Differential Equations and Eclipse

Differential Equations and Eclipse

They say the most beautiful equation for mankind is as follows:
e**(i *π) = -1

i = root(-1) = (-1)**(1/2): a unit imaginary number;
e = the natural (Napierian) logarithm, or 2.7182818…;
π (or pi) = the circular constant, or 3.14159265…
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You may wonder what kinds of numbers are used in the most advanced mathematics and science. They use only four types of numbers: ordinary numbers (composed of basic numbers from 0 to 9), π, “e,” and “i.”

Even today, almost all the scientific and engineering documents can be read and understood, if you know the above four types of numbers.

The equation, e**(i *π) = -1, includes the all types of the numbers. Therefore, they say it is the most beautiful equation, or a miracle equation.

However, it is a direct result of Euler's formula:
e**(i * x) = cos(x) + i*sin(x), with x = π, and cos(π) = -1 and sin (π) = 0.

On the other hand, Euler's formula is a result of the following expansions:
cos (x) = Sum of [(-1)**k]*(x**2k) / [(2k)!] from k =0 to ∞;

sin (x) = Sum of [(-1)**k]*[x**(2k-1)] / [(2k-1)!] from k =0 to ∞; and

e**x = Sum of x**k / k! from k =0 to ∞

while k! = 1*2*3*…*(k-1)*k.

(Here if x = ix,

In this way, the imaginary number can be introduced in the equation.)

However, the key to the expansions is as follows:
d cos(x) / dx = -sin(x);

d sin(x) / dx = cos(x); and

d e**x /dx = e**x

while d/dx means differential by x.
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The nature can be expressed and analyzed by differential equations. Thus what makes possible the most beautiful equation is definitions of the functions of e**x, cos (x), and sin (x) based on each differential equation.
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It can apply to human beings. If a woman called a beauty ever exists, which Jesus Christ never assures us of, we can test her by differentiating her features. But, human differentiation might not be so simple as the above mathematical ones.
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But, as for me, the equation, e**(i *π) = -1, does not seem to be the most beautiful equation. The key differentials do not look like so, either.

Right from the start, mathematics and numbers are tools, operations, processes, and methods. They can be nice or rational, but “beautiful” is too much.
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If a woman loves God or Jesus Christ, her internal structure should be rearranged by love and faith so as to be able to respond to outer force, including men’s observation, in a well differentiated manner. Consequently, she should look beautiful in safety and security.

Otherwise, women should put on a veil. (Today, an eclipse happened on some part of the earth, mostly Islamic regions, symbolizing something.)

“IN THIS POWERFUL WAY, THE WORD OF THE LORD IS SPREADING”

Hidden Code Discovered by a Bestselling Author: 1, 81, 1458, and 1729

Hidden Code Discovered by a Bestselling Author: 1, 81, 1458, and 1729


Even today, The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, is one of the New York Times best-sellers. Its Japanese version is still one of the bestselling fictions in Japan, too.

(I am not so interested in Leonardo da Vinci and his works. He is a little too pagan to deal with a kind of spiritual thing, in my opinion.)

As for nonfictions, Night, by Elie Wiesel, is one of the best-sellers in the United States. It is interesting that a Holocaust-related book written by the 1986 Nobel Prize winner is still welcomed by U.S. readers. Someday, an Arab or a Muslim may write a best-seller concerning Iraq and the wars involving the country.

In Japan, one of best-selling nonfictions today is “Kokka no Hinkaku (Dignity of Country)” written by a popular mathematician.
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The mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara is an interesting person. He has many American and European friends through his profession, which seems to lead him to deeply thinking about Japan and the world, in addition to influence of his late father, a famous novelist in Japan.

He once presented a special number which is equal to a sum of each number on each digit multiplied by a number made by reallocating each number of each digit of the sum reversely to its each digit, as follows:

1729 --> 1+7+2+9=19
19 ----> 91
19×91 = 1729

There are only four numbers in the universe that satisfy this operation: 1, 81, 1458, and 1729.

Mr. Masahiko Fujiwara is said to call this discovery the Ugly Theory. However, I don’t find any ugliness in it.
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Mr. Fujiwara is strongly against two issues: globalization and compulsory English learning in Japanese elementary schools.

The reason is that the issues are based on simple logic which is dangerous.

People think if A is B, and B is C, while A is correct, then C is correct 100 percent. But, in reality, A and B can be only 10 percent correct. Then C is just one percent correct, since 0.1×0.1 = 0.01.

