The sky, the sea, and...
The sky, the sea, and... the Sagami Bay!(Der Himmel, das Meer und die Sagami Bucht!)
What US Secretary of the Treasury Should Learn
(Quel secrétaire des USA du trésor devrait apprendre)
In India, electric power stolen during transmission accounts for 50% of all the power generated and supplied to market, to a big surprise of poor Americans.
A certain Japanese TV station introduced how power is being stolen on a street of cities, towns, and villages in India. They just use a long metal wire formed in a shape of a hook at one end to hook the wire over an overhead electric cable on a street.
In India, a majority of poor people still claim that water and electricity must be free; otherwise they cannot subsist, which central and local government officials seem to well understand.
This is a sad fact and truth of rising and emerging economic power in the world. China has also its own similar problems, while American elites never stop showing their expectation for expanded business chances in India and China while advertising that the era of Japan is almost over.
What should be over is their ignorance and arrogance, since they are dangerous to Japan and poor Americans as well as Muslims.
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Two Indian economists, Mr. Mukesh Eswaran and Mr. Ashok Kotwal, wrote in 1994 a book titled "Why Poverty Persists in India - A Framework for Understanding the Indian Economy."
http://www.arsvi.com/b1990/9400em.htm
This book is very useful especially for young Americans dreaming of his future, say, in a position such as the US Secretary of the Treasury or a Chairman of a powerful financial company in the Wall Street.
If you master a skill to move money and credits in the market domestic or global and get unforgiving profits, you should not become the US Secretary of the Treasury or a Chairman of a powerful financial institute in the Wall Street, since your lack of insight in world history, culture, and religions as well as humanity would lead the world to a dangerous direction.
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Until the 19th century, Western European countries had established hegemony all over the world, leveraging their industrial power, including modern weapons, based on intelligence cultivated by Christianity (which means abuse of teachings of Jesus Christ).
Then, there were four major regions having decisive relationships with Western European countries: North America and Australia, Latin America, India, and Japan.
Except Japan, the three regions offered and provided agriculture products in large quantity for Western European countries while importing modern industrial products in a large amount.
India as a colony of the U.K. immediately got poorer; Latin America as half colonies by Spanish and Portuguese thrived for a while but eventually got poorer; but North America and Australia as members of the Anglo-Saxon cultural sphere could sustain boom and succeed in founding its industrial base.
Trade with Western European countries devastated India, put Latin America to a stand, but helped North America and Australia advance to their own industrial revolution leveraging profits earned through export of agricultural products to Western European countries.
But, Japan had an agricultural capacity only sufficient for sustaining itself. Japan had to from the beginning tackle the industrialization.
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Here emerges a very important aspect concerning the limit of intellectual power of Europeans and some American elites.
Traditionally, as they leveraged or abused intellectual power they had obtained from traditions of Christianity, Europeans and some American elites though that Asians, indigenous Americans, and Africans without traditions of Christianity could not understand philosophies, science, engineering, and systems of the Western Civilization.
So, they commonly thought that Asians, indigenous Americans, and Africans had no way for survival except becoming a colony or a half colony of a European country.
(But, a class of Europeans, such as Francisco de Xavier, Schliemann, Einstein, and even Chaplin, all admired excellency of humanity of Japanese and a higher cultural level of Japan when they visited Japan.)
In fact, Japan proved that traditions based on Buddhism, ancient Chinese philosophies, and unique Japanese culture give the Japanese race ability and capability equal to, or more than, that Europeans had acquired through their traditions of Christianity.
Indeed, Japan rapidly got industrialized and became an exporter of industrial goods, including traditional craft products of higher quality.
Consequently, in the first half of the 20th century, Japan only succeeded, among nations without Christian traditions, in the international arena in terms of sustainable modernization and growth of national strength.
(China had fallen into chaos since the fall of the Qing dynasty. China could only start to fully advance to the right direction after Japan started to prop up and invest in China for real in 1970's.)
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Therefore, young Americans dreaming of his future, say, in a position such as the US Secretary of the Treasury or a Chairman of a powerful financial company in the Wall Street should understand that Japan proved that traditions based on Buddhism, ancient Chinese philosophies, and unique Japanese culture give ability and capability equal to, or more than, that Europeans had acquired through their traditions of Christianity.
That is why while Latin American countries failed, Japan succeeded in these centuries, which most of US Secretaries of the Treasury or Chairmen of powerful financial companies in the Wall Street could not understand.
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The book "Why Poverty Persists in India - A Framework for Understanding the Indian Economy" was translated into Japanese in 2000.
If American elites had had a correct view on Asia and Japan, they would have respected Japanese more, which might have led to improvement of their attitudes to other people in Asia in general so as to avoid causing personal grudge and hatred among some Muslims against certain Americans.
As they failed, I am now expecting poor Americans to have a correct view on Asia and Japan so as to avoid another 9/11 terror eventually.
(Poor Americans include of course African Americans. As long as they are African Americans, each of them, such as Ms. Marion Jones, is of course regarded as one of poor Americans, since they truly need the Messiah.
As for Japanese Americans, I cannot tell if they think they are becoming part of the American elite society.
Conversely, do you want to be part of the elite society in Japan, as they love Western European culture so much except Christianity?)
"AND I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE END OF THE AGE"
(UND ICH BIN MIT DIR IMMER, ZUM ENDE DES ALTERS)