Last Night in the News
Last night, a Japanese news program focused on Mr. Barack Obama.
A host of the program said that there were already some US movies featuring an African American US President. "As a movie is said to show a future course of the society, the U.S. may have an African American President some time soon."
The program showed a welcome Mr. Obama had received in Kenya and Chicago as well as pictures of his European American mother.
However, they seemed to be more anxious that the US Vice-President now visiting Japan might not be so nice to Japan, as the Japanese Prime Minister recently saw a movie, related to environment, involving Mr. Al Gore, and the Japanese Defense Minister had said something against the US War in Iraq.
One big issue, however, in the last-night news show in Japan is a Japanese whale hunting boat for scientific research under attacks by ships being operated by an international anti-whaling group and an environment protection group.
Members of the group threw flares into the Japanese whale hunting boat for scientific research in the Antarctic Ocean. And, though causal association is not clear, the Japanese ship was later damaged by mysterious fire.
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We hope that a future US President will have a deep insight in environment, security, and the Japanese whaling culture.
I think Japanese news programs will welcome such a new US President unconditionally.
(For the Presidential-race racial issue, it reminded me of "Ebony And Ivory" by Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder. A piano needs at least black keys and white keys, though they can be more colorful.
Do you also play the piano?)
"THE MIRACLE OF JONAH"