Mt. Tsukuba, 880 meters high, 70 Km northeast of the Tokyo Station; there is a great shrine situated on a straight line imaginarily drawn between the summits of Mt. Fuji and Mt. Tsukuba since antiquity. This shrine happens to be in the woods spotted in the left-hand side of the above picture. Accordingly, Mt. Fuji, the shrine, and Mt. Tsukuba constitutes a sacred border. As for Mt. Asama, it is a little obscure, though its summit can be spotted even from an old post called Urawa, a town adjacent to the Tokyo metropolitan area. A Shrine Teaching Humility, An Edifice Teaching Hubris
A certain Japanese TV critic always says that China is now the established sponsor of the U.S., since China has purchased a huge amount of Treasury bonds.
The U.S. has no way but to befriend and please China.
Yet, it is just one or two years ago that China became the largest purchaser of U.S. Government bonds. Till ten, Japan had been the biggest sponsor of the U.S. for so many years. And, Japan still keeps almost the same amount of American bonds as China does, while contributing to growth of the American industry and employing so many Americans unlike China
Such a Japanese critic might dislike or hate America and Japan, so that he wants China to make Japan and America its subjects. It is a typical of mental tendency found among Japanese leftists and socialists. They do not respect China, but dislike or hate America and Japan so much as to praise China as the sponsor of America.
One problem is that such a critic never loses a chance to make a TV appearance. It is probably because Japanese TV audiences, in general, from the beginning never believe whatever TV critics say in a TV program. Japanese audiences simply like to see somebody on TV criticizing the Establishment of Japan and America. As long as such critics criticize the Establishment of Japan and America, Japanese audiences are tolerant toward those TV guys praising China, though everything has its limit.
CHAPTER I: Followers of Twittering Politicians
The specific numbers of followers of Twitters posted by Japanese politicians are as follows:
1...Yukio Hatoyama...671088...Former P.M. (DPJ)
2...Hideo Higashikokubara...277749...Former Miyazaki Pref. Governor
3...Ren-Ho...209679...Female minister (DPJ)
4...Kazuhiro Haraguchi...179721...Former minister (DPJ)
5...Yuriko Koike...99549...Female former minister (LDP)
6...Sadakazu Tanigaki...93393...Party President (LDP)
7...Taro Kono...82168...Party executive (LDP)
8...Senba Kaientai...71262...Group supporting Toru Hashimoto, Osaka Governor
9...Ichita Yamamoto...65606...Party executive (LDP)
10...Keiichiro Asao...48903...Lower House member (Your Party)
11...Toshio Tamogami...47633...Ex-general of Self Defense Force
12...Satsuki Katayama...40111...Female party executive (LDP)
13...Hiroshige Seko...39201...Party executive (LDP)
14...Kenzo Fujisue...36810...Party executive (DPJ)
15...Hiroshi Nakata...36467...Ex-Mayor of Yokohama
http://meyou.jp/ranking/follower_politician
CHAPTER II: On the Third Day of the Sacred Three Days of 2011
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"So, who's shrine is this? Where are descendants of the gods enshrined here?"
CHAPTER III: Ezra Vogel
Mr. Vogel became too famous as an expert on Japan. Accordingly, Chinese spies, agents, experts, professors, business and bureaucratic elites must have come to him to establish a special relationship with him.
Those Chinese, using fluent English, must have told Mr. Vogel that the Senkaku Islands belong to China; Chinese businesses have never infringed Japanese copyrights and stolen Japanese industrial properties; the Imperial troops killed 300,000 citizens in Nanjing; the Empire of Japan started the war around Shanghai in 1937; Chinese intellectuals taught Japanese elites new Kanji expression to adopt Western cultural concepts first imported to China and then to the Empire of Japan in the 19th century; and probably the Qing Dynasty won the 1895 Japanese-Sino War, which are all lies.
It is said that Chinese businesses abuse Japanese copyrights and patents worth $100 billion every year, without paying due patent royalties to Japanese authors, right owners, and inventors..
Japan: From China War to China Peace
February 20, 2007
Speaker
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
And what might be a tripwire--would it be the Senkaku Islands, or Yasukuni?
"There's no single thing now that would be that tripwire," said Professor Vogel. "Probably the main thing, my guess would be, would be the domestic politics in China that would make it very difficult for some leader to manage."
The current leadership, the leaders who came in after Deng Xiaoping, are people "who have come up through the system, bureaucrats who have risen to the top, and they've learned how to manage things well, but they don't have that extra power that enabled the great revolutionary generation, like a founder of a Japanese company, to make bold decisions. So I fear that if the Chinese leaders felt threatened, they might clamp down on Japan."
What is the status now of the textbook issue?
Specialists who examined Japanese textbooks report that they do talk about Japanese aggression into China and the Nanjing massacre, though "they do so only very briefly," Professor Vogel replied.
"When many Japanese students graduate and go to China, and Chinese say 'Did you know about XYZ?," many Japanese have to say 'No, I'm sorry I didn't know about it.' I think that you could say the textbooks did not give the kind of detail that prepares their students to answer the accusations some Chinese students make."
Would it be plausible to say that China is the second most important relationship for Japan, after the U.S., but Japan is not necessarily the second most important relationship for China?
"I think for China in fact Japan probably is still the second most important country," Professor Vogel responded. "The last time I saw the figures, almost half of Chinese exports go through foreign-owned companies in China. And a very large part of those are Japanese companies. So even for their exports, China is still very heavily dependent on Japan.
"As you know, many Japanese business people the last several years have had as their investment strategy 'China plus one.'" They keep a factory in Vietnam, or India, or Malaysia or Thailand so if there are problems in China they can move more manufacturing from China to somewhere else very quickly.
He concluded, "We need wise leadership in both countries to manage relations between them, for there are real dangers, and there is also great potential for widespread cooperation in keeping with their deep common interests in peace and prosperity."
http://www.japansociety.org/japan_from_china_war_to_china_peace
If Mr. Vogel wants to understand Japan and China. He must put his feet into Japan's shoes or China's shoes, or otherwise assume he is either a Japanese or a Chinese to see reality correctly.
But, unfortunately, he seems to have chosen to be a Chinese eventually, but not perfect one, sine he looks like truly believing what genuine Chinese elites know to be untrue.
So, you had better read EEE-Reporter rather than Harvard books on Japan and China or CIA reports on Japan and China.
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It is the year of 596 that the first full-scale Buddhist temple (wooden), Hokkouji, was built in Nara, Japan.
It is the year of 637 that the first full-scale Christian church (wooden) was built in York, England, by King of Northumbria Oswald.
But, most of British elites and intellectuals think that their Christian tradition is older than the Japanese tradition in Buddhism.
This lack of understanding is still today reflected in their attitudes talking about Japan, as you see in The Economists, The Financial Times, and even in The New York Times.
Of course, it was 550 years before the birth of Christ Jesus that Confucius was born in China. But, subsequent wars and revolutions had almost totally harmed the tradition and spirit of great ancient Chinese philosophy in mainland China, though it was implanted in Japan as if fleeing the war-torn and dictator-oppressed Chinese minds.
What I want to say is that Japan can do what Anglo-Saxons and Chinese cannot do, as it has proven so many times in history. The point at issue is hubris of Anglo-Saxons and Chinese that cannot find any merit in Japanese humility.
To be succinct, Chinese have failed in Confucianism and Buddhism while Anglo-Saxons have failed in Christianity due to their hubris. But, Japanese have still a chance to succeed due to blessed environments natural and spiritual which make them humble like when being in a shinto shrine.
Anyway, remember that the first Buddhist temple was built in Japan in 596; the first Christian church in England in 637.
Luk 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
Luk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.