"the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence" - Heaven and the Hell

Haneda Airport, Tokyo

Heaven and the Hell

There is one vivid story Christ Jesus told: A beggar was sitting by the gate of a rich man's house.

As time went by, both the beggar and the rich man died to leave this world.  Then the rich man came to God, asking Him to mitigate his pain and thirsty.  Indeed the beggar was in Heaven held by Abraham, looking so satisfied.  The rich man asked God to have the beggar give him water even using the tip of his finger.  But God said, "You enjoyed fine and nice foods, clothes, articles, houses, and so on.  But now the beggar is given everything he needs.  Between you and the beggar a deep crevasse you cannot jump over lies."

It is so simple.  A rich man who simply neglects the poor is condemned to falling into the hell.  A poor man who doesn't do any things bad but just sits before the gate of a rich house can be allowed to enter Heaven.

The key to understanding this story is existence of Heaven and the hell.  And it tells Heaven is a good place for human souls whether they are good or bad.  The hell is a place where human souls suffer so much.  And human souls cannot freely move between Heaven and the hell.  The fate is decided by God who takes into account a state of living of each man.

So, it is very strange that no schools in this world teach Heaven and the hell to children and students.  No serious professors study Heaven and the hell to present results of his study to make people who are stupidly trying to be bad and rich repent.

However, in old days, or specifically in the Middle Ages in Europe people were told about Heaven and the hell so often in homes, communities, and churches.  Accordingly, there must have been more people who entered Heaven in those eras than in today.      

Luk 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:  

Luk 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

Luk 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 

Luk 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 

Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 

Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 

Luk 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

He said,

“I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house; for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.”

But Abraham said to him,

“They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.”

He said, 

“No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.”

He said to him,

“If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.”

— Luke 16:19–31

http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2013/04/17/here-endeth-the-first-lesson/



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Mat 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

"And Jesus entered into Jerusalem" - The Answer is the Devil?

Haneda International on Tokyo Bay

The Answer is the Devil?

One day the Devil, disguised as an Islamic angel, showed poor men in Islamic nations and rich people in the US to Osama.

The Devil asked Osama what he would do.  Osama answered that he would attack the US.  Then the 9/11 Terror was carried out in 2001.  The US Government sent military planes and ground troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to kill tens of thousands of Muslims, most of them were so poor.  President Obama finally sent a special attack unit to Abbottabad, Pakistan, to take on Osama in 2011.

In this way the Devil caused deaths for thousands of rich Americans and tens of thousands of poor Muslims in addition to rich Muslims such as Osama and President Hussein of Iraq.

The point at issue is that if Osama had been able to see that the Islamic angel was the Devil he would not have launched the 9/11 Terror.  And then there would not have been deaths of thousands of rich Americans and tens of thousands of poor Muslims in addition to rich Muslims such as Osama and President Hussein of Iraq.

But one day the Devil without disguising himself as nobody else, showed poor men in the US and super-rich people in the US to Wall Street guys.

The Devil asked Wall Street guys what he would do.  Wall Street guys answered that they would have poor Americans contract subprime loans in late 1990s.  Then in 2007 this scheme came to a dead end.  Total 7.5 million subprime loans were packaged into mortgage-backed securities (MBS).  The amount outstanding of subprime home mortgaging as of March 2007 was 1 trillion 300 billion dollars.  It triggered the Great Financial Crisis of the US which started in September 2008.

The point at issue is that if Wall Street guys had not been servants of the Devil, they could have avoided the 2008 Financial Crisis which is still making the US unemployment rate kept high.

Of course the Devil was talking for decades to Japanese elites in the nuclear industry, nuclear reactor makers, electric power companies, regulatory authorities of the Japanese Government, political communities, academic communities, media organizations, and so on that Japanese nuclear power plants were all safe and 15 meter tsunamis would not attack those nuclear plants which were however all built on seas.    

And on March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean 200 km off Honsyu Island where Tokyo is also situated.  It triggered huge tsunamis which rushed to several hundred kilo-meter coast lines northeast of Tokyo.  As a result the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was attacked by a 15-meter high tsunami, so that its three nuclear reactors got into a big trouble losing a power source for circulating cooling water.  Within a day, nuclear fuel started to melt down in Fukushima Daiichi, leading to huge leakage of radioactive substance.  This nuclear accident is not yet completely fixed even today.  Still radioactively contaminated waste water is flowing into the Pacific Ocean from the plant.

The point at issue is that if Japanese elites had not been brainwashed by the Devil, they should have built more robust and higher seawalls around the Fukushima No.1 (Daiichi) Plant to avoid such a critical nuclear accident at the level of Chernobyl.

So, it is the Devil that is making mankind suffer here and there.

We need more fighters against the Devil.  But who would be, facing terrorists and US troops, Wall Street greedy and arrogant executives, workers and clients, and big earthquakes, tsunamis and high doses?



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Mar 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.

"to him that knocketh it shall be opened" - The Japanese Koran

A Museum in Suburbs of Tokyo

The Japanese Koran

There are only three Japanese translations of Koran.

The most sold version of Koran in Japanese was translated by Toshihiko Izutsu.  In fact, the first Japanese Koran was a work of translation by Izutsu.  　

Toshihiko Izutsu (1914 – 1993) was Professor Emeritus at Keio University in Japan and author of many books on Islam and other religions. He taught at the Institute of Cultural and Linguistic studies at Keio University in Tokyo, the Iranian institute of Philosophy in Tehran, and McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was fluent in over 10 languages, including Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Greek.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiko_Izutsu

Izutsu was a genius in language.  He once said that he had mastered English, German, French, Italy and other European languages, taking only three months for each.

