeting in Russia is getting near, according to schedule.
* * *
If North Korea launched a missile, namely Taepodon 2 or 3, capable of carrying a nucleus warhead over the Japanese land to the U.S. maritime border with an intention to display their military capability of hitting the U.S. soil, they would incur American attacks at least on their missile sites and nucleus facilities.
In that case, the U.S. would not just sit and wait for another 9/11 terror to happen sometime in future with nucleus missiles instead of passenger jet planes.
North Korea might like to appeal to other countries that hate the U.S. for possible sales of missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland
However, under such conditions and through overt anti-American dealings, it is very unlikely that any countries would purchase such ballistic missiles, which might be used as an excuse of attacks on them by the U.S.
* * *
Nonetheless, North Korea seems to like to have a missile capable of reaching the American Continent, but they think they have to do so without giving a sense of imminent threat to the world and also without having the world get concerned much about possible nucleus warheads.
Yet, it may be for possible sales of those missiles in addition to getting in the inside track in negotiations with the U.S.
* * *
But my feeling is that some leaders of North Korea, including or excluding their supreme leader, had planned the test firing of the seven missiles at this time, aiming at appealing to Japan.
They might highly expect Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to make the third visit to Pyongyang to resume diplomatic sessions between the two countries for normalizing their relationships.
Of course, there are still many obstacles for Japan to take up the diplomatic channel into North Korea, such as Japanese abducted by and still kept in North Korea.
* * *
Again, in future, I hope that North Korea will become a friendly nation to Japan so as to become another Swiss between its old allies, China and Russia, and the U.S. force-dominant South Korea.
But, before that, all nations must be judged by the God Almighty.
"THE DAY IS NEAR"
As I had warned, North Korea fired some missiles, actually, to certain areas of the Sea of Japan along Russian coast lines.
And now, people are talking about brinkmanship-addicted North Korea, embarrassed China, cautious Russia, betrayed South Korea, and peace-addicted Japan.
However, so long as none of those missiles, reportedly test-fired, does not fly over Japanese islands to the North Pacific or the Bering Sea near Alaska, there is nothing to worry about seriously, though North Korea is believed to have some nucleus bombs.
North Korea has no options ultimately but to get great support from Japan.
They fired some missiles, as if they had been urging Japan to do something to help and rescue them.
* * *
But, it might be interesting for some people to confirm the following facts that happened around July 5 in the East Asian time zone:
- Japanese Prime Minister returned home from his state visit to the U.S.
- The U.S. was celebrating the Independence Day.
- The Space Shuttle was about to be launched.
- The USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was in port at a Japanese northern port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The flag ship of the US Navy's seventh fleet was in port at a Russian port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The North Korea diplomat branch was busy dealing with Japanese reporters invited to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, to give some information on an abducted Japanese who has been the focus of the social interest in Japan.
- Leaders of the largest opposition party in Japan were on a visit to China to meet Chinese leaders, including Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
- The G8 summit meeting in Russia is getting near, according to schedule.
* * *
If North Korea launched a missile, namely Taepodon 2 or 3, capable of carrying a nucleus warhead over the Japanese land to the U.S. maritime border with an intention to display their military capability of hitting the U.S. soil, they would incur American attacks at least on their missile sites and nucleus facilities.
In that case, the U.S. would not just sit and wait for another 9/11 terror to happen sometime in future with nucleus missiles instead of passenger jet planes.
North Korea might like to appeal to other countries that hate the U.S. for possible sales of missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland
However, under such conditions and through overt anti-American dealings, it is very unlikely that any countries would purchase such ballistic missiles, which might be used as an excuse of attacks on them by the U.S.
* * *
Nonetheless, North Korea seems to like to have a missile capable of reaching the American Continent, but they think they have to do so without giving a sense of imminent threat to the world and also without having the world get concerned much about possible nucleus warheads.
Yet, it may be for possible sales of those missiles in addition to getting in the inside track in negotiations with the U.S.
* * *
But my feeling is that some leaders of North Korea, including or excluding their supreme leader, had planned the test firing of the seven missiles at this time, aiming at appealing to Japan.
They might highly expect Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to make the third visit to Pyongyang to resume diplomatic sessions between the two countries for normalizing their relationships.
Of course, there are still many obstacles for Japan to take up the diplomatic channel into North Korea, such as Japanese abducted by and still kept in North Korea.
* * *
Again, in future, I hope that North Korea will become a friendly nation to Japan so as to become another Swiss between its old allies, China and Russia, and the U.S. force-dominant South Korea.
But, before that, all nations must be judged by the God Almighty.
"THE DAY IS NEAR"
Sunday, July 02, 2006
70% of Modern Chinese Terminologies Are Japanese Originally
70% of Modern Chinese Terminologies Are Japanese Originally
A Japanese scholar visited Beijing University in 1973, that is, at the peak of the Cultural Revolution, and had a talk with professors and students.
A Chinese student said, "Though Chinese characters were invented in ancient China, modern Chinese academic terminologies were all imported from Japan, weren't they?"
It is true. Majority, namely about 70%, of modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science were originally invented in Japan when Japan opened its door to the world late in the 19th century.
However, though they share the same writing expressions of those terminologies, pronounciation is very different between Japanese and Chinese, in addition to their grammar.
* * *
When Japanese began to absorb Western Civilization, they encountered many unfamiliar or different-style concepts, such as Communism, Socialism, Economy, Freedom, and Market, though similar concepts had been in Japanese culture and society. Accordingly, Japanese invented a new expression to each of those new concepts.
In doing so, they first selected two or more conventional Kanji characters as elements related to a new concept. Then, by combining these Kanji characters in a very innovative way, Japanese invented many modern Japanese academic terminologies, each of which precisely matches a Western academic terminology.
* * *
As Japanese Kanji letters had been originally imported from China and thus almost identical with Chinese letters, Chinese scholars and leaders decades ago or more than a century ago decided to import those Japanese Kanji-based terminologies, since until the mid 20th century China had been in wars, civil wars, and great social turmoil without any room for stable basement and development of academic activities.
* * *
Modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science are expressed in combination of two or more Chinese characters. But, those who first invented such combinations to mean modern concepts, which were imported from Europe and America, were Japanese, not Chinese, of almost 150 years ago.
China imported those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters from Japan, and they still continue to use them even under the regime of the Chinese Communist Party.
It is said almost 1000 terminologies were imported to China from Japan before WWII, WWI, and the Japanese-Russo War, which helped Chinese people develop modern science and culture.
Japan is the only country from which China imported such new words to use in its society as well as in daily lives and activities of the people to that extent.
* * *
Now many Americans are learning Chinese.
More advanced they are in their study in Chinese, more they will learn terminologies Japanese invented and Chinese imported in the Meiji Era, late in the 19th century.
It is not a secret between Japan and China. Most of Chinese scholars love to use those Japanese-Kanji-based terminologies which give them new insight about depth of Japanese Kanji letters or their own Chinese characters.
* * *
In other words, they are learning Japanese terminologies when foreigners are proudly learning Chinese.
Put extremely in favor of Japan, it is like they are actually using Japanese technologies, inventions, and funds, when foreigners are sometimes proudly using Chinese modern products, services, and systems.
* * *
Other important issue is that due to the great work of those Japanese in the Meiji Era, Japanese as well as Chinese have not had to learn English, French, Germany, Latin or any other foreign languages to master Western science and culture.
Every valuable Western work can be translated into Japanese as well as Chinese using those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters.
In this respect, Japan has been a very exceptional country.
It is why, for example, African leaders are often astonished at and perplexed by a fact that while no Japanese speak English or French well they have such advanced technologies and economy.
While only one percent of African population had a chance to read and understand Western science and technologies with learnt Western languages, 100 percent of the Japanese had basically a chance to master it in their own language.
* * *
Even without Japan in history, Chinese civilization might be well advanced until the late 19th century.
But, the whole world today must look very different.
The difference must be more significant than in case of no existence of New Continents, including the American Continent.
However, can you really imagine such a world of today?
The difference is only matched by that caused by assumed non-existence of the God-blessed Israelites for 4000 years of human history, in my view.
"BACK AND FORTH WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHTNING"
A Japanese scholar visited Beijing University in 1973, that is, at the peak of the Cultural Revolution, and had a talk with professors and students.
A Chinese student said, "Though Chinese characters were invented in ancient China, modern Chinese academic terminologies were all imported from Japan, weren't they?"
It is true. Majority, namely about 70%, of modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science were originally invented in Japan when Japan opened its door to the world late in the 19th century.
