President Ford in Japan Specifically Memorized
Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford passed away.
He visited Japan on November 18, 1974, which was the first as the official visit of an incumbent U.S. President to Japan in the history.
Then Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka welcomed President Ford in Tokyo.
But, a month later, Prime Minister Tanaka resigned for suspicion of money scandals.
A half year later, Saigon fell into the clutch of Vietcong and North Vietnam.
It is also known that President Ford signed an intelligence order to ban assassination of foreign leaders.
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Though it was 1968 that Japan became the second largest economy in the world in terms of GNP (Gross National Product), it is 1970's that the world really began to turn its eyes to Japan for its economic success and Japan itself started to feel its competitive edge in various fields.
The Cold War seemed to continue as far as we could overlook the ongoing history toward future.
Or did we miss something important in those days that could be a good lesson 30 years later.
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It is Americans that should judge if the late President Gerald R. Ford served his nation, then still suffering from aftermath of the Vietnam War, neither too much nor too little.
And, there will be surely a President in future just after the War on Terror. In this case, I suppose the whole world would judge similarly on the President.
"WE HAVE ONLY DONE OUR DUTY"
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig in Japan
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig in Japan
As an example, if you are a baseball fan and check how many hits the keyword "Sadaharu Oh" would return from the Internet, it would be around 45,000 hits in a Japanese search site.
Similarly, if you use the keyword "Eiji Sawamura," it would be 3,700 hits.
Sadaharu Oh is the All -Time Home-Run King in Japan who produced 868 homers in his career as a professional baseball player. Mr. Oh is still engaged in this profession.
Eiji Sawamura was a pitcher of a professional base-ball team in Japan more than 60 years ago, but was killed in WWII.
Eiji Sawamura is regarded as the all-time super pitcher in Japan.
When his team ventured a tour to the U.S. in 1935, he took the plate in 30 games of all the 50 games and got the win in 24 games, though the opponent teams the Japanese went against were not major-league teams but minor ones.
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On November 20, 1934, the U.S. major-league picked-team met with the Japanese all-star team in a ball park in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in one of 18 games they had planed to play.
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig, however, could not overwhelm the pitcher Eiji Sawamura. They were going to lose the game with nine strike-outs by Eiji Sawamura. Nonetheless, the actual result of the game was 1-0 for the U.S. team.
And, eventually, the U.S. all-star selections left Japan without any lost games.
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But, how could they beat the Japanese team on November 20, 1934?
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig could not come up with hits due to Sawamura's curb ball that fell so drastically over the home plate. The curb ball delivered by Sawamura, who was then just 17 years old, must have been twice more effective than Hideo Nomo's splitter.
So, they tried hard to read Sawamura's habit when he threw a curb. Their efforts finally paid off. Gehrig, following Babe's advice, blasted a home run. It decided the outcome of the game that had so embarrassed and upset the U.S. major-league picked-team in 1934 in Japan.
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Later, Eiji Sawamura served the Imperial Army and was sent to the front in China. He then returned home, but again he was drafted. He returned home again, but again he was drafted for his third mission in the Imperial Army. This time he never returned. A ship he went aboard was attacked and sunk by a US submarine in December, 1944.
However, even today, there are many baseball fans in Japan who believe that Eiji Sawamura is still better than Hideo Nomo as well as Daisuke Matsuzaka who is to play in the Boston Red Socks in 2007.
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A Japanese poet once wrote for the late Eiji Sawamura: "War is sinful just because it took your life."
(How many times will American poets write so after the War on Terror?)
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Now, you know one reason why Babe Ruth is famous in Japan.
Indeed, it is because he for real played baseball in Japan in whatever professional sense we have to accept.
"TAKE CARE; BE ON YOUR GUARD"
As an example, if you are a baseball fan and check how many hits the keyword "Sadaharu Oh" would return from the Internet, it would be around 45,000 hits in a Japanese search site.
Similarly, if you use the keyword "Eiji Sawamura," it would be 3,700 hits.
Sadaharu Oh is the All -Time Home-Run King in Japan who produced 868 homers in his career as a professional baseball player. Mr. Oh is still engaged in this profession.
Eiji Sawamura was a pitcher of a professional base-ball team in Japan more than 60 years ago, but was killed in WWII.
Eiji Sawamura is regarded as the all-time super pitcher in Japan.
When his team ventured a tour to the U.S. in 1935, he took the plate in 30 games of all the 50 games and got the win in 24 games, though the opponent teams the Japanese went against were not major-league teams but minor ones.
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On November 20, 1934, the U.S. major-league picked-team met with the Japanese all-star team in a ball park in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in one of 18 games they had planed to play.
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig, however, could not overwhelm the pitcher Eiji Sawamura. They were going to lose the game with nine strike-outs by Eiji Sawamura. Nonetheless, the actual result of the game was 1-0 for the U.S. team.
And, eventually, the U.S. all-star selections left Japan without any lost games.
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But, how could they beat the Japanese team on November 20, 1934?
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig could not come up with hits due to Sawamura's curb ball that fell so drastically over the home plate. The curb ball delivered by Sawamura, who was then just 17 years old, must have been twice more effective than Hideo Nomo's splitter.
So, they tried hard to read Sawamura's habit when he threw a curb. Their efforts finally paid off. Gehrig, following Babe's advice, blasted a home run. It decided the outcome of the game that had so embarrassed and upset the U.S. major-league picked-team in 1934 in Japan.
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Later, Eiji Sawamura served the Imperial Army and was sent to the front in China. He then returned home, but again he was drafted. He returned home again, but again he was drafted for his third mission in the Imperial Army. This time he never returned. A ship he went aboard was attacked and sunk by a US submarine in December, 1944.
However, even today, there are many baseball fans in Japan who believe that Eiji Sawamura is still better than Hideo Nomo as well as Daisuke Matsuzaka who is to play in the Boston Red Socks in 2007.
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A Japanese poet once wrote for the late Eiji Sawamura: "War is sinful just because it took your life."
(How many times will American poets write so after the War on Terror?)
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Now, you know one reason why Babe Ruth is famous in Japan.
Indeed, it is because he for real played baseball in Japan in whatever professional sense we have to accept.
"TAKE CARE; BE ON YOUR GUARD"
Sunday, December 24, 2006
One Christmas Eve in Japan in 2006
One Christmas Eve in Japan in 2006
I saw tonight in the city a very poor, old man, a couple of innocent westerners, and unusually spotted policemen.
This Sunday night or a Christmas Eve has made most people hurry to their homes or drinking parties, while the night outside is getting colder and sterner.
People in Japan are really starting to get prepared for the New Year Day and the winter holidays for children and students.
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My recommendation for a Christmas present is the 2006 Global Hunger Index at http://www.ifpri.org/media/20061013ghi.asp.
You had better download this document and print out its cover page.
Before any miracles are given to us as a Christmas gift, we have to probably love famine-ridden people as Jesus Christ does.
In this sense, Japan should be given another chance next year, too, deplorably.
"I AM THE SEER"
I saw tonight in the city a very poor, old man, a couple of innocent westerners, and unusually spotted policemen.
This Sunday night or a Christmas Eve has made most people hurry to their homes or drinking parties, while the night outside is getting colder and sterner.
People in Japan are really starting to get prepared for the New Year Day and the winter holidays for children and students.
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My recommendation for a Christmas present is the 2006 Global Hunger Index at http://www.ifpri.org/media/20061013ghi.asp.
You had better download this document and print out its cover page.
Before any miracles are given to us as a Christmas gift, we have to probably love famine-ridden people as Jesus Christ does.
In this sense, Japan should be given another chance next year, too, deplorably.
"I AM THE SEER"
Thursday, December 21, 2006
The Battle for the Layte Gulf in 1944 Loaded with Lessons
The Battle for the Layte Gulf in 1944 Loaded with Lessons
"SEA OF THUNDER" by Evan Thomas is now ranked the 27th in the list of hard-cover nonfictions by The New York Times.
It depicts the Pacific War between the Empire of Japan and the U.S. from 1941 to 1945.
It is a little surprise that this kind of theme has still some impacts on some sorts of people in the U.S., though millions of people there have had any associations with U.S. defense directly or indirectly.
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The last year a Japanese film maker released a movie featuring the battleship Yamato, the largest and the strongest warship ever built by human beings, at least before the age of aircraft carrier's dominance.
This year Mr. Clint Eastwood's movies on the Battle of Iwo-jima, fought in February and March in 1945, were released in Japan and the U.S..
Yamato was destroyed and sunk under U.S. air attacks during its Kamikaze mission to the Battle of Okinawa in April, 1945.
However, I would rather honor the Imperial Navy in a different manner.
The greatest naval war ever fought by human beings is called the Battle for the Layte Gulf, the Philippines, in October 1944 in which the Imperial Navy lost not only another Yamato-class battleship Musashi that was fatally damaged by 20 torpedoes shot by U.S. war planes but also the substantial capability to deal with the massive U.S. military advancement to the mainland of Imperial Japan.
After this great naval battle, the Battle of Iwo-jima and the Battle of Okinawa were fought without a hope of changing a tide or recovering a loss or ultimately achieving an advantageous armistice with the Allied.
The two super-warships Yamato and Musashi, with several 46cm big guns equipped on each, might have blown off any ambitions of General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. Seventh Fleet in and around the Layte Gulf.
But the history was different: the age of air battles over the ocean had already begun.
What is worse, in order to support the fleet, the Imperial Navy ordered an air squadron to conduct Kamikaze air-attacks, which was the first of a long series of this kind of suicide attacks that ensued until the end of the Pacific War in August, 1945.
The Battle for the Layte Gulf should be remembered most significantly as the last full-dress naval battle for the Imperial Navy with even a slight chance of winning as well as the onset of the Kamikaze attacks which should have been also the last and final or only once.
APPENDIX.
US Strength around Leyte Gulf, the Philippines:
8 fleet carriers
8 light carriers
18 escort carriers
12 battleships
24 cruisers
141 destroyers and destroyer escorts
Many PT boats, submarines, and fleet auxiliaries
About 1,500 planes
Empire of Japan's Strength toward Leyte Gulf, the Philippines:
1 fleet carrier
3 light carriers
9 battleships
14 heavy cruisers
6 light cruisers
35+ destroyers
300+ planes (including land-based aircraft)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf
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Now, Japan has other types of Yamato and Musashi in various fields of its modern industries.
But, where has the Kamikaze spirit gone?
It is one of my worries.
It should have gone to the highest sky over the Pacific Ocean forever.
Not to anywhere on the earth.
"THE SEEDS THE PEACEMAKERS PLANT IN THE PEACE"
Monday, December 18, 2006
A Marine in Iraq and His Japanese Father
A Marine in Iraq and His Japanese Father
When you hear some Christmas songs, you may feel like hearing a Christmas story.
All I can say is that Good News is to be preached to poor people. If you are rich and happy, you are not prepared enough.
However, it is one of my opinions I myself in a different occasion cannot mostly stand; Jesus Christ should be far more benevolent.
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According to a certain prominent journalist, once upon a time, a Japanese young man went to America to learn in post-graduate courses. He graduated a grad school and started to work in a branch of the U.S. Government. He got married to an American woman and got a son who grew up and one day, while learning in a university, decided to go into the service of the U.S. Marines for joining a mission in Iraq. He was actually dispatched to Iraq for a mission of the War on Terror, and then afterward came back to America to restart his learning in the university. He graduated and started to work in a certain industry.
One family in America is going to see Christmas this way: a family of a Japanese father, an American mother, and an ex-Marine son with a memory of Iraq.
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In my city, there are a lot of illuminations and displays imitating a Christmas tree. Japanese like Christmas.
Indeed, no family's Christmas in Japan is darkened by a shadow of warring Iraq, which might become possible truly by providence.
I meant that we are very sorry for American families who lost their son or daughter in Iraq.
But, will Iraqi victims allow us to enjoy Christmas?
Or will Jesus Christ persuade them to do so for us?
Otherwise, what should we offer as a sacrifice?
"BY THE MIRACLES THAT WERE PERFORMED"
When you hear some Christmas songs, you may feel like hearing a Christmas story.
All I can say is that Good News is to be preached to poor people. If you are rich and happy, you are not prepared enough.
However, it is one of my opinions I myself in a different occasion cannot mostly stand; Jesus Christ should be far more benevolent.
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According to a certain prominent journalist, once upon a time, a Japanese young man went to America to learn in post-graduate courses. He graduated a grad school and started to work in a branch of the U.S. Government. He got married to an American woman and got a son who grew up and one day, while learning in a university, decided to go into the service of the U.S. Marines for joining a mission in Iraq. He was actually dispatched to Iraq for a mission of the War on Terror, and then afterward came back to America to restart his learning in the university. He graduated and started to work in a certain industry.
One family in America is going to see Christmas this way: a family of a Japanese father, an American mother, and an ex-Marine son with a memory of Iraq.
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In my city, there are a lot of illuminations and displays imitating a Christmas tree. Japanese like Christmas.
Indeed, no family's Christmas in Japan is darkened by a shadow of warring Iraq, which might become possible truly by providence.
I meant that we are very sorry for American families who lost their son or daughter in Iraq.
But, will Iraqi victims allow us to enjoy Christmas?
Or will Jesus Christ persuade them to do so for us?
Otherwise, what should we offer as a sacrifice?
"BY THE MIRACLES THAT WERE PERFORMED"
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Brazil Won Over Spain 1-0 in the Supreme Soccer Match in Japan
Brazil Won Over Spain 1-0 in the Supreme Soccer Match in Japan
Tonight I rather felt that the city was less crowded.
Indeed, there was a final match of top soccer club teams in the world.
The match was between a team from Spain and another from Brazil.
The latter defeated the former by one to nothing.
The Spanish team, representing 224,000 soccer clubs in Europe and employing ten players who have ever played in the World Cup Soccer Games in eight national teams, was lost to the Brazilian team with no such players.
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In a cold stadium of Japan's December and supported by Toyota Motor and other companies, the game was played with full audience.
As it must be globally televised, people in Spain and Brazil should enjoy it.
I am not a professional in this sport. I have not much to say.
However, I felt that the Brazilian team was really running, but the Spanish team was not, though I just observed the match only during the last 15 minutes.
A running player kicked the ball that flew to the face of the keeper trying to stop the ball with a lower posture, but the ball hit the head and flew further forward to the goal.
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Toyota reportedly plans to produce about 9.4 million cars next year, which would put the company on the position of the world number-one car manufacturer. GM will be the number two, accordingly.
Toyota can sponsor many sport games.
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December is called "Shiwasu" in a traditional and literary way in Japan, which means "a teacher is running."
