A Film on Afghanistan Needing Great Help
I saw the movie "At Five in the Afternoon," an Iranian film released in 2003, which depicts one poor family in Afghanistan.
I saw it today.
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Unbelievable mountains without tress and unthinkable fields without grass are really catching my eye.
A devastated and desolate palace on a barren hill surrounded by a sea of sand is, too, a wonder.
Old people who talk humane sense taking a slightly-monotonous poetic rhythm look so painful inwardly and outwardly, yet reflecting a deep social, traditional, cultural, and religious background
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U.S. helicopters were flying over a path on the barren land ; and the poor family, consisting of an old man, his daughter, her dying and eventually dead baby, and his dead son's wife as well as a tired horse and chickens, met a traveling older man whose donkey was dying and lying on the path.
The older man, himself collapsing, said, "My village was destroyed. Nothing was left. I want to get to Kandahar to see Mullah Omar. Bin Laden is our guest and a Muslim."
The chief of the poor family said, "You had better go back where you are from," digging a shallow pit on the ground with a big stone to burry his now-dead grandbaby.
The traveling old man sitting beside his dying donkey said, "My village was destroyed. Nothing was left. And nobody shows me the way."
While they were talking and the dead grandbaby was being laid down into a small, sandy grave, two young women were walking to a hill side where they could get the failed horse some water, as the old man told them to do so.
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The heroine of the story is the old man's daughter in law.
She attended a makeshift school in Kabul, while the family was wandering from place to place, and just wanted to change the world by becoming a politician.
She even asked a French soldier, patrolling around the ruined palace where the family happened to take shelter, how the president of France addressed to his people.
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Afghanistan had been a decent agricultural country since the Middle Age till the invasion by the Soviet Union in the late 20th century.
Decades of wars destroyed the entire country; but Islam has remained. People have been deprived of various hopes, but still have new dreams like the heroine has. Someday, a female president might be inaugurated in Afghanistan.
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If Afghanistan is saved, Iran then will be.
In fact, as some part of Iraq gets so dangerous, Iran may turn to a focal point of international security. But, so far, an Iranian film maker has set a focus on people not a war.
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On September 11, 2001, leaders of Al-Qaeda stationed in Afghanistan were waiting for a specific report on the United States to be attacked on the very day.
Since then, in the wake of various subsequent incidents, many, many people have been victimized.
But, I am one who has survived to this day just like you.
A film on Afghanistan has really reminded me of the grace the Lord has given me so that I can observe the proceeding of the world with a living mind.
But, for what?
And, for what for you?
"HAS SHOWN HIS GREATNESS BY SAVING HIS PEOPLE"
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Punishment for Popularity
Punishment for Popularity
Yesterday, a new cabinet was formed in Japan.
One remarkable aspect is that they intended to reinforce functions of aids to the prime minister.
Their purpose is to introduce a strong team of professional assistants to the prime minister office like the one in the White House.
My impression is that such a move seems to be aimed at gaining popularity among the people rather than truly enhancing functions of the Japanese Government.
Four of five aids to the prime minister, who have been newly appointed, are incumbent members of the Diet (parliament). They are more politicians than professionals. They might also work for gaining their own popularity.
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Democracy gives politicians and their party an incentive of using anything for enhancing their popularity and securing plurality voting.
A politician might even use a war for such a purpose.
It is truly an outrageous act if a war is so used.
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If you are a politician and are not involved in such movement for gaining popularity of a government through using something serious and critical like a war, you must be lucky, since such an act might be punished.
To begin with, what a politician needs is love for people but not popularity among the people their false love for people might gain.
"WHEN GOD WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO ATTACK US"
Yesterday, a new cabinet was formed in Japan.
One remarkable aspect is that they intended to reinforce functions of aids to the prime minister.
Their purpose is to introduce a strong team of professional assistants to the prime minister office like the one in the White House.
My impression is that such a move seems to be aimed at gaining popularity among the people rather than truly enhancing functions of the Japanese Government.
Four of five aids to the prime minister, who have been newly appointed, are incumbent members of the Diet (parliament). They are more politicians than professionals. They might also work for gaining their own popularity.
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Democracy gives politicians and their party an incentive of using anything for enhancing their popularity and securing plurality voting.
A politician might even use a war for such a purpose.
It is truly an outrageous act if a war is so used.
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If you are a politician and are not involved in such movement for gaining popularity of a government through using something serious and critical like a war, you must be lucky, since such an act might be punished.
To begin with, what a politician needs is love for people but not popularity among the people their false love for people might gain.
"WHEN GOD WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO ATTACK US"
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
New Prime Minister
New Prime Minister
Now, Japan's House of Representatives has nominated its new prime minister: Mr. Shinzo Abe.
