"shall be punished with everlasting destruction"

(Tokyo, January 1, 2010)



In These 4500 Years



As Dubai people enjoyed the boom, terrorism never ended.

Super-rich Muslims must have wanted to divert to America the brunt or gun points terrorists directed at them, so that they could enjoy prosperity at Dubai.

If super-rich Americans thought that it was a necessary price for big fortunes they could partake in at Dubai, they would not press super-rich Muslims to join the War on Terror but rather help them prosper at Dubai.

Conversely, super-rich Americans, poor Americans, super-rich Muslims, and poor Muslims alike have to get united to eradicate terrorism.




SECTION I: 2000 Years for Mankind

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2551 B.C.

The Second Temple in Jerusalem was built around 515 B.C. The Old Testament was started to be compiled and arranged around this period.

So, it took 2000 years that the Great Pyramid of Giza had been proven to be useless for mankind. Or, any great material monument mankind has ever built is useless. But, for the case of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the God had given the 2000-year time period.

Then, around 500 B.C., a surge of spiritual development was observed in Israel, India, and China. For example, history witnessed the Old Testament in Israel, Buddha in India, and Confucius in China around 500 B.C., namely 2000 years after the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Yet, it was also 2000 years after Abraham and his family left Mesopotamia that Jesus Christ emerged in Israel with the subsequent establishment of the New Testament.

Indeed, before Jesus Christ, Alexander the Great actually observed the Great Pyramid of Giza and Caesar also observed the Great Pyramid of Giza, but the Pyramid did not give any eternal glory to them.

Jesus Christ, who reportedly had ever been in Egypt while He was a baby, never mentioned the Great Pyramid of Giza as well as the Great City Rome, Alexandria, and Athens. Yet, His teaching laid foundation to the present-day prosperity of Europe and North America.

And, 2000 years after 500 B.C., Christoper Columbus reached part of the American Continents and Martin Luther started liberal Christianity or Protestantism in Germany around 1500.

And, 2000 years after the emergence of Jesus Christ, you are actually viewing EEE Reporter being posted in Japan, since it is now the year 2010.

That is why I am telling you that you are blessed to be born around 2000 if not around 1500 or, otherwise A.D.1 or 500 B.C., since 2551 B.C., when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, could be regarded still as the starting point of this conflict between spiritual value and material value.



SECTION II: The Great Pyramids of Giza

The pyramid is a magnified capstone ancient Egyptians put on the top of their big rectangular cubic tomb underground.

Originally, for some reasons, ancient Egyptians put a humble triangular pyramid as a symbol of a tomb under the ground. As time went by, this symbolic capstone grew to be the great pyramid.

Accordingly, as for the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Giza terrace or tableland is the shared main body of the tombs, and the the Great Pyramids themselves are capstones. The bodies of the kings who built the Pyramids must be resting under the Pyramids in the Giza terrace.

However, it is well known the formation of the three Pyramids simulates the three central stars of the constellation Orion. It might be however just a part of fruitless religion.


http://www.dudeman.net/astra/giza/oct.html

Yet, I like to see Orion in the night sky nowadays. The stars M43 and M42 down the three belt stars of Orion look like being simulated by the great Sphinx.

Anyway, Orion observed together with the Pleiades might be the best night scenery, though it is very unlikely the Messiah will come from there.
http://ryutao.main.jp/film_orion_m45.html


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Today I saw on TV a Japanese female medical doctor working in Vietnam to perform surgical operations to children born with facial deformation around the mouth.

Many people in Vietnam are still riding on bicycles like in China in 1980's, but it is truly a piece of good news that some Japanese are providing free medical services for poor Vietnamese in the early 21st century, though 50,000 or so American soldiers died in the Vietnam War.

No super-rich Americans died in the Vietnam War; no super-rich Americans and Muslims look like going to die in the War on Terror.

Poor Americans and Muslims had better turn to Japan if not Vietnam.




(A Japanese song called "Subaru (the Pleiades)"...

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~UD3T-KRYM/041-sinsyu/sinsyu.htm )


2Th 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

"we should not trust in ourselves, but in God "

Blind Leaders Leading Blinded People


Africa is not on the path for prosperity to be another Japan, since Europe is exploiting Africa.

The Middle East is not on the path for prosperity to be another Japan, since Europe and America are exploiting the Middle East.

Central America is not on the way for prosperity to be another Japan, since America is exploiting Central America.

But, East Asia and South East Asia are on the way for prosperity to be another Japan, since Japan has been helping them in these decades.

That is why European elites and American elites do not admire Japan unlike East Asians and South East Asians.

It is time to accept the truth.


SECTION I: Dollars and Gun Around Kabul

A veteran Japanese professional cameraman climbed one of mountains surrounding the city Kabul for the purpose of taking pictures of the capital of Afghanistan.

As the banking system in Kabul does not work well today to serve foreigners, he was carrying all the money he had in his purse and also in a special belt.

Then a gunman appeared, pointing the gun at the cameraman and searching his body for money. The armed robbery soon found the purse with full of crisp bills. Then the Afghan brandished his gun to the Japanese who immediately ran down the rocky mountain.

However, the smart Japanese saved most of his money, since only 10 of U.S. $1 bills and only 10 of Afghan $1 bills were in his purse the Afghan robbery took out of him. But, they were all crisp bills without any stains and blots. Accordingly, the robbery misunderstood that the parse contained 10 of U.S. $50 bills and 10 of Afghan $100 bills, since it is unthinkable that any one is carrying 20 crisp one-dollar bills in his parse in Afghanistan or anywhere in the world.

His assets in his money belt were surely secured and preserved.

(http://blog.goo.ne.jp/leonlobo2 )

The Japanese cameraman recently posted his idea about money in general in his blog.

The issue is that while the Bank of Japan has issued only bills worth 80 trillion yen ($0.8 trillion), total deposits in commercial banks in Japan reached 1000 trillion yen ($10 trillion). It is because money has been created by commercial banks through credit creation in the concrete form of lending money into accounts of clients.

Put simply, if a bank judges that you are a man who can return money or pay interest, it will lend you money. Yes, the bank will lend you money if it does not have cash at all. But, it causes no troubles, since all the banks follow this scheme. Banks are transferring and receiving this transparent money in the concrete form of figures and numbers in computer files nowadays.

The point at issue is whether you are qualified or not in the credit appraisal by a bank. To be qualified, you have to be rich. You must have credit or social status a poor man however cannot enjoy.

If you are rich or a person of position, a bank will trust you and lend you money if the bank does not have any money or cash, since all the banks follow this scheme, transferring and receiving transparent money through computer systems using figures and numbers.

Indeed, it is time to review this scheme: Is it quite sound or sophisticated otherwise so laughable and nonsense?


SECTION II: Jesus Christ and Global Warming

We may say that the easiest way to reduce CO2 emission is to limit the amount of oil/coal/gas all the countries are allowed to use.

So, COP-X arguments should be focused on what percentage of total reduction should be adopted.

If you like, each country should reduce its amount of oil/coal/gas to be consumed in its territory by 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%. 8%, 13%, 21%, or 34% so as to prevent global warming.

