From the Tokyo Station to...
The Imperial Palace...
The 400-years political center of Japan, since the Palace was formerly the Edo Castle of the Tokugawa samurai-shogun till 1868, one of the most important year in the Japanese history like 1865 in the American history.
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Everything in a digital device is expressed with a pattern made of 0s and 1s.
Any part of a picture or a sound can be numerically expressed such as a color (R: 128, G: 256, B: 512) or a wave (1024Hz, -2.056 V). And any decimal number can be expressed in a binary expression using "0" and "1" only, since 128 = "10000000."
So, any picture and sound can be put in a memory of a digital device converted into a pattern consisting of "0" and "1" only. The binary value "0" can be handled as 0 volts and "1" as 5 volts.
Nowadays, a digital still camera has replaced an analogue film camera; a compact optical disk has replaced an analogue phonograph record.
A digital camera with 10 million pixels of today provides a picture as fine as or better than an analogue film camera sold at 100,000 yen ($1,170) ten years ago.
Accordingly, an analogue device has lost many merits over a digital or electronic device along with advancement of electronics and a data processing (computer) technology.
But, a digital device needs electricity to function. An electronic device needs electric power to show a picture or play music. And use of electricity releases energy to the environment in the form of heat.
So, more than CO2, digital devices on the earth might be heating the atmosphere, though it is unknown how much temperature would rise if one iPhone or a cellular phone of any type is sold and used.
In nature, as an atom and a molecule is a kind of digital entity, an approach of digitization is reasonable in the technological domain, though.
In economy, of course, it is digital since one yen or one dollar is the minimal gap between any two values. And nobody has ever tried to establish an analogue monetary system, since even the largest digit needs only nine numbers of 1 to 9, implying integers are digital.
Yet, no digital romance would be accepted by mankind, since it is for the robotic world.
CHAPTER I: Real Estate of Japanese Government
As of 2009 or so, the Ministry of Finance of Japan stated that the Japanese Government has administrative assets worth 18 trillion yen ($200 billion if 1$ = 90 yen) excluding roads, dams, and other civil engineering structures.
Specifically, the Japanese Government has lands worth 14 trillion yen and buildings worth 4 trillion yen as shown in the specifics below.
(http://www.nri.co.jp/opinion/region/2009/pdf/ck20091203.pdf)
The left-hand side column indicates the Lower House, the Upper House, the Supreme Court, and other Ministries and Agencies. The second and the third columns indicate the area and the value of lands owned by a Ministry/Agency specified in the first column. The fourth and the fifth are of buildings. The unit of value is 100 million yen ($1.1 million).
In addition, the Government virtually hires and assigns 20,000 officials to management of these lands and buildings, probably, costing 200 billion yen ($2.2 billion) or so.
In other word, the Japanese Government is one of the largest real estate businesses in the world.
So, everybody would wonder whether or not there is a way for the Government to leverage this real estate to improve a financial state.
And, you would wonder what if the Chinese Communist Government should start to introduce a private ground system, though every piece of the land in China is now owned by the Chinese Communist Government.
(Note: The Imperial Palace is officially assessed to be 215 billion yen or $2.4 billion.
However, the figure is based on a rate of 150,000 yen per square meter. Yet, it is too cheap. With a commercial rate of 10 million yen per square meter, the land price of the Imperial Palace reaches 14 trillion yen [$156 billion] as its are is 1.42 million square meters. Accordingly, the total national real estate has more value than the above stated figure of 18 trillion yen [$200 billion]).
[http://agora-web.jp/archives/810780.html])
CHAPTER II: Cancellation of Debts
The best solution is cancellation of debts.
It is well known that Christ Jesus ordered his disciples to lend money and any other things to those who needed or wanted from them without requesting a promise of return.
New economics should focus on significance of cancellation of debts but not interest rate.
It is necessary to formulate a theory that a kind of institutional cancellation of debts is as effective as a hedge or disposal of collateral.
(To be continued.)
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The Kan Cabinet of Japan is still in a crisis.
They are going to drive the leader of anti-Kan factions Mr. Ichiro Ozawa out of the ruling DPJ.
No matter how sinful, in terms of political funds and activities, lawmaker Mr. Ozawa is, it is not appropriate for the headquarters of the Japanese Government to tackle one Lower-House member with so much energy and time.
From a political point of view, Mr. Ozawa is neither a socialist nor a communist, like Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama. So, it is a bad sign if socialistic politicians around P.M. Mr. Kan should find merit in purging essentially conservative Mr. Ozawa for any political reason.
On the other hand, Mr. Ozawa has come to face the most difficult situation in his profession since he was first elected as a national lawmaker in 1969...
And then, the best politician of 2010 in Japan? It is of course Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, since he spontaneously left the seat of the Japanese premiership this June.
And, the worst politician of 2010 in Japan? It is of course Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, since he spontaneously helped Mr. Ichiro Ozawa challenge P.M. Mr. Kan to be new P.M. this September.
Don't you think so?
(The best politician of 2010 in the world is probably Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister of Norway.)
Joh 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.