"gather his wheat into the garner" - (The Greatest Disaster of Japan)

Tokyo
Japan

The Greatest Disaster of Japan from March 11

[Modified on January 2, 2012]

Today Saturday, one day after Friday having suffered big earthquakes and tsunami, the northeast regions of Honsyu Island, Japan, or the northeast area of Tokyo is still under aftershocks and grave impact of the disaster never heard of in the Japanese history.

Now the number of people who stay in refuges is about 200,000. Thousands of houses and cars were washed away or destroyed by great earthquakes and tsunami that have occurred since 2:40 p.m. yesterday over hundreds kilometers north east of Tokyo.


PART 14: The Building Burst Has No Damage on Reactor

Japan's Government said that the blowup of the building of Fukushima No.1 Power Plant (which occurred at 3:36 p.m.) did not harm the reactor containment. At 8:40 p.m.

The burst of the building did not significantly increase the radioactive level outside the nuclear plant, Fukushima Pref, Japan.

Hydrogen explosion blew up the housing building of the reactor vessel in Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant without damaging the nuclear vessel at 3:36 p.m. today.


PART XIII: Nuclear Power Plant Evacuation of 20-km Range Residents

Around 7 p.m. of Saturday, Japan, the Government ordered evacuation of residents living within a 20-km range from the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Plant, though it had applied to those living within a 10-kilometer range before.

The governmental nuclear agency responsible said that it was still investigating the situation, though a radioactive level could not be so disastrous at large, referring to the blowup of the building of the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Plant.


PART XII: A Building Blown Off at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

One building of the Fukushima nuclear power plants exploded some time ago or around 3:40 p.m., Japan Time.

The location of the Fukushima nuclear power plants:



PART XI: Map of Epicenters on March 11 Earthquakes


http://www.jishin.go.jp/main/index.html

(Note: The M8.8 earthquake in the above map is actually M9.0.  It was officially corrected a day or so later. As its magnitude was so large, the Japan Meteorological Agency could not judge the scale immediately after the occurrence of the M9.0 earthquake. )  

PART X: Reactor Containment Showing Pressure Drop

The containment vessel of a Fukushima nuclear power plant has started to show a pressure drop, avoiding a dangerous situation while cooling the fuel.

However, air inside the vessel is let out to the environment; a minor radioactive contamination is expected, though not at a level harmful to the human body, according to parties involved around 4:10 p.m.


PART IX: Nuclear Power Plant Fuel Leaked

A very minor amount of nuclear fuel used in one of Fukushima nuclear power plants, 300 km northeast of Tokyo, has reportedly leaked from the pressure container.

Cooling the fuels is not smoothly conducted due to facilities power source problems.

The Government assures that it is not a disaster but a minor event to be well contained.

Now around 3:40 p.m. of Saturday, Japan Time.


PART VIII: Power Outage in Hard Hit Area

In Miyagi Prefecture, with the population of 2.3 million, 170,000 citizens are evacuated into 670 refuges as of now around 11:50 a.m. of Saturday, Japan.


PART VII: Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.

Now, around 11:30 a.m. of Saturday in Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company fails in supplying electric power for 1.5 million households situated around Tokyo and in the Kanto region, stretching about 200 km to 300 km from Tokyo.



PART VI: Earthquake Aftershocks Continue

Minor aftershocks have continued 20 hours after the initial great earthquakes around Tokyo.



PART V: 24-Hour Earthquake Occurrence in Japan

(Click to enlarge)
http://wwweic.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mirror/index.1d.jpn.html



PART IV: The Pacific Ocean Volcanic/Quake Rim

(Click to enlarge.)
(http://j-jis.com/data/plate.shtml)


PART III: 500-Km Pacific Coast Areas Hit Hard in Japan

Some towns on the Pacific Ocean of northern Honsyu Island, Japan, have been almost wholly wiped away by tsunami yesterday.



PART II: Nuclear Plant at Alert

Radioactive rays beyond the normal level are detected around a nuclear plant 300 km northeast of Tokyo, though the authority says that they are not at a harming level against human bodies.



PART I: Power Outage

Hundreds of thousands of commuters forced to stray in Tokyo office districts overnight have started to return home as railway systems have gradually recovered.

Hundred of thousands of households within 100 km of Tokyo are suffering power outage.