This is the surest way to reduce the total amount of CO2 mankind emits to the air.

To do this, all the countries must lower their living standard. For example, America must lower its living standard to the level of Afghanistan's. All the advance countries must be as poor as the poorest country is. This is the last solution for reduction of CO2.

But, America and other rich countries would not accept this solution: lowering the living standard to the level of Afghanistan's.

Instead, America and other rich countries would try to prevent poor countries to be rich, try to make poor countries continue to be as poor as they are today, or try to make poor countries poorer, so that CO2 emission is a little suppressed.

America and other rich countries would even try to make some rich countries poor and poorer. No rich countries want to be poor if it is necessary to reduce CO2 emission, but they will make some rich countries poor and poorer, so that CO2 emission is a little suppressed.

In this situation, a country should stand against one another with clear intention to have other countries bear the burden of reducing the amount of oil/coal/gas to be used for maintaining material civilization.

This is the very situation Jesus Christ prophesied: "When the end is near, a country should stand against one another."

Yet, artificial CO2 emission might not have a decisive influence on the global warming as well as global cooling, scientifically.

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Today's material civilization is like the Great Pyramid.

However, 2000 years after the completion of the Great Pyramid, it had no value. Accordingly, the Old Testament was compiled, leading to the beginning of the New Testament 600 or 500 years after, namely the birth of Jesus Christ.

Today's material civilization must look like the Great Pyramid in future.

It is so, since 2000 years later, it will have no value.

Justice and love to the poor must become foundation to the next 2000 years of mankind.

Today's war, terror, global warming, financial crises, and so on must be viewed from this viewpoint.



2Co 1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

2Co 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

2Co 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

"your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world"

(Touching a tip of the Pacific Ocean 40 Km southwest of Tokyo.)


More than Living for Money and Pleasure


Today, before noon, I saw five police or defense-force helicopters in formation flying toward me, though 400-meter high.

Approaching enough, they gradually U-turned midair, while I was watching, to the south or Tokyo. Anyway, such a thing never happened in my life.

Accordingly, I have recorded it here, since there might be five people viewing EEE Reporter in Tokyo.


SECTION I: Japanese Homeless Women

Several days ago, a Japanese TV station presented a homeless woman living alone on Tokyo streets for years.

She was not admitted to a shelter the Japanese Government had set up for homeless and jobless people to spend this New Year Season somewhat decently, because she had to first go and file a request at a local public office of a ward where she mainly lived. But she was not welcomed by officials of the public ward office who advised her to go to certain remote public facilities instead of the Government-set-up shelter.

The Government shelter so televised and covered by the media during New Year holidays this year was basically intended to provide aid for those who were recently fired by businesses, such as subcontractors of Toyota, Nissan, or Sony, due to this recession.

The over-middle-aged homeless woman would not go to the remote facilities, since she had no homeless friends in the area and no acquaintances in homeless aid groups working in the area where the recommended facilities were situated. Besides, if she had traveled to the remote facilities, she might have been simply and coolly advised again to go to other facilities.

Of course, officials of the public ward office who advised her to go to the distant facilities must have well understood that it was difficult for her to move there leaving her friends, her last resort of living in this world. They sent her back to cold, winter streets of Tokyo, while they knew that a chance of her accidental death was very high.

It is said that women account for 5% or so of all the homeless persons in Japan estimated to be around 50,000 among 125 million population.

(http://www.news.janjan.jp/living/0706/0706137208/1.php)

There was a case that a homeless lady was killed by a young adult who mobilized teenagers to attack and rob her of money in a local city of Japan.

(http://www.oita-press.co.jp/worldSociety/2009/04/2009040601000631.html)

If the situation is so bad even in Japan, how desperate it is in China, the U.S., and the U.K. where so many racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices and conflicts are alienating people and groups of people from one another!



SECTION II: 1549 to 1639 of Japan

Christianity was officially introduced into Japan in 1549 and was officially terminated in Japan in 1639, once.

Around 1500, Christopher Columbus reached part of the American Continents. Then, half a century later Christianity reached Japan.

(It was just like that in 1955 Sony rolled out its first transistor radios [for listening of consumers] in Japan to be a global maker while in 2005 EEE-Reporter Blog was launched in Japan to be a global announcing site.)

Nestorius Christian is believed to have reached Japan more earlier, though evidences are scare.

The most authentic record is as follows:
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Francis Xavier reached Japan on 27th July, 1549, with Anjiro and three other Jesuits, but it was not until 15th August that he went ashore at Kagoshima, the principal port of the province of Satsuma on the island of Kyūshū. As a representative of the Portuguese king, he was received in a friendly manner, hosted by Anjiro's family until October 1550. From October to December, 1550, he resided in Yamaguchi. Shortly before Christmas, he left for Kyoto but failed to meet with the Emperor. He returned to Yamaguchi in March, 1551, where he was permitted to preach by the daimyo of the province. However, lacking fluency in the Japanese language, he had to limit himself to reading aloud the translation of a catechism.

Francis was the first Jesuit to go to Japan as a missionary.[citation needed] He brought with him paintings of the Madonna and the Madonna and Child. These paintings were used to help teach the Japanese about Christianity. There was a huge language barrier as Japanese was unlike other languages the missionaries had previously encountered. For a long time Francis struggled to learn the language. Artwork continued to play a role in Francis’ teachings in Asia.[citation needed]

For forty-five years the Jesuits were the only missionaries in Asia, but the Franciscans also began proselytizing in Asia as well. Christian missionaries were later forced into exile, along with their assistants. Some were able to stay behind, however Christianity was then kept underground as to not be persecuted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier
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(To be continued...)



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There was a change in the Japanese Finance Minister.

It is purely an inner-party issue of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.

Though Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama did not intend this change, the former Finance Minister decided to leave the Cabinet based on his personal judgment about situations involving human relationships with top leaders of the Party as well as progress in investigation by public prosecutors into allegations of mishandling of political funds by some Party members.

However, the New Finance Minister of Japan Mr. Naoto Kan is truly a stranger as an expert in finance, though he has been a national lawmaker for 30 years or so.

And, it is unknown what personal relationships he has with Chinese leaders and American leaders. Probably, only a few...

You may check Prime Miniter Mr. Hatoyama's remarks on this issue at his personal Twitter site in Japanese:
http://twitter.com/hatoyamayukio

Indeed, Twitter is getting popular among some elite politicians in Japan, though twits are not desirable at all in the National Diet or Parliament.



Rom 1:6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

Rom 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

"unto the uttermost part of the earth."

I do not dislike dogs which respect human beings on any occasions.

There are several types of dogs indigenous to Japan, but basically it is Shiba-Inu, a smaller type, that is the most unique and basic as a Japanese dog.

The Shiba-Inu dog is believed to have come to the Japanese Islands tens of thousands years ago with people who had reached this easternmost land of the Eurasia Continent from Siberia down to Hokkaido and Honshu Islands.

Ancient Japanese of thousands years ago buried their dogs with love as
unearthed objects tell.

Anyway, DNAs of those dogs reveal that they are different from Japanese wolves that became extinct in the early 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu

In addition, there are no evidences that the tiger ever lived on the Japanese islands, though mammoths and dinosaurs did.

