And Tokyo Bay...
With my humble camera...true to form...
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+ Please refer to the following page on
+ "Historical Analysis on the Senkaku Islands (Ver. 10.3)"
+ http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2010/10/yesterday-two-miracles-however-you.html
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Warm and Cold Friday
(chaud et froid vendredi)
One of Rockefellers moved to Arkansas in 1953. The first Wal-Mart opened in 1962 in a poor rural area of Arkansas. Then 30 years later, a governor of Arkansas, a friend of Rockefellers, was elected as U.S. President. Along with the rise of the Clintons, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart started to import more and more commodities and goods from China. Today, many members of the owner family of Wal-Mart are ranked as the richest in America; the Clintons have enjoyed the highest status of American Dream.
http://hubpages.com/hub/TheRICHESTfamilyinAmerica
The point at issue is how The New York Times is associated with this China-Rockefeller-Walton-Clinton connection, since Chinese communist leaders must be leveraging this linkage to consolidate their power in China based on the anti-Japanese policy.
Yet, it is the alliance with Japan that the U.S. has been able to sustain its position as the world No.1 superpower through the Cold War.
What I want to turn your attention to is who will be the winner of the 2012 Presidential Election without support from the China-Rockefeller-Walton camp.
Nonetheless, this story has taken 57 years to reach a chapter where China boasts of its rising economic power in parallel with Japan's; the first African American president Mr. Obama tying up with Secretary Mrs. Clinton is struggling with 10%-level unemployment amid China-bashing in Congress; and the oil-producer-involved War on Terror is still going on since it was launched by the Bush Administration historically close to Rockefellers.
SECTION I: Underlying Chinese Minds
In December 2007, namely three years ago, a Chinese Internet survey resulted in the following findings from answers of about 20,000 respondents:
Q1: Among 20 neighboring countries for China, which do you like best?
No.1 Pakistan...28%
No.2 Russia...15%
No.3 JAPAN...13.5%
Q2: Among 20 neighboring countries for China, which do you dislike most?
No.1 Korea...40.3%
No.2 JAPAN...30.1%
No.3 Indonesia...18.7%
Also, in the same period, the educational board of Shanghai City conducted a survey with high school and junior high school students and their parents to get the following result:
Q: What nationality do you like best?
Answers from high school students,
No.1 China...(undisclosed)
No.2 USA...36.9%
No.3 JAPAN...14.09%
Answers from junior high school students,
No.1 China...59%
No.2 USA...13.1%
No.3 JAPAN...6.8%
Answers from parents,
USA...33.3% (for themselves to take nationality of)
USA...37.9% (for children to take nationality of)
http://diamond.jp/articles/-/1373
Chinese citizens are not foolish.
They know that they have to respect the U.S. and Japan after all.
Then, the Chinese Communist Government cannot launch war against the U.S. and Japan.
By acquiring respect from Chinese citizens, Japan and the U.S. can govern East Asia, Asia, and the world in a peaceful manner.
The New York Times and other Western media should talk with Chinese in China but not English-speaking Chinese in New York or London, since most of them look like friends of Chinese spies, even if they themselves are not.
SECTION II: True Chinese GDP, 20% Smaller
Based on officially announced figures, a Japanese blogger made the following table for comparison between China, Japan, the U.S., and Germany in terms of a breakdown of GDP. (http://debuo02.seesaa.net/article/153863677.html)
Gross capital formation cannot be evaluated so high in China.
It must be half of the announced value.
Then, it is reasonable to see that China's true GDP is just 80% of its officially announced value.
Another reasonable argument below:
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...how can large increases in passenger vehicle sales not be accompanied by corresponding surges in fuel usage? ...
The answer is that Beijing's statisticians have gone back to their old tactic of making up figures to support the Politburo’s predictions. The Chinese economy is probably growing due to state-led investment, but it cannot be doing so at the rates claimed. Wen Jiabao's stimulus plan is, above all, grossly inefficient. For all the money he is pouring into the economy, the country is getting a small return in economic output. That's why Premier Wen, despite the high growth numbers he's been reporting, consistently refuses to end his stimulus program. If his numbers were real, he would be worried about overheating. But he's apparently not."
