(August 8, 2008, Japan)WITH LOVE TO BEIJING?
It was very nice to watch the Olympic Games opening ceremony on TV in Japan, since the Tokyo time is just one hour ahead than the Beijing time.
Except half an hour interruption to observe a late-night TV news program, I watched the whole show conducted at the main stadium and all over the city Beijing, China.
It was not so bad, since Mr. Henry Kissinger was there as televised and Tokyo Governor Mr. Shintaro Ishihara must have been there, though, not spotted on a TV screen.
(Tokyo City is willing to hold the Olympic Games after London.)
The huge collective performance in the stadium and the abundant use of pyrotechnics all over Beijing really touched the nerve of a Japanese female reporter dispatched for reporting, though she told that ordinary citizens in Bejing seemed to be encouraged by the authority to stay at home and watch TV.
(I personally think it offended against morality to depict gigantic foot steps in the night sky with pyrotechnics, having people look up to be amazed at huge soles advancing from the Tienanmen Square to the National Stadium, since it must be against the moral codes ancient China called Zhou had enthusiastically observed and Confucius so admired. Mankind is only under Heaven but not someone's sole.
So, be careful about the modern Chinese mind-set!)
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Some Japanese media are discussing that China will change after the Olympic Games if not over a short amount of time, since 70,000 local Chinese youths are being mobilized as volunteer guides for visiting foreigners. They will learn something from people coming from all over the world. China will have a more sound view on the world.
Yet, the Japanese media was reporting last night that thousands of Tibetans made demonstration before the Chinese consulate or embassy in Nepal against the Beijing Olympic Games, resulting in arrest of 1,000 demonstrators.
In addition, a Uighur terrorist with an AK-47 rifle behind issued a warning in the TV news program.
China had better grant Tibetans and the Uighur people independence.
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Former National Diet member of Japan Mr. Katsuhiko Shirakawa wrote in his blog that it is nice for Tokyo Governor Mr. Shintaro Ishihara to visit China along with Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, though Mr. Ishihara’s anti-China stance was well known.
However, he also presented a picture of the entrance of the Tokyo National Stadium where the 1964 Olympic Games were held. One corner therein is full of weeds and wild grass. No one seems to take care of it any more, while the Stadium is still used often for various sports events.
http://www.liberal-shirakawa.net/tsurezuregusa/index.php?itemid=716
Mr. Shirakawa called himself liberal; but he is actually a kind of conservative, since he has patriot love as proven by his chagrin at the forgotten spirit of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
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In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, the U.S.
In 1984, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, the U.S.
In 1996, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Atlanta, the U.S.
Who felt in 1932 that the U.S. was soon going to play a key role in the world?
Who felt in 1984 that the U.S. was soon going to overwhelm the Soviet Union?
Who felt in 1996 that the U.S. was soon going to behave like the Roman Empire leveraging power at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center?
But, in 1964, it became apparent that Japan would soon restore its status as the major global power the Empire of Japan had enjoyed before WWII, though democratic and pacifist-Constitution-based post-WWII Japan has abandoned the use of military capability to enrich itself.
In 2008, what you are feeling in Beijing may become prophetic to China, Asia, and the world, though Tokyo City is willing to hold the Olympic Games after London.
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Today, they hold the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims Memorial Peace Prayer Ceremony in Japan.
Indeed, we have to still review the history of the Roman Empire, since the Romans boasted that they inherited the glory of ancient Greece.
And, the Romans would not have hesitated to use a nuclear bomb, if they had had it, on any formidable enemy, including ancient China or modern Japan.
(If you don’t mind listening in Beijing:
http://www.geocities.jp/qqbjj485/XPX/index.htm )
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.