However, though they share the same writing expressions of those terminologies, pronounciation is very different between Japanese and Chinese, in addition to their grammar.
* * *
When Japanese began to absorb Western Civilization, they encountered many unfamiliar or different-style concepts, such as Communism, Socialism, Economy, Freedom, and Market, though similar concepts had been in Japanese culture and society. Accordingly, Japanese invented a new expression to each of those new concepts.
In doing so, they first selected two or more conventional Kanji characters as elements related to a new concept. Then, by combining these Kanji characters in a very innovative way, Japanese invented many modern Japanese academic terminologies, each of which precisely matches a Western academic terminology.
* * *
As Japanese Kanji letters had been originally imported from China and thus almost identical with Chinese letters, Chinese scholars and leaders decades ago or more than a century ago decided to import those Japanese Kanji-based terminologies, since until the mid 20th century China had been in wars, civil wars, and great social turmoil without any room for stable basement and development of academic activities.
* * *
Modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science are expressed in combination of two or more Chinese characters. But, those who first invented such combinations to mean modern concepts, which were imported from Europe and America, were Japanese, not Chinese, of almost 150 years ago.
China imported those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters from Japan, and they still continue to use them even under the regime of the Chinese Communist Party.
It is said almost 1000 terminologies were imported to China from Japan before WWII, WWI, and the Japanese-Russo War, which helped Chinese people develop modern science and culture.
Japan is the only country from which China imported such new words to use in its society as well as in daily lives and activities of the people to that extent.
* * *
Now many Americans are learning Chinese.
More advanced they are in their study in Chinese, more they will learn terminologies Japanese invented and Chinese imported in the Meiji Era, late in the 19th century.
It is not a secret between Japan and China. Most of Chinese scholars love to use those Japanese-Kanji-based terminologies which give them new insight about depth of Japanese Kanji letters or their own Chinese characters.
* * *
In other words, they are learning Japanese terminologies when foreigners are proudly learning Chinese.
Put extremely in favor of Japan, it is like they are actually using Japanese technologies, inventions, and funds, when foreigners are sometimes proudly using Chinese modern products, services, and systems.
* * *
Other important issue is that due to the great work of those Japanese in the Meiji Era, Japanese as well as Chinese have not had to learn English, French, Germany, Latin or any other foreign languages to master Western science and culture.
Every valuable Western work can be translated into Japanese as well as Chinese using those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters.
In this respect, Japan has been a very exceptional country.
It is why, for example, African leaders are often astonished at and perplexed by a fact that while no Japanese speak English or French well they have such advanced technologies and economy.
While only one percent of African population had a chance to read and understand Western science and technologies with learnt Western languages, 100 percent of the Japanese had basically a chance to master it in their own language.
* * *
Even without Japan in history, Chinese civilization might be well advanced until the late 19th century.
But, the whole world today must look very different.
The difference must be more significant than in case of no existence of New Continents, including the American Continent.
However, can you really imagine such a world of today?
The difference is only matched by that caused by assumed non-existence of the God-blessed Israelites for 4000 years of human history, in my view.
"BACK AND FORTH WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHTNING"
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Palestine to Europe; North Korea to Japan
Palestine to Europe; North Korea to Japan
The picture of a frigate ship of the Israel navy off the coast of Gaza after having fired on people on the beach was very impressive.
Palestine may be the only place on the earth with full history of wars and current conflicts to that extent.
Palestine is also very near to Rome, Paris, and London. It is nearer than Tokyo is to Viet Nam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
How can Europeans bear that?
* * *
On the other hand, the last Stalinist nation on the earth North Korea is very near to Japan.
Majority of the people of North Korea are poor, very poor, and extremely poor. In any village, probably, you cannot find any family who owns a color TV, a PC, a mobile phone, a car, and US$10,000 equivalent all together.
Nonetheless, their government is preparing a launch of a new type of rockets or missiles. It has reportedly a capability to hit Alaska.
They might not launch it, since Japan and other countries are all against it.
But, they might launch it setting the timing at Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's state visit to the U.S.
If they cannot launch the rocket, it would symbolize the beginning of the end of the regime in North Korea.
If they do, still it would incur difficult conditions that should take the regime to the last phase.
* * *
The issue here is whether the shelling from an Israel navy ship might lead to the end of glorious Palestine.
Once, namely 2000 years ago, assaults by Roman Empire's military put an end to holy Palestine crowned with appearance of the Son of God or Jesus Christ.
Israelites returned to Palestine after millions of victims over 2000 year history to establish glorious Palestine for them.
But, some kind of ending might or must be near to contemporary Palestine, as something being repeated over and over again in the human history.
* * *
There is a big difference between Japan and the Great Britain, though two island countries show some kind of symmetry in terms of geography and history.
But, Great Britain was once a colony of the Roman Empire. Japan has never been a colony of any Chinese dynasty.
Therefore, you had better listen to Japan on anything about Palestine. Japan can be cool in judging the situation there geographically and historically.
* * *
North Korea is the only country on the earth where a Japanese passport is void.
Japan should need a cool intermediary to normalize the relationship with the poor neighboring country that has nuclear bombs, like Israel, and long rage missiles being developed and further pursued under a Stalinist regime.
* * *
A "poor men's nucleus bomb" is a true nuclear bomb in the Far East.
And poor men's salvation might be the true salvation by the God in the Far East.
"'TAKE IT' HE SAID, 'THIS IS MY BODY'"
The picture of a frigate ship of the Israel navy off the coast of Gaza after having fired on people on the beach was very impressive.
Palestine may be the only place on the earth with full history of wars and current conflicts to that extent.
Palestine is also very near to Rome, Paris, and London. It is nearer than Tokyo is to Viet Nam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
How can Europeans bear that?
* * *
On the other hand, the last Stalinist nation on the earth North Korea is very near to Japan.
Majority of the people of North Korea are poor, very poor, and extremely poor. In any village, probably, you cannot find any family who owns a color TV, a PC, a mobile phone, a car, and US$10,000 equivalent all together.
Nonetheless, their government is preparing a launch of a new type of rockets or missiles. It has reportedly a capability to hit Alaska.
They might not launch it, since Japan and other countries are all against it.
But, they might launch it setting the timing at Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's state visit to the U.S.
If they cannot launch the rocket, it would symbolize the beginning of the end of the regime in North Korea.
If they do, still it would incur difficult conditions that should take the regime to the last phase.
* * *
The issue here is whether the shelling from an Israel navy ship might lead to the end of glorious Palestine.
Once, namely 2000 years ago, assaults by Roman Empire's military put an end to holy Palestine crowned with appearance of the Son of God or Jesus Christ.
Israelites returned to Palestine after millions of victims over 2000 year history to establish glorious Palestine for them.
But, some kind of ending might or must be near to contemporary Palestine, as something being repeated over and over again in the human history.
* * *
There is a big difference between Japan and the Great Britain, though two island countries show some kind of symmetry in terms of geography and history.
But, Great Britain was once a colony of the Roman Empire. Japan has never been a colony of any Chinese dynasty.
Therefore, you had better listen to Japan on anything about Palestine. Japan can be cool in judging the situation there geographically and historically.
* * *
North Korea is the only country on the earth where a Japanese passport is void.
Japan should need a cool intermediary to normalize the relationship with the poor neighboring country that has nuclear bombs, like Israel, and long rage missiles being developed and further pursued under a Stalinist regime.
* * *
A "poor men's nucleus bomb" is a true nuclear bomb in the Far East.
And poor men's salvation might be the true salvation by the God in the Far East.
"'TAKE IT' HE SAID, 'THIS IS MY BODY'"
Friday, June 23, 2006
60 More Years to Master the Japanese Sword
60 More Years to Master the Japanese Sword
I have seen an unbelievable news report.
Two old Japanese craftsmen have been making Japanese scissors for over 60 years.
They are brothers, 80 years old or a little younger.
They burn iron bars and hit them with an iron hammer to form each part of a pair of scissors, mainly used for garment cutting.
They started this profession just after WWII, namely in 1945.
* * *
The technique is the same as the one employed for making a Japanese sword.
Traditionally Japanese used iron sands to make ironware. There are no large-scale iron mines except those including the mangetic iron ore in Japan.
What is worse, though we have had some coals, they are mostly deep under the ground. Therefore, until Japan introduced western technology late in the 19th century, it was not easy to make ironware, including the Japanese sword, from any types of iron sources.
However, it is well known that there are no swords or knives in the world that can match the Japanese sword in terms of quality and strength.
