"if Satan rise up against himself" - Courageous Historians

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Courageous Historians 

In ancient China, historians were respected and they respected themselves.

These historians wrote history for their kings.  It was not only an official text book but also an official record of a nation.  Accordingly, a king who employed a historian placed a strong requirement on him.

An official record a historian was to write about a nation where he was employed was expected to satisfy the king of the nation.  But some historians would not simply praise kings they served.  However such a historian was usually punished by a king.

In one example, a historian did not write a history book in a manner to satisfy a king.  So, he was executed by the king.  Then a son of the historian succeeded his father to become a new historian.  But the new historian also presented truth and plain facts in the book he wrote without making a flattering remark for the king.  Then again, the king executed the historian.  Finally a son of this brave but tragic historian or a grandson of the first historian for the king took up this important position in the court.  He also honestly wrote a history book of the nation, depicting the king and his deeds as he was and they were.  Despite anger, the king did not punish this last historian for some reason.

Anyway, writing history was so important and dangerous in ancient China.  Official historians working in the court of kingdoms were all under strong pressure.     But not all the historians offered adulation to their kings.  Truth was reported by some courageous and righteous historians.  Or any despot could not completely destroy or distort truth.


Luk 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Luk 12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Luk 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.







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Mar 3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

"between some of John's disciples and the Jews" - Seasons

Around Tokyo Station

Seasons

The winter is going to end.

The human civilization started in sub-tropical regions, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Greece, the Chang Jiang River region of south China, and other regions without cold winter.

But it was extended and deployed in temperate zones, such as the Italian Peninsula, the central China, etc.  Then the Industrial Revolution was set off in England, part of north Europe.

Judaists moved on the earth along with progress and development of civilization.  They reached and prevailed around Germany before WWII, and then a great tragedy happened due to Hitler and Nazis.

Then after WWII, roughly a half of Judaists returned to Palestine featured by a temperate climate while another half immigrated into North America which has wider areas covering the tropical zone to the cold zone.

So, if this progress of the human history is so reasonable even from a viewpoint of Judaists like shifts of seasons on the earth, Israel seems to be a kind of the Old Testament for Judaists living today, and the US seems to be a kind of the New Testament for them.

In future, American Christianity might be integrated into American Judaism eventually.  And Americans might move from a zone to other, according to their spiritual states as if repeating the past history.

Now the time in the North Hemisphere is going to head for the hottest days in August.




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Joh 3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
Joh 3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
Joh 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Joh 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

"all the prophets from Samuel" - A Buddha Inside

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A Buddha Inside

Christianity is simple in that it is based on a notion that there are only two major players: men and God.

Compared with God, any difference among human beings can be nil.

But Buddhism is different.  There are many stages to reach the status of the Buddha who masters every law and secret of the universe, including life, death and transmigration.

In Buddhism where existence of the sole creator of the universe is not admitted, a man is required to enhance himself as high as possible.  And the end of this effort is the status of the Buddha.  Though the Buddha is not the creator of the universe, he transcends any effect the universe has on a man.  His status is in this context on a par with the universe.

Buddhism must be based on a theory that the whole universe, including the spiritual universe, cannot be built by anybody or any spirits and gods.  It is overwhelmingly great and complicated.  It is beyond ability of any human beings, spirits, and gods.  All a man should do and can do is to understand the universe fully and stand aloof from it like the Buddha.  In this logic, God of Christianity can be the universe.  But an act of creating the universe is a concept beyond Buddhism.

One unique doctrine of some schools of the Japanese Buddhism is that a monk should perform the ascetic and religious practices to become the Buddha eventually.  But it is possible only if a monk has the same internal characteristics as the Buddha.  Put simply, as a monk is a Buddha, he can become the Buddha through rigorous training.  If he is a mere man or an animal, no matter how hard he may train himself he cannot reach the status of the Buddha.
     
In other word, to find merit in himself which is a Buddha in the essence of his existence is an end of the ascetic and religious practices in Buddhism, according to some schools of Japanese Buddhism.

But Christianity never tells a believer to discover a god in his mind so as to be saved.  A believer is saved as a man by God for his proven faith.

But according to a theory of some schools of Japanese Buddhism, every one must have the same virtue and condition as the Buddha.  Therefore, some monks who could realize this truth can become a Buddha to attain higher perception through religious training.

Finally, it seems that a man cannot fully understand or comprehend God of Christianity, the sole designer and builder of this universe, but a man may fully grasp what the Buddha is through his inner Buddha.

A Japanese Buddhist Priest in the later Samurai Era
http://www.gokusho.info/info/eventinfo/2013/04/post-33.html





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Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Act 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

"being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph," - Old Evacuees from Fukushima Daiichi Town

Tokyo Downtown Districts

Old Evacuees from Fukushima Daiichi Town

As of September 2012, there were more than 51,000 Japanese citizens who were 100 years old or older.

