Living Low, Believing High

Living Low, Believing High


Cash-out refinance in America is one of big concerns to Japanese idustries.

The rate of increase in value of homes has been declining in the U.S. residential real-estate market.

Money eventually supplied by Fannie Mae (FNM: Federal National Mortgage Association) is expected to decline from a $200 billion to a $100 billion level.

The trend directly affects U.S. consumer behaviors, because money at their hands is expected to decrease.

However, it is not a mainstream to expect a sweeping crash in the U.S. residential real-estate market and consumer loan market.

As two thirds U.S. domestic demand is supported by consumers, the issue is related to the whole U.S. economy as well as Japanese industries.
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If American dream is just to buy a house, to wait for its value to rise, to get cash based on the increased value, and to buy a bigger house and other luxuries with the cash, all enemies of the United States in the world should know they are fighting against somebody who cannot understand certain critical spiritual value; Consequently making a war against Americans cannot be glorious.

It is not God, but money that is the main concern for most of Americans.

Therefore, pious Muslims should not think that their fighting Americans could be so glorious and heroic.
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However, Japanese industries rely on this big American consumer power.

And nowadays Korean and Chinese industries also rely on this big American consumer power.

More specifically, the true driving force in the world economy is Americans buying homes.
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Live poor means of course living in a humble home.

The most serious issue in the U.S. is that God orders them to live poor as He does to everybody in the world.
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No matter how humbly in claiming this, I am still living poor.

And this is what I am telling you.


"BE HEALED OF YOUR TROUBLE"

Hidden Buddhist Scriptures Found in Bamiyan

Hidden Buddhist Scriptures Found in Bamiyan


Thousands of cars and motorcycles were running.

Yet, I could spot specific license numbers such as "6666," "8888," "8800," "3838," "100," "3," etc. in a short period of time, while encountering different cars with the license number of "X 1717" three times though the Hirakana character "X" at the head of the numbers was different.

It is just almost a 10 minutes run, but I could not miss those so-called good license numbers.

It is no more a matter of probability. It is belief.
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Information I got today is on the demolished, huge statutes of Buddha in Bamiyan of Afghanistan.

Researchers found part of certain Buddhist scriptures, believed to have been hidden in the body the statutes, among debris of the statutes bombed by the Taliban in early 2001.

The sheet of paper was also damaged but some Sanskritic sentences could be read on it.

The letters used are of the sixth to seventh century's standard. Their contents are just those Hsuan Tsang, famous Buddhist priest (602 - 664), translated into Chinese during and after his long journey from China to India.
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Though there might be a more important thing today for me, I suppose this information must be reported anyhow.

The Taliban as a group of Muslims destroyed the historic statutes, but they could not succeed in completely disappointing Buddhists.

As a human being before being allowed to enjoy any true religion, even a Muslim had better learn some teachings of Buddha.

It is my opinion.

A Muslim has various knowledge and ideas on this world and their lives in addition to those of Islam.

All of them cannot be necessarily better than any teachings of Buddha.
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Buddhism and Islam might be very different things; each of them may belong to a different sphere of human spirit.

Perhaps, it is wrong to regard them as religion of the same meaning.

They must be so different that they should be able to co-exist in a human soul.

Judaism and Christianity can be applied to this idea in the same manner.
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Religion cannot be a reason for attacking others.

Religion can be the only reason for stopping attack to others in a certain case.

Now, I suppose this information and notion should be very important to some of you, as God gave such suggestions.



"WONDERS ON THE EARTH BELOW"

Coal in China, Oil in Iraq, and Justice for All

Coal in China, Oil in Iraq, and Justice for All


According to various news sources, such as NHK, Kyodo News Service, and The Epoch Times, China has a big trouble on its coal mine industry.

China is the largest coal production country in the world followed by the U.S., but every year they have more than 6,000 deaths in coal mines in official statistics. According to other private information source, the death toll is more than 20,000 every year.

The mortality percentage of victims in China's coal mines is 100 times larger than that of America's.