The nearest quality is only found in razors manufactured by German Solingen, though even Germans could not figure out another way to acheive the same quality as the Japanese sword.
* * *
Europeans have been historically lucky to have cokes that can provide necessary heat to melt iron. Iron needs heat at 1,800 degrees Celsius for melting. Cokes meets this condition. But, Japanese had to use charcoals that can provide heat at most at 1,200 degrees Celsius, though they chose a special type.
So, ancient Japanese invented special skills to make the high-quality of ironware through the use of charcoals, which requires the striking of iron with a hammer in very many times as well as water kept at a certain temperature for delicately contracting iron heated and hit well.
Each layer of a Japanese sword (usually consisting of three layers through a blade) includes a specific amount of carbon within iron to the best ratio, respectively.
It is not only material that makes the Japanese sword superb. The warp of a blade is also a key to makeing it especially edged and sharp. With this figure, the Japanese sword has sharpness that matches a safety razor.
* * *
In a certain test which was conducted in the U.S. and televised in Japan some time ago, they found that even a bullet fired from a heavy handgun was completely split in half when hitting the blade of a Japanese sword vertically positioned.
They needed several bullets fired from a heavy military machinegun to break the Japanese sword.
Peaceful nature of Japan's soil allowed for creation of the best and the strongest sword in the world, instaed of forcing the people to be poorly armed with, say, a hard but brittle knife.
* * *
Europe has had enough iron and coal mines that made it easier to make any ironware. But, Japanese had to take some time to establish a unique method to make ironware using iron sands and charcoals, which was accomplished in the sixth century.
(But, in this modern age, Japan has been one of top steel-making as well as iron-ore importing countries since its massive rebuilding of the nation's economy after WWII, while defeating the U.K. and other Western competitors and helping China and Korea luanch their own steel industry.)
* * *
If Europeans came to Japan, they could use neither iron ore nor cokes. And if Japanese visited Europe, they could not use iron sands and charcoals of a special type.
Either side cannot produce their best weapons in the foreign territory.
* * *
However, there are such ordinary people in Japan who have spent all of their professional lives, namely for 60 years, making Japanese scissors by hands with fire, water, and a hammer.
And they are respected and so televised.
But, we may need 60 more years to master how to use Japanese swords in Europe.
Then Japanese warriors, or samurai, might be well respected and so televised.
"NOT ABONDONED IN THE WORLD OF THE DEAD"
I have seen an unbelievable news report.
Two old Japanese craftsmen have been making Japanese scissors for over 60 years.
They are brothers, 80 years old or a little younger.
They burn iron bars and hit them with an iron hammer to form each part of a pair of scissors, mainly used for garment cutting.
They started this profession just after WWII, namely in 1945.
* * *
The technique is the same as the one employed for making a Japanese sword.
Traditionally Japanese used iron sands to make ironware. There are no large-scale iron mines except those including the mangetic iron ore in Japan.
What is worse, though we have had some coals, they are mostly deep under the ground. Therefore, until Japan introduced western technology late in the 19th century, it was not easy to make ironware, including the Japanese sword, from any types of iron sources.
However, it is well known that there are no swords or knives in the world that can match the Japanese sword in terms of quality and strength.
The nearest quality is only found in razors manufactured by German Solingen, though even Germans could not figure out another way to acheive the same quality as the Japanese sword.
* * *
Europeans have been historically lucky to have cokes that can provide necessary heat to melt iron. Iron needs heat at 1,800 degrees Celsius for melting. Cokes meets this condition. But, Japanese had to use charcoals that can provide heat at most at 1,200 degrees Celsius, though they chose a special type.
So, ancient Japanese invented special skills to make the high-quality of ironware through the use of charcoals, which requires the striking of iron with a hammer in very many times as well as water kept at a certain temperature for delicately contracting iron heated and hit well.
Each layer of a Japanese sword (usually consisting of three layers through a blade) includes a specific amount of carbon within iron to the best ratio, respectively.
It is not only material that makes the Japanese sword superb. The warp of a blade is also a key to makeing it especially edged and sharp. With this figure, the Japanese sword has sharpness that matches a safety razor.
* * *
In a certain test which was conducted in the U.S. and televised in Japan some time ago, they found that even a bullet fired from a heavy handgun was completely split in half when hitting the blade of a Japanese sword vertically positioned.
They needed several bullets fired from a heavy military machinegun to break the Japanese sword.
Peaceful nature of Japan's soil allowed for creation of the best and the strongest sword in the world, instaed of forcing the people to be poorly armed with, say, a hard but brittle knife.
* * *
Europe has had enough iron and coal mines that made it easier to make any ironware. But, Japanese had to take some time to establish a unique method to make ironware using iron sands and charcoals, which was accomplished in the sixth century.
(But, in this modern age, Japan has been one of top steel-making as well as iron-ore importing countries since its massive rebuilding of the nation's economy after WWII, while defeating the U.K. and other Western competitors and helping China and Korea luanch their own steel industry.)
* * *
If Europeans came to Japan, they could use neither iron ore nor cokes. And if Japanese visited Europe, they could not use iron sands and charcoals of a special type.
Either side cannot produce their best weapons in the foreign territory.
* * *
However, there are such ordinary people in Japan who have spent all of their professional lives, namely for 60 years, making Japanese scissors by hands with fire, water, and a hammer.
And they are respected and so televised.
But, we may need 60 more years to master how to use Japanese swords in Europe.
Then Japanese warriors, or samurai, might be well respected and so televised.
"NOT ABONDONED IN THE WORLD OF THE DEAD"
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Chief Executive vs. Missionaries
Chief Executive vs. Missionaries
The issue is neither how to choose a leader nor whom to choose.
But, it is as to whether we have a mechanism to save the nation if we choose a wrong leader who might bring a disaster to the people.
You might choose Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin if you have a strong mechanism to stop him when he started to venture to kill an uncountable number of innocent people mainly in order to secure his assets and position or for wahtsoever reasons.
* * *
Vote for a leader, let him carry the nation, and forget about one's own duty to the nation is a very dangerous thing.
You had better try to change a leader as much as possible and as often as possible.
It is at most one year, I suppose, that anybody can do his best at the top of government. In the second year, he must be exhausted too much to carry out his duty if he has been working as he is supposed to be.
* * *
We cannot trust the media too much.
We cannot trust bureaucrats, financial circles, and lawmakers, either.
However, we need trustworthy missionaries by the roadside of society (but not in a church).
They must shout to the people that our leader is a Hitler or a Stalin, if necessary.
* * *
As the Diet session in Japan was over, now political focus is on who will succeed the incumbent prime minister, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, this fall.
Whoever will accede to the highest post of the Japanese Government through democratic process, we had better prepare as many missionaries as possible who can be mobilized in case.
* * *
For people outside Japan, you had better regard future Japanese prime minister as a symbol of the Government.
It is also a Japanese tradition that a decisive power is in the hand of a top's surrogate's surrogate.
Of course, a poor man like me has to also act as his own surrogate's surrogate.
"MAKE A STRAIGHT PATH FOR THE LORD TO TRAVEL"
The issue is neither how to choose a leader nor whom to choose.
But, it is as to whether we have a mechanism to save the nation if we choose a wrong leader who might bring a disaster to the people.
You might choose Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin if you have a strong mechanism to stop him when he started to venture to kill an uncountable number of innocent people mainly in order to secure his assets and position or for wahtsoever reasons.
* * *
Vote for a leader, let him carry the nation, and forget about one's own duty to the nation is a very dangerous thing.
You had better try to change a leader as much as possible and as often as possible.
It is at most one year, I suppose, that anybody can do his best at the top of government. In the second year, he must be exhausted too much to carry out his duty if he has been working as he is supposed to be.
* * *
We cannot trust the media too much.
We cannot trust bureaucrats, financial circles, and lawmakers, either.
However, we need trustworthy missionaries by the roadside of society (but not in a church).
They must shout to the people that our leader is a Hitler or a Stalin, if necessary.
* * *
As the Diet session in Japan was over, now political focus is on who will succeed the incumbent prime minister, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, this fall.
Whoever will accede to the highest post of the Japanese Government through democratic process, we had better prepare as many missionaries as possible who can be mobilized in case.
* * *
For people outside Japan, you had better regard future Japanese prime minister as a symbol of the Government.
It is also a Japanese tradition that a decisive power is in the hand of a top's surrogate's surrogate.
Of course, a poor man like me has to also act as his own surrogate's surrogate.
