Your Heart will Burst and Cry
(Votre coeur va éclater et se met à pleurer)
Yesterday it was cloudy and often snowing all around Tokyo.
The last week before these three consecutive holidays from Saturday to Monday in Japan for ordinary company workers, it was cloudy and often snowing all around Tokyo where the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bank chiefs was held on the weekend, actually in the wake of the subprime loan tragedy that is still making so many US economic victims cry their hearts out.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20080210a1.html
Now Sunday morning in Japan, Japan's Finance Minister is speaking in a popular Sunday morning TV discussion/interview show which I have checked and observed for the first time this year.
He said that in the free society the financial sector can freely develop financial commodity but they must clearly present detailed information on risks accompanying the commodity to reinforce discipline in their business.
The Minister said that EU is rather afraid of inflation, Japan has been less influenced by the sub-prime loan issue, and the US is coping with the situation by lowering interest.
The Minister said that Japanese political community should make efforts to have trillion dollars Japanese households have and also a huge overseas fund be invested in the stock market and other financial market in Japan.
But, one commentator in the studio said that the advanced financial market will be eventually full of con artists, according to a classical economics theory.
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Yesterday, I happened to see last part of the movie "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" on a cable TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Burials_of_Melquiades_Estrada
It is not Mr. Tommy Lee Jones, who nowadays plays an interesting role in a Japanese TV commercial for certain canned coffee, but beautiful landscape of a boarder area between the U.S. and Mexico that made me just stop changing the channel for something worthy.
And, the American hero of the story recalled words his unfortunately killed Mexican friend had once proudly said: Jimenes is a beautiful village surrounded by the mountains and valleys that will have your heart cry for heart-rending sorrow as it cannot bear such beautiful of the scenery.
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Psa 48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Psa 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Psa 48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
Psa 48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
Psa 48:5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Psa 48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Psa 48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psa 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
Psa 48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Psa 48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Psa 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
Psa 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
Psa 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Psa 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.