In addition, the number of those killed each year in various accidents including traffic accidents in China is said to be about 140,000.

To have a population of 1.3 billion is different from having a 300 million population or a 120 million population.

Nothing can be proportional, if a total amount of a certain indicator surpasses a certain threshold level.

What is worse, according to a certain analysis, the reason of this large number of casualties in China's coal mines is its bad management run by managers who are forcing innocent laborers to work in bad conditions, while paying very low salaries, so that they can make an undue but huge profit.
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Maybe a number of civilians killed in Iraq, directly linked to armed clashes of any scale, every year after 2003 might be at the level of the yearly death toll of Chinese coal-mine workers.

Iraq has a population of only 24 million, one fiftieth of China's 1.3 billion population.

No comparison looks meaningful, but people are dying in daylight on dry land as well as in darkness of mines.
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China has large coal reserves and Iraq has large oil reserves.

They should use it for security and safety of its people, respectively.

I cannot find any other reasons than this for the very natural gift God Almighty has given to both the countries, respectively.



"NEW WINE IS POURED INTO NEW WINESKINS, SO THAT..."

Do Not Hold Voters Cheap, Mr. bin Laden

Do Not Hold Voters Cheap, Mr. bin Laden


God told us to love our enemies, not to like them.

Some people really love to say the above notion.

Maybe Allah told us to love our enemies, not to like them.

Some people really hate to hear others say the above notion.
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Editorials of Japanese newspapers claim that the key factor that has decided the outcome of this midterm election in the United States is the gap between the rich and the poor.

But, most of Americans should feel something nice in that Al-Qaeda have not launched a massive attack on U.S. properties anywhere in the world these days, though U.S. soldiers are being exposed to danger of being shot by hidden snipers in streets of Iraq.

In the last Presidential election, Mr. Osama bin Laden himself appeared on a video and delivered a message to Americans; Consequently Mr. George W. Bush won.
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If Al-Qaeda had hijacked several passenger jets during this election period, the outcome should have been very different, as you can easily imagine.

However, it may be a little interesting to take note of the fact that North Korea blasted its first officially-so-announced nuclear bomb in this October.
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I don't know the whereabouts of Mr. bin Laden, though there is possibility that Allah really struck him in Kashmir with that great earthquake which claimed about 70,000 lives of Pakistani, according to His Own will no human beings may be allowed to make a protest against.

Nonetheless, a President of the United Sates has a legal obligation to track, pursue, and arrest him, which has not been fulfilled yet to my disappointment.

Any candidates for the next Presidential election should vow to track, pursue, and arrest Mr. bin Laden who claimed himself that he had planned terror attacks in 2001 that took scores of Japanese lives along with other nationalities in New York.

And anyone elected should fulfill the official vow for our sake.
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You cannot hold American voters cheap.

You cannot hold Japanese lives cheap.

I don't know how Allah is holding your life.



"ROARS FROM THE MOUNT ZION"

Reserves and Deficits in Japan, the U.S., and China

Reserves and Deficits in Japan, the U.S., and China


Foreign currency reserves of China have reportedly reached one trillion US dollars, while Japan's reserves are about 900 billion US dollars.

The amount of current-account deficits of the United States is about 850 billion dollars mainly due to trade deficits.

China has about 1.3 billion population, Japan 120 million, and the U.S. 300 million as you are well aware.
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What makes me worries is that many, many European and American bankers and businessmen in the financial sector are rushing at the Chinese money market to take money as much as possible out of China.

However, for decades, Japanese companies have been fostering Chinese industries, investing crucial money needed at every stage of China's development.

What makes me worries more is that the Chinese Government and its ruling party are yet to make sufficient efforts for leading its people to loving Japan more. 　
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Most importantly, Japanese public turning on such economic news is worried partly because a typical foreign criminal in Japan is still Chinese as has been for these decades.
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Poor people in the world, including poor Americans, poor Europeans, and poor Chinese, should be more alarmed than Japanese are.


"MORTAL MAN, NOTE ALL THIS CAREFULLY"

Baseball in Europe, Why Not?

