Living is Analyzing
Toyota's President Mr. Akio Toyoda made a live TV appearance tonight in Tokyo just after flying back from China.
It is a very unusual event that a president of any major Japanese company joins a TV news show in any time shot (except a businessman interview show).
He reiterated his recognition on a little too fast growth of his company in the global market.
But, what I want to know is why Toyota introduced the electronic control unit (ECU) to replace a conventional mechanical acceleration gear. Cost reduction or driver's safety?
Governments in the world should set a technical regulation on ECUs applied to the braking/acceleration system of a car.
For example, an ECU shall function 100% normally when a 1-meter or 3-foot-high tsunami surrounds a car equipped with the device.
In addition, the wire connectors of the Toyota's ECU look a little weak mechanically in my observation. Ideally, no connectors should be used from an accelerator pedal to the cylinder of the engine, even if an ECU box is attached between the pedal and the cylinder, since a plug part can loosen due to vibration resulting in a larger impedance and incomplete signal sending.
SECTION I: State of Food Stamps - Decisive Factor
One in eight Americans lives on food stamps nowadays.
http://www.frac.org/html/news/fsp/2009.11_FSP.htm
Yes, 38 million Americans receive from the U.S. Government free tickets which can be exchanged with foods, since they have no incomes or very small incomes.
But, would they vote for Mr. John McCain and Ms. Sarah Palin? They should surely vote for Mr. Barack Obama. Accordingly, Mr. Barack Obama was elected as president in 2008.
If one in eight Americans needs food stamps, four of eight Americans need a Democratic president in case of falling into the category of "one in eight."
The IT-based boom allowed Mr. Bill Clinton to be reelected in 1996, in order for American people to pursue Wall-Street-backed American Dream.
The world No.1 military pride allowed Mr. George W. Bush to be reelected in 2004, in order for American People to overcome the threat of Islamic terror.
However, the reality of "One in Eight" might even not allow Mr. Barack Obama to be reelected, in order for American poor people to make the country more their own.
Put extremely, keeping a voter turnout for the presidential election as high as possible itself is a Great Change, since 64.1% was marked in 2008 as a record high after WWII.
SECTION II: State of Pension Omission - Decisive Factor
It was a truly historical event in Japan as remarkable as the first African American president elected in the U.S. in 2008.
It is a regime change from virtually half-century-long LDP-led government to not-so-pro-American DPJ government, which was realized in the summer of 2009.
Yet, Japanese voters did not vote for the DPJ because the labor-union backed party is not so pro-American. They voted against the LDP, since the LDP did not take care of their pensions.
In early 2007, it was suddenly uncovered and reported by the media that staggering 50 million or more cases in pension records entrusted to the Japanese Government were not correctly and fairly managed and paid back for. It was DPJ lawmaker Mr. Akira Nagatsum that first pointed at the fact in the national Diet. Accordingly, Mr. Nagatsuma is now Health, Labour and Welfare Minister of Japan.
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B4%E9%87%91%E8%A8%98%E9%8C%B2%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C)
Then, a great pressure fell upon then Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe of the LDP who lost the 2007 Upper House election and himself was taken with illness to step down.
The fact that 50 million individual pension files were defective due to ill management for decades meant that roughly a half of total Japanese voters would have come to be anxious of their receiving pensions. Accordingly, the LDP lost the 2009 Lower House election to lose power, which looks very natural as we look back now.
The voting rate of the 2009-30-8 general election in Japan was about 69.3%, a record high since the current election system was introduced in 1996. The major decisive factor was, in my analysis, people's fear of losing their pensions due to rich and old-fashioned LDP lawmakers.
Though Japanese voters simply wanted to have a government that would honestly manage the pension system in a very responsible manner, critics, economists, and politicians have been discussing other factors as a major cause of the regime change. It is true however that the well-educated and disciplined Japanese people would not explicitly say that they voted for the DPJ because they wanted money, namely pensions. They would rather suggest that four-time changes of the prime minister from the LDP between 2006 and 2009 were too much for them to trsut in the LDP, though, alleging itself to be based on the traditional value system of Japan.
But, if being too much pro-American means allowing for omission of management of poor people's pensions, the trend cannot return favourably to the simply pro-American LDP.
Conversely, if the Democratic Party of Japan cannot do anything more than management of pensions, it can be replaced with any other party in the mind of voters when voting in next national elections.
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By the way which family tree do you support?
(Click to enlarge.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desposyni
Anyway, if a brother was killed by his enemy, his surviving brothers would naturally think about a need for taking necessary measures.
But, three brothers can be a Judaist, a Christian, and a Muslim, very logically.
Luk 3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Luk 3:2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Luk 3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
Luk 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.