In areas north of the Tokyo area on Honsyu Island, millions of households lack electricity, gas, or telephone services.


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Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Mat 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

"For he had healed many" - (Great Earthquakes in Japan)

Great Earthquakes in Japan




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Aomori Prefecture, the northernmost prefecture of Honsyu Island, has lost electricity tonight, influencing 900,000 households therein.

Thousands of residents living around a nuclear power plant 200km or so north of Tokyo have been evacuated in case.

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Tonight hundreds of thousands of commuters are forced to stay in Tokyo office districts due to the all-out halt of train services, except part of subways.

Tokyo Prefecture has the population of 13 million.

Miyagi Prefecture has 2.35 million population, most of whom have lost power supply tonight.

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This scale of the earthquake magnitude 8.9 is unheard of at least for 100 years in Japan, which is almost equal to that of the 2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake.

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CNN is talking about the effect of tsunami onto Hawaii and the West Coast of the U.S. as observed here around Tokyo.

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Tokyo Narita Airport is partially under operation.

However, some flights and liners are advised not to land on Narita.

The shinkansen express train service between Tokyo and Osaka is partially active.


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TV stations in Japan are all broadcasting the state of damage by the earthquakes and tsunami, non-stop, since around 2:40 pm in Japan.

The historical natural disaster in the Japanese history today happened, though casualties are not all identified as probably hundreds of them are widely buried.

In terms of infrastructural damage of the highly-industrialized and organized nation Japan, this combination of the greatest earthquakes and wide-range tsunami has really put into the awe and fear one third of the whole Japanese population living around Tokyo and northeast regions of Honsyu Island stretching hundreds of kilometers along the Pacific Ocean.

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This is the largest area disaster that has ever happened in Japan. From Tokyo to Hokkaido on their Pacific coastal areas.

Trains in and around Tokyo are all stopped. Expressways through Tokyo are closed. Hundreds of thousands of households around Tokyo have lost electric power.

Hundreds kilometers north of Tokyo, near the epicenter, more damage has been reported due to big earthquakes and subsequent tsunami. Millions of households have lost electric power. Hundreds of cars and houses were washed away by sea water in northern Honsyu Island, Japan.

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Workers and commuters in Tokyo are advised by the government not to try to return home forcibly as all the train systems are stopped due to the earthquakes.

Nuclear power plants north of Tokyo stopped operation.

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More than 10 people have been killed due to the earthquakes in Iwate Pref., Japan.

The magnitude of the earthquake that first hit the northern Pacific coastal area of Honsyu Island is reportedly the largest ever recorded in Japan.

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Train systems in and around Tokyo have all stopped.

Big earthquakes and tsunami damaged hundreds of kilometers of Pacific Ocean coastal areas of Honsyu Island, Japan, especially north of Tokyo.


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The Sendai Airport, Miyagi Pref., Japan, has been covered by tsunami.

In and around Tokyo, some buildings have been damaged.

This is a large scale disaster in Japan that has not been observed before.

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A large scale disaster has happened around Miyagi Prefecture and other Pacific coastal areas north of Tokyo due to a few big earthquakes that happened around 2:30 pm, JAPAN TIME, in the Pacific Ocean near Honshu Island and caused tsunami.

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Great earthquakes hit Japan two hours ago.

Tokyo has suffered some influences.



PART I: Debt Countries

There is misunderstanding about Japan.

The Japanese financial sector has not been hit hard by the 2008 Financial Crisis.

Japan has been in deflation due to China effect. Labor costs and goods produced in China are so cheap that Japan has been influenced to suffer decrease in wages and commodity prices domestically. It has resulted in deflation and GDP stagnation over 15 years.

The Japanese government has borrowed a huge amount of money from the domestic financial institutions. No foreigners has lent money to Japan. The Japanese Government bonds are purchased and held by domestic investors. The situation in Japan is very different from EU countries.

The map shows each country by gold and foreign currency reserves minus external debt. It is based on 2009 data from the CIA Factbook (click chart for a much larger version in a new tab).

Europe and the US are deep red while emerging economies like China, Brazil and Saudi Arabia are green. I was surprised to see Japan not in the red. But the other developed countries such as Norway, Canada and Australia were orange.

http://www.tradersnarrative.com/global-money-flow-emerging-vs-developed-economies-4677.html

PART II: Net International Investment Position

Japan's external financial assets in percentage of GDP surpasses China's and America's.

