Nearby Friends Better than Far Brothers
Once or decades ago there was a man in Japan living as a vagabond.
He was mostly moving in the northern part of Honsyu, the largest island of Japan.
He mostly went into farmhouses when he was hungry. And in most cases, he got some foods. He also visited Christian churches. And in any time, he got some foods. Especially, a nun in a certain Catholic church had compassion for him. That might be why his story was reported to someone who put it down in a certain book I purchased long time ago.
It must be after WWII but before the period of high growth of the Japanese economy, as I have almost forgotten the report.
Anyway, I was impressed by the story, since a man could live such a way in this highly organized and orderly nation of Japan, walking hundred kilometers from a local area to other, asking foods from residents in villages, and even becoming close to priests and nuns of Christian churches.
If he had been wandering that way as a holy mission subject to God, he might have become a Christ of Japan.
"Hello! I am hungry. Would you give me some foods?"
"Ah, where are you from? What are you doing? OK, take some. Take care!"
SECTION I: TOYOTA'S FRIENDS
Rich men in Japan and America usually regard one another as potential friends, convenient friends, or future friends if not serious competitors.
Yet, Toyota is not a foolish and helpless Japanese company without any American friends.
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Could Toyota's connections help it weather investigations?
Updated 2/9/2010 12:42 AM
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The Senate's lead Toyota investigator, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., takes credit for lobbying Toyota to build a plant in his state. A member of a House investigating panel, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., represents the district of Toyota's U.S. headquarters and has financial ties to the company.
Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, has known Toyota's founding family since the 1960s. He was so closely involved with Toyota's selection of Buffalo, W.Va., for a factory that he slogged through cornfields with Toyota executives scouting locations and still mentions his role in the 1990s deal.
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Its U.S. charity doles out millions each year, sometimes in photo opportunities with politicians. It gave $5.6 million to charitable causes from mid-2007 to mid-2008, much of it focused on education and the environment, according to its most recent report. Toyota promised former president Bill Clinton's charity that it would spend $496,000 to sustain forests in the southern United States.
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Toyota's lobbying spending in Washington has risen as its U.S. sales have. Toyota spent $5 million last year lobbying on such issues as industry regulation, energy, labor laws, patents, trade, taxes and government contracting.
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Rockefeller's committee is expected to review whether the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration acted aggressively enough toward Toyota. The agency's new chief, David Strickland, worked for eight years on Rockefeller's committee as a lawyer and senior staffer.
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Josephine Cooper is among Toyota's lobbyists. She was CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an industry group to which Toyota belongs, and also worked at the Environmental Protection Agency and as an aide to former vice president Dick Cheney when he was in Congress.
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One of Toyota's executives, Tom Stricker, serves on the EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, and a former executive, Thomas Zawacki, is commissioner of Kentucky's Vehicle Regulation Department.
Toyota also is a federal contractor. Its contracts in the 2008 budget year included at least $3.8 million in business providing the State Department with vehicles and trailers, according to OMB Watch, a non-partisan group that tracks government spending.
Toyota has not been a big player in U.S. campaigns. Its U.S. employees contributed about $30,000 to federal candidates in 2007-08, compared with about $880,000 from Ford Motor employees and about $799,000 from GM workers.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-02-09-toyotainfluence09_ST_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomWashington-TopStories+(News+-+Washington+-+Top+Stories)
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However, though I think the God has no intention to destroy Toyota, I cannot help but request the Japanese auto-maker to be more responsible in analyzing intelligent electronic components in its cars, since Toyota must have also a business record with IBM and so on.
By the way, Toyota nowadays seems to focus on the Chinese market more intently, even designing its advertisement to be more attractive to Chinese consumers...
(Toyota might even employ Ms. Condoleezza Rice for a commercial, I am afraid...)
SECTION II: Did Jesus have BROTHERS and SISTERS?
Jesus Christ must have brothers and sisters with the same parents, since He defined who His brothers and sisters are.
His followers must have wondered how much they should show respect to family members of Jesus Christ. To respond to it, Jesus Christ made it clear that each person must stand alone before the God, suggesting also that His family members had no privileges before the God even if they should claim to be brothers or sisters or blood relatives of Jesus Christ.
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Q. Where does it say in scripture that Jesus had brothers? Did he have sisters too? My Catholic friends said that the scripture does talk about brethren but that were not Jesus' brothers.
A....I would say that the conclusion is still undetermined as a certainty but it really does not matter in any case. When Jesus discussed who his family was in Matthew 12:50 it was the brothers and sisters that had been called out of this world by his heavenly Father whom he was addressing when the call came from the doorman in the passages above.
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James the Less is identified in the list of apostles with whom Paul conferred in Galatians 1:19 and shows that this James was the Lord's brother. Whether this means his own blood half brother or a spiritual brother is open for interpretation. We may not know the answer to this question until Jesus returns and explains the full understanding of these verses.
Nowhere does it say that Mary and the men called Simon, James, Judas, and Joses can't be the mother and brothers of Jesus. The Scripture does identify that Clopas' wife was also called Mary, but does not identify that these four men are his sons or that Salome is his daughter through that Mary the sister in law of Mary the mother of Jesus.
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Written by: Charlotte Grantham
http://www.biblestudy.org/question/did-jesus-have-brothers-and-sisters.html
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Yet, it is very unlikely that none of Jesus' brothers did take any measures as a response to his brother's tragedy.
If there were no records at all on Jesus' brothers and St. Paul in any authentic documents written by the Roman Empire or Judaists in the first or second century, more analysis of the religion Christianity is naturally needed.
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2009 Chinese Car Market Sales Ranking
1. VW (Germany)...//...16.5% share
2. Hyundai (Korea).....//...9.7%
3. GM (USA)......//....9.0%
4. Toyota (JAPAN)....//.....7.8%
5. Honda (JAPAN)....//.....6.6%
6. Nissan/Renault (JAPAN/France)...6.2%
7. to 10. Chinese Makers...total 18.1%
Toyota's future in China must be brighter than in North America, since there is GM at an upper position.
And, do you know no one buys a red Crown of Toyota in Japan? Chinese might buy. Use this joke some time.
Joh 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Joh 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.