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Saturday, October 30, 2010

"of more value than many sparrows"

Somewhere...

in Tokyo...

Commandos...

But not on a roller coaster, confirmed...over...

Officiousness Satuday
(prise en charge samedi)

The amount of delivered Apple's iPods is over 100 million units.

But the most of iPods are made in China.

If they were manufactured in America, ten thousands more people could be hired in America!

Now which would you bash, Apple, China, or President Mr. Barack Obama?

Basing them all cannot however solve the problem. It is desire of goldless consumers and business executives.

SECTION I: Noam Chomsky

I happened to watch Mr. Noam Chomsky presenting his view on the capitalism America on TV through a cable TV channel called "Asahi Newstar" around Tokyo today.

It was a record of his lecture in the U.S. in May 2010.

I suppose 95% of corporate workers in Japan do not know who and what Mr. Chomsky is. But, 95% of leftists, liberals, and active conservatives in Japan know who and what Mr. Chomsky is.

While watching his civil style in presentation with well educated words, I thought he should mention Nazis and Hitler; then he picked up Germany in 1920's and so forth. He said it was Nazis that first made May Day a public holiday, which no political parties in the world could achieve. Then, on the first May-Day holiday in Germany, a multitude of German cultural, social and trade organizations joined the ceremony, while the Weimar Republic was fading away. It was because the center of the national governance of Germany had already decayed before the rise of Nazis and Hitler.

Mr. Noam Chomsky claimed, virtually, that the same thing is happening in America and the world, including China and India where the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider and wider.

But, he took note on one different thing: the power shift. With the rise of China, the economic power is really shifting to East Asia, as has never been seen before. It is so, since businesses in Taiwan, Japan, and America have been helping China expand its production power, so that those businesses could earn more money. In contrast, the unemployment rate in America has reached nominally about 10% but in fact more than 10%. One in six workers in the manufacturing sector in America is losing a job, which is comparable with the state of the Great Depression in 1930's.

Of course, this shift of economic center from the North Atlantic region to East China is one factor for the collapse of the center in America. But, if it makes American rich men richer, even Mr. Chomsky cannot stop it. It is so, since American rich men would even exercise their influences on President Mr. Barack Obama to maintain the course.

After observing the TV program, I found it to be useful to present two questions:

Q1: Which do you like being rich or being poor?

Q2: Which do you like being righteous or being evil?

These two questions belong to a different sphere or level, each.

Q2 is an absolute question; Q1 is a conditional question.

You can answer, "I like being rich as long as I can be righteous."

But, you cannot answer, "I like being righteous as long as, say, I can be rich."

Being righteous means to put the value of being so above anything else, except the power of the God.

So, Mr. Chomsky is the one who points to the fact that President Mr. Barack Obama was helped critically in the 2008 Presidential Election by the American financial sector who opted for young, rock-star-like African American Mr. Obama (with the Swedish American mother) over Vietnam-War hero Mr. John McCain, since their culture can be blamed by Vietnam-War hero Mr. McCain.

SECTION II: Study in America

What I want to write is that you had better stay in your country to learn things.

Then you can have a chance to be a hero.

If you go and study in America, you will surely despise those who cannot in your country when you return home after studying in America.

Poor people never miss the feeling you have when you see them and secretly despise them. You cannot be a hero in your country, though you can be a successful man in your home country.

If you learn in Harvard, you will not be able to get humble before a poor man in your country. You cannot be a hero.

Think it over.

(No Japanese Nobel Prize winners have ever graduated from Harvard. The best scholars and researchers in any fields of Japan have never graduated from Harvard. You got it?)

APPENDIX. Historical Analysis on the Senkaku Islands

(Please set the Encode in Page menu of your browser at Unicode to correctly read Kanji characters used below.)

First of all click the following map.

The oldest human bones found in Okinawa Prefecture is of 32,000 years ago and then of 18,000 years ago. The oldest record of people visiting Japan's Imperial Court from Okinawa is of A.D. 714.

More clearly, a group of Japanese people with agriculture skills moved to Okinawa islands from Kyusyo of Japan proper as late as the 10th century. Since then, the Okinawa (Ryukyu) people moved around from the main Okinawa island to Yaeyama Islands including the Ishigaki Island, the Iriomote Island, and the Yonakuni Island. They frequently sailed around the Senkaku Islands partly due to the ocean current flowing north from the Yaeyama Islands. As the above map clearly indicates, the Senkaku Islands are too far for fishermen living coastal ares of the mainland China while Taiwan indigenous people had no skills or customs sailing around north on the East China Sea.

But, if you have any doubts on Japan's Senkaku, check the related history below presented.

1274: The Yuan Empire of China, a successor of Genghis Khan's Mongolian empire, launches war against Japan, for Japan governed by the Hojyo samurai clan refused to be subject to the Yuan emperor. So, Yuan of Mongolians dispatches 30,000 troops to Japan through the Korean Peninsula; they are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu partly due to a typhoon called "kamikaze" and mostly due to courageous samurais. All the survivors of the Yuan troops fled back to the Chinese Continent over the sea.

1281: The Yuan Empire this time mobilizes 40,000 troops for a route from the Korean Peninsula and 100,000 troops for another route through the East China Sea to northern Kyusyu. They are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu partly due to a typhoon called "kamikaze" and mostly due to courageous samurais. All the survivors of the Yuan troops fled back to the Chinese Continent over the sea.

(Some Chinese today claim that the Yuan Dynasty occupied the Senkaku Islands as its own territory. But, the fact seems only that the Yuan fleets carrying 100,000 troops just sailed over the East China Sea to Kyusyu of Japan. And only a few could sail back after the failure in invading Japan proper or mainland Japan that includes the Kyusyu Island.)

The 14th Century: Japanese pirates called Wakou intensifies their activities attacking coastal areas of China facing the East China Sea.

(http://www.geocities.jp/tanaka_kunitaka/senkaku/chokaizuhen-1562/ )

(So, China today claims that the Senkaku Islands were regarded as border islands on their side by Ming.)

However, in this map, an island, called Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [鶏籠山]) then regarded as belonging to Taiwan by the Ming Court in Beijing is also put down.

(Accordingly, Japanese experts claim that this map does not exclusively include islands within the territory of Ming, since Taiwan then did not belong to the Ming empire. Especially, the Ming's defence was not against a subject kingdom of Okinawa but Japanese pirates. What was needed to be described is not a border but a defence line.)

1592 and 1598: The then samurai ruler of Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi launches war with the Ming (partly because Ming treated Hideyoshi as subject King of Japan and proud Hideyoshi go angry), taking a route to Beijing through the Korean Peninsula, though this campaign with 100,000 and more samurai troops were terminated due to death of Hideyoshi of illness.

The Kingdom Okinawa joined this Hideyoshi's campaign on the logistics side.

1609: Samurai lord Shimazu in southern Kyusyu of Japan proper invaded Okinawa with 3000 samurai troops to establish its occupancy in Okinawa islands. The king of Okinawa however is allowed to survive as a subject to the Shimazu clan who is a subject of the samurai king (shogun) Tokugawa in Edo (Tokyo).

Since then, the Kingdom Okinawa was subject to both the Ming Court of China and the Shimazu clan of Japan.

1614: A regional official document of Jyugen (in Japanese, [壽源県志]) prefecture of the Ming is issued but does not include the Senkaku Islands as part of its territory, while Jyugen prefecture could cover the sea area near the Senkaku Islands as its administrative territory.

1644: The Ming Dynasty of the Han Chinese collapsed; the Ching Dynasty of Manchu was established in mainland China. As Manchu is traditionally from Manchuria or currently the north east region of China, the Ching Court in Beijing abolished or changed many Han customs and ways of administration.

1683: The Ching Dynasty officially takes Taiwan into its territory.

1684: The Ching Dynasty releases an official document ([福建通志]) on Fujian Province facing the East China Sea. In this document, the Senkaku Islands are not included in the administrative region of the Fujian Province government.

1717: An official document of Shora (in Japanese, [諸羅県志]) prefecture of Taiwan Province is released to define the north border of Taiwan at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1718: An official document of Neitoku (in Japanese, [寧徳県志]) prefecture of Fujian Province is released but does not include the Senkaku Islands as part of its territory, while Neitoku prefecture could cover the sea area near the Senkaku Islands as its administrative territory.

