2,350,000 Japanese Language Learners and You
While Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Shinzo Abe (http://www3.s-abe.or.jp/) visited the U.S., and then Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, and other Islamic countries, Mr. Abe's former and still potential rival in the opposition party Mr. Katsuya Okada (http://www.katsuya.net/top.html) stayed in Japan but went and saw three movies in Tokyo.
Saudi Arabia is getting pessimistic about its future, while the U.S. is in earnest developing bio-fuels; global crude-oil reserves are expected to be depleted in 40 years; and Russia has become the top producer of fossil fuels, including crude oil and natural gas, in the world.
Indeed, Saudi Arabia's relationship with Japan may become more and more important, especially since Japan has the world most advanced energy-saving technology even China is desperately longing for.
On the other hand, Mr. Okada, the vice-president of the Democratic Party of Japan saw, in the half part of the holiday-studded week, the following films:
"NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM," a kind of US comic picture;
"NADYA'S VILLAGE," a 1997 documentary film, produced in Japan and Belarus and directed by a Japanese professional photographer, on a village damaged by the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986; and,
"TSOTSI," an Oscar-winning movie in 2006 based on humanitarian philosophy presenting a life of a young man in South Africa.
Nonetheless, if I were a film director, I will put all the three themes in one work with a hero running out of Chernobyl, fighting through New York, and settling down in South Africa, since there is a lot of worlds to see.
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It is estimated that 2.35 million people in the world are leaning the Japanese language. I hope that today's issue is well of service to those fans of Japaese and Japan.
If "one per 100,000" of such people has encountered this EEE Report, probably 24 Japanese-language learners in the world might be now duly informed of the newest doings of certain political leaders in Japan.
You may be really chosen ones by the God or Allah.
(Personally, I do not especially recommend foreigners to speak Japanese for certain reasons, though I am highly moved by their enthusiasm.
The probability "one per 100,000" is a critical ratio representing an unusual incident in Japan in my view. Beyond it, nothing may happen.
However, globally and historically, an incident of "one per 100 million" can happen at any time, if the God so wishes. It is what I am mostly concerned with nowadays without going abroad or out to a movie theater.)
"...I Will Make You as Firm as Rock, as Hard as Diamond..."