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The Tokyo Tree Tower under Construction Yesterday.
Positively Black Monday
(exotiques lundi noir)
In order to save the poor, you have to make the rich poor.
In order to save the nature, you have to make the mankind poor.
The first step should be to make rich companies and rich countries poor.
However, the rich are strong; the mankind is strong; and rich companies and rich countries are strong, so that no one can force them to get poor.
Consequently, no one can save the poor and the nature, and even take the first step.
In this way, the godless world is going to be doomed.
Yet, righteous people will be saved by mercy of the God.
What is a state of being rich? If you can find anybody poorer than you, you are rich.
SECTION I: THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson was first published in 1992:
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Drawing on a variety of examples such as the decline of bird populations in the United States, the extinction of many species of freshwater fish in Africa and Asia, and the rapid disappearance of flora and fauna as the rain forests are cut down, he poignantly describes the death throes of the living world's diversity--projected to decline as much as 20 percent by the year 2020...
Wilson’s masterwork is essential reading for those who care about preserving the world biological variety and ensuring our planet’s health.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674058170
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His book was translated into two volumes of a Japanese version and published in 1995 and then in 2004. Accordingly, I purchased them at 2400 yen around 2005.
(http://www.honya-town.co.jp/hst/HTdispatch?nips_cd=997880644X)
I don't know if Mr. Wilson's prediction, "the death throes of the living world's diversity--projected to decline as much as 20 percent by the year 2020," is still unchallenged. But, his following estimation seems to be still supported by researchers in the world: To date total 1.4 million species have been found (as given a scientific name each); the total number of species living in the world is between 10 million and 100 million, but nobody knows to which the true number is closer, 10 million or 100 million.
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Estimates of the present global macroscopic species diversity vary from 2 million to 100 million, with a best estimate of somewhere near 13–14 million, the vast majority arthropods.[22] Diversity appears to increase continually in the absence of natural selection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity
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Mr. Wilson also pointed that indigenous knowledge on herbs credited with healing powers is rapidly decreasing and lost. For example, through 1980's in the Borneo (Kalimantan) island, the Penan who are the most traditional and nomadic of Borneo's tribes left the jungle, forests, and fields to live in villages. Among 10,000 members of the Penan, only 500 have remained in the traditional environment of living in the nature. Accordingly, their memory on plants and animals with medical benefits is getting obscure.
http://www.borneoproject.org/article.php?id=153
It is very ironical for drug-manufacturing companies that are developing and producing new medicines by leveraging chemical compounds included in those plants and animals.
Anyway, I spent $30 several years ago for The Diversity of Life written by Mr. Edward O. Wilson, tough I do not go to Nagoya, Japan, for COP10 this year.
SECTION II: Hong Kong News on the Senkaku Incident
A Hong Kong media company presented an animation news report on a Chinese fishing boat that rammed itself against two ships of Japan Coast Guard patrolling around Japan's Senkaku Islands on September 7.
The Japanese Government is yet to make public a video taken by Japan Coast Guard at site, because behaviors of Chinese fishermen on the boat were so violent that it is feared that the Japanese people will get all the more angry at China when they watch the video. It is said that four staff of Japan Coast Guard fell into to sea due to too hard an onrush of the Chinese fishing boat against each of the two Japan Coast Guard ships. What is worse, it is suspected that the four Japan Coast Guard staff in the sea were further attacked by the Chinese skipper and fishermen in their boat.
This Hong Kong media's report illustrates the moment the four staff fell into the sea due to shock of the intentional collision.
http://v.ifeng.com/news/world/201009/d63af908-f052-482c-a378-3490350def12.shtml
My interpretation of the incident in the Japanese sea territory around the Senkaku Islands is as follows:
APPENDIX. Historical Analysis on the Senkaku Islands
1274: The Yuan Empire of China, a successor of Genghis Khan's Mongolian empire, launches war against Japan, for Japan governed by the Hojyo samurai clan refused to be subject to the Yuan emperor. So, Yuan of Mongolians dispatches 30,000 troops to Japan through the Korean Peninsula; they are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu due to partly a typhoon and mostly courageous samurais.
1281: The Yuan Empire this time mobilizes 40,000 troops for a route from the Korean Peninsula and 100,000 troops for another route through the East China Sea to northern Kyusyu. They are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu due to partly a typhoon and mostly courageous samurais.
(Some Chinese today claim that the Yuan Dynasty occupied the Senkaku Islands as its own territory. But, the fact seems only that the Yuan fleets carrying 100,000 troops just sailed over the East China Sea to Kyusyu of Japan. And only a few could sail back after the failure in invading Japan proper or mainland Japan that includes the Kyusyu Island.)
