"God saw every thing" - Damascus

Tokyo Key Government Agency Street...and Anti-Nuclear Protesters

Damascus

Damascus is not referred to in the Gospels, but this ancient city appears even in Genesis:

Genesis 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 

Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 

2Samuel 8:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. 

2Samuel 8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went. 

1Kings 11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus. 

1Kings 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 

1Kings 19:15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: 

1Kings 20:34 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. 

2Kings 5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 

2Kings 8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither. 

2Kings 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? 

2Kings 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 

2Kings 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. 

2Kings 16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. 

2Kings 16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. 

2Kings 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. 

1Chronicles 18:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. 

2Chronicles 16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 

2Chronicles 24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus. 

2Chronicles 28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. 

2Chronicles 28:23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. 

Solomon 7:4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. 

Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 

Isaiah 8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 

Isaiah 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 

Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 

Isaiah 17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 

Jeremiah 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 

Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad. 

Ezekiel 27:18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 

Ezekiel 47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. 

Ezekiel 47:17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side. 

Ezekiel 47:18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side. 

Ezekiel 48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. 

Amos 1:3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron 

Amos 1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD. 

Amos 3:12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch. 

Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. 

Zechariah 9:1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD. 

Acts 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. 

Acts 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 

Acts 9:8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. 

Acts 9:10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 

Acts 9:19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. 

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

Acts 9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. 

Acts 22:5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. 

Acts 22:6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. 

Acts 22:10 And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do. 

Acts 22:11 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus. 

Acts 26:12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, 

Acts 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. 

2Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 

Galatians 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

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http://tabisuke.arukikata.co.jp/mouth/9815/

http://www.geocities.jp/akiakane_yt/syria/damascus/damascus01.html

http://4travel.jp/traveler/masayukiwatch/album/10429398/

And, there is a Minaret called the Minaret of Jesus in Damascus where Christ Jesus is expected to descend from Heaven in the end of the world which, as I have calculated, must have already started around 2010.

The Minaret of Jesus (Madhanat Issa), located on the eastern corner of the mosque complex, is around 77 meters (253 ft) in height and the tallest of the three minarets.[67][68] Some sources claim it was originally built by the Abbasids in the 9th-century,[64] while other sources attribute the original structure to the Umayyads. The main body of the current minaret was built by the Ayyubids in 1247, but the upper section was constructed by the Ottomans.[68] The main body of the minaret is square-shaped and the spire is octagonal. It tapers to a point and is surmounted by a crescent (as are the other two minarets.) Two covered galleries are situated in the main body and two open galleries are located on the spire.[65] Islamic belief holds that Jesus will descend from heaven before the Day of Judgement to confront the Antichrist. According to local Damascene tradition, he will reach earth via the Minaret of Jesus, hence its name.[68] Ibn Kathir, a a prominent 14th-century Muslim scholar, backed this notion.

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

Accordingly, current and on-going battles in Syria must be part of the great event that Christ Jesus would appear in the second time on the human world, since human lives all belong to the God Almighty.


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I saw in the evening sky Jupiter, the moon, Venus, and the setting sun almost in one huge curved line from the sphere overhead to the west where Mt. Fuji is situated far from my location.

Yet, Japan is cold this winter with a great amount of falling snow like in 2005.  Scores of people have already died as they climbed up on the roof to remove heaped snow to protect their house from a meter-high snow cover but failed to prevent themselves from falling down.

http://obusedo.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2012/01/post-24ae.html




Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

"After me cometh a man" - Fukushima Now

Tokyo Street Surrounded by Japanese Government Buildings

Fukushima Now

An international anti-nuclear energy conference was held in Japan recently.

In one session of the conference, some people living in Fukushima told one aspect of truth in Fukushima today.

They said that there are two types of people who do not leave the Fukushima Prefecture, on whose Pacific Ocean coast area the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is situated, despite the radiation dose problem.  The first type is of those who have not money enough to use for moving to other prefecture.  You need cash at hand to rent a new house and a job in a new address.  The second type is of those who do not want to be separated from close friends, colleagues, and old acquaintances as they do not move out of Fukushima Prefecture for any reasons.      

