Next Prime Minister Hopeful Yukio Hatoyama
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MAY AMERICA BE HOLY LAND
His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress are going to visit Hawaii and Canada soon.
But, the Crown Prince can officially act for the Emperor of Japan by law:
JAPAN's CONSTITUTION
Article 6 [Appointments]
(1) The Emperor shall appoint the Prime Minister as designated by the Diet.
(2) The Emperor shall appoint the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court as designated by the Cabinet.
Article 7 [Functions]
The Emperor, with the advice and approval of the Cabinet, shall perform the following acts in matters of state on behalf of the people:
1. Promulgation of amendments of the constitution, laws, cabinet orders and treaties.
2. Convocation of the Diet.
3. Dissolution of the House of Representatives.
4. Proclamation of general election of members of the Diet.
5. Attestation of the appointment and dismissal of Ministers of State and other officials as provided for by law, and of full powers and credentials of Ambassadors and Ministers.
6. Attestation of general and special amnesty, commutation of punishment, reprieve, and restoration of rights.
7. Awarding of honors.
8. Attestation of instruments of ratification and other diplomatic documents as provided for by law.
9. Receiving foreign ambassadors and ministers.
10. Performance of ceremonial functions.
Yet, it is very exceptional.
SECTION I: WHOSE AMERICA
There is an unsettled controversy about why "America" was named so.
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The earliest known use of the name America for this particular landmass dates from April 25, 1507. It appears first on a small globe map with twelve time zones, and then a large wall map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine names...
Another objection is that new countries and continents were never named after an explorer's first name, hence Tasmania (after Abel Tasman), Van Diemen's Land (after Anthony van Diemen) and The Cook Islands (after Captain James Cook). The only exceptions to this were places named after royal people, hence the Victoria Falls. Therefore, under this principle America would have been called Vespuccia...
Another theory, first proposed by a Bristol antiquary and naturalist, Alfred Hudd, in 1908 was that America is derived from Richard Amerike (Richard ap Meurig), a Welsh merchant from Bristol, who is believed to have financed John Cabot's voyage of discovery from England to Newfoundland in 1497 as found in some documents from Westminster Abbey a few decades ago. Supposedly, Bristol fishermen had been visiting the coast of North America for at least a century before Columbus' voyage and Waldseemüller's maps are alleged to incorporate information from the early English journeys to North America. The theory holds that a variant of Amerike's name appeared on an early English map (of which no copies survive) and that this was the true inspiration for Waldseemüller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Naming
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The truth might be found in the world map created in 1507.
(Click to enlarge.)Anyway, importance of reporting can be here confirmed, since as Amerigo Vespucci reported on the new continent in his letters general European people came to have a notion of the continent over the Atlantic.
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The two disputed letters claim that Vespucci made four voyages to America, while at most two can be verified from other sources. At the moment there is a dispute between historians on when Vespucci visited mainland the first time. Some historians like German Arciniegas and Gabriel Camargo Perez think that his first voyage was done in June 1497 with the Spanish Pilot Juan de la Cosa. Vespucci's real historical importance may well rest more in his letters, whether he wrote them all or not, than in his discoveries. From these letters, the European public learned about the newly discovered continent of the Americas for the first time; its existence became generally known throughout Europe within a few years of the letters' publication. Why exactly he died is unclear. He died on February 22, 1512 in Seville, Spain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
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So, the news reporting makes or decides a case sometimes.
Yet, if Mr. Barack Obama should successfully and gloriously fulfill his duty from 2009 to 2017, why not rename America "Obama?"
Of course, it is theologically supported to rename America New Palestine, since Judaists were expelled out of Spain in 1492, eventually leading to the Holocaust.
SECTION II: Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
It looks like a little strange that Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506) and Martin Luther lived almost the same era.
Let's confirm how Mratin Luther regarded Judaists:
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Luther argued that the Jews were no longer the chosen people but "the devil's people": he referred to them with violent, vile language.[164][165] Luther advocated setting synagogues on fire, destroying Jewish prayerbooks, forbidding rabbis from preaching, seizing Jews' property and money, and smashing up their homes, so that these "poisonous envenomed worms" would be forced into labour or expelled "for all time".[166] In Robert Michael's view, Luther's words "We are at fault in not slaying them" amounted to a sanction of murder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
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Judaists living after 1492 should have all considered their taking refugee in the new continent, leaving Germany and any other part of Europe.
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(To be continued...)
(Tout cela correspond à un non-sens de la situation sociale de ces jours, ma princesse, n'est-ce pas?
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-senzen/zundokobushi.html)
Mar 7:3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Mar 7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Mar 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mar 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.