Japan's Upper House is following suit.
After completion of the nomination by the Diet (Parliament), the emperor of Japan is to authorize it.
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The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) the new prime minister belongs to has support ratings of 38.2%, 30.0%, and 35.0% in previous three national elections, respectively.
Therefore LDP forms an alliance with New Komeito to form a government.
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One prime minister alone cannot surely make the nation great and successful, while Japan has 120 million population.
Japan's 68 million voters, who actually cast their vote in the previous general election held on September 11, 2005, have a key to future peace and prosperity of Japan, Asia, and the word.
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Astonishingly, there are no expressions directly concerned with democracy and election in Jesus Christ's words.
Relationship between mankind and God is not based on democracy supported by an election system.
The idea of democracy and an election system is however seems to be permitted by God or Allah.
"WHO ARE FIRST WILL BE LAST"
Now, Japan's House of Representatives has nominated its new prime minister: Mr. Shinzo Abe.
Japan's Upper House is following suit.
After completion of the nomination by the Diet (Parliament), the emperor of Japan is to authorize it.
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The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) the new prime minister belongs to has support ratings of 38.2%, 30.0%, and 35.0% in previous three national elections, respectively.
Therefore LDP forms an alliance with New Komeito to form a government.
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One prime minister alone cannot surely make the nation great and successful, while Japan has 120 million population.
Japan's 68 million voters, who actually cast their vote in the previous general election held on September 11, 2005, have a key to future peace and prosperity of Japan, Asia, and the word.
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Astonishingly, there are no expressions directly concerned with democracy and election in Jesus Christ's words.
Relationship between mankind and God is not based on democracy supported by an election system.
The idea of democracy and an election system is however seems to be permitted by God or Allah.
"WHO ARE FIRST WILL BE LAST"
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Japanese Rocket Launches Sun-Probing Satellite
Japanese Rocket Launches Sun-Probing Satellite
BBC has reported on Japan's scientific satellite launching for studying the sun (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5371162.stm).
The sun is a critical energy source of life on the earth.
But, though it happens in rare cases, the sun emits extraordinary energy to the surrounding space and eventually to the earth, which could destroy normal functioning of human-made electronic systems including artificial satellites flying around the earth.
If such an extraordinary phenomenon happens like it did in 1859, modern societies on the globe will suffer major damages.
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A type of rocket used to launch the Japan's sun-observation satellite is M5.
The M5 rockets have been launched seven times with one failure. This is its last mission, since Japan has already decided to stop using the M5 rockets due to high costs needed for launching it.
Apart from the M5, Japan has the flag-ship rocket H2A the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has already launched ten times and will continue to use.
The H2A rocket is 53-meter long and has a weight of 289 tons.
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The gigantic flares on the sun that emerged in 1859 really heralded the beginning of a new era poor slaves in the U.S. then might have truly wished.
It also became ominous for the feudal samurai regime in Japan, too.
When the sun emits an enormous amount of unusual electro-magnetic energy to the earth next time, we might know that a new era is inevitably coming.
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Japanese scientists like to study the sun.
The Japanese people like an image that the sun is rising from the east horizon, since their comparatively long and thin national land faces the Pacific Ocean eastward.
Therefore, it is natural that an image of the sun is adopted into their national flag.
When you see, in Japan, the sun coming up in the morning over the Pacific Ocean, it looks red, eradiating red arrows of light to all directions of surrounding air of the sky so blue and far; it does not look yellow or white at all.
Nothing is so inspiring as the rising sun in the morning for most Japanese.
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No matter how rich and powerful you might be on the earth, you cannot buy the sun.
And I remember the word of Buddha: "Fools are they who accumulate wealth and die."
Yes, everybody should die poor under the sun as he or she was so born under the sun.
"PROCLAIM MY WORDS TO FAR OFF-SHORES"
BBC has reported on Japan's scientific satellite launching for studying the sun (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5371162.stm).
The sun is a critical energy source of life on the earth.
But, though it happens in rare cases, the sun emits extraordinary energy to the surrounding space and eventually to the earth, which could destroy normal functioning of human-made electronic systems including artificial satellites flying around the earth.
If such an extraordinary phenomenon happens like it did in 1859, modern societies on the globe will suffer major damages.
+ + +
A type of rocket used to launch the Japan's sun-observation satellite is M5.
The M5 rockets have been launched seven times with one failure. This is its last mission, since Japan has already decided to stop using the M5 rockets due to high costs needed for launching it.
Apart from the M5, Japan has the flag-ship rocket H2A the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has already launched ten times and will continue to use.
