Obon Festival Season in Japan
Most of companies and businesses in Japan recommend their employees to take summer holidays over this week end. Some are already in their traditional (Buddhist) Obon holidays when people are expected to remember, and show respect for, deceased members of their family and ancestors.
It climaxes on August 15 when the WWII ended for Japan.
SECTION I: Recent News in Japan
1. Arrest of Former P.M.'s Son
The eldest son of former Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Yoshiro Mori, still a national lawmaker of the LDP, was arrested for violation of the Road Traffic Law in the home-town prefecture for the Moris.
Former Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Yoshiro Mori has been virtually the top senior leader of a faction of the LDP where four former prime ministers, namely Mr. Mori himself, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, Mr. Shinzo Abe, and Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, belong.
This faction, called Seiwakai, of the Liberal Democratic Party was once in rivalry against a faction founded by former P.M. Kakuei Tanaka in 1970's. It is said that this faction finally took hold of the the LDP from the rival party by leveraging its tie with America during the reign of Prime Minister Mr. Koizumi in 2000's.
Seiwakai led by Mr. Mori was originally founded by former P.M. Takeo Fukuda, the father of former P.M. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, in early 1960's, who was a successor of former P.M. Mr. Nobusuke Kishi, a counterpart of U.S. President Eisenhower. Takeo Fukuda competed with Kakuei Tanaka fiercely for premiership of Japan in early 1970's when Mr. Ichiro Ozawa was a member of the faction led by Tanaka.
Even today, while the LDP lost power due to the regime change last year, Seiwakai is a leading faction of the LDP, though the LDP, now an opposition party, is requested to change itself for regaining trust from voters.
2. Arrest of Former LDP Lawmaker
Former Lower-House member Mr. Koichi Hamada was arrested for a charge of breach of trust, involving 200 million yen or $2.5 million.
Mr. Koichi Hamada was an ex-gangster, according to his own remarks, but elected seven times as national lawmaker till his retirement in early 1990's. His son succeeded him as an LDP lawmaker. Since then, Mr. Koichi Hamada wrote best-sellers and became a kind of TV personality till recently. In the meantime, from outside the LDP, he took some actions to help the LDP occasionally, especially when the Koizumi Cabinet was pursuing postal reformation around 2005.
It is unknown how much the regime change since the last year and a subsequent expansion of influence of anti-Koizumi lawmakers (including Mr. Ichiro Ozawa) have an influence on very conservative Mr. Koichi Hamada.
Mr. Koichi Hamada was a friend of some financiers and other fixers involved in the Lockheed scandal and the arrest of former P.M. Kakuei Tanaka of 1970's, though Kakuei Tanaka helped Mr. Ozawa make his career in politics till Mr. Ozawa left the LDP as a spin-out in early 1990's.
3. Suicide Attempt by NHK Host
NHK is the only public broadcasting body in Japan.
It has a weekly political debate program to be broadcast nationwide on every Sunday morning. Top leaders and executives of the ruling DPJ, the ex-ruling party LDP, and other parties are usually invited for discussion in this program, since this program is regraded as the most influential or authentic among various TV programs on politics in Japan.
So, the host of the program is one of the elites and the best staff members of NHK. But, he tried to commit suicide yesterday, surprising all the parties concerned and audiences.
NHK elite Mr. Kageyama is said to have once criticized Mr. Ichiro Ozawa in the program, one of top leaders of the DPJ, so harshly. Lower-House maker Mr. Ozawa is now opposing P.M. Mr. Kan, though they closely cooperated for the regime change last year. But, as Mr. Kan has tied up with Mr. Yoshito Sengoku and other anti-Ozawa lawmakers, Mr. Ozawa reportedly got angry with P.M. Mr. Kan. But, as Mr. Ozawa is bothered now by a possible prosecution for his doubtful political fund handling, he will not be able to take a decisive action for the time being.
