(Tokyo)With Principle or Instinct
The law of eternity of Buddhism is like this:
When two persons are walking through wilderness, they will surely share water and foods. Like this, a poor man may share whatever he has in his poverty with other poor people. Such a poor man never perishes among the dead.
According to a certain economist, mutual aid can be more efficient to reach desirable balance of a financial and economic state in society than competition and contests in market.
However, life is easy for those shameless, impudent, blatant, quick to blame others, bold, and unjust.
So, the market economy is not suitable for honest Buddhists but loved by those shameless, impudent, blatant, quick to blame others, bold, and unjust.
If you need market economy, this principle should not be forgotten at any moment.
SECTION I: JAPAN-US ALLIANCE
The New York Times reports on this issue today:
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They were Tokyo’s worst-kept diplomatic secrets: clandestine cold war era agreements with Washington that obligated Japan to shoulder the costs of United States bases and allow nuclear-armed American ships to sail into Japanese ports.
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Diplomatic experts agree that exposing the treaties will have little or no direct effect on the alliance, partly because the United States announced in the early 1990s that it was no longer carrying nuclear weapons on most of its warships.
But the investigation could have unintended consequences if it uncorks long-suppressed public debate on a point that Tokyo has, until now, purposefully left vague: whether Japan, which officially bans nuclear weapons from its territory, can continue to rely on the United States’ nuclear umbrella, which may require it to allow carrying such weapons on American ships and planes in a time of crisis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/world/asia/09japan.html?hp
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The Japan-U.S. military alliance involves various aspects, such as the Japanese Constitution, its Article 9 interpretation, American bases in Japan and especially the status of Okinawa, a controversial influence Japanese nationalists have, Japanese security policies, the need for nuclear weapons, the Chinese behaviors, the Russian behaviors, N. Korean behaviors, and mutual economic prosperity between Japan and the U.S.
Ordinary Americans do not know any details of the Japan-U.S. military alliance as they do not know any historical backgrounds of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
Yet, most of the Japanese people do not mind U.S. military presence in Japan, since practically American soldiers, naval ships, and military planes do not harass them (except the Okinawa people) at large.
However, it is time to review it from a historical perspective and a national principle.
SECTION II:
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The last word of Buddha:
"Make yourself an island. Make yourself a bastion. And rely on yourself alone. Make the truth and principles an island. Make the truth and principles a bastion. And rely on the truth and principles alone. Protect your mind by thinking about right things."
Basically, if you speak ill of other person, you are close to the hell.
Mat 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Mat 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
Mat 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Mat 2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.