In the 14th Century: Japanese pirates called Wakou intensifies their activities attacking coastal areas of China facing the East China Sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokou
(Accordingly, for a Chinese Dynasty, it became more important to defend its coastal areas, residents, and subjects living there than to set any ineffective or nominal border on the surface of the East China Sea. So, official maps a Chinese Dynasty would draw should show a defence line rather than a border on the sea.)
1368: The Ming Dynasty is established in China by the Hongwu Emperor.
1372: King of Okinawa (also called Ryukyu) Satto brings a tribute to the Ming empire.
1401: The then samurai king of Japan (shogun) Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also sends an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to establish diplomatic relationships between Japan and Ming for benefits of trade.
1404: The Ming Court acknowledges Yoshimitsu as King of Japan who is allowed to trade with Ming in the form of bringing goods as tribute and receiving gifts in return. (However, the emperor of Japan [called Ten-nou] has nothing to do with this diplomatic relationships. This title of King of Japan is not welcomed by noblemen around the emperor in Kyoto.)
To make clear the difference from the Japanese pirates, Japanese merchants authorized for the trade are obliged to carry a licence plate or a tally stick(called Kangoufu) each.
Till 1640's when Ming is replaced by Ching, Japan sends official envoys for trade total 19 times to Ming.
1404: The Yongle Emperor of Ming authorizes King of Okinawa as his subject to allow trade with Ming.
Till 1866, the Ming and then the Ching Dynasties have sent envoys to Okinawa total 23 times for an Imperial investiture to attest successive Kings of Okinawa.
Till 1879, the Okinawa Kingdom has sent official envoys for trade total 173 times to the Ming and then total 68 times to the Ching.
1405: The Ming Court starts to send a series of seven naval expeditions led by Zheng He (Tei-wa in Japanese) to reach Indochina, Indonesia, India, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia of East Africa. This naval project has continued till 1433. However, this historical voyage is not intended to directly occupy overseas territory but to persuade overseas nations to bring a tribute to the emperor of Ming like in the case of the Kingdom of Okinawa.
1534: An imperial envoy from the Ming called Chin-Kan (in Japanese, [陳侃]) writes an official report called Shi-Ryukyu--Roku (so called in Japanese, [使琉球録]) where he mentions some islands that are identified as part of the Senkaku Islands.
In this report, Chin-Kan describes it was after his ship with that Okinawa people on board (returning to mainland Okinawa) passed an island which was closer to mainland Okinawa than the Senkaku Islands that the Okinawa people showed great relief, as if they had returned to their home territory.
(So, China today claims that Okinawa people did not regard the Senkaku Islands as being within their territory, since Okinawa people did not show great relief when they saw the Senkaku Islands. But, it is a very subjective remark and personal judgment by the envoy Chin-Kan himself.)
1562: An imperial envoy from the Ming called Kaku-Jyo-Rin (in Japanese, [郭汝霖]) also writes a report ([重編使琉球録])and mentions some islands that are identified as part of the Senkaku Islands in his official report. Kaku expresses the Senkaku Islands as a kind of border for the Ming.
(So, China today claims that the Senkaku Islands were regarded as border islands on their side by Ming. However, without regarding the Senkaku Islands as Ming's, the Islands could be mentioned in a report as a place critical to take note of for the defence. Especially, the Ming's defence was not against a subject kingdom of Okinawa but Japanese pirates. What was needed to be described is not a border but a defence line.)
1562: Admiral Hu Zongxian or Ko-Sou-Ken (in Japanese, [胡宗憲]) of the Ming issues a now-famous map called Cyu-Kai-Zu (in Japanese, [籌海図編]) prepared by scholar Tei-Jyaku-So (in Japanese, [鄭若曽]) where a sea area including the Senkaku Islands is specified as a kind of national defence line.
(So, China today claims that the Senkaku Islands were regarded as border islands on their side by Ming.)
However, in this map, an island, called Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [鶏籠山]) then regarded as belonging to Taiwan by the Ming Court in Beijing is also put down.
(Accordingly, Japanese experts claim that this map does not exclusively include islands within the territory of Ming, since Taiwan then did not belong to the Ming empire. Especially, the Ming's defence was not against a subject kingdom of Okinawa but Japanese pirates. What was needed to be described is not a border but a defence line.)
1592 and 1598: The then samurai ruler of Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi launches war with the Ming (partly because Ming treated Hideyoshi as subject King of Japan and proud Hideyoshi go angry), taking a route to Beijing through the Korean Peninsula, though this campaign with 100,000 and more samurai troops were terminated due to death of Hideyoshi of illness.
The Kingdom Okinawa joined this Hideyoshi's campaign on the logistics side.
1609: Samurai lord Shimazu in southern Kyusyu of Japan proper invaded Okinawa with 3000 samurai troops to establish its occupancy in Okinawa islands. The king of Okinawa however is allowed to survive as a subject to the Shimazu clan who is a subject of the samurai king (shogun) Tokugawa in Edo (Tokyo).
