IQ = 999999999…: Super Computer?
Mr. Eisuke Sakakibara became the Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs of the Japanese Government in 1997. His U.S. counterpart was Mr. Lawrence Summers, the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Sakakibara, after retirement from Government posts, issued a very interesting book in 2002 in which he introduced a joke Mr. Summers often delivered when asked about future and possible change in currency exchange.
First of all, Mr. Sakakibara’s book was titled “Understanding Currency Exchange is Understanding the World” (“Kawase ga wakareba Sekai ga wakaru” in Japanese).
Mr. Summers’ favorite joke is as follows:
When Albert Einstein died and ascended to heaven, God told him to take care of other souls, also being drawn up to the City of God, by assigning each of them an appropriate job.
So, Einstein sat at a desk in front of the gate to heaven.
Here came a soul, and Einstein asked him what IQ he had. The soul said his IQ was 200; then Einstein assigned him a job of studying the theory of relativity.
Here came the second soul, and Einstein asked him what IQ he had. The soul said his IQ was 150; then Einstein assigned him a job of predicting global economic developments.
Here came the third soul, and Einstein asked him what IQ he had. The soul said his IQ was 60; then Einstein solemnly assigned him a job of predicting changes in currency exchange.
＊ ＊ ＊
In his book, Mr. Sakakibara, now a popular economic commentator in Japan, didn’t make any insinuating remarks on Mr. Summers. Rather, he showed deep understanding of his U.S. counterpart of the profession. He interpreted this joke as expressing difficulty or impossibility in predicting changes in exchange rates.
Albert Einstein is famous for his firm belief that movement of every physical entity in the universe can be basically and perfectly determined or predicted. However, this view contradicts what quantum mechanics implies and proves. This was one of the most significant, scientific controversy in the 20th century, and still there are many who think that something about it is yet to be fixed.
There are no such uncertain elements in the theory of relativity which deals with relationships between time and space as well as the speed of light.
As IQ of God is infinite, if we may be allowed to use the term IQ in this context, the difference between IQ 200, IQ 150, and IQ 60 must be null to Him. Then, assigning a soul a job according to its human IQ must be very inappropriate.
(The lower a man’s intelligence quotient is in his mortal life, the wiser he should become in kingdom of God, according to the Bible.)
Besides, a lot of any entity in the universe, including atoms, electrons, and other elementary particles, is known to God. It is not a matter of prediction mankind is fond of. God must know everything in the past and the future over the entire life of the universe, which means omniscient and omnipotent.
Human ability of understanding something is in itself just one entity created at a certain point in the long life of the universe, which means mankind should be humble as much as possible.
With a lack of such humbleness, even if you have a trillion dollars in your pocket, you could not even design and run an appropriate supercomputer that can, provided that any necessary information is input, predict anything.
“EVERYTHING MUST BE DONE IN A PROPER AND ORDERLY WAY”
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Thursday, March 09, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
Four Enemies of Japan
Four Enemies of Japan
In September, 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka met Chairman of Chinese Communist Party Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong) in Beijing.
The historic meeting led to normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China. The key to the success of the meeting is China’s decision of abandoning demand against Japan for wartime reparations.
However, since the normalization, Japan has provided great economic assistance to China, which is said to reach 52 billion dollars in aggregate over 30 years.
(26 billion dollars paid or offered by the Japanese Government and another 26 billion dollars provided by private sectors of Japan, including loans and other forms of economic aids.)
These funds were used to build critical, social and economic infrastructures in China in 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s, which has never been taught in schools in China as historical facts, for some reasons.
The Japan’s aids allowed for construction, building up, or expansion of the Beijing capital airport, Wuhan airport, China’s national air control systems, the seaports of Qinhuangdao, Tsingtao, and other industrial areas, total 4,407Km rail roads, total 6.5 million KWh power stations, and so on.
These supports were continuously provided for China even during the height of the Cold War. This is a sheer difference between Japan’s relationships with China and the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union could not compete with the U.S. economy. But it might have been still able to control their own people, while threatening West Europe with their armaments, unless Soviet citizens realized that they were overwhelmed by Japanese economy. And, when the Soviet people found that China was economically boosted by Japan to the extent they could not stand, the Soviet Union lost support of its own people and collapsed like castles made of sand. The Cold War ended truly by this way.
It is the strong upward trend in China’s economy in late 1980’s that really put an end to Soviet Union’s inclination to continue the Cold War state.
* * *
There is a report well known and taken as being true as to how the meeting between Kakuei Tanaka and Mao Tse-Tung went on in Beijing in 1972. They say that the two leaders had an amicable chat, being surrounded by their aids and colleagues including Chou Enlai and Masayoshi Ohira.
But, there is another version of reports. According to it, Mao Tse-Tung said to Kakuei Tanaka, “Japan has four enemies. First, America; second, Russia; third, EC (current EU); and fourth, China.” Having heard Mao’s argument, Kakuei Tanaka and other Japanese are said to have been glued to their seats in silence.
Mao Tse-Tung then reportedly suggested that China and Japan should be lined up alongside as alliance partners to cope with Japan’s three enemies.
* * *
As we consider the report today, it seems that China had been then very anxious about its four enemies: Japan, Russia, EC, and America.
When the two leaders met, it was 27 years after the end of WWII and 23 years after the founding of People’s Republic of China, when the 21st century looked like an impossible future.
But, over centuries, there is something that never changes in Japan as well as in China, such as geographic dimensions.
Yet, most significantly, there was an age when the two countries had no enemies at all; then ancient, wise Chinese held admiration for a legendary island of virtue in the eastern sea.
Truly even in the age of the First (Qin) Emperor of China, Japan was known as a holy, enchanted land.
“EVERYHTING WITHERS, BUT THE WORDS OF GOD PREVAIL”
In September, 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka met Chairman of Chinese Communist Party Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong) in Beijing.
The historic meeting led to normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China. The key to the success of the meeting is China’s decision of abandoning demand against Japan for wartime reparations.
However, since the normalization, Japan has provided great economic assistance to China, which is said to reach 52 billion dollars in aggregate over 30 years.
(26 billion dollars paid or offered by the Japanese Government and another 26 billion dollars provided by private sectors of Japan, including loans and other forms of economic aids.)
These funds were used to build critical, social and economic infrastructures in China in 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s, which has never been taught in schools in China as historical facts, for some reasons.
The Japan’s aids allowed for construction, building up, or expansion of the Beijing capital airport, Wuhan airport, China’s national air control systems, the seaports of Qinhuangdao, Tsingtao, and other industrial areas, total 4,407Km rail roads, total 6.5 million KWh power stations, and so on.
These supports were continuously provided for China even during the height of the Cold War. This is a sheer difference between Japan’s relationships with China and the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union could not compete with the U.S. economy. But it might have been still able to control their own people, while threatening West Europe with their armaments, unless Soviet citizens realized that they were overwhelmed by Japanese economy. And, when the Soviet people found that China was economically boosted by Japan to the extent they could not stand, the Soviet Union lost support of its own people and collapsed like castles made of sand. The Cold War ended truly by this way.
It is the strong upward trend in China’s economy in late 1980’s that really put an end to Soviet Union’s inclination to continue the Cold War state.
* * *
There is a report well known and taken as being true as to how the meeting between Kakuei Tanaka and Mao Tse-Tung went on in Beijing in 1972. They say that the two leaders had an amicable chat, being surrounded by their aids and colleagues including Chou Enlai and Masayoshi Ohira.
But, there is another version of reports. According to it, Mao Tse-Tung said to Kakuei Tanaka, “Japan has four enemies. First, America; second, Russia; third, EC (current EU); and fourth, China.” Having heard Mao’s argument, Kakuei Tanaka and other Japanese are said to have been glued to their seats in silence.
Mao Tse-Tung then reportedly suggested that China and Japan should be lined up alongside as alliance partners to cope with Japan’s three enemies.
* * *
As we consider the report today, it seems that China had been then very anxious about its four enemies: Japan, Russia, EC, and America.
When the two leaders met, it was 27 years after the end of WWII and 23 years after the founding of People’s Republic of China, when the 21st century looked like an impossible future.
But, over centuries, there is something that never changes in Japan as well as in China, such as geographic dimensions.
Yet, most significantly, there was an age when the two countries had no enemies at all; then ancient, wise Chinese held admiration for a legendary island of virtue in the eastern sea.
Truly even in the age of the First (Qin) Emperor of China, Japan was known as a holy, enchanted land.
“EVERYHTING WITHERS, BUT THE WORDS OF GOD PREVAIL”
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
America, Japan, and the Rest of the World, but Why?
America, Japan, and the Rest of the World, but Why?
What country has the most valuable scientists whose research papers have been most often referred to by others?
And how many such researchers, called “Hot Researchers,” does each country have?
The answer for 2004 to 2005 is as follows, according to the March/April issue of “Science Watch” published by Thomson Scientific, a business unit of The Thomson Corporation.
Country ---------- Number of Hot Researchers
====== ------------- ========
United States ----------- 10
Japan ------------------- 7
Germany --------------- 1
Korea ------------------- 1
Russia ------------------ 1
United Kingdom -------- 1
(Also refer to http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2006/0004306667&EDATE=)
So, the Gold Medal for the U.S. (10), the Silver Medal for Far East (8), and the Bronze Medal for Europe (3).
The more you are talented, the more you are requested to contribute to common welfare of human kind.
Therefore, those now wining the medals must contribute to welfare of people in Africa, Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, China, Latin America and other regions.
And just for the record, as a country of a single or pure race, Japan is apparently No.1 in terms of the Hot Researchers in the world.
Nobody in the world reads scientific papers written in Japanese. Therefore, Japanese scholars use English in presenting their work.
However, all through its history and even since the late 19th century, education in Japan, from (traditional) elementary schools to (modern) universities, has been conducted in Japanese with very rare exceptions, unlike some countries in Africa and Asia that had been once colonized by Europe or the U.S.
Therefore, even scholars and professors in Japan are, generally speaking, not good English speakers.
Conversely, rather, the Japanese language might be a key to success of Japan in the scientific field. (The Korean language is the nearest language to Japanese as the location of Korea is.)
America by itself is almost one complete world with multiple races in it, however, dominated culturally by European Americans, as well as with incredible natural resources, if compared with Japan.
Yet, the gap between the two major players is just ten to seven, also incredibly.
The issue is how people in the world, except Japanese and Americans, would judge and interpret this fact.
“PREACHING GOOD NEWS AND HEALING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE”
What country has the most valuable scientists whose research papers have been most often referred to by others?
And how many such researchers, called “Hot Researchers,” does each country have?
The answer for 2004 to 2005 is as follows, according to the March/April issue of “Science Watch” published by Thomson Scientific, a business unit of The Thomson Corporation.
Country ---------- Number of Hot Researchers
====== ------------- ========
United States ----------- 10
Japan ------------------- 7
Germany --------------- 1
Korea ------------------- 1
Russia ------------------ 1
United Kingdom -------- 1
(Also refer to http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2006/0004306667&EDATE=)
So, the Gold Medal for the U.S. (10), the Silver Medal for Far East (8), and the Bronze Medal for Europe (3).
