"It was Never So Seen in Israel"

Recently Japan's Foreign Minister Mr. Katsuya Okada wrote in his personal blog site that Secretary Mrs. Clinton was a cool and tough lady and he had to refine his English more.

(http://www.katsuya.net/)

Also recently Japan's Financial and Postal Services Minister Mr. Shizuka Kamei said: "Normally, if borrowers are having a hard time, lenders should voluntarily help them to survive and grow so that the state doesn't have to intervene."

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090920a4.html

Comparatively young F.M. Mr. Okada is expected to become prime minister of Japan in future, while very veteran Minister Mr. Kamei once competed hard with former P.M. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi over the post of the LDP president and thus the prime minister of Japan, in vain.

Some American elite seem to be already starting to build a friendly connection with Mr. Okada, even before the 8/30/2009 general election, but also already being leery of Mr. Kamei's stance.

In this context, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan that lost power due to results of the 8/30/2009 general election might, I am afraid, try to leverage their long and strong tie with some American elite to check the deployment of Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama's Cabinet further impressing Japanese voters favorably...



SECTION I: Buddhism around Pakistan and Afghanistan

Most of educated Japanese know the name of king Ashoka (304 BC – 232 BC), since he made his kingdom, the Maurya Dynasty, one of the greatest Buddhist kingdoms in history.

But, King Ashoka was born after Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), the implication of which is however not fully examined by any professors or scholars.

When looking at the state of Buddhist proselytism at the time of king Ashoka (260-218 BCE), you would be more interested in the sequence of Alexander the Great and King Ashoka:

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

Indeed, it is a mystery why Buddhism was not propagated into the Middle East and further to Europe.

Nonetheless, it is very unthinkable that Israelites had never heard of this great religion Buddhism created in India around 500 B.C., since Greater India, including Pakistan, was just next to Afghanistan, a kind of extension of Persia familiar to ancient Judaists.

In short, without King Ashoka who must have been highly influenced by the legacy of Alexander the Great, Buddhism could not be propagated to China and then Korea and Japan.

Then, without Alexander the Great, no Japanese Buddhism should have been possible.

Yet, without Alexander the Great, there should not have been the era of Caesar and Cleopatra.

And, it is very difficult to think of the emergence of Jesus Christ without the era of Caesar and Cleopatra.

Finally, Japanese Buddhism and Christianity alike owe each formation and establishment to Alexander the Great.

So, when Japanese people view Pakistan and Afghanistan as a critical region for their religion, they will open their eyes to history, namely the God Almighty...

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Oh, I thought I could go to bed earlier in these days, but it is now past 2 a.m. of Thursday as I have now narrowly found time to finish this posting!








(It is a chanson anyway someone might love to listen to...

http://doratomo.jp/~stephano/chanson/la_goualante_du_pauvre_jean.MID

Source: http://doratomo.jp/~stephano/chanson/chanson.htm)



Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.

Mat 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

Mat 9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

Mat 9:32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.

Mat 9:33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.

"He Hath Opened Mine Eyes"

Japan has been ruled mainly by the Liberal Democratic Party for decades though the major opposition party was once the Socialist Party of Japan and then the Democratic Party of Japan.

But, following the defeat in the 8/30/2009 general election, the LDP turned to the opposition, and thus Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso stepped down. Then, the LDP elected veteran lawmaker Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki as its new president.

I do not think that Mr. Tanigaki, a graduate of the University of Tokyo, cannot recover morale of LDP members and their supporters as he won votes in the LDP presidential election held yesterday more than twice the votes his young rival Mr. Taro Kono got to narrowly save his face as future candidate for the LDP presidency.

Indeed, especially in 1980's when 80% of the Japanese people believed that they were respectable members of the middle class of globally growing and flourishing Japan, the LDP was the most adequate political party to entrust with power of national administration and over huge budgets.

By the way, it is a big surprise that President Mr. Barack Obama himself has decided to fly to Copenhagen and attend the IOC meeting.

Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama may have to ask his charming wife to join his travel to Copenhagen for the 2016 Olympic venue contest.

Yet, to tell the truth, I have never been to Chicago, to your expected surprise.



SECTION I: History of Christianity in China

Nestorius died in Egypt in 451 though he served as archbishop
in Constantinople till 431.

His unique school was forbidden by the Vatican but reached Persia and finally China in 635 during the era of the Tang Dynasty.

Nestorianism was approved by a line of Chinese emperors and somehow accepted by not a few Chinese people till it was forbidden and wiped out from the surface of society in 845 when Buddhism and other foreign religions were attacked by an emperor.

It is thought that there were 50,000 or so Nestrian Christians in China when the unique Christianity was virtually terminated in 845.

The state of missions of Nestorians in Tang China between 635 and 845 is proved by a stone inscription, though it was created in 781 but has survived the history to date.

( http://www.for.aichi-pu.ac.jp/museum/z2dfol/yz2p01.html)

To put it bluntly, this special school of Christianity has left no influence on China and the Chinese people of today.

But, there is a theory that Japanese monks who learnt Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty also learnt some about Nestorianism though they seem to have regarded it as part of Buddhism. When they returned to Japan, they launched a new school of Buddhism where some spirit of the unique Christianity was embedded.

