Airport landing as one per minute?
A Humorous Gesture before a Holiday?
(un geste plein d'humour avant un Jour Férié?)
It is not because he performed a stupid gesture in sessions of the national Diet that Japan's Minister of Justice Mr. Yanagaida has been forced to leave his position.
At 8:00 a.m. this morning, Minister Mr. Yanagida was called to Prime Minister's Office where P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan and Chief Cabinet Secretary Mr. Yoshito Sengoku were waiting for him.
Opposition conservative LDP has been requesting P.M. Mr. Kan and the ruling DPJ to fire Mr. Yanagida, because he showed no respect to the Japanese parliament in his recent speech to his supporters who gathered in a party held in his constituency.
This is the biggest news in Japan today, since tomorrow Tuesday, November 23, is a public holiday in Japan, too.
SECTION I: Chinese Racial Mystery
In 2000, Japanese scientists and a Chinese scholar studied DNAs taken from human remains which had been unearthed in the Linzi District, a prefecture-level city of central Shandong province, China.
The excavation site consists of two layers, one belongs to the age of 2500 years ago and another to that of 2000 years ago.
The DNAs from human bones of 2500 years ago showed that their features are close to those of modern Europeans.
The DNAs from human bones of 2000 years ago showed that their features are close to those of modern Central Asians.
It is very interesting since Linzi where ancient human bones were unearthed is close to the Yellow Sea and the Korean Peninsula.
(http://www.geog.or.jp/journal/back/pdf111-6/p832-839L.pdf)
It is also very noteworthy, for it was 2500 years ago that Confucius (551 B.C. to 479 B.C.) and other ancient Chinese philosophers contributed to cultural blooming of the so-called Spring and Autumn Period (770 B.C. to 403 B.C.) in China.
Residents in Linzi 2500 years ago are close to Portuguese and Icelanders of today. Then, Confucius and other ancient Chinese philosophers living in the Spring and Autumn Period might have been close to Portuguese, Icelanders, Germans, Finlanders, or Welshmen of today as the above figure indicates.
Even so, by 2000 years ago, there must have been a great racial movement in Central China. It was when the Western Han (206 B.C. to 8 B.C.) was going to fall, though after the fall of the first Chinese Empire of Qin (206 B.C.).
If it had not been of a scale comparable to volkerwanderung of Europe in the late first millennium, it must have been something critically demanding a change in our view of ancient China which is very familiar to educated Japanese.
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One remark about the above quoted DNA study paper is that a key factor is Neanderthal traits.
In summary, Neanderthal traits are found in today's Europeans and those who speak a language of the Indo-Iranian language group.
But, some ancestors of today's Chinese might also share the Neanderthal traits with some ancestors of Europeans.
That might be why I feel in some Chinese something alien from other East Asian people.
The point at issue is how much, even if several percentages, you share these Neanderthal traits like most of Europeans of today.
I think most of Jomon-lineage Japanese of today have almost no such traits, if such a category is possible and allowed even for a political reason.
Anyway, I will examine this matter later, since it looks important somehow personally.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1V_KQfF8cY&feature=related
It is now raining at midnight.
You had better go back home, since it is not for a night walk in a city such as Tokyo.
Indeed, city lights might not be true light in any Age, since 1930's.)
Mar 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Mar 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.