(There are 40 types of sharks living in the Tokyo Bay, since it has a deep sea valley reaching to the seabed 200 to 1000 meters deep and further to the Pacific Ocean.)Max Weber and "Mottainai"
It is a sheer waste if you give a pearl to a pig.
Though Jesus Christ did not directly order to avoid wasteful use of goods, materials, and energy, his warning against rich people and people of position implies the same thing.
Or, have you ever seen rich people and people of position who avoid any wasteful use of goods, materials, and energy?
In Japan, it is said that the founder of Sony and his widow have had the motto “Mottianai” meaning “it is a sinful waste to arrogantly handle goods, materials, and energy without due respect to the Heaven, a god, or the God.”
SECTION I: “Mottainai” – The Late Mr. Morita’s Claim
Mr. and Mrs. Morita got shocked when they saw the remnants of beefsteak having been served and running off the edge of the plate were simply thrown away as garbage in a restaurant where they dined; a fabulous car too large to carry only one man was on every road in multitudes; and air-conditioning in houses and offices was too cool or cold in the summer and too warm or hot in the winter. It was so because it was early 1960’s that the couple first lived in the U.S.
So, in November 1973, the late Mr. Akio Morita, the founder of Sony Corporation, delivered a speech in a certain formal meeting in New York to audience highly concerned with an Israeli-Arab war and the subsequent oil crisis, stressing that American people must become humble just like the Japanese people who always expressed thanks to the Heaven, gods, and the God by avoiding wasteful use of goods, materials, and energy while respecting the nature and hard working.
His speech made the front page of The New York Times the next morning, since the late Mr. Morita used a Japanese expression, “Mottainai,” as a symbol of the Japanese philosophy to avoid wasteful use of goods, materials, and energy.
He used the same word “Mottainai” in his book “Made in Japan” released in October, 1986.
In the book, he wrote that though there existed various words corresponding to “Mottainai” in Europe and Asia, such as being “frugal of money and resources,” the Japanese word “Mottainai” includes a religious concept and context. The Japanese people have a tradition to regard a wasteful use of goods, materials, and energy as a sin from a religious point of view.
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And, in 2005, an African lady after winning the Nobel Peace Prize delivered a speech in the headquarters of the United Nations, New York, adopting the Japanese word “Mottainai” to emphasize her philosophy applied to her environmental conservation activities.
Quickly responding, when she heard of this news in 2005, the widow of the late Mr. Morita sent a copy of the address her husband had made in 1973 to the then Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi and the then Japanese Minister for the Environment Ms. Yuriko Koike.
Of course, it is unusual even in Japan that a widow of a businessman, no matter how influential he was even as a friend of the Rockefeller clan, sends a copy of a speech her late husband made 30 years ago to the Japanese Prime Minister and a related Minister to request them to respect the claim he made in New York based on his conscience as an honorable Japanese.
(Refer to The Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper dated on September 1, 2008.)
SECTION II: Japan’s Lost Decades and U.S. Subprime Loan Crisis
Everybody working in the financial sector and political circles in the world knows that Japan suffered lost decades from early 1990’s to early 2000’s.
But, now every citizen in the world knows that the U.S. is suffering the second year of the debacle of the subprime loan business scheme whose total loss is expected to reach half a trillion dollars or one trillion dollars including lost credit capability.
Apart from the speculation about whether the influence of the subprime loan crisis will continue to work on the U.S. and the global economy for a decade, there is a big difference in the two major economic slumps.
Japan’s lost decades did not give negative impacts on other countries. Rather the lost decades were so prolonged, because Japanese businesses opted for developing the Chinese market and investing in Chinese industries for cheap labor costs, resulting in the economic boom in China and Asia.
But, the U.S. subprime loan crisis is globally causing a negative effect on financial institutes. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac never invested in the Chinese market to foster it; instead, they have been supported by funds provided by Japan, China, and other global stakeholders.
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11964819
SECTION III: Max Weber and Japanese Buddhism
When Japan got bogged down in the decade-long recession in 1990’s, it is said that the then U.S. President Mr. Bill Clinton was highly rejoiced while examining an economic report on Japan with the then FRB chairman Mr. Alan Greenspan.
Today, it is reported that some arrogant Wall Street workers are boasting that they are smart enough to place the financial burdens related to the subprime loan crisis widely on foreign financial institutes.
They are shamelessly laughing at Japan, since Japan did not place its financial burdens related to the lost decades widely on foreign financial institutes.
They are arrogantly saying that Japanese are racially inferior so that it cannot take a smart strategy to place its financial burdens on financial institutes in the U.S., the EU, China, and so on.
What is worse, their claim that the Japanese financial sector is wrong, inferior, and foolish in terms of financial practices has had a decisive influence on some Japanese economists who have mistakenly come to think that the Japanese financial sector is committing a sin of some sort, though not so well understood, since notable U.S. economists of the Nobel Prize class are joining the perverted view on Japan.
If Mr. Clinton and Mr. Greenspan said in person that the American financial practices were right, correct, and responsible and Japanese ones were sinful, any Japanese economist would agree with them so blindly.
But, Max Weber was surprised through his study to find that the Japanese society in the early 13th century had already reached the same level of professional ethics along with evolution of the Japanese Buddhism as that of the Western society based on the Protestant ethics.
Max Weber found another Lutheran domain in Japan 200 years prior to the work of Martin Luther.
Now, it is crystal clear that the origin of the subprime loan crisis is the perverted development and evolution of the Lutheran ethics and the Calvinism in Wall Street and Washington D.C.
That is why I recommend some influential Japanese economists to learn Max Weber who clearly denies the spirit of Wall Street and FRB, since they all look like "Specialists without Spirits."
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When the late Mr. Morita was alive and active in Japan and the U.S. promoting Sony’s brand and products between 1960’s and 1980’s, he must have never dreamed that a decade later a U.S. President, an FRB chairman, and workers in Wall Street would all start to show half-naked hate, antagonism, and contempt on the Japanese financial sector while selling subprime loan-contaminated financial goods in the global money market.
(The major reason is of course that non-Christian and non-European Japan became the second largest economy in the world in 1980’s.)
But, if any Japanese economist is treated well by the CEO of Sony, so that he is introduced to an ex-FRB chairman, the Rockefeller clan, and notable pundits of the Mr. Kissinger class, the Japanese economist would blindly accept the perverted view on financial ethics being concocted and cooked up by avaricious and arrogant U.S. economists and financial sector workers.
So, economists in Japan, China, India, and Asia must realize that their American friends are not a kind of Max Weber but the Mafia.
That is why I am telling you that the super rich men in the U.S. are simply making mistakes and not taking any self-destructive policy for more profound interests and profits based on some mysterious philosophy which however actually does not exist at all.
All I wish is that Mr. Barack Obama will not join that kind of Mafia in Wall Street, since they lack ability, to your surprise, to understand what Max Weber said, since their arrogance and greedy have made them so blind.
Joh 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
Joh 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Joh 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Joh 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Joh 9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Joh 9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Joh 9:8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
Joh 9:9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
Joh 9:10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?