How Unique Is Japan?
Compared with Japan, the U.S. and China are just two commonplace nations that belong to one category with the rest of the world.
However, experts and elites of the U.S. and China have leveraged their knowledge and understanding of this uniqueness of Japan to succeed in their trade.
For example, Japan is the second largest and advanced economy in the world, but is the only nation that has an emperor with supreme official authority backed by its constitution.
SECTION I: GDP & Population vs. Land Area
As I once mentioned, the major factor for Japan's lost decade and the 20-year long deflation is that Japanese GDP and population already grew to the limit its nature and land could bear in early 1990's.
GDP multiplied by a population density of a nation can be a clear measure to see it. If GDP is doubled, a stress onto the nature is doubled. If population is doubled, a stress on the nature is doubled. The nature can be here represented by the land size.
Country...GDP x Population / Area... (Unit: dollars*men/km2)
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JAPAN....//....1.70287E+15
Germany....//....7.7113E+14
China....//....6.87257E+14
UK....//....5.52453E+14
USA....//....4.6618E+14
India....//....4.49897E+14
Italy....//....4.21534E+14
Korea....//....4.03767E+14
Holland....//....3.17117E+14
France....//....3.02379E+14
Spain....//....1.2986E+14
Mexico....//....4.88194E+13
Brazil....//....3.58881E+13
Russia....//....1.00797E+13
Canada....//....4.54386E+12
Australia....//....2.79216E+12
As you see, to reach Japan's level, Germany and China can still grow their GDP or population more than twice, respectively.
To reach Japan's level, the U.K. and the U.S. can still grow their GDP or population more than three times, respectively.
Put extremely, Japan was already at the brink of the total destruction of its nature and land when a bubble economy occurred before 1990, since plain fields account only 30% of the national land. (For example, small Japanese rice fish [Medaka in Japanese] became a dying breed, while the fish had been so common in brooks and rivers in Japan as to be a pronoun of a common thing.) All through 1990's, Japan also faced a spiritual crisis since the mental health of the people is closely linked with the nature and land.
However, living of the people and activities of the industry have to continue. Japanese people must go out to the world. Globalization is not necessary a negative factor for Japan.
And, there existed China, Korea, and Taiwan, so close to Japan. Therefore, instead of increasing GDP and population in its territory, Japan let China, Korea, and Taiwan increase their GDP and population, so that Japanese businesses could also expand its room for growth and Japanese people could still live in comfortable environment.
This is the historical interpretation of Japan's lost decade and the 20-year long deflation, which shall be so explained in the textbook used in the 22nd century.
SECTION II: One Pyramid or 10,000 Houses in Haiti
Let's suppose that that only one man in Haiti has money. He is super rich with $50 billion at hand for himself.
If he spent $50 billion to build a huge pyramid for himself, Haiti's GDP will be $50 billion without multiple effect taken into consideration.
Finally a huge pyramid will emerge in Haiti but the nature of the country would not be severely damaged.
Then, let's suppose that that only 10,000 man in Haiti have money. They totally have $50 billion at hand for themselves.
If each of them spent $5 million to build a mansion house for himself, Haiti's GDP will be $50 billion without multiple effect taken into consideration.
Finally 10,000 mansion houses will emerge in Haiti, and the nature of the country would be severely damaged, since we may suppose that the plane area of the huge pyramid is equal to that of one mansion though the pyramid is far higher.
Note that all the materials, goods, services, and human activities produced in Haiti based on $50 billion credit of Haiti's GDP would all flow through the huge pyramid at one time or each mansion house in sequence, being used but not destroyed, while damaging their environments.
In the former case, the stress the whole land has to bear is $50 billion x 1 man - 50 billion dollars-men in an extreme case.
In the latter case, the stress the whole land has to bear is $50 billion x 10,000 men - 500 trillion dollars-men in an extreme case.
Therefore, "GDP x Population / Area" can be an effective concept for estimating the maximum burden the national land has to bear, even if its possibility is very small while an expected value is extremely large.
(That may be why ancient Egypt survived but the Mesopotamia Civilization had gone.
Also, an effect of increased randomness or entropy must be taken into consideration in a global temperature rise.)
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I was sitting on a bench facing a holy pond in a holy park at dusk yesterday.
I thought a miracle should happen. Then, lo, a red carp jumped up from the water. I have sometimes visited the park in these years, but it was the first time that I observed a big red carp, 50 meters far, jumping to the air and falling down with a big splashing sound.
I was walking on a commercial avenue nearby this evening.
I thought a miracle should happen. Then, lo, a pink red sunset prevailed over the western sky covered by some large but thin clouds through which a jet plane flying high could be even spotted. Then I realized that a huge column of a kind of cumulonimbus blocked and split the sun ray creating a huge oblong shadow in the sky. It was the first time that I observed such a huge split of the sun ray in my town.
These are recent miracles I have encountered.
By the way, do you know that there are many poor citizens in Paris who glean? They collect remnants of a periodic market held on the street of Paris twice or so a week. Like those poor farmers depicted in "The Gleaners" by Millet, those poor citizens glean remnants, when a market is closed and merchants leave unsold foods and so on for public sanitation vehicles.
(http://www.janjanblog.com/archives/9835 )
Yes, it was the 1500th posting of the EEE-Reporter blog yesterday.
On April 22, 1500, Pedro Cabral, a member of the Chevaliers of Christ, discovered Brazil as a successor of Vasco da Gama, though a Spaniard had arrived there three months earlier who wrongly believed that he reached India. Pedro Cabral also arrived at Calicut, India, on 13 September 1500.
Pro 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Pro 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Pro 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Pro 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Pro 7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Pro 7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Pro 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.