War, Love, and Election?
The Asahi Shimbun's forecast on Japan's 7/11 Upper House election:
DPJ...49...(a ruling party)
LDP...44
New Komeito...8
Communist Party...4
New People's Party...1...(a ruling party)
NPR (Kaikaku)...1
SDP...1
SPJ (Tachiagare)...1
Your Party...11
HRP (Kohuku)...0
Other Parties...0
Independent...1
If the LDP had succeeded in maintaining its integrity and support from Japanese voters since the era of Former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, it would have 58 candidates elected, though it was split in these years into the current LDP, the New People's Party, the NPR, the SPJ, and the Your Party.
Accordingly, Democratic Party of Japan 49 - 58 Previous LDP Camp
Or, Progressive 49 - 58 Conservative
(If divided like in the last era of Mr. Koizumi,
DPJ + New People's Party 50 - 65 LDP + New Komeito
which is a clear victory for the pro-American LDP camp. Japanese voters are going to show their concern about a diplomatic stance of the ruling DPJ.)
However, in reality, it is expected that the DPJ led by P.M. Mr. Kan, with possible 49 winners, will be the relative leading party if without an absolute majority in the House of Councilors (the Upper House or "Sangi-in" in Japanese). Hence, Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan will maintain his power being supported by a great majority of DPJ lawmakers in the Lower House.
Anyway, you had better not join any of the above parties, since their respect for the God is still insufficient as I checked it for myself.
SECTION I: Islam and China
Islam could not penetrate into China.
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The Battle of Talas in 751 AD was a conflict between the Arab Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang Dynasty for control of the Syr Darya. On July 751, The Abbasids started a massive attack against the Chinese on the banks of the Talas river; 200,000 Muslim troops (according to Chinese estimates) met the combined army of 10,000 Tang Chinese and 20,000 Karluks mercenary. Out of 10,000 Tang troops, only 2000 managed to return from Talas to their territory in Central Asia.
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It is of interest to note that the Battle of Talas is often seen as the key event in the history of paper - the technological transmission of the paper-making process. After the battle of Talas, knowledgeable Chinese prisoners of war were ordered to produce paper in Samarkand, or so the story goes.[14] In fact, high quality paper had been known – and made – in Central Asia for centuries; a letter on paper survives from the fourth century to a merchant in Samarkand. But the Islamic conquest of Central Asia in the late seventh and early eighth centuries opened up this knowledge for the first time to what became the Muslim world, and so by the year 794 AD, paper manufacturing could be found in Baghdad, modern-day Iraq. The technology of paper making was thus transmitted to and revolutionised the Islamic world, and later the European West.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Talas
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Islam did not win respect from Chinese unlike the case of Buddhism.
SECTION II: Christianity and China
Christianity could not penetrate into China.
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The Li–Lobanov Treaty or the Sino-Russian Secret Treaty was a treaty signed on June 3, 1896 in Moscow by foreign minister Alexey Lobanov-Rostovsky and finance minister Sergey Witte on behalf of the Russian Empire and viceroy Li Hongzhang on behalf of China. The two powers concluded a defensive alliance against Japan, pledging mutual support in case of a Japanese attack.
The treaty allowed Russia to increase its presence in Northeast China as Russian personnel and police received extraterritorial jurisdiction. It allowed the use of Chinese ports by Russia in the case of war and China's consent to the construction of the China Eastern Railway (a part of the Trans-Siberian Railway). The railway was nominally a joint project, but was in reality completely financed and controlled by Russia.
China was also not allowed to interfere with Russian troop movements or munitions and also had to grant Russia decreased tariff rates. Russia's other major demand was delivered in true gunboat diplomacy fashion by a naval fleet in December 1897. China was forced to lease the southern tip of the Liaotung Peninsula to Russia and allow a railway line to be built connecting it to the main Russian line.
Construction of the Russian railroads in China increased the anti-foreign anger that came to a head in the Boxer rebellion of 1900. Chinese historians view the period between the Li–Lobanov Treaty and the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 as the time of Russia's domination of the Chinese Northeast region, in political and economical terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%E2%80%93Lobanov_Treaty
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European Christianity did not win respect from Chinese unlike the case of Buddhism.
SECTION III: Judaist Philosophy and China
Judaist Philosophy, namely Marxism, has prevailed in China very profoundly.