It is fairly at a reliable level

The difference between a country's external financial assets and liabilities is the net international investment position (NIIP)

Country... Date...NIIP... NIIP in % GDP

Switzerland... - ... 123,2

Japan... 508 bill. ¥... 44,4

People's Republic of China...... 34,5

Belgium... €151 billion... 39

Germany... €895 billion... 37

United Kingdom... -59 200 mill £... -4,1

Italy ... -12,9

United States... -3 469 246 mill $... -24,3

Ireland...-106 207,0 mill €... -58,4

Greece... -183 944 mill € -75,7

Spain... -881,3 bill €... -81,0

Portugal... -165 195 mill €... -99,3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_position

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Mar 3:10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.

Mar 3:11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

"What shall we do then?" - (American Rebound)

Tokyo
Japan Railways
Train Station Map(Click to enlarge.)


American Economic Rebound

If the unemployment rate gets lower than 6%, there will be a chance for President Mr. Barack Obama gets reelected in 2012.

If it hangs around 7 to 8% or settles below 5%, Republicans will take the helm of the presidential election race for 2012.

Yet, China might start a counter-rocking turn, causing unexpected volatility in the global money market or even going bankrupt with a huge trade deficit, ironically.


PART I: Substantial Recovery of American Economy?

The financial state of American consumers looks getting improved.


http://econompicdata.blogspot.com/2011/02/something-sustainable.html

Rather, the above figure shows how terrible it was around 2009.

Yet, it has not fully recovered to the pre-Lehman shock era.

However, in order to realize this rebound, a huge amount of money infusion to the market and the public was needed from the central bank or FRB, like in the case of Europe.


http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/analysis-reports/economics-weekly/2009/07/27/

(It is notable that Japan was not hit hard by the Lehman Shock itself. But, it suffered a drastic decrease in export to the U.S. market in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street Crisis.)

Anyway, the present tranquility in the American and European financial state is supported by big money additionally released to the market and the public by the central banks and FRB. It is not an extension of steady growth of economy, mainly, through activities in the industrial sector. But, it is due to huge supply of money so as to fix problems on the books in financial institutions of America and Europe.

Yet, such extravagant money supply seems to have succeeded. The point at issue lies here. Huge money delivery from the central banks has not had a devastating impact on the whole economy and society in the U.S., Europe, and the world.

So, why? Or, a more decisive crisis is waiting in near future?


PART II: Unnecessary Development & Competition

First of all, the industrial and agricultural supply power mankind has has reached a level where every one can enjoy easy life.

Factories and plants in the U.S., Japan, Europe, and China can provide any necessary goods to world consumers.

Agricultural fields in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Brazil, and so on can provide enough foods for world consumers.

Without further development of technology and business competition, the world suppliers have capacity to provide enough goods for those needing them in the world market.

However, there are costs and expenses needed to produce them. Entities engaged in production need money. They sell their goods at certain prices. But, how do consumers get money to buy those goods with? Yes, consumers should be also engaged in production of goods to get wages. If this simple relationship is well balanced, there will not be any bubble and burst or catastrophe, if technological innovation and business competition are pursued within an allowable range.

There are more than six billion consumers in the world. Till each of them comes to enjoy a wealthy life like a rich American does, companies and businesses in the world can expand their operation. For this purpose, they need investments and funds. They have to cover costs of expansion and development of their production capacity. Basically, the global industrial and agricultural sectors need money. And, in turn, the money they acquire will be distributed among workers and consumers through payment of wages. This regime today still has huge room to accept big money.

In addition, indirect investment into the production capacity is actually done in the money market, such as the New York Stock Exchange. Multiplied transactions of the indirect investment money make their own sphere, further expanding the scope where money can move around.

In this way, the huge money supply by the central banks and FRB since the 2008 Financial Crisis has been absorbed in the market without bringing about catastrophe to the global economy.

So, it is natural that America calls for G20 immediately after the 2008 Financial Crisis to settle the matter globally, since G20 consists of most of global consumers and suppliers of goods.

