The Era of the B-29 to the Era of the F-15
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was one of key players in WWII and the Korean War.
This bomber is famous for its mission to carry out the Atomic Bomb (nuclear bomb) attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
It is said that about 4,000 B-29s were built in total.
Imperial Japan shot down about 500 B-29s during WWII.
North Korea and China shot down about 40 B-29s in the Korean War which happened five years after the end of WWII.
Theses statistics are said to have been taken seriously into strategic and defense considerations by the U.S. defense officials in those days.
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There is even a legendry of super antiaircraft artilleries set up in a plot of Tokyo, which became a serious threat to B-29 air squadrons. After the surrender of Imperial Japan, the U.S. military dispatched an investigating team to the plot to check how the artilleries worked for precisely tracking and shooting a B-29 flying high over the plot at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
Though Japanese fighter planes then lacked performance needed to fight freely at an altitude of 30,000 feet, they developed special tactics, including a Kamikaze attack to a B-29 flying high in the air.
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Now, Beirut is being bombed by F-15s and other types of air fighters and bombers of the Israeli Defense Force.
As with the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, when you have no capability to shoot down any of invading military planes of your enemy, it doesn't look like a war but a one-sided campaign by your enemy.
Otherwise, it looks like the war has been over, but they are still being engaged in some dubious business instead of starting a reconstruction effort.
For parties concerned to start a reconstruction effort after a war, they need at least a minimal level of mutual respect based on a respectable warrior spirit they exercised and acknowledged in the war.
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Yesterday, in Hiroshima, Japan, people prayed for peace.
At the ceremony held on the same day when the tragedy occurred 61 years ago, Japanese Prime Minister and other participants, including foreigners from some 35 countries, fell silent in honor of victims.
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Another news is about a son of a man who died sometime ago after having passed to his son a self-imposed duty of taking care of a hand-made stone memorial (in a Japanese gravestone style about three feet high) the man had built in order to appease the spirits of U.S. air soldiers who had been shot down and killed with their B-29 in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, during WWII.
The existence of the humble memorial was kept secret for a long time since its building just after the incident in the war. The man's son has kept the service for the memorial as he was told.
But, now its existence is widely known through an accidental discovery of the memorial by herb collectors; this year, a U.S. colonel from the U.S. Embassy visited the site in a natural forest and paid his respects at the memorial to U.S. air force's veterans who never returned home.
In WWII, if a citizen of Imperial Japan had been found to have built a memorial for dead U.S. soldiers, he should have been arrested for an act which served the interests of the enemy.
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There are more such hidden stories in terms of relationships between Japanese and Americans in WWII, which seem to have worked as a seed of friendly relationships between the two countries after WWII over the tragedy of the atomic bomb attacks.
I hope that there are any such hidden stories in terms of relationships between Israelites and Muslims in the current armed clash, which would work as a seed of friendly relationships between the two religious groups over any tragedy.
"Each Time He Comes To You Saying 'I Repent,' You Must Forgive Him"
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Saturday, August 05, 2006
One Sinner to Repent
One Sinner to Repent
There is a husband and wife in Japan.
A wife complained that her husband said to her that he did not need her any more and they had to divorce.
She wrote to the agony-column of The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper: "My husband doesn't come home from his workshop where he works as a self-employed worker, though he provides me with enough living expenses. He is not associated with other women. But he said that he had been tired of me. I think I have to change myself, if necessary. And our son is going to take college entrance exam soon. I love my husband, but I don't know what to do. I want to live a happy life as before."
* * *
A man is sometimes haunted by something that is rather psychological, which however leads to misunderstanding, misbehavior, antagonism, a sense of shame or sin, or otherwise making himself a victim of a swindle or a gambit others set up.
In the worst case, he might be playing a part of a chain of machinations while believing that he is doing a right thing based on a sound judgment, which is actually opposite.
* * *
When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested that Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign, the Secretary did not hide his disappointment in a hearing of Congress.
Both are not Jewish, so far as I know.
But, when Israel is at war, it gives some special psychological effect on some people in Europe and the United States.
I am afraid that it might lead to misunderstanding, misbehavior, antagonism, a sense of shame or sin, or otherwise making himself or herself a victim of a swindle or a gambit others set up.
Doesn't a divorce rate grow up in the Western society whenever Israel is at war?
* * *
It is true that you should leave your family when you are called by God.
It should be extremely lucky if God says that you and your family leave your home and head for the land He promises.
* * *
If a couple contains every sin of the both within themselves forever in their own tie-up without divorce, society will become more decent and get more chances to develop. They alone have to be victims of each other.
It must apply even to neighboring countries, such as Israel and Lebanon which formed a single region in most of historical eras in the past.
"REJOICE OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS"
There is a husband and wife in Japan.
A wife complained that her husband said to her that he did not need her any more and they had to divorce.
She wrote to the agony-column of The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper: "My husband doesn't come home from his workshop where he works as a self-employed worker, though he provides me with enough living expenses. He is not associated with other women. But he said that he had been tired of me. I think I have to change myself, if necessary. And our son is going to take college entrance exam soon. I love my husband, but I don't know what to do. I want to live a happy life as before."
* * *
A man is sometimes haunted by something that is rather psychological, which however leads to misunderstanding, misbehavior, antagonism, a sense of shame or sin, or otherwise making himself a victim of a swindle or a gambit others set up.
In the worst case, he might be playing a part of a chain of machinations while believing that he is doing a right thing based on a sound judgment, which is actually opposite.
* * *
When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested that Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign, the Secretary did not hide his disappointment in a hearing of Congress.
Both are not Jewish, so far as I know.
But, when Israel is at war, it gives some special psychological effect on some people in Europe and the United States.
I am afraid that it might lead to misunderstanding, misbehavior, antagonism, a sense of shame or sin, or otherwise making himself or herself a victim of a swindle or a gambit others set up.
Doesn't a divorce rate grow up in the Western society whenever Israel is at war?
* * *
It is true that you should leave your family when you are called by God.
It should be extremely lucky if God says that you and your family leave your home and head for the land He promises.
* * *
If a couple contains every sin of the both within themselves forever in their own tie-up without divorce, society will become more decent and get more chances to develop. They alone have to be victims of each other.
It must apply even to neighboring countries, such as Israel and Lebanon which formed a single region in most of historical eras in the past.
"REJOICE OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS"
Monday, July 31, 2006
Children in Lebanon Hit and Gone
Children in Lebanon Hit and Gone
We heard that many children were hit and gone in Lebanon.
If you heard that scores of children were killed on a single incident, you would think that criminals responsible should be cursed by God.
* * *
On March 12, 2003, a reporter for The International Herald Tribune wrote:
"A year ago Shimon Peres and senior Israeli Army intelligence officers estimated that the Hezbollah already had 8,000 of the rockets in their possession. Last week, they both raised that figure to 10,000." (http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/03/12/edlarry_ed3_.php)
If you take up 10,000 military rockets of your enemy at a procurement price of, say, US$10,000 for each, you simply need $100 million.
Israel spent 9 billion dollars for its defense.
Therefore, they only have to use 1.1 percent of their defense budget for eradicating the threat posed by 10,000 short/middle-distance rockets.
* * *
I do not think that God is pleased with Israelites in terms of this incident as He was 3500 years ago at Jericho, though Israelites have named their own missiles "Jericho."
If Israelites think that God is, I will be very much alerted.
If Israelites think that God is not, they had better be very much alerted.
"FOR IF THEY DID, THEY WOULD TURN TO GOD"
We heard that many children were hit and gone in Lebanon.
If you heard that scores of children were killed on a single incident, you would think that criminals responsible should be cursed by God.
* * *
On March 12, 2003, a reporter for The International Herald Tribune wrote:
"A year ago Shimon Peres and senior Israeli Army intelligence officers estimated that the Hezbollah already had 8,000 of the rockets in their possession. Last week, they both raised that figure to 10,000." (http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/03/12/edlarry_ed3_.php)
If you take up 10,000 military rockets of your enemy at a procurement price of, say, US$10,000 for each, you simply need $100 million.
Israel spent 9 billion dollars for its defense.
Therefore, they only have to use 1.1 percent of their defense budget for eradicating the threat posed by 10,000 short/middle-distance rockets.
* * *
I do not think that God is pleased with Israelites in terms of this incident as He was 3500 years ago at Jericho, though Israelites have named their own missiles "Jericho."
If Israelites think that God is, I will be very much alerted.
If Israelites think that God is not, they had better be very much alerted.
"FOR IF THEY DID, THEY WOULD TURN TO GOD"
Saturday, July 29, 2006
A Hiroshima Story
A Hiroshima Story
When Hiroshima was attacked with an atomic bomb in the summer of 1945, a teenage school girl was saved by luck in a whole skin behind a concrete wall.
Though she felt sometimes a sick, her survival was a kind of miracles for someone having suffered an atomic bomb attack within a mile of its hypocenter.
In those days, as most of young men went into military service, school girls were mobilized to working in various social sectors.
The girl was rendering s service as a conductor of a tramcar of Hiroshima City.
One day before the atomic bomb attack, in a meeting of those girls working for tramcar systems, a male manager scolded some other girls for having picked and eaten peaches from trees in someone's orchard.
The girl in question, however, got envious of those illegal peach pickers, though she did not like to be reproved so hard. Food situations were indeed so bad at that time, while a rationing system was enforced.
Therefore, after the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, she was very unhappy even for that reason alone, though she was wholly saved and very busy helping other victims of the huge, destructive bomb.
And, when the war ended on August 15, those girls working for tramcar systems gathered and decided to put an end to their lives as their beloved Empire was going to be ruined. However, as they saw a tramcar still running in the city of debris for its dear life, they changed their minds and decided to continue to help other victims.
Yet, she could not be unhappier in those days. Her mind became wild.