In old days, people had to make the end meet on their financial contracts, loans, and rents by the end of December; therefore even a teacher who must show a good example of behaviors should be busy paying or borrowing money in this month.
December is a month when even a stern teacher should be busy running like a soccer player in an extreme case.
However, I like the expression "Don't run but walk."
Be a good walker even on a pitch, which would decide a success or a failure in a next moment when a chance ball is flying fast toward you.
"THEY WILL SHARE YOUR FATE"
Tonight I rather felt that the city was less crowded.
Indeed, there was a final match of top soccer club teams in the world.
The match was between a team from Spain and another from Brazil.
The latter defeated the former by one to nothing.
The Spanish team, representing 224,000 soccer clubs in Europe and employing ten players who have ever played in the World Cup Soccer Games in eight national teams, was lost to the Brazilian team with no such players.
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In a cold stadium of Japan's December and supported by Toyota Motor and other companies, the game was played with full audience.
As it must be globally televised, people in Spain and Brazil should enjoy it.
I am not a professional in this sport. I have not much to say.
However, I felt that the Brazilian team was really running, but the Spanish team was not, though I just observed the match only during the last 15 minutes.
A running player kicked the ball that flew to the face of the keeper trying to stop the ball with a lower posture, but the ball hit the head and flew further forward to the goal.
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Toyota reportedly plans to produce about 9.4 million cars next year, which would put the company on the position of the world number-one car manufacturer. GM will be the number two, accordingly.
Toyota can sponsor many sport games.
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December is called "Shiwasu" in a traditional and literary way in Japan, which means "a teacher is running."
In old days, people had to make the end meet on their financial contracts, loans, and rents by the end of December; therefore even a teacher who must show a good example of behaviors should be busy paying or borrowing money in this month.
December is a month when even a stern teacher should be busy running like a soccer player in an extreme case.
However, I like the expression "Don't run but walk."
Be a good walker even on a pitch, which would decide a success or a failure in a next moment when a chance ball is flying fast toward you.
"THEY WILL SHARE YOUR FATE"
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Kings and Emperor in Japan
Kings and Emperor in Japan
BBC has reported something about a "King" coming to Japan again.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6183755.stm)
There have been no kings in Japan since the early sixth century when some Japanese chieftains sent envoys to then superpower China for authorization for the King of Japan (then called "Wa").
Those chieftains are historically regarded as ancestors of the Imperial Family of Japan that has been enjoying its unbroken line since then to date.
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There are two different Japanese expressions that are translated into the single expression emperor.
Japanese Emperor is called "Ten-nou (or Ten-no)," but all the other emperors, such as the Roman Emperor, in the world are called "Kou-tei (or Ko-tei)" in Japanese.
Meaning of Kanji letters used for each is not so different.
The key to understanding this arrangement lies in relationships between ancient China and Japan.
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There are 30,000 Shinto shrines in Japan; and the religion of the Imperial Family of Japan is also a Shinto. Shinto could give deity to any deceased, including fallen soldiers.
January 1 is the day for Shinto: the most special day in Japan.
"AT ONCE THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE"
Friday, December 15, 2006
6.5 Million Churches in the World
6.5 Million Churches in the World
According to various sources, the number of Christian churches in Japan is about 8,000.
(They say that there are 100 times more churches in South Korean than in Japan, which is however a little doubtful though South Korea is abundant in religious businesses including criminal ones.)
It is also reported that there are 350,000 churches in the U.S., while there are 6.5 million churches in the world.
I suppose if Jesus Christ is in a certain church people would naturally go there to worship him.
However, everybody knows it is not the fact.
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A place where believers get together is called a church.
If two or more believers are in a certain place, it is called a church.
They will put the highest priority in praising the God in anything they do therein.
Such a place is a church.
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Call believers to your home, if you have a home, so as to make your home a church.
If you can, you will be a very successful person in this world, in a holy sense
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This evening I thought God would be merciful to show His miracle to me.
And, when I was walking among people, I really encountered a miracle in a personal sense.
Then, I am now writing this EEE-Report to the world to praise the God and Jesus Christ, the glory of which you are sharing with me this moment.
Gold bless this evening!
"LISTEN TO HIM!"
According to various sources, the number of Christian churches in Japan is about 8,000.
(They say that there are 100 times more churches in South Korean than in Japan, which is however a little doubtful though South Korea is abundant in religious businesses including criminal ones.)
It is also reported that there are 350,000 churches in the U.S., while there are 6.5 million churches in the world.
I suppose if Jesus Christ is in a certain church people would naturally go there to worship him.
However, everybody knows it is not the fact.
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A place where believers get together is called a church.
If two or more believers are in a certain place, it is called a church.
They will put the highest priority in praising the God in anything they do therein.
Such a place is a church.
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Call believers to your home, if you have a home, so as to make your home a church.
If you can, you will be a very successful person in this world, in a holy sense
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This evening I thought God would be merciful to show His miracle to me.
And, when I was walking among people, I really encountered a miracle in a personal sense.
Then, I am now writing this EEE-Report to the world to praise the God and Jesus Christ, the glory of which you are sharing with me this moment.
Gold bless this evening!
"LISTEN TO HIM!"
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Gifts of the Most Reputable Companies in the World
Gifts of the Most Reputable Companies in the World
According to Forbes, the top ten of the World's Most Reputable Companies in 2006 are as follows (http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/20/leadership-companies-reputation-lead-managing-cx_hc_1120rep_list.html?boxes=custom):
No. 1: Barilla Holding, Italy, Food & Tobacco
2: LEGO Holding A/S, Denmark, Consumer Products
3: Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germany, Airline & Aerospace
4: IKEA International A/S, Sweden, Retail - General
5: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, France, Automotive
6: Toyota Motor Corp., Japan, Automotive
7: A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, Denmark, Transport/Logistics
8: Ferrero SpA, Italy, Food & Tobacco
9: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., South Korea, Electrical & Electronics
10: Kraft Foods Inc., USA, Food & Tobacco
The Italian company Barilla Holding got the Gold Medal for its reputation as a corporation providing services and goods in a very reputable manner to consumers.
In the coming holiday season, you had better enjoy services and goods provided by those most reputable companies in the world.
This is a little gift of information for the season.
God bless Europe, Japan, Korea, and the USA!
"WALKING AND JUMPING AND PRAISING THE GOD"
According to Forbes, the top ten of the World's Most Reputable Companies in 2006 are as follows (http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/20/leadership-companies-reputation-lead-managing-cx_hc_1120rep_list.html?boxes=custom):
No. 1: Barilla Holding, Italy, Food & Tobacco
2: LEGO Holding A/S, Denmark, Consumer Products
3: Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germany, Airline & Aerospace
4: IKEA International A/S, Sweden, Retail - General
5: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, France, Automotive
6: Toyota Motor Corp., Japan, Automotive
7: A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, Denmark, Transport/Logistics
8: Ferrero SpA, Italy, Food & Tobacco
9: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., South Korea, Electrical & Electronics
10: Kraft Foods Inc., USA, Food & Tobacco
The Italian company Barilla Holding got the Gold Medal for its reputation as a corporation providing services and goods in a very reputable manner to consumers.
In the coming holiday season, you had better enjoy services and goods provided by those most reputable companies in the world.
This is a little gift of information for the season.
God bless Europe, Japan, Korea, and the USA!
