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Saturday, July 25, 2009
"I Am Not Come of Myself"
(From Narita to Tokyo Central)
Hammering out High-Tech Bullet Train
Last night I realized that I had one wrong notion for a very long time since I first got on a "Shinkansen" super-express train decades ago to come to Tokyo from the west.
The curved outside design of the first car of the Shinkansen train was actually hand-made.
I thought the round shape and complex curve of the surface were created with some automatic tools, which was not right.
The hull at the nose of the train was made of metal plates curved and bent by craftsmen who used an iron hammer for this formation process.
Craftsmen of a small company hit each plate with a hammer to bend it following a design specified by engineers of Japan National Railways. Each plate was then welded together to form a head car where a train operator sits.
The Shinkansen express train, one of the fastest train since early 1960's, was thus formed manually, which I have never realized for 40 years. And, they say that even today head cars of the newest model of the Shinkansen train are processed this old way.
The president of the small company was 26 years old when he received an order from Japan National Railways. He thought that if he had failed to whatever degree in making precise curved surfaces for the first Shinkansen train, there would have been no orders after it. Under extreme pressure, however, his work was qualified and accepted. Since then his company has been in charge of hammering out the external, delicate surface of the driving car of the Shinkansen train, a Japanese symbol of its high technology of the 20th century.
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Craftsmen are not respected in Korea, China, India, the Middle East, and Europe traditionally.
But, Japan is exceptional in this regard, too.
Ordinary people who are neither rich, noble, nor physically strong but work honestly and diligently to make manually art works, artifacts, or tools for daily use are respected as much as or more than rich merchants, landlords, bureaucrats, and sometimes samurais and noblemen in Japan from a thousand years ago.
Even there have been less stringent distinction between upper-class engineers and ordinary laborers in a workshop.
So, if a boy says that he wants to be a craftsman in future instead of a rich merchant, nobody thinks the boy is a fool.
That is why Japanese are very Buddhistic and more Judaistic, Christian, and Islamic than those who claim themselves to be in the world.
It is so, since it is said that Japanese workers have traditionally put his soul into his work if working in a small factory for wages, which no Chinese and no Americans can do for mere meager wages.
(http://midistudio.com/midi/Barclay/TellMe_RollingStones.mid
Source:http://midistudio.com/midi/RB_NZ.htm)
Joh 7:25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
Joh 7:26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
Joh 7:27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
Joh 7:28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
Friday, July 24, 2009
"And It Fell Not"
(To Tokyo-Narita Air Port)
Two Sources of Evil of Civilization: Cars and Air Ports
When I was young, tragedies caused by industrial pollution started to catch eyes of the people in Japan and the U.S.
Accordingly, I decided not to get a driver's license, for cars were said to be a major source of pollution.
Indeed, decades ago, nobody talked about development of hybrid cars or electric cars.
Today, global warming has driven some people crazy to shout the need for reduction of CO2 in the air, leading to a boom of hybrid cars in Japan and the U.S.
The reason why I do not trust global elites who are now behaving like heroes to save the world through CO2 reduction is that I am sure that they never decided not to get a driver's license so as to prevent pollution decades ago or when they were young.
As for myself, I later got a driver's license for my mission around Tokyo, since the Japanese industry achieved high-quality of energy-saving technology and China came to look like going to advance into a huge market of automobiles.
When I was young, I saw many stupid Japanese people behaving more foolish after coming back from abroad, especially from Europe and America.
Indeed, traveling abroad is the easist way to feel like a hero when you come back home. You do not have to make any sincere efforts in school or a workshop, but just go abroad to be a hero at home when coming back. It is cheap and sly to become a populer person in this way.
Besides, Narita Airport was once a battle field between the Government and left-wing activists. Though it was a deplorable conflict over the Government's arrogant attitude to buy out the land for the air port, something deeply rooted in human rights and justice was involved.
So, I decided not to go abroad using Narita Airport though the insurgents were wiped away and the construction of the airport was proceeding well.