However, as an angel expected, one day in a refugee center, a wounded man gave her a peach.
She took it and enjoyed the taste, which in that instant healed her mind and heart.
Thereafter, she has been living a long and peaceful life even to this day, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper.
* * *
Japan also recovered from devastation like the teenage school girl in Hiroshima in 1945.
But, after WWII, how God gave a peach to Japan is still unknown.
God kindly gives a peach to a good girl. All the more, He would probably give a peach to any war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel.
* * *
Anyway, take a peach once in a while in commemoration of a recovery of one sweet heart in Hiroshima in 1945.
"ONCE AGAIN THEY WILL LIVE UNDER MY PROTECTION"
When Hiroshima was attacked with an atomic bomb in the summer of 1945, a teenage school girl was saved by luck in a whole skin behind a concrete wall.
Though she felt sometimes a sick, her survival was a kind of miracles for someone having suffered an atomic bomb attack within a mile of its hypocenter.
In those days, as most of young men went into military service, school girls were mobilized to working in various social sectors.
The girl was rendering s service as a conductor of a tramcar of Hiroshima City.
One day before the atomic bomb attack, in a meeting of those girls working for tramcar systems, a male manager scolded some other girls for having picked and eaten peaches from trees in someone's orchard.
The girl in question, however, got envious of those illegal peach pickers, though she did not like to be reproved so hard. Food situations were indeed so bad at that time, while a rationing system was enforced.
Therefore, after the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, she was very unhappy even for that reason alone, though she was wholly saved and very busy helping other victims of the huge, destructive bomb.
And, when the war ended on August 15, those girls working for tramcar systems gathered and decided to put an end to their lives as their beloved Empire was going to be ruined. However, as they saw a tramcar still running in the city of debris for its dear life, they changed their minds and decided to continue to help other victims.
Yet, she could not be unhappier in those days. Her mind became wild.
However, as an angel expected, one day in a refugee center, a wounded man gave her a peach.
She took it and enjoyed the taste, which in that instant healed her mind and heart.
Thereafter, she has been living a long and peaceful life even to this day, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper.
* * *
Japan also recovered from devastation like the teenage school girl in Hiroshima in 1945.
But, after WWII, how God gave a peach to Japan is still unknown.
God kindly gives a peach to a good girl. All the more, He would probably give a peach to any war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel.
* * *
Anyway, take a peach once in a while in commemoration of a recovery of one sweet heart in Hiroshima in 1945.
"ONCE AGAIN THEY WILL LIVE UNDER MY PROTECTION"
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Charlie Chaplin on Air
Charlie Chaplin on Air
The night before, I saw a Chaplin's movie aired by Japan's public TV station.
Also, last night, I saw another Chaplin's movie on the same channel.
Tonight, I might see other Chaplin's movie in the same broadcast time.
According to him, the silent movie is a kind of ballet shows.
Yes, Charles Chaplin is a cool entertainer, but not a hero himself of permanently unemployed persons on the street whom he played.
I am always amazed, whenever I saw his movie, at a stark difference in presence, not a simple visula appearance, between a hobo hero Chaplin played and other figures surrounding him except a girl he loved in a story.
* * *
For example, I can confirm how ordinary people in America, say, in 1918, looked like from his movie "Dog's Life." But, Chaplin in the film looks aloof from all the others and the time. Put extremely, it is as if an Asian comedian in 2006 were in a street of the U.S. in 1918.
His expressions are very universal rather than American, British, or Western at a fundamental level.
Such techniques could be only absorbed by having experienced a very poor life and a real human tragedy in one's youth.
Indeed, a very poor life and a real human tragedy in 2006 must be the same as those in 1918 in terms of effect on human spirit.
* * *
So, if somebody could show a stark difference in appearance or personality among many colleagues or peers, he or she should have learnt something deeply concerned with humanity somewhere beforehand.
Therefore, I am enjoying seeing him in a movie, wondering how he had succeeded in acquiring such a charm but failed in his life in extending what he had learnt to the real world to become another Mahatma Gandhi or a Martin Luther King Jr., if I may say.
* * *
I hope that someday a Chaplin in the 21st century, no matter if he is a Muslim or an Israelite in Palestine, will make such a film as those Charles Chaplin produced, according to the wish of the Supreme God.
"NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD"
The night before, I saw a Chaplin's movie aired by Japan's public TV station.
Also, last night, I saw another Chaplin's movie on the same channel.
Tonight, I might see other Chaplin's movie in the same broadcast time.
According to him, the silent movie is a kind of ballet shows.
Yes, Charles Chaplin is a cool entertainer, but not a hero himself of permanently unemployed persons on the street whom he played.
I am always amazed, whenever I saw his movie, at a stark difference in presence, not a simple visula appearance, between a hobo hero Chaplin played and other figures surrounding him except a girl he loved in a story.
* * *
For example, I can confirm how ordinary people in America, say, in 1918, looked like from his movie "Dog's Life." But, Chaplin in the film looks aloof from all the others and the time. Put extremely, it is as if an Asian comedian in 2006 were in a street of the U.S. in 1918.
His expressions are very universal rather than American, British, or Western at a fundamental level.
Such techniques could be only absorbed by having experienced a very poor life and a real human tragedy in one's youth.
Indeed, a very poor life and a real human tragedy in 2006 must be the same as those in 1918 in terms of effect on human spirit.
* * *
So, if somebody could show a stark difference in appearance or personality among many colleagues or peers, he or she should have learnt something deeply concerned with humanity somewhere beforehand.
Therefore, I am enjoying seeing him in a movie, wondering how he had succeeded in acquiring such a charm but failed in his life in extending what he had learnt to the real world to become another Mahatma Gandhi or a Martin Luther King Jr., if I may say.
* * *
I hope that someday a Chaplin in the 21st century, no matter if he is a Muslim or an Israelite in Palestine, will make such a film as those Charles Chaplin produced, according to the wish of the Supreme God.
"NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD"
Monday, July 24, 2006
Women with a Gun in the U.S.
Women with a Gun in the U.S.
A Japanese woman put her impressions of an American novel in columns of a Japanese newspaper.
The novel was about daily lives of policewomen in the U.S.
The point of issue is that they shoot the suspected to death without hesitation even when they are off duty.
This feeling cannot arouse sympathy of Japanese female readers.
"American women with a gun are so quick to kill petty offenders!"
* * *
Of course, it is a result of long-term, horrible experiences of American policewomen, in my view.
But, Americans should be alerted to a kind of deterioration in their social environment.
It is also alarming that one in 35 citizens in the U.S. is a criminal or an ex-criminal.
* * *
To your astonishment, you cannot buy a handgun at any shops in Japan.
No family has a handgun technically in Japan.
Though it is yet to be the case in Japan, if everybody in a town has the same amount of money and assets in their pockets, none should carry a handgun with himself / herself on the street for any purposes.
* * *
It may also be an issue of a kind of psychological syndromes.
What they need is courage to seek a right solution, love for neighbors, even though those policewomen still have a right and duty to be armed with a handgun.
"JESUS HEALS MANY PEOPLE"
A Japanese woman put her impressions of an American novel in columns of a Japanese newspaper.
The novel was about daily lives of policewomen in the U.S.
The point of issue is that they shoot the suspected to death without hesitation even when they are off duty.
This feeling cannot arouse sympathy of Japanese female readers.
"American women with a gun are so quick to kill petty offenders!"
* * *
Of course, it is a result of long-term, horrible experiences of American policewomen, in my view.
But, Americans should be alerted to a kind of deterioration in their social environment.
It is also alarming that one in 35 citizens in the U.S. is a criminal or an ex-criminal.
* * *
To your astonishment, you cannot buy a handgun at any shops in Japan.
No family has a handgun technically in Japan.
Though it is yet to be the case in Japan, if everybody in a town has the same amount of money and assets in their pockets, none should carry a handgun with himself / herself on the street for any purposes.
* * *
It may also be an issue of a kind of psychological syndromes.
What they need is courage to seek a right solution, love for neighbors, even though those policewomen still have a right and duty to be armed with a handgun.
"JESUS HEALS MANY PEOPLE"
Friday, July 21, 2006
Nazareth Attacked
Nazareth Attacked
I heard a rumor that Hezbollah's rockets hit the town Nazareth, killing tow boys, brothers, of a Muslim family.
(Refer to http://www.examiner.com/a-183199~2_Young_Boys_Killed_by_Missile_in_Nazareth.html.)
I am afraid that it foretells the future of Palestine and the surrounding regions.
I mean that I cannot believe that Jesus Christ would not present anything serious and significant to mankind on this occasion of armed clash in his birth place as a member of mankind.
* * *
The last year's G8 meeting in the U.K. was synchronized by terrorist attacks in London.
This year, we have had North Korea's missile launchings, Mumbai trains bombings, and battles between Israel and Hezbollah, in addition to another tsunami disaster in Indonesia, the largest Islamic nation in the world.
Indeed, I did not expect that Japanese Prime Minister would run through all these incidents so closely in this period.
Did God use him to have people focus on Palestine as the Japanese prime minister made a state visit to Israel which had been postponed since former prime minister of Israel had been taken with serious illness?
If so, you had better anyhow check the Bible and al-Quran, in addition to some reports from Japan.
"LOOK! A MESSENGER IS COMING"
I heard a rumor that Hezbollah's rockets hit the town Nazareth, killing tow boys, brothers, of a Muslim family.
(Refer to http://www.examiner.com/a-183199~2_Young_Boys_Killed_by_Missile_in_Nazareth.html.)
I am afraid that it foretells the future of Palestine and the surrounding regions.
I mean that I cannot believe that Jesus Christ would not present anything serious and significant to mankind on this occasion of armed clash in his birth place as a member of mankind.
