6.5 Million Churches in the World

6.5 Million Churches in the World


According to various sources, the number of Christian churches in Japan is about 8,000.

(They say that there are 100 times more churches in South Korean than in Japan, which is however a little doubtful though South Korea is abundant in religious businesses including criminal ones.)

It is also reported that there are 350,000 churches in the U.S., while there are 6.5 million churches in the world.

I suppose if Jesus Christ is in a certain church people would naturally go there to worship him.

However, everybody knows it is not the fact.
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A place where believers get together is called a church.

If two or more believers are in a certain place, it is called a church.

They will put the highest priority in praising the God in anything they do therein.

Such a place is a church.
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Call believers to your home, if you have a home, so as to make your home a church.

If you can, you will be a very successful person in this world, in a holy sense
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This evening I thought God would be merciful to show His miracle to me.

And, when I was walking among people, I really encountered a miracle in a personal sense.

Then, I am now writing this EEE-Report to the world to praise the God and Jesus Christ, the glory of which you are sharing with me this moment.

Gold bless this evening!



"LISTEN TO HIM!"

Gifts of the Most Reputable Companies in the World

Gifts of the Most Reputable Companies in the World


According to Forbes, the top ten of the World's Most Reputable Companies in 2006 are as follows (http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/20/leadership-companies-reputation-lead-managing-cx_hc_1120rep_list.html?boxes=custom):

No. 1: Barilla Holding, Italy, Food & Tobacco

2: LEGO Holding A/S, Denmark, Consumer Products

3: Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germany, Airline & Aerospace

4: IKEA International A/S, Sweden, Retail - General

5: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, France, Automotive

6: Toyota Motor Corp., Japan, Automotive

7: A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, Denmark, Transport/Logistics

8: Ferrero SpA, Italy, Food & Tobacco

9: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., South Korea, Electrical & Electronics

10: Kraft Foods Inc., USA, Food & Tobacco

The Italian company Barilla Holding got the Gold Medal for its reputation as a corporation providing services and goods in a very reputable manner to consumers.

In the coming holiday season, you had better enjoy services and goods provided by those most reputable companies in the world.

This is a little gift of information for the season.

God bless Europe, Japan, Korea, and the USA!



"WALKING AND JUMPING AND PRAISING THE GOD"

A War of Nobody Else's in Iraq

A War of Nobody Else's in Iraq


According to various sources and their information, financial aid for reconstruction of Iraq by major countries and international organizations are as follows:
1) U.S...................20.3 billion
2) Japan..................5 billion
3) World Bank..........5 billion
4) IMF......................4.25 billion
5) EU..........................1.5 billion
6) Kuwait...................1.5 billion
7) Saudi Arabia...........1 billion
8) U.K.........................0.92 billion
9) Spain.......................0.3 billion
10) Iran.......................0.3 billion
11) Korea......................0.26 billion
12) Canada....................0.23 billion
13) UAE..........................0.215 billion
14) India........................0.03 billion
15) China........................0.0242 billion
16) Norway.......................0.016 billion
17) Swiss.........................0.015 billion
18) Oman.........................0.003 billion
19) Philippines..................0.001 billion
29) Slovakia.....................0.00029 billion
30) Sri Lanka................Red Tea
31) Vietnam..................Rice

(Unit: US dollars)
[as of the end of 2007 or FY2007 for each donor]

Other debt relieves are also under considerations in some countries including Saudi Arabia.

As for Japan, it has still put some planes of Air Self-Defense Force in operation in Iraq, though its ground troops were withdrawn this July after two and a half year's humanitarian-support operation.

The Iraq War cannot be a war of nobody else's but America's only.

If Americans think so, the outcome will someday prove that it is not so.

Even if the President of the U.S. thinks so, the outcome will someday prove that it is not so.



"LIKE A BUSH IN THE DESERT"

Mr. Rumsfeld Leaving DOD

Mr. Rumsfeld Leaving DOD


The US Defense Secretary, Mr. Donald H. Rumsfeld, resigned.　