It is not any heroic act of the U.S. It is not any super theory devised in FRB. It is just walking to saturation of the needs. It is a process toward all-out realization of American Dream all over the world. But, those who want to be rich, very rich, and super rich by sacrificing the poor and making the poor poorer will surely destroy this scenario. Their greedy will surely cause collapse in the great journey of mankind.

Accordingly, this future ominous possibility makes the recovery of the American economy look dull.


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Thousands of German businesses have been operating in Russia in these years.

That is a key to the recent recovery of the Russian economy.

But, 20,000 Japanese businesses have been operating in China in these years.

That is why China increased its GDP so rapidly and Japan continued its deflation era.

The U.S. is separated from Japan and Germany over big oceans. But, if China is situated where Canada is and Russia is where Mexico is, even the U.S. will suffer grave deflation, since cheap labor forces and cheap materials will flow into America in a larger quantity.

Yet, it must be better for Germany to help Russia and Japan to help China, in a global scope.

It is so, since it conforms to the teaching of Jesus Christ.




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Luk 3:10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?

Luk 3:11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

"How can these things be?" - (Capitalism)

Tokyo Imperial Plaza
Nearby Roads(Click to enlarge.)


Capitalism

Capitalism is not so evil in that it justifies people's efforts to make money, more money, and nothing but money.

It is not to make poor workers suffer or punish them for nothing. It is just for capitalists to make more money that they sacrifice poor workers.

Yet in other society based on ideology, those with power simply try to make enemies suffer and punish them, for the enemies do not accept the ideology they believe.


PART I: Capitalism
Plenty of money is collected through application of mechanisms of capitalism.

Plenty of money is collected through a money exchange market where money is traded in gambling.
(Click to enlarge.)
Global money are handled overwhelmingly in America.

But, money must have something to buy, so that capitalism works.

Money needs to be supported by materials.

(Click to enlarge.)

Today, the basic material crude steel is produced overwhelmingly in China.

Money handling America and steel producing China have some relationship to support each other. But, the world is larger than America and China combined.

For example, Japan alone leads the second or third largest money market in the world and keeps the second largest steel production.

Money circulated between America and China, partly leveraged by steel production in China, should not disturb the world. The capitalism pursued between America and China should not harm democratic nations in the world.

Ultimately, it is necessary for the world to control and manage America and China in terms of their money handling and material production so as to secure and promote sustainable peace and prosperity of the world.



PART II: Religion and Capitalism

In this context, Christ Jesus said that you cannot serve both the God and Mammon at the same time.

Therefore, capitalism is impossible in the Christian world.

Yet, ideology in the form of Judaism around the 1st century was an enemy to Christ Jesus.

So, ideology in any fields can be an enemy to Christians.

However, in the world of Judaism, there cannot be capitalist society.

In the world of Islam, it is very difficult to see a possibility of capitalism prevailing among Muslims.

Put simply, capitalism today means embodiment of the limit of Christianity that has been preached in these 2000 years.

In either way, the main player in the world is Christianity rather than Judaism or Islam, since capitalism has no obstacle in exerting its influence on Judaists and Muslims, though capitalism represents a failure of Christians. Judaism and Islam are not essentially for or against it.

Finally, we have confirmed that Christians are responsible for capitalism that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.


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If there is a big chance for a man to make big money, but if he is a Christian, he will not grab the chance.

Instead, he will try to find why there can be such a big chance to make the big money.

Then, he will find a failure in an economic and social system.

Accordingly, he will try to correct the failure so that such a chance will disappear.

Yet, in reality, many people are violently competing and clashing to make the chance for big money their own.

And, as if getting drawn into toxication under the theme of capitalism, they repeatedly enter the arena for this competition and clash while enjoying riches.

The lack of an inhibitor in the mind which should be formed through faith in Christianity is the source of capitalism, since otherwise the inhibitor would stop them from riding on the theme of capitalism.


(The denial of capitalism does not need ideology-framed socialism and communism. Or socialism and communism without ideology might have a chance to develop over capitalism. Yet, the answer is the Kingdom of God where the evil power of capitalism as well as authoritarian ideology, including socialism and communism, will not be able to reach.)




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Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Joh 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Joh 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Joh 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Joh 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

"these stones to raise up children unto Abraham" - (Brother of Jesus)

Imperial Palace Plaza, Japan(Click to enlarge.)


