(The End of the "Tsu-yu" Rainy Season around Tokyo for Real Summer...)The English Civil War
They say that The New York Times and The Washington Post drew attention to the recent movement in the Japanese politics.
Both the U.S. papers concluded that the Liberal Democratic Party would eventually lose power it has held for half a century after the coming general election.
Interestingly their views are not so different from EEE Reporter's, but there is something they cannot understand. It is the personal pride of Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso.
He can neither spontaneously step down nor accept forced resignation. His only choice is to fight the general election as an honorable leader of the LDP, if he himself and the LDP itself are going to lose power in the Government due to highly expected defeat by the Democratic Party of Japan.
You cannot have the prime minister of Japan make a laughingstock of himself. He must fight, lose, and virtually retire. The recent defeat of his LDP in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Election has prepared, without doubt, Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso to face like a man whatever outcomes from the coming snap election.
But, this ceremonial political procedure based on Japanese traditional aesthetics is going to take still 50 days until August 30, 2009,
All I wish is that The New York Times and The Washington Post would understand this ceremonial political procedure based on Japanese traditional aesthetics, hopefully, in these 50 days.
Note: The LDP got only 38 seats but the DPJ advanced with 55 seats among 127 seats of the Tokyo Prefecture Assembly through the election held on July 12, 2009. It looks like foretelling an outcome of the future national election.
SECTION I: Cromwell's Revolution
It is apparent that it is not in the 20th or 21st century but in the 17th or 18th century that any great things happened in England.
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Cromwell first mustered a troop of cavalry (then referred to as "horse") at Huntingdon in Huntingdonshire, on August 29, 1642, early in the Civil War. After witnessing the defeat of the Parliamentarian horse at the Battle of Edgehill later that year, Cromwell wrote to fellow Parliamentarian leader John Hampden,
"Your troopers are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters; and the Royalists troopers are gentlemens' sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows [as ours] will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?"
It is evident that Cromwell's answer to his own question lay in religious conviction. Early in 1643, he was given a commission as Colonel and expanded his troop into a full regiment in the newly formed Eastern Association under the command of Lord Grey of Warke and then the Earl of Manchester. By September 11 that year, he referred to them in a letter to his cousin Oliver St. John as a "lovely company". A champion of the "godly", Cromwell became notorious for appointing men of comparatively humble origins but stoutly-held Puritan beliefs as officers, who would then attract men of similar background and leanings to the regiment. He wrote to his commander, the Earl of Manchester, who disagreed with this policy,
"I had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else. I honour a gentleman that is so indeed."
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As Puritans, the Ironsides often attributed their glory in battle to God. Their religious beliefs extended to the field where they adhered to strict ethical codes. In quarters, they did not drink or gamble. They did not partake in the traditional spoils of war and did not rape or pillage defeated opponents (although their religious zeal sometimes led them to be merciless to Catholic enemies).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironside_(cavalry)
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Indeed, Oliver Cromwell had a kind of samurai spirits, to the degree that he could have assumed the title of the Emperor of England, if he had so wished.
So, Mr. Barack Obama must have been at least somehow puritan to become revolutionary president in any meaning.
Also, a new Japanese political hero must be somehow puritan or non-commercially Buddhistic if supposed to take over for leadership in Japan from the half-a-century leader, the LDP.
SECTION II: Immature British Puritanism
The Reformation influenced badly the English society before the emergence of Oliver Cromwell.
Many monasteries were disbanded, causing a big plight on the poor having been helped in such religious facilities.
The poor came to be regarded as simply idle people or so destined people rather than unhappy people to be given Christian love.
This stupid conversion of philosophy has prevailed to this date in the U.K. The lack of love to the poor and the weak often found in the general British culture seems to be rooted in this era.
And, even works of Shakespeare seems to have exerted a negative effect on this anti-Christ atmosphere.
The Cromwell's revolution stopped at a certain point where he and his followers were requested more faith and love in God to change the whole people but they could not respond to it.
Accordingly, Parliament and royalism came to coexist as the both could not exert more faith and love in God, so as to rely on each other for concealment of their shortcomings and sins.
SECTION III: Lessons to the Obama Administration and Japan
American soldiers to be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan must be pious Christians.
American bureaucrats in the Obama Administration must be pious Christians.
Otherwise, there will be no second term for President Mr. Barack Obama.
Future Japanese Government, whether formed by the LDP or the DPJ, must be more religiously respected by the people; otherwise a regime change in every two to three years will be the norm in Japan, not only such a change of successive prime ministers.
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United States Constitution
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
This article is significant, since it is regarded as related to prohibition of introduction of state religion, while they were all Christians who decided Independence of America from England. I mean that there must be a provision, first of all, that specifies the relationship between the U.S. and Christianity.
As for Japan, I would rather recommend to adopt this "Amendment" scheme into the Japanese Constitution.
Now, that is all for today.
(The real summer is declared to come around Tokyo by the Japan Meteorological Agency today, strangely coinciding with the Fourteenth of July in France. Il est aussi un miracle de ces jours, ma princesse, since otherwise it is impossible.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/jojoh/natsuwakinu.html)
Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mar 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.