(Note: "Inu" means a dog in Japanese, "Oh-Kami" a wolf, and "Tora" a tiger.)



SECTION I: Japan in 1760's

There are three prominent figures in Japan of 1760's under the Tokugawa samurai feudalistic regime.

Empress Go-Sakuramachi () (September 23, 1740 – December 24, 1813) was the 117th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. She is the last and most recent woman to reign as Empress regnant, out of eight in the history of Japan. She was the eighth woman to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.[1] The years of her reign spanned the period from 1762 to 1771.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Go-Sakuramachi

Tanuma Okitsugu ()(September 11, 1719, Edo, Japan - August 25, 1788, Edo) was a rōjū (senior counselor) of the Tokugawa shogunate who introduced monetary reform. He was also a daimyo, and ruled the Sagara han. He used the title Tonomo-no-kami.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuma_Okitsugu


Motoori Norinaga (Japanese:; 21 June 1730–5 November 1801) was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku during the Edo period. He is probably the best known and most prominent of all scholars in this tradition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoori_Norinaga

Japan closed the door to foreigners in those years for Tokugawa's policy of seclusion implemented from 1639 to 1853.

However, China and the Kingdom of the Netherlands kept trading relations with Japan, so that Japanese elite samurais comprehended what was going on in the world. However, world information, including knowledge of Christianity, was blocked from diffusing among ordinary farmers, craftsmen, and merchants.

Accordingly, the very unique culture power Japan further deepened its features in this period without influences of China and Europe in large.

In this context, it is noteworthy that Motoori Norinaga dedicated his 35 years, from his age of 35 to 69, to sincere study in the "Kojiki," an old document of imperial history and myths reportedly written in 712, respecting Japanese traditions rather than teaching of ancient Chinese philosophers the samurai regime paid much regard to.

Even today, the "Kojiki" and the "Nihon-shoki," the imperial and official classical history book written in 720, are the two major sources for studying and understanding Japan before the 8th century.

As Koran was first compiled around 650, the Kojiki and the Nihon-shoki could be regarded as a kind of religious books of Shintoism or Japanese spiritualism.

If you are studyng Japan and Japanese, one of your highest goals is to understand the Kojiki and the Nihon-shoki, though the Nihon-shoki is written in classical Chinese and Kojiki is written in mainly classical Japanese with some classical Chinese.

Without 35-year work by Motoori Norinaga, Japan today should have only the Nihon-shoki written in classical Chinese, as the oldest, authentic history book of Japan.


(Note 1: As Japan had been under strong and difficult military, diplomatic, and political pressure from superior China in the 7th century, the Japanese Imperial court prepared the Nihon-shoki to claim its historical independence from Chinese dynasties. For this purpose, it was written in Chinese of the era to claim that Japan was as civilized as China, since Japan had an official history book like each Chinese dynasty had.)

(Note 2: "Kojiki" means an old-thing document in Japanese; "Nihon-shoki" a Japan's authentic document.)



SECTION II:




(To be continued...)


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Everybody is talking about BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Their combined share of GDP in the world is expected to get 20% or more in 2010. However, they are not Islamic nations. They are rather socialism-oriented economies.

In any way of grouping, Japan (GDP share 6%) is unique like America (20%) because of religion.

So, history first, religion second, and economy third.

Respect historians more than religious professionals and economists.



Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

Act 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

"In the beginning was the Word"

(This is the sun of January 1, 2010; This is Mt. Fuji of January 1, 2010. What else do you expect to see?)


Symmetry and Asymmetry


Dubai is situated in the middle of Baghdad, Tehran, Kabul, and Yemen.

The distance from Dubai to each other location is almost the same, in the global scale.

Have any Muslims said that Allah wants wealth and peace to be distributed from Dubai to Baghdad, Tehran, Kabul, and Yemen?


SECTION I: HAITI

A young Haitian said, "Nowhere to work here. You cannot be even forced to be a thief, since there is nothing to steal here."

One of the reasons why the U.S. cannot be praised is that the super power cannot even help Haiti develop economically.

If the U.S. helps duly those poor Caribbean countries as well as central American countries, American GDP will surely fall by 10% or so.

Japan has helped Taiwan, South Korea, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and even North Korea develop their economy. Accordingly, Japan has to experience deflation for so long, since Japan has to invest so much in those countries and import their inexpensive goods so much rather than boost up Japan's domestic demands.

It is partly to protect natural environment of Japan. Too much industrial development was about to harm the Japanese land to an irreversible degree in 1990's.

Yet, it is very strange or sinful that Haiti and Dominican Republic share the small island, while speaking French and Spanish, respectively, without any hope for prosperity though situated so close to America.


(That is why Japanese conservative people often say, "Look at those countries once occupied by the Empire of Japan. They are all prosperous now to a reasonable extent. So-called Japan's colonization is so different from that by America, France, Spain, and the U.K. The Empire of Japan introduced modernization to those countries and invested more than it exploited before WWII." There might be some exaggeration, but Taiwan with the world second tallest building is far better than Haiti and Dominican Republic today, as you know.)



SECTION II: Japan in 1960's

The world changed so drastically when it left its 1960's compared with when it had entered its 1960's.

At the beginning of 1960's, American citizens and students believed that American leaders in politics and economy respected Jesus Christ as much as they did. But, at the end of 1960's, they did not.

In 1960, Sony established Sony America in America.
In 1961, Sony went public on the American market as the first of Japanese businesses.
In 1963, Sony's president Akio Morita and his family moved to America to live.
In 1968, Sony established Sony UK in London.
In 1970, Sony established Sony GmbH in Germany.

At the beginning of 1960's, some Japanese people thought Japan would further grow economically as much as Italy sooner or later.

Tokyo Olympic Games were indeed held in 1964, following 1960 Rome Olympics.

In 1969, the Japanese Gross National Product (GNP) ranked No.2 in the world following the U.S.

Yet, unlike at the beginning of 1960's, universities and colleges in Japan were popularized in a large scale for the first time in the Japanese history in the late 1960's, thus changing the landscape of Japanese social structure from high-school graduate dominant society to university graduate dominant society as demonstrated by the student movement in late 1960's which was essentially different from the similar movement in early 1960's led by elite students and laborers over security partnership of Japan and the United States.

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(To be continued...)





Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

"the wicked doth compass about the righteous"

(Mt. Fuji of January 1, 2010; Japanese Shintoism sometimes regards a mountain as a shrine body itself - Mt. Fuji is also a shrine.)



Rebellion, Restoration, and Salvation


Now the holy three days from January 1 were over in Japan.

But some 800 jobless and homeless people in Tokyo have been especially taken care of by the Government providing them shelters and other aid for them to spend the New Year season decently, as the Japanese media have been covering those victims of a great recession since the second half of 2008.

Yet, I recommend the Bank of Japan to lend those jobless and homeless people $1000 per month per person under the government's guarantee, since it totals only $0.8 million per month while the Government can print its own yen bills as many as needed or wished by law.

If BOJ would not, the Government should establish a new bank for this function, the National Bank for Poor Japanese (BPJ). Then, other nations would follow suit with, say, the National Bank for Poor Americans (BPA).



