you were a horse or a dog...
on the shore in a TV show?
(Nobody falls in love with a wave...)The Sea of Fraternity: the East China Sea
(La mer de la fraternité: la mer de Chine orientale)
It was the day before yesterday.
A sort of old woman running a tobacco shop was shouting in front of her humble shop,"Tobacco, Tobacco! You can buy many now!"
Not many people walking on the street responded to her snappy voice, though, under a cloudy sky.
Though she was riding on this chance of a 30% tobacco price rise in Japan to make some money for her daughter and grand-daughter who visited the place sometimes, I felt she was pitiful.
So, I stopped at her shop today to buy one pack, though, under the fair sky somewhat.
Indeed, nowadays I only smoke in my room, since it is not so easy to finish a day's posting to my blog.
SECTION I: The 2000 Japan-China Fisheries Agreement
On June 1, 2000, Japan and China signed officially the Fisheries Agreement.
Yet, the sea areas between Japan and China, Korea, and Russia are a little complicated in terms of allocation of various grades of fishing rights in divided zones to each country.
But, the basic scheme for Japan was as follows before the 2000 Japan-China Fisheries Agreement.
And then, new division was officially introduced in 2000.
http://www.oceandictionary.net/home1.html#日中漁業関係
For the zone colored yellow, China has issued 18,000 licences to Chinese fishing boats. In this zone, usually only a score or so Japanese round haul netters operate.
(http://www.taro.org/2010/09/post-814.php)
The mutually recognized fishery zone around the Senkaku Islands is subject to the flag state doctrine. But, Chinese fishing boats are of course not allowed to operate in the Japanese territorial sea surrounding the Senkaku Islands.
The issue at point is that this was officially agreed on 10 years ago. But now China has failed in preventing Chinese fishing boats from entering the the Japanese territorial sea surrounding the Senkaku Islands. Though China claims the Islands as their own, the Fisheries Treaty was concluded without admitting the Chinese claim on the Senkaku Islands.
So, the world must first know that Japan set and observed a strict and detailed legal framework for fishing operation around the Japanese territory. China also jointly concluded an effective fisheries agreement with Japan. But, China has not honestly observed it by bringing up its territorial claim again and allowing its fishing boats to violate the Agreement.
Like the recent case of a ban on export of rare earths to Japan, China has no true respect for international agreements and treaties.
This is the state of Japan and China concerning the mutually recognized fishery zone and the Japanese territorial sea around the Senkaku Islands, which journalists in the world must be fully aware of before mentioning Japan and China.
Otherwise, like The Economists that was stupidly amazed at China's claim of becoming the world No.2 economy with more GDP than Japan's, journalists would be simply fooled by wily Chinese communists.
SECTION II: JAPAN, South Korea, and N. Korea
Germany Population: 81.93 million
(Click to enlarge.)Japanese Population: 127.47 million
(Click to enlarge.)South Korean Population: 48.91 million
(Click to enlarge.)N. Korean Population: 23.73 million (23,727,676)
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.tradingeconomics.com/data-all-countries.aspx
Growth rates of export between 1992 and 2008:
Germany: 200%
JAPAN: 100%
South Korea: 450%
N. Korea: 0%
But, a secret is always in Japan's investment:
( http://www.sjchp.co.kr/sjc2/report/file/0906keizaikankeikiso.pdf)
Japan's direct investment into South Kore increased by 600% from 1995 to 2008 (from $347 million to $2.369 billion).
(Between 1962 to 2009 Q1, the largest accumulated investments into South Korea were made by the U.S. with $40.7 billion and the second largest were by Japan with $22.6 billion.)
North Korea has no other way but ask direct investment from the U.S., Japan, or South Korea to survive and get free from China.
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It is remarkable that everybody was spurred by the launching of the Iraq War in March 2003.
Even export from Japan started to sharply grow again. North Korea, one of the remotest countries from Iraq, also hit the bottom to recover a loss it had suffered in the preceding decade.
There are still arguments about true causes for the Iraq War Former President George W. Bush never confessed. But, the answer can be easily seen in Iraq without Saddam Hussein and Dubai with the tower taller than the extinct WTC in New York.
So, it is no wonder that your life was also spurred around March 2003, though some others might have needed graver incidents around 2005.
( http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/41103-antagataisyo.htm
Emperor Showa was called His Majesty Generalissimo during and before WWII.
The deceased father of N. Korean Military Committee Chairman and Marshal Mr. Kim Jong-Il is still called Generalissimo.
In Japanese, a generalissimo is called "Dai-Gensui"; Marshal "Gensui." Of course, there are no marshals and generalissimos in the Self-Defence Forces of Japan, today.
Anyway, nobody can become an emperor nowadays in China and Korea, since this tradition of the old Chinese Civilization is preserved only in Japan.)
Mar 9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Mar 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
Mar 9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
Mar 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.