National Road No.1
Operation Started on July 11, 1887
(Indeed, everything is so outwardly humble. But, in these humble corners of Japan, those equivalent to Shakespeare, Newton, Einstein, Rothschild, Rockefeller, and Bill Gates or Barack Obama might be.)
Suppress Your 'Self,' and even Fire is Cool
Highest Temperature Forecast in Moscow:
August 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
....//......32, 22, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24 degrees C
Russia has no intention to return to Japan the four islands connected to Hokkaido, Japan's major northern island, though the USSR occupied them illegally immediately after WWII.
So, Moscow has to suffer this hot summer.
The regime change in Japan realized last summer has resulted in only a little improvement of conditions of the weak members of the society.
So, Tokyo has to suffer this hot summer.
Probably, Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan should hold in esteem other leaders, including ex-Director General of the ruling DPJ Mr. Ichiro Ozawa. Yet, a survey shows that those who do not like to see other change in the premiership account for about 60% of voters.
Anyway, the abnormal summer will be over sooner or later like in Moscow.
(The death of an NHK TV's prominent host of a political debate program a week ago might invoke a suicide committed by the then state minister of Japan in 2007. Loss in the Upper-House election and a suicide of a prominent person in the political domain are common situations for Former P.M. Mr. Shinzo Abe (LDP) and incumbent P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan (DPJ). After these incidents, Mr. Abe steeped down eventually a few months later in 2007...)
SECTION I: Wars between Nations
In principle, a man happens to be born in Japan, America, or China.
The same man can be a citizen of the Empire of Japan, the U.S., or Communist/Nationalist China.
His ability to judge good or bad is basically the same if he should be born in any country.
It is well understood by people in the world. It is an environment, situations, and backgrounds that characterize his social behaviors and war behaviors.
If a strong man abuses a weak man, it is no wonder that a strong nation abuses a weak nation. So, a weak man tries to get equipped with advanced skills and weapons, and a weak nation tries to get equipped with advanced technology and weapons.
In this direction, only a war is inevitable. So, everybody is equally responsible if a war is executed as a solution for any international or domestic problem.
Accordingly, though the Japan-China War in 1930's and 1940's was conducted on the Chinese Continent and the Japan-America War in 1940's was triggered by the Pearl Harbor attack, everybody is equally responsible. Leaders of the Empire of Japan, the U.S., and Communist/Nationalist Parties of China were all responsible alike before the God.
Yet, after the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, nobody tried to defend the Empire of Japan in a right manner, since some are afraid of America (or losing the American market) and others hate Japanese nationalists so much as to tie up with China (or share warped views on history) while nationalistic Japanese are in a minority in the post-WWII society.
In a religious term, Leaders of the Empire of Japan, the U.S., and Communist/Nationalist Parties of China during WWII were all responsible and sinful alike to have promoted the war between the nations.
President Roosevelt was as responsible as Prime Minister/General Tojo and Chairman Mao/President Chiang.
But, only Prime Minister/General Hideki Tojo was executed after WWII through a verdict of a war trial.
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TREATY OF PEACE WITH JAPAN
Sept. 8, 1951
San Francisco, California, USA
Article 11
Japan accepts the judgments of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and of other Allied War Crimes Courts both within and outside Japan, and will carry out the sentences imposed thereby upon Japanese nationals imprisoned in Japan. The power to grant clemency, to reduce sentences and to parole with respect to such prisoners may not be exercised except on the decision of the Government or Governments which imposed the sentence in each instance, and on recommendation of Japan. In the case of persons sentenced by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, such power may not be exercised except on the decision of a majority of the Governments represented on the Tribunal, and on the recommendation of Japan.
http://www.international.ucla.edu/eas/documents/peace1951.htm
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And, respect for soldiers of the Imperial Military was neglected more than that for American soldiers engaged in the Vietnam War.
As for Prime Minister/General Hideki Tojo and other A-Class War Criminals of the Empire of Japan, when they were executed or released, their status of being A-Class War Criminal was over.
It is so, since the Japanese Government fulfilled the judgement subject to the treaty.
So, the Japanese media should call Prime Minister/General Hideki Tojo as ex-A-Class War Criminal, if so needed, since General MacArthur executed him in 1948, putting an end to post-war quasi-legal revenge procedures.
Yet, it is present-day judgement of the Japanese people that a certain party or a Cabinet is in power through election, while the party or the Cabinet still calls Prime Minister/General Hideki Tojo "A-Class War Criminal," regarding him as an enemy of present-day Japan.
