1996, 2001, and 2008
(1996, 2001, et l'an 2008)
Early in 2001, a USS submarine hit and demolished a training ship of a Japanese fisheries high school off the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing 9 students and instructors.
Then, in September 2001, the 9/11 Terror attacks occurred in New York and Washington D.C., killing 3000 people. US Media extensively used the expression “Pearl Harbor Attack Again.”
Early in 2008, a Japanese Aegis ship hit and demolished a fishing boat near the Tokyo Bay, leaving two Japanese fishermen in the dark sea of the very early morning without a hope of survival at all from a technical point of view.
But, we cannot foresee what will happen in September 2008, at least now.
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A few years after the 9/11 Terror, Mr. Richard A. Clarke and Mr. Paul O’Neill, both engaged in the Bush Administration at a very higher level, wrote books which have allowed readers to have a deep insight into the state of the White House on the occurrence of the Terror.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Neill_%28cabinet_member%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Clarke
In addition, in their books, I find not a shadow of an evidence of a conspiracy that President Mr. George Bush had planned and ordered the 9/11 Terror so that he could control the US society more tightly and invade Iraq against the US Constitution.
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In order to find what the fatal accident the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces ship caused augurs, it may be interesting to refer to a certain Japanese blog article posted by a former lawmaker who was also a Minister of the Japanese Government when the Peruvian hostage crisis masterminded by Peruvian terrorists happened in December 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_embassy_hostage_crisis
(http://www.liberal-shirakawa.net/tsurezuregusa/index.php?itemid=512#more )
(Indeed, the then National Public Safety Commission Chairman of Japan very personally got the information of the guerilla raid to Japan's official facilities in Lima, in the middle of the party held there celebrating the Emperor's Birth Day, at 5 a.m. through an NHK early morning news program in Tokyo, and took a cab in haste to the Headquarters of National Police Agency before receiving any official information and notices but eventually could attend the emergency meeting held from 6 a.m. in the Office of Prime Minister where then Prime Minister, his close advisor, the Foreign Minister, and other urgently and selectively called Ministers were already present, though sadly relying on information only provided by highly troubled embassy officials in Peru.)
Put simply, as the books written by Mr. Richard A. Clarke and Mr. Paul O’Neill suggest, top leaders of the U.S. and Japan may not be so smart, excellent, or preeminent at all.
They do not look smart, excellent, or preeminent enough even to plan and carry out a big conspiracy, when checking those related books, memoirs, and blog articles.
Or, they do not look smart, excellent, or preeminent enough at all to be always ready to immediately respond to a challenge that happens like a bolt out of the blue, when checking those related books, memoirs, and blog articles.
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As Japan had experienced the Peruvian hostage crisis in December 1996, Japanese people were not so much upset by the 1997 Princess Diana’s death surrounded by a true conspiracy as well as the 2001 9/11 Terror still being abused so much by some conspiracy theory tellers.
It might not be so easy to comprehend the whole sequence of the recent history, but you have to take the following facts when delineating an outlook for a political and security trend globally or around Japan.
“Early in 2001, a USS submarine hit and demolished a training ship of a Japanese fisheries high school off the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing 9 students and instructors.
Then, in September 2001, the 9/11 Terror attacks occurred in New York and Washington D.C., killing 3000 people. US Media extensively used the expression 'Pearl Harbor Attack Again.'
Early in 2008, a Japanese Aegis ship hit and demolished a fishing boat near the Tokyo Bay, leaving two Japanese fishermen in the dark sea of the very early morning without a hope of survival at all from a technical point of view…”
(There is a place in Japan where three symbols of spring come altogether: Japanese Apricots [Ume], Cherry blossoms [Sakura], and peaches [Momo].
They sometimes call the place Three Springs, since three symbols of spring come together.
Wait for the true spring, please.)
Pro 30:18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Pro 30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.