That is why I do not trust any Japanese human-right activists who use Narita Airport without hesitation, since they look like trying to be heroes using the once-bloody runways in a cheap manner of going abroad.
That is also why I did not respect Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II who without hesitation used Narita Airport, making stupid Japanese people more long for overseas trips.
Cars and international traveling from Narita Airport were once the two most abominable things for me.
Today, I can drive a car in my way and I can fly to any country in my way even through Narita; but I do not trust those who have never passed this test on a car and Narita Airport: Bad guys drove cars and fools flew from Narita.
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It was in late 1980's or early 1990's that my car got a trouble in an expressway of a big city in Western Japan, since I drove all the way for 550Km from Tokyo Expressway.
It was midnight and other cars were running at a speed of 80Km, or 100Km or more per hour.
The engine of my car got a trouble so that it suddenly could not run at a speed of more than 30Km per hour.
I could have stopped the car and made hazard lamps on, waiting for reuse, though cellular phones were not so available in those days.
Yet, other cars passing by, being driven by young men in the midnight in an expressway of a big city in Western Japan, made me feel it dangerous to urgently park the car on the non-free raised high-way.
So, I drove my car at the speed of 30Km per hour or so for 10 kilo-meters or so to reach a safe exit from the dangerous midnight loop expressway.
Though, even on ordinary city roads, some other cars were actually running at a speed of 80Km, or 100Km per hour, I could manage to drive my half-broken car for 15 or 20Km to my destination.
So, if you have a driving skill to drive your car at a speed of 17 miles per hour for half an hour among hundred or more cars running at 70 miles or more per hour in the midnight two-lane city expressway surrounded by raised concrete walls, a car cannot be your source of blessing...
Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
"Judge not According to the Appearance"
(Tokyo Train Views)
Jesus' Economics and Japanese Economics
SECTION I: Reasonable Economists and Bad Economists
One of key factors to deciding the outcome of Japan's coming general election is how competing parties are associated with economists, as some critics realize.
Without vast knowledge and versatile experiences, you cannot become a true economist.
(Economists who have never participated in production and sale sometimes misunderstand what EEE Reporter said on economy while they know nothing but what other economists said. Besides, they could not predict the Wall Street crisis of 2008 while EEE Reporter had given warnings on it so many times.)
But, there are two types of economists, bad guys and reasonable guys.
Bad economists are friends of rich men; reasonable economists are friends of a majority of consumers.
If one man has one billion dollars, he will spend only one million dollars per year for his daily needs.
But if one billion dollars are shared by, or distributed to, one million men, they will in total spend one billion dollars per year.
National economy will not grow if one rich man spends only one million dollars per year for his daily needs; but it will expand if each of one million men spends one dollar per day for their daily needs.
(More practically, national economy will not grow if one rich man spends only ten million dollars per year for his daily needs; but it will expand if one million men in total spend ten billion dollars per year for their daily needs.)
This is a principle every economist must always keep in their mind.
That is why you must not trust an economist who has many friends among rich men.
The coming general election in Japan has an agenda in this regard. Japanese voters are leaving the ruling LDP and the current Cabinet who have trusted rich-men-friendly economists too much.
So, Japanese economists who have simply make rich men richer can be purged after the election, though they might survive provided they have special political value.
SECTION II: Economics Revolution
It is expected that Japan will present a new mode of economy in a few years, since the second largest economy in the world or the economic hero after WWII has suffered enough frictions between traditional Japanese culture and Western economics.
But, it is a little interesting to see how Wall Street experts see the Japanese economy:
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JANUARY 16, 2009.
The Truth About Japanese Stimulus
Fiscal pump-priming can work to revive the economy.
By RICHARD KATZ
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Policy makers have been slow to respond because they're still hostage to several bad ideas. Let's look at some of the myths guiding Tokyo's policy makers and the contrasting realities.
