(Thus two White Whales were spared...since there were greens...so young and hopeful...)
"The Mystery of the Kingdom of God"
First of all, not all the people feel and think in the same manner you do.
Somebody hates the number "4" and others hate the number "13."
Today, I saw three different cars each of which had the license plate number "1."
I mean that their license numbers were all literally "...1" but not "00-01," though you may regard it as "00-01."
For the first time in my life, I have encountered three different cars in a time interval of 10 to 30 minutes each of which has the license plate number "...1" while tens of thousands of cars are running on these streets around Tokyo...
(There is a rumor that you can buy such a lucky license number from its legal and original owner through private negotiations.
Only vehicles owned by the Japanese Self Defence Force seem to have a different and unique license number system in Japan.
My old cars had always humble license numbers as are usual for all the commodities around me, though I know what they are who are in the opposite situation...)
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Now the year 2003 is part of history, since President Mr. George W. Bush left the office some time ago.
TIME Magazine's Asian Heroes Collection of 2003:
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Satoshi Fukushima
Sightless Visionary
By Jim Frederick/Tokyo
Satoshi Fukushima was not born into a world of darkness and silence—it closed in on him slowly.
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Fukushima says he has one major goal to accomplish: he wants to establish the Japanese equivalent of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, a pioneering educational, research, vocational and rehabilitation center for the deaf-blind in America.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Good deeds on the cutting edge
By Jim Frederick
At a recording studio in Tokyo's forever-young Shibuya district, Ryuichi Sakamoto pushes up the sleeves of his rust-color sweater and leans back in his chair.
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"I'd love to play a concert among a sea of windmills which are powering the concert itself. That," he says, grinning broadly, "would be beautiful.
Hideki Matsui
Godzilla Vs. the Americans
By Robert Whiting
It was finally time to face the cameras. Baseball slugger Hideki Matsui looked at the heaving battery of reporters in the banquet room of Tokyo's plush Imperial Hotel and cleared his throat.
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"It was a valuable lesson for me," he said. "From that day on, I resolved never to lose control of my emotions in a game again."
http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/
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To tell the truth, Japanese heroes in 2003 were Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi and five Japanese citizens who had been abducted by North Korean agents in 1970's but were allowed to return to Japan late in 2002 through diplomatic efforts by Mr. Koizumi and Mr. Shinzo Abe, then Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary.
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Since 2003, the American defence industry took advantage of a boom. Incredible business chances must have been offered to them with the launch of the Iraqi War. Accordingly, rich men, very rich men, and super rich men in the industry got further richer. And, who would do a number on them as they were waging Stars and Stripes?
Yet, your concern must be whether they could comment intelligently on Mr. Barack Obama's startling accession to the U.S. Presidency, since the War in Iraqi served as a precursor for Mr. Obama's presidency.
And, of course, the decisive factor for realization of President Mr. Obama is that fall of Wall Street in September 2008.
In short, the realization of the first half-African/half-European American president owed to the Iraqi War since 2003 and the fall of Wall Street since 2008.
But, which is more significant in history: the first half-African/half-European American president or the combined American crisis of the War on Terror and the fall of Wall Street?
Anyway, there are three historic incidents already in the 21st century: the War on Terror; the Fall of Wall Street; and President Mr. Barack Hussein Obama.
But, the main concern of EEE Reporter is the Vatican, 100km from which a great earthquake occurred recently.
It is so, since complete change in religion of the Vatican would have an influence on the world graver than the combined effect of the War on Terror, the Fall of Wall Street, and President Mr. Barack Hussein Obama.
I think it can be the only incident for mankind where one might be able to have a glimpse of, say, the kingdom of God, so long told and interpreted all in vain to comprehend it.
C'est tout pour aujourd'hui, mon cher ami.
(If someone stopped me, why not am I allowed to draw the evil-destroying sword against this villain, since I am dreaming of a voyage on golden and silver waves of an ocean while drinking under sakura cherry blossom trees in the high garden of the First High School of the Empire of Japan, sang Imperial students of Japan once but a century ago...
Donc, je vais boire sous cerisiers en fleurs lorsque les ennemis sont 100 kilomètres loin.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/ryoka/d1higashi.html)
Mar 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Mar 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.