Year, Who?...
(Yokohama is originally a port city south west of the Tokyo Port, both on Tokyo Bay...Outwardly modern but with many poor men, too.)Oxidized Silver 2010
(argent oxyde 2010)
The Japanese police and public prosecutors have decided not to arrest a Japan Coast Guard official who leaked over the Internet the Senkaku video proving unlawful violence of a Chinese fishing boat.
According to various media surveys conducted yesterday, Japanese citizens who admitted usefulness and positive effect of viewing the video account 80 to 90% of all the respondents.
It was the Chinese fishing boat that first launched an attack by ramming two JCG ships, while violating the Japanese sea territory around the Senkaku Islands.
If you still believe a claim on the Senkaku Islands by a Chinese spy around you, you had better ask him where the Chinese heroes who toppled the Ching Dynasty learnt around 1900. Most of those Chinese heroes learnt in the Empire of Japan, since Ching sent them to the Empire of Japan so that they would learn modern culture and science useful for Ching, though they betrayed the Manchuria-origin Dynasty so quickly.
SECTION I: 1911 Hsinhai Revolution (Shingai Kakumei [JPN])
The Qing (Ching) Dynasty (1644–1912) of China finally fell due to a revolution which could not have been possible without existence of the modernized and industrialized Empire of Japan.
Anyway, Wikipedia's explanation of this great Chinese revolution seems to be well neutrally edited.
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The revolution was motivated by anger at corruption in the Qing government, frustration with the government's inability to restrain the interventions of foreign powers, and the majority Han Chinese's resentment toward a government dominated by an ethnic minority; the Manchus.
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In 1900 the Boxer Rebellion broke out in northern China. The inability of the Qing Government to initially suppress the rebellion, followed by the Empress Dowager Cixi's subsequent support for the movement, drastically reduced respect for the government. After it signed the Boxer Protocol, Chinese intellectuals felt even more anxious about the crisis that the Qing court was facing. At the end of the First Sino-Japanese War the government began to send more students abroad, particularly to Japan which at its height had 20,000 Chinese students. Most of them were sponsored by the Imperial Court. Revolutionary thoughts spread among these students, and those who advocated revolution established all kinds of organizations and publications to advocate a democratic revolution. Among these students, Zhang Binglin, Zou Rong and Chen Tianhua were very active in Japan. Many of the students later returned to China and became the backbone of revolutionary organizations inside the country.
When the Russo-Japanese War began in Manchuria in 1904, the Qing decided to abandon certain territories and allowed these two countries to fight over them, while the Imperial Court stayed "neutral". The indifference of the Qing court toward Chinese territory led to more calls for a revolution.
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Newly emerged intellectuals
After the abolition of the imperial examination, the Qing Government established many new schools and encouraged students to study abroad. Many young people attended the new schools or went abroad to study. (Students pursuing military studies went to Japan especially.) A new class of intellectuals emerged from those students who had studied overseas or at the new schools. Those who had received Western culture became leaders in the Xinhai Revolution.
In the 1900s, studying in Japan was common among Chinese students. In the years just before the Xinhai Revolution, there were over ten thousand Chinese students in Japan, and many of them had anti-Manchu sentiments. When the Tongmenhui was established in Tokyo in 1905, 90% of the participants were Chinese students in Japan. Members of the Tongmenhui who were in Japan pursuing military studies also organized the Zhangfutuan.
These Chinese students in Japan contributed immensely to the Xinhai Revolution. Besides Sun Yat-sen, key figures in the Revolution such as Huang Hsing, Song Jiaoren, Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai, Zhu Zhixin, and Wang Jingwei, were all Chinese students in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution
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The greatest hero of China in the 20th century is Sun Yat-sen who was supported by the two notable Japanese: Toten Miyazaki and Mitsuru Toyama. But, many comrades of Sun Yat-sen were also beneficiaries of various merits of the Empire of Japan.