"WALKING AND JUMPING AND PRAISING THE GOD"
Monday, December 11, 2006
A War of Nobody Else's in Iraq
A War of Nobody Else's in Iraq
According to various sources and their information, financial aid for reconstruction of Iraq by major countries and international organizations are as follows:
1) U.S...................20.3 billion
2) Japan..................5 billion
3) World Bank..........5 billion
4) IMF......................4.25 billion
5) EU..........................1.5 billion
6) Kuwait...................1.5 billion
7) Saudi Arabia...........1 billion
8) U.K.........................0.92 billion
9) Spain.......................0.3 billion
10) Iran.......................0.3 billion
11) Korea......................0.26 billion
12) Canada....................0.23 billion
13) UAE..........................0.215 billion
14) India........................0.03 billion
15) China........................0.0242 billion
16) Norway.......................0.016 billion
17) Swiss.........................0.015 billion
18) Oman.........................0.003 billion
19) Philippines..................0.001 billion
29) Slovakia.....................0.00029 billion
30) Sri Lanka................Red Tea
31) Vietnam..................Rice
(Unit: US dollars)
[as of the end of 2007 or FY2007 for each donor]
Other debt relieves are also under considerations in some countries including Saudi Arabia.
As for Japan, it has still put some planes of Air Self-Defense Force in operation in Iraq, though its ground troops were withdrawn this July after two and a half year's humanitarian-support operation.
The Iraq War cannot be a war of nobody else's but America's only.
If Americans think so, the outcome will someday prove that it is not so.
Even if the President of the U.S. thinks so, the outcome will someday prove that it is not so.
"LIKE A BUSH IN THE DESERT"
According to various sources and their information, financial aid for reconstruction of Iraq by major countries and international organizations are as follows:
1) U.S...................20.3 billion
2) Japan..................5 billion
3) World Bank..........5 billion
4) IMF......................4.25 billion
5) EU..........................1.5 billion
6) Kuwait...................1.5 billion
7) Saudi Arabia...........1 billion
8) U.K.........................0.92 billion
9) Spain.......................0.3 billion
10) Iran.......................0.3 billion
11) Korea......................0.26 billion
12) Canada....................0.23 billion
13) UAE..........................0.215 billion
14) India........................0.03 billion
15) China........................0.0242 billion
16) Norway.......................0.016 billion
17) Swiss.........................0.015 billion
18) Oman.........................0.003 billion
19) Philippines..................0.001 billion
29) Slovakia.....................0.00029 billion
30) Sri Lanka................Red Tea
31) Vietnam..................Rice
(Unit: US dollars)
[as of the end of 2007 or FY2007 for each donor]
Other debt relieves are also under considerations in some countries including Saudi Arabia.
As for Japan, it has still put some planes of Air Self-Defense Force in operation in Iraq, though its ground troops were withdrawn this July after two and a half year's humanitarian-support operation.
The Iraq War cannot be a war of nobody else's but America's only.
If Americans think so, the outcome will someday prove that it is not so.
Even if the President of the U.S. thinks so, the outcome will someday prove that it is not so.
"LIKE A BUSH IN THE DESERT"
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Mr. Rumsfeld Leaving DOD
Mr. Rumsfeld Leaving DOD
The US Defense Secretary, Mr. Donald H. Rumsfeld, resigned.
According to the New York Times, he said: "It’s been three decades since I left the Pentagon at the end of my first tour . . . Our country was then engaged in a long struggle — the Cold War, a conflict that seemed costly, and it was. It seemed unlimited in duration, and it was, and seemed unclear in its course and its outcome, which was the case . . ."
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/washington/08cnd-rumsfeld.html?hp&ex=1165640400&en=7bd6fbc98cd1e581&ei=5094&partner=homepage)
According to the Washington Post, he said: "I wish I could say that everything we've done here has gone perfectly, but that's not how life works, regrettably. When thousands of people make dozens of difficult decisions on hundreds of pressing issues, for the most part matters that are new and unfamiliar, where there's no road map, no guidebook . . . the hope has to be not perfection but that most decisions, with the perspective of time, will turn out to be the right ones. . . ."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120800842.html)
First, I have to say that the more you are given, the more you are requested to do.
Mr. Rumsfeld was given a chance twice to lead the DOD, which is more than anyone else's assignment.
Secondly, the Cold War should have been under control so that the bottom line in the worst case was clearly defined.
And it should have been avoidance of all-out atomic warfare at any costs. The U.S. should have announced that there should be no all-out atomic warfare because the U.S. truly wanted to avoid it. Then, the direction is clear, the course is straight, and the challenges can be well defined which are to overwhelm the Soviet Union by any other constructive means their nukes could not compete with and the world would give overwhelming credit to.
Lastly, the Secretary of Defense should not gamble lives of the people and assets of the nation on a war which cannot be fully defined as a holy one.
After the Cold War, had belief and faith of American people been further sublimed as should be specially noted in history?
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The issue is that while America was being engaged in economic warfare against Japan mostly in early 1990's, the DOD could not foresee its imminent role as a force to secure safe, harmonized, and democratic global markets for new entrants.
While Japan had been helping China modernize itself through huge amounts of economic aids in 1980's and 1990's, the U.S. stopped its support to Iraq and got indifferent with development of democracy in the Middle East.
No one is now afraid of nukes China actually has; but so many got afraid of nukes Iraq and terrorist groups from Saudi Arabia did not have.
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Jesus Christ told not to accuse anybody.
In one of pictures posted by the Washington Post for Mr. Rumsfeld, he sat by Ms. Condoleezza Rice. Observing it, I wondered which will be the first to consult God for a need of apology.
They have been in the fourth and sixth position to act as the President in case, respectively.
And fortunately, Mr. Rumsfeld has not since the age of the Cold War.
"ALL THE SILVER AND GOLD OF THE WORLD IS MINE"
The US Defense Secretary, Mr. Donald H. Rumsfeld, resigned.
According to the New York Times, he said: "It’s been three decades since I left the Pentagon at the end of my first tour . . . Our country was then engaged in a long struggle — the Cold War, a conflict that seemed costly, and it was. It seemed unlimited in duration, and it was, and seemed unclear in its course and its outcome, which was the case . . ."
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/washington/08cnd-rumsfeld.html?hp&ex=1165640400&en=7bd6fbc98cd1e581&ei=5094&partner=homepage)
According to the Washington Post, he said: "I wish I could say that everything we've done here has gone perfectly, but that's not how life works, regrettably. When thousands of people make dozens of difficult decisions on hundreds of pressing issues, for the most part matters that are new and unfamiliar, where there's no road map, no guidebook . . . the hope has to be not perfection but that most decisions, with the perspective of time, will turn out to be the right ones. . . ."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120800842.html)
First, I have to say that the more you are given, the more you are requested to do.
Mr. Rumsfeld was given a chance twice to lead the DOD, which is more than anyone else's assignment.
Secondly, the Cold War should have been under control so that the bottom line in the worst case was clearly defined.
And it should have been avoidance of all-out atomic warfare at any costs. The U.S. should have announced that there should be no all-out atomic warfare because the U.S. truly wanted to avoid it. Then, the direction is clear, the course is straight, and the challenges can be well defined which are to overwhelm the Soviet Union by any other constructive means their nukes could not compete with and the world would give overwhelming credit to.
Lastly, the Secretary of Defense should not gamble lives of the people and assets of the nation on a war which cannot be fully defined as a holy one.
After the Cold War, had belief and faith of American people been further sublimed as should be specially noted in history?
