"the voice of one crying in the wilderness" - The Four Vectors

Tokyo Subway...

The Four Vectors

If Wall Street avarice gets stronger, the sense of belligerence gets stronger, too.

If belligerence becomes dominant, democracy will be forced to concede.

And, with less democracy, it is not expected that Christianity can prevail in this modern era.  

In this state, former President Mr. George W. Bush led the U.S. to the War on Terror in 2001.

However, as the US suffered the 2008 Financial Crisis that started from Wall Street, the Wall Street avarice got a little weaker; as Mr. Barack Obama was elected in 2008, democracy got a little stronger, so that it is unlikely that the U.S. and Iran would enter war.

(However after the 1929 Great Depression, Wall Street avarice might not have got weaker enough, leading to the Japanese-US war that started from the Pearl Harbor attack.)



(To be continued...)

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Tokyo has now a snowfall of 4 cm or more than an inch, which is rare in this decade.

By the way, I bought a new digital camera recently.  Could it be realized?



Joh 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

"the Lord Jesus went in and out among us" - A Day of A Fukushima Daiichi Worker

The Tokyo International Airport at Haneda not in Narita...

A Day of A Fukushima Daiichi Worker

[Updated on January 25]

According to the Japanese magazine SAPIO, a daily routine of an ordinary worker now engaged in a recovery project in Fukushima Daiichi is as follows:

(He stays at a lodgment a subcontractor manages.  Between the lodgment and the Fukushima Daiichi, there is a kind of meeting place or a camp for workers sent by various subcontractors to gather and get on buses for the plant, which is called J Village.  And, almost 6,000 workers go to the Fukushima Daiichi plant for various kinds of repair and recovery jobs every day.)

05:20
Wakes up.

05:45
Takes breakfast in the lodgment.

06:00
Starts from the lodgment by bus.

06:30
Arrives at the J Village camp.
Puts on a hazard suit.

07:00
Arrives at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by bus.
Prepares for work and takes rest.

08:00
Joins a meeting.

08:30
Working on site.


11:30
Lunch & rest.

12:30
Working on site.


14:30
Preparation for exit from the plant.

15:00
Starts from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

15:30
Arrives at the J Village camp.

15:40
Starts from the J Village camp.

16:00
Arrives at the lodgment.
Takes a bath.
Takes a recess.

19:00
Has supper.
Takes a rest.

21:00
Goes to bed.

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A worker wears a full-face mask and a Tyvek protective garment with a 20-kg lead vest and three gloves, one on another, on each hand.

Yet, they could receive 250 milli sieverts of doses in two hours, the special limit for workers engaged in nuclear accident restoration.

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Those workers are mainly hired not directly by TEPCO, Hitachi, Toshiba, and other big businesses but by the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, or even the seventh tier subcontractors.  And, some subcontractors are said to be collecting workers through connection with gangsters.

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J-Village originally built for training of soccer players
http://www.tif.ne.jp/jp/spot/spot_disp.php?id=7

A Check Point in Front of the J Village with Police Buses Stationed
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/nhkhp146/folder/1516890.html

Now used for preparation of Fukushima Daiichi workers
http://photozou.jp/photo/show/701808/79889940

http://1000ya.isis.ne.jp/1446.html

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Max. 900 Milli Sv was measured around here.)
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/4665

In the Field of Fukushima Daiichi
http://ameblo.jp/sannriku/day2-20110419.html

On Site of Fukushima Daiichi
http://www.anaroguma.org/komake/fukushima/photo_June1/index.htm

In the Control Room of Fukushima Daiichi
http://www.anaroguma.org/komake/fukushima/photo_June1/index.htm

A Police Checkpoint in Namie Town near Fukushima Daiichi
http://makoto-craftbox.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/06/post-db21.html


(to be continued...)



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Act 1:21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Act 1:22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

"they left their father Zebedee" - Truth of Korea

From Tokyo & To Tokyo

Truth of Korea

Around the 3rd century BC, Korea (Wiman Joseon) became a tributary to China (the Hang Dynasty).


