This is...
Tokyo Bay so well defended...
(Above photos taken by the EEE Reporter; Click to enlarge.)Blood-Tingling Friday
(sang-picotements vendredi)
The year 1826 was the hottest year in the 300 years between 1676 and 1976.
But, in 1829, it was cold in the summer, and Lake Bodensee of Switzerland was frozen over in the winter. The next time when this lake iced over was in 1963.
This cold weather continued in Europe till 1850.
And, the summer of 2010 was the hottest in the past decades as felt so in Tokyo and Moscow.
We had better respect the past record about weather trends.
SECTION I: Senkaku Attack Video
I strongly recommend staff members of The New York Times to check the following video footage that clearly shows aggressive attacks by a Chinese fishing boat against Japan Coast Guard ships off the Senkaku Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
(A Japan Coast Gurad officer checks the time of the attack with his wrist watch...)The Second & Major Attack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3H-A7rB3wo
The First Attack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Di8406Z474&feature=related
NHK Reporting: http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_08.html
Note that these video records were made public against the will and a policy of the Kan Cabinet of Japan, one after another from 9 p.m. of Thursday, Japan Time.
Note also that it is without doubt that video pictures were taken by Japan Coast Guard staff.
It is important to realize that Japan Coast Guard ships, equipped with some heavy machine guns, never used fire arms to suppress and halt the illegal and violent Chinese fishing boat that physically damaged the two of Japan Coast Guard ships.
Now, the New York Times should recall that China's Xinhua News Agency called the incident "mock" collision on its Web site after its diplomat stationed in Tokyo met the skipper of the fishing boat under detention:
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Japan tows Chinese boat for mock collision, China opposes
English.news.cn 2010-09-12 17:10:21
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-09/12/c_13491523_2.htm
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The New York Times should at least hire staff members who have experienced lies and fallacy the former Soviet Union, East Germany, and other socialist autocratic states made against the U.S. and West Germany before the fall of the USSR till 1991.
SECTION II: Japan's/Okinawa's Senkaku Islands (recap)
Some people in the world, including Americans, Chinese, Taiwanese, South/North Koreans, Russians, South East Asians, and Japanese nowadays seem to come to realize that the Senkaku Islands belong to Japan.
So, let's enjoy the confirmation!
(Click to enlarge.)As a special point to notice, the Beijing City Authority published a map indicating the Senkaku Islands as part of Japan in 1960. But, today, some Chinese are searching for this map to destroy it.
Some Chinese frequently visit book towns in Tokyo, looking for this map. Whenever they find it in an antiquarian bookshop, they buy it no matter how high the price tag is. They look like working under instruction of the Chinese Communist Government.
The portion of the map indicating the Senkaku Islands as part of Japan is as follows:
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Japanese government — assert the foundation for Japan's territorial dominion over the Senkaku Islands!
TAKAHANA Yutaka
Chairman, TEIKEI Inc.
...To begin with, both China and Taiwan have acknowledged the fact that the Senkaku Islands are Japanese territory. Under international law regarding "uninhabited remote territories" (the granting of dominion to countries with exclusive possession of lands that have no occupants), a cabinet decision on Jan. 14, 1895, assigned the five islands — including Uotsuri Jima — and three reefs that make up the Senkaku Islands to the prefecture of Okinawa as a result of a ten-year investigation there. Maps of every nation, and text books in China, acknowledged publicly that they were Japanese territory...
Instead of using the Chinese name of the island, Diaoyu Dao (釣魚島), the name is printed in the original Japanese as Uotsuri Jima (魚釣島). A line is drawn between Yonaguni Island and Taiwan in accordance with UN Convention on the Law of the Sea....
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/53_S4.pdf
Note: Diaoyu Dao (釣魚島) is pronounced as "Cho-gyo Tou (jima)" in Japanese.
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Check past postings of EEE-Reporter for more discussions based on historic facts.
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2010/10/of-more-value-than-many-sparrows.html
SECTION III: Wall Street Jounal Voting on Senkaku
The number of WSJ viewers who support Japan on the Senkaku issue is 15933, or 89.3%.
The number of WSJ viewers who support China on the Senkaku issue is 1910, or 10.7%.
(Click to enlarge.)But, this site for the poll looks like having a trouble now.
http://online.wsj.com/community/groups/asias-question-day-783/topics/side-right
SECTION IV: Counterfeiting China
I cannot believe that The New York Times did not first doubt China when hearing their claim on the Senkaku Island, while so many American consumers and businesses are suffering counterfeits made in China.