It was the first time that the number of 100 years-old persons reached 50,000 in Japan.

One of them, Mr. Yoshida, was born in Okuma Town where the Fuksuhima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is situated.  He came to Tokyo with his family when he was an elementary school boy.  Then he encountered the Greta Kanto Earthquake in a downtown of Tokyo.  This 1923 Great Earthquake took on about 100,000 people.

Later Mr. Yoshida became an English teacher and married a woman who was also from Fukushima Prefecture.  However the Empire of Japan joined WWII in 1941 and the young English teacher was called into the armed forces of the Empire.  Troops he was assigned to was sent to Manchuria, presently northeast China.

During the war, his wife stayed in Tokyo, but air raids on Tokyo by the US air force became intensified.  Accordingly she returned to Fukushima.  And, a month later Tokyo suffered a big bombing by American B29s which killed more than 100,000 citizens.  If she had continued to live in Tokyo, she should have been killed, since her old residence was in a devastated area of Tokyo City.

After WWII, namely August 1945, Mr. Yoshida, with troops he belonged to, surrendered to Soviet Union troops to be captive soldiers.  He was forced to work in Siberia as with other 600,000 ex-Japanese soldiers.  Nonetheless Mr. Yoshida was luckily released in September 1948.  After returning to Japan, he worked as an English teacher in junior high-schools in Fukushima Prefecture till he retired.

He was living peacefully with his eldest son aged 75 in Okuma Town when the 3/11 Great Earthquake and Tsuami and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident occurred.  The tsunami rushed from the Pacific Ocean to the point several hundreds meters before Mr. Yoshida's house.  Then hours later, people in Okuma Town were ordered to evacuate due to the Nuclear Accident.

Mr. Yoshida and his wife are now living in a shelter house far from Okuma Town and the Fukushima Daiichi Plant.  The very old couple still hope to return to Okuma Town some day in five years or so.          

Okuma Town with Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68457103



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Luk 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Luk 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
Luk 3:24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,

"Moses truly said unto the fathers" - The Most Responsible Country: the US

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The Most Responsible Country: the US

What is the state of global poverty?

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012). 

The number of undernourished people decreased nearly 30 percent in Asia and the Pacific, from 739 million to 563 million, largely due to socio-economic progress in many countries in the region. The prevalence of undernourishment in the region decreased from 23.7 percent to 13.9 percent. 

Latin America and the Caribbean also made progress, falling from 65 million hungry in 1990-1992 to 49 million in 2010-2012, while the prevalence of undernourishment dipped from 14.6 percent to 8.3 percent. But the rate of progress has slowed recently. 

The number of hungry grew in Africa over the period, from 175 million to 239 million, with nearly 20 million added  in the last few years. Nearly one in four are  hungry. And in sub-Saharan Africa, the modest progress achieved in recent years up to 2007 was reversed, with hunger rising 2 percent per year since then.
Developed regions also saw the number of hungry rise, from 13 million in 2004-2006 to 16 million in 2010-2012, reversing a steady decrease in previous years from 20 million in 1990-1992 (FAO 2012). 

The above is based on the new estimates of world hunger by the FAO using revised  proceedures. It is worth noting that the new estimates give a different answer than the old estimates as the graph below shows (Lappe, 2013).
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm

Poverty is not a crime of the poor but of the rich.  Being rich while others are poor is a social crime, an ethical evil deed, and a religious sin.  This sin can be seen among people in any country and among countries in the world.

The US has been the most wealthy for a century and more.  Therefore it is the most responsible in terms of this sin domestically and internationally.

Trend of GDP by Major Countries

http://www.pirineosturismoreceptivo.com/2012/08/gdp.html

The US has a duty to solve problems arising from the gap between the rich and the poor.  With its economic, social, and cultural power, it must make full efforts to eradicate evils rooted in social conditions featured by the inequality in the distribution of wealth.  The US must contribute to achieving peace in the world where a war is often triggered by countries in their process of securing wealth and resources.  It is because the more you are given, the more you are requested from.

12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Once the US officially announced that it had a mission to make freedom and democracy prevail in the world.  It must realize that it has still an obligation to eradicate poverty internally and globally.  For this purpose, the US does not have to rely on its military strength.  But it must open its resources and products of its industry to the world.  Universities in the US can invite excellent students from the world, but its end should be to make their home countries rich and developed to the level of the US but not to make the US richer and more advanced than other countries.

In this context, the first country in the world to be judged and punished by Christ Jesus on His second coming must be the US.




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Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

"sit with me in my throne" - Reciting Namu Ami Dabutsu

Around the Imperial Palace, Tokyo

Reciting Namu Ami Dabutsu

There are wise men everywhere.

