(Mt. Fuji Faced with the Sagami Bay above which a helicopter is flying)Survival & History
Not all the older persons can write a textbook of history.
Most of soldiers turn to ordinary citizens who never write a book on the war they experienced.
But, if mankind had no custom to write history, even Jesus Christ, as a man, should have had no book to read and know Abraham, Moses, David, and Solomon in addition to Jonah and Daniel.
SECTION I: Unemployment Decides Presidential Case
Is it proven that American democracy works well?
American voters elected a new president from a different party each time they observed or sensed an increase in an unemployment rate?
Accordingly, Reagan, Mr. Bill Clinton, Mr. G. W. Bush, and Mr. Barack Obama were all assumed office of presidency riding on an upward change in the American unemployment rate.
Technical innovation in America also matched regime changes in the past.
In the Reagan ear, America accepted Japanese advancement in industrial technology so as to introduce various merits from Japan.
In the Clinton era, America found its merits in the computer software and the Internet domains. America worked out a strategy to suppress Japanese superiority in this field which was closely linked with the financial sector.
In the Bush era, America was faced with great challenges in the energy and financial sectors from existing and emerging players in the world. However, as America found that IT innovation remarkably helped China, India, and other developing countries advance their economy through business relationships with U.S. hi-tech industry and Wall Street, America worked out a new strategy to ride on this globalization trend.
In the Obama era, traditional, ordinary, and poor American people have come to realize that their living cannot be improved if GM and even BP are enjoying great support, explicitly or implicitly, from the U.S. Government. They seem to come to think that the green energy technology can better prevail under a Republican regime so as to increase employment, since some social reformation has been realized to some extent by the initiative of President Mr. Barack Obama.
As seen in China, American hegemony, American democracy, or American religion has not contributed to peace and prosperity of the world any more. American elites have stopped to praise themselves as heroes or aces to introduce American ideal to the old world. Everybody now knows that America cannot be respected and loved by Muslims who however envy American material success.
As a natural consequence, American voters lose interest in the world. They will just want to secure their jobs so as to enjoy their own American dreams. Accordingly, the unemployment rate will become all the more important factor for deciding who of what party will be elected as president.
And, like in 1930's, Americans might fail in understanding truth of China, as they did with Nazi Germany, and other rising nations such as Iran and Russia, as they did with the Empire of Japan.
Therefore, future presidents of America must have true agendas of their own in the world as much as they are responsible for domestic issues.
(Israel might even lose support from a majority of American people, though their religion may come close to modern Judaism. Yet, Judaist Americans would continue to be a major or the only interest group in the American diplomatic sector.)
SECTION II: Unemployment Induces New Japanese Personality
Former P.M. Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone saw the start of the bubble economy in Japan in early 1980's. He said that land prices in Tokyo jumped up as IBM and other American businesses moved their offices for world operation to Tokyo. As an American partner in the Cold War, he got overwhelming support from Former President Ronald Reagan.
Former P.M. Noboru Takeshita could not win overwhelming support at all from the Japanese people, as he accepted American requests as announced as the Plaza Accord in 1985 and introduced the consumption tax system. Takeshita was also later accused of some illegal political fund raising like his old boss Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
Former P.M. Mr. Morihiro Hosokawa initially got overwhelming support from the Japanese people and media, since he challenged the old fashioned LDP to launch a new cabinet with help from Mr. Ichiro Ozawa who spun out of the LDP, through a political battle against Takeshita. Mr. Ozawa and Takeshita had been followers of legendary Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka who had competed in diplomacy for China with Former President Richard Nixon in early 1970's.
Former P.M. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi got overwhelming support from Japanese voters who were tired of a decade long recession after a burst of the bubble around 1990. The Japanese people thought that reformation of the government was needed so as to recover economy. Mr. Koizumi tied up with the then U.S. President Mr. George W. Bush to drive reformation of the Japanese postal service with an aim of privatizing the gigantic Postal Saving Bank. Mr. Koizumi's personality, rather than his economic policy, gained huge support from voters leading to a great victory in the 9-11-2005 general election.
Former P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama initially got overwhelming support from Japanese voters who could not trust the LDP any more, since LDP Cabinets in the past could not honestly and correctly manage and supervise the pension fund scheme and system. Almost all the anti-American camps joined the DPJ to realize a regime change in the 30-8-2009 general election. However, it was widely known that it was Mr. Ichiro Ozawa that had superior power in the DPJ but not Mr. Hatoyama. Ironically, having been accused of illegal political fund raising, both resigned from party positions and the government before the 11-07-2010 Upper House election to relay the power to incumbent P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan.
Note that Mr. Hosokawa and Mr. Hatoyama once belonged to the pro-American LDP like Mr. Ozawa. Only, Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan has a real socialistic background without joining the LDP in his 30-year-long career as a national law maker or a Diet member of Japan.
So, since the end of WWII, Japan and the U.S. have for the first time this unique combination: the socialistic premier vs. the African-American president.
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And history simply tells that so many rich men have died after living a rich life of their own, since they chose to be rich rather than to be a hero before the God.
They must have said to younger people, "If you get older as I am, you will know living a rich life is more important than anything or, specifically, than being a hero of any sort."
Truth is that Jesus Christ had said to ancestors of those rich people to give all the money they had to the poor and follow Him.
"If you get pious as I am, you will know living a rich life is so anti-Christ," must say every Christian.
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Yesterday, I bought new shoes priced at about 1,000 yen or unbelievably 11.5 dollars.
Luk 7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Luk 7:23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.