"MAKE A STRAIGHT PATH FOR THE LORD TO TRAVEL"
Monday, June 19, 2006
God's Anger on 9 Billion Dollars and 3.6 Billion Dollars (Endorsed by 10 Million Yen)
God's Anger on 9 Billion Dollars and 3.6 Billion Dollars (Endorsed by 10 Million Yen)
In the Wall Street, we know, they got a report on the governor of the Bank of Japan.
The governor supported Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami who quite actively helped Mr. Takafumi Horie get big money, nearly 9 billion dollars as aggregate market price, through very dubious stock-market transactions which also brought big profit to Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund.
And, both Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami and Mr. Takafumi Horie were arrested this year.
The governor several years ago, when he was working outside the Bank of Japan, invested about 90,000 dollars (10 million yen) in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund. After he was appointed as the governor of the Bank of Japan, he still continued to entrust the money to the fund till this February.
Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami was manipulating 3.6 billion dollar fund till recently. His fund got many overseas clients, for example, from the U.S.
* * *
Now it is widely known that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, a former high-ranking bureaucrat of the Japanese Government, had a lot of eminent friends while actively operating his fund, including the governor of the Bank of Japan, some parliament members of Japan's Diet, and a certain tycoon in the financial sector.
Any American investors would trust Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, if they are advised that his fund includes a private investment of the governor of the Bank of Japan who once served as an advisory-board member of the very fund.
* * *
As the Bank of Japan is the central bank of Japan, this news has attracted a great deal of attention even in the Wall Street.
But, the saddest part of this report is that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami has never invented any creative financial instruments based on science and economics, just like Mr. Takafumi Horie did not invent any innovative technology and business in the IT sector, though they got big money personally in unit of 100 million dollars through transactions in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
And, we are yet to see if the governor of the Bank of Japan has ever achieved something professionally innovative.
* * *
When the 9/11 general election was called last year, no Japanese dreamed of this sequence of incidents to happen soon.
At that time, Mr. Takafumi Horie war running for the election, while the media was praising Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami as a hero in a new era of Japan's financial sector.
But now, if you are a Japanese voter or taxpayer and informed that it is truly an expression of God's anger, you might find that it could be an only rationale for such fates of those super-rich people.
* * *
I do not recommend you to become super-rich.
If you are, make every effort not to be so, as I did very humbly on my part with the fear of God.
"MAKE THE DRY TREES BECOME GREEN AGAIN"
In the Wall Street, we know, they got a report on the governor of the Bank of Japan.
The governor supported Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami who quite actively helped Mr. Takafumi Horie get big money, nearly 9 billion dollars as aggregate market price, through very dubious stock-market transactions which also brought big profit to Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund.
And, both Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami and Mr. Takafumi Horie were arrested this year.
The governor several years ago, when he was working outside the Bank of Japan, invested about 90,000 dollars (10 million yen) in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund. After he was appointed as the governor of the Bank of Japan, he still continued to entrust the money to the fund till this February.
Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami was manipulating 3.6 billion dollar fund till recently. His fund got many overseas clients, for example, from the U.S.
* * *
Now it is widely known that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, a former high-ranking bureaucrat of the Japanese Government, had a lot of eminent friends while actively operating his fund, including the governor of the Bank of Japan, some parliament members of Japan's Diet, and a certain tycoon in the financial sector.
Any American investors would trust Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, if they are advised that his fund includes a private investment of the governor of the Bank of Japan who once served as an advisory-board member of the very fund.
* * *
As the Bank of Japan is the central bank of Japan, this news has attracted a great deal of attention even in the Wall Street.
But, the saddest part of this report is that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami has never invented any creative financial instruments based on science and economics, just like Mr. Takafumi Horie did not invent any innovative technology and business in the IT sector, though they got big money personally in unit of 100 million dollars through transactions in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
And, we are yet to see if the governor of the Bank of Japan has ever achieved something professionally innovative.
* * *
When the 9/11 general election was called last year, no Japanese dreamed of this sequence of incidents to happen soon.
At that time, Mr. Takafumi Horie war running for the election, while the media was praising Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami as a hero in a new era of Japan's financial sector.
But now, if you are a Japanese voter or taxpayer and informed that it is truly an expression of God's anger, you might find that it could be an only rationale for such fates of those super-rich people.
* * *
I do not recommend you to become super-rich.
If you are, make every effort not to be so, as I did very humbly on my part with the fear of God.
"MAKE THE DRY TREES BECOME GREEN AGAIN"
Friday, June 16, 2006
Successful Tracing of an Electron or Memory of Blue LED in Japan
Successful Tracing of an Electron or Memory of Blue LED in Japan
Everybody uses electricity that is a main feature of the contemporary civilization.
Without electricity, no TVs, no PCs, and no cellular phones are possible. You should live in an era before the Civil War, which might be not so bad for many.
But what is electricity? It is a flow of a tremendous number of electrons through a conductor such as a copper wire, which can be measured by ampere.
Then what is an electron? It is a very elemental particle far smaller than an atom. For example, one gram (0.03 ounces) of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
An electron is 100,000 times smaller than an atom.
Therefore, it is very difficult to monitor or measure a movement of a single electron. But, a Japanese research group has recently succeeded in doing so.
For the first time in human history, mankind can now measure movement of a single electron owing to hard and good work of a Japanese research group supported by NTT and other organizations.
* * *
Another famous work in this field of applied solid physics is an invention of a blue light-emitting diode (LED), a long-time dream of industry for it was so useful but looked so impossible.
The invention was carried out by a Japanese company, Nichia Corporation, in 1993. But, an employee of the company, Mr. Shuji Nakamura, claimed that the patent right of the blue LED belongs to him.
The dispute was settled through an appeal court that admitted a big contribution of Mr. Shuji Nakamura to the invention and ordered the company to pay a large amount of money to the former employee, which was actually observed.
However, Nichia Corporation renounced the related patent, which Mr. Shuji Nakamura focused on in his claim, because a technology based on the patent is no use for industrial production of blue LEDs. Hence, Mr. Shuji Nakamura's contribution to the company's revenue might become almost nil.
Mr. Shuji Nakamura, before a blue LED was invented, had been sent to a U.S. university for related study on the company's account; he also had been allowed to use a total of about five million dollar R&D expenses of the company for the blue LED development.
According to announcements and reports of Nichia Corporation, there are some other engineers and scientists within the company that had well cooperated with Mr. Shuji Nakamura in the blue LED project, and some of them had actually invented a very ingenious way of fabricating a related material for the blue LED which Mr. Shuji Nakamura could not find out on his own, though he was a leader of those engineers.
* * *
There are two important issues in these successful inventions. First, you alone cannot make a breakthrough invention nowadays in modern industrial and scientific environment where even your own unique idea is to the great extent based on, and supported by, various information and contribution from others.
Second, you alone should not claim a disproportional reward for your contribution, because such an eccentric behavior should destroy colleagues' moral fiber and thus damage future potential of sound development of an organization as well as an industrial society involving many citizens, voters, and tax payers.
* * *
Both the above two great engineering achievements were done in Japan.
But, if a brilliant Japanese engineer is in the U.S. pursuing such a big challenge, a kind of brokers concerned with such an extraordinarily promising technology might come to him as a friend who would convince him that he is a hero and not a mere employee or a slave of a company, and thus he should claim a big money as much as possible or, say, a billion dollars for an invention he was involved in as a leader.
Americans might not like such a story, but if individualism and freedom in the U.S. are most advanced in this world, then such a story would most likely happen in the U.S. before it occurs in any other countries including Japan.
* * *
For other peoples and Japanese, I would ask them to have a think about a fact that even one gram of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
One gold atom cannot make any sense to human beings as Gold.
No, it cannot, even if you can trace movement of an electron of one gold atom for a specific purpose, for example, to encourage many students and researchers to further study honestly and humbly with a true value sense in their work.
"AS A BIRD HOVERS OVER ITS NEST"
Everybody uses electricity that is a main feature of the contemporary civilization.
Without electricity, no TVs, no PCs, and no cellular phones are possible. You should live in an era before the Civil War, which might be not so bad for many.
But what is electricity? It is a flow of a tremendous number of electrons through a conductor such as a copper wire, which can be measured by ampere.
Then what is an electron? It is a very elemental particle far smaller than an atom. For example, one gram (0.03 ounces) of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
An electron is 100,000 times smaller than an atom.
Therefore, it is very difficult to monitor or measure a movement of a single electron. But, a Japanese research group has recently succeeded in doing so.