And people know wisdom makes people live wisely and smartly.  However, to make their living comfortable, most of wise men use their wisdom to obtain wealth and social status.  As such rich people with high position do not mind existence of and take care of poor and unlucky people, this world becomes so sinful and tragic for all.

So apart from how much wise a person is, Christ Jesus tells to learn and follow teachings of God.  Since human wisdom makes only wise men happy, He requests people to learn wisdom of God to make everybody saved and blessed.

How human wisdom is regarded by Christ Jesus is so simple.  It never saves people and never improves society.  It is because a man surely tries to use his wisdom for his interest but not for others.  So, Christ Jesus tells people to abandon their wisdom but learn and practice wisdom of God.

However, in Buddhism where existence of the sole creator of the whole universe is not admitted, wisdom is the only means with which a man can save himself.  So, Buddhists try to learn the highest wisdom Gautama Buddha acquired, since such wisdom would make them conquer every pain in this world and fear of death.  They want to be free from the cruel and rotten world and their fates of suffering cycles of birth in the helpless world eventually.

But, in order to get higher wisdom, a man has to train himself not only in terms of religious knowledge but also spiritual experiences.  It will take years and decades for a monk to reach a certain level of wisdom any other Buddhists would recognize as highly advanced and deeply insightful.  Life, pains, unhappiness, death, good, evil, and any other mental objects must be exhaustively examined and reviewed by a monk for him to grab a piece of truce of the inner space.

Of course, there is a long history in the Buddhism.  There are may precedent examples of ascetic training and study of truce.  Accordingly, there are thousands of holy books and creeds where wisdom of past Buddhists are collected and contained.  That is why a Buddhist monk has to read so many Buddhist scriptures to master teachings of Gautama Buddha and his followers.

Nonetheless, some past leading Buddhist priests in Japan invented a new way of practicing Buddhism.   They proposed just chanting some simple religious expression or prayer to the Buddha, for example, "Namu Ami Dabutsu.".  They said, actually hundreds years ago, that farmers and other poor people did not have to learn difficult characters and read creeds but had better chant some simple but effective prayer to the Buddha or other deities of Buddhism.  Of course it was not a simple imprudent idea.  Schools founded by those priests produced many religious works and books to explain how such a practice was effective.

Hōnen (1133 – 1212) is the religious reformer and founder of the first independent branch of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism called Jōdo-shū ("The Pure Land School"). In the related Jōdo Shinshū sect, he is considered the Seventh Patriarch. Hōnen became a monk of the Tendai sect at an early age, but grew disaffected, and sought an approach to Buddhism that anyone could follow, even during the perceived Age of Dharma Decline. After discovering the writings of Chinese Buddhist, Shan-tao, he undertook the teaching of rebirth in the Pure Land of Amitabha through reciting the Buddha's name, or nembutsu. 

Hōnen's teachings: 

Reciting the nembutsu does not come from studying and understanding its meaning. There is no other reason or cause by which we can utterly believe in attaining birth in the Pure Land than the nembutsu itself. Reciting the nembutsu and believing in birth in the Pure Land naturally gives rise to the three minds (sanjin) and the four modes of practice (shishu). If I am withholding any deeper knowledge beyond simple recitation of the nembutsu, then may I lose sight of the compassion of Shakyamuni and Amida Buddha and slip through the embrace of Amida's original vow. Even if those who believe in the nembutsu deeply study all the teachings which Shakyamuni taught during his life, they should not put on any airs and should practice the nembutsu with the sincerity of those untrained followers ignorant of Buddhist doctrines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dnen#Doctrine

Anyway the essence in nembutsu recitation is to direct one's mind to the spirit of the Buddha beyond any worldly matters and unholy spiritual matters.



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Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

"the multitude cometh together again" - Sarin Gas Attack in Tokyo

Tokyo Suburbs

Sarin Gas Attack in Tokyo

The most impressive incident for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in 140 years of its history is the Aum Shinrikyo cult terror using a sarin gas in 1995.

This horrible terror was conducted in several cars of subway trains running under business zones of central Tokyo.   Sarin gas released by cult members in crowded vehicles killed 13 commuters and subway staff members and injured 6,300 office workers who were heading their workplaces in Tokyo.

The sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of Aum Shinrikyo on March 20, 1995. 

In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo subway, killing thirteen people, severely injuring fifty and causing temporary vision problems for nearly a thousand others. The attack was directed against trains passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō, home to the Japanese government. It is the most serious attack to occur in Japan since the end of World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway

The leader of the cult, Chizuo Matsumoto (1955-), called himself Shoko Asahara.  He was actually a pseudo-religious organizer talented in practicing yoga and delivering religious theory where Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed.  He also abused an eschatologic view employed from Christianity.

