STATESMAN OR ARTIFICER
It is cold but fine around Tokyo today.
The next Monday, November 24, is a Japan’s public holiday, though political situations are getting tight here and there.
SECTION I: This Week’s Invention
It is a wired flying engine for an individual.
One of its applications is for the use of fire fighting as below illustrated.
If you want to commercialize this product, please express your concern to me in any way. GM is highly expected to do so.
SECTION II: Living History
On page 14 of "Living History" written by Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the only remark on Japanese Americans is found in a context of her mother’s memory:
As a child in California, she had watched the Japanese Americans in her school endure blatant discrimination and daily taunt from the Anglo students. After she returned to Chicago, she often wondered what happened to one particular boy she liked. The kids called him “Tosh,” short for Toshihishi. She saw him again when she returned to Alhambra to serve as Grand Marshal at their sixtieth high school reunion. As she had suspected, Tosh and his family had been interned during World War II, and their farm had been taken from them. But she was heartened to learn that, after years of struggling, Tosh had become a successful vegetable farmer himself.
http://www.amazon.com/Living-History-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton/dp/0755313143/ref=ed_oe_p
Indeed, if her kind mother had been destined for an interracial marriage with “Tosh,” Hillary must have been a kind of “Sansei” – the third generation of Japanese Americans – or so.
Then, she must have more passionately shouted "Change" in the 2008 Presidential Election.
Anyway, she might have been born to be Secretary of State of the U.S. rather than an heir to vegetable farmland owned by a Japanese American family.
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That is all for today.
Last night I saw on TV "Always Zoku Sanchome no Yuhi," a Japanese movie dramatizing ordinary people’s life in Tokyo in late 1950’s when the Tokyo Tower was built.
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=VPCD-81580
( http://www.always3.jp/ )
In summary, a stupid writer lost a big literary award but got a genius foster son and won a Miss-Japan class of dancer whose friend was the wandering mother of the boy who refused to live with his natural father, though not through a legal marriage with the boy's mother, since he was a very rich businessman and despised the poor writer.
(Uhh, what a Saturday it is, my dear! [The killer of a former Japan's vice minister has turned himself in at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters, they reported.])
1Co 11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1Co 11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
1Co 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.