Just because...
I don't feel like sitting together with them...
This Busy Friday of 2010's November
(le dernier vendredi avant Décembre)
Mrs. Nobuko Kan, the politically proactive-minded wife of the Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan, did not know that the wife of Chinese Communist President Mr. Hu Jintao visited Japan in the late APEC Conference held in Yokohama, Japan, in early November.
It is a big surprise. It is a big blunder we have never heard in the long history of the Japanese politics.
Mrs. Kan said in an interview conducted by The Shukan Bunshun magazine that no elite bureaucrats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not inform her that the wife of Mr. Hu Jintao came to Japan with her husband.
It is a big surprise. It is a big blunder we have never heard in the long history of the Japanese politics.
Mrs. Nobuko Kan, wife of P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan, did not know that the wife of Chinese Communist President Mr. Hu Jintao visited Japan with her husband in the late APEC Conference held in Yokohama, Japan, in early November.
Please inform Mr. Hu in Beijing of this truth if you can contact his secretary.
SECTION I: For Whom Money Circulates
You need two types of economics under a strong guiding principle.
As for corporate tax, there are various theories and possibilities as to its political, financial, economic, and social implications and implementation methods, since foreign companies are almost freely allowed to operate in a country.
Another key issue is money is not coins or paper slips any more; it is electronic data.
Most importantly, linkage of numbers or figures given to any piece of money with actual goods and services to be purchased must be also adjusted by the "Central Money Committee."
This division of the two domains, the public financial sector and the global free market system, can take effective part from socialism-oriented economics and desire-driven economics.
The target is providing an assured framework where no poverty is allowed but no limit is also allowed for the scope of possibility of individual business/economic freedom and activities.
You can be rich as much as possible, but nobody shall be poor. This is the EEE-Concept for new economics.
G: an amount of money the government is expected to issue
I: a target inflation rate
D: an amount of the governmental financial deficits in the case of no issuance of G
C: a hypothetical amount of additional issuance of central bank notes expected to cause "I"
X: a hypothetical amount by which tax revenue is expected to increase with G as a stimulus
G = C + X, if D > C
G = D, if D <= C
Other conditions to take into consideration:
i) Scale of GDP
ii) Per-capita GDP
iii) Potential of supply to provide additional goods and services without causing inflation
iv) A trend of the currency exchange rate
v) An amount of freedom of central bank's effective operation of interest rates
vi) Others
SECTION II: War at Seuol in 1593
In January of 1593, a decisive battle was fought around Seoul, Korea, between Japanese samurai troops and Ming's army.
This battle looked like resulting in an easy victory for 40,000 troops the Ming Dynasty sent to its tributary Korea, since they had already driven Japanese troops out of Pyongyang, though Japanese samurai troops were equipped with the then most advanced matchlocks.
From the beginning, as this military advancement to Ming through the Korean Peninsula had been launched on the sole initiative of the then samurai king Hideyoshi who just dreamed of his heroic conquer of China, many of samurai lords or generals who were engaged in the war crossing the Korean Strait had somehow lacked determination to carry out their mission of reaching Beijing, especially in cold winter.
Accordingly, samurai generals and their 40,000 troops defending their occupied Korean capital Seoul were arguing whether they should fight or take a flight, since the 40,000 Ming troops including 20,000 cavalries and newly introduced matchlock guns had already driven Japanese troops out of Pyongyang. In addition, Koreans warriors were also intensifying their counter offensive to the samurai forces.
At the Japanese front, only 20,000 samurai troops were stationed, so that most of samurai generals in Seoul thought that the front line would be soon broken and they would have to face the great Ming army with momentum in the needlessly large Korean capital Seoul, which was not advantageous for Japanese samurais.
In their evaluation meeting continued for days, most of samurai generals wanted to retreat to the south in the Korean Peninsula, but they pretended to be seriously talking about strategies to defend Seoul. No samurai generals wanted to be the first to propose retreat. So, they asked one respectable senior samurai lord Kobayakawa Takakage to join the meeting for final decision, since Takakage was absent from the meeting due to (pretended) illness.
