(In-Between Space from the BOJ to the Tokyo Station or the Tokyo Bay)2-0, 2-1, and 4-1, Crosswise
South Korea made it in their way to take on Argentina, in vain.
It was offence vs. offence, which however did not work well at all for the less advantageous S. Korean team in the 2010 World Cup matching tonight.
Incidentally, North Korea made it 1-2 against Brazil, though its defeat could be relieved somehow by a great job of a North Korean player who was born and is living in Japan.
The Japanese national team is to face the Netherlands's on this Saturday. After the Netherlands's, the Japanese players are to play a match with Denmark's. It is very unlikely that the Samurai Blue would lose both the matches, since they are North Europeans close to Anglo-Saxons.
SECTION I: Rice Acreage & Car Production in Japan
It is said that it was around 1970 that Japanese cars started to be really accepted, appraised, and welcomed in the global market, especially by American consumers.
At that time, Japanese took rice more than today. The rice planted acreage around 1970 was twice larger than today.
Though it indicates a kind of positive change in life style of the Japanese people, it also means a kind of negative change in the nature surrounding cities in Japan. Many paddy fields were sold to car companies and the likes who built large factories on those places, since mountainous areas accounted for 70% or so of the total land area of Japan.
To protect the nature and traditional culture of Japan, the rapid or crazy economic growth, accompanied by the bubble phenomenon, should be suppressed. This concern was psychologically reflected in people's behaviors and ways of thinking, consciously or instinctively.
For example, it led to acceptance of an idea of "no more factories in Japan but in China," in order to protect the nature, including rice paddies around cities. However, due to a drastic change in life style among the Japanese, consumption of rice has continued to decrease,
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(Click to enlarge.)With an increase of consumption of beef imported from America and Australia, Japanese youths became taller year after year in these decades. But, Japanese nature and rice fields as well as cultural traditions have been less respected and neglected, dwindling and tarnishing.
Yet, the source of ability and power of the Japanese race still consists in the nature and cultural traditions, including rice fields and rice-farming culture and its derivatives.
For example, if the number of cows in America decreased due to a change in life style to half over decades, the American culture and mentality should be drastically influenced.
Such a large-scale cultural shift has really occurred in Japan during the so-called lost decade.
(Before globalization of economy, Americanization in culture and politics in Japan after WWII made the Japanese people adapt themselves for this mega-change beforehand. Japanese people and businesses really loved to deploy overseas along with an increase of car sales in the global market. However, watching so many failures of America, a tide is slowly turning in Japan. One example is the establishment of the liberal regime led by the Democratic Party of Japan, or some nationalistic movement within the Liberal Democratic Party.)
This must be a focal point to address or discuss any issue of Japan, including deflation. And, it is only Japanese that can solve it, though its outcome will surely highly effect China and America, as suggested in the above sentences.
SECTION II: BP
BP reported a profit of about $14 billion in 2009.
However, its stock prices plummeted down recently due to the horrible accident in the Gulf of Mexico, losing $60 billion from its aggregate market value and thus affecting various British stakeholders, including ordinary citizens.
BP is not only the largest business in the U.K. but also the largest supplier of oil and gas to the U.S. military.
This is a warning from Heaven to the U.S. and the U.K.
From my experiences, there are many indecent Anglo-Saxons living in Asia, East Asia, and Tokyo. They should not think the life style of Princess Diana is the norm. They must live like a Christian if they are in Asia, East Asia, and Tokyo. (Recently a Japanese cameraman was killed in Bangkok, since he worked for a controversial Anglo-Saxon company in Japan.)
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In the 9-11-1995 general election in Japan, 80 new Lower-House members were elected (for 480 full seats) from the pro-American conservative LDP, allowing then Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi to expand his influence which was relayed by three successive prime ministers from the LDP till the summer of 2009.
In the 30-8-2009 general election in Japan (amazingly 308 seats taken by the DPJ; 119 by the LDP), 180 Lower-House members were lost from the pro-American conservative LDP, allowing the then head of the liberal DPJ Mr. Yukio Hatoyama to form a new Cabinet which however lasted for only eight months to be relayed to new P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan a month before the 7-11-2010 Upper House election (for half of 242 full seats).
Yet, it is said that if the Japanese national football team should continue to fight successfully in the 2010 World Cup matches in South Africa, voters might lose some concentration on politics and the election, leading to unexpected results.
(So, Snoopy must fight in either arena on behalf of Captain Tokyo...
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Gen 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
Gen 6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.