1765: The Taiwan local government issues an official document called Zokusyudai-Taiwan-Fushi (in Japanese, [続修台湾府志]) where the north border of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1838: The Ching Court issues an official document ([重纂福建通志福建海防全図]) with an attached map named the Fujian Naval Defence General Map in which however the Senkaku Islands are not included.

1840: The Taiwan local government issues an official document called the Taiwan 17 Country Defencce Status ([台湾道姚瑩稟奏台湾十七国設防状]) where the north border of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1868: The Tokugawa samurai regime fell in Japan. Samurais against the Tokugawa clan forms new government with the emperor at the political core of the nation Japan. Accordingly, all the samurai lords and clans in Japan, including Shimazu in southern Kyusyu with Okinawa belongs to the new government in Tokyo.

1871:An water administration agency of the Taiwan local government issues an official document called the Tansuichou-shi (in Japanese, [淡水庁志]) where the north border of the sea territory of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1879: The Empire of Japan changes status of the Kingdom of Okinawa into Okinawa Prefecture of the Empire.

1884: Tatsushiro Koga, a resident in Naha City of Okinawa, explored the Senkau Islands for possible business.

1885: Tatsushiro Koga files an application to the Government in Tokyo for approval of his landing on the Senkaku Islands to cultivate them. The then Okinawa governor also requests the Imperial Government of Japan to declare territorial jurisdiction over the Senkaku Islands. However the Government in Tokyo does not approve it, since it is unclear whether or not the Senkaku Islands does not belong to Ching or any other sovereignty. Yet, the then Interior Ministry in Tokyo rules that the Okinawa governor may set a land mark indicating occupancy of the Empire of Japan in the Senkaku Islands after the prefectural government confirms the state of the Islands as no man's land.

1894: The Japan-Sino War erupts.

1895: On January 14, the Empire of Japan takes the Senkaku Islands into its territory after investigations of the state of the Islands.

Tatsushiro Koga starts his business to build a factory to process fish in the Senkaku Islands. His business continues till 1940 or so with 200 or so empolyees and their families living in the Islands. This is the first record of residence and business performed on the Senkaku Islands in the known history of Japan, China, and Taiwan.

1895: The Japan-Sino War ends with victory of the Empire of Japan. The Empire and the Ching Dynasty concludes the Treaty of Shimonoseki on April 17. Taiwan is transferred to the Empire, according to the Treaty. However, it does not mention the Senkaku Islands (as the Ching Court has already admitted the Islands as Japan's).

1941: The Empire of Japan embarks in a war with the United Sates, which constitutes the Pacific Stage of WWII.

1945: The Empire of Japan surrenders the United Sates who occupies whole Japan, including Okinawa Prefecture and its Senkaku Islands.

1947: The new Constitution of Japan is enforced to replace the Imperial Constitution.

1949: The Chinese Communist Party takes over the Chinese Continent through the Chinese Civil War in 1949 to build the People's Republic of China; accordingly the Chinese Nationalist Party moves to Taiwan to build the Republic of China.

1951: Occupation of Japan by the U.S. ends with conclusion of the Peace Treaty signed in San Francisco. However, Okinawa Prefecture, including its Senkaku Islands, is still kept under administration of the United States.

1953: On January 8, the People's Daily published by the Chinese Communist Party presents documentary material to explain a state of Okinawa and an American policy on Okinawa where the Senkaku Islands are clearly stated as belonging to Okinawa Prefecture.

(Click to enlarge.)

http://www.jcp.or.jp/seisaku/2010/20101004_senkaku_rekisii/19530108_jn.jpg

1968: A committee for Far-East economy of the United Nations explores the East China Sea to find great reserves of crude oil.

1971: In April, Taiwan starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.

In December, China starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.

1972: On May 15, the U.S. returns administrative right of Okinawa Prefecture, including the Senkaku Islands, to the Japanese Government in Tokyo.

1972: In September, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanak visits Beijing to talk with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Zedong to establish diplomatic relationships between the two nations. Japan severs official connections with Taiwan.

However, in their meeting with Kakuei Tanaka, both Chou and Mao avoid discussion on the Senkaku Islands, though Tanaka raises the issue to Chou.

1989: The so-called Tiananmen massacre occurs in Beijing where many students in demonstrations requesting democracy are attacked and arrested by the Chinese military and police.

After this incident, the Chinese Communist Government starts to educate Chinese children and students following an anti-Japanese policy. The Chinese leaders decide to present Japan as an enemy for students to attack. Students with any complaints to the Chinese Communist Party are not allowed to criticize the Party but encouraged to direct their anger to Japan.

2010: In the wake of violation of Japan's territorial water and the Japan-China agreement on fishing around the Senkaku Islands by a Chinese illegal trawler whose skipper is arrested but released by the Japanese Government, the U.S. Government confirms that the Japan-U.S. Security Arrangements apply to the Senkaku Islands.

In summary, no past documents and maps officially published in China in these 500 years do not state that the Senkaku Islands belong to China.

Rather, some such documents clearly exclude the Senkaku Islands from a relevant administrative territory of a publishing local government.

But, from the beginning, a Chinese empire had no clear distinction between administrative areas of the empire and tributary nations and between its defence line and its border. If people who belonged to an empire had lived in a certain place and there had been a need to protect them by force, the place would be regarded as its territory.

In neither this traditional context nor a modern concept, China has never established its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands. Therefore, though the Islands are so far from Japan proper, they belong to Japan, since they were a familiar place for Japanese envoys and Okinawa envoys sailing to and back from China passing the Islands far more often than Chinese envoys did since 1372.

Now you know why the Senkaku Islands do not belong to China and Taiwan even when judging based on the Chinese claims. But, how do the Islands belong to Japan?

It is because the Senkaku Islands belong to Okinawa (Ryukyu). There is an island called Ishigaki-jima (the main island of the Yaeyama Islnads) where Okinawa residents or fishermen have lived from ancient days. And, there is a strong ocean stream from the Ishigaki-jima Island to the Senkaku Islands. Fishermen in Ishigaki can easily reach around Senkaku to do their business. It is reflected in some old songs or stories of Okinawa.

In addition, the Chinese name of the Senkaku Islands meaning an island to angle for fish is reasonably thought to come after an old calling of the Islands by Okinawa/Ishigaki people. Okinawa people call the main Senkaku Island "Yoko"-jima (meaning a side island), or once called "Tsure"-jima, meaning an accompanying island the sound of which is similar to "tsuri" which is also similar to "tsuru" in Japanese, meaning angling for fish. There is no such material as to expalian the origin of the Chinese name of the Islands meaning an island to angle for fish.

Put simply, the Senkaku Islands issue is not the one between Tokyo, the Senkaku Islands, and Shanghai but between the Yaeyama Islands, the Senkaku Islands, and Beijing. Check the map again!

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What I cannot understand is why China cannot respect Taiwan, the Republic of China?

Did Mao and Chou really believe that they should occupy Taiwan for completion of their revolution?

China should become a peaceful country, abolishing its nuclear weapons and reducing defence budgets.

Japan believes that every country respects peace, but only China does not in this world.

Marxism has no concept of forgiveness. But, modern capitalism is under the paradigm of mutual prosperity over borders, if only among rich men of each country, which respects peace especially after WWII and then the Vietnam War. Culture that develops under this paradigm encourages forgiveness, since religious traditions are important part of it.

Chinese Marxism that respects market economy and individual prosperity without respect for religion will surely make China dangerous but weak and foolish.

But, who educates Chinese? No American politicians can, at least.

I wrote this, since I have a feeling that somebody in Beijing or in the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo or Washington D.C. is checking this blog.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP8xff2X46A&feature=related

Do you think I ever pretend to be a servant of the God Almighty?

Pretend to be, though!

Anyway, that's a female vocal singer. Doesn't she look like Condoleezza?)

Mat 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Mat 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Mat 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

Friday, October 29, 2010

"Are not two sparrows"

That building, more than half as high as NY World Trade Center towers, was built in 1978.

Wtach your own steps!

