Artistic Production in a City

(The King of Sweden and the Emperor [of Japan] together last month visited this city near Tokyo where Edo-Period [samurai age] streets and houses are well preserved, though the two noble persons might not have come to see this piece of art displayed in front of the main railroad station of the city.

But, if I had been an artist in charge, I would have created a yellow or silver piece of work. Anyway, people in this city seem to be content with this work.)


"...When He Spoke of the Happiness of the Person Whom God Accepts as Righteous..."

Chinese Prime Minister Welcomed in Japan

Chinese Prime Minister Welcomed in Japan



Chinese Prime Minister is now in Japan. He has addressed in the Diet, the Japan's national legislative assembly.

He said that he would highly appreciate Japan's apology for its illegal activities during the Sino-Japanese war.

All the Japanese Diet lawmakers applauded the Chinese Prime Minister.

(Chinese Prime Minister Mr. Wen Jiabao really looks like a type of Japanese; it is a non-nonsense type.)
* * *

IMF has issued an economic forecast.

In 2007, Japan's economic growth rate is expected to be 2.3% while the U.S. 2.2%, India 8.4%, and China 10%.

It is true that Chinese economy is still growing at a rapid pace. But, emergence of the bubble is apparently observed.

Besides, traditionally, China never presents honest and accurate data to enemies or potential enemies. Also the economy based on 1.3 billion consumers cannot be so easily and accurately measured unless the country has very advanced information system all over the nation. I suppose that 10% error may be the norm in their published figures.

For example, among 1.45 million companies in manufacturing and related industries, only about 5% of them has become a target of industrial pollution survey in China.

Experts in Japan are all concerned with economic and social states of China after 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games and 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
* * *

When China and India have expanded its presence in the international stage and their substantial influences have landed on the U.S., an American point of view on races might change.

I mean that European Americans might come to more appreciate African Americans and Hispanics.

(Japanese media have also turned their eye on the "IMUS" happening. And some of them never miss a chance to introduce Mr. Gingrich's "Ghetto Language" comments.

Unless European Americans find other identification with a new sense of status, they might have a hard time in dealing with Indians, Chinese, Arabs, and any other races in the world gaining economic and political power and claiming their racial merits.

In addition, after all, European Americans will appreciate Japan and Japanese Americans more than ever in this context.)


"EVEN GREATER"

A Public Park in a City

"...You Levites are to consecrate yourselves and purify the Temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove from the Temple everything that defiles it..."

Paradise of the Weak or Hell for the Strong

Paradise of the Weak or Hell for the Strong


According to Mr. Masahiko Fujiwara, a prominent mathematician and author, Portuguese resemble Japanese.

It is partly because they sometimes candidly confess their own weakness or whine about tough situations to their friends and acquaintances.

On the contrary, Americans never admit their weakness. Americans are expected to be strong. For an American to be portrayed as a wimp is fatal.
* * *

America is a very unique country (especially intensified by existence of African American Christians). But, the issue is whether its uniqueness has advantage to mankind.

If being tougher and stronger than anybody else is the only goal for Americans, they cannot represent mankind.
* * *

In 1543 when Japan was in the age of civil wars, a Portuguese ship drifted down to a southern island of Japan. It was when a matchlock gun was officially introduced into Japan.

At the end of the 16th century, Japan became the largest producer country of matchlock guns as well as iron products in the world (which seems not to be taught in any school in the world today).

Its guns had the highest quality in the world at the time. Japanese matchlock guns were exported even to Ottoman Turks. In addition, a samurai envoy was sent to Vatican in those days though as a result of a factional fight among samurai clans within Japan.

But, when and after the Tokugawa samurai regime closed the nation in 1639 in order to prevent influx of Christianity into Japan, development of guns in Japan was halted.
* * *

When Japan opened the nation again in 1853, it had to face Americans but not Portuguese. And, no Western countries used matchlock guns. They had advanced fire arms.

So, Japanese sometimes candidly confessed their own weakness or whined about tough situations to their friends and acquaintances, while building up militarily one of the strongest countries (such as the U.S., Germany, and the U.K.) in the world before WWII.
* * *

Yes, Japanese are weak. (The samurai class accounted for only 5% of all the Japanese when the last samurai regime collapsed in 1868.) But, being weak means neither having no courage nor accepting unconvincing defeat.