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The issue is that while America was being engaged in economic warfare against Japan mostly in early 1990's, the DOD could not foresee its imminent role as a force to secure safe, harmonized, and democratic global markets for new entrants.
While Japan had been helping China modernize itself through huge amounts of economic aids in 1980's and 1990's, the U.S. stopped its support to Iraq and got indifferent with development of democracy in the Middle East.
No one is now afraid of nukes China actually has; but so many got afraid of nukes Iraq and terrorist groups from Saudi Arabia did not have.
+ + +
Jesus Christ told not to accuse anybody.
In one of pictures posted by the Washington Post for Mr. Rumsfeld, he sat by Ms. Condoleezza Rice. Observing it, I wondered which will be the first to consult God for a need of apology.
They have been in the fourth and sixth position to act as the President in case, respectively.
And fortunately, Mr. Rumsfeld has not since the age of the Cold War.
"ALL THE SILVER AND GOLD OF THE WORLD IS MINE"
Friday, December 08, 2006
Truth of War on Terror in Oil Rich Countries and the U.S.
Truth of War on Terror in Oil Rich Countries and the U.S.
It is said that Saudi Arabia earned about US$154 billion from oil production in 2005 and is expected to earn US$160 billion in 2006.
Iraq reportedly earned US$23.4 billion in 2005 and is expected to earn US$35 billion, though the country has US$60 billion of foreign liabilities and needs to invest about US$7 billion into reconstruction of its oil facilities and power plants.
When the U.S. military presence is over and all of its troops are withdrawn, will Iraqi people get united to boost their oil production and business to the level of Saudi Arabia, though their ratio is currently almost one to five?
With a friendly and peaceful alliance between oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Iraq, will terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda be eradicated?
Isn't it the minimum objective of the War on Iraq, if the U.S. cannot make a friend of Iraq?
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Including a forecast of expenses of the Wan on Terror in FY2007, the U.S. has reportedly spent almost 600 billion dollars for this war in these years.
The total amount of annual government expenditure of the U.S. is 2,568 billion dollars in FY2006 with 427 billion dollars deficits in 2005.
Therefore the U.S. spends 5% of its expenditure budget per year for its first war in the 21st century, which also exerts a serious influence on its deficits.
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Without mentioning human casualties, it looks like a big waste of resources.
If you are the President of the USA, would you also like to show your guts by spending almost the same amount of money every year to a war as Saudi Arabia earns yearly from oil?
God might give dollars to the U.S. just like Allah gives oil to Muslims.
If so, you should not use dollars for a war against Muslims at least in theory.
"WHOEVER MAKES HIMSELF GREAT WILL BE HUMBLED"
It is said that Saudi Arabia earned about US$154 billion from oil production in 2005 and is expected to earn US$160 billion in 2006.
Iraq reportedly earned US$23.4 billion in 2005 and is expected to earn US$35 billion, though the country has US$60 billion of foreign liabilities and needs to invest about US$7 billion into reconstruction of its oil facilities and power plants.
When the U.S. military presence is over and all of its troops are withdrawn, will Iraqi people get united to boost their oil production and business to the level of Saudi Arabia, though their ratio is currently almost one to five?
With a friendly and peaceful alliance between oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Iraq, will terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda be eradicated?
Isn't it the minimum objective of the War on Iraq, if the U.S. cannot make a friend of Iraq?
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Including a forecast of expenses of the Wan on Terror in FY2007, the U.S. has reportedly spent almost 600 billion dollars for this war in these years.
The total amount of annual government expenditure of the U.S. is 2,568 billion dollars in FY2006 with 427 billion dollars deficits in 2005.
Therefore the U.S. spends 5% of its expenditure budget per year for its first war in the 21st century, which also exerts a serious influence on its deficits.
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Without mentioning human casualties, it looks like a big waste of resources.
If you are the President of the USA, would you also like to show your guts by spending almost the same amount of money every year to a war as Saudi Arabia earns yearly from oil?
God might give dollars to the U.S. just like Allah gives oil to Muslims.
If so, you should not use dollars for a war against Muslims at least in theory.
"WHOEVER MAKES HIMSELF GREAT WILL BE HUMBLED"
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
No.1 Best Seller in Japan in 2006
No.1 Best Seller in Japan in 2006
The Japanese version of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J. K. Rowling is ranked the second.
The No.1 best seller in Japan in 2006 is reportedly "Kokka-no-Hinkaku" by Masahiko Fujiwara.
The direct replacing of "Kokka-no-Hinkaku" by word by word is "Nation-of-Dignity"; however with the word order changed, it is "Dignity of the Nation."
The author, a mathematician and essayist, extends his thought about how Japan has become so tainted by greed.
When you judge other persons just depending on how much money they have, you will be regarded as a worshipper of Mammon.
If you are surrounded by people of other origins in terms of race, nationality, culture, and language, judging others with the sole criterion of money may be excused in a certain situation; however, traditionally it was not the case in Japan.
Nonetheless, this tradition has been eroded in the Japanese society, probably, due to globalization of economy.
The author of "Dignity of the Nation" claimed that Japanese should preserve respect for human value which is essentially opposite to love of money.
And, more than two million people who have bought his book are thinking about his idea, pro and con, results of which might improve the society at least to whatever small extent.
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Jesus Christ's followers 2000 years ago must have mostly consisted of those who could not read and write.
The less we read, the closer we get to the original followers.
You had better recall and think about parables Jesus Christ said to His followers as many times as possible.
The best I can do is to report any holy signs God has given.
"ANY ONE WHO KEEPS LOOKING BACK IS OF NO USE"
The Japanese version of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J. K. Rowling is ranked the second.
The No.1 best seller in Japan in 2006 is reportedly "Kokka-no-Hinkaku" by Masahiko Fujiwara.
The direct replacing of "Kokka-no-Hinkaku" by word by word is "Nation-of-Dignity"; however with the word order changed, it is "Dignity of the Nation."
The author, a mathematician and essayist, extends his thought about how Japan has become so tainted by greed.
When you judge other persons just depending on how much money they have, you will be regarded as a worshipper of Mammon.
If you are surrounded by people of other origins in terms of race, nationality, culture, and language, judging others with the sole criterion of money may be excused in a certain situation; however, traditionally it was not the case in Japan.
Nonetheless, this tradition has been eroded in the Japanese society, probably, due to globalization of economy.
The author of "Dignity of the Nation" claimed that Japanese should preserve respect for human value which is essentially opposite to love of money.
And, more than two million people who have bought his book are thinking about his idea, pro and con, results of which might improve the society at least to whatever small extent.
+ + +
Jesus Christ's followers 2000 years ago must have mostly consisted of those who could not read and write.
The less we read, the closer we get to the original followers.
You had better recall and think about parables Jesus Christ said to His followers as many times as possible.
The best I can do is to report any holy signs God has given.
"ANY ONE WHO KEEPS LOOKING BACK IS OF NO USE"
Monday, December 04, 2006
A Note on Tonight's Moon
A Note on Tonight's Moon
Tonight the moon was super bright.
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The rate of a corporation tax in Japan is about 40% while it is about 30% in other advanced countries.
Financial circles in Japan are requesting the Government to lower the rate to 30% or so.
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God gives us a sign in the sky sometimes even to remind us of any remote but important thing.
If you see it, you would feel reassured about yourself.
People might look up at the moon in New Orleans, Bamiyan, and Baghdad.
