”the seven among four thousand” - (American Employers)

On Tokyo Bay...

American Employers (Les employeurs américains)

The key to understanding the U.S. might be held by Native Americans.

So, it is important to see the relationship between Native Americans and Christianity:

The introduction of European civilization to North America brought military conquest, economic pursuits and Christianity to the native population. Ignoring immense differences in culture in the inhabitants of North America, Europeans linked all the aborigines together as "Indians", denied their right to the soil, and sought to trade with and convert them to whatever brand of Christianity the colonizers espoused.[7] Today, Christianity is the predominant religion in several Native American communities. Generally speaking, these communities are "fundamentalist in theology, conservative in their practice, and often revivalistic and evangelical."[8] Many Native Americans also practice Christianity in combination with another tribal religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_religions#Christianity

Then, what is the state of their employment?

For instance, the national unemployment rate among Native people spiked from 7.7 percent in the first half of 2007 to 15.2 percent in the first half of 2010. Whites experienced a 4.1 percent and 9.1 percent unemployment rate respectively, in the same time period.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6801/the_state_of_native_america_very_unemployed_and_mostly_ignored/

Native Americans need help from God more than European Americans do. I hope that this is not a proof that Christianity has failed in America.


SECTION I: Who Hires How Many in the US?

Indeed, Wal-Mart is the largest employer among public companies in the U.S.

But, those who make and deliver goods and products to Wal-Mart are mostly Chinese workers working in Chinese makers who have obtained capital and technology from Japan in these decades.

No....Business....Revenue Rank....Number of Employees
1 Wal-Mart Stores.... 1.... 1,900,000
2 McDonald's.... 108.... 465,000
3 United Parcel Service.... 43.... 428,000
4 Intl. Business Machines.... 15.... 355,766
5 Sears Holdings.... 38.... 352,000
6 Target.... 33.... 352,000
7 Citigroup.... 8.... 332,000
8 General Electric.... 6.... 319,000
9 Home Depot.... 17.... 305,760
10 AT&T.... 27.... 302,770
11 Kroger.... 26.... 300,000
12 Ford Motor.... 7.... 283,000
13 General Motors.... 3.... 280,000
14 Verizon Communications.... 13.... 242,000
15 FedEx.... 68.... 221,677
16 Berkshire Hathaway.... 12.... 217,550
17 United Technologies.... 42.... 214,500
18 Safeway.... 56.... 207,000
19 Bank of America Corp..... 9.... 203,425
20 Aramark.... 214.... 200,000
21 Federated Dept. Stores.... 76.... 188,000
22 Altria Group.... 23.... 175,000
23 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co..... 11.... 174,360
24 Delphi.... 83.... 171,400
25 Walgreen.... 44.... 168,600
26 PepsiCo.... 63.... 168,000
27 Yum Brands.... 262.... 166,600
28 HCA.... 87.... 161,500
29 Wells Fargo.... 41.... 158,000
30 Lowe's.... 45.... 157,349
31 Darden Restaurants.... 404.... 157,300
32 Hewlett-Packard.... 14.... 156,000
33 J.C. Penney.... 116.... 155,000
34 Gap.... 144.... 154,000
35 Boeing.... 28.... 154,000
36 Marriott International.... 203.... 150,600
37 Starbucks.... 310.... 145,800
38 Starwood Hotels & Rsrts..... 381.... 145,000
39 Lockheed Martin.... 57.... 140,000
40 Procter & Gamble.... 25.... 138,000
41 CVS/Caremark.... 51.... 136,000
42 Johnson Controls.... 67.... 136,000
43 Walt Disney.... 64.... 133,000
44 Electronic Data Systems.... 111.... 131,000
45 Best Buy.... 72.... 128,000
46 Emerson Electric.... 115.... 127,800
47 TJX.... 133.... 125,000
48 Alcoa.... 71.... 123,000
49 Johnson & Johnson.... 36.... 122,200
50 Northrop Grumman.... 73.... 122,200
From the April 30th, 2007 issue

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/performers/companies/by_employees/index.html

Among top 50, the 25th company employs about 170,000 workers. Accordingly, top 50 companies are estimated to hire 50 x 170,000 = 8.5 million workers in total in the U.S.

I suppose they can increase this number twice larger. Then, another 8.5 million Americans will be hired while presently 13.9 million people are out of job in the U.S. (9.1 percent).
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

It is so simple to find a right direction to a right solution: Let top US 50s double their employment!



SECTION II: 8th Century

As I proved, the Second Coming of Christ Jesus started in the year calculated through Newton's study and my analysis on history.

It was 2010: 1260 + 750 = 2010

My adoption of the year 750 is based on the Islamic Golden Age that started in 750 and the history of Buddhism in Japan that spotlighted 752 when the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha was built in the then capital of Japan.
(Refer to http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/having-eyes-see-ye-not.html and http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/have-ye-your-heart-yet-hardened.html)

As for other examples in terms of 750,
1) Around 770, the first Buddhist temple was built in Tibet.

2) In 8th century Java, a mighty Buddhist kingdom rose. Sailendra conquered a region presently called Indonesia and introduced Buddhism in Cambodia. Their descendants sailed the Indian Ocean as far as Madagascar. The kingdom also built Borobudur, the largest Buddhist structure in the world, in Java Island.

3) In 8th century, Secret Mantra or Vajrayana Buddhism, a complex and multifaceted system of Buddhist thought and practice, was introduced from India into China under the Tang Dynasty. Japanese students in China also learnt this school of Buddhism; they deepened study of the teaching after coming back to Japan.

Indeed, Buddhism experienced great expansion in East Asia, from Japan to Indonesia, around 750.

As the Second Coming of Christ would inevitably have an influence on all the mankind, including Buddhists, the year 750 must be adopted as the starting year for Newton's discovered 1260 year period. Besides as I wrote yesterday, there is a possibility that early Christianity had a kind of linkage with Buddhism through Essenes and Pythagoreans as suggested by the Dead Sea Scrolls.

So, Christ Jesus' Second Coming already started in 2010:
2010 = 750 + 1260

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In 1494, there were 300,000 Native Americans in Haiti.

But, in 50 years, the population dwindled to 500! Indeed, Haiti was from the beginning a symbolic place for the American history. Around the island, Columbus lost one of his ships that reached the New Continent for the first time in the European history.