The H2A rocket is 53-meter long and has a weight of 289 tons.
+ + +
The gigantic flares on the sun that emerged in 1859 really heralded the beginning of a new era poor slaves in the U.S. then might have truly wished.
It also became ominous for the feudal samurai regime in Japan, too.
When the sun emits an enormous amount of unusual electro-magnetic energy to the earth next time, we might know that a new era is inevitably coming.
+ + +
Japanese scientists like to study the sun.
The Japanese people like an image that the sun is rising from the east horizon, since their comparatively long and thin national land faces the Pacific Ocean eastward.
Therefore, it is natural that an image of the sun is adopted into their national flag.
When you see, in Japan, the sun coming up in the morning over the Pacific Ocean, it looks red, eradiating red arrows of light to all directions of surrounding air of the sky so blue and far; it does not look yellow or white at all.
Nothing is so inspiring as the rising sun in the morning for most Japanese.
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No matter how rich and powerful you might be on the earth, you cannot buy the sun.
And I remember the word of Buddha: "Fools are they who accumulate wealth and die."
Yes, everybody should die poor under the sun as he or she was so born under the sun.
"PROCLAIM MY WORDS TO FAR OFF-SHORES"
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Whether Jesus Christ is God or Not
Whether Jesus Christ is God or Not
I am not so interested in what the Pope thinks, says, and does.
As he claims that he is directly linked to Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ only would mind him.
If I mind the Pope, it might be regarded, I am afraid, as an irreverent behavior by angels.
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In Koran:
Verse 4:171 - "People of the Book, do not transgress the bounds of your religion. Speak nothing but the truth about Allah. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was no more than Allah's apostle and His Word which He cast to Mary: a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His apostles and do not say: "Three.' Forbear, and it shall be better for you. Allah is but one God. Allah forbid that He should have a son!"
As Islam has prevailed so long, so profoundly, and so vastly, God seems to surely support the above verse meaning Jesus Christ is not God.
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To discuss this matter is very difficult; and thus even when they really begin to act being motivated by this matter, as it is very difficult to explain a motivation of their act based on this matter, they seem to tend to use other excuse, for example, concerning politics or economics.
But, I think people should focus on this matter: Whether Jesus Christ is God or not for mankind, including Israelites, Christians, and Muslims.
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My assumption is that first of all we have to be humble admitting that Logic of God and Holy Truth are different from human logic and human-recognizable truth.
If we get more pious, the scope of our logic and recognizable truth would expand as far to the extent where we can comprehend the whole scheme of the question, "Is Jesus Christ God or not for mankind, including Israelites, Christians, and Muslims?"
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Will God, one day, appear on every TV screen all over the world and say, "I am also Jesus Christ and I, too, authorize the idea that Jesus Christ is not God"?
Or will God send another angel to us who do not mind whether Jesus Christ is God or not, and let the angel say to us that we may neglect the Bible and the Koran but we must obey Him?
I will obey Him.
"I, THE LORD, WILL LIVE ON MOUNT ZION"
I am not so interested in what the Pope thinks, says, and does.
As he claims that he is directly linked to Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ only would mind him.
If I mind the Pope, it might be regarded, I am afraid, as an irreverent behavior by angels.
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In Koran:
Verse 4:171 - "People of the Book, do not transgress the bounds of your religion. Speak nothing but the truth about Allah. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was no more than Allah's apostle and His Word which He cast to Mary: a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His apostles and do not say: "Three.' Forbear, and it shall be better for you. Allah is but one God. Allah forbid that He should have a son!"
As Islam has prevailed so long, so profoundly, and so vastly, God seems to surely support the above verse meaning Jesus Christ is not God.
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To discuss this matter is very difficult; and thus even when they really begin to act being motivated by this matter, as it is very difficult to explain a motivation of their act based on this matter, they seem to tend to use other excuse, for example, concerning politics or economics.
But, I think people should focus on this matter: Whether Jesus Christ is God or not for mankind, including Israelites, Christians, and Muslims.
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My assumption is that first of all we have to be humble admitting that Logic of God and Holy Truth are different from human logic and human-recognizable truth.
If we get more pious, the scope of our logic and recognizable truth would expand as far to the extent where we can comprehend the whole scheme of the question, "Is Jesus Christ God or not for mankind, including Israelites, Christians, and Muslims?"
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Will God, one day, appear on every TV screen all over the world and say, "I am also Jesus Christ and I, too, authorize the idea that Jesus Christ is not God"?
Or will God send another angel to us who do not mind whether Jesus Christ is God or not, and let the angel say to us that we may neglect the Bible and the Koran but we must obey Him?
I will obey Him.