A and B can be anything, but people take “globalization” as C. Accordingly, they say that globalization is 100 percent correct.

Also, A and B can be anything, but people take “trendy English learning in Japanese elementary schools” as C.

Though their nominal aims are economic satisfaction of majority of mankind and fostering international-minded Japanese in volume, their logic is really ugly.
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An example of a logic sly multinational businesses resort to is as follows:
A: Maximization of profits by expanding shares of business, which meets their real intention 100%.

B: Free invasion of untapped and undeveloped markets and economies, which assures maximization of their own profits 100% probably.

C: Selling in rosy globalization, which makes countries fully open up their market, resulting in achieving their true goal almost 100%.

Instead of using the above bare factors A, B, and C, they technically advertise to the world the following:
A: Economic satisfaction of majority of mankind (possibility 1%)

B: Promotion of local market through free trade and free entry based on wise selection by local consumers (possibility 1%)

C: Globalization as the most efficient means for achieving common prosperity (thus resultant possibility is 0.01%).

This is more sinful than ugliness.
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In 1729, Ekaterina II Alekseevna, not “Miss EU” but the eighth Czar of Romanov Dynasty of Russia, was born in a former territory of Germany.

In 1458, the Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard was rebuilt in Cambridge, England. The College has a bridge called the “Mathematical Bridge” which people thought to have been built without nails (but it was found in the 20th century that the bridge had full of nails and screws).

In 81 AD, Arch of Titus was built in Rome to commemorate the victory of the emperors Vespasian and Titus in the war against Jews. Since then, it almost took a full span of ages for Jews to return to “Jerusalem.”

In 1 AD, "Japan" then called "Wa" was split into 100 countries, some of which sent official missionary to authorities, stationed in Korean Peninsula, of Han Dynasty of China. It is recorded in an official history book of ancient China.
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There is one word that Jesus Christ has never used: ugliness.

Nonetheless, exceptionally Japanese might be allowed to say: if there are any dubious factors that might make ugly a logic, a story, history, or education, you should be on guard.

“ONLY PRAYERS CAN DRIVE THIS KIND OUT”

Fateful 2001 in New York; Fateful 1932 in Tokyo

Fateful 2001 in New York; Fateful 1932 in Tokyo

A successful cartoonist in Malaysia said that you should not take anybody as a subject into your work if you bear ill toward him or her.

It must be a key to success a humble artist has learnt in a multi-race and multi-religion environment in Southeast Asia, which should apply to all cases.
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On September 11, 2001, a Japanese was watching the World Trade Center towers burning and crumbling down to the ground zero from her residence in New York.

Mrs. Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 until 2001, was at that time working on her memoir in New York.

The great-grandchild of a famous Japanese prime minister was then in New York after having terminated her mission in Afghanistan Japan and UNHCR had been pursuing around 2000.

In Washington D.C. two months later after the 9/11 Attacks, Mrs. Sadako Ogata was making a speech in a high-level talk with Mr. Collin Powel and Mr. Paul Henry O'Neill, two key Secretaries of the then U.S. Government, on her experiences in Afghanistan.

She continued to play a major role, such as Special Representative of the Prime Minister of Japan at the International Conference on Afghanistan.
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She was working on Afghanistan in 2000. She flew to Pakistan and Afghanistan to meet with Taliban leasers and also inspect situations concerning girls’ education under the Taliban regime.

However, according to her reports, all the foreign countries, except Japan, had lost interest in Afghanistan and left the nation. Eventually, she left the project and returned to Japan. Everything about Afghanistan seemed to be terminated. Then she moved to New York and started to write her memoir.

Fatefully one day in New York in 2001, she eye-witnessed the World Trade Center buildings burning and falling down, without knowing the attackers on board the jet planes were put at the helm by their headquarters in Afghanistan. 　
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In fiscal 2000, Japan contributed a half million dollars through UNCHR to aid for Afghan refugees, as well as 1.1 million dollars to support for Pakistan and another 1.1 million dollars to Iran in connection with aid for refugees therein. Through U.N. World Food Program, Japan also provided foods worth 5 million dollars for Afghanistan in FY 2000. In addition, Japan provided medical support worth 240,000 dollars for Afghanistan and Pakistan through International Committee of the Red Cross in FY 2000.

