1000-Yen Wednesday
(1000-yens mercredi)
No joy of eating, drinking, chatting, and dancing for which money is needed is what you can expect in following Christ Jesus and His followers.
But, there are many, many occasions and situations where you never think of eating, drinking, chatting, and dancing for which money is needed.
Christ Jesus has not come to eat, drink, chat, or dance but to save the poor who have no money for foods, beverages, families, or entertainment.
SECTION I: When the Senkaku Islands Became Japan's
The Kingdom of Korea continued to be subject to the Chinese empire Ching while the 20th century was getting closer.
On the other hand, the Okinawa Kingdom officially came to directly belong to the Empire of Japan in 1870's.
In addition, Taiwan was not regarded as an essential part of Ching, so that Ching's rule on Taiwan was not strict or exhaustive. It was after the Sino-French War (1884-1885) that the Ching court in Beijing raised the status of Taiwan to an independent province.
Yet, from a traditional Chinese imperial paradigm, the emperor of Ching had every right in Korea, Taiwan, and Okinawa (till its abrogation of its state as a tributary nation to Ching).
A border between Ching and Korea, or between Ching and Okinawa could be set at any place at will of the Chinese empire, since Korea and Okinawa had no military, economic, and cultural power based on which they might have been able to make war against Ching.
But, this vague paradigm was challenged by the Empire of Japan in 1894. The Japan-Sino War actually settled borders of Ching in a sense of a paradigm of the modern international relationships, though it was still in the late 19th century.
Interestingly, the Empire of Japan declared its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands before the end of the Japan-Sino War, while the Empire of Japan was trying to remove the imperial influence of Ching from the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Island, both far larger than the Senkaku Islands. It suggests there was a strong will of the Okinawa people to fix their territory in the East China Sea.
For reference, the Senkaku Islands are in a location on the Sea facing:
1) The Ishigaki-jima Island of Okinawa Prefecture: 170 km, south
2) Taiwan: 170 km, southwest
3) The Chinese Continent: 330 km, west
3) The Okinawa mainland: 410 km, east
In addition, the Senkaku Islands had been uninhabited islands all through the known history of mankind till a Japanese businessman established and ran a factory to process fish in one of the islands from 1880's to 1940 before WWII.
(http://blog.canpan.info/fukiura/archive/7234
http://akebonokikaku.hp.infoseek.co.jp/page053.html)
In summary, the great Ching empire and its great emperors would not feel any need to declare its occupancy of the Senkaku Islands at any time, since the Islands are too small and nobody claimed the Islands as their own against the imperial court in Beijing, since Taiwanese people, the Okinawa people, and the Korean people were virtual subjects to Ching, while Japanese imperial/samurai governments in the past never looked like having an interest in the Senkaku Islands till 1870's when Okinawa came to directly belong to the government in Tokyo.
Accordingly, nobody in China and Taiwan talked about or remembered the Senkaku Islands before, during, and after the Japan-Sino War (1894-1895).
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As a newly-emergent power Japan turned its attention toward Korea. In order to protect its own interests and security, Japan wanted to either annex Korea before it was seized by another power, or at least ensure Korea's effective independence by developing its resources and reforming its administration...
On February 27, 1876, after certain incidents and confrontations involving Korean isolationists and the Japanese, Japan imposed the Treaty of Ganghwa on Korea; forcing Korea to open itself to Japanese and foreign trade and to proclaim its independence from China in its foreign relations.
Korea had traditionally been a tributary state and continued to be so under the influence of China's Qing dynasty, which exerted large influence over the conservative Korean officials gathered around the royal family of the Joseon Dynasty. Opinion in Korea itself was split; conservatives wanted to retain the traditional subservient relationship with China, while reformists wanted to establish closer ties with Japan and western nations. After two Opium Wars against the British Empire and the Sino-French War, China had become weak and was unable to resist political intervention and territorial encroachment by western powers (see Unequal Treaties). Japan saw this as an opportunity to replace Chinese influence in Korea with its own...
