(Noch lebendig im Herbst)Divine Comedy 2007 (XVIII)
[Comédie Divin 2007 - XVIII]
1. Mt. Fuji
This morning, for the first time in this season, the snow has fallen and stayed on the most upper part of Mt. Fuji. This confirmation of the first snow cap of Mt. Fuji is almost five days behind than in usual years.
As an example of Mt. Fuji's picture:
http://blog.sankouki.com/494.php/item/3284/
2. French Marrons (marrons français)
Last night NHK introduced a French village which had once economically declined due to lost competition power for a cork market, but have revived again due to abundant chestnut trees around the village near the Mediterranean or Marseilles.
The village owes its present prosperity to a female villager who had once studied geology in a university in a certain city but married and settled in the village, where her parents had a villa, to find that maroons abundant in nearby mountains could be specialty goods for the village.
The NHK showed the Marrons Festival of the village. Indeed, you should not throw away chestnuts if they look so commonplace, since they can be a star article in great demands even from Japan.
(A chestnut is called "Kuri" in Japanese.)
3. Israelites in Damascus
NHK recently broadcast a series of TV programs again tracing the Silk Road. Japan's largest TV station NHK seems to like the Silk Road, since it has produced programs on the Silk Road a few times in these decades.
The most recent one showed the Hejaz Railroad.
http://bungakubu.kokushikan.ac.jp/Chiri/EarthWacht/May2005/RSgazou.htm
But more impressed was that the program introduced a score of Israelite Syrians still living in Damascus and performing their ritual in a synagogue, the only one left now in the capital of Syria.
http://nabataea.net/hejaz1.html
They are descendants of Israelites who were driven out of Spain centuries ago.
They were all old, but while they are alive, solution should be worked out on the relationship between Judaism and Islam.
Israel should admit that Muslims are their relatives.
4. Japan and China
Everybody says that Chin's GDP will soon surpass Japan's, since China's population is ten times larger.
In the U.S., some elites also say that Japan is being defeated by China in terms of economy by showing some charts on future prospects of the global economy.
Truth is that Japan's technologies, various systems, and funds and money have been invested in China in these 30 years in order to boost Chinese economy.
In terms of quality and refinement of products as well as a level of science and engineering, Japan is all the more leading and guiding China in technology and economy.
Even most of Chinese citizens living in big cities would not be reluctant to confess that they would buy Japanese goods if they must get one of high quality, though Japanese products are usually more expensive.
American economists and journalists who cannot understand a huge gap between Japan and China on quality of science, technology, and engineering, in addition to anti-Japan US elites who cannot understand difference between Japanese democracy and Chinese communist social and political systems, seem to be happy saying that Japan is being defeated by China in terms of economy.
Truth is that Japan is not being defeated by China in terms of economy; Japan is all the more leading and guiding China in technology and economy.
Those Americans should learn the true history of Asia, since Chinese youths learning the true world history are getting more and more pro-Japanese.
"DON'T BE AFRAID WHEN YOU HEAR OF WARS AND REVOLUTIONS"
(Haben Sie nicht die Angst, wenn Sie von Kriege und von Revolutionen hören.)