"Jesus called his disciples unto him" - iPS-based Brain

Tokyo Imperial Palace Plaza Park

iPS-based Brain

The iPS cell can be used to create any part of the human body.

But how can it be used to create the human brain?  If any other part of the human body, such as an eye ball, is damaged, you can in future create it with iPS cells to replace the damaged one.  Even the heart can be replaced with a new one created through the iPS cell technology.  But you cannot adopt this remedy for the brain.

Of course physically you can get an identical brain to what you have if you apply this medical technology.  But your brain has been programmed as you live.  Since you were born, your brain has been programmed through various interactions with the outer world while you have been living, acting and learning.  This process cannot be applied to the iPS-based brain.

An iPS cell-created brain is just a vessel of brain cells without intellectual functions and human emotions.  It is just an object.  No human spirit can be contained there.

But in future scientists may find a way and a method of programming an iPS cell-based brain.  It may be used for a brain of a robot.  Or they may use it to create a new species which looks like human beings but which has no human souls.

One thing clear is that it is a domain of God but not mankind.  We must be very careful to develop the iPS cell technology.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ips_cells.png





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Mar 8:1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them,
Mar 8:2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
Mar 8:3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mar 8:4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

"the men of this generation" - Mt Fuji Eruption

Around Imperial Palace Plaza, Tokyo

Mt Fuji Eruption

In 1707 Mt. Fuji erupted to darken the sky over Edo, presently called Tokyo, 100 km east of the highest mountain in Japan.

It was apparently triggered by a great earthquake of a magnitude 8.6 which occurred 49 days before the Mt. Fuji eruption.  The eructation continued for two weeks, causing huge damage to nearby villages and towns.  It was the last one of three major eruptions of Mt. Fuji which were recorded in past documents left in Japan. 　

This eruption is called the Great Eruption of the Ho-ei Era.  The preceding one happened in 864.  So, Mt. Fuji might not come close to a dangerous state for a new eructation for 500 years or so if its eruption is so periodical.

But recently Japanese scientists find that Mt. Fuji is now in a dangerous condition.  A huge amount of magma is now accumulated under the ground of the mountain.  By analyzing air photos, they found that there are many dikes and concatenations of rocks on the mountain.  They seem to stop flow of magma from the underground to the surface.  But if a big earthquake in a scale of magnitude 8 should occur, those dikes would be broken and separated to allow magma to run up to the surface and to the air.  Energy being accumulated for 300 years can be released from Mt. Fuji with one big earthquake.   And Mt. Fuji is close to a big seismic source called the Nankai Trough.  

The Nankai Trough is a submarine trough located south of Japan's island of Honshū, extending approximately 900 km offshore. In plate tectonics, the Nankai Trough marks a subduction zone that is caused by subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath Japan, part of the Eurasian plate (Kanda et al., 2004). 

The Nankai Trough is the near-surface extension of a zone of active seismicity that dips beneath SW Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nankai_Trough

According to study the probability is between 60 and 70% for an eruption with the magnitude of M8.0 or more to occur within 30 years in the Nankai Trough. (Nankai means a south sea in Japanese.)

http://www.fujisan-net.gr.jp/english/4_04.htm

In conclusion, it is very dangerous to hold Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.  It must be carried out in Istanbul.  The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, a higher possibility of occurrence of a big in-land earthquake around Tokyo and this possible Mt. Fuji eruption make the possible Tokyo Olympics so dangerous, though Tokyo was the venue of the 1964 Olympics when science was not so advanced as it is today.

The International Olympic Committee must choose Istanbul for the 2020 Olympics not only for peace and prosperity of the Islamic world but also for physical safety of Japanese and foreigners.



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Luk 7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
Luk 7:32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

"an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush" - Origin of Astro Boy

Around Prime Minister Office Bldg., Tokyo

Origin of Astro Boy

In the summer of 1950 the managing editor of a Japanese monthly magazine called "Sho-nen" (Boy) asked Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) to provide some work for the magazine.