According to the New York Times, he said: "It’s been three decades since I left the Pentagon at the end of my first tour . . . Our country was then engaged in a long struggle — the Cold War, a conflict that seemed costly, and it was. It seemed unlimited in duration, and it was, and seemed unclear in its course and its outcome, which was the case . . ."
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/washington/08cnd-rumsfeld.html?hp&ex=1165640400&en=7bd6fbc98cd1e581&ei=5094&partner=homepage)

According to the Washington Post, he said: "I wish I could say that everything we've done here has gone perfectly, but that's not how life works, regrettably. When thousands of people make dozens of difficult decisions on hundreds of pressing issues, for the most part matters that are new and unfamiliar, where there's no road map, no guidebook . . . the hope has to be not perfection but that most decisions, with the perspective of time, will turn out to be the right ones. . . ."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120800842.html)

First, I have to say that the more you are given, the more you are requested to do.

Mr. Rumsfeld was given a chance twice to lead the DOD, which is more than anyone else's assignment.

Secondly, the Cold War should have been under control so that the bottom line in the worst case was clearly defined.

And it should have been avoidance of all-out atomic warfare at any costs. The U.S. should have announced that there should be no all-out atomic warfare because the U.S. truly wanted to avoid it. Then, the direction is clear, the course is straight, and the challenges can be well defined which are to overwhelm the Soviet Union by any other constructive means their nukes could not compete with and the world would give overwhelming credit to.

Lastly, the Secretary of Defense should not gamble lives of the people and assets of the nation on a war which cannot be fully defined as a holy one.

After the Cold War, had belief and faith of American people been further sublimed as should be specially noted in history?
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The issue is that while America was being engaged in economic warfare against Japan mostly in early 1990's, the DOD could not foresee its imminent role as a force to secure safe, harmonized, and democratic global markets for new entrants.

While Japan had been helping China modernize itself through huge amounts of economic aids in 1980's and 1990's, the U.S. stopped its support to Iraq and got indifferent with development of democracy in the Middle East.

No one is now afraid of nukes China actually has; but so many got afraid of nukes Iraq and terrorist groups from Saudi Arabia did not have.
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Jesus Christ told not to accuse anybody.

In one of pictures posted by the Washington Post for Mr. Rumsfeld, he sat by Ms. Condoleezza Rice. Observing it, I wondered which will be the first to consult God for a need of apology.

They have been in the fourth and sixth position to act as the President in case, respectively.

And fortunately, Mr. Rumsfeld has not since the age of the Cold War.



"ALL THE SILVER AND GOLD OF THE WORLD IS MINE"

Truth of War on Terror in Oil Rich Countries and the U.S.

Truth of War on Terror in Oil Rich Countries and the U.S.


It is said that Saudi Arabia earned about US$154 billion from oil production in 2005 and is expected to earn US$160 billion in 2006.

Iraq reportedly earned US$23.4 billion in 2005 and is expected to earn US$35 billion, though the country has US$60 billion of foreign liabilities and needs to invest about US$7 billion into reconstruction of its oil facilities and power plants.

When the U.S. military presence is over and all of its troops are withdrawn, will Iraqi people get united to boost their oil production and business to the level of Saudi Arabia, though their ratio is currently almost one to five?

With a friendly and peaceful alliance between oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Iraq, will terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda be eradicated?

Isn't it the minimum objective of the War on Iraq, if the U.S. cannot make a friend of Iraq?
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Including a forecast of expenses of the Wan on Terror in FY2007, the U.S. has reportedly spent almost 600 billion dollars for this war in these years.

The total amount of annual government expenditure of the U.S. is 2,568 billion dollars in FY2006 with 427 billion dollars deficits in 2005.

Therefore the U.S. spends 5% of its expenditure budget per year for its first war in the 21st century, which also exerts a serious influence on its deficits.
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Without mentioning human casualties, it looks like a big waste of resources.

If you are the President of the USA, would you also like to show your guts by spending almost the same amount of money every year to a war as Saudi Arabia earns yearly from oil?

God might give dollars to the U.S. just like Allah gives oil to Muslims.

If so, you should not use dollars for a war against Muslims at least in theory.



