(Sorry I was not in the Metro train running around the White House but in the real suburbs to Tokyo Prefecture...)OKINAWA in 1945 and IRAN in 2009?
They say that some 78 million American baby boomers are retiring in these days. But what is this concept of "retiring?" The show of history has just begun with the realization of the first American President who is the son of an African. And, like around 1980, another revolution seems to just begin in Iran...No happy retirement for followers of the God and Allah, definitely.
SECTION I: BATTLE OF OKINAWA 1945
Today, Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso has visited the Okinawa island (Okinawa Prefecture) located in the most southern part of Japan.
He attended the ceremony to commemorate the end of the Battle of Okinawa having been fought between March 26 and June 23, 1945, in the last phase of the Pacific stage of WWII.
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%96%E7%B8%84%E6%88%A6 )
The U.S. and its allies mobilized and concentrated 2,000 ships and 548,000 troops for the greatest landing operation in the human history on Okinawa islands.
The Imperial divisions prepared for the desperate defense battles with 116,400 soldiers and officers so as to gain time for the Imperial Government to fortify defense on Japan proper.
Though the allied lost 12,520 lives of their troops, the Imperial Military lost 94,136 lives in addition to 94,000 deaths of honest and courageous Okinawa civilians.
The Imperial Military however did not forsake troops and civilians engaged or involved in the war on Okinawa, 1000 miles far southwest from Tokyo. The Tokyo Headquarters sent 1,900 kamikaze attack planes from the Japanese mainland to Okinawa, whose sole mission is to hit and sink U.S. naval ships: one fighter plane for one battle ship.
Even the greatest war ship Yamato was dispatched to Okinawa as a kamikaze mission on the sea without any plan to return to its home port.
When the Battle of Okinawa ended, the Empire of Japan should have and must have decided to end the war and immediately ordered Imperial generals, officers, and soldiers to surrender to the allied military.
Then, June 23, 1945 would have been the last day of the Second World War for Japan.
( http://www.geocities.jp/torikai007/1945/okinawa-kamikaze.html)
Note: A grandfather of Prime Minsters Mr. Taro Aso is Shigeru Yoshida, a past prime minister of Japan who negotiated often directly with General Douglas MacArthur stationed in Tokyo after the unconditional surrender of the Empire of Japan on August 15, 1945. Though it is said that General MacArthur met Emperor Showa only once officially during his assignment in Japan for six years, there is a study claiming that they met total 11 times in utmost secrecy.
(http://www.iwanami.co.jp/moreinfo/6001930/top.html)
SECTION II: DEMOCRACY OVER SHINTO AND ISLAM
Before WWII, all the Japanese male adults had a voting right, each.
There were several political parties, and civilian premiers were sometimes in charge of administration of the Empire of Japan.
But, a hurdle to cross was raised beyond the pace of progress of democracy in the Empire of Japan, due to the Great Depression that started in 1929.
The samurai-spirited Empire chose the way for war only to be totally defeated by the world except Germany and Italy.
Then, by providence, American Christians occupied Japan and introduced full democracy into Japan.
Consequently, democracy was put above shintoism, the de-facto state religion of the Empire of Japan.
But, Japan has leveraged this freedom and liberty assured by the new constitution to rebuild the nation and surpass all the WWII allied nations, except America, in terms of technology and economy in the subsequent half century.
This must be the situation Iran now faces.
Full democracy must be introduced into Iran. It must be put over any religion, including the Iranian version of Islam.
Yes, from Iraq to Afghanistan, full democracy must be introduced like in the case of the Empire of Japan in 1945 and after.
Nonetheless, war and civil war must be avoided as a vehicle to convey full democracy to the region.
President Mr. Barack Obama had better pull out all the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan but recommend the retiring 78 million American baby boomers to move to Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan as democracy missionaries.
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As a kind of punishment General MacArthur strongly and forcibly recommended the Japanese Government to adopt a draft of new Japanese constitution prepared by his staff.
However, General MacArthur must have envisaged that the Japanese people would naturally change and modify some part of the constitution in several years, since it includes the very controversial Article 9 renouncing a state right of war and declaring total elimination of armaments for war.
General MacArthur and his staff must not have dreamed that Japan would extremely honestly continue to keep the constitution as it was until 2009.
But, there are no such Christian, Islamic, and Judaistic countries in the world as has an article in their constitution equivalent to the Japanese Article 9.
In this context, Japan is the most Christian, Islamic, and Judaistic in the world.
Accordingly, Japan is the most blessed by the God, Allah, and Yahweh, in my very personal view.
(CHAPTER II: RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9:
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. 2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.)
That is all for today.
(La paix et la grâce sont universels bénédiction, mon ami. It is also my wish: peace and grace upon you if not in an Okinawa hospital.
http://www.lvbeethoven-music.com/Beethoven-Midi/DanielLViens/Symphonie9_Opus125_Mvt1_Choral.mid
Source: http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Oeuvres/Music-Midi-Mp3-Symphonies.html)
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!