(On the Bay of Tokyo)WESTERN THREATS TO JAPAN
There are many Europeans and European Americans who love peace and Japan.
But, I have to write some on Western threats to Japan, since I got a miracle warning these days, though there are so many Europeans and European Americans who really love peace and Japan.
SECTION I: TOSA DOGS
The other day, or a week or so ago in a public park, I saw a strange late-middle-aged man with his dog. It did not look like a usual dog-walking to me, though other walkers did not mind the man, since he was not provocative to passers-by at all, but only to his dog.
He was treating the dog, as if a drunken man was scolding, though it was apparent that he was not doing so in order to intimidate other people around. He was so immersed in disciplining and handling his dog, though so weirdly. In a sense, it looked like a drunken man’s ominous behavior to me. I would not have been surprised if his dog had bit the owner, though it looked very docile while being hurled abuse at. In other word, it was a very strange and weird scene I seldom encountered and thus so memorized.
This morning, a Japanese TV news program reported that a Tosa dog bit and killed its owner, a late-middle-aged man in Fukuoka Prefecture, Western Japan.
( http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/news/20080623k0000e040049000c.html )
Alarmingly, last December in the same prefecture of the Kyusyu Island, other Tosa dog bit and killed an old woman.
This is a miracle sending out a warning to me, though it looks so local and plain; yet it is accompanied with deaths of a man and a woman due to a mad Tosa dog in either case.
And, I checked the Wikipedia about the Tosa dog.
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This breed originated in the second half of the nineteenth century. The breed started from the native Shikoku-Inu, an indigenous dog weighing about 25 kilograms and standing about 55 centimetres high, which closely resembles the European Spitz. These dogs were crossed with European dog breeds, such as the Bulldog in 1872, Mastiff in 1874, St. Bernard, German Pointer in 1876, Great Dane in 1924, and the Bull Terrier[4]. The aim was to breed a larger, more powerful dog. The heyday of Tosa breeding was between 1924 and 1933, when it was said that there were more than 5,000 Tosa breeders in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosa_(dog)
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I do not blame Western or European dogs. But, a dangerously aggressive nature of the Tosa dog must come from its wild ancestors who were originally born and brought up in the traditionally hunting culture of Europe.
European strength can be a merit but it must be carefully controlled, especially, in Japan, starkly different from in the United States.
So, this can be a miracle warning to us, since Tosa dogs partly came from European blood lines and killed two Japanese in this half a year, though their owners must take responsibility even if so tragic, for which I am awfully sorry.
SECTION II: BATTLE IN OKINAWA
The Battle of Okinawa ended on June 23, 1945.
The Empire of Japan mobilized 116,400 troops, while the U.S. and its allies 548,000 troops for the last major ground campaign in the Pacific Stage of WWII.
The Empire of Japan lost 188,136 lives, while the U.S. and its allies 12,520 on the southern island of the Japanese archipelago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa
After the WWII, the Empire of Japan disappeared as the Japanese people adopted a new constitution which denies a sovereign right to keep military forces for war.
Though Japan today has self-defense forces as the Japanese Government interprets the Constitution as implicitly authorizing due maintenance of military forces exclusively for the defense purpose, the tradition of the Imperial Military was not inherited in the post-WWII society in Japan.
There is a stark discontinuity in the view and the sense of the Japanese people on national security, defense, and everything about enforcement of military force.
Nonetheless, I do not think our ancestors living in the Empire of Japan were foolish or barbaric at all.
I do not, since European invasion of Africa, Asia, and America has been so foolish and barbaric.
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…In this case, there are settlers from a dominating foreign country, or countries, and often the property of indigenous peoples is seized, to provide the settlers with land. Foreign mores, religions and/or legal systems are imposed. In some cases, the local population is held for unfree labour, is submitted to brutal force…
…it is possible for colonies to become overseas possessions, against the wishes of indigenous peoples. This often results in ongoing and long-lasting independence struggles by the descendants of the original inhabitants….
…Most non-European countries were colonies of Europe at one time or another, or were handled in a quasi-colonial manner. The European colonies and former colonies in America made extensive use of slave labor, initially using the native population, then through the importation of slaves from black Africa…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony
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The Battle on the Okinawa Island can be interrupted from an anti-European-colonists view.
Without understanding this viewpoint, you cannot understand sentiments of some nationalist Japanese.
(If you can read Japanese, refer to the following;
http://203.141.130.66/~showa/380.html )
SECTION III: BATTLESHIP MUTSU
The battleship Mutsu of the Imperial Nave of Japan, until its mysterious, tragic, and explosive scuttling in 1943, was the most popular battleship among boys during and before WWII, as the super twin battleships Yamato and Musashi were completely kept secret (since there were no battleships that could match them in the world then).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mutsu
When you look at the picture of Mutsu and know that there were scores of such battleships operated by the Empire of Japan, you might come to think that how bellicose Japan has been.
http://battleship-pictures.xrea.jp/photograph_p/senkan/mutsu.php
But you are wrong. Before facing intensified invasion of East Asia and China by Western colonialists, Japan had been very peaceful country.
Since the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan in the late 16th century, and the end of his dream of military invasion and occupation of China through Korea, Japan had not sent any troops overseas for more than 260 years until the late 19th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi
Japan, Korea, and China were all in peace in the 17th, 18th, and mostly 19th century in their bilateral relationships, respectively.
Japanese samurai regimes in these periods took the policy of seclusion without developing and maintaining any military capability that could be a threat to Korea and China.
But, when facing intensified invasion of East Asia and China by Western colonialists, a great civil war erupted in Japan to put an end to the Tokugawa samurai regime who could not fully abolish a feudal paradigm.
Coastal areas of China were half colonized by Western power after the Opium Wars in 1841 and 1856.
Korea, also sealing off to the outer world, still continued to live in a closed-minded manner in its economically half broken kingdom based on the old Confucian value.
In short, China and Korea, mostly governed by civilians and noblemen, had no military capability to repel the invasion by Western colonialists.
But, Japan was different. Samurais had been governing the nation more than 1,000 years.
Yet, what I want to stress is that without Western colonialists’ militarily invasion of East Asia, Japan would not have found any reasons to build up massive Imperial Military and the world-class war machine, including the battleship Mutsu equipped with eight 16-inch batteries.
And, we may still need 16-inch guns to repel hedge-funds conspiracies and the CO2 conspiracy being so extensively pushed by Europeans and European Americans onto India, China, Indochina, Korea, and Japan.
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At around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, I was standing in a spatter of rain before a 16-inch gun once equipped Mutsu with and salvaged from the bottom of the sea 38 years ago.
I have never been to any museum in Japan that displays or exhibits weapons used by the Imperial Navy or Army in WWII. I have never visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo dedicated to fallen soldiers of the Empire of Japan.
Having said so, so sad to say, the recent miracles have told me how careful Japanese must be when handling ideas, cultural products, weapons, and even dogs which have their roots in European Civilization, since it can be traced back to the Roman Empire.
Anyway, I was satisfied with the battery placed on the Tokyo Bay or at the estuary of the Holy Arakawa River that flows near my city.
It is also because I had to take preemptive measures as a citizen in a special manner, if looked so nonsense to unbelievers, since a miniature version of the Virginia Tech Massacre has occurred in Japan twice and more in these months so tragically (in addition to the Tosa dog’s fatal-biting incidents so alarmingly, too).
(I love Western Civilization whose products must be nonetheless carefully handled in Japan in order to make the best use of them, since I love some Western melodies.
http://j-yas.sakura.ne.jp/music/miyagi1.mp3
Played by a Japanese fan of Nini Rosso: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/j4947/d/20080614)
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.