It is because those European languages pose no resistance to learners.  But languages used in regions with longer history than Europe have a kind of resistance confronting learners, according to Izutsu.  So, he had to make more effort to master Arabic, the Hebrew word, Sanskrit, etc.

When Izustu was young, he studied Arabic day and night.  He studied various types of Arabic day and night.  He also taught Arabic to students.  But Izutsu learnt himself various aspects of Arabic, including the Koran and ancient Arabic poets, day and night.  However he had foreign teachers, too.  One of them was Musa　Bigiev (1875-1949), a Tartar, who visited Japan before WWII when Izutsu was a young scholar.  Musa　Bigiev was also called Musa Carullah.

Japanese Scholar Toshihiko Izutsu, has many books on the Qur'an and other subjects. He is believed to be a turning point in the field of Qur'anic semantics. His books are highly accepted by the scholars worldwide and translated into several languages. His masterpiece Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an was from his earlier books in the field of Qur'anic semantics. Professor Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud, Izutsu's student in Canada, has translated this book into Urdu language in Pakistan with a very valuable introduction about İzutsu and his relations with several muslim scholars. Musa Carullah of Kazan, Izutsu's master in Arabic and Islamic sciences had very deep influence on izutsu. In his introduction to the translation Khalid Masud stresses on the Izutsu's method of understanding of the Qur'an: In fact Shah Wali Allah of Dehli was the first scholar who has underlined the importance of the study of Qur'an as a whole. But izutsu and some other schoiars such as Hamiduddin Farahi and Amin Ahsan Islahi have developed this method of understanding. This introduction tries to show Izutsu's relation with muslim scholars and muslim world and his importance in the field of Qur'anic studies.
http://www.islamiarastirmalar.com/magazine/tr-Izutsunun-ethIco-relIgIous-concepts-In-the-qur-an-adlI-kitabInIn-urduca-cevirisi-uzerine-151.html?page=archive           

Musa Bigiev had very excellent power of memory, which even Izutsu was surprised at.  One day when Izutsu was sick, Musa Bigiev paid a sympathy visit to Izutsu.  Then in a room where Izutsu stayed in bed, Musa Bigiev found many books.  He asked, "What do you do with these books?"  Izutsu replied that he would carry all these books with him to study them even when he was traveling.  Then Musa Bigiev said, "Don't be like a snail, carrying a bookcase!  You have to remember all the contents of these books!"

Indeed when Musa Bigiev asked Izutsu to get him a certain Arabic book, Izutsu found it to bring it to his Arabic teacher.  Then, a week later, Musa Bigiev returned it to Izutsu.  But Izutsu found that his teacher almost completely remembered contents of the 600-page book.

Even when Musa Bigiev was teaching contents of a certain classic Arabic grammar book, he remembered each word of the book without reading the 1000-page book, so that he could write and show its important sentences to Izutsu.  Musa Bigiev really looked like keeping contents of all important books in his head.

Izutsu read classic books of ancient Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, etc. in original ancient languages.  Izutsu became not only a language expert but also a philosopher in this way.

Nonetheless there was also one Japanese whose support benefited Izutsu very much.  It was Shumei Okawa who was arrested as an A-class war criminal by the American military which occupied Japan after WWII.

Shumei Okawa (1886 – 1957) was a Japanese nationalist, Pan-Asian writer and Islamic scholar. In the prewar period, he was known for his publications on Indian philosophy, philosophy of religion, Japanese history, and colonialism. He is frequently called a "right-wing" writer, although he described himself as anti-capitalist and rejected the label "right-wing".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%ABmei_%C5%8Ckawa  

Shumei Okawa had once worked in the South Manchuria Railway Company, a Japanese national policy concern during and before WWII.  Okawa purchased some precious Arabic and Islamic books using a company budget.  But as the books were too difficult nobody read them.  So, Okawa invited Izutsu to come to the office of South Manchuria Railway to study these books.  It helped Izutsu greatly advance his knowledge in Arabic and Islam.

Anyway, only unique Japanese learn Arabic and Islam even today like before WWII.  But Japanese study on Arabic and Islam owes much to the Japanese genius in language Toshihiko Izutsu, the prodigious wandering Tartar scholar Musa Bigiev, and the politically unique Japanese Islamic scholar Shumei Okawa.

http://www.keio-up.co.jp/kup/izutsu/cw.html
Japanese Islamic Scholar Toshihiko Izutsu in an International Conference in 1979





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Luk 11:10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

"nothing common or unclean" - Great Reader Mao Tse-tung

Kanda, Tokyo

Great Reader Mao Tse-tung

A daughter of Mao Tse-tung or Mao Zedong (1893-1976) and his second wife, Li Min (1936-), wrote a book about her father: My Father Mao Tse-tung.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%8F%E3%81%8C%E7%88%B6%E3%80%81%E6%AF%9B%E6%B2%A2%E6%9D%B1-%E6%9D%8E-%E6%95%8F/dp/4773369698

In this book, Li Min revealed that Mao was an extensive reader.  In fact when Mao died, he left about 700,000 books in his house.

Mao's daughter wrote: "One day my father told me that once he had been reading a book while marching.  Then it started rain.  But my father never stopped reading.  Eventually a soldier walking behind him said to him that he had better put on a bamboo hat.  So, my father asked the soldier to go and buy a bamboo hat in a nearby village for him.  But the soldier said that Mao had one on his back."

Mao Zedong was a great reader.

