(Tokyo, Japan, Asia, Earth)Don't Break Her Heart!
(Ne brise pas son coeur)
Several days ago, a Japanese TV station reported on a Philippine island and one of villages therein where most of residents are making handguns by their hands manually to earn their humble bread and butter.
It also introduced a suspicion that a Japanese entrepreneur was shot and killed in the island by local killers hired by another Japanese.
It is also well known that Toyota, a gigantic Japanese car manufacturer, has a trouble with a local labor union in the Philippines.
In this context, The New York Times article on Toyota can be read more interestingly:
"It’s extremely important to have the same common Toyota Way infiltrated to employees in all corners of the world,” said Katsuaki Watanabe, the company’s president. “But on the other hand, in each corner of the world, in each region, there are inherent characteristics that need to be respected."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/business/worldbusiness/22toyota.html?scp=2&sq=Toyota&st=nyt
A few days ago, I found that old Japanese singer "I George" has a Spanish Filipino mother, which, I mused, might be a reason for his affecting performance with songs, such as, "Johnny the Glass."
And, yesterday, Japanese media reported that a US soldier stationed in an Okinawa base, Japan, is under police investigation for his violence on a young Filipino woman working in the island Okinawa, in the wake of another violence by another US soldier on a Japanese low-teen girl.
And then I viewed a blog article written by a young Japanese anti-establishment researcher on environment to read his reference to Mariano Ponce, a hero of the Philippine who fought against Western colonists while spending some time in Japan to get support from Japanese people, including respectable ex-samurai pundit Kaisyu Katsu, 120 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Ponce
So, the Philippines seemed to be another source of a holy miracle.
But, in his Japanese blog, what took my attention more was his mention of Mr. Benedict Anderson who is well known for his academic research and study on politics and society of Indonesia.
(http://blog.goo.ne.jp/reforestation/e/08e54bd9eba6f45af054ebea8bafa05c )
You may very much like to access another site concerned with this notable American academian whose Japanese book on globalization is highly regarded among a knowledgeable community in Japan.
In 1983 the professor at Cornell University, New York, wrote one of the most read books ever on nationalism, "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism."
http://www.culcom.uio.no/aktivitet/anderson-kapittel-eng.html
In the above indicated Web site hosted by Oslo University, Mr. Benedict Anderson talked about a student who once confessed to him that he, though “black” he was, had the “white” mother and he could not reveal the fact to his classmates.
At the end of the interview posted there, Mr. Benedict Anderson said:
It sounds perhaps too sentimental, but I saw, here in Stavanger, a black boy playing with other Norwegian children. I was so happy. Don't break his heart!
Indeed now, Mr. Barack Obama who spent some time in Indonesia with his "white" mother when he was a child is now competing with a European American lady for nomination to be an official Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.
Truly, everybody should be happy observing it.
Now, don't break her heart!
(Which do you think you have, an analogue type or a digital type of personality?
The analogue type usually means not being good at handling high-tech equipment.
But it should also mean respecting more spiritual and ethical aspects of one’s life.
This type of persons may be regarded as being more compassionate or sensible to other’s feeling.
From my observation, a digital type of personality is more often found in flimsy advocates of the global economy and hypocritical advocates of socialism or communism, though ideal and justice of globalization as well as socialism and Marxism can be only achieved by truly pious followers of the Messiah and God.
So, good girls and Mlles., don’t be flimsy or hypocritical, since some people are really risking their lives for their own righteous cause, such as a Global Religious Revolution.
Have a nice weekend!)
“Who Does the Will of God Lives Forever”
(Wer aber tut, was Gott will, wird ewig leben)