(Northwest of the Kanto Plain, close to the size of Israel, part of which is Tokyo Prefecture, Japan; "Sir, a Sunday conductor?" "No, no, noh, boy!"...on a very rare single track railroad around Tokyo...)Though Worlds Apart in the West and the East
You may really know whose personal blogs President Mr. Barack Obama sometimes views.
(ex. http://pajamasmedia.com/richardminiter/2008/03/18/did_obama_read_my_blog/)
But, I think Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso has not viewed any citizen’s personal blog, since high-ranking officers around him seem to have prevented real voices and opinions of voters from taking his attention. They let only ear-pleasing information reach the Japan’s prime minister during his desperate election campaign in the last August, for some reasons, in my view.
But, former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koziumi early this year referred to personal remarks posted by certain national lawmakers of the LDP in their blogs, when Mr. Koizumi tried to put brake on Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso’s attitudes against Mr. Koizumi’s postal-service reform policy.
I do not think next Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Yukio Hatoyama has much time to view this EEE Reporter blog, but he had better continue to check those personal remarks and opinions made public on the Internet, since ex-professor in engineering Mr. Yukio Hatoyama reportedly regularly refers to some pundits’ blogs personally from his home.
(Whose blogs Mr. Y. Hatoyama often reads must be confidential information nowadays, since he is to be elected as Prime Minister of Japan by the Diet members on September 16.)
SECTION I: Japan and Han Dynasty 2000 Years Ago
The first direct confrontation between Japanese people and a Chinese empire occurred 2000 years ago.
As the empire was then called "Kan" probably by Chinese themselves, even today the Japanese people called it "Kan" while today's Chinese called it "Han."
(However those confronted Roman Empire troops on Great Britain in and after the Caesar's era were not of course Anglo-Saxons but Celts.)
The Han Empire, unlike preceding Qin, occupied almost half of the Korean Peninsula around A.D. 1 century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelang_Commandery
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%BD%E6%B5%AA%E9%83%A1)
The Han Dynasty adopted Confucianism as the state religion, while Qin had governed the empire with one million or more soldiers and (ancient) legalism, though Han was also established through many wars mobilizing hundreds of thousands of soldiers in each major battle.
Emperor Wu of Han (156 BC -87 BC) installed an official seat for study of Confucianism in 136 BC following advice from a scholar of Confucianism.
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%94%E7%B5%8C%E5%8D%9A%E5%A3%AB)
This is the beginning of the tradition of holding a state school for learning and studying philosophy and literature in East Asia.
The last samurai regime of Japan governed by the Tokugawa clan also ran their own state school for learning and studying philosophy and literature based on Confucianism, which was called "Shou-Hei-Kou."
When the Tokugawa regime was replaced through civil wars by the modernized Meiji Government in the late 19th century, the Imperial University of Tokyo was established as a kind of successor of Tokugawa's "Shou-Hei-Kou."
Accordingly, even today's elite of Japan who graduated from the University of Tokyo can be regarded as remote followers of the glory of the Han Dynasty supported by Confucianism, its state religion.
(New Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama graduated from the faculty of engineering, the University of Tokyo, in 1969.)
(To be continued...)
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(Sots ne peut pas devenir même un comédien. So, leave those fools in office and advance to the wilderness or the suburb, at least, to see other people, as it is no more August, isn't it?
http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Chanson/AznavourLesComediens.mid
Source:http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Chanson/Menu.htm)
Mat 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Mat 9:5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
Mat 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.