If you do not live by the port, you would not think it is the best place to live.
(Yokohama has been in a sense more modern than Tokyo with a higher density of foreigners...Maybe, Tokyo might have been a kind of hinterland for the Port City Yokohama.)
Un Gris Mardi
A dream life for a modern Israeli man is said to live in a British house, eat Chinese dishes, draw a salary from an American company, and marry a Japanese woman.
A nightmare life for a modern Israeli man is said to live in a Japanese house, hire a British cook, receive a salary from a Chinese company, and marry an American woman.
(http://ameblo.jp/japantn/entry-10632296008.html)
Now you know that true Judaism is nowhere in modern Israel but in Japan or America.
Ranking of Countries Japanese Like the Most (2007):
1. Australia
2. Italy
3. Switzerland
4. USA
5. France
6. Canada
7. UK
8. New Zealand
9. Germany
10. Spain
(http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/honkawa/8010.html)
So, a modern Japanese man seems to love to live in Australia, eat at an Italian restaurant, draw money from a Swiss bank, and marry a French woman.
Of course, Christ Jesus said not to go for a way of foreigners or gentiles.
So, go to the next village or town to find a chance to make your dream come true.
SECTION I: Kan vs. Ozawa Viewed by China
The below is a picture Chinadaily.com.cn sets up in its page introducing the two key Japanese politicians: Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan and Lower-House member Mr. Ichiro Ozawa:
It is a big surprise that a Chinese media site virtually run by the Chinese Communist Party and Government shows a bad image of Mr. Ichiro Ozawa in a Web page open to the world.
(Officially it is said that Chinadaily.com.cn is the only private media in China, as established in 1981, that issues an English newspaper. It means that the Chinese Communist Party/Government adopted a strategy to make one of its branches take a form of a private organization, since there is no freedom of press in China.)
Last year, namely around December 10, 2009, Mr. Ozawa led 140 Diet members of the ruling DPJ to Beijing. Mr. Ozawa reportedly strongly asked the Chinese Communist Party to allow the 140 members of his faction in the party to shake hands with Chinese President Mr. Hu Jintao in person. Eventually, China accepted this extraordinary request, and Mr. Hu shook hands with the 140 Japanese lawmakers one after another in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
This event surprised most of the Japanese people, since it looked so out of protocol and diplomatic manners. What president or premier in the world is happy to shake hands with 140 foreign parliament members one after another while being televised? It is a heavy and stupid performance.
But, most of Japanese people thought China was on Mr. Ozawa's side. But, China might be really changing their attitude vastly as suggested by the above picture; so Japanese people concerned are now thinking.
Before the last month's election to choose the new head of the ruling DPJ, the Chinadaily.com.cn discussed political stances of the two rivals:
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The Battle for Japan
Diplomacy
Naoto Kan
Deepen US-Japan ties while building trust with Asian nations and promote an East Asian Community.
Make utmost efforts to lessen the burden on the people of the southern islands of Okinawa while sticking to a US-Japan agreement on relocating the US Futenma airbase in Okinawa.
Ichiro Ozawa
Build closer relations with the United States.
Deepen relations with China and South Korea.
Hold talks with Okinawa and Washington, aiming to find a solution over Futenma that is acceptable to both.
If PM Kan Wins
The key questions are how decisively can the prime minister defeat the challenger, a critic of his efforts to curb public debt and consider a sales tax hike, and whether Ozawa bolts.
If Ozawa Wins
A judicial panel of ordinary citizens is to decide as early as next month whether he must be indicted over the scandal...
But many market players fear his pro-spending policies would ultimately backfire.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-09/13/content_11295300.htm
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The Chinese Communist Party seems to have judged that it was time to leave Mr. Ozawa even before the ballot on September 14, which might be seen as a betrayal from Mr. Ozawa's side.
SECTION II: Kan vs. Wen Viewed by China
Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan met the prime ministers of South Korea, Vietnam, and Australia and the president of France in Brussels. Then, Mr. Kan reportedly and unexpectedly met Chinese Premier Mr. Wen on a corridor of the meeting place to have a 25-minute talk sitting on chairs along the wall.
P.M. Mr. Kan should have said, "Our predecessors had wisdom to separate politics and economy in the Japan-China relationship, Mr. Wen. We have to further separate military matters from mutual agendas, since the U.S. now looks like feeling shame at their awkward attitude to the East China Sea situations, Mr. Wen."
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Premier Wen meets with Japanese PM
By Su Qiang (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-10-05 08:05
BRUSSELS - Premier Wen Jiabao and his Japanese counterpart Naoto Kan had a conversation on Monday on the sidelines of the 8th Asia-Europe Meeting which is being held in the capital city of Belgium.
Wen reiterated that Diaoyu Islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times.