SECTION I: Ryoma Sakamoto

Late last night, when I checked some satellite TV channels before finally switching off the TV, a certain TV station happened to present a mysterious history program.

It extended a unique theory that Sakamoto Ryoma was assassinated by his friend Nakaoka Shintaro at Kyoto in 1867.

Sakamoto Ryoma (family name is Sakamoto) is No.1 samurai hero Japanese people respect so much, since he contributed to success in ending the feudalism samurai period and opening a new era for modern Japan. Without him, it is believed, more bloods should have been shed and more chaotic situations should have lasted longer through civil wars between the last samurai regime of the Tokugawas based in Tokyo and emerging power of anti-Tokugawa samurai groups associated with the noble class and the imperial family based in Kyoto.

However, Sakamoto Ryoma was assassinated in Kyoto at one cold night, though he was talking with his long-time samurai friend Nakaoka who was also attacked and died two days later. Sakamoto was an expert in swordplay, but he always carried a handgun imported from America, since he had been attacked sometime before by Tokugawa police forces. Yet, he was killed by sword without effectively fighting back in his hiding room of a merchant house in the middle of Kyoto, the imperial capital of Japan.

Who sent the assassins is still a mystery without evidences. Who those samurai assassins were is still a mystery today without evidences. Though there is a common theory that Sakamoto was killed as some leader of the Tokugawa samurai government ordered a police platoon of Tokugawa's branch troops stationed at Kyoto to attack Sakamoto.

The TV program of the last night presented a new theory that Nakaoka betrayed and actually killed Sakamoto, but Sakamoto fought back with his handgun to wound Nakaoka; yet some foreign figures, most probably English diplomats or merchants, were involved behind the scene in this historic assassination of Sakamoto Ryoma who is still respected as a revolutionary samurai hero by many Japanese who voted the last summer in the general election to realize the regime change paving the way for the Hatoyama Cabinet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakamoto_Ry%C5%8Dma



SECTION II: Japan in 1860's

Around 1860, many samurais were victimized in assassination, attack in darkness, terrorism, and bloody machinations, while all the samurais, samurai clans, and samurai groups were divided into the Tokugawa camp and the anti-Tokugawa forces backed by the noble class and the imperial family.

Eventually, the era of samurais had gone with old social structure based on feudalism.

Both the pro- and anti-Tokugawa samurais, after the end of the Civil War in 1868, changed their clothes, hair styles, and habits, to be Western-style ministers, politicians, governors, bureaucrats, military officers, police, teachers, post masters, and medical doctors and professors in addition to businessmen, while gradually opening to ordinary people, namely non-samurais, the gate for the politics and other fields with the higher social status.

The Chiyoda (Edo) Castle used by the Tokugawas for 270 years was changed to the Imperial Palace.


(To be continued...)


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(This piece of music is called "Spring Sea," the most revered sound as so expected to be played in a new year social party of a Japanese style.

http://www4.osk.3web.ne.jp/~kasumitu/harunoumi.mid

Source:http://www4.osk.3web.ne.jp/~kasumitu/home.htm)



Hab 1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

Hab 1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

Hab 1:3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

Hab 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

"Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah "

(Mt. Fuji First, Hawks Second, and Eggplants Last in Japanese first dream of the New Year...; you may click on a picture to enlarge.)


Lessons for Children, Old Men, and Manhood


Japanese Prime Minister started his "personal" blog posting on January 1, 2009.

Pictures in his blog site are to be taken by Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama himself or his secretaries.

http://hatocafe.kantei.go.jp/

Though he does not directly operate a computer system for blog posting, his secretaries would honestly input his sentences, sent to them by the prime minister via an e-mail system, into a Prime Minister's blog page on the Internet.

Viewers can send their comments via Twitter to the prime minister, which are to be displayed on a monitor screen on one of his desks in the Prime Minister's Office, unless blocked due to any quality and security criteria.

So, you had better learn Japanese to feel so connected to the Japanese Prime Minister himself, even from Taipei, Seoul, Beijing, New Delhi, Moscow, or New York.

However, you cannot tell how long it will continue or whether it will enable his Cabinet to continue longer than critics expect...since there are so many spies and agents using the Internet.



SECTION I: QUIZ TO CHILDREN

In a certain public elementary school in Japan, the following question was asked of children:

An adult asked some help of three children. When the children finished their humble jobs, the adult gave them four cakes. Now, how should the cakes be distributed among the kind children? Choose an appropriate answer from the following:

I. Divide the four cakes into three four-thirds portions, and have each child take equally one portion.

II. Have a child who showed the best performance take all the four cakes.

III. As a friend of one of the three children happened to come there, the four cakes should be distributed among the three plus one children.

A teacher then gave the right answer, telling the pupils that they had to choose the case III.

(http://www.janjannews.jp/archives/2125244.html)


Indeed, in China, America, and EU, teachers must be telling that pupils must choose or accept the case II, since the society is functioning based on a principle represented by the case II.

But, in Japan, some teachers really like to persuade pupils to choose or accept the case III (as these socialist teachers reportedly hate competition of whatever sort, thus trying to demolish the spirit of capitalism with this sort of educational practices, though they cannot build industry to feed the people).

A negative effect of competition cannot be conquered by simply denying a positive effect of competition. Yet, desire-driven competition is not desirable, while ideal-driven competition can contribute to progress of the society. Reward is a secondary matter.

According to the teaching of Jesus Christ, competition must be indeed aimed at gaining the favor of the God.


SECTION II: AMERICAN PRISONS

The Japan Times in its December 29, 2009, issue quoted from Los Angeles Times' article by Mr. David Fathi:

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By 2005, the prison population (in the U.S.) was six times what it had been in 1975...

In 1980 the U.S. had about 9,500 prisoners age 55 and older; by 2008, the number had increase tenfold, to 94,800...

With one in 11 U.S. prisoners serving a life sentence - in some states, the figure is 1 in 6 - it's no surprise that the number of elderly prisoners is skyrocketing...

Being in prison is hard on anyone, but elderly people face special dangers, particularly if they are ill or disabled...And older prisoners are more likely to be robbed, assaulted or otherwise victimized...
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Law must be equally applied.

But, different provisions must be included in law for different types of people: younger ones and older ones; stronger ones and weaker ones; and rich ones and poor ones.

For example, for 10-dollar robbery, a richer criminal must be more severely corrected than a poor one who has less than 10 dollars.

Or, a different provision should be prepared for a 10-dollar thief who is poor and older than 60.

Essentially, a prison is for correction of professional criminals, including terrorists. Education and training must be two major pillars; violence and crimes must be two objectives to eradicate in a prison system.


SECTION III: Around 1500

As I wrote on Wednesday, December 16, 2009:
Yet, you must realize that Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) preceded Martin Luther (1483 – 1546) though both the heroes lived around 1500.

Then what happened around 1500 in Japan, China, and India?

In 1493, the then samurai regime of Japan faced a crisis. The Ashikaga shogunate based in Kyoto could not protect its shogun or the samurai president any more. Each samurai clan in local regions started to compete and fight with one another, leading to a century-long civil war in Japan.

