Chinese Girls Singing in Sight-Seeing Area in Vain

Chinese Girls Singing in Sight-Seeing Area in Vain


A Japanese reporter was traveling in a sight-seeing area, maybe Guilin, in China.

A guide told him no to give money to children offering some kind of services on the wayside along a sight-seeing path.

Later on, they encountered dozens of local girls singing and standing in ranks at a certain spot.

The reporter did not pay for their thankless service of singing local songs.
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This was, however, reported by the reporter himself on a certain evening newspaper the other day.

Accordingly, here are you being reported on the incident.
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Before the girls started to sing, you had better start to communicate with them, if not with money.

If Jesus Christ was then walking by the sight, what He would give to them and take away from travelers I cannot stop wondering.


"LOVE TO THOSE WHO ARE CALLED 'UNLOVED'"

Then Watch It!

Then Watch It!


When I set out hitting the road wondering nonetheless if I am doing a right thing following the will of God, I saw a license plate of a car indicating "7117," then "7777," and "717" as I was passing every two cars consecutively.

I still wanted some confirmation on that I was heading for a right place; then I saw the license numbers such as "2525" and "555" encouraging me just to go.

When I started to go back home, I just noticed other license number such as "2919" and "1929" on vehicles parked in parallel over a vacant space.

Even when I got closer to my home street and I wondered if God would give me some more confirmation, I found a car running in front of me with a license number "6996."

However, it is not unusual that cars with license numbers, such as "1," "1111," "1001," "5555," and "1234," are observed on my home streets.
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To every car in Iraq, you have to introduce a new type of license numbers.

And every number plate should be equipped with an RDF tag (or an IC tag) to give information about the car through radio communication to detection equipment set on a check point or on the road side.

Then you can identify and track every car on roads of Iraq.

Car bombs would be a difficult tactic for insurgents.
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Do you want to know the license number of mine?

It is just like "1031" or "1101," very common one.

What is yours?

Is it "NYSE 12139?"



"HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS UNCLEAN"

The Israeli Mother and The Arab Brother

The Israeli Mother and The Arab Brother


They televised it in Japan.

A mother of one of two Israeli soldiers who were taken to hostage by Hezbollah was appealing to supporters in New York including the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

A brother of one of Arab prisoners kept by Israel was also meeting with senior officers of the International Red Cross in Geneva, requesting them to press the Israeli Government into exchange of prisoners.

Over these prisoners and hostages, Israel and Hezbollah fought a war this summer, sacrificing more than one thousand lives on both the sides.
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This is the situation in which everybody is a victim as is usual in the human world.

There seems to be no mad man being included who just wants to inflict others while he has no justification to do so at all.

Everybody is a victim to be saved by God. (Any objection?)

What they need is not love more to themselves but love more to others, since they know their opponent is also suffering enough.
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If the Palestine problem or the problem regarding legitimate existence of the state of Israel among Arab people is solved, then Arab people might be able to easily solve their own problems with a great help of the world including Japan.

I really hope that these problems will be solved soon; Yes, very soon, as the mother and the brother are wishing it.

Or are you the one who was just passing by a taxi the mother was in while being depressed after meeting with various diplomats in New York, or otherwise are you the one who was just not aware of how thirsty the brother was when he entered a meeting room of the International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva?

If so, you must hope it more than I do.



"BUT, I AM THE ONE BY BIRTH"

A Great Wall on the Tibetan Height

A Great Wall on the Tibetan Height


A Japanese researcher was once on a bus running on the Tibetan Height.

He was feeling really high, enjoying the splendor of the great grassy plain.

Meanwhile, other travelers, mainly Chinese, on the bus were throwing garbage out of windows to the wayside of the highway cutting through the Tibetan Height.

On the great grassy plain, a bus was running, tossing empty cans, plastic bottles, paper bags, and other miscellaneous garbage out to the wayside.

The Japanese traveler found that simmering lines were also running along the highway lanes as far as he could see.

Now he knew what they were. A Great Wall of Garbage was under construction on the Tibetan Height.
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Yes, I saw the video on the Internet.

A Tibetan was shot and fell on the snow field where several other were also escaping from gunshots fired by Chinese soldiers.
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The Tibetan Height seems to have a size equal to Western Europe or the area west of the Mississippi.

In the 21st century or the 22nd century, the height might be very useful and important for human beings which are said to face serious climate problems.

However, garbage highway and easy firing today on the height might be very ominous not only for China governing the territory now but also for mankind.
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If you throw garbage out of a window of a public bus in Japan, you are asserting that you are a very dangerous person sitting among decent people.