Yet, at the final stage, Takakage appeared and proposed an idea of withdrawal while other generals were waiting for the word, though outwardly discussing how to fight. So, with Takakage's proposal, every samurai general got relieved and stood up as the long meeting was over; they were almost instructing their vassal samurais to leave the castle of Seoul.
But, the next moment Takakage said so heartily and heavily to other generals that if they had not been coward, they had to make a final fight against advancing Ming troops before leaving Seoul to the south.
"I am not blaming you. But, for the honor of Japanese samurai, I am now going to join the front-line troops," said the senior respectable samurai, riding on his horse with a lance in hand. Other generals hid their faces ashamedly, but started to follow Takakage's regiments with rekindled samurai spirits.
So, Kobayakawa Takakage (1533–1597) and Japanese samurais defeated the proudly marching 40,000 Ming troops, including 20,000 cavalries, in the battle north of Seoul on January 26, 1593. Nonetheless, Japanese generals and Ming generals realized that either side could not win this war, thus entering truce negotiations.
(http://www.k2.dion.ne.jp/~bakumatu/sak73.htm)
As Hideyoshi in Japan was told that Ming admitted their defeat, he ordered withdrawal of all the samurai generals and soldiers from the Korean Peninsula. In this way, the first Japan-Ming War was over as Japanese samurais could return to Japan proper in safety and with honors.
(However, when Hideyoshi, in his residential castle in Osaka, Japan, later found that the Ming Court also believed that they had won, he without hesitation embarked in the second war with Ming through the Korean Peninsula, again in 1597.
On the other hand, these two wars against samurai Japan exhausted the Ming Dynasty economically and socially, like the Russian Empire that fairly consumed national resources in the Japan-Russo War in 1904, resulting in the fall of the empire eventually to be replaced by Ching.)
Anyway, Kobayakawa Takakage was the subject samurai Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), one of the greatest samurai heroes in the Japanese history, most trusted.
Note that Japan never fought Koreans as the main target or enemy on the Korean Peninsula; Japan always made war against a Chinese dynasty when it launched war in the Korean Peninsula.
You have to also realize that Korea had been a tributary to Chinese empires for centuries till the end of the Japan-Ching War in 1895 where the Empire of Japan forced the Ching Dynasty to have the Kingdom of Korea get independent. But, Japan was not a tributary country to China since the late 9th century before the era of samurai regimes. This difference has had a deep psychological influence on China, Korea, and Japan even of today, though it is not clearly understood outside the Far East.
(On the contrary, if Hideyoshi had succeeded in his ambitious campaign in 1590's, even Ming could have become a tributary to Japan, since Ming was conquered by Manchurian Ching in 1616. If so, the history of Asia and the world must have been very different all through the 17th to 21st centuries.)
Finally, it will be surely when Japan is involved, if the hostile state of the Korean Peninsula is solved in future, in addition to American and Chinese concession.
(It also implies that today's Chinese claim on the Senkaku Islands is as absurd as its potential territorial claim on the Korean Peninsula, if any, based on the historical tributary relationship or any old documents drawn up when the Okinawa Kingdom was another [though partial] tributary to Ming and later Ching.)
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified whole Japan after a century-long Era of Samurai Civil Wars.
He most trusted and respected the two samurai lords under his power: Tokugawa Ieyasu and Kobayakawa Takakage. However the one who took over the governing power from the Toyotomi clan was Ieyasu the rule of whose house continued till 1867. Yet, Ieyasu himself, unlike Takakage, did not travel to the Korean Peninsula in the Japan-Ming Wars probably due to his special relationship with Hideyoshi through the then deceased samurai hero Oda Nobunaga.
So, the lesson is that you need at least two strong aids to achieve something historic.
Otherwise, you have to be one of the two so needed by a historic hero.
As for Christ Jesus, our Holy Lord, He had St. Peter and St. Paul, very reasonably.
(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-folk1/sanyablues.html
The lack of your knowledge about the very poor people would surely rank you below those who know them so well since it is part of their religious or humanitarian business being pursued for their own happiness.)
Mar 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.