(The election was over...One of the most unnoticeable election billboards around Tokyo...Everybody returned?)Facing a Different World the World Cannot Yet See
If Mr. Bill Clinton had been replaced before the 1996 Presidential Election, the 9/11-2001 Terror could have been prevented.
If Mr. George W. Bush had been replaced before the 2004 Presidential Election, the 9/15-2008 Lehman Shock could have been avoided.
To avoid another Greece crisis and coming Chinese bubble burst, it would be necessary to change leaders of Germany and China.
So, Japan is now coping with this rapidly changing global situation by appointing a new prime minister as the situation changes in these years.
Japan would even conduct a national election every year, since it has the second largest and advanced economy in the world.
SECTION I: Aftermath of Japan's National Election
Some critics say, "I cannot still find what the agenda for the election was."
Others say, "The point at issue was not a proposal for a 5% tax increase by P.M. Kan, since the opposition LDP has also proposed the similar 5% increase plan."
The decisive factors for the 7-11-2010 election must be as follows:
1. How much better can the Kan Cabinet handle China and the U.S.?
(Local people unlike Tokyo voters are afraid of a random intrusion of Chinese people on their places, though local sight-seeing businesses welcome Chinese visitors nowadays.)
2. How much better can the Kan Cabinet handle the state of national economy?
3. How much better can the Kan Cabinet improve democracy in Japan?
Totally, the ability of P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and other leaders of the DPJ as a politician became a focal point for Japanese voters when considering whom and what party they would support.
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and the DPJ might be led by the nose by sly Chinese leaders.
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and the DPJ might make the Japan-U.S. relationship worse.
(The U.S. Marine Corps' relocation issue is yet to be fully fixed for the Okinawa people.)
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and the DPJ might not be able to manage national finance and economy.
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and the DPJ might neglect rules and justice without complying principles of democracy and traditions of the society.
What summarizes and symbolizes these concerns is the proposal for a 5% consumption tax increase publicly announced by P.M. Kan a few weeks before the start of the official election campaign period.
So, in total, P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and the DPJ lost the 7-11-2010 Upper-House election.
But, this victory of the former ruling party LDP does not promise their early comeback to power, though the LDP's gaining of 51 seats against DPJ's 44 seats was beyond imagination and forecasts by all the Japanese media.
The question to be considered now is however whether or not Japanese politicians and critics now understand what the agenda for the election was.
SECTION II: Kan or Ozawa?
The most serious concern among the Japanese media is, however, whether or not ex-Director General of the ruling party DPJ Mr. Ichiro Ozawa can replace Mr. Naoato Kan as head of the party and thus prime minister in the coming party convention scheduled in September.
Very veteran lawmaker Mr. Ozawa is now in a complicated situation. He has been accused of illegal handling of huge political funds. In several weeks, it is expected that the Committees for the Inquest of Prosecution will decide on whether he shall be officially prosecuted or not.
Put simply, Mr. Ozawa is less suitable for the Japanese prime minister than Mr. Kan is.
Yet, without his support, it is apparent, Mr. Kan cannot sufficiently unify and manage the party and its members. It is so, since the Democratic Party of Japan is full of the amateur class of just ambitious politicians. If the Liberal Democratic Party is a Major League Baseball team, the DPJ is one of the AAA class, in terms of a level of quality and performance.
So, it looks like logical to think that the Kan Cabinet getting less popular continues with help from Mr. Ozawa, a Lower-House member since 1969, for several months to get the 2011 budget package passed in next March or so.
And then, opposition parties led by the LDP will start to press P.M. Mr. Kan so hard, requesting dissolution of the House of Representatives or the Lower House and implementation of a general election.
If an approval rating for P.M. Mr. Kan should be too low at the time, somebody except Mr. Ozawa might replace Mr. Kan and enter the election. In this case, Japan has a national election next year, too. And, a new prime minister will attend the next G8, representing Japan.
Yet, it is still unknown if Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki, the incumbent president of the LDP, will attend the G8 Summit of 2011 as new Japanese prime minister.
It depends on how much ability Mr. Tanigaki, a veteran Lower-House member since 1983, will prove and demonstrate in these months.
Nonetheless, the whole proceeding in the coming period of time largely rests on elite bureaucrats in Tokyo, though they are also influenced by business leaders and top executives of economic organizations of Japan who get big profits from the American market and the Asian market (including China) as well as the domestic one.
(http://www.keidanren.or.jp/japanese/speech/comment/2010/0711.html)
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Early this morning I heard a heavy voice saying, "The Birth Day!"
Yes, I have my own birth day, like Jesus Christ and all the other persons.
Yet, the spirit did not make it clear whose birth day it is.
Jesus Christ was born in December according to the Vatican, but scientifically it is believed that he was born in early spring.
Maybe the world is going to be ended on a birthday of somebody.
But what should I do? Everyday can be a birthday of somebody. So, what should I do? Indeed, there is only one or two birthdays that might matter.
Accordingly, a big thing might not occur in the world until December 25 or so.
When was Mother Mary born? September 8?
Luk 7:12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Luk 7:13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Luk 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.