(Not in 1945 or 1947, but July 25, 2010)Not So Bad, since So Humble
There are two places in Japan good for spending the summer holiday, Okinawa and Ogasawara, both once occupied by the American military and General MacArthur, since they look like real tropical islands in the summer.
In the Okinawa island, some nice beaches are still occupied by the American Marines.
It is time to station real American soldiers in Okinawa who would rather love to go for a bathe in Guam in their holidays, since Okinawa is the possible, holy battle field for them still.
The U.S. Camp Schwab Beach in Okinawa:
http://www.akinoluna.com/Photography/Okinawa/SchwabBeach/
SECTION I: A Helicopter Crashed Killing 5
A glacier express train got derailed killing one Japanese woman and harming scores of Japanese senior tourists in Switzerland very recently.
A woman enjoying forests and mountains fell to a waterfall to be killed in a mountain are north of Tokyo yesterday. A helicopter carrying seven crews crashed after landing two of them near the waterfall and a mountain stream so as to rescue her. The chopper belongs to a subsidiary of Honda Motor which has its headquarters in Saitama Prefecture in the immediate north of Tokyo Pref.
If you stay in Japan or go out to mountains in Europe, you will die at the precise moment the God has fixed a long, long time ago.
SECTION II: The Four-Party System in Japan
There are still many discussions about the results from, and their implication of, the 11-07-2010 Upper-House election in Japan.
Everybody was talking about the coming of the two-party system in the Japanese political community before and still now. But, as I pointed out, it indicates the coming of an era of the four-party system in Japan.
The key players are: the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) led by Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) led by its head Mr. Sadakazu Kanigaki, New Komeito based on the Sokagakkai Buddhist body, and the Your Party led by ex-LDP lawmaker Mr. Yoshimi Watanabe.
The DPJ includes some very-pro-North Korean and Chinese politicians. The LDP mostly consists of very-pro-American lawmakers since they had been in power till the last year for half a century or so. New Komeito is virtually a political branch of Sokagakkai led by controversial Mr. Daisaku Ikeda for decades. The Your Party has the only binding agenda of reformation of the Japanese public servant system.
Relative influences of the four in effective terms:
DPJ 4, LDP 3, New Komeito 1, and Your Party 1.
Accordingly, the unification of operation of the DPJ and the Your Party would assure a majority in the National Diet or Parliament, somehow, for the ruling DPJ.
Conversely, if the LDP, New Komeito, and the Your Party collaborate, the DPJ would lose power and P.M. Mr. Kan would be forced to dissolve the Lower House and eventually step down.
This is not bad for non-affiliate voters. Millions of swing voters in the Japanese society have now discretion. On each public-opinion poll, they can express their support for, or anger at, those major parties, thus influencing the course of politics.
Now, the focus is however whether ex-head of the DPJ Mr. Ichiro Ozawa will be indicted by Committees for the Inquest of Prosecution for illegal political fund handling and reporting. It is so, since 40-year-long Lower-House member Mr. Ozawa is said to command 150 Diet members among 400 or so LDP national lawmakers.
Will Mr. Ozawa be able to take over from P.M. Mr. Kan in the party's general convention to be held this September? Mr. Ozawa might try to do so to consolidate his personal power base. But, if he should be officially prosecuted, what would happen? The media, critics, politicians, and the general public have been all wondering.
My concern is how much the Japanese people at large will be offended by any outcome.
A possible grand coalition of the DPJ and the LDP is however out of question.
SECTION III: Third Depression
U.S. economist Mr. Paul Krugman wrote that depressions occurred only twice in the past in 1873 and 1929-31.
We are heading for the third, while we think we are not as situations are improved.
But, Mr. Krugman wrote that the past two depressions had also intermittent processes in which situations were improved to the degree people thought they were no more heading depression.
So, Mr. Krugman wrote that President Mr. Barack Obama wrongly trust economists who claim that their theory is based on orthodoxy. Accordingly, they have recommend President Mr. Obama to slash spending and aim at austerity in national finance.
But, Mr. Krugman criticized: "So I don't think this is about any appreciation of tradeoffs between deficits and jobs. It is, instead, the victory of an orthodoxy that's main tenet is imposing suffering on other people shows leadership in tough times. And who will pay the price for this orthodoxy? The tens of millions of unemployed workers, many of whom will go jobless for years, and some of whom will never work again" - The New York Times.
These are basics for economics and economists. Yes, unemployment and the unemployed.
Without any compassion to jobless people, if an economist is arguing something even without fully discussing measures to increase jobs, he is a cold-blood, stupid guy who wrongly thinks he is smarter than the president.
That is why the DPJ and P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan of Japan lost the national election held on July 11, 2010. It is because they shamelessly proposed an increase of a consumption tax rate to 10% before the election.
What Japan's prime minister should present to voters and citizens is his strategy to increase Japan's GDP by 4% stably for years.
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It is hot nowadays around Tokyo.
I once lived around a city 60 km north of the Tokyo Station. The city is hot especially in the summer. It recorded the highest temperature in Japan, 40.9 degrees C in 2007, as with another town in the 40 km north-west of Nagoya City, 300 km west of Tokyo.
I think that there must have been a reason that the city had to suffer the hot summer, since I once lived around the city 60 km north of the Tokyo Station.
What I want to say to any citizens in any city is to live humbly. They should not be stupidly proud of making $1 million or $10 million. It is so, since they cannot protect their honor with $100 million they could get from selling their ancestral acres or venture stocks, if the God decides to punish them.
Anger and the heat can be well associated especially in the summer.
As for another town in the 40 km north-west of Nagoya City, 300 km west of Tokyo, Toyota can be one of factors, since Toyota City must be also near Nogoya City.
By the way, why is the CEO of BP not going to resign, while the summer is so hot?
(http://doratomo.jp/~stephano/chanson/le_ciel_le_soleil_et_la_mer.MID
Source:http://doratomo.jp/~stephano/chanson/chanson.htm)
Luk 7:25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Luk 7:26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.