Baseball in Europe, Why Not?


They say the three major topics a European woman doesn't want to hear from a Japanese businessman are:
the third, a baseball game,
the second, his company, and
the most worst, a baseball game played by colleagues of his company.
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Baseball will be no more an athletic event in London Olympic Games in 2012.

One of the most popular sporting events in Japan and the U.S. is going to be dropped from Olympic Games, though they play baseball in Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

Countries surrounding the U.S. seem to love baseball just like those surrounding Japan do.

What is wrong with baseball in Europe?

Is it so anti-Europe?

Specialty in baseball is throwing a ball in the size you can fully take a grip on to a catcher or other team mate in a field into a spot he is expecting accurately as much as possible.

Throwing a stone at a wild dog or any other animal is historically a very natural movement for mankind.

As long as you can find those stones suitable for dashing, you can fight. If you have a bat or a stick, you can further fight bravely. Kicking your game is the last action to confirm its death.

Therefore, throwing a ball and swinging a bat would satisfy a kind of human instinct.
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Since introduction of baseball into the Japanese society, there have been no civil wars.

But, in the U.S., they seem to need a few more sport events to reduce a potential of another civil war.

I heard a crime rate in the U.K. is five times larger than that in Japan.

They had better review and reconsider choices of the athletic events for London Summer Olympic Games.
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And I suspect that most of Japanese businessmen busy moving around might notice no difference between an American woman and a European woman, whether she is British or not.

Anyway, any Japanese businesswoman would kindly listen to a businessman who is just talking about a baseball game played by colleagues of his company.

But, would you?



"WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER"

Chinese Girls Singing in Sight-Seeing Area in Vain

Chinese Girls Singing in Sight-Seeing Area in Vain


A Japanese reporter was traveling in a sight-seeing area, maybe Guilin, in China.

A guide told him no to give money to children offering some kind of services on the wayside along a sight-seeing path.

Later on, they encountered dozens of local girls singing and standing in ranks at a certain spot.

The reporter did not pay for their thankless service of singing local songs.
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This was, however, reported by the reporter himself on a certain evening newspaper the other day.

Accordingly, here are you being reported on the incident.
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Before the girls started to sing, you had better start to communicate with them, if not with money.

If Jesus Christ was then walking by the sight, what He would give to them and take away from travelers I cannot stop wondering.


"LOVE TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED 'UNLOVED'"

Then Watch It!

Then Watch It!


When I set out hitting the road wondering nonetheless if I am doing a right thing following the will of God, I saw a license plate of a car indicating "7117," then "7777," and "717" as I was passing every two cars consecutively.

I still wanted some confirmation on that I was heading for a right place; then I saw the license numbers such as "2525" and "555" encouraging me just to go.

When I started to go back home, I just noticed other license number such as "2919" and "1929" on vehicles parked in parallel over a vacant space.

Even when I got closer to my home street and I wondered if God would give me some more confirmation, I found a car running in front of me with a license number "6996."

However, it is not unusual that cars with license numbers, such as "1," "1111," "1001," "5555," and "1234," are observed on my home streets.
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To every car in Iraq, you have to introduce a new type of license numbers.

And every number plate should be equipped with an RDF tag (or an IC tag) to give information about the car through radio communication to detection equipment set on a check point or on the road side.

Then you can identify and track every car on roads of Iraq.

Car bombs would be a difficult tactic for insurgents.
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Do you want to know the license number of mine?

It is just like "1031" or "1101," very common one.

What is yours?

Is it "NYSE 12139?"



"HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS UNCLEAN"

The Israeli Mother and The Arab Brother

The Israeli Mother and The Arab Brother


They televised it in Japan.

A mother of one of two Israeli soldiers who were taken to hostage by Hezbollah was appealing to supporters in New York including the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

A brother of one of Arab prisoners kept by Israel was also meeting with senior officers of the International Red Cross in Geneva, requesting them to press the Israeli Government into exchange of prisoners.