(After the 9/11 Attacks, Japan has contributed about 600 million dollars to various Afghanistan-related projects.)
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A Japanese reader of Mrs. Sdako Ogata’s book wondered why the female scholar, a daughter of a diplomat, decided to work on the ground in troubled regions in the world when she got 60 years old. (Her relatives include many famous upper-class families in Japan.)

Mrs. Sdako Ogata’s great-grandfather became prime minister of Japan in 1931; however, in the next year 1932, he was assassinated by a terror group including young officers of the Imperial Japan’s Military.

It is also interesting to know that her great-grandfather, Tsuyoshi Inugai, had once personally helped Sun Yat-Sen (also know as Sūn Wén), Father of Modern China who led people in the chaotic terms after the collapse of Qing Dynasty.
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God seems to have prepared, for Japan’s difficult moment in the outset of the 21st century, the daughter of a daughter of a daughter of the prime minister who had become a symbol of democracy and victim of terror in Imperial Japan before Word War II.

(Mrs. Sadako Ogata reportedly refused Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s offer for the position of Foreign Minister in 2002 when then Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, a daughter of another prime minister who had met Mao Tse-Tung in Beijing in 1972, was dismissed. It might indicate another key to success for fateful people.)

“CAN YOU DRINK THE CUP OF SUFFERING”

Unique Premier, Unique Baseball, but More Unique Value

Unique Premier, Unique Baseball, but More Unique Value

Japan has a parliamentary cabinet system. Prime minister of Japan is designated by the parliament (called the Diet) which consists of lawmakers individually elected by eligible voters as well as proportional representation lawmakers.

(Japan has no president, for it has emperor.)

Theoretically and constitutionally there is nobody in Japan that can deny or override a decision the prime minister (as a cabinet) has made. Japanese prime minister has the same, supreme power as presidents in many countries, including powers to levy taxes and command self-defense forces.

However, the prime minister is also an elected lawmaker in the Diet. Therefore, if he steps down from the position of prime minister, he can still enjoy privileges of the Diet member.

This may be one of the reasons why the prime minister of Japan is so often replaced by new one.
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Different from U.S. president, Japanese prime minister has to appear before a plenary assembly and various committees of the Diet.

If the president of the U.S., Russia, China, or France is severely attacked and accused by congressmen in committees almost everyday during a session, while being televised and broadcast live nationwide, he must loose face, dignity, and popularity. But, it has been a statutory challenge that a premier in Japan has to take on.

Therefore, it is important that a ruling party, to which prime minister belongs, gets as many seats as possible in a national election.
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In today’s budget committee of the Diet, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi referred to the victory of the Japanese baseball team in World Baseball Classic (WBC). In this context, he said that Japanese economy was picking up as people had stopped looking at the darker side and started working out in a courageous manner like the Japanese baseball team in WBC.

He also gave an account of people’s health issues, revealing that he sometimes uses Oriental medicine such as acupuncture and moxibustion treatment. And, he listened in a good mood to recommendation a member of an opposite party offered on possible cooperation between Japan, Korea, and China for promoting Oriental medicine.
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It is 1890 that the first Imperial Diet was convened. So, Japan has its democracy anyhow over three centuries.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi may be the first prime minister, in Japan’s history of politics, that has clearly aimed at adopting American style competition in various sectors of the Japanese society.

Nonetheless, the baseball team built on tradition of the Japanese style of baseball, called Yakyu, has got the supreme mastery in the international matches against foreign teams mostly relying on Major League players.

(Japanese children start to learn how to play Yakyu or baseball using a rubber ball instead of a regulation ball.)

It may be the time for some Japanese, Asians, and mankind to look back at their unique cultural value being left behind in their procession toward the so-called globalization being accompanied by 9/11 Terror Attacks, U.S. corporate scandals, Afghan War, Iraqi War, Madrid/London Terror Bombings, Paris Riots, and tragedies in Rwanda, Sudan, and Balkan States as well as the Livedoor-related incident in Japan.


“THEN THEY WILL FEAR THE LORD, AND GET GOOD GIFTS”

Miracle Moon on World Baseball Classic

Miracle Moon on World Baseball Classic

Mr. Sadaharu Oh and his disciples have become the first pennant winner of the World Baseball Classic games held in California, the U.S.

The box score was as follows:
400 020 004 = 10

It reads like “For me” To “For the team”; otherwise, it looks like an autograph of an angel that visited the ball park in the evening.
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Believe or not, I found at a certain point of time that God was angry with something related to this event they advertised as true world-championship matches of baseball.

It might be concerned with selfishness some major league players displayed or bigotry the U.S. authorities displayed in its management and regulation, in addition to behavior of stepping on Japan’s achievement and its players being in earnest.

Otherwise, it should be unbearable disparity of wealth and social development among nations despite their common love of baseball.

Therefore, I cannot help but think that God sent an angel to Petco Park in San Diego to deliver a message to baseball fans, including those in Japan where an audience share for the live broadcast of the game between Cuba and Japan climbed up to over 50 percent, incredibly though the day was a national holiday in Japan.
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You may think you need a goddess of victory or Victoria to win the cup in a difficult tournament.

Manager Sadaharu Oh said that the trend had changed when pinch-hitter Fukudome smashed a homer in the match against Korea. The ball was flying high in the dark, rainy night sky, as if being delivered by all-time home-run king Oh.

However, I think I really saw the moon in the night sky over the ball park at Anaheim. It looked like an advent of an angel or a goddess of victory.
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The moon is one of the largest miracles concerned with the earth and human beings on it. First of all, there is no reason that the sun and the moon are observed in the identical size from the earth.

Secondly, the moon could look rotating in space to the earth even in the present era, though a physical theory tells that the moon will come to show only one side of its surface to the earth eventually due to interaction between the two astronomic bodies.

Thirdly, without the moon, the length of a day on the earth is said to be eight hours. In addition, stronger winds should be incessantly blowing over the ground due to the fast rotation of the earth. Accordingly, it would be difficult for any higher forms of life on the earth to evolve and develop its culture sufficiently.

Perhaps all over the universe, there are no other planets accompanied with a moon the earth has now in terms of the size, rotating conditions, and its origin and structure.

Nonetheless, mankind rarely wonders how strange that the earth has such a miracle moon, which makes the earth probably the only planet with unique civilization on it.

Japanese traditionally love the moon unlike Europeans.
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You need something, even the moon, to make yourself humble in victory; otherwise you would pride yourself too much and suffer slights of angels eventually.


“THANK GOD, FOR HIS PRICELESS GIFT”

Classic Players in Earnest

Classic Players in Earnest

The Japanese team won the WBC game against the Korean team with six to nothing.

The box score was as follows:
000 000 510

It should remind many Japanese fans of Ichiro’s number on uniform “51.”
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Korean people got angry when they were informed that Ichiro insulted them, before the first-round matches of WBC this Feburuary in Tokyo, by saying, “I will teach them a lesson so that they cannot make irreverent behavior toward Japan at least for 30 years.”

On the other hand, there is a report that a young Korean in America two years ago asked Ichiro, in a restaurant with his wife, to write his autograph
on a sheet of paper. When Ichiro returned a signed sheet, the Korean youth tore it apart in Ichiro’s face, in order to give Ichiro a lesson for a certain reason according to words of the youth on the Internet.

However, no Japanese would think that Ichiro issued the above expression for his commitment with in mind the incident of two years ago relating to his autograph.

He had to express his determination to do his best in strong words before the games started. And, everybody knew that Korea had built the strong team with best players, while some Japanese major leaguers, including Ichiro’s juniors, such as Hideki Matsui of the Yankees, avoided to join the Japanese team.

Nowadays Japanese baseball fans know that when Korea sends the best team, Japan cannot easily win unless Japanese players do their best in earnest. It is Ichiro’s determination to make his best against the Korean all-star team.

Ichiro did not persuade others to despise or look down upon Koreans by using those words.
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Ichiro is a more proud person as being somebody that became a MVP player, a leading hitter, a stolen base champion, and a principal player who contributed to Mariners’ all-time most victories (116 wins) in one season of the Major League Baseball, all together in 2001.

What’s more, Ichiro once humbly and cautiously refused to accept some honor the Japanese Government tried to officially present to him for his excellent work in 2004 of breaking the single-season hit record of MLB.
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Cuba and Japan are going to meet in the ball park tomorrow for a crowing victory of the World Baseball Classic games.

As it is a public holiday tomorrow in Japan, many fans will enjoy the game to be broadcast live from California.

The Japanese team and the Cuban team seem to have one thing in common. They have not many players with experiences in the Major League. The Japanese team has two, including Ichiro. The Cuban team has none.

Tomorrow, people might come to think why it is so beyond the outcome of the final match.

