Under History, Industry, and Bridge
A 95-year old man was lying alone in a small room of an apartment house originally built for day laborers at Yokohama poor men's district.
A medical doctor came to check him, saying to a TV camera that every two and a half days an old man living alone in this district dies.
I remembered that I used to drive through a modern, sophisticated, and high-raised bridge over the sea of the Yokohama Port on the west side of the Tokyo Bay.
In a parking and rest area on an island connected by the bridge, there were many sight seers any time I visited it. Even today there must be many strangers around the place, since Yokohama is a prosperous city.
SECTION I: IRON
Crude Steel Production Ranking 2009 (M tons)
1. China...//...567....//...up 13.5%
2. JAPAN...//....88....//...down 26.3%
3. Russia...//...60...//...down 12.6%
4. USA....//....58...//...down 36.4%
5. India....//....57...//...up 2.7%
(China has the 1300 million population and India 1200 million, while USA 310 million, Russia 140 million, and Japan 120 million.)
By 2020, India is expected to produce five times today's production of crude steel.
Civilization today is composed of the following factors:
1. Iron
2. Petroleum/Chemicals
3. Electronics
4. Computer Software
Accordingly, it is important to see who lead the world in these sectors.
The fact that China and India have each 1 billion more population than the U.S. is important as you know.
Yet, Japan is leading in electronics. The U.S. is leading in computer software. Japan and the U.S. will continue to lead in technology on iron and petroleum (chemicals).
The balance of the industrial power and capability among these five nations is also important in terms of security and politics in the world.
In addition, Japan is the only peaceful country among G5, without nuclear weapons.
It is also noteworthy that each of G5 has different religious backgrounds: Japan with unique Buddhism, the U.S. with Christianity/Judaism complex, India with Hinduism. Russia with orthodox Christianity, and China Marxism/Taoism complex.
Of course, outside this domain, EU and Islamic nations will claim their dominant presence and leadership in technology and crude oil, with the Vatican and Mecca as their religious centers. So, we may call them Region 2.
G5 + R2 are truly responsible for avoiding another 2001 9/11 Terror and another Lehman Shock.
In other word, America cannot win G4 + R2 anymore.
SECTION II: War & Bridge
A 24-year-old son did not want to join the army. But, his German born father sternly recommended him to do so.
With whatever emotion, the son volunteered to join President Lincoln and fully utilized his talent in engineering to be promoted to colonel through battles.
Nonetheless, while the Civil War was yet to be finished, his father told him to leave the army and join him working in construction of a bridge over the Ohio River, since President Lincoln's victory was obvious to the father who experienced Napoleonic wars around Prussia, presently Germany, though as a child.
As the father invented a new method to produce strong wire ropes used for a suspension bridge and remarkably succeeded in application to Niagara, he got in charge of designing and supervising a 5,989 foot (1825 m) long bridge over the East River called the Brooklyn Bridge in 1867.
Yet, during measurement work, he was injured and subsequently died.
However, his son succeeded the father to be eventually and unfortunately injured himself in underwater work for engineering the basement of a tower of the bridge.
His German American wife then studied civil engineering and helped him until the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883.
The story of John Roebling (1806-1869) and his son Washington Roebling (1837-1926) symbolizes the start of the Era after the Civil War.
What I want to say is that a father should not force his son to go to battle, no matter how talented his son is as army engineer.
Also, the year 1867, when the Brooklyn Bridge plan was authorized, was the last year for the last samurai regime in Japan.
After the start of Westernization of Japan in 1868, many elite Japanese visited New York to see the Brooklyn Bridge. Even after WWII, many ordinary Japanese visited New York to be highly impressed by the Bridge, "How could we fight and win the country who built this great bridge when Japan just entered the Meiji Period!"
Indeed, the Era of Napoleon has long gone; the Era of Lincoln has long gone; and the War of the Pacific has long gone, since China is the largest steel producer today due to huge engineering and financial help from Japan.
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There is one place I am sure I will never visit on the globe, a movie theater in Hollywood.
("What is Nutrocker?" "Something different from Hurt Locker."
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1Jo 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1Jo 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.