Conversely, if Japanese are strong, they should have systematically planned to gain the hegemony in the world. Historically, Japan had no such a national scheme even to Asia.

The issue is that there are weaker people in the world than Japanese are.

Can Americans truly and fairly help them?
* * *

If you alone are strong among weak Japanese (especially in terms of self-assertiveness and the way of enjoying life), you would be completely neglected in this island country.

(Living in an island country with high population density can be a hell for a person with personality suitable for continental environment.)

You have to learn to be weak so as to be liked by weak Japanese if you want to democratically succeed in this unique country.

But, it is not difficult, since mankind is a weak creature originally.
* * *

Conversely, Japan's strength as a group can be explained in the above way, too.

Being weak individually and also as a group cannot be a wise policy at all. We need samurai leaders sometimes.

(Nonetheless, if you are very beautifully strong, you can be loved by Japanese. Japanese love the beautiful more than sophisticated weakness, as a matter of course. And, I love very much such, too.)


"...He Will Not Break Off a Bent Reed, Nor Put Out a Flickering Lamp..."

Every Shinkansen Line Leads to Tokyo Sta.

(The Imperial Palace with its park area [former Edo Castle of Shogun] is far broader than Vatican and the Buckingham Palace. It is almost equal to two-thirds of the whole park area in London.

In the 17th century, Edo City, currently Tokyo, was three times larger than Rome and five times larger than London.)



"THE LORD BE WITH YOUR SPIRIT"

The Holy Man Ippen 700 Years Ago in Japan

The Holy Man Ippen 700 Years Ago in Japan



As words issued by Jesus Christ have never been copyrighted, history and incidents have never been copyrighted.

"Development of Underlying Spiritual Events of Mankind:

GOD
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Abraham (around 1900 B.C.)
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Moses (around 1200 B.C.)
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JUDAISM (around 500 B.C.)
Brahmanism Enlightened (around 500 B.C.)
Buddha (around 500 B.C.)
Confucius (around 500 B.C.)
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CHRISTIANITY (around A.D. 100)
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ISLAM (around 700)
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Japanese Buddhism Enlightened (around 1300)
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American Denominations Expanded (around 1900)
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/
The 21st Century: The Present Day"
* * *

Let us just jump back to "Japanese Buddhism Enlightened (around 1300)."

Some pro-Japanese citizens in the world may be interested in how Japanese holy monks looked in the 13th century.

Please refer to a Tokyo National Museum site at http://www.emuseum.jp/cgi/pkihon.cgi?SyoID=1&ID=w052&SubID=s000.

It introduces pictures created 700 years ago to present situations of the Holy Man Ippen who abandoned his status as samurai and ventured into a journey for salvation of his spirit as well as preaching to people.
* * *

In one of those old pictures, you may find that some samurais have a very long bow.

As with the case of swords, Japanese bows developed in a unique way different from those in Korea, China, Mongol, and Europe.

It is long, almost seven feet, since Japanese warriors liked to use natural materials, woods and bamboos, as they are. And, an arrow was set at a point of the one-third height from the lower end of a bow.

With this method, it is said that a strong samurai could shoot a target more than 300m (or 1000 feet) away, swiftly repeating the shot.

The opposite is a Mongolian bow. It was designed to be used by a cavalryman, though there were almost no foot soldiers in troops of the Mongolian Empire. (Even one trooper used three horses for relentless move and fight.)

Mongolians' bow is shorter, and thus easy to handle on a horse in a battle field. They used a bow and arrow as a sword. They were basically undefeatable in a battle on a plain 700 years ago.
* * *

The Holy Man Ippen told people to step and dance in a circle and continue to dance until exhausted, chanting a prayer to the Buddha and leaving every worry outside the practice of dancing. (But, prayer is first, and dancing follows it.)

It is a kind of Nenbutsu (praying to Amida Buddha) folk dances.

He moved around Japan like a homeless ragged pastor with his earnest followers, though he was once a samurai with a wife and a daughter.

