Not Two Rivals (what communications?)
The Tokyo Bay and Me (and a camera itself, though not a 3D fast one)
(Deep in the Gulf of Mexico and deep under the ground of the Andes, acute accidents could happen, alarming the world. Anyway, leaving a corrupt society is yet the first step to be saved...)Smiling Faces but Not for Me? (Le visage souriant, mais pas pour les ennemis)
As so many overseas newspapers and other media are concerned with the coming DPJ election to choose its head (namely new prime minister of Japan), I have to explain the situation more correctly.
As China is now found to be such an irresponsible and bellicose economic power (as was in 1930's), politicians and businessmen as well as ordinary people in the world have come to find value and merit of the world No.2 economy Japan.
Who the prime minister will be in Japan after this September might even have a deep influence on the possibility of President Mr. Obama's reelection in 2012 and fates of Taiwan and South Korea in terms of their national security.
So, allow me to write some more on this agenda...
SECTION I: Ichiro Ozawa, A Japanese Obama?
The U.S. President is elected every four year, which is a regime of the 19th century.
The Japanese Prime Minister can be elected once, twice, or three times in a year as appropriate, which is a regime of the 22nd century.
So, now, P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and Lower-House member Mr. Ichiro Ozawa are engaged in their campaigns aimed at the September 14 voting for DPJ leadership and hence Japanese premiership.
However, Former P.M. Junichiro Koizumi served the nation from April 2001 to September 2006, namely five years and five months, though his friend Mr. George W. Bush for full eight years as American President.
The then P.M. Mr. Koizumi fought against various opponents in and around his ruling party LDP:
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1. Shizuka Kamei (an enemy of CIA?), then one of strong rivals for P.M. Koizumi in the ruling LDP.
Expelled by P.M. Koizumi from the LDP through the 9-11-2005 election after having competed with Koizumi twice or so for the presidency of the LDP. Kamei is a strong supporter for the traditional postal service operation.
Now, a coalition partner with the DPJ, closer to Ozawa and Former P.M. Yukio Hatoyama (on the Ozawa side) than to P.M. Kan.
2. Makiko Tanaka (an old friend of China?), then the most popular female lawmaker of the LDP.
Appointed as Foreign Minister by P.M. Koizumi as she helped Koizumi assume premiership, bur later fired and further expelled from the LDP through an allegation of illegal office management involving her secretaries' salary.
Now, a member of the ruling DPJ, enthusiastically supporting Ozawa who was once a follower of her father Former P.M. Kakuei Tanaka.
3. Muneo Suzuki (an intimate friend of Russia?), then the most active lawmaker of the LDP in diplomatic matters.
Forced to leave the LDP and later arrested for allegedly illegal political fund raising, while his relationship with Russia and African nations were strongly criticized by the media. Yet, he came back as a Lower-House member to national politics, though his trial is still going on in the Supreme Court.
(http://www5.hokkaido-np.co.jp/seiji/suzuki-kyojitsu/3/1.html)
Now, Suzuki, the head of an independent party, enthusiastically supports Ozawa who was also in the LDP for more than 20 years.
4. N. Amaki (a friend of enemies of CIA?), the then ambassador to an Arab country.
Fired by the Koizumi Cabinet, since he wrote an unusual letter in 2001 or so to the then P.M. Koizumi claiming that Japan should not follow America in the War on Terror. Though Amaki was not an influential diplomat at all, due to a possibility that he would leak confidential information to anti-Israeli camps, Iraq, the Taliban, or AlQaeda, P.M. Koizumi authorized his dismissal. Amaki took the incident as a personal matter between himself and P.M. Koizumi on an equal base, however Amaki was just one of thousands of elite bureaucrats and officials in Japan.
(It is also interesting that after leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amaki ran for a national election in Koizumi's election district to gain only little support from voters several years ago.)
Now, as author and critic, Amaki advocates peace, while attacking America, the LDP, and bureaucrats. He has declared in his blog that he supports Ozawa as next prime minister, since Ozawa will drive U.S. forces out of Japan.