"WHOEVER MAKES HIMSELF GREAT WILL BE HUMBLED"

No.1 Best Seller in Japan in 2006

No.1 Best Seller in Japan in 2006



The Japanese version of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J. K. Rowling is ranked the second.

The No.1 best seller in Japan in 2006 is reportedly "Kokka-no-Hinkaku" by Masahiko Fujiwara.

The direct replacing of "Kokka-no-Hinkaku" by word by word is "Nation-of-Dignity"; however with the word order changed, it is "Dignity of the Nation."

The author, a mathematician and essayist, extends his thought about how Japan has become so tainted by greed.

When you judge other persons just depending on how much money they have, you will be regarded as a worshipper of Mammon.

If you are surrounded by people of other origins in terms of race, nationality, culture, and language, judging others with the sole criterion of money may be excused in a certain situation; however, traditionally it was not the case in Japan.

Nonetheless, this tradition has been eroded in the Japanese society, probably, due to globalization of economy.

The author of "Dignity of the Nation" claimed that Japanese should preserve respect for human value which is essentially opposite to love of money.

And, more than two million people who have bought his book are thinking about his idea, pro and con, results of which might improve the society at least to whatever small extent.
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Jesus Christ's followers 2000 years ago must have mostly consisted of those who could not read and write.

The less we read, the closer we get to the original followers.

You had better recall and think about parables Jesus Christ said to His followers as many times as possible.

The best I can do is to report any holy signs God has given.




"ANY ONE WHO KEEPS LOOKING BACK IS OF NO USE"

A Note on Tonight's Moon

A Note on Tonight's Moon


Tonight the moon was super bright.
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The rate of a corporation tax in Japan is about 40% while it is about 30% in other advanced countries.

Financial circles in Japan are requesting the Government to lower the rate to 30% or so.
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God gives us a sign in the sky sometimes even to remind us of any remote but important thing.

If you see it, you would feel reassured about yourself.

People might look up at the moon in New Orleans, Bamiyan, and Baghdad.

It must look more splendorous.



"COURAGE! IT IS I"

Assassinations New and Old; Defense Organ Old and New

Assassinations New and Old; Defense Organ Old and New


Mr. Larry King was interviewing a person who had been also shot at his stomach on June 5, 1968 when Robert Kennedy was shot.

The Kennedys are well known in Japan. The movie "Bobby" might be welcomed as "JFK" was more than a decade ago.
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Whenever I recall the assassinations that haunted the Kennedys, I feel danger still somehow hidden in the U.S. Government and U.S. politics.

If then U.S. Government had investigated the cases in earnest, we should have been reported more reasonable explanations and findings to.

But, it seems that then U.S. Government had been reluctant to investigate the cases with precision of science and enthusiasm of patriots.

Then U.S. Government had ability, power, and resources to grasp a whole scheme of those assassinations and present truth to the people; however, they didn't, or at least they looked as if they hadn't.

A simple speculation is that there is possibility that a higher part of then U.S. Government and a stronger group of politicians were involved in the cases.

But, more alarming is a fact that U.S. citizens didn't or wouldn't, or otherwise couldn't, force their Government to provide them explanations and findings fully reasonable and scientific on the cases.

As time went by, we however saw the U.S. Government and its people severely suffering from the Viet Nam War, though they could manage to send men to the moon.
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An ex-Russian officer was so tragically assassinated in London recently with radioactive polonium. It is likely that somebody put the chemical substance into a cup of Japanese tea in a certain sushi restaurant. It is a kind of must that sushi is served with Japanese green tea.

There are some Japanese who are arguing that CIA must be a true culprit. The Russian Government should not be such a fool as would be so easily suspected and identified. It must be CIA, since the U.S. Government has full records of assassinations overseas in the past.

Of course, these Japanese are, in most cases, young minority well educated and inclined toward leftist thinking and sometimes supporters of the Japanese Communist Party or Social Democratic Party.

I suppose that CIA might have a clue for solving this criminal case related to a nation with various types of gangsters being engaged in various secret, political and economic maneuvers since the fall of the communist regime of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Japan has the Defense Agency, but soon will have the Ministry of Defense, as a law to grade up the Agency to the Ministry, which is authorized to have more effective administrative power, was passed by Japan's House of Representatives recently.

