Comrades, Where are Your Countries?
(Camarades, où sont vos pays?)
SECTION I: GM, TOYOTA, and NHK
As of the year end of 2007, GM’s bottom line shows 38 billion and 320 million dollars, which however means an unbelievable figure of deficit in GM's thrird straight red-ink year.
GM’s affiliate companies in the financial sector were also negatively influenced by the subprime loan problem.
According to The Yomiuri Shimbun published in Japan, GM has been driving earnings growth in the Chinese market and other Asian regions as well as Central and South Americas, though its main business operation in North America has ruined its total outcomes of business.
On the other hand, as I once wrote in this EEE Reporter blog, Toyota is not successful in gaining respect from laborers in the Philippines. A notable Japanese blog has taken up this issue, too, since Toyota’s workers in the Philippines are feeling under pressure by military troops of the Philippines.
( http://blog.goo.ne.jp/tokyodo-2005)
On the other hand, Toyota is still enjoying respect in the Japanese society; the newspaper also reported that an ex-Toyota’s executive is to be appointed to a representative director of NHK, Japan’s largest public broadcasting corporation.
Nonetheless, NHK has not been fulfilling its duty, since it has not been quick to support victims of the recent medication scandal involving Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry of Japan.
(It is reportedly Fuji TV’s female reporters that helped the victims expose a kind of the criminal involvement of bureaucrats in concealment activities of the medical incident.)
NHK is also slow in detecting the recent foods contamination incident exported by a food company in China, heightening concern among Japanese consumers about every food item imported from China.
NHK was also desperately wrong in analyzing and predicting the scope of catastrophic influence of the subprime loan problem, even in comparison with CNN.
Now you cannot much trust in these big players in the integrated business society over the Pacific Ocean.
They must be missing something graver, though Toyota has built its car manufacturing plant in Russia.
SECTION II: RUSSIA, CHINA, and JAPAN
GM is making a big profit in the Chinese market. Toyota is also following suit. They are essentially prone to close eyes to any social troubles and problems in China, such as a large scale contamination of the nature and agricultural products of China.
What is worse, NHK also keeps silent to any such incidents as well as any corruption in the Chinese society, since there are many pro-China politicians in the Japanese ruling parties.
What is much worse, US media indirectly linked with interest of GM and Wal-Mart are also very reluctant in reporting such contamination and corruption in China.
In this context, the former Clinton Administration was more untrustworthy than the incumbent Bush Administration.
So, we have to refer to a knowledgeable community in Japan to learn reasonable analysis about China, since American people are too naïve on China and less informed on the Chinese society. (Politically China is no different from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for its one-party dictatorship.)
According to one theory presented in a Japanese blog on the Internet, Russia has already studied the future of China with conclusion that Chinese economy will sooner or later run into the sands or on the rocks with serious troubles accompanied by the burst of the bubble partly due to shortage of energy resources.
The U.S. will also sooner or later face the end of hegemony of dollars in the global market.
So, Russia with huge natural resources and military capability is, according to a bold theory, going to venture into forming a virtual alliance with China and Japan to establish a new superpower group in the 21st century.
(http://www.financial-j.net/blog/2008/02/000474.html#more )
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From a religious point of view, if the Era of European and European American Christians is going to end, it is not so absured that Russians and Chinese are given a chance to lead the world with Japan before the new glorious era of Islam or a US Religious Revolution.
Indeed, this is what the US Government has been traditionally most afraid of: the all-out alliance between Russia and Japan or China and Japan.
Russia is the last and largest country based on the direct tradition of Christianity of the ancient Roman Empire.
China is the last and largest country based on the direct application of Marxism which is a transformation of modern Judaism.
On the other hand, though Japan accepted the American Christian ideology after WWII, especially through adoption of the Peace Constitution, it keeps still unique spiritual culture at the core of its civilization which is now more authentic than the modern Chinese Civilization in terms of preservation of traditional East Asian spiritualism.
However, will the possible three-party alliance of these three nations benefit the world more than the incumbent superpower U.S. has done, if any?
To get an answer, you have to refer to analysis and discussions being presented in the EEE Reporter blog.
It is because in the summer of 2001 nobody dreamed of the coming of the Era of the War on Terror, the US Dollar System Erosion, the Economic Revival and Rise of China and Russia, and Extreme Prosperity in the Pro-US Middle East Countries.
As the War on Terror sprang while the US Government and the media were busy attacking Japanese economy in 1990’s, something beyond American elites’ imagination might happen while they still lack respect to Japan in 2000’s.
(Europeans sometimes wonder how non-Christians in Africa and Asia can control their behaviors while they do not know Christianity.
Most Japanese have traditionally wondered why they need Christianity while their ethical standards and moral codes are apparently higher than those of European Christians.
Now, you know why I do not respect those Japanese who despise others that have not been to Paris or Rome for sight-seeing.
Those Japanese getting proud of having made a sight-seeing trip to Paris and Rome do not know anything about European Christianity.
This feeling of mine is not understood by most of Japanese, though some Americans can do interestingly.
If you have money and time to go and see the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, you had better go and see the famous South Gate of Seuol, Korea, though it was burnt down yesterday or so.
Even Korea is changing. We have to continue to watch the sign of the Age, Comrades!)
“..I will offer you a sacrifice and do what I have promised..”
(Ich werde Ihnen ein Opfer, und ich werde tun, was ich versprochen habe.)