* * *
The last year's G8 meeting in the U.K. was synchronized by terrorist attacks in London.
This year, we have had North Korea's missile launchings, Mumbai trains bombings, and battles between Israel and Hezbollah, in addition to another tsunami disaster in Indonesia, the largest Islamic nation in the world.
Indeed, I did not expect that Japanese Prime Minister would run through all these incidents so closely in this period.
Did God use him to have people focus on Palestine as the Japanese prime minister made a state visit to Israel which had been postponed since former prime minister of Israel had been taken with serious illness?
If so, you had better anyhow check the Bible and al-Quran, in addition to some reports from Japan.
"LOOK! A MESSENGER IS COMING"
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Bread and Soccer since the Roman Empire Fighting in Gallia
Bread and Soccer since the Roman Empire Fighting in Gallia
The World Cup Soccer Games were over as one billion audiences were reportedly watching.
However, sport-loving children in the world might be highly confused watching the struggle between a French player and an Italian player.
As I had felt beforehand something wrong in this World Cup Games 2006, I did not expect even the Japanese team to leave any monument on this occasion, while waiting for a kind of revelation from Heaven.
Japan lost to Brazil; Brazil lost to France; and France finally lost to Italy. And Italy has been suffering from frauds and degeneracy in its soccer sector and related business.
No one was a true hero or winner. Every team should be regarded as failed.
That is why God had beforehand guided me to avoiding holding any positive and joyful expectation in the World Cup Soccer Games 2006.
* * *
But, I was impressed by African French players, rather many in numbers, running after, kicking, and heading the ball so dynamically.
Italian players might still carry DNAs of ancient Roman Empire soldiers as they showed effective defense formation in front of the goal.
Truly, the Roman Empire conquered enemies in the north (of the Alps) and the south (of the Mediterranean).
However, the Empire resolved itself due to Christianity that eroded the wild-spiritual basement of the Empire and guided the people into peaceful mode of living.
* * *
So, you had better teach children that ancient people in the north and the south of the Roman Empire were fighting that way against Roman soldiers.
Therefore, be a believer before becoming a soccer hero in your school or community.
* * *
I hope that the World Cup Soccer Games Extra 2007 will be held in Iraq or Afghanistan to raise money for supporting victims and their families.
In that case, I will a hundred percent want the Japanese "samurai" team to work on matches.
"THEN THE TEMPLE WILL BE RESTORED"
The World Cup Soccer Games were over as one billion audiences were reportedly watching.
However, sport-loving children in the world might be highly confused watching the struggle between a French player and an Italian player.
As I had felt beforehand something wrong in this World Cup Games 2006, I did not expect even the Japanese team to leave any monument on this occasion, while waiting for a kind of revelation from Heaven.
Japan lost to Brazil; Brazil lost to France; and France finally lost to Italy. And Italy has been suffering from frauds and degeneracy in its soccer sector and related business.
No one was a true hero or winner. Every team should be regarded as failed.
That is why God had beforehand guided me to avoiding holding any positive and joyful expectation in the World Cup Soccer Games 2006.
* * *
But, I was impressed by African French players, rather many in numbers, running after, kicking, and heading the ball so dynamically.
Italian players might still carry DNAs of ancient Roman Empire soldiers as they showed effective defense formation in front of the goal.
Truly, the Roman Empire conquered enemies in the north (of the Alps) and the south (of the Mediterranean).
However, the Empire resolved itself due to Christianity that eroded the wild-spiritual basement of the Empire and guided the people into peaceful mode of living.
* * *
So, you had better teach children that ancient people in the north and the south of the Roman Empire were fighting that way against Roman soldiers.
Therefore, be a believer before becoming a soccer hero in your school or community.
* * *
I hope that the World Cup Soccer Games Extra 2007 will be held in Iraq or Afghanistan to raise money for supporting victims and their families.
In that case, I will a hundred percent want the Japanese "samurai" team to work on matches.
"THEN THE TEMPLE WILL BE RESTORED"
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Heading for 4000-Year Glory
Heading for 4000-Year Glory
At last, Japanese Prime Minister is going to visit Israel and Palestine prior to joining the G8 meeting to be held in Russia.
The latitudes on which Palestine is located are almost the same as those of the southern part of the Japan's main island (called Honsyu).
People look up at the sky and stars at identical angles in both the holy regions.
* * *
An unbelievable fact about modern Palestine is that Muslims did not help Israelites establish their own country in Palestine after WWII in which millions of Israelites were killed by Christians due to the lack of a country of their own.
As Israelites and Muslims, in addition to Christians, share the same tradition as successors of Abraham in terms of faith, it is very unbelievable that Israelites could not get support and compassion from Muslims enough to reestablish their own country in their promised land so as to avoid future persecution by Christians.
* * *
If 4000 years ago an old man originally called Abram had not left a certain distinguished city in a region presently called southern Iraq following an order by God and heading westward, no Israelites should have been established as a tribe; no Christians might have ever appeared; and no Islam should have been given to mankind.
* * *
This is my fundamental idea about the three great religions an ancient Mesopotamian (or Sumerian) initiated.
I hope that you would also join me in this perception.
"THE LORD, THE SPRING OF FRESH WATER"
At last, Japanese Prime Minister is going to visit Israel and Palestine prior to joining the G8 meeting to be held in Russia.
The latitudes on which Palestine is located are almost the same as those of the southern part of the Japan's main island (called Honsyu).
People look up at the sky and stars at identical angles in both the holy regions.
* * *
An unbelievable fact about modern Palestine is that Muslims did not help Israelites establish their own country in Palestine after WWII in which millions of Israelites were killed by Christians due to the lack of a country of their own.
As Israelites and Muslims, in addition to Christians, share the same tradition as successors of Abraham in terms of faith, it is very unbelievable that Israelites could not get support and compassion from Muslims enough to reestablish their own country in their promised land so as to avoid future persecution by Christians.
* * *
If 4000 years ago an old man originally called Abram had not left a certain distinguished city in a region presently called southern Iraq following an order by God and heading westward, no Israelites should have been established as a tribe; no Christians might have ever appeared; and no Islam should have been given to mankind.
* * *
This is my fundamental idea about the three great religions an ancient Mesopotamian (or Sumerian) initiated.
I hope that you would also join me in this perception.
"THE LORD, THE SPRING OF FRESH WATER"
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Appealing to Japan with Seven Missiles So Launched
Appealing to Japan with Seven Missiles So Launched
As I had warned, North Korea fired some missiles, actually, to certain areas of the Sea of Japan along Russian coast lines.
And now, people are talking about brinkmanship-addicted North Korea, embarrassed China, cautious Russia, betrayed South Korea, and peace-addicted Japan.
However, so long as none of those missiles, reportedly test-fired, does not fly over Japanese islands to the North Pacific or the Bering Sea near Alaska, there is nothing to worry about seriously, though North Korea is believed to have some nucleus bombs.
North Korea has no options ultimately but to get great support from Japan.
They fired some missiles, as if they had been urging Japan to do something to help and rescue them.
* * *
But, it might be interesting for some people to confirm the following facts that happened around July 5 in the East Asian time zone:
- Japanese Prime Minister returned home from his state visit to the U.S.
- The U.S. was celebrating the Independence Day.
- The Space Shuttle was about to be launched.
- The USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was in port at a Japanese northern port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The flag ship of the US Navy's seventh fleet was in port at a Russian port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The North Korea diplomat branch was busy dealing with Japanese reporters invited to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, to give some information on an abducted Japanese who has been the focus of the social interest in Japan.
- Leaders of the largest opposition party in Japan were on a visit to China to meet Chinese leaders, including Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
- The G8 summit meeting in Russia is getting near, according to schedule.
* * *
If North Korea launched a missile, namely Taepodon 2 or 3, capable of carrying a nucleus warhead over the Japanese land to the U.S. maritime border with an intention to display their military capability of hitting the U.S. soil, they would incur American attacks at least on their missile sites and nucleus facilities.
In that case, the U.S. would not just sit and wait for another 9/11 terror to happen sometime in future with nucleus missiles instead of passenger jet planes.
North Korea might like to appeal to other countries that hate the U.S. for possible sales of missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland
However, under such conditions and through overt anti-American dealings, it is very unlikely that any countries would purchase such ballistic missiles, which might be used as an excuse of attacks on them by the U.S.
* * *
Nonetheless, North Korea seems to like to have a missile capable of reaching the American Continent, but they think they have to do so without giving a sense of imminent threat to the world and also without having the world get concerned much about possible nucleus warheads.
Yet, it may be for possible sales of those missiles in addition to getting in the inside track in negotiations with the U.S.
* * *
But my feeling is that some leaders of North Korea, including or excluding their supreme leader, had planned the test firing of the seven missiles at this time, aiming at appealing to Japan.
They might highly expect Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to make the third visit to Pyongyang to resume diplomatic sessions between the two countries for normalizing their relationships.
Of course, there are still many obstacles for Japan to take up the diplomatic channel into North Korea, such as Japanese abducted by and still kept in North Korea.
* * *
Again, in future, I hope that North Korea will become a friendly nation to Japan so as to become another Swiss between its old allies, China and Russia, and the U.S. force-dominant South Korea.
But, before that, all nations must be judged by the God Almighty.
"THE DAY IS NEAR"
As I had warned, North Korea fired some missiles, actually, to certain areas of the Sea of Japan along Russian coast lines.
And now, people are talking about brinkmanship-addicted North Korea, embarrassed China, cautious Russia, betrayed South Korea, and peace-addicted Japan.
However, so long as none of those missiles, reportedly test-fired, does not fly over Japanese islands to the North Pacific or the Bering Sea near Alaska, there is nothing to worry about seriously, though North Korea is believed to have some nucleus bombs.
North Korea has no options ultimately but to get great support from Japan.
