Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Terror from Indonesia to Turk as well as in Japan, EU, and the U.S.
Early in the morning on January 17, 1995, a great earthquake hit a western part of Japan, sacrificing around 6,000 precious lives.
One author described that the damages of the Kobe City reminded him of US air bombardment in WWII.
On January 17, 1994, the Northridge earthquake occurred in California, sacrificing precious 57 lives and injuring 5,400 people.
On January 17, 1991, the Persian Gulf War began.
* * *
We do not know when a great earthquake will hit Tokyo in future.
We did not know the day and hour when the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 began and the large-scale terror on the mainland of America in 2001 started.
Nonetheless, there is no excuse for us; we have to enhance preparedness for potential disasters as well as efforts for comprehensive peace with parties and countries concerned.
* * *
On September 29, 1993, an earthquake killed 10,000 people in southern India.
On May 10, 1997, an earthquake killed 2,000 people in eastern Iran.
On February 4, 1998, an earthquake killed 4,000 people in northeastern Afghanistan.
On May 30, 1998, an earthquake killed 5,000 people in northern Afghanistan.
On August 17, 1998, an earthquake killed 16,000 people in Turk.
On January 26, 2001, an earthquake killed 20,000 people in western India.
On December 26, 2003, an earthquake killed 30,000 people in Iran.
On December 26, 2004, an earthquake and tsunamis killed 300,000 people on the Sumatra Island, Indonesia, and other Indian Ocean coasts.
On October 8, 2005, an earthquake killed 100,000 people in Pakistan.
On May 27, 2006, an earthquake killed more than 5,000 people on the Java Island, Indonesia.
From Indonesia to Turk, Muslims have been suffering severely beyond imagination of citizens of advanced countries.
They also suffered terror such as Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, Istanbul bombings in 2004, and Mumbai bombings in 2006.
* * *
Those incidents seem to have been coincident with terrorist movement in those areas and actual acts of terror in target countries as well as related operations by countries concerned including the U.S.
It is not only a continental draft of the Indian Subcontinent toward the north, pushing up the Asian Continent and building the Himalaya Mountains, but also the lack of help and support to prepare for disasters that should be perceived.
If the U.S. and EU continue to leave and neglect Muslims in those disaster-torn regions in tragedy, anything horrible, I am afraid, such as terror might be directed, in the worst case, to them as they experienced in the US East Coast in 2001, Madrid in 2004, and London in 2005.
You have to read and comprehend holy codes hidden in the above historic record of disasters in the regions that may be potentially more concerned with US and EU security than Iraq is.
* * *
Jesus Christ said to stay where you are and not to go back into the house for anything left.
Only God knows the day and hour.
I have to trust in Him.
Yes, in Him we as mortal man have to trust.
"YOU GO AND PROCLAIM THE KINGDON OF GOD"
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
"MUHAMMAD ALI: His Life and Times" Symbolizing Situations
"MUHAMMAD ALI: His Life and Times" Symbolizing Situations
"MUHAMMAD ALI: His Life and Times" by Thomas Hauser, published in 1991, was translated into Japanese and divided into two parts, each of which is sold separately.
I recently bought its second part, consisting of 441 pages including foot notes, at 1200 yen (US$10), which was renewed for pocket editions in 2005.
It would cost more if we buy an original and imported version of the book written in English.
Most of Japanese people read famous American books in their Japanese versions for various reasons, including prices and difficulties in reading English.
* * *
One interesting report contained in the book is that one of close associates of Mr. Muhammad Ali once said, before a match, that a Muslim was for the first time in history going to fight a Christian on the ring. And, Mr. Ali won.
The issue is whether this kind of facts on Mr. Ali has had significant influence on young Muslims all over the world up to this day.
* * *
It is not so very rare to spot African Americans in Japan, partly due to existence of US military bases in Japan. Generally speaking, they look like well respecting the Japanese society.
Perhaps they could see the difference in various human aspects, such as distinction between a Christian and a Muslim among their races which Japanese cannot easily.
* * *
My belief is that God admits Japanese as he does with Christians and Muslims regardless of their races.
Besides, if the ancient Persian Empire had defeated the ancient Greek Coalition, there would not have been Alexander the Great as well as the Roman Empire; and thus neither European dominance nor discovery of New Continents by Europeans.
Therefore, my belief is that God admits Japanese as he does with European Americans and African Americans regardless of their religions.
* * *
Mr. Muhammad Ali is still very famous in Japan, mostly because he symbolizes super success of an individual in whatever profession, especially in America.
Or, whatever race or religion he belongs to, worldly success itself might matter to most of Japanese.
Conversely, whatever race or religion a saint belongs to, spiritual authority itself might matter to most of Japanese.
If God is pleased with Japanese and Mr. Muhammad Ali, we assume that there are no problems between Japan and African Americans, and Japan and Muslims.
(In conclusion, we have to symbolize something valuable to succeed even if God promises our success.)
"PLEASING TO HIM, AS USED TO BE"
"MUHAMMAD ALI: His Life and Times" by Thomas Hauser, published in 1991, was translated into Japanese and divided into two parts, each of which is sold separately.
I recently bought its second part, consisting of 441 pages including foot notes, at 1200 yen (US$10), which was renewed for pocket editions in 2005.
It would cost more if we buy an original and imported version of the book written in English.
Most of Japanese people read famous American books in their Japanese versions for various reasons, including prices and difficulties in reading English.
* * *
One interesting report contained in the book is that one of close associates of Mr. Muhammad Ali once said, before a match, that a Muslim was for the first time in history going to fight a Christian on the ring. And, Mr. Ali won.
The issue is whether this kind of facts on Mr. Ali has had significant influence on young Muslims all over the world up to this day.
* * *
It is not so very rare to spot African Americans in Japan, partly due to existence of US military bases in Japan. Generally speaking, they look like well respecting the Japanese society.
Perhaps they could see the difference in various human aspects, such as distinction between a Christian and a Muslim among their races which Japanese cannot easily.
* * *
My belief is that God admits Japanese as he does with Christians and Muslims regardless of their races.
Besides, if the ancient Persian Empire had defeated the ancient Greek Coalition, there would not have been Alexander the Great as well as the Roman Empire; and thus neither European dominance nor discovery of New Continents by Europeans.
Therefore, my belief is that God admits Japanese as he does with European Americans and African Americans regardless of their religions.
* * *
Mr. Muhammad Ali is still very famous in Japan, mostly because he symbolizes super success of an individual in whatever profession, especially in America.
Or, whatever race or religion he belongs to, worldly success itself might matter to most of Japanese.
Conversely, whatever race or religion a saint belongs to, spiritual authority itself might matter to most of Japanese.
If God is pleased with Japanese and Mr. Muhammad Ali, we assume that there are no problems between Japan and African Americans, and Japan and Muslims.
(In conclusion, we have to symbolize something valuable to succeed even if God promises our success.)
"PLEASING TO HIM, AS USED TO BE"
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Japan's Supertanker Hit by USS Newport News at Hormuz for Prophecy
Japan's Supertanker Hit by USS Newport News at Hormuz for Prophecy
The USS atomic-powered submarine Newport News (6,000 tons, 110m) hit the Japanese super-tanker Mogami-Gawa (300,000 tons, 333m) at Strait of Hormuz of the Persian Gulf on January 8, 2007.
In the worst case, it could have resulted in a large scale of oil spill in addition to a disastrous fire on the sea, which might hamper navigation of tankers delivering crude oils to the world market.
(The Mogami-Gawa, one of three or more tankers passing through the Hormuz straits specifically to Japan per day, was carrying an amount of oil equivalent to a half of that consumed per day in Japan.)
This incident instantly reminded me of the collision between a Japanese fisheries-high-school's training ship named Ehimemaru and the USS Greeneville, of the same class as the Newport News, that occurred off the Oahu Island, Hawaii, on February 10, 2001, taking nine Japanese lives.
* * *
I once wrote:
"...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, actually as prophesized, though regarded as by chance, the War on Terror has been still going on, taking many lives of various parties and nationalities.
The speculation on the recent naval incident is that the USS Newport News was then being dispatched to the sea area off Somalia while US fighter-bombers were attacking an Al-Qaeda base in the civil-war-torn country.
Nonetheless, Somalia is not the only focus in this context; we are inevitably aware of presence of Iran near the Strait of Hormuz.
* * *
In the story of “Moby Dick,” Captain Ahab of a whaling ship Ishmael got on board was chasing and pursing the white whale called Moby Dick.
It may be read as Arabs are aiming at the "White House," in which a president nicknamed "W" resides and a vice president called "Dick" works, while "Islam" and "Israel" are involved in a historical context.
And, to make the long story short, Captain Ahab and his companies finally failed in killing Moby Dick while the whailing ship was destroyed by the gigantic white whale, and one Ishmael alone got rescued by another ship.
It means, as a prophecy of my version, that Arabs attacking the White House would finally fail and their organization would be destroyed; yet, the nation Israel and the great religious community Islam will survive.
* * *
But, most astonishing thing is that this revelation was brought with the Ehimemaru tragedy near the Pearl Harbor in early 2001, reminding us of the lightening strikes of Imperial Japan's Navy on US Navy fleets, in the naval port in Hawaii, 60 years ago.