So, the year 1493 is the beginning of the Warring States period of Japan, a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict in Japan that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengoku_period )

In Japan after 1493, though Columbus arrived at part of America in 1492 providing the oldest root for the U.S., many samurai clans and factions started to openly battle with one another unlike before over feuds and other advantages, while the then samurai shogun (president or king) lost his hegemony to diminish into the nominal head of the samurai class.

Around this era, the Ashikaga clan had held the hegemony over Japan. The head of the Ashikagas assumed the shogun status based on their military power. However, unlike the first samurai regime situated in Kamakura since the early 12th century, this second samurai regime set its administrative capital in Kyoto since the early 14th century. It meant that samurais still absolutely needed some kind of authority of the imperial court to augment their own authority over their territory and people.

Anyway, the mode, mood, or spirit of this Warring States period or the era of great civil wars among samurais in the Japanese Middle Ages lasted under the surface until the last samurai regime by the Tokugawas situated in Edo (Tokyo) fell in 1868 (close to the time when the American Civil War ended).

So, there were remarkably parallel situations between Japan and America.

It is so, since while the early American mood, mode, and spirit, no matter how wild or courageous, were being formed during the first century after Columbus' 1492 arrival at America, individual samurai clans started to rise and fight for their own benefits and glory for a century after 1493 though before this era there had been strong order and respect for the top samurai clans who were believed to be truly associated with the ancient imperial family through their blood lines.

Some Europeans started to depart from the Vatican around 1492 to be Americans.

Most samurais started to depart from the traditional samurai authority, associated with the ancient imperial court, around 1493 to be more independent rulers of Japan, regardless of their formal respect for the imperial court that was destined to suffer lack of any political and economic power until 1868.

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Japanese high-ranking officials and politicians must read the P.M. Mr. Hatoyama's blog once a week as a quasi duty, since the prime minister has lauched "personal" blog and the Twitter communications.

Yet, I am writing my blog sentences to those who can understand to whom EEE Reporter articles are posted and presented.

It is so, since some others do not know even what the year 1500 means to Japan, the U.S., and Europe.




("How many times will I have to wake up in the morning till Happy New Year?" a Japanese song titled "New Year Day (O-Shogatsu)" goes so, since letting out a kite and spinning a top are happy games on New Year holidays. Indeed silent and pious festivity are so high on January 2, traditionally, in Japan.

http://www.geocities.jp/machi0822jp/oshougatu.htm )


Jon 1:1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Jon 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"

(Photo taken by EEE Reporter on January 1, 2010, titled "For Whom the Bay Rushed")


Further You Travel, Less You See; More You Possess, Less "They" Praise You


The wind was blowing fairly strong as I stepped onto the shore.

The water edge was busy as white wave was rushing one after another.

Yet, the sea was remarkably green and the sky is nicely clear.

Concentrating on their challenge to winter waves were wind surfers.

Southwest of Tokyo for 40 Km, Mt. Fuji could be well observed here.

*** *** *** ***

There are two things you cannot ultimately buy in this world: Jerusalem and Mt. Fuji.

Indeed there are two things you cannot ultimately buy in this world, if Chinese offer the Long Wall for sale and Americans turn the White House into a casino: Jerusalem and Mt. Fuji.

Truly there are two things you cannot ultimately buy in this world, if the Vatican turns to be a public company and super rich Muslims start to build another Dubai to promote Islam: Jerusalem and Mt. Fuji

There are two things only the Devil tries to buy in this world: Jerusalem and Mt. Fuji.

That is why I recommend you to abandon billions dollar/yen assets, since they cannot buy you Jerusalem or Mt. Fuji, the two most valuable things in this world, namely more valuable than diamonds queens in the world have.

Or, are you planning to buy the Antarctic Continent as a countermeasure for global warming.

Indeed, the third thing the super rich men cannot buy is CO2.

*** *** *** ***

Yes, Bill, a CPU had to be given a code from the beginning.

It needed an instruction and operands from the beginning.

But, man created codes, instructions, and operands in his brain for himself.

Yes, man got the ability through repeating the process of trial and error for billions years.

A CPU is not a living thing; a computer is not a living thing; it is not so from the beginning, if it starts to create codes, instructions, and operands suddenly today, since in the beginning it was a machine.

In the beginning, Bill, there was a keyboard.

Have nice 2010!


(Oh, Yeah! I got the right destination today, though I had been at a loss around 0:00 today. I saw a dark skinned foreign woman standing on a corner looking a little worried, though I hurried on a lane to the Sagami Bay facing the Pacific Ocean. The temperature must be around 5 degrees C or so as the wind was blowing fairly strong...

[Some people observed an eclipse of the moon in Japan around 4:00 of January 1. And it was the first in 19 years that a full moon was observed before the dawn of New Year's Day. Oh, maybe we are being blessed, ladies, gentlemen, and Your Highnesses.])



Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"

("Respectfully Happy New Year," it reads over the sign of the shinto-talisman dealing counter, around Tokyo; you may cleans your hand before entering the holy precinct even if your hand is clean...)


Great New Year Eve of Japan

"Whee! It is the new year eve ('O-Misoka' in Japanese) at last!"

"Uh! What should I do? What can I do finally before 0:00 of January 1?"

"Ah! I must go to a shrine after 0:00 of January 1 to pray to whatever holy spirit for my wish!"

"Whee! It is O-Misoka ('the new year eve' in English) at last!"

Yet, Christians, Muslims, Judaists, Chinese, Indians, and others might just think:"Oh, January 1, 2010 is Friday. We get a long weekend from the beginning of 2010."

But, the New Year Day ("Gan-Tan" in Japanese) is beyond the week system for Japanese people.

It is truly strange that the Vatican has not ever declared that Jesus Christ must have been born on January 1, since He is the Son of God.



SECTION I: THE WOMAN OF 2009 (the Japanese version)

Maybe, the Japanese Woman of 2009 is the wife of Mr. Hideki Matsui, a Japanese Major League Baseball Player, since he won the title of the Most Valuable Player in the World Series as he overwhelmingly contributed to the world championship of the New York Yankees.

However, no one will complain if I suggest that the Japanese Woman of 2009 is still Ms. Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korean agents in their spy operation decades ago, since she is yet to be set free and return to Japan and her parents waiting for so long.

Yet, some might like to nominate Ms. Eriko Fukuda (DPJ lawmaker), Ms. Ai Miyazato (golfer), Ms. Noriko Sakai (actress), etc.



SECTION II: IPPEN

There are two Nobel Prize winners for literature in Japan.

Only one of them is alive and active, since Mr. Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) was born in Ehime Prefecture of the Shikoku Island situated southwest of Kyoto and Osaka.

Ehime Pref. is also well associated with So-seki Natsume (1867-1916), the most respected author in Japan of the modern era.

Yet, you might still remember the Ehimemaru Incident that occurred in early 2001. Nine crewmen of Ehimemaru, a Japanese high school fishing training ship, were killed in collision with an American submarine, USS Greeneville. This tragedy triggered not only resignation of then Prime Minister Mr. Yoshiro Mori, but also foretold the coming 9/11 Terror, for some reasons. (Refer to the EEE Reporter posting on Tuesday, January 16, 2007.)