It must look more splendorous.
"COURAGE! IT IS I"
Tonight the moon was super bright.
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The rate of a corporation tax in Japan is about 40% while it is about 30% in other advanced countries.
Financial circles in Japan are requesting the Government to lower the rate to 30% or so.
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God gives us a sign in the sky sometimes even to remind us of any remote but important thing.
If you see it, you would feel reassured about yourself.
People might look up at the moon in New Orleans, Bamiyan, and Baghdad.
It must look more splendorous.
"COURAGE! IT IS I"
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Assassinations New and Old; Defense Organ Old and New
Assassinations New and Old; Defense Organ Old and New
Mr. Larry King was interviewing a person who had been also shot at his stomach on June 5, 1968 when Robert Kennedy was shot.
The Kennedys are well known in Japan. The movie "Bobby" might be welcomed as "JFK" was more than a decade ago.
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Whenever I recall the assassinations that haunted the Kennedys, I feel danger still somehow hidden in the U.S. Government and U.S. politics.
If then U.S. Government had investigated the cases in earnest, we should have been reported more reasonable explanations and findings to.
But, it seems that then U.S. Government had been reluctant to investigate the cases with precision of science and enthusiasm of patriots.
Then U.S. Government had ability, power, and resources to grasp a whole scheme of those assassinations and present truth to the people; however, they didn't, or at least they looked as if they hadn't.
A simple speculation is that there is possibility that a higher part of then U.S. Government and a stronger group of politicians were involved in the cases.
But, more alarming is a fact that U.S. citizens didn't or wouldn't, or otherwise couldn't, force their Government to provide them explanations and findings fully reasonable and scientific on the cases.
As time went by, we however saw the U.S. Government and its people severely suffering from the Viet Nam War, though they could manage to send men to the moon.
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An ex-Russian officer was so tragically assassinated in London recently with radioactive polonium. It is likely that somebody put the chemical substance into a cup of Japanese tea in a certain sushi restaurant. It is a kind of must that sushi is served with Japanese green tea.
There are some Japanese who are arguing that CIA must be a true culprit. The Russian Government should not be such a fool as would be so easily suspected and identified. It must be CIA, since the U.S. Government has full records of assassinations overseas in the past.
Of course, these Japanese are, in most cases, young minority well educated and inclined toward leftist thinking and sometimes supporters of the Japanese Communist Party or Social Democratic Party.
I suppose that CIA might have a clue for solving this criminal case related to a nation with various types of gangsters being engaged in various secret, political and economic maneuvers since the fall of the communist regime of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Japan has the Defense Agency, but soon will have the Ministry of Defense, as a law to grade up the Agency to the Ministry, which is authorized to have more effective administrative power, was passed by Japan's House of Representatives recently.
I hope that there will be no needs for Japan to establish its own Central Intelligence Agency for whatever reasons or on whatever purpose.
"WHO WILL ROLL AWAY THE STONE"
Mr. Larry King was interviewing a person who had been also shot at his stomach on June 5, 1968 when Robert Kennedy was shot.
The Kennedys are well known in Japan. The movie "Bobby" might be welcomed as "JFK" was more than a decade ago.
+ + +
Whenever I recall the assassinations that haunted the Kennedys, I feel danger still somehow hidden in the U.S. Government and U.S. politics.
If then U.S. Government had investigated the cases in earnest, we should have been reported more reasonable explanations and findings to.
But, it seems that then U.S. Government had been reluctant to investigate the cases with precision of science and enthusiasm of patriots.
Then U.S. Government had ability, power, and resources to grasp a whole scheme of those assassinations and present truth to the people; however, they didn't, or at least they looked as if they hadn't.
A simple speculation is that there is possibility that a higher part of then U.S. Government and a stronger group of politicians were involved in the cases.
But, more alarming is a fact that U.S. citizens didn't or wouldn't, or otherwise couldn't, force their Government to provide them explanations and findings fully reasonable and scientific on the cases.
As time went by, we however saw the U.S. Government and its people severely suffering from the Viet Nam War, though they could manage to send men to the moon.
+ + +
An ex-Russian officer was so tragically assassinated in London recently with radioactive polonium. It is likely that somebody put the chemical substance into a cup of Japanese tea in a certain sushi restaurant. It is a kind of must that sushi is served with Japanese green tea.
There are some Japanese who are arguing that CIA must be a true culprit. The Russian Government should not be such a fool as would be so easily suspected and identified. It must be CIA, since the U.S. Government has full records of assassinations overseas in the past.
Of course, these Japanese are, in most cases, young minority well educated and inclined toward leftist thinking and sometimes supporters of the Japanese Communist Party or Social Democratic Party.
I suppose that CIA might have a clue for solving this criminal case related to a nation with various types of gangsters being engaged in various secret, political and economic maneuvers since the fall of the communist regime of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Japan has the Defense Agency, but soon will have the Ministry of Defense, as a law to grade up the Agency to the Ministry, which is authorized to have more effective administrative power, was passed by Japan's House of Representatives recently.
I hope that there will be no needs for Japan to establish its own Central Intelligence Agency for whatever reasons or on whatever purpose.
"WHO WILL ROLL AWAY THE STONE"
Saturday, December 02, 2006
ALL AMERICANS: Super Rich, Professional, Poor, and Outcast
ALL AMERICANS: Super Rich, Professional, Poor, and Outcast
A Japanese woman who has worked in New York and the Silicon Valley as the first Japanese female economist for 26 years wrote a Japanese book titled "Reality of America, the Super Disparity Society."
The author, Yumi Kobayashi, categorized Americans into four groups: the super rich, the professional, the poor, and outcasts.
Readers of the book, of course mostly Japanese in Japan, largely praise its contents. Especially, as the author defined herself as one of lower professionals, her viewpoint seems to be well welcomed by readers.
First of all, God forbids man to stay rich.
Therefore, being super rich is a sin.
I have nothing to say to them. You wait for God's judgment.
The question is whether professionals love the poor and outcasts as God wishes.
I suppose it will decide the future course of the U.S.
On this earth, there are only two types of people: those who are afraid of being rich and those who are not.
In other words, those who know in any form of recognition that God forbids man to become rich and those who do not mind such an idea.
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However, I am not in a position to decide any particular person to be super rich, professional, poor, or outcast.
"WILL BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP GOD"
A Japanese woman who has worked in New York and the Silicon Valley as the first Japanese female economist for 26 years wrote a Japanese book titled "Reality of America, the Super Disparity Society."
The author, Yumi Kobayashi, categorized Americans into four groups: the super rich, the professional, the poor, and outcasts.
Readers of the book, of course mostly Japanese in Japan, largely praise its contents. Especially, as the author defined herself as one of lower professionals, her viewpoint seems to be well welcomed by readers.
First of all, God forbids man to stay rich.
Therefore, being super rich is a sin.
I have nothing to say to them. You wait for God's judgment.
The question is whether professionals love the poor and outcasts as God wishes.
I suppose it will decide the future course of the U.S.
On this earth, there are only two types of people: those who are afraid of being rich and those who are not.
In other words, those who know in any form of recognition that God forbids man to become rich and those who do not mind such an idea.
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However, I am not in a position to decide any particular person to be super rich, professional, poor, or outcast.
"WILL BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP GOD"
Thursday, November 30, 2006
"THE BOOK OF TEA" and My Practice
"THE BOOK OF TEA" and My Practice
In 1906, "THE BOOK OF TEA" by Okakura-Kakuzo was published from Fox Duffield & Company in New York.