One day he read a thesis a Japanese professor wrote in a specialty journal on socialism.  Mao said to the husband of Li Min, "This professor wrote a right thing.  Material can be divided into smaller parts infinitely.  Science develops through branching and dividing.  You have to study various fields of science but you must also learn from the real world."

However as is well known, Mao suppressed intellectual persons and cultural figures during the Cultural Revolution observed in China in the late 1960s and the first half of 1970s.  The then top leader of China Mao Zedong regraded professors, authors, artists, and other highly-educated people as the enemy of farmers and other less-educated Chinese people.  Mao even advised that Chinese people should not read much.      

Mao's strategy influenced Pol Pot (1925-1998) of Cambodia who executed more than one million intellectuals in the country.

Why did Mao try to destroy communities of Chinese intellectuals?  It is thought that Mao was afraid that learnt men would be more influenced by the Soviet Union.  Mao Zedong knew that the USSR was more advanced than China in terms of modern culture, science, and technology.  He must have thought that the more Chinese people learnt, the more they would respect Russians.  But farmers who could not fully read and write would never be enchanted by advanced science of the Soviet Union.

Probably Mao thought that he would lose power if those who studied Western culture and mastered modern technology took key positions in the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party.  Mao Zedong who never studied abroad had no confidence in his ability to lead the nation and at the same time save his face in handling Western cultural works.  Mao must have looked like a fool who was just good at Chinese cultural heritage but so poor in understanding the modern science and economy.  Accordingly, he must have suppressed intellectuals and professors in China to prevent a possible coup.

Mao read and studied Western cultural works enough to be able to judge that he was not a master of Western culture.  But he could not lead other Chinese leaders in advancement of the nation along with Westernization or the Russian style technological development.  So, Mao decided to eliminate those intellectuals who could replace him in progress of the society.

Eventually no Chinese politicians became associates with or spies of the Soviet Union.  No critical civil war took place in China.  Soviet influences as well as Western influences on China were prevented.

Only a great reader such as Mao Zedong could understand power of books, so that he would try to stop people from reading books to secure his status and his ideal state of the nation, provided he had dictatorial power.

Today, however, China has become an industrial power, though through great import of modern and Western culture and science via Japan, since Mao Zedong never regarded Japan as a real enemy.



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Act 11:7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
Act 11:8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
Act 11:9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

"What went ye out into the wilderness to see?" - Everybody Can be God?

Mt. Fuji and a City North of Tokyo 

Everybody Can be God?

"Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

"Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me."

"Luke 6:40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."


When I read the Bible in past, I always tried to find any evidence or proofs that support the idea or the belief that Christ Jesus was the Son of God and ultimately the God.

For instance, if He had changed the day to night instantly before the public at His will at any time, there would have been no doubt about his divinity.  If He had floated in the air at His will at any height at any moment, there would have been no doubt about his divinity.  If He had called angels from Heaven at His will at any time, there would have been no doubt about his being the God.  If He had made any persons who had died before come back to life at His will at any time, nobody would have doubted that He was the God.  But Christ Jesus performed only humble miracles, such as turning water to wine in a wedding ceremony.

If Christ Jesus is the God, He must be immortal, continuing to live even to date for 2000 years.  But as you know, He was killed, though He came to life again, according to the Bible.

In reality Christ Jesus did not win conflicts with rotten rabbis to govern Israelites and finally win war against Romans.  He was trapped by bad rabbis and arrested by Roman soldiers to be executed.

However, of course, there are other ways for a person to prove Himself to be God.  It is the essence of the Gospel.  In fact by living such a life as depicted in the Gospel He proved that He was God.

So, there must be words of Christ Jesus in the Gospel that have the same effect as the act of turning the day into night and night into the day at any time.  Probably most of readers of the Bible would come to think that Christ Jesus can be God when they find those words.

Or, there must be a way to express one's divine nature through living a daily life like an ordinary man.  And the way must be also recorded in the Gospel.

In order to prove that Christ Jesus is God, He must have used the least necessary words and acts without calling an army of angels from Heaven.  It means that He lived as an ordinary man 100%.  He did not use ability higher than that an ordinary man could exercise.  Conversely, it reveals that an ordinary man can prove that he is God, too, by delivering the same words and performing the same acts Christ Jesus used to prove His godhood.  Then, logically, we can be God.

Truly, Christ Jesus told His disciples to be complete or perfect as He was.  But one who is complete or perfect is the God only.  It means that Christ Jesus asserted that each of human beings could be God, to our surprise.  And such a thing can be only said by the God.  And only the God must know this astonishing truth or secret between a man and the God.

In other words, if a man could let all of his DNAs and genes work fully, he might look like a god.

Anyway, you had better ask any believer in what words and acts of Christ Jesus he or she finds deity of Christ Jesus.

Jesus: A Perfect Example of Love (1 John 3:16–17) by James Stuart Bell and Tracy Sumner

"So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion — how can God's love be in that person? (1 John 3:16–17). 

From the very beginning of his life, Jesus, John tells us, is our perfect example of love. While it is highly unlikely that any individual believer is going to have to die for another, it is a certainty that we all will have opportunities to "give up our lives for our brothers and sisters" by demonstrating the kind of compassion Jesus demonstrated every day. 

Study Questions
What should it mean, practically speaking, to the believer today to love as Jesus loved when he was on earth? 