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The Chinese make these goods, copying a major brand. But instead of putting their own label or logo on any given product, they put the brand's logo on the product to try to fool consumers into thinking that the company behind the brand, and not the Chinese copyist, made it. They often succeed. China is the worst country in the world in terms of counterfeiting, according to the International Intellectual Property Alliance, with Russia, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Canada, India, Taiwan, and Portugal following in order. China not only is the worst country in the world, it appears to make far more counterfeits than all the other countries in the world combined. China is the source of about 80 percent of all counterfeit goods seized at U.S. ports by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency. Entire factories, even entire towns in China, have been built specifically to produce counterfeit goods.
According to Dan Chow, a law professor at Ohio State University who specializes in Chinese counterfeiting and who was quoted in a CBS News story, "We have never seen a problem of this size and magnitude in world history. There's more counterfeiting going on in China now than we've ever seen anywhere. We know that 15 to 20 percent of all goods in China are counterfeit." According to attorney Harley Lewin, who has been going after counterfeiters from China for more than 20 years and who was quoted in the same CBS News story, "[Chinese counterfeiting] is the most profitable criminal venture, as far as I know, on Earth."
China has a big problem with counterfeiting of its own currency, paper money as well as coins, according to counterfeit expert Robert Matthews. The Chinese police periodically seize fake large quantities of Chinese notes and coins.
China also has a big problem with the faking of its own past. Chinese antiquities shops and markets consist almost entirely of fakes, as reported in an article at the China Daily Web site. Professor Yang Jingrong stated that 95 percent of all antiquities sold in China are modern forgeries. Chinese antiquities shopkeepers for the most part appear to knowingly sell fakes as authentic under the subterfuge that it's the buyer's responsibility to determine authenticity.
http://home.comcast.net/~reidgold/draped_busts/chinese.html
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The New York Times should doubt China when the despotic state claims that Nobe Peace Prize winner Mr. Liu Xiaobo is a criminal in Beijing.
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2010 Special 301 Report
April 30, 2010
Prepared by the Office of the United States Trade Representative
...The share of IPR-infringing product seizures at the U.S. border that were of Chinese origin was 79 percent in 2009, a small decrease from 81 percent in 2008.
The U.S. copyright industries report severe losses due to piracy in China. Trade in pirated optical discs continues to thrive, supplied by both licensed and unlicensed factories as well as by smugglers. These pirated optical discs are exported to markets across the region, impacting legitimate sales outside of China as well. Small retail shops continue to be the major commercial outlets for pirated movies and music. The theft of software, books and journals also remain key concerns. Business software theft by enterprises is particularly troubling as it not only results in lost revenues to software companies but also lowers the business costs of offending enterprises, and may give these firms an unfair advantage against their law-abiding competitors.
http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/1906
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The New York Times should doubt China as much as U.S. Government officials.
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"Cracking Down on Counterfeit Goods": Toyota Corporation’s Policy for the Chinese Market
By Han Jingyi, China IP,[Unfair Competition
...Toyota Corporation is not very clear about the general situation of the counterfeiting market in China. Therefore it can't make an accurate calculation of the amount of losses each year. But Mr. Hiroshi Kamo has an estimated value: 20-30 billion Japanese yen, calculated by the amount of counterfeit goods impounded in China by Toyota Corporation times the sum of Toyota Corporation's authentic goods. The result is at least 2 billion Japanese yen.
The conservative estimate shows that the amount of counterfeit goods presently detected by Toyota Corporation is possibly one-tenth of the total amount of counterfeit goods. Thus, a calculation of 10 times 2 billion Japanese yen, equals losses of 20-30 billion yen. Particularly, this amount does not include losses resulted from counterfeit goods exported from China to overseas countries. "Once the calculating factors are changed, the result will be quite different. If the Chinese government institutes a hard-core crackdown, more counterfeit goods will be confiscated. And accordingly, our losses will increase", said Mr. Hiroshi Kamo.
http://www.chinaipmagazine.com/en/journal-show.asp?id=407
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Even in 2005, Japan's Patent Office estimated that the damages Japanese business suffered by counterfeit goods made in China was about 9.3 trillion yen or $110 billion. The Chinese Communist Government itself admitted that the size of the Chinese counterfeit business was 3 trillion yen or $27 billion.
(http://www.meti.go.jp/press/20100630005/20100630005-3.pdf
http://www.iza.ne.jp/news/newsarticle/world/asia/396985/)
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It is still often said that if mankind should go to ruin, say, due to thermal nuclear warfare, insects would occupy the world.
But, if insects and other arthropods should collapse totally, mankind would perish within a few months, as with other mammals, birds, and reptiles, followed by angiosperms, since plants live by insects and other arthropod, according to a biological theory.
What I want to say is even a climate change or global warming might be caused by a state of insects and other arthropods as well as plants.
Indeed, man cannot live by bread alone, as most of Japanese know this holy teaching.
Now, is this enough for you today, ami, amico, amica, or φιλη?
Luk 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
Luk 11:6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
Luk 11:7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Luk 11:8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.