“WHO THEN IS THE FAITHFUL SERVANT”

True Master of Home Runs

True Master of Home Runs

According to a letter to editorial of a newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, this morning, they had a baseball game between elementary-school boys and U.S. soldiers stationed in Japan, on one fine day in 1950’s.

The sixth grade pupils’ team of a certain elementary school had never lost a game. The rumor seemed to have reached a U.S. base. So, one day, a head teacher of the school got a call from the base, and accepted an offer for a match to be held in the base.

The result of the game was even, astonishingly given difference in the physical size of members of the two teams.

However, they had a happy time, and even after the game, they chatted friendly using their own language another team could not understand.

An old ex-teacher sent this letter to editorial which has been made public this morning.
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In another letter to editorial of the newspaper this morning, a Japanese boy living in England wrote that he had got shocked, when he started to live there, to know that no one plays baseball in England. But, now, he can play the game in a school for Americans, while enjoying playing cricket on different occasions.

An elementary school boy living in England sent this letter to editorial which has been made public this morning.
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Most of Japanese love baseball. The bat reminds the people of a Japanese sword.

Mr. Sadaharu Oh, who is leading the Japanese team in World Baseball Classic now being held in California, made a batting practice by using a real sword when he was young. He tried to cut a long and thin paper, arranged from a newspaper sheet, by swinging a Japanese sword horizontally.

When he started this practice, other members of his team came to view it. Even senior players sat square, showing respect, watching the swing, and listening to the sound of air being cut amid tension between a sword and a slip floating in air vertically.

Mr. Sadaharu Oh produced 868 home runs in his playing days between 1959 and 1980. During his last season as a player, he could still smash 30 homers.

But, this all time home-run king, with the nationality of Taiwan, seems to be gradually losing memory on how to deliver a home-run.

Now, he seems to have become an excellent manager of a baseball team and an ardent director of a baseball company.

Only a true master of an art could completely forget how and what he had ever achieved in it, according to tradition in ancient China.

“GO, BUT DO NOT SIN AGAIN”

Day In, Day Out

Day In, Day Out

As part of deregulation, many government agencies were recently turned into independent administrative corporations in Japan.

Even in national universities, new restaurants were allowed to open on campus more easily, for a university to gain an income. In a certain elite university in the middle of Tokyo, once there were only two restaurants or dining halls, but now there are ten. As a result, humble restaurants and shops around the university have been forced to close. The university is going to be cut off from its neighbors.

One scholar pointed out that this is a warning against poor deregulation. Traditional human relationships between the elite faculty and students and ordinary people in surrounding areas are going to extinct in Tokyo.
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I am not sure how many students of The City College of The City University of New York (CCNY) have encountered this EEE-Report, but there is something about it I want to refer to.

In the website of CCNY, they introduce its origin:

“Founded in 1847 as The Free Academy, The City College of New York (CCNY) was one of the great experiments of the young American democracy. At the urging of School Board President Townsend Harris, New York established a school to provide access to higher education for bright young men from working class and immigrant families who could not afford private college. More than 158 years later, the experiment remains an overwhelming success.”

Townsend Harris, after having set the foundation of the present CCNY, went out to the world in the middle of 19th century, just before the Civil War in the United States.

Harris became Consul General to Japan, the first American diplomat to Japan, and began his diplomatic mission living almost alone in Japan in 1856.

After two years of struggle against the reluctant Shogun Government, he finally made the "Treaty of Peace and Commerce" with the samurai government of Japan. He is the first and (perhaps) only American who met a shogun in person in Edo Castle.

Japan at the time was amid the rising tension between the Shogun Government and some other clans who lined up against the Government’s policy to open the nation. (A Dutch interpreter, Henry Heusken, employed by Harris was put to the sword and killed by such a group of samurai.)

However, Harris succeeded in completing his mission and gaining respect from Japanese, partly due to fairly fair contents and provisions in the Treaty he offered to Samurai Japan that did not have sufficient experiences in Western Europe-style diplomacy as well as enough modern fire arms.

Harris returned to the United States in 1861 when the Civil War started, in which he took no part.

Schools in Japan today never forget to mention the name Townsend Harris in teaching history.

In the United States, without Townsend Harris and his Free Academy, there has been no such higher education institution called Harvard of the Proletariat in New York.
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Townsend Harris is the only person who accomplished a great achievement both in the United States and Japan before the new era concurrently began in each country in the late 19th century.

Any meaningful transformation or innovation in the education sector or any other public sectors, including deregulation, needs somebody like Townsend Harris that has more capability than what people concerned have conventionally thought to be sufficient.