Nonetheless, I can understand it means nothing when you have to be careful not to be shot or bombed while riding on a bus on a street of Iraq or Afghanistan.

Yet, I hope that I will be comfortably riding on a bus in any places on the earth just like in Japan. With no garbage throwers, no shooters, and no suicide bombers, you also should be going.



"YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND?"

Samurai's Daughter

Samurai's Daughter


Until the 1870s, Japan had been a feudal society in which farmers accounted for 85 percent of the population and samurai for seven percent.

Tokyo meaning the east capital (then called Edo meaning an entrace to the sea) had a million population among which samurai accounted for 50 percent, since it was the capital of the Tokugawa samurai regime (called Bakuhu), and every samurai feudal lord all over Japan was obliged to have an official residence in Edo in addition to the one in a castle in their own feud or territory called Han.

Samurai can be easily known from farmers, merchants, and craftsmen, for they wear garments particular about formalities as well as a pair of swords, a large and a small one, or outwardly a long and a short one.
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Once a samurai took his son and his daughter, in ages of schoolchildren in the lower grades of today, to an exhibition of a tiger. Though tigers had never made their habitats in Japan, the animal was always popular among Japanese, since it actually lived in the Korean Peninsula and it was the strongest kind of animals in North East Asia.

The samurai found that his little daughter was not frightened by the tiger exhibited alive for that certain occasion.

So, he decided to give her a dirk or a dagger, or a very small knife that could be hidden even in the hilt of a large sword.

Usually, when a woman of a samurai clan was given a dirk, it was meant that she should use it not only in fight but also for committing a suicide to protect the honor of herself and her family.

But, the samurai did not tell anything about such a samurai code; he just simply said to her, "As you are a strong girl, you could keep it."

Later when she got old, and the samurai era had gone through a civil war and modernization of Japan had begun, she recalled the memory and just wondered what her father, who had also served his lord as a scholar, had thought of when he had given her the dirk.
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If you have a strong soldier, you could trust him with a mighty weapon. But, applying the paradigm to a girl at a playful age of today is unthinkable.

Anyway, the more you are given, the more you are requested of.

Yes, the stronger you are, the stronger companion you might need in case.
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The glorious Meiji Restoration, crowned with the victory of the Japanese-Russo War, has been left behind in history so far away from the Japanese of today.

Then, the materially simple but culturally deep and abundant Samurai Era has been left further away from today's Japanese.

Yet, in the age of globalization, some people might love to hear this kind of report on the samurai era.



"BUILDS ITSELF UP THROUGH LOVE"

The 50,000 Honorable Dead and Injured on the Iwojima in July 1944

The 50,000 Honorable Dead and Injured on the Iwojima in July 1944


When they released that absurd movie "Pearl Harbor" in the summer of 2001 despite the February's tragedy of the Ehimemaru, a Japanese fisheries high-school's training ship that was sunk near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by a USS submarine with guests from Texas on board, no one remembered the passage of the book “Moby Dick” written by Herman Melville just before the Civil War:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States",

"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL",

"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN",
which should be read as:
"In 2000, Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States",

"In early 2001, WAILING VOYAGE BY THE EHIMEMARU ",

"In late 2001, BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN",
and no one could even catch a glimpse of a foretelling shadow of the tragedies at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Now, they are releasing two new movies on the Iwojima island in the Pacific Ocean, while battles in Iraq and Afghanistan have been intensified.
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In July 1944, serious battles were fought on the Iwojima between the U.S. Navy and Imperial Japan's Army, which resulted in 28,686 dead and injured on the U.S. side and 20,129 dead and injured on the Imperial Japan's side.
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The picture presenting several U.S. marines trying to hoist a flag of the Stars and Stripes tied to a slender water pipe on a hill in a battle field of the Iwojima (literally meaning an island of sulfur) was well known as a symbolic figure of U.S. patriotic spirit.

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I am highly concerned with the series of the Iwojima films now being released in the U.S. and Japan.

They might be telling something to us as a kind of oracles.

However, there are too many that are dying in Iraq and thus cannot enjoy the movies.
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The Pacific stage of WWII began after negotiations had failed between the Empire of Japan and the U.S.

Are they carrying negotiations in Iraq and Afghanistan? If not, they should start it and make it successful.

Just a success in negotiations could have parties avoid war at very low costs.

They may further avoid terror and war on terror.

For example, if you today pass by a Shiite Muslim or a Sunni Muslim on a street of New York City, you would not even mind it, though if you pass by an Imperial Japan's soldier from the Iwojima, a thing might be different.



"I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU"

90% of World LCD Panel Market

90% of World LCD Panel Market


Taiwan and Korean makers combined account for 90 percent of the world market share for LCD panels as of the first quarter of FY 2006.