Now the Japanese Government have invested and poured huge money into recovery work in Fukushima Daiichi and decontamination work around the crippled nuclear power plant.  Business is are in the upward trend in many sectors in Fukushima Prefecture.  Fukushima people well understand the situation.  As a result, it is difficult for them to request money for moving house out of Fukushima from the Japanese Government or Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO).

Besides, all the TV stations in Japan are compassionately promoting a message, "Hold on Fukushima! Get a grip Fukishima! Recover Fukushima!" Accordingly, some Fukushima citizens feel that it is a guilty to flee from Fukushima Prefecture abandoning efforts to rebuilt their life in their home towns.

So, some Japanese have come to wonder if it is good to invite other Japanese and citizens in the world to Fukushima Prefecture in the process of rebuilding prosperity of the Prefecture which is inherently well blessed with agriculture, forestry, fishery and industry.

It might be more honest for Fukushima citizens to shout "Don't come to Fukushima, since I want to leave the place!"

Anyway, Fukushima City, 70 km or 44 miles from Fukushima Daiichi Plant, receives 20 times more stronger doses than Tokyo, while Tokyo receives radioactive emission as little as New York does.


Radiation Doses on January 30, 2011 (Unit: uSv/hr)

Fukushima Prefecture:
 
   Fukushima City Office...1.08

   Koriyama City...0.44

   Soma City (Tamano)...0.75

   Minami Soma City (Kashima)...1.69

   Iwaki City (Onahama)...0.11

   Minami Aizu Town...0.11

(http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/j/zenken330.pdf)

   Namie Town...1.46

   Iitate Village...4.40

(http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/j/20-50km628.pdf)

Tokyo Prefecture:

   Shinjuku...0.0507

   Edogawa...0.126

(http://monitoring.tokyo-eiken.go.jp/index.html)

Reference (Unit: uSv/hr)

 Seoul: 0.109
 Beijing: 0.799
 Singapore: 0.08 
 London: 0.25
 Rome: 0.25
 New York: 0.093

(http://yumechanman.blog19.fc2.com/blog-entry-238.html)

Appendix. How Radioactive Material was Discharged from Fukushima Daiichi on March 12, 15, & 21, 2011 

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Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Joh 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Joh 1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
Joh 1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

Mt. Fuji 100 Km far from Tokyo area

"the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John" - Very Modern History of America

Tokyo Government Office Area...and Anti-Nuclear Energy Protesters' Tents...

Very Modern History of America

When the Vietnam War ended, the US entered a new era which was yet to be shaped so clearly.

It came in 1991 when the Persian Gulf War started and the Soviet Union collapsed.  But at the beginning of this new era, US voters intriguingly opted for a new type of leader Mr. Clinton rather than conventional elite politician Mr. H.W. Bush.

At the time, namely after the Persian Gulf War and the Cold War, CIA regarded Japan as the most grave virtual enemy.  Japanese economy was then threatening the American hegemony in the global industry, including the fields of electronics and automobiles.  Among many, Sony, Toyota, Panasonic, and Honda became ubiquitous in the American market.  It was the early stage of introduction of high-tech applications into almost all the sectors in the society,  And this high technology meant advanced electronics symbolized by chips with high integration of functions. The era of PCs, the Internet, and cellular phones was approaching.  American voters instinctively felt that the very conventional elite politician Mr. H.W. Bush could not well cope with the high-tech war against Japan, though he had been a US Navy pilot who had directly exchanged fire with the Imperial Navy of Japan but got unfortunately shot down near Iwojima during WWII.  They opted for the young and high-tech oriented Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore who didn't even join the Vietnam War like one of sons of Mr. H.W. Bush.

In 1990's, what America was engaged in under the Clinton Administration was not the War on Terror but the High-Tech War and the Money War against Japan.  So, the Clinton Administration heavily protected American high-tech businesses and computer companies, including Microsoft and Intel, as well as Wall Street companies against Japan.  As time went by, Japan went into a decade-long recession after the burst of its bubble economy around 1990, facing a challenge of economic globalization symbolized by economic growth of China. Finally the US looked like securing its position as the economic super-power.  No Japanese OS became the standard for operating systems used in personal computers worldwide.  No Japanese CPUs became the standard for hardware architecture of personal computers worldwide. No Japanese telecommunications protocols became the standard for global public data-communications links but the Internet did as it had been invented by DOD. And, through the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the Japanese yen couldn't be the key currency in East Asia, as the US Government was strongly reluctant to support the idea.  In one way or another, the Clinton Administration thought that they won Japan getting into a decade-long deflation. The US economy was at the top and the summit at the end of the 20th century; the US elites virtually declared that America was now the sole super-power in the world, as they beat the Japanese challenge eventually.