Accordingly, as the special school of Buddhism is still actively practiced in Japan, Nestorianism created in the 5th century in Constantinople is thought to have some underlying influence on Japanese people of today.

(http://www.geocities.co.jp/kmaz2215/motto/keikyo/keikyo/keikyou-daisi.htm
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/davinci/code/history/japan/index4.html)

Today, the most interesting type of Christians in China is called "Culture Christians."

They have encountered Christianity in their study of the Western Culture.

They have not found Christianity in any sort of churches in China.

But, they have discovered the Western religion Christianity while they are learning some specific subject of the Western culture or science related to their profession or personal inquiry.

So, those Chinese Culture Christians are not interested in rituals and theories performed in churches.

Other Chinese Christians do not fully accept them as members of the same religion.

But, if a revolution should be set off by Chinese Christians in future, these Christians must be those called Culture Christians, in my view.

(http://www.hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/tolerance/tolerance_abstract16-1.html )

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To tell the truth, I did not think that the year 2009 would become a more drastic year for Japan than 2008 was.

In 2007, the year 2008 looked so far, but the planned 2008 Beijing Olympics looked somehow ominous and the planned 2008 U.S. Presidential Election looked somehow getting beyond imagination.

In fact, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games were accompanied by the Great Sichuan Earthquake and the Tibet turmoil; the U.S. Presidential Election ended with the first African American President elected in the wake of the Wall Street Shock.

Then, in 2009, the most drastic regime change in half a century has happened in Japan.

As if the history of Japan had reached a climax, nobody in Japan today seems to have any idea on what's coming in the year 2010...

Or can we find any clue through observing TV reporting...



(Is Europe burning like in 1960's?

http://players.music-eclub.com/?action=player&sid[]=146748

Source:http://players.music-eclub.com/?action=search_song_detail_do&backto=&keyword=%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%82%92%E6%8E%A2%E3%81%9B&exec.x=41&exec.y=13)



Joh 9:28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

Joh 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.

Joh 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

Joh 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

"By Prayer and Fasting"

(Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall)



Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is reportedly to fly to Copenhagen, Denmark, as Tokyo Governor Mr. Shintaro Ishihara arrived there yesterday.

If the 2016 Olympic Games should be destined for Rio de Janeiro, no Japanese would doubt over the legitimacy or fairness of the International Olympic Committee.

Rather, more Japanese are concerned with the recent sharp hike of the yen to 0.88 yen per one U.S. cent or 88 yen per U.S. dollar.

It may be time for reviewing the legitimacy or fairness of the U.S. dollar as key currency, since G8 Summit is going to take on new significance as P.M. Mr. Hatoyama suggests.



SECTION I: Christianity vs. Chinese Communism

The American elite believes that more than 1.2 billion people in China are well supervised, controlled, educated, watched, and monitored or disciplined by the Chinese elite.

With the tight control of society, there is no room for turmoil and conflicts of the scale which will adversely affect the Chinese market.

There will be no room also for unexpected policy change in the Chinese Government, since it is occupied, filled, and managed by the de-facto sole political party, the Chinese Communist Party to which most of Chinese elite belong or virtually belong.

With such merit of the Chinese Communist Party, the huge Chinese market is stable and de-facto pro-American Chinese policies are secured as the autocratic Government can suppress any insurgents who, if with power, might adopt an anti-American strategy openly.

It is as if the Chinese Communist elite exercises dictatorship over its people in order to satisfy American politicians, investors, and business leaders and even a U.S. military elite, so that the Chinese Communist Party in return can save its face and maintain its domestic hegemony with various types of help and support from America.

Yet, if Christianity prevails in China, a kind of revolution will occur and spread to eventually destroy the despotism.

The point at issue is whether the American Government will cooperate or is actually cooperating now with the Chinese Communist Party to suppress any potentially dangerous religious movement in China, including Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, since Marxism itself is a kind of religion based on a certain idea of a certain Judaist.

In other word, is there true friendship between Chinese people and American Christians?


(To be continued....)





(Is music a common language in the world so much as Olympic games are, if you are listening in Denmark, Freunde?

http://players.music-eclub.com/?action=player&sid[]=182967

Source: http://players.music-eclub.com/?action=user_song_detail&song_id=182967)


Mar 9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

Mar 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

Mar 9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

Mar 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

"Ashamed of Me and of My Words"

I suppose it is time to change the black color of the Olympics symbol to white.


Here, white is for Africa, Red is for Americas, Blue is for Asia, Yellow for Australia, and Green for Europe as black should be changed to white.




(Oh, mein Herz war wirklich in einem Hurrikan, mein Lieber!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhTIiF84RyM&feature=related )



Luk 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.

Luk 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

"To Restore and To Build Jerusalem"

(NHK TV focusing on Hatoyama-Obama handshaking)
(Hatoyama-Obama handshaking)
(Asahi TV addressing ailing airliner JAL )
(Fuji TV is a little sleepy...)

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But, will the 2016 Olympics come to Tokyo?

Who can talk to Prime Minister or the Tokyo Governor?