I hope that there will be no needs for Japan to establish its own Central Intelligence Agency for whatever reasons or on whatever purpose.



"WHO WILL ROLL AWAY THE STONE"

ALL AMERICANS: Super Rich, Professional, Poor, and Outcast

ALL AMERICANS: Super Rich, Professional, Poor, and Outcast


A Japanese woman who has worked in New York and the Silicon Valley as the first Japanese female economist for 26 years wrote a Japanese book titled "Reality of America, the Super Disparity Society."

The author, Yumi Kobayashi, categorized Americans into four groups: the super rich, the professional, the poor, and outcasts.

Readers of the book, of course mostly Japanese in Japan, largely praise its contents. Especially, as the author defined herself as one of lower professionals, her viewpoint seems to be well welcomed by readers.

First of all, God forbids man to stay rich.
Therefore, being super rich is a sin.
I have nothing to say to them. You wait for God's judgment.

The question is whether professionals love the poor and outcasts as God wishes.

I suppose it will decide the future course of the U.S.

On this earth, there are only two types of people: those who are afraid of being rich and those who are not.

In other words, those who know in any form of recognition that God forbids man to become rich and those who do not mind such an idea.
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However, I am not in a position to decide any particular person to be super rich, professional, poor, or outcast.



"WILL BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP GOD"

"THE BOOK OF TEA" and My Practice

"THE BOOK OF TEA" and My Practice



In 1906, "THE BOOK OF TEA" by Okakura-Kakuzo was published from Fox Duffield & Company in New York.

The author, generally known as Tenshin Okakura, wrote about the way of tea, one of unique cultural assets of Japan.

Probably due to the influence the book bore in the United States, even Americans today have some knowledge about wabi (taste for the simple and quiet) and sabi (elegant simplicity) both of which are concept deeply rooted in the traditional Japanese culture and are embodied in a tea ceremony.

He wrote: "Why not destroy flowers if thereby we can evolve new forms ennobling the world idea? We only ask them to join in our sacrifice to the beautiful. We shall atone for the deed by consecrating ourselves to Purity and Simplicity. Thus reasoned the tea-masters when they established the Cult of Flowers."

In a small room where a Japanese tea ceremony is conducted, you will surely find a humble decoration of plants.
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Buddha is said to have said that you could go into flower gardens but must pass through them without picking any of plants and flowers.

The beautiful is not in the nature or living things but in the spiritual universe which sometimes project its elements and members onto the nature.

You are not allowed to kill life of a flower.
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Decorate a room with flowers may be an art, but walk through a flower garden without picking a flower may be a religious practice.

And practically, drinking Japanese green tea is good for a human heart medically.

I take it everyday intentionally. If you like, please try it.



"THEY HEAR THE MESSAGE"

"Hillary and Rice"

"Hillary and Rice"


There is a Japanese book titled "Hillary and Rice" written by a Japanese female essayist named Yukiko Kishimoto.

I suppose we had better focus on descriptions about Ms. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the U.S., especially in this age of the War on Terror.

The essayist mentioned two Japanese men who had met with or saw her, separately in many academic occasions, when Ms. Rice was in her 30's.

The two Japanese men described alike Ms. Rice as a Venus or a truly rare beauty.
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In ancient China, it is said that there were Four (or Five) Beauties who were extremely beautiful and prominent.

Among them, about a woman called Diaochan (Chou-sen in Japanese), whose life was not recorded in any historic documents but believed to have existed, it is said that she was so beautiful that the moon hid herself in nearby clouds when she was praying under the moon for peace of the Han Dynasty her father was serving.

She has been thus called a Beauty Making the Moon Hide.
(In East Asia, everybody thinks that the moon is beautiful.)

There is also another related expression created in ancient China but still known in Japan: a Beauty Making Fish Drawn, Goose Fall, and Flowers Shamed.
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The beauty Diaochan was used successfully by her father to drive a fatal wedge between two powerful warriors who were both enemies of Han.

This episode became a prologue of a long historical story based on civil wars in China in the 2nd and the 3rd century.