Tezuka, the future Japanese king of "manga" (cartoons), could not easily come up with an idea for this work.  He took so many pains to come to think that nuclear energy could be a good theme.  The rising comic artist Tezuka wanted to depict a future country where nuclear energy would be used in a peaceful manner.  It was because Tezuka spotted an article in a newspaper about hydrogen-bomb tests being conducted by America in a Pacific Ocean island.

Accordingly he decided to use a title "Atom Continent" for the work.   In this context, Tezuka did not attach any meaning but a very basic physical entity which, in a multitude, constitutes a molecule to the word Atom.  But the editorial office of the magazine advised that the word continent was too large in a scale and thus the title should be focused on an individual character.  So, young Tezuka changed the title to "Ambassador Atom."  However he had no clear and concrete images and visions about the work titled Ambassador Atom.  It was just a passing idea.

As a deadline approached, Osamu Tezuka finally thought of a story: A great number of aliens visited the earth. They caused a big trouble with mankind.  But a man called Ambassador Atom adjusted the discord between the two species.  So the cartoon series of "Ambassador Atom" began.

But Ambassador Atom did not appear in the first three episodes.  The story became complicated with many personalities taking part in it.  And just before presenting Ambassador Atom in the fourth episode, Tezuka decided to make this central player a robot.

When this series ended, the managing editor of the magazine said to Osamu Tezuka, "You had better draw up a new title with a focus on the robot boy Atom.  Our readers seem to love Atom the most among many figures in the series."  But the future king of Japanese cartoons replied negatively: "But it is just a robot!"  The monthly magazine editor emphasized that Tezuka should depict the robot as something that expressed every human emotion and pursued justice with passion.  So, the manga or animation genius Tezuka realized that it was a very good idea, since he knew some preceding examples that a mere side player of a manga series became eventually a leading personality in a new title of work.

This is how Osamu Tezuka started to create the Japanese big-hit manga personality "Tetsuwan Atom" (Atom with iron arms).  The work was later presented in TV broadcasting as the first major animation product for TV in Japan.  Then in 1963 or so Robot-Boy Atom was introduced into the US through NBC under a new name of Astro Boy.

http://www.mxtv.co.jp/atom/

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/yacup/39936445.html


Osamu Tezuka is now respected by every manga or animation artist in Japan.  And undoubtedly one of his outstanding cartoon works is "Tetsuwan Atom" (Atom with iron arms), since it was first created and appeared in public as Ambassador Atom in 1951.



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Act 7:29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
Act 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Act 7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
Act 7:32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

"with the baptism of John" - Japanese Engineers in Samsung

Prime Minister Office Bldg. in Tokyo

Japanese Engineers in Samsung

In Samsung, a big electronic business of South Korea, there are many head-hunted Japanese engineers.

Samsung has an R&D center in Yokohama, Japan, where Japanese engineers also work.  Including this Yokohama center, Samsung Group employed at least 458 Japanese engineers between 2002 and 2010, which can be confirmed by patent applications filed by Samsung Group.  Japanese engineers employed by the South Korean company wrote patent applications under their names, so that their status can be easily confirmed.  But of course there must be more Japanese engineers who have not drawn up patent applications.

According to study, those patent-applying Japanese engineers in Samsung were from the following Japanese businesses:

Original Japanese Business          Number of Engineers in Samsung
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1. Panasonic                           53

2. NEC                                   47

3. Toshiba                              39

4. Hitachi                               39

5. Sanyo                                35

6. Renesas                             31

7. Fujitsu                               27

8. Sony                                 26

9. Mitsubishi                          25

10. Canon                             20
==============================================

Samsung's founder Lee Byung-chul (1910 - 1987) learnt in Waseda University, Tokyo. He then started rice-cleaning mill business to provide rice for troops of the Imperial Army of Japan which were stationed in South Korea.  (Before WWII, Korea was part of the Empire of Japan.)