The more you are talented, the more you are requested to contribute to common welfare of human kind.
Therefore, those now wining the medals must contribute to welfare of people in Africa, Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, China, Latin America and other regions.
And just for the record, as a country of a single or pure race, Japan is apparently No.1 in terms of the Hot Researchers in the world.
Nobody in the world reads scientific papers written in Japanese. Therefore, Japanese scholars use English in presenting their work.
However, all through its history and even since the late 19th century, education in Japan, from (traditional) elementary schools to (modern) universities, has been conducted in Japanese with very rare exceptions, unlike some countries in Africa and Asia that had been once colonized by Europe or the U.S.
Therefore, even scholars and professors in Japan are, generally speaking, not good English speakers.
Conversely, rather, the Japanese language might be a key to success of Japan in the scientific field. (The Korean language is the nearest language to Japanese as the location of Korea is.)
America by itself is almost one complete world with multiple races in it, however, dominated culturally by European Americans, as well as with incredible natural resources, if compared with Japan.
Yet, the gap between the two major players is just ten to seven, also incredibly.
The issue is how people in the world, except Japanese and Americans, would judge and interpret this fact.
“PREACHING GOOD NEWS AND HEALING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE”
Sunday, February 26, 2006
The Largest Number for Mankind and "1"
“1” and The Largest Number for Mankind
Infinite is a concept not a number. But, an infinite number is possible.
On the other hand, according to modern mathematics, there is no such a number as is larger than any other numbers (so far known to mankind).
Therefore it is, in a sense, forbidden to express it.
Nonetheless, this number MAY be expressed as follows:
X = 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…
Note that the digit order here is opposite to the ordinary one, which means for example nine hundred and eighty-seven is expressed as 789 in this convention, not as 987. The fist “9” in the right side is on the digit 10**0 (= 1) and the second “9” on 10**1 (=10). This may be called a “mirror number.”
In anyway, the expression covers every possible digit for mankind, while following the conventional convention of mathematical expression that the first element of the right side of an equation should be a definite number.
(Note: As we are facing the infinite “∞,” a component of decimal numbers smaller than one is here eliminated.)
Now, the number X “can be compared with” any number expressed in the same convention, through ordinary arithmetic operation digit by digit.
Then, it is realized instantly and logically that X “must be” still larger than any other numbers, including any other infinite numbers that should be projected to, and expressed in, the same convention using one of the numbers from 0 to 9 to each digit, unless they are mere conceptions.
As a consequence, the largest number is, as you expect, expressed in an infinite series of “9,” however, in the opposite order of digits.
This is a special analogy with the following expression:
1 = 0.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…
If the right side of this equation has a real and definite value of one, then that of the “X equation” may have a real and definite value though the two equations have the opposite magnitude relation.
If this fantasy is allowed to be real, the number X, which does conceptually EXIST since it has its own unique and authentic expression, MAY be equal to another “one,” say, “One” in the Kingdom of God.
“1” = (An infinite series of the human number 9)
(Note: Refer to “http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/NumberTheory.html” or the like, for the sound development of your mathematics knowledge.)
* * *
To my surprise, a public education program of the Japanese public TV station (NHK) very recently introduced Malcolm X in the “Islam in America” part of the International Politics Course.
The famous Islamist African American was killed in New York in February, 1965.
When the NHK lecturer and the staff visited New York for preparation of this program, they were amazed to find many African Americans who still or all the more respected the civil right leader Malcolm X.
* * *
When we think of Jesus Christ today, we might be conceiving of Him in the wrong direction, looking back at Him from AD 2006.
When Malcolm X thought of Mohammed, he might be thinking of the Founder of Islam in the right direction, which might have so acutely appealed to many people in various situations.
“GOD’S GLORY SHINING IN THE FACE OF CHRIST”
Infinite is a concept not a number. But, an infinite number is possible.
On the other hand, according to modern mathematics, there is no such a number as is larger than any other numbers (so far known to mankind).
Therefore it is, in a sense, forbidden to express it.
Nonetheless, this number MAY be expressed as follows:
X = 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…
Note that the digit order here is opposite to the ordinary one, which means for example nine hundred and eighty-seven is expressed as 789 in this convention, not as 987. The fist “9” in the right side is on the digit 10**0 (= 1) and the second “9” on 10**1 (=10). This may be called a “mirror number.”
In anyway, the expression covers every possible digit for mankind, while following the conventional convention of mathematical expression that the first element of the right side of an equation should be a definite number.
(Note: As we are facing the infinite “∞,” a component of decimal numbers smaller than one is here eliminated.)
Now, the number X “can be compared with” any number expressed in the same convention, through ordinary arithmetic operation digit by digit.
Then, it is realized instantly and logically that X “must be” still larger than any other numbers, including any other infinite numbers that should be projected to, and expressed in, the same convention using one of the numbers from 0 to 9 to each digit, unless they are mere conceptions.
As a consequence, the largest number is, as you expect, expressed in an infinite series of “9,” however, in the opposite order of digits.
This is a special analogy with the following expression:
1 = 0.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…
If the right side of this equation has a real and definite value of one, then that of the “X equation” may have a real and definite value though the two equations have the opposite magnitude relation.
If this fantasy is allowed to be real, the number X, which does conceptually EXIST since it has its own unique and authentic expression, MAY be equal to another “one,” say, “One” in the Kingdom of God.
“1” = (An infinite series of the human number 9)
(Note: Refer to “http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/NumberTheory.html” or the like, for the sound development of your mathematics knowledge.)
* * *
To my surprise, a public education program of the Japanese public TV station (NHK) very recently introduced Malcolm X in the “Islam in America” part of the International Politics Course.
The famous Islamist African American was killed in New York in February, 1965.
When the NHK lecturer and the staff visited New York for preparation of this program, they were amazed to find many African Americans who still or all the more respected the civil right leader Malcolm X.
* * *
When we think of Jesus Christ today, we might be conceiving of Him in the wrong direction, looking back at Him from AD 2006.
When Malcolm X thought of Mohammed, he might be thinking of the Founder of Islam in the right direction, which might have so acutely appealed to many people in various situations.
“GOD’S GLORY SHINING IN THE FACE OF CHRIST”
Friday, February 24, 2006
1 = 0.999999999…
1 = 0.999999999…
An oriental girl at last won the Olympic Games’ Gold Medal in figure skating competition, as a report from Turin or Torino told. She happens to be Japanese, which however does not necessarily mean she is No.1 or the best among skating girls in Japan.
Figure is really an interesting term. By mastering geometry, ancient Greeks laid the foundation for future European civilization which has been realized and boosted by Christianity. It is taught as collaboration of Hellenism and Hebraism in Japan just like in other civilized regions.
Japan had, in old days, no tradition of stone architecture comparable to Europe, for there have been plenty of woods and a wealthy of other products of nature. Geometry had not a great chance to develop in Japan. But, it has not hindered the development of scientific talent and the love for science among the race.
In terms of the very basic thing, some educated Japanese are for example still arguing how to explain the following equation in earnest.
1 = 0.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…
According to modern mathematics, there is no such a number as is less than “one” but larger than any other number that is also less than “one.”
However, there is a number that is equal to, or less than, “one” and larger than any other number that is less than “one.” This number is “one” itself.
(Correctly. 1 is a number that is larger than any other number that is less than 1.)
The number in the infinite expression in the right side of the equation means the number which is larger than any other number that is less than one.
Therefore, the above equation is correct.
There is no secret or mystery in the infinite series of the number 9. The equation itself is an indicative one, which emphasizes neither the format nor the arithmetic operation implied therein but the meaning assumed for the expression with infinitesimals.
To my surprise, there are some Japanese still arguing how to explain the above equation. But, mostly the discussions are not accompanied by religious atmosphere even though philosophical sometimes.
Olympic Games must be a religious event originally to show human, clean bouts to Greek Gods. Then figure skating must have a religious meaning, too. But, it looks very fleshly nowadays.
When human beings understand the nature of numbers one-step deeper, God might be rejoiced. And, when skating girls perform well one more rotation in air on a certain figure, God might be also rejoiced.
But, God would be surely more satisfied to see peace in Baghdad and other cities of conflict nowadays.
Mathematics is said to be Queen of Science. And the number theory is said to be Queen of Mathematics, but geometry is not.
The number theory has its origin in ancient Mesopotamia. Someday, their descendants, including modern Iraqis and Jews, might win a gold medal again in human history.
(Note:
1/3 = 0.33333333....
2/3 = 0.66666666...
1 = 1/3 + 2/3 = 0.99999999....)
“IT WILL NOT BE LIKE THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR ANCESTORS”
Saturday, February 18, 2006
3D Images on Holy Shroud in Turin
3D Images on Holy Shroud in Turin
In this world there are many things you cannot buy, one of which is the Holy Shroud in Turin.
It presents a negative image of “Jesus Christ,” like on a negative film, lying in a cave-like tomb in which his body was put after the death upon the cross. However, its authenticity is yet to be decided, though various scientific examinations were conducted in the past.
Now the Winter Olympic Games are being held in Turin, Italy. I am not so much interested in it. But, the place of the Games seems to be very suggestive. Accordingly, I am obliged to report some on Turin.
In 2002, a Japanese professor succeeded in creating three-dimensional images of the man whose image is imprinted on the shroud (http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~takemura/seigaifu/english.htm).
The old professor, Dr. Shinichi Takemura, wrote about his work on the site:
“There have been a number of opinions and discussions regarding the production process for the Shroud. Apart from these views, as a scientist, the author could not stop taking interest and concern regarding the 3-D information buried in the Shroud.
Without arbitrarily selecting or modifying the information in the Shroud, the author treated them faithfully and finally succeeded to build a 3-D data of the Face of the Man. In consequence, the Head of the Man can be rendered from various angles.
Now that all the necessary programs for generating the 3-D images are completed, it will be easy to reproduce a 3-D image of the Man if the more precise photographs or the more reliable Z-data are given.
Finally, the author would like to express his gratitude to Father Gaetano Compri, Chairman of the Holy Shroud Research Association of Japan, for his guidance and suggestions.”
Father Gaetano Compri is said to have once learnt in Turin.
How Jesus Christ looks is not important to mankind. The Bible says that when men began to take women to wife through selection based on appearance, the world got worse. And, it is still getting worse due to some special competition in the present world. But, if people begin to choose their religion based on appearance of a founder of a religion, the world would become the worst place for mankind.
A 15-year-old Japanese girl, the winner of Figure Skating Grand Prix final in December 2005, is said to have the highest probability to win the Gold Medal in figure skating in Turin. But, she is a few months younger to be qualified for the Olympic Games, which made upset all the innocent Japanese sports lovers. Anyhow, she is forbidden making an entry for competition in Turin.
As I am not so interested in this winter Olympic Games for some reason, I thought the Lord God acknowledged this way my feeling.
If the Shroud is truly holy, how can you hold such games of pagan origin where the sacred relics are kept and guarded? The place is wrong in either way.