Myth 1: Prime Minister Taro Aso is applying budget-busting fiscal stimulus including a return to public works.
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Myth 2: The 1990s proved that fiscal stimulus is useless in Japan.
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Myth 3: Japanese people won't spend any tax cut or government handout because they are either too anxious to spend or already have everything they want. The greatest barrier to consumer spending is lack of income. Even though total real compensation of all workers in Japan put together is only 2% above the level of 1997, spending is up 12% from 1997. People spent more by saving less. If they had more money, they'd spend even more.
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Myth 4: Japan cannot afford fiscal stimulus because of its huge government debt.
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Japan has plenty of unmet needs in urban infrastructure and in people's day-to-day struggles to make ends meet that could be helped with well-fashioned tax cuts and spending measures. The right kind of fiscal stimulus could help both short-term demand and long-term economic vibrancy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123203746820485953.html
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If Japanese economists and the new regime after the August 30's general election can draw up an economic plan and policies that surpass any idea contrived on Wall Street, an economic revolution can occur in Japan.
SECTION III: JESUS' ECONOMY
Jesus Christ said that you should pay an equal wage to all the workers, some of whom must work from early in the morning but others of whom might just start to work a minute before the end of the day.
It tells that distribution of money itself is important for economy.
It tells that consumption by workers is more important than their labor for production.
While "Western economics" is a by-product of Christianity, most of Western economists seem to be unable to grasp the meaning of Jesus Christ's teaching.
So, I think that "Japanese economics" is really needed in the 21st century.
(To be continued...)
Joh 7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
Joh 7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
Joh 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
"An Evil Eye"
(A Tokyo Train View)
A Revolution "Manga" Induces
They say that Japanese animation works and cartoons or "manga" titles are today very popular among children in Israel.
So, some teachers in Israel start to use Japanese-style comics to teach children the Old Testament, since Israeli children nowadays do not read the holy book with ardor.
Yet, some orthodox Judaists are against this movement, since the holy book is so holy.
But, what makes them so orthodox? They do not even look like Arabs, while they are calling themselves Judaists. First of all, they have to divest themselves of whatever their ancestors learnt in Europe sine the age of the Roman Empire.
Judaist orthodoxy must be measured by their proximity to conditions and terms their ancestors were involved in, namely Arabic atmosphere.
Or were Abraham and Moses born in, say, London or Amsterdam?
They were born in Iraq and Egypt like Arabs of today.
SECTION I: ISRAEL OR AMERICA
The U.S. share accounts for 40% in Israel’s total export shipments.
The U.S. share accounts for 12.4% in Israel’s total import shipments.
http://import-export.suite101.com/article.cfm/top_israeli_imports_exports
Israel's surplus in trade with the U.S. was $7.8 billion in 2007.
So, if all the Israelis move to the U.S. to be American citizens while Arabs move into Israel to take over every business being conducted there, those Arab people can enjoy $7.8 billion surplus in trade with the U.S., which will improve their living status.
On the other hand, Israeli-turned American citizens will enjoy safe and happy life in the American society where the Vatican has no final religious authority.
Congress should also amend the Constitution to include a new provision that the United States of America shall specifically protect Judaists in terms of religion and economy.
Then, the world will be ten times more peaceful.
This recommendation of mine is based on my assumption that somebody among Judaists around 1492 must have heard a voice of the God telling all the Judaists to move to a new continent Columbus had just discovered.
SECTION II: Japan and Israel
Japan is the 13th country for Israel in terms of total trade value.
However, Japan is the largest exporter of vehicles to Israel. Japanese cars account for 50% of all the cars running in Israel as Israelis appreciate quality of Japanese cars.
(http://www.dubai.uae.emb-japan.go.jp/middle%20east_economy_2_01_j.htm)
On the other hand, the No.1 exporter of crude oil to Japan in 2005 is Saudi Arabia, accounting for 29% of all the imported oil.
