Journalists Blind to Cruelty of Foreign (Chinese) Troops
(Les pacifistes de la personnalité tordue)
Japan's Lower-House member Ms. Yuriko Koike, a former Defence Minister and opposition LDP member, has criticized Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan as a traitor, since the Kan Cabinet authorized the surprisingly early release of the Chinese skipper under arrest for his illegal and violent action around the Senkaku Islands which undoubtedly belong to Japan.
If you have suspicion on this territorial claim by Japan, please refer to recent postings to this EEE-Reporter blong.
What I want to stress is that the fact that the Imperial Army once fought against Chinese troops in mainland China in and before WWII cannot lead to an assumption that China might be always right and Japan is wrong after WWII.
The Chinese Communist Party reportedly killed one million Tibetans and 70 million Chinese citizens in these decades, in addition to being engaged in battles with Taiwan, the violent invasion of Tibet, the Korean War, armed conflicts with the Soviet Union, support for the Pol Pot faction in Cambodia, the war with Vietnam, support for the junta in Myanmar, and violent suppression of Muslims in Uighur.
So, the fact that the Imperial Army once fought against Chinese troops in mainland China in and before WWII cannot lead to an assumption that China might be always right and Japan is wrong after WWII.
But, if Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan unbelievably thinks inwardly that as Japan invaded China in WWII, the Senkaku Islands might belong to China without checking history like some staff of The New York Times, Japanese nationalists would surely call him a traitor.
SECTION I: Chinese Classic Teaching - The Book of Han
Chinese classic literature has been extensively studied and widely prevailed in Japan in these 2000 years. Even it was partially taught in a humble primary school of any village or town during the samurai period before the modernization of Japan that started in 1868.
(It is doubtful that the Chinese people today are properly educated with Chinese classic literature by the Chinese Communist Party who once destroyed many of old Chinese cultural assets under the leadership of Mao Tse-Tung.)
Among many works of Chinese classic literature, the Book of Han ("Kan-Jyo" in Japanese) is especially important.
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The History of the Former Han Dynasty (*** Han Shu) is a classical Chinese history finished in 111 AD, covering the history of China under the Western Han from 206 BC to 25 AD. It is also sometimes called the Book of Former Han.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Han
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The Book of Han discussed the nature of the military. It grouped military movements into five categories:
1) Righteous Military Operations ("Gi-Hei" in Japanese)
2) Responsive Military Operations ("Ou-Hei" in Japanese)
3) Raging Military Operations ("Hun-Hei" in Japanese)
4) Robbing Military Operations ("Tan-Pei" in Japanese)
5) Raider Military Operations ("Kyou-Hei" in Japanese)
"Gi-Hei" means the military operations that are exercised by a king to establish order and remove subversive elements and thus have peace and justice prevail. This is a supreme and unbeatable act of a king.
"Ou-Hei" means the military operations that are exercised as the last resort to address a grave challenge posed by other country, an enemy, or evil forces. This leads to victory invariably.
"Hun-Hei" means the military operations that are exercised in anger or as revenge to handle minor skirmishes with other country. This leads to defeat of itself eventually.
"Tan-Pei" means the military operations that are exercised in order to rob other country, an enemy, or people of money, lands, and other assets. This leads to destruction of itself finally.
"Kyo-Hei" means the military operations that are exercised to arrogantly display strength of army and the size of large population and a vast territory, trying to suppress other nation. This leads to fall of, say, even an empire.
(http://sessai.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2005/02/post_18.html)
Apparently, the Chinese Communist Government is now doing what is close to "Hun-Hei," "Tan-Pei," and "Kyo-Hei."
(The Empire of Japan started with "Ou-Hei" in its building the mighty Imperial Army and Navy to protect the nation from the Russian Empire and Western Powers in the late 19th century. The Empire continued "Ou-Hei" to address conflicts with the Ching Dynasty and its Chinese successors with any authority into the 20th century. However, its "Ou-Hei" operations around Shanghai in 1930's resulted in the Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941 which are hard to be recognized fully as "Gi-Hei.")
SECTION II: Rare Earths
The Chinese Communist Government now actually bands export of rare earths to Japan, which is a violation of a WTO agreement.
The Chinese Communist Government still holds four Japanese corporate workers in detention on alleged suspicion of spying Chinese inland military installations which nobody in Japan believes but has a possibility of death penalty to be applied.
While the Japanese Government promptly allowed Chinese staff in the Chinese embassy in Tokyo to meet the arrested Chinese skipper who damaged a Japan Coast Guard ship, the Beijing Government has been very reluctant to allow Japanese embassy members to meet the four ordinary Japanese who are believed to be innocent but victimized through the Senkaku Islands issue.
So, China has virtually violated a WTO agreement and arrested four (innocent) Japanese citizens in retaliation for the arreset of the Chinese skipper whose illegal maneuvering of his fishing boat was taken by a video camera but was already released while his criminal case is still pending at a Japanese district prosecutor office.
But, using rare earths as a means to intimidate Japan will soon loose its early impact.
Ratios of rare earth reserves by country:
No.1...China...-...30.7%
No.2...CIS...-...21.6%
No.3...USA...-...14.8%
No.4...Australia...5.9%
No.5...India....1.3%
(CIS: Russia and other former Soviet Union member countries)
Ratios of rare earth production by country:
No.1...China...-...97.6%
No.2...India...-...2.2%
No.3...Malaysia...0.2%
Ratios of rare earth exporting to Japan by country:
No.1...China...-...87.7%
No.2...Estonia...-...5.3%
No.3...France...-...4%
NO.4...India...-...1.4%
No.5...Philippines...0.5%
( http://www.tkfd.or.jp/admin/files/Matrixkousyu(HP).pdf)
China has never behaved like a responsible quasi-world No.2 economic power.
It is time to help CIS, Australia, and India develop their economy, since they have rare earths in a large quantity.
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Japan has no ground border into China like the U.S.
If over a border line Chinese missiles, jet fighters, tanks, and soldiers being augmented every year can be easily seen, journalists in Japan and the U.S. will change their view on China.
So, journalists in Russia, the central Asia, Tibet, India, and Vietnam have a more acute view on China.
Japanese and American journalists who hate the past militarism of the Empire of Japan, though based on samurai ethics, have ten-times more reasons to hate the Chinese Communist militarism.
And, the opposition to militarism must be pursued for universal justice and value. Then, those who hate the past temporary Japanese militarism must hate more the present Chinese military forces.
The duty for Japanese and American journalists is to protect Japanese and Americans from the Chinese Communist militarism.
(http://www.geocities.jp/machi0822jp/abinyon
[http://www.worldfolksong.com/songbook/others/avignon.htm ]
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Joh 9:26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
Joh 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
Joh 9:28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
Joh 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
Joh 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Joh 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.