For the first time in human history, mankind can now measure movement of a single electron owing to hard and good work of a Japanese research group supported by NTT and other organizations.
* * *
Another famous work in this field of applied solid physics is an invention of a blue light-emitting diode (LED), a long-time dream of industry for it was so useful but looked so impossible.
The invention was carried out by a Japanese company, Nichia Corporation, in 1993. But, an employee of the company, Mr. Shuji Nakamura, claimed that the patent right of the blue LED belongs to him.
The dispute was settled through an appeal court that admitted a big contribution of Mr. Shuji Nakamura to the invention and ordered the company to pay a large amount of money to the former employee, which was actually observed.
However, Nichia Corporation renounced the related patent, which Mr. Shuji Nakamura focused on in his claim, because a technology based on the patent is no use for industrial production of blue LEDs. Hence, Mr. Shuji Nakamura's contribution to the company's revenue might become almost nil.
Mr. Shuji Nakamura, before a blue LED was invented, had been sent to a U.S. university for related study on the company's account; he also had been allowed to use a total of about five million dollar R&D expenses of the company for the blue LED development.
According to announcements and reports of Nichia Corporation, there are some other engineers and scientists within the company that had well cooperated with Mr. Shuji Nakamura in the blue LED project, and some of them had actually invented a very ingenious way of fabricating a related material for the blue LED which Mr. Shuji Nakamura could not find out on his own, though he was a leader of those engineers.
* * *
There are two important issues in these successful inventions. First, you alone cannot make a breakthrough invention nowadays in modern industrial and scientific environment where even your own unique idea is to the great extent based on, and supported by, various information and contribution from others.
Second, you alone should not claim a disproportional reward for your contribution, because such an eccentric behavior should destroy colleagues' moral fiber and thus damage future potential of sound development of an organization as well as an industrial society involving many citizens, voters, and tax payers.
* * *
Both the above two great engineering achievements were done in Japan.
But, if a brilliant Japanese engineer is in the U.S. pursuing such a big challenge, a kind of brokers concerned with such an extraordinarily promising technology might come to him as a friend who would convince him that he is a hero and not a mere employee or a slave of a company, and thus he should claim a big money as much as possible or, say, a billion dollars for an invention he was involved in as a leader.
Americans might not like such a story, but if individualism and freedom in the U.S. are most advanced in this world, then such a story would most likely happen in the U.S. before it occurs in any other countries including Japan.
* * *
For other peoples and Japanese, I would ask them to have a think about a fact that even one gram of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
One gold atom cannot make any sense to human beings as Gold.
No, it cannot, even if you can trace movement of an electron of one gold atom for a specific purpose, for example, to encourage many students and researchers to further study honestly and humbly with a true value sense in their work.
"AS A BIRD HOVERS OVER ITS NEST"
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Heaven-Sent Constitution of Japan
Heaven-Sent Constitution of Japan
To some people interested in Japanese defense systems, the Japanese Constitution should be, apart from anything else, introduced:
THE CONSTITUTION OF JAPAN
CHAPTER II. RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9.
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
* * *
That is why Japanese defense power is called the Self Defense Force instead of the army, the navy or the air force.
The Self Defense Force of Japan cannot be used for the purpose of a war against any foreign countries.
Nonetheless, U.S. military forces, stationed in Japan since the end of WWII in 1945, have logically no such restrictions, since they are not subject to the Constitution of Japan.
* * *
Japan has 63 nuclear power stations and 43 tons of plutonium that are enough to construct thousands of atomic bombs or nuclear bombs, though Japan complies fully with international treaties and conventions concerning peaceful use of the nuclear materials and accepts every inspection by IEA.
Japan is the third country in the history that succeeded in launching a satellite in geostationary orbit, following the U.S. and USSR. Japan is also the third country in the world in terms of the number of satellites so far launched, following the U.S. and Russia.
Japan has no intention to develop nuclear missiles.
* * *
Most of citizens in Japan are aware of, or at least feeling, this dangerous military potential of their country.
But, no Japanese believe that a time will come in future when their nation has to construct thousands of nuclear missiles.
* * *
Japan is surrounded by seas far from Europe and the Mid East. Even China has neither occupied nor conquered Japan since the beginning of history.
What's more, we have truly peace-loving people and the Constitution.
And, we have EEE-Reports, if you like.
"I GOT THEM AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE"
To some people interested in Japanese defense systems, the Japanese Constitution should be, apart from anything else, introduced:
THE CONSTITUTION OF JAPAN
CHAPTER II. RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9.
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
* * *
That is why Japanese defense power is called the Self Defense Force instead of the army, the navy or the air force.
The Self Defense Force of Japan cannot be used for the purpose of a war against any foreign countries.
Nonetheless, U.S. military forces, stationed in Japan since the end of WWII in 1945, have logically no such restrictions, since they are not subject to the Constitution of Japan.
* * *
Japan has 63 nuclear power stations and 43 tons of plutonium that are enough to construct thousands of atomic bombs or nuclear bombs, though Japan complies fully with international treaties and conventions concerning peaceful use of the nuclear materials and accepts every inspection by IEA.
Japan is the third country in the history that succeeded in launching a satellite in geostationary orbit, following the U.S. and USSR. Japan is also the third country in the world in terms of the number of satellites so far launched, following the U.S. and Russia.
Japan has no intention to develop nuclear missiles.
* * *
Most of citizens in Japan are aware of, or at least feeling, this dangerous military potential of their country.
But, no Japanese believe that a time will come in future when their nation has to construct thousands of nuclear missiles.
* * *
Japan is surrounded by seas far from Europe and the Mid East. Even China has neither occupied nor conquered Japan since the beginning of history.
What's more, we have truly peace-loving people and the Constitution.
And, we have EEE-Reports, if you like.
"I GOT THEM AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE"
Friday, June 09, 2006
Traveling Victim in Iraq from Japan
Traveling Victim in Iraq from Japan
Believe or not, God recently hinted me that something would be done to restore honor of a Japanese youth killed by an Al-Qaeda group in Iraq in 2004.
* * *
Specifically, the God recently gave me a report on a Japanese youth, Mr. Shosei Koda, who had been killed in Baghdad by members of a terrorist group associated with Al-Qaeda in October, 2004.
I was deeply impressed by the report in that he was depicted as a sincere inquirer, though so hastily interested in difficult political situations in the Middle East as to make light of danger waiting for him in Iraq. It was indeed just before the massive assault by the U.S. Army on Fallujah.
He had come to Iraq alone as a poor backpacker through Israel and Jordan after having learnt English in New Zealand.
He was killed, because Japan rejected a request by terrorists to withdraw its Self-Defense Force troops stationed in southern Iraq for humanitarian activities.
* * *
Then, that big news came in from Baghdad.
The leader of the group responsible for Mr. Shosei Koda's death was killed yesterday or so in a two U.S. F-16 fighter-planes attack.
A few months ago, an Arab youth who was more directly responsible for the death of Mr. Shosei Koda was also captured and televised, though being alive.
* * *
Mr. Shosei Koda is one of five Japanese victims who were killed by insurgents or terrorists in Iraq after the end of major combats in Iraq since 2003.
Two of the others were diplomats; and the last two were journalists.
Mr. Shosei Koda was officially categorized as a traveler in Japan.
* * *
Indeed, the news of the death of the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been widely reported in Japan through the press and on TV.
However, what we should remember is the behavior and words of Mr. Shosei Koda in a video tape the terrorist group delivered to intimidate Japan in early November, 2004.
He said, "I am sorry, Koizumi-san. They said that they would kill me unless troops of the Japanese Self-Defense force were withdrawn. I want to come back to Japan alive."
Mr. Shosei Koda didn't cry, shout, or tremble while being surrounded by armed terrorists. He looked like trying to look well as much as he could.
Though I don't know exactly the reaction of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to this televised scene at that time, some Japanese must today reaffirm that Mr. Shosei Koda was not a coward at all by reviewing the tape delivered in 2004 in the wake of the recent big news of American Air Force's successful attack on the terrorist leader.
* * *
The War in Iraq may be memorized by some Japanese as a war with five victims as above mentioned.
But, we know nowadays tens of people are killed everyday in Iraq by bombs, bullets, and knives.
Japan may not be in a position to ask the God or Allah for any special consideration for Japanese victims, though not out of revenge or something like that.
The God Almighty has however responded.
"AGAINST ALL WHO DO NOT RESPECT ME"
Believe or not, God recently hinted me that something would be done to restore honor of a Japanese youth killed by an Al-Qaeda group in Iraq in 2004.