Japan exports cars to Israel and imports crude oil from Saudi Arabia, probably as the God so wishes.
Most importantly, different from the U.S. and European countries, Japan never exports weapons and related technology to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and any other countries, due to a spirit and an ideal embedded in Japan's Constitution.
So, Japan has never assumed a hostile attitude to Israel, though Judaists in the U.S. Government and on Wall Street do so sometimes against Japan.
Israelis must give a warning to Judaists in the U.S. Government and on Wall Street in this regard.
SECTION III: Revolution in Israel or Iran
If somebody in Israel is found to be a new holy messenger, his words conveying the will of the God should bring about a revolution in Israel.
If somebody in Iran is found to be a new holy messenger, his words conveying the will of Allah should bring about a revolution in Iran.
In this context, EEE Reporter expects the Pope to judge himself.
In this regard, the U.S. President cannot be the most powerful person in this world. Even U.S. astronauts on the moon might be closer to Heaven than the President, since I think I was also watching live on TV (in a certain shop on the street) the first man touching the surface of the moon in a certain city of Japan (though I was young and the summer was hot)...
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(To be continued...)
Mar 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mar 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mar 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mar 7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
A Revolution "Manga" Induces
They say that Japanese animation works and cartoons or "manga" titles are today very popular among children in Israel.
So, some teachers in Israel start to use Japanese-style comics to teach children the Old Testament, since Israeli children nowadays do not read the holy book with ardor.
Yet, some orthodox Judaists are against this movement, since the holy book is so holy.
But, what makes them so orthodox? They do not even look like Arabs, while they are calling themselves Judaists. First of all, they have to divest themselves of whatever their ancestors learnt in Europe sine the age of the Roman Empire.
Judaist orthodoxy must be measured by their proximity to conditions and terms their ancestors were involved in, namely Arabic atmosphere.
Or were Abraham and Moses born in, say, London or Amsterdam?
They were born in Iraq and Egypt like Arabs of today.
SECTION I: ISRAEL OR AMERICA
The U.S. share accounts for 40% in Israel’s total export shipments.
The U.S. share accounts for 12.4% in Israel’s total import shipments.
http://import-export.suite101.com/article.cfm/top_israeli_imports_exports
Israel's surplus in trade with the U.S. was $7.8 billion in 2007.
So, if all the Israelis move to the U.S. to be American citizens while Arabs move into Israel to take over every business being conducted there, those Arab people can enjoy $7.8 billion surplus in trade with the U.S., which will improve their living status.
On the other hand, Israeli-turned American citizens will enjoy safe and happy life in the American society where the Vatican has no final religious authority.
Congress should also amend the Constitution to include a new provision that the United States of America shall specifically protect Judaists in terms of religion and economy.
Then, the world will be ten times more peaceful.
This recommendation of mine is based on my assumption that somebody among Judaists around 1492 must have heard a voice of the God telling all the Judaists to move to a new continent Columbus had just discovered.
SECTION II: Japan and Israel
Japan is the 13th country for Israel in terms of total trade value.
However, Japan is the largest exporter of vehicles to Israel. Japanese cars account for 50% of all the cars running in Israel as Israelis appreciate quality of Japanese cars.
(http://www.dubai.uae.emb-japan.go.jp/middle%20east_economy_2_01_j.htm)
On the other hand, the No.1 exporter of crude oil to Japan in 2005 is Saudi Arabia, accounting for 29% of all the imported oil.
Japan exports cars to Israel and imports crude oil from Saudi Arabia, probably as the God so wishes.
Most importantly, different from the U.S. and European countries, Japan never exports weapons and related technology to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and any other countries, due to a spirit and an ideal embedded in Japan's Constitution.
So, Japan has never assumed a hostile attitude to Israel, though Judaists in the U.S. Government and on Wall Street do so sometimes against Japan.
Israelis must give a warning to Judaists in the U.S. Government and on Wall Street in this regard.