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(C'est en fait l'étoile "bleu", chère.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnDjD9PHAX4&feature=related )


Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

"A Servant of Servants "

(A Tokyo Bay Story..."against insurgents there?")



When you read the Bible, you would figure that Jesus Christ and His followers did not keep a dog or a cat while travelling and preaching 2000 years ago.

Jesus Christ just used a donkey as a means to enter Jerusalem. He does not seem to have communicated with any animals or living things except a poor fig tree.

Indeed, a man is more important than a dog or a cat, or any other living things on the earth.

Yet, a man is also a living thing but not a machine. Some billion years ago, there were no distinctions between direct ancestors of mankind and those of, say, a bug.

And, finally, in Heaven, angels might be arguing that living people have their own souls. There were no distinction between the souls of those who have eventually entered Heaven and the souls of those who have eventually fallen to the hell, when they were born each as a member of mankind.

A dog or a cat is closer to mankind than a bug is. But, a poor man looks like being closer to an angel than a rich man is.



SECTION I: Afghanistan

There is still an enigma as to why Mr. Osama bin Laden started to hate America.

It is so, since it is clear that the Taliban had not hated America at least before September 11, 2001.

There is still an enigma as to why Saudi Arabia has not declared jihad against Mr. Osama bin Laden and AlQaeda and all the Muslims in the world have not followed suit.

It is so, since it is clear that all the Christians and other non-Islamic people in the world have come to lose respect, to whatever degree, for Muslims at large.

Or do you know any Christian who says that he or she has come to respect Muslims at large all the more because of Mr. Osama bin Laden and AlQaeda?

Though no Christians have ever clearly said, it is apparent that Mr. Osama bin Laden and AlQaeda have served as a test of the fate of Islam itself in the history.

Nonetheless, Afghanistan is serving as a test of the fate of America itself in the history, in my humble view.


SECTION II: Three Sons of Noah

It is one of very controversial stories in the Old Testament that Noah got angry with one of his sons.

Some argue that the mother of Ham is a key; others say that Ham took the garment of Noah so as to act as a priest in a temple.

Or it might explain why later the Israelite conquest of Canaan happened.

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In the Hebrew Bible, the "Land of Canaan" extends from Lebanon southward across Gaza to the "Brook of Egypt" and eastward to the Jordan River Valley, thus including modern Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan#Biblical_Canaanites
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Though Jesus Christ never referred to this episode of Noah and his sons, any mysterious description in the Bible must be reviewed to find any clues to solution of the Palestine conflict.

Anyway, when you have three men, one of them would surely do something you cannot foresee beforehand, even if you were a God-blessed Noah.

Muslims who want to solve the Palestine conflict of today had better study this legend.



(To be continued...)

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That is all for today, since you may be a busy person!




(All I need is love, puisque tout ce qu'il faut, c'est l'amour, ma chérie.

http://players.music-eclub.com/?action=player&sid[]=220016

Source:http://players.music-eclub.com/?action=search_song_detail_do&backto=&keyword=All+You+Need+is+Love&exec.x=23&exec.y=10)



Gen 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

Gen 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Gen 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

Gen 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Gen 9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Gen 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Gen 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

"A Corruptible Crown"

(Tokyo Japan)



Now, it seems to be a season for a real change even in TV stations.

One year ago, no one cared about the wife of Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, the new Prime Minister of Japan.

Seven years ago, no one cared about the wife of Mr. Barack Obama, the incumbent U.S. President.

Thirty years ago, no one cared about future-crown-princess Diana, a daughter of an English noble family, destined to be killed in a Paris car accident in 1997 as ex-wife of the Prince of Wales.

Yet, the story of Secretary Mrs. Hillary Clinton seems to be all the more going on, though she was the wife of the Governor of Arkansas in 1978, who is of course still her husband, though as ex-U.S. President.



SECTION I: New Eras

Still the Pearl Harbor attacks, Hawaii, by several aircraft carriers of the Empire of Japan in 1941 is the largest event that opened a new era for America in these hundred years.

It is so, since so many American citizens were critically influenced by this incident which however implied a serious lack of international knowledge among Americans.

Then, the JFK assassination in 1963 led to a new era that ended with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam and the termination of the Apollo moon project.

The post-Vietnam War era continued until America's victory in the Gulf War in 1991. America pursued a large scale of computer/Internet application through 1990's to secure its dominance in economy and technology in the world.

In early 2001, America was enjoying its status as the sole superpower in the world, having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Japan in the money war.

Then the 9/11 terror occurred and changed the American social and political climate.

And in 2008, the Lehman Shock and the subsequent great financial crisis forced 20% of American workers to live in a state of unemployment, virtual-unemployment, or highly downgraded employment.

Accordingly, in 2009, America has the first African American president, though as many poor European Americans came to realize that they are equal to poor African Americans, which is apparently a sign of a new era.

In 2009, Japan has the first full-scale regime change between the two major parties, the DPJ and the LDP, through general election since 1950's.

So, it is no wonder that something new or horrible can happen to all the people concerned.

Yet, the word of God never changes and passes away.


(To be continued...)