Yet, the 9/11 Terror blew off their paradigm.  A new enemy emerged who was not a pacifist like the Japanese at all.

But, interestingly, American voters had already elected Mr. W. Bush as their president, though technically Mr. Gore must have won the 2000 Presidential Election, especially in Florida.  Before the 9/11 Terror Osama bin Laden reportedly masterminded, American voters opted for plain intelligence of Mr. W. Bush rather than sophisticated intellectual level of Mr. Gore.  Americans came to feel the gap unreasonably expanding between sophisticated intellectual elites of America, who were getting so arrogant, and plain Americans, including those who felt being left as the digital divide was expanding.

President W. Bush had connection with the bin Ladens, a very rich owner of a Saudi Arabian construction company, through his business careers, but it did't hurt his honor.  President W. Bush mobilized US troops for the War in Iraq based on speculative evidences about Iraqi association with Islamic terrorists and Osama bin Laden's group and about Iraq's possession of mass destruction weapons (probably because there had been reportedly an assassination attempt of his father Mr. H.W. Bush by the Iraqi Government after the Persian Gulf War).  But it did't hurt his honor, either.  But, under the Bush Administration, the very ugly aspects of the American money industry were exposed, beginning with ENRON and culminating in Lehman Brothers.  The 2008 financial crisis was taken by many experts as an event bringing serious consequences at the level of the 1929 Great Depression.

Interestingly, there was a Senator from Chicago in 2005.  He was against the War on Terror President Mr. W. Bush started and wrote a book about himself who had the European-American mother and the modern-African father.  Accordingly, he became one of major candidates for the 2008 Presidential Election, though Mrs. Clinton was believed to become the first female American President in 2009.  But, the subprime loan mortgage problem was being intensified all through 2008.  Some voters came to look for a presidential candidate who had had no connection with the 2000 stock boom fueled by Wall Street under the Clinton Administration.  Others felt so betrayed by President Mr. W. Bush and Republican politicians as it became clear that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had no weapons for mass destruction existence of which Mr. W. Bush had claimed before the invasion of Iraq in the early spring of 2003.  Hence, Mr. Obama became the Democratic candidate for the presidency.  Then finally, Lehman Brother went bankrupt in September 2008 as a shocking precedent for a subsequent series of crashes of big American corporations, including GM.  Everybody came to turn to Mr. Obama as the impact of this 2008 Financial Crisis was so huge and the disenchantment with the War on Terror was so grave.  What rich European Americans, including President Mr. W. Bush, had built on the shining hill looked like all getting collapsed and crumbled.  American voters determinedly chose Mr. Obama who overwhelmingly became the honorable first African American President of the US in 2009.

Yet, no one was sure whether President Mr. Obama would serve the nation from the White House for eight years as well as whether he could take on Osama bin Laden eventually in early May of 2011...


(to be continued...)


Appendix I.

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Appendix II.

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Mar 1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
Mar 1:29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
Mar 1:30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
Mar 1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

"Joseph, of the house of David" - Deaths of Sisters

Tokyo Government Administration District

Deaths of Sisters

In Hokkaido, the most northern island among four major islands of Japan, there lived sisters.

Their farther died of illness when they were middle and primary school girls.  Their mother died of illness, too, when the oldest daughter was a high-school student.  And, the younger sister had a mental handicap.

They lived together in their home town in the middle of Hokkaido.  The elder sister worked in an apparel shop; the younger one was engaged in activities in a care facility.  But, several years ago the apparel shop was closed.  The elder sister couldn't find another job in the town, so that she moved to Sapporo, the prefectural capital of Hokkaido, leaving her younger sister alone.  Then the younger sister got depressed and stopped to go to the care facility.  So, the elder sister decided to call her poor younger sister to Sapporo to live together, though she couldn't yet find a stable job for herself.