Their remarkable success in this industry is mainly due to lower prices of their products.
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Everybody in the U.S. and Europe is using a PC, a cellular phone, and a flat panel TV, but almost nobody therein is manufacturing liquid crystal display panels (LCD) used in these devices.

Everybody in Africa, the Middle East, and Central/South Americas is using a PC, a cellular phone, and a flat panel TV, but almost nobody therein is manufacturing liquid crystal display panels (LCD) used in these devices.

It seems not to be sound, though it is one example of globalization of the world economy.
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Taiwan and South Korea had been once occupied by, and under administrative control of, the Empire of Japan for decades before the end of WWII.

Look at those other countries once colonized by the U.S. and European powers, then you might find that such an accusation as the Empire of Japan had done nothing good to their subordinate regions is wrong.

Even North Korea was some 30 years ago enjoying GDP larger than, or equal to, South Korea's then.
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I really wish countries such as North Korea would abandon their nuclear-weapon development programs.

It is not nuclear bombs that they should produce but is LCD panels.

Japanese makers that once transferred their technologies to those in Taiwan and South Korea are also competing trying to offer products with higher quality and value embedded.
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The United Nations should also pass a resolution and a declaration that every poor country shall have a right to have an LCD panel industry supported by its rich member countries.

If they cannot deal with LCD panels, they really cannot deal with nuclear bombs.

Therefore, you should encourage them to choose this right direction and extend whatever small step toward it.

I will say it again, "Nuclear bombs or LCD panels?"




"IT SHONE ALL OVER WITH A BRIGHT LIGHT"

Playing with Nuclear Bombs

Playing with Nuclear Bombs


Some still lack basic information, though they are very much interested in success or failure in North Korea's nuclear bomb test.

North Korea has the largest iron mine in East Asia.

North Korea has the largest cupper mine deposit in Asia.

North Korea has uranium mines.

Japan has receivable worth US$ 800 million yet to be recovered from North Korea.
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If North Korea conducts a nuclear test, it is not to be conducted under a desert like the one in the U.S., India, or Pakistan.

It would be probably conducted deep in an old but very huge mine.

They will never conduct it on the surface of the Sea of Japan.
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What someone is doing stealthily or conspicuously I do not mind for his sake.

Or are you so coarse trying to play with someone playing with nuclear bombs?



"FROM HEAVEN WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS"

Freedom of Press for World Ranking

Freedom of Press for World Ranking


I just can't believe.

I just can't believe this.

I just can't believe this information.

I just can't believe this information provided by a Japanese researcher.

I just can't believe this information provided by a Japanese researcher on freedom of press in each country of the world.

It is because Japan is ranked so low in terms of degree of freedom of press, though it is the number one among nonwhite or non-Christian countries.

Check if you can believe it or not by getting access to Economic and Social Dataranking at http://dataranking.com/English/go06-1.html.
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I heard that a female Russian journalist was killed in Moscow. It was well reported in Japan. And the Chechen war she reportedly had exhaustively covered has been also somehow well reported in Japan.

Anna Politkovskaya became one of 23 journalists killed in Russia between 1996 and 2005, which might tell why there is no data on Russia to be used for the ranking.
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Freedom of press is based on belief in the innate goodness of man.

Jesus Christ, however, says that none is good.

Minding His words might nonetheless make a man a little improved.



"SILENCE THE SHOUTS OF CRUEL MEN"

Nuclear Bomb Test in the Summer of 2008?

Nuclear Bomb Test in the Summer of 2008?


Many people say that North Korea failed in its first nuclear test.

Data, information, findings, and theories on the test seem to be far from being reached consensus on, so far.

One alarming thing is swift decision and action of the Japanese Government in taking punitive measures against North Korea.

One remarkable thing is the emphasis in the address by President George W. Bush on corporation of China being highly expected .

One thing to be especially noted is that China is to hold Summer Olympic Games in Beijin in 2008.

You should be also reminded of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations being a South Korean.
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If North Korea makes other nuclear bomb test in the summer of 2008, I wonder how the U.S., Japan, China, and South Korea should respond.

The matter should be properly addressed and orderly resolved now, not in 2008.
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North Korea is a far more autocratic state than Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime.

Majority of its people are extremely poor and have no freedom, but are destined to be helplessly killed if a war erupts with or without nuclear weapons.

Under this circumstance, decision makers in the U.S., Japan, China, South Korea, and Russia would be held liable, if any failures in addressing the issue happen.