Since then, the Kingdom Okinawa was subject to both the Ming Court of China and the Shimazu clan of Japan.
1614: A regional official document of Jyugen (in Japanese, [壽源県志]) prefecture of the Ming is issued but does not include the Senkaku Islands as part of its territory, while Jyugen prefecture could cover the sea area near the Senkaku Islands as its administrative territory.
1644: The Ming Dynasty of the Han Chinese collapsed; the Ching Dynasty of Manchu was established in mainland China. As Manchu is traditionally from Manchuria or currently the north east region of China, the Ching Court in Beijing abolished or changed many Han customs and ways of administration.
1683: The Ching Dynasty officially takes Taiwan into its territory.
1684: The Ching Dynasty releases an official document ([福建通志]) on Fujian Province facing the East China Sea. In this document, the Senkaku Islands are not included in the administrative region of the Fujian Province government.
1717: An official document of Shora (in Japanese, [諸羅県志]) prefecture of Taiwan Province is released to define the north border of Taiwan at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.
1718: An official document of Neitoku (in Japanese, [寧徳県志]) prefecture of Fujian Province is released but does not include the Senkaku Islands as part of its territory, while Neitoku prefecture could cover the sea area near the Senkaku Islands as its administrative territory.
1765: The Taiwan local government issues an official document called Zokusyudai-Taiwan-Fushi (in Japanese, [続修台湾府志]) where the north border of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.
1838: The Ching Court issues an official document ([重纂福建通志福建海防全図]) with an attached map named the Fujian Naval Defence General Map in which however the Senkaku Islands are not included.
1840: The Taiwan local government issues an official document called the Taiwan 17 Country Defencce Status ([台湾道姚瑩稟奏台湾十七国設防状]) where the north border of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.
1868: The Tokugawa samurai regime fell in Japan. Samurais against the Tokugawa clan forms new government with the emperor at the political core of the nation Japan. Accordingly, all the samurai lords and clans in Japan, including Shimazu in southern Kyusyu with Okinawa belongs to the new government in Tokyo.
1871:An water administration agency of the Taiwan local government issues an official document called the Tansuichou-shi (in Japanese, [淡水庁志]) where the north border of the sea territory of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.
1879: The Empire of Japan changes status of the Kingdom of Okinawa into Okinawa Prefecture of the Empire.
1884: Tatsushiro Koga, a resident in Naha City of Okinawa, explored the Senkau Islands for possible business.
1885: Tatsushiro Koga files an application to the Government in Tokyo for approval of his landing on the Senkaku Islands to cultivate them. The then Okinawa governor also requests the Imperial Government of Japan to declare territorial jurisdiction over the Senkaku Islands. However the Government in Tokyo does not approve it, since it is unclear whether or not the Senkaku Islands does not belong to Ching or any other sovereignty. Yet, the then Interior Ministry in Tokyo rules that the Okinawa governor may set a land mark indicating occupancy of the Empire of Japan in the Senkaku Islands after the prefectural government confirms the state of the Islands as no man's land.
1894: The Japan-Sino War erupts.
1895: On January 14, the Empire of Japan takes the Senkaku Islands into its territory after investigations of the state of the Islands.
Tatsushiro Koga starts his business to build a factory to process fish in the Senkaku Islands. His business continues till 1940 or so with 200 or so empolyees and their families living in the Islands. This is the first record of residence and business performed on the Senkaku Islands in the known history of Japan, China, and Taiwan.
1895: The Japan-Sino War ends with victory of the Empire of Japan. The Empire and the Ching Dynasty concludes the Treaty of Shimonoseki on April 17. Taiwan is transferred to the Empire, according to the Treaty. However, it does not mention the Senkaku Islands (as the Ching Court has already admitted the Islands as Japan's).
1941: The Empire of Japan embarks in a war with the United Sates, which constitutes the Pacific Stage of WWII.
1945: The Empire of Japan surrenders the United Sates who occupies whole Japan, including Okinawa Prefecture and its Senkaku Islands.
1947: The new Constitution of Japan is enforced to replace the Imperial Constitution.
1949: The Chinese Communist Party takes over the Chinese Continent through the Chinese Civil War in 1949 to build the People's Republic of China; accordingly the Chinese Nationalist Party moves to Taiwan to build the Republic of China.
1951: Occupation of Japan by the U.S. ends with conclusion of the Peace Treaty signed in San Francisco. However, Okinawa Prefecture, including its Senkaku Islands, is still kept under administration of the United States.
1953: On January 8, the People's Daily published by the Chinese Communist Party presents documentary material to explain a state of Okinawa and an American policy on Okinawa where the Senkaku Islands are clearly stated as belonging to Okinawa Prefecture.
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.jcp.or.jp/seisaku/2010/20101004_senkaku_rekisii/19530108_jn.jpg
1968: A committee for Far-East economy of the United Nations explores the East China Sea to find great reserves of crude oil.
1971: In April, Taiwan starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.
In December, China starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.
1972: On May 15, the U.S. returns administrative right of Okinawa Prefecture, including the Senkaku Islands, to the Japanese Government in Tokyo.
1972: In September, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanak visits Beijing to talk with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Zedong to establish diplomatic relationships between the two nations. Japan severs official connections with Taiwan.
However, in their meeting with Kakuei Tanaka, both Chou and Mao avoid discussion on the Senkaku Islands, though Tanaka raises the issue to Chou.
1989: The so-called Tiananmen massacre occurs in Beijing where many students in demonstrations requesting democracy are attacked and arrested by the Chinese military and police.
After this incident, the Chinese Communist Government starts to educate Chinese children and students following an anti-Japanese policy. The Chinese leaders decide to present Japan as an enemy for students to attack. Students with any complaints to the Chinese Communist Party are not allowed to criticize the Party but encouraged to direct their anger to Japan.
2010: In the wake of violation of Japan's territorial water and the Japan-China agreement on fishing around the Senkaku Islands by a Chinese illegal trawler whose skipper is arrested but released by the Japanese Government, the U.S. Government confirms that the Japan-U.S. Security Arrangements apply to the Senkaku Islands.
In summary, no past documents and maps officially published in China in these 500 years do not state that the Senkaku Islands belong to China.
Rather, some such documents clearly exclude the Senkaku Islands from a relevant administrative territory of a publishing local government.
But, from the beginning, a Chinese empire had no clear distinction between administrative areas of the empire and tributary nations and between its defence line and its border. If people who belonged to an empire had lived in a certain place and there had been a need to protect them by force, the place would be regarded as its territory.
In neither this traditional context nor a modern concept, China has never established its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands. Therefore, though the Islands are so far from Japan proper, they belong to Japan, since they were a familiar place for Japanese envoys and Okinawa envoys sailing to and back from China passing the Islands far more often than Chinese envoys did since 1372.
Now you know why the Senkaku Islands do not belong to China and Taiwan. But, how do the Islands belong to Japan?
It is because the Senkaku Islands belong to Okinawa (Ryukyu). There is an island called Ishigaki-jima, though so close to Taiwan, where Okinawa residents or fishermen have lived from ancient days. And, there is a strong ocean stream from the Ishigaki-jima Island to the Senkaku Islands. Fishermen in Ishigaki can easily reach around Senkaku to do their business. It is reflected in an old song of Okinawa.
In addition, the Chinese name of the Senkaku Islands meaning an island to nagle for fish is reasonably thought to come after an old calling of the Islands by Okinawa/Ishigaki people.
Put simply, the Senkaku Islands issue is not the one between Tokyo, the Senkaku Islands, and Shangahi but between the Ishigaki-jima Island, the Senkaku Islands, and Beijing. Check the map!
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Every bilogist knows that there are about 40 million bactria (Saikin in Japanese) within soil of 1 gram.
You can take 1 gram or a very slight amount of soil between your finger from the ground to collect about 40 million bactria, since one bactrium is a few micrometres in length.
(The 1 yen coin of Japan weighs just 1 gram. A penny of America weighs 2.5 grams.)
Our oldest ancestors left bactria more than 2.1 billion years ago to be an eukaryote (Shin-kaku-seibutsu in Japanese), an organism whose cells contain complex structures enclosed within membranes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote
But still we can find "typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all, there are approximately five nonillion (5×10^30) bacteria on Earth."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria
What I want to say is that rich people, rich companies, rich nations, and rich mankind will be eventualy put down to a state of bactria by the God.
And righteous people will enjoy glory in a new sphere or the kingdom of God, starting as a kind of an eukaryotes.
Indeed bactria today do not know that the oldest and remotest ancestors, namely eukaryotes, of human beings (hito in Japanese) were a kind of relatives to them, living togather with ancestors of bactria for 1.7 billion years after the emergence of a life form on the earth 3.8 billion years ago.
And, a bactrium seems to have no chance to grow to be a human being at all, though an eukaryote could eventually.
Yet, our ancestors had to leave ancestors of chimpanzees (chinpanji in Japanese) to finally evolve into the genuine mankind 6 million years ago, after leaving those of orangutans (oran-utan in Japanese) and then gorillas (gorira in Japanese).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Chimpanzee
An eukaryote has not become a human being to be made suffer by other or rich human beings (kane-mochi in Japanese).
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgyZCgw6kdw&feature=related
To our astonishment, once there was a band called the Monkeys in America...
Usually an animal looks like first trying to see how harmful a person approaching is...since the animal can be eaten by the person if not in a reverse case.)
Mar 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.