SECTION III: Revolution in Israel or Iran
If somebody in Israel is found to be a new holy messenger, his words conveying the will of the God should bring about a revolution in Israel.
If somebody in Iran is found to be a new holy messenger, his words conveying the will of Allah should bring about a revolution in Iran.
In this context, EEE Reporter expects the Pope to judge himself.
In this regard, the U.S. President cannot be the most powerful person in this world. Even U.S. astronauts on the moon might be closer to Heaven than the President, since I think I was also watching live on TV (in a certain shop on the street) the first man touching the surface of the moon in a certain city of Japan (though I was young and the summer was hot)...
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(To be continued...)
Mar 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mar 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mar 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mar 7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
"I Never Knew You"
(Mt. Fuji in August 2008, 100Km Far)
The Lower House of the Japanese national Diet has been dissolved by Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso this afternoon for the general election's voting on August 30, 2009.
The U.S. GOP-like LDP of Japan and its ally New Komeito have had more than 330 seats among the total 480 seats. So, if they lose 90 seats or so in the coming election, they can secure a majority to form a new Cabinet after August 30.
That is why incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso of the LDP has maintained a strong attitude so that he dissolves the Lower House as prime minister to win the election.
But, the U.S. Democratic Party-like DPJ of Japan is expected to take at least 100 seats from the LDP, gaining 20 or more seats than the LDP's or almost an equal number of seats to that of the LDP and New Komeito combined.
If the LDP should lose 100 seats and the combined seats of the LDP and New Komeito should get equal to that of the DPJ alone, the Japanese people will not welcome another LDP-centric Cabinet if the LDP and New Komeito plus other lawmakers in an alliance secure 241 seats or a relative majority in the sum.
Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso can lose 90 seats from incumbent 300 LDP seats to continue his regime, but 10 more losses will put an end to it, which recent surveys seem to foretell.
Anyway, it looks like turning into a low-level battle with minus 90 or minus 100 as its threshold, sine the "Obama phenomenon" is yet to truly come into Japan.
SECTION I: Alexander the Great's Revolution
Whenever I see the map showing the empire of Alexander the Great, I am always astonished at how the Israel/Arabs conflicts and the War on Terror in the 21st century have been fought in the same geographical paradigm of the Alexander the Great's days, namely 330 years before the emergence of Jesus Christ.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great )
As evident in the above map, Alexander the Great must have met Israelites, and it is so reported.
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The narrative concerning Alexander's first interaction with the Jews is recorded in both the Talmud (Yoma 69a) and in the Jewish historian Josephus's Book of Antiquities (XI, 321-47).
In both accounts the High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem, fearing that Alexander would destroy the city, went out to meet him before he arrived at the city. The narrative describes how Alexander, upon seeing the High Priest, dismounted and bowed to him. (Alexander rarely, if ever, bowed to anyone). In Josephus's account, when asked by his general, Parmerio, to explain his actions, Alexander answered, "I did not bow before him, but before that God who has honored him with the high Priesthood; for I saw this very person in a dream, in this very apparel."
http://www.aish.com/jl/h/48929692.html
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Alexander the Great's greeting and bowing to the God of Israelites promised success of his conquest of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Afghanistan.
Or, the God decided to use Alexander the Great for His divine plan in the history around 330 B.C. since Alexander the Great greeted and bowed down to the God.
Yet, the conquest by Alexander the Great is a kind of revolution introduced into Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Afghanistan.
Since then, no Eastern or Asian Civilizations, except Judaism, have found a chance to prevail in those regions. Even Christianity and Islam were based on Judaism. And, they needed influences of the Greek Civilization in those regions as a kind of a rival or a background to develop and deploy fully as the history has proven, especially, concerning the role of the Roman Empire.
In summary, the most significant result from the Alexander the Great's Revolution is that the grand stage was set for the great deployment of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, though, with preceding dominance by the Roman Empire as the major successor of the Hellenistic Empire.