(On dit qu'une nouvelle ère a commencé en 2009, though some say it was 2001, 2002, or 2005. Anyway, safety is more important than reward. Especially when you are surrounded by aliens... It is so, since the God, awesomely, might be angry, dear.

http://dragon.ep.usm.edu/~yuen/media/midi/2001.mid

Source: http://www.eadcentral.com/go/1/1/0/http://dragon.ep.usm.edu/~yuen/music.htm)


1Co 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

1Co 9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

1Co 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

1Co 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

"The Jews Took Counsel to Kill Him"

(Tokyo 2009)


There are three types of lawmakers in Japan: an expert in election only, an expert in political games and business, and an expert in policies and administration.

If you are a top class of the first type of lawmakers, you cannot necessarily be a top class of the second type of lawmakers.

If you are a top class of the second type of lawmakers, you cannot necessarily be a top class of the third type of lawmakers.

President Mr. Barack Obama may cover all the domains well enough leveraging IT gears and a TV show, but Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama of Japan looks like determined to go in for the third type of statesmen, no matter simply because he is a grandson of a former prime minister of Japan who signed the 1956 Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration at Moscow.


SECTION I: Christianity and China and Chinese

Some essence of the American democratic Christianity was planted in Japan in the form of the Japanese Constitution after WWII.

However, anti-European-Christianity-society Marxism was also welcomed by Chinese leaders after WWII as they shared a sense of hate for democracy and freedom.

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Christianity in China

Since loosening of restrictions on religion after the 1970s, Christianity has grown significantly within the People's Republic. It is still, however, tightly controlled by government authorities. The Three-Self Patriotic Movement and China Christian Council (Protestant) and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, which has disavowed the Pope and is considered schismatic by other Roman Catholics, have affiliations with government and must follow the regulations imposed upon them.


The official figure in 2002, which consists of members from official Protestant churches, is about 15 million, while some estimates on members of Chinese house churches vary from 50 million to 100 million.

In 2006 it was stated that there were 4 million members of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and an estimated 12 million members of the underground Roman Catholic Church in China as of 2006.[35] Kiven Choy stated, in a Chinese weekly newspaper in Hong Kong, that the correct number of Protestants in China should be at around 20 million[citation needed], while Time Magazine reported 65 million in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China#Christianity_in_the_contemporary_PRC
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Indeed, in these 4000 years since the beginning of the ancient Chinese Civilization, no democracy and freedom of citizens has been exercised in China to date.

One of the key reasons can be found in Chinese religion.

And, to comprehend religion in a nation, you have to see what religions emperors or kings of the past observed in the nation.

Put simply, in the first and second dynasties, namely Qin and Han, Chinese emperors were regarded as a god.

But, as the time went by and Confucianism, created far before Qin, was further developed to adjust itself to the era of empire since Qin, Chinese emperors became more a man than a god.

While Japanese emperors acted more as a holy descendant of ancient gods, Chinese emperors left the tradition to be more secular.

(http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~kan/todaisai.pdf)

Hence, Japan is more akin to ancient China than China itself is.


SECTION II: Taiping Rebellion

Yet it is remarkable to see that Christianity was once significantly involved in the Chinese history.

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The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt in China from 1850 to 1864, during the Qing Dynasty, by an army led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Chinese: 太平天國 pinyin: Tàipíng Tiān Guó), namely Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace with its capital at Nanjing and gained control of significant parts of southern China, at its height ruling over about 30 million people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
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This revolt was suppressed and over as Western Powers joined the Qing dynasty in battles.

Finally, when some 200,000 insurgents and their families were killed in Nanjing by Qing troops, this large-scale attempt of a Chinese revolution based on certain interpretations of the Christian Bible was over.



(To be continued...)





(Ceci est l'avènement de l'ère du Verseau, ma chère, n'est-ce pas? Yet, let the sun shine in.

http://www.ajsmidi.com/50s_60s/midi/aquarius.mid

Source: http://www.eadcentral.com/go/1/1/0/http://www.ajsmidi.com/50s_60s/oldies1.html)



Act 9:22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.

Act 9:23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:

Act 9:24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Act 9:25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

"Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole"

(Government Office Area, Tokyo; Can be enlarged.)


From this Monday to Wednesday inclusively, Japanese business is off due to three consecutive public holidays.

Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama is going to fly to New York and Pittsburgh to address the world in the U.N. assembly, have a talk with President Mr. Barack Obama, and discuss the global economy at G20 Summit.

Yet, Foreign Minister Mr. Katsuya Okaga, on a TV interview, made it clear that troops of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force will not be sent to Afghanistan even after Japan terminates, early next year, its support for America on the Indian Ocean with free provision of fuels for allied naval ships. F.M. Mr. OKada is also flying to the U.S. to meet Secretary Mrs. Hillary Clinton, etc.

Anyway, the approval rating for the Hatoyama-Okada line is very high among Japanese voters as was proved in the 8/30/2009 election.

(The key issue is whether or how P.M. Mr. Hatoyama and F.M. Mr. Okada understand the need of U.S. military presence in East Asia in the current scale with so many bases in Japan, especially in Okinawa, while China is willing to be a militarily dominant power and concurrently secure its position as a kind of friendly nation to the U.S.)



