(Mt. Fuji was in the clouds. On August 15, it did not show itself to me. It might be a warning. Something threatening Japan and the world peace might be emerging, since China and America do not renounce war in their constitutions while Japan does...)
Great Journey Proven
Mankind exited Africa, moving eastward to reach the Himalaya and Tibet, further to the east on the West Pacific coast and then up to the north to the Japanese islands, and across the frozen Bering Sea and down to the south and south to the Andes.
It has been proven originally by the late Mr. Satoshi Horai, a Japanese scholar in the Arizona University, USA.
So, I may call Africa, Tibet, Japan, and the Andes the "Four Holy Beads on the Great Journey."
SECTION I: Back to Hundreds Years Ago for Succession
As of today, there is only one prince in the Imperial House, the son of the younger brother of Prince Imperial who has only one daughter but no sons. The younger brother and uncles and cousins of the Emperor have no princes, either.
So, if the son of the younger brother of Prince Imperial, the third heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne, should have no sons in future, there would be no emperor of Japan. However, some members of the imperial-family noble class, which was abolished after WWII, are biological descendants of a certain male emperor who reigned several hundred years ago only through a male line. As it is just 65 years or so that such people started to live as citizens without an imperial privilege, it is not so unnatural to set one of them as new emperor in case, in terms of Shinto religion, beyond time and space of several hundred years. This is one theory regarding Imperial succession.
Korean kings in the past in principle were subject to Chinese emperors.
Chinese emperors in the past were from different clans, tribes, and even races.
But, Japanese emperors in the past were not subject to Chinese emperors, while they were from one clan of one tribe of the Japanese race through a male line.
No revolution occurred in Japan for 2600 years according to the Japanese myth, 2000 years according to a certain theory based on history, and 1400 years according to most of theories based on history.
So long as the Old Testament and the New Testament survive in the human history, the Imperial House will survive regardless of any provisions of the constitution of Japan, since it is the oldest Shinto house among Japanese people if without real political/military power since 1,000 years ago.
Since the head of Christianity, Judaism, and the Islam are all male, the head of the Shintoism is male so traditionally authentic beyond time and space, since it is based on 2600-years long myth and history.
SECTION II: Y-Chromosome
Again, why must an emperor be a son of the biological father who is a biological descendant of a male emperor through a male line?
It is not necessary due to the Y-chromosome which can be only inherited through a father to his sons, biologically.
But, this Y-chromosome tells something very unique to the Japanese race.
Especially, the YAP type of the Y-chromosome can be found only among Japanese, Tibetans, and Africans or Africans-origin people. It is not found among Koreans and Chinese, but only some Japanese such as the Ainu race of the Japanese people.
It has been found that Japanese people who originally live in Hokkaido, the most northern island, and those who originally live in Okinawa, the most southern island share some unique features with this YAP type in a higher percentage.
From a study on mitochondria DNA among Japanese living in the Honshu island, the largest island of Japan, the following has been found:
1) The mainstream Japanese genuinely unique without common features with Chinese or Koreans: 4.8%
2) The mainstream Japanese with common features with Chinese or Koreans: 50%
3) The mainstream Japanese with common features with the Ainu or Okinawa people: 25%
As for Europeans, mitochondria DNA and the Y-chromosome studies show the following:
1) About 20% of today's Europeans are descendants of some people living in Anatolia, Asia Minor, whose living was based on agriculture.
2) About 80% of today's Europeans are descendants of some people who invaded Europe between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, while living on hunting.
3) Those 20% agricultural tribes belonged to the Indo-European language family, who eventually conquered those 80% hunting tribes, disseminating their culture and languages through Europe.
(Note 1: Even the Celts are part of the Indo-European language family.
Note 2: Those hunting early-Europeans must have been mingled with Neanderthals, since animals were many but fellows were small.)
Back to Japan, about 12,000 years ago, non-rice-farming tribes came from Asia to the Japanese islands, to be called the Jyomon people.
And, from 10,000 years ago, rice-farming tribes came from Asia to the Japanese islands, to be called the Yayoi people.
Culturally, rice farming and Shintoism have later become the two key symbols for the Japanese race. Yet, the Japanese people include all the biological races who speak Japanese language as their official/national language, who are legal descendants of the Japanese people, or who identify themselves with Japanese citizenship in whatever backgrounds.
In addition, South American natives living in the Andes are found to be close to the Ainu/Okinawa people of Japan, biologically.
(http://blogclub.livedoor.biz/archives/cat_50021776.html )
So, the Japanese people consist of various types of Asian races and other races, including the Japanese race, the Ainu race, the Okinawa people, the Chinese/Korean races who have become the naturalized Japanese in these 2600 years, etc.
Japan is a multilayered and multi-faceted nation, which is why so many talented people have emerged in Japan all through its history.
(Note: Japanese Americans, such as Niseis and Sanseis, are biologically of the Japanese race, the Okinawa people, etc. But, of course, they are not the Japanese people or citizens, but American citizens. Yet, they look so acceptable to the Japanese people in general, especially if they can speak Japanese, in my view.)
SECTION III: Day After the War Memorial Day
While Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama (DPJ) flew to Beijing just a day after the anniversary of the end of WWII for the Empire of Japan, Former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe (LDP) made a rare TV appearance on a debate program.
Lower-House lawmaker Mr. Y. Hatoyama is very pro-Chinese (his wife is very pro-Korean).
Lower-House lawmaker Mr. Shinzo Abe is very nationalistic (according to the New York Times) and very pro-American.
As Mr. Abe is relatively young, it is said that Mr. Abe has intention to come back to the Prime Minister's Office as the first Japan's prime minister after WWII that succeeds in the reinstatement.
The issue is whether China has foolish intention to challenge Japan, leveraging its military capability being reinforced according to its expansion policy.
However, it is incredible that China has such foolish intention to challenge Japan in terms of military power, while China has been helped and supported so much by Japan after WWII in terms of investment, technology transfer, and diplomacy.
The key to understanding this China's foolish intention to challenge Japan is in the history of the Chinese Communist Party: their domestic success by laying every historical blame on Japan.
The Chinese Communist Party, before WWII, persuaded the then ruling National Party of China to make war with the Empire of Japan, resulting in huge casualties on the Chinese side. The Chinese Communist Party, after WWII, launched a civil war against the then ruling National Party of China with help from the Soviet Union, resulting in huge casualties among Chinese citizens and farmers. The Chinese Communist Party blamed all these crimes on Japan, teaching every children in school to hate and blame Japan.
The Chinese Communist Party has been helped and supported so much by Japan after WWII in terms of investment, technology transfer, and diplomacy; but its legitimacy, no matter how doubtful, is more important for the Party. Accordingly, they are betraying Japan all the more as Chinese citizens get richer to access truth and critical information.
But, Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama (DPJ) cannot see this truth as he dislikes American capitalists so much.
Yet, Former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe (LDP) can see this truth as he dislikes Chinese communists so much.
Nonetheless, peace is important for Japan. If practically harmless, Mr. Y. Hatoyama, the Japanese people thought, should be allowed to reign. After the U.S. Marines base-related labyrinth exposed to the public, Japanese voters wished Mr. Hatoyama to resign, which P.M. Mr. Hatoyama accepted.
Now, Former P.M. Mr. Abe criticized the very-pro Korean Kan Cabinet. He seems to think that it is absurd that P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan (DPJ) issued an official apology statement to South Korea regarding an event that happened 100 years ago between the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Korea, without concrete plans to promote mutual peace and prosperity between Japan and South Korea.
Refer also to an opinion about China's intimidation to other Asian countries and the U.S. diplomatic policy (and Secretary Mrs. Clinton's posturing) issued two days before the War Memorial Day by former Japanese Minister of Defense Ms. Yuriko Koike (written in English).
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/koike8/English
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There are more than 40,000 people in Japan who are 100 years or more old. But it has been found that about 200 of them are missing.
So, the Western media started to laugh at Japan, saying that statistics of Japan cannot be trusted.
Yet, Japan's data on average life expectancy is based on confirmation of the deceased at their death. Therefore, existence of missing old people aged 100 years or more has not affected accuracy of the Japanese statistics.
Most of workers of the Western media stationed in Japan cannot read Japanese sentences; they cannot read any laws and regulation of Japan. They do not grasp correctly reality and principle of the Japanese administration.
Rather, the Western media had better check accuracy of Chinese statistics. The Chinese economy, 50% of which is supported by foreign-capitalized companies, cannot be the world No.2 in terms of reality and principle.
(http://www.culturageneral.net/musica/clasica/htm/recuerdos_de_la_alhambra.htm
"Alhambra" and "siesta" are words well known in Japan as indicating the dry summer in the north west of the Mediterranean. I have never thought of visiting Spain for sight seeing or vacation, though. Yet, Basque Provinces might be a historical place where a language having been spoken before the prevalence of the Indo-European language is still preserved.
Yet, Cleopatra was an East Mediterranean, wasn't she? You had better go to Egypt for the summer vacation with your family, though both the west and east coasts are so bloody there...)
Luk 8:16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.