Besides, I have recently felt the anger of the God, maybe due to various deplorable incidents in Japan and the world.
Anyway, you can check the 3D image of the world’s most incredible figure at your site, which might be the same as the figure the first man or angel who entered the cave after Jesus’ burial might have discovered.
“COME BACK TO YOUR RIGHT SENSES AND STOP YOUR SINFUL WAY”
In this world there are many things you cannot buy, one of which is the Holy Shroud in Turin.
It presents a negative image of “Jesus Christ,” like on a negative film, lying in a cave-like tomb in which his body was put after the death upon the cross. However, its authenticity is yet to be decided, though various scientific examinations were conducted in the past.
Now the Winter Olympic Games are being held in Turin, Italy. I am not so much interested in it. But, the place of the Games seems to be very suggestive. Accordingly, I am obliged to report some on Turin.
In 2002, a Japanese professor succeeded in creating three-dimensional images of the man whose image is imprinted on the shroud (http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~takemura/seigaifu/english.htm).
The old professor, Dr. Shinichi Takemura, wrote about his work on the site:
“There have been a number of opinions and discussions regarding the production process for the Shroud. Apart from these views, as a scientist, the author could not stop taking interest and concern regarding the 3-D information buried in the Shroud.
Without arbitrarily selecting or modifying the information in the Shroud, the author treated them faithfully and finally succeeded to build a 3-D data of the Face of the Man. In consequence, the Head of the Man can be rendered from various angles.
Now that all the necessary programs for generating the 3-D images are completed, it will be easy to reproduce a 3-D image of the Man if the more precise photographs or the more reliable Z-data are given.
Finally, the author would like to express his gratitude to Father Gaetano Compri, Chairman of the Holy Shroud Research Association of Japan, for his guidance and suggestions.”
Father Gaetano Compri is said to have once learnt in Turin.
How Jesus Christ looks is not important to mankind. The Bible says that when men began to take women to wife through selection based on appearance, the world got worse. And, it is still getting worse due to some special competition in the present world. But, if people begin to choose their religion based on appearance of a founder of a religion, the world would become the worst place for mankind.
A 15-year-old Japanese girl, the winner of Figure Skating Grand Prix final in December 2005, is said to have the highest probability to win the Gold Medal in figure skating in Turin. But, she is a few months younger to be qualified for the Olympic Games, which made upset all the innocent Japanese sports lovers. Anyhow, she is forbidden making an entry for competition in Turin.
As I am not so interested in this winter Olympic Games for some reason, I thought the Lord God acknowledged this way my feeling.
If the Shroud is truly holy, how can you hold such games of pagan origin where the sacred relics are kept and guarded? The place is wrong in either way.
Besides, I have recently felt the anger of the God, maybe due to various deplorable incidents in Japan and the world.
Anyway, you can check the 3D image of the world’s most incredible figure at your site, which might be the same as the figure the first man or angel who entered the cave after Jesus’ burial might have discovered.
“COME BACK TO YOUR RIGHT SENSES AND STOP YOUR SINFUL WAY”
Thursday, February 16, 2006
An Apocalypse Oddly Leading to 2001
An Apocalypse Oddly Leading to 2001
Ryotaro Shiba, who died in 1996, was not awarded the Nobel prize for literature, but he is still the most popular writer among the Japanese from ex-prime ministers to students.
It is said he adopted the pen name in order to show his respect to Si-ma Qian (called Shiba-Sen in Japanese), the best historian in China who lived and died in the 1st century BC and whose history book can be virtually comparable to the Bible from a view point of literature.
The pen name “Ryotaro Shiba” means that he humbly admits that he is very inferior to great Sima Qian, but has his own vision in literature and history.
There are two interesting incidents the eminent writer Ryotaro Shiba once reported:
* * *
In early 70’s, a Japanese husband and wife was traveling in Afghanistan during their wandering journey over the Eurasian Continent.
In a village, when the couple was standing with their baby girl in their arms, here coming was a man riding on a horse and scurrying like a caballero in the Middle Ages. The country caballero on a horse quickly took up the baby from their arms, holding her up in the air, running several times around the couple so astonished, and dashing to a certain direction to disappear from their eyesight.
The husband and wife got terribly shocked, understanding that their baby was stolen, and kept just standing there in void of the village.
When a certain time elapsed, here coming back was the man riding on a horse and scurrying like a caballero in the Middle Ages. The country caballero gave back the baby to her parents still standing at the spot.
Later, the Japanese wandering man and wife moved to New York, and their daughter grew up in the city.
In early 1990’s when the eminent Japanese writer visited New York, he met the very wandering husband, and thus the above odd memory was recorded.
At that time, the eminent writer also met two Japanese in New York: a professional painter and an editor of a publication company.
One day the painter and the editor went to Williamsburg, a neighborhood in northern Brooklyn, to paint the street. While the two were making a sketch, an old lady, who apparently looked to be Jewish, came to them, unfriendly saying, “What are you doing here?” Their exchange of words unhappily did not end with only this barbed question. She tried persistently to show her hostility and contempt to the two Japanese cultural figures who happened to be making an innocent sketch of her residence area.
(It was almost a year before 1993 when the first World Trade Center bombing attack was conducted by a terrorist group.)
* * *
In a village of Afghanistan in early 1970’s, there was an extraordinarily uplifted man, on a horse running around a village, who shocked a Japanese man and wife with their baby in their arms.
On a corner of New York before the first terrorist attacks, there was an extraordinarily alerted, old Jewish lady who unpleasantly embarrassed a Japanese artist and an intellectual.
As New York was severely attacked in 2001 by terrorists who were instructed by their leaders hiding in Afghanistan and supporting anti-Israeli terrorism, the above two incidents might be interesting to some readers.
But the eminent Japanese writer did not formulate a story linking two incidents as a kind of apocalypses, to my chagrin.
“WHO WOULD RATHER PUT A CANDLE UNDER THE BED”
Ryotaro Shiba, who died in 1996, was not awarded the Nobel prize for literature, but he is still the most popular writer among the Japanese from ex-prime ministers to students.
It is said he adopted the pen name in order to show his respect to Si-ma Qian (called Shiba-Sen in Japanese), the best historian in China who lived and died in the 1st century BC and whose history book can be virtually comparable to the Bible from a view point of literature.
The pen name “Ryotaro Shiba” means that he humbly admits that he is very inferior to great Sima Qian, but has his own vision in literature and history.
There are two interesting incidents the eminent writer Ryotaro Shiba once reported:
* * *
In early 70’s, a Japanese husband and wife was traveling in Afghanistan during their wandering journey over the Eurasian Continent.
In a village, when the couple was standing with their baby girl in their arms, here coming was a man riding on a horse and scurrying like a caballero in the Middle Ages. The country caballero on a horse quickly took up the baby from their arms, holding her up in the air, running several times around the couple so astonished, and dashing to a certain direction to disappear from their eyesight.
The husband and wife got terribly shocked, understanding that their baby was stolen, and kept just standing there in void of the village.
When a certain time elapsed, here coming back was the man riding on a horse and scurrying like a caballero in the Middle Ages. The country caballero gave back the baby to her parents still standing at the spot.
Later, the Japanese wandering man and wife moved to New York, and their daughter grew up in the city.
In early 1990’s when the eminent Japanese writer visited New York, he met the very wandering husband, and thus the above odd memory was recorded.
At that time, the eminent writer also met two Japanese in New York: a professional painter and an editor of a publication company.
One day the painter and the editor went to Williamsburg, a neighborhood in northern Brooklyn, to paint the street. While the two were making a sketch, an old lady, who apparently looked to be Jewish, came to them, unfriendly saying, “What are you doing here?” Their exchange of words unhappily did not end with only this barbed question. She tried persistently to show her hostility and contempt to the two Japanese cultural figures who happened to be making an innocent sketch of her residence area.
(It was almost a year before 1993 when the first World Trade Center bombing attack was conducted by a terrorist group.)
* * *
In a village of Afghanistan in early 1970’s, there was an extraordinarily uplifted man, on a horse running around a village, who shocked a Japanese man and wife with their baby in their arms.
On a corner of New York before the first terrorist attacks, there was an extraordinarily alerted, old Jewish lady who unpleasantly embarrassed a Japanese artist and an intellectual.
As New York was severely attacked in 2001 by terrorists who were instructed by their leaders hiding in Afghanistan and supporting anti-Israeli terrorism, the above two incidents might be interesting to some readers.
But the eminent Japanese writer did not formulate a story linking two incidents as a kind of apocalypses, to my chagrin.
“WHO WOULD RATHER PUT A CANDLE UNDER THE BED”
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Samurai’s Yasukuni
Samurai’s Yasukuni
New York Times in its online version has spotlighted Mr. Tsuneo Watanabe, chairman of the Yomiuri Group, the most influential media group in Japan.
He also controlled the most popular baseball team in Japan, Yomiuri Giants, which led him once to direct confrontation with Livedoor Corp, a Japanese Enron of its poor IT business version.
In 2004, the president of Livedoor, Mr. Takafumi Horie, had tried to buy one of professional baseball teams in vain, mainly due to opposition of Mr. Watanabe.
After the 9/11 election Mr. Horie had run for but lost, he reportedly asked the director-general of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to help him acquire another baseball team. Mr. Watanabe was again rigidly opposed to it. As Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is also the head of LDP, the relationship between Mr. Koizumi and Mr. Watanabe got uptight.
What’s more, Mr. Watanabe has been expressing his dissent over Mr. Koizumi’s going and worshipping at the Yasukuni Shrine where souls of many soldiers who died in past wars are enshrined.
The issue is that Yasukuni, meaning putting the nation in pease, also deifies Japanese supreme leaders in WWII.
Believe or not, the Spirit told me the other day that Japanese Prime Minister at heart would not like to recommend some others to visit Yasukuni. Nobody has ever suspected such possibility. So, only the Spirit told me so.
On his last visit, Mr. Koizumi walked on the main path of Yasukuni and prayed before the altar, slipping the 500-yen coin into an offertory box. It is a style for ordinary people when visiting Yasukuni. In his previous visits, the prime minister followed an authentic course.
There must be a reason that Mr. Koizumi cannot stop his visit to the shrine, if he so wishes.
Mr. Watanabe is said to keep hamsters as his pet or animal companion. In a TV interview, he said that he had read a magazine article telling that a certain Diet (national parliament) member keeps hamsters, and then he called her to come and help him buy and keep them.
Someday, Mr. Koizumi may ask Mr. Watanabe to help make a pet of a hamster.
* * *
Nonetheless, samurai won’t buy and keep hamsters. Until the end of WWII, Japan had been actually governed by samurai and their direct offspring.
Even after late 19th century when the last samurai regime and shogun were abolished, samurai of other clans than the shogun family controlled the government of the Empire of Great Japan.
Most of high-ranking officials in Imperial Japan during and before WWII were from ex-samurai families, but most of soldiers and citizens were not.
The Yasukuni Shrine is rather new, compared with other shrines mostly functioning for 1500 years or so along with venerable myths. Yasukuni was established by the Meiji government with full of ex-samurai to appease the spirits of soldiers who died in wars, including one that had put an end to the shogun regime.