(The Holy Man Ippen is not the one who is respected today by a certain Japanese political party which forms the coalition regime with the Liberal Democratic Party.)
* * *

The Holy Man Ippen's famous words are: "Abandon everything. It is the very act that saves your soul."

Buddha told people to leave the world of desire leaving every dirty thing.

Jesus Christ, nonetheless, said: "If you abandon all for me, you will get everything you need as the God knows what you need before you ask for it."



"...Which is More Important, the Gold or Temple which Makes the Gold Holy?..."

"Come On, Come On; Do the Locomotion with Me"

"...'If a Slave Runs Away from his Owner and Comes to You for Protection, Do Not Send Him Back...'..."

New Truth of the Civil War

New Truth of the Civil War



This March, a new book on Abraham Lincoln was published in Japan.

The author, Mr. Yoshio Uchida, focused on a technology, electric communications using Morse codes.

Lincoln frequently communicated with generals and officers at the front of the Civil War, which contributed to keeping and boosting morale and whipping up war sentiment.

This fact had been long forgotten, partly intentionally, but the author got original texts Lincoln had sent to the front by cable.

As the Confederate Army aimed at having the Federal States lose morale in the prolonged war, Lincoln's efforts to boost the will to fight became a critical element for his victory.

Railroads (for mobilizing people and moving soldiers) and telegraphy (for gathering information and conveying leader's determination) played a key role in the Civil War.

Especially, if Lincoln had failed in appreciating potential of the long distance communications, the Federal States and their generals and soldiers, sick and tired of a long civil war, might have made a fatal concession eventually.

(I think Americans should have avoided the Civil War. President Lincoln should have found a better way, in my view. A war in the late 19th century was very different from the one President Lincoln must have envisaged initially, probably referring to Napoleonic Wars and the like.)
* * *

In 1780, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S.

(In 1808, the U.K. officially forbade slave trade.)

In 1820, there were 1.5 million slaves in the U.S.

In 1860, there were 4 million slaves in the U.S.

Between 1820 and 1860, the cotton production in the South increased tenfold!

You may still find new truth based on this (probably well-known) data as well as President Lincoln's telegrams, especially if you are an American (like Mr. Al Sharpton who recently got spotlighted in American media on various interesting occasions).
* * *

The Greek Civilization was built on slavery (obtained through wars with different tribes as well as among their own).

But, Israelites seem not to have opted for slavery in establishing their civilization (though Abraham had one for a special reason which might not have pleased his God); Rather they were once victims of slavery in Egypt.

Besides, as you would find in reading Greek myths, they had been highly influenced by the Mesopotamian Civilization. What's more, the origin of Greek letters was cuneiform characters Sumerians, probably remote relatives of Abraham, had invented.

Simply put, European Americans who often identify their material value system with that of the Roman/Greek Civilization might not be so trustworthy as Israelite Americans at least in this issue.

If you elect an Israelite American President of the U.S., you might be able to move to a right direction to solve the racism.
* * *

The issue is our future.

For the U.S. to continue to act as a leader in the world, American leaders should not be regarded as a racist behind the times, which was already against the great global-current in the late 19th century, when Japan reentered the international community and eventually abolished the samurai feudalism.

(Even if you contribute to solving a racial issue, you may not win the Nobel Peace Prize. But, you can accumulate wealth as well as the beautiful in Heaven by doing so.)



"LOVE DOES NOT KEEP A RECORD OF WRONGS"

Buddha Loved the Lotus Flowering out of Muddy Swamp

(When a demon is driven out of a person, his or her soul might look this way from the Buddhist paradise.)

Divinely Sent to Talk about Emancipation

Divinely Sent to Talk about Emancipation


First, let's check Monday morning news in Japan:
1) This morning's newspaper in Japan reports that Mr. Shintaro Ishihara has won the Tokyo Governorship Election with 2.8 million votes garnered anyhow.

(A candidate from the Japan's Communist Party got 0.6 million votes.)

2) This morning a certain Japan's newspaper, The Mainichi Shimbun, reports on a Harvard University professor, Mr. Theodore Bestor, who frequently visits Japan and especially studies TSUKIJI, a gigantic wholesale fish market in Tokyo.