They fired some missiles, as if they had been urging Japan to do something to help and rescue them.
* * *
But, it might be interesting for some people to confirm the following facts that happened around July 5 in the East Asian time zone:
- Japanese Prime Minister returned home from his state visit to the U.S.
- The U.S. was celebrating the Independence Day.
- The Space Shuttle was about to be launched.
- The USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was in port at a Japanese northern port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The flag ship of the US Navy's seventh fleet was in port at a Russian port city facing the Sea of Japan.
- The North Korea diplomat branch was busy dealing with Japanese reporters invited to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, to give some information on an abducted Japanese who has been the focus of the social interest in Japan.
- Leaders of the largest opposition party in Japan were on a visit to China to meet Chinese leaders, including Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
- The G8 summit meeting in Russia is getting near, according to schedule.
* * *
If North Korea launched a missile, namely Taepodon 2 or 3, capable of carrying a nucleus warhead over the Japanese land to the U.S. maritime border with an intention to display their military capability of hitting the U.S. soil, they would incur American attacks at least on their missile sites and nucleus facilities.
In that case, the U.S. would not just sit and wait for another 9/11 terror to happen sometime in future with nucleus missiles instead of passenger jet planes.
North Korea might like to appeal to other countries that hate the U.S. for possible sales of missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland
However, under such conditions and through overt anti-American dealings, it is very unlikely that any countries would purchase such ballistic missiles, which might be used as an excuse of attacks on them by the U.S.
* * *
Nonetheless, North Korea seems to like to have a missile capable of reaching the American Continent, but they think they have to do so without giving a sense of imminent threat to the world and also without having the world get concerned much about possible nucleus warheads.
Yet, it may be for possible sales of those missiles in addition to getting in the inside track in negotiations with the U.S.
* * *
But my feeling is that some leaders of North Korea, including or excluding their supreme leader, had planned the test firing of the seven missiles at this time, aiming at appealing to Japan.
They might highly expect Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to make the third visit to Pyongyang to resume diplomatic sessions between the two countries for normalizing their relationships.
Of course, there are still many obstacles for Japan to take up the diplomatic channel into North Korea, such as Japanese abducted by and still kept in North Korea.
* * *
Again, in future, I hope that North Korea will become a friendly nation to Japan so as to become another Swiss between its old allies, China and Russia, and the U.S. force-dominant South Korea.
But, before that, all nations must be judged by the God Almighty.
"THE DAY IS NEAR"
Sunday, July 02, 2006
70% of Modern Chinese Terminologies Are Japanese Originally
70% of Modern Chinese Terminologies Are Japanese Originally
A Japanese scholar visited Beijing University in 1973, that is, at the peak of the Cultural Revolution, and had a talk with professors and students.
A Chinese student said, "Though Chinese characters were invented in ancient China, modern Chinese academic terminologies were all imported from Japan, weren't they?"
It is true. Majority, namely about 70%, of modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science were originally invented in Japan when Japan opened its door to the world late in the 19th century.
However, though they share the same writing expressions of those terminologies, pronounciation is very different between Japanese and Chinese, in addition to their grammar.
* * *
When Japanese began to absorb Western Civilization, they encountered many unfamiliar or different-style concepts, such as Communism, Socialism, Economy, Freedom, and Market, though similar concepts had been in Japanese culture and society. Accordingly, Japanese invented a new expression to each of those new concepts.
In doing so, they first selected two or more conventional Kanji characters as elements related to a new concept. Then, by combining these Kanji characters in a very innovative way, Japanese invented many modern Japanese academic terminologies, each of which precisely matches a Western academic terminology.
* * *
As Japanese Kanji letters had been originally imported from China and thus almost identical with Chinese letters, Chinese scholars and leaders decades ago or more than a century ago decided to import those Japanese Kanji-based terminologies, since until the mid 20th century China had been in wars, civil wars, and great social turmoil without any room for stable basement and development of academic activities.
* * *
Modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science are expressed in combination of two or more Chinese characters. But, those who first invented such combinations to mean modern concepts, which were imported from Europe and America, were Japanese, not Chinese, of almost 150 years ago.
China imported those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters from Japan, and they still continue to use them even under the regime of the Chinese Communist Party.
It is said almost 1000 terminologies were imported to China from Japan before WWII, WWI, and the Japanese-Russo War, which helped Chinese people develop modern science and culture.
Japan is the only country from which China imported such new words to use in its society as well as in daily lives and activities of the people to that extent.
* * *
Now many Americans are learning Chinese.
More advanced they are in their study in Chinese, more they will learn terminologies Japanese invented and Chinese imported in the Meiji Era, late in the 19th century.
It is not a secret between Japan and China. Most of Chinese scholars love to use those Japanese-Kanji-based terminologies which give them new insight about depth of Japanese Kanji letters or their own Chinese characters.
* * *
In other words, they are learning Japanese terminologies when foreigners are proudly learning Chinese.
Put extremely in favor of Japan, it is like they are actually using Japanese technologies, inventions, and funds, when foreigners are sometimes proudly using Chinese modern products, services, and systems.
* * *
Other important issue is that due to the great work of those Japanese in the Meiji Era, Japanese as well as Chinese have not had to learn English, French, Germany, Latin or any other foreign languages to master Western science and culture.
Every valuable Western work can be translated into Japanese as well as Chinese using those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters.
In this respect, Japan has been a very exceptional country.
It is why, for example, African leaders are often astonished at and perplexed by a fact that while no Japanese speak English or French well they have such advanced technologies and economy.
While only one percent of African population had a chance to read and understand Western science and technologies with learnt Western languages, 100 percent of the Japanese had basically a chance to master it in their own language.
* * *
Even without Japan in history, Chinese civilization might be well advanced until the late 19th century.
But, the whole world today must look very different.
The difference must be more significant than in case of no existence of New Continents, including the American Continent.
However, can you really imagine such a world of today?
The difference is only matched by that caused by assumed non-existence of the God-blessed Israelites for 4000 years of human history, in my view.
"BACK AND FORTH WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHTNING"
A Japanese scholar visited Beijing University in 1973, that is, at the peak of the Cultural Revolution, and had a talk with professors and students.
A Chinese student said, "Though Chinese characters were invented in ancient China, modern Chinese academic terminologies were all imported from Japan, weren't they?"
It is true. Majority, namely about 70%, of modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science were originally invented in Japan when Japan opened its door to the world late in the 19th century.
However, though they share the same writing expressions of those terminologies, pronounciation is very different between Japanese and Chinese, in addition to their grammar.
* * *
When Japanese began to absorb Western Civilization, they encountered many unfamiliar or different-style concepts, such as Communism, Socialism, Economy, Freedom, and Market, though similar concepts had been in Japanese culture and society. Accordingly, Japanese invented a new expression to each of those new concepts.
In doing so, they first selected two or more conventional Kanji characters as elements related to a new concept. Then, by combining these Kanji characters in a very innovative way, Japanese invented many modern Japanese academic terminologies, each of which precisely matches a Western academic terminology.
* * *
As Japanese Kanji letters had been originally imported from China and thus almost identical with Chinese letters, Chinese scholars and leaders decades ago or more than a century ago decided to import those Japanese Kanji-based terminologies, since until the mid 20th century China had been in wars, civil wars, and great social turmoil without any room for stable basement and development of academic activities.
* * *
Modern Chinese terminologies related to natural science and social science are expressed in combination of two or more Chinese characters. But, those who first invented such combinations to mean modern concepts, which were imported from Europe and America, were Japanese, not Chinese, of almost 150 years ago.
China imported those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters from Japan, and they still continue to use them even under the regime of the Chinese Communist Party.
It is said almost 1000 terminologies were imported to China from Japan before WWII, WWI, and the Japanese-Russo War, which helped Chinese people develop modern science and culture.
Japan is the only country from which China imported such new words to use in its society as well as in daily lives and activities of the people to that extent.
* * *
Now many Americans are learning Chinese.
More advanced they are in their study in Chinese, more they will learn terminologies Japanese invented and Chinese imported in the Meiji Era, late in the 19th century.
It is not a secret between Japan and China. Most of Chinese scholars love to use those Japanese-Kanji-based terminologies which give them new insight about depth of Japanese Kanji letters or their own Chinese characters.
* * *
In other words, they are learning Japanese terminologies when foreigners are proudly learning Chinese.
Put extremely in favor of Japan, it is like they are actually using Japanese technologies, inventions, and funds, when foreigners are sometimes proudly using Chinese modern products, services, and systems.
* * *
Other important issue is that due to the great work of those Japanese in the Meiji Era, Japanese as well as Chinese have not had to learn English, French, Germany, Latin or any other foreign languages to master Western science and culture.
Every valuable Western work can be translated into Japanese as well as Chinese using those terminologies expressed in Kanji letters.
In this respect, Japan has been a very exceptional country.
It is why, for example, African leaders are often astonished at and perplexed by a fact that while no Japanese speak English or French well they have such advanced technologies and economy.
While only one percent of African population had a chance to read and understand Western science and technologies with learnt Western languages, 100 percent of the Japanese had basically a chance to master it in their own language.
* * *
Even without Japan in history, Chinese civilization might be well advanced until the late 19th century.
But, the whole world today must look very different.
The difference must be more significant than in case of no existence of New Continents, including the American Continent.
However, can you really imagine such a world of today?
The difference is only matched by that caused by assumed non-existence of the God-blessed Israelites for 4000 years of human history, in my view.
"BACK AND FORTH WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHTNING"
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Palestine to Europe; North Korea to Japan
Palestine to Europe; North Korea to Japan
The picture of a frigate ship of the Israel navy off the coast of Gaza after having fired on people on the beach was very impressive.
Palestine may be the only place on the earth with full history of wars and current conflicts to that extent.