Twin Brother of Christ Jesus

There are no specific descriptions about the outlook of Christ Jesus in the Bible.

However, people at the time sometimes called Him rabbi, which means He must have looked exactly typical of a rabbit at the time: neither like a wild or monstrous preacher nor like a frail man.

When Roman soldiers arrested Him, they needed help from a spy called Judas Iscariot to identify Christ Jesus. It means that Christ Jesus looked like others at average. (Or, it tells that there must have been somebody looking like Christ Jesus among His followers, such as His twin brother.)

Especially when Christ Jesus was alone at a well, a Samaritan woman did not avoid him while she was trying to haul water out of the well. Christ Jesus must have looked somewhat fine to the eyes of women at the time.

And, it remarkably matches the figure of the holy shroud of Turin. It also fits into so many images of Christ Jesus ever painted by various artists in these 1000 years.


PART I: Acts of Thomas

Edessa is a key place in discussion about the history of the holy shroud of Turin.

St. Thomas is said to have had some association there.

The acts of Thomas written by Jewish poet Bardesan the at[clarification needed] 220 AD indicate that St. Thomas was martyred in Western India at Indus Valley at present-day Pakistan.[1]The Acts of Thomas, sometimes called by its full name The Acts of Judas Thomas: 2nd/3rd century (c. 180-230 The Apostles cast lots as to where they should go, and to Thomas, twin brother of Jesus, fell India. Thomas was taken to king Gondophares the ruler of Indo-Parthian Kingdom as an architect and carpenter by Habban. St. Thomas spent the money allotted to him by King Gondophares for the construction of the Palace to poor. When the king's seriously ill brother Gad convinced the king that he actually saw the palace built by St. Thomas in heaven for King Gondophares, the king allowed St. Thomas to leave the country.[2] The journey to India is described in detail. After a long residence in the court at Taxila he ordained leaders for the Church, and left in a chariot for the kingdom of Mazdei. According to the Acts of St. Thomas, the Kingdom of Mazdai, in Western India, Indus Valley, was ruled by King Misdeus. Parts of Indus Valley were then ruled by Persians called the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. Some Greeks Satraps, the descendents of Alexander the Great, were vassals to the Indo-Parthian Kingdom.[3][4] King Misdeus was infuriated when St. Thomas converted the Queen Tertia, Son Juzanes.Sister in law Princess Mygdonia(A province of Mesopotamia) and her friend Markia. King Misdeus led St. Thomas outside the city of Calamina and ordered four soldiers to take him to the nearby hill where the soldiers speared St. Thomas and killed him. Syphorus was elected the first Presbyter by the brethren after the death of St. Thomas while Juzanes the prince became the deacon. The names of the King Misdeus,Tertia,Juzanes, Syphorus, Markia and Mygdonia suggest Greek descent or Hellenised Persian descendency.[5] There, after performing many miracles, he dies a martyr. During the rule of Vasudeva I, the Kushan emperor, the bones of St. Thomas were transferred from Indus Valley to Edessa.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Thomas

So, Edessa seems to be important, since it was the place that the holy shroud of Turin was kept according to a study.

The simple review of historical trace of the holy shroud is as follows:

Probably the 7th April 30, or perhaps the 3rd April 33
Crucifixion of Jesus

~ 57
Ma'nu VI inherits the throne of Edessa. Return to paganism, and persecution of the Christians

In 544 AD, in the city of Edessa, a folded burial cloth bearing an image, believed to be of Jesus, was found above a gate in the city's walls. We know from various history sources that the cloth was a burial shroud with a faint full-body image of Jesus and bloodstains positioned on the image...

943 - 944
Siege of Edessa by the Emperor of Byzantium. The image of Edessa is given to him in exchange for his lifting the siege, together with the payment of a large sum of money, and the liberation of Muslim prisoners

The Mandylion, the name given by the Byzantians to the image of Edessa, leaves for Samosate and then Constantinople

On August 15, 944 AD, the Image of Edessa was forcibly transferred from Edessa to the Byzantine capital city of Constantinople. It clearly was a burial cloth with a full image and bloodstains...

In 1204, French and Venetian knights of the Fourth Crusade besieged the city and on April 13 entered and looted the city. The Edessa Image certainly seems to have been among the treasures taken by the looters.