Subsequently, Washington D.C. and the New York City were attacked in the kamikaze style by some Arabs on September 11, 2001.
* * *
Early this year, again, a USS submarine hit a Japanese ship.
This time not off the Pearl Harbor, but it happened at the strategically most important strait in the world: the Strait of Hormuz of the Persian Gulf.
However, no injury and loss of life as well as leakage of oil were reported.
Yet, we have to take this as another warning from Heaven.
Both the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran should take it as such.
* * *
The name of the tanker damaged, though minor, "Mogami-Gawa," is taken from one of famous rivers in Japan. The meaning of Kanji characters used to express "Mogami-Gawa" is the best and top river.
The flow of crude oil from the Middle East to Japan should not be interrupted and stopped by any military operations by the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which might be the warning from Almighty God and Allah after all.
You should not interrupt and stop any holy missions now being carried out and delivered here and there.
"REJOICE WITH JERUSALEM; BE GLAD FOR HER"
The USS atomic-powered submarine Newport News (6,000 tons, 110m) hit the Japanese super-tanker Mogami-Gawa (300,000 tons, 333m) at Strait of Hormuz of the Persian Gulf on January 8, 2007.
In the worst case, it could have resulted in a large scale of oil spill in addition to a disastrous fire on the sea, which might hamper navigation of tankers delivering crude oils to the world market.
(The Mogami-Gawa, one of three or more tankers passing through the Hormuz straits specifically to Japan per day, was carrying an amount of oil equivalent to a half of that consumed per day in Japan.)
This incident instantly reminded me of the collision between a Japanese fisheries-high-school's training ship named Ehimemaru and the USS Greeneville, of the same class as the Newport News, that occurred off the Oahu Island, Hawaii, on February 10, 2001, taking nine Japanese lives.
* * *
I once wrote:
"...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, actually as prophesized, though regarded as by chance, the War on Terror has been still going on, taking many lives of various parties and nationalities.
The speculation on the recent naval incident is that the USS Newport News was then being dispatched to the sea area off Somalia while US fighter-bombers were attacking an Al-Qaeda base in the civil-war-torn country.
Nonetheless, Somalia is not the only focus in this context; we are inevitably aware of presence of Iran near the Strait of Hormuz.
* * *
In the story of “Moby Dick,” Captain Ahab of a whaling ship Ishmael got on board was chasing and pursing the white whale called Moby Dick.
It may be read as Arabs are aiming at the "White House," in which a president nicknamed "W" resides and a vice president called "Dick" works, while "Islam" and "Israel" are involved in a historical context.
And, to make the long story short, Captain Ahab and his companies finally failed in killing Moby Dick while the whailing ship was destroyed by the gigantic white whale, and one Ishmael alone got rescued by another ship.
It means, as a prophecy of my version, that Arabs attacking the White House would finally fail and their organization would be destroyed; yet, the nation Israel and the great religious community Islam will survive.
* * *
But, most astonishing thing is that this revelation was brought with the Ehimemaru tragedy near the Pearl Harbor in early 2001, reminding us of the lightening strikes of Imperial Japan's Navy on US Navy fleets, in the naval port in Hawaii, 60 years ago.
Subsequently, Washington D.C. and the New York City were attacked in the kamikaze style by some Arabs on September 11, 2001.
* * *
Early this year, again, a USS submarine hit a Japanese ship.
This time not off the Pearl Harbor, but it happened at the strategically most important strait in the world: the Strait of Hormuz of the Persian Gulf.
However, no injury and loss of life as well as leakage of oil were reported.
Yet, we have to take this as another warning from Heaven.
Both the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran should take it as such.
* * *
The name of the tanker damaged, though minor, "Mogami-Gawa," is taken from one of famous rivers in Japan. The meaning of Kanji characters used to express "Mogami-Gawa" is the best and top river.
The flow of crude oil from the Middle East to Japan should not be interrupted and stopped by any military operations by the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which might be the warning from Almighty God and Allah after all.
You should not interrupt and stop any holy missions now being carried out and delivered here and there.
"REJOICE WITH JERUSALEM; BE GLAD FOR HER"
Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Late Peter Jennings and Windows OS Tested on September 11
The Late Peter Jennings and Windows OS Tested on September 11
Recently Mr. Bill Gates accepted an interview and said:
"If you want to point to why the Windows PC has become such a successful, central thing, that enabling of partners, including all those great hardware partners, I'd say that's been very big. Here you see Toshiba doing SideShow (a Vista feature that enables a secondary display). You see Sony doing this beautiful Media Center, living room-type device. You see HP bringing in this touch-screen capability on a very nice form factor... "
(http://news.com.com/2008-1041_3-6147885.html)
You can enjoy contents and functions of advanced equipment. Such equipment consists of hardware whose control needs complicated and accurate procedures and operations only software can perform in a very short time.
Hardware can be easily replaced with other maker's, but a type of basic software cannot. It is because electronic formats of contents would be uniquely based on each maker's software unless comprehensive standard is forcibly adopted by the industry. If a dominant software maker refuses to accept such a standard, users cannot use old files in a different maker's software system which might be cheaper and more efficient.
(Just like you cannot buy and use another TV set that cannot receive a presently most popular broadcast frequency or channel.)
Users want to use a great amount of old files; Microsoft seems to have refused to adopt universal standards on file formats and other functions; and Japanese hardware makers cannot effectively offer more user-friendly solutions (except the TRON embedded OS project), but continue to design PCs that can only work with the Windows operating system.
Nonetheless, why are not a number of Windows-compatible operating systems being designed and produced by various software makers in this free and democratic world?
* * *
Accordingly, Mr. Bill Gates has become the richest man in the world.
However, when he was interviewed with in person by the late Peter Jennings in his home in Washington State, Mr. Bill Gates did not even look like the richest man in the United States.
(I suppose the interview was conducted just after or before Peter Jennings' coverage tour to Iraq in 2003 or 2004, where he encountered very nearly shootings between US troops and insurgents.)
It might because Peter Jennings was not in excellent physical condition that his attitude toward Mr. Bill Gates looked a little too cool while the billionaire was showing the famous anchorman around his home with full of IT systems.
* * *
Software is not a "king" in the IT system. But, users are as with other consumer goods. Further, public information even as goods is a little more different.
When the society is hit just like 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, it is an excellent anchorman that can calm down people as well as situations through his "presidential" manners but not super-rich IT industry leaders.
A profession that is accompanied with some human value is more valuable than a profession that is concerned only with monetary value at its core.
* * *
The 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 forced Peter Jennings to perform his duty in front of a camera under a specific pressure for very long, contiguous hours, which might have tested his health with a delayed effect leading to his death in August, 2005.
I don't know how they tested Windows OS, apart from the Internet designed for specific flexibility, on the day.
Now, how were you tested on the very day that is September 11, 2001?
(After all, to be blessed or condemned by God?)
"THE NEWS ABOUT THIS SPREAD ALL OVER"
Recently Mr. Bill Gates accepted an interview and said:
"If you want to point to why the Windows PC has become such a successful, central thing, that enabling of partners, including all those great hardware partners, I'd say that's been very big. Here you see Toshiba doing SideShow (a Vista feature that enables a secondary display). You see Sony doing this beautiful Media Center, living room-type device. You see HP bringing in this touch-screen capability on a very nice form factor... "
(http://news.com.com/2008-1041_3-6147885.html)
You can enjoy contents and functions of advanced equipment. Such equipment consists of hardware whose control needs complicated and accurate procedures and operations only software can perform in a very short time.
Hardware can be easily replaced with other maker's, but a type of basic software cannot. It is because electronic formats of contents would be uniquely based on each maker's software unless comprehensive standard is forcibly adopted by the industry. If a dominant software maker refuses to accept such a standard, users cannot use old files in a different maker's software system which might be cheaper and more efficient.
(Just like you cannot buy and use another TV set that cannot receive a presently most popular broadcast frequency or channel.)
Users want to use a great amount of old files; Microsoft seems to have refused to adopt universal standards on file formats and other functions; and Japanese hardware makers cannot effectively offer more user-friendly solutions (except the TRON embedded OS project), but continue to design PCs that can only work with the Windows operating system.
Nonetheless, why are not a number of Windows-compatible operating systems being designed and produced by various software makers in this free and democratic world?
* * *
Accordingly, Mr. Bill Gates has become the richest man in the world.
However, when he was interviewed with in person by the late Peter Jennings in his home in Washington State, Mr. Bill Gates did not even look like the richest man in the United States.
(I suppose the interview was conducted just after or before Peter Jennings' coverage tour to Iraq in 2003 or 2004, where he encountered very nearly shootings between US troops and insurgents.)
It might because Peter Jennings was not in excellent physical condition that his attitude toward Mr. Bill Gates looked a little too cool while the billionaire was showing the famous anchorman around his home with full of IT systems.
* * *
Software is not a "king" in the IT system. But, users are as with other consumer goods. Further, public information even as goods is a little more different.
When the society is hit just like 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, it is an excellent anchorman that can calm down people as well as situations through his "presidential" manners but not super-rich IT industry leaders.