He pointed out that it serves the fundamental interests of both countries and peoples to protect and advance the China-Japan strategic relationship of mutual benefit.
The two sides agreed to step up people-to-people exchanges and communication between the governments, and hold a high level meeting at an appropriate time.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-10/05/content_11377491.htm
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Just focus on this part:
"Wen reiterated that Diaoyu Islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times."
"Since ancient times" must be substantiated with evidence about efforts by the last Chinese classic dynasty Ching in its claiming occupancy against the declaration of occupancy of the Senkaku Islands by the Empire of Japan through a due process of the modern era in 1895.
Premier Mr. Wen is even not honest as much as legendary premier Chou En-lai when he met Japanese P.M. Kakuei Tanaka in September 1972 in Beijing, in terms of admitting that China has no authentic, historical, and imperial evidence to support its territorial claim on the Senkaku Islands.
SECTION III: North Korea
Former Defence Minister of Japan Ms. Yuriko Koike, a LDP lawmaker, wrote recently some about North Korea. Though I am not asked to mention her report by anybody, it must be noted that it was posted on September 14 when the DPJ party election was held to reelect then incumbent head Mr. Naoto Kan as the new party head and simultaneously a Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution, comprising 11 citizens, decided on the case involving Mr. Ichiro Ozawa and ruled that Mr. Ozawa should be prosecuted in court.
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Lady Macbeth of Pyongyang
Yuriko Koike
2010-09-14
TOKYO – North Korea’s communist regime is, by most accounts, set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun. The general assembly of North Korea's Workers' Party, now underway for the first time in 44 years, is the clearest sign yet that "Dear Leader" Kim, who is seriously ill, is passing the crown in the hermit kingdom founded by his father, Kim Il-sung...
Kim Jong-il has described his sister as "my only blood family whom I was asked to take care of by my mother till the moment she died." Their mother, Kim Jong-suk, is said to have died from hemorrhaging while giving premature birth caused by her distress over Kim Il-sung’s love affair with Kim Song-ae. Kim Il-sung reportedly rushed to the hospital, but the door to her room was locked. When she died, her doctor and Kim Jong-il were the only people present.
But Chan Giryok, who was Kim Jong-suk's primary doctor and is now a doctor at Nagoya University in Japan, tells a different story. According to Chan, Kim Jong-suk was at Kim Il-sung's Pyongyang home near the Soviet Embassy, quarreling with him. Watching from afar, the doctor saw Kim Il-sung holding a pistol. The doctor, who was a surgeon, not an obstetrician, questioned the wisdom of summoning him to treat excessive bleeding from a premature delivery. He believes that he was summoned to treat bleeding caused by something else.
Kim Jong-il, who is known to have had a powerful attachment to his birth mother, cannot help but have been psychologically affected by witnessing his mother's killing. From the moment of his mother’s death, he kept his young sister close to him at all times.
Indeed, in a country where trust rarely exists, Kim Kyong-hui is the only blood relation whom Kim Jong-il has ever fully trusted. Moreover, the two share the same lineage of the Great Leader, or Suryong, linked to Kim Jong-suk on the maternal side, and are fully devoted to the absolute supremacy of the Suryong and hereditary succession.
Speaking before the Central Committee after Kim Il-sung’s death, Kim Jong-il said, "Kim Kyong-hui is myself, the words of Kim Kyong-hui are my words, and instructions issued by Kim Kyong-hui are my instructions."...
Whether Kim Jong-eun or Kim Kyong-hui intend to soldier on in desperate isolation, or to bring in economic change, they lack the revolutionary credentials and grip on power needed to do so. So when Kim Jong-il passes from the scene, and political instability meets economic blight, the regime could fall apart...
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/koike9/English
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I really think that September 14, 2010 will be remembered and recalled by parties concerned and professors of history as the day very crucial and symbolic, rather.
In addition, Mr. Ozawa was once a boss of Ms. Yuriko Koike when they were in a now-extinct party. Having left Mr. Ozawa for the LDP so timely, Ms. Koike made a great career in the Japanese politics, since Former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi appointed her to the State Minister for the Environment in 2004.
Now, you know something about North Korea, an ally of China through bloods shed in the Korean War.
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To enter a house needs to be done very carefully. First, a house is what is built based on any kind of investment, say, investment of energy, hours, or assets. You have to show respect for those human endeavors which resulted in the existence of the house. Secondly, a house is occupied and used by its owner or residents. It sometimes needs great efforts to keep a house in good shape. So, You have to show respect for those human endeavors which resulted in the state of house.
Conversely, robbers or enemies would not show any respect when entering a house managed or owned by others.
If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you have to show respect to people in a house. And the best gift you can bring to them is, of course, not $4 million or 400 million yen but peace.
Luk 10:5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.