Japanese seem to love the story called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" more than contemporary Chinese do.
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The female essayist who wrote the book "Hillary and Rice" was interested in the remarks of those Japanese men about Ms. Rice.

The actual expression they used is "Zessei-no-Bijyo," which literally means a beauty that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

If two decent Japanese men testified that a certain foreign girl was a truly rare beauty, I think she must be.
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What I hope is that Ms. Rice is actually a very different type of ladies from the ancient legendary beauty Diaochan.

Anyway, God's teaching to me has nothing to do with a beauty except such one as "Do not believe what you see but what you feel."

I feel that she would not let others feel the way she does not like, which I would rather respect.



"TAKEN OUT OLD THINGS AND NEW THINGS"

Japanese Spacecraft Peering into the Sun So Nearly

Japanese Spacecraft Peering into the Sun So Nearly



The surface of the sun emitting several jet streams of energy was for the first time so clearly presented in pictures released yesterday.
(Especially at p.14 of http://hinode.nao.ac.jp/news_e/20061127_press_e/sot_press_en.pdf)

The pictures were taken from a Japanese spacecraft called Hinode using its solar optical telescope.

Hinode also took some pictures of Mercury this month with the sun as its background.
(http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/solar-b/index.html)

This project called Solar-B is being promoted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.
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The width of a bundle of energy jet streams on the sun is almost equal to the diameter of the earth. We can really feel something enormous but also so real therein.

Mercury with a diameter a little larger than one-third of the earth's cannot be observed easily from the earth and a real picture showing its shape, of course being round, is also rare.
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In Japanese, we call Mercury "Sui-sei" meaning the star of water.
We call Venus "Kin-sei" meaning the star of gold.
We call the Earth "Chi-kyu" meaning the ground globe.
We call Mars "Ka-sei" meaning the star of fire.
We call Saturn "Do-sei" meaning the star of soil.
We call Jupiter "Moku-sei" meaning the star of trees.
We call Uranus "Tennou-sei" meaning the star of the Heaven King.
We call Neptune "Kaiou-sei" meaning the star of the Sea King.
We call Pluto "Meiou-sei" meaning the star of the Underworld King.

The sun is called "Tai-you" meaning the great brightness, though there are some other synonyms.

The moon is "Tsuki" meaning the moon.

A star is "Hoshi" meaning a star, the Kanji letter of which can be also pronounced as "Sei" in certain contexts.
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Though the sun, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium, is not a gigantic inerratic star, this kind of stars with a larger volume could generate internally various types of atoms, including oxygen.

The combination of hydrogen and oxygen is water.

The origin of water on the earth is traced back to another larger sun which once existed prior to the current sun.

That kind of gigantic, hot, and burning globe is the source of water which makes us live in combination with light and heat.
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Jesus Christ really said, "Do not judge a person by his outlook but by his mind."

A mind that can give you water, light, and heat may be, however, being carried by a person with a forbidding aspect.



"HEALED THOSE WHO NEEDED IT"

F15, F22, and F2 Fighters

F15, F22, and F2 Fighters



When I was running back home, I was passed by a vehicle with the license number "777" while others with "3003," "9990," etc. were coming and going at their own speed, which was not an unusual situation, though.

I was not flying high like an F15 or F22 jet fighter.

Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has 200 F15s, each of which was purchased from a certain U.S. company at a price roughly between US$ 80 million and 100 million, though the U.S. Air force could purchase an F15 at US$ 40 million.

It is said the Japanese Government pays twice more than the U.S. Government does for an F15.

It means, with the same budget, Japan could hold 400 F15s now.

In the case of an F22, it is said Japan will have to pay US$ 130 million.
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As the U.S. aerospace industry sells goods worth 180 billion dollars per year nowadays, Japan's defense budget for F15s account for one percent of the yearly sales if we assume that Japan's 200 F15s were purchased in ten fiscal years.

Japan also buys other items from various U.S. aerospace products makers.
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Japan has developed its own fighter jet plane which is called F2 and can fly at the maximum speed of Mach 2.0 and has a flying range of 4,000Km (2,500 miles).

However, as Japanese laws prohibit exporting weapons to other countries, the price of F2, including its development costs, is fairly high, US$ 100 million each.