So, until 1945, Japan had been in effect under control of spirit of samurai for almost 750 years, which makes its tradition deeply rooted in part of Japan and the Japanese.
* * *
On August 15, 2005, Japan’s Minister of Environment Yuriko Koike visited the Yasukuni Shrine (as a private person), which helped her win her own 9/11 election. Her brilliant election campaign boosted LDP in the election, decisively contributing to victory of the prime minister.
On August 15, 1945, Emperor Showa declared unconditional surrender to the allied, putting an end to WWII and the Empire of Great Japan eventually.
For some, Yasukuni may be the most reasonable place to commemorate on August 15 the extinct Empire above any political and international disputes, for the deceased have nothing to do with worldly sins any more.
“IF YOU HAVE EARS, THEN LISTEN TO WHAT SPIRIT SAYS”
New York Times in its online version has spotlighted Mr. Tsuneo Watanabe, chairman of the Yomiuri Group, the most influential media group in Japan.
He also controlled the most popular baseball team in Japan, Yomiuri Giants, which led him once to direct confrontation with Livedoor Corp, a Japanese Enron of its poor IT business version.
In 2004, the president of Livedoor, Mr. Takafumi Horie, had tried to buy one of professional baseball teams in vain, mainly due to opposition of Mr. Watanabe.
After the 9/11 election Mr. Horie had run for but lost, he reportedly asked the director-general of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to help him acquire another baseball team. Mr. Watanabe was again rigidly opposed to it. As Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is also the head of LDP, the relationship between Mr. Koizumi and Mr. Watanabe got uptight.
What’s more, Mr. Watanabe has been expressing his dissent over Mr. Koizumi’s going and worshipping at the Yasukuni Shrine where souls of many soldiers who died in past wars are enshrined.
The issue is that Yasukuni, meaning putting the nation in pease, also deifies Japanese supreme leaders in WWII.
Believe or not, the Spirit told me the other day that Japanese Prime Minister at heart would not like to recommend some others to visit Yasukuni. Nobody has ever suspected such possibility. So, only the Spirit told me so.
On his last visit, Mr. Koizumi walked on the main path of Yasukuni and prayed before the altar, slipping the 500-yen coin into an offertory box. It is a style for ordinary people when visiting Yasukuni. In his previous visits, the prime minister followed an authentic course.
There must be a reason that Mr. Koizumi cannot stop his visit to the shrine, if he so wishes.
Mr. Watanabe is said to keep hamsters as his pet or animal companion. In a TV interview, he said that he had read a magazine article telling that a certain Diet (national parliament) member keeps hamsters, and then he called her to come and help him buy and keep them.
Someday, Mr. Koizumi may ask Mr. Watanabe to help make a pet of a hamster.
* * *
Nonetheless, samurai won’t buy and keep hamsters. Until the end of WWII, Japan had been actually governed by samurai and their direct offspring.
Even after late 19th century when the last samurai regime and shogun were abolished, samurai of other clans than the shogun family controlled the government of the Empire of Great Japan.
Most of high-ranking officials in Imperial Japan during and before WWII were from ex-samurai families, but most of soldiers and citizens were not.
The Yasukuni Shrine is rather new, compared with other shrines mostly functioning for 1500 years or so along with venerable myths. Yasukuni was established by the Meiji government with full of ex-samurai to appease the spirits of soldiers who died in wars, including one that had put an end to the shogun regime.
So, until 1945, Japan had been in effect under control of spirit of samurai for almost 750 years, which makes its tradition deeply rooted in part of Japan and the Japanese.
* * *
On August 15, 2005, Japan’s Minister of Environment Yuriko Koike visited the Yasukuni Shrine (as a private person), which helped her win her own 9/11 election. Her brilliant election campaign boosted LDP in the election, decisively contributing to victory of the prime minister.
On August 15, 1945, Emperor Showa declared unconditional surrender to the allied, putting an end to WWII and the Empire of Great Japan eventually.
For some, Yasukuni may be the most reasonable place to commemorate on August 15 the extinct Empire above any political and international disputes, for the deceased have nothing to do with worldly sins any more.
“IF YOU HAVE EARS, THEN LISTEN TO WHAT SPIRIT SAYS”
Thursday, February 09, 2006
The Third Man
The Third Man
The Japanese public broadcast station NHK televised these days old movies through its satellite channel.
Last night, they telecast “In the Heat of the Night” featuring Sidney Poitier as a young and tough African American police detective, which is a work of 1967, a year precedent to the tragedy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The other day, “The Third Man.”
Both the movies were highly appreciated when they were first released in Japan decades ago. Here my concern is on The Third Man.
Even in this day of computer graphics, the camera work and image structure of The Third Man never lose its color.
It is an American version of the original English story.
After the World War II, the English wanted romance in war-torn Vienna, but Americans wanted something different for a story in remote Vienna where their boys were stationed while leaving their girlfriends home. And, uncannily the Cold War was approaching.
Therefore, the last scene of The Third Man, meaning an unidentified and unreported principal, had been rewritten or remade for different versions of the film.
To satisfy American girls, US boys should have a broken heart in Europe. This pattern was also applied to “Roman Holiday” featuring Audrey Hepburn, in my opinion.
So, in the last scene on a winter cemetery path, Anne, a Czechoslovak, passed as if a stranger by Holly, an American paperback writer, who had been invited to Vienna to eventually and haplessly kill his old friend Harry, a kind of the independent mafia who had somehow fallen in love with Anne.
Vienna is a place where Adolf Hitler had spent five years as a poor young soul or nothing. Later he wrote that he got a sickening feeling when he recalled Vienna, a Babylon city of many races.
After the completion of War on or Operation in Iraq, will they be able to create a movie presenting a romance or a doom in Baghdad between an American man and an Arab woman or vice versa?
As the scale of a crime the third-man type of men would be engaged in is nowadays mega-multiplied, extraordinary efforts will be needed for peace after wars in Middle East even on screen.
Anyway, it will be a big hit in Japan again.
“SO THAT HE WILL BE ASHAMED"
The Japanese public broadcast station NHK televised these days old movies through its satellite channel.
Last night, they telecast “In the Heat of the Night” featuring Sidney Poitier as a young and tough African American police detective, which is a work of 1967, a year precedent to the tragedy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The other day, “The Third Man.”
Both the movies were highly appreciated when they were first released in Japan decades ago. Here my concern is on The Third Man.
Even in this day of computer graphics, the camera work and image structure of The Third Man never lose its color.
It is an American version of the original English story.
After the World War II, the English wanted romance in war-torn Vienna, but Americans wanted something different for a story in remote Vienna where their boys were stationed while leaving their girlfriends home. And, uncannily the Cold War was approaching.
Therefore, the last scene of The Third Man, meaning an unidentified and unreported principal, had been rewritten or remade for different versions of the film.
To satisfy American girls, US boys should have a broken heart in Europe. This pattern was also applied to “Roman Holiday” featuring Audrey Hepburn, in my opinion.
So, in the last scene on a winter cemetery path, Anne, a Czechoslovak, passed as if a stranger by Holly, an American paperback writer, who had been invited to Vienna to eventually and haplessly kill his old friend Harry, a kind of the independent mafia who had somehow fallen in love with Anne.
Vienna is a place where Adolf Hitler had spent five years as a poor young soul or nothing. Later he wrote that he got a sickening feeling when he recalled Vienna, a Babylon city of many races.
After the completion of War on or Operation in Iraq, will they be able to create a movie presenting a romance or a doom in Baghdad between an American man and an Arab woman or vice versa?
As the scale of a crime the third-man type of men would be engaged in is nowadays mega-multiplied, extraordinary efforts will be needed for peace after wars in Middle East even on screen.
Anyway, it will be a big hit in Japan again.
“SO THAT HE WILL BE ASHAMED"
Monday, February 06, 2006
Rich Devils, Poor Believers, and Crying Angels
Rich Devils, Poor Believers, and Crying Angels
Recently former Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa told in a TV program that he had not been aware of what Livedoor Company had been doing (therefore he didn’t give warning) but he would continue to support Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s reform policy.
In another TV appearance a few years ago, Mr. Miyazawa mentioned Mr. Bill Clinton’s book “My Life.” The former U.S. President, looked back at, reciprocally mentioned in the book his meeting and negotiation, in 1993, at a sushi bar in a Tokyo hotel with then Prime Minister Miyazawa who started his career as a bureaucrat in Finance Ministry of Imperial Japan in 1941.
Mr. Clinton’s memoir is a testimony of the highest-ranking public servant of the United States on how the United States succeeded in launching its economy into a higher orbit by leveraging its IT capability.
Therefore regardless of your likes and dislikes, it could give some insight by explicitly or implicitly mentioning or skipping something.
Mr. Clinton wrote that “At the end of the month, as the stock market closed above 10,000 for the first time ever, up from 3,200 when I took office…” It was 1999 that the U.S. economy seemed to get into the orbit under Mr. Clinton’s leadership.
He then attended at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, in the last year of his term of presidency. There he defined the term globalization.
“The multinational corporation and their political supporters had largely been content to create a global economy that served their needs, believing that the growth resulting from trade would create wealth and jobs everywhere,” he wrote clearly.
But he continued: “.., half of the world still lived on less than $2 a day, a billion people lived on less than a dollar a day, and more than a billion people went to bed hungry every night.”
A demon can look very knowledgeable and understanding as well as attractive. I am afraid that you might think so, if you are a poor believer in a forlorn country somewhere on the earth, being notified by a friend or a teacher that U.S. President knows how you live but supports large US companies that never hire you. Then, jihad may be a step closer to you.
I don’t trust the World Economic Forum.
(Especially, it is said that even the Clinton Administration supported, in various ways, Enron to which Livedoor has been compared often these days by Japanese media.)
If you succeed in reaching extraordinary stardom in any society and establish your own company to issue “one billion stocks” and have your admirers buy those securities at a dollar or 10 per share, you can make a fortune without substantial industrial activities. It is what Livedoor has done, making many customs believe that its president is a Japanese Bill Gates.
But, most alarming is a fact that old experts on economy and politics still cannot comprehend what the magic term “IT” implies, while dubious business men are lobbying and appealing with their name card presenting a glossy IT-related company name.
My advice is that you should not trust any super-wealthy IT expert that cannot design by himself a whole computer including hardware, software, and communications.
Proud experts will never respond to orders from the mafia or any terrorist-related groups.
“LORD, HOW CAN YOU STAND THESE TREACHEROUS EVIL MEN”
Recently former Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa told in a TV program that he had not been aware of what Livedoor Company had been doing (therefore he didn’t give warning) but he would continue to support Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s reform policy.
In another TV appearance a few years ago, Mr. Miyazawa mentioned Mr. Bill Clinton’s book “My Life.” The former U.S. President, looked back at, reciprocally mentioned in the book his meeting and negotiation, in 1993, at a sushi bar in a Tokyo hotel with then Prime Minister Miyazawa who started his career as a bureaucrat in Finance Ministry of Imperial Japan in 1941.
