(No one knows how I took this angle...)Justice, Aim, and Means
While 60% of voters want Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Naoto Kan to continue to work as prime minister, and 80% of voters do not want Mr. Ichiro Ozawa to replace Mr. Kan, it is expected that Mr. Ozawa will run for election to choose the head of the DPJ.
This elections is scheduled to be contested on September 14, whose winner will be qualified to be elected as prime minister in the National Diet soon after it, since the DPJ has 308+ members in the Lower House of 480 seats.
If Mr. Ozawa should run, experts and critics think he will lose.
But, Mr. Ozawa might still come up for the election if he thinks it can be a close race.
Among 400 national lawmakers of the DPJ, if 40-years-long Lower-House member Mr. Ozawa should be able to get support from 150 to 200 lawmakers, he can keep his influence in the party as the most influential veteran politician. Then, Mr. Kan will have to appoint followers of Mr. Ozawa to state ministers and party executives.
If Mr. Ozawa does not run and Mr. Kan is reelected, the DPJ and the Kan Cabinet will go on outwardly unchanged but with a potential of disintegration.
So, this three party game between P.M. Mr. Kan, Former P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, and ex-Director General of the party Mr. Ozawa will go on till the next general election.
In line with principle of democracy, Mr. Kan and Mr. Ozawa should give their party members an opportunity to freely express their standpoint.
(If Mr. Ozawa, after elected as prime minister, should be prosecuted by the Committees for the Inquest of Prosecution for his illegal political fund reporting, all he has to do is just resign from premiership. Then, Japan might have the fourth prime minister since the regime change last year...very democratic, though.)
SECTION I: Hitler
To realize justice, one has to set a concrete target as well as practical means to pursue it.
Hitler set a concrete target to reduce unemployment as much as possible. To achieve it, he sometimes adopted a socialistic means and also a capitalistic means. And, finally, he took up a quasi-religious means or an anti-Christ means without thinking about its implication fully.
It is because he lacked determination to realize justice as high and genuine as possible.
In other word, he wanted to be successful in the society. To succeed in the German society after WWI, he thought that he had to be a hero of citizens most of whom faced a risk of unemployment. It was not for justice but for his personal success that he set a concrete target of reducing unemployment. His real purpose and motivation did not mind whatever means he employed. But, reducing unemployment was a must for achieving his purpose of becoming a hero in the the German society after WWI.
Accordingly, Hitler sometimes adopted a socialistic means and also a capitalistic means to reduce unemployment. And, finally, he took up a quasi-religious means or an anti-Christ means without thinking of its implication fully.
But, why could not German citizens at the time find that Hitler lacked a sense of high and genuine justice? Is it because he was covertly supported by the Vatican or the like?
There was nothing so authentic as the Vatican that had such a potential to blind millions of ordinary Europeans in their judgement on politicians, such as Hitler.
Then it goes that the Vatican set a target of reducing the influence of Marxism and adopted a means of helping Hitler fight against Stalin without a sense of high and genuine justice. Accordingly, the Vatican got blind to anti-Christ features of Hitler and the like.
(This posting is not intended to offend Judaists. I think European Christians have to repeatedly apologize Judaists for their negligence of the great massacre of Judaists during WWII.)
SECTION II: Clinton, W. Bush, & Obama
Presidents Mr. Bill Clinton set a target of beating Japan to keep the American position as No.1 in terms of technology and economy.
Presidents Mr. George W. Bush set a target of beating Iraq to keep the interest of his family, friends in Israel and Saudi Arabia, and other associated industries.
President Mr. Barack Obama set a target of appealing to American citizens who were outsiders of the conventional establishment.
So, President Mr. Clinton promoted diffusion of IT technology and protected its dominance in the world, appealing to his supporters.
So, President Mr. Bush launched the War in Iraq to execute Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, appealing to his supporters.
So, President Mr. Obama introduced a new health insurance system and a new monitoring system of the financial sector, beating drums for his supporters and opponents.
Yet, it has not been tested whether each President has had a sense of justice high and genuine enough to show it before the God.
SECTION III: Japan' Financial State Best among G8?
The ratio of interest expenses against nominal GDP of Japan is the least among the advanced countries.
The yield of long-term government bonds of Japan is about 1%.
The ratio of the amount of outstanding net debts against nominal GDP of Japan is about 105%.
Accordingly, the ratio of interest expenses against nominal GDP of Japan is about 1.05%
The yields of long-term government bonds of, for example, America, Germany, Spain, and Greece are about 3%, 2.6%, 5%+, and 10%+, respectively.
The ratio of the amount of outstanding net debts against nominal GDP of America, the U.K., France, and Germany are all about 65%.
Accordingly, the ratio of interest expenses against nominal GDP of America is about 1.95%, while it is 1.05% in Japan as described above.
Japan is in a better shape than America and other advanced economies in terms of the ratio of interest expenses against nominal GDP.
Logically, there is no finical crisis in Japan as in America.
The real issue of Japan is an extreme lack of demands for a decade and two decades.
(http://www.adpweb.com/eco/eco625.html)
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The most important thing for a man is usually his life in any country and in any era.
Accordingly he has to abandon it, since it must be the God.
The second most important thing for a man is usually his family in any country and in any era.
Accordingly he has to abandon it, since it must be his neighbours.
But, the most important thing for a slave of the Devil is usually money in any country and in any era.
Accordingly he has to abandon it, since it must be the God.
Therefore, if you can leave yourself, your family, and money for the sake of the God and your neighbor, you will be saved by the God very logically.
It is the last solution: salvation by the God.
But, we have to do spontaneously something, that is, the word of the God.
Indeed, today, "white" men in America call a certain "black" man My President; and a young Japanese "anti-Vietnam War" student 40 years ago is now called prime minister of Japan.
To realize such a change must be part of doing the word of the God for justice.
Take a break!
( http://www.ezgeta.com/A_Whiter_Shade_Of_Pale.mid
Source: http://www.ezgeta.com/midi.html
Is this a summer song for some? A song to listen to and forget.)
Luk 8:19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
Luk 8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
Luk 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.