The Japanese Government has decided to purchase only about 100 F2s from a certain Japanese maker.

During WWII, Imperial Japan had produced 10,000 "Zero" fighters.

Now peace-loving Japan is to be equipped with the national fighters in an amount of one-hundredth of the total production number of the legendary "Zero" fighters.
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Flying a jet fighter plane may be cool, but if you don't understand process of creation of modern wealth, for example, in a factory or at a construction site, you may lack something in your intellect that is very critical for anyone allowed to be engaged in an operation for destroying enemy's modern wealth in the form of a factory or a building.

Yes, life is once, but eternity can be in any moment in a life if God allows, as you should really feel high in the air above sonic boom.



"EVERYTHING AHEAD OF TIME"

Sushi, Buddhism, and Tigers

Sushi, Buddhism, and Tigers


The Washington Post talked about sushi, a Japanese type of dish consisting of rice and fish and shellfish.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/23/AR2006112301158.html)

Their reporters seem to be very knowledgeable about Japanese cuisine and the culture behind it.

However, I would like to add some to it.
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Japanese had been officially forbidden to eat animal-meat from the seventh century to the late 19th century by governments and social authorities influenced by Buddhism.

Though animal-meat diets were actually practiced occasionally and especially in the Age of Civil Wars in Japan around the 16th century, most people avoided eating meat of cows, horses, boars, birds, etc. in order to observe the teachings of Buddha who had forbidden killing living things.

But they had not forbidden people to eat fish and shellfish. And since food staple in Japan has been rice for these 2000 years, it is natural consequence that people tried hard to find other dishes that matched rice, which was fish.
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The origin of contemporary sushi is the sushi fermented with fish and vegetables (called nare-zushi) that was first invented in Southeast Asia from which ancestors of some modern Japanese had emigrated in ancient times.

Some descriptions on nare-zushi are found in the 10th century's official documents of the Imperial Dynasty.

When vinegar was widely introduced into the Japanese society under the regime of the Tokugawa samurai clan since the 17th century, nare-zushi developed into a new style of cuisine which led to formation of contemporary sushi.
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Therefore Japanese traditionally ate sushi instead of beef.

They didn't have to kill a cow or an ox to take in an animal protein.

Killing fish is not so bloody or wild as killing cows and other big animals.

You can be a lay Buddhist.
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In a temple of Thai, they feed and keep tigers. When they were cubs just losing their mother, they were found and rescued by monks of the temple.

After growing up, those tigers are still kept in the temple, but they never attack monks and other people or animals, since they don't know the taste of blood.

Those monks give meat to tigers but such meat does not include blood. After almost completely taking out blood from meat, they give it to tigers as food.
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Sushi is better than beef for man.

Meat without blood is good for tigers living in the human world.

However, Jesus Christ said not to mind what you eat and what you put on.

I am highly convinced that man can win tigers with this spirit.



"HIS BODY DID NOT ROT IN GRAVE"

Living Low, Believing High

Living Low, Believing High


Cash-out refinance in America is one of big concerns to Japanese idustries.

The rate of increase in value of homes has been declining in the U.S. residential real-estate market.

Money eventually supplied by Fannie Mae (FNM: Federal National Mortgage Association) is expected to decline from a $200 billion to a $100 billion level.

The trend directly affects U.S. consumer behaviors, because money at their hands is expected to decrease.

However, it is not a mainstream to expect a sweeping crash in the U.S. residential real-estate market and consumer loan market.

As two thirds U.S. domestic demand is supported by consumers, the issue is related to the whole U.S. economy as well as Japanese industries.
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If American dream is just to buy a house, to wait for its value to rise, to get cash based on the increased value, and to buy a bigger house and other luxuries with the cash, all enemies of the United States in the world should know they are fighting against somebody who cannot understand certain critical spiritual value; Consequently making a war against Americans cannot be glorious.

It is not God, but money that is the main concern for most of Americans.

Therefore, pious Muslims should not think that their fighting Americans could be so glorious and heroic.
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However, Japanese industries rely on this big American consumer power.