Why do you think Jesus spent so much time meeting the physical needs of people through his many miracles when his ultimate mission was to save people's souls?
http://www.netplaces.com/bible-study/first-john-a-life-of-love/jesus-a-perfect-example-of-love-1-john-31617.htm

http://stupiddynalearns.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/psalm-11-the-only-refuge-we-can-trust/jesus-n-peter/



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Mat 11:7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

"as Jesus had commanded" - Men Possessed by Ill Spirits

Pacific Ocean 120 Km Northeast of Tokyo

Men Possessed by Ill Spirits

There is a strange episode in the Bible.

Christ Jesus met a wild and mad man chained in tombs.

Christ drove out demons from the mind of this horrible man.  Then the guy came to himself.  But he did not follow Christ Jesus.  We don't know what became of him afterwards.

Christ Jesus told people to live with faith in God and love for God and neighbors.  He cured the sick and taught how to think and pray.  And He drove out ill spirits from suffering people.

Probably 2000 years ago, those haunted by devils must have been clearly identified.  Such people must have horribly shouted, hurt others and themselves physically, and looked so devilish.  As today we seldom see such people, the episode looks so strange.

Today those possessed by evil spirits must not horribly shout, hurt others and themselves physically, and look so devilish.  They might work, say, in Wall Street, as ordinary persons.  But an evil inside the mind of such a person must really have a terrible influence on him.  The evil would make him arrogant and greedy.  Consequently such a Wall Street guy would not realize how sinful it is for him to earn such a big reward for his manipulation of financial goods.  While there are so many poor people in the US and the whole world, those guys never arouse their compassion to those poor people.

So, if demons are driven out from their minds, half of greedy workers in Wall Street might repent and stop working in the financial district.  But others might not change their behaviors.  In this case, they must become devils themselves.  Even Christ Jesus would not be able to bring them to their senses.

Of course, an ordinary man must be under the influence of a devil to a various degree.  If he wants to be free from the devil, he can rely on Christ Jesus whose power can expel the devil out of the victim.  But a man so completely linked to a devil might be tough enough to survive.

So, when the end of the world should come and devils should leave victimized persons who would follow Christ Jesus, such 100% devilish guys will still walk around Wall Street like devils.

Now how can we avoid being possessed by evil spirits.  It is said that prayer is effective.  While we are praying, our mind doe not float and is not attracted by money and worldly luxury.  So, it is reasonable for us to pray five times, 10 times, or 20 times a day.  At least, while we are walking in Wall Street, we had better chant words of prayer all the time.    

The life and death of Jesus were one long fight against the powers of evil. He fought disobedience with obedience unto death, pride with humility, hatred with love; and behind the relatively feeble attempts of human beings to be evil, an evil mitigated by an apalling ignorance of the things of God, Jesus saw a reflection of Satan's presence: he saw it in human sin and even in human illness and death, and he set out to save humankind and to utterly conquer the devil. 

http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.jp/2010/08/cross-of-saint-benedict.html

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Mar 11:4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
Mar 11:5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?
Mar 11:6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
Mar 11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.

"because of his importunity he will rise and" - God of Mankind

Around Tokyo Railroad Station

God of Mankind

Judaism is not a pure monotheistic religion.

When Abraham lived around Ur or on the the Euphrates, he admitted that every city or every tribe had its own religion.  Though Abraham and his clan had only one God, every other clan had its own God.  It is because one clan had to survive in competition with or through battles against other clans in environment they were living in those days.  If one clan had been defeated by other clan, members of the conquered clan would have to be slaves of the winning one.  Then, those slaves must have abandoned their God and obeyed ex-enemy's God.  So, a god that could protect a house was the God of the house.

Christianity claimed that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the God of Israelites and all the other tribes, including Romans and Greeks.  So, Christianity is a pure monotheistic religion.

But it has a great difficulty: The God sent the Son of God to the human world or specifically to Israelites.  The Son of God had human parents, brothers, and sisters.  Christ Jesus is God or the Son of God according to situations.  However the fact that Christ Jesus had publicly no wife and children stopped the matter from becoming more complicated.  Anyway, as the God is so great, it might be reasonable that mankind, so small and negligible, cannot appreciate the difference between the God and the Son of God.  Put simply the God can easily disguise Himself as His own Son.

Islam is a quite pure religion in terms of monotheism.

Islam taught Muslims to forget about Judaism and Christianity but to concentrate on the God alone.  The spiritual sphere of Islam does not include a final war between good and evil or the God and the Devil.  This religion judges that mankind has failed in this spiritual conflict.  Men could not please the God by believing in Him despite any attempts by the Devil.  So, the God is angry.  This anger of the God is one of the strongest underlying features of Islam.  Islam does not allow for one god for each tribe or the intermediate step where the Son of God was sent to the world to gently guide mankind to the true religion.  Islam sternly and simply requests each man to believe in the God who is angry at poor faith in the God of mankind.  
  
Nonetheless, the three religions have survived and grown together or in parallel in these 2000 years.  

Now as I discussed before, mankind has actually other virtual religions today: America and Modern Science/Technology.

Though I don't define that the God of America is money, it is a little difficult to grasp the core of the American Civilization.  America is too rich concerning its natural resources and its natural environment.  Freedom such material abundance gives citizens can be easily misunderstood as a divine benefit.  But freedom related to religion, ideology and convention must be holy merit leading to establishment of a new religion called America.  We may regard the spirit of American democracy as an important element of the religion America, though American Dream is so often meant so badly to be material success.

Anyway, America started to influence the majority of human beings in history since around 1500 when Columbus left Europe for India or Japan.

The Industrial Revolution and its development have really established its influential power on every aspect of human living in any regions on the globe.  Science and technology are great benefits for human being making every effort to increase their living standard.  Science and technology are the great source of high quality of welfare and a healthy life.  But they are more used and abused for creating material wealth.  Indeed, without this religion of Modern Science/Technology, even no Nazism and communism should have emerged.