Aum Shinrikyo had about 10,000 members at its peak of activities around 1990.  It also earned $70 million per year through its business involving computer shops.  This cult was remarkably efficient in recruiting new followers from the campus of notable universities in Japan and acquiring rich believers to force them to donate money to the cult as much as possible.  It was suspected that Aum Shinrikyo had strong ties with some Japanese crime syndicates, the Russian Mafia, and North Korean agents.
 
Matsumoto, the guru of the cult, had a crazy plan to attack the administrative district of the central government.  He tried to kill bureaucrats and occupy core organizations of the Japanese Government in Tokyo, using his brainwashed followers armed with AK-47 rifles and sarin gas, in order to establish his own regime.  For this purpose, Aum Shinrikyo had factories where AK-47s and sarin were secretly produced by cult engineers and members.

Nonetheless, since this plan was leaked to the police and Matsumoto realized it, he launched, in a proactive manner, the sarin gas attack in Tokyo subway lines running though governmental districts of Tokyo.      

However, the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo situated at the foot of Mt. Fuji were raided by 2,500 policemen two days after the sarin gas attack in Tokyo.  The cult organization and management collapsed as many leading figures of the cult were arrested.  Two months later Matsumoto or Asahara was found and arrested in one of buildings in the headquarter precincts.  He was sentenced to death in a judicial court and this judgment was finally fixed in 2013 after long judicial processes.

Though it is said that the ex-guru of Aum Shinrikyo behaves like a mad man in the cell, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from death penalty.  But, his death might make him a martyr hundreds of remaining members of the cult, which changed its name already, would respect and revere all the more.  The competent government office might be caught in a dilemma.

So, this is the most impressive incident for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in 140 years of its history: the Aum Shinrikyo cult incident involving a sarin gas attack in Tokyo subway lines which was set off on March 20, 1995.

Aum Shinrikyo Cult Headquarters
http://www.npa.go.jp/hakusyo/h08/h080102.html

Raid by the Police on Cult Precincts, Taking out Chemicals Used for Sarin Production
http://blogos.com/article/42874/




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Mar 3:20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
Mar 3:21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
Mar 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Mar 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

"for all the evils which Herod had done" - The Diary of Anne Frank

Tokyo Suburbs

The Diary of Anne Frank

In Japan a 36-year old jobless man damaged and torn pages in 300 or more copies of The Diary of Anne Frank mostly in scores of public libraries in Tokyo.

Authorities in Tokyo have arrested an unidentified 36-year-old male for vandalizing books related to Anne Frank, including The Diary of a Young Girl (The Diary of Anne Frank). More than 300 copies of books related to Anne Frank have had their pages torn out throughout the city. 

Tokyo police say the unemployed suspect admitted to vandalizing 23 copies of Frank-related material at a library on February 5th. In addition, it has been reported that some of the torn pages were discovered at an undisclosed residence in the capital. Although his motives appear unclear, many Japanese media outlets have reported that there are doubts regarding the suspect’s mental competency. 

Authorizes are investigating further to determine if the individual is involved with incidents of vandalism that have occurred at 38 libraries in Tokyo since last month. 

The Diary of Anne Frank was first published in 1947 in Amsterdam. It was first published in English in 1952, and likewise, in Japanese, quickly becoming an international bestseller. 

http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/22370/man-arrested-for-vandalizing-anne-frank-book-in-japan/

The arrested man reportedly said to the police that he wanted to assert publicly that The Diary of Anne Frank was not written by Anne Frank.  The police seems to suspect that this crime suspect is mentally impaired.

Though the Empire of Japan allied with Nazi Germany during WWII, the Japanese people have had no racial prejudice on Judaists.  Most of the Japanese people know the title, The Diary of Anne Frank, and probably read it once in their lives.  And they are all impressed positively by the book and Anne Frank.  It is popular enough to be targeted by a mad man, in a sense.

However it is still unknown why and how Satan has used this criminal in Tokyo to issue any warning to Judaists in the world.

One thing sure is that if Anne Frank had been able to flee to the U.S., she must have had a happy life.





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Luk 3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
Luk 3:20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

"he that believeth not is condemned" - Earthquakes in the Pacific near Tokyo

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Earthquakes in the Pacific near Tokyo

The Tokyo area is evaluated scientifically to have a local earthquake of a magnitude 7 or more at any moment or at a possibility of 80% in the coming 30 years.

But the Pacific Ocean off the Boso Penisula situated between Tokyo Bay and the Pacific is also a candidate to cause a big earthquake, since the sea area has had earthquakes, as shown below, for 30 days from the end of 2013 to January 2014.

http://blog.inmycab.com/saitama/20693/

This south Kanto Area suffered at least three times M8-class earthquakes in the past: one in 1677 (noted as M8.5), one in 1703 and other in 1923 as shown below.

http://tokyodisaster.blogspot.jp/2014/01/blog-post.html

 http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/555yj/diary/201110310002/

Though an interval of these subducition-zone earthquakes is said to be 200 to 400 years, an inland earthquake can be set off during the interval.