The author, generally known as Tenshin Okakura, wrote about the way of tea, one of unique cultural assets of Japan.
Probably due to the influence the book bore in the United States, even Americans today have some knowledge about wabi (taste for the simple and quiet) and sabi (elegant simplicity) both of which are concept deeply rooted in the traditional Japanese culture and are embodied in a tea ceremony.
He wrote: "Why not destroy flowers if thereby we can evolve new forms ennobling the world idea? We only ask them to join in our sacrifice to the beautiful. We shall atone for the deed by consecrating ourselves to Purity and Simplicity. Thus reasoned the tea-masters when they established the Cult of Flowers."
In a small room where a Japanese tea ceremony is conducted, you will surely find a humble decoration of plants.
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Buddha is said to have said that you could go into flower gardens but must pass through them without picking any of plants and flowers.
The beautiful is not in the nature or living things but in the spiritual universe which sometimes project its elements and members onto the nature.
You are not allowed to kill life of a flower.
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Decorate a room with flowers may be an art, but walk through a flower garden without picking a flower may be a religious practice.
And practically, drinking Japanese green tea is good for a human heart medically.
I take it everyday intentionally. If you like, please try it.
"THEY HEAR THE MESSAGE"
In 1906, "THE BOOK OF TEA" by Okakura-Kakuzo was published from Fox Duffield & Company in New York.
The author, generally known as Tenshin Okakura, wrote about the way of tea, one of unique cultural assets of Japan.
Probably due to the influence the book bore in the United States, even Americans today have some knowledge about wabi (taste for the simple and quiet) and sabi (elegant simplicity) both of which are concept deeply rooted in the traditional Japanese culture and are embodied in a tea ceremony.
He wrote: "Why not destroy flowers if thereby we can evolve new forms ennobling the world idea? We only ask them to join in our sacrifice to the beautiful. We shall atone for the deed by consecrating ourselves to Purity and Simplicity. Thus reasoned the tea-masters when they established the Cult of Flowers."
In a small room where a Japanese tea ceremony is conducted, you will surely find a humble decoration of plants.
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Buddha is said to have said that you could go into flower gardens but must pass through them without picking any of plants and flowers.
The beautiful is not in the nature or living things but in the spiritual universe which sometimes project its elements and members onto the nature.
You are not allowed to kill life of a flower.
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Decorate a room with flowers may be an art, but walk through a flower garden without picking a flower may be a religious practice.
And practically, drinking Japanese green tea is good for a human heart medically.
I take it everyday intentionally. If you like, please try it.
"THEY HEAR THE MESSAGE"
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
"Hillary and Rice"
"Hillary and Rice"
There is a Japanese book titled "Hillary and Rice" written by a Japanese female essayist named Yukiko Kishimoto.
I suppose we had better focus on descriptions about Ms. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the U.S., especially in this age of the War on Terror.
The essayist mentioned two Japanese men who had met with or saw her, separately in many academic occasions, when Ms. Rice was in her 30's.
The two Japanese men described alike Ms. Rice as a Venus or a truly rare beauty.
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In ancient China, it is said that there were Four (or Five) Beauties who were extremely beautiful and prominent.
Among them, about a woman called Diaochan (Chou-sen in Japanese), whose life was not recorded in any historic documents but believed to have existed, it is said that she was so beautiful that the moon hid herself in nearby clouds when she was praying under the moon for peace of the Han Dynasty her father was serving.
She has been thus called a Beauty Making the Moon Hide.
(In East Asia, everybody thinks that the moon is beautiful.)
There is also another related expression created in ancient China but still known in Japan: a Beauty Making Fish Drawn, Goose Fall, and Flowers Shamed.
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The beauty Diaochan was used successfully by her father to drive a fatal wedge between two powerful warriors who were both enemies of Han.
This episode became a prologue of a long historical story based on civil wars in China in the 2nd and the 3rd century.
Japanese seem to love the story called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" more than contemporary Chinese do.
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The female essayist who wrote the book "Hillary and Rice" was interested in the remarks of those Japanese men about Ms. Rice.
The actual expression they used is "Zessei-no-Bijyo," which literally means a beauty that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
If two decent Japanese men testified that a certain foreign girl was a truly rare beauty, I think she must be.
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What I hope is that Ms. Rice is actually a very different type of ladies from the ancient legendary beauty Diaochan.
Anyway, God's teaching to me has nothing to do with a beauty except such one as "Do not believe what you see but what you feel."
I feel that she would not let others feel the way she does not like, which I would rather respect.
"TAKEN OUT OLD THINGS AND NEW THINGS"
There is a Japanese book titled "Hillary and Rice" written by a Japanese female essayist named Yukiko Kishimoto.
I suppose we had better focus on descriptions about Ms. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the U.S., especially in this age of the War on Terror.
The essayist mentioned two Japanese men who had met with or saw her, separately in many academic occasions, when Ms. Rice was in her 30's.
The two Japanese men described alike Ms. Rice as a Venus or a truly rare beauty.
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In ancient China, it is said that there were Four (or Five) Beauties who were extremely beautiful and prominent.
Among them, about a woman called Diaochan (Chou-sen in Japanese), whose life was not recorded in any historic documents but believed to have existed, it is said that she was so beautiful that the moon hid herself in nearby clouds when she was praying under the moon for peace of the Han Dynasty her father was serving.
She has been thus called a Beauty Making the Moon Hide.
(In East Asia, everybody thinks that the moon is beautiful.)
There is also another related expression created in ancient China but still known in Japan: a Beauty Making Fish Drawn, Goose Fall, and Flowers Shamed.
+ + +
The beauty Diaochan was used successfully by her father to drive a fatal wedge between two powerful warriors who were both enemies of Han.
This episode became a prologue of a long historical story based on civil wars in China in the 2nd and the 3rd century.
Japanese seem to love the story called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" more than contemporary Chinese do.
+ + +
The female essayist who wrote the book "Hillary and Rice" was interested in the remarks of those Japanese men about Ms. Rice.
The actual expression they used is "Zessei-no-Bijyo," which literally means a beauty that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
If two decent Japanese men testified that a certain foreign girl was a truly rare beauty, I think she must be.
+ + +
What I hope is that Ms. Rice is actually a very different type of ladies from the ancient legendary beauty Diaochan.
Anyway, God's teaching to me has nothing to do with a beauty except such one as "Do not believe what you see but what you feel."
I feel that she would not let others feel the way she does not like, which I would rather respect.
"TAKEN OUT OLD THINGS AND NEW THINGS"
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Japanese Spacecraft Peering into the Sun So Nearly
Japanese Spacecraft Peering into the Sun So Nearly
The surface of the sun emitting several jet streams of energy was for the first time so clearly presented in pictures released yesterday.
(Especially at p.14 of http://hinode.nao.ac.jp/news_e/20061127_press_e/sot_press_en.pdf)
The pictures were taken from a Japanese spacecraft called Hinode using its solar optical telescope.
Hinode also took some pictures of Mercury this month with the sun as its background.
(http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/solar-b/index.html)
This project called Solar-B is being promoted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.
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The width of a bundle of energy jet streams on the sun is almost equal to the diameter of the earth. We can really feel something enormous but also so real therein.
Mercury with a diameter a little larger than one-third of the earth's cannot be observed easily from the earth and a real picture showing its shape, of course being round, is also rare.
