(Tokyo 2009)There are three types of lawmakers in Japan: an expert in election only, an expert in political games and business, and an expert in policies and administration.
If you are a top class of the first type of lawmakers, you cannot necessarily be a top class of the second type of lawmakers.
If you are a top class of the second type of lawmakers, you cannot necessarily be a top class of the third type of lawmakers.
President Mr. Barack Obama may cover all the domains well enough leveraging IT gears and a TV show, but Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama of Japan looks like determined to go in for the third type of statesmen, no matter simply because he is a grandson of a former prime minister of Japan who signed the 1956 Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration at Moscow.
SECTION I: Christianity and China and Chinese
Some essence of the American democratic Christianity was planted in Japan in the form of the Japanese Constitution after WWII.
However, anti-European-Christianity-society Marxism was also welcomed by Chinese leaders after WWII as they shared a sense of hate for democracy and freedom.
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Christianity in China
Since loosening of restrictions on religion after the 1970s, Christianity has grown significantly within the People's Republic. It is still, however, tightly controlled by government authorities. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement and China Christian Council (Protestant) and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, which has disavowed the Pope and is considered schismatic by other Roman Catholics, have affiliations with government and must follow the regulations imposed upon them.
The official figure in 2002, which consists of members from official Protestant churches, is about 15 million, while some estimates on members of Chinese house churches vary from 50 million to 100 million.
In 2006 it was stated that there were 4 million members of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and an estimated 12 million members of the underground Roman Catholic Church in China as of 2006.[35] Kiven Choy stated, in a Chinese weekly newspaper in Hong Kong, that the correct number of Protestants in China should be at around 20 million[citation needed], while Time Magazine reported 65 million in 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China#Christianity_in_the_contemporary_PRC
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Indeed, in these 4000 years since the beginning of the ancient Chinese Civilization, no democracy and freedom of citizens has been exercised in China to date.
One of the key reasons can be found in Chinese religion.
And, to comprehend religion in a nation, you have to see what religions emperors or kings of the past observed in the nation.
Put simply, in the first and second dynasties, namely Qin and Han, Chinese emperors were regarded as a god.
But, as the time went by and Confucianism, created far before Qin, was further developed to adjust itself to the era of empire since Qin, Chinese emperors became more a man than a god.
While Japanese emperors acted more as a holy descendant of ancient gods, Chinese emperors left the tradition to be more secular.
(http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~kan/todaisai.pdf)
Hence, Japan is more akin to ancient China than China itself is.
SECTION II: Taiping Rebellion
Yet it is remarkable to see that Christianity was once significantly involved in the Chinese history.
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The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt in China from 1850 to 1864, during the Qing Dynasty, by an army led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Chinese: 太平天國 pinyin: Tàipíng Tiān Guó), namely Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace with its capital at Nanjing and gained control of significant parts of southern China, at its height ruling over about 30 million people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
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This revolt was suppressed and over as Western Powers joined the Qing dynasty in battles.
Finally, when some 200,000 insurgents and their families were killed in Nanjing by Qing troops, this large-scale attempt of a Chinese revolution based on certain interpretations of the Christian Bible was over.
(To be continued...)
(Ceci est l'avènement de l'ère du Verseau, ma chère, n'est-ce pas? Yet, let the sun shine in.
http://www.ajsmidi.com/50s_60s/midi/aquarius.mid
Source: http://www.eadcentral.com/go/1/1/0/http://www.ajsmidi.com/50s_60s/oldies1.html)
Act 9:22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
Act 9:23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
Act 9:24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Act 9:25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.