Since then, till the Empire of Japan defeated China (Qing) in the Japanese-Sino War in 1895, Korea had been a tributary country to China without interruption.


After Yi Dan（Yi Seong-gye or Taejo）defeated the Goryeo Dynasty and founded his own dynasty in the Korean Peninsula in 1392, he was asked whether the name of the kingdom of Korea would be changed from Goryeo by the emperor of China (the Ming Dynasty).  As the suｚerain over Korea, the emperor of Ming (the Hongwu Emperor) requested a prompt answer from Taejo, the virtual king of Korea.


So, Taejo humbly asked the Hongwu Emperor of Ming to choose one of two for the new name of his kingdom: Joseon (Chosen in Japanese) or Wanei (in Japanese).  The Chinese emperor reasonably chose the former as the latter was already used as a name of other tributary, so that Taejo became formally Taejo of Joseon or King of Joeson and his kingdom came to be called the Joseon Dynasty.  Joeson means tranquility in the morning.


Yet when the Empire of Japan defeated China (the Qing Dynasty) in 1895, Korea lost the status of a tributary or got independent from China as Japan and Qing concluded the Treaty of Shimonoseki:

Treaty of Shimonoseki 

Article 1: China recognizes definitively the full and complete independence and autonomy of Korea, and, in consequence, the payment of tribute and the performance of ceremonies and formalities by Korea to China, that are in derogation of such independence and autonomy, shall wholly cease for the future.

Japan-China Peace Treaty, or "Treaty of Shimonoseki", 17 April 1895.


So, Korean people owe Japan forever for their independence from China at least psychologically, though they had to obey and be annexed to the Empire of Japan half a century later due to their incompetence in its building a modern nation to cope with invasion by the Russian Empire and other Western Powers.


Anyway, though Qing had put all the nations in the east of India into the state of a tributary to China, except Mughal Empire and Japan, it lost those tributaries one after another.  In the late 19th century, China had finally only one tributary Korea.  And it lost it as a consequence of the Japanese-Sino War in 1895.  In this context, the war has very significant meaning not only for Korea and China but also for whole East Asia. Because it finally told the end of the tributary system under hegemony of a Chinese empire.

(A Japanese-Sino War battle depicted in a traditional art form by Japanese)
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/rubaiyat_2009/e/399bd2d1093ec650104f444123a81bea

So, it might be no wonder that North Korea is still a kind of tributary to China as the only such nation.  And, South Korea never ceases to try to harm Japanese reputation while it owes Japan for its industrial success after WWII.  The root is deep in history, since South Korea militarily occupies Japan's Takeshima Island in the Sea of Japan while it knows the rocky island belongs to Japan from older days.


(to be continued...)

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Mar 1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mar 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

"I am Gabriel" - Mysterious Master Moji

Airport on Tokyo Bay

Mysterious Master Moji

Mysterious and profound philosophical master of ancient China Moji (called Boku-Shi in Japanese) is believed to be born after the death of great teacher Confucius since Confucius never mentioned Moji.

So, Moji is introduced today as follows:

Born in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, China, he founded the school of Mohism, and argued strongly against Confucianism and Daoism. During the Warring States Period, Mohism was actively developed and practiced in many states, but fell out of favour when the legalist Qin Dynasty came to power. During that period, many Mohist classics were ruined when Qin Shihuang carried out the burning of books and burying of scholars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi

As Moji is believed to be born and lived between 470 BC to 391 BC, he can be regarded as contemporary with Socrates (469 BC to 399 BC) or the Buddha (463 BC to 383 BC) though Confucius (551 BC to 479 BC) criticized by Moji had lived earlier.

Moji was different from any other philosophers and philosophical masters of ancient China in that he led a band of warriors.  But they simply joined different kings on different occasions in the warring period of ancient China not for invasion and offence but solely for defense purposes.

Yet, Moji was a master, among others, the closest to Christianity.

Great Confucius said that he would not discuss ghosts, holy ghosts, or holy gods, since he was yet to master everything in this world.  Nonetheless, Moji claimed that ghosts, holy ghosts, or holy gods should be a focus of philosophy.  Moji criticized Confucianism that the school respected rituals and music while neglecting souls of spiritual entities.  Above all, Moji said that love did not have to necessarily start and expand from a family to a state as Confucius claimed; love must apply equally to everybody under the heaven.

