Treading like an Agent, Running like a Wind, Flying like a Premier, and Blowing like a Typhoon in November
(Ils sont foule, comme un agent, fonctionnant comme un vent, voler comme un premier ministre, et soufflant comme un typhon en novembre)
1. Ms. Mizuki Noguchi
Yesterday, the 2004 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist, Ms. Noguchi, won another marathon race in Tokyo.
Accordingly, she is as a matter of fact qualified for the entry from Japan to the marathon race in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Just ten minutes before she was running back to the Tokyo National Stadium as the front runner, I got into the stadium to observe her last lap for Beijing.
(Her photos I took yesterday cannot be, however, presented here due to copyright-law provisions.)
She was fast and robust, and her legs were strong, which could not be almost expected anybody who just ran 42km to exhibit in her last lap in the stadium.
If you compete with such a runner in such a condition, you will be severely damaged so long as you cannot compete until the last lap. It was the same kind of devastating strength Ms. Naoko Takahashi once exhibited.
Indeed, the best Japanese sportsmen or women may be very spiritual, since they are sons and daughters of the spiritual race Japanese.
2. Mr. Junichiro Kizumi
In this summer, a big bridge over the Mississippi River suddenly collapsed, giving a great warning to the US people.
Then, in September, a mighty bridge under construction jointly by Japanese constructors and local companies between the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam collapsed.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-09-26-vietnam-bridge_N.htm?csp=34
"...a collapsed bridge in southern Vinh Long province, Vietnam on Wednesday. The bridge under construction collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 52 workers and leaving dozens more missing or injured..."
But, recently, the former Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Junichiro Koizumi visited Vietnam, though it is not clear if he visited the site of the collapsed bridge to show a sense of responsibility on the Japanese side to the tragedy.
Yet, according to a TV report broadcast last night, he checked and entered one of thousands of tunnels once used in the Vietnam War to praise the Vietnamese, saying, "Indeed, people of Vietnam have admirably good patience."
Mr. Junichiro Koizumi is still very popular among Japanese, though there will be no chances for him to be put back at the center stage of Japanese politics.
His bridge to come back to the Prime Minister Office seems to be also cut off.
3. Bangladesh
The BBC news program broadcast in Japan on an NHK's satellite TV channel today reported that a powerful cyclone has killed probably 10,000 people in Bangladesh.
The BBC on the Internet also wrote: "Another storm in 1991 left some 143,000 dead."
However, in 2006, Mr. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize for their providing "credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral."
http://www.grameen-info.org/
This time, taking also into account the effect of global warming on the Himalaya Mountains and the Ganges River, macro and large-scale credits should be offered by rich countries to the people of Bangladesh.
4. Wintry Winds
Yesterday, cold wintry winds blew in Tokyo and other northern regions in Japan.
Even in Kagoshima Pref., the most southern prefecture of the most southern island among the four major islands of the Mainland Japan, the temperature this morning fell to 6 degrees Celsius or 43 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now, all over Japan is no more sub-tropical, though in a certain documentary film a British media company once made on the nature of Japan they said that except Hokkaido in winter Japan is sub-tropical.
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Indeed, in Tokyo, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, and Dacca, they use a different writing system each.
From Moscow to Madrid, basically your knowledge about the alphabetical system helps you learn foreign languages; but in Asia, even Chinese should learn different systems and sounds when learning Japanese, though China and Japan share thousands or more of Kanji letters.
In whole Europe and its extension regions, you may feel no inconvenience with one religion, Christianity.
But, in Asia, the God knows the versatile and complicated situations from Mt. Ararat to Mt. Fuji through Himalayas well and thus has not forced Asians to adopt one religion whether it is Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
For people in Europe, the Middle East, and annexed regions thereon, there will be no more prophets and religions to be endowed by the God or Allah. But, such a speculation or belief has nothing to do with other regions in Asia or especially in East Asia.
Israelites, Christians, and Muslims must be wiser and get humbler to see this deep care and consideration the God or Allah has offered and extended to South and East Asian people.
And, remember it was Ms. Mizuki Noguchi that won the Gold Medal in 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, though it was Ms. Naoko Takahashi that had won the Gold Medal in 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, since life resembles a marathon race.
(That is why I am telling you that the Messiah will surely come to Japan treading on all the lands from Jerusalem to Tokyo.
As it was cold last night, my fresh French wine with a blueberry juice was timely enjoyed.
It was a little rich and somehow deep with a difficult combination of sweetness and acidity without acute appealing in its taste, which however never irritates me at all.)
"JESUS CALLS FOUR FISHERMEN"
(Jesus beginnt sein Wirken in Galilaa)