A profession that is accompanied with some human value is more valuable than a profession that is concerned only with monetary value at its core.
* * *
The 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 forced Peter Jennings to perform his duty in front of a camera under a specific pressure for very long, contiguous hours, which might have tested his health with a delayed effect leading to his death in August, 2005.
I don't know how they tested Windows OS, apart from the Internet designed for specific flexibility, on the day.
Now, how were you tested on the very day that is September 11, 2001?
(After all, to be blessed or condemned by God?)
"THE NEWS ABOUT THIS SPREAD ALL OVER"
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Faith, Honesty, and Manners to Lead Soldiers
Faith, Honesty, and Manners to Lead Soldiers
Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), an extremely influential and notable, historical person of culture, introduced many Western works, such as "Declaration of Independence," to Japan which was then on its way to westernization in the 19th century.
He also introduced European and American jokes in his book published in Japan in 1893, such as follows:
"One day, parents wanted to see what their boy had an aptitude for. They handed to the boy the Bible, a hundred-dollar bill, and an apple. Then they went out for some time, leaving the boy alone. When they returned home, they thought, if the boy was reading the Bible, they would advise him to become a priest; if he was playing with the hundred-dollar bill, they would encourage him to become a banker; but if he was eating the apple, they would probably have to expect him to be a farmer or something like that. When they returned home, they found the boy with the bill inside a pocket, sitting on the Bible, and munching the apple. The parents then believed that they could make a politician of the boy."
* * *
Contemporary Americans may also like to test their children with the Bible, a hundred-dollar bill, and an apple, too.
America today, like 100 years ago, seems to be full of priests, financial sector workers, and apple-pie eaters in addition to real and virtual politicians.
* * *
No parents want their children to volunteer for military service unless it is the only way for them to be recognized as a patriot. On the other hand, the Defense Department or the War Department would not mind an aptitude of a boy for soldiers in wartime.
But the true issue is, as the joke could be regarded as implying, whether a politician has an aptitude for leading the people while he most probably lacks faith, honesty, and manners among the people.
I do not think highly of public estimation such as "a man of integrity."
* * *
In the half part of his life, Yukichi Fukuzawa was a samurai. In 1860, as a member of an envoy of the Tokugawa samurai regime, he visited the U.S. They were taken into a photo as presented in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi.
It was said that Yukichi Fukuzawa had been the supreme master of swordplay, which could be felt in his picture as a samurai, though no reports on his fight with a sword. Today, he is remembered as a pioneering author as well as the founder of the Keio University.
A boy who might become a Fukuzawa would, when left alone in home, soon start to read his favorite book, such as a biography of George Washington, without paying much attention to other luxuries.
(No girl is expected to be left alone for any testing, of course.)
"BUT YOUR LIFE WILL BE SPARED"
Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), an extremely influential and notable, historical person of culture, introduced many Western works, such as "Declaration of Independence," to Japan which was then on its way to westernization in the 19th century.
He also introduced European and American jokes in his book published in Japan in 1893, such as follows:
"One day, parents wanted to see what their boy had an aptitude for. They handed to the boy the Bible, a hundred-dollar bill, and an apple. Then they went out for some time, leaving the boy alone. When they returned home, they thought, if the boy was reading the Bible, they would advise him to become a priest; if he was playing with the hundred-dollar bill, they would encourage him to become a banker; but if he was eating the apple, they would probably have to expect him to be a farmer or something like that. When they returned home, they found the boy with the bill inside a pocket, sitting on the Bible, and munching the apple. The parents then believed that they could make a politician of the boy."
* * *
Contemporary Americans may also like to test their children with the Bible, a hundred-dollar bill, and an apple, too.
America today, like 100 years ago, seems to be full of priests, financial sector workers, and apple-pie eaters in addition to real and virtual politicians.
* * *
No parents want their children to volunteer for military service unless it is the only way for them to be recognized as a patriot. On the other hand, the Defense Department or the War Department would not mind an aptitude of a boy for soldiers in wartime.
But the true issue is, as the joke could be regarded as implying, whether a politician has an aptitude for leading the people while he most probably lacks faith, honesty, and manners among the people.
I do not think highly of public estimation such as "a man of integrity."
* * *
In the half part of his life, Yukichi Fukuzawa was a samurai. In 1860, as a member of an envoy of the Tokugawa samurai regime, he visited the U.S. They were taken into a photo as presented in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi.
It was said that Yukichi Fukuzawa had been the supreme master of swordplay, which could be felt in his picture as a samurai, though no reports on his fight with a sword. Today, he is remembered as a pioneering author as well as the founder of the Keio University.
A boy who might become a Fukuzawa would, when left alone in home, soon start to read his favorite book, such as a biography of George Washington, without paying much attention to other luxuries.
(No girl is expected to be left alone for any testing, of course.)
"BUT YOUR LIFE WILL BE SPARED"
Friday, January 12, 2007
See, Go and Befriend Iraqis
See, Go, and Befriend Iraqis
One of astonishing addresses I have ever heard in the US political community is that America will succeed in Iraq as it did in Germany and Japan after WWII.
It is just like believing that every American citizen today on a street is carrying a gun as every cowboy in the West 200 years ago was doing so.
* * *
People act according to what they have learnt in tradition of their society. When they find their behaviors are not respected by foreigners occupying their country, they will find a cause to run for insurgency.
It is said that there were many US soldiers, among occupation forces in Japan, who befriended Japanese citizens with a kind of compassion; accordingly, no guerilla attacks were conducted on the US troops that had landed on Japan after the end of WWII.
In Germany, young US officers like Mr. Henry Kissinger, who was born in Germany, contributed reconstruction of the devastated country that had been led by a defective and malicious ideology of the Nazis for a cause of protecting their Christian and tribal society.
Apart from culture, history, and traditions, there were very important human and individual aspects in the success of US occupation of Japan and Germany after WWII. And the two countries have cooperated with the U.S. all through the age of the Cold War to the 21st century as the second and the third industrial power in the world.
(Before the WWII, the four strongest countries in the world were the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan; however, before the War on Terror, Iraq did not take such a position at all.)
* * *
Therefore, I hope US soldiers in Iraq to befriend Iraqis if they are not interested in any academic matters on Iraq.
It will make their presence in Iraq meaningful and valuable even for their lives after coming back to the States.
Sending more troops to Iraq should mean to send more American friends to Iraqi people for reconstruction of the civil-war-torn country.
"HER LIFE RETURNED"
One of astonishing addresses I have ever heard in the US political community is that America will succeed in Iraq as it did in Germany and Japan after WWII.
It is just like believing that every American citizen today on a street is carrying a gun as every cowboy in the West 200 years ago was doing so.
* * *
People act according to what they have learnt in tradition of their society. When they find their behaviors are not respected by foreigners occupying their country, they will find a cause to run for insurgency.
It is said that there were many US soldiers, among occupation forces in Japan, who befriended Japanese citizens with a kind of compassion; accordingly, no guerilla attacks were conducted on the US troops that had landed on Japan after the end of WWII.
In Germany, young US officers like Mr. Henry Kissinger, who was born in Germany, contributed reconstruction of the devastated country that had been led by a defective and malicious ideology of the Nazis for a cause of protecting their Christian and tribal society.
Apart from culture, history, and traditions, there were very important human and individual aspects in the success of US occupation of Japan and Germany after WWII. And the two countries have cooperated with the U.S. all through the age of the Cold War to the 21st century as the second and the third industrial power in the world.
(Before the WWII, the four strongest countries in the world were the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan; however, before the War on Terror, Iraq did not take such a position at all.)
* * *
Therefore, I hope US soldiers in Iraq to befriend Iraqis if they are not interested in any academic matters on Iraq.
It will make their presence in Iraq meaningful and valuable even for their lives after coming back to the States.
Sending more troops to Iraq should mean to send more American friends to Iraqi people for reconstruction of the civil-war-torn country.
"HER LIFE RETURNED"
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Wars Abroad and Homelessness Home
Wars Abroad and Homelessness Home
President George W. Bush made the long-awaited speech on Iraq and his new policy on the War on Iraq.
It was broadcast live in Japan. The President talked about military situations in Iraq and involvement of Syria, Iran, and Al-Qaeda. CNN analysts were also arguing about situations in Baghdad.
* * *
Meanwhile, ABC News reported that "there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005, according to the first national estimate in a decade." (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2785098)
It is likely that there are many ex-US soldiers, who fought in the Gulf War, among the homeless people.
* * *
When did this sequence of military situations start to happen?
Since the end of the Gulf War, the US and UK air forces had continued air patrol and attacks, when deemed to be necessary, on Iraqi territories through 1990's and to 2001. And then, the War on Iraq was initiated after the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S. mainland.
The true sequence may be considered to have begun with the Viet Nam War, and then led to USSR's Afghan invasion and further to the eruption of the Iran-Iraq War.
After all, when those wars were over, suddenly Iraq invaded Kuwait in August, 1990, resulting in the start of the Gulf War in early 1991.
Al-Qaeda was formed in the wake of the defeat of Iraq in 1991. Terrorists started to launch attacks on US assets and resources, including the one on the World Trade Center in 1993. On September 11, 2001, the decisive attacks were carried out on American soil, which led to America's wars on Afghanistan, Terror, and Iraq.
