Jonathan Livingston Seagull & Co.!One of the Titles Most Difficult to Buy in Japan
(Un titre le plus difficile à acheter au Japon)
You can buy almost any books in Japan (though law forbids some). I meant that you can buy books which are even forbidden in Israel, Saudi Arabia, or China.
Every year, the total value of sales of printed books in Japan is, roughly speaking, about one trillion yen (8.7 billion dollars); the total value of monthly magazines is also about one trillion yen (8.7 billion dollars); and weekly magazines about 300 billion yen (2.6 billion dollars).
http://www.ajpea.or.jp/statistics/statistics.html
In the U.S., the total value of sales of printed books is estimated to be about 23.4 billion dollars in 2003.
http://www.jcj.gr.jp/~shuppan/jcj0/jcj101.pdf
However, if a book is titled "University of Tokyo Faculty of Law," almost every Japanese will have a complex feeling whether he or she buys it or not.
http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/course.html
Yet, I happened to buy it.
http://www.bk1.jp/product/02627026
If a foreigner learns Japan or the Japanese language for real, he or she must understand this complex feeling every Japanese will have when facing the word "University of Tokyo Faculty of Law."
It was once an absolute symbol of elites in Japan in various fields, including judiciary, politics, administration, economy, industry, culture, social science, and so on.
But, nowadays, its face value has drastically declined.
It is said that professors are not providing excellent education and training to students.
There, reportedly, are no noteworthy academic results from research activities of the faculty.
Students are still just trying to be elite bureaucrats or lawyers or judges if they are not dreaming of becoming billionaires in the financial sector or highly-paid workers in successful foreign companies.
I think that what University of Tokyo Faculty of Law fatally lacks is its sincere efforts to learn God or Allah or the world religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and so on.
In addition, there are many graduates of the faculty who do not look like having sufficient common sense to serve the people as a prime minister, a minister, a deputy minister, a vice minister, or an assistant minister of any Governmental department or agency of Japan.
I am afraid that University of Tokyo Faculty of Law cannot yet surpass the Vatican in terms of cultural and political ability as well as intellectual power.
Then what blog should they read?
(Jesus Christ has not graduated from any college or university.
In principle, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you do not have to be involved in a talk about schools.
A college or a university that does not pay the utmost or maximum respect to Jesus Christ may fall into a gang of fools.
Now, who do you respect or despise? Blindly a graduate of University of Tokyo Faculty of Law?)
"...For God sends His son not to be a judge, but to be a savior in this world ...."
(ein Richter nicht zu sein, aber ein Retter zu sein)