(See You, Tokyo, So Soon!)Insidious Strategy
The head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan is a female Upper-House member who is also a lawyer and a graduate of University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law.
Before she was recruited by the Party, she had often made TV appearances as a liberal lawyer.
A lawyer, TV appearances, and then a politician elected by many voters or audiences seem to be a fast track for some ambitious youths in Japan, which however must be sternly checked nowadays, since the head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan might be acting as the coup de grace to the Japanese prime minister.
(http://mizuhofukushima.blog83.fc2.com/ )
So, I really do not like pious women to make a foolish TV appearance whether from Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, or Tokyo.
SECTION I: The Hatoyama Cabinet
The approval rate for the Hatoyama Cabinet has fallen to 17% according to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun newspaper, a kind of liberal paper.
(http://www.asahi.com/politics/gallery_e/view_photo.html?politics-pg/0530/TKY201005300303.jpg )
The direct factor is a decision by Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama to fire a Cabinet minister from one of ruling parties, the Social Democratic Party, due to her refusal to endorse Mr. Hatoyama's decision on relocation of U.S. Marine Corps' base within the Okinawa Island, though Okinawa people want it out of the southern island.
P.M. Mr. Hatoyama of the Democratic Party of Japan promised several months before that he would settle this national security issue by acquiring consent from the two other ruling parties. But, instead, he drove out the minister from the SDP out of the Cabinet, as her presence meant discord in opinion among Cabinet members while the Constitution requests the complete accord in making a Cabinet decision.
However, the prime minister seems to be determined to surmount the situation into the summer Upper House election. He seems to be also trying to detach himself from the most powerful DPJ politician Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, a 40-year long lawmaker, who has been acting like a virtual boss to Mr. Hatoyama for many years. This movement was however predicted by notable journalist Mr. Soichiro Tahara who met the prime minister several weeks ago.
Practically, it is very difficult to force the prime minister of Japan to resign, though it is at any time possible by law: Convene a Lower-House assembly and vote for a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet, if passed, which would force resignation of the prime minister or allow him to dissolve the Lower House for election asking judgement by the people.
So long as the prime minister keeps a majority support from ruling parties, a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet cannot be passed if submitted by the Opposition, no matter how his approval rate has dropped.
But, if the prime minister, like the case of Mr. Hatoyama, takes the direct reigns only on one eighth of all the national lawmakers in his party (actually 56/423), he can be ousted from the position of the head of the party. Then, his confidence will be surely voted down in the Lower House, since even members of his party would join the non-confidence.
The world thought eight months ago Mr. Yukio Hatoyama was a true Japanese hero when his party took over power from the Liberal Democratic Party, a very conservative and pro-American, old party. But now, 80% of Japanese voters have come to think that he thinks too light of significance of politics. His words never touch hearts of ordinary Japanese any more, though his words are mild and his manner is gentle.
In my view, it will be very difficult for P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama to continue his way while he and his party have a kind of insulted elite bureaucrats for real in these months under the banner of superiority of lawmakers over government officials, a sort of the last remnants of the Empire of Japan that faded away with the end of WWII.
SECTION II: An Account on Okinawa
The Okinawa islands are closer to Shanghai than to Kyoto or Tokyo.
The Imperial myths of Japan (the Yamato court) have no reference to Okinawa. Okinawa had its own king till 1879.
However, Okinawa people belong to the Japanese race in terms of history spanning over 10,000 years; their dialects and the other mainland dialects constitute together the Japanese language.
Yet, it is the region that has the least tie with the Imperial tradition of Japan (since the establishment of the Yamato regime around the third to the fifth century).
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Attitudes toward Okinawa in Japan, 1945-1947
On September 20, 1947, Hirohito conveyed to MacArthur's political adviser, William J. Sebald, his position on the future of Okinawa. Acting through Terasaki, his interpreter and frequent liaison with high GHQ officials, the emperor requested that, in view of the worsening confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, the American military occupation of Okinawa and other islands in the Ryukyu chain continue for ninety-nine years. Hirohito knew MacArthur's latest views on the status of Okinawa when he made this offer. [MacArthur had been quoted as saying, "The Ryukyus are our natural frontier" and "the Okinawans are not Japanese."] The emperor's thinking on Okinawa was also fully in tune with the colonial mentality of Japan's mainstream conservative political elites, who, like the national in general, had never undergone decolonization. Back in December 1945, the Eighty-ninth Imperial Diet had abolished the voting rights of the people of Okinawa along with those of the former Japanese colonies of Taiwan and Korea. Thus, when the Ninetieth Imperial Diet had met in 1946 to accept the new "peace" constitution, not a single representative of Okinawa was present.
SOURCE: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins, 2000), pp. 626-627
http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2005/09/attitudes-toward-okinawa-in-japan-1945.html
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Note that no one calls the Showa Emperor just "Hirohito" in Japan, though you may say "Hirohito Ten-noh (Emperor)" in Japanese, but "Showa Ten-noh" is far normal.
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I smoke.
It is so troublesome when I catch a cold, as I smoke.
It needs a special care as it can be so troublesome when I catch a cold, as I smoke.
So, I went out for a medical doctor to get some medicines days ago.
Then I felt as if I had been so blessed, since I got now ethical medicines.
And, of course, I do not like others to smoke before me, very personally.
( http://www.anitasplace.com/music/every_breath_you_take.html
Finally, you have to belong to authority evil, false, worldly, or holy...)
Mat 5:31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Mat 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.