(A Tokyo Miracle)"Be Great in the Sight of the Lord"
Mr. George H. W. Bush, a WWII veteran, graduated from Yale University; Mr. Bill Clinton attended Yale Law School; Mr. George W. Bush also finished Yale University; and Mr. Barack Obama entered Harvard Law School.
Yet, in Japan, since Kiichi Miyazawa in office of the Japanese premier between 1991 and 1993, no elite graduates from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo, have assumed the premiership.
Maybe this might be regarded as one of the big revolutionary results from the decade-long economic slump in 1990’s of Japan, in my humble view (though ex-Prime Minister Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone, a WWII veteran from the Tokyo Imperial University, is still active in the Japanese political community).
Yet, in the United States, it is said that 11 Presidents were from one family line.
SECTION I： Franklin D. Roosevelt (in office: March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945)
On October 31, 1936, every audience hailed at the height of excitement to their new leader.
Since it was not in Berlin but at the Madison Square Garden, New York, that the electrifying speech was delivered, it was African Americans who drastically changed their political affiliation from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party:
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For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.
For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace, business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred...
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/text/us/fdr1936.html
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However, Roosevelt was tested by the God, in my humble view, since he had been so blessed materially and mentally. It is as if a deal had been done on a trade off between a fatal disease and the position of the U.S. President.
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In August 1921, while the Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Roosevelt contracted an illness, at the time believed to be polio, which resulted in Roosevelt's total and permanent paralysis from the waist down. For the rest of his life, Roosevelt refused to accept that he was permanently paralyzed. He tried a wide range of therapies, including hydro…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
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Yet, it might have been the death of his strong rival that allowed for Roosevelt’s successful turn to the left or liberalism.
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Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935),.. created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934, with the motto "Every Man a King," ...the colorful and flamboyant Long was shot on September 8, 1935, at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge; he died two days later at the age of 42. His last words were reportedly, "God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long#Assassination
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In addition, what influence Roosevelt had on John Maynard Keynes might be of your concern, if you are of such a class of pundits, bureaucrats, or politicians whether or not struggling or playing around in the U.S. or Japan.
SECTION II: The Great Depression and Japan
Many American elite experts and professors must have tried to study and understand the history of Japan in terms of the Great Depression so as to gain an insight into other aspect of economy or economics that can be effectively applied to the U.S. economy and history.
Yet, no useful results have been ever heard, since Japan has been so unique even in comparison with authentic Judaists.
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With the Great Depression, Japan, like some other countries, turned to what has debatably been termed Fascism. It was a unique political form (see detailed discussion at Japanese nationalism), though with some European parallels. Unlike the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, however, Japan had two economic goals in developing an empire.
First, as with its European counterparts, a tightly-controlled domestic military industry seems to have jump started the nation's economy in the midst of the depression. Also, due to the lack of natural resources on Japan's home islands, in order to maintain a strong industrial sector with strong growth, raw materials such as iron, oil, and coal largely had to be imported. Most of these materials came from the United States. So, for the sake of the military-industrial development scheme, and industrial growth on the whole, mercantilist theories prevailed, and the Japanese felt that resource-rich colonies were needed to compete with European powers. Korea (1910) and Formosa (Taiwan, 1895) had earlier been annexed as primarily agricultural colonies. Manchuria's iron and coal, Indochina's rubber, and China's vast resources were prime targets for industry.
http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Empire_of_Japan
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The threat of the global economic crisis seems to always come from a scramble for natural resources, including iron, crude oil, and foods. What the Aso administration of Japan and the coming Obama Administration must share as the common view is that war in a period of recession is more dangerous than voters going for voting amid tremendous enthusiasm for a star politician.
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That is all for today.
(I am strongly against the President-elect Mr. Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, since U.S. soldiers there are even unable to confirm damages they have given to the Taliban, as a midnight TV news program suggested for audience around Tokyo last night.
http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/midi/Wtcii24a.mid
Source: http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/midi.html)
Luk 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Luk 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Luk 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.