* * *
The current situations can be discussed from various viewpoints including Mesopotamia's ancient glory, Iran's ancient glory, Christians vs. Muslims conflicts and Israelites vs. Muslims conflicts as well as sectarian strife among Muslims, occupations of Arab by Turk and then the U.K., modern days' oil strategies of the U.S., and globalization of economy and democracy in the Third World in the 21st century.
* * *
I suppose most American citizens might not be well prepared to deal with these viewpoints and issues.
God might not expect American citizens alone to tackle these historic problems.
This is part of my idea on situations the U.S. now faces, since I got the report telling that there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005.
* * *
In Japan, it is said that there are 25,000 homeless people (though could be 300,000 in proportion to the populations of the two countries).
Accordingly, I do not recommend Japanese citizens to venture to involve in any conflicts in foreign lands regardless of cause.
Wars abroad and homelessness home cannot be a proof of our faith and trust in God Almighty.
"THE PERSON WHO SERVES ME AND WHO DOES NOT"
President George W. Bush made the long-awaited speech on Iraq and his new policy on the War on Iraq.
It was broadcast live in Japan. The President talked about military situations in Iraq and involvement of Syria, Iran, and Al-Qaeda. CNN analysts were also arguing about situations in Baghdad.
* * *
Meanwhile, ABC News reported that "there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005, according to the first national estimate in a decade." (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2785098)
It is likely that there are many ex-US soldiers, who fought in the Gulf War, among the homeless people.
* * *
When did this sequence of military situations start to happen?
Since the end of the Gulf War, the US and UK air forces had continued air patrol and attacks, when deemed to be necessary, on Iraqi territories through 1990's and to 2001. And then, the War on Iraq was initiated after the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S. mainland.
The true sequence may be considered to have begun with the Viet Nam War, and then led to USSR's Afghan invasion and further to the eruption of the Iran-Iraq War.
After all, when those wars were over, suddenly Iraq invaded Kuwait in August, 1990, resulting in the start of the Gulf War in early 1991.
Al-Qaeda was formed in the wake of the defeat of Iraq in 1991. Terrorists started to launch attacks on US assets and resources, including the one on the World Trade Center in 1993. On September 11, 2001, the decisive attacks were carried out on American soil, which led to America's wars on Afghanistan, Terror, and Iraq.
* * *
The current situations can be discussed from various viewpoints including Mesopotamia's ancient glory, Iran's ancient glory, Christians vs. Muslims conflicts and Israelites vs. Muslims conflicts as well as sectarian strife among Muslims, occupations of Arab by Turk and then the U.K., modern days' oil strategies of the U.S., and globalization of economy and democracy in the Third World in the 21st century.
* * *
I suppose most American citizens might not be well prepared to deal with these viewpoints and issues.
God might not expect American citizens alone to tackle these historic problems.
This is part of my idea on situations the U.S. now faces, since I got the report telling that there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005.
* * *
In Japan, it is said that there are 25,000 homeless people (though could be 300,000 in proportion to the populations of the two countries).
Accordingly, I do not recommend Japanese citizens to venture to involve in any conflicts in foreign lands regardless of cause.
Wars abroad and homelessness home cannot be a proof of our faith and trust in God Almighty.
"THE PERSON WHO SERVES ME AND WHO DOES NOT"
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Moon and Space Antennas Aimed from Japan
Moon and Space Antennas Aimed from Japan
The Japanese HIIA rocket, late last year, launched very interesting antennas to the stationary orbit 36,000Km above the earth.
Each of the two antennas so launched has a size of a tennis court, which is the largest one mankind has ever launched. It is not intended for providing a tennis court in the space for future astronauts but serving a special communications need on the ground.
Each antenna was skillfully folded and loaded on the rocked; it was also expanded with dexterity in the space.
Japan is the third largest power following the U.S. and EU in terms of the amount of budget for space development.
* * *
This summer Japan will launch a lunar exploration satellite. It will fly on an orbit around the moon. It will observe and record the surface of the moon by 10Km square area, discerning a height of the ground as low as 5m while emitting electro-magnetic waves to probe as deep as 5Km inside the surface.
It has the most advanced scientific functions that even allow for analysis of a stone and a rock on the ground from the high above, though other countries such as China and India, without mentiononing NASA, also plan to launch their own lunar probing satellites.
What's more, Japan's lunar satellite is going to take pictures of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon with a high-definition camera. The pictures may supersede the famous one a certain Apollo crew took during their mission over the moon in late 1960's.
* * *
The question is that Japan has not acquired big support and cooperation from other countries for its space program. The U.S. itself has many clients and stakeholders, and EU is full of intelligent parties and agencies from its member countries. Russia, China, India, and even Korea are just building up their ambitions with a keen sense of rivalry against Japan.
Indeed, Japan looks alone just like its king-size antennas taking a position in cold space 36,000Km over the equator of the earth.
* * *
There are many reasons that you have to wait for the summer.
Live pictures of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon taken by a high-definition camera and relayed to the earth would be one, even if you have no such reasons until now.
I really like to feel like flying over the moon to the earth like a superman, though no steps of my own on its dusty and fine surface, if God who also governs the moon allows.
"PAY TO GOD WHAT BELONGS TO GOD"
The Japanese HIIA rocket, late last year, launched very interesting antennas to the stationary orbit 36,000Km above the earth.
Each of the two antennas so launched has a size of a tennis court, which is the largest one mankind has ever launched. It is not intended for providing a tennis court in the space for future astronauts but serving a special communications need on the ground.
Each antenna was skillfully folded and loaded on the rocked; it was also expanded with dexterity in the space.
Japan is the third largest power following the U.S. and EU in terms of the amount of budget for space development.
* * *
This summer Japan will launch a lunar exploration satellite. It will fly on an orbit around the moon. It will observe and record the surface of the moon by 10Km square area, discerning a height of the ground as low as 5m while emitting electro-magnetic waves to probe as deep as 5Km inside the surface.
It has the most advanced scientific functions that even allow for analysis of a stone and a rock on the ground from the high above, though other countries such as China and India, without mentiononing NASA, also plan to launch their own lunar probing satellites.
What's more, Japan's lunar satellite is going to take pictures of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon with a high-definition camera. The pictures may supersede the famous one a certain Apollo crew took during their mission over the moon in late 1960's.
* * *
The question is that Japan has not acquired big support and cooperation from other countries for its space program. The U.S. itself has many clients and stakeholders, and EU is full of intelligent parties and agencies from its member countries. Russia, China, India, and even Korea are just building up their ambitions with a keen sense of rivalry against Japan.
Indeed, Japan looks alone just like its king-size antennas taking a position in cold space 36,000Km over the equator of the earth.
* * *
There are many reasons that you have to wait for the summer.
Live pictures of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon taken by a high-definition camera and relayed to the earth would be one, even if you have no such reasons until now.
I really like to feel like flying over the moon to the earth like a superman, though no steps of my own on its dusty and fine surface, if God who also governs the moon allows.
"PAY TO GOD WHAT BELONGS TO GOD"
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Military Female Fatalities in Iraq: 70!
Military Female Fatalities in Iraq: 70!
According to "Iraq Coalition Casualty Count," the death toll of female soldiers and officers engaged in the War in Iraq is 70 as of January 7, 2007.
(http://www.icasualties.org/oif/Female.aspx)
The total death toll is 3265; thus female casualties account for 2.14%.
* * *
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc; 1412-1431) is said to be probably history's first military heroine.
She fought remarkably bravely against the English occupier for France led by Charles VII.
* * *
Now, France may have a female President, Germany has the female Chancellor, Britain had a female prime minister, and the U.S. has the female Secretary of State who has an institutional chance to act as a President in case.
These are the facts; however there might be a type of male soldiers who would fight against those who would employ female soldiers, officers, generals, or politicians, as a matter of the highest priority.
Only for the reason and the principle that they cannot accept female warriors, they may fight those who are against their principle before starting to take on any other enemies, including modern age's terrorists.
The cause might be justified by Spirits who have governed development of the human species from the far past to the unlimited future.
* * *
Give them better jobs and wages, and there will be no female soldiers in the human world.
Globalization of economy seems to be cool and very cool to such an idea.
* * *
Money and economy might be a true enemy for the human species.
Mankind had been well living for three million years (or at least 150 thousand years since Mitochondrial Eve) without money and economy.
But, now they are driving the human species to the animal sphere where no distinction, for example, between a female wolf and a male wolf in terms of attacking its enemy or a prey.
* * *
If Joan of Arc had been holy, what was Europe around 1430?
Probably, you might be able to predict, in 1430, coming wars such as WWI and WWII in Europe.
Similarly, what can you foresee with those statistics on the War on Terror?
Coming wars such as WWIII and WWIV in the whole world?
I will, in any cases or scenarios, fight for my cause and principle before taking on any guerrillas on any continents, islands, and space.
"LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, FAITHFULNESS, AND SELFCONTROL"
According to "Iraq Coalition Casualty Count," the death toll of female soldiers and officers engaged in the War in Iraq is 70 as of January 7, 2007.