The Santa Maria had a single deck and three masts. She was the slowest of Columbus's vessels but performed well in the Atlantic crossing. She ran aground off the present-day site of Cap Haitien, Haiti on December 25, 1492, and was lost.[3] Realizing that the ship was beyond repair, Columbus ordered his men to strip the timbers from the ship. The timbers from the ship were later used to build Mole Saint-Nicolas, which was originally called La Navidad (Christmas) because the wreck occurred on Christmas Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_(ship)

In January 2010, a great earthquake hit Haiti, taking on 300,000 lives eventually and making one million survivors homeless.

This natural disaster made me deeply shocked when it occurred. Haiti is so close to the U.S. (and Cuba). Haiti is so poor though it is so close to the U.S. Haiti is associated with the great voyage by Columbus of 1492. (And, Haiti is probably the only nation in Americas where French is one of official languages while English is not.)

While the rich United States is so safe from earthquakes, why must poor Haiti should suffer such a big one?

Anyway, it was a big mistake that some Japanese elite politicians, bureaucrats, and executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company did not take the Haiti tragedy as a warning to them. God further gave another warning with an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in February 2011, where about 180 people lost lives, including 30 or so Japanese students and travelers. It was a big mistake that some Japanese elite politicians, bureaucrats, and executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company did not take the Christchurch tragedy as a warning to them. This natural disaster made me deeply shocked when it occurred, too, since so many Japanese died in a city with such a holy name.

Then, on March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake occurred 130 km off Honsyu Island of Japan.

The earthquake generated 15-meter high tsunamis to submerge several reactor units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant run by TEPCO. Two of the four crippled reactors losing emergency power supply discharged radioactive material in a large quantity when they underwent hydrogen explosions. People now compare this ongoing accident to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This is a very apocalyptic incident. But it must have happened only to show the glory of the God in whatever context. It is so, since the Second Advent must have started in 2010.


(In the past month, access to this blog is mostly from the United States, Russia, Malaysia, Germany, France, and Canada...)


Mar 8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

"the five loaves among five thousand" - (Pythagorean Influences)

Pythagorean Influences (Pythagore influences)

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found after WWII to be regraded as Essenes' library; accordingly this sect that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE in Palestine got big attentions.

Christ Jesus was identified by some scholars with Teacher of Righteousness depicted in the Essenes' library. They think that the Teacher was the true figure of Jesus having lived about 150 years before the time of the Gospels.

Yet, some think that Essenes were actually Pythagorean practitioners who were influenced by Buddhists living around the Dead Sea.

As a consequence, Christ Jesus was linked to Buddhism through Essenes and Pythagoreans, to our surprise, according to a theory.



SECTION I: Christ vs. A Pythagorean

Apollonius of Tyana was better known to Roman citizens than Christ Jesus in the first century.

Apollonius of Tyana (15?–100? AD) was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. Little is certainly known about him. Being a 1st-century orator and philosopher around the time of Christ, he was compared to Jesus of Nazareth by Christians in the 4th century[3] and by various popular writers in modern times...

The sage may really have written some of these works, along with the no-longer extant Biography of Pythagoras...

What we can safely assume is that he was indeed a Pythagorean and as such, in conformity with the Pythagorean tradition, opposed animal sacrifice, and lived on a frugal, strictly vegetarian diet...

A minimalist view is that he spent his entire life in the cities of his native Asia Minor and of northern Syria, in particular his home town of Tyana, Ephesus, Aegae, and Antioch,[18] though the letters suggest wider travels, and there seems no reason to deny that, like many wandering philosophers, he at least visited Rome...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonius_of_Tyana

The rival of Christ in Rome in the first century was a follower of Pythagoras. Though the Pythagorean got more popular than Christ, only noble class Romans seem to have respected Apollonius. According to one account, Apollonius was educated in Tarsos where St. Paul was born. He had big inherited assets but spent them for the poor. Wearing worn-out clothes and walking barefoot, he restored a dead man to life, read thoughts of people, and understood words of animals.

His work can be regarded as one level higher than other magics having been performed among people in Rome, since Apollonius learnt work of Pythagoras, though he could not establish a new religion in Rome like early Christians.



SECTION II: Christ & Pythagoras

Pythagoras ( 570–c. 495 BC) was a Greek but had the base for his activities in Croton, a Greek colony in southern Italy. He is believed to have been killed in Croton or died in Metapontum, southern Italy. Yet it is said that he had traveled to Egypt and might have traveled to India to see the Buddha.

Pythagoras was a believer of metempsychosis. He believed in transmigration, or the reincarnation of the soul again and again into the bodies of humans, animals, or vegetables until it became immortal. His ideas of reincarnation were influenced by ancient Greek religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras#Religion_and_science

Pythagoras was a controversial man. He reportedly killed one of his followers who proved existence of irrational numbers by pushing him off a cliff. Yet, pacifism, communalism, and vegetarianism featured Pythagoras' way, which were shared by followers of Christ Jesus. But there is another thing shared by Pythagoras and Christ:

As a confirmation, John 21:11 records that Jesus performed a miracle which enabled Simon Peter to catch exactly 153 fish:

"And [Jesus] said to them, 'Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat and you will find a catch.' So they cast, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish.

"Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not torn."
John 21:6,11.

Pythagoreans considered 153 a sacred number. The ratio of 153 to 265 was referred to as "the measure of the fish." That ratio is the very ratio between the height and the width of the Vesica Piscis.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3862/vescicapiscis153265.jpg

When we look into the Life of Pythagoras by Iamblichus, we see the story of how Pythagoras was “going from Sybaris to Krotona. At the shore, he stood with some men fishing with nets; they were still hauling the nets weighed down with fish from the depths. He said he knew the number of fish they had hauled in: 153. The men agreed to do what he ordered if the number of fish was as he said. He ordered the fish to be set free, alive, after they were counted accurately to total 153. Now it is said that in the time the fish were out of the water being counted, none of them died while Pythagoras stood there. He paid them the price of the fish and went to Krotona. They announced the deed everywhere, having learned his name from some children”.
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/pda/thread.php?topic_id=11356

The figure Vesica Piscis related to 153 is as follows:

However, note that...

