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Great Nations, Great Cities (Les grandes nations et des villes des Grands)
Jerusalem has never been the greatest city in the world unlike Rome, London, and New York.
Israel has never been the greatest country in the world.
But, everybody has been taught in these 2000 years what happened in Jerusalem of Israel 2000 years ago.
And, 2000 years ago did they teach anything about Mesopotamia? Yes, the first book of the Hebrew Bible (or the Christian Old Testament) is the Book of Genesis. Whenever they thought of their origin they thought of Mesopotamia but neither of Egypt nor of Europe. Between 2000 BC and 1 BC, southern Mesopotamia was not necessarily a dominant region but must have been referred to as homeland of Abraham in this period by Israelites.
So, what I think is in AD 4000 what city or nation will be remembered as spiritually the most important city and region for the preceding 2000 years between 2001 and 3999.
Indeed, we are at the start of the third bimillennium.
SECTION I: Biggest Nations
The Tokyo metropolitan area consists of Tokyo Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, etc. It occupies most part of the Kanto Plain connected to Tokyo Bay and the Mt. Fuji region.
It is said that the Japanese population is in a downward trend, but Japan is still a big nation in terms of the population.
1. China
:-------+-------+------+------+------+------+---1,331,460,000
2. India
:-------+-------+------+------+------+----1,155,350,000
3. USA
:-------+----307,010,000
4. Indonesia
:-------+-229,660,000
5. Brazil
:-------193,730,000
6. Pakistan
:-----169,710,000
7. Bangladesh
:-----162,220,000
8. Nigeria
:----154,730,000
9. Russia
:---141,850,000
10. Japan
:---127,560,000
SECTION II: Biggest Metroplexes
The Tokyo metropolitan area occupies most part of the Kanto Plain, surrounded by the Mt. Fuji region, northern mountains, northeast mountain areas, and Tokyo Bay within a 100 km radius range, including Yokohama City, Saitama City, and Chiba City. (The border to Fukushima Prefecture is at around 150 km from the Tokyo Station.)
1. Tokyo (Japan)
:-------+-------+ ------+------+------+------+ ----35,330,000
2. Mexico City (Mexico)
:-------+-------+ ------+--18,740,000
3. New York (USA)
: ------+-------+ ------+--18,730,000
4. Sao Paulo (Brazil)
: ------+-------+ ------+18,330,000
5. Mumbai (India)
: ------+-------+ ------+18,200,000
6. Derry (India)
:-------+-------+ ---15,050,000
7. Shanghai (China)
:-------+-------+ --145,000,000
8. Calcutta (India)
:-------+-------+ --142,800,000
9. Dacca (Bangladesh)
:-------+-------+12,580,000
10. Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:-------+-------+12,550,000
Whether you admit or not, Tokyo can be the capital of the world like Jerusalem, if humbly described, though not yet so manifested in history.
SECTION III: The 3/11 Tsunami Video Taken by Residents
A little snow was falling on March 11, 2011 in northeast part of Honshu Island of Japan.
In one video, a Japanese citizen living in his home happened to take video of a tsunami rushing in and almost carrying a passer-by, though his family tried to rescue the person.
In another, people of a community were overwhelmed by a coming tsunami so powerful and horrible.
http://asuma-ken.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_23.html
SECTION IV: Energy Related Patents in America
Japan is the second largest applicants to the US Patent and Trademark Office next to the U.S. itself in the field of energy-related technology.
Patent-based Technology Analysis Report – Alternative Energy
SOL: Solar energy
WIN: Wind power
BIO: Bio energy
HYD: Hydro power
GEO: Geothermal energy
OCN: Wave and tidal power
H&FC: Hydrogen and fuel cell
CCS: Carbon capture and storage
WST: Waste-to-energy
...
Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies have seen increasing numbers of applications at USPTO since the mid-1990s. Fuel cells were initially designed for use in spacecraft but in the 1990s, further civilian uses were identified. Recently, the US government, together with major automotive and refinery companies laid out a "National Hydrogen Energy Roadmap" to foster research and development of hydrogen-related technologies. Commercialization of hydrogen liquefaction systems and automotive fuel cells has also been a focus of industry in the United States (DOE 2006).
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/technology_focus/pdf/landscape_alternative_energy.pdf
So, China and South Korea have been stealing Japanese technologies in these decades. Experts in non-nonsense fields of the world all know it. Only students in China and South Korea are not taught this fact.
Yet, Japan needs China and South Korea as its operation ground due to a limit of Japan's land size and for preservation of its priceless nature.
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Now a big typhoon is around the Philippines moving north and northeast to Taiwan, the Okinawa Islands, and the Japan proper.
Typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, traffic accidents, and suicides have been major threats to the Japanese society.
But, finally, the nuclear threat is posed, as Japan planned to build 11 more nuclear reactors in the very near future.
Indeed, it is crazy. It is so since any nuclear plant cannot stand a disaster caused by a typhoons, an earthquake, a tsunami, a volcano eruption, a jet plane crash, and suicides of operators all happening together. In war, any nuclear power plant can be an easy and horrible target for enemy missiles and bombers.
Truly, compared with a state before March 11, 2011, every critic, journalist, or blogger in Japan is talking about 100 milli sieverts, 20 milli sieverts, 1 milli sieverts, 0.07 micro-sieverts and other radiation levels like a mad man. So, it is enough. Fukushima Daiichi must become history as soon as possible.
Act 5:26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
Act 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Act 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.