(Pictures presented here were taken and presented with approval of the Railway Museum) Xmas Gifts for You Only
(Cadeaux de Noël pour vous seulement)
CASE 1: HIV Suffering Lawmaker
According to his own introduction in his Homepage, "diagnosed as hemophilia in six months after the birth, Ryuhei Kawada was infected with HIV through imported blood products prescribed for the patients for medical treatment."
http://ryuheikawada.jp/e/index.shtml
But, he was elected this summer to an Upper House member of Japan's national assembly. He was also chosen as one of "Young Global Leaders" by World Economic Forum this year.
Yet, some critics doubted his behaviors when they did not find Mr. Kawada in a group of people supporting victims who had been infected with hepatitis C from tainted blood products as a result of negligence of the Government and pharmaceutical companies.
Nonetheless, as the lawsuits these patients filed against the Government and pharmaceutical companies took center stage of the media, the only HIV suffering lawmaker in Japan, Mr. Kawada, began to join supporting activities for those 200,000 or more victims.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071214a1.html
In the last midnight TV news program, he was interviewed to explain difference between his own HIV case and this hepatitis C case, though the both were caused by blood derivatives imported from the U.S.
You may be also chosen as one of "Young Global Leaders" by World Economic Forum so as to help many victims in the world, if the God so wishes.
CASE 2: Nobel Prize Promised Researcher
A new stem cell method developed by a Japanese research team (and at the same time independently by a US research team) was praised even by US President Mr. George Bush.
Accordingly, the New York Times again focused on the Japanese researcher:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/science/11prof.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
However, the New York Times is still insincere in dealing with Japan and Japanese, since they wrote:
".... when he made the social call to the clinic about eight years ago. At the friend’s invitation, he looked down the microscope at one of the human embryos stored at the clinic. The glimpse changed his scientific career....
But it is also being hailed in his native Japan for an additional reason: as a sign that the country may finally be coming of age as a center of scientific research. In recent decades, Japan has been trying to reverse its decades-old image as strong in making gadgets but weak in basic science..."
It was when Newton saw an apple falling down on the ground and when Einstein was watching the Lorentz transformation equation that both the geniuses found a clue to their great discovery.
Without endowments or one's natural gifts in addition to hard working and experiences as well as traditions of the society where one has been raised, a simple glancing at an apple, an equation, or a microscope would not result in a great discovery or an innovative result.
As for Japan's tradition in basic science, the New York Times should refer to the EEE Report on September 29, 2007:
"I will present the ten Japanese scientific heroes enumerated in the above mentioned book [on 100 scientists who ever changed the world] as follows:
1. Shibasaburo Kitasato
(29 January 1853-13 June 1931) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitasato_Shibasaburo
2. Jokichi Takamine
In 1894 Takamine emigrated to the United States. He established his own research laboratory in New York City, but licensed the commercial production of Takadiastase. In 1901 he isolated and purified the hormone adrenaline (the first effective broncodilator for asthma) from animal glands, becoming the first to accomplish this for a glandular hormone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokichi_Takamine
3. Aikitu TANAKADATE
1856 -1952
Founder of modern Japanese science, particularly in the areas of physics, geophysics, and aeronautics. Proponent of Japanese-style roman lettering. http://www.civic.ninohe.iwate.jp/100s/indexe.htm
4. Hantaro NAGAOKA
1865 -1950
A physicist known particularly as proponent of an atomic model with a central nucleus. The father of Japanese theoretical and experimental physics. http://www.civic.ninohe.iwate.jp/100s/indexe.htm
5. Kotaro Honda
(born on February 23, 1870 in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture - February 12, 1954) was a Japanese scientist and inventor. He invented KS steel (initials from Kichiei Sumitomo), which is a type of magnetic resistant steel that is three times more resistant than tungsten steel. He later improved upon the steel, creating NKS steel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotaro_Honda
6. Kiyoshi Shiga
(7 February 1871–25 January 1951) was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.
He became famous for the discovery of shigella, the bacillus causing dysentery in 1897. The bacterium shigella was therefore named after him, as well as the shiga toxin, which is produced by the bacteria.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Shiga
7. Umetaro Suzuki
(April 7, 1874 – September 20, 1943) was a Japanese scientist, born in Shizuoka Prefecture.
When researching the effects of rice bran in curing patients of beriberi, he discovered an active fraction in 1910 and received patent rights to aberic acid, which in 1935 after the correct composition became known as thiamin. His research was among the earliest of modern vitamin research.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umetaro_Suzuki
8. Yoshio Nishina
(December 6, 1890–January 10, 1951) was a Japanese physicist. He was a friend of Niels Bohr, and a close associate of Albert Einstein. Nishina was a world-class scientist with excellent leadership qualities. He co-authored the well-known Klein-Nishina Formula, and the Nishina crater on the moon is named in his honor.
His research was concerned with cosmic rays and particle accelerator development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Nishina
9. Shinichiro Tomonaga
(March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979) was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomonaga
10. Hideki Yukawa
(January 23, 1907 – September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to win the Nobel prize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa "
In any way, there is still a chance that you can win the "Nobel Prize," since Mr. Al Gore got it, though, ahead of Mr. Michael Moore.
CASE 3: 100 Happy Ladies in the World
On August 30, 2007, Forbes announced its own chosen "100 Most Powerful Women" in the world:
#1: Angela Merkel (Germany)
#2: Wu Yi (China)
#3: Ho Ching (Singapore)
#4: Condoleezza Rice (U.S.)
#5: Indra K. Nooyi (U.S.)
#6: Sonia Gandhi (India)
#7: Cynthia Carroll (U.K.)
#8: Patricia A. Woertz (U.S.)
#9: Irene Rosenfeld (U.S.)
#10: Patricia Russo (U.S.)
#11: Michèle Alliot-Marie (France)
#12: Christine Lagarde (France)
http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/30/most-powerful-women-biz-07women-cz_em_cs_0830power_land.html
Simply, you can be one of "100 Most Powerful Persons," though they have not fully comprehended the linkage between Princess Diana and the 9/11 Terror as well as Mother Teresa.
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Now, for you alone, I have extended the above three cases as a Xmas present with approval from God Almighty.
(My dream is of course laughing with lawmakers, Nobel Prize winners, and 10,000 most powerful women in the world together with CO2 and water vapor, as you know...
Anyway, I've got to also check today's report on hepatitis C patients, mostly ladies, on a live TV news show now starting with one of patients present.)
"...Turn away from your sins and believe the Good News!..."
(Andert euer Leben und glaubt diese gute Nachricht!)