("To-Cho-Mae" means an "entrance to the Tokyo prefecture government office, since "To" is for a capital prefecture; and "Cho" in Japanese means a governmental office.)Now, His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress are on a goodwill tour in Canada. Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso of Japan is flying to Italy for the G8 Summit (though President Mr. Barack Obama has visited Moscow).
Yet, Tokyo looked very peaceful yesterday, since I saw only four to five shanties covered by big blue sheets built by homeless people to live in on the bank of a big holy river flowing through Tokyo town areas to the Tokyo Bay.
SECTION I: Evil Puritanism?
There is one important common notion between Christianity and Buddhism: a bad man works hard violently to earn big money; a righteous man works hard to peacefully save the poor.
(If you try to save poor people, you will inevitably get poor, since you have to give your money to the poor.)
Accordingly, being a hard working and rich man proves that the man has an evil spirit.
But, being a hard worker and at the same time a poor man proves that the man has right faith.
Simply observed, Puritanism distorted the teaching of Jesus Christ. Americans came to believe that a hard working and thus rich man has a respectable personality, which is so ridiculous. Americans came to believe that a poor man must be lazy and irreligious so that they must be despised, which is so anti-Christ.
But, even today, in Japan, the original Buddha's teaching is respected so that poor men are not despised only for their bring poor. Yet, even today, in America, the distorted Puritanism teaching is deplorably respected so that poor men are despised only for their bring poor.
Japanese are more close to the teaching of Jesus Christ than Americans are. This ridiculous situation was resulted from diffusion of the distorted Puritanism among Americans.
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After the 17th cent. the Puritans as a political entity largely disappeared, but Puritan attitudes and ethics continued to exert an influence on American society. They made a virtue of qualities that made for economic success—self-reliance, frugality, industry, and energy—and through them influenced modern social and economic life. Their concern for education was important in the development of the United States, and the idea of congregational democratic church government was carried into the political life of the state as a source of modern democracy. Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, Roger Williams, Increase Mather, and Cotton Mather.
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0860592.html
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The issue is for what and whom a man has become rich. If for himself and his pride, it is anti-Christ. If for other poor men and glory of the God, he can be condoned by Jesus Christ.
In this respect, Puritanism is unbelievably immature like so many rich Americans.
Do not be fooled by them, even if they are proud of the American democracy over the Islam and the Buddhism as they might be thinking that without American Christianity there cannot be true democracy.
SECTION II: A Miracle between Japan and Islam
Almost 100 years after the establishment of Islam in the Middle East in the seventh century, its information and proof was conveyed to Japan.
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NARA, Japan, July 3 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Pieces of an Islamic ceramic vase dating back to the late eighth century have been discovered in Nara Prefecture, making it possibly the oldest Islamic porcelain found in Japan, Nara city government researchers said Friday.
Nineteen pieces with a blue-green exterior and dark green interior surface were unearthed at Saidaiji Temple in the ancient Japanese capital...
What were previously thought to be the oldest Islamic ceramics in Japan were found in Fukuoka Prefecture, but the latest find from the Abbasid Caliphate appears roughly a century older, they said...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99709KG2&show_article=1&catnum=0
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This Islamic vase is believed to have been created in Iraq of the 8th century and carried into Japan though the Indian Ocean, East and South China Seas.
When U.S. troops left Baghdad, the very old Islamic vase was discovered in Japan (though not first in Japan) as if celebrating.
Indeed, what Iraq needs now is not U.S. troops but Japanese businesses, since almost 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed unduly since the U.S. military invasion in 2003.
(http://www.sankei-kansai.com/2009/07/04/20090704-011923.php )
SECTION III: Japan's Constuitution and the Koran
If a national budget is in red, a government has to use its endeavors for the promotion and extension of social welfare and security, and of public health. In order to fulfill this duty, a government has to exercise power to set the allowable maximum rich life (rather than a tax rate for the wealthy) over which any individual assets shall be transferred to the government at least partially, since without the poor the rich cannot stay rich in the current economic system.
THE CONSTITUTION OF JAPAN
Article 25:
All people shall have the right to maintain the minimum standards of wholesome and cultured living. 2) In all spheres of life, the State shall use its endeavors for the promotion and extension of social welfare and security, and of public health.
Let's also examine carefully and respectfully the Koran:
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5. al-Ma'idah: The Food
Allah made a covenant of old with the Children of Israel and We raised among them twelve chieftains, and Allah said: Lo! I am with you. If ye establish worship and pay the poor-due, and believe in My messengers and support them, and lend unto Allah a kindly loan, surely I shall remit your sins, and surely I shall bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow. Whoso among you disbelieveth after this will go astray from a plain road.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/005.htm
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The Japanese land is a kind of heaven full of rivers and rice in addition to good natured people at least since 2000 years ago.
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(To be continued...)
Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.