As time went by, recession fell heavily upon their shoulders.  The elder sister couldn't find any part-time job for weeks and months.  They had to finally live on special allowances for the disabled the younger sister received from the public office.  So, the elder sister went to the city office to look for any social aid applicable to her.  An official recommended her to apply for livelihood protection or welfare benefits, but she would not apply for public livelihood assistance.  She received only 14 cans of bread from the city office as aid.

Then, the elder sister in her early 40's suddenly died of illness last November.  At the time they were behind in their rent and they had the gas cut off.  The younger and mentally handicapped sister was left alone.  She tried to call the police or an ambulance by cellular phone.  She pushed number "111," though the telephone number for the police is "110" or for an ambulance "119." The line was never connected.  The younger sister also died from coldness and hunger while the winter in Hokkaido was getting so colder.  The dead bodies of the poor sisters were found recently in the snow-covered city Sapporo.  Hence, it was reported in a nationwide news program of the public TV station.

And, I thought that as the elder sister had hope for marriage, she refused to receive livelihood protection, since those who receive this type of public assistance are mostly very unlucky young men, middle-aged ex-salaried workers, or unlucky old women.

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
http://yaplog.jp/stillheartbeat/archive/1298



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Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Luk 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

"there standeth one among you" - Don't Worry About Japan

Tokyo...

Don't Worry About Japan

Japan experienced trade deficit last year for the first time in 31 years.

The 3/11 Tsunami destroyed significant part of the Japanese industrial supply chain; The Japanese exporters are yet to fully recover from the 2008 Financial Crisis; The Japanese society is undergoing aging with population decreasing; The Yen is fixed at such a higher level as would make Japanese TV makers compete with Korean makers in a disadvantageous manner; The budget deficit of the Japanese Government has reached the level of 200% of Japan's GDP.

But, Japan is not on the verge of a catastrophe at all.

First of all, Japan has been the second largest economy, only following the US, in 40 years. It has many assets and resources that have been accumulated over years.  For example, Japan is the largest credit nation in the world.  More than 90% of debts of the Japanese Government are owned by Japanese businesses and Japanese individuals.  And, Japanese businesses have operated and built so many factories, plants, and subsidiary companies in Taiwan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Mexico, Russia, the US, etc.  Japan has contributed to increase in employment and GDP in Taiwan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Mexico, Russia, the US, etc. 

You have to regard economic success, at least, in east Asia as part of Japanese economic development.  It is extension of Japanese economic activities.  Or, it is tantamount to viewing success of Anglo-Saxons not only in England but also in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.  Japanese technology has been implanted in Taiwan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Mexico, Russia, the US, etc.

The key issue in Japan is now whether it can contrive and adopt a new economic scheme including national finance.

Put simply, it is if it can find a way to sustain the nation without relying on simply profit-oriented market and balance-oriented taxation.

Japan could avoid becoming a military power to eventually find enemies among Muslims like the US did.  Japan could avoid triggering an international financial crisis like the US did.  Japan must have passed some test of history already.  In this extension, Japan is facing a new challenge, which Western politicians, journalists, and economists cannot understand, since they simply laughed at the lost decade of Japan sometime ago while the US, the EU, and even China are going to suffer their lost decade now.

Anyway Japanese are unique.  Compared with uniqueness of the Japanese race, even Koreans are just a minor variation of the mainstream of mankind who live in the west of the Japanese archipelago.

In terms of DNA, Japanese have a rare property (the special D system or the YAP haplotype block in Y-chromosome)  that can be only found in some Tibetans and can be directly traced to Africa.  It is a very ancient DNA property of mankind.  So, the core of Japanese economy is rooted in this inherent uniqueness of the Japanese race through their unique culture.  Accordingly, Japan has not simply followed rules in economy, culture, and other human activities that have been established by Anglo-Saxons and other European races, though Japan has achieved remarkable success in the modern history of the world.

A book introducing a historical Japanese myth book Kojiki...
http://booklog.jp/asin/4041576237



(to be continued...)

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Joh 1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
Joh 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

"And Jesus rebuked him" - Evil Companies

Tokyo Governmental Office District...

Evil Companies

There are bad companies in Japan, too.

