While NEW York WTC's Roof at 417 Meters
Snowing Tuesday
(neige mardi)
It snowed today in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefectures of Japan.
The summer and the winter are encroaching on spring and autumn.
When climate conditions change in a vast scale on Earth, such a phenomenon can happen.
Now, ranking of countries Chinese tourists and sightseers most visited in 2009:
#1...Korea
#2...Malaysia
#3...JAPAN
More than one million Chinese enjoyed their freedom of spending money in each country.
SECTION I: JAPAN, America, and China
1) Chinese Anti-Japan Education over Centuries
Anti-Japan demonstrations and protests in China are now changing its target from Japan to the Chinese Communist Government.
Among so many anti-Japan banners, Chinese students and other protesters have come to hoist anti-corruption and anti-authoritarianism banners.
Chinese leaders and politicians have long, say, since the 19th century, educated children and students following an anti-Japan policy.
It is because the Empire Japan defeated the Ching Dynasty in the Japan-Sino War in 1895 to shame great and arrogant China that had assumed its unchallenged status as the center of civilization and the sole super power in Asia. For Chinese elites in any era or under any dynasty or regime in these 2500 years, China is No.1 and must be No.1 in Asia if not in the world. Even when Mongolians and Manchus established their empires (Yuan and Ching) in the Chinese Continent, their leaders and elites followed suit.
But, the Empire Japan defeated the Ching Dynasty in the Japan-Sino War in 1895 to shame great and arrogant China. Since then, Chinese elites started to instill anti-Japanese views into young people as revenge to Japanese and as a way of ruling Chinese.
Yet, it is not difficult for ordinary Chinese people to see that their true enemy is rich elites in Beijing, Shanghai, and any other cities but not kind, honest, and courageous Japanese.
2) Exchange Rates Tell
Before the high economic growth period or in early 1960's, one U.S. dollar earned in America brought 360 yen into Japan. Today, a dollar means only 80 yen.
Before the high economic growth period in China, one U.S. dollar meant 1 to 2 yuan. Today, a dollar earned in America brings back 6 yuan to China! It must be 0.25 to 0.5 yuan!!
Ordinary Americans have no interest in exchange rates. But, it shows a clue why President Mr. Barack Obama has failed in solving the unemployment issue. One U.S. dollar must mean just 1.5 to 2.0 yuan for Chinese.
So, now iPods are manufactured in China but not in the U.S.
According to a Japanese researcher, there are several reasons why the U.S. has failed in this rarely-foolish G2 relationships.
a) President Clinton launched strategic partnership with China against Japan in 1990's.
b) President G.W. Bush needed help from China as a de-facto ally against Islamic threats in 2000's.
c) Congress has been contaminated and influenced by lobbyists China employed in a large scale in these decades.
d) American voters and consumers have not realized that a golden or gilded age for the financial sector and Wall Street is passing by.
(http://www.adpweb.com/eco/)
The next American President must be back to Christianity but not heading for China so often as his/her predecessors.
3) States of Mental Health
China:
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At the same time, many mentally healthy people are being sent to psychiatric hospitals by people who have conflicting interests with them, therefore unnecessarily being subjected to confinement and painful treatments...
Jin Zhong, Editor-in-Chief of Hong Kong's Open Magazine, said, "The Chinese Communist Party has always been using this method to punish political dissidents, although it is not limited to political dissidents anymore nowadays. They found it more convenient to use this method than going through legal procedures to punish people. They have been doing this all along."
The report also says that according to statistics published by China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention in early 2009, there were more than 100 million mental patients in China. Research conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows mental illness accounts for 20 percent of all illnesses in China, more than twice the world average. WHO also predicted the percentage would grow to 25 percent in the next 20 years.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/44558/
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America:
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The following are the latest statistics available from the National Institute of Mental Health Disorders (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
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- An estimated 26 percent of Americans ages 18 and older - about one in four (or over 57.7 million) adults - suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
- Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. In particular, depressive illnesses tend to co-occur with substance abuse and anxiety disorders.
- Approximately 20.9 million American adults - or 9.5 percent - ages 18 and over, will suffer from a depressive illness (major depression, bipolar disorder, or dysthymia) each year.
http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/healthcare_services/mental_health/mental_health_about/about_mental_health/mental_health_statistics/Pages/index.aspx
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JAPAN:
For each year in the past consecutive 12 years, the number of those who committed a suicide has reached 30,000 and more in Japan.
SECTION II: Government-Issued Notes
A notable Japanese economist, Mr. Yoichi Takahashi, proposed an idea of Japanese Government's issuing yen notes worth 25 trillion yen ($300 billion) to fill the gap between a potential of industrial supply and a potential of purchasing power.
