Earthquakes near The Sea of Japan
We enjoyed sports programs last Saturday in Japan.
Then, on Sunday morning, a big earthquake hit a prefecture, north of Tokyo, facing the Sea of Japan as even foreign media reported.
Though human casualties were minimal, it might have some significant implication.
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The present Japan's Prime Minister has actually belonged to a faction from which three prime ministers have consecutively appeared, Mr. Yoshiro Mori, Mr. Junichirou Koizumi, and Mr. Shinzo Abe, which is very rare in Japanese politics.
The big boss is former Prime Minister Mr. Mori who looks still most influential to the present regime. And, he is from the prefecture just hit by the earthquake on Sunday.
And, on Monday morning, an accident happened on a commuter railroad passing through the center of Tokyo, which forced thousands of commuters to get out of train cars and walk on a railroad to nearby stations, while much more commuters around the line were affected.
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These might look discrete and non-significant incidents or just haphazard; but it might give a certain warning to Japan.
Or it might mean that we have been lucky as these things happened in place of potentially more disastrous accidents, such as a Tokyo earthquake or an eruption of Mt. Fuji, which would heavily disrupt traffics and communications in Tokyo in a large scale.
Prime Minister Mr. Abe must feel something alarming (on his schedule to see the Chinese Prime Minister and the US President, or on his nationalistic comments).
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Or should I feel something alarming?
Are holy spirits giving me a warning against any of my behaviors?
I am the one living with awe in God, for I have seen so many miracles near and far.
Anyway, we had better be careful in enjoying a sports program while so many people are suffering all over the world, even at this moment, to the degree comparable with the tragedies during WWII.
(One earthquake that happened in October 2004 in another prefecture facing the Sea of Japan was the first issue I took up in this EEE-Report in May 2005.
If you live in a quake-free capital or megalopolis, such as New York, you are really lucky; accordingly, you may feel God's alarming in other way.)
"YOU ARE NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD"