In the Summer
On the Yaesu/Tokyo Bay side opposite to the Maru-no-uchi/Imperial Palace side
(Click to enlarge)The Cairo Day
It is now snowing around Tokyo.
A cable TV channel is reporting situations in Egypt.
Today, it is a public holiday in Japan.
And, the God has exercised His power with a miracle already today around me.
CHAPTER I: A Japanese Cameraman in Cairo
A Japanese traveling cameraman visited Cairo in 2001, or before the 9/11 Terror in the U.S.
So, he walked into an old lane deep into a residential area of Cairo.
He encountered an old woman sitting on the alley way between old residential buildings looking like a kind of ruins.
She looked up to see a camera the Japanese was carrying on his shoulder. It was the moment that she suddenly stood up, screaming loudly with full anger at him. It is as though she were saying, "I will kill you if you take any pictures here!" Though the Japanese cameraman could not understand Arabic, he could not miss her gesture with the hand moving before her neck horizontally. She must be shouting, "I will kill you if you take any pictures here!"
So, he left her and exited from the old lane, while observing other people around the old woman. They were all disabled persons, blind persons, sick persons, and very poor persons.
At the end of the day of sight-seeing Cairo, he felt that Cairo is a city that exhausts him, like Hanoi, Dhaka, and Peshawar. So, he confirmed that the reason why he continued his travel was to feel this sort of fatigue.
http://www.tabisora.com/travel/091.html
CHAPTER II: Japanese Learners in Cairo
The Japanese language department of Cairo University has a 35-years-long history. From the department, about 1,000 students have graduated. So, in last November they held a special symposium.
http://jfcairo.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E3%81%A7%E5%AD%A6%E7%A7%91%E9%96%8B%E8%A8%AD35%E5%91%A8%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AE%E8%A8%98%E5%BF%B5%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A6%E3%83%A0%E3%81%8C/
Yet, it was reported once that Japanese businesses operating in Egypt were not friendly to those graduates from the Japanese language department of Cairo University. It was students who could speak English well but not Japanese that were welcomed by Japanese companies doing business in Egypt.
However, as 230,000 Japanese tourists visited Egypt in 2008 (ranked as the 23rd among all the countries), young Egyptians who have learnt the Japanese language must find a chance to live on their special knowledge.
(In 2008, the largest number of sight-seers came to Egypt from Russia with 1.83 million, followed by Germany with 1.2 million, and the U.K. with 1.2 million.)
In Tokyo, 200 Egyptians and some other Muslims living here recently marched in a demonstration against President Mr. Mubarak.
http://news.tbs.co.jp/20110205/newseye/tbs_newseye4642998.html
CHAPTER III: Muslims in Israel
One of the countries where Islamic uprising is most unthinkable is Israel.
But, Arab citizens today account for 20% of residents in Israel.
As of 2008, Arab citizens of Israel comprise just over 20% of the country's total population. The majority of these identify themselves as Arab or Palestinian by nationality and Israeli by citizenship...
Muslims in Israel have a birth rate of 4.0 children per woman and a natural reproduction rate of 3%.[46] Around 25% of the children in Israel today were born to Muslim parents. The Muslim population is mostly young: 42% of Muslims are children under the age of 15. The median age of Muslim Israelis is 18, while the median age of Jewish Israelis is 30. The percentage of people over 65 is less than 3% for Muslims, compared with 12% for the Jewish population.[44] According to forecasts, the Muslim population will grow to over 2,000,000 people, or 24-26% of the population within the next 15 years. They will also comprise 85% of the Arab population in Israeli in 2020 (up 3% from 2005).[47]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
So, Arab citizens might soon account for 25% of residents in Israel.
This ratios is the same as the combined one of African Americans' and Hispanics' in the U.S.
Israelis had better start to study the Koran.
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If Islam is useless to oust a 30-years-long reigning dictator from government, Muslims had better think that something is wrong on the religion side or their side.
I suppose there are two factors that have induced this revolutionary movement in Egypt: Dubai and China.
While there are no successful and competitive economic powers in the Islamic world, some Muslims in Dubai got big money. While China was just a member of developing countries a decade ago, like most of Islamic states, some American elites today praise the Chinese economic success to the extent that G2 of the U.S. and China will decide everything in the world.
Egypt has the more glorious past than Dubai and China have. Egypt should be more prosperous than Dubai and China are. But, what hinders the possible success of Egypt? It is President Mubarak! This can be their finding.
Yet, this secular revolutionary movement must be linked to the agenda of Islam.
The Vatican will also have to face a big challenge. America will also have to link its agenda in the coming 2012 Presidential Election to the American religion, since the most important difference between Republicans and Democrats is in their attitude toward the American Christianity.
What is now going on in Cairo must lead to a major change in the state of religions of mankind.
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Now, "WSJ Wall Street Journal
Breaking: Egyptian vice president says President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down
http://on.wsj.com/gPUPsP"
Mat 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.