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/more-on-chinas-faux-gdp-data/
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If China's GDP is truly world No.2, China must be contributing to employment in the U.S. as Japan has been doing in these decades.
Even in this context of effect of the status of GDP, Chins is at best a quasi-world No.2 economy in the world while Japan is true No.2
Remember that if his boss says that it is black, an official in Beijing answers that yes it is black even looking at a white cat.
Assume that if his boss says that it is black, an official in Beijing answers that yes it is black even looking at a red figure.
SECTION III: View of the Empire from Other Side
Stupid Chinese leaders and elites have been claiming that Japanese invaded China simply to kill Chinese citizens as many as possible during 1930's and in the Japan-China War.
Foolish Harvard professors believe that Japanese must forever apologize to South East Asians, since Japanese invaded South East Asia simply to kill South East Asians as many as possible in WWII, as Chinese elites so claim.
I think both in China and the U.S., sooner or later, there will be intellectual revolution to drive those liars out of the honorable positions in society.
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Japanese in Singapore and Japan's Southward Expansionism,
1860-1945: Historical Notes for Under Another Sun
Essay by Tsu Yun Hui, National University of Singapore
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1942-45
One hour before they attacked Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces had landed in Kota Bahru on the northeastern shore of the Malay Peninsula. The Japanese army went on to take Singapore on 15 February 1942, crowning a series of swift and successful military campaigns.
The Occupation caused unprecedented upheavals. In addition to the usual consequences of war--destruction, death, refugees, material shortage, and general confusion--the Japanese demolished the century-old colonial regime (Kratoska 1998). The conquerors took delight in the sudden and total reversal of the colonial order of things, which many Europeans and Asians had taken for granted. After the Japanese installed themselves as Singapore's new rulers, they declared the liberation of the other Asian races as a justification for their military action. They also made sure everyone knew who were the losers by parading dejected British and Australian soldiers on the streets.
It was a moment of sweet revenge on the economic front as well. Having been forced to play underdog for years by the subtle and not-so-subtle discriminatory measures of the British colonial authorities, Japanese domination of the market and ownership of economic resources were now complete and uncontestable. Gone too was the stranglehold Chinese middlemen had on retailing and foreign trade, something that the Japanese had resented as much as the Western presence. Moreover, the drawn-out conflict with Chinese nationalists, who boycotted Japanese products and harassed Japanese residents, came to a close in the form of a bloody purge and an enormous sum of money demanded as a "voluntary contribution" from Singapore's Chinese to the imperial army.
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The discourse on the South took on a measure of urgency, inevitability, arrogance, and self-righteousness that befitted the intensity and unprecedented nature of the war. Japanese advancement into the region was now explained in terms of future world domination (by controlling the resource-rich tropics), of anti-colonialism (by returning Asia to Asians), of international justice (by ending the exploitation of the "Yellow race" by the "White race"), and--if you will excuse the anachronism--of "the end of history" (by defeating Western civilization).
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It was the overseas Chinese more than the Westerners who bore the brunt of Japanese self-righteous wrath. They were condemned for displaying such "Jewish" (yudaya-teki) qualities as selfishness, greed, and treachery; for having no sense of nation but being only interested in enriching their own families; and for willingly acting as the running dogs of Westerners, lining their pockets in the process while compounding the harm colonialism did to the local people. Moreover, deceived by the lies of the Chinese government, the dim-witted (=patriotic?) overseas Chinese had engaged in sabotaging Japanese interests.
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Passion for the South, however, could not be easily extinguished. In 1954, a mere two years after Japan regained independence, Fukuda Kurahachi, a draper with some forty years of experience in Singapore, returned. There were only seven Japanese on the island then. His shop got off to a good start the following year: its opening was favorably reported in the local Chinese newspaper Xingzhoubao. It was an auspicious portent for the post-war return of the Japanese (Shimizu and Hirakawa 1999).
But that's another story..
http://www.aems.illinois.edu/mpg/sun/tsu.html
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Indeed, Singapore, whose size is not of a responsible power, has become a rich city-nation, following the recovery and success of Japan after WWII.
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So, Christmas is near. It is not so bad for you to travel a little far.
http://www.esvstudybible.org/sb/objects/map-40-02.html
Act 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
Act 12:2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Act 12:3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Act 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.