The secondary significant result is that the stage for Caesar and Cleopatra was set, so that the time of emergence of Jesus Christ was specifically fixed as one-generation after the demise of Cleopatra, the last remnant of the Alexander's Empire.
SECTION II: Buddhism vs. Greek Civilization
Though it was not forbidden to create a statute of the Buddha, followers of the Buddha had not projected an image of their great teacher into any form of art or so.
Yet, after Buddhists encountered Greek/Macedonian troops led by Alexander the Great, they started to create statutes of the Buddha.
This change made easier the penetration of Buddhism into China, Korea, and Japan as well as other East or Southeast Asian nations and tribes.
In this context, Buddhism is also influenced by the Greek Civilization.
Accordingly, the Japanese Buddhism is also influenced by the Greek Civilization and Alexander the Great.
(To be continued...)
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
The Lower House of the Japanese national Diet has been dissolved by Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso this afternoon for the general election's voting on August 30, 2009.
The U.S. GOP-like LDP of Japan and its ally New Komeito have had more than 330 seats among the total 480 seats. So, if they lose 90 seats or so in the coming election, they can secure a majority to form a new Cabinet after August 30.
That is why incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso of the LDP has maintained a strong attitude so that he dissolves the Lower House as prime minister to win the election.
But, the U.S. Democratic Party-like DPJ of Japan is expected to take at least 100 seats from the LDP, gaining 20 or more seats than the LDP's or almost an equal number of seats to that of the LDP and New Komeito combined.
If the LDP should lose 100 seats and the combined seats of the LDP and New Komeito should get equal to that of the DPJ alone, the Japanese people will not welcome another LDP-centric Cabinet if the LDP and New Komeito plus other lawmakers in an alliance secure 241 seats or a relative majority in the sum.
Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso can lose 90 seats from incumbent 300 LDP seats to continue his regime, but 10 more losses will put an end to it, which recent surveys seem to foretell.
Anyway, it looks like turning into a low-level battle with minus 90 or minus 100 as its threshold, sine the "Obama phenomenon" is yet to truly come into Japan.
SECTION I: Alexander the Great's Revolution
Whenever I see the map showing the empire of Alexander the Great, I am always astonished at how the Israel/Arabs conflicts and the War on Terror in the 21st century have been fought in the same geographical paradigm of the Alexander the Great's days, namely 330 years before the emergence of Jesus Christ.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great )
As evident in the above map, Alexander the Great must have met Israelites, and it is so reported.
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The narrative concerning Alexander's first interaction with the Jews is recorded in both the Talmud (Yoma 69a) and in the Jewish historian Josephus's Book of Antiquities (XI, 321-47).
In both accounts the High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem, fearing that Alexander would destroy the city, went out to meet him before he arrived at the city. The narrative describes how Alexander, upon seeing the High Priest, dismounted and bowed to him. (Alexander rarely, if ever, bowed to anyone). In Josephus's account, when asked by his general, Parmerio, to explain his actions, Alexander answered, "I did not bow before him, but before that God who has honored him with the high Priesthood; for I saw this very person in a dream, in this very apparel."
http://www.aish.com/jl/h/48929692.html
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Alexander the Great's greeting and bowing to the God of Israelites promised success of his conquest of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Afghanistan.
Or, the God decided to use Alexander the Great for His divine plan in the history around 330 B.C. since Alexander the Great greeted and bowed down to the God.
Yet, the conquest by Alexander the Great is a kind of revolution introduced into Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Afghanistan.
Since then, no Eastern or Asian Civilizations, except Judaism, have found a chance to prevail in those regions. Even Christianity and Islam were based on Judaism. And, they needed influences of the Greek Civilization in those regions as a kind of a rival or a background to develop and deploy fully as the history has proven, especially, concerning the role of the Roman Empire.
In summary, the most significant result from the Alexander the Great's Revolution is that the grand stage was set for the great deployment of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, though, with preceding dominance by the Roman Empire as the major successor of the Hellenistic Empire.