The most important figure is however Holy Buddhist Priest Ippen (1234 – 1289) among prominent people from Ehime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippen

From my study on the Japanese Buddhism, I believe that Ippen is the most important Buddhist for Japan.

He, an ex-samurai, preached all over Japan like a beggar, abandoning a family life with his wife and a daughter and teaching poor people how to believe in Buddha, while the first samurai regime of Japan was going to face invasion by the Mongolian forces of Yuan Dynasty in 1274 and 1281. From this war with Mongolians, the concept of "kamikaze" was created.

Anyway, Ippen said, "Abandon all, and then you prove your faith and you will be saved."

A picture scroll depicting his travelling with bare feet is a very precious cultural asset for Japan today.

In that Ippen emphasized thoroughly a need for being poor and loved truly the poor as one of them, he is so close to Jesus Christ.



SECTION III: CORRELATION BETWEEN WEALTH AND INSIGHT

Experiences, knowledge, information, and data can be purchased.

Accordingly a big company has more experiences, knowledge, information, and data than a small company.

Yet, big companies also suffer a loss, financial difficulties, and disadvantageous competition sometimes.

They cannot even avoid a recession.

If you have $1 billion, you need insight into $100 billion matters.
If you have $1 million, you need insight into $100 million matters.
If you have $100, you need insight into $10,000 matters.
If you have $1, you need insight into $100 matters so as to perfectly take the responsibility required for the money you have.

This kind of an accelerated scale effect is critically lacked in analyses by economists.

It can be also extended to the degree of combination.

A theory effective in a situation where only one or two combinations are possible cannot be simply applied to a situation where 100 or more combinations are available.

This kind of a multiplied combination effect is critically lacked in analyses by economists.

Indeed the business world only dealing with a margin, if as a result of many and complicated calculations, is too barren.

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Have you met anybody you can respect this year 2009?

If that somebody is richer than you, you have to think about Jesus Christ more.

It is so, since Jesus Christ was as poor as those who respected Him 2000 years ago.

Finally, it is truly my wish that you have had actually a happy year in 2009.

In Japan, it is said literally that an afreet or a human-like monster will laugh at you if you talk about things of the next year. God knows what may happen next year.

Now, 1 hour and 50 minutes to 0:00 of January 1, 2010 in Japan.


(An hour ago or so, I saw a flickering jet plane, which could not be an ordinary commercial one, flying high somehow roaring to the southwest in the cold, dark night sky governed by strikingly cool and clear moon shining almost vertical over my head...Good Night!)



Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Mar 12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

Mar 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Mar 12:34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

"rather seek ye the kingdom of God"

TIME TO GIVE UP OR TAKE FINAL ACTION?


Everybody must have made a hard decision in the past year.

However, if a direction is wrong, whatever decision would lead to fiasco eventually.

If a direction is right, a temporary outcome does not matter if materially success or not.

Look up at the sky and the sun, and you will know that the earth has run around the sun over a six times or more longer distance than the one between you and the sun this year.

Indeed a direction is at issue, since it is a precondition of righteousness.


SECTION I: THE MAN OF 2009

The Man of 2009 in the U.S. is Mr. Michael Moore with his film "Capitalism." Michael Jackson and Mr. Tiger Woods follow him, though having enjoyed American capitalism a bit little too much.

The Man of 2009 in Japan is Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama who turned over the defacto half-a-century ruling by the Liberal Democratic Party on the 2009-30-8 election with his colleagues of the Democratic Party of Japan.

Yet, recently some key supporters for P.M. Mr. Hatoyama seem to be disappointed not only because of his bush or amateurish handling of his millions-dollar assets used in his political activities but also because of relationships with very veteran politicians Minister Mr. Shizuka Kamei and DPJ champion Mr. Ichiro Ozawa who are speaking so loud over the media nowadays.

It is unknown how long P.M. Mr. Hatoyama can sustain his Cabinet. But, as one of ministers of the Abe Cabinet committed suicide before the 2007 Upper House election due to heavy attacks focused on his political money scandal by the DPJ, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama might eventually follow the similar pattern to that of former P.M. Mr. Shinzo Abe of the LDP.

Former Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe held up his principle "Restore Beautiful Japan" based on which he carried out some reformation in the Japanese educational and administrative regimes. But, unfortunately he was forced to resign the premiership due to illness.

Present Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama asserted his dream of "Fraternalism" based on which he has flown to Korea, China, and India. But, unfortunately he might choose early resignation as he has involved his mother, a daughter of the founder of the great tire company Bridgestone Corporation, in the authorities' investigation into his questionable political money handling.

(However, His Majesty the Emperor invited to lunch the Prime Minister and his Cabinet members a week ago or so...)


SECTION II: MENCIUS

The mother of Mencius (Mo[u]shi in Japanese), a great Chinese philosopher (372 – 289 BCE) of the era of Alexander the Great, changed her residence three times.

When she lived near a temple, her child Mencius played a funeral game. When she moved near a market, her child Mencius played a merchant game. When she moved near a school, her child Mencius studied so hard as she wished.

Accordingly, this anecdote is still well known in Japan today as "Mo-bo San-Sen (Mencius' mother's three-times relocation)."

Mencius said that there are two types of kings:
"One who establishes his hegemony relying on armed forces and another relying on his virtue."

Only a big country can survive eventually, if it is led by a king relying on armed forces. Yet, his kingdom will face endless challenges from other nations also relying on armed forces. Peace is indeed difficult to be expected to come and stay.

But, even a small country governed by a king relying on his virtue, charity, and righteousness can stand for very long time while receiving respect even from peoples of other nations.

The former is called hegemonism and the latter the rule of right.


SECTION III: Logic of Economics

If an event A causes an event B, it is expressed as "A-->B."

In this convention, a typical logic of economis is as follows:
A-->B
B-->C
C-->A
Accordingly, "A-->B" in a new cycle results in a different state of B.

If A is a measure to decrease an unemployment rate B, the decreased unemployment rate has an influence on C which in turn effects A. As a result, an unemployment rate can be increased to the initial state of B.

Therefore, in the long run, an unemployment rate will be settled at a constant level after passing through the above cycle or cycles.

The point at issue is of course related to definition of A, B, and C as well as definition of an effective range of this logic.

Insufficient definition and wrong judgement of the effective scope make their theory useless in improving the society.

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Is Japan truly going to slight the U.S. under the Hatoyama Administration or the regime of the Democratic Party of Japan?

Some Asians are really worrying.

However it is not a right judgement. It is a kind of natural consequences of 65 years of peace for Japan. In these 65 years, no Japanese self-defense personnel have been engaged in war or battles. Though North Korea is now equipped with nuclear bombs, Japanese people come to think that it is time to review American military presence inside Japan.

It does not mean that Japan is going to be another China in terms of national security of the U.S., having nuclear missiles covering Washington D.C. and requesting a defacto G2 alliance. It is rather to correspond more flexibly to situations in Asia where poor countries are afraid of China and the U.S. It is to help poor Asian countries more effectively from arrogance of China and the U.S.