Anyway, both those who believe in the God and those who do not would love science and technology.  They often present great or harmonious products of physical laws the God designed for and gave to mankind.  They satisfy most of human minds, accordingly.

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/ssssssss01/e/554165feaececc48c3b8fc3a04c106fb
Is a Lamb an Idol or the God?





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Luk 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
Luk 11:6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
Luk 11:7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Luk 11:8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

"the Son of God might be glorified thereby" - No More Holy Books

Meiji Shinto Shrine, Tokyo

No More Holy Books

If Israelites or ancient Judaists had believed in Christ Jesus so as to make full efforts to contain Christianity within their religion Judaism as one school, the human history should have been so different.

Suppose if Judaists had admitted that Christ Jesus had been a member of their religion, and then we can think that there should not have been persecution of Jews.  Even no Holocaust should have occurred.  In this case today we must not have the special religious group called Jews.  Then the situation in the world must be very different.

Similarly if Islam had been established as a school of Judaism or Christianity, there must not be serious armed conflicts today between Israel and Islamic nations as well as between the US and some Islamic states and groups.

So, the relationships between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are crucial conditions in the past global incidents and present international relationships.  If these three religions were actually one, we could see only different and expanded versions of Judaism all over the world, including Europe, Israel, the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, Americas, and the Asian Pacific region.  In this religiously united world, we would find more peace.

But the fact is that Judaists and Muslims do not accept the belief that Christ Jesus is God, while Judaists do not regard Muslims as their relatives in faith.    

But I think if a certain condition is fulfilled, these three religions could be integrated, and the world will be more peaceful without armed conflicts  between Israel and Islamic nations as well as between the US and some Islamic states and groups.

But what is the condition?  Of course it is about handling of the holy books adopted in each religion.

They advanced their religions by writing, reading, modifying, expanding, translating, and relying on their own holy books rather than believing in their common God.  But if those believers complete the era of writing, reading, modifying, expanding, translating, and relying on their own holy books, they should be able to leave the holy books.

In other word, if there was king of the world who forbids use of holy books by Judaists, Christians, and Muslims, the three religions would be soon united.

So, in this case, ironically the best Judaists, Christians, and Muslims would even forget contents of their holy books so as to only rely on the concept of the God.  They might rather look like Abraham than rabbis, the Pope and the likes, or imams.  

"Forget about the holy books and just love the God" must become a new creed.

http://www.worldreligions.psu.edu/maps-christianity.htm
Spread of Christianity

https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/xislam.htm
Spread of Islam





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Joh 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

"as in heaven, so in earth" - 4000 years after Abraham

The Sumida-gawa River, Tokyo

4000 years after Abraham

It is believed that the greatest pyramid in Egypt was built around 2500 BC, while the era of Abraham started around 2000 BC.

One enigma is why ancient Egyptians could not continue development and advancement of its material civilization.

If they could have continued to expand and diversify their civilization, they must have carried out an industrial revolution even before Abraham was born.  But ancient Egyptians could not invent a steam engine, a locomotive, and a railroad system.  Virtually they could not invent those machines forever.

For mankind to invent a railroad system, as the greatest product of an industrial revolution, it had to pass through the era of Abraham, the era of Moses, the era of David/Solomon, the era of Pythagoras/Socrates, the era of Alexander the Great/Archimedes, the era of Caesar/Cleopatra, the emergence of Christ Jesus, the era of the Roman Empire, the development of the Vatican, the emergence of Islam, the Middle Ages, the era of Columbus and Luther, development of America and Protestantism, the era of the Scientific Revolution around 1800, and then the Industrial Revolution.

So, while the greatest pyramid in Egypt was built around 2500 BC, the first commercial railroad was introduced in England around 1820.  It took 4300 years or more.

It also needed Judaism, Christianity, and Islam for the Industrial Revolution to start on the earth.  In addition, this Revolution could not be of course realized without critical scientific and material contribution from Asia: mathematics from Babylonia, India, and Arabia; a marine compass, gunpowder, the paper-making technology, and printing from China.

Today, 200 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, all the peoples in this world, regardless of different religions they believe in, trust the modern science and technology which is on natural extension of the Industrial Revolution having been launched in the 19th century.  Even those who do not believe existence of the God, they believe effect and usability of high-tech products, including medicines and processed foods.

As the the modern science and technology is backed by more than 4300 year-long history, major religions, and works and efforts of various races, it is not a simple system.  It has been tested for centuries to show its power.  Conversely, such deep and wide background have been able to stop fatally negative influences of the modern civilization on the human society.  Nonetheless as mankind is further accelerating development of the modern material civilization, such restraining conditions, accumulated through our long history, might come to be ineffective or useless.

Future science and technology can destroy mankind if it should exceed a certain level where human religions and morality stop following and controlling the blind and violent growth of our material civilization being driven by desire and avarice.  

In this context, it is time in deed that we must expect the Second Coming of Christ Jesus 4000 years after the era of Abraham.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/ucl-views/0809/mammon

The Industrial Revolution has eventually led mankind to believing in Mammon.  So, we need another direct interference by the God.



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Luk 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Luk 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Luk 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luk 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

"the Gentiles had also received the word of God" - New Religions

Tokyo Suburbs

New Religions

The major events for believers:

300 BC - Alexander the Great conquers the regions from Egypt to Pakistan which are to become Islamic 900 years later.

Around AD 1 (or 4 to 6 BC) - Christ Jesus was born to preach Good News to Israelites.