One of his big discoveries was that Japan has had a well defined and maintained unique capitalism economic system since the Edo Period under the Tokugawa samurai regime from the early 17th century to the late 19th century.

3) The newspaper reports that now the number one investor in Vietnam is Japan followed by Korea and Taiwan.

4) The newspaper reports that certain local Buddhist temples celebrated the birthday of Buddha, who was born 500 B.C., as their religious practice.
* * *

In 1848, Karl Marx issued the Manifesto of Communist Party.

In 1858, Britain started direct administration and management in India to terminate the Mogul Empire, established in North India by descendants of the Mongolian Empire in 1526.

In 1858, Japan's samurai regime entered into a treaty with the U.S. and four European countries, opening the nation to the world for the first time since 1639.

In 1861, the Civil War erupted in America over divine justice on slavery just after Abraham Lincoln was elected President.
* * *

It is as if when glory of the Mongolian Empire had been relayed to Japan to secure it from the European Power, America started to get prepared to encounter it by putting an end, though through naked violence, to its national blasphemy called "slavery" or "slave-labor plantation."
* * *

We even today see, in Japan, samurai-nationalism, internationalism, communism, Buddhism, and unique capitalism, all well preserved.

(Remeber that a samurai is also a bureaucrat, a diplomat, a scholar, a religious man, and an economist unlike traditions of worriors in Korea, China, and Europe. He can be a cameraman even today.)

No one reports, however, on a sincere study now humbly being carried out in Japan on the sacred history of mankind, which must be also part of the Divine Design according to which you should also live, die, and be judged by the God Almighty.


(All right, pastors, rabbis, Muslims, and folks, from Monday on, let's behave like mankind living in the holy context.)


"...I, the LORD, the God of their Ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Have Sent You to Them..."

If or If Not Gone with the Wind...

(Last night NHK broadcast a documentary program reporting situations in certain coal mines on the Ocher Plateau of China.

There are five million coal-mine workers today in China having a population of 1.3 billion; but accidents in mines kill 5000 workers every year.

Those workers are mostly from poor villages near and far. They mostly work in a small mine without insurance and thus get very unsatisfactory compensation, if they are damaged by an accident.

However, a decade ago, it was unthinkable to see such a documentary TV film in Japan. Yet, combination of Machiavellian ism and Marxism in Chinese leaders is really a problem for poor and local Chinese and friendly Japanese. )



"...There Were No Other Women in the Whole World as Beautiful as Job's Daughters..."

God's Anger and the Wealthiest 1%

God's Anger and the Wealthiest 1%



Folks, before tackling any non-nonsense American problem, we have to first look at the present state of wealth in the U.S. and poverty of the whole world.

Then, behold, we got a report on that in http://www.wider.unu.edu/research/2006-2007/2006-2007-1/wider-wdhw-launch-5-12-2006/wider-wdhw-press-release-5-12-2006.pdf.

This "new study on The World Distribution of Household Wealth by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)" includes useful information for our quest in American Spirituality.

For example, "Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent Own Half World Wealth"; and "Average wealth amounted to $144,000 per person in the USA in year 2000, and $181,000 in Japan. Lower down among countries with wealth data are India, with per capita assets of $1,100, and Indonesia with $1,400 per capita."

Especially, you should print out a world map of wealth distribution in p. 7 and post it on a wall.

And, Figure 6 in p. 12 shows a ratio of each nationality of the wealthiest 1% of mankind 2000 years after the birth of the God's Messiah:
1....USA.................37%
2....Japan..............27%
3....UK.....................6%
4....France................5%
5....Italy...................4%
6....Germany............4%
7....Canada...............2%
8....Netherlands........2%
9....Spain...................1%
10....Switzerland........1%
11....Taiwan...............1%

(What sinful figures!)
But, now, you know who has to deal with the American issue which I will take on later anyway in awe of God whose anger I am feeling so near.

(If Jesus Christ lives today, good girls in America, He would not be happy seeing you trying to be richer. You had better find poorer friends [who might happen to be, for example, in Japan for your ease].)