Although the Beiyang Force -- Beiyang Army and Beiyang Fleet -- was the best equipped and symbolized the new modern Chinese military, corruption was a serious problem. Chinese politicians systematically embezzled funds, even during the war. As a result, the Beiyang Fleet did not purchase any battleships after its establishment in 1888. The purchase of ammunition stopped in 1891, with the funding being embezzled to build the Summer Palace in Beijing. Logistics were a huge problem, as construction of railroads in Manchuria had been discouraged. The morale of the Chinese armies was generally very low due to lack of pay and prestige, use of opium and poor leadership which contributed to some rather ignominious withdrawals, such as the abandonment of the very well-fortified and defensible Weihaiwei...
The Imperial Japanese Army converged on Pyongyang from several directions on 15 September 1894. The Japanese assaulted the city and eventually defeated the Chinese by an attack from the rear; the defenders surrendered. By taking advantage of heavy rainfall and using the cover of darkness, the remaining troops marched out of Pyongyang and headed northeast toward the coast and the city of Uiju. Casualties were 2,000 killed and around 4,000 wounded for the Chinese, while the Japanese lost 102 men killed, 433 wounded and 33 missing. The entire Japanese army entered the city of Pyongyang on the early morning of 16 September 1894...
The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed on 17 April 1895. China recognized the total independence of Korea and ceded the Liaodong Peninsula (in the south of the present day Liaoning Province), Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to Japan "in perpetuity". Additionally, China was to pay Japan 200 million Kuping taels as reparation. China also signed a commercial treaty permitting Japanese ships to operate on the Yangtze River, to operate manufacturing factories in treaty ports and to open four more ports to foreign trade. The Triple Intervention, however, forced Japan to give up the Liaodong Peninsula in exchange for another 30 million Kuping taels (450 million yen)...
Several Qing officials in Taiwan resolved to resist the cession of Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and on 23 May declared the island to be an independent Republic of Formosa. On 29 May Japanese forces under Admiral Motonori Kabayama landed in northern Taiwan, and in a five-month campaign defeated the Republican forces and occupied the island's main towns...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War
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Yet, Korea has not been grateful to date for Japan's shedding bloods to bring Independence to Koreans in the late 19th century.
Taiwan has not been so grateful to date for Japan's shedding bloods to give native Taiwanese a chance for modernization and later nationalist Chinese a place for survival and fortification against the Chinese Communists after WWII.
Nonetheless, the Okinawa people, sharing the basically same language, culture, and racial traits as the mainland Japanese, have never doubted over the legitimacy of their belonging to great Japan, though they shed too many bloods in the Battle of Okinawa fighting invading American troops.
In this way, Okinawa Prefecture of Japan must have the Senkaku Islands as its own, though it might remind the sub-tropical paradise-like Prefecture of a centuries-long era when they followed both the Chinese empire and a certain samurai clan in southern Kyusyu who in turn was subject to the samurai king or a Tokugawa shogun in Edo (Tokyo).
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Democrats are said to start China bashing.
Though some pundit defends China, American voters and Wal-Mart shoppers cast doubt on it.
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Stop Bashing China: China's Growth Created American Jobs
Robert A. McDonald | Oct. 19, 2010, 6:07 PM
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Fifteen years ago, if you walked into a Wal-Mart and purchased a cart full of stuff, most of it was made in the U.S. by Americans.
Now it's all made in China. That's a shopping cart of American jobs lost right there.
http://www.businessinsider.com/stop-bashing-china-chinas-growth-created-american-jobs-2010-10
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What I want to see is that American voters and workers well understand the need for freedom and a sense of responsibility among Chinese workers.
For your reference, there are almost 500 million workers in farming areas alone in China.
(http://www.chinapress.jp/events/9110/)
So, my advice to Mr. Xi Jinping is go back to farming areas again, taking into consideration the need for freedom and a sense of responsibility among Chinese workers.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r94-7nJt-WM&feature=related
A stardust for you, dusty cents for me, since I lived on almost 1,000 yen today...dear.)
Joh 10:19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
Joh 10:20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Joh 10:21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?