(Tokyo and the Tokyo Bay)12:5 and Thomas' Testimony
On December 8, 1941 (Japan Time), the Empire Of Japan opened war against the United States, the only country then that could defeat the Empire militarily, with a prospect that both the countries would enter peace negotiations in a few years.
(The American Government then had no intention to avoid the war at all, since Nazi Germany had already occupied Paris and air-bombed London ruthlessly, though the long-waited report about attacks by the Imperial Navy came from Hawaii but not from the Philippines.)
Nobody in the Empire of Japan dreamed then that the great war would end with nuclear-war tragedies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The only answer to any religious questions to this proceeding of history up to Japan's present day's prosperity and peace might be found in the Gospel, since the God is History.
SECTION I: The Gospel of Thomas
Following are excerpts from the Gospel of Thomas I like to take note of here:
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(10) Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes."
(16) Jesus said, "Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary."
(26) Jesus said, "You see the mote in your brother's eye, but you do not see the beam in your own eye. When you cast the beam out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to cast the mote from your brother's eye."
(31) Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him."
(32) Jesus said, "A city being built on a high mountain and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."
(33) Jesus said, "Preach from your housetops that which you will hear in your ear. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a lampstand so that everyone who enters and leaves will see its light."
(34) Jesus said, "If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into a pit."
(38) Jesus said, "Many times have you desired to hear these words which I am saying to you, and you have no one else to hear them from. There will be days when you will look for me and will not find me."
(39) Jesus said, "The pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge (gnosis) and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves."
(45) Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they do not produce fruit. A good man brings forth good from his storehouse; an evil man brings forth evil things from his evil storehouse, which is in his heart, and says evil things. For out of the abundance of the heart he brings forth evil things."
(to be continued…)
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html
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Thomas might have been one of special twelve followers of Jesus Christ.
But, he looks a kind of heresy sometimes. Accordingly, the Gospel reported by such an Israelite would not be perfect from an academic or religious point of view.
Indeed, Thomas seems to have had wheat and weeds in his soul.
SECTION II: Japanese Obamas
There are still many politicians in Japan probably senior to you.
Martti Turunen (The Democratic Party of Japan)
Mr. Turunen was born in Finland and came to Japan as a missionary priest. In 1974, he quit his job to be an English teacher in Japan. He became a naturalized citizen of Japan in 1979. He became a National Diet member of Japan in 2002 (thus called "Tsurunen Marutei" here in Japan).
He is of course not a member of the Japanese races, but he must have patriotic spirit for Japan, since Finland is so far.
http://tsurunen.cocolog-nifty.com/nikkann/
KATSUEI HIRASAWA (The Liberal Democratic Party)
Mr. Hirasawa is well known for his involvement in a kind of national efforts to rescue Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in these decades. The ex-bureaucrat Lower House lawmaker has also made many TV appearances even in entertainment programs.
When he was a university student decades ago, he gave private lessons, as a part time job, to a certain elementary school boy who happened to be the young Mr. Shinzo Abe, now ex-Prime Minister of Japan in the premier office between 2006 and 2007.
Both Mr. Abe and Mr. Hirasawa must be still the most focused-on Japanese politicians by North Korea.
http://www.hirasawa.net/
YORIKO KAWAGUCHI (The Liberal Democratic Party)
Ms. Kawaguchi is one of female ex-elite bureaucrats, since she graduated from the University of Tokyo decades ago, though not from the faculty of law. She was remarkably appointed by then Prime Minister Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2002, while she had no seat in the Japanese Parliament.
She recently wrote some about the relationship between Japan and the U.S., emphasizing a need for Japan to positively and actively face the world and take actions with the Obama Administration, since her friend in America told her that Mr. Obama shows unwavering determination in presenting his idea as observed nearby.
http://www.yoriko-kawaguchi.jp/official/archives/2008/11/post-86.php
MAKIKO TANAKA (Independent)
She served the early Koizumi Cabinet as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan to be succeeded by Ms. Kawaguchi in 2002.
As her late father Kakuei Tanaka, then Prime Minister of Japan, shook hands with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai in Beijing in 1972, paving the way for the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, she seems to still have strong pull in Beijing.
As the top leader of the largest opposition party, DPJ, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa was one of closest disciples of Kakuei Tanaka decades ago, Ms. Makiko Tanaka may have a chance to play a major role, again, in the possible Ozawa Cabinet, though most critics and journalists do not seem to like this perspective.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E7%9C%9F%E7%B4%80%E5%AD%90
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That is all for today.
Indeed, black is white; white is black, if the God says so.
Nonetheless, a photon cannot see any color as light cannot see light, since there is no flow of time inside light or a photon.
That may be why the God governs mankind using time which has no effect on Him at all.
(Today it is December 5, namely 12:5, isn’t it?
http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/midi/Wtcii05a.mid
Source: http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/midi.html）
Luk 12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.