"Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples" - Know the Era

Around a Railway Station in the Tokyo Suburbs

Know the Era

The year 1995 was a very drastic year for Japan.

There occurred a big earthquake in Kobe in January 1995.  And sarin gas terror was carried out by a cult called Aum Shinrikyo in the Tokyo subway lines in March 1995.

Around Kobe City, close to the major city of western Japan Osaka, 6,000 people were killed.  In Tokyo subways, 6,000 people were harmed by the poisonous gas sarin, with 13 deaths.

After 1995, Japan entered a deflation period that has continued to date.

Maybe those incidents in 1995 changed a mind set of the Japanese people.  Japan has not increased its GDP since the middle of 1990s.  But Japanese businesses started to move their factories and plants to China and other Asian countries in a large scale (total 20,000 Japanese companies have moved part of their operation into China).  At the time, in explaining these movements of Japanese companies, the Japanese media pointed at economic globalization that forced Japanese businesses to use cheap labor force in China.  Anyway, as a result China's GDP grew so rapidly but Japan entered the deflation period where a wage level of Japanese workers stopped rising.

However, the 2001 Terror on New York and Washington DC led to the sub-prime loan mortgage boom in the US in 2000s.  Then the US triggered the 2008 Global Financial Crisis that subsequently caused the Euro Crisis.

Now we don't know where the recent Paris Terror would lead.  Or we don't now where the 2014 Ukrainian Crisis would lead.  Europe might have to undergo a very difficult time.
 





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Act 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
Act 1:16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.