Japanese success and friendship with America after WWII proves that the Empire of Japan did not harm the ability, personality, morale, ethics, spirituality, and righteousness of the Japanese people.
Japanese kindness and support for China after WWII proves that the Empire of Japan did not harm the ability, personality, morale, ethics, spirituality, and righteousness of the Japanese people.
After all, the Empire of Japan is an essential (and glorious and tragic) part of the history of Japan in these 2000 years, which deserves something more than what the Yasukuni Shintoism Shrine can offer since it has a history of only 140 years.
(It was an extension of the samurai era that the Japanese people had lived till 1945. You cannot judge samurai-spirited soldiers, officers, generals, and politicians of the Empire of Japan based to today's American Christianity-based democratic idea and philosophy introduced into the Japanese society after WWII.)
SECTION II: Economic Wars
America will sacrifice Japan to save its economy by lowering value of the dollar.
Three years ago, one dollar was exchanged with 120 yen, but today with 85 yen.
The Kan Cabinet and the Bank of Japan do not understand the war-like nature in the international financial market.
Labor unions need socialistic politicians as their representatives who occasionally blame big businesses, but it is only allowed within a limit that their political behaviors do not damage businesses with whom labor unions share common interest. But, those socialist politicians sometimes cannot understand this limit. Japanese socialistic politicians sometimes think in their heart that Japanese economy should be sacrificed so as to save other countries, that is, China and South/North Koreas, that blame strategically Japanese nationalism and militarism of the era of WWII. But, they will soon change this idea when they are individually forced to live in poverty in the Japanese society damaged economically and financially by those foreign countries. The Kan Cabinet seems to include some such politicians.
The Bank of Japan does not understand that Japan's success is more important than observing rules and regulations Europe and America devise for their own interest so as to suppress Japan and other Asian nations. The Bank of Japan is full of staff members who are just proud reading and understanding foreign papers on economy and economics. They should realize that they are a kind of enemy for European/American central banks.
The Japanese National Diet should institute a law that allows for the Government to order the Bank of Japan to print yen bills for buying up dollars.
Only for the purpose of buying up dollars in the market, the BOJ should be allowed to produce yen bills equivalent up to $1 trillion.
If foreign traders or domestic dealers want the yen, give them yen in an exchange with the dollar, till the exchange rate is settled around 100 yen/dollar.
This sort of pools of the yen or the dollar cannot affect real business, since they are directly managed by the central bank and controlled by laws.
If this scheme should cause unintended side effects, the BOJ can simply buy up the yen with the dollar.
American may do the same thing. Then, true mutual and harmonious efforts to save both the economies will begin.
First G2 of Japan and America, then G3 of Japan, America, and China. This is the right sequence to avoid international financial wars.
SECTION III: Spending Rather than Hoarding
J.M. Keynes, et. al. claimed that people should spend money rather than hoard it so as to reduce an unemployment rate on Oct. 17, 1932.
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MONEY FOR PRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT
...on problem of private spending. There are a large number of economists in this country, and nobody can claim to speak for all of them.
...The public interest in present conditions does not point towards private economy: to spend less money than we should like to do is not patriotic.
Moreover, what is true of individuals acting singly is equally true of groups of individuals acting through local authorities. If the citizens of a town wish to build a swimming-bath, or a library, or a museum, they will not, by refraining from doing this, promote a wider national interest. They will be "martyrs by mistake," and in their martyrdom, will be injuring others as well as themselves. Through their misdirected good will the mounting wave of unemployment will be lifted still higher.
http://thinkmarkets.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/keynes-hayek-1932-cambridgelse.pdf
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I suppose Hitler must have read this.
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Jesus Christ did not recommend a happy life.
He even implied that His followers should abandon the happy home as He did.
Indeed, if an unhappy man without his house saw Jesus Christ, he would surely say, "Master, how can you be a master to save the world, while I have no house to live in? And, don't you have your own house, do you, Master?"
Such a man will not believe in Jesus Christ, if Jesus Christ had His own house to live in.
If there is still one man without a house to live in happily, Jesus Christ will not have His own house, since He is Jesus Christ as depicted in the Bible.
That is why I think enjoying a happy life in one's own house is a shame.
This is what all the Christian priests in the world should declare.
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Mat 8:18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
Mat 8:19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
Mat 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.