Palestine is also very near to Rome, Paris, and London. It is nearer than Tokyo is to Viet Nam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
How can Europeans bear that?
* * *
On the other hand, the last Stalinist nation on the earth North Korea is very near to Japan.
Majority of the people of North Korea are poor, very poor, and extremely poor. In any village, probably, you cannot find any family who owns a color TV, a PC, a mobile phone, a car, and US$10,000 equivalent all together.
Nonetheless, their government is preparing a launch of a new type of rockets or missiles. It has reportedly a capability to hit Alaska.
They might not launch it, since Japan and other countries are all against it.
But, they might launch it setting the timing at Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's state visit to the U.S.
If they cannot launch the rocket, it would symbolize the beginning of the end of the regime in North Korea.
If they do, still it would incur difficult conditions that should take the regime to the last phase.
* * *
The issue here is whether the shelling from an Israel navy ship might lead to the end of glorious Palestine.
Once, namely 2000 years ago, assaults by Roman Empire's military put an end to holy Palestine crowned with appearance of the Son of God or Jesus Christ.
Israelites returned to Palestine after millions of victims over 2000 year history to establish glorious Palestine for them.
But, some kind of ending might or must be near to contemporary Palestine, as something being repeated over and over again in the human history.
* * *
There is a big difference between Japan and the Great Britain, though two island countries show some kind of symmetry in terms of geography and history.
But, Great Britain was once a colony of the Roman Empire. Japan has never been a colony of any Chinese dynasty.
Therefore, you had better listen to Japan on anything about Palestine. Japan can be cool in judging the situation there geographically and historically.
* * *
North Korea is the only country on the earth where a Japanese passport is void.
Japan should need a cool intermediary to normalize the relationship with the poor neighboring country that has nuclear bombs, like Israel, and long rage missiles being developed and further pursued under a Stalinist regime.
* * *
A "poor men's nucleus bomb" is a true nuclear bomb in the Far East.
And poor men's salvation might be the true salvation by the God in the Far East.
"'TAKE IT' HE SAID, 'THIS IS MY BODY'"
The picture of a frigate ship of the Israel navy off the coast of Gaza after having fired on people on the beach was very impressive.
Palestine may be the only place on the earth with full history of wars and current conflicts to that extent.
Palestine is also very near to Rome, Paris, and London. It is nearer than Tokyo is to Viet Nam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
How can Europeans bear that?
* * *
On the other hand, the last Stalinist nation on the earth North Korea is very near to Japan.
Majority of the people of North Korea are poor, very poor, and extremely poor. In any village, probably, you cannot find any family who owns a color TV, a PC, a mobile phone, a car, and US$10,000 equivalent all together.
Nonetheless, their government is preparing a launch of a new type of rockets or missiles. It has reportedly a capability to hit Alaska.
They might not launch it, since Japan and other countries are all against it.
But, they might launch it setting the timing at Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's state visit to the U.S.
If they cannot launch the rocket, it would symbolize the beginning of the end of the regime in North Korea.
If they do, still it would incur difficult conditions that should take the regime to the last phase.
* * *
The issue here is whether the shelling from an Israel navy ship might lead to the end of glorious Palestine.
Once, namely 2000 years ago, assaults by Roman Empire's military put an end to holy Palestine crowned with appearance of the Son of God or Jesus Christ.
Israelites returned to Palestine after millions of victims over 2000 year history to establish glorious Palestine for them.
But, some kind of ending might or must be near to contemporary Palestine, as something being repeated over and over again in the human history.
* * *
There is a big difference between Japan and the Great Britain, though two island countries show some kind of symmetry in terms of geography and history.
But, Great Britain was once a colony of the Roman Empire. Japan has never been a colony of any Chinese dynasty.
Therefore, you had better listen to Japan on anything about Palestine. Japan can be cool in judging the situation there geographically and historically.
* * *
North Korea is the only country on the earth where a Japanese passport is void.
Japan should need a cool intermediary to normalize the relationship with the poor neighboring country that has nuclear bombs, like Israel, and long rage missiles being developed and further pursued under a Stalinist regime.
* * *
A "poor men's nucleus bomb" is a true nuclear bomb in the Far East.
And poor men's salvation might be the true salvation by the God in the Far East.
"'TAKE IT' HE SAID, 'THIS IS MY BODY'"
Friday, June 23, 2006
60 More Years to Master the Japanese Sword
60 More Years to Master the Japanese Sword
I have seen an unbelievable news report.
Two old Japanese craftsmen have been making Japanese scissors for over 60 years.
They are brothers, 80 years old or a little younger.
They burn iron bars and hit them with an iron hammer to form each part of a pair of scissors, mainly used for garment cutting.
They started this profession just after WWII, namely in 1945.
* * *
The technique is the same as the one employed for making a Japanese sword.
Traditionally Japanese used iron sands to make ironware. There are no large-scale iron mines except those including the mangetic iron ore in Japan.
What is worse, though we have had some coals, they are mostly deep under the ground. Therefore, until Japan introduced western technology late in the 19th century, it was not easy to make ironware, including the Japanese sword, from any types of iron sources.
However, it is well known that there are no swords or knives in the world that can match the Japanese sword in terms of quality and strength.
The nearest quality is only found in razors manufactured by German Solingen, though even Germans could not figure out another way to acheive the same quality as the Japanese sword.
* * *
Europeans have been historically lucky to have cokes that can provide necessary heat to melt iron. Iron needs heat at 1,800 degrees Celsius for melting. Cokes meets this condition. But, Japanese had to use charcoals that can provide heat at most at 1,200 degrees Celsius, though they chose a special type.
So, ancient Japanese invented special skills to make the high-quality of ironware through the use of charcoals, which requires the striking of iron with a hammer in very many times as well as water kept at a certain temperature for delicately contracting iron heated and hit well.
Each layer of a Japanese sword (usually consisting of three layers through a blade) includes a specific amount of carbon within iron to the best ratio, respectively.
It is not only material that makes the Japanese sword superb. The warp of a blade is also a key to makeing it especially edged and sharp. With this figure, the Japanese sword has sharpness that matches a safety razor.
* * *
In a certain test which was conducted in the U.S. and televised in Japan some time ago, they found that even a bullet fired from a heavy handgun was completely split in half when hitting the blade of a Japanese sword vertically positioned.
They needed several bullets fired from a heavy military machinegun to break the Japanese sword.
Peaceful nature of Japan's soil allowed for creation of the best and the strongest sword in the world, instaed of forcing the people to be poorly armed with, say, a hard but brittle knife.
* * *
Europe has had enough iron and coal mines that made it easier to make any ironware. But, Japanese had to take some time to establish a unique method to make ironware using iron sands and charcoals, which was accomplished in the sixth century.
(But, in this modern age, Japan has been one of top steel-making as well as iron-ore importing countries since its massive rebuilding of the nation's economy after WWII, while defeating the U.K. and other Western competitors and helping China and Korea luanch their own steel industry.)
* * *
If Europeans came to Japan, they could use neither iron ore nor cokes. And if Japanese visited Europe, they could not use iron sands and charcoals of a special type.
Either side cannot produce their best weapons in the foreign territory.
* * *
However, there are such ordinary people in Japan who have spent all of their professional lives, namely for 60 years, making Japanese scissors by hands with fire, water, and a hammer.
And they are respected and so televised.
But, we may need 60 more years to master how to use Japanese swords in Europe.
Then Japanese warriors, or samurai, might be well respected and so televised.
"NOT ABONDONED IN THE WORLD OF THE DEAD"
I have seen an unbelievable news report.
Two old Japanese craftsmen have been making Japanese scissors for over 60 years.
They are brothers, 80 years old or a little younger.
They burn iron bars and hit them with an iron hammer to form each part of a pair of scissors, mainly used for garment cutting.
They started this profession just after WWII, namely in 1945.
* * *
The technique is the same as the one employed for making a Japanese sword.
Traditionally Japanese used iron sands to make ironware. There are no large-scale iron mines except those including the mangetic iron ore in Japan.
What is worse, though we have had some coals, they are mostly deep under the ground. Therefore, until Japan introduced western technology late in the 19th century, it was not easy to make ironware, including the Japanese sword, from any types of iron sources.
However, it is well known that there are no swords or knives in the world that can match the Japanese sword in terms of quality and strength.
The nearest quality is only found in razors manufactured by German Solingen, though even Germans could not figure out another way to acheive the same quality as the Japanese sword.
* * *
Europeans have been historically lucky to have cokes that can provide necessary heat to melt iron. Iron needs heat at 1,800 degrees Celsius for melting. Cokes meets this condition. But, Japanese had to use charcoals that can provide heat at most at 1,200 degrees Celsius, though they chose a special type.
So, ancient Japanese invented special skills to make the high-quality of ironware through the use of charcoals, which requires the striking of iron with a hammer in very many times as well as water kept at a certain temperature for delicately contracting iron heated and hit well.
Each layer of a Japanese sword (usually consisting of three layers through a blade) includes a specific amount of carbon within iron to the best ratio, respectively.
It is not only material that makes the Japanese sword superb. The warp of a blade is also a key to makeing it especially edged and sharp. With this figure, the Japanese sword has sharpness that matches a safety razor.
* * *
In a certain test which was conducted in the U.S. and televised in Japan some time ago, they found that even a bullet fired from a heavy handgun was completely split in half when hitting the blade of a Japanese sword vertically positioned.
They needed several bullets fired from a heavy military machinegun to break the Japanese sword.
Peaceful nature of Japan's soil allowed for creation of the best and the strongest sword in the world, instaed of forcing the people to be poorly armed with, say, a hard but brittle knife.
* * *
Europe has had enough iron and coal mines that made it easier to make any ironware. But, Japanese had to take some time to establish a unique method to make ironware using iron sands and charcoals, which was accomplished in the sixth century.
