(Mt. Fuji and the Tokyo Tower of Yesterday)
The Biggest News in 2008
They reported that Mr. Kim Jong-Il, the top leader of North Korea is still ill in bed, losing the commanding power of the nation.
It was also reported that a female North Korean spy arrested in South Korea a few months ago tried to commit suicide in a prison yesterday or so, though her life has been saved.
It is said that North Korea of today somehow resembles the Empire of Japan during and before the Second World War.
In those days, the paradigm of samurai ethics still prevailed in Japan, especially within the Imperial Government and its Army and Navy.
One of gravely distorted features of the paradigm, as so degraded in decades before WWII, is that as samurai-spirited officers and officials are always prepared to die for the nation in a war or any emergency, the society must forgive their minor errors and transgressions.
However, if a samurai gets used to enjoying drinking, eating, and entertainment or a family life, he will surely lose in a battle and run away from the front for his life.
Mr. Kim Jong-Il seems to have enjoyed drinking, eating, and entertainment or a family life too much to command the nation on the quasi-war basis.
Yet, the biggest news in 2008 for Japan is that Ms. Megumi Yokota has not returned to her parents living around Tokyo, though she was forcibly and unlawfully abducted by North Korean spies decades ago, when she was a junior high school student, from a local town of the Japan's mainland facing the Sea of Japan.
(It is cold around Tokyo today. Nonetheless, the New Year holidays in Japan are going to start. As for me, nothing changes. Probably, I will watch NHK satellite TV programs or other cable TV channel programs more often than usual.
So, nothing changes around Tokyo.)
Luk 12:28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Luk 12:29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Luk 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Luk 12:31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.