Mr. Clinton’s memoir is a testimony of the highest-ranking public servant of the United States on how the United States succeeded in launching its economy into a higher orbit by leveraging its IT capability.
Therefore regardless of your likes and dislikes, it could give some insight by explicitly or implicitly mentioning or skipping something.
Mr. Clinton wrote that “At the end of the month, as the stock market closed above 10,000 for the first time ever, up from 3,200 when I took office…” It was 1999 that the U.S. economy seemed to get into the orbit under Mr. Clinton’s leadership.
He then attended at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, in the last year of his term of presidency. There he defined the term globalization.
“The multinational corporation and their political supporters had largely been content to create a global economy that served their needs, believing that the growth resulting from trade would create wealth and jobs everywhere,” he wrote clearly.
But he continued: “.., half of the world still lived on less than $2 a day, a billion people lived on less than a dollar a day, and more than a billion people went to bed hungry every night.”
A demon can look very knowledgeable and understanding as well as attractive. I am afraid that you might think so, if you are a poor believer in a forlorn country somewhere on the earth, being notified by a friend or a teacher that U.S. President knows how you live but supports large US companies that never hire you. Then, jihad may be a step closer to you.
I don’t trust the World Economic Forum.
(Especially, it is said that even the Clinton Administration supported, in various ways, Enron to which Livedoor has been compared often these days by Japanese media.)
If you succeed in reaching extraordinary stardom in any society and establish your own company to issue “one billion stocks” and have your admirers buy those securities at a dollar or 10 per share, you can make a fortune without substantial industrial activities. It is what Livedoor has done, making many customs believe that its president is a Japanese Bill Gates.
But, most alarming is a fact that old experts on economy and politics still cannot comprehend what the magic term “IT” implies, while dubious business men are lobbying and appealing with their name card presenting a glossy IT-related company name.
My advice is that you should not trust any super-wealthy IT expert that cannot design by himself a whole computer including hardware, software, and communications.
Proud experts will never respond to orders from the mafia or any terrorist-related groups.
“LORD, HOW CAN YOU STAND THESE TREACHEROUS EVIL MEN”
Friday, February 03, 2006
To London, Being Guided by Allah
To London, Being Guided by Allah
The English movie based on a fact that an Afghan boy at last got to London in 2002 was really appealing.
I didn’t see the start of the story but observed that the boy with an elderly companion moved from Pakistan to Teheran, the Kurdish area, Istanbul, Trieste, Paris, the Straits of Dover, and finally London.
The most heartbroken part is when the boy, his elderly companion, an Arab husband and wife with their baby, and others were put into a cargo container. It is because the mafia who employed them in Istanbul one day decided to discard them. So they were put into a container to be sent to a factory in Italy. They were expected to be found at the destination as illegal immigrants who happened to be suffocated in the container.
But, the Afghan boy and the Arab baby survived. The boy ran away from the factory to the street of Trieste, and eventually arrived at London.
The boy, perhaps 12 or 13 years old then, should be now getting near to his 18 years when British authority will expel him out of Britain.
The adventure was taken after U.S. assaults on Afghanistan but before their invasion on Iraq, which took my attention to the story.
If a boy could move that way from Afghanistan to London, anybody supported by an organized crime or an established terrorist network should be easily able to move from Afghanistan to London and eventually any part of the world without mentioning New York and Washington DC.
Then, what now actually protects New York and Washington DC?
During Japan’s 9/11 election in 2005, a Japanese couple were killed in Afghanistan on their way from Quetta to Kabul via Qandahar.
They were male and female school teachers, though not married, from a city of western Japan. The electorate including the city was a big focus in the 9/11 election. And, the tragedy happened in the middle of election battle between a leader of the anti prime minister group and a young man supported by the ruling party and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
The election resulted in overwhelming victory for the ruling party; however, the young man lost the election to the ex-police bureaucrat.
What this young man has lost is not only the election but also his assets and position in Livedoor Corp.
This January, Tokyo district public prosecutors launched investigation into Livedoor, thus hitting not only the Tokyo Stock Exchange but also the world money market. Livedoor had about seven billion dollar aggregate market price of its stock. But, after an arrest of the president, namely the young man Mr. Takafumi Horie, and his resignation from the corporate board, the value has fallen to 700 million dollar level.
This big, dire social incident has coincided with investigation of faulty designs of condominium apartments as well as unpopular Government’s import approval of American beef without necessary inspection on the exporting side concerning mad cow disease.
According to UNDP (United Nations Development Program), 200 million dollar aids have been provided for Afghanistan in this decade. Japan, in 2002, donated 20 million dollars for clearance of land mines in Afghanistan.
Yet, Livedoor’s lost total stock value of six billion dollars, if substantial, should have been poured into Afghanistan so as to prevent such a tragedy as the boy’s.
Then, more people will resist being dominated by an organized crime and an established terrorist network, which would eventually protect cities far and remote from Afghanistan
“WILL BE RAISED FROM DEATH TO LIFE”
The English movie based on a fact that an Afghan boy at last got to London in 2002 was really appealing.
I didn’t see the start of the story but observed that the boy with an elderly companion moved from Pakistan to Teheran, the Kurdish area, Istanbul, Trieste, Paris, the Straits of Dover, and finally London.
The most heartbroken part is when the boy, his elderly companion, an Arab husband and wife with their baby, and others were put into a cargo container. It is because the mafia who employed them in Istanbul one day decided to discard them. So they were put into a container to be sent to a factory in Italy. They were expected to be found at the destination as illegal immigrants who happened to be suffocated in the container.
But, the Afghan boy and the Arab baby survived. The boy ran away from the factory to the street of Trieste, and eventually arrived at London.
The boy, perhaps 12 or 13 years old then, should be now getting near to his 18 years when British authority will expel him out of Britain.
The adventure was taken after U.S. assaults on Afghanistan but before their invasion on Iraq, which took my attention to the story.
If a boy could move that way from Afghanistan to London, anybody supported by an organized crime or an established terrorist network should be easily able to move from Afghanistan to London and eventually any part of the world without mentioning New York and Washington DC.
Then, what now actually protects New York and Washington DC?
During Japan’s 9/11 election in 2005, a Japanese couple were killed in Afghanistan on their way from Quetta to Kabul via Qandahar.
They were male and female school teachers, though not married, from a city of western Japan. The electorate including the city was a big focus in the 9/11 election. And, the tragedy happened in the middle of election battle between a leader of the anti prime minister group and a young man supported by the ruling party and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
The election resulted in overwhelming victory for the ruling party; however, the young man lost the election to the ex-police bureaucrat.
What this young man has lost is not only the election but also his assets and position in Livedoor Corp.
This January, Tokyo district public prosecutors launched investigation into Livedoor, thus hitting not only the Tokyo Stock Exchange but also the world money market. Livedoor had about seven billion dollar aggregate market price of its stock. But, after an arrest of the president, namely the young man Mr. Takafumi Horie, and his resignation from the corporate board, the value has fallen to 700 million dollar level.
This big, dire social incident has coincided with investigation of faulty designs of condominium apartments as well as unpopular Government’s import approval of American beef without necessary inspection on the exporting side concerning mad cow disease.
According to UNDP (United Nations Development Program), 200 million dollar aids have been provided for Afghanistan in this decade. Japan, in 2002, donated 20 million dollars for clearance of land mines in Afghanistan.
Yet, Livedoor’s lost total stock value of six billion dollars, if substantial, should have been poured into Afghanistan so as to prevent such a tragedy as the boy’s.
Then, more people will resist being dominated by an organized crime and an established terrorist network, which would eventually protect cities far and remote from Afghanistan
“WILL BE RAISED FROM DEATH TO LIFE”
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Be Kind
Be Kind
I checked how many hits a search engine will return to the input key “a kind person (s).”
In a Japanese search engine, with a corresponding Japanese expression, the number of hits was more than 900,000.
As it is a Japanese domain of the Internet, the “person” here seems to be almost referred to Japanese.
But, for confirmation, in the same procedure, with the specific input key “kind Japanese” in a Japanese expression, the number is 11,700.
In the same procedure, with the input key “kind Americans” in a Japanese expression, the number is 197.
As for English search engine applied to American domains, you can simply confirm results by following the similar procedure.
If a Japanese says “a kind person” in Japan using the Japanese language, it almost always means “a kind Japanese.” Otherwise, they would say “a kind foreigner” or something like that.
For comparison, in the same Japanese procedure, with the input key “a kind foreigner(s),” the number is 266 in Japan as of January 28, 2006.
So, I may assume there are a million kind Japanese and a few hundred kind foreigners in Japan, so far reported.
It is believed that there are about 120 million Japanese and two million foreigners (including more than 0.6 million residents from South and North Korea) in Japan.
So, roughly speaking, one out of 100 Japanese is kind, while one out of 1000 foreigners is kind, according to this analysis being incomplete and somewhat biased but based on the modern technology
It really supports our impression that outer world is ten times more dangerous than the domestic society.
Nonetheless, truth is often different from an Internet-based survey. It may be actually hard to find a cold guy in some areas in Japan, and you may find only accommodating foreigners in a certain group of people in Japan.
Jesus told to be kind to foreigners. And a Japanese proverb says, “Show your kindness at least once a day.”
And, with the specific input key “an unkind person (s)” in a Japanese expression, the hit number is 771.
Therefore, according to an extrapolation method, the ratio of kind Japanese to unkind Japanese is 1000 to 1.
“WE EAGELY WAIT FOR OUR SAVIORS”
I checked how many hits a search engine will return to the input key “a kind person (s).”
In a Japanese search engine, with a corresponding Japanese expression, the number of hits was more than 900,000.
As it is a Japanese domain of the Internet, the “person” here seems to be almost referred to Japanese.
But, for confirmation, in the same procedure, with the specific input key “kind Japanese” in a Japanese expression, the number is 11,700.
In the same procedure, with the input key “kind Americans” in a Japanese expression, the number is 197.
As for English search engine applied to American domains, you can simply confirm results by following the similar procedure.
If a Japanese says “a kind person” in Japan using the Japanese language, it almost always means “a kind Japanese.” Otherwise, they would say “a kind foreigner” or something like that.
For comparison, in the same Japanese procedure, with the input key “a kind foreigner(s),” the number is 266 in Japan as of January 28, 2006.
So, I may assume there are a million kind Japanese and a few hundred kind foreigners in Japan, so far reported.
It is believed that there are about 120 million Japanese and two million foreigners (including more than 0.6 million residents from South and North Korea) in Japan.
So, roughly speaking, one out of 100 Japanese is kind, while one out of 1000 foreigners is kind, according to this analysis being incomplete and somewhat biased but based on the modern technology
It really supports our impression that outer world is ten times more dangerous than the domestic society.
Nonetheless, truth is often different from an Internet-based survey. It may be actually hard to find a cold guy in some areas in Japan, and you may find only accommodating foreigners in a certain group of people in Japan.
Jesus told to be kind to foreigners. And a Japanese proverb says, “Show your kindness at least once a day.”