600 - Islam is established in the south of the regions having been conquered by Alexander the Great 900 years before.

1500 -  Judaists are dispelled from most of cities in France, Spain, Portugal, etc.
Columbus discovers America.
Martin Luther launches a Protestant church.

1800 - The Industrial Revolution starts in Western Europe.


The God prepared future Islamic regions by using Alexander the Great.  But it took 900 years from the conquest by Alexander to the emergence of Islam.  And Europe entered an era of great changes 900 years after establishment of the religion Islam.  Around 1500, European Christians started to drive out Judaists from their towns and cities.  In addition, Christopher Columbus sailed out from Spain to the Atlantic Ocean to eventually discover America.  In this context, America itself can be regarded as a kind of religion.  Then 300 years after Columbus, the Industrial Revolution started in the UK and subsequently in Western Europe and North America.  In this context, the Industrial Revolution can be regarded as a kind of religion.

In other word, America and the Industrial Revolution are the two new religions which were established after the emergence of Islam.

For example, those living in the US are more believers in the American culture than in any traditional religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  And those living in developed or developing countries today are more believers in modern science and technology than in any traditional religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.

However, devils have been going one better than believers in America and in industrialized countries like they have done in the Judaist, Christian, and Islamic worlds.





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Act 11:1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Act 11:2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
Act 11:3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
Act 11:4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
Act 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
Act 11:6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Act 11:7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
Act 11:8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
Act 11:9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

"of more value than many sparrows" - Alexander the Great and Islam

Tokyo

Alexander the Great and Islam

I have been thinking about how the God used Alexander the Great.

Before 300 years of emergence of Christ Jesus, the God allowed the young king of a Greek kingdom to advance to Asia Minor, Syria, Jerusalem, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in the west of the Indus.

Consequently, the Greek culture was conveyed to these areas covering Egypt to Pakistan.  Greeks built not only many cities in these areas but also Greek kingdoms such as the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.  But more importantly Alexander the Great gave great room for expansion of religions which had emerged or would emerge around the Mediterranean regions.

Put simply not only ancient Greek culture works but also Judaism must have been carried through the areas Alexander the Great conquered.   And then finally Christianity came to have influences on cultures and religions in those areas from Egypt to Pakistan.  For example, Mahayana (greater vehicle) Buddhism is believed to have been built on original Buddhism under an influence of Christianity which must have diffused from Palestine around the AD first century.

As this school of Buddhism became later popular in China, Korea, and Japan, even the most eastward nation Japan is under the influence of Alexander the Great and thus Christianity.

And 300 years after the Migration Period of mostly Germanic peoples in the north and the east of the Alps which started around 300, Islam started to prevail in those areas Alexander the Great marched on.

What is more, these areas all came to be subject to Islam.  Islam was built on underlying cultural and religious influences of the ancient Greek Civilization, Judaism, and Christinity.  So, the plan of the God expands 900 years from 300 BC to 600.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great_in_the_Quran
The Empire of Alexander the Great in 300 BC


However it is not known that Islam is truly the last religion the God gives to mankind, though Muslims seem to believe so.

Nonetheless, it is very interesting that Alexander the Great virtually connected the nation of greater vehicle Buddhism Japan to those areas presently Islamic around Jerusalem.  You had better check Japanese Buddhism as well as Islam if you really want to study history which is holy emergence of God Himself.



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Mat 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Mat 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Mat 10:31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

"and in the world to come eternal life" - Industrial Power based on Unique Spirit

Tokyo Subway

Industrial Power based on Unique Spirit

Japan is a country with unique culture and modern industrial power backed by its unique spirit.

Engineers and scientists working in any Japanese businesses are subject to this condition.  But let's see there are so many companies in Japan where they are working so hard.


Ranking of Japanese Companies concerning Patent Assets:

No.       Company  
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1          Panasonic

2          Toshiba

3          Mitsubishi Electric

4          Toyota Motor

5          Canon

6          Sharp

7          Honda

8          Fujitsu

9         Denso

10       Ricoh

11       Hitachi

12       Fuji Film

13       NEC

14       Konica-Minoruta

15       Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal

16       Sony
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But what about a global landscape on patent power?

Ranking of Countries concerning Patents:

No.       Company         No. of Patents in Force
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1 United States 1,872,872

2 Japan 1,270,367

3 China 828,054

4 South Korea 624,419

5 United Kingdom 599,062

6 Germany                 509,879

7 France 438,926

8 Europe 268,384 (E.P.O.)

9 Hong Kong               227,918

10 Spain 166,079

11 Russia 147,067

12 Canada 121,889

13 Australia               107,708

14 Sweden 105,571

15 Belgium                 87,189 (2003)

16 Ireland                  78,761
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Then what about manpower and educational background?

World University Ranking of Engineering Schools 2009:

RANK	UNIVERSITY	COUNTRY	SCORES
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0
2	University of California, Berkeley	United States	93.9
3	Stanford University	United States	85.3
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	81.6
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	76.2
6	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	71.6
7	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	70.9
8	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	68.9
9	University of Tokyo	Japan	67.4
10	University of Toronto	Canada	66.0
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	64.5
12	Tsinghua University	China	63.4
13	Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	63.1
14	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	61.6
15	Princeton University	United States	61.5
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	61.4
17	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	60.4
18	McGill University	Canada	60.1
19	Harvard University	United States	59.6
20	University of Illinois	United States	58.4
21	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	57.0
22	Kyoto University	Japan	56.8

http://www.universityportal.net/2007/09/world-university-ranking-of-engineering.html

But it is not only genuine Americans that support the US industry and engineering sectors.

