(Click to enlarge.)Terne Mardi
The NY stock exchange keeps a level of 10,000 dollars.
The U.S. unemployment is still near 10%.
It simply tells that the American Government is trying to protect financial assets of the upper-middle class and the upper-class Americans at the sacrifice of ordinary and poor Americans.
A simple solution is to have Chinese companies in America hire more Americans, or to have Japanese companies in America hire more Americans.
Before you go for voting in the midterm election, you had better think it over.
But, why do the Democrats like to hate Japan? Do they love the Chinese version of communism so much than the Japanese version of American Christianity Democracy?
SECTION I: 1894 Battles around Pyongyang
During the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), fierce battles were fought around Pyongyang, the Korean Peninsula, between September 15 and 16, 1894.
This is a war between the Empire of Japan that modernized its military system through enormous efforts and the Ching Empire of China that purchased a great volume of modern weapons from Europe with huge gold and silver. The Kingdom of Korea had neither modernized its military nor had funds to buy modern weapons from Europe, which is reality of Korea in the 19th century.
Ching forces deployed around Pyongyang consisted of 15,000 troops and 32 cannons, facing the marching 12,000 troops of the Empire of Japan with 44 cannons.
Ching troops kept foods that could sustain the troops for a month in the surrounded city, while the Imperial troops carried foods only for two days as they came to the front in a hurry.
The attack by the Imperial troops started at 4 a.m. on September 14; and at 4:40 p.m. after heavy exchanges of fires Chinese troops defending Pyongyang waved the white flag. Ching officers promised that they would surrender next morning. So, the Imperial troops led by samurai descendants did not storm into the city but stayed outside Pyongyang. Yet, past 9 p.m., generals, officers, and soldiers of the Ching Army started to run away from the city to the border for China. The betrayed Imperial troops started to chase them in a mad rush.
In this way, the Battle at Pyongyang ended with victory of the Empire of Japan, though Ching generals are said to have intended to meet the Imperial Army again after retreating to the Yalu River flowing between China and Korea. Chinese troops had no resolution to defend Pyongyang at any costs from the marching Imperial Army.
Actually, the major ground battles in the Japanese-Sino War ended with this siege warfare at Pyongyang, North Korea.
The Chinese influence on, occupancy of, and control of the Korean Kingdom came to an end with this war, which was the major purpose of the Empire of Japan.
However, no Koreans and the Korean military took any important part in this war that decided the fate of Korea. Korean rulers and elites opted to follow the classic Ching Dynasty they regarded as still being great. They did not listen to the modern Empire of Japan that advised Koreans to get independence from China. Koreans in the late 19th century did not want to be independent from China. So, the Empire of Japan thought it must fight an independence war against China in lieu of Koreans, in a certain interpretation of history.
Nonetheless, after the Japan-Sino War, as Korean elites lost the back-up and aid from the Ching court in Beijing, they turned to the Russian Empire rather than promoting friendship with the Empire of Japan, which irreversibly decided the fate of Korea.
In the Korean Kingdom at the time, no Korean elites and upper-class members took care of ordinary Koreans. They still lived in the classic paradigm of the Confucian sense of seniority. Korean elites and upper-class members admitted superiority of China in the order of nations based on the Confucian sense of seniority. They could not understand the rise of the Empire of Japan.
Without carrying out modernization and industrialization, Korean elites and upper-class members in the late 19th century continued to pretend that the Korean Kingdom was the second greatest nation in the world next to the Ching Empire as the original house of Confucianism. They regarded Japan as the third at best in this order. So, they rather tried to tie up with Russians now that Chinese troops were found to be useless to defend the Kingdom from the Empire of Japan. Korean elites could not modernize and strengthen their troops partly due to a distorted doctrine of their version of Confucianism.
Accordingly, for Korean people to be modernized with reasonable education and industrialization, it became inevitable for them to be directly governed, administered, or guided by the Empire of Japan but not by Korean noble clans, which actually happened in the 20th century till the end of WWII.
Yet, the Empire of Japan should not have annexed Korea in the early 20th century as history has proven. The Empire should have helped the Korean Kingdom modernize itself as a closed ally, though it was said that the indirect support and management of Korea was so inefficient that direct governance was needed to modernize Korea. The Empire of Japan wanted to have the Kingdom of Korea help the Empire of Japan defend itself from the invading Russian Empire.
Finally, young Koreans today did not know the correct state of Korea in the 19th century or under the rule of the Yi Dynasty. They think that Koreans were as civilized as Americans in the late 19th century, but it was the state after the Empire of Japan had educated them (to be able to read and write) and invested so much money into the Korean Peninsula for industrialization in the half of the 20th century. In this context, Japanese today are surprisingly not arrogant to Koreans of today.
(In addition, it is interesting where the Ching Dynasty thought, if vaguely, its imperial border lied in the Korean Peninsula. It might have been at the Korean Strait, since over the sea channel there existed Japan that had been politically independent of Chinese emperors since the late sixth century, though Confucianism was studied, adopted, and practiced in Japan more than in China...)
SECTION II: P.M. Kan Should Release the Evidence Video on Senkaku
Check the Japan Coast Guard site:
http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/e/pamphlet.pdf
Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Naoto Kan is not afraid of the Chinese people but of the Japanese people.
If the evidence video is released and clearly presents violent actions of the illegal Chinese fishing boat and its skipper, the Japanese people will surely get angry at the lawless Chinese skipper and the Japanese Government that released him while he was waiting for a trial in the Ishigaki-jima Island, Okinawa Prefecture.
It is estimated that 80% of the Japanese people will get angry at the lawless Chinese skipper and the Kan Cabinet. That is why P.M. Mr. Kan would not make it publicly open, while the Chinese Government has authorized Chinese sites presenting an illustration where the Chinese fishing boat is hit by a Japanese Coast Guard ship.
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Ranking of Copper Production in 2007:
1. Chile...5.56 million tons
2. USA....1.20
3. Peru....1.00
4. China....0.89
5. Australia..0.86
6. Indonesia...0.80
7. Russia...0.73
8. Canada...0.60
9. Poland...0.51
10. Zambia...0.48
In Chile, mines at Escondida and Chuquicamata are well known for their huge amounts of deposit.
Japan was once the largest producer of copper, specifically in the late 17th century.
Even Adam Smith mentioned some about copper produced in Japan in his book "Wealth of Nations" published in 1776.
(http://www.sumitomo.gr.jp/magazine/feature02/index.html)
So, if American economists have ever read "Wealth of Nations," their view on Japan must have been more reasonable in these decades!
Anyway, May God save the 33 miners in Chile!!...too late, too little?
Mar 10:10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
Mar 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Mar 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.