"...Solid Food, on the Other Hand, is for Adults, Who through Practice are Able to Distinguish between Good and Evil..."

Sacred Tortoises in Shrine Pond (belived to live for 10,000 years [and a crane for 1000 years])

(As for another minor but important religion Zoroastrianism, which might have influenced Judaism, its originator Zoroaster is believed to be born in 1200 B.C., the same era of Moses in the Spirituality Chronology.

The Tata Group in India, accounting for 3% of India's GDP, was established in the late 19th century, and is controlled, by those who believe in Zoroastrianism. Tata is expected to tie up with Nippon Steel Corporation, a Japan's giant, sooner or later.)

Express Train to Tokyo

"...Helped People in Trouble, and Devoted Herself to Doing Good..."

God's Anger Driving Mongolian Cavalry around 1300

God's Anger Driving Mongolian Cavalry around 1300


Last night I saw an Italian movie "Il Ferroviere (the railroad man)" on an NHK BS channel.

Streets and people in late 1950's in Italy, presented in mono color pictures, look somehow nostalgic.

A good house wife and a tough husband look almost the same all over the world.

(In a room of the railroad man's family, a Japanese ukiyoe, a picture of everyday life in the Edo period, presenting a woman with an oiled-paper umbrella was faintly observed on the wall.)
* * *

The big difference between Israelites and Greeks in the ancient world lies in ethics.

The core of the Israelite culture is ethics; but the core of the Greek Civilization is beauty and order.

It is partly why, though Greeks could not conquer the Middle East and Persia, the Alexander the Great of Macedonia, with special power, taught some ethics by great philosopher Diogenes could do.

Even when Romans, alike without ethics comparable with Israelites', combined systems and technology with Greek's beauty and order, they could not advance to the east over the Euphrates River, though they could finally destroy the kingdom of Israelites around the first century.

But, when Hellenism and Hebraism were combined in Western Europe under the authority of Vatican in Rome, Europeans got super potential that allowed them to expand all over the world eventually.
* * *

Before WWII, the world proved the super potential of the combination of ethics (Israelites), beauty and order (Greeks), power (Macedonians), and systems and technology (Romans); most parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America were colonized by the West.

But, the most important element was ethics. Without it, you cannot even ask for Heaven's good wish in war against enemies with their own religion.
* * *

Nonetheless, development of Europe was not without a decisive crisis.

In 1236, the Mongolian Empire decided to invade Europe. They defeated Russians, Poles, Hungarians, and Germans, and got prepared for invasion upon the Italian Peninsula.

But, as their Khan (great emperor) died of disease and they had to choose his successor, they decided to stop attacks on Italy and returned to Central Asia.

They have never come back to Europe since then.

Instead, they decided to conquer the Islamic world.

In 1256, the Mongolian Empire decided to invade Persia, the Arab land, and Egypt under the Mameluke kingdom. They conquered Persians and Arabs and occupied Baghdad; and were ready to attack Jerusalem occupied by Muslims of the Mameluke kingdom.

But, again, as their Khan died of disease, they had to withdraw major troops and powerful cavalry from the front and thus got defeated by Muslims.

They have never come back to Palestine since then.

Instead, they decided to conquer Japan.

In 1274 and 1281, they tried to invade Japan on board almost 1000 ships in vain. A then Japanese samurai regime fought bravely and Kamikaze (a typhoon called the God Wind) helped samurais.

Since then, the Mongolian Empire failed in invading Vietnam as well as Indonesia.

The Mongolian Empire was thus doomed to retreat forever.
* * *

The key to success of the Mongolian Empire lied in their attitude to religion. They accepted Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and Israelites as long as they could contribute to the Empire and the Khan who had simple faith in Great Heaven.

But, probably for a reason related to human religion, the God stopped the military advancement of the Mongolian Empire.

As if the God had changed his mind, He saved Vatican, Islam, and Japan in the 13th century.

What symbols this great historic drama is Japan's Buddhism Enlightened (around 1300).

Without this spiritual development among Japanese, Japan must have not received the God's favor in the late 13th century.