The mathematical ratio of the width of the vesica piscis to its height is the square root of 3, or approximately 1.7320508... (since if straight lines are drawn connecting the centers of the two circles with each other and with the two points where the circles intersect, two equilateral triangles join along an edge). The ratios 265:153 = 1.7320261... and 1351:780 = 1.7320513... are two of a series of approximations to this value, each with the property that no better approximation can be obtained with smaller whole numbers. Archimedes of Syracuse, in his On the Measurement of the Circle, uses these ratios as upper and lower bounds:
1351/780 > Square root of 3 > 265/153
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesica_piscis

For 153, refer to http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/07/when-forty-years-were-expired.html

Anyway, it is important to think how Christianity was influenced by the then intellectual elite Greek scholars, such as followers of Pythagoras even if Christ Jesus is God Himself:

The fact that the measure of the fish was known to include 153, as one of its two numbers, and that the measure of how many fish the disciples are said to have caught is also 153, has not gone unnoticed by many scholars, with some suggesting that the number of fish in the New Testament episode is simply down to being the most familiar large number to the writer, or a deliberate reference to the geometric nomenclature as a sort of in-joke. It is significant that a story was told of Pythagoras by Iamblichus[2], then Porphyry[3], and later reported by Plato, that is very similar, even in wording, to the Biblical narrative of this event; some scholars have argued that the entire Biblical episode is a coded reference to a geometric diagram, since Pythagoreanism saw geometry and numbers as having deep esoteric meaning, and via Hermeticism (and more minor routes) it was profoundly influential in the development of Hellenic mystery religions, and in certain aspects of gnosticism, an early belief system with disputed origins[4]. While such themes would be unusual if the New Testament was only intended to be taken literally, several modern scholars, as well as most ancient followers of gnosticism, have argued that parts of the New Testament were written as gnostic documents.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081023145435AAr3Fhs

While Romans were busy being engaged in war with the Parthian Empire, various scholars, philosophers, magicians of various classes, and religious sect members seem to have been moving around the Mediterranean. One of them looks likes having been St. Paul. Apollonius of Tyana must have been another. But, even Jesus Christ looks like having been on this trend. This phenomenon ended eventually when Islam was endowed with Arabs in the seventh century, though Islam was also influenced by Pythagoreans.


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The number 153 is also related to the Second Coming of Christ Jesus:

Another theory is calculated from the observation that Jesus was the 77th generation from Adam. Now, let’s subtract 77 from 153. 153 - 77 = 76. This number (153) could symbolize that Jesus came after the 1st 76 generations of man and will return IN US after the following 76th. His return will be fully visible in the 77th.
http://kluane.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160&Itemid=216

In this context, the Second Advent of Christ Jesus must be around 2010 as I discussed but not 2060 as Newton predicted. (Refer to http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/have-ye-your-heart-yet-hardened.html)

By the way, a Japanese professor has found that there is a calculation that everybody in the world fails in. He tried it in an international seminar using a projector:

1000 +

40 +

1000 +

30 +

1000 +

20 +

1000 +

10 = ?

He asked the audience to tell the sequence and an answer loudly together. "...Thousand and ten! 5000!" they shouted. But a German participant stood up, saying, "It is 4100! It is easy!" And, an Italian also stood up with a calculator in the hand, "It is 5000. See the calculator...Oh, it is 4100! This device is broken!" He threw away the poor electronic calculator.
(http://youseijuku.org/?p=369)

What is remarkable in the above example is that the four intermediate steps of + 40, + 30, + 20, and + 10 were used to obtain the conclusion.

Anyway what is this?
5 + X = 5000 + 12 x 5

X = 5 x (1000 + 12 - 1) = 5 x 1011
= 5055

There were 55 men and women who were following Christ Jesus as a holy band 2000 years ago.

If 5000 people are actually 4100, then X = 5 x (820 + 12 - 1) = 5 x 831 = 4155

There were still 55 men and women who were following Christ Jesus as a holy band 2000 years ago.

Of course, when people and His followers came to a mountain to listen to Christ Jesus, everyone had secretly one loaf of bread in his or her pocket in case.


Mar 8:19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

"Having eyes, see ye not?" - (Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism)

Legislative Assembly Bldg., Tokyo

Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism (Le confucianisme, le shintoïsme et le bouddhisme)


Newton discovered that 1260 is a key number, through his study of the Old Testament and the Bibles, and I have found 750 is a basic year for calculation of the year of Christ's Second Coming, since 750 was the year when the Islamic Golden Age began.

2010 = 750 + 1260

Therefore, the Advent or the Second Coming of Christ already started in 2010.

Refer to http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/have-ye-your-heart-yet-hardened.html


SECTION I: Japan around 750

701 - The Taiho Code was established as the first system of law in Japan which included Confucianism as a significant element in ethics and government. It was based on the Code of Yonghui enacted in the Tang Dynasty of China in 651. In the Taiho Code, the name of Japan was officially defined as "Nihon (Nippon)", though it had been called "Wa" by Chinese.

702 - A Japanese emperor sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty of China who were officially received by Wu Zetian (624 - 705, the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Empress Regnant), who had been one of empresses of the Emperor Gaozong of Tang.

The Japanese envoys informed the Chinese imperial court in Changan that their country changed its name from "Wa" to "Nihon (Nippon)." As Empress Regnant Wu liked the Japanese envoys, this announcement was accepted without objection. Today's English name "Japan" is a derivative expression of "Nippon" which was changed to Jippon and then Jippan, most probably, by some Chinese and other Asians in the long time of history. "Wa" does not have any magnificient meaning but "Nihon" means the place where the sun rises. "Wa" is an old calling of Japan by ancient Chinese, though a region where the original capital of Japan was placed is called "Yamato."

Note that for an emperor of Japan a Japanese word "Ten-no" is used, but for an emperor in any other country a Japanese word "Ko-tei" is used. When translating "Ten-no" and "Ko-tei" to English, an "emperor" is used in both the cases. So, "a Japanese emperor" is "Nihon-no Ten-no" while "a Roman emperor" is "Ro-ma Ko-tei" in Japanese. It is thought that it was late in the seventh century that the reigning king or queen of Japan started to call himself or herself "Ten-no." The wife of a male "Ten-no" is called "Ko-go" which is translated to an English word empress. There have been several female "Ten-no" in the Japanese history who were no more "Ko-go" or empresses, since they had no longer their husbands while being in the imeprial throne.