Anyway 330 years have passed since the 1677 Enho Boso Earthquake.  Tokyo should be on alert, since such an earthquake could cause at least a few meter-high tsunami in Tokyo Bay, inundating a large urban area on the bay even if it is a few meters high.

To make sure, for this reason, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics must be cancelled.




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Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

”through ignorance ye did it” - Radioactive Labor Structure in Fukushima Daiichi

Shinkansen Trains, Japan

Radioactive Labor Structure in Fukushima Daiichi

The evil of the nuclear power industry is in its labor structure.

Permanent employees of nuclear power generation plants usually do not tackle tasks where they may be exposed to high radioactive doses, but workers hired by second-tire or third-tire contractors are assigned to radioactively dangerous jobs in plants.

Owners or operators of nuclear power generation plants are usually large companies recognized as excellent ones in terms of financial and social status.  Regular employees of such companies are well protected by management.  From those employees, future leaders of the nuclear industry might emerge.  They are under life-long protection of the nuclear industry.

So, they use subcontractors for dangerous jobs in a nuclear power plant.  And a main subcontractor usually use a second-tire subcontractor which in turn contracts a third-tire subcontractor.  This chain of weird outsourcing continues often to involve sixth or seventh-tire subcontracting.  A little generous wages an electric power generation company pays to one worker, who is expected to work in a highly contaminated environment, reduce substantially when they reach the hand of the worker, since each tire subcontractor takes big portions off them.  Sometimes  a subcontract worker employed at the bottom of this hierarchy through a long and complicated chain of subcontracting receives only a half, one third or so of the original wages.  For the worst example, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the owner of Fukushima Daiichi, pays $1,000 per day to a recovery worker, but the worker actually gets only $100 as subcontractors pick money from the original amount as costs for management or any excuses. 

What is worse, those subcontract workers receive high doses.  It is not only dangerous to their health but also problematic to their professional life.   When their institutional limit of exposure to radiation is exceeded, they are not allowed to work.  And since more and more workers have come to have a higher cumulative radiation dose, it is afraid that there will be shortage of manpower in the Fukushima Daiichi plant in near future.

An average dose for subcontract workers in Fukushima Daiichi was over 1 milli Sievert, but that for regular employees of TEPCO is less than 0.4 milli Sievert as of 2010 when the Fukushima Daiichi accident did not yet occur.

As of 2012 (after the accident in Fukushima was set off in March 2011), there were reportedly 281 subcontract workers whose cumulative dose was between 15 and 20 milli Sievert, but there were no TEPCO stuff who marked this level of dosage.           .          

In one year over 150 workers reached cumulative exposure levels which exceed 5 year upper limit

According to Japanese law, nuclear plant workers can be exposed to no more than 50 millisieverts of radiation per year and 100 millisieverts over the span of 5 years. 

The labor ministry says that as of March 2012, just one year since the onset of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, 167 workers had left the plant with cumulative exposure levels of over 100 millisieverts. 

During the spring months of April, May, and June, 79 workers were exposed to more than 20 millisieverts, and 215 others from 10 to 20 millisieverts. 

University of Tokyo Professor Kazumitsu Nawata warns of the consequences of losing nuclear plant workers with necessary expertise. He says young workers must be trained due to the need for massive manpower to fully bring the Daiichi plant under control.

Nonetheless, the most sinful party is wealthy consumers living in Tokyo and other big cities. Their lavish living has been based on abundant electricity transmitted from power generation plants, once including Fukushima Daiichi and other nuclear power generation plants.  They never suffer a high radiation dose.

The Fukushima Daiichi accident exposed this sinful structure of the industry in terms of safety and welfare of workers as well as dignity of citizens.



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Act 3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
Act 3:18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Act 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

"the Spirit of God descending like a dove" - How Much Spent for Fukushima Daiichi Accident

Shinkansen Trains around Tokyo

How Much Spent for Fukushima Daiichi Accident

Since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the Japanese Government and the very utility TEPCO have spent about 8.5 trillion yen or $85 billion for fixing the accident up to date, though it is not yet contained fully.

The breakdown of the costs is as follow:

1. Decontamination Work......$35 billion

2. Damages and Compensation.....$35 billion

3. Restoration from the Accident.....$15 billion

Total................................................$85 billion


According to the Japanese Government, a nuclear power generation plant can generate electricity at cheaper costs than in a thermal power plant using fossil fuels.  To produce electricity of 1 kilo watts per hour, a coal thermal power plant needs costs of 9.5 yen while a nuclear power plant 8.9 yen.  So, the Government and the nuclear industry has been strongly promoting expansion of use of nuclear energy despite the Fukushima Daiichi accident.