Over these prisoners and hostages, Israel and Hezbollah fought a war this summer, sacrificing more than one thousand lives on both the sides.
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This is the situation in which everybody is a victim as is usual in the human world.

There seems to be no mad man being included who just wants to inflict others while he has no justification to do so at all.

Everybody is a victim to be saved by God. (Any objection?)

What they need is not love more to themselves but love more to others, since they know their opponent is also suffering enough.
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If the Palestine problem or the problem regarding legitimate existence of the state of Israel among Arab people is solved, then Arab people might be able to easily solve their own problems with a great help of the world including Japan.

I really hope that these problems will be solved soon; Yes, very soon, as the mother and the brother are wishing it.

Or are you the one who was just passing by a taxi the mother was in while being depressed after meeting with various diplomats in New York, or otherwise are you the one who was just not aware of how thirsty the brother was when he entered a meeting room of the International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva?

If so, you must hope it more than I do.



"BUT, I AM THE ONE BY BIRTH"

A Great Wall on the Tibetan Height

A Great Wall on the Tibetan Height


A Japanese researcher was once on a bus running on the Tibetan Height.

He was feeling really high, enjoying the splendor of the great grassy plain.

Meanwhile, other travelers, mainly Chinese, on the bus were throwing garbage out of windows to the wayside of the highway cutting through the Tibetan Height.

On the great grassy plain, a bus was running, tossing empty cans, plastic bottles, paper bags, and other miscellaneous garbage out to the wayside.

The Japanese traveler found that simmering lines were also running along the highway lanes as far as he could see.

Now he knew what they were. A Great Wall of Garbage was under construction on the Tibetan Height.
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Yes, I saw the video on the Internet.

A Tibetan was shot and fell on the snow field where several other were also escaping from gunshots fired by Chinese soldiers.
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The Tibetan Height seems to have a size equal to Western Europe or the area west of the Mississippi.

In the 21st century or the 22nd century, the height might be very useful and important for human beings which are said to face serious climate problems.

However, garbage highway and easy firing today on the height might be very ominous not only for China governing the territory now but also for mankind.
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If you throw garbage out of a window of a public bus in Japan, you are asserting that you are a very dangerous person sitting among decent people.

Nonetheless, I can understand it means nothing when you have to be careful not to be shot or bombed while riding on a bus on a street of Iraq or Afghanistan.

Yet, I hope that I will be comfortably riding on a bus in any places on the earth just like in Japan. With no garbage throwers, no shooters, and no suicide bombers, you also should be going.



"YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND?"

Samurai's Daughter

Samurai's Daughter


Until the 1870s, Japan had been a feudal society in which farmers accounted for 85 percent of the population and samurai for seven percent.

Tokyo meaning the east capital (then called Edo meaning an entrace to the sea) had a million population among which samurai accounted for 50 percent, since it was the capital of the Tokugawa samurai regime (called Bakuhu), and every samurai feudal lord all over Japan was obliged to have an official residence in Edo in addition to the one in a castle in their own feud or territory called Han.

Samurai can be easily known from farmers, merchants, and craftsmen, for they wear garments particular about formalities as well as a pair of swords, a large and a small one, or outwardly a long and a short one.
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Once a samurai took his son and his daughter, in ages of schoolchildren in the lower grades of today, to an exhibition of a tiger. Though tigers had never made their habitats in Japan, the animal was always popular among Japanese, since it actually lived in the Korean Peninsula and it was the strongest kind of animals in North East Asia.

The samurai found that his little daughter was not frightened by the tiger exhibited alive for that certain occasion.

So, he decided to give her a dirk or a dagger, or a very small knife that could be hidden even in the hilt of a large sword.

Usually, when a woman of a samurai clan was given a dirk, it was meant that she should use it not only in fight but also for committing a suicide to protect the honor of herself and her family.

But, the samurai did not tell anything about such a samurai code; he just simply said to her, "As you are a strong girl, you could keep it."

