(Diet "Kokkai" Bldg., Tokyo, August 29, 2009)JAPANESE DREAM!!!
Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso's conservative LDP has been enjoying a stable support base, while Mr. Yukio Hatoyama's liberal DPJ seems to be steadily acquiring new supporters.
......+........June.....+.....July.....+.....Middle of August of 2009
LDP...........18.4%....15.1%......17.1%
DPJ...........15.5%....18.6%......18.4%
Undecided....58.1%....55.7%......53.0%
(http://www.jiji.com/jc/v?p=ve_pol_politics-support-pgraph)
As those who did not answer their preference before the election campaign period, 8 of 53 voted for the LDP; and 45 of 53 voted for the DPJ, if numbers of seats won in this election are proportional to the approval ratings.
Result of August 30 General Election for total 480 Lower House Seats of the Diet ("Kokkai" in Japanese):
....+..........Seats Taken.....+..........Ratio of Seats after August 30 Poll
LDP.........119 (300 before)......+.....25%
DPJ.........308 (115 before).....+.....64%
As the LDP won overwhelmingly the previous election held on September 11 (11/9), 2005, they have obtained 119 seats this time.
As the DPJ has won overwhelmingly this election held on August 30 (30/8), they have obtained 308 seats this time, which is a kind of miracle.
Yet, the real ratio of votes taken by the two major parties in Japan is 2:3.
...............Number and Ratio of Votes in Proportional-Rep. Constituency
LDP.......18,810,217.....26.7%
DPJ.......29,844,799.....42.4%
Anyway, now how LDP lawmakers, as well as DPJ winners, behave decides their value just like Mr. George W. Bush and Mr. John McCain after Mr. Barack Obama's victory in 2008.
LDP: Liberal Democratic Party since 1955, close to the U.S. Republic Party
DPJ: Democratic Party of Japan since 1998, akin to the U.S. Democrats
(And, LDP Ms. Yuriko Koike, the former Defense Minister of Japan, has somehow secured her seat in the House of Representatives (Lower House) despite DPJ ex-Foreign Minister Ms. Makiko Tanaka's strong support for Ms. Koike's opponent, through a consolation system in a proportional-representation constituency of the Tokyo election block.
Ms. Satsuki Katayama and Ms. Yukari Sato might make a come back someday to the Japan's Parliament as an LDP lawmaker, each, again.)
SECTION I: Japan and Ancient Chinese Civilization
To master literature, philosophy, and art of the ancient Chinese Civilization, including Confucianism, has been a great dream for educated Japanese since 2200 years ago when a strange adventurer called Xu Fu ("Jyo-Fuku" in Japanese) came and stayed in the Japanese islands originally to find elixir of immortality for the First Emperor of China.
Xu Fu is today even regarded as a model of the First Japanese Emperor "Jin-Mu" in the Japanese Myth, according to some historians.
(To be continued...)
(Je n'ai certainement regardé la télé déclaration de vote jusqu'à la minuit. But nobody could enjoy a party forever. But I alone checked the Diet Bldg. before the historic defeat of the LDP, since it might have looked like a House in decay...as no Representatives of the people were there then...
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/jojoh/kojonotsuki.html )
Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.