By adopting the title "Ten-no" without challenging hegemony held by a Chinese emperor (Ko-tei), the Japanese imperial court reasserted its political independence from China, which had been however claimed a century ago by Japanese Prince Shotoku to the Chinese Sui court. It claimed again that Japan should not be regraded as a tributary to China. However, for example, Korea continued to be a tributary to China till 1897 when the Empire of Japan defeated the Qing Dynasty of China over hegemony over Korea.

708 - The oldest official Japanese coinage to be publicly current was minted on imperial order. This coin is called "Wadokaichin." It was made, imitating the Tang coinage named Kai Yuan Tong Bao, first minted in Changan in 621. Before Wadokaichin, some coins were issued by the Japanese imperial court, but they do not seem to have been fully current.

710 - The Imperial capital of Japan was moved from Fujiwara-kyo, presently Kashihara City of Nara Prefecture, to Heijo-kyo, presently Nara City of Nara Prefecture. Basically this capital was used till 784 when the capital of Japan was first moved into the Yamashiro area, presently Kyoto Prefecture.

(Heijyo-kyo reproduced with a computer, http://ysingo.seesaa.net/article/118996855.html)

712 - The oldest exisiting imperial chronicle and myth of Japan called Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) was compiled by O-no Yasumaru following an imperial order. This book has become one of major documentary resources for shintoism.

(http://www.susanowo.com/archives/2111)

720 - The second oldest exisiting imperial chronicle and myth of Japan called Nihon Shoki (Record of Japan) was compiled following an imperial order. This book has become one of major documentary resources for shintoism.

752 - The world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha, called "Daibutsu" in Japanese, was built in Heijyo-kyo (Nara City), following an imperial order. It was housed in the largest wooden building in the world called "Daibutsuden" meaning Great Buddha Hall. This event tells how deeply some Japanese emperors believed in the Buddha and Buddhism, though this religion was yet to prevail among ordinary people. In general Buddhism was still a religion of the ruling class, the noble class, and those close to them.

(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E5%A4%A7%E5%AF%BA%E7%9B%A7%E8%88%8E%E9%82%A3%E4%BB%8F%E5%83%8F)

753 - A notable Chinese Buddhist monk named Jianzhen (Ganjin in Japanese) finally came to Japan after a 10-year-long effort to sail across the East China Sea. An emperor of Tang respected so much Ganjin and wanted him to stay in China. Accordingly, the Chinese imperial court did not help Ganjin travel to Japan. Yet, after coming to Japan, Ganjin greatly helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. The Japanese imperial court helped Ganjin build a big temple called Tosho-daiji.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dsh%C5%8Ddai-ji)


So, around 750, Japan set Confucianism, Shintoism, and Buddhism as its three major basic spiritual foundations.

This spiritual structure is still preserved today, that is around 2010, 1260 years after 750. And, coincidentally, the year 750 was the starting year for the Islamic Golden Age as I discussed yesterday. Therefore, Newton's prediction on the Second Coming of Christ must be calculated as 750 + 1260 = 2010.

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First of all remember that (c + b) x (c -b) = c x c - b x b.

40000 = 200 x 200

40000 = 20000 x 2
= (10001 + 9999) x (10001 - 9999)
= 10001 x 10001 - 9999 x 9999

Therefore, 200 x 200 + 9999 x 9999 = 10001 x 10001

Or, 200^2 + 9999^2 = 10001^2

Like 3 x 3 + 4 x 4 = 5 x 5

Conclusively, 200, 9999, and 10001 are a Pythagorean triple which satisfies:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2

The point at issue is whether you can answer 200, when you are given 9999 and 10001 and asked to present whatever appropriate number to 9999 and 10001.

The hidden point at issue is that being "appropriate" means that it must be related to a very basic and notable law or principle such as the a Pythagorean triple.

Incidentally, the following four sets are also Pythagorean triples.

a = 1357, b = 1476, c = 2005

a = 1203, b = 1604, c = 2005

a = 1037, b = 1716, c = 2005

a = 200, b = 1995, c = 2005

(http://homepage3.nifty.com/kuebiko/science/freestdy/Pytha.html)

Indeed, the year 2005 is significant, since the Vatican had a new pope elected and the EEE-Reporter blog was started in 2005.

But what happened in the years of 1037 and 1716, in the years of 1203 and 1604, in the years of 1357 and 1476, or in the years of 200 and 1995?

In addition,
a = 1206, b = 1608, c = 2010

(http://data.vanderbilt.edu/~koyamat/brew/pythagoras.html)




Mar 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

"have ye your heart yet hardened?" - (Advent: 750 + 1260 = 2010)

Tokyo...

Advent: 750 + 1260 = 2010 (L'Avent: 750 + 1260 = 2010)

Finally, I have found the holy meaning of the 2010 Haiti great earthquake and the 2011 Japan great earthquake accompanied by great tsunamis and the Fukushima Daiich nuclear accident.

It is because the Second Coming of Christ Jesus, the Advent, or the end of the old world started in 2010.

It is because Newton discovered that 1260 is a key number and I have found 750 is a basic year for calculation of the year of Christ's Second Coming.

2010 = 1260 + 750


SECTION I: End of the World

Around 1700, Isaac Newton pondered over when the end of the world or Christ's Second Coming would occur.

In late February and early March 2003, a large amount of media attention circulated around the globe regarding largely unknown and unpublished documents, evidently written by Isaac Newton, indicating that he believed the world would end no earlier than 2060. The story garnered vast amounts of public interest and found its way onto the front page of several widely distributed newspapers including, Britain's Daily Telegraph, Canada's National Post, Israel's Maariv and Yediot Aharonot, and was also featured in an article in the scientific journal, Nature...

So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, recconing twelve months to a yeare & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year. And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived [sic for “long lived”] kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800, will end A.C. 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fancifull men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail. Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons wch God hath put into his own breast.

Clearly Newton's mathematical prediction of the end of the world is one derived from his interpretation of not only scripture, but also one based upon his theological viewpoint regarding specific chronological dates and events as he saw them.