Therefore, if you are not involved in administrations of those governments responsible, you may be a little lucky.
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But, do you think that North Korea actually failed in its first nuclear test, luckily for us?

And why? It is because they are just fools?

Fools cannot maintain a nation for more than half a century amid the international powers including the U.S., Japan, Russia, and China.

There cannot be such a fool in this world, which is mankind.

If there is, it is a bigger shame on mankind than inability to correct North Korea.



"THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS"

Atomic Bomb Blasted by North Korea

Atomic Bomb Blasted by North Korea


A young scientist of the University of Tokyo, specializing in seismology, said the level of the nuclear bomb North Korea tried yesterday seems to be a Nagasaki Atomic-Bomb class.

The magnitude of an earthquake triggered by the nuclear test was reportedly about 4.9 as observed at a certain location in Japan, though it was about 3.6 in South Korea.

There are still many arguments and speculations about the size of the bomb and its conclusion, namely, even whether it was successful or not.
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Everybody wants to get big money.

No one wants to die before getting rich and richer.

So, no one in the U.S. is interested in nuclear bombs which would eventually turn to be a fatal means, if used for making money in whatever mean, to all involved.

But, North Korea is different.
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My appeal is that the U.S. Government and the United Nations allocate a certain amount of budget for dealing with this problem.

With that amount observed by North Korea, they may get serious in considering a change in their strategy.

Failures of the U.S. and the U.N. in dealing with other problems have really cost billions of dollars while sacrificing so many innocent lives.
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Too many have been killed since September 11, 2001.

It is time to consider saving lives in ongoing and potential war zones including Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
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I did not feel a tremor the nuclear test in North Korea caused yesterday.

But, I saw someone who looked like an ancient messenger reborn scuttling and passing by me in the morning.

And, one of my electronic gears got out of tune, a happening very rare, that is perhaps once-a-decade thing.

Did you get any inkling at all on that?



"EVIL PEOPLE WILL BURN LIKE STRAW"

The Longest Economic Expansion in Japan

The Longest Economic Expansion in Japan


The Japanese economy has been expanding to date since February 2002.

It is the longest upward business trend after WWII.

Indeed, more university graduates are receiving informal job offers than in previous years.

An increase in the number of those who commit suicide due to bankruptcy or get homeless seems to be also halted.
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The population of 120 million seems not to worry about anything serious for future of the world.

Nonetheless, I think it is time for the Japanese to worry about future of the world.

Just like Americans who should worry about how to complete or simply terminate the War on Terror, the Japanese should worry about how they can maintain and enhance this level of peace domestically and on the interface to the world.

Yet, I hope that you have logically and personally nothing to worry about.


"TO OBEY YOUR LAWS UNTIL THE DAY I DIE"

South Korea vs. North Korea

South Korea vs. North Korea


Next U.N. Secretary General is expected be a South Korean.

Could North Korean leaders feel happy together with South Koreans?

North Korea's announcement that it plans to launch a nuclear bomb test seems to be telling their feeling.
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However, no matter how jealousy you might be, though such a feeling might be very common in politics, you should not resort to nuclear weapons.
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Japan will help North Korea get developed as much as South Korea is, so long as North Korea abandons its nuclear/missile development plans and its abominable policy to keep Japanese abductees still in its hand.

Japan will also support an idea to keep U.S. forces as far as possible from the border between China and North Korea, regardless of their future status, that is, unified Korea or coexistence of two Koreas.
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Both Koreas were last year against an idea that Japan takes up a seat of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

Such selfish antagonism could indeed result in very incongruous happenings.

As a matter of fact, when I loose goodness, I often make a selfish decision, too.



"TAKE MY YOKE AND PUT IT ON YOU"

Underground Economy vs. Gross Domestic Product

Underground Economy vs. Gross Domestic Product


As of 2003, the size of underground economy of each country, in comparison with its nominal GDP, is as follows:
Italy............26.2%
Spain..........22.3%
Belgium......21.5%
Sweden........18.7%
Denmark......17.5%
Germany......16.8%
Canada.........15.4%
France.........14.8%
Holland........12.8%
England........12.3%
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Australia.....10.8%
Swiss...........9.5%
U.S...............8.6%
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Japan..........4.3%
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Applying the same appraisal method to each region of the world, the following average percentage as of 2000 was obtained:
OECD Member Countries........16.8%
Africa...................................41.0%
Central/South America........41.0%
Asia.....................................29.0%
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They do not call those involved in the underground economy "terrorists."

I do not call them, either, yet.

But, how about it for you?

And, what about a mind of our benign Lord?


"ALL WHO HEARD IT WERE AMAZED"

A Film on Afghanistan Needing Great Help

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"