(Tokyo Station, Japan, 2007 December)Most Noted Japanese Women as of December 2007
(La plupart des femmes que Noté japonais de décembre 2007)
SECTION 1: Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai
In the December edition of a Japanese monthly magazine "the Bungei Syunjyu," three notable Japanese women wrote some each.
The most visible one in the media may be Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, since she had anchored a TV news program for 16 years till 1996 and today still takes a part in a weekly news show broadcast by the Fuji TV station.
She has been recently keeping a critical eye on Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda of Japan, who was first elected as national lawmaker in 1990, namely 10 years after Ms. Sakurai had begun her career as a TV-news-show anchor person.
Ms. Sakurai is also very critical of ideas on Japan's national security of Opposition leader Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, six years younger than the prime minister.
There is one thing common to the two top Japanese politicians: a lack of the sense of resistance to the modern Chinese culture.
At a certain level or a depth, the modern Chinese culture is clearly incompatible with the tradition of the Japanese culture.
Ms. Sakurai and other Japanese women loving so much their own cultural root may be the ones who can so simply see into a an inhuman aspect of modern China fostered by its desperately absolute classical-dynasties and modern Marxist regime in these 2000 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Sakurai
SECTION 2: Ms. Nanami Shiono
In the December edition of a Japanese monthly magazine "the Bungei Syunjyu," she wrote some about things in Japan, though she returned to Rome, her adopted permanent residence, from her one-month stay in Japan, her mother country.
Ms. Nanami Shiono wrote many elaborate tomes on the Roman Empire which emblazoned her name in Japan, though her description on Caesar, Cleopatra, and Antony did not move me so much, probably because I cannot help but regard them as having acted in a kind of prologues to the main stage for Jesus Christ.
Ms. Shiono wrote some about Japan, which however reminded me of a certain rule.
It is that if you leave your own country for three days, three months, or three years, you would surely lose a sense of adherence and intimacy to your home country to whatever extent, which however can be critical.
Integrity of your understanding of, insight into, comprehension of, compassion to, and love for your home country and its people will be dimmed and thinned, if you leave the country even for three days, three months, or three years.
You cannot win somebody who never leaves his/her home country even for three days, three months, or three years in a competition where you need utmost understanding of, insight into, comprehension of, compassion to, and love for the country and its people.
That is why the greatest leader in the history of any country cannot be one who loves a foreign country or an international stage more than his/her own country.
But, Jesus Christ said that if you ask, you will be given; if you request so earnestly something, you will be presented with it.
Indeed, recently it was uncovered that an inefficient bureaucrat in Japan had been given business entertainment from a supplier of equipment and devices in a form of free golf-going 300 times in ten years as his golf-loving wife asked so much.
Ms. Shiono thought the bureaucrat was a man of ability, probably simply because he was a vice minister; but we call such a bureaucrat an incompetent civil servant in Japan, since such a servant is too convenient for a minister or a politician who is so self-serving neglecting a public interest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiono_Nanami
SECTION 3: Ms. Yuriko Koike
In the December edition of a Japanese monthly magazine "the Bungei Syunjyu," the only female former defense minister of Japan wrote about former prime minister of Japan Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi and Opposition leader Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, her tow former bosses though in different eras.
After her conflict with her vice minister during her assignment to the Defense Minister has been almost over with the bureaucrat arrested for a bribery charge by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor Office, she looks somehow coming back to a political arena.
In Japan, however, it is unthinkable that a female politician launches and leads her own faction based on her own political idea and political funds.
It is not Ms. Koike but rather senior politicians who have had a discretion power to promote her or not that really matters.
In other word, senior politicians concerned look like being evaluated based on their policy to Ms. Koike.
Former Prime Minister Mr. Koizumi has been still enjoying a kind of reputation while he first chose her to a portfolio, the Minister for Environment, of his cabinet several years ago.
Former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe was forced to resign after having avoided commissioning her again the Defense Minister several months ago which though was not a direct cause of his own resignation.
In the U.S., Ms. Condoleezza Rice might be playing the same role in terms of fates of senior politicians concerned.
As long as President Mr. George Bush continues to commission Ms. Rice to carry out a critical mission in his Administration, the President may be able to sustain the minimum necessary credibility of his Administration.
Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Fukuda and Opposition leader Mr. Ozawa should take it into his consideration, respectively.
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Yesterday, I bought a copy of the Big Issue magazine a homeless man was selling on a street in Tokyo.
This 300-yen magazine, intended to be a commodity homeless people can sell to earn some money, includes a column by Ms. Noriko Hama, a female professor of Doshisya University, Japan.
http://www.power-lecture.com/koushi_ha/2007/hama-noriko07-11-04.html
She wrote that using the expression "sub-prime loan issue" is wrong since it makes dimmed and thinned the understanding of and insight into the true problem. Hence, we should call it an "issue of risks in financial goods produced based on securitization of claimable assets."
I think what she wrote in The Big Issue is quite interesting, since the magazine has been on sale by homeless people from one of whom I purchased one copy in a cold street of Tokyo yesterday.
(Anyway, I suppose evergreen memories of young love may be more important for ladies than writing something that promises evergreen sales.
Indeed, I wonder how many ladies 2000 years ago loved Jesus Christ, since He was King of Israelites and Romans as proved in history.
Truly, the Bible, the evergreen selling book, never tells about it, probably as with Condoleezza and Oprah.
Or anyone else?
Ok, I will write about an article written by Mr. Alan Greenspan tomorrow.)
"JESUS AND JOHN"
(Jesus und der Taufer)