JAPAN, KOREA, CHINA, and INDIA
School children in Japan have begun their summer holidays.
But, statistically, tens of children and students lose their lives every year during this season due to accidents on the beach and in rivers or ponds or even in a swimming pool.
Yet, it is a key to prosperity of a nation to teach children unbiased history.
Even the teaching of Jesus Christ was based on the assumption that Israelites knew their history since the departure of Abraham’s family from Ur, presently part of Iraq.
SECTION I: Liancourt Rocks (Take-Shima Island of Japan)
There is a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea.
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On July 2008, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) changed the name of the country that Liancourt Rocks belong to from South Korea to Undesignated Sovereignty. Responding to this change, Gonzalo R. Gallegos, Acting Deputy Spokesman of the U.S. State Department, said on July 28, 2008 that the United States has long maintained a policy stance of neutrality on the islets, and that the latest change does not represent any policy change within the U.S. government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liancourt_Rocks
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Once, Japanese and South Korean scholars specializing in history discussed this issue. Based on ancient documents and other proofs of the modern age, Japanese scholars claimed that these materials told the truth; and the only logical consequence was that the disputed island belonged to Japan.
South Koreans scholars academically admitted that those materials told the truth; and their logical consequence was that the disputed island belonged to Japan.
Nonetheless, South Korean scholars emotionally claimed that the island was yet clearly part of South Korea.
That is why I hope that the Japanese Government in a tie up with the U.S. and China will submit a concrete development plan of North Korea which can be implemented immediately after the release of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea.
SECTION II: India, China, and Japan
There is an interesting site dealing with Japan, China, and India:
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Emperors of the Sangoku,
the "Three Kingdoms," of India, China, & Japan
India and China are the sources of the greatest civilizations in Eastern and Southern Asia. Their rulers saw themselves as universal monarchs, thereby matching the pretensions of the Roman Emperors in the West. The only drawbacks to their historical priority were that India suffered a setback, when the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed (for disputed reasons), and China got started later than the Middle Eastern civilizations. By the time India recovered, it was a contemporary of Greece, rather than Sumeria, with many parallel cultural developments, like philosophy. And, curiously, China reached a philosophical stage of development in the same era, the "axial age," 800 to 400 BC. Later, when the West, India, and China all had contact with each other, it was at first India that had the most influence on China, through the introduction of Buddhism. Indian influence on the West, though likely through the skepticism of Pyrrho, and possibly evident in the halos of Christian saints (borrowed from Buddhist iconography), did not extend to anything more substantial. While China then made Buddhism its own, India later endured the advent of Islâm, which introduced deep cultural and then political divisions into the Subcontinent. The only comparable development in China was the application of Marxism by the Communist government that came to power in 1949. While China has now embraced a more liberal economic vision and has outgrown India, it retains the political dictatorship of Communism. India, with a successful history as a democracy, has found its growth hampered by socialist expectations and regulations (the stifling "Licence Raj"), with some, but not enough, economic liberalization in the 1990's.
The idea that there are "Three Kingdoms" (Sangoku -- we might call it the Fan Han He, "India, China, Japan") is a Japanese conceit, placing those peripheral islands on equal standing with the great centers of civilization, India and China. Until the 20th century, there would not have been a shadow of justification for that, except perhaps in subjective judgments about the creativity or originality of Japanese culture, which I am sure would be disputed by Koreans and Vietnamese. However, after a process of self-transformation sparked by American intervention, Japan leapt to the status of a Great Power by defeating Russia in 1905. The Empire then spent the next 40 years throwing its weight around, occupying Korea and invading China, ultimately taking on the United States in a disastrous bid for hegemony (1941-1945). Catastrophic defeat slowed Japan down a little, but by the 1980's, the country had vaulted to the highest per capita income in the world, with wealth and economic power that deeply frightened many, even in the United States. Japan remains the only Great Power, in economic terms (as the Japanese military establishment remains low profile), not directly derived from European civilization. Now, even after a decade of economic stagnation, Japan remains the second largest economy in the world (about 40% the size of the United States, more than 1.7 times the size of Germany, and finally reviving a bit in 2004), although in per capita terms declining from 3rd in the world in 2003 to 11th in 2007 [The Economist Pocket World in Figures, 2007 Edition]. This all might be thought to justify the Japanese view of themselves as unique, or at least special, certainly geopolitically important, giving us some motivation for the inclusion of Japan in a "Sangoku" page…
http://www.friesian.com/sangoku.htm
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This is an example of amateur talks on history.
Most of economists, historians, and journalists in the world do not understand what any non-European nation was required to match Western powers in the 19th and 20th century.
Just look at the list of Novel Prize winners in the fields of science in these centuries.
Or check the list of technical innovations in these centuries.
Modern science, technology, and industry cannot be derived from the ancient Indian or Chinese civilization. It was almost an impossible task and challenge for any non-European nation to fully introduce itself to the modern science, technology, and philosophy developed in Europe taking more than 2,000 years.
But, outside Europe and America, only Japan could fully master and develop modern science, technology, and industry, since Japan had been remarkably able to understand, master, and apply fruits of the ancient Indian and Chinese Civilizations far before the era of its modernization of the European style.
Based on those Asian cultural assets, Japan could enhance its capability to absorb Western Civilization and develop its version of modern Civilization.
Conversely, the ancient Indian and Chinese Civilizations must have been completely forgotten and buried in the world history by now, if Japan, as the only great entity that had completely learnt, absorbed, and acquired these two ancient Civilizations, had not been able to further develop its unique civilization to get prepared for encountering the Western Civilization in the late 19th century.
Put simply, India and China owe their survival and present rise to Japan, since there were many ancient civilizations completely destroyed, buried, and forgotten.
(Or do you think that the British Upper Class or Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin respect the Indian and Chinese Civilizations? They would rather colonize India and China, by use of modern weapons and philosophy.)
Even middle school students in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Tibet can understand that if Japan had not overwhelmingly succeeded in the 20th century as the only non-European/American nation, European races would have regarded all the Asian races and tribes as inferior races or untermenschen.
Japanese civilization consists of the best part of the ancient Indian and Chinese Civilizations in addition to its own unique culture plus selectively imported European culture.
But, if you cannot understand at least academically this historical truth and the value of Japan, you would rather emotionally show such stupid and arrogant attitudes to Japan in writing history.
What’s more, just check how much India and China have contributed to helping other poor countries and the world peace; then you will be surprised at their lack of respect to Japan who has contributed so much to development of poor countries and prevalence of peace in Africa, Asia, and Latin America after WWII.
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I do not deny the fact of global warming, though there is a possibility it has hit a peak due to a change in physical activities of the Sun toward waning.
Yet, CO2 cannot be the sole major factor.
And it looks like that though the contribution of CO2 to the global warming is just 30% of all the factors, Europeans are trying to disseminate an idea that 90% of human efforts should be put into the War on CO2.
It is very dangerous.
It is just like that though Judaists in Germany before WWII had just 3% or so of national assets of Germany, Nazis claimed that they occupied 90% or so of German assets.
They are shouting too much "CO2" and "Carbon" as they shouted too much "Jews."
It is crude oil, coal, and natural gas but not CO2 that should be focused on, since CO2 is just contained in crude oil, coal, and natural gas in an original form.
Especially, if India and China lose respect for Japan, Europeans would frame any crazy scheme, such as CO2 fever, involving India and China to exploit poor people and poor nations in the world.
Rich people in China and India will promptly join rich Europeans to exploit and abuse poor citizens in their society, since traditions of India and China are not democratic at all but desparately full of discriminatory attitudes and terms.
That is why I am telling you to study history and science so as to respect Japan in order to understand the danger of European Civilization-based world.
And, I think the only logical conclusion for poor Americans is a Religious Revolution based on the Gospel but not Western-style churches, since the Gospel itself is the only superior Civilization to Japan who is superior to India and China as history has proven.
Joh 7:30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
Joh 7:31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?