(The Three Major Scenes: The Imperial Palace Park, The Asakusa Temple Area, and the Tokyo Tower Backdrop)Walk in the Light
It might have been very hot in the New Year party room, since hotels and facilities providing such a party hall must be very busy nowadays in Tokyo.
Nonetheless, in the New Year Holiday a miracle occurred in Tokyo.
There were hundreds of hard-working people who had been fired in previous weeks by many first-rate Japanese companies that had hired them as irregular employment. It was all due to the global financial crisis. Yet, hundreds of poor Japanese workers were forced to face the New Year as the homeless in cold nights of Tokyo from the year end to early January.
But, here came supporters and NGOs of good will to provide them with tents, blankets, and other equipment.
Even the usually cold-blooded bureaucrats of the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry allowed those temporary homeless people to use their facilities in the Ministry building as a temporary shelter for several days over the New Year’s day.
But, business aristocracies and leaders of Japan may need to take more compassion for those poor workers.
Those rich people held a New Year party all together yesterday or so. Some said the business climate is now minus 20 degrees below the freezing point. Other said that it is really cold but will not cause death from cold. A majority indicated that they are feeling some heat enough to energize their business for the future.
Japanese business leaders are no more fools than American business leaders are.
Yet, America is full of different races, tribes, and strangers in its national members. In contrast, Japan has the only one major race: the Japanese.
European American leaders would probably not feel any grave pains from their bottom of heart even if they see very poor citizens suffering so badly, when they find that ancestors of such poor people belonged to Africa, the Middle East, Asia, or the Incan/Mayan worlds before the era of Columbus.
But, Japanese leaders must feel grave pains from their bottom of heart when they see very poor Japanese citizens suffering so badly, since all are of the same Japanese race.
Japanese leaders must feel grave pains from their bottom of heart when they see very poor East Asian citizens suffering so badly, since ancestors of all were of the same or overlapped East Asian race and tribes.
Japanese leaders must feel grave pains from their bottom of heart when they see very poor Hindu or Buddhist citizens suffering so badly, since ancestors of all shared the same or overlapped roots of religion.
Japanese leaders must feel grave pains from their bottom of heart when they see very poor Islamic citizens suffering so badly, since ancestors of all shared the same or overlapped non-Roman Empire and non-colonialism traditions.
I also feel grave pains to see descendants of European Judaists who had survived the total massacre by Nazis during WWII still being engaged in a war for their survival in the next 2000 years without knowing the mind of the God or Allah.
(So, the party must have been very hot, mustn’t it? Indeed party goers might be as innocent as church goers, since the Obama party is yet to come. But, dear, it can be quite quiet, for it is still within the Holy First Week of the New Year in Japan.
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1Jo 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.