As Moji's teaching was close to Christianity, his school was reminded Chinese of in the late 19th century over 200-year oblivion as China at the time faced full invasion by and aggression of Western powers.

When the king of the state of Chu planned invasion of the state of Song, one of his engineers invented a ladder type of machine to attack citadels of Song.  When this information reached him, Moji hurried to Chu to see the king.  The king respected master Moji but could not easily accept Moji's request not to invade Song.  So, the king of Chu asked Moji to fight a simulation war on the desk with the very engineer who invented the powerful attack machine, sayng, "Master Moji, if you could successfully defend against all the attacks my engineer will deliver, I would not attack Song."  And after defeating all the tactics the engineer used, Moji had still other means to use for defense in the war game on the desk.  The military engineer lost face befor his king and hence said, "I still have a means to destroy your defense, Master Moji!" "Yes, I know," responded Moji, "your last and secret tactics is to kill me here right now so that Song cannot defend based on my advice!"  Moji continued, "But I have already sent 300 of my followers to Song with my secret advice to the king of Song.  You cannot stop them all."  Then, the king of Chu, watching all the exchanges of tactics and words between his faithful engineer and prestigious master Moji, pledged to Moji, "Master Moji, I will not make war with Song."  

The, Moji left the castle of Chu.  Moji was passing the state of Song to his headquarters in the state of Qi.  But it suddenly started to rain.  Moji sought shelter from rain at the gate of a fortress of Song.  But a soldier policing the gate thought the man standing under the roof of the gate was a beggar but not a great leader of a great band of philosophical warriors who saved his state just now.  So the soldier drove Moji out into rain.  Moji didn't tell what he was but walked into rain to Qi.    

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



(to be continued...)

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Luk 1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.

"No man hath seen God"

Tokyo International Airport at Haneda



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Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

"unto Christ are fourteen generations" - Radiation States in East Japan

Haneda International Airport in Tokyo...

Radiation States in East Japan

Yesterday, namely on January 16, 2012, the radiation doses in Fukushima Prefecture and East Japan are as follows:

Fukushima Prefecture (unit: micro Sieverts)

Minami-Soma 0.39

IItate 1.169

Fukushima City 0.83

Koriyama 0.70

Shirakawa 0.37

Iwaki 0.17

Aizu-Wakamatsu 0.11

Minami-Aizu 0.06

East Japan (unit: micro Sieverts)

Aomori City 0.023

Morioka 0.033

Sendai 0.061

Akita City 0.043

Yamagata City 0.065

Mito 0.092

Utsunomiya 0.091

Maebashi 0.079

Saitama City 0.053

Ichihara (Chiba Pref.) 0.075

Shinjuku (Tokyo Pref.) 0.064

Chigasaki (Kanagawa Pref.) 0.048

Niigata City 0.065
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The doses in Tokyo of 0.064 micro Sieverts means 0.56 milli Sieverts per year.

The doses in Fukushima City of 0.83 micro Sieverts means 7.27 milli Sieverts per year

As 1 milli Sieverts per year is regraded as a global criterion for assured safety, Tokyo is very safe but Fukushima City is not.

But, the Japanese Government does not try to move infants and children living in Fukushima City out of the city to safer areas.

This can be regraded as a kind of crimes.

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Mat 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

"for they were fishers" - Death of a Fukushima Daiichi Worker

Haneda International Airport in Tokyo...

Death of a Fukushima Daiichi Worker

In May 2011, a 60-year old worker collapsed from a heart attack in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

At the time there was no resident medical doctors in the plant.  It took 2 hours and 40 minutes for him to be carried to a hospital out of the evacuation zone.  There he was found to be dead.

The man was dispatched to Fukushima Daiichi by a subcontractor at the fourth level under the engineering giant Toshiba.  On the day, he started from accommodation facilities outside an evacuation zone at 2 a.m.  Then at 6 A.M. he began to work in the plant, carrying a 50 kg iron cutter with his colleague, but in 20 minutes he fell on the ground.

