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Officiousness Satuday
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The amount of delivered Apple's iPods is over 100 million units.
But the most of iPods are made in China.
If they were manufactured in America, ten thousands more people could be hired in America!
Now which would you bash, Apple, China, or President Mr. Barack Obama?
Basing them all cannot however solve the problem. It is desire of goldless consumers and business executives.
SECTION I: Noam Chomsky
I happened to watch Mr. Noam Chomsky presenting his view on the capitalism America on TV through a cable TV channel called "Asahi Newstar" around Tokyo today.
It was a record of his lecture in the U.S. in May 2010.
I suppose 95% of corporate workers in Japan do not know who and what Mr. Chomsky is. But, 95% of leftists, liberals, and active conservatives in Japan know who and what Mr. Chomsky is.
While watching his civil style in presentation with well educated words, I thought he should mention Nazis and Hitler; then he picked up Germany in 1920's and so forth. He said it was Nazis that first made May Day a public holiday, which no political parties in the world could achieve. Then, on the first May-Day holiday in Germany, a multitude of German cultural, social and trade organizations joined the ceremony, while the Weimar Republic was fading away. It was because the center of the national governance of Germany had already decayed before the rise of Nazis and Hitler.
Mr. Noam Chomsky claimed, virtually, that the same thing is happening in America and the world, including China and India where the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider and wider.
But, he took note on one different thing: the power shift. With the rise of China, the economic power is really shifting to East Asia, as has never been seen before. It is so, since businesses in Taiwan, Japan, and America have been helping China expand its production power, so that those businesses could earn more money. In contrast, the unemployment rate in America has reached nominally about 10% but in fact more than 10%. One in six workers in the manufacturing sector in America is losing a job, which is comparable with the state of the Great Depression in 1930's.
Of course, this shift of economic center from the North Atlantic region to East China is one factor for the collapse of the center in America. But, if it makes American rich men richer, even Mr. Chomsky cannot stop it. It is so, since American rich men would even exercise their influences on President Mr. Barack Obama to maintain the course.
After observing the TV program, I found it to be useful to present two questions:
Q1: Which do you like being rich or being poor?
Q2: Which do you like being righteous or being evil?
These two questions belong to a different sphere or level, each.
Q2 is an absolute question; Q1 is a conditional question.
You can answer, "I like being rich as long as I can be righteous."
But, you cannot answer, "I like being righteous as long as, say, I can be rich."
Being righteous means to put the value of being so above anything else, except the power of the God.
So, Mr. Chomsky is the one who points to the fact that President Mr. Barack Obama was helped critically in the 2008 Presidential Election by the American financial sector who opted for young, rock-star-like African American Mr. Obama (with the Swedish American mother) over Vietnam-War hero Mr. John McCain, since their culture can be blamed by Vietnam-War hero Mr. McCain.
SECTION II: Study in America
What I want to write is that you had better stay in your country to learn things.
Then you can have a chance to be a hero.
If you go and study in America, you will surely despise those who cannot in your country when you return home after studying in America.
Poor people never miss the feeling you have when you see them and secretly despise them. You cannot be a hero in your country, though you can be a successful man in your home country.
If you learn in Harvard, you will not be able to get humble before a poor man in your country. You cannot be a hero.
Think it over.
(No Japanese Nobel Prize winners have ever graduated from Harvard. The best scholars and researchers in any fields of Japan have never graduated from Harvard. You got it?)
APPENDIX. Historical Analysis on the Senkaku Islands
(Please set the Encode in Page menu of your browser at Unicode to correctly read Kanji characters used below.)
First of all click the following map.
The oldest human bones found in Okinawa Prefecture is of 32,000 years ago and then of 18,000 years ago. The oldest record of people visiting Japan's Imperial Court from Okinawa is of A.D. 714.
More clearly, a group of Japanese people with agriculture skills moved to Okinawa islands from Kyusyo of Japan proper as late as the 10th century. Since then, the Okinawa (Ryukyu) people moved around from the main Okinawa island to Yaeyama Islands including the Ishigaki Island, the Iriomote Island, and the Yonakuni Island. They frequently sailed around the Senkaku Islands partly due to the ocean current flowing north from the Yaeyama Islands. As the above map clearly indicates, the Senkaku Islands are too far for fishermen living coastal ares of the mainland China while Taiwan indigenous people had no skills or customs sailing around north on the East China Sea.
But, if you have any doubts on Japan's Senkaku, check the related history below presented.
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 partly due to a typhoon called "kamikaze" and mostly due to courageous samurais. All the survivors of the Yuan troops fled back to the Chinese Continent over the sea.
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 partly due to a typhoon called "kamikaze" and mostly due to courageous samurais. All the survivors of the Yuan troops fled back to the Chinese Continent over the sea.
(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.)
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.
(http://www.geocities.jp/tanaka_kunitaka/senkaku/chokaizuhen-1562/ )(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 even when judging based on the Chinese claims. 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 (the main island of the Yaeyama Islnads) 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 some old songs or stories of Okinawa.
In addition, the Chinese name of the Senkaku Islands meaning an island to angle for fish is reasonably thought to come after an old calling of the Islands by Okinawa/Ishigaki people. Okinawa people call the main Senkaku Island "Yoko"-jima (meaning a side island), or once called "Tsure"-jima, meaning an accompanying island the sound of which is similar to "tsuri" which is also similar to "tsuru" in Japanese, meaning angling for fish. There is no such material as to expalian the origin of the Chinese name of the Islands meaning an island to angle for fish.
Put simply, the Senkaku Islands issue is not the one between Tokyo, the Senkaku Islands, and Shanghai but between the Yaeyama Islands, the Senkaku Islands, and Beijing. Check the map again!
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What I cannot understand is why China cannot respect Taiwan, the Republic of China?
Did Mao and Chou really believe that they should occupy Taiwan for completion of their revolution?
China should become a peaceful country, abolishing its nuclear weapons and reducing defence budgets.
Japan believes that every country respects peace, but only China does not in this world.
Marxism has no concept of forgiveness. But, modern capitalism is under the paradigm of mutual prosperity over borders, if only among rich men of each country, which respects peace especially after WWII and then the Vietnam War. Culture that develops under this paradigm encourages forgiveness, since religious traditions are important part of it.
Chinese Marxism that respects market economy and individual prosperity without respect for religion will surely make China dangerous but weak and foolish.
But, who educates Chinese? No American politicians can, at least.
I wrote this, since I have a feeling that somebody in Beijing or in the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo or Washington D.C. is checking this blog.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP8xff2X46A&feature=related
Do you think I ever pretend to be a servant of the God Almighty?
Pretend to be, though!
Anyway, that's a female vocal singer. Doesn't she look like Condoleezza?)
Mat 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Mat 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Mat 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.