(But, in this modern age, Japan has been one of top steel-making as well as iron-ore importing countries since its massive rebuilding of the nation's economy after WWII, while defeating the U.K. and other Western competitors and helping China and Korea luanch their own steel industry.)
* * *
If Europeans came to Japan, they could use neither iron ore nor cokes. And if Japanese visited Europe, they could not use iron sands and charcoals of a special type.
Either side cannot produce their best weapons in the foreign territory.
* * *
However, there are such ordinary people in Japan who have spent all of their professional lives, namely for 60 years, making Japanese scissors by hands with fire, water, and a hammer.
And they are respected and so televised.
But, we may need 60 more years to master how to use Japanese swords in Europe.
Then Japanese warriors, or samurai, might be well respected and so televised.
"NOT ABONDONED IN THE WORLD OF THE DEAD"
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Chief Executive vs. Missionaries
Chief Executive vs. Missionaries
The issue is neither how to choose a leader nor whom to choose.
But, it is as to whether we have a mechanism to save the nation if we choose a wrong leader who might bring a disaster to the people.
You might choose Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin if you have a strong mechanism to stop him when he started to venture to kill an uncountable number of innocent people mainly in order to secure his assets and position or for wahtsoever reasons.
* * *
Vote for a leader, let him carry the nation, and forget about one's own duty to the nation is a very dangerous thing.
You had better try to change a leader as much as possible and as often as possible.
It is at most one year, I suppose, that anybody can do his best at the top of government. In the second year, he must be exhausted too much to carry out his duty if he has been working as he is supposed to be.
* * *
We cannot trust the media too much.
We cannot trust bureaucrats, financial circles, and lawmakers, either.
However, we need trustworthy missionaries by the roadside of society (but not in a church).
They must shout to the people that our leader is a Hitler or a Stalin, if necessary.
* * *
As the Diet session in Japan was over, now political focus is on who will succeed the incumbent prime minister, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, this fall.
Whoever will accede to the highest post of the Japanese Government through democratic process, we had better prepare as many missionaries as possible who can be mobilized in case.
* * *
For people outside Japan, you had better regard future Japanese prime minister as a symbol of the Government.
It is also a Japanese tradition that a decisive power is in the hand of a top's surrogate's surrogate.
Of course, a poor man like me has to also act as his own surrogate's surrogate.
"MAKE A STRAIGHT PATH FOR THE LORD TO TRAVEL"
The issue is neither how to choose a leader nor whom to choose.
But, it is as to whether we have a mechanism to save the nation if we choose a wrong leader who might bring a disaster to the people.
You might choose Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin if you have a strong mechanism to stop him when he started to venture to kill an uncountable number of innocent people mainly in order to secure his assets and position or for wahtsoever reasons.
* * *
Vote for a leader, let him carry the nation, and forget about one's own duty to the nation is a very dangerous thing.
You had better try to change a leader as much as possible and as often as possible.
It is at most one year, I suppose, that anybody can do his best at the top of government. In the second year, he must be exhausted too much to carry out his duty if he has been working as he is supposed to be.
* * *
We cannot trust the media too much.
We cannot trust bureaucrats, financial circles, and lawmakers, either.
However, we need trustworthy missionaries by the roadside of society (but not in a church).
They must shout to the people that our leader is a Hitler or a Stalin, if necessary.
* * *
As the Diet session in Japan was over, now political focus is on who will succeed the incumbent prime minister, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, this fall.
Whoever will accede to the highest post of the Japanese Government through democratic process, we had better prepare as many missionaries as possible who can be mobilized in case.
* * *
For people outside Japan, you had better regard future Japanese prime minister as a symbol of the Government.
It is also a Japanese tradition that a decisive power is in the hand of a top's surrogate's surrogate.
Of course, a poor man like me has to also act as his own surrogate's surrogate.
"MAKE A STRAIGHT PATH FOR THE LORD TO TRAVEL"
Monday, June 19, 2006
God's Anger on 9 Billion Dollars and 3.6 Billion Dollars (Endorsed by 10 Million Yen)
God's Anger on 9 Billion Dollars and 3.6 Billion Dollars (Endorsed by 10 Million Yen)
In the Wall Street, we know, they got a report on the governor of the Bank of Japan.
The governor supported Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami who quite actively helped Mr. Takafumi Horie get big money, nearly 9 billion dollars as aggregate market price, through very dubious stock-market transactions which also brought big profit to Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund.
And, both Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami and Mr. Takafumi Horie were arrested this year.
The governor several years ago, when he was working outside the Bank of Japan, invested about 90,000 dollars (10 million yen) in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund. After he was appointed as the governor of the Bank of Japan, he still continued to entrust the money to the fund till this February.
Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami was manipulating 3.6 billion dollar fund till recently. His fund got many overseas clients, for example, from the U.S.
* * *
Now it is widely known that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, a former high-ranking bureaucrat of the Japanese Government, had a lot of eminent friends while actively operating his fund, including the governor of the Bank of Japan, some parliament members of Japan's Diet, and a certain tycoon in the financial sector.
Any American investors would trust Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, if they are advised that his fund includes a private investment of the governor of the Bank of Japan who once served as an advisory-board member of the very fund.
* * *
As the Bank of Japan is the central bank of Japan, this news has attracted a great deal of attention even in the Wall Street.
But, the saddest part of this report is that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami has never invented any creative financial instruments based on science and economics, just like Mr. Takafumi Horie did not invent any innovative technology and business in the IT sector, though they got big money personally in unit of 100 million dollars through transactions in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
And, we are yet to see if the governor of the Bank of Japan has ever achieved something professionally innovative.
* * *
When the 9/11 general election was called last year, no Japanese dreamed of this sequence of incidents to happen soon.
At that time, Mr. Takafumi Horie war running for the election, while the media was praising Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami as a hero in a new era of Japan's financial sector.
But now, if you are a Japanese voter or taxpayer and informed that it is truly an expression of God's anger, you might find that it could be an only rationale for such fates of those super-rich people.
* * *
I do not recommend you to become super-rich.
If you are, make every effort not to be so, as I did very humbly on my part with the fear of God.
"MAKE THE DRY TREES BECOME GREEN AGAIN"
In the Wall Street, we know, they got a report on the governor of the Bank of Japan.
The governor supported Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami who quite actively helped Mr. Takafumi Horie get big money, nearly 9 billion dollars as aggregate market price, through very dubious stock-market transactions which also brought big profit to Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund.
And, both Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami and Mr. Takafumi Horie were arrested this year.
The governor several years ago, when he was working outside the Bank of Japan, invested about 90,000 dollars (10 million yen) in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund. After he was appointed as the governor of the Bank of Japan, he still continued to entrust the money to the fund till this February.
Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami was manipulating 3.6 billion dollar fund till recently. His fund got many overseas clients, for example, from the U.S.
* * *
Now it is widely known that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, a former high-ranking bureaucrat of the Japanese Government, had a lot of eminent friends while actively operating his fund, including the governor of the Bank of Japan, some parliament members of Japan's Diet, and a certain tycoon in the financial sector.
Any American investors would trust Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, if they are advised that his fund includes a private investment of the governor of the Bank of Japan who once served as an advisory-board member of the very fund.
* * *
As the Bank of Japan is the central bank of Japan, this news has attracted a great deal of attention even in the Wall Street.
But, the saddest part of this report is that Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami has never invented any creative financial instruments based on science and economics, just like Mr. Takafumi Horie did not invent any innovative technology and business in the IT sector, though they got big money personally in unit of 100 million dollars through transactions in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
And, we are yet to see if the governor of the Bank of Japan has ever achieved something professionally innovative.
* * *
When the 9/11 general election was called last year, no Japanese dreamed of this sequence of incidents to happen soon.
At that time, Mr. Takafumi Horie war running for the election, while the media was praising Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami as a hero in a new era of Japan's financial sector.
But now, if you are a Japanese voter or taxpayer and informed that it is truly an expression of God's anger, you might find that it could be an only rationale for such fates of those super-rich people.
* * *
I do not recommend you to become super-rich.
If you are, make every effort not to be so, as I did very humbly on my part with the fear of God.
"MAKE THE DRY TREES BECOME GREEN AGAIN"
Friday, June 16, 2006
Successful Tracing of an Electron or Memory of Blue LED in Japan
Successful Tracing of an Electron or Memory of Blue LED in Japan
Everybody uses electricity that is a main feature of the contemporary civilization.
Without electricity, no TVs, no PCs, and no cellular phones are possible. You should live in an era before the Civil War, which might be not so bad for many.
But what is electricity? It is a flow of a tremendous number of electrons through a conductor such as a copper wire, which can be measured by ampere.
Then what is an electron? It is a very elemental particle far smaller than an atom. For example, one gram (0.03 ounces) of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
An electron is 100,000 times smaller than an atom.
Therefore, it is very difficult to monitor or measure a movement of a single electron. But, a Japanese research group has recently succeeded in doing so.
For the first time in human history, mankind can now measure movement of a single electron owing to hard and good work of a Japanese research group supported by NTT and other organizations.
* * *
Another famous work in this field of applied solid physics is an invention of a blue light-emitting diode (LED), a long-time dream of industry for it was so useful but looked so impossible.
The invention was carried out by a Japanese company, Nichia Corporation, in 1993. But, an employee of the company, Mr. Shuji Nakamura, claimed that the patent right of the blue LED belongs to him.
The dispute was settled through an appeal court that admitted a big contribution of Mr. Shuji Nakamura to the invention and ordered the company to pay a large amount of money to the former employee, which was actually observed.
However, Nichia Corporation renounced the related patent, which Mr. Shuji Nakamura focused on in his claim, because a technology based on the patent is no use for industrial production of blue LEDs. Hence, Mr. Shuji Nakamura's contribution to the company's revenue might become almost nil.
