(Die Stationen um Tokyo)Divine Comedy 2007 (XVII)
[Comédie Divin 2007 - XVII]
1. A Japanese Hero
In Myanmar, a notable Japanese photo-journalist was shot to death by one of soldiers suppressing peaceful demonstrators, including Buddhist monks, for democracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Nagai
His body was transferred to Japan for forensic investigation. His last moment in this world has been so many times televised in Japan: His body being shot jumped forward and landed down on his back on a street while holding his video camera with his right hand being raised up high.
It is indeed "Over My Dead Body" holding a video camera high toward a faraway dream.
His video report on Baghdad is also valuable for American citizens, too:
Fall of Baghdad:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=StUMEi5t0Jk
Thai Children with AIDS:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjWF6PtHrI
2. A Living National Treasure
In Paris, a few days ago, a lady officially recognized as a living national treasure of Japan died of a sudden disease.
It is Kirigane Artist Sayoko Eri whose gold works have been highly appraised in Japan and the world.
http://www.heian-bussho.com/eindex.html
As I recently read the book on the history of gold, silver, and copper of Japan, the news is rather prophetic.
http://www.7andy.jp/books/detail?accd=31923389
In the sixth century, Japanese craftsmen had a technique to produce a gold plate with a thickness of 15 micrometers with a width of 300 micrometers which is processed to a gold tube with a diameter of 150 micrometers.
In the early 16th century, the Iwami silver mine in western Japan, recently registered as the World Heritage, was discovered. The silver mine then produced one third of the world silver for a century or so.
In the early Edo period, namely, the 17th century, copper was one of major exported articles from Japan. Brass was also widely used in various products in the Edo period when other smithery techniques were also developed.
Even before Japan opened the door and started to introduce Western Civilization in the late 19th century, the country had enjoyed its own unique but fine material civilization based on gold, silver, and copper its national land produced.
3. An Innovative Technology
Recently Japanese researchers and engineers have developed a new Underwater Acoustic Radar system that can scan and detect underwater objects, such as a sunk ship and a swimming diver, and present them in real-time pictures showing a clear shape of each target.
The effective range of the detection is 300 meters (330 yards). It can show a picture,as if taken by a visual camera, of a fish swimming in water 100 meters far.
This is truly amazing technical innovation, but it now costs 250 million yen, including the acoustic radar and the imaging system.
http://news.goo.ne.jp/article/kyodo/nation/CO2007100401000699.html
4. This Weekend
The next Monday is a national holiday in Japan.
Most people will have three consecutive holidays through this Saturday to the next Monday.
If you have three days for any operation, you must focus on one single and specific day.
If you fail in the last day, you cannot compensate it any more. If you take a decisive action on the first day, it may be still premature.
So, you may like to estimate the situation on the first day, take a main action on the second day, and further strengthen or modify it on the third day, so that things will go smooth after this mission period.
What matters is that you should be content to be a hero or a heroine on one day even if you may be able to for all three days.
Teaching of Jesus Christ:
Mar 10:10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
Mar 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Mar 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
(Can you see any followers of Jesus Christ in the U.S.? If not, the WTC towers might fall....)