Newton may not have been referring to the post 2060 event as a destructive act resulting in the annihilation of the globe and its inhabitants, but rather one in which he believed the world, as he saw it, was to be replaced with a new one based upon a transition to an era of divinely inspired peace. In Christian and Islamic theology this concept is often referred to as The Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of The Kingdom of God on Earth. In a separate manuscript,[19] Isaac Newton paraphrases Revelation 21 and 22 and relates the post 2060 events by writing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies#2060

Newton thought that the Advent would occur 1260 years after the time when the Vatican revived the Roman Empire. He judged that the time was 800, so that he obtained the year 2060.

800 + 1260 = 2060

But, is the time really 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome? It is controversial.


(For more consideration on 800, refer to
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/01/make-straight-way-of-lord.html)


SECTION II: Not From 800 But From 750

I think it is the year of 750, instead of 800, that Newton should have taken up for his holy calculation to obtain the year when the old world ends.

"(Islamic) Golden Age" (750–1258)

Under the Abbasids, Islamic civilization flourished in the "Islamic Golden Age", with its capital at the cosmopolitan city of Baghdad.[92] Expansion of the Muslim world continued by both conquest and peaceful proselytism even as both Islam and Muslim trade networks were extending into sub-Saharan West Africa, Central Asia, Volga Bulgaria and the Malay archipelago.[93] Many Muslims went to China to trade, virtually dominating the import and export industry of the Song Dynasty...

Public hospitals established during this time (called Bimaristan hospitals), are considered "the first hospitals" in the modern sense of the word[100] and issued the first medical diplomas to license doctors of medicine.[101][102] The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the University of Al Karaouine as the oldest degree-granting university in the world with its founding in 859 CE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam

The concept of the end of the world or the Advent must have an influence on all the mankind. At least, Judaists and Muslims must be taken into consideration. Weighing the magnitude and significance Islam has in the world in these 1300 years, it is very reasonable to expand the scope of application of prophecies indicated in the Old Testament and the Gospels so as to cover Islam.

And in 750, Islam started to flourish as a world religion whose influence reached the Iberian Peninsula in the west and the Chinese Continent in the east. It could be the starting point for Newton's calculation.

750 + 1260 = 2010

It was 2010 that the end of the world came! It was 2010 that the Advent started! It was 2010 that the old world started to crumble! Since 2010, we mankind have entered a new stage in history, already. We are in the process of evolution of history that has power to destroy old paradigms, regimes, systems, and structure. Yes, we are already on the holy course where the holy Advent is being implemented! Judaists, Christians, Muslims and all the other believers must know that 750 + 1260 = 2010 but not 800 + 1260 = 2060.


SECTION III: But Why 750?

In 750, when the Umayyad Caliphate, the second of the four major Arab caliphates established after the death of Muhammad, collapsed and taken over by the Abbasids, Islam had already prevailed as shown below:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam)

From the beginning the Old Testament and the Gospels were not related to the Roman Empire and Europe. They were rooted in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Arab world. Existence of the Vatican was not assumed in the Old Testament. Rome as the center of Christianity was not assumed in the Gospels. They were all linked to Jerusalem and the Middle East. And, it was Islam that built a glorious empire in the region. Islamic hegemony over the region was firmly fixed and spectacularly launched around 750. With success around 750, Islam was promised to survive for 1260 years more.

Newton's study on the year of the Advent was wrong in that he did not widen the scope of Abraham's religion to include Islam.

The year 800 might be when the Vatican revived the Roman Empire as Newton judged, but the year 750 was when Islam revived glory of those living in the land of Abraham, Moses, and Christ Jesus though with a modified version of Abraham's religion.

So, the Advent must have started in 2010:
750 + 1260 = 2010


SECTION IV: But Why 2010?

Christ Jesus indeed mentioned the end of the world accompanied by great earthquakes.

Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?


Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.


Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.


Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2010 - A great earthquake in Haiti takes more than 300,000 lives.

2011 - An M9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in Japan take 20,000 lives and cause the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

More specifically,
April, 2010 – Volcano Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland erupts, disrupting air traffic across northern and western Europe.

April, 2010 – S & P's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk.

July, 2010 – Heavy monsoon rains causes widespread flooding in Pakistan, killing 1,600 and displacing one million.

December, 2010 – The first total lunar eclipse occurs on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes place

February, 2011 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests.

May, 2011 – U.S. President Barack Obama has U.S. special troops successfully take on Osama bin Laden.

Big earthquakes are taking places, volcanoes are erupting, floods are rampaging, Europeans and Americans are facing financial crises, riots are showing suppressed dissatisfaction among young people in London and Paris, the U.S. has finally an African American president, Muslim terrorists are losing while democracy is being introduced in the Islamic world through struggles, and China and India are still not in status to receive respect from the world.

And, Japan is suffering another nuclear crisis since Hiroshima and Nagasaki of 1945.

You cannot deny the claim that mankind is entering a period of a great change around 2010.

In addition, IEA admitted in 2010 that oil peak occurred in 2006.

In 2006, production of crude oil from conventional oil fields hit a peak. Mankind has to find and develop other oil fields or cultivate use of oil shale, oil sands, and so on.

(World Energy Outlook,2010)

The material civilization that started with the industrial revolution in the late 18th century has been supported by energy sources, coal and crude oil, that have never been depleted. But, this trend is going to change clearly around 2010. And most importantly, as crude oil is a great gift from Allah to Muslims, the oil peak means an end of the Age of Islam that has continued for 1260 years since 750.

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According to the Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, the end of the Vatican is expected to come during the reign of the next of or the next after the next of the present Pope:

"In the last persecution of the Holy Roman Church, Peter the Roman will hold the see (lit. "sit"),
who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations:
and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed,
and the terrible judge will judge his people.
The End."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes#Pope_Benedict_XVI_.28Gloria_olivae.29

There are still many mysteries around the Vatican whether or not Newton ever read Malachy's prophecy.


Appendix. Shadow of the Moon on the Earth on Total Solar Eclipse on August 11, 1999

The following picture was taken by a French astronaut on board Russian Mir:

(Oh, what a night...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3xgNXkuCz8)


Mar 8:17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
Mar 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

"when he hath lighted a candle" - (The Circular Constant and The Global Debts)

Tokyo Government Office Streets...

The Circular Constant and The Global Debts (la constante de circulaires; la dette du monde)

In economics, profit (or an inflation rate) is represented by a symbol pi as used for the circular constant.

Pi = Total Revenue - Total Costs

If pi is plus, no debt is incurred.


SECTION I: Circular Constant "PI"

The basic of the universe is related to a circle and a square.

