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Thursday, July 22, 2010
"a wise man, which built his house upon a rock"
(A Pacific coast 44 miles south-west of Tokyo)
Pain of Separation and Relief by Truth
North Korean secret agents once landed on Japanese coasts on the Sea of Japan, mostly, to abduct Japanese citizens. They crossed the Sea of Japan by spy ships in which abducted Japanese were forcibly taken.
However, through a complicated process, Former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi could take back several of them through negotiations in person with Mr. Kim Jong-il several years ago.
There are 40,000 de-facto North Korean residents in Japan who belong to a special, political organization, as they came to Japan before the end of WWII or they are descendants of such North Koreans. Most of them have relatives in North Korea, so that they sometimes visit their mother country.
It might be better to exchange Japanese citizens abducted and kept in North Korea with those North Korean residents in Japan, though the latter are freely living in the Japanese society with some political restriction. (They might be however treated very badly by the North Korean Government, if they return to their home country permanently, since they have enjoyed freedom so much in Japan.)
SECTION I: U.S. Midterm Election vs. Unemployment Rate
When an unemployment rate increases, the Republican Party gets more votes in the election for U.S. senators, according to the following data of the 21st century (unit: %).
If business leaders and the Congress cannot cooperate, American voters must think, economy cannot be improved and thus businesses cannot hire more workers.
In order to achieve this cooperation needed for improving the employment situation, American voters must think, Republican senators are more suitable than Democratic senators.
As for the the presidential election, it is also discussed that "not only will the level of the unemployment rate be a major factor; so, too, will its trend."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/25/unemployment-and-presidential-elections/
According to my observation, when an unemployment rate increased more significantly than expected, American voters chose a different party than the one in power in a presidential election.
Or, when American voters sense that an unemployment rate would soon increase significantly than expected, they opt to choose a different party than the one in power in a presidential election.
President Mr. Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have carried out great reformation in the fields of health insurance and financial sector regulation.
But, as an unemployment rate is still so high around 10% or more in reality, American voters must think toward the 2012 presidential election that it is time to have the Republican party take charge of managing economy and business situations.
(In 1990's, the IT industry spurred economic activities in the U.S, even decreasing the number of street gangs in New York. However, in 2010's, it is still unknown if the green energy industry can improve the state of the labor market so drastically. So long as super rich people support a higher level of competition domestically and globally to secure their position, the pressure of personnel downsizing will continue to work in the American market.)
As for relationship with Japan and China, the U.S. Government will intensify cooperation with Japan after the 2012 presidential election, since China will become more difficult for America alone to deal with. Even China might already experience a huge burst of the bubble before the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
Therefore, Japan has to prepare toward the 2012 U.S. presidential election a government that can handle this historical trend in diplomacy involving Japan, the U.S., and China.
It means that the next general election to be held in Japan till the summer of 2012 has to result in a higher-level of change or a change of higher quality unlike the one we have seen after the 30-8-2009 Lower-House election.
However, I don't think the Koizumi-Bush era will be reincarnated.
SECTION II: Miracle on Sunday: Iridescent Clouds
Last Sunday, namely on July 18, I visited a Pacific coast some 44 miles south-west of Tokyo. I passed Tokyo business districts and the Yokohama area to reach the shore by train, taking about 2 hours.
Around the noon of the day, a miracle occurred in the sky over Yokohama City. Truly, iridescent clouds appeared. A subscriber of The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper observed them, taking them into a picture.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20100718-OYT1T00541.htm
Indeed, the clouds look like a rainbow. I have never seen such vibrant iridescent clouds before, though this time I could only see them in the picture of the newspaper, for I was in a station around the noon of the Sunday.
In the late 13th century or 720 years ago, great Buddhist monk Ippen and his followers observed iridescent clouds. As Ippen was a moribund patient at the time, his followers so inspired said, "Holy Amitabha Buddha has finally come to show respect for holy Ippen-sama!"
But, great Ippen said, "If holy Amitabha Buddha has come, he has come to save the world. Then, I will not die for some time. Anyway, when I die, nothing special will happen, which I deserve since I am just a monk."
(http://www1.kamakuranet.ne.jp/koshoji/main.html )
Every great Japanese was humble without exception in these 2000 years.
Every great Japanese should be humbler without exception in future, too.
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As I wrote yesterday, if the cooling power and warming power on the earth have each 100,000 units of power, the current level of effect of CO2 must have only 1 unit power.
But, an incident that may happen in a probability of 1/100,000 can fatally affect life of anybody. For instance, a grave car accident is said to happen in such a probability.
So, if resultant warming power rises to 100,001 while cooling power is still 100,000, the earth will surely get warmer, breaking the balance.
Moreover, structure of the cooling or warming power itself can be very unstable. If its structure is disturbed, the balance ratio can become 100,000 vs. 99,999, leading to global cooling or warming without any other factor, such as CO2, added from the outside of the nature.
And, this structure of the cooling or warming power itself is not well understood by mankind yet. Why a glacial age appears is still a mystery for mankind.
So, just one percent increase in a tax rate can be fatal.
Indeed, destruction of one undersea excavation platform among 4,000 facilities can be fatal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_oil_and_gas_in_the_US_Gulf_of_Mexico
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.