(No Places Other Than Tokyo That Are Like Tokyo)
People's Hero & Lawmakers' Hero
I opened the door to step out.
The first thing I saw was a bright big star over roofs as it was at dusk.
SECTION I: Will Hatoyama Quit?
If P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should step down immediately, 10 or more candidates of the ruling DPJ will be elected in the coming national election of Japan to choose 121 new Upper House members.
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"Hatoyama has totally screwed things up," said Gerald Curtis, a professor of Japanese politics at Columbia University in New York. "Clearly, the party sees a disaster looming."
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Should Hatoyama step down before the elections, likely candidates to replace him include Finance Minister Naoto Kan, National Strategy Minister Yoshito Sengoku and Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Curtis said. Hatoyama’s term as party leader expires in September.
Hatoyama was hailed for unseating the Liberal Democratic Party, which governed almost without interruption for more than 50 years, and ushering in a new chapter in Japanese democracy.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3Z.12Zvee24
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Indeed, if Former Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso should have stepped down before the national election in 2009, 40 or more candidates of the then ruling LDP must have been elected to secure at least one third of the total 480 Lower-House seats, though the LDP got only 119 seats which was 180 seats down from previously occupied about 300 seats.
No matter what a prime minister says, he will never have compassion for weak candidates in his party. Mr. Hatoyama is, like Mr. Aso, trying to stay in the position of premier as long as possible, thus causing big troubles to scores of candidates from his own party.
They are thus not a hero, since they sacrifice scores of lawmakers just to save their face.
If Mr. Taro Aso should have resigned before the 2009-30-8 election for Japan, Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should resign, too, before the expected 2010-11-7 election for Japan.
Lower-House lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Japan Mr. Yukio Hatoyama should not think that he would enjoy life after leaving politics when he quits the premiership three or four years later. But, he should resign now and help his party for many years to come as one of senior members of the party.
You must be content with one time experience of being in charge of national budget compilation as prime minister, since Japan is a great country as the visiting Chinese Prime Minister so admits and praises publicly in Tokyo.
SECTION II: Salary vs. Dividends
Japanese businesses have well survived and operated over the so-called "lost decade" in 1990's and the so-called "another lost decade" in 2000's.
But, as a salary level of their employees was suppressed lower, a strong deflationary pressure happened in the whole society. However, businesses have secured reasonable profits through these periods. Then, where has the money gone? Indeed, it has gone to shareholders in the form of cash dividends.
(http://www.garbagenews.net/archives/990472.html )
The above figure clearly tells how deflation in Japan has progressed as the Bank of Japan discussed.
In other word, a huge amount of money to be paid to Japanese workers and to be collected by the Japanese tax offices has been partially accumulated by company management and partially transferred to the financial sector in New York and London.
P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama wrote some before assuming the office of prime minister eight months ago about his negative judgment on Wall Street. But, before he is in earnest tackling this issue, Mr. Hatoyama has lost confidence among Japanese voters and workers, probably because he is a billionaire with many personal assets operated in the stock market, unlike poor Okinawa people living around harassing U.S. military bases.
Anyway, remember if only one man has $100 trillion, economy is not possible.
If 12 men share $100 trillion, economy starts to emerge.
If 10 billion people share $100 trillion, even economics starts to look possible.
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The sky was blue to my satisfaction.
A passenger jet was flying 27,000 feet high alone, looking so small and fast.
Then a jogging-walking woman with a hat and dark glasses passed by me, having talked to angling boys, murmuring something, and speaking to an old man over a canal, and starting to walk backward.
A pathway was white and dry framed by green grass growing with vigor.
The sky must have been still blue to my satisfaction.
(http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/50805-jyubangainosatujin.htm
This song should be also referred to as "Profiles in Courage," since a book of the title was presented last fall to Mr. Hatoyama by Mr. Obama in Tokyo.)
Mat 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Mat 6:2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.