~ 1205
The Holy Shroud is probably at Athens

~ 1350
First display of the Holy Shroud at Lirey (Champagne, France)

1353
The knight, Chevalier Geoffrey I de Charny, obtains from the French King, Jean le Bon, a grant to found the Collegiate Church at Lirey

1354
The Holy Shroud is entrusted to the Collegiate Church at Lirey

1453
The Holy Shroud is transferred to Duke Louis de Savoie by Marguerite de Charny, and moved to Chambery.

1532
Fire in the Holy Chapel at Chambery during the night of 3 to 4 December ; The Holy Shroud is damaged by the fire, and by the water used to fight the fire.

1578
14th of September : the Holy Shroud arrives to stay permanently in Turin.

1988
Carbon 14 dating indicates that the Shroud dates between 1260 et 1390.

1997
Scientific Symposium of Nice : Confirmation that the formation of the image on the Turin Shroud is not the work of man

http://iesvs.tripod.com/SINDONOLOGY.htm

http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/history.htm

As for identity of St. Thomas, his being a twin brother of Christ Jesus Himself is supported by the Egyptian Nag Hammadi library.

Few texts identify Thomas' other twin, though in the Book of Thomas the Contender, part of the Nag Hammadi library, it is said to be Jesus himself: "Now, since it has been said that you are my twin and true companion, examine yourself..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle

So, it is likely that after the resurrection of Christ Jesus the shroud that had covered the dead body of Christ Jesus was handed to His twin brother St. Thomas.

Then, St. Thomas must have been to Edessa for some reason. He must have carried the holy shroud to Edessa and left it there as he traveled to the east as far as the Indus Valley. So, a legend came to exist that the bones of St. Thomas were transferred from Indus Valley to Edessa, since the holy shroud was in Edessa.

But how was it carried from Edessa to Byzantium and as far as to France and then Turin, Italy?



PART II: Twin Shroud

The holy shroud of Turin might not be the true or original one.

But, it might be a perfect copy of the true Holy Shroud of Christ Jesus.

As St. Thomas was a twin brother of Christ Jesus, the holy shroud of Turin might be a perfect copy or a twin of the true Holy Shroud of Christ Jesus.

So then, when the copy was made? Around 1300? But where and how? And, where is the true Holy Shroud?

Indeed, the mystery thickens only further.

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Mecca is between Cairo and Ethiopia.

Mecca is between the two Coptic regions when Islam emerged, exactly.

But, Islam established itself by denying deity of Christ Jesus.

Indeed, according to a manner of teaching the story of Christ Jesus without being based on the orthodox Bible, Christ Jesus could be described as someone without deity although He resurrected.

An Israelite being God must have been truly a difficult idea for people living in the southwest of Jerusalem or Palestine around 600, though Mecca is situated between the two Coptic regions: Cairo and Ethiopia.




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Luk 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Luk 3:9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

"O generation of vipers" - (Politics)

Tokyo
Imperial Palace Side


Politics

In this era, it is not good for president or prime minister of any nation to occupy the position for more than two years.

It is not individual relationships that should govern negotiations between countries but a political system of each nation.

If you are given an absolute term of three years, four years, or six years in the premiership or the presidency, you will surely lose a sense of mission or people around you will lose a sense of mission.

The characteristic of a nation should be expressed as a political system but not by a specific individual in premiership or presidency for so long.

In this context, Japan can have a new prime minister on the yearly base, since internal contention is so tense.

And, 90% of the Japanese people think that they are, at least, politically middle class and equal to all the others.


PART I: Japan's Foreign Minister Resigned

Foreign Minister of Japan Mr. Seiji Maehara resigned today.

He received political funds from a foreigner, which was against Japanese law.

If he intentionally received money for his political activities from a foreigner, he would be forced to resign from the Parliament membership, though he claims that he has not been aware that the foreigner donated money.

An old Korean woman living in Japan for a long time contributed 50,000 yen in each of past five years. Mr. Maehara has long personal acquaintance with her, since he was a teenager. So, he invited her to his governmental office to take pictures with her when he was National Land and Transportation Minister. He is supposed to have been aware of her donation.

Accordingly, Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan is gong to see his approval rating further going down. Before Mr. Maehara's resignation, the approval rating was already around 20%, a dangerous level.

In addition, Mr. Maehara is said to have a special or dubious link with North Korea; he also received donation from a company indirectly connected to a criminal.

Kan in ‘Crisis’ as Maehara’s Fall Deepens Japan Finance Dilemma
March 06, 2011, 10:16 PM EST
By Sachiko Sakamaki and Takashi Hirokawa

Japan’s lower house of parliament passed Kan’s record 92.4 trillion yen budget on March 1. Kan, though, has failed to convince the opposition to support the financing bills, which require approval of either the opposition-controlled Upper House or a two-thirds majority in the Lower House, which the DPJ lacks.

Maehara was the most favored person to become prime minister in a Sankei newspaper survey published March 1, preferred by 10.2 percent of those polled. He was followed by DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada with 8.1 percent.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-06/kan-in-crisis-as-maehara-s-fall-deepens-japan-finance-dilemma.html

However, this incident is a clear indication that democracy and law are functioning well in Japan.

It is said that China is under the rule of men, but Japan is a nation ruled by law. Any promising and rising young politician, such as Mr. Maehara, cannot escape this rule.

Accordingly, it is almost impossible for such world leaders of China, Russia, Italy, France, etc. to continue to keep their positions if the Japanese standards were applied.


PART II: Long-Term Despotic Countries

(Click to enlarge.)

Country...Duration of Despotism by Succession
North Korea: 62 years
Azerbaijan : 17 years
Syria: 39 years
Saudi Arabia: 78 years
Democratic Republic of the Congo: 13 years
Gabon: 43 years
Togo: 43 years
Cuba: 51 years

Other Despotic Countries
China:
Vietnam:
Laos:
Myanmar:
Kazakhstan：
Uzbekistan：
Turkmenistan:
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Christ Jesus made a clear distinction between enemies and friends.

However, though an Israelite He was, He did not give a challenge to the Romans. Instead, He was on the alert for religious leaders and some religiously-oriented groups of people.

Yet, His being a member of ancient Judaists counts so much. He tried to correct the Judaism at the time to the right path. Nonetheless, He also practiced his religious performance at a level available to mankind in general.

So, Christ Jesus conducted two-directional religious acts: one way to orthodox Judaism and another to a new religion to be so called Christianity.

The point at issue is that the Bible is intended to mainly emphasize the latter, though his tense relationship with the then mainstream Judaists formed His story.

Yet, very objectively, Christ Jesus could be regarded as a messenger of the God as is found in a teaching of Islam.

The three religions might have to be situated around Christ Jesus first prior to grand reconciliation.



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Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

World Infant Mortality Telling Truth

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World Infant Mortality

[Updated on Dec. 6, 2011]

The future is for children of the world. But, children in developing regions can still be sacrificed by grown-ups living in the advanced countries.

Infant mortality is defined as the number of infant deaths (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births.

For the world, and for both Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and More Developed Countries (MDCs), IMR declined significantly between 1960 and 2001. According to the Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report, the world infant mortality rate declined from 126 in 1960 to 57 in 2001.

World infant mortality rates in 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality

Especially, the U.S. sent troops and made war in the two lowly-ranked countries in terms of infant morality: Afghanistan and Iraq. Or the American invasion made the two countries get ranked low.

As indicated so, the outside force or American force cannot be successful in realizing democracy in Islamic countries. Hence, Islamic revolution must happen from the inside of those countries to implement democracy.

American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is thus controversial. American voters and taxpayers do not mind higher infant mortality in Iraq and Afghanistan. They do not mind anything of Iraq and Afghanistan so long as no terrorists come from Iraq and Afghanistan to attack New York and Washington DC.

This fact marks the end of the era of America being the sole superpower in the world. It is so, since a super power will not sacrifice infants in Afghanistan and Iraq to enjoy its safety and prosperity (if being driven by Wall Street indexes).

So, Islamic revolution for democracy must be pursued. Democracy will change Islam and advance Muslims. It must evolve to be a spiritual and cultural infrastructure equivalent to Chinese fundamental cultural traditions that allow China to accept, adopt, and promote technical aid and application from Japan to be a great industrialized country.