For example, Japanese Suzuki Motor Corporation is now the No.1 car maker in India while Japanese Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. sells more cars in China than in Japan. Asia accounts for 28.6% of all the Japan's direct oversea investment, while North America 15.4%.

Diplomatically and economically Japan is going liberal, though domestically very conservative under the surface.

(Ref. to http://lib21.blog96.fc2.com/blog-entry-1016.html)

In turn, America must be also going liberal and more Christian, in my humble view.



(http://www.lucare.com/immortal/media/midi/beeth9-4.mid

Source:http://www.lucare.com/immortal/audio.html )


Luk 12:30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Luk 12:31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

"O ye of little faith?"

Like Water Flowing, Like Air Circulating, and Like Dragon Rising under the Sun


The Woman of 2009 is of course Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton. It is not her personality but her view on the world that has been tested this year. In fact, no terrorism has been successfully conducted in the air, on the land, or at sea around the American homeland this year so far. Arguably, one stupid comment on Israel, Islam, Iran, India, and international relationships with Russia, China, and North Korea might have damaged American reputation.

In Japan, it is said that Secretary Mrs. Clinton recently put the Japanese ambassador to America on report to the State building and also called the Japanese Foreign Minister by phone, probably, to make clear her standpoint on the U.S. Marine bases in Okinawa, Japan.

If America cannot maintain trust from Japan, it cannot act even like a super power in economy and war.

Anyway, the Obama-Hillary line can win more friends, probably, than the Bush-Rice line from poor countries in the world.



SECTION I: LAO-TZE

About 2500 years ago or so, Confucius described Laozi or Lao-Tze after receiving a lesson from him as a kind of dragon, since there are no methods to catch a dragon while there is against any other animals.

Accordingly, Lao-Tze, a kind of holy hermit so mysterious, preached some down to people:

"One who lives a righteous life on the righteous path never leaves traces of his act, movement, and existence."

"The best way of living is to live like water. Water benefits everybody. It flows to places everybody dislikes and keeps a distance from. Accordingly, water is close to righteousness and holiness."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

As Loa-Tze, an actual person or not, was freer from worldliness than any other ancient Chinese thinkers, he is still respected and preferred by many Japanese.

In contrast, Confucius had a dream of administering a nation in an ideal manner applying his wisdom.

If you want to be a leader, you must try to be a Confucius; if not, you had better think of trying to become a Lao-Tze.


SECTION II: FINANCIAL DEFICIT OF JAPAN

As I once wrote, if China is adjacent to America over borders, for example, in the south like Mexico or in the north like Canada, America should suffer grave deflation.



How can any single economy, except Japan, stand over 20 years while helping one billion or more Chinese and their industries to grow as large as Japan?

It is not a miracle of China but of Japan.

Chinese rise in the 21st century is a result of a miracle Japan has brought about on the Asian Continent during the 20th century.

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I gave a warning one or two months ago that a liquid bomb, if used by a suicide terrorist, could destroy a jet airliner.

However, those who viewed EEE Reporter seem to have failed in alerting the U.S. Government while they were expected to do so.

A Japanese man was abducted in Yemen though released in safety; a rare rain fell around Mecca causing big floods; and Dubai crashed in building follies like a mirage.

It is time for all the peace-loving Muslims in the world to recall the tragedies of the great Sumatra tsunami and earthquake of December 2004 and unite for prevention of suicide-bombing terrorism, since it must be only Allah who takes life away from man.

About a half an hour ago, a Japanese cable TV channel introduced an 11-year old girl living in Gaza who lost her father and younger brother in the invasion by Israel a year ago, while having been hit on the head where a score of fragments still remain giving her an unbearable pain.

However, most probably, this sort of news report is not allowed to be delivered through the mainstream media in the U.S.

Yet, you just now got information that EEE Reporter listened to the news.




(December 25 is regarded as the end of the Christmas festivity in Japan. No one buys Christmas cakes any more on December 26. However, Bach [1685-1750] composed some for Christ. It is December 29, Tuesday, 2009 today.

http://menuet.net/c1/c0101.mid

Source: http://menuet.net/cb.html)



Luk 12:28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Luk 12:29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

"with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength"

Unconditional Truth and Temporary Theory


This is the last Monday of 2009. Like the last Monday of 2008, 2001, 1997, 1995, 1991, 1990, 1987, and so on, it will be taken out from mankind and realigned in history.

It is only meaningful in such a context as that where somebody repents, comes back to his right senses, and starts to praise the God on the last Monday of 2009.

Now three to go, folks.


SECTION I: CONFUCIUS

A follower of Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher oriented toward a ruler or a premier, asked his master one day 2500 years ago or so:

"What does the governing of a nation mean, Master?"

"The politics is based on trust, economy, and military, my friend."

"If one of the three elements should be given up, what would you forsake, Master?"

"Military, my friend."

"If two of the three elements should be given up, what would you forsake next, Master?"

"Economy, my friend."

"What is the element a monarch should secure until the end, Master?"

"Trust, my friend."

It is crystal-clear that if a monarch does not observe laws and decrees promulgated under his name, he would surely lose the public faith and the confidence of people.

That is why there is no dynasty in China that could stand more than 500 years.

In this context, it is noteworthy that the Japanese Imperial family has continued its uninterrupted succession to the throne for 1800 years and the Vatican 1900 years to date in a strict sense based on history.


SECTION II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND

If unlimited supply potential exists, a price will be adjusted only according to demand. It is why more demand is needed to get rid of deflation.

(Note that scales on the two horizontal axes are not simply proportional, though they share the origin "0.")

If unlimited demand potential exists, a price will be adjusted only according to supply. It is why more supply is needed to get rid of inflation.

Now, the world has too much industrial production potential, leading to no inflation in this context.

Yet, the world might need more crude oil in near future, leading to inflation in this context.

*** *** *** ***

As of the end of October 2009, Japan possesses U.S. Treasury bonds worth $746.5 billion while China accumulates $800 billion of the bonds.

If Japan and China dump these bonds, American Government has to buy back them at $1.5 trillion.

On the other hand, almost all of outstanding Japanese Government bonds are owned by domestic banks, corporations, investing institutions and individuals inside Japan.

China has mostly used dollars obtained by selling yuan in the exchange market as a capital to buy U.S. Treasury bonds. Apparently this risky situation of G2 (USA and China) deteriorates business minds of the international market.

If new economics is formulated for the era of G2 or G20, it will not work as usual, since the above risky situation cannot be understood by today's economists whose scope in history covers at most the post-WWII era.

What's more, economy only works sufficiently when it is based on trust of people. Wall Street and American economists have apparently lost trust of many righteous Americans and world citizens.

Finally, the War in Afghanistan never contributes to improvement of American economy and credit to the American Government. The direction in their politics is erroneously inverted.

Anyway, bye-bye, Last Monday of 2009! See you again, if I should not fall into the pits of hell!



(This is the third day from Christmas, though people start to forget the significance of the birth of the Son of God. Nonetheless, it is said that three scholars, ruling elders, or kings came from the east to Bethlehem so as to praise a new born baby called Jesus. Accordingly, the legend is sung today.

http://www7.plala.or.jp/machikun/seika36.MID

Source: http://www7.plala.or.jp/machikun/christmasmidi.htm)



Mar 12:28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Mar 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

GOOD CAPITALIZATION

Economics without Love to the Poor God Loves


Indeed, something critical may be coming around me, though I am not in a jet plane.