The second leader of Samsung Group Lee Kun-hee (1942 - ), a son of the founder, also graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo.  He spent several years in Japan going to Japanese elementary school and junior high school.  So, he can speak Japanese so fluently.  

The third leader of the Group Lee Jae-yong (1968 - ), a son of Lee Kun-hee, also learnt in a graduate school of Keio University, Tokyo.　

So, the root of Samsung is in Japan, and its current vitality is still being infused from Japan.

So, there is a joke that Samsung salesmen often say to their clients: "Trust us.  Our technology is supported by Japanese engineers."  And we, Japanese, don't care about it so much.




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Luk 7:28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
Luk 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luk 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

"the dogs under the table" - Japanese Society

Parliament Member Office Bldg & Prime Minister Office, Tokyo

Japanese Society

Once or before the economic bubble around 1990, it was often said that Japanese households who thought they belonged to the middle class accounted for 90% of all.

At the time the middle class in Japan meant having graduated from high school, college or university, having a regular job or being employed by a reasonable business, that is a big company or their subsidiary or their business contract, living in a standalone house or a modern apartment, owning a car, a color TV and other home electronics, having overseas traveling experiences, etc.

(In 1970, Japan's GDP exceeded that of Germany.  Excluding the USSR, Japan was already the second largest economy in the world at the time.)

Anyway Japan has not been class society since the fall of the last samurai regime in the late 19th century and ultimately since the fall of the Empire of Japan at the end of WWII in 1945.

In the samurai dominant Japan farmers accounted for 85% of all the residents though the samurai class accounted for only 7%.  And there were only about 130 noble-class houses, including the imperial house, who all lived in Kyoto.  Most importantly not only samurais and noblemen but also many farmers could read and write.  In the early 19th century the literacy rates of the samurai class and the noble class were both 100%, while even farmers, tradesmen and artisans who could read and write accounted for 50% of all of those non-elite classes.

Between the fall of the samurai regime in 1868 and the fall of the Empire of Japan in 1945, there was the aristocracy in Japan, consisting of traditional noblemen directly subject to the emperor and the new nobility who had been elite samurais before.  But now there is no noble class in Japan except the imperial family, since the constitution adopted after WWII denies such a class system in the Japanese society.

So, the all-out democratic social system which has prevailed so thoroughly in the Japanese society after WWII is a key to the Japanese success, though the Empire of Japan had been the leading nation in Asia and one of five militarily strong nations in the world before WWII or even samurai-era Japan had been one of most advanced nations in terms of a literacy rate.

Japan's success in modern academy, science, technology, economy and business has given a great stimulus to Taiwan, South Korea and China.  Those countries are also featured by social structure where most of the people belong to the same and the only one class, in addition to tradition of Confucianism and Buddhism.

In this context, East Asia is more democratic than Europe or the EU.  Japan has been an equitable society to the similar extent of the US.  That is why Japanese businesses can design and manufacture modern and cutting-edge products which can be highly welcomed by US consumers.  They share the same view on goods and systems for promotion of a convenient and effective democratic life.

Nonetheless, it is so deeply interesting that once or during WWII Japanese soldiers in the Imperial Army and Navy dared to die fighting bravely without surrender or commit a suicide to avoid dishonor of becoming a prisoner of war.  The Empire of Japan and the US were so different before 1945 beyond imagination of people living today, which might be another underlying condition for the Japanese success.

Finally Japan is the first nation in the world that could achieve the industrial revolution among non-Christian and non-European race-based nations without being colonized by any Christian or European race-based nations.  Inevitably it is a very unique country in the human history.





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Mar 7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
Mar 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Mar 7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Mar 7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Mar 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

"Behold, I send my messenger"

On the Pacific Ocean, Japan








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Luk 7:27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

"some of them of Jerusalem" - TEPCO Management

Tokyo

TEPCO Management

This July Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the owner and operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, decided to provide a special bonus of 100,000 yen ($1,000) for each of its section heads and middle-level executives.

The number of TEPCO's managers eligible for this bonus is about 5,000 though the utility has about 36,000 employees.  However since the occurrence of the Fukushimna Daiichi nuclear accident, total 1,300 workers left TEPCO.  Among them there are 50 key employees and managers in charge of business planning and strategic management.  The TEPCO management has to take some measures to stop this trend which is weakening its ability to handle the still ongoing problems related to Fukushima Daiichi.  So, what they have come up with is to provide the special bonus.  

The total cost for this bonus scheme is 100,000 yen multiplied by 5,000, which is 500 million yen or $5 million.  But TEPCO said that it could reduce costs for its operation by 150 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in the last fiscal year, so that these bonus expenses can be easily covered.  In addition, each manager of TEPCO now earns a salary 30% less than what he or she made before March 2011 when the Fukushima Daiichi accident was triggered by great tsunamis.

The average yearly salary of TEPCO's employees was more than 7 million yen ($70,000) before but now about 5.5 million yen  ($55,000), of course, due to a loss of company's profits caused by the debacle of four nuclear reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi power generation plant.

To make sure, before the fatal Fukushima Daiichi disaster, TEPCO was one of elite companies in Japan most of university graduates wanted to work in.

TEPCO Top Management as of March 2011
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/tarutaru22/e/06b112a081bf59ececc51a4f310bdb69


Moreover, it is true that radioactively contaminated wasted water is still flowing into the sea from the ground of the plant.  Such water reportedly includes radioactive material eight times more than an allowable level.

In this condition, it is apparent that Tokyo must not run for the venue of  the 2020 Olympics.  If Tokyo should be chosen as the host country of the Olympic Games of 2020,  Tokyo Electric Power Company will act as one of major sponsors to turn people's attention from the reality in Fukushima Daiichi.  It is not good at all.  It should be held in Istanbul, instead.

In 2017, Fukushima City might be able to run as a candidate city for the 2024 Olympics.


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Joh 7:25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
Joh 7:26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

"for it was founded upon a rock" - August in Japan

On Sagami Bay, Japan

August in Japan

The summer in Japan is a season for memory of WWII, especially Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and baseball.

Specifically August proceeds with memorial services/ceremonies for Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing victims, the end of WWII for the Empire of Japan, and the nationwide high-school baseball tournament.

This baseball event is joined by about 4,000 high schools all over Japan.  Each prefecture sends their top team to the Koshien Baseball Park, west of Osaka, where high school baseball teams representing each prefecture compete for real for final victory.  All the games played in Koshien are televised live all over Japan.

(Nomo, Ichiro, and other Japanese Major Baseball players have all experienced this Koshien series.)

So, August is a big month for the Japanese race, since their Buddhist tradition teaches them that spirits of their ancestors come back to their home on mid-summer days called Bon or politely O-Bon.  Those working in big cities, such as Tokyo and Osaka, are expected to return to their home towns or parents' homes in local cities, towns, and villages.  Most of Japanese companies set a summer vacation period for their employees at the O-Bon days.

However, decades ago, the temperature in Japan in August did not get higher than 35 degrees Celsius so often as it does today.


For sightseers to Japan, however, the summer is a chance to observe abundant paddy fields outside cities all over Japan and confirm that Japan is the Land of Vigorous Rice Plants since ancient days.  Accordingly rice import to Japan is highly restricted to preserve this source of spirit and energy of the Japanese race.  Rice is a kind of sacred food for Japanese, though they consume this staple less and less nowadays with diet westernization being so prevailing.



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Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

"Noah only remained alive" - Upper House Election Result

Views from Tokyo Bay

Upper House Election Result

The　Upper House election of Japan, whose voting was on July 21, resulted in overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Mr. Abe and the ruling party LDP.

Now Mr. Shinzo Abe has secured a majority of seats in both the Upper and Lower Houses of the parliament.

The so-called Abenomics is the key to his victory, since the average price of stocks traded in the Tokyo Stock Exchange is now over 14,000 yen while it was about 8,000 yen before Abe's taking over power in last December.  In addition, the too strong yen, one of major causes of deflation in Japan, has been corrected to be 100 yen per US dollar though it was about 85 yen per US dollar before.

On the other hand, the major opposition party DPJ was in power when the 3/11 Tsunami occured in Japan, and then prime minister Mr. Kan was responsible for expansion of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that ensued from the tsunami.  Mr. Kan, still a Lower-House member, is facing various criticism posed even by other DPJ members, since he supported a candidate in this election who was not authorized by incumbent DPJ leaders.  Mr. Kan has lost confidence both inside and outside the DPJ, a liberal party supported by labor unions.

So, the election result looks reasonable.

Incidentally, Prime Minister Mr. Abe is a very conservative, anti-liberal, and pro-American politician who was also prime minister once between 2006 and 2007.



Nonetheless it is not likely that PM Mr. Abe can succeed in changing the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution which forbids the government starting war with other country and hence government's building up of full-scale military capability including forces needed in war overseas.

To change any part of the present pacifist Constitution, ruling parties need a two-thirds majority in both the Houses of the National Diet in addition to a majority of support from the people who vote for this issue.



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Gen 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Gen 7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Gen 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

"Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?"

Tsunami Warning Sign on the Sagami Bay Beach 80 Km Southwest of Tokyo












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Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

"I have done one work, and ye all marve"

Notice Sent by Mail to a Voter (a Citizen) for Upper House Election of Japan, a Numbered Ticket for Entrance to Voting Place Inside





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Joh 7:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

"sent them to Jesus"

Inside the Tokyo Station










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Luk 7:19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
Luk 7:20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
Luk 7:21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
Luk 7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Luk 7:23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit" - Active Fault in 400,000 Years

Tokyo Streets

Active Fault in 400,000 Years

Active faults under buildings of nuclear power plants are now a focus for Japanese nuclear power plant operators.

Utilities now plan to restart nuclear electricity generation plants, filing requests to the regulating office in charge.  But some of those plants are judged or suspected of having active faults which can trigger an earthquake in the worst case.

The regulating authority is very cautious in ruling that those plants do not have active faults under buildings housing nuclear reactors.  According to law, such plants are not allowed to operate.

It is very difficult to find that any feature of the ground indicates existence of an active fault or an identified fault is active, meaning that it triggered an earthquake in these 400,000 years.  The Japanese regulation concerned specifies that a utility company should check whether or not an identified fault moved in these 400,000 years.  (Academically it is not strictly defined how many years should be taken into account for the period of a fault being still or at a pause when judging it to be active.)

This is one of the most difficult conditions for an operator of a nuclear power plat to meet.  But the regulating authority plans to review applications utility companies have submitted for permission of restart of their nuclear power plants taking six months or so.  So, at the earliest, it will be at the end of this year that any suspended nuclear reactors in Japan will start their operation again.

Now the number of nuclear reactors applied for the official review is 10 while they belong to five different nuclear power plants all over Japan (there are about 50 reactors in Japan).



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Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

"the people grew and multiplied in Egypt" - Contribution to the UN Budget

Tokyo Railroad Lines

Contribution to the UN Budget

How much each major country contributed to the budget of the United Nations in 2012 is as follows:

COUNTRY          CONTRIBUTION
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No.1  US            $569 Million

No.2  JAPAN      $296 Million

No.3  Germany    $190 Million

No.4  UK            $156 Million

No.5  France      $145 Million

No.6  Italy          $118 Million

No.7  Canada      $76 Million      

No.8  China        $75 Million

No.9  Spain        $75 Million

No.10  Mexico    $56 Million


Japan has been the second largest contributor to the United Nations in these decades.  But it is said that the Obama Administration is going to set up a G2 regime with China to govern the world.  How stupid and crazy Obama is!  China is not a savior but a problem of the world itself.

China is still a recipient of ODA.

Japan provided about $42 million for China as ODA in 2012.　




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Act 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Act 7:16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
Act 7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Act 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
Act 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
Act 7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
Act 7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Act 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

"know them by their fruits"

Sho-Nan Shore, around Tokyo Area






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Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Mat 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

"those are they that defile the man" - The First Japanese Female Medical Doctor

On the Pacific Ocean, Japan

The　First  Japanese Female Medical Doctor

In the last period of the samurai era of Japan, specifically in 1851, Ginko Ogino was born in Kumagaya, 60 km north of Tokyo.

In 1868 she married a rich farmer but got divorced two years later for infection of a sexual disease her husband transmitted to her.  As she was hospitalized in a Tokyo hospital, she found that there were only male medical doctors even for gynecologic care.  So, she was very much embarrassed. Accordingly she thought there must be definitely female medical doctors, though there were none in Japan at the time.

Ogino, however, tarted to study in the Tokyo Female Teachers' School as the school was the only high-education facility for women at the time.  Then she went on learning in a private medical school in Tokyo.  After graduation, she submitted a petition for medical practice to the Tokyo Prefecture office.  But it was rejected as she was a woman.  Almost every year her petition was rejected, but in 1885, women were allowed to take the test for license of medical practice; so she took it to pass it as the only woman to obtain a medical license.            

In 1885 she established her clinic in Tokyo, which was very much welcomed by many women, though it was 15 years after she decided to become a medical doctor.  She was 34 years old then.  Newspapers focused on her, making her famous as the first female medical doctor in Japan.

She became Christian next year, and  four years later she married again a Christian man.  Then two years later, the couple moved to Hokkaido, a northern developing region of Japan.  They wanted to cultivate frontier villages in Hokkaido.  But her husband died 13 years later.  After having spent two more years in Hokkaido, she eventually returned to Tokyo.

Then in 1913 she died of arterial stiffening.

Today there are about 45,000 female medical doctors in Japan, accounting for about 17% of all.


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


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Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

"Jesus went up into the temple, and taught"

Sagami Bay, Near Tokyo






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Joh 7:12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
Joh 7:13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
Joh 7:14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
Joh 7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
Joh 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
Joh 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Joh 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

"Making the word of God of none effect"

The Sumida River, Tokyo






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Mar 7:11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mar 7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Mar 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

"good gifts unto your children"

The Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Bay







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Mat 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Mat 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

"will he give him a stone?"

Tokyo Bay







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Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Mat 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Mat 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Mat 7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

"that creepeth upon the earth" - Mt. Fuji Radar

The Tokyo Tower (333 meters high)

Mt. Fuji Radar

A young man in his early 20s reached the summit of Mt. Fuji riding on bulldozers 49 years ago.

His uncle ran a construction company in charge of installing a weather radar in a meteorological observatory built at the top of the highest mountain in Japan (3,376 metes).

So, the young man was allowed to get on a bulldozer carrying material for the construction.   It was a big bulldozer when they started from the foot of Mt. Fuji.  But at some point on the ridge, they changed it to a smaller bulldozer.  The slope became so acute that the young man found that a half of the body of the special vehicle was hanging from a narrow path to a deep and sharp precipice.  He could barely enjoy the mountain view.

It took seven hours for them to reach a construction site on the mountain peak.  The young man payed homage at a shrine built there (Mt. Fuji is a holy mountain for shintoism) and looked on the meteorological observatory.  He also checked remaining snow.

In descending Mt. Fuji, he used his feet, almost running down the steep ramp.  In 90 minutes, he reached a gentle slope.  But he got altitude illness to be down in a party of his uncle's company.

The radar on the top of Mt. Fuji had been used till 1999.  It was the weather radar installed at the highest altitude in the world when it was set.  In 2000, it was registered in the list of IEEE Milestones which record break-through events in the electric and electronic fields.

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Gen 7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Gen 7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Gen 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
Gen 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

"God, that comforteth those that are cast down"

National Assembly Bldg., Tokyo








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2Co 7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
2Co 7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
2Co 7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.