5. K. Uekusa (an enemy of friends of CIA?), then an economist associated with the LDP, especially Kamei.
Arrested for some infamous crimes, while fighting economist/politician Heizo Takenaka who promoted privatization of the Japanese postal service following advices from his elite American friends. Since Uekusa thinks he was made victim by the Koizumi-Takenaka team as part of a large-scale conspiracy in the financial sector, Uekusa has been fiercely attacking the LDP, the U.S. Government, and Wall Street over the Internet, though he seems to be not allowed to make appearances in the mainstream media for his criminal records. Once an elite economist of Nomura Securities Co. and a professor of Waseda University, Uekusa still works in the financial analysis sector.
Now, Uekusa is fanatically hailing Ichiro Ozawa as possible next prime minister of Japan. He is also tying up with Muneo Suzuki, N. Amakai and other anti-Koizumi politicians and journalists.
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The above prominent figures once all belonged to, or worked for, the conservative, pro-American LDP, specifically, before, say, the 9/11 Terror in 2001.
In addition to the above notable enemies of Former P.M. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, some other famous anti-Koizumi critics, journalists, and TV personalities enthusiastically support Mr. Ozawa. It looks like a proxy war between the pro-Koizumi camp and the anti-Koizumi camp, if so conceived one-sidedly, while P.M. Mr. Kan is also anti-Koizumi as a long-time socialistic DPJ politician. In fact, P.M. Mr. Kan is now blamed by those Ozawa supporters for taking a pro-American stance like an LDP politician, such as retired former P.M. Mr. Koizumi.
(http://hamusoku.com/archives/2511167.html)
Accordingly, polls over the net have resulted in Mr. Ozawa enjoying a great advantage over P.M. Mr. Kan as next prime minister, despite suspicion of illegal political fund handling by Mr. Ozawa in person with his three secretaries on juducial trial for the similar charges. However, time-proven surveys by the mainstream media show opposite results.
Typical support rating from a net survey:
P.M. Naoto Kan: 20.9%
Ichiro Ozawa: 73.4%
Example of support rating from phone surveys by the major media:
The Nippon TV
P.M. Naoto Kan: 72.0%
Ichiro Ozawa: 16.1%
The Asahi Shimbun Newspaper
P.M. Naoto Kan: 65%
Ichiro Ozawa: 17%
(http://zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20100906-00000006-rnijugo-pol)
So, if Mr. Ozawa should be elected as P.M. of Japan, he might be called a Japanese Obama, since his victory will be ascribed to help from the anti-Koizumi (namely anti-George W. Bush) camp and Internet users.
Of course, there are many proud voters in Japan who would even refuse temporary recovery of economy promised by a suspicious leader, though Mr. Junichiro Koizumi had no such problems as Mr. Ichiro Ozawa has now when Mr. Koizumi was elected as prime minister like a hero in 2001.
SECTION II: Introduction of Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_flags
SECTION III: Introduction of Japan (2)
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8C%A6%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%A1%E6%97%97)
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A bogus saint would say to a sick man, "You are forgiven your sin," since he cannot cure any sick man.
A true saint would say to a sick man, "Your are forgiven your sin," since he can do so in addition to healing the sick.
But, a subject in these passages of the Bible is that the Scribes thought in their mind that it was a good idea to say like Jesus Christ to a sick man, "Your are forgiven your sin," if they could not heal the sick person at all. Indeed, no men, except God, can prove if the man is forgiven or not. So, how easy it was to say, "Your are forgiven your sin," the Scribes must have thought.
So, Jesus Christ showed them that forgiving a sin by a saint is accompanied by curing illness. In this way, He gave a warning to them with some anger, in my humble observation.
If you are said to, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee," by Jesus Christ, you would be surely of good cheer.
Sometimes, a similar incident is called a miracle of love, though in a variety of physical and psychological effects.
Finally, could Jesus Christ heal any kind of sickness of whatever degree? Yes, but He left the world long time ago, though with a promise of advent.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27J3i4xGDA0 )
Mat 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Mat 9:5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
Mat 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Mat 9:7 And he arose, and departed to his house.