The Importance of Foreign-born Scientists and Engineers to the
Security of The United States
Statement of William A. Wulf, Ph.D.
President National Academy of Engineering
The National Academies
before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
for The Hearing on "Sources and Methods of Foreign Nationals Engaged in Economic and Military Espionage."
15 September 2005

...
Between 1980 and 2000, the percentage of Ph.D. scientists and engineers employed in the United States who were born abroad has increased from 24% to 37%. The current percentage of Ph.D. physicists is about 45%; for engineers, the figure is over 50%. One fourth of the engineering faculty members at U.S. universities were born abroad. Between 1990 and 2004, over one third of Nobel Prizes in the United States were awarded to foreign-born scientists. One third of all U.S. Ph.D.s in science and engineering are now awarded to foreign born graduate students. We have been skimming the best and brightest minds from across the globe, and prospering because of it; we need these new Americans even more now as other countries become more technologically capable.
...
After WW II, the U.S. forged a mutually reinforcing triad of complementary R&D strengths in industry, academia and government. However, U.S. industrial laboratories have greatly reduced their support for long-term basic research; and many U.S. corporations are shifting research and development to overseas locations—not just because foreign labor is cheaper, as is the common and comfortable myth, but because it is of higher quality! U.S. government laboratories are in various states of disarray, and no longer maintain the stature that they did in 1960's. Government support for the physical sciences and engineering at universities has declined in real terms, and is suffering further under present budget pressures – clearly, a strong research capability is not a current federal priority. Enrollment in the physical sciences and engineering, as a percentage of undergraduates, is among the lowest in the industrialized world – the U.S. now graduates just 7% of the world's engineers, for example. Given that our 12th graders score among the lowest in the world in science and mathematics, the ranks of U.S. born scientists and engineers are not likely to expand dramatically anytime soon. Our once strong triad of R&D capabilities is crumbling.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimony/Importance_of_Foreign_Scientists_and_Engineers_to_US.asp

Science and engineering are basic sources for modern wealth.  The US is now relying on foreign talents to develop and expand its material prosperity.  It can be thought that this situation has some analogy to that of the Roman Empire in its declining years.  Ancient Roman citizens and noblemen came to more and more rely on mercenary soldiers recruited in the north of the Alps.

Along with an increase of mercenary soldiers, soldiers of the Roman Empire lost the original spirit of the Romans.  They fought for money but not for glory of Rome and Romans.

But today, not only in the US, but also in Japan, power of money has overwhelmed morality of individual scientists and engineers.  Material development of the US should be guided by the American spirit which the God gave to Americans, namely some types of Christians, Judaists, and so on.  So, there must be serious conflict between the science/engineering sector and the spiritual/religious sector of the US.

In Japan, as long as the Japanese spiritualism is dominant among citizens which are the basic source of Japanese scientists and engineers, they will produce meaningful results.  

So, American uniqueness and Japanese uniqueness are so important for each country, since the Roman Empire fell when it lost its own uniqueness.



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Mar 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

"And who is my neighbour?" - The Case of Reischauer

Tokyo Suburbs

The Case of Reischauer

Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (1910-1990) was attacked by a young Japanese with a knife.

But the then US Ambassador to Tokyo could survive this horrible incident of March 1964, four months after the assassination of JFK who had appointed him to the Ambassador.

However months before, he did save a young Japanese woman around a seaside house outside Tokyo where he often stayed during his holidays after he came to Tokyo as ambassador in 1961.  When Reischauer was taking a walk along a path on a coastal hill, he suddenly saw a young Japanese woman tumbling down from a slope covered by woods.  She cried loudly, "Help me! Save me!"  As her clothes were out of order wildly, he sensed that she was being attacked by a man.  So, the US Ambassador to Japan helped and saved her.  A bad guy seemed to run away through a thicket.  He took her to the police.

From a viewpoint of Buddhism, as Japanese-speaking Reischauer did good to the poor young woman, Heaven spared the life of Edwin Reischauer.  The principle of causality surely worked for the Ambassador against the mentally-ill Japanese young man who stabbed Reischauer's thigh. .

Since President Kennedy was assassinated in the preceding year, if then US Ambassador had been killed in Tokyo, it should have given a grave shock to both the Japanese and American people at the time.

However the older brother of Edwin Reischauer, a Japanese born American professor of Asian history, was killed during battles around Shanghai before the Pearl Harbor attack.  In the summer of 1937, tens of thousands of Chinese troops launched an all-out attack on far-smaller units of troops of the Empire of Japan, the US, the UK, and France stationed in the then international city Shanghai.  The Chinese Army used even warplanes to bomb naval ships of Imperial Japan patrolled in a big river running through Shanghai and foreign soldiers on streets of the city.  But they had no bombing accuracy.  Chinese bombs dropped from the sky killed many Chinese citizens as well as foreign civilians living in the then most prosperous city in Asia.

And Robert Karl Reischauer, the older brother of Edwin Reischauer, was killed by this Chinese bombing on the street before a hotel in Shanghai on August 14, 1937.

After WWII, Edwin Reischauer became professor of Harvard University to visit Japan a few times.  Then in 1956 he remarried a Japanese woman, a daughter of a prominent family of the Japanese high society.  In 1961 Reischauer became US Ambassador to Japan as President Kennedy appointed him so.  Reischauer left Japan in 1966, while Johnson was President, mostky because the Vietnam War was getting intensified in a manner Reischauer could not support.

