(One in Four Looks Like Alright in Tokyo)Midsummer Night's Dream Again
Experts in Japan today all forecast that the 2010 summer's national election will be resulted in the defeat of the incumbent ruling pro-Chinese party DPJ led by Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.
However, no one expects the former ruling pro-American LDP will immediately return to power, since it is just an Upper House election for half of its members, while a real regime change needs a majority of Lower House support in the Japanese Diet.
Presumably, de-facto head of the DPJ Mr. Ichiro Ozawa might chose a "self-destructive election campaign" with Mr. Hatoyama kept in premiership as it is, while the LDP led by Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki also looks like following the pattern of the self-destructive election campaign then P.M. Mr. Taro Aso of the LDP pursued ironically in the 2009-30-8 Lower-House election.
So, in this summer, for complicated reasons, both the two major political parties of Japan, the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party, will probably enter self-destructive election campaigns, since the leadership of each party will be preserved after all. It is because no regime change can happen even if the ruling DPJ is forced to tie up with some small or new parties after this election.
Yes, it is a self-destructive election campaign. But can it help President Mr. Barack Obama in 2012?
(As of now, it seems that Mr. Taro Kono of the LDP can be a reasonable pro-Chinese prime minister and Mr. Seiji Maehara of the DPJ can be a reasonable pro-American prime minister someday as they look somehow transparent...)
SECTION I: 1995 To 2008
Economists cannot cause, explain the cause of, or understand the significance of the following trends of GDPs in the U.S. and Japan for the past 20 years.
Economists can only describe how the things went on around money, interest, and prices or at bets an unemployment rate. But, they cannot tell why it happened in real terms. They might say something using financial data and figures which are not the causes and the real mechanism of the trends. There is no nation in the world whose major industry is the printing of bills.
So, just remember that the year 1995 was when the Windows 95 OS was launched and the Internet started to prevail in various communities in America, starting to change economy.
It is not financial theory intellectually biased economists can only handle but the Windows 95 OS and the Internet that drove the American GDP so drastically for subsequent 20 years.
It is not economists that are working in factories, shops, or R&D centers. It is not economists that are managing people and funds in corporations.
If economists can save the world, they must have saved Japan before 1995. Even Toyota and GM would hire economists for their CEOs or presidents.
(They are like Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama who can obtain a doctor's degree in an American university, but cannot understand that the society would collapse if a prime minister of a nation uses power to avoid an arrest for $6 million tax evasion exposed publicly without apologizing the people.)
How many economists in the world can explain how the Windows 95 and the Internet had influenced the reality expressed in the above figure, while there were no other crucial economic factors in 1995 that could bring about such a change?
In addition, the use of computer software is highly influenced by culture of a nation, including its language.
Anyway, start to think of economy for your own without blindly respecting economists who are even despised by very-rich and super-rich people.
Yet, the Chinese Communist Party has learnt well from American and Japanese economists to further promote their "anti-economics policies" to be an economic power following Japan.
SECTION II: Shanghai, Mitsubishi & Rockefeller
In 1990, Mitsubishi joined Rockefeller through capital investment in the real estate sector. Their modern relationship is still going on, further advancing to Shanghai from New York through Tokyo.
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Jonathan Green '68 is CEO of Rockefeller Group
Commercial real estate firm contributes to skylines in New York City and Shanghai.
By Rebecca Rhodin
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Jonathan D. Green '68
EASTON, Pa.(www.lafayette.edu), June 6, 2003
Rockefeller Group is perhaps best known as the onetime owner of Rockefeller Center in New York City, including Radio City Music Hall, which it sold to a group of investors in 1997.
Now a part of Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd. of Japan, the company owns nearby landmarks the Time-Life and McGraw-Hill buildings, as well as properties in Florida, California and New Jersey.
A Manhattan native, Green joined Rockefeller in 1980 as an assistant vice president and real estate counsel, rising to his current position last October.
Most exciting, he says, are Rockefeller's prospects in China, where it is helping rehabilitate sections of the city of Shanghai and may eventually build "something on the skyline" of the scale of Rockefeller Center.
"You should see Shanghai -- it's bustling," says Green, 56, a resident of Pelham, N.Y. "They're also building a whole new city across the river. Shanghai wants to be one of the cities you'd say in the same breath as London or New York, a really dynamic place."
Like the buildings of Rockefeller Group, Green is a higher-up, beholden to shareholders and more than 10,000 employees, which he says is both rewarding and daunting...
One event he's particularly proud to have been involved in is the merger of Rockefeller into Mitsubishi in 1997, which also required the meshing of the Japanese consensus-based culture with the American spirit of risk and entrepreneurialism.
https://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/4211/
(Mr. Green is Vice Chairman of Rockefeller Group International, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Estate Company, Ltd., with interests in real estate ownership, investment, management and development, and real estate services collectively operating under the brand of The Rockefeller Group.
http://people.forbes.com/profile/jonathan-d-green/6174 )
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Indeed, Rockefeller people themselves are advertising their engagement in development of modern Shanghai.
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The Rockefeller Group:
A Proud History of Real Estate Development
2000s —
Development Projects Extend Across US and to Shanghai;
Real Estate Investment Management Replaces Brokerage Business
In 2005, The Rockefeller Group became the official Master Developer for a portion of a historic area in Shanghai, China, known as The Bund, once the home of the city’s financial and trade industries. The Rockefeller Group and its partners are redeveloping a six-block historic area in three phases, restoring the area’s landmarked buildings and developing new, architecturally compatible buildings to evoke the best of the world-renowned glamour and elegance that Shanghai enjoyed during the 1920s and ’30s as a center for international trade and travel.
http://www.rockefellergroup.com/history/history.html
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So, how would the Empire of Japan try to destroy Shanghai in 1930's by sending tens of thousands of troops over the East China Sea (except for fierce defense of whole Shanghai, including French/British/American settlements, from reckless Chinese troops), while its business in the half-colonized city by Westerners was so important especially after the Great Depression?
Anyway, more specifically:
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David Rockefeller Sr. (born June 12, 1915)
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Under his stewardship the Chase spread internationally and became a central pillar in the world's financial system, including being the leading bank for the United Nations. A notable achievement was the setting up of the first branch of an American bank at One Karl Marx Square, near the Kremlin, in the then Soviet UnionSoviet Union, in 1973. This was also the year Rockefeller traveled to China, resulting in his bank becoming the National Bank of China's first correspondent bank in the United States...
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/David_Rockefeller
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Mitsubishi Group, including a heavy industry business, a car maker, and a mega-bank, once supplied a great amount of weapons for the Imperial Navy and Army before the end of WWII.
But now in 2010, the Chinese Communist Party, Mitsubishi Group, and Rockefeller Group are all hand in hand to promote business success in Shanghai and China...
But have they learnt anything from history about Shanghai around 1930?
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Indeed, it may be a time that some miracle happens.
Otherwise, 75% of the people in Japan and the U.S. will become a kind of criminals in terms of financial frauds or obscenity.
As President Mr. Barack Obama visited the New York Stock Exchange, some Angel should visit a certain place in Tokyo to monitor something.
It is what I am the most thinking of now.
(http://video.gamesfather.com/youtube/play/video_EAKd_hCTqus.html
New York in 1930 looks so nice, since everybody looks so decent after the 1929 Financial Crisis, though far from the grapes of wrath.)
Act 4:24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
Act 4:25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Act 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.