The Government has also estimated that the total costs to run a nuclear power plant, including those for reactor decommissioning, damages, and decontamination work, would be $58 billion.

However, the actual costs accumulated in these three years since March 2011 are already $85 billion, as above indicated.   It has exceeded the Government's estimation.

What is worse, the issue of responsibility is still unclear.  Who should take primary responsibility when a large-scale nuclear accident occurs in a nuclear power plant?  To our surprise, this issue is not yet clearly addressed in Japan.  Indeed, nobody in the Government and TEPCO has been indicted for responsibility for failure in preventing the Fukushima Daiichi accident, though criminal investigations were conducted on some politicians and TEPCO executives.

No matter how much Japanese economy is large and Japan has advanced technology, Japan cannot bear suffering another nuclear accident.  It must abandon all of 50 nuclear reactors.







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Mat 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Mat 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
Mat 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

"And Solomon awoke"

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1Ki 3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
1Ki 3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
1Ki 3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
1Ki 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
1Ki 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
1Ki 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1Ki 3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
1Ki 3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
1Ki 3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
1Ki 3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
1Ki 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
1Ki 3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

"the gain thereof than fine gold" - Talented, Ambitious, and Blessed Women?

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Talented, Ambitious, and Blessed Women?

The Degree of Advancement of Women in Society

Country................Corporate Management Occupation by Women
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1. Philippines....... 114.3

2. Australia........... 58.4

3. Singapore......... 46.4

4. Malaysia.............34.3

5. Thailand.............30.2

6. China...................19.4

7. JAPAN...............10.5


Why can Japanese women not make advancement in businesses?

It is due to tradition and culture of Japan, of course.  For almost 700 years till the late 19th century, Japan had been under the rule of the sword of samurais.  And till the end of WWII or 1945, Japanese people were under the rule of the spirit of samurais.  And samurais played roles of warriors, bureaucrats, engineers, educators, and masters of women and children.  Japan was an absolutely a male-dominated country.

Nonetheless there were some women in the Japanese history who ascended to the imperial throne.  These women were actually called "Emperor" but not "Empress."

When an emperor died without a suitable son mature enough to immediately take the title of emperor, his wife or widow, namely an empress, could assume the title of emperor to succeed her deceased husband and keep the imperial position till her son became old enough to become emperor.   Like this case, female emperors were not regular and normal existence.  It was an exceptional case to cope with an urgent situation.  

So, probably even today, it must be in a very special situation  that a Japanese business has a woman assume the presidency.  She must have ability and talent while meeting a special or urgent need of the company she works in.

And, a samurai was forced, depending on circumstances,  to commit ritual suicide by disembowelment, namely hara-kiri or seppuku, in order to expiate or compensate for his sin or failure.  But in the samurai world, women were not allowed to commit hara-kiri.  They cut through their throat with a knife or a short sword in case.

Next to the Vatican, the Islamic world, some African tribes, and the like, Japan is not a good environment for talented and ambitious women.  But a talented and ambitious woman is often very dangerous for a man whether he is talented and ambitious or not.

However, you cannot tell how a woman can be blessed by God if she deserves it.



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Pro 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Pro 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Pro 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Pro 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

"the LORD God said unto the woman" - Holy Teachings

Mt. Fuji 100 km in the Westward 

Holy Teachings

Christ Jesus delivered many teachings He must have expected to be handed down over generations of human beings.

Accordingly we have to review those teachings as many times as possible.

What was Jesus' most important teaching? 

Best Answer
The most important thing in life is to love one another. 

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0SO8waTtSFTM1sAj2dXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEza3FsamVuBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1FCQUNLMV8x?qid=20091203071222AAnCDnI 

The Most Important Teaching of Jesus 

July 16th, 2013 by Oleg Kostyuk -
However, there is one dialogue in the Gospel of John that usually gets overlooked. It is the dialogue between Jesus and Nicodemus in John chapter three. Many Christians are familiar with John 3:16 that states that God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone and anyone who believes in him will have everlasting life. But, what else do we know about this discussion between Nicodemus and Jesus? 

http://crossconnection.hopetv.org/the-most-important-teaching-of-jesus 

What Do You Consider to be Jesus’ Most Important Teachings and Deeds? 

Posted by jasondulle 

Aaron Says:
March 15, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Mark 12:29-31, 

29. And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

http://theosophical.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/what-do-you-consider-to-be-jesus-most-important-teachings-and-deeds/

The Most Important Teaching: Love for God and Neighbor
More than once people did ask Jesus Christ which was His most important teaching in order to inherit eternal life in the Kingdom of God. Some asked because they wanted to know and others did to find a reason to accuse Him. 

