The Tokyo Imperial Palace Plaza
December 2010
The Space Linking the Tokyo Station to the Plaza
(I am sometimes confused about the direction to Tokyo Bay in this space. The Tokyo Station is on the Tokyo Bay side more than the Imperial Palace is, of course. But, as I know that the last shogun Yoshinobu fled the civil war being fought around Osaka by sea to directly land on the premises of the Edo Castle in 1868, I often feel that the Imperial Palace [Edo Castel] is closer to Tokyo Bay than the Tokyo Station is. But, people who see me a little confused tend to think that I am a kind of fool. What do you think about it? I meant the direction.)
Elites Read, Write, Speak, and Listen; Christ Jesus Speaks
When the United States formulated the following basement of its Constitution, it started to move away from a possibility of developing into a Christian kingdom.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
To your astonishment, from a religious point of view, the U.S. Constitution is a little anti-Christ.
But, it can be a Christian/Judaist complex nation.
Yet, will it be an anti-Islam secular nation?
Japan had Christian prime ministers in the past. I hope that the U.S. will have a Buddhist President someday, since it is not unconstitutional.
And, the Constitution of Japan in the 21st Century could start with the following Preamble...
We the people of Japan, in order to form a more perfect harmony, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings from Heaven to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for Japan of the 21st Century.
CHAPTER I: The Discourses of Mencius
Mencius said:
"A bureaucrat must be trusted by his king so as to rule a nation in a right manner.
Such a bureaucrat must be first trusted by his friends so as to be trusted by his king.
Such a bureaucrat must first serve and please his parents so as to be trusted by his friends.
Such a bureaucrat must first behave honestly and sincerely so as to serve and please his parents.
Such a bureaucrat must first know good from evil so as to behave honestly and sincerely.
This tells what the path of virtue and the moral principle for human beings are: the effort to know good from evil and behave honestly and sincerely based on the understanding of good and evil."
This teaching implies that being a king means to be served, respected, and revered by bureaucrats who, ideally, master the path of virtue and the moral principle.
Then what is the king expected to do with his subjects.
Mencius said:
"When his bureaucrat resigns from a post in the court for any reason to leave his kingdom,
the king should send him off as far as to a border to a neighboring nation;
the king should send before him other servants to the neighboring nation to praise him about; and
the king should preserve the residence and fields he had once provided for the leaving bureaucrat at least for three years since his resignation.
With this three-fold courtesy performed by the king to his subject, the king is so served, respected, and revered by his bureaucrats and subjects."
In this way, a kingdom prospers and enjoys peace with a great king, excellent and honest officials, and hard-working and law-abiding people.
But, what if a king and his servants get rotten and depraved?
It is time for revolution.
CHAPTER II: THE 2010 RANKING OF WORLD PUBLISHING
It is documents and documents that enable the large-scale complex mighty work and operation of governmental agencies, businesses, and other modern industrial and cultural activities of groups of people in a nation, a region, and on the globe.
Accordingly, publishing is a key factor to the global civilization of this era. How many influential publishing companies a nation has can be a measure for potential of the nation. In this context, the world is still dominated by
the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan. We may refer to them as "Culture G8."
...The Group...Country...Turnover in 2009...
1. Pearson... UK... 5,289.82 (million euros)
2. Reed Elsevier... UK/NL/USA... 5,024.34
2. Pearson Education... UK... 4,181.42
3. Thomson Reuters... USA... 3,812.59
4. Wolters Kluwer... NL... 3,425.00
5. Bertelsmann... Germany
5. Lexis Nexis... NL
6. Lagardère Publishing/Hachette Livre... France
6. Elsevier Science... UK/NL/USA
7. Grupo Planeta... Spain
7. Random House... USA
8. McGraw-Hill Education... USA
9. De Agostini Editore*... Italy
10. Holtzbrinck*... Germany
11. Cengage Learning (ex-Thomson Learning)... USA
12. Scholastic (corp.)... USA
12. Wolters Kluwer Legal Tax, & Regulatory Europe... NL
12. Bertelsmann Direct Group... Germany
13. Wiley... USA
14. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt... USA
14. Penguin... UK
15. Shueisha... Japan... 1,010.00
16. Shogakukan... Japan... 966.00
17. Kodansha... Japan... 943.00
17. Wolters Kluwer Tax, Accounting & Legal... NL
Using their 2009 figures as a basis, we list 80 companies whose total sales amounted to more than 150 million euros. They represent 50 publishing groups in 16 countries. Taken together, they had a combined turnover of 50.45 billion euros (slightly up from 49.56 billion in 2008), 58 per cent of which was achieved by the top ten conglomerates (compared to 57 per cent in 2008).
http://www.publishersweekly.com/binary-data/ARTICLE_ATTACHMENT/file/000/000/127-1.pdf
No Islamic nations are listed, though.
And, no Chinese nations are listed, either.
No Hindu publishing companies are listed.
No African nations are listed; no Latin American nations are listed.
It is indeed difficult to check arrogance of Europeans/Americans and Christians/Judaists.
That is also why I have to write this English blog as part of EEE-Publishing from around Tokyo.
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By the end of the last year, Japan Post Service sold 3.5 billion standard postcards, a little less than the 2009's record. Like Xmas cards in Europe and America, Japanese people like to exchange New Year's greeting cards with relatives, friends, old acquaintances, business partners, clients, and so on.
(If 10,000 yen is a price for one New Year's postcard instead of 50 yen, the total revenue would be 35 trillion yen or 0.4 trillion dollars...which would significantly improve the national budget of Japan.)
One example of standard New Year's cards is as follows:
(Printed and sold at a convenience shop nearby.)
Mt. Fuji, the rising sun, common phrases for celebrating a new year, and an animal symbolizing the new year according to an ancient tradition are key parts to be expressed there.
There are many Western economists, experts, and journalists writing about something on Japan who however have never seen what New Year's greeting cards are exchanged among Japanese people on New Year's holidays.
Conversely, do you believe Japanese experts on American and European economy who have never seen Xmas cards exchanged among Europeans/Americans?
Yet, I do not think Judaists ever exchange any postcards among themselves, since such religious postcards should not be delivered or relayed through hands of heathen.
(
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=uNIyZWviBV4&feature=fvw
Something in Jerusalem...)
Luk 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Luk 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luk 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Luk 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luk 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
December 2010
The Space Linking the Tokyo Station to the Plaza
(I am sometimes confused about the direction to Tokyo Bay in this space. The Tokyo Station is on the Tokyo Bay side more than the Imperial Palace is, of course. But, as I know that the last shogun Yoshinobu fled the civil war being fought around Osaka by sea to directly land on the premises of the Edo Castle in 1868, I often feel that the Imperial Palace [Edo Castel] is closer to Tokyo Bay than the Tokyo Station is. But, people who see me a little confused tend to think that I am a kind of fool. What do you think about it? I meant the direction.)
(Printed and sold at a convenience shop nearby.)
Mt. Fuji, the rising sun, common phrases for celebrating a new year, and an animal symbolizing the new year according to an ancient tradition are key parts to be expressed there.
There are many Western economists, experts, and journalists writing about something on Japan who however have never seen what New Year's greeting cards are exchanged among Japanese people on New Year's holidays.
Conversely, do you believe Japanese experts on American and European economy who have never seen Xmas cards exchanged among Europeans/Americans?
Yet, I do not think Judaists ever exchange any postcards among themselves, since such religious postcards should not be delivered or relayed through hands of heathen.
(http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=uNIyZWviBV4&feature=fvw
Something in Jerusalem...)
Luk 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Luk 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luk 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Luk 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luk 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.