TOWARD THE END OF THE WORLD?
It is now estimated that almost 2,000 people were killed in the great earthquake that recently occurred in the Quinhai Province, China.
Yet, the world exposition is to start in Shanghai on May 1.
Something today is similar to something of 2008, isn't it?
Or, worse due to the volcano in Iceland and the demonstartion in Thai, though not in Tibet.
SECTION I: Japan Won Swine Flu War
You don't have to respect Japan, but have compassion on poor Americans.
(Do not join AlQaeda! Do not get equipped with nuclear bombs!)
SECTION II: Mystery of French Revolution Solved
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How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution
Profound effects of eight-month eruption in 1783 caused chaos from US to Egypt, say experts
Thursday 15 April 2010 18.11 BST
Greg Neale
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The Laki volcanic fissure in southern Iceland erupted over an eight-month period from 8 June 1783 to February 1784, spewing lava and poisonous gases that devastated the island's agriculture, killing much of the livestock. It is estimated that perhapsa quarter of Iceland's population died through the ensuing famine.
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Across the Atlantic, Benjamin Franklin wrote of "a constant fog over all Europe, and a great part of North America".
The disruption to weather patterns meant the ensuing winter was unusually harsh, with consequent spring flooding claiming more lives. In America the Mississippi reportedly froze at New Orleans.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/15/iceland-volcano-weather-french-revolution
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Remember that Haiti is the only nation in Americas that uses French as the sole Western language for its official language.
Heaven must be highly concerned with France, Paris, or somebody associated with France, if not Princess Diana...
SECTION III: Heroes before 1930's
There is one facility to commemorate Sun Yet-sen (Sun Wen, or Son-Bun in Japanese)[1866-1925] in Kobe, Japan.
Its Web site presents an interesting picture of Sun Yet-sen and some Japanese who welcomed the great Chinese politician at Hong Kong during his trip back to Shanghai from Europe.
http://sonbun.or.jp/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=9
Anyway, the coming year 2011 is one hundredth anniversary of Xinhai Geming, or the Chinese Republican Revolution.
Sun Yet-sen travelled Europe and North America asking suppoer for his plan and action of Chinese revolution, but he spent total 10 year and more in Japan:
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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Sun Yat-sen
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In Japan, where he was known as Nakayama Shō (Kanji: 中山樵, lit. 'Middle Mountain Woodsman'), he joined dissident Chinese groups (which later became the Tongmenghui) and soon became their leader. He spent, on and off, about ten years in Japan while befriending and being financially aided by a democratic revolutionary in Japan, Miyazaki Toten (1871-1922). Nanjing Historical Remains Museum of Chinese Modern History exhibits a bronze statue of Sun and Miyazaki placed alongside. Miyazaki wrote a series of articles for newspapers including nationally-circulated Asahi about Sun and his revolutionary efforts under the title "33-year dream". His last name Nakayama came from the imperial family which occupied Sun's favorite estate mansion located in central Tokyo. He eventually left Japan due to fears of the excessively large level of support he had there and went to the States...
http://www.answers.com/topic/sun-yat-sen
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If Sun Yet-sen and his Japanese friend Toten Miyazaki could have survived into 1930's, the situation in SHangahi before WWII should have been more different.
The Pacific Stage of WWII might have been "the coalition of the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China vs. the allies of the U.K. and the U.S."
SECTION IV: Study in Elite Politicians of Japan
Among prescribed 722 lawmakers of the National Diet of Japan (Upper 242 + Lower 480), those who graduated from the University of Tokyo account for 133, while there are 756 universities and 434 junior colleges in Japan (more than 4000 college-level schools in the U.S.).
Among 133 graduates of the No.1 university of Japan, female lawmakers accounted for only seven (2 in the ruling DPJ, 2 in the ruling SDP, and 3 in the opposition LDP), while there are 96 female members of the Japanese Parliament or Diet.
However female ex-elite bureaucrats are only found in the LDP, namely 2 of the three. Yet, they did not even graduate from the faculty of law, while this faculty of the University of Tokyo has been so dominant in the judicial and official circles in Japan.
There are no female national lawmakers in Japan who graduated from the faculty of law, the University of Tokyo, and served the central government as elite bureaucrats before going into politics today (though there were some in the past)!
However, among prescribed 722 lawmakers of the National Diet of Japan (Upper 242 + Lower 480), those who graduated from the University of Tokyo account for 133.
But, not all of them have graduated from the faculty of law to serve the central government as an elite bureaucrat, though such a career is regarded as the standard for traditional elites of Japan, like the case of the late father of Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.
Now, the ruling DPJ and the Hatoyama Cabinet are trying to drastically change the elite bureaucrat system of the Japanese Government, since P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama graduated from the faculty of technology, the University of Tokyo.
But, the Hatoyama Cabinet might be doing something wrong in a wrong manner for a wrong cause without challenging the faculties of law of the University of Tokyo and Harvard University.
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According to CNN:
New York, London and Tokyo all rank high in all of these categories, according to a 2010 survey of top world cities by property consultancy Knight Frank.
TOP 10 CITIES
1. New York
2. London
3. Paris
4. Tokyo
5. Los Angeles
6. Brussels
7. Singapore
8. Berlin
9. Beijing
10. Toronto
Source: Knight Frank
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/04/10/cities.dominate.world/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Whay is Paris there?
Mar 4:20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mar 4:21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?