And nowadays Korean and Chinese industries also rely on this big American consumer power.

More specifically, the true driving force in the world economy is Americans buying homes.
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Live poor means of course living in a humble home.

The most serious issue in the U.S. is that God orders them to live poor as He does to everybody in the world.
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No matter how humbly in claiming this, I am still living poor.

And this is what I am telling you.


"BE HEALED OF YOUR TROUBLE"

Hidden Buddhist Scriptures Found in Bamiyan

Hidden Buddhist Scriptures Found in Bamiyan


Thousands of cars and motorcycles were running.

Yet, I could spot specific license numbers such as "6666," "8888," "8800," "3838," "100," "3," etc. in a short period of time, while encountering different cars with the license number of "X 1717" three times though the Hirakana character "X" at the head of the numbers was different.

It is just almost a 10 minutes run, but I could not miss those so-called good license numbers.

It is no more a matter of probability. It is belief.
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Information I got today is on the demolished, huge statutes of Buddha in Bamiyan of Afghanistan.

Researchers found part of certain Buddhist scriptures, believed to have been hidden in the body the statutes, among debris of the statutes bombed by the Taliban in early 2001.

The sheet of paper was also damaged but some Sanskritic sentences could be read on it.

The letters used are of the sixth to seventh century's standard. Their contents are just those Hsuan Tsang, famous Buddhist priest (602 - 664), translated into Chinese during and after his long journey from China to India.
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Though there might be a more important thing today for me, I suppose this information must be reported anyhow.

The Taliban as a group of Muslims destroyed the historic statutes, but they could not succeed in completely disappointing Buddhists.

As a human being before being allowed to enjoy any true religion, even a Muslim had better learn some teachings of Buddha.

It is my opinion.

A Muslim has various knowledge and ideas on this world and their lives in addition to those of Islam.

All of them cannot be necessarily better than any teachings of Buddha.
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Buddhism and Islam might be very different things; each of them may belong to a different sphere of human spirit.

Perhaps, it is wrong to regard them as religion of the same meaning.

They must be so different that they should be able to co-exist in a human soul.

Judaism and Christianity can be applied to this idea in the same manner.
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Religion cannot be a reason for attacking others.

Religion can be the only reason for stopping attack to others in a certain case.

Now, I suppose this information and notion should be very important to some of you, as God gave such suggestions.



"WONDERS ON THE EARTH BELOW"

Coal in China, Oil in Iraq, and Justice for All

Coal in China, Oil in Iraq, and Justice for All


According to various news sources, such as NHK, Kyodo News Service, and The Epoch Times, China has a big trouble on its coal mine industry.

China is the largest coal production country in the world followed by the U.S., but every year they have more than 6,000 deaths in coal mines in official statistics. According to other private information source, the death toll is more than 20,000 every year.

The mortality percentage of victims in China's coal mines is 100 times larger than that of America's.

In addition, the number of those killed each year in various accidents including traffic accidents in China is said to be about 140,000.

To have a population of 1.3 billion is different from having a 300 million population or a 120 million population.

Nothing can be proportional, if a total amount of a certain indicator surpasses a certain threshold level.

What is worse, according to a certain analysis, the reason of this large number of casualties in China's coal mines is its bad management run by managers who are forcing innocent laborers to work in bad conditions, while paying very low salaries, so that they can make an undue but huge profit.
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Maybe a number of civilians killed in Iraq, directly linked to armed clashes of any scale, every year after 2003 might be at the level of the yearly death toll of Chinese coal-mine workers.

Iraq has a population of only 24 million, one fiftieth of China's 1.3 billion population.

No comparison looks meaningful, but people are dying in daylight on dry land as well as in darkness of mines.
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China has large coal reserves and Iraq has large oil reserves.

They should use it for security and safety of its people, respectively.

I cannot find any other reasons than this for the very natural gift God Almighty has given to both the countries, respectively.



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Do Not Hold Voters Cheap, Mr. bin Laden

Do Not Hold Voters Cheap, Mr. bin Laden


God told us to love our enemies, not to like them.

Some people really love to say the above notion.

Maybe Allah told us to love our enemies, not to like them.