For example, if the first diplomat from the United States to Japan had showed anything that made Japanese people feel contempt for him during his stay for five years, his gravestone in New York today would not have carried an inscription which reads “Friend of Japan.”

(Therefore, students in New York have been all beneficiaries of the Friend of Japan.)
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Day in, day out, can any public character today keep the quality of his or her conduct at such a demanding level?

(If such a person appears, the fact itself would be an extraordinarily significant piece of news among sinful people, however. )


“JESUS ORDERED THEM: DO NOT TELL ANYONE ABOUT ME”

The Answers, My Friends, are Blown out of Groovy Windows behind your Sleek Desk

The Answers, My Friends, are Blown out of Groovy Windows behind your Sleek Desk


In a certain nice moment of your life time and in a tranquil mind with your feet on the desk, you might wonder, as the case may be, what the world is really like.
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Q: What is the total financial wealth in the world?

A: The total financial wealth (excluding real estates) in the world is about 60 trillion dollars, of which 60% is held by the U.S. and 20 % is possessed by Japan. The combined amounts of those held by the U.K., France, and Germany are less than those possessed by Japan.

Q: How much investment does the U.S. receive from abroad every year?

A: The U.S. receives about 530 billion dollars every year from foreign countries including Japan. The U.S. is the world number one receiver of foreign investment.

Q: How much foreign currency exchange reserves does the U.S. have?

A: The U.S. has about 80 billion dollar foreign exchange reserve. Japan has 817 billion dollar foreign exchange reserve (, and China has 471 billion dollar foreign exchange reserve,) as of the middle of 2004.

Q: What country is the largest electricity consumer?

A: The U.S is the number one; far behind are China as No.2 and Japan No.3. As for electricity consumption per capita, Canada is No.1, the U.S. is No.2, Japan No.3, and France No.4.

Q: What country allocates the largest research and development (R&D) budget?

The U.S. spends the largest R&D expenses about 270 billion dollars, Japan spends 140 billion dollars, and Germany as No.3 spends about 50 billion dollars. (No data on China as of 2003.)

Q: What country has the largest number of R&D specialists?

No. 1 is the U.S. with 1.1 million researchers and sceinentists, No.2 Russia with one million experts, No.3 Japan with just les than one million experts, No.4 China with 0.9 millions, and No.5 is Germany with 0.5 millions.

Q: What country has the largest patent applications per year?

Japan is No. 1 country with 490,000 applications filed per year; the U.S. is No. 2 with less than 350,000 applications; and Germany is No.3 with more than 250,000.

Q: What country has the largest export value in technology trade?

The U.S. is No. 1 with almost 16 billion dollars, the U.K. is No. 2 with almost 8 billion dollars, and Japan No. 3 with just short of 6 billion dollars. They are the big three in this critical field.
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These are only part of selections by a Japanese scientific journalist, Yoshiyuki Matsuo. Especially he points out that forests and mountains account for 65 percent of the total land of Japan; this ratio is almost equal to that of Sweden, Finland, or Brazil. The beauty of the landscape of Japan is priceless. The value of Mt. Fuji cannot be included in Japan’s GDP, but the mountain itself surpasses the gross domestic product in terms of intangible value, according to the author of “Numbers on Japan (Nihon no Suji).”

Japan’s civilization is for beauty, while that of other countries is for triumph.

Even Americans hate ugliness in human relationships, if it exists; Japanese are sometimes fatally hurt and thus refuse even to comment on them, or would treat them with sheer contempt.

When Japanese find true ugliness in the world of wealth, something might change, though you cannot expect such a drastic scenario with the U.S and other countries despite so many people of holy scriptures therein.


“THEY WILL PLACE THEIR HANDS ON SICK PEOPLE, AND THESE WILL GET WELL”

Einstein in Tokyo in 1922

Einstein in Tokyo in 1922

When Albert Einstein was on board of a Japanese ship sailing from Marseille, France, to Kobe, Japan, in November 1922, he received a notice that he was awarded a Nobel Prize.

Therefore, Einstein’s first lecture after he became a Nobel Prize winner was significantly conducted in Japan, probably with the deepest emotion in his life, during his 43-day stay.
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When people want to show his smartness or point at foolishness of others, they sometimes use the name “Einstein.” It is a common thing in Japan, Europe, and America with all of which Einstein had some relation.