The secondary significant result is that the stage for Caesar and Cleopatra was set, so that the time of emergence of Jesus Christ was specifically fixed as one-generation after the demise of Cleopatra, the last remnant of the Alexander's Empire.
SECTION II: Buddhism vs. Greek Civilization
Though it was not forbidden to create a statute of the Buddha, followers of the Buddha had not projected an image of their great teacher into any form of art or so.
Yet, after Buddhists encountered Greek/Macedonian troops led by Alexander the Great, they started to create statutes of the Buddha.
This change made easier the penetration of Buddhism into China, Korea, and Japan as well as other East or Southeast Asian nations and tribes.
In this context, Buddhism is also influenced by the Greek Civilization.
Accordingly, the Japanese Buddhism is also influenced by the Greek Civilization and Alexander the Great.
(To be continued...)
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Monday, July 20, 2009
"Ye All Marvel"
(Summer Around Tokyo; A Japanese village is a place surrounded by rice fields but not a rice field itself surrounded by houses and buildings.)
Japanese and Israeli(te)s
A craw-fish greeted me as I greeted the God (though a little disappointment for me, yet gloy to the God Almighty, the Creator, since a craw-fish is called "Zari-gani" in Japanese).
SECTION I: Failure of the Empire of Japan
The annexation of Korea to the Empire of Japan from 1910 to 1945 was the biggest failure for Japan in its 2000 year history.
It was not so cruel at all as British occupation and invasion of Ireland. Yet, it was a big mistake, though Korean people had had actually no competent government before 1910 all through a preceding century while Russia and China were trying to control and hold a grip of the Korean Peninsula, which was a great threat to Japan.
Before the annexation of Korea to the Empire of Japan, Japan occupied Taiwan legally from 1895 to 1945 after the First Sino-Japanese War between Qing Dynasty China and the Empire of Japan in 1894. This annexation of Taiwan to the Empire of Japan is also controversial, since Taiwanese, consisting of various tribes, were not members of the traditional and historical Japanese race (though Okinawa people are so).
In extension of this expansion policy, Japan controlled Manchuria to defend the area from Russia and advanced its military into the mainland China in response to Chinese military offence.
Though Japan's sin linked with colonialism is far smaller than that of the U.K., the U.S., France, Russia, and other European nations, Japan's 21st century diplomatic policy must be based on a sincere review of its past relationships with Taiwan, Korea, China, and Russia.
However, the Empire of Japan invested more into Taiwan and Korea and even Manchuria and China than it took out from those regions, since the Empire knew that modernization of East Asia was crucial to cope with Russia and other European colonialists.
SECTION II: Failure of Israelites
The gravest failure for mankind in these 2000 years is that no Israelites believed in Jesus Christ around A.D. 70, namely in the era of the first Jewish-Roman War (66–73).
All through the first Jewish-Roman War, the second Jewish-Roman War (115–117), and the third Jewish-Roman War (132–135), no followers of Jesus Christ among Israelites were reported to work or fight for any cause among others.
So-called Christians were said to emerge in Rome, but why not in Jerusalem under wars?
Why didn't the teaching of the God or Jesus Christ prevail in those periods in Jerusalem and Palestine while it was highly welcomed in Rome and other cities governed by the Roman Empire?
This issue is concerned with authenticity of the New Testaments as documentary materials of the history.
Or, is there anything totally wrong in our interpretation of the historical incidents around 70 A.D.?
Precisely how many percentage of people in Palestine 2000 years ago knew the name, Jesus of Nazareth?
Anyway, Judaists after the era of Jewish-Roman Wars do look very different from Israelites before the era living around Jerusalem. So, Israelis today living in Jerusalem do not look like Israelites living around Jerusalem 2000 years ago.
Do Israelis today really need Jerusalem, Palestine, and the nation Israel, while America looks like their true destination and home?