Later when she got old, and the samurai era had gone through a civil war and modernization of Japan had begun, she recalled the memory and just wondered what her father, who had also served his lord as a scholar, had thought of when he had given her the dirk.
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If you have a strong soldier, you could trust him with a mighty weapon. But, applying the paradigm to a girl at a playful age of today is unthinkable.

Anyway, the more you are given, the more you are requested of.

Yes, the stronger you are, the stronger companion you might need in case.
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The glorious Meiji Restoration, crowned with the victory of the Japanese-Russo War, has been left behind in history so far away from the Japanese of today.

Then, the materially simple but culturally deep and abundant Samurai Era has been left further away from today's Japanese.

Yet, in the age of globalization, some people might love to hear this kind of report on the samurai era.



"BUILDS ITSELF UP THROUGH LOVE"

The 50,000 Honorable Dead and Injured on the Iwojima in July 1944

The 50,000 Honorable Dead and Injured on the Iwojima in July 1944


When they released that absurd movie "Pearl Harbor" in the summer of 2001 despite the February's tragedy of the Ehimemaru, a Japanese fisheries high-school's training ship that was sunk near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by a USS submarine with guests from Texas on board, no one remembered the passage of the book “Moby Dick” written by Herman Melville just before the Civil War:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States",

"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL",

"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN",
which should be read as:
"In 2000, Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States",

"In early 2001, WAILING VOYAGE BY THE EHIMEMARU ",

"In late 2001, BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN",
and no one could even catch a glimpse of a foretelling shadow of the tragedies at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Now, they are releasing two new movies on the Iwojima island in the Pacific Ocean, while battles in Iraq and Afghanistan have been intensified.
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In July 1944, serious battles were fought on the Iwojima between the U.S. Navy and Imperial Japan's Army, which resulted in 28,686 dead and injured on the U.S. side and 20,129 dead and injured on the Imperial Japan's side.
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The picture presenting several U.S. marines trying to hoist a flag of the Stars and Stripes tied to a slender water pipe on a hill in a battle field of the Iwojima (literally meaning an island of sulfur) was well known as a symbolic figure of U.S. patriotic spirit.

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I am highly concerned with the series of the Iwojima films now being released in the U.S. and Japan.

They might be telling something to us as a kind of oracles.

However, there are too many that are dying in Iraq and thus cannot enjoy the movies.
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The Pacific stage of WWII began after negotiations had failed between the Empire of Japan and the U.S.

Are they carrying negotiations in Iraq and Afghanistan? If not, they should start it and make it successful.

Just a success in negotiations could have parties avoid war at very low costs.

They may further avoid terror and war on terror.

For example, if you today pass by a Shiite Muslim or a Sunni Muslim on a street of New York City, you would not even mind it, though if you pass by an Imperial Japan's soldier from the Iwojima, a thing might be different.



"I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU"

90% of World LCD Panel Market

90% of World LCD Panel Market


Taiwan and Korean makers combined account for 90 percent of the world market share for LCD panels as of the first quarter of FY 2006.

Their remarkable success in this industry is mainly due to lower prices of their products.
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Everybody in the U.S. and Europe is using a PC, a cellular phone, and a flat panel TV, but almost nobody therein is manufacturing liquid crystal display panels (LCD) used in these devices.

Everybody in Africa, the Middle East, and Central/South Americas is using a PC, a cellular phone, and a flat panel TV, but almost nobody therein is manufacturing liquid crystal display panels (LCD) used in these devices.

It seems not to be sound, though it is one example of globalization of the world economy.
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Taiwan and South Korea had been once occupied by, and under administrative control of, the Empire of Japan for decades before the end of WWII.

Look at those other countries once colonized by the U.S. and European powers, then you might find that such an accusation as the Empire of Japan had done nothing good to their subordinate regions is wrong.

Even North Korea was some 30 years ago enjoying GDP larger than, or equal to, South Korea's then.
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I really wish countries such as North Korea would abandon their nuclear-weapon development programs.

It is not nuclear bombs that they should produce but is LCD panels.