"I, THE LORD, WILL LIVE ON MOUNT ZION"
Monday, September 18, 2006
The World Bank and Child Soldiers
The World Bank and Child Soldiers
It was reported in Japan that the World Bank has issued a report on child soldiers in the world.
There are some 300,000 soldiers under the age 18 who are now, or have until recently been, engaged in a battle, accounting for 10 percent of all the soldiers in battle fields.
In addition, there are 500,000 child soldiers being recruited in 50 countries all over the world.
They become soldiers due to poverty or coercion, or as a victim of abduction.
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According to The World Revolution (http://www.worldrevolution.org/), "because of their immaturity and lack of experience, child soldiers suffer higher casualties than their adult counterparts."
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If child soldiers are allowed to claim financial support for their education and rehabilitation costing, say, US$10,000 per capita, the world should raise 8 billion dollars.
The World Bank, consisting of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), furnished anew in 2005 many countries for their development projects with funds of 13.6 billion dollars and similarly approved loans worth 8.7 billion dollars.
It seems very possible and reasonable that the World Bank rescues and helps those child soldiers with their financial capacity.
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If you are asked by an angel what the most deplorable issue is on the earth, you should answer that it is existence of child soldiers.
If I am, I would answer so.
"Because you have been faithful until the end, my saving power will rise on you like the sun"
It was reported in Japan that the World Bank has issued a report on child soldiers in the world.
There are some 300,000 soldiers under the age 18 who are now, or have until recently been, engaged in a battle, accounting for 10 percent of all the soldiers in battle fields.
In addition, there are 500,000 child soldiers being recruited in 50 countries all over the world.
They become soldiers due to poverty or coercion, or as a victim of abduction.
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According to The World Revolution (http://www.worldrevolution.org/), "because of their immaturity and lack of experience, child soldiers suffer higher casualties than their adult counterparts."
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If child soldiers are allowed to claim financial support for their education and rehabilitation costing, say, US$10,000 per capita, the world should raise 8 billion dollars.
The World Bank, consisting of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), furnished anew in 2005 many countries for their development projects with funds of 13.6 billion dollars and similarly approved loans worth 8.7 billion dollars.
It seems very possible and reasonable that the World Bank rescues and helps those child soldiers with their financial capacity.
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If you are asked by an angel what the most deplorable issue is on the earth, you should answer that it is existence of child soldiers.
If I am, I would answer so.
"Because you have been faithful until the end, my saving power will rise on you like the sun"
Friday, September 15, 2006
Mystery of Blue Light Emitting Diode (LED) Solved
Mystery of Blue Light Emitting Diode (LED) Solved
Everyone apparently wants to use a DVD player for fun or any needs. A key technology in such an electronic device is a blue light emitting diode (LED).
The market size of the blue LEDs is expected to reach US$10 billion in 2008.
Though this LED was invented in a Japanese company, nobody including those involved in this development knew why the blue LED is possible until recently.
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The very small lamp, without a bubble and a filament, called an LED has been common in industry for decades due to development of the semiconductor technology.
But, not all types of color were possible with this man-made light emitter. The color of red, green, and so on could be easily realized and their basic theory was well understood. But, it has not been the case with the color blue, though even the blue LED was invented through serious efforts of those involved in this development in a Japanese company.
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The problem on the blue LED is that a material that emits the blue color has a million times as many structural defects inside as other material for any other color.
With such a great number of structural defects at a level of atoms, it has been thought to be impossible that such a material could emit any light at all; However, it does excellently providing a long-awaited blue light for human beings.
This mystery was recently solved by Japanese researchers.
The material Indium Gallium Nitride (InGaN) has a specific local and minuscule structure where holes, each carrying a positive charge, are effectively trapped so that their energy is converted to light instead of heat.
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There are two lessons to be learnt here:
First, a defect or a drawback sometimes hides a merit or an asset for a big success.
Secondly, a lucky man who succeeded without knowing why he made it can only find the underlying reason with a help from others so excellent and sympathetic.
"HAVE SOME WINE"
Everyone apparently wants to use a DVD player for fun or any needs. A key technology in such an electronic device is a blue light emitting diode (LED).
The market size of the blue LEDs is expected to reach US$10 billion in 2008.
Though this LED was invented in a Japanese company, nobody including those involved in this development knew why the blue LED is possible until recently.
+ + +
The very small lamp, without a bubble and a filament, called an LED has been common in industry for decades due to development of the semiconductor technology.
But, not all types of color were possible with this man-made light emitter. The color of red, green, and so on could be easily realized and their basic theory was well understood. But, it has not been the case with the color blue, though even the blue LED was invented through serious efforts of those involved in this development in a Japanese company.
+ + +
The problem on the blue LED is that a material that emits the blue color has a million times as many structural defects inside as other material for any other color.
With such a great number of structural defects at a level of atoms, it has been thought to be impossible that such a material could emit any light at all; However, it does excellently providing a long-awaited blue light for human beings.
This mystery was recently solved by Japanese researchers.
The material Indium Gallium Nitride (InGaN) has a specific local and minuscule structure where holes, each carrying a positive charge, are effectively trapped so that their energy is converted to light instead of heat.
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There are two lessons to be learnt here:
First, a defect or a drawback sometimes hides a merit or an asset for a big success.
Secondly, a lucky man who succeeded without knowing why he made it can only find the underlying reason with a help from others so excellent and sympathetic.
"HAVE SOME WINE"
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Where Have All the Victims Gone?
Where Have All the Victims Gone?
Does war make some people rich?
Yes, it does.
Does war make some other people poor?
Yes, it does.
Is a war to protect a nation forbidden by God?
No, it is not; however, God ordered mankind not to kill other humans.
Where is this War on Terror going while making the rich richer and the poor poorer?
It is going to the 22nd century when no more crude oil production is expected and alternative high-technology-based energy may be only in hands of certain leading countries.
"GOING TO WORSHIP THE GOD ALMIGHTY"
Does war make some people rich?
Yes, it does.
Does war make some other people poor?
Yes, it does.
Is a war to protect a nation forbidden by God?
No, it is not; however, God ordered mankind not to kill other humans.
Where is this War on Terror going while making the rich richer and the poor poorer?
It is going to the 22nd century when no more crude oil production is expected and alternative high-technology-based energy may be only in hands of certain leading countries.
"GOING TO WORSHIP THE GOD ALMIGHTY"
Thursday, September 07, 2006
AK47 vs. M-16
AK47 vs. M-16
Last night, the Japanese Public TV station, NHK, presented a now-classic movie of Michael Moore, "Bowling for Columbine."
The night before, they broadcast the "Killing Field" featuring the Cambodian genocide that happened between 1975 and 1979 reportedly sacrificing almost 1.7 million people.
It was an era that nobody possessed a personal computer and a cellular phone as well as access to the Internet. However, they all used AK47 assault rifles just like today in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine.
Mr. Moore was against fire-arm selling in the United States. Somebody should be really against AK47 automatic-rifle selling in the world.
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Children in the United States, in a very rare case, spontaneously kill their classmates with a handgun or a smart sub-machinegun. But, children in Cambodia 30 years ago, equipped with AK47s, were compulsively and daily killing their family members, neighbors, teachers, and spies of America and Vietnam or those so regarded.
Compared with this tragedy in Cambodia 30 years ago, put extremely, America and Al-Qaeda today look like classmates just on interim bad terms.
Indeed, 1.7 million innocent Cambodians who would rather love French and American culture were massacred by the Pol Pot faction strongly influenced by some Chinese communists in the era of the Cold War and the Great Cultural Revolution.
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Just before the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq was predicted to become another Vietnam of 1960's and early 70's.
Cambodia is near to China, Vietnam, and Thai. Various influences and arms could be easily brought to the country.
Iraq is surrounded by other Islamic nations and also near to Russia. Various influences and arms can be easily brought to the country.
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The U.S. failed in the Indochina Peninsula not because they fought the Vietnam War but because they supported the Pol Pot faction sharing fear and hatred of Vietnam.
Even the Japanese Government then, sharing interests with the U.S., officially recognized the Pol Pot regime!
(In 1993, the International Committee on the Reconstruction of Cambodia [ICORC] was held in Paris in which Japan acted as the chair and offered 20 million dollar aids.)
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The supreme leader of the Pol Pot faction died in 1998 reportedly of a disease. The scene was televised all over the world then, in which a Thai officer entering a humble cottage in a jungle got a fingerprint from the dead man, Pol Pot or correctly Saloth Sar who had parents of a Cambodian and a Chinese.
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Al Qaeda should stop using AK47s. They should learn a lesson from the Killing Filed and the death of Pol Pot eight years ago.
All the people living in the Persian Gulf region should stop using AK47s. They should learn a lesson from the Killing Filed and the death of Pol Pot eight years ago.
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I do not like the rifle AK47. It looks ominous. The shape of the rifle itself is almost ugly in my eyes.
I do not think Allah would be rejoiced to see his people equipped with such a pagan weapon.
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Yes, the M-16s were also common in Cambodia and Vietnam 30 years ago.
It is not very pleasant to observe that a U.S. soldier today in Iraq, equipped with a new version of M-16, still has to face a fatal danger just like the one in 30 years ago in Vietnam.
"YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE GLOATED"
Last night, the Japanese Public TV station, NHK, presented a now-classic movie of Michael Moore, "Bowling for Columbine."
The night before, they broadcast the "Killing Field" featuring the Cambodian genocide that happened between 1975 and 1979 reportedly sacrificing almost 1.7 million people.
It was an era that nobody possessed a personal computer and a cellular phone as well as access to the Internet. However, they all used AK47 assault rifles just like today in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine.
Mr. Moore was against fire-arm selling in the United States. Somebody should be really against AK47 automatic-rifle selling in the world.
+ + +
Children in the United States, in a very rare case, spontaneously kill their classmates with a handgun or a smart sub-machinegun. But, children in Cambodia 30 years ago, equipped with AK47s, were compulsively and daily killing their family members, neighbors, teachers, and spies of America and Vietnam or those so regarded.
Compared with this tragedy in Cambodia 30 years ago, put extremely, America and Al-Qaeda today look like classmates just on interim bad terms.
Indeed, 1.7 million innocent Cambodians who would rather love French and American culture were massacred by the Pol Pot faction strongly influenced by some Chinese communists in the era of the Cold War and the Great Cultural Revolution.
+ + +
Just before the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq was predicted to become another Vietnam of 1960's and early 70's.
Cambodia is near to China, Vietnam, and Thai. Various influences and arms could be easily brought to the country.
Iraq is surrounded by other Islamic nations and also near to Russia. Various influences and arms can be easily brought to the country.
+ + +
The U.S. failed in the Indochina Peninsula not because they fought the Vietnam War but because they supported the Pol Pot faction sharing fear and hatred of Vietnam.
Even the Japanese Government then, sharing interests with the U.S., officially recognized the Pol Pot regime!
(In 1993, the International Committee on the Reconstruction of Cambodia [ICORC] was held in Paris in which Japan acted as the chair and offered 20 million dollar aids.)
+ + +
The supreme leader of the Pol Pot faction died in 1998 reportedly of a disease. The scene was televised all over the world then, in which a Thai officer entering a humble cottage in a jungle got a fingerprint from the dead man, Pol Pot or correctly Saloth Sar who had parents of a Cambodian and a Chinese.
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Al Qaeda should stop using AK47s. They should learn a lesson from the Killing Filed and the death of Pol Pot eight years ago.
All the people living in the Persian Gulf region should stop using AK47s. They should learn a lesson from the Killing Filed and the death of Pol Pot eight years ago.
+ + +
I do not like the rifle AK47. It looks ominous. The shape of the rifle itself is almost ugly in my eyes.
I do not think Allah would be rejoiced to see his people equipped with such a pagan weapon.
+ + +
Yes, the M-16s were also common in Cambodia and Vietnam 30 years ago.
It is not very pleasant to observe that a U.S. soldier today in Iraq, equipped with a new version of M-16, still has to face a fatal danger just like the one in 30 years ago in Vietnam.
"YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE GLOATED"
Friday, September 01, 2006
Vietnamese Saved a Japanese in New Orleans in 2005
Vietnamese Saved a Japanese in New Orleans in 2005
According to The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper, Vietnamese saved a Japanese young musician in New Orleans during the crisis the hurricane Katrina had caused.
The Japanese young man was then living in the southern city to make a career of music while learning the music unique to New Orleans.
In the turmoil of the hurricane disaster, he felt an acute danger in being alone at a shelter of a big dome where a mass of poor people were crammed.
Some evacuees were attacking others who were believed to have violated children. But when it was found that they got wrong men who were, by then, beaten almost to death, those evacuees claiming justice were not sorry at all for the innocent victims they had attacked.
The Japanese youth struggled to find any other Japanese, but in vain.
However, he could luckily spot a group of Vietnamese who kindly welcomed him into their circle.
Accordingly, the Japanese young man got safety and was later evacuated by helicopter.
He then returned to his hometown in Japan: a south-west city somehow showing a resemblance, in atmosphere, to New Orleans in his feeling.
Now, he is in New Orleans again to pursue his dream in music.
And he reportedly is happy again being surrounded by friendly people, though they are not necessarily Vietnamese.
"PATHS THAT LEAD TO LIFE"
According to The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper, Vietnamese saved a Japanese young musician in New Orleans during the crisis the hurricane Katrina had caused.
The Japanese young man was then living in the southern city to make a career of music while learning the music unique to New Orleans.
In the turmoil of the hurricane disaster, he felt an acute danger in being alone at a shelter of a big dome where a mass of poor people were crammed.