Now President Obama appointed Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, the daughter of President Kennedy, to the Ambassador to Japan, tough she doesn't seem to be able to understand the Japanese language like the former Ambassador Reischauer, one of  the most respected ambassadors to Japan by the Japanese people.

Local media embraced Caroline Kennedy's nomination. Boston University professor of international relations, Thomas Berger, cited three critical assets of a Kennedy ambassadorship to Japan: celebrity status, direct access to Obama and gender. 

“Japanese women continue to look for role models who demonstrate that it is possible to be a woman and have a successful career in politics,” Berger told the Associated Press. “I expect that many in both the United States and in Japan will want to use her to send that message to the Japanese public.”
http://world.time.com/2013/08/06/tokyo-doesnt-care-who-the-u-s-ambassador-is-but-caroline-kennedy-will-do-fine/

So, Caroline Kennedy might help Japanese women in any possible way, too.



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Luk 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luk 10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
Luk 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

"many that were come together" - NSA Interception Request to Japan

Koriyama Station, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

NSA Interception Request to Japan

It was reported by The Tokyo Shimbun newspaper today that the US National Security Agency (NSA) asked the Japanese Government, in 2011 or so, whether or not Japan would cooperate with NSA for intercepting communications through optical fiber cables running under the seas around Japan.

NSA wanted to get personal information from e-mails and telephone conversations being transmitted through Japan to China and other Asia-Pacific regions.  In fact many international telecommunications paths are built using submarine cables running through Japan or relayed in Japan.

However, the then Japanese Government led by the liberal, pro-Chinese Democratic Party of Japan rejected the request.

http://www.sof.or.jp/jp/news/101-150/118_1.php
Underwater Cables

http://gigazine.net/news/20080211_undersea_cable/


When the M9.0 earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011, the Internet traffic in Japan drastically dropped to 1/1000 or less than a normal level, but it recovered to normality at the end of the day.  Incidentally, among 6,000 network prefixes in the global routing tables used in Japan, only 100 stopped service due to the great natural disaster.  They also recovered along with time.

However the following undersea cables were damaged due to the 3/11 earthquake and tsunamis:

1. APCN-2 (connecting Japan to China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, S. Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan)

2. PC-1 N and PC-1 W (a Japan/US undersea cable run by NTT's Pacific Crossing)

3. PacNet and East Asia Crossing (EAC)

4. Part of the cable network linking Korea Telecom and Japan/America.

Including them, the 3/11 earthquake caused disconnection and damage of undersea cables at more than 20 locations in seven cable systems in Japan.  But, taking three to four months, they were put into normal conditions.

Anyway, American intelligence agencies would probably never give up their plan to intercept communications over phone lines and internet lines through submarine cables running around Japan.

Other aspects on the Internet and telecommunications interception:

Can China Protect Itself From NSA Spying?

Following Edward Snowden's revelations, Beijing has kickstarted its domestic cyber-security industry. But there's still a long way to go.
ADAM SEGALSEP 26 2013, 11:26 AM ET 

This week the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center of China and the Internet Society of China sponsored the Chinese Internet Security Conference in Beijing. At the conference, NetentSec‘s CEO Yuan Shengang (Tony Yuan) compared the U.S. and Chinese cybersecurity industries. Yuan, who spent eight years in the United States, shows the difficulties of converting the attention to NSA surveillance into economics, painting a frank picture of the barriers to growth and innovation for Chinese companies. He also takes a much less techno-nationalist tone on the growth of a Chinese cybersecurity industry then the NSA spying promotes domestic industry argument would suggest. 

Yuan highlights at least three problems China will face:
Awareness. As Yuan noted in a quip to the Washington Post, before the NSA revelations there was very little recognition of Internet security problems in China. Now, according to Yuan, domestic companies realize the need to invest in security and the government is focused on the problem. “For those in the industry, we really need to thank Snowden.” Still, the government lacks laws on cybersecurity and overemphasizes the supply of products through evaluation, licensing, and testing to the detriment of creating domestic demand. 

Investment. In both private and public sector funding, the United States dwarfs China. According to Yuan, the U.S. government spent $6.5 billion on security, China $400 million; the U.S. private sector spent $4.3 billion on a broad array of products, Chinese companies only $80 million. Yuan also notes a vast difference in the scale of cybersecurity companies. China’s Venustech, which claims 80 percent of Chinese banking institutions and over 60 percent of large state-owned enterprises as its customers, had revenues of close to $120 million in 2012; by comparison, Symantec’s revenue was approximately $6 billion. The pressure to maintain high sales means Chinese companies have no time to develop products and cultivate customers. 

Entrepreneurship. Yuan sees entrepreneurs having difficulty getting into and out of the sector. The barriers to entry are high with numerous government regulations and certificates. Preferential policies help large companies and squeeze start-ups. Venture capital (VC) is scarce; Yuan says he knows of only $30 million of VC investment in Chinese companies (including his own) compared to $1.4 billion in the U.S. Exits for small companies are hard. Yuan stresses that here are no equivalents to IBM, Cisco, or Intel buying up small companies as a major difference in the Chinese and American industries.
http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/can-china-protect-itself-from-nsa-spying/280022/

Finally the Japanese Government announced that it never believes that the US is intercepting telephone conversations by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; Japan is taking necessary preventive measures.  However, having watched quick response of the US Government in the wake of the 3/11 Tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, it is doubted that some US agencies are monitoring communications by Japanese elite bureaucrats and politicians in addition to Japanese businesses.



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Act 10:25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
Act 10:26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
Act 10:27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.