(The Tokyo Bay)Legacy of Dynasties
Mr. Edward Kennedy has gone, while President Mr. Barack Obama may occupy the White House seven and a half more years.
JFK was a symbol of an American new wave in early 1960's. The ugliness of the Vietnam War and the splendors of the American moon exploration enhanced the image of the bullet-fallen president. The horrible assassination of Robert Kennedy added weight to the historical presence of JFK and his family, including JFK Jr.
Forty-six years after the tragic death of JFK, the youngest one of the Kennedy brothers has gone leaving Mr. Barack Obama (and Mrs. Hillary Clinton) as if he had accomplished his mission.
In Japan, today, there are two prominent families with their brothers elected for the national Diet (though its Lower House members are to be elected newly on August 30): Former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe (LDP) and Upper House lawmaker Mr. Nobuo Kishi (LDP); and Next-Prime-Minister Regarded Mr. Yukio Hatoyama (DPJ) and former state minister Mr. Kunio Hatoyama (LDP).
However, the Hatoyama families and the Abe/Kishi families are remotely connected. Even incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Aso Taro's family is very remotely related to them.
Many of these prominent upper-class families in Japan seem to be remotely or closely connected with one another around the Imperial Family at its center from before WWII or since the modernization of Japan started in the latter half of the 19th century.
(http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E9%B3%A9%E5%B1%B1 )
Specifically, Her Majesty Empress is from an upper-class family named Shoda.
The Shoda family is connected with the Hamaguchi family established by former prime minister (of before WWII) Osachi Hamaguchi (1870-1931).
The Hamaguchi family is connected to the Abe/Kishi/Sato clan having sent three former prime ministers: Mr. Shinzo Abe, his grandfather Nobusuke Kishi (1896-1987), and Kishi's younger brother Eisaku Sato (1901-1975).
The Hamaguchi family is also linked with the Hatoyama family, since a grandchild of former prime minister Ichiro Hatoyama (1883-1959; also a grandfather or Mr. Yukio Hatoyama) married a grandchild of Osachi Hamaguchi.
In addition, incumbent P.M. Mr. Taro Aso's younger sister married a cousin of His Majesty Emperor.
Former P.M. Mr. Shinzo Abe is also remotely connected with P.M. Mr. Aso through another relationship with relatives of Nobusuke Kishi (former P.M., a grandfather of Mr. Abe) and relatives of Shigeru Yoshida (1878-1967; former P.M., a grandfather of Mr. Aso).
Yet, as this is the era of Mr. Barack Obama, owing to Edward Kennedy, Next Prime Minister yet-to-be-voted-for Mr. Yukio Hatoyama might pave the way for a true Japanese Obama after future completion of his service as prime minister of Japan, though there are no African-Japanese politicians in Japan today...
Anyway, you had better view EEE Reporter than joining MIT Open Course for study on Japan.
( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-537Politics-and-Policy-in-Contemporary-JapanSpring2003/Calendar/index.htm)
It is so, though you may find a book on the Hatoyama dynasty interesting:
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The Hatoyama Dynasty: Japanese Political Leadership Through the Generations
(This book is cutting-edge research on the world's second most productive country." -- Chalmers Johnson, author of MITI and the Japanese Miracle and Japan: Who Governs?)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1403963312?ie=UTF8&tag=obserjapan-20&link_code=wql&camp=212361&creative=380601
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SECTION I: Legacy of Chinese Empires
Without inventions of printing, gunpowder, and a compass, Europeans could not develop their civilization to the present level at all.
Nonetheless, these inventions are not originated in Europe. It is Chinese who invented them all.
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By AD 593, the first printing press was invented in China, and the first printed newspaper, Kaiyuan Za Bao, was available in Beijing in AD 713. It was a woodblock printing. And the Tianemmen scrolls, the earliest known complete woodblock printed book with illustrations, was printed in China in AD 868; it did not supersede the use of block printing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing#In_East_Asia
A Mongol bomb thrown against a charging Japanese samurai during the Mongol invasions of Japan, 1281.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder#China
Thus, the use of a magnetic compass as a direction finder occurred sometime before 1044, but incontestable evidence for the use of the compass as a navigational device did not appear until 1119.
The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.[13] According to Needham, the Chinese in the Song Dynasty and continuing Yuan Dynasty did make use of a dry compass, although this type never became as widely used in China as the wet compass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass
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(To be continued...)
(Un drame besoins de déplacement du soleil au-dessus et une âme pitoyable sur le terrain. Yet, the black sun means an end of a certain age, since a total eclipse of the sun was observed this summer. However, when a drama ends, who should remain with whom?
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/60406-glassnojohny.htm )
Mar 8:27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
Mar 8:28 And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
Mar 8:29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
Mar 8:30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.