The ratio of the circle and the square is pi to 4.

As founded in 1671,
pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 + 1/13 - 1/15...

(ln 2 = 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 - 1/6 + 1/7...; e^(ln 2) = 2 )

As founded in 1665,
pi/4 = (3 x 3 x 5 x 5 x 7 x 7 x 9 x 9 ...)/(2 x 4 x 4 x 6 x 6 x 8 x 8 x 10 x 10...)

These equations tell one of the most profound secrets of this universe, while pi = 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433...

Pi cannot be expressed with a common fraction, that is, in the form of N/M where N and M are integers. Pi cannot be an answer for X in an equation of 0 = aX + bX^2 + cX^3 + dX^4... Pi is a transcendental number.

But, it can be expressed with integers only, using above equations. It is a big mystery.

Now, my theory is that it indicates the basic principle of physics related to the universe.

According to the uncertainty principle, you cannot precisely and exactly know both a location and a kinetic momentum of a particle, such as an electron, at one time together. If you use light to check a very small particle, energy of the light would have an effect on the particle. It results in a change in the location or the kinetic momentum of the particle. Any practical measurement would fail in producing both a location and a kinetic momentum of a particle, such as an electron, at one time together.

The reason is that this physical space cannot be divided into or composed of squares; it must be divided into or composed of circles. But, you cannot divide even a surface plain perfectly into circles while you may with squares.

The gap between our expectation and reality regrading a physical phenomenon in the super-microscopic space, such as an atom, comes from the fact that space is essentially divided into or composed of circles but not squares. And, the gap can be mathematically expressed as "pi" divided by "4" as above shown.

Note that whenever a particle is localized in a finite interval dx > 0, then the standard deviation of its momentum dp satisfies:
dp x dx >= h/2
where h = 6.62606876×10^(-34) [Js: joule seconds]
h/2 is the limit on how correctly we can measure and know both the location and the momentum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

Yet, this value must be related to the right sides of the above "pi/4" equations:
h = A x pi/4.

The coefficient A must have some profound meaning.

Anyway, this universe is composed of circles. Hence, your computer screen looking a rectangle must be divided into a myriad of circles. But, you assume it is a perfect rectangle which can be divided into a myriad of squares. The gap between your assumption and truth can be expressed as pi/4, which looks like very big but it is in the size order of 10^(-34) that it matters. For example, an electron has the upper limit of its radius at 10^(−22) meters or 0.0000000000000000000001 meters. Even at the size of an electron, the gap between the square and the circle does not matter: everybody assumes that the space is tightly filled by squares using an instrument or device larger than this gap.

Holily, it decisively tells that the God created numbers first and then space and the material universe.

It is so, since the area of a circle is expressed with integers and integers only.



SECTION II: Total Global Debts

It is difficult to correctly estimate how much governments, public bodies, financial institutes, businesses, and individuals owe money to others.

According to the Financial Post:
Total world debt in the form of bonds...$82 trillion
Total value of world equity markets...$44 trillion
Total world net debts...minus $38 trillion

Other estimation matches roughly these figures:

Q: What is the total debt of all the countries in the world?

A: Economy of the World
Population (July 19, 2011): 6,950,015,840
GDP (PPP): US$74.00 trillion (2010 est.)
GDP (Currency): $61.96 trillion (2010 est.)
GDP/capita (PPP): $10,500
GDP/capita (Currency): $7,178
Annual growth of
per capita GDP (PPP): -0.8% (2009 est.)
People Paid Below $2 per day: ~3.25 billion (~50%)
Millionaires (US$): ~10 million i.e. ~0.15% (2009)
Billionaires (US$): 1,011 (2010) [3]
Unemployment: 30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries. Developed countries typically 4-12% unemployment.

The debt to GDP % varies 225%(Japan) to 14%(Russia), but most large economies are in the neighbourhood of 70% .... so, it is safe to asume world debt as 60% of world GDP.

so, world debt could be 40 trillion USD.

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110805064925AAeMRxN

So, it is about $6,000 in USD per person. Every one in the world has to pay $6,000 to pay off the world's debts, though GDP/capita (Currency) is $7,178.

Note that the ratio of Japan's debt to GDP is about 200%, Japan does not borrow money from other countries. Almost all the creditors to Japan are Japanese banks, Japanese corporations, and Japanese individuals. This is a big difference between Japan and any other countries, including the U.S. and the U.K. You cannot simply apply commonsense in New York and London to Japan.

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As a circle can be accommodated in a corresponding square, total costs must be accommodated in total revenue in an enterprise.

But how much must the national budget be covered by tax revenue? The relationship between company's costs and revenue cannot simply apply to the relationship between the national budget and tax revenue.

Without leaving a binding condition, what resource should be added to tax revenue for use in national budget?

Incidentally, Infinity = 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/6 + 1/7 +...





Luk 8:16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

"they might receive the Holy Ghost" - (Japan's Anniversary of the End of the Second World War)

Tokyo Governmental District...

Japan's Anniversary of the End of the Second World War 

(Japon anniversaire de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale)

[Updated in March 2012]

A popular Harvard University professor gave a lecture to students in a university in Japan.

"Do you think that the Japanese people should continue to apologize to Asian people for atrocity and destruction their ancestors caused on Asian people during WWII?" asked the professor to the audience in a university hall.

But, it was just several years that the Empire of Japan occupied directly South East Asia. On the other hand, Europeans and European Americans occupied directly South East Asia for 200 years and more through colonization. It was only after WWII that, for example, the U.K. gave up colonial rule in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc. (Most of the Japanese people think that Western powers gave up their colonial rule in Asia eventually due to their virtual military defeat by the Empire of Japan during WWII. Even the U.S., the only winner over the Empire, gave up colonial rule in the Philippines after the Japan-U.S. War. Put simply, patriotic and right-wing Japanese think it was the Empire of Japan that freed Asian peoples from colonial occupation by Western powers.)

The Empire of Japan invested so much money to Korea and Taiwan, building many modern infrastructures. Tax revenue in Korea was less than public investment from Japan proper. All modernization in Taiwan was promoted by applying Japanese technology and funds. Japan gave more than it took from Korea and Taiwan.

As Western powers and Russia invaded Asia, East Asia, and the Far East, Japanese people had to establish their own modern empire to cope with colonizing powers. Indirectly, Western powers are responsible for occupation of Southeast Asia by the Empire of Japan during WWII, since it was not Asian people but British, Dutch, Australian, and American troops that were attacked by the Imperial Military in WWII.

The Harvard professor, who is a European American, is never in a position to ask such a rude question to Japanese students of today in Tokyo.

This is the norm in their thinking among patriotic or right-wing Japanese.

In my thinking, American people should continue to apologize to the Japanese people for atrocity and destruction their ancestors committed against the Japanese during WWII. The American military should not have killed 94,000 citizens in the Battle of Okinawa, and 200,000 in Hiroshima and 140,000 in Nagasaki (including those who died due to radiation doses in five years after the atomic bomb attacks).


Note 1: It is to obtain crude oil in Indonesia that the Imperial Military of Japan advanced to South East Asia during WWII.  It is because the US stopped its export of crude oil to the Empire of Japan in the summer of 1941, so that the Empire had to go and get crude oil in Indonesia which was then ruled by the Netherlands.  To prevent interference by the US Navy, the Empire had to first attack Pearl Harbor since the Netherlands was in a tie up with the US.  So, it is the US that has to apologize to Asian people since the US forced Japan to advance to Indonesia for crude oil.  This is a view of Japanese nationalists.

Note 2: As for China, it must be remembered that Chinese troops had been supported, trained, and instructed by Nazi Germany in 1930's.  

The State of Colonization in Asia before WWII in the early 20th Century; The Empire of Japan, Kingdom of Thailand, and part of China were only independent from Western powers.
 http://seitousikan.blog130.fc2.com/)

The state of colonization of East & South Asia before the end of WWI.
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/crazy_tombo/42014020.html

The state of military/political occupation by the Empire of Japan as of 1942, driving out American, British and Dutch colonizing powers in addition to French remnants and Chinese insurgents while checking Russians.
http://iclc2008.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/2397109/


SECTION I: August 15

On August 15, 1945, the people of the Empire of Japan experienced an event that had never been heard of.

The Emperor of Japan announced via radio to the people, though through a prerecorded message, that he accepted request from the Allies to surrender. It was the first time that most of the Japanese heard voices of their emperor. Following this imperial announcement, all the imperial soldiers, troops, divisions, and naval fleets terminated their military operation though some units were forced to continue to fight, for example, against unlawfully invading Russian troops in the northern territory.

Accordingly, August 15 is the day for Japan that indicates the end of WWII, the Japan-U.S. War, and the Japanese-Chinese War.

Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both the day on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made in the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945, (when it was announced in the United States, Western Europe, the Americas, the Pacific Islands, and Australia/New Zealand), as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day

Memorial services are held on this day in Tokyo and so on. At the Bodokan, Tokyo, their Majesties the Emperor and Empress attend the service. Total 2.3 million soldiers and 0.8 million citizens of the Empire lost their lives in the war. And, after the war or August 15, 1945, Manchukuo (a controversial, nominally independent nation of Manchus), Korea, Taiwan, South Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, and some South Pacific islands were severed from Japan.

http://www.themapdatabase.com/category/wars/world-war-ii/

Tokyo Marnouchi (before Imperial Palace Plaza) before WWII:

http://www.geocities.jp/dinetomi76/senzennihon.html

Tokyo Ginza before WWII:

http://www.geocities.jp/dinetomi76/senzennihon.html

The Tokyo Station before WWII:

http://nishinomiya7773.blog46.fc2.com/blog-entry-173.html

The Tokyo City Hall before WWII:

http://www.soumu.metro.tokyo.jp/01soumu/archives/0702enkaku.htm

Tokyo Kiyosu Bridge before WWII:

http://sakurakan.at.webry.info/200808/article_5.html

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Hiroshima before WWII:

Aerial View of Hiroshima City in 1939
http://homepage2.nifty.com/hiroshimaaozora/5skyphoto.htm

Hiroshima before WWII (2):

Main Street with Financial Institutions
http://www.geocities.jp/dinetomi76/senzennihon.html

Hiroshima before WWII (3):

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/br5m_kzi/8472003.html

Hiroshima before WWII (4):

http://ehagakiwotanosimu.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_27.html

Hiroshima before WWII (5):

Hiroshima Commercial Museum
http://www.uraken.net/rail/travel-urabe33.html

Hiroshima before WWII (6):

Hiroshima Tram Cars
http://ehagakiwotanosimu.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_4798.html

Hiroshima before WWII (7):

Hiroshima Tax Office
http://www.nta.go.jp/ntc/sozei/network/135.htm

Hiroshima before WWII (8):

Hiroshima Waterworks Facility
http://ehagakiwotanosimu.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_307.html

Hiroshima before WWII (9):

Around the Hiroshima Castle before WWII
http://www.shipboard.info/blog/archives/2011/05/post_2379.html

Hiroshima before WWII (10):

Hiroshima Castle (Once Used by Samurai) before WWII
http://www.ujikuse.jp/news/2006/08/07-161208.php

Hiroshima before WWII (11):

http://sakurakan.at.webry.info/200803/article_1.html

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Hiroshima Immediately after WWII:

Primary School under the Blue Sky
http://hashibee.blog39.fc2.com/blog-entry-542.html

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Nagasaki before WWII:

 Nagasaki Railroad Station before WWII

Nagasaki Railroad Station before WWII
http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~travel-100years/travelguide_072.htm

Nagasaki Radio Station before WWII
http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~joshp/musenshi/cc1.html

http://www.jasnaoe.or.jp/old_sites/west/mm/016/article01.html
Nagasaki Port in the late 19th Century

Mitsubishi Shipyard, Nagasaki, around 1910
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E8%8F%B1%E9%87%8D%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD%E9%95%B7%E5%B4%8E%E9%80%A0%E8%88%B9%E6%89%80

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Osaka before WWII (1):

http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/somu/page/0000062075.html

Osaka before WWII (2):

http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/somu/page/0000062075.html

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Tokyo Citizens before WWII:

http://www.geocities.jp/dinetomi76/senzennihon.html

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Taiwan under Japanese Governance before WWII:

Taiwan Governmental Building under the Empire of Japan
http://www.katakura.net/xoops/html/modules/wordpress2/index.php?cat=3

Taipei City before WWII
http://www.katakura.net/xoops/html/modules/wordpress2/index.php?cat=3


