Rice paddies, a village shrine in tress, thatched houses...
No Japanese can spare paying homage to this humble scene...
But, watch out, though not a B29 bomber evacuee in 1945!Can Americans Save the World?
(Les Américains peuvent-ils sauver le monde ?)
"A Future Time Line for Energy" in the following site is very interesting.
http://futurist.typepad.com/my_weblog/economics/index.html
Even if every rosy scenario comes true, the whole world can still face danger as there are more poor people than rich people.
The whole world may become another America of today eventually, if all the rosy scenarios come true in future.
Do pious African American citizens recommend it?
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Mr. Hiroshi Takeuchi,an ex-director of the former Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, may be a unique economist in Japan, since he thought about differences in mentality between Americans and major Asians, such as Japanese, Chinese, and Indians in the context of global economy.
( http://www.takeuchikeizai.jp/bestron/061114-best10.htm )
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Americans have been happy to be allowed to enjoy easy life for a long time, so easily relying on the vast land, abundant natural resources, and heritage of material civilization and religions transferred from Europe.
They have been free from persistent pains rooted in poverty, convention, and heavy obligation rampant in various traditional social systems grown up in complicated history in the Old Continent.
They think they are the cleverest people, since the U.S. is the richest and the strongest.
(British also thought so as they had so many colonies in the world.)
But, the truth is that they are rather simple people, since the U.S. has become the richest and the strongest without needs for them to be spiritually matured as they can so easily rely on the vast land, abundant natural resources, and heritage of material civilization and religions transferred from Europe, all of which have been indeed given without a need of becoming spiritually matured.
(Native Americans never respect spirituality of European Americans, as a proof and a testimony.)
But, the New Continent looks like a kind of Heaven for European Americans.
Many people living in the Old Continent are dreaming to go and permanently live in the U.S. so as to be free from persistent pains rooted in poverty, convention, and heavy obligation rampant in various traditional social systems grown up in complicated history in the Old Continent.
Indeed, in the U.S., you may be free, rich, and feeling cleverer than anybody in the world.
But, why are there so many homeless people and murderers in the U.S.?
And why cannot American make the world richer and safer?
Yet, why must the US economy rely on resources in other countries, including Chinese goods, Indian software, and Mexican manpower, to keep its higher living standard?
Are Americans truly cleverer than other peoples?
(Nowadays nobody thinks British are cleverer than other peoples.)
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However, my concern is not on national personality of the American people.
The issue is whether the U.S. with a huge potential financial-crisis can make soft landing or not in the near future.
The soft landing for the U.S. does not necessarily mean soft landing for other countries including Japan, China, and India.
Put simply, the U.S. looks like trying to be saved by sacrificing other countries including Japan, China, and India in addition to Mexico.
Americans could not prevent the 9/11 terror, but still think they are the cleverest in the world.
Even if Americans cannot prevent huge financial-crises in near future, they will still continue to think that they are the cleverest in the world.
(British still think they are the cleverest even after having lost colonies in the world and having lost Princess Diana.)
Thus, the worst scenario is that the U.S. tries to make soft landing by sacrificing other countries but eventually fails; yet the U.S. continues to think that they are the cleverest in the world...
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Now, you know that I do not hate New York at all. I think that the U.S. and New York should be loved more by the God.
Americans can be loved more if they save the world by generously offering American resources and sacrificing American living standards, since the New Continent had been prepared for this very reason by the God from the beginning of the human history.
Then there will be less homeless people and murderers in the U.S.
In that case, I may do some sightseeing in the U.S. and New York, spending some yen exchanged to dollars.
(Even if they live in America or France and they respect Japan, they cannot easily come and study valuable things in Japan.
Truly, for those who live in New York and Paris, Tokyo and Japan must be the land of dreams if they think they have to be truly clever and pious.
Oh, how much they will envy you, if you are truly loved by Japan and Tokyo!
"sore-dewa; sayou-nara; bye-bye (jyah mata-ne); 'bonjour'...??")
"...His name is God Almighty....Your builder made you like a beautiful ship..."