* * *
Specifically, the God recently gave me a report on a Japanese youth, Mr. Shosei Koda, who had been killed in Baghdad by members of a terrorist group associated with Al-Qaeda in October, 2004.
I was deeply impressed by the report in that he was depicted as a sincere inquirer, though so hastily interested in difficult political situations in the Middle East as to make light of danger waiting for him in Iraq. It was indeed just before the massive assault by the U.S. Army on Fallujah.
He had come to Iraq alone as a poor backpacker through Israel and Jordan after having learnt English in New Zealand.
He was killed, because Japan rejected a request by terrorists to withdraw its Self-Defense Force troops stationed in southern Iraq for humanitarian activities.
* * *
Then, that big news came in from Baghdad.
The leader of the group responsible for Mr. Shosei Koda's death was killed yesterday or so in a two U.S. F-16 fighter-planes attack.
A few months ago, an Arab youth who was more directly responsible for the death of Mr. Shosei Koda was also captured and televised, though being alive.
* * *
Mr. Shosei Koda is one of five Japanese victims who were killed by insurgents or terrorists in Iraq after the end of major combats in Iraq since 2003.
Two of the others were diplomats; and the last two were journalists.
Mr. Shosei Koda was officially categorized as a traveler in Japan.
* * *
Indeed, the news of the death of the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been widely reported in Japan through the press and on TV.
However, what we should remember is the behavior and words of Mr. Shosei Koda in a video tape the terrorist group delivered to intimidate Japan in early November, 2004.
He said, "I am sorry, Koizumi-san. They said that they would kill me unless troops of the Japanese Self-Defense force were withdrawn. I want to come back to Japan alive."
Mr. Shosei Koda didn't cry, shout, or tremble while being surrounded by armed terrorists. He looked like trying to look well as much as he could.
Though I don't know exactly the reaction of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to this televised scene at that time, some Japanese must today reaffirm that Mr. Shosei Koda was not a coward at all by reviewing the tape delivered in 2004 in the wake of the recent big news of American Air Force's successful attack on the terrorist leader.
* * *
The War in Iraq may be memorized by some Japanese as a war with five victims as above mentioned.
But, we know nowadays tens of people are killed everyday in Iraq by bombs, bullets, and knives.
Japan may not be in a position to ask the God or Allah for any special consideration for Japanese victims, though not out of revenge or something like that.
The God Almighty has however responded.
"AGAINST ALL WHO DO NOT RESPECT ME"
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
The Poorer, The More Blessed by The God Almighty
The Poorer, The More Blessed by The God Almighty
We know what was behind the large-scale American white-collar crimes, such as the Enron and WorldCom incidents.
It is ordinary workers of those companies whose benefits were directly (or through stock options) linked to stcok prices of the companies they were working in and for.
If they believe that earning as much as possible as an individual in the economic society is a right thing, it is no wonder that they have felt no sense of guilty even after the massive exposure of those frauds.
* * *
In Japan, Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, former notorious fund manager and president of a Japanese investment company, has been identified as a behind-the-scene figure for part of the Livedoor incidents that hit the world money market several months ago when Tokyo district public prosecutors launched investigation on the company.
Recently Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami purchased many stocks of a company that controls a professional baseball team.
It is a scheme similar to the one where then Livedoor president had tried to purchase a professional baseball team.
They seem to have collided with a certain, identical behind-the-scene figure.
* * *
Many foreign funds have invested in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund; but as Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami had quit his professional posts before arrest by Tokyo district prosecutors, he cannot be involved in money operation any more.
* * *
Devils can catch a boy and set a path for big money, telling him that he has such a brilliant mind set for getting big money; and the poor boy might feel happy.
I would like to find such a talent in myself earlier than devils, in order to avoid a servile position to them, with help from the God Almighty.
What about you?
"BE HEALED OF YOUR TROUBLE"
We know what was behind the large-scale American white-collar crimes, such as the Enron and WorldCom incidents.
It is ordinary workers of those companies whose benefits were directly (or through stock options) linked to stcok prices of the companies they were working in and for.
If they believe that earning as much as possible as an individual in the economic society is a right thing, it is no wonder that they have felt no sense of guilty even after the massive exposure of those frauds.
* * *
In Japan, Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, former notorious fund manager and president of a Japanese investment company, has been identified as a behind-the-scene figure for part of the Livedoor incidents that hit the world money market several months ago when Tokyo district public prosecutors launched investigation on the company.
Recently Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami purchased many stocks of a company that controls a professional baseball team.
It is a scheme similar to the one where then Livedoor president had tried to purchase a professional baseball team.
They seem to have collided with a certain, identical behind-the-scene figure.
* * *
Many foreign funds have invested in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund; but as Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami had quit his professional posts before arrest by Tokyo district prosecutors, he cannot be involved in money operation any more.
* * *
Devils can catch a boy and set a path for big money, telling him that he has such a brilliant mind set for getting big money; and the poor boy might feel happy.
I would like to find such a talent in myself earlier than devils, in order to avoid a servile position to them, with help from the God Almighty.
What about you?
"BE HEALED OF YOUR TROUBLE"
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Relationship with the God Revealed on the Cross
Relationship with the God Revealed on the Cross
The most profound mystery about the Bible is the death of the Christ on the cross.
There are many interpretations about it. But, the so-called Christian authorities like to adopt the most biased theory among those that might be tolerated.
If they needed to choose one of the theories, they should have taken the most significant one as a base of the faith of their group. But, actually they took the most difficult one that could be connived at only in an extreme situation for presenting the religion.
* * *
The theory I like is that the incident made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God or in what status mankind is in the relationship with the God.
Based on characteristics of this relationship, every human problem can be explained. It tells why every one is unhappy unless he or she is insane, devilish, or blind-minded to whatsoever degree. It also tells why poverty and unfairness cannot be ever eradicated.
* * *
Mankind was so insane, devilish, or blind-minded that he killed the Son of the God 2000 years ago.
As mankind has been so bad, it is no wonder that our history is full of wars, atrocities, and tragedies.
In other words, if you are asked why there are so many poor people in this world, you should answer that it is because mankind has been so bad as to kill the Son of the God whom He sent to the world.
* * *
Jesus Christ could carry all our sins caused our badness through his death on the cross with unlimited forgiveness.
Nonetheless, our being bad still continues. It is because we still continue to be so bad as to kill the Son of the God.
It is why you cannot solve any significant problems of the human world.
* * *
I do not want to blame anybody.
However, I feel very uncomfortable that people are dying everyday on this earth while they are still surrounded by sinful others, even 2000 years after the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Anyway, Jesus Christ revived and went on to other missions after he had made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God, which must have been one of his missions on this earth and in history.
Accordingly, I put hopes on the relationship between myself and the God.
Therefore, basically I do not blame anybody.
“NOT LET YOURSELVES BE DECEIVED”
The most profound mystery about the Bible is the death of the Christ on the cross.
There are many interpretations about it. But, the so-called Christian authorities like to adopt the most biased theory among those that might be tolerated.
If they needed to choose one of the theories, they should have taken the most significant one as a base of the faith of their group. But, actually they took the most difficult one that could be connived at only in an extreme situation for presenting the religion.
* * *
The theory I like is that the incident made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God or in what status mankind is in the relationship with the God.
Based on characteristics of this relationship, every human problem can be explained. It tells why every one is unhappy unless he or she is insane, devilish, or blind-minded to whatsoever degree. It also tells why poverty and unfairness cannot be ever eradicated.
* * *
Mankind was so insane, devilish, or blind-minded that he killed the Son of the God 2000 years ago.
As mankind has been so bad, it is no wonder that our history is full of wars, atrocities, and tragedies.
In other words, if you are asked why there are so many poor people in this world, you should answer that it is because mankind has been so bad as to kill the Son of the God whom He sent to the world.
* * *
Jesus Christ could carry all our sins caused our badness through his death on the cross with unlimited forgiveness.
Nonetheless, our being bad still continues. It is because we still continue to be so bad as to kill the Son of the God.
It is why you cannot solve any significant problems of the human world.
* * *
I do not want to blame anybody.
However, I feel very uncomfortable that people are dying everyday on this earth while they are still surrounded by sinful others, even 2000 years after the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Anyway, Jesus Christ revived and went on to other missions after he had made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God, which must have been one of his missions on this earth and in history.
Accordingly, I put hopes on the relationship between myself and the God.
Therefore, basically I do not blame anybody.
“NOT LET YOURSELVES BE DECEIVED”
Friday, June 02, 2006
New Type of Cells Discovered: Great Discovery in Billion Years
New Type of Cells Discovered: Great Discovery in Billion Years
A research group of Tokyo Medical College has discovered a new type of cells that has special characteristics neither eukaryotic cells nor prokaryotic cells have.
Natural life forms on the earth are made of cells. And, it has been believed that there are only two types of cells in the nature (though one type of cells applies to two types of primitive life forms).
* * *
A human being is made of 60 trillion cells, the types of which are all eukaryotic. However, a bacterium is made of a prokaryotic cell.
No other types of cells have been so far known to human beings, at least until this new discovery.
It is believed that a prokaryotic cell, which had first appeared 4 billion years ago, evolved to a eukaryotic cell 1.5 billion years ago. And then, eukaryotic cells evolved to constitute an animal as well as a plant.
* * *
The newly discovered cell is situated between a eukaryotic cell and a prokaryotic cell.
It should give information and clues needed for answering the question as to how a prokaryotic cell evolved to a eukaryotic cell.
In this respect, the cell the researchers of Tokyo Medical College recently discovered from the depths of the sea near Japan might establish the third type of cells, as it has only a partial sheet or film surrounding and protecting DNA in a cell.
* * *
This is a great discovery in billion years.
But, who could appreciate it?
I cannot help but praise the Lord, for it tells that the emergence of human beings on the earth is truly a miracle.
“BRING THEM BACK TO LIFE”
A research group of Tokyo Medical College has discovered a new type of cells that has special characteristics neither eukaryotic cells nor prokaryotic cells have.
Natural life forms on the earth are made of cells. And, it has been believed that there are only two types of cells in the nature (though one type of cells applies to two types of primitive life forms).
* * *
A human being is made of 60 trillion cells, the types of which are all eukaryotic. However, a bacterium is made of a prokaryotic cell.
No other types of cells have been so far known to human beings, at least until this new discovery.
It is believed that a prokaryotic cell, which had first appeared 4 billion years ago, evolved to a eukaryotic cell 1.5 billion years ago. And then, eukaryotic cells evolved to constitute an animal as well as a plant.
* * *
The newly discovered cell is situated between a eukaryotic cell and a prokaryotic cell.
It should give information and clues needed for answering the question as to how a prokaryotic cell evolved to a eukaryotic cell.
In this respect, the cell the researchers of Tokyo Medical College recently discovered from the depths of the sea near Japan might establish the third type of cells, as it has only a partial sheet or film surrounding and protecting DNA in a cell.
* * *
This is a great discovery in billion years.
But, who could appreciate it?
I cannot help but praise the Lord, for it tells that the emergence of human beings on the earth is truly a miracle.
“BRING THEM BACK TO LIFE”
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
World Cup Soccer Games was Almost over for Japan
World Cup Soccer Games was Almost over for Japan
Early this morning, in the Japanese time zone, the Japanese national soccer team was matched against the German team as a goodwill game prior to the World Cup in Germany.
The score was even: 2 to 2.
Coach of the Japanese team Zico looked happy.
* * *
The Japanese team is used to be laughed at, because they look too excellent in team work and passing a ball among team mates in a football match to get a goal at all.
* * *
In the summer of 2004, Japan defeated China at the final game of Asia Cup in Beijing to be an Asian champion.
If the coach of the Japanese team had been a Japanese instead of Zico, a Brazilian, the result of the match might have been different.
Japanese players had been exposed to bare hostility at stadiums in various Chinese cities during the Asia Cup games. In Beijin, they were also amid anti-Japan sentiment of China that unfriendly rekindled memory of the Sino-Japanese war that had occurred before and during WWII.
* * *
It is often said that Germany fully apologized for atrocities it had done during WWII, but Japan didn’t.
There is a big misconception about reasons for an Imperial Japan’s decision on launching a war on the continent of China as well as the U.S. and its allied countries.
Nonetheless, even in this regard, Japan and Germany are even in my view, taking into consideration their manners of apology and post-war contribution to the world.
* * *
From a certain point of view, World Cup Soccer Games was almost over for Japan. The rest is Japan vs. Brazil.
We will see a result on June 22 in Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany.
“HE IS COMING FROM HIS HOLY PLACE”
Early this morning, in the Japanese time zone, the Japanese national soccer team was matched against the German team as a goodwill game prior to the World Cup in Germany.
The score was even: 2 to 2.
Coach of the Japanese team Zico looked happy.
* * *
The Japanese team is used to be laughed at, because they look too excellent in team work and passing a ball among team mates in a football match to get a goal at all.
* * *
In the summer of 2004, Japan defeated China at the final game of Asia Cup in Beijing to be an Asian champion.
If the coach of the Japanese team had been a Japanese instead of Zico, a Brazilian, the result of the match might have been different.
Japanese players had been exposed to bare hostility at stadiums in various Chinese cities during the Asia Cup games. In Beijin, they were also amid anti-Japan sentiment of China that unfriendly rekindled memory of the Sino-Japanese war that had occurred before and during WWII.
* * *
It is often said that Germany fully apologized for atrocities it had done during WWII, but Japan didn’t.
There is a big misconception about reasons for an Imperial Japan’s decision on launching a war on the continent of China as well as the U.S. and its allied countries.
Nonetheless, even in this regard, Japan and Germany are even in my view, taking into consideration their manners of apology and post-war contribution to the world.
* * *
From a certain point of view, World Cup Soccer Games was almost over for Japan. The rest is Japan vs. Brazil.
We will see a result on June 22 in Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany.
“HE IS COMING FROM HIS HOLY PLACE”
Monday, May 29, 2006
Earthquakes in Diverse Places
Earthquakes in Diverse Places
Yes, I got that report on another great earthquake in Indonesia.
Thousands of people were dead, while survivors were crying in fear and sadness.
Accordingly, I tried to remember passages related to an earthquake or earthquakes in the Holy Scripture or the Bible of King James version.
* * *
When the 9/11 Attacks happened, I remembered the following part:
“And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!”
“And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
When the War on Terror began, I remembered the following part:
“And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”
Now as the earthquake has occurred:
“And there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.”
* * *
But, more alarming is the following as we have heard of a pagan, popular work such as the one related to Leonardo da Vinci:
“For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.”
Perhaps, we must be further prepared for the End of the World:
“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.”
“And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.”
* * *
However, we are to be saved:
“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.”
“And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.”
Victory will be indeed complete again.
* * *
The border of two continental plates runs from Java to Kashmir passing the south of Himalaya Mountains.
It covers Islamic regions and India.
People living in those areas must know a need of faith more than those in the U.K. and the Netherlands, for example.
* * *
Once there was a big mass of land that connected most of islands of Indonesia altogether. It went under the sea by 10,000 years ago due to rise in sea level.
There are many things Japanese should worry about concerning Indonesia.
However, believers even living in the uttermost part of the earth will be surely saved.
“WILL PUNISH THE EARTH”
Yes, I got that report on another great earthquake in Indonesia.
Thousands of people were dead, while survivors were crying in fear and sadness.
Accordingly, I tried to remember passages related to an earthquake or earthquakes in the Holy Scripture or the Bible of King James version.
* * *
When the 9/11 Attacks happened, I remembered the following part:
“And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!”
“And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
When the War on Terror began, I remembered the following part:
“And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”
Now as the earthquake has occurred:
“And there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.”
* * *
But, more alarming is the following as we have heard of a pagan, popular work such as the one related to Leonardo da Vinci:
“For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.”
Perhaps, we must be further prepared for the End of the World:
“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.”
“And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.”
* * *
However, we are to be saved:
“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.”
“And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.”
Victory will be indeed complete again.
* * *
The border of two continental plates runs from Java to Kashmir passing the south of Himalaya Mountains.
It covers Islamic regions and India.
People living in those areas must know a need of faith more than those in the U.K. and the Netherlands, for example.
* * *
Once there was a big mass of land that connected most of islands of Indonesia altogether. It went under the sea by 10,000 years ago due to rise in sea level.
There are many things Japanese should worry about concerning Indonesia.
However, believers even living in the uttermost part of the earth will be surely saved.
“WILL PUNISH THE EARTH”
Friday, May 26, 2006
Buddhism and the War on Terror
Buddhism and the War on Terror
A Japanese journalist interviewed French authorities on terrorist movement.
A female, senior bureaucrat of a French agency in Paris said, “They do not represent Muslims just like Aum Shinrikyo did not represent Buddhists.”
Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese cult that carried out sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subways in 1995, which injured about 5,000 commuters in addition to ten deaths.
(Now, the top leader of the cult is on trial, though his counselor is claiming that the trial should be suspended by reason of insanity of his client placed in the Tokyo Detention Center)
* * *
According to a book by the Japanese journalist, when Ahmed Shah Massoud was assassinated on September 9, 2001 in Afghanistan, there were several European ladies in Jalalabad, southeast of Kabul, who married Muslims living in residences far better than neighboring ones. Al-Qaeda provided the accommodation for them.
Leader of anti-Taliban forces Ahmed Shah Massoud was killed, prior to the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., by a suicide bomber and another assassin who came from Jalalabad in the disguise of Europe-based reporters, following an order of Al-Qaeda.
* * *
As I once reported, when Taliban carried out demolition, in March, 2001, of a 165-foot statute of Buddha carved at a cliff in Bamian, Afghanistan, in the fourth century, we should have been more alerted.
It is not only President George W. Bush or Prime Minister Junichiro Kizumi who is to blame.
But, European leaders also should have realized that something strange was going on in Jalalabad in the summer of 2001.
* * *
Before arrival of Islam at Bamian, Buddhism prevailed there.
Hsuan Tsang, a notable Chinese Buddhism priest of high virtue, departed China in 629 to India, passing Bamian. He not only studied the religion but also made a huge collection of Buddhist scriptures in India.
Those scriptures were translated into Chinese, and then imported into Japan.
Hsuan Tsang’s travel took 17 years over 30,000Km (18,000 miles) from China to India through Central Asia, including Afghanistan, in the seventh century.
A story on his travel and adventure, called “Xi You Ji (or Saiyuki in Japanese),” is still popular in China and Japan.
* * *
I cannot believe that God has ever ordered the people of scriptures, that is, Israelites, Christians, and Muslims, to destroy Buddhism.
For example, Japan that might overwhelm any other countries on the earth except the multi-race, multi-culture, and multi-tradition United States of America consists mainly of people who think themselves to be a kind of Buddhist.
(According to Forbes, there are 320 Japanese companies among top 2000 businesses ranked in the world, while 693 companies are American, 122 English, 66 French, and 58 Germany. See also http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/Rank_1.html.)
Even in comparison with Israelites, Japanese might be allowed to claim that God has blessed Japanese more than Israelites in terms of glory of a tribe.
And, Japanese are mostly Buddhist, if we venture to categorize them.
* * *
Things originated in Afghanistan, such as the 9/11 Attacks and the War on Terror, might be predicted or measured still by focusing on how parties concerned are dealing with Buddhism.
In that case, Japanese might be able to, or willing to, play a key role as Americans and Europeans can.
“SHOW LOVE TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED UNLOVED”
A Japanese journalist interviewed French authorities on terrorist movement.
A female, senior bureaucrat of a French agency in Paris said, “They do not represent Muslims just like Aum Shinrikyo did not represent Buddhists.”
Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese cult that carried out sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subways in 1995, which injured about 5,000 commuters in addition to ten deaths.
(Now, the top leader of the cult is on trial, though his counselor is claiming that the trial should be suspended by reason of insanity of his client placed in the Tokyo Detention Center)
* * *
According to a book by the Japanese journalist, when Ahmed Shah Massoud was assassinated on September 9, 2001 in Afghanistan, there were several European ladies in Jalalabad, southeast of Kabul, who married Muslims living in residences far better than neighboring ones. Al-Qaeda provided the accommodation for them.
Leader of anti-Taliban forces Ahmed Shah Massoud was killed, prior to the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., by a suicide bomber and another assassin who came from Jalalabad in the disguise of Europe-based reporters, following an order of Al-Qaeda.
* * *
As I once reported, when Taliban carried out demolition, in March, 2001, of a 165-foot statute of Buddha carved at a cliff in Bamian, Afghanistan, in the fourth century, we should have been more alerted.
It is not only President George W. Bush or Prime Minister Junichiro Kizumi who is to blame.
But, European leaders also should have realized that something strange was going on in Jalalabad in the summer of 2001.
* * *
Before arrival of Islam at Bamian, Buddhism prevailed there.
Hsuan Tsang, a notable Chinese Buddhism priest of high virtue, departed China in 629 to India, passing Bamian. He not only studied the religion but also made a huge collection of Buddhist scriptures in India.
Those scriptures were translated into Chinese, and then imported into Japan.
Hsuan Tsang’s travel took 17 years over 30,000Km (18,000 miles) from China to India through Central Asia, including Afghanistan, in the seventh century.
A story on his travel and adventure, called “Xi You Ji (or Saiyuki in Japanese),” is still popular in China and Japan.
* * *
I cannot believe that God has ever ordered the people of scriptures, that is, Israelites, Christians, and Muslims, to destroy Buddhism.
For example, Japan that might overwhelm any other countries on the earth except the multi-race, multi-culture, and multi-tradition United States of America consists mainly of people who think themselves to be a kind of Buddhist.
(According to Forbes, there are 320 Japanese companies among top 2000 businesses ranked in the world, while 693 companies are American, 122 English, 66 French, and 58 Germany. See also http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/Rank_1.html.)
Even in comparison with Israelites, Japanese might be allowed to claim that God has blessed Japanese more than Israelites in terms of glory of a tribe.
And, Japanese are mostly Buddhist, if we venture to categorize them.
* * *
Things originated in Afghanistan, such as the 9/11 Attacks and the War on Terror, might be predicted or measured still by focusing on how parties concerned are dealing with Buddhism.
In that case, Japanese might be able to, or willing to, play a key role as Americans and Europeans can.
“SHOW LOVE TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED UNLOVED”
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Great Design of God Almighty
Great Design of God Almighty
Whenever I watch a world map, I cannot help but feel a grand design of God Almighty.
* * *
God set the tribe of Israelites in human history without a fanfare 4000 years ago in Southern Iraq, the territory of an ancient race of Sumerians.
God sent Jesus Christ to Israelites so as to make Christian the Roman Empire and its successors in whole Europe.
God also allowed for Arabs and Persians as well as other nearby Aryans to be linked to so blessed Israelites and Christians through the Koran.
God let Europe thrive with science and technology while providing crude oil fields for Arabs and Persians.
God has kept His promise to Israelites to protect its existence and survival among other nations forever, too.
Theoretically, the present world must be in peace and concord with Europe providing technology, Muslims providing crude oils, and Israelites providing linkage to God.
* * *
However, as you see, something is wrong, and awfully wrong.
The Grand Design of God Almighty on the so-called People of Scriptures seems to be being betrayed by pagans.
But, God might be expecting other nations, including Japan, to play their roles to further reveal His Almightiness of God.
European Americans might have to tackle this inherited issue.
But, time is running out fast, with crude oils being consumed incessantly and development of technology being behind the needs for solving critical energy and environmental issues.
* * *
My worry is that there are some people who look truly pagan everywhere on the earth which God Almighty possesses in addition to human souls on it.
Negligence of God’s Design could cause destruction on the entire human society, theoretically.
“HOW CAN I GIVE YOU UP, ISRAEL”
Whenever I watch a world map, I cannot help but feel a grand design of God Almighty.
* * *
God set the tribe of Israelites in human history without a fanfare 4000 years ago in Southern Iraq, the territory of an ancient race of Sumerians.
God sent Jesus Christ to Israelites so as to make Christian the Roman Empire and its successors in whole Europe.
God also allowed for Arabs and Persians as well as other nearby Aryans to be linked to so blessed Israelites and Christians through the Koran.
God let Europe thrive with science and technology while providing crude oil fields for Arabs and Persians.
God has kept His promise to Israelites to protect its existence and survival among other nations forever, too.
Theoretically, the present world must be in peace and concord with Europe providing technology, Muslims providing crude oils, and Israelites providing linkage to God.
* * *
However, as you see, something is wrong, and awfully wrong.
The Grand Design of God Almighty on the so-called People of Scriptures seems to be being betrayed by pagans.
But, God might be expecting other nations, including Japan, to play their roles to further reveal His Almightiness of God.
European Americans might have to tackle this inherited issue.
But, time is running out fast, with crude oils being consumed incessantly and development of technology being behind the needs for solving critical energy and environmental issues.
* * *
My worry is that there are some people who look truly pagan everywhere on the earth which God Almighty possesses in addition to human souls on it.
Negligence of God’s Design could cause destruction on the entire human society, theoretically.
“HOW CAN I GIVE YOU UP, ISRAEL”