SECTION II: Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

Nowadays, even U.S. sailors visit notable Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

Your probably wondering if I went up there and prayed…. I usually don't pray at Japanese shrines because I am a Catholic but also because it would feel a bit awkward at this particular shrine. My grandpa fought in this war so it would be like….hugging the enemy. ^^;
http://punynari.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/yasukuni-shrine/

However, I will present here my taking pictures of the shrine, instead:

(Statue of Samurai Omura Masujiro [1824-1869],  the master of the art of war and the founder of the Imperial Army)

Yet, once major political and social figures of the Empire of Japan attended ceremonies held in Yashukuni Shrine as observed in the following picture taken in 1939:

(http://www.dia.janis.or.jp/~soga/yasukuni.html)

The last time Showa Emperor visited Yasukuni Shrine was November 1975. The current Emperor, the eldest son of Showa Emperor, has never visited Yasukuni Shrine since his accession to the imperial throne in 1989. The reason why the Imperial Family was reluctant to visit the shrine is believed to be that some generals and politicians who had led the Empire to the war with the U.S. in 1941 were enshrined there together with spirits of other fallen soldiers. The fact of honoring those generals and politicians collectively in Yasukuni was made public around 1978.

Many conservative lawmakers of Japan visit the shrine on August 15, but it is very rare that the prime minister of Japan visits the shrine on the day due to strong political and diplomatic protest from South Korea and China.

Showa Emperor in Yasukuni Shrine on an Autumn Shinto Service in 1969:

(http://pub.ne.jp/bbgmgt/?entry_id=2030484)

Showa Emperor in Yasukuni Shrine on an Autumn Shinto Service in 1975:

(http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2010&d=1121&f=national_1121_029.shtml)

http://a-tempo.seesaa.net/article/16374262.html

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APPENDIX. Imperial Military (1871/1872 - 1945)

The Imperial Navy of Japan before WWII was ranked as the third largest next to the US and the UK, the second strongest following the US, and the best equipped for aerial war on the ocean in the world.

During WWII, the Imperial Navy used ships, airplanes, and other equipment all made in Japan except some old ships such as Kongo which had been imported in early 1910s from the UK.

Yamato, the world largest battle ship
 http://japan2671.seesaa.net/upload/detail/image/048_E688A6E889A6E5A4A7E5928C-thumbnail2.jpg.html

Musashi, a twin ship of Yamato
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ryotoanariza/14713688.html

Battle Ship Ise
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/wagasato/e/fcd1958623c3293bd9f57188f79ef5e7

Battle Ship Mutsu
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B8%E5%A5%A5_(%E6%88%A6%E8%89%A6)

Battle Ship Nagato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Nagato

Battle Ship Kongo (the last one among war ships purchased from the UK; introduced in 1913, so that this war ship was one of the oldest naval ships used by the Imperial Navy during WWII.)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E5%89%9B%E5%9E%8B%E6%88%A6%E8%89%A6

Heavy Cruiser Mogami
http://www.isoroku.info/

Heavy Cruiser Chokai
 http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/207157/blog/19090482/

Heavy Cruiser Takao
http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/archives/874982.html

Heavy Cruiser Atago
http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/archives/874982.html

Destroyer Fubuki
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubuki_class_destroyer

Imperial Navy I-Type Subnarine
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/aquarius1969newage/archive/2010/08/29

Imperial Navy Aircraft-Carrier Task Force Heading for Pearl Harbor
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/matukaze_2006/e/2fa9fac3b11d99b6ae0c65d92219f658

Imperial Aircraft Carrier Akagi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Akagi

Imperial Aircraft Carrier Soryu
http://m3i.nobody.jp/military/IJN_Soryumenu.html

Imperial Aircraft Carrier Ryujo
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/daitouayokoyama/folder/193775.html?m=lc&p=9

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

Ｉｍｐｅｒｉａｌ Aircraft Carrier Katsuragi
http://xinter01.exblog.jp/i9/

Imperial Aircraft Carrier Shokaku
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/hosoyataichan/folder/752191.html?m=lc&p=8

Imperial Aircraft Carrier Kaga
http://sakurasakujapan.web.fc2.com/main03/weaponjpnackaga/kaga.html

http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/004/721/81/1/200510_img_3.jpg

The Zero, http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~yamato/zeke.html

The Type 100 Heavy Bomber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_Ki-49

The Type 99 Light Bomber 
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/daitouayokoyama/4655251.html

The Type 96 Heavy Bomber
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/houzankai2006/47553574.html

The Raiden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_J2M

The Shiden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_N1K

The Type 97 Torpedo Bomber
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/daitouayokoyama/folder/193775.html?m=lc&p=9

The Carrier-Borne Bomber Suisei

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/daitouayokoyama/folder/193775.html?m=lc&p=11

The Type 94 Cannon

http://sakurasakujapan.web.fc2.com/main03/weaponjpagun94type37mmantitankgun/94type37mmantitankgun.html

The Type 95 Light Tank
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/gurasugo11/folder/571317.html

The Type 99 Light Machine Gun
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/icarus777z/64052230.html

The Type 03 Heavy Machine Gun and the Type 99
http://www.xn--u9j370humdba539qcybpym.jp/thesis/081118/081118_gakushi360.htm

http://teitoku.sakura.ne.jp/blog/archives/2005/07/2005722.html

The　Type 90 70 mm Field Gun,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_90_75_mm_Field_Gun

The Type 5 15 cm Antiaircraft Artillery
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/daitouayokoyama/2434266.html

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad-Desert/1340/wa-mary.htm

http://www.geocities.jp/torikai007/war/yasukuni.html

State of World War II between 1942 and 1943; the battle in Stalingrad with the USSR counter offensive and the naval battle around the Midway Islands with the US counter offensive.
(http://gakuen.gifu-net.ed.jp/~contents/kou_chirekikouminn/sekaishichizu/sww/sww_7.html)

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The 9th Company, the 25th Regiment of the Imperial Army
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/189245/blog/19750835/

Imperial Army Memorial Day Ceremony
http://heirinzi.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_28.html

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http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/sopwithf1camel/folder/478230.html

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(This sound reminds me strangely of the fate of the Empire of Japan...
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/gs/yuhiganaiteiru.html)



Act 8:14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
Act 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
Act 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Act 8:17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.