Japanese makers that once transferred their technologies to those in Taiwan and South Korea are also competing trying to offer products with higher quality and value embedded.
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The United Nations should also pass a resolution and a declaration that every poor country shall have a right to have an LCD panel industry supported by its rich member countries.

If they cannot deal with LCD panels, they really cannot deal with nuclear bombs.

Therefore, you should encourage them to choose this right direction and extend whatever small step toward it.

I will say it again, "Nuclear bombs or LCD panels?"




"IT SHONE ALL OVER WITH A BRIGHT LIGHT"

Playing with Nuclear Bombs

Playing with Nuclear Bombs


Some still lack basic information, though they are very much interested in success or failure in North Korea's nuclear bomb test.

North Korea has the largest iron mine in East Asia.

North Korea has the largest cupper mine deposit in Asia.

North Korea has uranium mines.

Japan has receivable worth US$ 800 million yet to be recovered from North Korea.
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If North Korea conducts a nuclear test, it is not to be conducted under a desert like the one in the U.S., India, or Pakistan.

It would be probably conducted deep in an old but very huge mine.

They will never conduct it on the surface of the Sea of Japan.
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What someone is doing stealthily or conspicuously I do not mind for his sake.

Or are you so coarse trying to play with someone playing with nuclear bombs?



"FROM HEAVEN WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS"

Freedom of Press for World Ranking

Freedom of Press for World Ranking


I just can't believe.

I just can't believe this.

I just can't believe this information.

I just can't believe this information provided by a Japanese researcher.

I just can't believe this information provided by a Japanese researcher on freedom of press in each country of the world.

It is because Japan is ranked so low in terms of degree of freedom of press, though it is the number one among nonwhite or non-Christian countries.

Check if you can believe it or not by getting access to Economic and Social Dataranking at http://dataranking.com/English/go06-1.html.
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I heard that a female Russian journalist was killed in Moscow. It was well reported in Japan. And the Chechen war she reportedly had exhaustively covered has been also somehow well reported in Japan.

Anna Politkovskaya became one of 23 journalists killed in Russia between 1996 and 2005, which might tell why there is no data on Russia to be used for the ranking.
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Freedom of press is based on belief in the innate goodness of man.

Jesus Christ, however, says that none is good.

Minding His words might nonetheless make a man a little improved.



"SILENCE THE SHOUTS OF CRUEL MEN"

Nuclear Bomb Test in the Summer of 2008?

Nuclear Bomb Test in the Summer of 2008?


Many people say that North Korea failed in its first nuclear test.

Data, information, findings, and theories on the test seem to be far from being reached consensus on, so far.

One alarming thing is swift decision and action of the Japanese Government in taking punitive measures against North Korea.

One remarkable thing is the emphasis in the address by President George W. Bush on corporation of China being highly expected .

One thing to be especially noted is that China is to hold Summer Olympic Games in Beijin in 2008.

You should be also reminded of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations being a South Korean.
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If North Korea makes other nuclear bomb test in the summer of 2008, I wonder how the U.S., Japan, China, and South Korea should respond.

The matter should be properly addressed and orderly resolved now, not in 2008.
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North Korea is a far more autocratic state than Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime.

Majority of its people are extremely poor and have no freedom, but are destined to be helplessly killed if a war erupts with or without nuclear weapons.

Under this circumstance, decision makers in the U.S., Japan, China, South Korea, and Russia would be held liable, if any failures in addressing the issue happen.

Therefore, if you are not involved in administrations of those governments responsible, you may be a little lucky.
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But, do you think that North Korea actually failed in its first nuclear test, luckily for us?

And why? It is because they are just fools?

Fools cannot maintain a nation for more than half a century amid the international powers including the U.S., Japan, Russia, and China.

There cannot be such a fool in this world, which is mankind.

If there is, it is a bigger shame on mankind than inability to correct North Korea.



"THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS"

Atomic Bomb Blasted by North Korea

Atomic Bomb Blasted by North Korea


A young scientist of the University of Tokyo, specializing in seismology, said the level of the nuclear bomb North Korea tried yesterday seems to be a Nagasaki Atomic-Bomb class.