SECTION I: Religion of Native Americans and Hispanics

It is somehow well known in Japan that the Hopi, one of native American tribes, have a unique prophecy:
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Hopi Elders pass warnings and prophecies from generation to generation
through oral traditions and reference to ancient rock pictographs and tablets.

Hopi Blue Star or Blue Kachina Prophecy

An ancient Hopi Indian prophecy states, "When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens, the Fifth World will emerge". This will be the Day of Purification. The Hopi name for the star Sirius is Blue Star Kachina. It will come when the Saquasohuh (Blue Star) Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask.

...
The Hopi settled in the area now known as Four Corners, where the state lines of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado meet. They lived in humble simplicity and the land produced abundant crops. This area is the "heart" of Turtle Island [the U.S.] and of Mother Earth, and it is the microcosmic image of the macrocosm of the entire planet. Each Hopi clan perpetuates a unique ceremony, and the ceremonies together maintain the balance of natural forces of sunlight, rain and winds, and reaffirm the Hopi respect for all life and trust in the Great Spirit.

The Hopi were told that after a time White Men would come and take their land and try to lead the Hopi into evil ways. But in spite of all the pressures against them, the Hopi were told they must hold to their ancient religion and their land, though always without violence. If they succeeded, they were promised that their people and their land would be a center from which the True Spirit would be reawakened.

It is said that after many years the elder brother might change the color of his skin, but his hair will remain black. He will have the ability to write, and he will be the only person able to read the Tiponi. When he returns to find his younger brother, the Tiponi will be placed side by side to show all the world that they are true brothers. Then great judgment will take place, for the elder will help the younger brother to obtain real justice for all Indian brothers who have been cruelly mistreated by the white man since he came to Turtle Island.
...

http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi2.html
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It is said that there were four million native North Americans when Europeans started to invade North America.

Today, there are 2,786,652 native Americans in the U.S., though as of 2003, most of whom do not look like being Christians.

On the other hand, it is estimated that there are about 45,270,000 Hispanic Americans plus about 10 million illegal Hispanics, most of whom look like being followers of the Vatican if nominal.

So, do you believe that European Christianity has been truly a universal religion?

Or, is that European Christianity more universal than money-based economy?

If it is not so as proven by native North Americans, anything terrible could happen on the American soil as prophesied in the Bible, though it might not imply the Blue Star Kachina.

The only chance for survival may be found when all the native Americans in the U.S. are fully persuaded to follow the teaching of Jesus Christ.

So, you go and preach among them. And why not?


SECTION II: Christianity through America to Japan or China







(To be continued...)




(What does it mean, "C'est l'amour," dear?

http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/c%27est%20l%27amour%20(Edith%20Piaf).kar.mid

Source:http://www.countrymidikaraoke.com/duocentury/def.htm)



Mat 9:20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

Mat 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Mat 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

"Because They Feared the Jews"

(Japan's National Road No.1 at Kasumigaseki, Tokyo; Japanese elite bureaucrats have been quasi-members of the upper class unlike British civil servants of the Queen.)


Systems of Fear


The two most influential bosses of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan are former Prime Minister Mr. Yoshiro Mori (lawmaker since 1969) and veteran Upper House member Mr. Mikio Aoki (a few years older than Mr. Mori though having learnt in the same university).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Mori

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikio_Aoki )

Yet, as the Democratic Party of Japan won the general election held at the end of August, those two most influential lawmakers look like having little influence on the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.

(On the other hand, some conservative citizens are worried about any possible influence of North Korea on the Hatoyama Administration while the N Korea-committed abduction case is pending...)

Nonetheless, elite bureaucrats of the Japan's Ministry of Finance seem to have never been afraid of any boss of bosses of the LDP, since they are the master of the national budget since the first modern government was established in the Empire of Japan in the late 19th century.

However, only fools do not fear what should be feared, and those top bureaucrats cannot be fools. Then, what and whom have they feared at least after WWII?

That is a big question for the Japanese politics.

That may be under taboo.

However, if millions of honest citizens cannot receive a pension due to negligence or sabotage by officials in charge, no questions and no taboos count any more.

Japanese voters would gladly vote for Japanese Obamas but not for old bosses in political circles even in the Upper House election scheduled for the next summer.



SECTION I: Native Americans and Hispanics

It is not Chritsinaity but violence by European races that has the most affected American Indians in the North and South American Continents.

(To be continued...)





("Qui ne peut pas cesser de vous aimer, ma chère, après tout?"

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/60302-aisazuniwairarenai.htm)



Joh 9:19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

Joh 9:20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

Joh 9:21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

Joh 9:22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

"There Came a Certain Ruler"

(NHK TV reporting the new Hotoyama Cabinet)
(Asahi TV presenting new ministers and their challenges)
(Fuji TV showing P.M. Hatoyama leaving his home; "Good morning, sir, Prime Minister!")
(And so on...)[I sometimes wonder how they can avoid mishandling of a matter in a live broadcast if it is so late in the night...]




The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper this morning reported an initial approval rating for the new Hatoyama Cabinet: 75%

It is fairly high since it is a record next to Mr. Koziumi's: 87%.

In a survey by other news agency, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama's rating is ranked the third historically but it is still remarkable.

