(Japanese National Diet - Congress - Bldg. since 1936, photos taken by EEE Reporter on August 29, 2009)AFTERMATH OF GREAT CIVILIZATION
The August-30-of-2009 General Election drew a lot of attentions from the world unlike any past national polls in Japan.
They say that the Hatoyams are a kind of the Kennedys, the Obama phenomenon has reached Japan; or Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, virtually authorized next prime minister, must be thankful for support from socialists and anti-LDP groups.
Indeed, lawmaker Mr. Yukio Hatoyama wrote some in op-ed of The New York Times:
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A New Path for Japan
By YUKIO HATOYAMA
Published: August 26, 2009
The financial crisis has suggested to many that the era of U.S. unilateralism may come to an end. It has also raised doubts about the permanence of the dollar as the key global currency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/opinion/27iht-edhatoyama.html
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If Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, soon to be elected as prime minister of Japan in the Lower House, opts to make an alliance with China in the economic terms, those in Washington D.C. and New York who have taken for these decades an arrogant approach to Japan, the greatest democratic nation in Asia, would change their behaviors, since they have been sweetening China so fervently.
By the way, there is a criticism against the Japanese media.
Some notable conservative critic thinks that the Japanese media had once created an air and driven a wind in favor of war before WWII. Even Imperial generals had been influenced and driven by the wind the media had fanned with their pens. He thinks the August-30-2009 Election was fanned by the media as with the case of September-11-2005 Election launched by then P.M. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi.
(http://blog.kajika.net/?eid=984762)
Yet, it was not a simple atmosphere or airstream that has caused this change in the national Diet of Japan. It is history or a specific part of history.
The result of the election is manifestation of history clothed in an air and wind of the era, though some critics, political analysts, pundits, commentators, professors, economists, authors, bloggers, and even TV news casters in Japan might try to take their shares of credit in realizing this regime change.
(If I had contributed any to the DPJ victory, it would be just 250 of 308, as you know [laugh]. The rest might be yours. Anyway, joking aside...since it is widely regarded as a kind of self-destructive campaign of Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso for the LDP.)
SECTION I: Influence on Japanese of Confucianism
For Anglo-Saxon people, Christianity is the first and the last culture and religion.
But, in Japan, Christianity was introduced after the Buddhism and Confucianism.
For Anglo-Saxon people, the Greco-Roman Civilization is an indirect incident.
But, in Japan, the ancient Chinese Civilization was directly introduced by people who fled the mainland China due to atorocity of the First Emperor of Qin and constant wars around and after 200 B.C. One example was Xu Fu (Jyo-Fuku in Japanesse) as I mentioned yesterday.
For Anglo-Saxon people to be civilized, learning of Christianity is a must.
But, for Japanese people to be civilized, learning of Christianity has been redundant.
(To be continued...)
(Même un homme en lambeaux, que je suis, peuvent se joindre à une révolution, si bien dire à la reine à Paris, le cas échéant! So, "meet me at Yasukuni" was a test word for Imperial fighter-plane pilots. Yet nobody welcomed me at the Diet, though it was just a day before the voting day and the site was under repair work!! Nonetheless, they must be very sorry, sooner or later.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-sengo2/ippondokko.html )
Mar 9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.