The magnitude of an earthquake triggered by the nuclear test was reportedly about 4.9 as observed at a certain location in Japan, though it was about 3.6 in South Korea.

There are still many arguments and speculations about the size of the bomb and its conclusion, namely, even whether it was successful or not.
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Everybody wants to get big money.

No one wants to die before getting rich and richer.

So, no one in the U.S. is interested in nuclear bombs which would eventually turn to be a fatal means, if used for making money in whatever mean, to all involved.

But, North Korea is different.
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My appeal is that the U.S. Government and the United Nations allocate a certain amount of budget for dealing with this problem.

With that amount observed by North Korea, they may get serious in considering a change in their strategy.

Failures of the U.S. and the U.N. in dealing with other problems have really cost billions of dollars while sacrificing so many innocent lives.
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Too many have been killed since September 11, 2001.

It is time to consider saving lives in ongoing and potential war zones including Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
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I did not feel a tremor the nuclear test in North Korea caused yesterday.

But, I saw someone who looked like an ancient messenger reborn scuttling and passing by me in the morning.

And, one of my electronic gears got out of tune, a happening very rare, that is perhaps once-a-decade thing.

Did you get any inkling at all on that?



"EVIL PEOPLE WILL BURN LIKE STRAW"

The Longest Economic Expansion in Japan

The Longest Economic Expansion in Japan


The Japanese economy has been expanding to date since February 2002.

It is the longest upward business trend after WWII.

Indeed, more university graduates are receiving informal job offers than in previous years.

An increase in the number of those who commit suicide due to bankruptcy or get homeless seems to be also halted.
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The population of 120 million seems not to worry about anything serious for future of the world.

Nonetheless, I think it is time for the Japanese to worry about future of the world.

Just like Americans who should worry about how to complete or simply terminate the War on Terror, the Japanese should worry about how they can maintain and enhance this level of peace domestically and on the interface to the world.

Yet, I hope that you have logically and personally nothing to worry about.


"TO OBEY YOUR LAWS UNTIL THE DAY I DIE"

South Korea vs. North Korea

South Korea vs. North Korea


Next U.N. Secretary General is expected be a South Korean.

Could North Korean leaders feel happy together with South Koreans?

North Korea's announcement that it plans to launch a nuclear bomb test seems to be telling their feeling.
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However, no matter how jealousy you might be, though such a feeling might be very common in politics, you should not resort to nuclear weapons.
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Japan will help North Korea get developed as much as South Korea is, so long as North Korea abandons its nuclear/missile development plans and its abominable policy to keep Japanese abductees still in its hand.

Japan will also support an idea to keep U.S. forces as far as possible from the border between China and North Korea, regardless of their future status, that is, unified Korea or coexistence of two Koreas.
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Both Koreas were last year against an idea that Japan takes up a seat of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

Such selfish antagonism could indeed result in very incongruous happenings.

As a matter of fact, when I loose goodness, I often make a selfish decision, too.



"TAKE MY YOKE AND PUT IT ON YOU"

Underground Economy vs. Gross Domestic Product

Underground Economy vs. Gross Domestic Product


As of 2003, the size of underground economy of each country, in comparison with its nominal GDP, is as follows:
Italy............26.2%
Spain..........22.3%
Belgium......21.5%
Sweden........18.7%
Denmark......17.5%
Germany......16.8%
Canada.........15.4%
France.........14.8%
Holland........12.8%
England........12.3%
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Australia.....10.8%
Swiss...........9.5%
U.S...............8.6%
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Japan..........4.3%
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Applying the same appraisal method to each region of the world, the following average percentage as of 2000 was obtained:
OECD Member Countries........16.8%
Africa...................................41.0%
Central/South America........41.0%
Asia.....................................29.0%
+ + +

They do not call those involved in the underground economy "terrorists."

I do not call them, either, yet.

But, how about it for you?

And, what about a mind of our benign Lord?


"ALL WHO HEARD IT WERE AMAZED"