One consumer finance company hired a young man who graduated from a university.

He was taught to bring extreme pressure on a client who has stopped paying back.  So, he obeyed the company rule so rigorously.  And in once case he virtually drove a client to committing a suicide.  Then, to him going into shock, his boss said, "Three times!"  The boss said coolly, "Till you experience a suicide of a client three times, you cannot become a full-fledged member in this industry."

Later, one of his clients ran away.  So, the young member of the personal finance company applied extreme pressure on the wife of his client.  As he so frequently made phone calls and visited her home, a tragedy occurred one day.  He visited her home as usual but she spoke only through intercom.  During an outwardly normal conversation, she suddenly stopped talking, and then a big sound was heard through the interphone.  The next moment, the door of the house was flung open; she came out, dashing with a kitchen knife in the hand.  The young man from the shark business was almost stabbed on his chest.  He took to flight into the street.  She was chasing him, grabbing the knife.  He hid at a corner.  She ran to the middle of people walking in a town.  She was captured and sent to a hospital eventually.  The young man and the consumer lending company made her go mad finally.

But, as she tried to stab him, it could be regarded as an attempt of murder.  So, negotiations were conducted between the company and the farther of the poor mad woman whose husband defaulted on his debts and fled somewhere, resulting in no lawsuit but refund by the father.      

Then, the young man quit the job.  He became depressed.  He left Tokyo for his home town.  And, now he is engaged in a more quiet job.

It is said that there are two million heavily-indebted persons in Japan.

Japan needs to change its economic system like all the other countries in the world.


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Today, almost 48,000 foreigners live in Japan while receiving social aid or welfare payment as they don't find jobs or cannot work.  Among them, 30,000 are South/North Korean residents in Japan.

In this context, Japan might be still a haven in the world, though.



Mar 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Mar 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

"hid herself five months" - Wonder

Tokyo Subway in Winter...

Wonder

Tonight in a little cloudy sky after snow falling around Tokyo, only Venus and Jupiter could be spotted.

Though the moon couldn't be found in the gray sky tonight, it is the moon that made me feel wonder.  The moon is made of rocks and sands only as everybody knows.  Of course, ice must be somewhere under the surface.  But, it looks like a great mass of rocks.  And, the earth could have become such an astronomical object.  The earth could be another moon, a mass of rocks.

Even in the space around the sun, there were only rocks and gases.  So, anything to be formed around the sun must have been a mass of rocks or gases.  Anyway, if you stand on the surface on the moon, you should think that this is another form of the earth, since the earth could have been just a mass of rocks like the moon.  What I want to say is that there are no hearts, minds, souls, and spirits on the surface of the moon today.  Billions of years ago when the earth was created, there were no hearts, minds, souls, and spirits on the surface of the earth full of rocks, if totally melted badly.    

But, now on the earth, there are so many hearts, minds, souls, and spirits. Where did they come? Or minds were included in rocks and gases inherently?  It is big wonder.  If you pick up a stone in the field nearby, you cannot take out a mind from it.  You have to take out water from it and let some elements steep into the water heated to form various organic compounds and protein and finally a living thing.  Then it will evolve into a human being to have a mind.  But can you believe that a human mind can be generated from the stone.  It is big wonder.

Stone -->  Water/Heat --> Organic Compounds --> Protein --> Living Thing --> Human Mind

And, it is a big surprise that the God in order to see a human mind created this universe and rocks and gases, since the heat source sun itself is originally made of a gas hydrogen.

But, now human beings controlled by human minds can manipulate other living things, protein, organic compounds, water/heat, and stones.  It is true wonder, since man cannot reach or manipulate the God in this way.

The Earth on the Horizon of the Moon Taken by Japanese Space Agency JAXA
http://jda.jaxa.jp/result.php?lang=j&id=1b3a0f183ce75549b664368fd133504b



(to be continued...)

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Luk 1:24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
Luk 1:25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

"the voice of one crying in the wilderness" - The Four Vectors

Tokyo Subway...

The Four Vectors

If Wall Street avarice gets stronger, the sense of belligerence gets stronger, too.

If belligerence becomes dominant, democracy will be forced to concede.

And, with less democracy, it is not expected that Christianity can prevail in this modern era.  

