Recently Japan's Foreign Minister Mr. Katsuya Okada wrote in his personal blog site that Secretary Mrs. Clinton was a cool and tough lady and he had to refine his English more.
(http://www.katsuya.net/)
Also recently Japan's Financial and Postal Services Minister Mr. Shizuka Kamei said: "Normally, if borrowers are having a hard time, lenders should voluntarily help them to survive and grow so that the state doesn't have to intervene."
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090920a4.html
Comparatively young F.M. Mr. Okada is expected to become prime minister of Japan in future, while very veteran Minister Mr. Kamei once competed hard with former P.M. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi over the post of the LDP president and thus the prime minister of Japan, in vain.
Some American elite seem to be already starting to build a friendly connection with Mr. Okada, even before the 8/30/2009 general election, but also already being leery of Mr. Kamei's stance.
In this context, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan that lost power due to results of the 8/30/2009 general election might, I am afraid, try to leverage their long and strong tie with some American elite to check the deployment of Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama's Cabinet further impressing Japanese voters favorably...
SECTION I: Buddhism around Pakistan and Afghanistan
Most of educated Japanese know the name of king Ashoka (304 BC – 232 BC), since he made his kingdom, the Maurya Dynasty, one of the greatest Buddhist kingdoms in history.
But, King Ashoka was born after Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), the implication of which is however not fully examined by any professors or scholars.
When looking at the state of Buddhist proselytism at the time of king Ashoka (260-218 BCE), you would be more interested in the sequence of Alexander the Great and King Ashoka:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire
Indeed, it is a mystery why Buddhism was not propagated into the Middle East and further to Europe.
Nonetheless, it is very unthinkable that Israelites had never heard of this great religion Buddhism created in India around 500 B.C., since Greater India, including Pakistan, was just next to Afghanistan, a kind of extension of Persia familiar to ancient Judaists.
In short, without King Ashoka who must have been highly influenced by the legacy of Alexander the Great, Buddhism could not be propagated to China and then Korea and Japan.
Then, without Alexander the Great, no Japanese Buddhism should have been possible.
Yet, without Alexander the Great, there should not have been the era of Caesar and Cleopatra.
And, it is very difficult to think of the emergence of Jesus Christ without the era of Caesar and Cleopatra.
Finally, Japanese Buddhism and Christianity alike owe each formation and establishment to Alexander the Great.
So, when Japanese people view Pakistan and Afghanistan as a critical region for their religion, they will open their eyes to history, namely the God Almighty...
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Oh, I thought I could go to bed earlier in these days, but it is now past 2 a.m. of Thursday as I have now narrowly found time to finish this posting!
(It is a chanson anyway someone might love to listen to...
http://doratomo.jp/~stephano/chanson/la_goualante_du_pauvre_jean.MID
Source: http://doratomo.jp/~stephano/chanson/chanson.htm)
Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Mat 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
Mat 9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
Mat 9:32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
Mat 9:33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.