Mr. Shuji Nakamura, before a blue LED was invented, had been sent to a U.S. university for related study on the company's account; he also had been allowed to use a total of about five million dollar R&D expenses of the company for the blue LED development.
According to announcements and reports of Nichia Corporation, there are some other engineers and scientists within the company that had well cooperated with Mr. Shuji Nakamura in the blue LED project, and some of them had actually invented a very ingenious way of fabricating a related material for the blue LED which Mr. Shuji Nakamura could not find out on his own, though he was a leader of those engineers.
* * *
There are two important issues in these successful inventions. First, you alone cannot make a breakthrough invention nowadays in modern industrial and scientific environment where even your own unique idea is to the great extent based on, and supported by, various information and contribution from others.
Second, you alone should not claim a disproportional reward for your contribution, because such an eccentric behavior should destroy colleagues' moral fiber and thus damage future potential of sound development of an organization as well as an industrial society involving many citizens, voters, and tax payers.
* * *
Both the above two great engineering achievements were done in Japan.
But, if a brilliant Japanese engineer is in the U.S. pursuing such a big challenge, a kind of brokers concerned with such an extraordinarily promising technology might come to him as a friend who would convince him that he is a hero and not a mere employee or a slave of a company, and thus he should claim a big money as much as possible or, say, a billion dollars for an invention he was involved in as a leader.
Americans might not like such a story, but if individualism and freedom in the U.S. are most advanced in this world, then such a story would most likely happen in the U.S. before it occurs in any other countries including Japan.
* * *
For other peoples and Japanese, I would ask them to have a think about a fact that even one gram of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
One gold atom cannot make any sense to human beings as Gold.
No, it cannot, even if you can trace movement of an electron of one gold atom for a specific purpose, for example, to encourage many students and researchers to further study honestly and humbly with a true value sense in their work.
"AS A BIRD HOVERS OVER ITS NEST"
Everybody uses electricity that is a main feature of the contemporary civilization.
Without electricity, no TVs, no PCs, and no cellular phones are possible. You should live in an era before the Civil War, which might be not so bad for many.
But what is electricity? It is a flow of a tremendous number of electrons through a conductor such as a copper wire, which can be measured by ampere.
Then what is an electron? It is a very elemental particle far smaller than an atom. For example, one gram (0.03 ounces) of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
An electron is 100,000 times smaller than an atom.
Therefore, it is very difficult to monitor or measure a movement of a single electron. But, a Japanese research group has recently succeeded in doing so.
For the first time in human history, mankind can now measure movement of a single electron owing to hard and good work of a Japanese research group supported by NTT and other organizations.
* * *
Another famous work in this field of applied solid physics is an invention of a blue light-emitting diode (LED), a long-time dream of industry for it was so useful but looked so impossible.
The invention was carried out by a Japanese company, Nichia Corporation, in 1993. But, an employee of the company, Mr. Shuji Nakamura, claimed that the patent right of the blue LED belongs to him.
The dispute was settled through an appeal court that admitted a big contribution of Mr. Shuji Nakamura to the invention and ordered the company to pay a large amount of money to the former employee, which was actually observed.
However, Nichia Corporation renounced the related patent, which Mr. Shuji Nakamura focused on in his claim, because a technology based on the patent is no use for industrial production of blue LEDs. Hence, Mr. Shuji Nakamura's contribution to the company's revenue might become almost nil.
Mr. Shuji Nakamura, before a blue LED was invented, had been sent to a U.S. university for related study on the company's account; he also had been allowed to use a total of about five million dollar R&D expenses of the company for the blue LED development.
According to announcements and reports of Nichia Corporation, there are some other engineers and scientists within the company that had well cooperated with Mr. Shuji Nakamura in the blue LED project, and some of them had actually invented a very ingenious way of fabricating a related material for the blue LED which Mr. Shuji Nakamura could not find out on his own, though he was a leader of those engineers.
* * *
There are two important issues in these successful inventions. First, you alone cannot make a breakthrough invention nowadays in modern industrial and scientific environment where even your own unique idea is to the great extent based on, and supported by, various information and contribution from others.
Second, you alone should not claim a disproportional reward for your contribution, because such an eccentric behavior should destroy colleagues' moral fiber and thus damage future potential of sound development of an organization as well as an industrial society involving many citizens, voters, and tax payers.
* * *
Both the above two great engineering achievements were done in Japan.
But, if a brilliant Japanese engineer is in the U.S. pursuing such a big challenge, a kind of brokers concerned with such an extraordinarily promising technology might come to him as a friend who would convince him that he is a hero and not a mere employee or a slave of a company, and thus he should claim a big money as much as possible or, say, a billion dollars for an invention he was involved in as a leader.
Americans might not like such a story, but if individualism and freedom in the U.S. are most advanced in this world, then such a story would most likely happen in the U.S. before it occurs in any other countries including Japan.
* * *
For other peoples and Japanese, I would ask them to have a think about a fact that even one gram of Gold consists of about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10**22) atoms of gold.
One gold atom cannot make any sense to human beings as Gold.
No, it cannot, even if you can trace movement of an electron of one gold atom for a specific purpose, for example, to encourage many students and researchers to further study honestly and humbly with a true value sense in their work.
"AS A BIRD HOVERS OVER ITS NEST"
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Heaven-Sent Constitution of Japan
Heaven-Sent Constitution of Japan
To some people interested in Japanese defense systems, the Japanese Constitution should be, apart from anything else, introduced:
THE CONSTITUTION OF JAPAN
CHAPTER II. RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9.
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
* * *
That is why Japanese defense power is called the Self Defense Force instead of the army, the navy or the air force.
The Self Defense Force of Japan cannot be used for the purpose of a war against any foreign countries.
Nonetheless, U.S. military forces, stationed in Japan since the end of WWII in 1945, have logically no such restrictions, since they are not subject to the Constitution of Japan.
* * *
Japan has 63 nuclear power stations and 43 tons of plutonium that are enough to construct thousands of atomic bombs or nuclear bombs, though Japan complies fully with international treaties and conventions concerning peaceful use of the nuclear materials and accepts every inspection by IEA.
Japan is the third country in the history that succeeded in launching a satellite in geostationary orbit, following the U.S. and USSR. Japan is also the third country in the world in terms of the number of satellites so far launched, following the U.S. and Russia.
Japan has no intention to develop nuclear missiles.
* * *
Most of citizens in Japan are aware of, or at least feeling, this dangerous military potential of their country.
But, no Japanese believe that a time will come in future when their nation has to construct thousands of nuclear missiles.
* * *
Japan is surrounded by seas far from Europe and the Mid East. Even China has neither occupied nor conquered Japan since the beginning of history.
What's more, we have truly peace-loving people and the Constitution.
And, we have EEE-Reports, if you like.
"I GOT THEM AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE"
To some people interested in Japanese defense systems, the Japanese Constitution should be, apart from anything else, introduced:
THE CONSTITUTION OF JAPAN
CHAPTER II. RENUNCIATION OF WAR
Article 9.
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
* * *
That is why Japanese defense power is called the Self Defense Force instead of the army, the navy or the air force.
The Self Defense Force of Japan cannot be used for the purpose of a war against any foreign countries.
Nonetheless, U.S. military forces, stationed in Japan since the end of WWII in 1945, have logically no such restrictions, since they are not subject to the Constitution of Japan.
* * *
Japan has 63 nuclear power stations and 43 tons of plutonium that are enough to construct thousands of atomic bombs or nuclear bombs, though Japan complies fully with international treaties and conventions concerning peaceful use of the nuclear materials and accepts every inspection by IEA.
Japan is the third country in the history that succeeded in launching a satellite in geostationary orbit, following the U.S. and USSR. Japan is also the third country in the world in terms of the number of satellites so far launched, following the U.S. and Russia.
Japan has no intention to develop nuclear missiles.
* * *
Most of citizens in Japan are aware of, or at least feeling, this dangerous military potential of their country.
But, no Japanese believe that a time will come in future when their nation has to construct thousands of nuclear missiles.
* * *
Japan is surrounded by seas far from Europe and the Mid East. Even China has neither occupied nor conquered Japan since the beginning of history.
What's more, we have truly peace-loving people and the Constitution.
And, we have EEE-Reports, if you like.
"I GOT THEM AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE"
Friday, June 09, 2006
Traveling Victim in Iraq from Japan
Traveling Victim in Iraq from Japan
Believe or not, God recently hinted me that something would be done to restore honor of a Japanese youth killed by an Al-Qaeda group in Iraq in 2004.
* * *
Specifically, the God recently gave me a report on a Japanese youth, Mr. Shosei Koda, who had been killed in Baghdad by members of a terrorist group associated with Al-Qaeda in October, 2004.
I was deeply impressed by the report in that he was depicted as a sincere inquirer, though so hastily interested in difficult political situations in the Middle East as to make light of danger waiting for him in Iraq. It was indeed just before the massive assault by the U.S. Army on Fallujah.
He had come to Iraq alone as a poor backpacker through Israel and Jordan after having learnt English in New Zealand.
He was killed, because Japan rejected a request by terrorists to withdraw its Self-Defense Force troops stationed in southern Iraq for humanitarian activities.
* * *
Then, that big news came in from Baghdad.
The leader of the group responsible for Mr. Shosei Koda's death was killed yesterday or so in a two U.S. F-16 fighter-planes attack.
A few months ago, an Arab youth who was more directly responsible for the death of Mr. Shosei Koda was also captured and televised, though being alive.
* * *
Mr. Shosei Koda is one of five Japanese victims who were killed by insurgents or terrorists in Iraq after the end of major combats in Iraq since 2003.
Two of the others were diplomats; and the last two were journalists.
Mr. Shosei Koda was officially categorized as a traveler in Japan.