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Maoism's political orientation emphasizes the "revolutionary struggle of the vast majority of people against the exploiting classes and their state structures", which Mao termed a "People's War". Usually involving peasants, its military strategies have involved guerrilla war tactics focused on surrounding the cities from the countryside, with a heavy emphasis on political transformation through mass involvement of the lower classes of society.
Maoism departs from conventional European-inspired Marxism in that its focus is on the agrarian countryside, rather than the industrial urban forces. This is known as Agrarian socialism. Notably, Maoist parties in Peru, Nepal and Philippines have adopted equal stresses on urban and rural areas, depending on the country's focus of economic activity. Maoism broke with the state capitalist framework of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and dismisses it as modern revisionism, a traditional pejorative term among communists referring to those who fight for capitalism in the name of socialism.
In its post-revolutionary period, Mao Zedong Thought is defined in the CPC's Constitution as "Marxism-Leninism applied in a Chinese context", synthesized by Mao Zedong and China's "first-generation leaders". It asserts that class struggle continues even if the proletariat has already overthrown the bourgeoisie, and there are capitalist restorationist elements within the Communist Party itself. Maoism provided the CCP's first comprehensive theoretical guideline with regards to how to continue socialist revolution, the creation of a socialist society, socialist military construction, and highlights various contradictions in society to be addressed by what is termed "socialist construction". While it continues to be lauded to be the major force that defeated "imperialism and feudalism" and created a "New China" by the Communist Party of China, the ideology survives only in name on the Communist Party's Constitution; Deng Xiaoping abolished most Maoist practices in 1978, advancing a guiding ideology called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism
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As European Marxist Judaists, including Karl Max, never denied their enjoying high-standard of living as elites in the party, the society, and the a nation, today's Chinese system absorbing capitalism riches do not contradict its adaption of Marxism as the principle of power structure.
For Karl Marx, Marxism is a means for Judaists to control European Christians superseding authority of the Vatican. The last phase of this movement involves complete demolition of the European Christian culture. That is why Mao Tse-tung carried out the Cultural Revolution to destroy historical legacy of China.
Yet, Mao Tse-tung's successors never failed in understanding that European Marxist Judaists, including Karl Max, never denied their enjoying high-standard of living as elites in the party, the society, and the a nation.
In this way, Judaists philosophy has prevailed in China very profoundly.
SECTION IV: American Democratic Christianity and Japan
After WWII, brave and clever Japanese people found that what was lacked critically in Japan was American Christian Democracy.
Accordingly, they accepted the Pacifist Constitution whose original text had been drafted by young American Christian officers who had came to Tokyo accompanying General MacArthur after the end of WWII.
Even today's nationalists of Japan do not fully deny the value of the Pacifist Constitution, since they are now free from unbearable pressure of samurai military traditions.
Almost nobody reads the Bible in Japan. But, everybody lives under authority of the Pacifist Constitution whose original text had been drafted by young American Christian officers who had came to Tokyo accompanying General MacArthur after the end of WWII.
It is so since after WWII, brave and clever Japanese people found that what was lacked critically in Japan was American Christian Democracy.
Moreover, when the Japanese people master democratic Christianity more righteously than Americans, the Japanese people will abolish the present Constitution and formulate new one to teach America and the world how Christianity should be incorporated in democracy.
It is so, since they are all Christian nations, nominally or substantially, the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Russia, etc.
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Today, we had a sun shine as there were less rain clouds than usual here around Tokyo.
I could even see a star in the evening. It was like Mars but a little twinkling. Then I saw a white smaller star twinkling in a gap of clouds. Subsequently I could spot two or so stars, but no more, since it was the sky of the rainy season.
Tomorrow, on Sunday, almost 100 million voters are expected to go for voting, though a turnout will be less than 60% (about 9.6 million voters have already made early voting). Three years ago, it was 58.64 % for the 21st ordinary Upper House election.
My opinion is that we have to decrease the costs for one National Diet member, about $1.2 million per year now, to one third while doubling the number of lawmakers. Then with total costs two thirds of today's, we will have twice more lawmakers. But, they are trying to half the number of lawmakers while keeping the current cost level, which is very dangerous. We do not need elites in a legislative body, but our representatives as many as possible.
( http://www.just-oldies.com/1963/be_my_baby.htm)
Mat 7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Mat 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Mat 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?