(The Bank of Japan, Tokyo)SECTION I: Hayabusa Returned after 7 Years in Space
A Japanese space exploring vehicle have travelled in the space over 6 billion kilo-meters (4 billion miles) in 7 years from the earth to an asteroid called Itokawa and then back to the earth.
It should have returned three years earlier without a chemical-fueled engine malfunction that eventually forced the spacecraft to rely on ion engines alone on its way back home.
Anyway, it is a world record in achieving a great specific mission in the space covering the earth and Mars.
Incidentally, Hayabusa means a falcon or a peregrine falcon, a bird flies so fast.
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at 15:25 GMT, Sunday, 13 June 2010 16:25 UK
Japanese Hayabusa asteroid mission comes home
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
A capsule thought to contain the first samples grabbed from the surface of an asteroid has returned to Earth.
The Japanese Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 1350 GMT, producing a bright fireball over southern Australia.
It had a shield to cope with the heat of re-entry and a parachute for the final drop to the ground.
A recovery team later reported they had identified the landing zone in the Woomera Prohibited Range...
Such grains would provide new insight into the early history of the Solar System and the formation of the planets more than 4.5 billion years ago.
Professor Ireland said no rocks on Earth could provide this information because they had been recycled many times.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10285973.stm
14 June 2010 - 04H19
Scientists scramble for Japanese asteroid capsule
AFP - A capsule that scientists hope will contain a little slice of outer space after a seven-year journey across the solar system was sitting in the Australian Outback on Monday waiting to be recovered.
The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it burned up in a spectacular meteor-like display over Australia, could hold the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth...
"If there is a sample in there that we can analyse that will be a bonus," he said. "It's already been a tremendous mission. It really is a fairy tale."
The historic mission means for the first time a spacecraft has made contact with an asteroid and returned to Earth.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100614-scientists-scramble-japanese-asteroid-capsule
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Anyway, it is great Godspeed that a spacecraft launched by a Japanese M5 Rocket in May 2003 was not lost in the vast area between the earth and Mars.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCpvYn6pf8s )
SECTION II: Ease of Doing Business
Anglo-Saxon style business practices must be corrected, changed, and restricted if a new era requests it for saving the world.
World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Ranking
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#1...Singapore...(an Ex-British colony)
#2...New Zealand...(an Ex-British colony)
#3...Hong Kong...(an Ex-British colony)
#4...USA...(an Ex-British colony)
#5...UK
#6...Denmark...(close to Anglo-Saxons)
#7...Ireland...(once annexed by the U.K.)
#8...Canada...(an Ex-British colony)
#9...Australia...(an Ex-British colony)
#10...Norway...(close to Anglo-Saxons)
#11...Georgia...(under UK/USA influence)
#12...Thailand...(under UK/USA influence)
#13...Saudi Arabia...(under UK/USA influence)
#14...Iceland...(close to Anglo-Saxons)
#15...JAPAN
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#19...S. Korea
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#25...Germany
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#29...Israel
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#31...France
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#34...South Africa
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#46...Taiwan
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#78...Italy
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#89...China
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#120...Russia
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#122...Indonesia
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#129...Brazil
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#133...India
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#151...Haiti
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#153...Iraq
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#171...Cameroon
http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/
Basically, countries where Anglo-Saxon languages are so much spoken or used are highly appraised as an easy place to make money.
Yet, for example, English is not inherently appropriate for expressing high-quality of emotions people have experienced in Asia and Africa.
Money is truly of a simple and violent nature where English is functionally so useful.
Anyway, you have to first learn history of using letters and characters in society of China and Japan before establishing any view on East Asia, provided that you want to be a cultivated economist unlike those on Wall Street and in City.
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Frankly speaking, it is not so easy for a Japanese person, including me, to write English sentences to post onto a blog everyday unless he lives among Americans in Japan.
What's more, if the person has any social title or status accompanied by responsibility in any sector, he will avoid any danger of being misjudged or appraised low due to his presenting incomplete English sentences, broken English sentences, grammatically wrong English sentences, or poor English sentences if having been educated in America.
Such a Japanese always tries to write English sentences for any purpose as if filing a paper to Harvard University or a report to the American Congress, though no English paper is requested in principle by any public entities in Japan for any business on any occasions, except in English education-related school.
Yet, flexible, impromptu, and quick responding to a situation is a key to success in the Anglo-Saxon world or the English-speaking world, since a result counts there rather than enjoying and respecting processes.
To win a soccer game in the global stage, you have to be, too, if you are a genuine Japanese like me who is always amazed at a flexibly, impromptu, and quickly responding player of the world class.
Finally, at present, do not expect a Japanese to write like me in English everyday on a non-nonsense subject without remuneration, if he is a former instructor or researcher in Harvard University or the American Congress. In this context, you should not blame Mr. Akio Toyoda of Toyota Motor Corp. for having not tried to speak English in the Senate and on a CNN live show.
(http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/thwin/jazz/z010.htm
It takes 20 hours flying from Japan to South Africa. Besides, there is no continent beyond the sea in the south of Japan, unlike Europe or America.
The Japan team can concede to any African teams but should not do to any others, in my personal hope concerning the 2010 World Cup.)
Luk 6:13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
Luk 6:14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
Luk 6:15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
Luk 6:16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.