(Mt. Tsukuba, constituting a holy pair with Mt. Fuji over the Kanto Plain...)
(The beads composing the face of Newton...)
(The grassy knoll...)Miracles in 1985
(Les miracles en 1985)
Last night in my dream, I saw a girl in black though she had extremely refined features.
But, don’t you know that a woman traditionally in Japan wears a bride's hood at a wedding to hide her horns more meaningfully than a Christian or a Muslim woman?
SECTION I: FOUR SURVIVED OUT OF 524
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The Boeing 747-SR46 that made this route, registered JA8119, crashed into the ridge of Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometres from Tokyo, on Monday August 12, 1985…
All 15 crew members and 505 out of 509 passengers died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths. It remains the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in history and the second-deadliest aviation accident in history after the Tenerife disaster (not counting ground victims).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123
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Four surviving female passengers were an off-duty JAL flight attendant, age 25, who was jammed between a number of seats, a 34-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter, who were trapped in an intact section of the fuselage, and a 12-year-old girl who was found wedged between branches in a tree.
SECTION II: IBM JAPAN EMPLOYEES FALLEN
I felt a miracle in this great accident, since hundreds of businessmen in the higher echelons were on board the airplane as the jet plane was flying from Tokyo to Osaka, two major business centers of corporate Japan.
For example, some front-line employees of IBM Japan were among victims. In my memory, they belonged to the then emerging personal computer-related business. And, in my memory, too, IBM Japan then used a code name “Acorn” to a type of its PCs, though it was before full-scale commercialization of the Windows OS.
Though the accident did not seem to deter IBM Japan’s business deployment in small-sized computers, it must have caused some commotions in the company, probably, just like Matsushita (Panasonic) lost in the accident some key employees in its computer-related department.
( http://www.bsmanner.net/blog/2007/06/post-228.html )
It is as if the God had told me that I could be saved, too, in such an occasion for some sacred purpose, since I had already started to regard my job as an occasion for ascetic training to understand God rather than a chance to get big money.
SECTION III: A GIRL FROM THE GREAT SHRINE TOWN SAVED
Since that surviving 12-year old girl lived in a local town in western Japan where the most prestigious Shinto shrine in Japan is situated, I felt a kind of revelation.
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Izumo Taisha is one of the most ancient and important of the Shinto shrines in Japan. Its name means "The Grand Shrine of Izumo." No record gives the date of establishment. Located in Taisha, Shimane Prefecture, it is home to two major festivals. It is dedicated to the god Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto, famous as the shinto deity of marriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo_Taisha
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Take a look at the survivors again: an off-duty JAL flight attendant, age 25, a 34-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter, and a 12-year-old girl.
The God must have just wanted to spare the life of the 12-year-old girl.
However, not to put a too much psychological burden on the girl as the only survivor, the God saved a young mother and a young girl, whose survival would be consolation to some and lessen cruelty of the horrible accident that took lives of 500 in a single airplane crash.
The God also allowed one professional witness, an off-duty JAL flight attendant, to survive and serve the general public with her reporting.
It is as if the God had told me that I could be saved, too, in such an occasion for some sacred purpose, since I love the great shrine with a history and a tradition as old and authentic as any Imperial Shrines in Japan.
SECTION IV: COMPUTER WAR IN 1985
In 1985, there were no cellular phones to your surprise. Personal computers were already commercialized but the version of Windows OS was just 1.0.
For example, in 1980, China had only 2,000 or so computers all over the nation while one brand of Japanese office-computers had already sold in 20,000 units.
( http://www.geocities.jp/thrayan2004/koukoku/kou1980.html )
In those years, IBM was overwhelmingly dominant in the world computer market (where mostly large-sized mainframe computers were sold). Some American and European companies challenged IBM in earnest and in vain. No such competitors today remain in the global computer market.
But, Japanese makers are different.
With a smart policy of the Japanese Government, Japan became the only major industrialized country in 1980’s where IBM could not be the number one computer suppliers.
In fact, those Japanese competitors, such as Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, and Toshiba, are domestically still major players in this sector of the industry.
But, it is said that if Japanese makers adopted more effective strategies in competition with IBM in 1980’s, they could have even dominated today’s PC industry in the world.
Yet, the real state of the Computer War between Japan and the U.S. was not so widely known.
So, it is interesting to see that some Japanese experts talked about the truth of the Japan-US Computer War on the Internet last year under the title “Truth of Fujitsu-IBM War Revealed after 25 Years.”
( http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20071128/288168/?P=2&ST=ep_infrastructure)
In short, when Fujitsu launched the IBM-compatible computers in 1960’s, its sales amount was one sixteenth of IBM’s. But today, its ratio is one to two, proving its long-time braving fight against IBM.
Yet, while Japanese makers adhered to the IBM-compatible mainframe strategy and suffered the grave US attacks on development of unique Japanese OS for PCs, the U.S. industry consolidated its ground for the Era of the Internet and the High-Tech financial transactions toward the 21th century.
In summary, before the Money War between Japan and the U.S. in late 1990’s and even today, the Computer War was so fatally fought between the two countries, significance of which is yet to be fully comprehended by people concerned, in my humble view.
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The year 1985 was so symbolic, as it decided the trend or the path to the real advent of the Internet Era in 1995.
Today’s US dominance in the financial sector is mainly supported by its success in pulling through those decades while leveraging its advantage on IT technology at both the system level and the basic-science level, though being inevitably forced to avoid competition in some fields, such as PC manufacturing and IC memory business, mainly due to Japan’s unflinching challenge in 1980’s.
Indeed a jumbo jet crashed in 1985 in Japan with so many businessmen on board, foretelling the coming difficult wars against the U.S. in terms of technology and economy.
But, some symbolic people were rescued alive.
That is why I am telling you that poor Americans should welcome Japan’s success in technology and business, while some ignorant economists are shouting, “Money, money, big money in China (no more Japan)!” in Davos with full of participants from the Bilderberg Group.
It is because Japan can only make humble those major US companies, including IBM when having sold its PC division to China’s Levono, who are so cool to poor Americans.
(Last night in my dream, I saw a girl in black though she had extremely refined features.
But, don’t you know that a woman traditionally in Japan wears a bride's hood at a wedding to hide her horns more meaningfully than a Christian or a Muslim woman?
Listen to the one, if you like:
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/snoopyred.htm)
Isa 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!