And, with the specific input key “an unkind person (s)” in a Japanese expression, the hit number is 771.
Therefore, according to an extrapolation method, the ratio of kind Japanese to unkind Japanese is 1000 to 1.
“WE EAGELY WAIT FOR OUR SAVIORS”
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Last Successor of Last Emperor in China
Last Successor of Last Emperor in China
I watched a very interesting TV documentary last night. Maybe, Lunar New Year is getting near for Chinese, though Japan seldom celebrates it nowadays.
As depicted in a movie titled “Last Emperor,” Ching (Qing) Dynasty ended 1912 as the last classic empire in China.
The last emperor of Qing died in 1967 in People’s Republic of China. He had no children.
But, he had one brother who married a daughter of a Japanese noble clan and had two daughters, one of whom is still alive in Japan with her children and grandchildren.
Put simply, the family line of Emperor of Qing has become part of Japanese population of today.
However, it often happens that people fled from war-torn regions in China and Korea to Japan since ancient ages. Some precious works of art and literature also fled ancient China and Korea to Japan where those works have been well cherished and preserved while originals were lost in those countries.
Qing was not established by Han people, majority of Chinese, but by Manchu who might be rather related to Mongolians. But, today, Mancuh seem to be completely absorbed by the majority of Chinese.
As the last Emperor of Qing had no children, his younger brother might have been expected to succeed him; nonetheless, the younger brother, too, had no boys. The dynasty was destined to finish.
The TV documentary showed the brother of Last Emperor in his last days in Beijing with his Japanese wife. He died in 1994.
He was good at calligraphy. His last work was also introduced. Apart from difference in style among Manchu, Chinese, and Japanese, its meaning is clear. The possible true Last Emperor praised two things, each in China and Japan, during his last days in this world.
First, the Great Wall of China, which was built to fend off invasion on China by Mongolians as well as Manchu but overcome by founders of Qing Dynasty.
And, Mt. Fuji in Japan where he once had been trained in a military academy of Empire of Japan.
If Americans had one great wall running from the East Coast to the West Coast, they should be more proud. And, if they could observe the world’s most elegant volcano from New York City or Washington D.C. just like from Tokyo, they should feel more honored.
However, it is also a fact that neither Japan nor China can enjoy the both all together.
“LIVING IN REVERENCE FOR GOD”
I watched a very interesting TV documentary last night. Maybe, Lunar New Year is getting near for Chinese, though Japan seldom celebrates it nowadays.
As depicted in a movie titled “Last Emperor,” Ching (Qing) Dynasty ended 1912 as the last classic empire in China.
The last emperor of Qing died in 1967 in People’s Republic of China. He had no children.
But, he had one brother who married a daughter of a Japanese noble clan and had two daughters, one of whom is still alive in Japan with her children and grandchildren.
Put simply, the family line of Emperor of Qing has become part of Japanese population of today.
However, it often happens that people fled from war-torn regions in China and Korea to Japan since ancient ages. Some precious works of art and literature also fled ancient China and Korea to Japan where those works have been well cherished and preserved while originals were lost in those countries.
Qing was not established by Han people, majority of Chinese, but by Manchu who might be rather related to Mongolians. But, today, Mancuh seem to be completely absorbed by the majority of Chinese.
As the last Emperor of Qing had no children, his younger brother might have been expected to succeed him; nonetheless, the younger brother, too, had no boys. The dynasty was destined to finish.
The TV documentary showed the brother of Last Emperor in his last days in Beijing with his Japanese wife. He died in 1994.
He was good at calligraphy. His last work was also introduced. Apart from difference in style among Manchu, Chinese, and Japanese, its meaning is clear. The possible true Last Emperor praised two things, each in China and Japan, during his last days in this world.
First, the Great Wall of China, which was built to fend off invasion on China by Mongolians as well as Manchu but overcome by founders of Qing Dynasty.
And, Mt. Fuji in Japan where he once had been trained in a military academy of Empire of Japan.
If Americans had one great wall running from the East Coast to the West Coast, they should be more proud. And, if they could observe the world’s most elegant volcano from New York City or Washington D.C. just like from Tokyo, they should feel more honored.
However, it is also a fact that neither Japan nor China can enjoy the both all together.
“LIVING IN REVERENCE FOR GOD”
Friday, January 20, 2006
Tokyo Prosecutors Hit the World Money Market
Tokyo Prosecutors Hit the World Money Market
Before they started the compulsory investigation into Livedoor Group, they said, they had thought that it might give some influence on Tokyo Stock Exchange Market. It actually hit the world money market.
Livedoor group is a kind of money-game companies under disguise of IT enterprise.
Tokyo district persecutors assailed offices of Livedoor Group in the night of January 16, including its computer center where their e-mail servers were located.
But why on January 16? Yes, there must be reasons. On the next day, an important witness was invited to Japanese Congress (Diet) on the issue of false aseismatic structure designed into condominium buildings and hotels. And there is a strong doubt on involvement of some famous members of ruling parties in hiding truth of the crime, which should give impact on Mr. Koizumi’s Cabinet.
To avoid inviting too much social attention to this Diet hearing, those near Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi might have made an allusion to persecutors on their wish that something big should happen on the day.
However, truth should be more interesting than fantasy.
Livedoor group is headed by a young business man who often publicly states that his dream is to make Livedoor number one in the world in terms of aggregate market value of listed stock.
President of Livedoor Mr. Takahumi Horie once said that his company would surpass Mr. Bill Gates’ Microsoft soon or later.
Although Livedoor’s total stock value was about more that 6 billion dollars before this crash which took 40 percent of the amount off his company so far, when you hear such a statement being delivered in a serious tone, you had better wonder what this young man knows and understands about Microsoft.
Tokyo district prosecutors also seem to wonder what this superstar in IT and money industry might know and understand about Japanese Securities Act.
“THE LORD CHANGED HIS MIND”
Before they started the compulsory investigation into Livedoor Group, they said, they had thought that it might give some influence on Tokyo Stock Exchange Market. It actually hit the world money market.
Livedoor group is a kind of money-game companies under disguise of IT enterprise.
Tokyo district persecutors assailed offices of Livedoor Group in the night of January 16, including its computer center where their e-mail servers were located.
But why on January 16? Yes, there must be reasons. On the next day, an important witness was invited to Japanese Congress (Diet) on the issue of false aseismatic structure designed into condominium buildings and hotels. And there is a strong doubt on involvement of some famous members of ruling parties in hiding truth of the crime, which should give impact on Mr. Koizumi’s Cabinet.
To avoid inviting too much social attention to this Diet hearing, those near Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi might have made an allusion to persecutors on their wish that something big should happen on the day.
However, truth should be more interesting than fantasy.
Livedoor group is headed by a young business man who often publicly states that his dream is to make Livedoor number one in the world in terms of aggregate market value of listed stock.
President of Livedoor Mr. Takahumi Horie once said that his company would surpass Mr. Bill Gates’ Microsoft soon or later.
Although Livedoor’s total stock value was about more that 6 billion dollars before this crash which took 40 percent of the amount off his company so far, when you hear such a statement being delivered in a serious tone, you had better wonder what this young man knows and understands about Microsoft.
Tokyo district prosecutors also seem to wonder what this superstar in IT and money industry might know and understand about Japanese Securities Act.
“THE LORD CHANGED HIS MIND”
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Japan Never Joins EU
Japan Never Joins EU
Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi planned to visit Israel, Palestine, and Turkey late last year.
However, due to recent, serious illness of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Mr. Koizumi has decided not to visit Israel and Palestine.
So, it looks a little strange that a Japanese prime minister, with various heavy duties domestically and globally, is now flying over half of the world to visit only one country Turkey where no serious issues look at stake between two countries.
God might be interfering with this visit by Japanese prime minister to Israel. But why?
Otherwise, God might be interfering with reception of Japanese prime minister by the nation of Israel. Then again why?
Does Mr. Koizumi have to visit Afghanistan, Kingdom of Bhutan, and Republic of Maldives, for United Nations Security Council issues?
Otherwise, should prime minister of Japan visit Iraq?
I cannot remember what specific interference God made when late Chairman Arafat passed away.
Anyway, one thing clear is that there is no interference by God with Mr. Koizumi’s visit to Turkey.
And, does the Allah wish Turkey to join EU?
Japan never joins EU.
“SO THAT BIRDS COME AND MAKE THEIR NESTS”
Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi planned to visit Israel, Palestine, and Turkey late last year.
However, due to recent, serious illness of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Mr. Koizumi has decided not to visit Israel and Palestine.
So, it looks a little strange that a Japanese prime minister, with various heavy duties domestically and globally, is now flying over half of the world to visit only one country Turkey where no serious issues look at stake between two countries.
God might be interfering with this visit by Japanese prime minister to Israel. But why?
Otherwise, God might be interfering with reception of Japanese prime minister by the nation of Israel. Then again why?
Does Mr. Koizumi have to visit Afghanistan, Kingdom of Bhutan, and Republic of Maldives, for United Nations Security Council issues?
Otherwise, should prime minister of Japan visit Iraq?
I cannot remember what specific interference God made when late Chairman Arafat passed away.
Anyway, one thing clear is that there is no interference by God with Mr. Koizumi’s visit to Turkey.
And, does the Allah wish Turkey to join EU?
Japan never joins EU.
“SO THAT BIRDS COME AND MAKE THEIR NESTS”
Monday, January 09, 2006
Two Candles from Japan to Michael Faraday in 1860
Two Candles from Japan to Michael Faraday in 1860
I was thinking about Four Basic Forces or Interactions: Gravity, Electromagnetism, The weak nuclear force, and The strong nuclear force. Of course, the so-called “Dark Force” working far in the universe might be the fifth.
Anyway I went to a public library nearby and get the loan of a translation version of a transcript of Michael Faraday’s lecture to confirm something.
Gravity is scientifically attributed to Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. The weak nuclear force was established by Enrico Fermi. The strong nuclear force was first reasonably explained by Hideki Yukawa, a Japanese physicist.
There are only these four forces in this universe so far scientifically identified. No forces any more. However, human beings usually live in the world governed by gravity and electromagnetism. Any chemical reaction is a result of electromagnetism at the level of atoms and molecules.
As for electromagnetism, James Clerk Maxwell is unanimously chosen as a founder of the modern electromagnetism. Nonetheless, as with the case of gravity, we can include Michael Faraday, a 19th century British scientist.
Then for four forces, we can count three British, one German, one Italian, and one Japanese as greatest contributors to each field. No Americans are included, but two of them finished their lives in the United States.
Now, focus is on Michael Faraday. He is still respected by many Japanese concerned with science. His theory is still taught in Japanese schools.
He died in 1867, a year before Japan started modernization through Meiji Restoration. However, even before the beginning of the Meiji era, the samurai regime or the Shogunate Government of Edo had opened the nation to the West, which was related to Michael Faraday.