Yet, it is still astounding to recall that former P.M. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi of the LDP was supported by 87% of the Japanese citizens at the start of his regime in early 2001.

Comapred with that fervant expectation that unique politician Mr. Koizumi (in a tie-up with unique Foreign Minister Mrs. Makiko Tanaka) would surely change the government and the nation, Prime Minister Mr. Hatoyama of the DPJ looks like being just short of an overwhelming personal magnet.

So, the LDP, now fallen into the state of the Opposition, must choose a new president who could provide new hope for economic growth and restoration of Japan's traditional value systems for sound conservative voters, while they have two major contenders: veteran Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki and rising Mr. Taro Kono.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadakazu_Tanigaki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Kono )

Probably, Mr. Kono, devoted son of notable former chairman of the Lower House Mr. Yohei Kono, would give more an impression that the LDP is undergoing reformation than former Finance Minister in the Koizumi Cabinet Mr. Tanigaki, a lawyer-turned lawmaker.

(The last and third LDP presidential election candidate is Mr. Yasutoshi Nishimua, a Lower House member, too.)

Anyway, there are so many potentially able politicians and (ex-)bureaucrats in Tokyo, since I walked around Kasumigaseki Street in the end of August, as you suspected reasonably.



SECTION I: American Religion

Since the era of Columbus around 1500, many Europeans moved to America.

Yet, the most notable move was identified with the Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony, signed on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620 by 41 of the ship's more than one hundred passengers.

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In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact
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However, there were reportedly 17 male Saints, 14 female Saints, 10 minor Saints, 17 male Strangers, 9 female Strangers, 14 minor Strangers, and 14 male Servants, one female Servants, and six minor Servants on the ship.

Following this contract, Puritans (Saints) and employees (Strangers) of the British colony company, Virginia Company, vowed to cooperate in living and cultivating the new settlement.

In summary, Americans are those who from the beginning needed the God to make a contract with one another.

This is not ignored since it is said that one in every six Americans today is a direct, indirect, remote, or very remote descendant of Pilgrims and others on board Mayflower.

(http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad-Desert/4105/article/Pilgrim.html)

For example, Secretary Mrs. Hillary Clinton might even say that the God is an instrument for making a contract with other person.

It is also noteworthy that the last samurai regime of Japan was established to eventually close the country around 1620, leading to intensification and further growth of unique Japanese nationality and spiritualism.

Indeed, when American Christians started to prevail toward the West on the new continent till 1860's Civil War, Japan started to close the nation so as to prevent diffusion of Christianity from Western powers till 1860's' civil wars for modernization of the nation.

Truly, what belongs to commonsense in Japan is not part of American commonsense at all, in most cases.


(To be continued...)



(C'est un peu comme une cerise jaune, chère, since it is just the second day for the new prime minister of Japan. Peacefully, have a nice weekend!

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/902-jasrac/90601-kiiroisakuranbo.htm )


Mat 9:18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

Mat 9:19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.

"The Christ of God"

(The Tokyo Tower and Government Office Quarters)


Real Factors

The new Cabinet of Japan was started yesterday as Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama appointed all the state ministers, including Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Mr. Akira Nagatsuma, a hero who made public the scandalous pension-fund management a few years ago.

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

The Japanese media look like expecting a fierce political battle over the postal service privatization issue with new minister in charge Mr. Shizuka Kamei at the center of polemics.

However, what voters request Mr. Hatoyama's Cabinet and his DPJ to tackle is the remodelling and rebuilding of social welfare systems, including pension programs. Some people might be really thinking that Minister Mr. Nagatsuma should be in charge until they get a pension in their hands.

So, in order to cope with the DPJ, the old ruling party LDP must choose a new president tougher and abler than Minister Mr. Kamei and Mr. Nagatsuma, since former Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso was too rich to understand the need of pensions for ordinary and poor citizens.

In contrast, it looks like that Mrs. Miyuki Hatoyama, who once worked in a shop in New York after having left show business in Japan, has contributed to Prime Minister Mr. Hatoyama's understanding of psychology of ordinary people, though the Hatoyama family has been super rich.


SECTION I: American View on the World

The most important factor for the global peace after WWII has been the American view on the world, as everybody understands.

If you can control how the American people conceive the world and international relationships, you can control the world including America.

For an extreme example, if you are given the ability by Allah to have Americans share the common view on life and society with Muslims, no wars would be fought by Americans on Islamic lands.

For another extreme example, if you are given the ability by the God to have Americans share the common view on money and society with followers of Jesus Christ, no financial crisis would be triggered again from America.

Today, America has for the first time the African American President, while Japan has a new ruling party (DPJ) that overwhelms the 55-year (old) ruling party LDP through general election for the first time.

Yet, the American view on the world is not totally changed, and the Japanese view on their living is not revolutionarily changed.


(To be continued...)




(Ils ont été les journées qui n'ont aucun sens, ma chérie. It is so, since the belief is that the God loves those who follow the Christ.

http://www.just-oldies.com/1968/those_were_the_days.htm )



Luk 9:17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.

Luk 9:18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?

Luk 9:19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.

Luk 9:20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

"He is a Prophet"

(The Sky over Tokyo Area)



Japan's from-today Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama yesterday called very veteran ex-LDP politician Mr. Shizuka Kamei to take up a Cabinet post in charge of reviewing the postal service privatization as Mr. Kamei so wishes.

As the total amount of the Japanese postal saving fund reaches 350 trillion yen or $4 trillion, this appointment is the most horrific one among all the appointments to the total 17 Cabinet ministers.

It is so, since Mr. Kamei has been strongly against the privatization of the Japanese postal service former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi exhaustively pursued with his powerful aid and economist Mr. Heizo Takenaka after the 9/11/2005 general election.

Mr. Shizuka Kamei, an ex-law-enforcement-bureaucrat and national lawmaker since 1979, is one of the most controversial politicians who were virtually driven out of the LDP by then Prime Minister Mr. Koizumi.

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

One common political stance between new Prime Minister Mr. Y. Hatoyama of the DPJ and Mr. Kamei of the People's New Party is anti-Wall Street philosophy, since Wall Street companies are reportedly trying to craftily seize $4 trillion funds reserved in Japanese postal saving accounts.


(Around 3 p.m. of today, House-of-Representatives member Mr. Yukio Hatoyama was elected as the 93rd prime minister of Japan with 327 votes among 480 cast by all the House members. )



SECTION I: Asian Philosophy, European Philosophy, and American Philosophy

There are three old sources of the Asian philosophy: Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

Mostly the latter two have contributed to formation of the Japanese spiritualism where human desire is essentially hated as ugly and thus harming to integrity and salvation of a man.

The European philosophy is based on Christianity that the God presides over the universe and the world. Without following His teaching, a man cannot be admitted to Heaven.

The American philosophy is based on the notion that the God especially prepared America so that a man can fulfill the American Dream.

If an evil-hating man was born in Japan, Europe, or America, there would be no critical difference in his spiritual life.

But, if an evil-friendly man was born in Japan, Europe, or America, there would be some grave difference, since difference in philosophy could multiply effect.

What is more, education is essentially provided for people based on philosophy widely accepted in society.






(To be continued...)






(Vous seul pouvez vous-même. Accordingly, your are subject to the God who is almighty. It is where I claim my own over people, dear.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/onlyyou.htm )


Joh 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

Joh 9:17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

"But Thy Disciples Fast Not?"

(Tokyo Area, Japan; Click for inspection.)


International Comparison and Difference


China welcomes Japan's new Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.

It is so, since the Chinese Communist Party seems to regard Mr. Yukio Hatoyama as a more acceptable politician than new DPJ Secretary-General Mr. Ichiro Ozawa well known as pro-China in Japan since the era of P.M. Kakuei Tanaka in early 1970's.

After having established the Democratic Party of Japan in 1996, Mr. Hatoyama visited China as head of the DPJ to see then Chinese President Mr. Jiang Zemin.

In those years Mr. Ichiro Ozawa was not a member of the DPJ, but Mr. Naoto Kan, another veteran leader of the DPJ, has been more pro-China, visiting China in 1984, 1987, 1999, and 2003.

After very veteran Mr. Ozawa joined the DPJ in 2003 and was elected as head of the DPJ in 2006 (in charge till this May), the three veteran leaders of the DPJ, Mr. Ozawa, Mr. Hatoyama, and Mr. Kan, together flew to Beijing to be welcomed by Chinese President Mr. Hu Jintao.

(http://j.people.com.cn/94474/6746277.html)

Japan has had five very conservative prime ministers in a series from the Liberal Democratic Party: Mr. Yoshiro Mori, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, Mr. Shinzo Abe, Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, and Mr. Taro Aso all of whom China does not show affection for as much as it does for DPJ Mr. Ozawa, Mr. Hatoyama, and Mr. Kan.

(Former Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda was the most China-friendly prime minister among the five very conservative and pro-American PMs from the LDP.)

Now, the LDP and incumbent (till tomorrow) Prime Minister Mr. Aso have phenomenally lost in the 8/30/2009 general election; the most popular LDP leader Mr. Koizumi (an old friend of Mr. George W. Bush) retired on the election passing his seat in the Lower House to his son; and their new president is yet to be decided.

If the era of the conservative LDP has gone, the liberal DPJ might be reasonably expected by Chinese leaders to open a new era for Japan and China.

Of course, no Japanese voters expect the DPJ to adopt an anti-American policy, since so many Japanese businesses and business persons are engaged in their business in America.



SECTION I: Difference between Japan and Europe

When the Russian Revolution was triggered in 1905, it is said that those who could not read and write accounted for 80% of all the Russians.

India was a closed world of caste or class segregation, so that we cannot expect a majority of the Indian people could read and write before its independence from the U.K. after WWII.

In China, where farmers were never educated well traditionally by dominant classes, those who could not read and write accounted for 85% when the Cultural Revolution was set off and raged around 1970.

(Chinese characters are ten times more difficult to learn than the alphabet, namely A, B, C, etc.)

Yet, in France, those who could read and write at least their names (on a marriage certificate) accounted for 55% for men and 35% for women around 1820; yet the actual literacy rate is considered to be 33% or so in France, the most sophisticated nation in Europe, around the 19th century.

