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Divine Comedy in 20071. AlQaeda
According to The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, there are 4,500 web sites on the Internet that are advertising AlQaeda-related thoughts and activities.
Also, according to an Egyptian authority concerned, AlQaeda is not an organization but an ideology; therefore it cannot be destroyed through exercise of military force on it. The ideology is based on antagonism against arrogance of Europeans and Americans; therefore it cannot be stopped through exercise of military force on it.
Generally speaking, the U.S. is at war against Muslims who have mistakenly, in the context of history, regarded the U.S. as their enemies; terrorists who have personally, in their daily lives and business, carried a grudge against Americans; and death merchants who have, irrespective of what is mistaken or personal, pursued their wealth in wars and conflicts in the world.
2. Suicide-Bomb Attacks
According to The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, the origin of suicide bomb attacks by radical Muslims is in the Iran-Iraq war.
"Although the Iran-Iraq war from 1980–1988 was a war for dominance of the Persian Gulf region, the roots of the war go back many centuries. There has been rivalry between kingdoms of Mesopotamia (the Tigris-Euphrates valley, modern Iraq) and the rugged highlands to the East (modern Persia or Iran) since the beginning of recorded history in Sumer" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_war).
The importance of your concern on the Sumerian Civilization is also confirmed here.
In a painful situation of the war against Iraq equipped with weapons and information provided by the USSR and the U.S., Iran dared mobilize children, mostly recruited from villages and indoctrinated with martyrdom, for breaking through mine fields. They first had children run through a mine field, and then on a safe path confirmed, regular soldiers and tanks followed so as to attack Iraqi troops. Those Iranian children without fear over acres of dead bodies of other boys rushed to Iraqi trenches and bases, which imprinted unforgettable fear on the minds of Iraqi soldiers.
US troops may cope with street battles in Iraq, but they would face something more horrible on streets in Iran, if the U.S. starts war against Iran, no matter if based on mistakes, personal grudges, or interests of death merchants. Nonetheless, it is absurd for Iran to invest so many resources to nuclear missile projects, since the age of crude oil is going to end around 2060 as marvellously having been predicted by Newton. You had better invest in other power generation technology.
(All I can do is maybe writing another "Divine Comedy" to receive a favor from the God who may mercifully postpone the end of the peace in the world just like He did in 1326 when Dante praised God so much, though a few years before, in writing The Divine Comedy [refer to the EEE Report of yesterday].)
3. Young Day-Employees in Japan
NHK, in "Close-Up Gendai [Present Day]" hosted by Ms. Hiroko Kuniya, recently reported on young day-employees in Japan.
In one case, a construction company paid 13,000 yen (108 dollars) for procuring a work force for one day through a recruit company.
However, a young man only got 5,700 yen (48 dollars); the rest was taken off the original pay by a recruit company as a fee, a charge, and referral premium.
Without war and social split between majority and minority, you have to face such old-fashioned evil in society. A large company exploits a small company which exploits a young man.
It is not a matter of ideology but a matter of patriotism. A nation without love to young and poor workers lacks love to its people in general.
Especially, Japan is a single race country; if you go back 2000 years, every family should be related. The old concept of "one-family country of Japan" should be respectfully reviewed.
4. Real "Cool Japan"
Even researchers in Harvard and MIT are involved in promotion of "Cool Japan" (e.g., http://web.mit.edu/condry/www/cooljapan/CJ07/).
However, it is often said that nowadays immoral Western businessmen are rampage in Japan, exploiting innocent Japanese girls under disguise of romance, especially in the financial sector and the media sector.
So, I would rather present some information on Japanese girls for non-Western "Cool Japan" fans.
According to a certain recent research project by Oricon (http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/), the order of popularity among female TV announcers in Japan is as follows:
No.1: Aya Takashima (Fuji TV)
No.2: Christel Takigawa (freelance)
No.3: Minako Nakano (Fuji TV)
Ms. Christel Takigawa, born in Paris, also nowadays exclusively works for Fuji TV.
However, the ranking only by female respondents is as follows:
No.1: Christel Takigawa (freelance)
No.2: Aya Takashima (Fuji TV)
No.3: Minako Nakano (Fuji TV)
Additionally, the ranking only by male respondents is as follows:
No.1: Aya Takashima (Fuji TV)
No.2: Maya Kobayashi (TBS)
No.3: Minako Nakano (Fuji TV)
There is some background needed to know so as to have more insight here.
Fuji TV was a few years ago targeted by Livedoor, a doubtful IT-related investment company, in their M&A operation. It sparked up huge social debates, since the way Livedoor pursued the M&A (supported by Lehman Brothers Japan) was against a kind of traditional business moral in Japan.
On the other hand, Fuji TV seems to have been too much inclined to providing entertainment or low shows for audience and thus become vulnerable in public and fighting spirit. But, now they look like trying to improve their social recognition by leveraging popular female announcers, which may turn out to be also a shaky strategy.
As for research results, Japanese women may be more advanced in their acceptance of personality in the media industry than ordinary men. Japanese male consumers have a sense of ease when seeing ordinary and amiable Japanese girls on TV rather than ones with foreign and intellectual flavor or a Miss Universe.
However, if the "Cool Japan" boom invites so many predators from the West, we will have to really kill the boom, which non-Western "Cool Japan" fans and Muslims should seriously take into account.
(As for "Cool West," Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris. Ms. Paris Hilton has become a scandalous focus in the West Coast. In the East Coast, the wife of JFK Jr. was killed in an airplane accident and Anna Nicole Smith died in a hotel.
All I wish is, in this context, emergence of good and pious girls who can really stop this deplorable chain of waste of lives, maybe, like Mrs. Reagan.)
"...One Man Plants; Another Man Reaps..."