In this state, former President Mr. George W. Bush led the U.S. to the War on Terror in 2001.

However, as the US suffered the 2008 Financial Crisis that started from Wall Street, the Wall Street avarice got a little weaker; as Mr. Barack Obama was elected in 2008, democracy got a little stronger, so that it is unlikely that the U.S. and Iran would enter war.

(However after the 1929 Great Depression, Wall Street avarice might not have got weaker enough, leading to the Japanese-US war that started from the Pearl Harbor attack.)



(To be continued...)

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Tokyo has now a snowfall of 4 cm or more than an inch, which is rare in this decade.

By the way, I bought a new digital camera recently.  Could it be realized?



Joh 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

"the Lord Jesus went in and out among us" - A Day of A Fukushima Daiichi Worker

The Tokyo International Airport at Haneda not in Narita...

A Day of A Fukushima Daiichi Worker

[Updated on January 25]

According to the Japanese magazine SAPIO, a daily routine of an ordinary worker now engaged in a recovery project in Fukushima Daiichi is as follows:

(He stays at a lodgment a subcontractor manages.  Between the lodgment and the Fukushima Daiichi, there is a kind of meeting place or a camp for workers sent by various subcontractors to gather and get on buses for the plant, which is called J Village.  And, almost 6,000 workers go to the Fukushima Daiichi plant for various kinds of repair and recovery jobs every day.)

05:20
Wakes up.

05:45
Takes breakfast in the lodgment.

06:00
Starts from the lodgment by bus.

06:30
Arrives at the J Village camp.
Puts on a hazard suit.

07:00
Arrives at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by bus.
Prepares for work and takes rest.

08:00
Joins a meeting.

08:30
Working on site.


11:30
Lunch & rest.

12:30
Working on site.


14:30
Preparation for exit from the plant.

15:00
Starts from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

15:30
Arrives at the J Village camp.

15:40
Starts from the J Village camp.

16:00
Arrives at the lodgment.
Takes a bath.
Takes a recess.

19:00
Has supper.
Takes a rest.

21:00
Goes to bed.

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A worker wears a full-face mask and a Tyvek protective garment with a 20-kg lead vest and three gloves, one on another, on each hand.

Yet, they could receive 250 milli sieverts of doses in two hours, the special limit for workers engaged in nuclear accident restoration.

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Those workers are mainly hired not directly by TEPCO, Hitachi, Toshiba, and other big businesses but by the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, or even the seventh tier subcontractors.  And, some subcontractors are said to be collecting workers through connection with gangsters.

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J-Village originally built for training of soccer players
http://www.tif.ne.jp/jp/spot/spot_disp.php?id=7

A Check Point in Front of the J Village with Police Buses Stationed
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/nhkhp146/folder/1516890.html

Now used for preparation of Fukushima Daiichi workers
http://photozou.jp/photo/show/701808/79889940

http://1000ya.isis.ne.jp/1446.html

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Max. 900 Milli Sv was measured around here.)
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/4665

In the Field of Fukushima Daiichi
http://ameblo.jp/sannriku/day2-20110419.html

On Site of Fukushima Daiichi
http://www.anaroguma.org/komake/fukushima/photo_June1/index.htm

In the Control Room of Fukushima Daiichi
http://www.anaroguma.org/komake/fukushima/photo_June1/index.htm

A Police Checkpoint in Namie Town near Fukushima Daiichi
http://makoto-craftbox.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/06/post-db21.html


(to be continued...)



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Act 1:21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Act 1:22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

"they left their father Zebedee" - Truth of Korea

From Tokyo & To Tokyo

Truth of Korea

Around the 3rd century BC, Korea (Wiman Joseon) became a tributary to China (the Hang Dynasty).


Since then, till the Empire of Japan defeated China (Qing) in the Japanese-Sino War in 1895, Korea had been a tributary country to China without interruption.


After Yi Dan（Yi Seong-gye or Taejo）defeated the Goryeo Dynasty and founded his own dynasty in the Korean Peninsula in 1392, he was asked whether the name of the kingdom of Korea would be changed from Goryeo by the emperor of China (the Ming Dynasty).  As the suｚerain over Korea, the emperor of Ming (the Hongwu Emperor) requested a prompt answer from Taejo, the virtual king of Korea.