Or, as the God had spared Vatican and Islam, He also spared Japan to balance power in the future world, say, in the 20th century and 21st century.
* * *

That is why Japan is entitled to take a glorious position in "Development of Underlying Spiritual Events of Mankind:

GOD
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Abraham (around 1900 B.C.)
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Moses (around 1200 B.C.)
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JUDAISM (around 500 B.C.)
Brahmanism Enlightened (around 500 B.C.)
Buddha (around 500 B.C.)
Confucius (around 500 B.C.)
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CHRISTIANITY (around A.D. 100)
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ISLAM (around 700)
/
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Japanese Buddhism Enlightened (around 1300)
/
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American Denominations Expanded (around 1900)
/
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/
The 21st Century: The Present Day"
* * *

But why did the God, most probably, get angry with Vatican and Islam around 1300?

(I hope that present Muslims and Christians humbly reflect the history in this context.)

The God allowed for establishment of Islam 600 years after establishment of Vatican for some reasons, most probably, including anger on Vatican.

But, 600 years later after establishment of Islam, the God seems to have allowed for establishment of the Mongolian Empire to have the Empire destroy both Vatican and Islam for some reasons, most probably, including anger on Vatican and Islam.

However, the God seems to have changed His mind so as to save Vatican and Islam as He was highly satisfied with Japan.
* * *

This is my interpretation of the great world history, which seems to have been proven by the global state just before WWII.

Therefore Christians and Muslims had better listen to Japanese; and I am here.

(You would most probably love to hear about "American Denominations Expanded (around 1900)." You shall not be disappointed.)



"HERE I AM TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD"

Mt. Fuji (3776m), Ever Present So Near

(As higher part of the Rocky Mountains is 4000m +/- 300m high, the summit of Fujiyama shows the level of most of the Rocky Mountains. Besides, the Rocky Mountains are very far from the U.S. capital. Mt. Fuji is just 100km from Tokyo as a single gigantic entity.)

"OUT OF DARKNESS LIGHT SHALL SHINE"

Theory Confirmed Here and There

Theory Confirmed Here and There


Last night, I saw a Japan's NHK satellite broadcast hi-vision TV program which featured ordinary Chinese going back home from Shanghai for the Lunar New Year holidays.

They got on board a long-route bus to Chongqing (Chung ching) which runs along the Chang Jiang River.

Local Chinese respect their ancestors and Buddha, while observing their own traditions which have survived under the regime of the Communist Party.

They seem to be internally judged by themselves according to Confucian ethic.

Young and local Chinese really look good-natured due to Chinese traditions but not Marxism.
* * *

Now, again, "Development of Underlying Spiritual Events of Mankind:

GOD
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Abraham (around 1900 B.C.)
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Moses (around 1200 B.C.)
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JUDAISM (around 500 B.C.)
Brahmanism Enlightened (around 500 B.C.)
Buddha (around 500 B.C.)
Confucius (around 500 B.C.)
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CHRISTIANITY (around A.D. 100)
/
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ISLAM (around 700)
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Japanese Buddhism Enlightened (around 1300)
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American Denominations Expanded (around 1900)
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/
The 21st Century: The Present Day"
* * *

You may wonder why Jesus Christ and the founder of Islam are missing in the above chart.

That is a key to appreciating the difference in holy events.

Abraham, Moses, Buddha, and Confucius were all ordinary human beings in that they were not given holy words and power as well as glory unconditionally by the God, the Creator of this material universe.

In other words, they all made great human efforts and exercised their endowments to do good and conquer evil.

However, Jesus Christ was on the God's side, and the founder of Islam was on a God's Angel's side, in my interpretation at this moment, though some Muslims and Christians might have different thoughts.

(Yet, you cannot deny the fact that Jesus Christ came to the world 600 years prior to the God's Angel who issued holy words to the founder of Islam, though each religion has unique and absolute value which cannot be compared with each other in a worldly sense.)
* * *

Around 2600 B.C., great pyramids began to be constructed.

Also around 2600 B.C., the urban civilization of Sumerians was well established.

We may later focus on these events which were prior to the start of Abraham's long journey from the city Ur, around 1900 B.C., where the Sumerian Civilization had been extinct around 2000 B.C.