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In Japanese, we call Mercury "Sui-sei" meaning the star of water.
We call Venus "Kin-sei" meaning the star of gold.
We call the Earth "Chi-kyu" meaning the ground globe.
We call Mars "Ka-sei" meaning the star of fire.
We call Saturn "Do-sei" meaning the star of soil.
We call Jupiter "Moku-sei" meaning the star of trees.
We call Uranus "Tennou-sei" meaning the star of the Heaven King.
We call Neptune "Kaiou-sei" meaning the star of the Sea King.
We call Pluto "Meiou-sei" meaning the star of the Underworld King.
The sun is called "Tai-you" meaning the great brightness, though there are some other synonyms.
The moon is "Tsuki" meaning the moon.
A star is "Hoshi" meaning a star, the Kanji letter of which can be also pronounced as "Sei" in certain contexts.
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Though the sun, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium, is not a gigantic inerratic star, this kind of stars with a larger volume could generate internally various types of atoms, including oxygen.
The combination of hydrogen and oxygen is water.
The origin of water on the earth is traced back to another larger sun which once existed prior to the current sun.
That kind of gigantic, hot, and burning globe is the source of water which makes us live in combination with light and heat.
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Jesus Christ really said, "Do not judge a person by his outlook but by his mind."
A mind that can give you water, light, and heat may be, however, being carried by a person with a forbidding aspect.
"HEALED THOSE WHO NEEDED IT"
The surface of the sun emitting several jet streams of energy was for the first time so clearly presented in pictures released yesterday.
(Especially at p.14 of http://hinode.nao.ac.jp/news_e/20061127_press_e/sot_press_en.pdf)
The pictures were taken from a Japanese spacecraft called Hinode using its solar optical telescope.
Hinode also took some pictures of Mercury this month with the sun as its background.
(http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/solar-b/index.html)
This project called Solar-B is being promoted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.
+ + +
The width of a bundle of energy jet streams on the sun is almost equal to the diameter of the earth. We can really feel something enormous but also so real therein.
Mercury with a diameter a little larger than one-third of the earth's cannot be observed easily from the earth and a real picture showing its shape, of course being round, is also rare.
+ + +
In Japanese, we call Mercury "Sui-sei" meaning the star of water.
We call Venus "Kin-sei" meaning the star of gold.
We call the Earth "Chi-kyu" meaning the ground globe.
We call Mars "Ka-sei" meaning the star of fire.
We call Saturn "Do-sei" meaning the star of soil.
We call Jupiter "Moku-sei" meaning the star of trees.
We call Uranus "Tennou-sei" meaning the star of the Heaven King.
We call Neptune "Kaiou-sei" meaning the star of the Sea King.
We call Pluto "Meiou-sei" meaning the star of the Underworld King.
The sun is called "Tai-you" meaning the great brightness, though there are some other synonyms.
The moon is "Tsuki" meaning the moon.
A star is "Hoshi" meaning a star, the Kanji letter of which can be also pronounced as "Sei" in certain contexts.
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Though the sun, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium, is not a gigantic inerratic star, this kind of stars with a larger volume could generate internally various types of atoms, including oxygen.
The combination of hydrogen and oxygen is water.
The origin of water on the earth is traced back to another larger sun which once existed prior to the current sun.
That kind of gigantic, hot, and burning globe is the source of water which makes us live in combination with light and heat.
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Jesus Christ really said, "Do not judge a person by his outlook but by his mind."
A mind that can give you water, light, and heat may be, however, being carried by a person with a forbidding aspect.
"HEALED THOSE WHO NEEDED IT"
Saturday, November 25, 2006
F15, F22, and F2 Fighters
F15, F22, and F2 Fighters
When I was running back home, I was passed by a vehicle with the license number "777" while others with "3003," "9990," etc. were coming and going at their own speed, which was not an unusual situation, though.
I was not flying high like an F15 or F22 jet fighter.
Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has 200 F15s, each of which was purchased from a certain U.S. company at a price roughly between US$ 80 million and 100 million, though the U.S. Air force could purchase an F15 at US$ 40 million.
It is said the Japanese Government pays twice more than the U.S. Government does for an F15.
It means, with the same budget, Japan could hold 400 F15s now.
In the case of an F22, it is said Japan will have to pay US$ 130 million.
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As the U.S. aerospace industry sells goods worth 180 billion dollars per year nowadays, Japan's defense budget for F15s account for one percent of the yearly sales if we assume that Japan's 200 F15s were purchased in ten fiscal years.
Japan also buys other items from various U.S. aerospace products makers.
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Japan has developed its own fighter jet plane which is called F2 and can fly at the maximum speed of Mach 2.0 and has a flying range of 4,000Km (2,500 miles).
However, as Japanese laws prohibit exporting weapons to other countries, the price of F2, including its development costs, is fairly high, US$ 100 million each.
The Japanese Government has decided to purchase only about 100 F2s from a certain Japanese maker.
During WWII, Imperial Japan had produced 10,000 "Zero" fighters.
Now peace-loving Japan is to be equipped with the national fighters in an amount of one-hundredth of the total production number of the legendary "Zero" fighters.
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Flying a jet fighter plane may be cool, but if you don't understand process of creation of modern wealth, for example, in a factory or at a construction site, you may lack something in your intellect that is very critical for anyone allowed to be engaged in an operation for destroying enemy's modern wealth in the form of a factory or a building.
Yes, life is once, but eternity can be in any moment in a life if God allows, as you should really feel high in the air above sonic boom.
"EVERYTHING AHEAD OF TIME"
When I was running back home, I was passed by a vehicle with the license number "777" while others with "3003," "9990," etc. were coming and going at their own speed, which was not an unusual situation, though.
I was not flying high like an F15 or F22 jet fighter.
Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has 200 F15s, each of which was purchased from a certain U.S. company at a price roughly between US$ 80 million and 100 million, though the U.S. Air force could purchase an F15 at US$ 40 million.
It is said the Japanese Government pays twice more than the U.S. Government does for an F15.
It means, with the same budget, Japan could hold 400 F15s now.
In the case of an F22, it is said Japan will have to pay US$ 130 million.
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As the U.S. aerospace industry sells goods worth 180 billion dollars per year nowadays, Japan's defense budget for F15s account for one percent of the yearly sales if we assume that Japan's 200 F15s were purchased in ten fiscal years.
Japan also buys other items from various U.S. aerospace products makers.
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Japan has developed its own fighter jet plane which is called F2 and can fly at the maximum speed of Mach 2.0 and has a flying range of 4,000Km (2,500 miles).
However, as Japanese laws prohibit exporting weapons to other countries, the price of F2, including its development costs, is fairly high, US$ 100 million each.
The Japanese Government has decided to purchase only about 100 F2s from a certain Japanese maker.
During WWII, Imperial Japan had produced 10,000 "Zero" fighters.
Now peace-loving Japan is to be equipped with the national fighters in an amount of one-hundredth of the total production number of the legendary "Zero" fighters.
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Flying a jet fighter plane may be cool, but if you don't understand process of creation of modern wealth, for example, in a factory or at a construction site, you may lack something in your intellect that is very critical for anyone allowed to be engaged in an operation for destroying enemy's modern wealth in the form of a factory or a building.
Yes, life is once, but eternity can be in any moment in a life if God allows, as you should really feel high in the air above sonic boom.
"EVERYTHING AHEAD OF TIME"