Thus one day, a Jewish lawyer (a man who studied the Law of God) wishing to put Jesus Christ to the test asked Him, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 

Jesus Christ said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments rest all the law and the prophets." 

http://churchmotherofgod.org/salvation-history/the-son-of-god/2398-most-important-teaching-love-for-god-and-neighbor.html


Jesus Taught the Most Important Command Is to Love 

Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31 (NLT) 

http://www.christiandads.com/jesus-taught-the-most-important-command-is-to-love/

Jesus' Teaching #1 of 10:
“Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7 (TEV) *

Comment: I remember seeing people camping on the sidewalk in a large city. It was freezing cold. They were trying to stay warm, huddled in blankets and cardboard boxes and sleeping bags. Some of them waited for up to two days. They were in line to get tickets for a concert. Whenever I have attended a play or concert or ballgame, I sometimes wonder (from my seat way in the back) who gets to sit in the front row. Guess who? The ones who were determined enough to go after the best seats. 

http://www.camppointumc.com/Spiritual%20Growth/Online%20Bible%20Study/BibleStudy/SOM%20Teachings_of_Jesus.htm

Q: What is Jesus most famous teaching? 

The most famous teaching of Jesus is called, The Beatitudes. This is the first part of sermon called The Sermon on the Mount. Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

http://www.experts123.com/q/what-is-jesus-most-famous-teaching.html

(to be continued...)





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Gen 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

"which is new Jerusalem" - Money and Religion

Mt. Fuji 100 km Far

Money and Religion

One simple question is whether you can give money to the poor if you are rich.

Another questions is how much you will protect yourself and your wealth from the poor.

Most of people think in their hearts that they will not give money to the poor, at least unconditionally.  And they think most probably that they would take measures as much as possible to defend themselves, their families, and their wealth.

So, super rich men try to have connection with politicians who have political and administrative power in addition to an influence on the police.  Politicians in return get big money or some financial support from super rich men if they help them keep their wealth so safely.

The key to objectively understanding this situation is for us to assume presence of Satan in the form of money.

This situation in the human society is a process of Satan conquering human minds.  In this money-contaminated society, even a dollar cannot be earned by a man without joining any evil scheme in the world.  Indeed, even a dollar cannot be kept by a man without taking any evil strategy to.take advantage of people of good will.    

With money to earn or keep, one would regard all the others as enemies.  They would resort to any means to steal money, a man would think.  Accordingly, he would play more effective tricks.  He will never refer to the Bible in doing so.

Satan is in money.  As soon as a man gets any money, he will establish an emotional bond with Satan.  He will love money, which means he loves Satan.  It is because money allows him to satisfy any desire.  Even a church being financially run with money cannot be free from an influence of Satan.  Church members and management would admit power of money in their religious life.  But such religious life has a dark shadow behind the altar that is Satan.

So, when you see a big church built with various costly material and decorations, you must think the church is under an influence of Satan to the extent that the church is materially magnificent.

Put simply, the Vatican looks too splendid.  Satan must be hiding somewhere in the big buildings in the precincts of the Vatican.

However, Muslims also love to build magnificent mosques and minarets.  Many devils must be wandering in the Islamic society, too.

In Japan, traditionally Japanese Buddhists have loved to build big (wooden) temples and shintoists also built big (wooden) shrines if possible.  But shintoism also regards some mountains as they are as shrines.  Mt. Fuji is the main body of a shinto shrine.

Even today Japanese people think it is a kind of religious act to observe rising of the sun from the top of Mt. Fuji in the early morning of January 1.  Truly when they are watching sunrise, they must forget how much money they have.  

When you understand how Japanese feel on watching Mt. Fuji, you get closer to God in your religion.

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Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

"hold that fast which thou hast" - Review of the 3/11 Disaster

Around Tokyo Bay

Review of the 3/11 Disaster

Just three years ago, a big natural disaster hit Japan, which also triggered a nuclear accident.

Though it was huge tsunamis that took on 20,000 lives in the Pacific coast lines north of Tokyo, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident gave a more serious impact on all the Japanese people.  Indeed, the tsunami devastated roughly 10% of Japanese seaboard regions, but the nuclear issue covers all of the Japanese land.

If no nuclear accident had followed the tsunami disaster, Japan should not have suffered so much  infliction economically, socially, and psychologically.  Conversely, the M9.0 earthquake seems to have occurred to induce great tsunamis, so that eventually a 15-meter tsunami attacked and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant.

There are many aspects in the tragedy of 2011.  But the gravest point is that the 3/11 Disaster exposed evil accompanying a policy to promote nuclear energy.  It also pointed us at how foolish we have become due to success in building up this material civilization, as our minds darkened by material desire missed so many signs and omens giving a warning to prepare for a big earthquake and a big tsunami.

