Or 40 Km from Tokyo
In January
(Click to enlarge)Earthquakes and Calories
It is said that 65 people were killed by an earthquake in New Zealand today.
But, around 6,500 people were killed by an earthquake in Kobe, Japan, in 1995.
About 16,000 people were killed by an earthquake in north-west Turkey, in 1999.
Roughly 20,000 people were killed by an earthquake in west India, in 2001.
More than 220,00 people were killed by an earthquake and tsunami around Indonesia in 2004.
About 90,000 people were killed by an earthquake in Pakistan in 2005.
Around 70,00 people were killed by an earthquake in China in 2008.
More than 316,00 people were killed by an earthquake in Haiti in 2010.
I hope that any single one will NOT become victimized in an earthquake in future in Haiti, China, Pakistan, Indonesia and its neighboring countries, India, Turkey, Japan, and New Zealand, in addition to California and other part on the earth.
CHAPTER I: Whaling and Earthquake
There is one thing I have not mentioned, though it is a big news item in Japan in these days.
The Japanese whaling for research purposes in the Southern Pacific Ocean was so much harassed by some criminal Anglo-Saxons that the Japanese whaling fleet decided to suspend this season's activities several days ago.
Then today, a big earthquake hit New Zealand though Australia has been suffering other types of natural disasters in these months.
Australia and New Zealand should stop allowing its criminals on board fast motorboats to try to harm Japanese sailors and damage Japanese whaling boats with chemical bottles, laser beams, and so on on the open sea.
Of course, I am so much sorry for victims and fatalities from great natural disasters in Australia and New Zealand, the two great Anglo-Saxon countries in the South Pacific.
I also hope that Australia and New Zealand will accept more Muslim immigrants in addition to Chinese and Koreans.
Anyway, the Japanese Government will send enough and full aid to New Zealand soon.
CHAPTER II: Calorie Intake
No matter how much rich you get, you cannot be respected if you take so many calories, through eating something, say, beef.
The average of calorie intake by person per day between 2003 and 2005 is as follows for each country.
First of all, Buddhism forbids meat eatings.
So, the Japanese people did not kill and eat cows and oxes till the end of its samurai regime in 1860's, though people took fish and whales while using cattle only for field cultivation.
It is after WWII that the Japanese started to consume a large amount of beef, along with growth of economy, by importing meat from the U.S. and Australia.
In other word, sushi (rice and fish) and whale eating are rooted in the same cultural tradition of Japan. They are a kind of by-products from honest practices of Buddhism disciplines by Japanese people over 1,000 years.
As a cow or ox is as intellectual as a whale, mankind should not essentially kill such a large number of the poor animals in Australia and America every year.
Yet, creatures living in the sea are so remote from mankind in a decisive sense; fish and whales can be reasonable foodstuff for mankind. (Japanese do not east dogs like Koreans and Chinese, in case.)
Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. should stop taking high-calorie foods and start to negotiate reasonable allocation of whales to be taken from the Pacific Ocean with Japan.
Their governments should not support those gangsters hoisting a flag of skull and crossbones, sailing around and violently attacking Japanese whaling boats internationally authorized for operation of research whaling.
If research whaling itself is a problem, it should be peacefully negotiated, without endangering crews of Japanese whaling fleets.
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Christ Jesus did not eat beef, though he did not forbid taking beef.
If somebody is eating delicious foods, he or she cannot be a saint.
Such a person should be expelled from every church, including the Vatican.
Indeed, if you happened to see somebody calling himself Jesus Christ eating beef and some delicious foods so happily, you would stop believing him.
But, to go out to the big ocean bravely looking for a big and wild whale for supper might be praised as an act of a man of any religion. This can be a great tradition for a tribe.
Anyway, remember that Moby Dick became a work of a prophecy for the 9/11 Terror of 2001.
…It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL."
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN."
Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces- though I cannot tell why this was exactly…
Chapter One
Moby-Dick
Mar 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.