Among 21 officers of Ching's army who revolted at the very first, 19 of them were graduates from a military academy of the Empire of Japan.
Among 19 regional leaders who commanded a unified revolt against the Ching Court, 14 of them had learnt as students in the Empire of Japan.
Among 870 Chinese parliament members elected after the fall of Ching, 234 of them had learnt as students in the Empire of Japan.
However, the Chinese Communist Government today is trying to hide or delete this past linkage with the Empire of Japan from Chinese textbooks of history. No children in Chins seem to have ever been taught of the above simple facts even Wikipedia reveals without any restraints.
(http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/yuzan9224/40254967.html)
Note: Incidentally, Shin-gai (Hsinhai in Chinese) means a year of the gold-related, elder, wild Boar.
The month October in a Christian year with the least-digit number of two or seven falls in a month of Shin-gai.
So, if you were born in October of 1972 or 1977, your birth month is a little historical in China.
However, 1971 is the next Shingai year after 1911.
(The classic Chinese sexagenary cycle has been long used in Japan, too, though I was not born in a year of the Tiger or the Dragon.)
SECTION II: The Senkaku Issue and The 1911 Hsinhai Revolution
From the above descriptions about the situation in China in the early 20th century, it is apparent that not only the Ching Court but also Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionary leaders had no objection to the official dominium declaration on the Senkaku Islands the Empire of Japan made in 1895.
When the Kingdom Okinawa (Ryukyu Kingdom) severed its partial tributary relationship with Ching in 1879 fallowing the policy of the Empire of Japan, the Senkaku Islands as virtually part of the greater OKinawa (Ryukyu) Islands came to directly belong to the Empire.
Though the Ching Court in Beijing protested against this movement (not of Senkaku but of Okinawa), the Chinese empire did neither take any decisive measures nor accepted China-favorable diplomatic intervention by the U.S. Yet, this diplomatic operation on the Ching's side was terminated by the 1904 Japanese-Sino War, since Ching proved no ability to execute its sovereignty.
Through the 1911 Hsinhai Revolution, the new Chinese leaders including Sun Yat-sen never raised a question about territorial jurisdiction of the Empire of Japan on the Senkaku Islands.
It was around 1970 that the Chinese Communist Government suddenly started to claim its impossible occupancy on the Senkaku Islands, since the East China Sea was found to keep a great amount of reserves of crude oil and natural gas.
Indeed, Chairman Mao and Premier Chou even did not bring about the Senkaku issue during their military operation in 1950's against the Republic of China that had already fled the continent to Taiwan.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis )
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Former National Security Advisor to President Mr. Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski once said in an interview by a Japanese journalist:
"I gave a grade B to Former President Bush , C to Former President Clinton, and F to incumbent President Bush."
(http://www.globe-walkers.com/ohno/interview/brzeznski.html)
However, I think it is not a good idea to give a grade to President Mr. Barack Obama.
It is because China is not what it was when his predecessors were in charge of government in Washington D.C.
Indeed, today, there are 69,445 Japanese corporate workers stationed in China while 52,624 in the U.S.
It simply shows that critics should first introduce a paradigm change in their rating system to apply to politicians in Japan and America.
Most of wives of presidents and prime ministers who came to join the APEC meeting held in Yokohama last weekend visited Kamakura before President Mr. Barack Obama; but one first lady was missing in the old sight-seeing city. The wife of the Chinese President did not join others in Kamakura, 20 km south west of Yokohama, but went out for window shopping.
So, the only major event left in 2010, a year of the Ox, seems to be Christmas for Japanese as well as Americans.
Policemen mobilized from all over Japan to Yokohama for APEC security are now going back to their home prefectures, since more than 20,000 of them were patrolling in Yokohama.
(http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=OdqyJYLXzW4
Listen and sleep for tomorrow of wonder...
Reasonably, God's anger is not on infants and probably Mozart.)
Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.