Infant Mortality per 1000 infant population
Nation	Year	No. of Deaths	Infant Population	Death Rate
South Africa	2005	15,435	4,186,961	3.69
Guatemala	2004	4,206	1,584,382	2.65
Azarbaijan	2004	870	445,700	1.95
Kyrgyzstan	2006	661	405,565	1.63
Uzbekistan	2005	3,001	2,036,215	1.47
Ecuador	2005	1,431	1,147,135	1.25
Panama	2004	320	272,549	1.17
Albania	2004	237	203,625	1.16
Kazakhstan	2006	1,140	983,466	1.16
Guyana	2005	68	62,357	1.09
Paraguay	2004	454	578,366	0.78
Mexico	2005	6,448	8,404,932	0.77
Ukraine	2005	1,179	1,562,304	0.75
Venezuela	2005	1,694	2,279,558	0.74
Bulgaria	2004	192	267,233	0.72
Columbia	2005	2,523	3,587,557	0.7
Russia	2006	3,968	5,673,993	0.7
Brazil	2004	9,468	14,330,739	0.66
Mauritius	2005	48	74,610	0.64
El Salvador	2005	378	623,272	0.61
Moldova	2006	85	145,767	0.58
Argentina	2005	1,533	2,679,395	0.57
Romania	2007	472	849,666	0.56
Belarus	2003	198	365,035	0.54
Uruguay	2004	109	207,877	0.52
Estonia	2005	24	51,769	0.46
Macedonia	2003	43	98,331	0.44
Lithuania	2006	52	120,696	0.43
Latvia	2006	35	81,799	0.43
Armenia	2003	63	153,257	0.41
Cuba	2005	219	537,854	0.41
Reunion	2005	21	57,932	0.36
Slovakia	2005	73	206,033	0.35
Chile	2005	339	985,293	0.34
Cyprus	2006	11	32,346	0.34
Costa Rica	2005	106	314,394	0.34
Hungary	2005	123	383,001	0.32
Serbia	2006	93	308,670	0.3
USA	2005	4,756	16,197,097	0.29
Portugal	2003	128	445,446	0.29
Korea	2006	547	1,953,771	0.28
Poland	2006	388	1,417,459	0.27
Israel	2004	151	555,280	0.27
Australia	2003	271	1,018,244	0.27
JAPAN	2006	1,076	4,377,000	0.25
New Zealand	2004	55	226,720	0.24
Croatia	2006	39	163,396	0.24
UK	2006	631	2,764,674	0.23
Spain	2005	380	1,747,789	0.22
Sweden	2005	83	389,629	0.21
Netherland	2006	168	791,742	0.21
Canada	2004	286	1,368,526	0.21
Hong Kong	2006	34	170,400	0.2
France	2005	602	3,067,832	0.2
Puerto Rico	2005	41	213,834	0.19
Switzerland	2005	55	292,435	0.19
Czech	2005	69	372,336	0.19
Italy	2003	389	2,130,280	0.18
Germany	2006	528	2,894,132	0.18
Norway	2005	42	231,248	0.18
Greece	2006	62	419,968	0.15
Ireland	2006	33	241,176	0.14
Finland	2006	27	228,277	0.12
Singapore	2006	17	161,200	0.11

Source:  WHO Mortality Database

http://toriaezumitekitayo.blog88.fc2.com/blog-entry-244.html

Child Labor

There is a problem of child labor in Indonesia, India, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Egypt, though to a different extent.
(Click to enlarge.)

Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sudan have still abused children.

The American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and America's being a neighborhood to Mexico do not improve the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Mexico.

(Japan's being a neighbor of Taiwan, South Korea, and China has helped them promote their modernization and industrialization as well as welfare of their children. But, North Korea, a big problem. Russia, another problem.)


Child Labor II


In a large scope of welfare of children and minors, even some advanced countries neglect health, safety, security, and future of them.

		Informal labor (includes street vending, begging, camel jockeying, portering, and other service industries)
		Commercial labor (includes factory work, farming, fishing, mining, quarrying, and all other forms of manufacturing)
		Subject to both conditions
		No significant cases reported
The International Labor Organization (ILO) defines child labor as work by children under the age of 18.The ILO considers hazardous child labor to be "work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety, or morals of children."

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/activities/index.asp?article=labor_map