(When the mid summer gets in gear, the winter is no more far in the rear.)One Loser or Two Losers for Hopes?
The 1012 U.S. Primary Election will be a difficult one as with the coming midterm election.
In Japan, the on-going Upper-House election is very difficult for most of politicians, critics, and non-affiliates.
But, the two major parties, namely pro-China socialistic DPJ and pro-American conservative LDP, look like going to fail, respectively.
They both uphold a rise of the consumption tax rate from 5% to 10% in near future to improve a state of national finance but not to combat deflation.
What is needed for Japan is a steady 4% GDP growth to be achieved without destroying the nature and culture of Japan.
And, the true masters behind the scene, that is elite bureaucrats of the central government, will also lose in the coming national election, since they have chosen the 5% tax increase rather than the 4% economic growth.
This will be a good lesson to the world.
(And a friend offering an umbrella in a rainy day when you look like a poor loser is a true friend unlike a false friend who offers two or more umbrellas for your choice in a rainy day when you look so promising with so many friends.
In a certain foreign company in Tokyo, there are many who would try to take away your umbrella in a rainy day when you look like a poor loser...though the company has some reputation globally.)
SECTION I: Three to Go
On the coming Sunday, the Japanese voters are going to show how much they support Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan and the Democratic Party of Japan.
The world was surprised last summer at the regime change in Japan. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama was welcomed by China, South Korea, and other progressive or anti-American camps in the world. However, after admitting his naive view on the Japanese security issue as well as a plummeting approval rating, Prime Minister Mr. Hatoyama stepped down in early June, taking along then controversial Secretary General of the DPJ Mr. Ichiro Ozawa.
In a subsequent summary party election for the head of the DPJ, Mr. Naoto Kan was so elected and assumed the office of premiership accordingly. So, just 10 months after the great regime change in Japan from a very pro-American Cabinet to an anti-American capitalism Cabinet, Japanese voters are requested to approve new Prime Minister Mr. Kan for his one-month performance.
But, what P.M. Mr. Kan is appealing to Japanese citizens with is just a 5% rise of the consumption tax aimed at financial reform. However, it has gradually come to be known by the Japanese people that P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan is very amateur in terms of economy, public finance, and national security. But, what has he learnt since he was elected as Lower-House member of the National Diet in 1980 when he was 34 years old? Just how to survive and continue to be elected?
Yet, it is reportedly said that it is anarchic philosophy that P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan has really studied. He thinks that it is the best that each country in the world gets disintegrated. A central government of each country should be disbanded. Only municipality and local administrative agencies should be allowed to exist and function. Globally, the United Nations or its successor should supervise the whole world according to necessity. Peoples in the world must be free from the old paradigm of a nation. They must stop belonging to a nation. They must become freed citizens from the traditional concept of a nation and its people.
(http://abirur.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/1687594/)
This is a pattern observed in how the Chinese Communist Party established its power over mainland China and the North Korean Workers' Party occupied the north part of the Korean Peninsula.
They all claimed that every tradition and custom in the society was evil and thus should be destroyed. Old culture and religion should not be respected. Only what the party taught was precious and true. Based on this doctrine, the Chinese Communist Party established its power over mainland China and the North Korean Workers' Party occupied the north part of the Korean Peninsula.
In denying a traditional identification of the people with the history and the culture of a nation, P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan is close to leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and the North Korean Workers' Party, at least in terms of philosophy.
Of course, P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan is not a fool. He understands that such philosophy cannot be accepted by the Japanese people. In his long career, Mr. Kan never acted like an anarchist, though he has had some ties with Japanese leftists who support North Korea and China.
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan is not a fool. His inclination to anarchic philosophy is just a level of literature but not of real politics. It seems that as he cannot find more merit or splendor in the Japanese traditional culture, he has opted for Western leftist philosophy. And, this is a pattern found in Japanese elite leftists and Marxists.
One top leader of the Japanese Communist Party has been living like a nobleman being served by some servants in a villa while writing many papers and articles against Japanese capitalism and cursing conservative elites.
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan will surely take his rich life rather than destroy Japanese capitalism. But, he still cannot find supreme merit and splendor in the Japanese culture and history that are the key to economic and industrial success of Japan.
There were many such youths in Japan in the era of the Vietnam War. But, all of them left universities and the era to work in businesses, public agencies, or various fields in the society. However, only a few of former anti-Vietnam War students have survived and advanced into national politics. One of them is now prime minister of Japan. So, Mr. Naoto Kan probably cannot deny his past and his inclination to extremely liberal philosophy.
Yet in the worst case P.M. Mr. Naotoa Kan and some other ministers in his Cabinet of his generation would not praise past political practices by Mr. Kim Jong-il who has been enjoying extremely rich life while millions of North Korean citizens are starving. But, the Kan Cabinet might put energy more into implementing anti-conservative measures than into saving poor people and realizing social justice.
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan should think that the modern anarchic philosophy was studied and established in Europe. Accordingly, such philosophy appeals to some Japanese who cannot appreciate great merit and splendor of the Japanese culture and history. But, European philosophy itself is incomplete and almost evil if it is not an legitimate extension of Christianity. Marxism itself is not an exception, if it is based on Judaism.
P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan should study history and culture of Japan and the world more humbly.
Nonetheless, P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan seems to have ability to respect Japanese traditions like ordinary citizens. He is not like a crazy philosopher or a brain-washed leftist politician who hates Japanese traditions so much due to their instinctive hatred to Japanese militarism and nationalism having been unnaturally and unthinkably exhorted and exercised during WWII.
In summary, it is for the first time that Japan has such a prime minister as has an inclination toward anarchic philosophy if at the level of literature or daydream.
(Former P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama has an inclination toward ideal of the Freemason philosophy if at the level of literature or daydream.)
Note that issue behind the Kan regime is when and how Japanese conservative camps will recover, since they had real power over half a century after WWII till the last summer.
Note also that some notable pro-Ozawa critics who supported the last summer's regime change are now expecting that senior politician Mr. Ichiro Ozawa to take over from Mr. Naoto Kan in the DPJ party convension scheduled this September. They claim that P.M. Mr. Kan has betrayed anti-American and anti-Koizumi friends in order to practically survive and continue his ruling. They even say that Mr. Kan is now subject to America, since P.M. Mr. Kan also has accepted a decision on a U.S. Marine Corps' base issue Former P.M. Mr. Hatoyama made as a kind of concession to America. Mr. Kan now looks like alienating himself from very veteran lawmaker Mr. Ozawa.
(http://uekusak.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2010/07/post-bf8b.html)
Finally, note that China several times invited Mr. Ozawa, Mr. Hatoyama, and Mr. Kan out of impressive goodwill when the pro-American conservative LDP, especially Former P.M. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, held power.
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They say that in Kyrgyzstan a young woman who has studied the Japanese language so much to once visit Japan was lost from her town in a recent turmoil of the nation.
I don't know if she was found or abducted forever, but it is one tragedy being covered by recent big incidents globally and domestically.
So, sometimes pay attentions to countries that once belonged to the former Soviet Union, including Russia.
And, it is a little sorry that Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama stepped down before recovering the Northern Territories of Japan under occupation by the Soviet Union and Russia since the end of WWII.
( http://www.mu-tech.co.jp/FirstSongWeb/kimigayo_xf_70s_pops.mid
Source: http://www.mu-tech.co.jp/Ringtone/Midi/Traditional/kimigayo.html
"Kimigayo" arranged with a 1970's Japanese popular music beat.)
Mar 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.