Yokohama Streets, a Baseball Stadium, and the Bay of Tokyo
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I think the U.S. should cooperate with Japan to settle financial problems of both the countries.
I think China should honestly admit that the Senkaku Islands belong to Japan like Chou En-lai in 1972 and stop hostile actions against Japan at every level.
I think Japanese lawmaker Mr. Ichiro Ozawa and the likes should resign as a parliament member if any suspicion of illegal money handling has surfaced.
And, a solution for them can be found just on a sheet of paper or in a Web page concerning Japan, the U.S., China, and Japanese politicians.
SECTION I: Ozawa's Scheme??
Japanese Lower-House member Mr. Ichiro Ozawa manages and runs some political bodies. These political bodies own 12 entities of real estate worth more than 1 billion yen as their own assets. No other national lawmakers have such huge real estate assets in Japan. Only in this context, Mr. Ozawa is too unique, since recently a law was enacted to forbid such use of political funds, learning a lesson from this behavior of Mr. Ozawa.
(http://www.iza.ne.jp/news/newsarticle/politics/politicsit/345687/)
(http://ameblo.jp/uranews/entry-10454604227.html)
(Note: Loan from a bank is made to the representative of the political body, Mr. Ozawa, who then transfers money to a safe or an account of the political body. Accordingly, the political body reports that there is money contributed by, or borrowed from, Mr. Ozawa. When the said loan is paid back by the political body to the bank, the same route is traced in the reversed direction. This makes the matter complicated when private person or citizen Mr. Ozawa, not as the representative of the body, is involved with the same amount of money as that of loan being made on the same day, in an exceptional case such as the Setagaya Case to be discussed below.)
The public prosecutors investigated a case involving a land lot in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. But, they did not indict Mr. Ozawa, the owner of the political body that obtained this lot, for unknown or mysterious reasons. So, the case was reviewed by a Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution consisting of 11 citizens, twice. Each time, the citizens' panel decided to indict Mr. Ozawa. The second and final decision was made on September 14 and announced on October 4.
(http://www.olive-x.com/news_30/newsdisp.php?n=97569)
(http://www.47news.jp/CN/201004/CN2010042701000886.html)
In October 2004, a land owner sold his land lot to one of political bodies Mr. Ozawa managed and ran, or precisely sold it to its Representative Mr. Ozawa, according to the media.
The legal point at issue is simply whether Mr. Ozawa did know or did not know that the 400 million yen transfer from Citizen Ozawa to the political body in the morning of October 29 in 2004 was not reported to a competent government agency by his secretaries subject to provisions of a governing law (incidentally it was in the afternoon of the day that loan was granted to Mr. Ozawa's political body by a bank for the same amount).
However, Mr. Ozawa, the most influential politician in the ruling DPJ, has denied the allegation, since he ran for the party leadership election held on September 14 trying to become prime minister of Japan eventually, though, in vain. After this fierce contest, Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan and Chief Cabinet Secretary Mr. Sengoku took a clear strategy to alienate members of Mr. Ozawa's faction from his Cabinet.
Back to the land, if in October 2004 a land owner had sold his land lot to Citizen Mr. Ichiro Ozawa but not to his political body, namely, not to its Representative Mr. Ozawa, Citizen Mr. Ozawa could have made a personal profit by reselling it to his political body, namely, to its Representative Mr. Ozawa himself. What the Mr. Ozawa side claims is, however, ironically falls into this gray case.
Here, the point in Mr. Ozawa's claim could be that there was no need for Mr. Ozawa's political body to report on the 400 million yen transfer done in the morning of October 29, 2004 to the original land owner, since it was Citizen Mr. Ozawa's personal transaction (incidentally it was in the afternoon of the day that loan was granted to Mr. Ozawa's political body by a bank for the same amount).
According to the panel of the 11 citizens, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa wanted to hide a fact that he had about 400 million yen in cash at hand in his home. So, with this private money, he purchased the land lot as the sole representative for his own political body (called Rikuzankai) or otherwise tentatively personally for himself as the subject of the land deal. In either case, it can be assumed that as the very source of this private money was illegal, Mr. Ozawa and his secretaries did not report this payment to the original or previous land owner made on October 29, 2004.
Note that a political body in Japan has an obligation to officially report every handling of money but does not have a right to possess real estate, so that its representative must act as the subject of such a transaction. So, in January 2005, Citizen Mr. Ozawa and the sole representative of the political body, namely its Representative Mr. Ozawa, concluded a contract that specifies as follows: "Though Citizen Mr. Ozawa becomes the buyer of the land and the officially registered owner of the land, it substantially belongs to the political body (represented by Mr. Ozawa himself)." However, this contract also states that "the political body uses its own money to buy the land," meaning the body must first directly pay the previous owner of the land using its money at hand, or hand necessary money to Citizen Mr. Ozawa to have him pay the previous owner of the land, both of which are denied by the related official report to a government agency and the claim on Mr. Ozawa's side (and the estimation by the citizens' panel).
( http://livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/gochagocha/imgs/4/9/493643fa.gif)
Nonetheless, this contract between Citizen Mr. Ozawa and Representative Mr. Ozawa of the political body Rikuzankai strongly suggests that Mr. Ozawa knew that the money transfer from Citizen Ozawa to Rikuzankai made in the morning of October 29, 2004, was not reported to a competent government agency. So, Representative Mr. Ozawa is as guilty as his secretaries in the same charge of false reporting of political money handling.
Finally, even this contract is suspected to have been made up or concocted years after the actual purchase of the land, since a suspicion surfaced then that Mr. Ichiro Ozawa has actually made the land plot his personal assets which can be inherited by his sons, while Mr. Ozawa used his political funds of the quasi-public nature to buy the land.
To make sure, in the above explanation, "Mr. Ozawa" means the one and same person, the Japabese Lower-House membe Mr. Ichiro Ozawa.
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Today, two old Japanese chemists were announced their honor of receiving the Nobel Prize to.
However, some Japanese believed that Mr. Shinya Yamanaka of the Kyoto University would receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine this year for his remarkable achievement on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells generated from human adult fibroblasts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka
Yet, I think that his work is highly linked with safety, security, and ethics of human beings. It can save many lives, but it can be also applied to a kind of bio-weapons or means of terror. It needs time for the world to get prepared for diffusion of fruits of Mr. Yamanaka's scientific work.
Remember that Einstein was also one of the fathers of atomic bombs and nuclear weapons.
Take time for longer survival of mankind, if you love your children.
(http://www.ajoyfulnoise.net/hbdbach2.mid
Source:http://www.ajoyfulnoise.net/Happy_birthday.htm)
Joh 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Joh 10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
Joh 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
Joh 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Joh 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.