Crank-Call Friday
(Vendredi, avec une manivelle appel)

SECTION I: Give Me $1; Give You $1.6

If somebody calls you, saying, "Give me first one dollar, and then I will give you 1.6 dollars," you will laugh and hang up the phone.

But, in 1736, samurai king of Japan Tokugawa Yoshimune proclaimed so with 150 tons of gold prepared in his Edo (Tokyo) castle or any necessary amount for exchange with circulated gold coins.

In the early 18th century, Edo with one million residents was the largest city in the world. However, those who lived in villages and farming areas accounted for 90% of the then 30 million population of Japan. Farmers were obliged to deliver rice to samurai lords as tax, since rice farming had been the main industry in Japan for 2000 years. After receiving rice bales, samurai lords including a shogun sold them at big market in Edo or Osaka for money.

Yoshimune happened to be the eighth shogun or samurai king from the Tokugawa clan, since he was a relative of his predecessor, though so remote. So he assumed the shogunate in 1716 to come to Edo from Kisyu (Wakayama Prefecture). Subsequently, he stayed in power as the head of the Tokugawa clan and the top leader of all the samurais in Japan till 1745, six years before his death.

In 1714 before Yoshimune came to Edo, the Tokugawa shogunate issued 8,280,000 gold coins of which unit is "Ryou," though a coin is generically called "Koban." Each coin or one ryou koban weighs 17.85 grams including gold in a ratio of 86.8%. The shogunate used 128.29 tons of gold to provide about 8.3 million coins or ryou.

However, when Yoshimune succeeded the shogunate, he had to cope with a kind of deflation. Prices of goods and especially rice were declining, while the Tokugawa government collected rice as tax from framers. It meant a revenue fall for the shogunate.

Shogun Yoshimune decided to increase an amount of circulated coins. So, in 1736, he ordered to lower purity of gold to 65.7%. He also lessened the weight of the gold coin to 13.125 grams. Then Ysohimune proclaimed that anybody that gave back 1 ryo koban to the shogunate would receive 1.6 ryo kobans, since the shogunate monopolized mintage.

In this scheme of 1736, new gold coins were issued in a quantity of 17,435,711, each with a weight of 13.125 grams at a gold purity of 65.7%. The shogunate used 150.35 tons of gold, including retrieved old gold coins, to provide about 17.4 million coins or ryou.

(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%88%A4 )

Yoshimune's monetary policy succeeded. Prices of goods and especially rice got stabilized, while the Tokugawa government collected rice as tax from framers.

Before modernization of Japan in the late 19th century and during the samurai era, there was no central bank in Japan. But, the samurai government issued coins. This Yoshimune's measures is however regarded as provision of government notes of today.

No matter how difficult it was to finance the shogun government budget with sales of rice in the market, the Tokugawa shogunate continued for further 130 years.

Following suit, the Japanese Government of today can issue government notes worth 50 trillion yen or $625 billion.

SECTION II: Not China Bashing but Covert China Warring

China sells low-tech commodities in a large scale in the American market.

With credit given by America, China sells low-tech commodities in a large scale in the global market.

Then, China purchases U.S. Treasury bonds as many as Japan does to help FRB and Wall Street businesses, which contributes greatly to American rich families keeping value of their financial assets.

So, technically, it is right to review the U.S.-China trade/investment relationships as well as exchange rates between the dollar and the yuan, since Chinese presence in the American market with huge funds and Wal-Mart-level commodities do not contribute to reduction of unemployment in America. Yes, it is right, since more and more Chinese people are getting rich, while more and more Americans are losing a chance to be rich.

Moralistically, it is nice to see many, many, poor Chinese getting rich. But, politically, it is dangerous that many, many, poor Americans are losing a chance to be rich under the trade/monetary regime involving China in a very skewed way.

So, there are many arguments on "China bashing."

But, most of them miss the mark. It is neither about stupid economics on the American side nor about simple mutual prosperity with China toward future viewed from the American side.

Yet, one of them shows good insight into the Chinese side of the situation where "China bashing" was triggered. It tells that the situation is more complicated, when taking into account the Chinese political condition:

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Why China won't budge on the yuan
By Peter Foster World Last updated: September 29th, 2010

...
So why is China apparently so reluctant or incapable of giving up the economic equivalent of the weed even when it knows that such reforms would make its own economy much healthier, reduce global trade tensions and do much to reinvigorate the markets on which China depends?

Because it’ll hurt, that's why. Economists at the World Bank and elsewhere estimate that real structural reforms would slow Chinese GDP growth to 5-6pc over the coming decade as well as raise inflation – which in turn would require higher interest rates.

For a country drunk on cheap credit and a ruling party that seems absolutely wedded to the mantra of 8pc growth – the magic number that no-one ever really seems to be able to justify – these are very scary numbers.

Right now there are worryingly few signs that the leadership has the guts to tolerate slower growth...

Of course there is very little that the US government or its manufacturers can do about how China rebalances its own economy, other than trying to keep persuading the Chinese to be bold – and enlist the help of other nations to do the same.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100056071/why-china-wont-budge-on-the-yuan/
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So, it is not so bad for American politicians to try "China bashing."

To be the true second largest economy in the world like Japan, China has to still pass through various ordeals.

As for American leaders, it is essential to understand that they start to be engaged in "covert China-warring", since a real civil war is at stake on the Chinese side.

Note 1: Even today, yearly six million graduates from colleges and universities in China are experiencing hard time in finding jobs; less than 70% of them look like having a chance to take any reasonable jobs. Even the 8% growth of GDP sacrifices 1.8 million Chinese graduates.

If it falls to 4%, 3.6 million youths will be desperate. In three years, 10 million youths can start to demonstrate on the street. It will be a sign of a covert civil war or revolution in China.

Note 2: From the beginning, the Chinese statistics and economic data, including GDP, cannot be trusted. It is a piece of commonsense for Chinese strategists in an official or public position to announce convenient data but not real data to their bosses or enemies.

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Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune decided to fire 50 women servants for cost reduction in the inner place of his great Edo Castle where his legally wedded wife and a side wife lived.

As most of those high-class housemaids in the Castle were from houses of samurai, it would be difficult even for the chief of samurais Yoshimune to decide who should leave and who should stay. In fact, those women were mostly from samurai families who respected honor.

So, Yoshimune selected the 50 most beautiful women under the age of 25 from hundreds of women servants to fire them.

Accordingly, no objections were raised.

Yet, at a certain time during the Tokugawa samurai era (1603 - 1867), it is said that there were maximum 1,000 to 3,000 women servants working in the Edo Castle (which is today used as the Imperial Palace of Tokyo). So, Yoshimune's reformation in the inner place might be rather symbolic.

Anyway, Yoshimune thought that those women could easily have an offer of marriage. (But, some critics of today say that Yoshimune liked ugly women.) Incidentally, his eldest son, namely the next shogun, whose mother was Yoshimune's side wife, had language disorder, though with ordinary intellectual power enough to reign Japan as the sole shogun, namely de-facto king of Japan.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJ940tQPDU

The non-Japanese Asians can sing better, though not playing the piano. If a person greets a living one with his/her palms together, he or she is not Japanese. If to dead one, he or she could be Japanese. Or, if a person has used just one hand in the same posture to other person for wishing a special request, he could be Japanese.　

Do you also so explain to foreigners?)

Mat 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

"destroy both soul and body in hell"

The Tokyo Tree Tower at present is 240 feet taller than New York's World Trade Centers. In the central-left area, buildings of the University of Tolyo are spotted.

One of the best 100 locations to enjoy a view of Mt. Fuji as so certified in November 2004.

Rare Thursday with a Typhoon and a Cold Snap
(étrange Jeudi d'un typhon et une vague de froid)

SECTION I: EEE-Economics

The following is the trend of U.S. household financial assets (in trillion dollars) divided by type of instruments.

(http://www.garbagenews.net/archives/1319049.html )
Blue: Cash; Red: Bonds; Green: Instrument Trust; Purple: Equities & Investments; Light Blue: Insurance & Pension Reserves; Light Brown: Others

In the third quarter of 2007, everybody was enjoying a wealthy living in America.

In the fourth quarter of 2009, everybody could have been enjoying a wealthy living in America

1) Basically, there was no negative influence of the Lehman Shock of 2008 September on American households, or more correctly, on rich American households if viewed skipping the period between the third quarter of 2007 and the fourth quarter of 2009 when an enormous amount of dollars were infused to the market and industries by FRB.

2) It means that the low unemployment rate before the September 2008 was not due to huge assets held by rich American households. It was due to an influx of funds from overseas, including Japan, China, oil producing countries, etc., leading to too generous credit accommodation to ordinary and poor Americans almost all of which turned to debts even across investing foreign countries.

3) So, it means that the high unemployment rate after the September 2008 is naturally and mostly due to huge assets held by rich American households, since debts and receivable seem to be balanced out now somewhat with remaining foreign funds and FRB-issued dollars on the books.

U = f(B) + C + Z

U: Unemployment
P: Bias of households asset distribution
C: Credit accommodation based on influx of overseas funds
Z: Other factors

If one rich American has $40 trillion, he might simply use $200,000 per year. It means that American GDP can be $200,000.

If 200 million ordinary/poor American have and share total $40 trillion dollars, each of them might simply use $200,000 per year. It means that American GDP can be $40 trillion.

No matter how much money American rich men, very rich men, and super rich men have, it will not assure economic prosperity of America, so long as ordinary and poor Americans have no money to spend.

The point at issue is that no one has ever figured out a scheme for making this principle applied to laws and regulations.

My idea is:
a) First a government must accurately measure the state of distribution of national assets among households.

b) The government must calculate and issue data on how much GDP, unemployment, consumer price indexes, the national financial balance, etc. would be improved if rich households are forced to spend, distribute, or contribute part of their money to any public or governmental institutions or agencies.

c) With this data, the president, the prime minister, etc. should persuade rich households individually to spend, distribute, or contribute part of their money to any public or governmental institutions or agencies.

d) The term taxation should not be used in this scheme. The provision of money from rich households must be based on their free will. But, the government must announce the state of, and change in, distribution of national assets among households, say, per month or per week if not per day.

SECTION II: The Senkaku Incident: Violent Chinese Fishing Boat

A Japanese TV station made an animation based on some testimony of those who viewed video records and pictures a crew of the two Japan Coast Guard ships took, though P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan would not make them public to the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW81SebG5Do&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_462192#t=03m50s

If the skipper of the Chinese fishing boat simply attacked the Japan Coast Guard ships by ramming his boat against the JCG ships, Prime Minister Mr. Kan would allow the video footage to be fully broadcast.

But, as Japan's P.M. Mr. Kan would not do so, it is suspected that a horrible rumor is true: the Chinese skipper further poked a harpoon onto crews of the Japan Coast Guard who fell into the sea due to impact of the collision. It is then an attempt of murder. The skipper could not have been released as the JCG eventually arrested him. But, P.M. Mr. Kan virtually authorized the release of the dangerous skipper (reportedly drunken at the time of the incident) of the violent Chinese shipping boat after after several weeks of detention as well as crews after several days of detention.

If the rumor is true while the Kan Cabinet continues to refrain from releasing full shots of the video, it can be a fatal mistake for P.M. Mr. Kan, the key minister in charge Mr. Sengoku, and the ruling party DPJ. It means that the Kan Cabinet abandons its duty to protect Japanese citizens and public officials from Chinese violent criminals.

Also please note that the Chinese Communist Government treated the skipper as hero when he returned to his home town facing the East China Sea.

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A stupid Japanese mother interfered with a way of living of her daughter even after her marriage, causing her to suffer a kind of depression, according to an NHK TV report.

It is said that there are many Japanese women in their 30's or so who are experiencing a similar situation, if they are successful in building their careers.

Conversely, Japanese daughters are very sympathetic to their mothers, though living in the highly modernized, industrialized, and system-oriented society.

Yet, the government and the society of Japan must regard citizens as pure individuals, which however needs sufficient understanding of a monotheistic religion(s), such as Islam, Judaism, conventional Christianity, and the way for the Almighty God.

Indeed, it is a long, winding, and narrow adamantine way.

Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

"with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life"

Special Wednesday
(spéciale mercredi)

An honest Chinese never asks an American to join him as an enemy of Japanese.

An honest American never acts together with a Chinese as an enemy of Japanese.

In fact, dishonest Chinese have succeeded in making some dishonest Americans enemies of Japan.

But, it is now getting difficult for dishonest Chinese to succeed in making even dishonest Americans friends of China.

Oh, what a shameful class of operations!

SECTION I: China in 2050

Chinese are really thinking that they can be the world leading economy without introducing democracy and freedom of speech on the street of Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing in 2050.

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Stop Bashing China and Start Leveraging Ties

By Phil Ting– October 14, 2010

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According to a study by the New York Times, this election season alone has seen at least 29 candidates across the country air ads "…suggesting that their opponents have been too sympathetic to China…"
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At current growth rates, China will become the world's largest economy by 2032 and will grow to be 20-percent larger than the U.S. economy by 2050. This growth does not need to be at our expense. To the contrary, China's economic growth can and should be to our benefit – if we work productively to engage China, and other emerging economies, as markets for American exports.
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Currently, ten-percent of all U.S. jobs (approximately 12 million) depend on exports. A fact that all those politicians running negative ads want to ignore is that one in five factory jobs depend on international trade. And jobs that depend on trade generally pay about 13- to 18-percent more than the average U.S. wage.
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But as someone who comes from the private sector and got my start in business consulting, I have some advice for all the China-bashing politicians: the smartest strategy is to engage with your new customers, not to attack them.

http://www.asianweek.com/2010/10/14/stop-bashing-china-and-start-leveraging-ties/
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Just 40 years ago, democracy and freedom of speech supported Japanese growing in economy and industry to rank with America.

American consumers basically did not feel any threat to see Japanese and Japanese goods in America, since they were from a country of democracy and freedom of speech.

But now, the Chinese Communist Party can hold power by banning and suppressing democracy and freedom of speech in the Chinese Continent.

And, Chinese Americans think that this state continues till 2050 when China's economy becomes 20-percent larger than the U.S. economy.

Isn't something wrong?

Some nationalist Japanese even claim that we have to stop buying Chinese products.

Chinese leaders might think that democracy and freedom of speech are not necessary for Americans to buy Chinese goods in 2050.

Just like some Chinese citizens work and get rich without democracy and freedom of speech, American consumers in 2050, Chinese leaders of today might be thinking, should work and buy Chinese goods, if being unable to be rich, without democracy and freedom of speech.

There must be some Chinese Americans who honestly claim that Americans should not buy Chinese goods to save Chinese of today and Americans of 2050.

Anyway, President Mr. Barack Obama should think about a plight a minority in China is now put into.

APPENDIX. Historical Analysis on the Senkaku Islands

(Please set the Encode in Page menu of your browser at Unicode to correctly read Kanji characters used below.)

1274: The Yuan Empire of China, a successor of Genghis Khan's Mongolian empire, launches war against Japan, for Japan governed by the Hojyo samurai clan refused to be subject to the Yuan emperor. So, Yuan of Mongolians dispatches 30,000 troops to Japan through the Korean Peninsula; they are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu partly due to a typhoon called "kamikaze" and mostly due to courageous samurais. All the survivors of the Yuan troops fled back to the Chinese Continent over the sea.

1281: The Yuan Empire this time mobilizes 40,000 troops for a route from the Korean Peninsula and 100,000 troops for another route through the East China Sea to northern Kyusyu. They are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu partly due to a typhoon called "kamikaze" and mostly due to courageous samurais. All the survivors of the Yuan troops fled back to the Chinese Continent over the sea.

(Some Chinese today claim that the Yuan Dynasty occupied the Senkaku Islands as its own territory. But, the fact seems only that the Yuan fleets carrying 100,000 troops just sailed over the East China Sea to Kyusyu of Japan. And only a few could sail back after the failure in invading Japan proper or mainland Japan that includes the Kyusyu Island.)

The 14th Century: Japanese pirates called Wakou intensifies their activities attacking coastal areas of China facing the East China Sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokou

(Accordingly, for a Chinese Dynasty, it became more important to defend its coastal areas, residents, and subjects living there than to set any ineffective or nominal border on the surface of the East China Sea. So, official maps a Chinese Dynasty would draw should show a defence line rather than a border on the sea.)

1368: The Ming Dynasty is established in China by the Hongwu Emperor.

1372: King of Okinawa (also called Ryukyu) Satto brings a tribute to the Ming empire.

1401: The then samurai king of Japan (shogun) Ashikaga Yoshimitsu also sends an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to establish diplomatic relationships between Japan and Ming for benefits of trade.

1404: The Ming Court acknowledges Yoshimitsu as King of Japan who is allowed to trade with Ming in the form of bringing goods as tribute and receiving gifts in return. (However, the emperor of Japan [called Ten-nou] has nothing to do with this diplomatic relationships. This title of King of Japan is not welcomed by noblemen around the emperor in Kyoto.)

To make clear the difference from the Japanese pirates, Japanese merchants authorized for the trade are obliged to carry a licence plate or a tally stick(called Kangoufu) each.

Till 1640's when Ming is replaced by Ching, Japan sends official envoys for trade total 19 times to Ming.

1404: The Yongle Emperor of Ming authorizes King of Okinawa as his subject to allow trade with Ming.

Till 1866, the Ming and then the Ching Dynasties have sent envoys to Okinawa total 23 times for an Imperial investiture to attest successive Kings of Okinawa.

Till 1879, the Okinawa Kingdom has sent official envoys for trade total 173 times to the Ming and then total 68 times to the Ching.

1405: The Ming Court starts to send a series of seven naval expeditions led by Zheng He (Tei-wa in Japanese) to reach Indochina, Indonesia, India, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia of East Africa. This naval project has continued till 1433. However, this historical voyage is not intended to directly occupy overseas territory but to persuade overseas nations to bring a tribute to the emperor of Ming like in the case of the Kingdom of Okinawa.

1534: An imperial envoy from the Ming called Chin-Kan (in Japanese, [陳侃]) writes an official report called Shi-Ryukyu--Roku (so called in Japanese, [使琉球録]) where he mentions some islands that are identified as part of the Senkaku Islands.

In this report, Chin-Kan describes it was after his ship with that Okinawa people on board (returning to mainland Okinawa) passed an island which was closer to mainland Okinawa than the Senkaku Islands that the Okinawa people showed great relief, as if they had returned to their home territory.

(So, China today claims that Okinawa people did not regard the Senkaku Islands as being within their territory, since Okinawa people did not show great relief when they saw the Senkaku Islands. But, it is a very subjective remark and personal judgment by the envoy Chin-Kan himself.)

1562: An imperial envoy from the Ming called Kaku-Jyo-Rin (in Japanese, [郭汝霖]) also writes a report ([重編使琉球録])and mentions some islands that are identified as part of the Senkaku Islands in his official report. Kaku expresses the Senkaku Islands as a kind of border for the Ming.

(So, China today claims that the Senkaku Islands were regarded as border islands on their side by Ming. However, without regarding the Senkaku Islands as Ming's, the Islands could be mentioned in a report as a place critical to take note of for the defence. Especially, the Ming's defence was not against a subject kingdom of Okinawa but Japanese pirates. What was needed to be described is not a border but a defence line.)

1562: Admiral Hu Zongxian or Ko-Sou-Ken (in Japanese, [胡宗憲]) of the Ming issues a now-famous map called Cyu-Kai-Zu (in Japanese, [籌海図編]) prepared by scholar Tei-Jyaku-So (in Japanese, [鄭若曽]) where a sea area including the Senkaku Islands is specified as a kind of national defence line.

(So, China today claims that the Senkaku Islands were regarded as border islands on their side by Ming.)

However, in this map, an island, called Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [鶏籠山]) then regarded as belonging to Taiwan by the Ming Court in Beijing is also put down.

(Accordingly, Japanese experts claim that this map does not exclusively include islands within the territory of Ming, since Taiwan then did not belong to the Ming empire. Especially, the Ming's defence was not against a subject kingdom of Okinawa but Japanese pirates. What was needed to be described is not a border but a defence line.)

1592 and 1598: The then samurai ruler of Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi launches war with the Ming (partly because Ming treated Hideyoshi as subject King of Japan and proud Hideyoshi go angry), taking a route to Beijing through the Korean Peninsula, though this campaign with 100,000 and more samurai troops were terminated due to death of Hideyoshi of illness.

The Kingdom Okinawa joined this Hideyoshi's campaign on the logistics side.

1609: Samurai lord Shimazu in southern Kyusyu of Japan proper invaded Okinawa with 3000 samurai troops to establish its occupancy in Okinawa islands. The king of Okinawa however is allowed to survive as a subject to the Shimazu clan who is a subject of the samurai king (shogun) Tokugawa in Edo (Tokyo).

Since then, the Kingdom Okinawa was subject to both the Ming Court of China and the Shimazu clan of Japan.

1614: A regional official document of Jyugen (in Japanese, [壽源県志]) prefecture of the Ming is issued but does not include the Senkaku Islands as part of its territory, while Jyugen prefecture could cover the sea area near the Senkaku Islands as its administrative territory.

1644: The Ming Dynasty of the Han Chinese collapsed; the Ching Dynasty of Manchu was established in mainland China. As Manchu is traditionally from Manchuria or currently the north east region of China, the Ching Court in Beijing abolished or changed many Han customs and ways of administration.

1683: The Ching Dynasty officially takes Taiwan into its territory.

1684: The Ching Dynasty releases an official document ([福建通志]) on Fujian Province facing the East China Sea. In this document, the Senkaku Islands are not included in the administrative region of the Fujian Province government.

1717: An official document of Shora (in Japanese, [諸羅県志]) prefecture of Taiwan Province is released to define the north border of Taiwan at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1718: An official document of Neitoku (in Japanese, [寧徳県志]) prefecture of Fujian Province is released but does not include the Senkaku Islands as part of its territory, while Neitoku prefecture could cover the sea area near the Senkaku Islands as its administrative territory.

1765: The Taiwan local government issues an official document called Zokusyudai-Taiwan-Fushi (in Japanese, [続修台湾府志]) where the north border of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1838: The Ching Court issues an official document ([重纂福建通志福建海防全図]) with an attached map named the Fujian Naval Defence General Map in which however the Senkaku Islands are not included.

1840: The Taiwan local government issues an official document called the Taiwan 17 Country Defencce Status ([台湾道姚瑩稟奏台湾十七国設防状]) where the north border of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1868: The Tokugawa samurai regime fell in Japan. Samurais against the Tokugawa clan forms new government with the emperor at the political core of the nation Japan. Accordingly, all the samurai lords and clans in Japan, including Shimazu in southern Kyusyu with Okinawa belongs to the new government in Tokyo.

1871:An water administration agency of the Taiwan local government issues an official document called the Tansuichou-shi (in Japanese, [淡水庁志]) where the north border of the sea territory of Taiwan is set at the Dai-Kei-Ko-San (in Japanese, [大鶏籠山]) Island which is in the south of the Senkaku Islands.

1879: The Empire of Japan changes status of the Kingdom of Okinawa into Okinawa Prefecture of the Empire.

1884: Tatsushiro Koga, a resident in Naha City of Okinawa, explored the Senkau Islands for possible business.

1885: Tatsushiro Koga files an application to the Government in Tokyo for approval of his landing on the Senkaku Islands to cultivate them. The then Okinawa governor also requests the Imperial Government of Japan to declare territorial jurisdiction over the Senkaku Islands. However the Government in Tokyo does not approve it, since it is unclear whether or not the Senkaku Islands does not belong to Ching or any other sovereignty. Yet, the then Interior Ministry in Tokyo rules that the Okinawa governor may set a land mark indicating occupancy of the Empire of Japan in the Senkaku Islands after the prefectural government confirms the state of the Islands as no man's land.

1894: The Japan-Sino War erupts.

1895: On January 14, the Empire of Japan takes the Senkaku Islands into its territory after investigations of the state of the Islands.

Tatsushiro Koga starts his business to build a factory to process fish in the Senkaku Islands. His business continues till 1940 or so with 200 or so empolyees and their families living in the Islands. This is the first record of residence and business performed on the Senkaku Islands in the known history of Japan, China, and Taiwan.

1895: The Japan-Sino War ends with victory of the Empire of Japan. The Empire and the Ching Dynasty concludes the Treaty of Shimonoseki on April 17. Taiwan is transferred to the Empire, according to the Treaty. However, it does not mention the Senkaku Islands (as the Ching Court has already admitted the Islands as Japan's).

1941: The Empire of Japan embarks in a war with the United Sates, which constitutes the Pacific Stage of WWII.

1945: The Empire of Japan surrenders the United Sates who occupies whole Japan, including Okinawa Prefecture and its Senkaku Islands.

1947: The new Constitution of Japan is enforced to replace the Imperial Constitution.

1949: The Chinese Communist Party takes over the Chinese Continent through the Chinese Civil War in 1949 to build the People's Republic of China; accordingly the Chinese Nationalist Party moves to Taiwan to build the Republic of China.

1951: Occupation of Japan by the U.S. ends with conclusion of the Peace Treaty signed in San Francisco. However, Okinawa Prefecture, including its Senkaku Islands, is still kept under administration of the United States.

1953: On January 8, the People's Daily published by the Chinese Communist Party presents documentary material to explain a state of Okinawa and an American policy on Okinawa where the Senkaku Islands are clearly stated as belonging to Okinawa Prefecture.

(Click to enlarge.)

http://www.jcp.or.jp/seisaku/2010/20101004_senkaku_rekisii/19530108_jn.jpg

1968: A committee for Far-East economy of the United Nations explores the East China Sea to find great reserves of crude oil.

1971: In April, Taiwan starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.

In December, China starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.

1972: On May 15, the U.S. returns administrative right of Okinawa Prefecture, including the Senkaku Islands, to the Japanese Government in Tokyo.

1972: In September, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanak visits Beijing to talk with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Zedong to establish diplomatic relationships between the two nations. Japan severs official connections with Taiwan.

However, in their meeting with Kakuei Tanaka, both Chou and Mao avoid discussion on the Senkaku Islands, though Tanaka raises the issue to Chou.

1989: The so-called Tiananmen massacre occurs in Beijing where many students in demonstrations requesting democracy are attacked and arrested by the Chinese military and police.

After this incident, the Chinese Communist Government starts to educate Chinese children and students following an anti-Japanese policy. The Chinese leaders decide to present Japan as an enemy for students to attack. Students with any complaints to the Chinese Communist Party are not allowed to criticize the Party but encouraged to direct their anger to Japan.

2010: In the wake of violation of Japan's territorial water and the Japan-China agreement on fishing around the Senkaku Islands by a Chinese illegal trawler whose skipper is arrested but released by the Japanese Government, the U.S. Government confirms that the Japan-U.S. Security Arrangements apply to the Senkaku Islands.

In summary, no past documents and maps officially published in China in these 500 years do not state that the Senkaku Islands belong to China.

Rather, some such documents clearly exclude the Senkaku Islands from a relevant administrative territory of a publishing local government.

But, from the beginning, a Chinese empire had no clear distinction between administrative areas of the empire and tributary nations and between its defence line and its border. If people who belonged to an empire had lived in a certain place and there had been a need to protect them by force, the place would be regarded as its territory.

In neither this traditional context nor a modern concept, China has never established its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands. Therefore, though the Islands are so far from Japan proper, they belong to Japan, since they were a familiar place for Japanese envoys and Okinawa envoys sailing to and back from China passing the Islands far more often than Chinese envoys did since 1372.

Now you know why the Senkaku Islands do not belong to China and Taiwan. But, how do the Islands belong to Japan?

It is because the Senkaku Islands belong to Okinawa (Ryukyu). There is an island called Ishigaki-jima, though so close to Taiwan, where Okinawa residents or fishermen have lived from ancient days. And, there is a strong ocean stream from the Ishigaki-jima Island to the Senkaku Islands. Fishermen in Ishigaki can easily reach around Senkaku to do their business. It is reflected in an old song of Okinawa.

In addition, the Chinese name of the Senkaku Islands meaning an island to nagle for fish is reasonably thought to come after an old calling of the Islands by Okinawa/Ishigaki people.

Put simply, the Senkaku Islands issue is not the one between Tokyo, the Senkaku Islands, and Shangahi but between the Ishigaki-jima Island, the Senkaku Islands, and Beijing. Check the map!

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Japanese female jazz pianist Ms. Toshiko Akiyoshi said that she has found something wrong in Japan (as she lives in New York).

"Once young Japanese women surely said, 'I am sorry,' when they passed by someone close to each other. But nowadays I have not seen such young women in Japan. They have become indifferent with such a traditional code of conduct," she said.

Indeed, the Bible reads that when men came to choose their wives by their appearance, the world started to corrupt.

So, a priest must not have a wife who is more attractive than any of female members of his church.

This is a very difficult condition to fulfill, though St. Peter seems to have come up with a very unique solution some 1950 years ago.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjIjK1_06fI&feature=related

A long yellow road was there in New York in 1960 as played by a Japanese musician...

It was only for one Japanese woman who learnt how to play a piano from a Chinese in Manchuria before WWII and from Americans in Massachusetts after WWII.

No one in Japan would still think in their heart that it is possible that one Japanese woman can learn how to play a piano from a Chinese in Manchuria before WWII and from Americans in Massachusetts after WWII to play a long yellow road in New York in 1960.

But then, what road would the God prepare for you, believe or not?)

Mar 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Mar 10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

Mar 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

Mar 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

"Fear them not therefore"

The Tokyo Tree Tower Now 497 Meters High
While NEW York WTC's Roof at 417 Meters

Snowing Tuesday
(neige mardi)

It snowed today in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefectures of Japan.

The summer and the winter are encroaching on spring and autumn.

When climate conditions change in a vast scale on Earth, such a phenomenon can happen.

Now, ranking of countries Chinese tourists and sightseers most visited in 2009:
#1...Korea
#2...Malaysia
#3...JAPAN

More than one million Chinese enjoyed their freedom of spending money in each country.

SECTION I: JAPAN, America, and China

1) Chinese Anti-Japan Education over Centuries

Anti-Japan demonstrations and protests in China are now changing its target from Japan to the Chinese Communist Government.

Among so many anti-Japan banners, Chinese students and other protesters have come to hoist anti-corruption and anti-authoritarianism banners.

Chinese leaders and politicians have long, say, since the 19th century, educated children and students following an anti-Japan policy.

It is because the Empire Japan defeated the Ching Dynasty in the Japan-Sino War in 1895 to shame great and arrogant China that had assumed its unchallenged status as the center of civilization and the sole super power in Asia. For Chinese elites in any era or under any dynasty or regime in these 2500 years, China is No.1 and must be No.1 in Asia if not in the world. Even when Mongolians and Manchus established their empires (Yuan and Ching) in the Chinese Continent, their leaders and elites followed suit.

But, the Empire Japan defeated the Ching Dynasty in the Japan-Sino War in 1895 to shame great and arrogant China. Since then, Chinese elites started to instill anti-Japanese views into young people as revenge to Japanese and as a way of ruling Chinese.

Yet, it is not difficult for ordinary Chinese people to see that their true enemy is rich elites in Beijing, Shanghai, and any other cities but not kind, honest, and courageous Japanese.

2) Exchange Rates Tell

Before the high economic growth period or in early 1960's, one U.S. dollar earned in America brought 360 yen into Japan. Today, a dollar means only 80 yen.

Before the high economic growth period in China, one U.S. dollar meant 1 to 2 yuan. Today, a dollar earned in America brings back 6 yuan to China! It must be 0.25 to 0.5 yuan!!

Ordinary Americans have no interest in exchange rates. But, it shows a clue why President Mr. Barack Obama has failed in solving the unemployment issue. One U.S. dollar must mean just 1.5 to 2.0 yuan for Chinese.

So, now iPods are manufactured in China but not in the U.S.

According to a Japanese researcher, there are several reasons why the U.S. has failed in this rarely-foolish G2 relationships.

a) President Clinton launched strategic partnership with China against Japan in 1990's.

b) President G.W. Bush needed help from China as a de-facto ally against Islamic threats in 2000's.

c) Congress has been contaminated and influenced by lobbyists China employed in a large scale in these decades.

d) American voters and consumers have not realized that a golden or gilded age for the financial sector and Wall Street is passing by.

(http://www.adpweb.com/eco/)

The next American President must be back to Christianity but not heading for China so often as his/her predecessors.

3) States of Mental Health

China:
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At the same time, many mentally healthy people are being sent to psychiatric hospitals by people who have conflicting interests with them, therefore unnecessarily being subjected to confinement and painful treatments...

Jin Zhong, Editor-in-Chief of Hong Kong's Open Magazine, said, "The Chinese Communist Party has always been using this method to punish political dissidents, although it is not limited to political dissidents anymore nowadays. They found it more convenient to use this method than going through legal procedures to punish people. They have been doing this all along."

The report also says that according to statistics published by China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention in early 2009, there were more than 100 million mental patients in China. Research conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows mental illness accounts for 20 percent of all illnesses in China, more than twice the world average. WHO also predicted the percentage would grow to 25 percent in the next 20 years.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/44558/
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America:
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The following are the latest statistics available from the National Institute of Mental Health Disorders (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
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- An estimated 26 percent of Americans ages 18 and older - about one in four (or over 57.7 million) adults - suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.

- Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. In particular, depressive illnesses tend to co-occur with substance abuse and anxiety disorders.

- Approximately 20.9 million American adults - or 9.5 percent - ages 18 and over, will suffer from a depressive illness (major depression, bipolar disorder, or dysthymia) each year.

http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/healthcare_services/mental_health/mental_health_about/about_mental_health/mental_health_statistics/Pages/index.aspx
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JAPAN:
For each year in the past consecutive 12 years, the number of those who committed a suicide has reached 30,000 and more in Japan.

SECTION II: Government-Issued Notes

A notable Japanese economist, Mr. Yoichi Takahashi, proposed an idea of Japanese Government's issuing yen notes worth 25 trillion yen ($300 billion) to fill the gap between a potential of industrial supply and a potential of purchasing power.

Yet, more notable senior economist Mr. Haruki Niwa scolded Mr. Takahashi, since his idea is too timid.

According to Mr. Niwa's theory, the Japanese Government should print and provide yen notes to the extent that the concept of a surplus and a deficit of national budget become meaningless.

The deflation/inflation gap should be carefully measured. Based on an analysis of an economic/financial state, the Government should supply an appropriate amount of funds (for not only businesses but also individuals with poor purchasing capability) through electronic banking systems with minimal costs.

So, I have presented an idea of "Separation of National Budget from Taxation and Issuance of Government Notes."

With this huge industrial power of Japan, which has actually made China the third largest economy in the world, a large scale use of government electronic notes for execution of its national budget will not disturb the whole economy. Only, we may see a trend of the yen weakening in the market to 90 or 100 yen per dollar.

It is said that government notes will function well as much as central bank notes.

But, if people find that there is no need to allow the central bank to issue money notes, they will start to do away with commercial banks. It is the end of prosperity of Wall Street and City.

That is why most of economists deny effect and effectiveness of government notes in any country.

SECTION III: China, Chu-Goku, or Shina

It is only after the end of WWII that Japanese started to call China "Chu-goku" in Japanese.

Before, Japanese called China "Shina" which the Chinese Communist Government abhorred.

So, the Chinese Communist Government asked the Japanese Government to call China "Chu-goku" according to the official Kanji expression of "China."

The English calling China is based on the first Chinese dynasty Qin (221 BC - 206 BC).

The traditional Japanese calling of China is "Shina" based on Qin or "Kara" based on the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907).

However, the Kanji letter "Shi" means "support/branch" while "Chu" means "central/inside." "Chu-goku" means literally a central country.

However, "Na" of "Shina" literally means "beautiful, soft, or plenty." The Kanji expression of "Shina" was ironically first used when a Chinese Buddhist translated a Buddhist creed imported from India during an era of the Sui Dynasty (581 - 619). It must be also noted that this Chinese version of the creed was imported to Japan soon after the translation was completed. So, it is a transliteration of "China staana," an expression of Sanskrit (an Indian language) meaning China; Kanji "Shina" have no special meaning.

But, no Japanese media today use "Shina" to mean China. No textbooks used in Japanese school have expression "Shina" to mean China. Yet, before the end of WWII, "Shina" is an official way of calling China in the Empire of Japan.

Even when the Chinese Revolution occurred in 1911 and the Republic of China asked the Imperial Government of Japan to use the calling of "Chu-goku" or "Chu-ka," the Empire did not accept it, since "Chu-goku" or "Chu-ka," meaning the world central country, sounded so arrogant.

Only nationalists or some type of scholars in Japan seem to use "Shina" for China as the norm. And, leftist Japanese never use "Shina."

In my opinion, we have to use "Chai-na" in Japanese using Katakana letters.

It is so, since "Chu-goku" fits Japan nowadays as its appellation.

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Animals which appear in the four Gospels:

Camel - Matthew 3:4; 19:24; 23:24; Mark 1:6; 10:25; Luke 18:25
Cow - Luke 14:5
Dove –Matthew 3:16; 10:16; John 2:16
Dog - Matthew 15:26-27; Luke 16:21
Donkey - John 12:14
Fish - Matthew 14:17; 17:27; Luke 24:42; John 21:9
Fox - Matthew 8:20; Luke 13:32
Gnat - Matthew 23:24
Goat - Matthew 25:33
Locust - Matthew 3:4
Maggot - Mark 9:48
Moth - Matthew 6:19
Pig - Matthew 7:6; 8:31
Pigeon - Luke 2:24
Rooster - Matthew 26:34
Scorpion - Luke 10:19
Serpent - Matthew 7:10; Luke 11:11; John 3:14
Sheep - Matthew 25:33; Luke 15:4; John 10:7
Sparrow - Matthew 10:29; 10:31; Luke 12:6; 12:7
Turtledove - Luke 2:24
Wolf/Wolves - Matthew 7:15; 10:16; Luke 10:3; John 10:12

And, a human being.

Including human beings, only 22 animal species appear in the Gospels (tough some might be missing for some limitations and various versions of the Book).

And, the last species, the human being, is divided into Christ Jesus and others.

Anyway, that is why I seldom mention any animals except the human being.

So, I may be obliged to ask you which of the 22 animal species you like the best or as the second best, but not to judge your personality. Which, you "those more valuable than sparrows" according to Christ Jesus?

(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/jojoh/satonoaki.html

Japanese villages mostly surrounded by mountains were so silent in autumn in the past before a motorization that began for real in 1960's. From those villages many young men were mobilized to military to fight American troops in southern seas during WWII.)

Mat 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Monday, October 25, 2010

"a camel to go through the eye of a needle"

Yes, Yes...

That is...

The Tokyo Tree Tower under Construction Yesterday.

Positively Black Monday
(exotiques lundi noir)

In order to save the poor, you have to make the rich poor.

In order to save the nature, you have to make the mankind poor.

The first step should be to make rich companies and rich countries poor.

However, the rich are strong; the mankind is strong; and rich companies and rich countries are strong, so that no one can force them to get poor.

Consequently, no one can save the poor and the nature, and even take the first step.

In this way, the godless world is going to be doomed.

Yet, righteous people will be saved by mercy of the God.

What is a state of being rich? If you can find anybody poorer than you, you are rich.

SECTION I: THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE

The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson was first published in 1992:

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Drawing on a variety of examples such as the decline of bird populations in the United States, the extinction of many species of freshwater fish in Africa and Asia, and the rapid disappearance of flora and fauna as the rain forests are cut down, he poignantly describes the death throes of the living world's diversity--projected to decline as much as 20 percent by the year 2020...

Wilson’s masterwork is essential reading for those who care about preserving the world biological variety and ensuring our planet’s health.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674058170
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His book was translated into two volumes of a Japanese version and published in 1995 and then in 2004. Accordingly, I purchased them at 2400 yen around 2005.

(http://www.honya-town.co.jp/hst/HTdispatch?nips_cd=997880644X)

I don't know if Mr. Wilson's prediction, "the death throes of the living world's diversity--projected to decline as much as 20 percent by the year 2020," is still unchallenged. But, his following estimation seems to be still supported by researchers in the world: To date total 1.4 million species have been found (as given a scientific name each); the total number of species living in the world is between 10 million and 100 million, but nobody knows to which the true number is closer, 10 million or 100 million.

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Estimates of the present global macroscopic species diversity vary from 2 million to 100 million, with a best estimate of somewhere near 13–14 million, the vast majority arthropods.[22] Diversity appears to increase continually in the absence of natural selection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity
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Mr. Wilson also pointed that indigenous knowledge on herbs credited with healing powers is rapidly decreasing and lost. For example, through 1980's in the Borneo (Kalimantan) island, the Penan who are the most traditional and nomadic of Borneo's tribes left the jungle, forests, and fields to live in villages. Among 10,000 members of the Penan, only 500 have remained in the traditional environment of living in the nature. Accordingly, their memory on plants and animals with medical benefits is getting obscure.

http://www.borneoproject.org/article.php?id=153

It is very ironical for drug-manufacturing companies that are developing and producing new medicines by leveraging chemical compounds included in those plants and animals.

Anyway, I spent $30 several years ago for The Diversity of Life written by Mr. Edward O. Wilson, tough I do not go to Nagoya, Japan, for COP10 this year.

SECTION II: Hong Kong News on the Senkaku Incident

A Hong Kong media company presented an animation news report on a Chinese fishing boat that rammed itself against two ships of Japan Coast Guard patrolling around Japan's Senkaku Islands on September 7.

The Japanese Government is yet to make public a video taken by Japan Coast Guard at site, because behaviors of Chinese fishermen on the boat were so violent that it is feared that the Japanese people will get all the more angry at China when they watch the video. It is said that four staff of Japan Coast Guard fell into to sea due to too hard an onrush of the Chinese fishing boat against each of the two Japan Coast Guard ships. What is worse, it is suspected that the four Japan Coast Guard staff in the sea were further attacked by the Chinese skipper and fishermen in their boat.

This Hong Kong media's report illustrates the moment the four staff fell into the sea due to shock of the intentional collision.

http://v.ifeng.com/news/world/201009/d63af908-f052-482c-a378-3490350def12.shtml

My interpretation of the incident in the Japanese sea territory around the Senkaku Islands is as follows:

APPENDIX. Historical Analysis on the Senkaku Islands

1274: The Yuan Empire of China, a successor of Genghis Khan's Mongolian empire, launches war against Japan, for Japan governed by the Hojyo samurai clan refused to be subject to the Yuan emperor. So, Yuan of Mongolians dispatches 30,000 troops to Japan through the Korean Peninsula; they are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu due to partly a typhoon and mostly courageous samurais.

1281: The Yuan Empire this time mobilizes 40,000 troops for a route from the Korean Peninsula and 100,000 troops for another route through the East China Sea to northern Kyusyu. They are however destroyed when landing on northern Kyusyu due to partly a typhoon and mostly courageous samurais.

(Some Chinese today claim that the Yuan Dynasty occupied the Senkaku Islands as its own territory. But, the fact seems only that the Yuan fleets carrying 100,000 troops just sailed over the East China Sea to Kyusyu of Japan. And only a few could sail back after the failure in invading Japan proper or mainland Japan that includes the Kyusyu Island.)

In the 14th Century: Japanese pirates called Wakou intensifies their activities attacking coastal areas of China facing the East China Sea.

(Click to enlarge.)

http://www.jcp.or.jp/seisaku/2010/20101004_senkaku_rekisii/19530108_jn.jpg

1968: A committee for Far-East economy of the United Nations explores the East China Sea to find great reserves of crude oil.

1971: In April, Taiwan starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.

In December, China starts to claim its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands.

1972: On May 15, the U.S. returns administrative right of Okinawa Prefecture, including the Senkaku Islands, to the Japanese Government in Tokyo.

1972: In September, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanak visits Beijing to talk with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Zedong to establish diplomatic relationships between the two nations. Japan severs official connections with Taiwan.

However, in their meeting with Kakuei Tanaka, both Chou and Mao avoid discussion on the Senkaku Islands, though Tanaka raises the issue to Chou.

1989: The so-called Tiananmen massacre occurs in Beijing where many students in demonstrations requesting democracy are attacked and arrested by the Chinese military and police.

After this incident, the Chinese Communist Government starts to educate Chinese children and students following an anti-Japanese policy. The Chinese leaders decide to present Japan as an enemy for students to attack. Students with any complaints to the Chinese Communist Party are not allowed to criticize the Party but encouraged to direct their anger to Japan.

2010: In the wake of violation of Japan's territorial water and the Japan-China agreement on fishing around the Senkaku Islands by a Chinese illegal trawler whose skipper is arrested but released by the Japanese Government, the U.S. Government confirms that the Japan-U.S. Security Arrangements apply to the Senkaku Islands.

In summary, no past documents and maps officially published in China in these 500 years do not state that the Senkaku Islands belong to China.

Rather, some such documents clearly exclude the Senkaku Islands from a relevant administrative territory of a publishing local government.

But, from the beginning, a Chinese empire had no clear distinction between administrative areas of the empire and tributary nations and between its defence line and its border. If people who belonged to an empire had lived in a certain place and there had been a need to protect them by force, the place would be regarded as its territory.

In neither this traditional context nor a modern concept, China has never established its territorial jurisdiction on the Senkaku Islands. Therefore, though the Islands are so far from Japan proper, they belong to Japan, since they were a familiar place for Japanese envoys and Okinawa envoys sailing to and back from China passing the Islands far more often than Chinese envoys did since 1372.

Now you know why the Senkaku Islands do not belong to China and Taiwan. But, how do the Islands belong to Japan?

It is because the Senkaku Islands belong to Okinawa (Ryukyu). There is an island called Ishigaki-jima, though so close to Taiwan, where Okinawa residents or fishermen have lived from ancient days. And, there is a strong ocean stream from the Ishigaki-jima Island to the Senkaku Islands. Fishermen in Ishigaki can easily reach around Senkaku to do their business. It is reflected in an old song of Okinawa.

In addition, the Chinese name of the Senkaku Islands meaning an island to nagle for fish is reasonably thought to come after an old calling of the Islands by Okinawa/Ishigaki people.

Put simply, the Senkaku Islands issue is not the one between Tokyo, the Senkaku Islands, and Shangahi but between the Ishigaki-jima Island, the Senkaku Islands, and Beijing. Check the map!

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Every bilogist knows that there are about 40 million bactria (Saikin in Japanese) within soil of 1 gram.

You can take 1 gram or a very slight amount of soil between your finger from the ground to collect about 40 million bactria, since one bactrium is a few micrometres in length.

(The 1 yen coin of Japan weighs just 1 gram. A penny of America weighs 2.5 grams.)

Our oldest ancestors left bactria more than 2.1 billion years ago to be an eukaryote (Shin-kaku-seibutsu in Japanese), an organism whose cells contain complex structures enclosed within membranes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote

But still we can find "typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all, there are approximately five nonillion (5×10^30) bacteria on Earth."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria

What I want to say is that rich people, rich companies, rich nations, and rich mankind will be eventualy put down to a state of bactria by the God.

And righteous people will enjoy glory in a new sphere or the kingdom of God, starting as a kind of an eukaryotes.

Indeed bactria today do not know that the oldest and remotest ancestors, namely eukaryotes, of human beings (hito in Japanese) were a kind of relatives to them, living togather with ancestors of bactria for 1.7 billion years after the emergence of a life form on the earth 3.8 billion years ago.

And, a bactrium seems to have no chance to grow to be a human being at all, though an eukaryote could eventually.

Yet, our ancestors had to leave ancestors of chimpanzees (chinpanji in Japanese) to finally evolve into the genuine mankind 6 million years ago, after leaving those of orangutans (oran-utan in Japanese) and then gorillas (gorira in Japanese).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Chimpanzee

An eukaryote has not become a human being to be made suffer by other or rich human beings (kane-mochi in Japanese).

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgyZCgw6kdw&feature=related

To our astonishment, once there was a band called the Monkeys in America...

Usually an animal looks like first trying to see how harmful a person approaching is...since the animal can be eaten by the person if not in a reverse case.)

Mar 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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