Cornerstone of Nation
In 1998, Mr. Giichi Suda of Japan made a global record for 100 meter race of 85-year old athletes, at 16.16 seconds.
It is still a world record for M85 athletes.
http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/records/outdoor-men
Anyway, Japanese (men: 79.0; women: 86.1) people live longer than Canadians (men: 78.3; women: 82.9), Italians (men: 77.5; women: 83.5), British (men: 77.2; women: 81.6), French (men: 77.1; women: 84.1), Germans (men: 76.5; women: 82.1), and Americans (men: 75.6; women: 80.8), without speaking of Chinese (men: 71.3; women: 74.8) and Indians (men: 63.2; women: 66.4).
For example, Haitian men live for 59.1 years and women for 62.8 years on an average.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
SECTION I: What Central Bank Fears
It is not a simple balance sheet that a central bank is the most afraid of.
If out-of-control inflation occurs, they know they will be blamed, punished, and coursed by consumers, tax players, voters, and politicians.
Accordingly, they will do anything to prevent inflation, even accepting deflation which makes the poor poorer and the rich richer.
However, if an industrial potential of a nation surpasses a certain level like in Japan, inflation is very unlikely even if poor consumers are provided with sufficient paper money by the government lucratively for free without relying on the central bank.
In the case of Japan, one of the issues remaining is that Japan imports so many natural resources from the world and exports so many goods to the world.
Yet, all the arguments taking into account comparison with America and China would still result in justification of direct infusion of money to poor consumers by the government without relying on taxation or the central bank.
A government has a right to print paper money and give it to poor people without involving the central bank and its balance sheet.
And, a government of a nation strong in international trade and market can really execute it without jeopardising the value of its currency.
This paradigm would help all the other countries in a state of a financial crisis and a danger of inflation.
Indeed, the central bank is one of the worst inventions of the European/American Civilization.
SECTION II: Gold and Silver in Japan
In 1616, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa samurai regime that lasted until 1868, died at age 74 after establishing his hegemony all over Japan by forces (matchlocks and swords) and politics.
The Tokugawa clan directly owned one fourth of the total Japanese farming lands. At the time, the total area of Japanese farming lands is almost half of the present one, in terms of rice production.
(http://www.shibuyam.com/gazou.html)
Ieyasu, virtually the samurai king, left many of his assets in the actual forms of gold and silver coins:
Gold: 35,250 kg or 16,000 lb
Silver: 185,065 kg or 84,000 lb
Following the gold/silver conversion rate of the era, the total of his assets is equal to 2 million "Ryou," namely 75,000 kg or 34,000 lb, of gold.
(http://www.iwanami.co.jp/hensyu/sin/sin_kkn/kkn0707/sin_k366.html)
As "one Ryou" is appraised as 100,000 yen or $1,100, his assets can be understood as 200 billion yen or $2.2 billion.
(Otherwise, as one gram of gold is 3,100 yen or $34, his total assets are appraised as 230 billion yen or $2.6 billion)
If somebody says that Japan was once very poor before its start of modernization in the late 19th century or even before WWII, he doss not know anything about the Japanese history.
If a British or an American economist says that Japan was once very poor before its start of modernization in the late 19th century or even before WWII, he doss not know anything about the Japanese history.
Anyway, in 1616, what king or queen in the world had gold and silver, the total of which is worth 75,000 kg or 34,000 lb, of gold or $2.6 billion?
If Japan had not closed the door to the world in 1639 (to prevent an influx of Christianity), Japan should have colonized Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hawaii even before the 19th century.
It is so, since the samurai king of Japan had gold and silver, the total of which is worth 75,000 kg or 34,000 lb, of gold or $2.6 billion in 1616.
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It might be truly a bad joke that 500,000 Japanese reside permanently in the United States, while 800,000 Chinese reside permanently in Japan and more than 2 million Chinese reside permanently in the U.S.
However, it might be interesting to read:
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Over 300,000 white Americans working in China, another 100,000 in Japan, millions working for Japanese and Korean corporations in the US, but do you hear a word about stealing Asian jobs..no! Of course, Americans have been stealing German jobs since the 1980s when the German corporations have been laying off German workers and hiring abroad to circumvent the nation's draconinan anti-skilled immigrant laws and to take advantage of the more friendly atmosphere in countries such as US, Singapore and Australia!
Antis please respond! I hope you will come out and attack the fact that white Americans are stealing Asian jobs and it is a two way street! If not, all you are demanding is privilege for the American majority!
http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2009/11/reading-tea-leaves-is-the-public-ready-for-reform.html
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Globalization makes people meaner and indecent, since the more you go abroad, the more you become groundlessly proud.
Live long in your country in the fear of God!
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Act 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Act 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Act 2:10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Act 2:11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Act 2:12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
Act 2:13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
Act 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
Act 2:15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.