Amateur Class Judgment?
Ancient Romans thought that trade and manufacturing were professions for slaves.
Roman citizens themselves were not engaged in trade and manufacturing, unless they were freed slaves.
All they needed was martial art, since it assured for them promotion to administrative officials, high-ranking officials, and leaders.
In this way, when all the other types of virtue were lost by the Romans, the virtue of valor remained among them.
This is the spiritual landscape of the Roman Empire when Christianity was being formed under its umbrella.
However, the Japanese samurai tradition was different, though being born as samurai assured a man for serving a samurai lord as a bureaucrat allowed to belt on two swords; besides the Japanese people have respected craftsmen, since more than 90% of the people was farmers during the era of the last samurai regime that ended in 1867.
SECTION I: Japan the Most Unique Economy
If Canad is China or Mexico is China, the U.S. will be the most unique economy in the world and history, which is in fact not, while Japan is.
China is situated so close to Japan. Cheap labors and goods are flowing so freely into Japan, since Japanese and Western investments have boosted up Chinese export industries so much. It has resulted in a situation that every item of goods sold in Japan has now two source factories, each in Japan and China, instead of only one in Japan. It generates a huge downward pressure on prices and salaries in the domestic market, being further intensified by global competition.
This is the most unique economic situation in history, since Japan has the world-leading technology in various fields of the industry while China has ten times more population and 20 times more land than Japan has.
Accordingly, a new economic paradigm should emerge in Japan for its further prosperity in future, though Japan once opted for accepting the China effect for the merit in global competition and preservation of the Japanese land and nature.
So, if you go and study anything in Wall Street, it will not help you when you come back to Japan any more.
Stay in Japan and study really hard to come up with a new economic theory.
This is what I want to say to the best of the best Japanese economists in terms of ethics, since Japan is jut G1 of its own class due to its uniqueness.
SECTION II: How Great Empire Fell
The mystery about the fall of the Roman Empire is mostly rooted in the fact that the Romans did not face a critical challenge other empire posed competing in the full scale.
If there had been a great empire in Egypt who had advanced to Rome to defeat the Romans and occupy their territory in Europe to be a successor there, there would have been no mystery about the fall of the Roman Empire.
But, the last classical Chinese empire Qing (Ching) fell in a manner without a mystery. It was a clear power change in the Far East from the Qing Dynasty to the Empire of Japan in the late 19th century.
Even today, namely a century later of the Japan-Qing War ("Nisshin Senso" in Japanese) or the First Sino-Japanese War, the effect of the fall of the great empire of China remains in the mind set of both the peoples in Japan and China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War
In other word, true peace in the Far East depends on right understanding of the Japan-Qing War or the First Sino-Japanese War.
It is so, since unlike the Western Roman Empire Qing started to totally collapse upon one big war with the Empire of Japan.
But, why did the Empire of Japan have to take a risk of challenging the largest and strongest empire in Asia of the era, just 30 years after the end of its 250-year long, peaceful national isolation under the samurai regime?
In other word, again, true peace in the Far East depends on right understanding of the Japan-Qing War or the First Sino-Japanese War.
Put simply, in order to defend Japan from Russia, the Empire of Japan had to secure the Korean Peninsula. In order to secure the Korean Peninsula, the Empire of Japan had to drive out the influence of Qing from the Korean Peninsula, since Qing had lost the Opium War with the U.K. in 1840's and 1850's to lose determination to drive out Russia coming down from Siberia.
Yet, even after the war, the Empire of Japan found that in order to defend the Korean Peninsula and Japan from Russia it had to secure Manchuria. In order to secure Manchuria, the Empire of Japan had to make war directly with Russia while driving out the influence of any Chinese armed factions from Manchuria.
Finally, without any threat of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, the Empire of Japan would not have directly occupied the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria under whatever disguise.
In that case, the United States should not have been able to involve the Empire of Japan in its participation in the European stage of WWII to save the U.K. and European Judaists as well as American interest in Europe.
Though Jesus Christ said not to judge other persons, He may allow you to judge war and empires.
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As you know, the DPJ, the key ruling party of Japan, has three acute problems now: P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, Director-General Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, and radical movement-related socialist group, all of whom are very pro-China.
I think one of three problems will be fatal, other one will not be eradicated easily, but the remaining one will survive.
Yet, the former ruling coalition of the LDP and New Komeito had always 10 or more problems, though not so acute.
Candidly, my concern is on the Japanese media. After a great change, reformation, or revolution, some parts of parties concerned always face a tragedy in aftermath. As nowadays the media is one of main pillars of the politics, I am afraid, a victim might be found in the Japanese media, sooner or later.
That is why the Bible inhibits becoming intimate with idols.
(http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/thwin/heal/h010.htm
When I heard this melody for the first time, I thought I would recall it in future...indeed someway.)
Mar 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Mar 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?