In the Christmas Holiday of 1860, Michael Faraday taught children “the chemical history of a candle” as part of his free education service started in 1825. In this lecture, he mentioned: “I have here also a substance brought from Japan since we have forced an entrance into that out-of-the-way place—a sort of wax which a kind friend has sent me, and which forms a new material for the manufacture of candles.” (http://www.bartleby.com/30/7.html)
And, further, “A LADY who honors me by her presence at these lectures has conferred a still farther obligation by sending me these two candles, which are from japan, and, I presume, are made of that substance to which I referred in a former lecture.” (http://www.bartleby.com/30/12.html)
It is astonishing. And, as Michael Faraday was truly a great man, it is the pleasure to know that Japan contributed some to his great efforts to educate British children in late 19th century.
Jesus Christ once told to keep preparedness always just like young ladies who have enough candles or lamps while waiting for their bridegrooms. Then, you will not be shut out from a wedding hall when coming back after having left for spares.
When people light candles for peace or any ceremony, does any one recall that famous, great, and blessed British scientist in the 19th century and his lectures to children of the then world super power?
(How he explained value of nitrogen in air is truly excellent !)
“THIS IS THE HOUR TO RECEIVE THE HONOR FROM THE LORD”
I was thinking about Four Basic Forces or Interactions: Gravity, Electromagnetism, The weak nuclear force, and The strong nuclear force. Of course, the so-called “Dark Force” working far in the universe might be the fifth.
Anyway I went to a public library nearby and get the loan of a translation version of a transcript of Michael Faraday’s lecture to confirm something.
Gravity is scientifically attributed to Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. The weak nuclear force was established by Enrico Fermi. The strong nuclear force was first reasonably explained by Hideki Yukawa, a Japanese physicist.
There are only these four forces in this universe so far scientifically identified. No forces any more. However, human beings usually live in the world governed by gravity and electromagnetism. Any chemical reaction is a result of electromagnetism at the level of atoms and molecules.
As for electromagnetism, James Clerk Maxwell is unanimously chosen as a founder of the modern electromagnetism. Nonetheless, as with the case of gravity, we can include Michael Faraday, a 19th century British scientist.
Then for four forces, we can count three British, one German, one Italian, and one Japanese as greatest contributors to each field. No Americans are included, but two of them finished their lives in the United States.
Now, focus is on Michael Faraday. He is still respected by many Japanese concerned with science. His theory is still taught in Japanese schools.
He died in 1867, a year before Japan started modernization through Meiji Restoration. However, even before the beginning of the Meiji era, the samurai regime or the Shogunate Government of Edo had opened the nation to the West, which was related to Michael Faraday.
In the Christmas Holiday of 1860, Michael Faraday taught children “the chemical history of a candle” as part of his free education service started in 1825. In this lecture, he mentioned: “I have here also a substance brought from Japan since we have forced an entrance into that out-of-the-way place—a sort of wax which a kind friend has sent me, and which forms a new material for the manufacture of candles.” (http://www.bartleby.com/30/7.html)
And, further, “A LADY who honors me by her presence at these lectures has conferred a still farther obligation by sending me these two candles, which are from japan, and, I presume, are made of that substance to which I referred in a former lecture.” (http://www.bartleby.com/30/12.html)
It is astonishing. And, as Michael Faraday was truly a great man, it is the pleasure to know that Japan contributed some to his great efforts to educate British children in late 19th century.
Jesus Christ once told to keep preparedness always just like young ladies who have enough candles or lamps while waiting for their bridegrooms. Then, you will not be shut out from a wedding hall when coming back after having left for spares.
When people light candles for peace or any ceremony, does any one recall that famous, great, and blessed British scientist in the 19th century and his lectures to children of the then world super power?
(How he explained value of nitrogen in air is truly excellent !)
“THIS IS THE HOUR TO RECEIVE THE HONOR FROM THE LORD”
Friday, January 06, 2006
Miracle under the Ground; Wonder in the Sky
Miracle under the Ground; Wonder in the Sky
Believe or not, God told me: “I will show miracle under the ground and wonder in the sky.”
And the year end had passed and a new year opened.
In West Virginia, 13 miners were trapped about 80 meters under the ground. Finally and luckily, one man was saved alive. (Yes, one to twelve among 13.)
I found it to be a miracle. How devastating it should have been, without no one being rescued alive.
In Japan, heavy snow has been continuing. In a snow zone usually covered by one-meter thick of snow, they have now a four-meter snow layer.
Japan is located at the east southeast end of Siberia. In winter, cold air is directly blown from frozen Siberia to the Japanese archipelago over the Sea of Japan. Thus much snow in northern half of Japan allowed it to host the Winter Olympic Games twice, at Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.
But this unusual heavy snow is causing some casualties in Japan now. This climate is caused by strong high pressure air high on the Indian Ocean to central Asia, which guides cold air on Syberia continually flowing to Japan.
It must be an effect of global warming. But it is also wonder in the era of greenhouse effect, Japan must suffer unusual heavy snow.
The Sate of West Virginia runs a Japanese site on the Internet. The state supported by Senator John D. 'Jay' Rockefeller IV, with many powerful friends in Japan since he studied Japanese at the International Christian University in Tokyo in early 1960’s, has succeeded in inviting some Japanese companies and is still driving the policy.
The tragedy in a mine in West Virginia must touch the heart of some Japanese concerned with the state.
I, though a stranger I am there, wish more miracles, too.
“JESUS SENDS OUT THE SEVENTY-TWO”
Believe or not, God told me: “I will show miracle under the ground and wonder in the sky.”
And the year end had passed and a new year opened.
In West Virginia, 13 miners were trapped about 80 meters under the ground. Finally and luckily, one man was saved alive. (Yes, one to twelve among 13.)
I found it to be a miracle. How devastating it should have been, without no one being rescued alive.
In Japan, heavy snow has been continuing. In a snow zone usually covered by one-meter thick of snow, they have now a four-meter snow layer.
Japan is located at the east southeast end of Siberia. In winter, cold air is directly blown from frozen Siberia to the Japanese archipelago over the Sea of Japan. Thus much snow in northern half of Japan allowed it to host the Winter Olympic Games twice, at Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.
But this unusual heavy snow is causing some casualties in Japan now. This climate is caused by strong high pressure air high on the Indian Ocean to central Asia, which guides cold air on Syberia continually flowing to Japan.
It must be an effect of global warming. But it is also wonder in the era of greenhouse effect, Japan must suffer unusual heavy snow.
The Sate of West Virginia runs a Japanese site on the Internet. The state supported by Senator John D. 'Jay' Rockefeller IV, with many powerful friends in Japan since he studied Japanese at the International Christian University in Tokyo in early 1960’s, has succeeded in inviting some Japanese companies and is still driving the policy.
The tragedy in a mine in West Virginia must touch the heart of some Japanese concerned with the state.
I, though a stranger I am there, wish more miracles, too.
“JESUS SENDS OUT THE SEVENTY-TWO”
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Do You Like Phoenix? Do you Like Metropolis? Do you Like the Music?
Do You Like Phoenix? Do you Like Metropolis? Do you Like the Music?
A new year has come like a phoenix reborn.
Last December, University of Chiba, Japan, discovered that they kept original celluloid pictures of the Disney’s movie “Sleeping Beauty.” The movie was released in Japan 45 years ago. The 250 celluloid pictures with various sizes were at that time transferred to a researcher of the university by the movie company.
With combination of “Phoenix” and “Disney,” many Japanese would come to think of Osamu Tezuka, a Japanese cartoonist and animator as prominent as Charles Monroe Schulz in the U.S..
Osamu Tezuka, as a young man, had learnt various things from Disney’s pictures before, during, and after WWII. Now Japanese animation is highly appreciated over the world. Most of current animation artists in Japan, including Hayao Miyazaki, were highly influenced or trained by Osamu Tezuka. Dr. Osamu Tezuka is still a kind of king in this field.
Till his death in 1989, Osamu Tezuka created almost uncountable works, one of which is “Phoenix” (called “Hi-no-Tori” in Japanese). This full-length-novel-like cartoon is regarded as one of his lifework, though Osamu Tezuka created many other full-length comic strips (called “manga”) on the Buddh, the Bible, etc.
In the summer of 2001, an animation movie titled “Metropolis” was released in Japan. At its climax, the World-Trade-Center-like huge tower building was blown off and collapsed due to an intentional atomic power explosion.
The animation “Metropolis” was released in the U.S. in early 2002.
The movie was based on Osamu Tezuka’s original manga of the same title drawn decades ago which itself had borrowed the title from the Fritz Lang film released in 1927.
Strictly speaking, the movie cannot be regarded as Osamu Tezuka’s work, but is a work of a director, a producer, etc. who each respects Osamu Tezuka.
The heroine of the movie “Metropolis” is a robot, created to imitate a girl. The robot called “Tima” was, by accident, taught human words by a Japanese boy named “Ken-ichi.” However, “Tima” finally tried to destroy the human world using her super capability based on hatred to mankind who abused robots.
The boy “Ken-ichi” tried to stop her trying to rouse love in her mind. But, the high-rise site of the battle between love and hatred was blown off by nucleus explosion triggered by a troubled son of a powerful man who had planned to construct and abuse “Tima” to put the world under his foot. And then, the World-Trade-Center-like huge building collapsed on the screen of a movie theater in the summer of 2001 in Japan.
Nobody then thought that the September 11 attacks would soon happen in New York, another metropolis in question. But, God gave such a predictor.
However, it was not a mega-hit animation in both Japan and the U.S.. Especially, the use of music in the animation was criticized by many. In addition, American audience was dissatisfied with the Japanese scenario and faces on the movie, though they enjoyed its advanced production technology.
Nonetheless, the work is telling that a robot that can hate human beings must be also able to love human beings, though the reverse seems true, too.
The “Metropolis” is not a full-length-novel-like work like the “Phoenix,” but at its climax, the boy had to desperately generate love in a robot’s artificial mind; and finally, even for a moment just before falling down from high to the ground, the robot seemed to generate love inside, though it seemed too late. What was left was “Tima’s” voice on a tape in debris: “I am who?”
Anyway, the value of the work depends on that moment.
Accordingly, some Japanese audience don’t like a still picture displayed at ending in the movie where Ken-ichi and rebuilt Tima looked like together running a robot shop in a corner of the reconstructed metropolis.
Astonishingly, in the U.S. version of this animation movie, they took away this last controversial scene. The robot “Tima” should be lost forever. The miracle of love cannot be proven forever. But, it was after September 11, 2001 attacks that they so judged.
If American audience cannot fully appreciate the “Metropolis,” I don’t think they can understand “Phoenix” and many other valuable works of art created by Japanese. It tells their fatal disadvantage.
Now, coming back to late Osamu Tezuka, his reputation is still high. If there is a Nobel Prize for cartoonists and animators, all the Japanese would recommend him.
But, once in his life, he was faced with a fatal crisis. His production company, famous for TV animation “Astro Boy” (Tetsuwan Atom) in 1960’s, went bankrupt. In the middle of 1970’s, the society changed. His old-time upper-middle-class oriented works seemed out of date. No one seemed to buy his works.
But, his savior appeared. Osamu Tezuka was helped financially and socially by a businessman in Osaka, a metropolis near his home town.
