JAPAN
(Photos taken by EEE Reporter himself humbly)Now on a satellite NHK TV channel of Japan, a foreign documentary film is being broadcast. It shows how children are being exploited for heavy labor in India.
American elites are praising India as a major member of G20, probably, willingly neglecting so many Indian children being forced to work virtually as slaves and inevitably get injured in dangerous workshops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yA1dR0VcWI
On the Internet, a Chinese awarded in New York presents pictures of China with a focus on pollution. The pictures in the site show how much China had to sacrifice its nature, environment, people's living, and their souls in order to increase its GDP.
American elites are praising China as a major member of G20, surely, willingly neglecting so much industrial pollution and contamination in addition to corruption among Chinese elites.
http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/
Most of students, teachers, and professors in the world do not know that Japan has more Nobel prize winners in the field of natural science than Russia, Italy, and even Israel. (All of those Japanese winners learnt in Japan from elementary school to universities, reading and writing in Japanese, though a small number of them continued their research in the U.S.)
Ranking of countries in terms of the number of winners of the Nobel prize for physics, the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and the Nobel Prize in Medicine:
1...USA...232
2...UK...75
3...Germany...68
4...France...30
5...Switzerland...17
6...Sweden...16
7...JAPAN...14
8...Netherlands...13
8...Russia...13
10...Austria...9
10...Denmark...9
12...Canada...8
13...Italy...7
13...Australia...7
15...Belgium...5
16...Argentina...3
17...Israel...2
17...New Zealand...2
17...Hungary...2
17...Taiwan...2
21...Ireland...1
21...India...1
21...Egypt...1
21...Spain...1
21...Czhech-Slovakia...1
21...Norway...1
21...Pakistan...1
21...Finland...1
21...Poland...1
21...South Africa...1
(Note that the Empire of Japan introduced modern education to Taiwan as the Empire annexed Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. India and Pakistan together constituting great India in ancient days, as the inventor of the number zero, have the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Egypt has the great pyramids and the long history overwhelming Europe. South Africa has many immigrants and their descendants from Europe. So, it is not easy to win this type of European Prizes for any non-European-dominant nations.)
Accordingly, some people believe what The New York Times and China are lying about Japan's Senkaku Islands, Okinawa Prefecture.
Please some times refer to the Historical Analysis on the Senkaku Island:
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2010/10/yesterday-two-miracles-however-you.html
And, some Western Christians claim that Christianity was finally recognized in Japan in theory by the constitution of the Empire of Japan that was promulgated in 1889.
Japan
Empire including a large group of islands near the eastern coast of Asia, together with the peninsula Korea. The first Christian missionaries who arrived in 1549, were Saint Francis Xavier, two other Jesuits, and three Japanese who had become Christians in India. After 27 months, when Saint Francis left for China, 3000 Japanese had been baptized. With the aid of some nobles of the feudal regime, the work of missionaries continued to flourish, so that in 1582 there were 250 churches numbering 200,000 Christians. Soon the movement was suspected for fear that it might be preparing the way for conquest of Japan by European countries. Christianity was proscribed, and in 1597 six missionaries and twenty converts were crucified. At this time there were about 300,000 Christians; the missionaries were Jesuits, secular priests, Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians. Persecution continued intermittently, becoming very severe at times. For two centuries all Christians were forbidden to come into the country, and missionaries who tried to enter were tortured, put to death or imprisoned. The Japanese were required annually to trample the Cross under foot. Many kept their faith and gave it secretly to their children, so that about 50,000 Christians were discovered when the new missionaries were allowed to come. In the meantime Christianity had been introduced from China into Korea, which belonged to the Diocese of Peking until 1831. In that year the independent Vicariate Apostolic of Korea was created, and the Faith continued to spread in spite of proscription and persecution in which many suffered martyrdom. In 1859, a treaty between Japan and France permitted missionaries to have churches at open ports for foreigners, and gradually their old work was resumed there, although persecution continued and thousands who would not apostatize were exiled. Religious liberty was finally recognized in theory by the constitution of the Empire promulgated in 1889. In Korea various treaties had allowed privileges to missionaries (c.1884), and the church was gradually organized.
http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd04313.htm
According to this theory, Japan forbade Christianity for 300 years till 1889.
Anyway, the above map is correct in marking the Senkaku Islands ("Senkaku shoto" in Japanese). (However, there is some mis-understanding about Japan's Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan therein...see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liancourt_Rocks)
In addition, those 50,000 plus Christians who were discovered when the new missionaries were allowed to come to Japan after the Meiji Imperial Restoration in 1868 are called "Kakure Kirishitan" even as a historical term, meaning hidden Christians. Their descendants still today keep their version of Christianity mainly in islands west of Kyusyu. They even still sing a Gregorian chant which was only once sung in part of Spain in the 16th century, in original words, since a Spanish missionary taught it to their ancestors in the 16th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakure_Kirishitan
And, what were your ancestors doing in the late 16th century? Singing a Gregorian chant like some Japanese at the time?