For example, Japan experienced a big earthquake around the commercial center of West Japan in 1995, which killed 6,000 people.  In 2004, a huge tsunami was set off off Sumatra Island, Indonesia, causing more than 200,000 deaths around the Indian Ocean.  In 2008, the Great Sichuan Earthquake of China made 90,000 people meet their death and 15 million citizens urgently evacuated, while probably some nuclear facilities of the Chinese military in the region were seriously damaged.  And finally, in 2010 a powerful urban earthquake in Haiti brought death to more than 310,000 citizens.  Truly we have had a plenty of signs of ill presage before March 11, 2011.
 
If we, the Japanese people, had been afraid of and respected God or Heaven more, we must have sensed any extraordinary warning in the above incidents in the world.  But leading politicians, elite bureaucrats, and corporate executives did not humbly check and correct their behaviors.  They were enjoying high living in Tokyo and other major cities.  While they had observed tragedies and plights of the US which faced the 9/11 Terror, the subsequent War on Terror, and the 2008 Financial Crisis, they did not get prepared for any coming crisis in Japan.

Before the 3/11 Tsunami, engineers of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (the owner of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant) realized a possibility that their nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture could be hit by a 10-meter high tsunami, while the Plant was designed just to withstand a 6-meter tsunami at most.  Even some professors reported before March 11, 2011 that the Pacific coast line of the Tohoku region, including Fukushima, had experienced a huge tsunami every 1000 years, while the last one occurred just 1,100 years ago.  A then nuclear regulatory office of the Japanese Government must have been aware of these matters, but they didn't take any action to enhance anti-tsunami features of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant.   Though no one has been put in trial due to negligence in their duty to protect the nuclear power plant, it is apparent that there was a big fault those elites of the Japanese society should admit.

With serious repentance, Japan should abandon the promotion of use of nuclear energy.  But now the Japanese Government is about to examine applications filed by utilities to restart their nuclear power plants, since all the 50 or so nuclear power plants have been stopped in the wake of the Fukushima accident.  Probably, by 2020 when the Tokyo Olympics is held, Japan will have 10 nuclear power plants in service.  It is not pleasant at all.

God gave a big warning to the US with the 9/11 Terror on their status as the militarily sole super-power on the earth.  God also delivered a big admonition to the world with the 2008 Financial Crisis on pursue of wealth Wall Street businesses was driving.  And He warned us against use of the nuclear energy with the 3/11 Disaster of Japan.

And logically, if we don't hear Him fully, something more terrible could happen.

 August 31, 2012
Japan for Sustainability (JFS) 

Japan for Sustainability (JFS)--a non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides environmental information from Japan to 188 countries -- announced the findings of its international web survey of opinions from around the world regarding Japan's soon-to-be-decided direction on energy policy to 2030. 

Zero Scenario (zero nuclear power by 2030)...70% (224 responses)
15% Scenario (15% by 2030)...15% (47 responses)
20-25% Scenario (20 to 25% by 2030)...10% (34 responses)
Other...4% (13 responses)
Don't Know...1% (4 responses)

http://www.japanfs.org/en/information/press/press_id033743.html




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Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

"he had healed many" - Another Earthquake before March 11, 2011

Tokyo Downtown

Another Earthquake before March 11, 2011 

On March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake was set off under the Pacific Ocean between Honsyu Island and the Japan trench.

This undersea earthquake with the epicenter 100 km off Sendai City triggered 10-meter high tsunamis which devastated Japanese coast lines over 500 km mostly north of Tokyo.  These tsunamis crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, too.

Recently Japanese scientists found that this March 11 earthquake was an indirect product of another earthquake.

On March 9, 2011, two days before March 11, an M7.3 earthquake occurred near the epicenter of the M9.0 earthquake.  It caused slow sliding of a great mass of undersea land toward the Japanese trench.

http://www.aob.gp.tohoku.ac.jp/info/topics/topics-110311/

The movement of the sliding seems to have been accelerated to a high speed near the Japanese trench in the Pacific Ocean.  Probably due to this kinetic energy, a fault near the trench slid for 50 meters or so.  And, an influenced area of this sliding expanded from the north to the south, making massive force converge on the epicenter of the M9.0 earthquake.  Finally on March 11, a big fault was destroyed by this force to cause the M9.0 earthquake which eventually took on 20,000 people and destroyed four nuclear reactors of Fukushima Daiichi.

   http://www.ab.cyberhome.ne.jp/~catfish/event/2011tohokuoki.html 

In the above figure, the brown lines, including the Japanese trench along with the straight line A to B, are boundaries between continental plates.  Note that 2011/03/11 05:46 means March 11, 2011 at 2:46 p.m. (Japan Time).  M9.1 was later corrected to Magnitude 9.0.

So, if earthquake seismology had been more advanced on March 9, 2011, scientists should have been able to catch a sign that a huge but slow undersea land slip was triggered.  They must have been able to predict another big earthquake coming soon.  Then, many lives must have been saved and the nuclear accident might have been avoided.

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Mar 3:10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.