SECTION III: The Last Agenda for Japan
Japanese islands are a kind of Heaven in terms of the nature and climates.
It is sub-tropical in the summer and deep-snow-covered in the winter.
Its inland sea, Seto-nai-kai, was the most beautiful scenery on the earth till industrialization of its coastal area centuries ago.
Mt. Fuji is the only 3776 meter-high volcano directly observable from the world-class capital of a nation on this globe.
People living in its most southern islands, Okinawa, enjoy the highest average life expectancy in the world.
Works and traditions of the ancient Chinese Civilization still remain in the Japanese minds and live effectively in the Japanese society more than in China of today.
Any valuable works and traditions of the European Civilization have been imported into Japan so as to be developed and applied in parallel with Europe and America.
What Japan lacks incredibly and fatally are only Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
(Until Japan's industrial success, Christianity had been regarded as a must for any society to develop modern science and engineering mostly cultivated in Western Europe. Japan's success really motivated other East Asians to be a master of modern science and engineering. In this respect, China and India are simply beneficiaries of Japan's success in the 19th and 20th centuries.)
All this can be only possible by the divine will or the holy providence.
So, the last agenda for Japan is centered around this historical conditions. It is so, since Japan is the furthest center of one civilization from Jerusalem.
Accordingly, the last agenda for Israel can be rather objectively found and observed from Japan. Accordingly, I believe that the last agenda for Japan is to present the last agenda of Israel.
It is crystal-clear that the Vatican cannot do this, just to make it clear here again.
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Yes, some elite Japanese read and view this EEE Reporter blog sometimes.
However, most of them are followers of the Japanese spiritualism based on Shintoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism (in addition to the so-called Japanese Christianity).
Though I have never or seldom personally and directly informed those Japanese VIPs of the existence of the EEE Reporter blog, I reckon that the Vatican must have referred EEE Reporter to some Japanese authority, which CIA and Chinese agencies must have caught.
Yet, the decisive moment would be when Judaist VIPs are circumstantially or religiously forced to study the EEE Reporter, since it is reported that their ancestors once tried to kill Jesus Christ.
So, I am telling ordinary Judaists, living in the U.S. or Israel or otherwise wherever, that they have to start to think that the time has come for their revolution in the global Judaist community.
(To be continued...)
Joh 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Joh 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
Joh 7:20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
Joh 7:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Rainbows from the Setting Sun
This evening I went out without carrying my main digital camera but a cellular phone equipped with a camera(s).
It is so, since the God told me to go northwest and southwest.
Then I reached some point where I found a rainbow(s), though what was visible was only a vertical portion, while the sun was going to set.
I thought I should have brought at least my secondary digital camera with me but I tried a camera on the cellular phone. And, it was my first trial of using a camera function of this camera-embedded cell-phone, since I do not trust a smart machine of any sort.
These two pictures above, each showing a rainbow, were taken this way using the phone camera while the sun was going to hide behind far mountains in the opposite direction.
(Even after the sun completely set, the rainbow somewhat remained.)
It is once a year or two that I encounter a rainbow nowadays; so this is a miracle.
Besides, at the extension of the bottom part of the rainbow lies Tokyo-Shinjuku skyscrapers. I rather judged that the lower end of the rainbow pointed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Office Building.
Though in these pictures only one identical vertical rainbow was displayed, there was another vertical-portion rainbow beside it, though a little shorter and thinner.
My interpretation of this miracle is that it is related to my trip to the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Office Building I made two weeks ago.
Anyway, I have found that this mobile phone can be connected directly with a PC via a USB cable, so that image files inside the phone can be easily accessed and copied from a PC.
(Another interpretation is that the rainbows reflect love, though I know only a few love the God at that moment...)
Mt. Fuji was covered by clouds 100Km far. Some swallows agilely gliding, tilting their posture, showing a white belly, flew around and away as the dusk was proceeding into night.
This is an incident of a summer evening around Tokyo: a miracle of the rainbows as you see here.