(http://www.icasualties.org/oif/Female.aspx)
The total death toll is 3265; thus female casualties account for 2.14%.
* * *
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc; 1412-1431) is said to be probably history's first military heroine.
She fought remarkably bravely against the English occupier for France led by Charles VII.
* * *
Now, France may have a female President, Germany has the female Chancellor, Britain had a female prime minister, and the U.S. has the female Secretary of State who has an institutional chance to act as a President in case.
These are the facts; however there might be a type of male soldiers who would fight against those who would employ female soldiers, officers, generals, or politicians, as a matter of the highest priority.
Only for the reason and the principle that they cannot accept female warriors, they may fight those who are against their principle before starting to take on any other enemies, including modern age's terrorists.
The cause might be justified by Spirits who have governed development of the human species from the far past to the unlimited future.
* * *
Give them better jobs and wages, and there will be no female soldiers in the human world.
Globalization of economy seems to be cool and very cool to such an idea.
* * *
Money and economy might be a true enemy for the human species.
Mankind had been well living for three million years (or at least 150 thousand years since Mitochondrial Eve) without money and economy.
But, now they are driving the human species to the animal sphere where no distinction, for example, between a female wolf and a male wolf in terms of attacking its enemy or a prey.
* * *
If Joan of Arc had been holy, what was Europe around 1430?
Probably, you might be able to predict, in 1430, coming wars such as WWI and WWII in Europe.
Similarly, what can you foresee with those statistics on the War on Terror?
Coming wars such as WWIII and WWIV in the whole world?
I will, in any cases or scenarios, fight for my cause and principle before taking on any guerrillas on any continents, islands, and space.
"LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, FAITHFULNESS, AND SELFCONTROL"
Monday, January 08, 2007
Dark Matter and Galaxies
Dark Matter and Galaxies
The total mass of materials known to man in the whole universe, including every star and atom as well as human being on the earth, accounts for only four percent of the total mass of the whole universe that includes materials known and unknown to man.
It means 96% of mass in the universe is a mystery to mankind. We do not know the origin of the unknown mass.
Scientists call it dark matter and dark energy. Specifically the dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass of the whole universe; the dark energy 73%.
Recently an international team of scientists including a Japanese physicist made a new discovery on dark matters. Specifically they found that distribution of the dark matter in the universe is akin to that of galaxies.
Accordingly, it is assumed that the dark matter contributes to generation and formation of galaxies, to one of which our solar system belongs.
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Logically, there may be various types of dark matters and dark energy. It is also somehow strange that we cannot observe it around the earth while the earth belongs to the Galaxy.
The dark matter has gravity but no electromagnetic field and thus no light sources; we can neither see them nor catch electric waves it might otherwise emit.
However, it might have a very different kind of force mankind has never discovered.
Anyway, if the formation of our Galaxy was made possible by the dark matter, human beings owe its existence to the dark matter.
Conversely, if the dark matter, physical rules of which we do not know yet, gets malfunction, our Galaxy might go wrong, which may then terminate future possibility of prosperity of human beings traveling across the Galaxy.
+ + +
Did the invention of an atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb, based on the modern physics, change the world?
If so, a new type of super-bombs based on a new theory of physics related to the dark matter might change the human world.
The super bomb might blow out the Galaxy.
It might happen, so to say, in the late 22nd century.
+ + +
You cannot get anywhere just relying on weapons of mass-destruction in satisfying your desire eventually and ultimately.
It just reflects your dark soul.
You need light.
+ + +
There is one thing I like about the desert.
It is starry night, starry heavens, or a skyful of stars.
That is multi-billion dollars' worth of a show for free.
"A WORKER SHOULD BE GIVEN WHAT HE NEEDS"
The total mass of materials known to man in the whole universe, including every star and atom as well as human being on the earth, accounts for only four percent of the total mass of the whole universe that includes materials known and unknown to man.
It means 96% of mass in the universe is a mystery to mankind. We do not know the origin of the unknown mass.
Scientists call it dark matter and dark energy. Specifically the dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass of the whole universe; the dark energy 73%.
Recently an international team of scientists including a Japanese physicist made a new discovery on dark matters. Specifically they found that distribution of the dark matter in the universe is akin to that of galaxies.
Accordingly, it is assumed that the dark matter contributes to generation and formation of galaxies, to one of which our solar system belongs.
+ + +
Logically, there may be various types of dark matters and dark energy. It is also somehow strange that we cannot observe it around the earth while the earth belongs to the Galaxy.
The dark matter has gravity but no electromagnetic field and thus no light sources; we can neither see them nor catch electric waves it might otherwise emit.
However, it might have a very different kind of force mankind has never discovered.
Anyway, if the formation of our Galaxy was made possible by the dark matter, human beings owe its existence to the dark matter.
Conversely, if the dark matter, physical rules of which we do not know yet, gets malfunction, our Galaxy might go wrong, which may then terminate future possibility of prosperity of human beings traveling across the Galaxy.
+ + +
Did the invention of an atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb, based on the modern physics, change the world?
If so, a new type of super-bombs based on a new theory of physics related to the dark matter might change the human world.
The super bomb might blow out the Galaxy.
It might happen, so to say, in the late 22nd century.
+ + +
You cannot get anywhere just relying on weapons of mass-destruction in satisfying your desire eventually and ultimately.
It just reflects your dark soul.
You need light.
+ + +
There is one thing I like about the desert.
It is starry night, starry heavens, or a skyful of stars.
That is multi-billion dollars' worth of a show for free.
"A WORKER SHOULD BE GIVEN WHAT HE NEEDS"
Friday, January 05, 2007
The Bible, The Old Testament, or The Koran for Swearing-In
The Bible, The Old Testament, or The Koran for Swearing-In
Now, business seems to get started in Japan after happy new-year holidays.
Prime Minister of Japan began his duty by going and praying in the Ise Shrine, one of the most highly regarded shrines in Japan due to its direct connection with the Imperial Family. A prime minister usually gets on the Shinknasen super-express train from Tokyo for a few hours ride for this holy mission.
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In January, 1991, the war and battles started in the Persian Gulf. Then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected to withdraw his troops from Kuwait. Then U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered attacks on the Iraqi military.
In March, 2003, then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected to surrender to UN and US demands and accept full and complete inspection on weapons of mass-destruction in Iraq. U.S. President George W. Bush ordered attacks on the Iraqi military.
If a future historian, say in the 22nd century, studies these events, they might call it the "War between Saddam Hussein and the Bushes."
+ + +
This year the focus should be on Iran and North Korea.
As the year 2008 is for the Beijin (Peking) Olympic Games and China is desperately seeking for crude oil suppliers, no wars will be likely happening next year in oil-rich countries comparatively near China and strategically important countries for China.
Rich Americans, other people in the world as well as poor Americans should contribute to stopping any serious advancement toward a war in such regions.
Otherwise, when a future historian, say in the 22nd century, studies the advancement of events, might call it the "Wars between Saddam Hussein's Apparition and the Bushes."
+ + +
In the U.S., newly elected congressmen and congresswomen have joined a swearing-in ceremony.
I wonder, if an American Indian, who happens to be a serious worshipper of their tradition, is elected as a congressman, what holy book he would rather use for his swearing-in.
I would rather use a stone slab, a kind that Moses was given on Mt. Sinai.
"THEN THEY WILL FAST"
Now, business seems to get started in Japan after happy new-year holidays.
Prime Minister of Japan began his duty by going and praying in the Ise Shrine, one of the most highly regarded shrines in Japan due to its direct connection with the Imperial Family. A prime minister usually gets on the Shinknasen super-express train from Tokyo for a few hours ride for this holy mission.
+ + +
In January, 1991, the war and battles started in the Persian Gulf. Then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected to withdraw his troops from Kuwait. Then U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered attacks on the Iraqi military.
In March, 2003, then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected to surrender to UN and US demands and accept full and complete inspection on weapons of mass-destruction in Iraq. U.S. President George W. Bush ordered attacks on the Iraqi military.
If a future historian, say in the 22nd century, studies these events, they might call it the "War between Saddam Hussein and the Bushes."
+ + +
This year the focus should be on Iran and North Korea.
As the year 2008 is for the Beijin (Peking) Olympic Games and China is desperately seeking for crude oil suppliers, no wars will be likely happening next year in oil-rich countries comparatively near China and strategically important countries for China.
Rich Americans, other people in the world as well as poor Americans should contribute to stopping any serious advancement toward a war in such regions.
Otherwise, when a future historian, say in the 22nd century, studies the advancement of events, might call it the "Wars between Saddam Hussein's Apparition and the Bushes."
+ + +
In the U.S., newly elected congressmen and congresswomen have joined a swearing-in ceremony.
I wonder, if an American Indian, who happens to be a serious worshipper of their tradition, is elected as a congressman, what holy book he would rather use for his swearing-in.
I would rather use a stone slab, a kind that Moses was given on Mt. Sinai.
"THEN THEY WILL FAST"
Monday, January 01, 2007
The First Day of the World Celebrated through Shinto in Japan
The First Day of the World Celebrated through Shinto in Japan
January 1st should be celebrated, because we have to commemorate the first day of the world; and January 1st is the first day of the year.