(As African Americans today speak English, though they are not Anglo-Saxon, Abraham must have spoken a Semite language and adopted a Semite way of living in order to be mingled with a prevailing race then in the Middle East, though Abra(h)am seems to have been related to Sumerians from a certain inevitability of a lineage of mankind.)
* * *

By the way, in another NHK channel last night, Mr. Barack Obama, a U.S. Democrats' possible Presidential-Election candidate was spotlighted.

His presence is now not a simple regional issue in the U.S. The world is paying attention to how he will advance in the U.S., a multi-racial country, regardless of whether he will be elected or not.

Even in this proceeding, I really feel the effect of "American Denominations Expanded (around 1900)" being confirmed.

(If you agree with me on this point, while you are an European American, it has also confirmed the effect of "American Denominations Expanded (around 1900)." Or of something else around 2007?)


"LET US GO FORWARD!"

Flower (Sakura) Petals, Each of Them

"For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost..."

South Asia Travel Reporting Pleasing

South Asia Travel Reporting Pleasing


Last night NHK presented a travel report of a Japanese female artist from southern China to Pakistan through the Straits of Malacca, Chennai, Bangalore, and Mumbai, then finally to Lahore.

At the Straits of Malacca, she was on board a cargo ship which was equipped with a radar system to identify other vessel using an ID number. Every authorized ship hit by radar returns its unique ID number onto the radar screen of the inquiring ship.

She asked a captain what if no ID number is returned. The captain answered that he would take distance, as much as possible, from the suspicious ship in the straits well known for heavy traffics and persistent piracy.
* * *

At Infosys Technologies, an IT giant with tens of thousands of workers in its modern premises surrounded by, and insulated from, a real third world environment, in Bangalore, she interviewed a project manager, working on a project related to Japan, who was born and raised in a local village but is now shaping career in Infosys, a company that is now even threatening employees in U.S. IBM.

He said that when he had been employed by Infosys his dream had been to own a car and a house; but now he has a surprise that all these have come true so soon, working in the company.

His dream now is to make himself globally acknowledged as an excellent IT professional.
* * *

Near Mumbai, each time a car she and her crew hired passed a state border, they had to pay passenger tax which was not cheap at all. In India, each state differs in language and law as well as a tax system.

Their interpreter said in Japanese that India was a big country; you had to live here at least for a year or two to understand something about India. The Japanese female artist looked interested and convinced.
* * *

Before heading for Pakistan, she joined together with an author, who was also traveling in parallel taking a different route; and the two agreed that people and situations in Indochina and India showed bottomless problems and fathomless disparity as well as unexhausted human energy.

In Lahore, she checked a street to talk to people. A shop owner, as if with a sort of hidden resentment to a Japanese crew, said that the watches sold at his shop were all made in China and Japanese watches were a little too expensive for ordinary people.
* * *

India is a land of wonder for me, too.
1) How did Aryans get dark skins after their invasion upon the Indian subcontinent since 1300 B.C.?

2) Was Buddha an Aryan, such as contemporary Iranians, or an East Asian, such as Chinese and Japanese?

3) Was the Indus Civilization, extinct around 1500 B.C., was truly built by Dravidians?

4) Was there any more profound relationship than conceived so far between the Indus Civilization and the Mesopotamia Civilization?

(You should keep in mind that Abraham left Ur, a major city of the last Sumerian kingdom in Mesopotamia, decades after Sumerians disappeared from the mainstream history around 2000 B.C., though historians and religion scholars today stick to an idea that Abraham had nothing to do with Sumerians.)
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Recently the Arab TV station Al Jazeera, in Qatar, established an English broadcasting division with 400 staff members which are almost two times more than in the BBC's international division.
(Also refer to http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/89E8B42C-6E8C-4D07-A534-4BB0FB9A7BCB.htm, for your investment.)

You may find a chance in future to improve your career in India or Indochina, if you are interested in this field as well as IT, since they may hire 4,000 staff members in an organization for international publicity.

(But, please do not forget to check this kind of Reports globally issued from Japan, though, in this sanctuary-like country, silence is really believed to be golden and eloquence is silver.)



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