Some evacuees were attacking others who were believed to have violated children. But when it was found that they got wrong men who were, by then, beaten almost to death, those evacuees claiming justice were not sorry at all for the innocent victims they had attacked.
The Japanese youth struggled to find any other Japanese, but in vain.
However, he could luckily spot a group of Vietnamese who kindly welcomed him into their circle.
Accordingly, the Japanese young man got safety and was later evacuated by helicopter.
He then returned to his hometown in Japan: a south-west city somehow showing a resemblance, in atmosphere, to New Orleans in his feeling.
Now, he is in New Orleans again to pursue his dream in music.
And he reportedly is happy again being surrounded by friendly people, though they are not necessarily Vietnamese.
"PATHS THAT LEAD TO LIFE"
Monday, August 28, 2006
Has Justice Been Done?
Has Justice Been Done?
Recently, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the world largest wooden temple burnt down.
Just prior to this fire accident, a Japanese fisherman on board was shot dead by a Russian maritime security guard on a controversial sea area due to a border dispute between Japan and Russia.
Recently, in Georgia, the U.S., an ex-marine committed suicide after killing a female student.
In 1995, he violated a Japanese girl in Okinawa where he was stationed, which became a big social issue linked to the security partnership of Japan and the United States.
Has justice been done?
No matter what they might take, I have surely received these reports.
"PUT THE POT ON THE FIRE"
Recently, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the world largest wooden temple burnt down.
Just prior to this fire accident, a Japanese fisherman on board was shot dead by a Russian maritime security guard on a controversial sea area due to a border dispute between Japan and Russia.
Recently, in Georgia, the U.S., an ex-marine committed suicide after killing a female student.
In 1995, he violated a Japanese girl in Okinawa where he was stationed, which became a big social issue linked to the security partnership of Japan and the United States.
Has justice been done?
No matter what they might take, I have surely received these reports.
"PUT THE POT ON THE FIRE"
Friday, August 25, 2006
Courageous Lawyers Attacked, History Distorted, and Respect Lost in China and the Middle East
Courageous Lawyers Attacked, History Distorted, and Respect Lost in China and the Middle East
Popular revolts, though without much exchange of fire, are reportedly common in China, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper.
Last year they had about 87,000 cases of riots mainly by farmers and local people in China.
There are, of course, some lawyers who help those insurgents, innocent, humble, and victimized by local, rotten authorities, even under the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party.
But some of those courageous lawyers have been arrested one after the other by Chinese law enforcement agencies.
However, nobody in the U.S., Europe, and Japan seems to take it seriously. Stable China under whatever regime seems to be welcomed by governments, businesses, and international bodies in those triple-pole advanced regions.
And, it is most likely that the incumbent regime in China would manage the nation, avoiding an upheaval or a civil war, according to their views.
However, I don't think it should be necessarily so.
+ + +
First of all, nobody in the U.S. and Europe has realized a critical issue about China.
China has distorted history, teaching it in its schools.
(For example, the Chinese Communist Party has only a history of just 60 years as the highest governing body of China, outside of which they cannot be a good teacher of history. Any 60-year-old regime should not handle its 4000-year history at its discretion.)
Second, nobody in the U.S. and Europe has realized an inevitable course of Chinese history: repeatedly experienced periods of ebb and flow of the power or dynasty.
Leaders as well as the people of contemporary China have all that kind of DNA.
Further, their official attitude to Japan is without decorum and propriety, which should alienate God's support for their development and success.
+ + +
If you like or dislike China, it cannot enjoy its present state without decades of supports and aids from Japan since normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China in early 1970's.
Without Japan's tremendous backups, Chinese youths now enjoying a nice living standard should be working today in a real sweat somewhere in a very local area as part of their mandatory service to the Party which should be in a state of quasi-war with the U.S., Russia, Viet Nam, and Japan.
+ + +
It is very dangerous to think that you can understand China while you cannot read Chinese characters or Japanese kanji letters.
And under the regime of the Chinese Communist Party, you can only get very-biased textbooks imported from China.
You had better learn Japanese in order to correctly learn Chinese works of art, history, literature, and social and business documents.
+ + +
Americans are buying, in a Wal-Mart shop, commodities made in China, because they have quality that can satisfy American consumers. But it is Japanese who have helped Chinese acquire ability to realize that level of industrial quality.
And quality of Japanese industrial products is rooted deep in the tradition of Japanese culture that began in an era of thousand years ago which called the Jomon period.
+ + +
Just like things now happening in the Middle East, if you forget respect to older culture of your own or others, nothing goes and works well.
"TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD"
Popular revolts, though without much exchange of fire, are reportedly common in China, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper.
Last year they had about 87,000 cases of riots mainly by farmers and local people in China.
There are, of course, some lawyers who help those insurgents, innocent, humble, and victimized by local, rotten authorities, even under the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party.
But some of those courageous lawyers have been arrested one after the other by Chinese law enforcement agencies.
However, nobody in the U.S., Europe, and Japan seems to take it seriously. Stable China under whatever regime seems to be welcomed by governments, businesses, and international bodies in those triple-pole advanced regions.
And, it is most likely that the incumbent regime in China would manage the nation, avoiding an upheaval or a civil war, according to their views.
However, I don't think it should be necessarily so.
+ + +
First of all, nobody in the U.S. and Europe has realized a critical issue about China.
China has distorted history, teaching it in its schools.
(For example, the Chinese Communist Party has only a history of just 60 years as the highest governing body of China, outside of which they cannot be a good teacher of history. Any 60-year-old regime should not handle its 4000-year history at its discretion.)
Second, nobody in the U.S. and Europe has realized an inevitable course of Chinese history: repeatedly experienced periods of ebb and flow of the power or dynasty.
Leaders as well as the people of contemporary China have all that kind of DNA.
Further, their official attitude to Japan is without decorum and propriety, which should alienate God's support for their development and success.
+ + +
If you like or dislike China, it cannot enjoy its present state without decades of supports and aids from Japan since normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China in early 1970's.
Without Japan's tremendous backups, Chinese youths now enjoying a nice living standard should be working today in a real sweat somewhere in a very local area as part of their mandatory service to the Party which should be in a state of quasi-war with the U.S., Russia, Viet Nam, and Japan.
+ + +
It is very dangerous to think that you can understand China while you cannot read Chinese characters or Japanese kanji letters.
And under the regime of the Chinese Communist Party, you can only get very-biased textbooks imported from China.
You had better learn Japanese in order to correctly learn Chinese works of art, history, literature, and social and business documents.
+ + +
Americans are buying, in a Wal-Mart shop, commodities made in China, because they have quality that can satisfy American consumers. But it is Japanese who have helped Chinese acquire ability to realize that level of industrial quality.
And quality of Japanese industrial products is rooted deep in the tradition of Japanese culture that began in an era of thousand years ago which called the Jomon period.
+ + +
Just like things now happening in the Middle East, if you forget respect to older culture of your own or others, nothing goes and works well.
"TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD"
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Jerusalem or Sightseeing?
Jerusalem or Sightseeing?
[Updated in February 2012]
I heard that the warfare was stopped in the area between Israel and Lebanon.
What worried me is that majority of Israelis are reportedly still worried about Hezbollah's ability being left with considerable potential to attack Israel.
The United Nations should therefore send and station many troops from many countries to and at the area of warfare.
+ + +
Some 40 troops of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force have been stationed at the Golan Heights as part of the 1000-man U.N. Disengagement Observer Force since February 1996.
It is said that some troops heard bombshells being landed in nearby place during the warfare, though there are no casualties as they could well hide themselves in bombproof shelters.
+ + +
The solution is that countries in the world should join the peace keeping force under the authority of the United Nations.
And they send as many troops as possible to Palestine.
It means all the people in the world are coming to the Holy Land.
It is just like God is inviting all the people to Palestine where once Jesus Christ lived and traveled.
+ + +
Judaists were not safe living among Russians.
They were not safe living among Poles and Germans.
They are not yet safe among themselves in Palestine.
But, they have been safe in the United States among Americans who consist of people of various origins.
Therefore, Judaists can be safe among many nationalities in the U.N. PKF uniform in Palestine.
+ + +
Judaists should live in place where various people and tribes live for their safety and security.
Perhaps it is right unless they have heard a commandment of their God: "Return to Jerusalem!"
The issue is that if the Diaspora was the will of God and He has not changed His mind yet, Judaists' return to Jerusalem might not be safe at all.
+ + +
What is the will of God about Judaists, Palestine and the nation of Israel in the 21st century?
Has He ordered all the peoples in the world to let His people live in peace in Palestine?
Hasn't anybody heard His voice?
If we are all abandoned by God, it is no use of taking any measures to protect Israel.
+ + +
By the way, I still wonder why Jesus Christ did not mention anything about the Pyramids, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Dead Sea while He was preaching in Palestine 2000 years ago.
He only made mention of Jerusalem.
People should go to Jerusalem, but not to any sightseeing areas.
Do not go to any sightseeing areas.
You don not know? ; They have been just fighting in Palestine.
"SUFFER FOR MY SAKE"
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
The Era of the B-29 to the Era of the F-15
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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"
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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.
* * *
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"
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!"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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"