So, Taejo humbly asked the Hongwu Emperor of Ming to choose one of two for the new name of his kingdom: Joseon (Chosen in Japanese) or Wanei (in Japanese).  The Chinese emperor reasonably chose the former as the latter was already used as a name of other tributary, so that Taejo became formally Taejo of Joseon or King of Joeson and his kingdom came to be called the Joseon Dynasty.  Joeson means tranquility in the morning.


Yet when the Empire of Japan defeated China (the Qing Dynasty) in 1895, Korea lost the status of a tributary or got independent from China as Japan and Qing concluded the Treaty of Shimonoseki:

Treaty of Shimonoseki 

Article 1: China recognizes definitively the full and complete independence and autonomy of Korea, and, in consequence, the payment of tribute and the performance of ceremonies and formalities by Korea to China, that are in derogation of such independence and autonomy, shall wholly cease for the future.

Japan-China Peace Treaty, or "Treaty of Shimonoseki", 17 April 1895.


So, Korean people owe Japan forever for their independence from China at least psychologically, though they had to obey and be annexed to the Empire of Japan half a century later due to their incompetence in its building a modern nation to cope with invasion by the Russian Empire and other Western Powers.


Anyway, though Qing had put all the nations in the east of India into the state of a tributary to China, except Mughal Empire and Japan, it lost those tributaries one after another.  In the late 19th century, China had finally only one tributary Korea.  And it lost it as a consequence of the Japanese-Sino War in 1895.  In this context, the war has very significant meaning not only for Korea and China but also for whole East Asia. Because it finally told the end of the tributary system under hegemony of a Chinese empire.

(A Japanese-Sino War battle depicted in a traditional art form by Japanese)
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/rubaiyat_2009/e/399bd2d1093ec650104f444123a81bea

So, it might be no wonder that North Korea is still a kind of tributary to China as the only such nation.  And, South Korea never ceases to try to harm Japanese reputation while it owes Japan for its industrial success after WWII.  The root is deep in history, since South Korea militarily occupies Japan's Takeshima Island in the Sea of Japan while it knows the rocky island belongs to Japan from older days.


(to be continued...)

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Mar 1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mar 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

"I am Gabriel" - Mysterious Master Moji

Airport on Tokyo Bay

Mysterious Master Moji

Mysterious and profound philosophical master of ancient China Moji (called Boku-Shi in Japanese) is believed to be born after the death of great teacher Confucius since Confucius never mentioned Moji.

So, Moji is introduced today as follows:

Born in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, China, he founded the school of Mohism, and argued strongly against Confucianism and Daoism. During the Warring States Period, Mohism was actively developed and practiced in many states, but fell out of favour when the legalist Qin Dynasty came to power. During that period, many Mohist classics were ruined when Qin Shihuang carried out the burning of books and burying of scholars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi

As Moji is believed to be born and lived between 470 BC to 391 BC, he can be regarded as contemporary with Socrates (469 BC to 399 BC) or the Buddha (463 BC to 383 BC) though Confucius (551 BC to 479 BC) criticized by Moji had lived earlier.

Moji was different from any other philosophers and philosophical masters of ancient China in that he led a band of warriors.  But they simply joined different kings on different occasions in the warring period of ancient China not for invasion and offence but solely for defense purposes.

Yet, Moji was a master, among others, the closest to Christianity.

Great Confucius said that he would not discuss ghosts, holy ghosts, or holy gods, since he was yet to master everything in this world.  Nonetheless, Moji claimed that ghosts, holy ghosts, or holy gods should be a focus of philosophy.  Moji criticized Confucianism that the school respected rituals and music while neglecting souls of spiritual entities.  Above all, Moji said that love did not have to necessarily start and expand from a family to a state as Confucius claimed; love must apply equally to everybody under the heaven.

As Moji's teaching was close to Christianity, his school was reminded Chinese of in the late 19th century over 200-year oblivion as China at the time faced full invasion by and aggression of Western powers.