The businessman himself has been highly involved in international humanitarian work and the United Nations. Even an award titled his name was given to Mrs. Thatcher of the U.K. and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the U.S. in late 1990’s, respectively.
So, friend, man cannot be reborn like the bird of wonder in his career without help from others or the God, just like the case of the robot.
(But, if you are loved by a robot, what is that to you? Go and find your "Sleeping Beauty!")
“I, MORTAL THOUGH I AM, WILL REST ASSURED IN HOPE”
A new year has come like a phoenix reborn.
Last December, University of Chiba, Japan, discovered that they kept original celluloid pictures of the Disney’s movie “Sleeping Beauty.” The movie was released in Japan 45 years ago. The 250 celluloid pictures with various sizes were at that time transferred to a researcher of the university by the movie company.
With combination of “Phoenix” and “Disney,” many Japanese would come to think of Osamu Tezuka, a Japanese cartoonist and animator as prominent as Charles Monroe Schulz in the U.S..
Osamu Tezuka, as a young man, had learnt various things from Disney’s pictures before, during, and after WWII. Now Japanese animation is highly appreciated over the world. Most of current animation artists in Japan, including Hayao Miyazaki, were highly influenced or trained by Osamu Tezuka. Dr. Osamu Tezuka is still a kind of king in this field.
Till his death in 1989, Osamu Tezuka created almost uncountable works, one of which is “Phoenix” (called “Hi-no-Tori” in Japanese). This full-length-novel-like cartoon is regarded as one of his lifework, though Osamu Tezuka created many other full-length comic strips (called “manga”) on the Buddh, the Bible, etc.
In the summer of 2001, an animation movie titled “Metropolis” was released in Japan. At its climax, the World-Trade-Center-like huge tower building was blown off and collapsed due to an intentional atomic power explosion.
The animation “Metropolis” was released in the U.S. in early 2002.
The movie was based on Osamu Tezuka’s original manga of the same title drawn decades ago which itself had borrowed the title from the Fritz Lang film released in 1927.
Strictly speaking, the movie cannot be regarded as Osamu Tezuka’s work, but is a work of a director, a producer, etc. who each respects Osamu Tezuka.
The heroine of the movie “Metropolis” is a robot, created to imitate a girl. The robot called “Tima” was, by accident, taught human words by a Japanese boy named “Ken-ichi.” However, “Tima” finally tried to destroy the human world using her super capability based on hatred to mankind who abused robots.
The boy “Ken-ichi” tried to stop her trying to rouse love in her mind. But, the high-rise site of the battle between love and hatred was blown off by nucleus explosion triggered by a troubled son of a powerful man who had planned to construct and abuse “Tima” to put the world under his foot. And then, the World-Trade-Center-like huge building collapsed on the screen of a movie theater in the summer of 2001 in Japan.
Nobody then thought that the September 11 attacks would soon happen in New York, another metropolis in question. But, God gave such a predictor.
However, it was not a mega-hit animation in both Japan and the U.S.. Especially, the use of music in the animation was criticized by many. In addition, American audience was dissatisfied with the Japanese scenario and faces on the movie, though they enjoyed its advanced production technology.
Nonetheless, the work is telling that a robot that can hate human beings must be also able to love human beings, though the reverse seems true, too.
The “Metropolis” is not a full-length-novel-like work like the “Phoenix,” but at its climax, the boy had to desperately generate love in a robot’s artificial mind; and finally, even for a moment just before falling down from high to the ground, the robot seemed to generate love inside, though it seemed too late. What was left was “Tima’s” voice on a tape in debris: “I am who?”
Anyway, the value of the work depends on that moment.
Accordingly, some Japanese audience don’t like a still picture displayed at ending in the movie where Ken-ichi and rebuilt Tima looked like together running a robot shop in a corner of the reconstructed metropolis.
Astonishingly, in the U.S. version of this animation movie, they took away this last controversial scene. The robot “Tima” should be lost forever. The miracle of love cannot be proven forever. But, it was after September 11, 2001 attacks that they so judged.
If American audience cannot fully appreciate the “Metropolis,” I don’t think they can understand “Phoenix” and many other valuable works of art created by Japanese. It tells their fatal disadvantage.
Now, coming back to late Osamu Tezuka, his reputation is still high. If there is a Nobel Prize for cartoonists and animators, all the Japanese would recommend him.
But, once in his life, he was faced with a fatal crisis. His production company, famous for TV animation “Astro Boy” (Tetsuwan Atom) in 1960’s, went bankrupt. In the middle of 1970’s, the society changed. His old-time upper-middle-class oriented works seemed out of date. No one seemed to buy his works.
But, his savior appeared. Osamu Tezuka was helped financially and socially by a businessman in Osaka, a metropolis near his home town.
The businessman himself has been highly involved in international humanitarian work and the United Nations. Even an award titled his name was given to Mrs. Thatcher of the U.K. and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the U.S. in late 1990’s, respectively.
So, friend, man cannot be reborn like the bird of wonder in his career without help from others or the God, just like the case of the robot.
(But, if you are loved by a robot, what is that to you? Go and find your "Sleeping Beauty!")
“I, MORTAL THOUGH I AM, WILL REST ASSURED IN HOPE”
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Happy Ending & Destiny
Happy Ending & Destiny
Chinese are said to be pessimistic at their core due to long history of upheaval and conflicts. Therefore, Indians, Iranians, Iraqis, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans might be all pessimistic apart from their outward gestures. Anyway, countries north of the Alps are younger.
But, Japanese are optimistic, though not tropical way, as nowadays half of Japan is covered by snow generated high on the Sea of Japan from cold air blown from Siberia. “When having finished well, everything is well” is a proverb Japanese like to hear.
In a Swedish film for children, a traveling entertainer met a boy having escaped from an orphans’ home.
After an adventure, the middle-aged street performer, or busker, brought the boy to a rich farm family, hoping that the family would adopt him. But the boy chose to travel with the busker.
So, the busker decided to trace a path to a home of a woman he had once lived together with. And, reconciliation and reunion were made well, so that they got together again and the boy was adopted by the couple. Truly happy ending! Indeed, it is said that children are a link between husband and wife.
It may, however, look too simple. Germans would make it more reasonable. British could make it more dramatic. Americans love to make it more dynamic and funnier. And, Japanese love to see more caring and sensitive emotion.
As for me, when I encounter straightforwardness and strength beyond expectation, I cannot help but admire them, which frankly speaking seldom happened.
In 2005, we have not observed here and there enough straightforwardness and strength, a kind that is potentially promising.
However, I believe that we came through the path to this crossover point, with training, enjoyment, and appreciation, while being led by Destiny.
“Nothing You Do for the Lord’s Service is Ever Useless”
Chinese are said to be pessimistic at their core due to long history of upheaval and conflicts. Therefore, Indians, Iranians, Iraqis, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans might be all pessimistic apart from their outward gestures. Anyway, countries north of the Alps are younger.
But, Japanese are optimistic, though not tropical way, as nowadays half of Japan is covered by snow generated high on the Sea of Japan from cold air blown from Siberia. “When having finished well, everything is well” is a proverb Japanese like to hear.
In a Swedish film for children, a traveling entertainer met a boy having escaped from an orphans’ home.
After an adventure, the middle-aged street performer, or busker, brought the boy to a rich farm family, hoping that the family would adopt him. But the boy chose to travel with the busker.
So, the busker decided to trace a path to a home of a woman he had once lived together with. And, reconciliation and reunion were made well, so that they got together again and the boy was adopted by the couple. Truly happy ending! Indeed, it is said that children are a link between husband and wife.
It may, however, look too simple. Germans would make it more reasonable. British could make it more dramatic. Americans love to make it more dynamic and funnier. And, Japanese love to see more caring and sensitive emotion.
As for me, when I encounter straightforwardness and strength beyond expectation, I cannot help but admire them, which frankly speaking seldom happened.
In 2005, we have not observed here and there enough straightforwardness and strength, a kind that is potentially promising.
However, I believe that we came through the path to this crossover point, with training, enjoyment, and appreciation, while being led by Destiny.
“Nothing You Do for the Lord’s Service is Ever Useless”
Friday, December 30, 2005
A Teaching on Bonds at a Mountain Side
A Teaching on Bonds at a Mountain Side
Following is a personal memo only for those humbly and professionally concerned:
The amount of outstanding US government bond is 7.33 trillion dollars (879 trillion yen) as of the end of FY 2004 (which is also expected to reach 11.114 trillion dollars in FY 2010).
The amount of outstanding Japanese government bond planned for FY 2006 is 1.38 trillion dollars (165 trillion yen).
Japan has US government bonds worth of 0.7 trillion dollars as of February 2005.
Q: How can we solve a catastrophe many expect to happen in future?
A: Once thousands people gathered at a mountain side to listen to Jesus Christ. At lunch time, Jesus’ disciples asked him how to do with the people. Money they had was not enough to buy the crowd enough food. But Jesus ordered the disciples to have the people sit down and give them whatever fish or bread the disciples had.
As you know, a miracle happened. The crowd of people all ate enough and got satisfied.
The answer is that the people had come there with their own food. But, they hid their own food lest others stole it. However, as Jesus’ disciples started to give their own fish and bread, everyone began to take out their lunch box from a coat pocket, a bag, or a cart.
It is a miracle in that people with much food gave some of it to others who happened to have little or none. Otherwise, not all should be satisfied.
So, by applying Jesus’ teaching to government bonds of Japan and the U.S., we could happily solve the deficit problems once and for all.
I like to call this “a teaching on bonds at a mountain side,” if the Lord wishes.
Anyhow, poor people need money when the end of the year is really near.
“VICTORY IS COMPLETE”
Following is a personal memo only for those humbly and professionally concerned:
The amount of outstanding US government bond is 7.33 trillion dollars (879 trillion yen) as of the end of FY 2004 (which is also expected to reach 11.114 trillion dollars in FY 2010).
The amount of outstanding Japanese government bond planned for FY 2006 is 1.38 trillion dollars (165 trillion yen).
Japan has US government bonds worth of 0.7 trillion dollars as of February 2005.
Q: How can we solve a catastrophe many expect to happen in future?
A: Once thousands people gathered at a mountain side to listen to Jesus Christ. At lunch time, Jesus’ disciples asked him how to do with the people. Money they had was not enough to buy the crowd enough food. But Jesus ordered the disciples to have the people sit down and give them whatever fish or bread the disciples had.
As you know, a miracle happened. The crowd of people all ate enough and got satisfied.
The answer is that the people had come there with their own food. But, they hid their own food lest others stole it. However, as Jesus’ disciples started to give their own fish and bread, everyone began to take out their lunch box from a coat pocket, a bag, or a cart.
It is a miracle in that people with much food gave some of it to others who happened to have little or none. Otherwise, not all should be satisfied.
So, by applying Jesus’ teaching to government bonds of Japan and the U.S., we could happily solve the deficit problems once and for all.
I like to call this “a teaching on bonds at a mountain side,” if the Lord wishes.
Anyhow, poor people need money when the end of the year is really near.
“VICTORY IS COMPLETE”