Hopeful Monday
(Espoir Lundi)
Now in several cities in China, young Chinese are staging anti-Japanese demonstrations.
In each city, thousands or more Chinese students and other youths are chanting anti-Japanese slogans, demolishing Japanese restaurants, and turning over Japanese cars.
It has been triggered by stupid behaviors by the Chinese Communist Party on the Senkaku Islands; however "Japan" also means riches and an upper class in China.
So, an anti-Japanese demonstration in China includes some important element of protest against the Chinese establishment, namely Chinese elites in the Communist Party, the central/local governments, and big enterprises and wealthy people having connections to those elites.
http://pigzhina.blog122.fc2.com/blog-entry-108.html
Japanese TV stations all report these movements in China, but of course, no panics in Japan.
One thing sure is that if Toyota, Honda, and Nissan pull out of China, GM and Fords will significantly increase their sales in the Chinese market.
In the worst case, some Japanese businesses might start to request the Japanese Government to sell the Senkaku Islands to the American Government, if not transfer of the ownership.
SECTION I: What are the three elements of the nation state?
Americans answer:
The government, the military, and the people.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_three_elements_of_the_nation_state
Europeans whose nations existed based on their military as a matter of course answered:
The sovereignty, the land, and the people
- Peace of Westphalia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia
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The Constitution of Japan (promulgated November 3, 1946)
CHAPTER II: RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9: 1) Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
(http://blog.goo.ne.jp/misky730/e/b816705c1572ee4b7125ba5069b6bb46 )
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Accordingly Japan cannot have the Article-9 defined land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential.
However, Japan as a nation must be equipped with the three elements: the government, the military, and the people before its Constitution.
Therefore, the Article-9 defined land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential are different from the military as one of the three elements of a nation.
In other word, Japan must have the military that is different from the Article-9 defined land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential.
In this context, Japan has the Self-Defence Forces which the Japanese Government cannot mobilize or use as means of war, since the Japanese Government cannot proclaim war. Yet, in order to stop invasion of Japan by external forces, the Japanese Government can mobilize or use the Self-Defence Forces, because this defence is not war defined in the Article 9.
Put simply, to be engaged in non-Article-9 defined defence activities, Japan can of course mobilize or use the military that does not fall in the Article-9 defined land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential and even that does, too.
So, Japan can have Army, Navy, and Air Forces as the military that does not fall in the Article-9 defined land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, since this military has more authentic cause of existence than the Japanese Constitution. It is so, since without a nation, no constitution is possible.
This military is like the land and the people that continue to exist even the present Constitution is abolished in the future like they existed before the present Constitution was established.
Nonetheless, "aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes."
However, if China should invade the Senkaku Islands with whatever war potential, it is no more international disputes; Japan will naturally defend its land and people from Chinese killing machines.
What I want to say is that there are Japanese Army, Navy, and Air Forces that are not defined by the Japanese Constitution but authorized by history, theory, and the very existence of Japan as an independent nation.
But, as long as China does not invade the Senkaku Islands, Japan will be content to have only Self-Defence Forces.
SECTION II: Constitutions
Every country has somebody or an organization that is in charge of national defence.
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CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
(Adopted on December 4, 1982)
Article 29. The armed forces of the People's Republic of China belong to the people. Their tasks are to strengthen national defence, resist aggression, defend the motherland, safeguard the people's peaceful labour, participate in national reconstruction, and work hard to serve the people. The state strengthens the revolutionization, modernization and regularization of the armed forces in order to increase the national defence capability.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/constitution/constitution.html
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Constitution
Preface
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Comrade Kim Il Sung founded the immortal Juche idea, organized and guided an anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under its banner, created revolutionary tradition, attained the historical cause of the national liberation, and founded the DPRK, built up a solid basis of construction of a sovereign and independent state in the fields of politics, economy, culture and military, and founded the DPRK.
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Paragraph II) The National Defense Commission
Article 1
The National Defense Commission is the highest military leading organ of State power and an organ for general control over national defense.
Article 11
The NDC consists of its Chairman, first vice chairman, vice chairmen and members.
The term of the NDC Chairman is the same as that of the SPA.
Article 12
The Chairman of the NDC directs and commands all the armed forces and guides defense affairs as a whole.
Article 13
The NDC has the duties and authority to:
1. guide the armed forces and guide the State in defense building as a whole,
2. set up or abolish a national institution in the defense sector,
3. appoint or remove major military cadres,
4. set up military titles and confer the military rank of general and higher ranks,
5. proclaim a state of war and orders for mobilization.
http://www.novexcn.com/dprk_constitution_98.html
The Constitution of the United States
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
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To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
French Constitution of October 4, 1958
Article 15.
The President of the Republic shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. He shall preside over the higher national defence councils and committees.
Article 21.
The Prime Minister shall direct the actions of the Government. He shall be responsible for national defence. He shall ensure the implementation of legislation. Subject to article 13, he shall have power to make regulations and shall make appointments to civil and military posts.
He may delegate certain of his powers to Ministers.
He shall deputize, if the case arises, for the President of the Republic as chairman of the councils and committees referred to in article 15.
He may, in exceptional cases, deputize for him as chairman of a meeting of the Council of Ministers by virtue of an express delegation of powers for a specific agenda.
Article 34.
Statutes shall determine the rules concerning:
- civic rights and the fundamental guarantees granted to citizens for the exercise of their civil liberties; freedom, diversity and the independence of the media; the obligations imposed for the purposes of national defence upon the person and property of citizens;
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/english/8ab.asp
Russia - Constitution { Adopted on: 12 Dec 1993 }
Article 59
(1) Defense of the homeland shall be a duty and obligation of the citizen of the Russian Federation.
(2) The citizen of the Russian Federation shall do military service in conformity with the federal law.
(3) The citizen of the Russian Federation whose convictions and faith are at odds with military service, and also in other cases stipulated by the federal law shall have the right to the substitution of an alternative civil service for military service.
http://www.legalserviceindia.com/constitution/const_russia.htm
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But, who is in charge in Japan?
The God? Christ Jesus?
The EEE Reporter?
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In 1980, no one in Japan knew what would happen in 2000's in America.
But, looking back at it from now, it looks like that some African Americans at the time were changing beneath the surface. However, my image about them was still mostly from African American soldiers in the Vietnam War.
So, I might be still now failing in catching some important trend among young Chinese.
And, Chinese leaders might be also failing in catching some important trend among young Chinese.
What do you think about them?
And, in my feeling, a vocal group of African American girls seems to be more trustworthy than that of European girls. In general, the former looks economically poorer than the latter. It is reflected in their singing. To make sure, I seldom listen to a vocal group of Korean girls and Chinese girls. Japanese girls are not fit for this genre, good or bad.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEsSPaa24WI&feature=fvw )
Mar 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
Mar 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.