Yet, more notable senior economist Mr. Haruki Niwa scolded Mr. Takahashi, since his idea is too timid.
According to Mr. Niwa's theory, the Japanese Government should print and provide yen notes to the extent that the concept of a surplus and a deficit of national budget become meaningless.
The deflation/inflation gap should be carefully measured. Based on an analysis of an economic/financial state, the Government should supply an appropriate amount of funds (for not only businesses but also individuals with poor purchasing capability) through electronic banking systems with minimal costs.
So, I have presented an idea of "Separation of National Budget from Taxation and Issuance of Government Notes."
With this huge industrial power of Japan, which has actually made China the third largest economy in the world, a large scale use of government electronic notes for execution of its national budget will not disturb the whole economy. Only, we may see a trend of the yen weakening in the market to 90 or 100 yen per dollar.
It is said that government notes will function well as much as central bank notes.
But, if people find that there is no need to allow the central bank to issue money notes, they will start to do away with commercial banks. It is the end of prosperity of Wall Street and City.
That is why most of economists deny effect and effectiveness of government notes in any country.
SECTION III: China, Chu-Goku, or Shina
It is only after the end of WWII that Japanese started to call China "Chu-goku" in Japanese.
Before, Japanese called China "Shina" which the Chinese Communist Government abhorred.
So, the Chinese Communist Government asked the Japanese Government to call China "Chu-goku" according to the official Kanji expression of "China."
The English calling China is based on the first Chinese dynasty Qin (221 BC - 206 BC).
The traditional Japanese calling of China is "Shina" based on Qin or "Kara" based on the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907).
However, the Kanji letter "Shi" means "support/branch" while "Chu" means "central/inside." "Chu-goku" means literally a central country.
However, "Na" of "Shina" literally means "beautiful, soft, or plenty." The Kanji expression of "Shina" was ironically first used when a Chinese Buddhist translated a Buddhist creed imported from India during an era of the Sui Dynasty (581 - 619). It must be also noted that this Chinese version of the creed was imported to Japan soon after the translation was completed. So, it is a transliteration of "China staana," an expression of Sanskrit (an Indian language) meaning China; Kanji "Shina" have no special meaning.
But, no Japanese media today use "Shina" to mean China. No textbooks used in Japanese school have expression "Shina" to mean China. Yet, before the end of WWII, "Shina" is an official way of calling China in the Empire of Japan.
Even when the Chinese Revolution occurred in 1911 and the Republic of China asked the Imperial Government of Japan to use the calling of "Chu-goku" or "Chu-ka," the Empire did not accept it, since "Chu-goku" or "Chu-ka," meaning the world central country, sounded so arrogant.
Only nationalists or some type of scholars in Japan seem to use "Shina" for China as the norm. And, leftist Japanese never use "Shina."
In my opinion, we have to use "Chai-na" in Japanese using Katakana letters.
It is so, since "Chu-goku" fits Japan nowadays as its appellation.
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Animals which appear in the four Gospels:
Camel - Matthew 3:4; 19:24; 23:24; Mark 1:6; 10:25; Luke 18:25
Cow - Luke 14:5
Dove –Matthew 3:16; 10:16; John 2:16
Dog - Matthew 15:26-27; Luke 16:21
Donkey - John 12:14
Fish - Matthew 14:17; 17:27; Luke 24:42; John 21:9
Fox - Matthew 8:20; Luke 13:32
Gnat - Matthew 23:24
Goat - Matthew 25:33
Locust - Matthew 3:4
Maggot - Mark 9:48
Moth - Matthew 6:19
Pig - Matthew 7:6; 8:31
Pigeon - Luke 2:24
Rooster - Matthew 26:34
Scorpion - Luke 10:19
Serpent - Matthew 7:10; Luke 11:11; John 3:14
Sheep - Matthew 25:33; Luke 15:4; John 10:7
Sparrow - Matthew 10:29; 10:31; Luke 12:6; 12:7
Turtledove - Luke 2:24
Wolf/Wolves - Matthew 7:15; 10:16; Luke 10:3; John 10:12
And, a human being.
Including human beings, only 22 animal species appear in the Gospels (tough some might be missing for some limitations and various versions of the Book).
And, the last species, the human being, is divided into Christ Jesus and others.
Anyway, that is why I seldom mention any animals except the human being.
So, I may be obliged to ask you which of the 22 animal species you like the best or as the second best, but not to judge your personality. Which, you "those more valuable than sparrows" according to Christ Jesus?
(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/jojoh/satonoaki.html
Japanese villages mostly surrounded by mountains were so silent in autumn in the past before a motorization that began for real in 1960's. From those villages many young men were mobilized to military to fight American troops in southern seas during WWII.)
Mat 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.