If I write how to earn big money in TSE or NYSE, it might become more critical.

But, I will not for other reason than the one you might come up with to your chagrin.


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There is an interesting opinion about capitalism by a unique Armenian American scholar:

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Rousas John Rushdoony (25 April 1916 – 8 February 2001) was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousas_John_Rushdoony
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He claims that wealth earned and accumulated through good work and good saving with a good mind is good, since Jesus Christ implies and suggests so.

This good wealth can turn to capitalization. Or capitalization is to use wealth earned and accumulated, as mentioned above, wisely and sophisticatedly.

However this capitalization can be degraded to inflation or socialism. Inflation is a result from everybody's turning into a thief or a robber, at least, in his mind. Socialism is a form of an organized crime of theft or robbery.

Especially in a socialist state, capital is depleted and a government tries to create capital through taxation. Accordingly, people will be poor and poorer as observed in the past USSR, China before 1980's, and North Korea of today.

Yet, more grave is that Americans have abandoned Christianity before capitalization turns into inflation or socialism. American people have come to pursue profits through consumption or lavish expenditure than through earning and accumulation of wealth.

American people have come to find more pleasure in pursuing profits through consumption or lavish expenditure than through a family life, faith, and enhancement of personality.

(http://tak0719.hp.infoseek.co.jp/qanda/xntcap.htm)

American freedom is freedom under the God.

But, this freedom now serves as an infrastructure for pursuing profits more through consumption or lavish expenditure than through a family life, faith, and enhancement of personality. To correct American capitalism, it is essential to restore true Christianity again in the American mind.

The economic problems the advanced American capitalism has brought about cannot be solved by applying any economics developed under American capitalism.

That is why you had better forget about everything American economics teaches. You had better read the Holy Book and EEE Reporter to find a right direction in holy economics. It is so, since most of American economists simply tell you to buy cheap and sell high to be rich. Economists should think about what honorable and respectable deeds a rich man, very rich man, or super rich man would do with big money: not making others as rich as he.

Mankind has to create human value as the God created the universe, the world, and humanity. Buying existent value, even if material value, cheap and selling it high cannot be creation of value.

What is worse, there is no ultimate goal, object, or purpose for American economics. Is it to lower an unemployment rate to zero? Is it to make every American to earn $100 per hour or more? Is it to produce 100,000 world richest persons in America? Is it to raise value of the dollar to 1,000 euro per dollar or 360 yen per dollar, ultimately?

It is as if American economists were teaching American billionaires, millionaires, middle-class citizens, and laborers how to run in a race for unspecified length or distance. Are people expected to run a 100-meter race or a marathon by those economists?

The only reasonable conclusion is that economists are irresponsible but clever only in making themselves rich by selling their economics as observed in the summer of 2008. Indeed, they were discussing 0.2 or 0.4% of an interest rate change as well as 50 dollars or 100 dollars of a crude oil price change.

Evil is truly in interest and needs for energy.

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Now the last Sunday of 2009 is passing away in Japan.

The ship in the above picture is an old antarctic exploration ship of Japan. She was built in 1936 and ended its service in 1978. She once sank one submarine during WWII. Indeed, during 42 years of performing a commission, if you can destroy one enemy submarine and more icebergs, you have to be content.

And, while you are in honorable retirement, a new one will take a charge...


(It was just two days ago that Christmas started...

http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/xmas/rudolph.html)








　　　　

"the God of the living"

Toward Year-End Miracles


An Airbus A330 flying to Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam was not blown up in midair. It is one of Christmas miracles.

However, there have been too many incidents of suicide-bomb terrorism in 2009. It is time to hold an international conference to stop suicide terrorism. It is more important than the COP15 meeting to prevent global warming.

To suppress CO2 emission, you only have to put a ceiling and impose limits on total consumption of oil/coal/gas by each country.

To prevent suicide bombings, you have to analyze how Wall Street and City have posed a threat to poor people living in the Islamic world.

American people have to choose Wall Street or God to avoid future suicide bombings to be carried out by some Muslims.


SECTION I: DEVIL'S INVENTION INTEREST

Coins and bills, namely cash, never lose its face value if many, many years pass.

Goods will become degraded as time goes by.

But, interest increases its value along with time progressing.



It is the demand side that is associated with value. It is not the supply side. Needs and supply belong to two different paradigms. Current economics is wrong in dealing with them in the same paradigm only.

And, please note that needs for cars have been ever increasing all over the world as time goes by. These needs are regraded as a source of value, or they may be seen as representing value.



SECTION II: History of The Vatican Europe

What was the Vatican doing when the Roman Empire was going to fall?

Are there any detailed records in the Vatican about situations on this critical period?

If not, isn't it too strange?

And, if there are, why and how the Roman Empire fell should be clearly understood.

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406: The west frontier of the Roman Empire collapses as waves of Suevi, Alans, and Vandals cross the frozen Rhine near Mainz, and enter Gaul.

407: Constantine III leads many of the Roman military units from Britain to Gaul, occupying Arles (Arelate). This is generally seen as Rome's withdrawal from Britain.

410: Rome sacked by Visigoths

413: St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo begins to write The City of God.
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476: August 28: Deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer: traditional date for the Fall of Rome in the West.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_century#The_Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire
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But, The City of God is not a record on status of the collapsing Empire.

Before the vanishing of the Roman Empire, Christianity was already recognized as the official religion of the empire. Accordingly, high-ranking Christians or the Vatican must have freely and fully witnessed incidents to record the status as an evidence of their faith in the turmoil of the era. But what was written was directed to contemporary Roman Christians and not to future observers.

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It was written soon after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. This event left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many saw it as punishment for abandoning their Roman religion. It was in this atmosphere that Augustine set out to provide a consolation of Christianity, writing that, even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperilled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph — symbolically, Augustine's eyes were fixed on heaven, a theme repeated in many Christian works of Late Antiquity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(book)
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So, another mystery also arose. Why did not Christianity and the Vatican fall and vanish with the Western Roman Empire around the 5th century?


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Now everybody that has been working hard this year in Japan has come in earnest to think how to spend the New Year Holiday, since it is after Xmas that Japanese people have come in earnest to think how to spend the New Year Holiday.

If you live around Tokyo, you may go to a well-trained travel agent nearby, buy one or two air tickets and reserve one or two hotels in New York or Jerusalem, move to Narita Airport immediately if possible, get on a convenient jet plane like a decent corporate employee or employees on a business trip, take half a day on board reading the Holy Book, and land on New York or Jerusalem.

Then, you praise the God in a very appropriate manner at a right location therein to fly back to Japan.

Your faith might contribute some to prevention of terror which otherwise might be carried out with a higher possibility of success.

Yet, I will be busy around Tokyo into January 2010, dear friends; Have the good and last weekend of 2009!




(Now or historically the story of Jesus Christ must start with jingle bells...

http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=65888@wbbm.dayport.com )



Mar 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Mar 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.