Japanese Upper House Election
The Upper House Election of the Japanese National Diet (parliament) finally started.
The official election campaign period will be ended on July 20; voting on July 21 Sunday.
It is expected that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will overwhelmingly win. His LDP party and its coalition Komeito Party will secure a majority in both the Houses.
It should be noted that the LDP was not in power when the great tsunami hit Japan in March 2011. It was the liberal DPJ that was in charge of national administration of Japan when the M9.0 earthquake occurred and subsequently the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was attacked by 15-meter tsunamis to lose its function and suffer melt down of nuclear fuel.
A regime change from the DPJ Cabinet to the LDP Cabinet was realized in the general election held last December. Voters found that socialistic DPJ politicians were not capable of handling this great scale of disaster. So they voted for the conservative and capitalist LDP with hope that LDP politicians would more professionally fix the situations and address the great problems caused the big disaster of a scale which could be only observed once in a thousand years.
This election is the first in Japan where the Internet use in campaigns is officially authorized.
PM Mr. Abe is actively using the Internet to boost a social mood in favor of the so-called Abenomics (meaning huge buying of government bonds by the Bank of Japan).
Howeveｒ, the LDP seems to be more concerned with TV. The ruling party LDP claimed that a certain TV station in Tokyo was biased and significantly anti-LDP, pointing at a certain news program in their complaint. Maybe their president Mr. Abe might not like some commentator engaged in the program.
Anyway one thing and another, a summer drama in Japan is going on with many dreams flying around like fireflies.
The Upper House consists of 242 seats half of which are reelected in every three years.
To make sure, I am not a member of the House.
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Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Rev 7:5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;