(Around Tokyo)Who the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party is one of the biggest concerns, at least, among media people in Japan.
As incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso is forced to step down due to the massive defeat in the 8/30/2009 general election, his LDP is to elect a new president by the end of September.
Referring to a Web site designed for forecasting elections and other political matters, most possible candidates are as follows as of the morning today:
Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki...25 points
Mr. Shigeru Ishiba...7.5
Ms. Yuriko Koike...6.0
Mr. Yoichi Masuzoe...2.2
Mr. Yasuhisa Shiozaki...1.2
Mr. Nobutaka Machimura...1.1
Mr. Shinzo Abe...0.9
Mr. Nobuteru Ishihara...0.3
Mr. Koichi Kato...0.1
Others...19.2
(http://shuugi.in/24president_ldp )
So, the new president of the 55-year ruling party-turned opposition LDP will be probably former Finance Minister Mr. Tanigaki. However, it might take four years or so for any lawmaker elected as LDP president to take back power from the Democratic Party members of Japan led by Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, since the term for the Lower House of the national Diet is four years, without snap dissolution.
SECTION I: Historical Transition of Money Center
Some Japanese experts think that the global money center will sooner or later move to Asia from New York.
Around the 15th century, the global money center was at Lombardy, Italy.
Then, in the 16th century, Antwerp, Belgium, became the money center as the Spanish Empire obtained so much silver from South America, since Antwerp was the financial center for the empire.
And then, in the 17th century, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, took over as the money center, since the Counter Reformation drove Spain to attacking Antwerp.
Between the 18th and 19th century, London prepared for transition to gold standard after establishing a route for inflow of gold from Brazil, thus establishing itself as the global money center.
(http://uprinceton.exblog.jp/728515/)
In the 20th century over the two world wars, New York rose to the position of the global money center.
And, in the 21st century, some Japanese experts think that the global money center will sooner or later move to East Asia from New York.
However, it is said that move of experts in the money business was the key to the above transition of the global money center. Without transfer of knowledge, skills, and experts to a new center, such massive transition must have been impossible.
Yet, in this Internet age, the transfer of human resources and infrastructures needed for launching a new global money center can be accelerated.
I suppose there will be a cluster of East Asian cities to constitute the global money center as a whole.
It is better than putting the global money hegemony only in the hands of the Anglo-Saxons and American/British Judaists.
Anyway, the Roman Empire, as with Chinese ancient dynasties, started money economy, followed by the Spanish Empire, the British Empire, and the American democratic Empire. But, before mankind enters no-money economy, one more transition of money center might happen to East Asia and India.
SECTION II: Japan Has Never Been Colonized by Europeans
Schools in the world must teach that Japan Has Never Been Colonized by Europeans.
It is so, since there are many people in the world who cannot understand why Japanese people has developed its nation to the world-leading state without having been a colony of Western powers in the past.
And such poor people are often spotted not only in Afghanistan and Somalia but also on Wall Street.
(To be continued...)
(Les Japonais aiment la lune. It is not because the moon looks like a gold coin, dear, though.
http://www.jca.apc.org/~maki_t/midi-debussy-clair.htm )
Rom 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Rom 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Rom 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.