* * *
Indeed, the news of the death of the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been widely reported in Japan through the press and on TV.
However, what we should remember is the behavior and words of Mr. Shosei Koda in a video tape the terrorist group delivered to intimidate Japan in early November, 2004.
He said, "I am sorry, Koizumi-san. They said that they would kill me unless troops of the Japanese Self-Defense force were withdrawn. I want to come back to Japan alive."
Mr. Shosei Koda didn't cry, shout, or tremble while being surrounded by armed terrorists. He looked like trying to look well as much as he could.
Though I don't know exactly the reaction of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to this televised scene at that time, some Japanese must today reaffirm that Mr. Shosei Koda was not a coward at all by reviewing the tape delivered in 2004 in the wake of the recent big news of American Air Force's successful attack on the terrorist leader.
* * *
The War in Iraq may be memorized by some Japanese as a war with five victims as above mentioned.
But, we know nowadays tens of people are killed everyday in Iraq by bombs, bullets, and knives.
Japan may not be in a position to ask the God or Allah for any special consideration for Japanese victims, though not out of revenge or something like that.
The God Almighty has however responded.
"AGAINST ALL WHO DO NOT RESPECT ME"
Believe or not, God recently hinted me that something would be done to restore honor of a Japanese youth killed by an Al-Qaeda group in Iraq in 2004.
* * *
Specifically, the God recently gave me a report on a Japanese youth, Mr. Shosei Koda, who had been killed in Baghdad by members of a terrorist group associated with Al-Qaeda in October, 2004.
I was deeply impressed by the report in that he was depicted as a sincere inquirer, though so hastily interested in difficult political situations in the Middle East as to make light of danger waiting for him in Iraq. It was indeed just before the massive assault by the U.S. Army on Fallujah.
He had come to Iraq alone as a poor backpacker through Israel and Jordan after having learnt English in New Zealand.
He was killed, because Japan rejected a request by terrorists to withdraw its Self-Defense Force troops stationed in southern Iraq for humanitarian activities.
* * *
Then, that big news came in from Baghdad.
The leader of the group responsible for Mr. Shosei Koda's death was killed yesterday or so in a two U.S. F-16 fighter-planes attack.
A few months ago, an Arab youth who was more directly responsible for the death of Mr. Shosei Koda was also captured and televised, though being alive.
* * *
Mr. Shosei Koda is one of five Japanese victims who were killed by insurgents or terrorists in Iraq after the end of major combats in Iraq since 2003.
Two of the others were diplomats; and the last two were journalists.
Mr. Shosei Koda was officially categorized as a traveler in Japan.
* * *
Indeed, the news of the death of the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been widely reported in Japan through the press and on TV.
However, what we should remember is the behavior and words of Mr. Shosei Koda in a video tape the terrorist group delivered to intimidate Japan in early November, 2004.
He said, "I am sorry, Koizumi-san. They said that they would kill me unless troops of the Japanese Self-Defense force were withdrawn. I want to come back to Japan alive."
Mr. Shosei Koda didn't cry, shout, or tremble while being surrounded by armed terrorists. He looked like trying to look well as much as he could.
Though I don't know exactly the reaction of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to this televised scene at that time, some Japanese must today reaffirm that Mr. Shosei Koda was not a coward at all by reviewing the tape delivered in 2004 in the wake of the recent big news of American Air Force's successful attack on the terrorist leader.
* * *
The War in Iraq may be memorized by some Japanese as a war with five victims as above mentioned.
But, we know nowadays tens of people are killed everyday in Iraq by bombs, bullets, and knives.
Japan may not be in a position to ask the God or Allah for any special consideration for Japanese victims, though not out of revenge or something like that.
The God Almighty has however responded.
"AGAINST ALL WHO DO NOT RESPECT ME"
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
The Poorer, The More Blessed by The God Almighty
The Poorer, The More Blessed by The God Almighty
We know what was behind the large-scale American white-collar crimes, such as the Enron and WorldCom incidents.
It is ordinary workers of those companies whose benefits were directly (or through stock options) linked to stcok prices of the companies they were working in and for.
If they believe that earning as much as possible as an individual in the economic society is a right thing, it is no wonder that they have felt no sense of guilty even after the massive exposure of those frauds.
* * *
In Japan, Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, former notorious fund manager and president of a Japanese investment company, has been identified as a behind-the-scene figure for part of the Livedoor incidents that hit the world money market several months ago when Tokyo district public prosecutors launched investigation on the company.
Recently Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami purchased many stocks of a company that controls a professional baseball team.
It is a scheme similar to the one where then Livedoor president had tried to purchase a professional baseball team.
They seem to have collided with a certain, identical behind-the-scene figure.
* * *
Many foreign funds have invested in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund; but as Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami had quit his professional posts before arrest by Tokyo district prosecutors, he cannot be involved in money operation any more.
* * *
Devils can catch a boy and set a path for big money, telling him that he has such a brilliant mind set for getting big money; and the poor boy might feel happy.
I would like to find such a talent in myself earlier than devils, in order to avoid a servile position to them, with help from the God Almighty.
What about you?
"BE HEALED OF YOUR TROUBLE"
We know what was behind the large-scale American white-collar crimes, such as the Enron and WorldCom incidents.
It is ordinary workers of those companies whose benefits were directly (or through stock options) linked to stcok prices of the companies they were working in and for.
If they believe that earning as much as possible as an individual in the economic society is a right thing, it is no wonder that they have felt no sense of guilty even after the massive exposure of those frauds.
* * *
In Japan, Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, former notorious fund manager and president of a Japanese investment company, has been identified as a behind-the-scene figure for part of the Livedoor incidents that hit the world money market several months ago when Tokyo district public prosecutors launched investigation on the company.
Recently Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami purchased many stocks of a company that controls a professional baseball team.
It is a scheme similar to the one where then Livedoor president had tried to purchase a professional baseball team.
They seem to have collided with a certain, identical behind-the-scene figure.
* * *
Many foreign funds have invested in Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami's fund; but as Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami had quit his professional posts before arrest by Tokyo district prosecutors, he cannot be involved in money operation any more.
* * *
Devils can catch a boy and set a path for big money, telling him that he has such a brilliant mind set for getting big money; and the poor boy might feel happy.
I would like to find such a talent in myself earlier than devils, in order to avoid a servile position to them, with help from the God Almighty.
What about you?
"BE HEALED OF YOUR TROUBLE"
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Relationship with the God Revealed on the Cross
Relationship with the God Revealed on the Cross
The most profound mystery about the Bible is the death of the Christ on the cross.
There are many interpretations about it. But, the so-called Christian authorities like to adopt the most biased theory among those that might be tolerated.
If they needed to choose one of the theories, they should have taken the most significant one as a base of the faith of their group. But, actually they took the most difficult one that could be connived at only in an extreme situation for presenting the religion.
* * *
The theory I like is that the incident made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God or in what status mankind is in the relationship with the God.
Based on characteristics of this relationship, every human problem can be explained. It tells why every one is unhappy unless he or she is insane, devilish, or blind-minded to whatsoever degree. It also tells why poverty and unfairness cannot be ever eradicated.
* * *
Mankind was so insane, devilish, or blind-minded that he killed the Son of the God 2000 years ago.
As mankind has been so bad, it is no wonder that our history is full of wars, atrocities, and tragedies.
In other words, if you are asked why there are so many poor people in this world, you should answer that it is because mankind has been so bad as to kill the Son of the God whom He sent to the world.
* * *
Jesus Christ could carry all our sins caused our badness through his death on the cross with unlimited forgiveness.
Nonetheless, our being bad still continues. It is because we still continue to be so bad as to kill the Son of the God.
It is why you cannot solve any significant problems of the human world.
* * *
I do not want to blame anybody.
However, I feel very uncomfortable that people are dying everyday on this earth while they are still surrounded by sinful others, even 2000 years after the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Anyway, Jesus Christ revived and went on to other missions after he had made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God, which must have been one of his missions on this earth and in history.
Accordingly, I put hopes on the relationship between myself and the God.
Therefore, basically I do not blame anybody.
“NOT LET YOURSELVES BE DECEIVED”
The most profound mystery about the Bible is the death of the Christ on the cross.
There are many interpretations about it. But, the so-called Christian authorities like to adopt the most biased theory among those that might be tolerated.
If they needed to choose one of the theories, they should have taken the most significant one as a base of the faith of their group. But, actually they took the most difficult one that could be connived at only in an extreme situation for presenting the religion.
* * *
The theory I like is that the incident made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God or in what status mankind is in the relationship with the God.
Based on characteristics of this relationship, every human problem can be explained. It tells why every one is unhappy unless he or she is insane, devilish, or blind-minded to whatsoever degree. It also tells why poverty and unfairness cannot be ever eradicated.
* * *
Mankind was so insane, devilish, or blind-minded that he killed the Son of the God 2000 years ago.
As mankind has been so bad, it is no wonder that our history is full of wars, atrocities, and tragedies.
In other words, if you are asked why there are so many poor people in this world, you should answer that it is because mankind has been so bad as to kill the Son of the God whom He sent to the world.
* * *
Jesus Christ could carry all our sins caused our badness through his death on the cross with unlimited forgiveness.
Nonetheless, our being bad still continues. It is because we still continue to be so bad as to kill the Son of the God.
It is why you cannot solve any significant problems of the human world.
* * *
I do not want to blame anybody.
However, I feel very uncomfortable that people are dying everyday on this earth while they are still surrounded by sinful others, even 2000 years after the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Anyway, Jesus Christ revived and went on to other missions after he had made it clear the relationship between mankind and the God, which must have been one of his missions on this earth and in history.
Accordingly, I put hopes on the relationship between myself and the God.
Therefore, basically I do not blame anybody.
“NOT LET YOURSELVES BE DECEIVED”