(Last evening somewhere in Japan)"WHO LOVES JAPAN?"
SECTION I: Spherical Heart, Heart-Shaped Heart, and Square Heart
Ancient Japanese thought that a soul is in the mind.
In Japanese, a soul is called "Tamashii."
Here, "tama" means a globe or a ball.
In Japanese, a mind is called "Kokoro"
Here, "kokoro" is, according to an authentic theory, an abbreviation for "koro-koro," a state of a globe or a ball rolling.
Therefore, ancient Japanese thought that a globe-like soul is in the rolling-ball-like mind.
Yet, ancient Chinese thought that a mind is square, while Europeans think a mind is heart-shaped like a physical heart in the chest.
Now, you know how Japanese are different from Chinese and Europeans.
Accordingly, the Japanese concept of money and economy must be different from that of Europeans and Chinese, which global politicians and economists must respect.
It is so, since "yen," a unit of Japanese currency, means a circle.
(Once Japanese often named a cat "Tama," since a cat is more spherical than square or heart-shaped. In addition, a tiger "tora." There is a kind of cat called "tora-neko," a tiger-cat...)
SECTION II: Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso
Suppose that the Republican Party has held power since the Korean War, all through the Cuban Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Money War on Japan, and further the War on Terror, except a very exceptional year in early 1990's.
And, in 2009, for the first time the Democratic Party has got a chance to take over the White House through election.
Then, you will understand how historical the year 2009 is.
In Japan, it is reality with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the position of the Republicans and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), though founded just a decade ago, in the place of the Democrats.
So, incumbent Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Taro Aso, whose approval rate has been recently lowered to less than 20%, might become the last prime minister from the LDP. By law, the term of the House of Representatives is to end this September and a general election is held; then newly elected Diet members will vote for a new prime minister of Japan. But, by law, Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso can dissolve the lower house to exercise his initiative to control the situation.
This situation in suspense has continued in Japan since Prime Minister Mr. Aso assumed the premiership last September.
As Mr. Barack Obama was elected as U.S. President last November, it is very likely that Mr. Taro Aso loses the coming general election, and head of the DPJ Mr. Yukio Hatoyama takes the seat of Prime Minister of Japan in a few months.
Indeed, it is the era that GM goes bankrupt and Toyota records some billion-dollars deficit.
SECTION III: Japan Uses the Least Energy Producing Steel
Steel is still the core of today's material civilization.
And, Japan is Number One in the world in producing crude steel with less energy.
( http://www.jisf.or.jp/business/ondanka/efficiency/docs/EnergyEfficiencyJPN.pdf)
Japanese technology and efforts for energy saving in industry surpasses all the other nations, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Germany, Australia, China, India, and Russia.
The world should respect Japan. The world should not request unrealistic CO2 reduction efforts for Japan, since Japan has been leading the world in energy saving efforts.
The scale of the Japanese economy is the main factor for the large CO2 emission from this second largest economy in the world, though it could be 30% to 40% larger without its current high technology.
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(To be continued...)
(Last evening only radio-controlled gliders were blown by the wind on a holy river side. Est-ce que le vent souffle de l'amour, là, ma princesse?
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/folk/blowinthewind.html )
Luk 6:30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
Luk 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Luk 6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.