whether in love or not...Divine Comedy 2007 (IX)
[Comédie Divin 2007 - IX]
1. Okinawa Airport
It is a kind of miracle that a passenger jet plane got literally exploded after landing and evacuation of passengers.
It could have killed more than 150 air travelers. The Taiwan Government should review its organization and management of its air liner industry.
Taiwan air liner jet planes in this decade or so had accidents twice, except this one, each time killing about 200 lives.
However, this incident in the Naha Airport of Okinawa Pref. might be an omen to some people. For example, we may suppose that the God saved many lives due to a believer who started to be engaged in an important mission on the very day.
Is there any such one around you? I can see the one, so decent.
2. Exchange Rate
It is not a fall of stock prices that matters. Now, one dollar is traded at 114 yen. It is about 120 yen one week ago, which means some computer programs somewhere in the financial sector must be really put to the test.
Meanwhile China is going to be the second largest exporters in the world this year next to Germany.
Though main exporters in China are foreign companies, the dollar will face more complicated situation.
Japan and China should be also aware of their responsibility in stabilizing the framework of the world money market; we can even cooperate in making super international money exchange computer programs to cope with future large-scale speculation between the dollar and other currencies.
3. English Speaking Politicians
Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe is now on tour to Indonesia, Malaysia, and India.
When he returns home, he will make changes in his Cabinet.
The key figures in this last chance for reviving his fallen popularity are Foreign Minister Mr. Taro Aso and Defense Minister Ms. Yuriko Koike who has recently made big news in her initiative to replace her undersecretary despite various opponents in LDP and the Prime Minister's Office.
Interestingly, another key person, the current Chief Cabinet Secretary is facing a money scandal related to his local office. He has been often criticized that though he can speak English well, such ability never helps his domestic performance. Fluent English speakers have been neither liked nor respected traditionally in Japan, since they look like lacking traditional manners while making others envy their ability of English speaking.
(I don't also like to speak English to British or Americans who do not respect Japan and Japanese. Bad Americans do not respect foreigners who speak poor English. So, do not be a bad American, if you are an American, whose best pride is being an American who can speak English better than, say, a Mexican. Aren't there such Americans in international cities in the U.S., such as New York City?
Indeed, for a sight-seeing, you had better go to Mexico City. Even if you are to meet an American living in New York, the meeting should be scheduled to be held in Mexico City.
[The U.S., with the current account deficits of 900 billion dollars as of 2006, should pay back all the debts it owes to other countries, such as Japan and China, if it does not teach its people to respect Japanese and Chinese as well as Muslims and other Asians instead of making light of them.] http://www.vmi.co.jp/pdf/bv/bv14/bv14_11.pdf )
4. Cicada
I almost gave up taking a picture of a cicada as dusk was near.
I was thinking that how unlucky I was even for this humble wish to save my face in presenting a reasonable picture of this insect, since the picture of this insect I had last posted was so poor as I recalled it.
Then the God suddenly sent me this one just on a tree in front of me.
So, with gratitude for God, I took images of the cicada into my digital camera and soon left a park.
Does it look holy to your eye?
5. Ex-Super Model
A Japanese ex-supermodel died. Since early 1970's, she was active and famous in this business.
Even I could, though vaguely, recall her. She has really carried a sense of early 1970's in Japan. (But, what is a sense of the early 21st century in Japan now? You had better read EEE Reporter, good girls, if not to be super.)
Once she was chosen as one of the six most attractive models in the world.
Recently she was living alone, and her friend discovered her dead body in her residence in the middle of Tokyo, while so many ladies of her generation are living happily.
6. President of A Chinese Toy Company
According to a Sunday night's news show, the president of a Chinese company that had sold dangerous toys worldwide recently committed a suicide.
Chinese people concerned said that the president was a victim. His business partners who had sold paint for toys to his company are responsible, since the paint contained lead, the fact of which the president had never realized until the exposure of the incident in the U.S. as well as Japan.
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This is the situation observed in Japan on one hot day in the summer of 2007, while most of Japanese have come back from their summer holidays.
But, of course, there are many who cannot take happy summer holidays due to their duty official or personal, responsibility, obligation, tragedy, competition, human relationships, or simply poverty.
Indeed, where are the Summer Angels who should smile at those unhappy people in the hot, hot summer truly so hot?
(Seasonal tradition of Japan in the summer is going out to see a big firework show, mostly on a river bank, in a yukata (simple summer clothes) with a fan held on the hand, wearing wooden sandals called geta.
It, even as a festival, is not so material but very poetic in terms of vision, which Westerners probably cannot sense and feel....)
"...Then Jesus turned back to Canaan in Galilee where he turned the water into wine..."