By celebrating January 1st, we praise the great feat of God, the creation of the world and the universe, which has eventually generated, so to say, you and your ancestors.
The first day is not linked with any saints, who are human beings, but absolutely linked with the creation of the world, God's great feat.
Or you may think that as we cannot go back to the first day of the world to celebrate God, we celebrate Him on the first day of the year.
You do not need any human saints or legends to celebrate January 1st.
As it is January 1st, we celebrate it for no other worldly reasons. And, it happens to be today.
+ + +
Japanese are the people who most sincerely celebrate January 1st.
Or there are tow types of God's people in this world: Japanese and others including Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and other believers.
You cannot judge faithfulness of Japanese by applying the same standards you may be allowed to apply to Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and other believers.
If you do, I suppose, Angels surely will be displeased, and they might report it to God.
+ + +
Today, January 1st, even at 5:30 p.m., the city sky was dark and cold, shops were closed, neon signs and electric billboards were humble, only few cars were entering a rotary, and almost no commuters were spotted. No businesses could appeal to consumers if they hustle on January 1st in Japan.
However, there was an endless flow of people apparently from one direction to the station. Yes, they were on their way back home from a shrine; I mean that almost everyone putting on a winter coat, a muffler, and a long boots (for most of young ladies) had just made a pilgrimage probably as a yearly ceremony.
Indeed, most of Japanese go and pray in a shrine nearby or notable on January 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. Shinto is this way practiced all over Japan.
Japanese, as a whole, are celebrating the great creation of the God through Shinto.
(If you do not celebrate the first day of the year, no matter if you celebrate every Friday, Saturday, or Sunday thereafter, I wonder if God is pleased with you more than He is on January 1st with pious Japanese. In this sense, today, something decisive is to be completed. It might be useless for you to wait for, for example, Christmas coming on December 25 this year.)
+ + +
All I want you to do is not to ask Japanese whether he or she believes in God in a sense of Israelites, Christians, or Muslims.
You should not ask what religion he or she believes, neither.
If somebody is Japanese, it means he or she belongs to the unique religion, which no foreigners can comprehend, that alone praises God on January 1st.
You should not insult January 1st by asking those questions to Japanese.
+ + +
Some people, on their way home from a shrine, were holding an arrow with white wings.
The holy arrow is called "Hama-Ya," literally meaning an arrow breaking an evil spirit.
You can purchase it at a shop inside a shrine; as a matter of course, it has no metal arrowhead.
+ + +
Now, January 1st will be closed in five hours or so here. And while we are sleeping, pagans might attempt something dangerous against Japan on their January 1st; but as we have already praised God today, we can sleep in peace.
"UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD"
January 1st should be celebrated, because we have to commemorate the first day of the world; and January 1st is the first day of the year.
By celebrating January 1st, we praise the great feat of God, the creation of the world and the universe, which has eventually generated, so to say, you and your ancestors.
The first day is not linked with any saints, who are human beings, but absolutely linked with the creation of the world, God's great feat.
Or you may think that as we cannot go back to the first day of the world to celebrate God, we celebrate Him on the first day of the year.
You do not need any human saints or legends to celebrate January 1st.
As it is January 1st, we celebrate it for no other worldly reasons. And, it happens to be today.
+ + +
Japanese are the people who most sincerely celebrate January 1st.
Or there are tow types of God's people in this world: Japanese and others including Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and other believers.
You cannot judge faithfulness of Japanese by applying the same standards you may be allowed to apply to Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and other believers.
If you do, I suppose, Angels surely will be displeased, and they might report it to God.
+ + +
Today, January 1st, even at 5:30 p.m., the city sky was dark and cold, shops were closed, neon signs and electric billboards were humble, only few cars were entering a rotary, and almost no commuters were spotted. No businesses could appeal to consumers if they hustle on January 1st in Japan.
However, there was an endless flow of people apparently from one direction to the station. Yes, they were on their way back home from a shrine; I mean that almost everyone putting on a winter coat, a muffler, and a long boots (for most of young ladies) had just made a pilgrimage probably as a yearly ceremony.
Indeed, most of Japanese go and pray in a shrine nearby or notable on January 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. Shinto is this way practiced all over Japan.
Japanese, as a whole, are celebrating the great creation of the God through Shinto.
(If you do not celebrate the first day of the year, no matter if you celebrate every Friday, Saturday, or Sunday thereafter, I wonder if God is pleased with you more than He is on January 1st with pious Japanese. In this sense, today, something decisive is to be completed. It might be useless for you to wait for, for example, Christmas coming on December 25 this year.)
+ + +
All I want you to do is not to ask Japanese whether he or she believes in God in a sense of Israelites, Christians, or Muslims.
You should not ask what religion he or she believes, neither.
If somebody is Japanese, it means he or she belongs to the unique religion, which no foreigners can comprehend, that alone praises God on January 1st.
You should not insult January 1st by asking those questions to Japanese.
+ + +
Some people, on their way home from a shrine, were holding an arrow with white wings.
The holy arrow is called "Hama-Ya," literally meaning an arrow breaking an evil spirit.
You can purchase it at a shop inside a shrine; as a matter of course, it has no metal arrowhead.
+ + +
Now, January 1st will be closed in five hours or so here. And while we are sleeping, pagans might attempt something dangerous against Japan on their January 1st; but as we have already praised God today, we can sleep in peace.
"UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD"
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Nothing Uncomfortable in Tokyo Station on December 31, 2006
Nothing Uncomfortable in Tokyo Station on December 31, 2006
Now the year 2006 is going to be left behind forever, maybe, like the fist day God created this world or the universe.
(Jesus Christ said not to keep looking back, though.)
The center of Japan is, for ordinary Japanese in their general point of view, the Tokyo Station.
The area around the station is the most secured business center as it is adjacent to the Imperial Palace, though some people might feel the streets there are a kind of high-blown.
Now a few tall buildings are under construction in front of the Tokyo Station.
When people saw such development of streets around any mega-stations in Japan, they used to look like feeling something specifically inspiring.
Now people may come to understand that glory does not lie in tall towers or huge buildings but in intangible assets.
Otherwise, people have become indifferent with whatever development going on in prime locations, since they are too much involved in or too much neglected by urban development schemes carried on an extraordinarily high-priced land.
+ + +
It might not be bad to feel heavy by seeing the late Mr. Saddam Hussein in a picture of a newspaper issued today in Japan.
We should not get used to such a kind of news; however, the newspaper also reported that 61 Iraqis were killed on the day of their former president's execution.
+ + +
Nonetheless I felt almost nothing uncomfortable in the Tokyo Station today while thousands or more people were walking fast or slowly with baggage or children around me, or otherwise waiting for or getting on trains during my short stay there.
If you never feel uncomfortable during whatever short stay in the center of your capital city, then it must be at least as hopeful as Tokyo is on Dec. 31, 2006.
(And, usually we wish "A Happy New Year" in writing a new year card which is a symbol of Japanese tradition still alive and practiced here and there.)
"BRINGING GOOD NEWS"
Now the year 2006 is going to be left behind forever, maybe, like the fist day God created this world or the universe.
(Jesus Christ said not to keep looking back, though.)
The center of Japan is, for ordinary Japanese in their general point of view, the Tokyo Station.
The area around the station is the most secured business center as it is adjacent to the Imperial Palace, though some people might feel the streets there are a kind of high-blown.
Now a few tall buildings are under construction in front of the Tokyo Station.
When people saw such development of streets around any mega-stations in Japan, they used to look like feeling something specifically inspiring.
Now people may come to understand that glory does not lie in tall towers or huge buildings but in intangible assets.
Otherwise, people have become indifferent with whatever development going on in prime locations, since they are too much involved in or too much neglected by urban development schemes carried on an extraordinarily high-priced land.
+ + +
It might not be bad to feel heavy by seeing the late Mr. Saddam Hussein in a picture of a newspaper issued today in Japan.
We should not get used to such a kind of news; however, the newspaper also reported that 61 Iraqis were killed on the day of their former president's execution.
+ + +
Nonetheless I felt almost nothing uncomfortable in the Tokyo Station today while thousands or more people were walking fast or slowly with baggage or children around me, or otherwise waiting for or getting on trains during my short stay there.
If you never feel uncomfortable during whatever short stay in the center of your capital city, then it must be at least as hopeful as Tokyo is on Dec. 31, 2006.
(And, usually we wish "A Happy New Year" in writing a new year card which is a symbol of Japanese tradition still alive and practiced here and there.)
"BRINGING GOOD NEWS"
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
President Ford in Japan Specifically Memorized
President Ford in Japan Specifically Memorized
Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford passed away.
He visited Japan on November 18, 1974, which was the first as the official visit of an incumbent U.S. President to Japan in the history.
Then Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka welcomed President Ford in Tokyo.
But, a month later, Prime Minister Tanaka resigned for suspicion of money scandals.
A half year later, Saigon fell into the clutch of Vietcong and North Vietnam.
It is also known that President Ford signed an intelligence order to ban assassination of foreign leaders.
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Though it was 1968 that Japan became the second largest economy in the world in terms of GNP (Gross National Product), it is 1970's that the world really began to turn its eyes to Japan for its economic success and Japan itself started to feel its competitive edge in various fields.