As for Japan, during the Tokugawa samurai era, from the 17th century to the 19th century, 50% of boys and 15% of girls went to elementary school mostly set in temples of villages and towns all over Japan.

(http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~french/source/y.html#yomikaki)

More specifically, it is estimated that in the 18th century, only 10% of Parisians and 20% of Londoners could read and write, while 70% of residents in Tokyo (then called Edo with one million population around 1800) could read and write.

(http://ameblo.jp/campanera/entry-10054758697.html)

Of course, 100% of samurais could read and write.

The key to this higher literacy rate in Japan hundreds years ago or in the samurai dominance era lies in their way of administration to govern farmers and villagers.

Samurais did not live in villages with or near farmers. Instead, they lived in a town or a city built around a castle with or near craftsmen and merchants.

European landlords and noblemen lived in villages near farmers, though their residences were big stone castles overlooking villages so as to monitor farmers. If children of farmers had wanted to learn reading and writing, they had to enter a Christian monastery. European landlords and noblemen tried to keep farmers illiterate for easy control.

But, in Japan, samurais did not adopt the European style of direct control of farmers. Accordingly, farmers and their leaders should read, write, and calculate any tax-related official documents to be submitted to, or received from, samurai landlords or officials who occasionally came to a village to collect straw rice bags and so on as tax referring to land ledgers and family registrations.

And in every village in Japan from hundreds of years before, there was a Buddhist temple or a Shinto shrine whose priests and monks could read and write. Samurais partly entrusted those religious leaders with monitoring of villagers. And those priests and monks were respected by farmers through their teaching them how to read and write.

It should be also noted that 90% of the Japanese population was farmers in the samurai era or before 1868.


SECTION II: American Education


(To be continued...)




(Quel monde merveilleux dans lequel nous vivons! It is so, since drug crimes are being eliminated in the TV entertainment sector of Japan, aren't they, dear?

http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/thwin/pops/p021.htm )



Mat 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

Mat 9:15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

"Jacob Have I Loved, but"

(Around Tokyo)

Who the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party is one of the biggest concerns, at least, among media people in Japan.

As incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso is forced to step down due to the massive defeat in the 8/30/2009 general election, his LDP is to elect a new president by the end of September.

Referring to a Web site designed for forecasting elections and other political matters, most possible candidates are as follows as of the morning today:
Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki...25 points
Mr. Shigeru Ishiba...7.5
Ms. Yuriko Koike...6.0
Mr. Yoichi Masuzoe...2.2
Mr. Yasuhisa Shiozaki...1.2
Mr. Nobutaka Machimura...1.1
Mr. Shinzo Abe...0.9
Mr. Nobuteru Ishihara...0.3
Mr. Koichi Kato...0.1
Others...19.2

(http://shuugi.in/24president_ldp )

So, the new president of the 55-year ruling party-turned opposition LDP will be probably former Finance Minister Mr. Tanigaki. However, it might take four years or so for any lawmaker elected as LDP president to take back power from the Democratic Party members of Japan led by Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, since the term for the Lower House of the national Diet is four years, without snap dissolution.



SECTION I: Historical Transition of Money Center

Some Japanese experts think that the global money center will sooner or later move to Asia from New York.

Around the 15th century, the global money center was at Lombardy, Italy.

Then, in the 16th century, Antwerp, Belgium, became the money center as the Spanish Empire obtained so much silver from South America, since Antwerp was the financial center for the empire.

And then, in the 17th century, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, took over as the money center, since the Counter Reformation drove Spain to attacking Antwerp.

Between the 18th and 19th century, London prepared for transition to gold standard after establishing a route for inflow of gold from Brazil, thus establishing itself as the global money center.

(http://uprinceton.exblog.jp/728515/)

In the 20th century over the two world wars, New York rose to the position of the global money center.

And, in the 21st century, some Japanese experts think that the global money center will sooner or later move to East Asia from New York.

However, it is said that move of experts in the money business was the key to the above transition of the global money center. Without transfer of knowledge, skills, and experts to a new center, such massive transition must have been impossible.

Yet, in this Internet age, the transfer of human resources and infrastructures needed for launching a new global money center can be accelerated.

I suppose there will be a cluster of East Asian cities to constitute the global money center as a whole.

It is better than putting the global money hegemony only in the hands of the Anglo-Saxons and American/British Judaists.

Anyway, the Roman Empire, as with Chinese ancient dynasties, started money economy, followed by the Spanish Empire, the British Empire, and the American democratic Empire. But, before mankind enters no-money economy, one more transition of money center might happen to East Asia and India.


SECTION II: Japan Has Never Been Colonized by Europeans

Schools in the world must teach that Japan Has Never Been Colonized by Europeans.

It is so, since there are many people in the world who cannot understand why Japanese people has developed its nation to the world-leading state without having been a colony of Western powers in the past.

And such poor people are often spotted not only in Afghanistan and Somalia but also on Wall Street.





(To be continued...)





(Les Japonais aiment la lune. It is not because the moon looks like a gold coin, dear, though.


http://www.jca.apc.org/~maki_t/midi-debussy-clair.htm )


Rom 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Rom 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Rom 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.