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The total of nonperforming and irrecoverable assets in the U.S. caused by the 2008 Financial Crisis is estimated to be $26.6 trillions.
The total of nonperforming and irrecoverable assets in Europe caused by the 2008 Financial Crisis is estimated to be $14.4 trillions.
The total of nonperforming and irrecoverable assets in Japan caused by the 2008 Financial Crisis is estimated to be $10 billions (though Japan suffered $1 trillion loss in its lost decade in 1990's).
(http://www.geocities.jp/ron_nakamura2001/sub478.htm)
It is also well known that funds infused by the Japanese financial sector into Wall Street since September 2008 has contributed to some early recovery of the U.S. financial sector.
What is more, while Chinese troops are now killing hundreds of Islamic citizens in its western territory and North Korea is developing nuclear-warhead ballistic missiles, the Asian market, including the Chinese market, is peacefully secured due to Japan's presence rather than U.S. military presence in this region.
Yet, the G8 Summit members are still making merry around President Mr. Barack Obama, as if he were the late Mr. Michael Jackson, while Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso alone properly dressed in this summer meeting near Rome and the Vatican.
So, it is apparent the world is wrong; Japan is right, since Prime Minister Mr. Aso alone looks like a Roman Senator at L'Aquila, Italy (with others looking like Germanic chiefs).
SECTION I: Japanese Americans
There are 1,220,922 Japanese Americans in the U.S. today, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Of them, the foreign borns account for 352,512, remarkably 247,748 of which are not American citizens.
Those classified as "one race" account for 70.8% of all these Japanese Americans, while the ratio of "one race" among the total U.S. population is 97.8%.
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-geo_id=NBSP&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_&-reg=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201:041;ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201PR:041;ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201T:041;ACS_2007_1YR_G00_S0201TPR:041&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format=
It is well known that most of Japanese Americans, including those born in the United States, were treated as the enemy of America or regarded as not-genuine American citizens in the wake of the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941.
However, it is impossible that the Japanese Government, in any era, asks anything of Japanese Americans if they have not Japanese nationality.
SECTION II: Religion of Japanese Americans
Americans' concept of religion is immature compared with that of Japanese.
Based on this immature standards, Americans sometimes try to measure the Japanese, resulting in frustration since they cannot understand the deep meaning and effect of the Japanese Buddhism.
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A large number of the Japanese American community continue to practice Buddhism in some form, and a number of community traditions and festivals continue to center around Buddhist institutions. For example, one of the most popular community festivals is the annual Obon Festival, which occurs in the summer, and provides an opportunity to reconnect with their customs and traditions and to pass these traditions and customs to the young. These kinds of festivals are most popular in communities with large populations of Japanese Americans, such as in southern California or Hawaiʻi. It should be noted however, that a resonable number of Japanese people both in and out of Japan are secular as Shinto and Buddhism is most often practiced by rituals such as marriages or funerals, and not through faithful worship, as defines religion for many Americans.
For Japanese American Christians, the church is one of the most important cultural foundations. In California, Hawaiʻi and Washington, congregations can be composed entirely of Japanese Americans. In the rest of the country they tend to be accepted in predominately white churches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American
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Think of how Jesus Christ practiced his religion. It is not like Americans performing the so-called Christianity with their rough brain work but rather like Japanese living a moral daily life with their sensible heart work.
Anyway, it is astonishing that those Japanese Americans have inherited the essence of the Japanese Buddhism or spiritualism through their ancestors, no matter if they have family members of a different racial or cultural origin.
It suggests that the Japanese Buddhism or spiritualism can be a new global religion in the future (probably coupled with the faith in the God Almighty).
SECTION III: Religious War b/w Japan and America in 1940's
It is apparent that the deepest meaning of the war fought between the Empire of Japan and the U.S. as part of WWII is that it was virtually a religious war.
(To be continued...)
(Is the prime miniter's summer to end soon or to enter a real stage? Les médias au Japon est de faire face à un moment historique d'un changement de régime, ma princesse; but you had better have a nice summer holiday.
Source:http://www.senior.aichi-edu.ac.jp/mtahira/recorder_midi/recorder_midi.htm
http://www.senior.aichi-edu.ac.jp/mtahira/MP3/data/2-summer.mp3 )
Rev 7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Rev 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.