Everybody knows and can calculate one of Einstein’s equations, e = m*c**2, which led to realization of nuclear bombs, for it shows mass is physically equivalent to energy.

But, as for another Einstein’s equation G = (8*pi*g / c**4)*T, it is extremely difficult to calculate unless you master Riemannian geometry.

Also, note that “pi” appears here, and “c” is the speed of light, and “g” is the gravitational constant.

“G” and “T” request some special efforts in understanding a mathematical method called tensor, a rule to change a system of coordinates against a physical entity. They include thousands of combinations of terms if mathematically extended with partial differential equations as its components.

In addition, as Riemannian geometry is too unique, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to solve the equation.

However, put simply, G = T.
G: Distortion of space
T: Concentration of energy and kinetic momentum

Metaphorically speaking, space and time is dominated by a person who has a strong personality, talents, the will, or love, in any circles, communities, or occasions.

Dr. Hawking solved the equation given a special condition of a black hole, which has made him a hero.
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Einstein wrote 30,000 letters and correspondences in his life.

One student in Japan sent to Einstein staying in Tokyo a letter with a certain question on physics; he then received a reply from the very person Einstein. In the return mail, with a letter paper of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, the student found only one equation: G = (8*pi*g / c**4)*T.

The student later became a very successful physical scientist in Japan and died in 1982. The letter was recently found by his bereaved family, which was reported last year in a nationwide newspaper.

When you use the name of Einstein in your conversation or joke, you had better remember that Einstein presented one of his best equations even to a nameless student in Tokyo in 1922.

(Why did Einstein accept invitation from Japan? It is because he had read a book written by Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), a U.S. reporter who had become a naturalized citizen of Japan.

Hearn, with an adopted Japanese name Yakumo Koizumi, especially loved a city famous in the Japanese myth. There was even a French girl who read Hearn’s book in, probably, Paris and took courage to travel to Japan and visit the city all alone in the time not so different from that of Einstein’s visit. )

“COURAGE, MY DAUGHTER! YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WELL”

Putting Up With Globalization

Putting Up With Globalization

People in business in Japan know that there are three types of accounting rules: Japanese standard, American standard, and Global standard (IAS/IFRS).
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Now, EU is actively pushing the Global standard on world communities, and America is expected to eventually adapt its standard to the Global standard, while Japan is busy studying the situations.
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Mr. Joseph Stiglitz won Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.

He wrote a book titled “Globalization and its Discontents” in 2002.

If somebody says immodestly that high-ranking officials of IMF and the World Bank travel around the world and stay in one of the most expensive hotels in a developing country to check statistics and other economic data provided by its government and decide how to deal with it, without going to industrial areas, markets, or residential areas where its poor citizens work and live, you may think such a man cannot be hired by any powerful, international monetary institution.

After having resigned, in 2000, from the World Bank where he had served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Mr. Stiglitz wrote such a remark in his book in 2002, after 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

He candidly writes that globalization has failed; it has left too many poor people behind.

However, he pointed at one region in the world where globalization has really succeeded: East Asia.

I don’t think that his analysis in this regard is very correct.

Economic success in East Asia is due to influence of Japanese success in various fields rather than globalization.

Therefore, globalization has failed everywhere. But, so far, Japan could only overcome its negative effect.

If you look at the world map, everything is clear. Europe is responsible for Africa; America is responsible for Latin America, and Japan is responsible for East Asia. Middle East may claim economic support from both Europe and America.

But, globalization has failed in all the regions under hegemony of Europe and America. And, East Asia owes its economic success more to Japan in various ways than to globalization.

This is my impressions after checking the book “Globalization and its Discontents.”

You may have a very different view about it. But, such a sound and brave economist as Mr. Stiglitz sometimes cannot satisfy a Japanese reader.
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A copy of a Japanese version of the book is sold at a net price of 1,800 yen.

But, I happened to find the other day that it was sold at 100 yen at a secondhand bookstore, as if implicating that there are many on the globe who live only on a dollar (100 cents) per day.

Globalization seems to be something that ordinary people in Japan never appreciate like those in developing countries.

What poor people in the world need is neither economic support decided by sinful people nor international organizations without respect to them.

It must be love and tribute paid to mankind by mankind in awe of God.

“HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH YOU”

IQ = 999999999…: Super Computer?

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.
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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”

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.
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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.
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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”

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
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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”

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.)
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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.
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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”

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”

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”

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:
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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.)
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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”

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.

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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.

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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”

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"