When the king of the state of Chu planned invasion of the state of Song, one of his engineers invented a ladder type of machine to attack citadels of Song.  When this information reached him, Moji hurried to Chu to see the king.  The king respected master Moji but could not easily accept Moji's request not to invade Song.  So, the king of Chu asked Moji to fight a simulation war on the desk with the very engineer who invented the powerful attack machine, sayng, "Master Moji, if you could successfully defend against all the attacks my engineer will deliver, I would not attack Song."  And after defeating all the tactics the engineer used, Moji had still other means to use for defense in the war game on the desk.  The military engineer lost face befor his king and hence said, "I still have a means to destroy your defense, Master Moji!" "Yes, I know," responded Moji, "your last and secret tactics is to kill me here right now so that Song cannot defend based on my advice!"  Moji continued, "But I have already sent 300 of my followers to Song with my secret advice to the king of Song.  You cannot stop them all."  Then, the king of Chu, watching all the exchanges of tactics and words between his faithful engineer and prestigious master Moji, pledged to Moji, "Master Moji, I will not make war with Song."  

The, Moji left the castle of Chu.  Moji was passing the state of Song to his headquarters in the state of Qi.  But it suddenly started to rain.  Moji sought shelter from rain at the gate of a fortress of Song.  But a soldier policing the gate thought the man standing under the roof of the gate was a beggar but not a great leader of a great band of philosophical warriors who saved his state just now.  So the soldier drove Moji out into rain.  Moji didn't tell what he was but walked into rain to Qi.    

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



(to be continued...)

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Luk 1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.

"No man hath seen God"

Tokyo International Airport at Haneda



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Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

"unto Christ are fourteen generations" - Radiation States in East Japan

Haneda International Airport in Tokyo...

Radiation States in East Japan

Yesterday, namely on January 16, 2012, the radiation doses in Fukushima Prefecture and East Japan are as follows:

Fukushima Prefecture (unit: micro Sieverts)

Minami-Soma 0.39

IItate 1.169

Fukushima City 0.83

Koriyama 0.70

Shirakawa 0.37

Iwaki 0.17

Aizu-Wakamatsu 0.11

Minami-Aizu 0.06

East Japan (unit: micro Sieverts)

Aomori City 0.023

Morioka 0.033

Sendai 0.061

Akita City 0.043

Yamagata City 0.065

Mito 0.092

Utsunomiya 0.091

Maebashi 0.079

Saitama City 0.053

Ichihara (Chiba Pref.) 0.075

Shinjuku (Tokyo Pref.) 0.064

Chigasaki (Kanagawa Pref.) 0.048

Niigata City 0.065
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The doses in Tokyo of 0.064 micro Sieverts means 0.56 milli Sieverts per year.

The doses in Fukushima City of 0.83 micro Sieverts means 7.27 milli Sieverts per year

As 1 milli Sieverts per year is regraded as a global criterion for assured safety, Tokyo is very safe but Fukushima City is not.

But, the Japanese Government does not try to move infants and children living in Fukushima City out of the city to safer areas.

This can be regraded as a kind of crimes.

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Mat 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

"for they were fishers" - Death of a Fukushima Daiichi Worker

Haneda International Airport in Tokyo...

Death of a Fukushima Daiichi Worker

In May 2011, a 60-year old worker collapsed from a heart attack in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

At the time there was no resident medical doctors in the plant.  It took 2 hours and 40 minutes for him to be carried to a hospital out of the evacuation zone.  There he was found to be dead.

The man was dispatched to Fukushima Daiichi by a subcontractor at the fourth level under the engineering giant Toshiba.  On the day, he started from accommodation facilities outside an evacuation zone at 2 a.m.  Then at 6 A.M. he began to work in the plant, carrying a 50 kg iron cutter with his colleague, but in 20 minutes he fell on the ground.

He had only one family: the Thai wife.  His employer, namely a fourth-level subcontractor of Toshiba, gave just half a million yen ($6,000) to her, telling her to go back to Thailand.

It is outrageous that a wife who lost her husband, due to the onset of illness while working for a recovery project in Fukushsima Daiichi, received only $6,000 and nothing else from any body, including Toshiba, TEPCO, and the Japanese Government.

(http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1670945.html)

Even today about 6,000 workers are engaged in recovery work of four reactor units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that has six reactor units.  Most of them are replaced in a four-month period with new workers.


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Mar 1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.