Therefore, a chance that Mr. Ozawa will take over from P.M. Mr. Kan through the party convention scheduled this September is not large. But, it is an unchanged fact that 40-years-long lawmaker Mr. Ichiro Ozawa has still a potential to change the whole political landscape in Japan, as he might leave the DPJ with 100 or more lawmakers subject to him so as to tie up with the LDP.
In the tense conditions, even a host of a TV debate program might feel pressed so much, especially, in a situation where an ex-prime minister or a kingmaker is faced with the worst crisis in his career, like the case of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tnaka.
(Mr. Kageyama of NHK finally died in a hospital today...)
SECTION II: Black, Golden, & White
It is well known that there are three major races among mankind.
The distinction between Negroids, Mongoloids, and Caucasoids is decided by a special blood feature: the Gm gene.
...../..../....Specific Gm genes included in Races..../.../.....
Negroids:.......(a, b1, b3); (a, b1, c); (a, b3, s)
Caucasoids:......(a, g); (a, x, g); (f, b1, b3)
South Mongoloids:.......(a, g); (a, x, g); (a, f, b1, b3)
North Mongoloids:.......(a, g); (a, x, g); (a, b3, s, t)
Caucasoids and Mongoloids shared some Gm genes: (a, g) and (a, x, g).
However, Negroids do not have these two genes.
Accordingly, after some group of mankind left Africa, they split into Caucasoids and Mongoloids.
Yet, Mongoloids split further into Southern Mongoloids and Northern Mongoloids.
Southern Mongoloids are closer to Caucasoids due to gene elements "f" and "b1" while Northern Mongoloids are more unique due to "t."
When analyzing peoples and tribes in the world based on the above Gm gene distribution, we get the following findings:
For example, the Iranians consist of Caucasoid traits in a ratio of 72.6%.
The Indians consist of Caucasoid traits in a ratio of 42.6%.
The Nepalese consist of Caucasoid traits in a ratio of 25.0%.
The Karen Burmese (Myanmarese) consist of Caucasoid traits in a ratio of 0%.
The Karen Burmese (Myanmarese) also consist of Southern Mongoloid traits in a ratio of 82.3%.
Yet, it is apparent that East Asians (Japanese, Mongolians, Koreans, Chinese, Siberians, and native Americans) belong to Northern Mongoloids and are very different from other races.
(http://www.geocities.jp/ikoh12/kennkyuuno_to/001_1Gmidennsi_1_1.html )
In addition, note that those who have stayed in Africa, namely Negroids, have differentiated among themselves as sub-evolution to the degree more than those who moved out to Europe, Asia, Australia, and Americas (before 1492) have differentiated among themselves in total.
Though Africans today have all the dark skin, they include far more various types of sub-races than observed in the rest of the world as a whole.
It means that one African can be more different from another African, except the color of skin, than a Swede is from a native American living on the Amazon.
Finally, Negroids do not have common genomes with Neanderthals. But, Caucasoids and Mongoloids have 1 to 4% of genomes, among all of their genomes, common to those of Neanderthals.
The Meta-Race X split to the Common Ancestors of Negroids and Caucasoids/Mongoloids and the Ancestors of Neanderthals who left Africa 400,000 years ago.
The Common Ancestors of Negroids and Caucasoids/Mongoloids split to the Ancestors of Negroids and the Ancestors of Caucasoids/Mongoloids 200,000 years ago.
Then Caucasoids/Mongoloids after having left Africa 100,000 or 85,000 years ago met with Neanderthals in Europe and the Middle East.
This theory is yet to be fully proved, though no blood of Neanderthal man can be obtained today. Yet, mankind apparently consists of extinct Neanderthals and today's live members of the species.
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Now the yen has risen to 85 yen per dollar.
Graduates from universities in Japan face difficulty of finding employment.
If the socialistic Kan Cabinet cannot take effective mesaures to lower unemployment in a year or so, it will face difficulty of gaining a sufficient approval rating.
In that case, a new temporary coalition Cabinet might be needed in an alliance with the DPJ and the LDP, till the next general election, so as to take drastic stimulus measures.
Then the new Cabinet and government will have to address a possible burst of the Chinese bubble.
Mat 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.