Friday, February 19, 2010

"those things which were told them by the shepherds"






TRUTH WITHOUT JUSTICE & REASON


Toyota's President Mr. Akio Toyada said that he had got a good piece of advice from America so that he would fly to Washington D.C. to discuss the recall issue in a Congress hearing.

However, if no fair competition is assured inside Toyota Motor Corporation, how can the car maker compete in a fair manner over the North American market?

My further advice for Toyota is to stop act like a fool who knows nothing but cars but invest its resources into the agriculture sector in Japan.

At least, think about how to increase employment and income of workers, if Mr. Toyoda and other executives have any Buddhist or Christian love to neighbors!


SECTION I: Deflation Dynamism

With industrial power of Japan and China combined, it is natural and inevitable that any market in the world should face possible deflation.



There is 300 million workforce in China who would work at one tenth of an average American salary to produce everything American and Japanese consumers need.

Though Japan has managed well this threat of catastrophic deflation, America is to be tested from now on, since deflation can be the most effective weapon China can take up against a targeted or hostile country.


SECTION II: Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union

The Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact was unilaterally broken and abolished by the Soviet Union on August 8, 1945, two days after the Atomic (Nuclear) Bomb Attack on Hiroshima by the U.S. air forces. A week later, the Empire of Japan surrendered, meaning that the Empire and the U.S.S.R fought only for a week in WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_Neutrality_Pact

Then, the U.S.S.R captured and held 650,000 to 1,000,000 ex-Japanese soldiers and citizens to force them to work under cruel conditions for 10 years after WWII.

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A significant number[quantify] of Japanese were assigned to the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (over 200,000 persons), in 8 camps, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur (2 camps, for two railroad branches), Sovetskaya Gavan, Raychikha railroad station (Khabarovsk Krai), Izvestkovaya r/r station (Khabarovsk Krai), Krasnaya Zarya (Chita Oblast), Taishet, and Novo-Grishino (Irkutsk Oblast).[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union
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So, it is very natural that the Soviet Union received divine punishment to disappear from history.

However, the Empire of Japan should have been wiser in its operation, management, and occupation of Manchuria, North China, and Korea.

The Empire should have involved the U.S. in such enterprise as an ally before WWII.

Yet, it is so sorrowful that officially 50,000 or estimated 300,000 Japanese were killed during their forced labor in Siberia due to bad living conditions and brutal treatment by Russians.

Russia should immediately return to Japan two large islands with two small ones in the Okhotsk Sea unconditionally as a token of friendship between the two great nations, since Moscow did not cooperate with the Empire for ending the Pacific stage of WWII but even offended MacArthur by trying to further take possession of the Japanese northern territory after the end of the War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute



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I was once driving on an express way west of Osaka, the Japan's second largest city, as I drove hundreds Km from the Tokyo area.

The massive highway, just built several years before, however alerted me, since there were troublesome wheel tracks an uncountable number of trucks left on the surface of lanes.

As my car at the time was a kind of compact car, its wheels did not well fit on or between the deformed grooves, causing unstable travel especially on curved descents. Asphalt laden on the concrete basement must have been too weak.

Anyway, I thought that a road is more important than a car. Or a car is useless without appropriately maintained roads. A road must be respected more than a car.

Now I think that car manufacturers must contribute a great amount of funds to constructing and maintaining roads.

That car was not made by Toyota, but I enjoyed taking the drive, since the world looked so peaceful under the blue sky of a holiday season though my poor white car was sometimes threatened by or racing with busy, massive trucks on a long, winding, and up and down expressway running over complicated terrains of the Japanese islands.

Yet, it was one happy moment in my life, since I had nothing to worry at that time except my life and safety in addition to conditions of the accelerator pedal, to put extremely, though the ankle of my right foot ached and hardened after so many quick motions.




(A Japanese love song at an early stage of its rapid-growth era in 1960's:
http://www14.plala.or.jp/yakuhana/kimito.mid

Source: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hananoya/midi.html)



Luk 2:18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

Luk 2:19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

Luk 2:20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.