(You can smoke on the 44th floor in the Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall. Confirmed it?!)Where Have They Gone, Experts and Professionals?
It is too much to be honored by the Japanese Government, if not by the God, for the invention of a new type of electric cars; but remember I presented one with a wind-powered engine a year ago, before the Lehman Brothers' shock, though most of viewers seem to have just laughed...
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-price-study-conquering-innovation.html
SECTION I: Frivolous Anti-America Camp in Japan
There is strong domestic criticism on the Japanese Government, since it has been very pro-America.
Especially, the Koizumi-Bush relationship has been a target for criticism by opposition parties and their supporters.
Even some prominent liberal commentators said, before September 2008, that as a share of America in Japan's trade was declining, the Government had to be cool to America.
Many armature citizens in the anti-ruling party camp said, before September 2008, that as the U.S. economic power was waning, the Government had to be cool to America.
Such anti-LDP people in Japan often said, before September 2008, as the U.S. Government and its financial sector were exploiting and abusing Japan's assets, the Government had to be cool to America.
Some opposition party members and their supporters virtually claimed, before September 2008, that Japan does not need the American market and American friends, including Mr. George W. Bush.
Then, the financial crisis came in September 2008. Japan's export to the U.S. fell by 10%, 20%, or even 30% to 40% by sector. Even Toyota's sales dropped by 40%. Tens of thousands of Japanese workers have lost their jobs.
And, no one in Japan today claims that Japan does not need the American market and American friends.
Yet, no one in Japan today admits how immature they have been.
That is why if the new Japanese Government highly expected to be formed by the Democratic Party of Japan after the coming general election is manned by such anti-America guys who do not yet sincerely regret what they said on the Japan-U.S. relationship before September 2008, Japan might lose both American friends and the American market, leading to another tens of thousands of job loss.
What is worse, there is a fear that those armature-class DPJ politicians after holding power and forming a Cabinet in Tokyo might become the too-naive and easy enemy (or counterparts) for politicians in Washington D.C., including President Mr. Barack Obama and Secretary Mrs. Clinton.
That is why many responsible or veteran politicians in Japan are nowadays busy and troubled, if not looking like a pierrot, since the regime change in Japan from the LDP-dominant to the DPJ-dominant Government is surely about to be realized in a month or two, as many Japanese voters who have lost jobs since the 2008 financial crisis would vote for the DPJ candidates.
SECTION II: US AMBASSADORS TO JAPAN AND CHINA
There is some controversy about President Mr. Obama's choice for new ambassadors to Tokyo and Beijing:
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JULY 6, 2009
Donors Find a Home in Obama's Ambassador Corps
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and YUKA HAYASHI
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo has seen its share of luminaries in the ambassador's suite. Former Vice President Walter Mondale, former Senate Majority Leaders Mike Mansfield and Howard Baker and former House Speaker Tom Foley are among those who have brokered relations with a complex and critical ally in a region bristling with military and trade tensions.
President Barack Obama's pick for the post is from a different mold: John Roos, a San Francisco Bay area lawyer, was the president's chief Silicon Valley fundraiser and contributions "bundler." He has no diplomatic experience...
"We're not only insulting nations [that] we're appointing these bundlers to, we're risking U.S. diplomatic efforts in these key countries," said Craig Holman, a government-affairs lobbyist at watchdog group Public Citizen...
The Japanese now appear to be making the best of Mr. Roos's eventual arrival. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily said the U.S.-Japan relationship has grown so mature that it doesn't require a big name as a go-between.
A White House official offered Tokyo some reassuring words: "John Roos is very close to the president, and having that can be very important."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124658149328689699.html
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One thing sure about the new ambassador to Japan is that he will be very rich and famous in the international community when he leaves the position.
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Obama naming Huntsman ambassador to China
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & MIKE ALLEN | 5/16/09 3:34 PM EDT
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Huntsman was apparently not the first person Obama considered for the post. Foreign Policy’s The Cable blog reported in April that several people had turned down the job, including former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Obama’s transition chief John Podesta.
Huntsman also wasn't a likely choice, given his strong Republican ties. The blog did not include Huntsman on a speculative list of nominees, including retired admiral Bill Owens, economic adviser Laura D’Andrea Tyson, and former Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), who endorsed Obama during the presidential campaign.
Still, his credentials for the post are solid.
Huntsman, 49, served a Mormon mission in Taiwan. The governor and his wife, Mary Kaye, adopted a daughter, Gracie Mei, from China in 1999. In 2006, he led a trade mission to China "because of their prominence on the world stage and the way in which they are growing so rapidly," he told the Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City.
He served as a deputy assistant secretary of the Commerce Department’s Trade Development Bureau under former President George H.W. Bush, who appointed him as Singapore ambassador in June 1992. Huntsman was identified in news reports at the time as a political donor, bundling contributions from different people for Bush’s reelection.
Huntsman also took a role in President George W. Bush's administration, serving as Deputy U.S. Trade Ambassador from 2001 to 2003...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22589_Page2.html
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The Chinese Government must have asked the Bushes to exert their influence on President Obama's friends.
The Chinese Government must have asked President Obama's friends to recommend President Mr. Obama to install a pro-China guy as the ambassador to China and an amateur guy as the ambassador to Japan, in my guess.
SECTION III: Lost Hope, Lost Fear
A divorced man, 41-years old, fired a pachinko-gamble parlor in Osaka, Japan, in the daytime a few days ago.
Using gasoline and matches, he actually killed four people and injured scores, running away for a few days and finally submitting himself to the police to accept a death penalty.
He had been a gasoline-tank truck driver before he left the job last year, due to the crazy oil price hike.
Then after this news spread all over Japan, a middle-aged Chinese woman was arrested for an attempt of murder by using gasoline and a lighter on a woman who works in a public employment agency around Tokyo, since the Chinese woman could not get satisfactory aid from the female civil-service worker, though the Chinese woman reportedly married a Japanese man to live in Japan.
The speculation in the crude oil market in the U.S. has resulted in the murder of four victims in Osaka and the one attempt around Tokyo, both using gasoline fired as a murder weapon.
Both the violators reportedly said that they wanted to die but first had to take such an action against others.
So, the regime change in Japan is considered as the most possible.
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That is all for today, since I do not smoke outside nowadays, though I would in a car (legally parked) as electric cars seem to be getting popular.
(No God, no familiy, no friends, but small-world despair made people, even if a middle-aged woman, go violent. Toutefois, il vaut mieux leur pitié, ma princesse. So, laugh at a summer song even non-gang youths once loved.
http://www.barks.jp/listen/?id=52024629&b=56k&pl=wm)
Luk 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Luk 7:10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.