The Cold War seemed to continue as far as we could overlook the ongoing history toward future.
Or did we miss something important in those days that could be a good lesson 30 years later.
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It is Americans that should judge if the late President Gerald R. Ford served his nation, then still suffering from aftermath of the Vietnam War, neither too much nor too little.
And, there will be surely a President in future just after the War on Terror. In this case, I suppose the whole world would judge similarly on the President.
"WE HAVE ONLY DONE OUR DUTY"
Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford passed away.
He visited Japan on November 18, 1974, which was the first as the official visit of an incumbent U.S. President to Japan in the history.
Then Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka welcomed President Ford in Tokyo.
But, a month later, Prime Minister Tanaka resigned for suspicion of money scandals.
A half year later, Saigon fell into the clutch of Vietcong and North Vietnam.
It is also known that President Ford signed an intelligence order to ban assassination of foreign leaders.
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Though it was 1968 that Japan became the second largest economy in the world in terms of GNP (Gross National Product), it is 1970's that the world really began to turn its eyes to Japan for its economic success and Japan itself started to feel its competitive edge in various fields.
The Cold War seemed to continue as far as we could overlook the ongoing history toward future.
Or did we miss something important in those days that could be a good lesson 30 years later.
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It is Americans that should judge if the late President Gerald R. Ford served his nation, then still suffering from aftermath of the Vietnam War, neither too much nor too little.
And, there will be surely a President in future just after the War on Terror. In this case, I suppose the whole world would judge similarly on the President.
"WE HAVE ONLY DONE OUR DUTY"
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig in Japan
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig in Japan
As an example, if you are a baseball fan and check how many hits the keyword "Sadaharu Oh" would return from the Internet, it would be around 45,000 hits in a Japanese search site.
Similarly, if you use the keyword "Eiji Sawamura," it would be 3,700 hits.
Sadaharu Oh is the All -Time Home-Run King in Japan who produced 868 homers in his career as a professional baseball player. Mr. Oh is still engaged in this profession.
Eiji Sawamura was a pitcher of a professional base-ball team in Japan more than 60 years ago, but was killed in WWII.
Eiji Sawamura is regarded as the all-time super pitcher in Japan.
When his team ventured a tour to the U.S. in 1935, he took the plate in 30 games of all the 50 games and got the win in 24 games, though the opponent teams the Japanese went against were not major-league teams but minor ones.
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On November 20, 1934, the U.S. major-league picked-team met with the Japanese all-star team in a ball park in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in one of 18 games they had planed to play.
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig, however, could not overwhelm the pitcher Eiji Sawamura. They were going to lose the game with nine strike-outs by Eiji Sawamura. Nonetheless, the actual result of the game was 1-0 for the U.S. team.
And, eventually, the U.S. all-star selections left Japan without any lost games.
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But, how could they beat the Japanese team on November 20, 1934?
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig could not come up with hits due to Sawamura's curb ball that fell so drastically over the home plate. The curb ball delivered by Sawamura, who was then just 17 years old, must have been twice more effective than Hideo Nomo's splitter.
So, they tried hard to read Sawamura's habit when he threw a curb. Their efforts finally paid off. Gehrig, following Babe's advice, blasted a home run. It decided the outcome of the game that had so embarrassed and upset the U.S. major-league picked-team in 1934 in Japan.
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Later, Eiji Sawamura served the Imperial Army and was sent to the front in China. He then returned home, but again he was drafted. He returned home again, but again he was drafted for his third mission in the Imperial Army. This time he never returned. A ship he went aboard was attacked and sunk by a US submarine in December, 1944.
However, even today, there are many baseball fans in Japan who believe that Eiji Sawamura is still better than Hideo Nomo as well as Daisuke Matsuzaka who is to play in the Boston Red Socks in 2007.
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A Japanese poet once wrote for the late Eiji Sawamura: "War is sinful just because it took your life."
(How many times will American poets write so after the War on Terror?)
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Now, you know one reason why Babe Ruth is famous in Japan.
Indeed, it is because he for real played baseball in Japan in whatever professional sense we have to accept.
"TAKE CARE; BE ON YOUR GUARD"
As an example, if you are a baseball fan and check how many hits the keyword "Sadaharu Oh" would return from the Internet, it would be around 45,000 hits in a Japanese search site.
Similarly, if you use the keyword "Eiji Sawamura," it would be 3,700 hits.
Sadaharu Oh is the All -Time Home-Run King in Japan who produced 868 homers in his career as a professional baseball player. Mr. Oh is still engaged in this profession.
Eiji Sawamura was a pitcher of a professional base-ball team in Japan more than 60 years ago, but was killed in WWII.
Eiji Sawamura is regarded as the all-time super pitcher in Japan.
When his team ventured a tour to the U.S. in 1935, he took the plate in 30 games of all the 50 games and got the win in 24 games, though the opponent teams the Japanese went against were not major-league teams but minor ones.
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On November 20, 1934, the U.S. major-league picked-team met with the Japanese all-star team in a ball park in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in one of 18 games they had planed to play.
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig, however, could not overwhelm the pitcher Eiji Sawamura. They were going to lose the game with nine strike-outs by Eiji Sawamura. Nonetheless, the actual result of the game was 1-0 for the U.S. team.
And, eventually, the U.S. all-star selections left Japan without any lost games.
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But, how could they beat the Japanese team on November 20, 1934?
Babe Ruth and Henry Louis Gehrig could not come up with hits due to Sawamura's curb ball that fell so drastically over the home plate. The curb ball delivered by Sawamura, who was then just 17 years old, must have been twice more effective than Hideo Nomo's splitter.
So, they tried hard to read Sawamura's habit when he threw a curb. Their efforts finally paid off. Gehrig, following Babe's advice, blasted a home run. It decided the outcome of the game that had so embarrassed and upset the U.S. major-league picked-team in 1934 in Japan.
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Later, Eiji Sawamura served the Imperial Army and was sent to the front in China. He then returned home, but again he was drafted. He returned home again, but again he was drafted for his third mission in the Imperial Army. This time he never returned. A ship he went aboard was attacked and sunk by a US submarine in December, 1944.
However, even today, there are many baseball fans in Japan who believe that Eiji Sawamura is still better than Hideo Nomo as well as Daisuke Matsuzaka who is to play in the Boston Red Socks in 2007.
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A Japanese poet once wrote for the late Eiji Sawamura: "War is sinful just because it took your life."
(How many times will American poets write so after the War on Terror?)
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Now, you know one reason why Babe Ruth is famous in Japan.
Indeed, it is because he for real played baseball in Japan in whatever professional sense we have to accept.
"TAKE CARE; BE ON YOUR GUARD"
Sunday, December 24, 2006
One Christmas Eve in Japan in 2006
One Christmas Eve in Japan in 2006
I saw tonight in the city a very poor, old man, a couple of innocent westerners, and unusually spotted policemen.
This Sunday night or a Christmas Eve has made most people hurry to their homes or drinking parties, while the night outside is getting colder and sterner.
People in Japan are really starting to get prepared for the New Year Day and the winter holidays for children and students.
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My recommendation for a Christmas present is the 2006 Global Hunger Index at http://www.ifpri.org/media/20061013ghi.asp.
You had better download this document and print out its cover page.
Before any miracles are given to us as a Christmas gift, we have to probably love famine-ridden people as Jesus Christ does.
In this sense, Japan should be given another chance next year, too, deplorably.
"I AM THE SEER"
I saw tonight in the city a very poor, old man, a couple of innocent westerners, and unusually spotted policemen.
This Sunday night or a Christmas Eve has made most people hurry to their homes or drinking parties, while the night outside is getting colder and sterner.
People in Japan are really starting to get prepared for the New Year Day and the winter holidays for children and students.
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My recommendation for a Christmas present is the 2006 Global Hunger Index at http://www.ifpri.org/media/20061013ghi.asp.
You had better download this document and print out its cover page.
Before any miracles are given to us as a Christmas gift, we have to probably love famine-ridden people as Jesus Christ does.
In this sense, Japan should be given another chance next year, too, deplorably.
"I AM THE SEER"
Thursday, December 21, 2006
The Battle for the Layte Gulf in 1944 Loaded with Lessons
The Battle for the Layte Gulf in 1944 Loaded with Lessons
"SEA OF THUNDER" by Evan Thomas is now ranked the 27th in the list of hard-cover nonfictions by The New York Times.
It depicts the Pacific War between the Empire of Japan and the U.S. from 1941 to 1945.
It is a little surprise that this kind of theme has still some impacts on some sorts of people in the U.S., though millions of people there have had any associations with U.S. defense directly or indirectly.
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The last year a Japanese film maker released a movie featuring the battleship Yamato, the largest and the strongest warship ever built by human beings, at least before the age of aircraft carrier's dominance.
This year Mr. Clint Eastwood's movies on the Battle of Iwo-jima, fought in February and March in 1945, were released in Japan and the U.S..
Yamato was destroyed and sunk under U.S. air attacks during its Kamikaze mission to the Battle of Okinawa in April, 1945.
However, I would rather honor the Imperial Navy in a different manner.
