"I am well pleased"
Joh 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Joh 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
CHAPTER I: JAPANESE OBAMAS
TETSU KATAYAMA
Katayama served the nation Japan as prime minister from the Socialist Party of Japan between 1947 and 1948.
It is said that he is the first Christian prime minister of Japan.
In the political turmoil after the Second World War and the intensified international environment between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the Japanese people overwhelmingly supported the first Christian and socialist prime minister of Japan, though Tetsu Katayama was a graduate from the Imperial University of Tokyo.
He died in 1978, the year that another Christian prime minister Masayoshi Ohira of the LDP assumed the premiership of Japan.
MASAYOSHI OHIRA
Ohiara was appointed 68th prime minister of Japan in December 1978. However, he died of a sudden and fatal disease in June 1980 during a heated campaign of a general election Prime Minister Ohira was bitterly forced to fight to secure his cabinet.
It is said that he is the second Christian prime minister of Japan.
It is also said that the third Christian prime minister of Japan is incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso, though he is from a very rich family.
CHAPTER II: An Edgar Allen Poe’s Poem in 1831
To Helen
Edgar Allen Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
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Note: Nicea is yet to be identified about its precise location. The hyacinth hair is said to be blackish purple hair. My impression is that something is there Hellenic and Germanic in the poem, but it is apparently Archaic Mediterranean...
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The spring has almost reached around Tokyo.
I actually observed cherry blossoms’ buds this morning.
One of them kindly delivered to me greeting.
It is so since I looked up there mostly as a token.
(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/latin/lamer.html)
Luk 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
Luk 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.