Some people really hate to hear others say the above notion.
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Editorials of Japanese newspapers claim that the key factor that has decided the outcome of this midterm election in the United States is the gap between the rich and the poor.

But, most of Americans should feel something nice in that Al-Qaeda have not launched a massive attack on U.S. properties anywhere in the world these days, though U.S. soldiers are being exposed to danger of being shot by hidden snipers in streets of Iraq.

In the last Presidential election, Mr. Osama bin Laden himself appeared on a video and delivered a message to Americans; Consequently Mr. George W. Bush won.
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If Al-Qaeda had hijacked several passenger jets during this election period, the outcome should have been very different, as you can easily imagine.

However, it may be a little interesting to take note of the fact that North Korea blasted its first officially-so-announced nuclear bomb in this October.
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I don't know the whereabouts of Mr. bin Laden, though there is possibility that Allah really struck him in Kashmir with that great earthquake which claimed about 70,000 lives of Pakistani, according to His Own will no human beings may be allowed to make a protest against.

Nonetheless, a President of the United Sates has a legal obligation to track, pursue, and arrest him, which has not been fulfilled yet to my disappointment.

Any candidates for the next Presidential election should vow to track, pursue, and arrest Mr. bin Laden who claimed himself that he had planned terror attacks in 2001 that took scores of Japanese lives along with other nationalities in New York.

And anyone elected should fulfill the official vow for our sake.
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You cannot hold American voters cheap.

You cannot hold Japanese lives cheap.

I don't know how Allah is holding your life.



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Reserves and Deficits in Japan, the U.S., and China

Reserves and Deficits in Japan, the U.S., and China


Foreign currency reserves of China have reportedly reached one trillion US dollars, while Japan's reserves are about 900 billion US dollars.

The amount of current-account deficits of the United States is about 850 billion dollars mainly due to trade deficits.

China has about 1.3 billion population, Japan 120 million, and the U.S. 300 million as you are well aware.
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What makes me worries is that many, many European and American bankers and businessmen in the financial sector are rushing at the Chinese money market to take money as much as possible out of China.

However, for decades, Japanese companies have been fostering Chinese industries, investing crucial money needed at every stage of China's development.

What makes me worries more is that the Chinese Government and its ruling party are yet to make sufficient efforts for leading its people to loving Japan more. 　
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Most importantly, Japanese public turning on such economic news is worried partly because a typical foreign criminal in Japan is still Chinese as has been for these decades.
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Poor people in the world, including poor Americans, poor Europeans, and poor Chinese, should be more alarmed than Japanese are.


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Baseball in Europe, Why Not?

Baseball in Europe, Why Not?


They say the three major topics a European woman doesn't want to hear from a Japanese businessman are:
the third, a baseball game,
the second, his company, and
the most worst, a baseball game played by colleagues of his company.
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Baseball will be no more an athletic event in London Olympic Games in 2012.

One of the most popular sporting events in Japan and the U.S. is going to be dropped from Olympic Games, though they play baseball in Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

Countries surrounding the U.S. seem to love baseball just like those surrounding Japan do.

What is wrong with baseball in Europe?

Is it so anti-Europe?

Specialty in baseball is throwing a ball in the size you can fully take a grip on to a catcher or other team mate in a field into a spot he is expecting accurately as much as possible.

Throwing a stone at a wild dog or any other animal is historically a very natural movement for mankind.

As long as you can find those stones suitable for dashing, you can fight. If you have a bat or a stick, you can further fight bravely. Kicking your game is the last action to confirm its death.

Therefore, throwing a ball and swinging a bat would satisfy a kind of human instinct.
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Since introduction of baseball into the Japanese society, there have been no civil wars.

But, in the U.S., they seem to need a few more sport events to reduce a potential of another civil war.

I heard a crime rate in the U.K. is five times larger than that in Japan.

They had better review and reconsider choices of the athletic events for London Summer Olympic Games.
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And I suspect that most of Japanese businessmen busy moving around might notice no difference between an American woman and a European woman, whether she is British or not.

Anyway, any Japanese businesswoman would kindly listen to a businessman who is just talking about a baseball game played by colleagues of his company.

But, would you?



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