The greatest naval war ever fought by human beings is called the Battle for the Layte Gulf, the Philippines, in October 1944 in which the Imperial Navy lost not only another Yamato-class battleship Musashi that was fatally damaged by 20 torpedoes shot by U.S. war planes but also the substantial capability to deal with the massive U.S. military advancement to the mainland of Imperial Japan.
After this great naval battle, the Battle of Iwo-jima and the Battle of Okinawa were fought without a hope of changing a tide or recovering a loss or ultimately achieving an advantageous armistice with the Allied.
The two super-warships Yamato and Musashi, with several 46cm big guns equipped on each, might have blown off any ambitions of General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. Seventh Fleet in and around the Layte Gulf.
But the history was different: the age of air battles over the ocean had already begun.
What is worse, in order to support the fleet, the Imperial Navy ordered an air squadron to conduct Kamikaze air-attacks, which was the first of a long series of this kind of suicide attacks that ensued until the end of the Pacific War in August, 1945.
The Battle for the Layte Gulf should be remembered most significantly as the last full-dress naval battle for the Imperial Navy with even a slight chance of winning as well as the onset of the Kamikaze attacks which should have been also the last and final or only once.
APPENDIX.
US Strength around Leyte Gulf, the Philippines:
8 fleet carriers
8 light carriers
18 escort carriers
12 battleships
24 cruisers
141 destroyers and destroyer escorts
Many PT boats, submarines, and fleet auxiliaries
About 1,500 planes
Empire of Japan's Strength toward Leyte Gulf, the Philippines:
1 fleet carrier
3 light carriers
9 battleships
14 heavy cruisers
6 light cruisers
35+ destroyers
300+ planes (including land-based aircraft)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf
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Now, Japan has other types of Yamato and Musashi in various fields of its modern industries.
But, where has the Kamikaze spirit gone?
It is one of my worries.
It should have gone to the highest sky over the Pacific Ocean forever.
Not to anywhere on the earth.
"THE SEEDS THE PEACEMAKERS PLANT IN THE PEACE"
Monday, December 18, 2006
A Marine in Iraq and His Japanese Father
A Marine in Iraq and His Japanese Father
When you hear some Christmas songs, you may feel like hearing a Christmas story.
All I can say is that Good News is to be preached to poor people. If you are rich and happy, you are not prepared enough.
However, it is one of my opinions I myself in a different occasion cannot mostly stand; Jesus Christ should be far more benevolent.
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According to a certain prominent journalist, once upon a time, a Japanese young man went to America to learn in post-graduate courses. He graduated a grad school and started to work in a branch of the U.S. Government. He got married to an American woman and got a son who grew up and one day, while learning in a university, decided to go into the service of the U.S. Marines for joining a mission in Iraq. He was actually dispatched to Iraq for a mission of the War on Terror, and then afterward came back to America to restart his learning in the university. He graduated and started to work in a certain industry.
One family in America is going to see Christmas this way: a family of a Japanese father, an American mother, and an ex-Marine son with a memory of Iraq.
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In my city, there are a lot of illuminations and displays imitating a Christmas tree. Japanese like Christmas.
Indeed, no family's Christmas in Japan is darkened by a shadow of warring Iraq, which might become possible truly by providence.
I meant that we are very sorry for American families who lost their son or daughter in Iraq.
But, will Iraqi victims allow us to enjoy Christmas?
Or will Jesus Christ persuade them to do so for us?
Otherwise, what should we offer as a sacrifice?
"BY THE MIRACLES THAT WERE PERFORMED"
When you hear some Christmas songs, you may feel like hearing a Christmas story.
All I can say is that Good News is to be preached to poor people. If you are rich and happy, you are not prepared enough.
However, it is one of my opinions I myself in a different occasion cannot mostly stand; Jesus Christ should be far more benevolent.
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According to a certain prominent journalist, once upon a time, a Japanese young man went to America to learn in post-graduate courses. He graduated a grad school and started to work in a branch of the U.S. Government. He got married to an American woman and got a son who grew up and one day, while learning in a university, decided to go into the service of the U.S. Marines for joining a mission in Iraq. He was actually dispatched to Iraq for a mission of the War on Terror, and then afterward came back to America to restart his learning in the university. He graduated and started to work in a certain industry.
One family in America is going to see Christmas this way: a family of a Japanese father, an American mother, and an ex-Marine son with a memory of Iraq.
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In my city, there are a lot of illuminations and displays imitating a Christmas tree. Japanese like Christmas.
Indeed, no family's Christmas in Japan is darkened by a shadow of warring Iraq, which might become possible truly by providence.
I meant that we are very sorry for American families who lost their son or daughter in Iraq.
But, will Iraqi victims allow us to enjoy Christmas?
Or will Jesus Christ persuade them to do so for us?
Otherwise, what should we offer as a sacrifice?
"BY THE MIRACLES THAT WERE PERFORMED"
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Brazil Won Over Spain 1-0 in the Supreme Soccer Match in Japan
Brazil Won Over Spain 1-0 in the Supreme Soccer Match in Japan
Tonight I rather felt that the city was less crowded.
Indeed, there was a final match of top soccer club teams in the world.
The match was between a team from Spain and another from Brazil.
The latter defeated the former by one to nothing.
The Spanish team, representing 224,000 soccer clubs in Europe and employing ten players who have ever played in the World Cup Soccer Games in eight national teams, was lost to the Brazilian team with no such players.
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In a cold stadium of Japan's December and supported by Toyota Motor and other companies, the game was played with full audience.
As it must be globally televised, people in Spain and Brazil should enjoy it.
I am not a professional in this sport. I have not much to say.
However, I felt that the Brazilian team was really running, but the Spanish team was not, though I just observed the match only during the last 15 minutes.
A running player kicked the ball that flew to the face of the keeper trying to stop the ball with a lower posture, but the ball hit the head and flew further forward to the goal.
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Toyota reportedly plans to produce about 9.4 million cars next year, which would put the company on the position of the world number-one car manufacturer. GM will be the number two, accordingly.
Toyota can sponsor many sport games.
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December is called "Shiwasu" in a traditional and literary way in Japan, which means "a teacher is running."
In old days, people had to make the end meet on their financial contracts, loans, and rents by the end of December; therefore even a teacher who must show a good example of behaviors should be busy paying or borrowing money in this month.
December is a month when even a stern teacher should be busy running like a soccer player in an extreme case.
However, I like the expression "Don't run but walk."
Be a good walker even on a pitch, which would decide a success or a failure in a next moment when a chance ball is flying fast toward you.
"THEY WILL SHARE YOUR FATE"
Tonight I rather felt that the city was less crowded.
Indeed, there was a final match of top soccer club teams in the world.
The match was between a team from Spain and another from Brazil.
The latter defeated the former by one to nothing.
The Spanish team, representing 224,000 soccer clubs in Europe and employing ten players who have ever played in the World Cup Soccer Games in eight national teams, was lost to the Brazilian team with no such players.
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In a cold stadium of Japan's December and supported by Toyota Motor and other companies, the game was played with full audience.
As it must be globally televised, people in Spain and Brazil should enjoy it.
I am not a professional in this sport. I have not much to say.
However, I felt that the Brazilian team was really running, but the Spanish team was not, though I just observed the match only during the last 15 minutes.
A running player kicked the ball that flew to the face of the keeper trying to stop the ball with a lower posture, but the ball hit the head and flew further forward to the goal.
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Toyota reportedly plans to produce about 9.4 million cars next year, which would put the company on the position of the world number-one car manufacturer. GM will be the number two, accordingly.
Toyota can sponsor many sport games.
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December is called "Shiwasu" in a traditional and literary way in Japan, which means "a teacher is running."
In old days, people had to make the end meet on their financial contracts, loans, and rents by the end of December; therefore even a teacher who must show a good example of behaviors should be busy paying or borrowing money in this month.
December is a month when even a stern teacher should be busy running like a soccer player in an extreme case.
However, I like the expression "Don't run but walk."
Be a good walker even on a pitch, which would decide a success or a failure in a next moment when a chance ball is flying fast toward you.
"THEY WILL SHARE YOUR FATE"
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Kings and Emperor in Japan
Kings and Emperor in Japan
BBC has reported something about a "King" coming to Japan again.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6183755.stm)
There have been no kings in Japan since the early sixth century when some Japanese chieftains sent envoys to then superpower China for authorization for the King of Japan (then called "Wa").
Those chieftains are historically regarded as ancestors of the Imperial Family of Japan that has been enjoying its unbroken line since then to date.
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There are two different Japanese expressions that are translated into the single expression emperor.
Japanese Emperor is called "Ten-nou (or Ten-no)," but all the other emperors, such as the Roman Emperor, in the world are called "Kou-tei (or Ko-tei)" in Japanese.
Meaning of Kanji letters used for each is not so different.
The key to understanding this arrangement lies in relationships between ancient China and Japan.
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There are 30,000 Shinto shrines in Japan; and the religion of the Imperial Family of Japan is also a Shinto. Shinto could give deity to any deceased, including fallen soldiers.
January 1 is the day for Shinto: the most special day in Japan.
"AT ONCE THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE"