(Around the Tokyo Bay)FACES and FACES of BEIJING OLYMPICS
Yesterday, I left my home before the noon and came back before 6 p.m. quickly to send a postal card. Then later I checked pictures I took in the Tokyo Bay.
Of course, until around 11 p.m., I watched the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games broadcast live.
And, this Monday morning, Japanese media are celebrating the success of the Olympics held by the Chinese Communist Party who would not fully cooperate with Japan to force North Korea to release Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean secret agents in these decades.
Were Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean secret agents enjoying in Pyongyang the TV broadcasting from Beijing? If not, any Japanese should not praise the Beijing Olympics at all so long as they love Japan at all.
SECTION I: Ex-Toyota Man Won Men’s Olympic Marathon
The New York Times introduced the winner Mr. Samuel Kamau Wanjiru.
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By LYNN ZINSER
Published: August 23, 2008
BEIJING — As the heat intensified during the men’s Olympic marathon Sunday morning, the field hung on the hope that Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya could not possibly keep up the blistering pace he helped set from the race’s very first steps….. He pulled away from his final challenger ….not just winning Kenya’s first gold medal in the marathon but shattering the Olympic record in 2 hours 6 minutes 32 seconds.
…Wanjiru has trained mainly in Japan since 2002, attending high school there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/sports/olympics/24marathon.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=marathon&st=cse&oref=slogin
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After graduation from a high school in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Mr. Wanjiru was employed by a subsidiary company of Toyota where the Japanese marathon silver medalist in 1992 Barcelona Olympic games has been working as a coach for the company’s athletic sports club.
This July Mr. Wanjiru decided to leave the Toyota’s subsidiary company.
Mr. Barack Obama, whose father is a Kenyan, has to still run in the U.S. Presidential Election race; but the Kenyan Mr. Wanjiru has already won, expressing his gratitude immediately after the race at Beijing to Japanese coaches and teachers who gave him precious lessons not only about running skills but also on a mind set.
This is another Miracle in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, since this last sport event in the Olympics involves a Kenyan hero and Japanese supporters, while a son of a Kenyan is now running for the U.S. Presidential Election.
SECTION II: Fireworks and Suspension in Midair
Chinese leaders do not understand what the Olympics mean.
Their presentation at the opening and closing ceremonies looked like nothing but entertainment with fireworks and suspension shows in midair.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Jackie Chan, a notable Hong Kong action film star, made appearance for the closing ceremony in the Beijing Olympics stadium, singing something with other Asian entertainers.
The leaders of China must have wanted to present hundreds of “Jackie Chan” in the Olympics ceremonies, as their only idea was to adopt action movies featuring Mr. Jackie Chan.
Consequently, without fireworks and suspension shows in midair, nothing was there in the ceremonies except massed calisthenics only a despotic state can mobilize.
SECTION III: Whole Lotta Unsuitableness
But worse might be the Britain’s show in the closing ceremony, advertising the 2012 Olympics in London. But, how is the song “Whole Lotta Love” of Led Zeppelin relevant to the Olympics? A two-story bus or a Double Decker is now a symbol of the 2005 Terror in London, isn’t it? As they deny the entry of the Baseball and the Softball in the London Olympics, it was not pleasant to see a British soccer hero on the bus as part of the presentation in the closing ceremony in Beijing.
British ordinary and poor citizens must realize their leaders have been wrong since the tragic death of Princess Diana at Paris in 1997. They have to take control even over the London 2012 Olympics.
SECTION IV: Old Chinese about to be Sent to a Labor Camp
Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, a notable Japanese journalist, joined a TV discussion program broadcast live in Japan on the Sunday morning.
I watched the program, while the men’s marathon race was being competed in on the streets of Beijing.
She said that two old Chinese, both almost 80 years old, had protested against enforced evacuation for making space for Olympic facilities in Beijing. They filed objections five times; Being appalled, then they were arrested by the police who decided to send them to a labor camp as part of punishment, though they were finally released.
It is estimated that there are millions of poor Chinese who are living under such a threat in big cities and villages in China, including those living in Tibet and The Uighur Autonomous Region.
SECTION V: The Olympics and Christianity
Christianity has nothing to do with the Olympics, since Jesus Christ never mentioned this Greek tradition.
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The games carried on, even as Greece's power declined Rome's rose. Although the Olympics continued to enjoy a measure of prestige, the varying political and economic changes of the Hellenistic and Roman periods affected both the site and the games. Some later Roman emperors, who admired Greek culture, revived the splendor of the games and restored the site and buildings.
By the 3rd century A.D., however, the lists of victors are increasingly uncertain and incomplete; by the end of the century the lists stop altogether. Once the Roman emperors formally adopted Christianity, they discouraged and eventually, outlawed, old "pagan" religious practices. Since the Olympic games were first and foremost a religious celebration in honor of Zeus, they held no place in the Christian empire. The emperor Theodosius I legally abolished the games in 393 or 394 A.D.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/faq11.html
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It is quite right that the Vatican neglects the Olympics and never sends athletes to the event.
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As long as mankind is enjoying the Olympics, I am afraid that the Messiah would not come back to the world.
The Olympics in ancient Rome produced many mad men like Emperor Nero who sacrificed so many followers of Jesus Christ.
The Olympics today are producing so many victims behind the scene, say, in Tibet, The Uighur Autonomous Region, and Georgia as well as Japanese abductees by North Korea, though Tokyo is willing to host it in 2016.
At least, we have to rename it as "the Kenyans (Japanese)," since the latest and greatest glory is on the Kenyan marathon runner educated in Japan.
Or will the Vatican agree to call it "Jerusalem" or "Armageddon?"
(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/jojoh/santalucia.html )
Act 17:15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
Act 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Act 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.