He had only one family: the Thai wife.  His employer, namely a fourth-level subcontractor of Toshiba, gave just half a million yen ($6,000) to her, telling her to go back to Thailand.

It is outrageous that a wife who lost her husband, due to the onset of illness while working for a recovery project in Fukushsima Daiichi, received only $6,000 and nothing else from any body, including Toshiba, TEPCO, and the Japanese Government.

(http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1670945.html)

Even today about 6,000 workers are engaged in recovery work of four reactor units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that has six reactor units.  Most of them are replaced in a four-month period with new workers.


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Mar 1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

"Jesus came into Galilee" - Time to Repent

Tokyo Haneda Airport on Tokyo Bay...

Time to Repent

Nobody was born after negotiations with God on his or her birth.

No rich man has ever paid money to God so that he was destined to be born to be rich.

Only God decides who should be born in what situation.

And, God decides when and how every rich man as well as every poor man dies eventually.

So, at the beginning man's life starts following decision on him by God.

And, at the end his life ends following decision on him by God.

Succinctly no man has ever come to this world by his voluntary effort; no one knows when and how he dies.  Even a suicide doesn't know in what context he has been put in such a predicament.

The answer is that a man is not created for his own happiness and benefit.  He was created to manifest glory of God; in other word a man lives in order to make God happy.

At the center of man's mind and heat must be God but not himself.  Like a solar system, in the spiritual sphere the central entity is God but not a man.

Accordingly a man must follow the order of God.  And, Christ Jesus said that a man cannot serve both God and Mammon.  You have to follow God or follow money.  Put simply, you have to abandon money.

Yes, mankind has to apologize to God that we have loved money more than God who gave us life which is more valuable than money.


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Mar 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mar 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

"nor of the will of man, but of God" - A 90-Year Old Shoeshine Queen in Tokyo

Tokyo Haneda Airport...

A 90-Year Old Shoeshine Queen in Tokyo

There is a woman who started her business, shoeshine, in 1950 before the Tokyo Station.

Even today, namely 60 years after, she is in her business actively.

When she was 28-years old, her husband died leaving his wife and two infant children.  As one of the children was physically weak, the widow gave up taking up an ordinary job, since she needed flexible working hours.  That is why she started shoeshine.  And, now she has more than 10 grand-children and great-grand children, though she lives alone rejecting offers of living together from her children and grand children.  But, only a few peers remain on the street though there were scores 60 years ago.

The 90-year-old female shoeshine in Tokyo still uses a wooden box a greengrocery gave to her long time ago.  It was originally used for keeping strawberries, but after 50 years, it is still in active use to contain material for her business.  She said that she was good at woodworking.  She makes everything necessary in her life by hand.  She really stands alone at 90.

Of course, she doesn't have to or is not forced to polish shoes of Tokyo salaried workers for any income.  But she is there as she was 60 years ago while almost every building around the Tokyo Station has been rebuilt or replaced.  She works there, if so called, like a queen of Tokyo.

http://www.janjanblog.com/archives/60351



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Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

"And after they were brought to Babylon" - Iran and CIA

On Tokyo Bay...

Iran & CIA

It is a long and complicated story how Iran today came to exist.

But on the most decisive occasion of foundation of today's Iranian national framework, the US failed.  Specifically, CIA failed.

The 1979 Iranian Revolution, which ousted the pro-American Shah and replaced him with the anti-American Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, surprised the United States government, its State Department and intelligence services, which "consistently underestimated the magnitude and long-term implications of this unrest".[35] Six months before the revolution culminated, the CIA had produced a report, stating that “Persia is not in a revolutionary or even a "prerevolutionary" situation”[36] 

The Islamic revolutionaries wished to extradite and execute the ousted Shah, and Carter refused to give him any further support or help return him to power. The Shah, suffering from cancer, requested entry into the United States for treatment. The American embassy in Tehran opposed the request, as they were intent on stabilizing relations between the new interim revolutionary government of Iran and the United States.[28] 

Despite agreeing with the staff of the American embassy, Carter agreed after pressure from Kissinger, Rockefeller, and other pro-Shah political figures. The move was used by the Iranian revolutionaries to justify their claims that the former monarch was an American puppet, and this led to the storming of the American embassy by radical students allied with the Khomeini faction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations#Premier_Mossadeq_and_his_overthrow

CIA failed in assessing the situation in Iran.  Influential people of the US, such as Kissinger and Rockefeller, misled the Carter Administration.  Since then, Iran became an enemy of the US and Israel.



(to be continued...)


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Mat 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
Mat 1:12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
Mat 1:13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;

"a voice from heaven" - Religion & 2012 Presidential Election

Near Tokyo Bay  

Religion & 2012 Presidential Election

The hidden decisive factor for the 2012 Presidential Election is religion:

7. President ObamaA major reason why religion might be more important to many this time around might be President Obama himself. He is probably the most secular president that we have ever had.
Though he has somewhat supported the National Day of Prayer, and has testified about his personal faith at a National Prayer breakfast, most of America seems rather confused about where the President really stands when it comes to religion. 20% of Americans believe that he might be a closet Muslim while 40% say that they really don’t know what he is. Meanwhile, the MSM doesn’t seem to want to address this issue in spite of the confusion. 
http://answersforthefaith.com/2011/09/13/is-religion-really-an-important-issue-for-2012-presidential-election/

Let's check relationships between religion and US presidents:

List of Presidential Religious Affiliation by Denomination 
Baptist
Warren Harding, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton
Catholic
John F. Kennedy
CongregationalistCalvin Coolidge, Barack Obama (United Church of Christ)
Disciple of ChristJames Garfield, Lyndon Johnson
Dutch ReformedMartin van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt
Episcopalian
James Madison, James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Chester Arthur, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush
Methodist
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley and George W. Bush
Presbyterian
Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan
Quaker
Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon
Unitarian
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, William Howard Taft and Millard Filmore
UnconfirmedGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson 

So, virtually president hopeful Mr. Romney's religion had better be checked:

Two of the 2012 Republican Party presidential candidates — Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman — are Mormon. 

Romney’s religion played a substantial role in his 2008 presidential bid, with prejudices and suspicion surrounding his campaign. Three years later his religion has once again crept into the political spotlight... 

Mormon turnout for GOP
Mormons tend to align with conservative social and economic ideology. A 2010 Gallup poll found that Mormons identify with conservative ideology more than any other U.S. religion group. 

The Republican Party really began shoring up Mormon votes in the 70s and 80s, Patterson said. Specifically, the way Ronald Regan led the Republican Party was gravitating for Mormons, he said. 

Patterson said he doesn’t know if Mormons are concerned with anti-Mormon language — they are used to hearing it. Much of the anti-Mormon language has come from conservatives, but Patterson said it’s too soon to say if that will affect Mormons’ support for the GOP. 

“The extent that there is any coverage at all on the Mormon faith is information that is more likely to come to the attention of LDS voters,” Patterson said. “LDS voters will be more likely to turn out and vote in a general election.”
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/election2012/election-2012-what-role-will-religion-play-in-the-gop-nomination

(to be continued...)


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Mar 1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
Mar 1:11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Mar 1:12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
Mar 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

"the whole multitude of the people were praying" - A Novel on Fukushima Daiichi

Tokyo...

A Novel on Fukushima Daiichi 　

No great novels emerged from the 9/11 Terror and the 2008 Financial Crisis.

There is a Japanese author who is from Koriyama City, 75 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  On March 27, 2011, ten days after the 3/11 Tsunami Disaster and the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, he met a high school girl in a public reading in Tokyo.　She asked him for an autograph. So he asked her where she was from.  She said, "Soma City."  The moment a voice started to whisper in his head, "Go!  Go to Soma City near Fukushima Daiichi.  You must receive radiation doses.  Or at least go and watch it!"  So, Hideo Furukawa said to the high-school girl from Soma City, "I think I will go to Soma.  And I will observe it."  She replied, "Please go and see Soma."  

The Fukushima-born author, Hideo Furukawa, visited Soma City.  Then, he wrote a novel titled "Uma-tachiyo, Soredemo Hikari-wa Muku-de (Horses! Yet, Light is Innocent!)."

Soma City is well known for its traditional field festival featuring horses.  A notable samurai lord started a military training using horses and troopers around 940 or about 1060 years ago in the region now called Soma City, almost immediately north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant area.  So, it is natural that Furukawa especially checked a state of horses in Soma City after the occurrence of the Fukshima Daiichi accident.  But what he saw was horses under heavy stress.  They lost weight and hairs.

After returning to Tokyo, he wrote the novel "Uma-tachiyo, Soredemo Hikari-wa Muku-de (Horses! Yet, Light is Innocent!)."  A white horse galloped through deserted roads littered with broken cars and through an abandoned primary school, while avoiding people wearing white protective suits.  The horse finally reached a cow barn to encounter a cow left alone.  The white horse let her out of the barn.  The two animals then peacefully grazed on the bank of a river.

After publishing the novel, he went to Canada for some symposium.  Then somebody asked him, "Do you hate Tokyo Electric Power Company?"  The Fukushima-born author  Hideo Furukawa replied, "No, I don't."

Soma's Umaoi (horse chasing) Festival
http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~nomaoi/index.htm


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The other day in a train running near the Tokyo Station, I wondered what year 2012 would be.

Then I saw a kind of Death leaning onto a man.  So, I wondered if I would die in 2012, namely  this year, due to, say, some act of nature such as a big earthquake.  But, the God replied I would not.

So, I checked Chernobyl condition for some of my work...



Luk 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luk 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Luk 1:12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
Luk 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

"an ornament of grace unto thy head" - A Japanese Homeless Man

Close to the Tokyo Station...

In 2012...

A Japanese Homeless Man

Decades ago, a young man graduated from a local high school to come to Tokyo.

He started to work in a printing company, not a major one but a medium establishment.  He worked hard to master printing technology and obtain skills.  So he decided in his early 30s to set up his own printing shop.  It looked like smooth progress of his career in this industry.

He became a president of his printing company though there were no employees.  He operated machine and did all the related tasks for himself.  But the location he opened his company was suitable for his business.  There were many universities in the downtown district.  So, professors gave out orders to him for typing and bookbinding of their papers. Various researchers also passed orders to him for arranging reports and various documents in printed material and university offices requested printing of various materials, since Japanese typewriters were not so common as there were too many characters (tens of thousands of types needed) unlike simple English typewriters.  So, this one-man company was sailing large.  But, development of electronics changed the situation.

From late 1980's, Japanese makers started to deliver Japanese word processors.  There was no need any more to purchase costly, bulky and clumsy Japanese typewriters.  Then, in early 1990's, Japanese makers refined Japanese-language personal computers.  There was no need any more to outsource bookbinding or format arranging of papers.  So, the humble printing company in the college town came to face a drastic reduction of sales.  Accordingly, the self-made president came to rue his career.  If he had continued to work in the old printing company, he should have been promoted and enjoyed reasonable status as the company was adopting new printing technology and machine to cope with a change in needs.

Finally, he abandoned his business.  He closed the shop.  But, it was when Japanese depression was intensified.  He could not find new stable jobs.  A job  after a job his living standard sank more.  And, finally he lost his residence.  He became a homeless man in Tokyo...

It is said that there are between 2,500 and 3,000 homeless persons in Tokyo while the population of Tokyo Prefecture is about 13 million or 13,000,000.  The ratio is 0.02%.

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Mt. Fuji and Venus (click to enlarge)...

This Evening around Tokyo...




Pro 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Pro 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Mt. Fuji, Mt. Asama & TEPCO

Mt. Fuji, Mt. Asama & TEPCO

Mt. Fuji Yesterday..

Mt. Fuji Yesterday...100 km far

Mt. Asama Yesterday...130 km far


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Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc., Main Office...

And Surrounding Streets...

And Buildings...

In the Middle of Tokyo...

But No Protesters...

Around TEPCO's Headquarters Office...

Despite the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident...