"when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews"

(The Tokyo Bay as Large as the Dead Sea of Palestine)


Untold Truth

According to the Gospels, Jesus Christ never mentioned the Mediterranean and great cities on the sea, such as Rome, Athens, and Alexandria of Egypt.

He did not cite the Dead Sea, either.

Hence, I suppose Jesus Christ must have had at least indirect linkages or some experiences with those locations.

Yet, He guided many poor Israelites who had no chance of enjoying a visit to such places. If He referred to such places proudly in His preaching, those poor Israelites without money for a journey would feel all the more unhappier for themselves. So, a saint never talks about his past travelling or experiences in foreign lands so as not to make the poor envy him.

Nonetheless, I think that Jesus Christ visited the Dead Sea and Qumran as well as Alexandria and Athens, since a Queen Cleopatra's ancestor was a general under Alexander the Great. And it was just 30 years before the birth of Jesus Christ that the Macedonian queen of Egypt died.


SECTION I: 1994 and 2008

Maybe the 14 year period from 1994 to 2008 is comparable with the one from 1930 to 1944, that is, from the beginning of the Great Depression toward the end of the World War II, in terms of a change in the land scape of the world.

Number of Workers (million)
//.................1994.........2008.....Up/Down
USA............123.07........145.36......+18.1%
JAPAN........64.54..........63.85.......-1%
UK..............25.51..........29.44.......+15.4%


Amount of Imports ($ billion)
//.................1994.........2008.....Up/Down
USA............664........2,523......+280%
JAPAN.......281..........790.......+181%
UK.............183..........422.......+131%

Maybe compared with Japan and America, Britain is a kind of ordinary nation.

If a 10% increase in work force should result in a 100% increase in import over 14 years, like in the case of the U.K., Japan should have decreased import by 10% though it increased import by 181%.

If a 10% increase in work force should result in a 100% increase in import over 14 years, like in the case of the U.K., the U,S. should have increased import by 181% though it increased import by 280%.

So, it looks like explaining why Japan is in the decade-plus-long deflation and the U.S. is in a state of excess credit granting to consumers and workers.

One hidden factor is of course China, since Japan and the U.S. imported several times more from China over 14 years between 1994 and 2008.

It is time for Japan to draw up a new scheme to realize a sound balance between G3, namely Japan, the U.S., and China




SECTION II: 7/11 Upper-House Election in Japan

The Japanese media are now presenting their forecasts of the outcome of the July-11 national election of Japan.

The focal point is whether or not non-conservative Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan is able to consolidate his power base as a tested hero who leads the quasi-progressive Democratic Party of Japan, as a respectable successor of controversial ex-premier Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, that achieved the historical regime change last summer.

The arch rival of the DPJ is the former ruling party Liberal Democratic Party being led by its president Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki, an unpretentious lawyer-turned lawmaker.

According to those forecasts, the pro-Chinese DPJ would overwhelm the very pro-American LDP in terms of a number of votes won in the proportional-representation constituencies. However, the DPJ alone would not gain a majority eventually in the Upper House of the National Diet to be filled with total 242 seats.

One forecast dare assert 20 new seats for the ruling DPJ and 10 new seats for the opposition LDP among 48 seats in the proportional-representation constituencies, though the total 121 seats are to be re-elected. (The overall prediction is DPJ 52-40 LDP, according to the magazine Sukan Shincho.)

But, there is an interesting result from my check on the Web pages and sites with the following key words (in Japanese) using the Yahoo search engine.

"DPJ + Kan-Naoto + Upper-House election + July":
594,000 hits

"LDP + Tanigaki-Sadakazu+ Upper-House election + July":
4,030,000 hits

Note that this sort of search check usually returns a result three times in favor of the DPJ and P.M. Mr. Kan against the LDP and Mr. Tanigaki.

Since P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan has recently showed an amateur class of ability relying on a stupid economist and announcing a 5% tax increase plan, voters might more turn to sound candidates with capability in understanding and practices in economy and economics.

For example, former state minister Ms. Kuniko Inoguchi of the LDP, who lost a Lower-House seat in the regime-change election, is now expected to win a seat in a local electoral district, since Former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi has been pushing her strongly, delivering an endorsement speech so much on site.

The result of this election will have an unignorable impact on the Japan's relationships with the U.S. and China as well as an economic policy and a sense of political justice backed by a traditional concept of social value.

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There are many crazy guys in this world. But, surely there is one who can reach his destination. Yet, how strange he must look when he comes back to a place where all the crazy guys have been already eradicated by God...)



Luk 7:2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.

Luk 7:3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.

Luk 7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:

Luk 7:5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

"neither did his brethren believe in him"

Karmic Backlash


Before one becomes very rich, he usually thinks that he would not live a foolish life with a dark mind if he becomes very rich.

But, without an exception, when one becomes very rich, he lives a foolish life with a dark mind.

However, his life is protected by various systems that function to protect rich people by sacrificing the poor. One of these systems is a political system and another is an economic system.

Yet, the superior and overriding rule is that rich men cannot enter Heaven after death, in order not to be saved from the death. Champions in this world in terms of success and wealth have all been punished by the God and thrown into the hell to lose every memory of their success and wealth.

This is the teaching of Jesus Christ that has been taken over generation after generation for 2000 years.

So, it is a great surprise that this teaching is yet to govern politics and economy of the world.



SECTION I: 0% TAX, PLUS!!

Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan has proposed his plan to set the consumer tax rate at 10% in near future, though it is 5% now.

President of the opposition LDP Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki has also proposed his plan to set the consumer tax rate at 10% in near future, though it is 5% now.

Some economists have argued that it is crazy to raise a tax rate while Japan is in decades-long deflation.

The ruling DPJ led by P.M. Mr. Kan is trying to secure a majority in the coming 7/11 Upper House election. But, his strategy of announcing the 5% tax increase plan might be very wrong.

They are all brain-washed by the old economics paradigm that the government must first collect tax and then spend it according to a budgetary plan.

The collection of tax and the budgetary expenditure by a government must be however separated especially in the advanced economy like Japan.

A government must print and deliver bills or paper money, apart from the function of the central bank, so as to execute the budget.

Taxation must be used as a means to adjust money flow in the society. Without depending on an amount of tax collected, the budget execution must be fulfilled.

The basic condition that justifies this scheme is unlimited power of production and provision of products, goods, technologies, and services, which sustains international value of the currency, namely the yen for Japan.

According to this Rule of Separation of Budget Execution and Tax Collection, no more financial crisis occurs.

The Government can freely print paper money especially for use for social welfare, as long as it can sustain international value of the currency, namely the yen for Japan.

Or, the Government can pay monthly allowance, $1,000 or so, to every citizen regardless of their state of employment under the condition that the allowance is to be spent within a year, as long as it can sustain international value of the currency, namely the yen for Japan. (It will be a happy duty for each citizen to spend this government-sent $1,000 per month in this case!)

Anyway, someday a party will fight an election with an official promise of making the tax rate 0% for individuals and corporates. It is one of intermediate aims of my efforts in presenting the EEE Economics based on the Jesus' Economics.


Nonetheless, both the DPJ and the LDP have neglected a principle of conventional economics: Do not raise a tax rate during deflation.

They both might lose the 7/11 Upper House election.




SECTION II: National Allowance

If the Japanese Government provides a $1,000 monthly allowance to each voter, it will total $1.2 trillion (= $1,000 x 12 x 100 million) per year.

As voters are obliged to spend all the allowance within a year, it can contribute to GDP every year in a ratio of 10 to 20%, since Japanese GDP is between $5 to $6 trillion.

Tax revenue will be automatically increased if collected.


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Nobody thinks that the earth will become a planet of gangsters someday.

But, nobody also thinks that the earth will become a planet of righteous people someday.

Yet, if he does not decide to do something to make the earth a planet of righteous people, he will eventually turn to a life of crime, according to Jesus Christ.

Emergence of new economies, such as China and India, indicates that the whole earth is coming to be judged by the God of Christianity, since modern economy is based on the modern European Civilization, a great product of Christianity, no matter how incomplete.

Even today's ultra rich people will try to kill Jesus Christ if He directly orders them to abandon all the money they have accumulated in this world while they are still alive. They will not give all the money to the poor to follow Jesus Christ. Instead, they will hate Jesus Christ so much as to try to kill Him.

If you want to make it sure, ask them what they would do when so ordered.

This is the bottom line of this world.

So, do not be used by them as an instrument to kill Jesus Christ, if He should emerge.

It is the minimum duty for a church goer and a Bible reader, in my humble thought.

And, I really think that I, a servant of the God unlike a religious businessman called a priest, should have been already killed if I had lived in Europe or America.

This is the bottom line of my story so far.




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Joh 7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Joh 7:2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.

Joh 7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.

Joh 7:4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

Joh 7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

"another angel ascending from the east"

(Japan in the Rainy Season)


Without Serving God, Serving You?

Once there was a young man whose only source of pride was that he had a well educated wife.

He was not respected by others, but all the more he always talked about his wife to some young colleagues, being well promoted, yet to marry, so that the poor young man could feel a sense of humble superiority.

However, some arrogant elites in the Japanese society have even no wives worth of talking about before other elites, since they are afraid that they might be laughed at behind the scene after presenting such wives (except the case of the Imperial Family).

But, there are worse cases than all this in Japan, since too many husbands have wives who only serve them, gladly or sadly, without serving the God of the world.

Even in Paraguay, many have wives who pray once a week to the God.

Incidentally, Chinese wives, rich or poor, are in most cases a kind of victims of the social system, since no freedom like that in Japan and the U.S. is assured in China.



SECTION I: 4000% Increase in Import from China

Between 1985 and 2007, Chinese export of clothing to the world increased 50 times larger or 5,000% more, though the population and the number of consumers of the world increased well in this period.
(Specifically, $20.2 million to $1086.42 million)

Between 1985 and 2007, Chinese export of clothing to Japan increased 40 times larger or 4,000% more, though the population and the number of consumers in Japan did not increase in this period.
(Specifically, $3.69 million to $159.18 million)


( http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Vrf/pdf/450.pdf)

If you find only one shop selling clothing, you would pay $100 for goods to the shop.

But, if you find 40 shops selling clothing, you would pay only $2.5 for goods to one of the 40 stores.

Japanese retailers, companies, and enterprises have to undergo this deflation since 1985.

As for the American market, as the population and the number of consumers in addition to immigrants from the Latin America have also increased in these decades, deflation pressure it has received from a China's export surge has been instinctive in comparison with Japan.



SECTION II: Chinese Covert Operation in Japan & America

Though the Japanese Government has never officially worked out a policy to promote investment into China and import from China, Japanese businesses took it as a matter of course to utilize cheap labor force in China.

The Liberal Democratic Party, the Federal Economic Organization of Japan, and elite bureaucrats of the central government have been all tied up in their concerted efforts to provide official aid to China, increase the number of affiliated factories and companies in China, and export useful technologies to China and import cheap products from China.

On the other hand, the Chinese Communist Party have been offering directly big money or indirectly business chances to American elite politicians, economists, and top executives on Wall Street. China has been oiling American elites' palms with dollars accumulated through cheap and sweat-inducing labor of the Chinese people.

Specifically, China likes the Democratic Party of America, so that there must have been a kind of covert operation by Chinese agents to realize presidency of Mr. Barack Obama. China probably spent $1 billion for this operation till the 2008 Presidential Election Day, in my guess.

China also likes the Democratic Party of Japan, so that there must have been a kind of covert operation by Chinese agents to realize premiership of Mr. Yukio Hatoyama. China probably spent $0.3 billion for this operation till the 2009 General Election Day, in my guess.

Now, this ongoing Upper-House Election in Japan must be checked in this context.

It must be time to correct the too much intimacy with China in the political community, since China is yet to fully respect the Japan's history and traditions.

Of course, Japan can influence America more through China. In this case, G2, namely Japan and China, will consult with each other in their fair and overt operation in the U.S. political and financial domains.




SECTION III: Not English but World Religion


Many people have become successful business owners, corporate elite executives, influential public officials, politicians local or national, lawyers, medical doctors, professors in some universities, and a sort of celebrities or very wealthy members of the society.

But, all I want to say to my old acquaintances and friends is: "Why is your wife serving you without serving the God? Are you greater than God? It is called blasphemy in the true Christian domain. You got it?"

So, I recommend young Japanese elites to have their wives revere the God before presenting them in public, since they would look ugly without faith like those old women who have served their elite husbands but not the God.

So, you know how difficult it is to teach true spirit of Christianity to rich Japanese people.

The era of blessings from traditional religions alone in Japan must come to an end, since today's hi-tech economy in the world is not based on principles of Japanese traditional religions.

Otherwise, even Paraguayans, under a Vatican influence, have more potential to be optimized in blessed condition in future, since today's hi-tech economy in the world is based on principles of Judaism/Christianity/Anglo Saxon principles.

It is not English that is needed for future Japanese elites but understanding of world religions.

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I don't know why rich Europeans and Americans like to talk about their families so much.

Their sons and daughters are in most cases not blessed by the God, without mentioning their wives.

Unhappy people without their families must feel unhappier when hearing such guys foolishly talking about their children and wives mostly being spoiled by big money.

That is why Jesus Christ did not choose such men as His Disciples.

True Christians never mention their families like Jesus Christ and His disciples so as not to make unhappy people unhappier.

Besides, their wives do not look so nice as Princess Diana who died in Paris in 1997 or Mother Teresa who died in 1997 in India, for some mysterious or religious reasons.

I will tell you that you alone stand before the God. You are not allowed to have your children and wife stand by your side to help you.

Stand alone like a man if not like a hero before Jesus Christ!




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Look up at the sun behind which at the same distance as of today the earth was moving in December or January, though the sunspot cycle gets longer extraordinarily in these years with a possibility of the coming of a low-temperature era.)



Rev 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

"but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven"

(Part of Giant Kelp at the exit to the North Pacific Ocean from the Tokyo Bay)


Over and Over Again


Paraguay is one of the countries that joined the first FIFA World Cup Matches held in Uruguay in 1930, that is, 80 years ago.

This year in South Africa, the Paraguay's national team has advanced to a quarterfinal match for the first time by beating Japan in the penalty-kick shoot-out after a 120-minute fight.

Paraguay made the day for competing with Japan, namely yesterday, an ad hoc national holiday so that all the citizens could watch the match. Eventually, one woman shouted after the game, "Japan was tough, but Indian bloods won!"

In Japan, all the media are still praising the efforts by Japanese players broadcast live last night into early this morning.



SECTION I: Who Export and Import in China?

Foreign affiliated businesses account for more than 50% as a share of companies in China that are engaged in export from China or import to China.


(http://www.meti.go.jp/report/tsuhaku2010/2010honbun_p/2010_02-2-5.pdf)

Many American makers, like so many Japanese corporations, have established their affiliated companies in China who export goods to the American market in a large scale.

If labor costs in China are raised fairly high or the yuan is appraised higher, those American companies would withdraw their operation in China and relocate factories from China to other developing countries.

So, unemployment in the U.S. is unlikely to be improved in this scenario.

Yet, it must be fair to raise salary of Chinese workers and reevaluate the yuan.

In addition, China outwardly talks tough about an underlying trend of withdrawal of foreign businesses from the Chinese industrial sector. One Chinese media site proudly asserts that the era for China to invite Japanese and foreign companies by offering cheap labor, cheap lands, and preferential taxation systems is gone; the era of quality rather than quantity has come to China in welcoming foreign financed companies.
(http://j.peopledaily.com.cn/94476/6638756.html)

And, one thing sure is that China likes the DPJ more than the LDP of Japan, and the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party of the U.S.

Japan and America, as G2, have to consult with each other on China.



SECTION II: 2014 World Cup Soccer

I wrote a few weeks ago that the Japan's national football team would fight four matches to win two in South Africa.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062902508.html

It is because a card with the following picture printed on I had prepared more than a year ago suddenly fell from a display board onto the table where my PCs are placed.



As this picture looks nice, though the samurai does not wield a sword on the horse, I had put it on the display board months ago.

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Last night I saw something in my dream at night.

It was not a soccer match between Japan vs. Paraguay.

And then, I heard a grave voice after some dreams, good and bad.

Anyway, I am not directly in charge of the Japan's national soccer squad, intending to make Paraguayans so happy.

There are more important, critical, and attractive things in Japan than one victory in the World Cup soccer event.

And, there are more religious challenges in the world, where I am not supposed to miss shootings, since money makes pious people suffer so much all over the world.




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BB King was born on September 16,1925 in a small cabin near the town of Itta Bena. He was named Riley B. King...

Now that he was a DJ, Riley needed a catchy name. He started out as the "Beale Street Blues Boy," later he changed it to "Blues Boy King," and finally shortened it to the now famous "B.B. King."...

Someone might say that "EEE" stands for the East End of the Earth; others say it is simply a sarcastic expression againt the so-called "e-boom.")




Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Joh 6:30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

Joh 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

"unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other"

SECTION I: Trurh on Investment to/from China

The U.S. is not the largest investor into China.

Except Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is Japan, the largest direct investor into China.

Top 10 Origins of Non-Financial FDI into China
($ billion)
Country....2008.....2009...Growth(%)
-----------------------------------------
Hong Kong....41.0....54.0......31.6
Taiwan.........1.9....6.6......245.7
Japan..........3.7....4.1......12.7
Singapore....4.4....3.9......-12.4
USA.............2.9....3.6......21.5
S. Korea......3.1....2.7......-13.8
UK..............0.9....1.5.......60.7
Germany......0.9....1.2......36.3
Macao.........0.6....1.0......71.9
Canada.......0.5....1.0......76.5
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http://www.uschina.org/statistics/fdi_cumulative.html

However, there are some discrepancies in statistics on FDI from Japan between on the Japanese side and on the Chinese side:

....Japan's Data....China's Data...($1 = 90 yen)
2005....8.07........6.53.....($billion)
2006....7.97........4.76
2007....8.12........3.59
2008....7.44........3.65

http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Vrf/pdf/450.pdf

So, what is necessary is not G20 but C8+1 with:
Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, America, South Korea, Britain, Germany, Canada and China.

The Washington Post and other American media must help form C8+1 Meeting at least to secure Chinese investment into the U.S. Federal Government through buying Treasury bonds, since China has now U.S. Treasury bonds worth $900 billion while Japan holds a $800 billion scale of the Treasury bonds.




SECTION II: China Water Crisis

Now thunderbolts are striking everhwhere, here, around Tokyo, where I am typing. A temperature gauge on one of PCs shows 86 degrees F (30 degrees C).

Japan is in the middle of a month-and-half long rainy season. The sky is mostly covered by clouds. Or, to have a rain, the sky must be fully covered by clouds, low and high. It is not easy to have a rain. Just one or two, or several clouds cannot result in rainfall.

When will mankind have power and ability to control weather? When will mankind let a rain fall at their will in deserts on the earth?

Of course, I have one solution which uses 8,000-feet artificial mountains to be set on a shore before a desert as I once introduced.

Indeed, one of China's weak points might be related to water:
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If present trends are not reversed, the World Bank forecasts that by 2020 there will be 30 million environmental refugees in China due to water stress.

- With 20% of the world’s population but only 7% of global water resources, China meets with a severe challenge.

- More than half of China's 660 cities suffer from water shortages, affecting 160 million people.

- The per capita water volume in China is one fourth of the world average.

- 90% of cities’ groundwater and 75% of rivers and lakes are polluted.

- As a result of widespread water pollution, 700 million people drink contaminated water every day.

- Waterborne diseases have created a rising number of premature deaths.

- Between November 2005 and January 2006, three large-scale incidents occurred, halting water supply for millions of people and raising awareness of the challenges ahead.

- The government plans to mitigate water pollution by investing in wastewater treatment facilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_water_crisis
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Luk 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

Luk 6:29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.

Luk 6:30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

　　　

"if God so clothe the grass of the field"

(Lying on the beach under a rain, one can look sometimes blessed as if with $1 billion paper money...Do you have it?...Pay it for the rain on the beach where you should be lying to be blessed by God.; Around Tokyo actually yesterday.)


True Key Factor

If you have patiently read and studied the EEE-Reporter blog so far, whether you are in Harvard or Beijing, you must now understand that it is major Japanese businesses that overlooked, welcomed, or exhaustively introduced deflation in Japan and the lost decade in Japan's 1990's. It is so since there are many Japanese who have become rich working through, or investing into, those major corporations.

No critical damages have been made on them, though those Japanese companies have been striving to cope with the Anglo Saxon-triggered globalization leveraging the IT technology.

Any arguments by economists are blind to this true key factor. It is not a matter of manipulation of prime interest or regulation of money supply. The real situation is more real, dynamic, live, and progressive as well as being influenced by technological innovation.


SECTION I: Top 1000 Makers in the World

Japan and the U.S. are still the two dominant manufacturing countries in the world.

Among top 1,000 makers in the world in terms of revenue, 200 makers belong to Japan and 300 makers belong to the U.S.

Among top 1,000 makers in the global industrial sector in terms of revenue, Japan and the U.S. have 500 companies listed in total.

A number of industrial manufacturers globally ranked between the 1st and the 1000th in terms of revenue for each major company is as follows.

The U.S. is still the country with the largest number of makers each of which has recorded big revenue to be ranked within the 1000th in the world.

Japan follows it, making the two countries the top leading group.


COUNTRY...Number of Top 1000 Makers
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USA:......305
JAPAN:......209
France:......47
Germany:......41
UK:......41
Korea:......40
Taiwan:......32
China:......29
Canada:......28
Switzerland:......19
Italy:......16
Sweden:......15
Finland:......15
Netherlands:......14
Brazil:......13
Mexico:......11
Russia:......7
Spain:......7
Belgium:......7
Denmark:......6
Hong Kong:......5
Norway:......5
Australia:......4
Singapore:......4
Greece:......4
Austria:......4
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(Click to enlarge)
http://www.industryweek.com/research/iw1000/2008/iw1000rank.asp

What should be noted is that this is just one example on how Japanese makers have accepted or promoted deflation in the Japanese economy so as to maintain their sales and revenue.

They have invested much into China and established many affiliated companies in China, causing deflation in Japan but maintaining their positions in terms of revenue.

In other world, the lost decade in 1990's has not influenced Japanese big makers. Rather, for prosperity of those globally-operating Japanese makers, the lost decade and the deflation were virtually accepted by Japan, since it was an inevitable result from huge investment into China so as to win the international competition in the era of globalization.

As a result, while the GDP ratio is 1 to 2.8 between Japan and the U.S., the manufacturing power ratio has become 1 to 1.5, which is a kind of great success for Japanese businesses and workers.

In addition, if the Chinese currency yuan is up-valued, there could be a little influence in China in terms of the number of makers to be ranked within the 1000th in the world.

Of course, with so many powerful manufacturers in Japan and the U.S., to tell the truth, no Chinese makers are needed. However, greedy and severe competition in the global market has forced businesses to leverage cheap labor force in China.

Yet, this is all within a paradigm of the 20th century. We have to advance over the lost decade of Japan and a 10% level of unemployment in the U.S.


SECTION II: G8 vs. G20

They say that G8 is not useful anymore, since so many problems have been unsolved such as the American financial crisis in 2008 and the Greece crisis in 2010.

So, even American elites claim that G20 does everything necessary.

However, it is Former President Mr. George W. Bush that formed G20 as an excuse of silencing his expected apology to the world for the Wall Street crash.

Without G8, Japan will get less direct information from European major players and the U.S. It will have a significant influence on Japanese key players in economy and politics.

The world today functions through various networks established through decades-long efforts by Japan, West Europe, and North America. If the networks are taken away, the world will lose a shared sense among major players. G8 is implementation of a lesson learned from the past Great Depression.

If China cannot be a responsible member of G8+1, G20 including China is from the beginning just a kind of excuse.

Anyway, as Europe and America lose confidence, they just want to be psychologically relieved by sitting together with G20 members. Inevitably, Japan is leading and sustaining G8 to have it function.

(If a next crisis occurs, it cannot be China, India, Brazil, or Korea that fixes the international financial/currency crisis. It is still Japan that will really contribute to fixing the crisis. They are potentially problem factors, but Japan is on the savior side.)

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According to a keyword hit number check, the two leaders of Japan, Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan and the head of the largest opposition party Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki, got the following numbers from search results with Yahoo (in Japanese):

"Kan Naoto": 1,580,000 (pages/sites)

"Tanigaki Sadakazu": 3,570,000

"Kan Naoto Minsyuto (the DPJ)": 545,000

"Tanigaki Sadakazu Jiminnto (the LDP)": 367,000

So, the LDP might be more advantageous in voting in fixed-seat electoral districts than in voting in the proportional-representation constituency.

"Tanigaki Sadakazu" seems to be more trusted than "Kan Naoto." But, "Minsyuto (the DPJ)" seems to be more trusted than "Jiminto (the LDP)."

Yet, most of critics predict that the ruling DPJ will get more seats than the LDP in the July 11 Upper-House election, though the DPJ and its allied parties are not expected to secure a majority in total including seats not for re-election.

Anyway, it is a turn for the DPJ to concede.




(http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sl9k-mtfj/MIDI_folder/la_mer.mid

Source: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sl9k-mtfj/mid.html

La Mer is the sea, since the sea is il mare in Italian. We call it "umi" sounded as 'wu-me,' in case that you are neither Japanese nor French.)





Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

(A little raining on the shore facing the exit of the Tokyo Bay to the Pacific Ocean)



IT Service Market Size

It is a little surprise that the Information Technology-related market size is almost in proportion to the population size in North America and Japan (and a little bit of West Europe and Japan).

But, computer technologies and the Internet are based on English or West European languages (originally 8-bit code programming while a Japanese letter needs 16 bits). With such a great handicap, though as usual, Japan has amazingly taken rank with North America and West Europe. Yet, it is still incomplete to reach its goal.

North America (population - 330 million):
2008 - $329 billion
2012 - $396 billion

West Europe (population - 400 million ?):
2008 - $265 billion
2012 - $271 billion

JAPAN (population - 127 million):
2008 - $103 billion
2012 - $117 billion

Asia/Pacific Except Japan
2008 - $52 billion
2012 - $58 billion

Central/South Americas
2008 - $31 billion
2012 - $42 billion

Middle East/Africa
2008 - $17 billion
2012 - $22 billion

Central/East Africa
2008 - $12 billion
2012 - $15 billion

(Source: Gartner)
http://www.nttdata.co.jp/corporate/ir/library/ar/index/pdf/ar09_J27.pdf

Among the three major players, North America, West Europe, and Japan, Japan is the only one-race/one-language/one-culture economy.

In North America and West Europe, synergy driven by different types of people has boosted deployment of IT technology with various types of value added.

Yet, Japan, relying solely on superiority of the Japanese culture and the Japanese language, has developed the IT industry in parallel with the European/American culture area.

In other words, only Japan has the effective and strong religious background to cope with the European/American Christianity area.

Today, no Muslims, no Hindus, no Taiwanese, no Koreans, and no Chinese think that they inherently lack ability, partly due to their religion, to develop, progress, and succeed in economy and industry like West Europe and North America, since Japan has done.

But, Japan now faces the last challenge, though actually a decades-long issue, as to how to excel in the cyber space or the IT-based virtual economy, in order to assure a dreamy 4% growth in the 21st century and permanently.



　　　

(Not Abbey Road)

"who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions"

(All Around Tokyo. Something you cannot give a kick to.)



Tangible vs. Intangible Domains

Rich people working around the Wall Street and City found that there was a virtual world built by the Internet and other IT technologies.

They realized that the financial sector could advance and deploy in the virtual world.

By becoming frontiers in this movement, they, mostly Anglo Saxon ultra rich men, multiplied their financial assets.

However, if Microsoft, Intel, and Google were all Japanese companies and computer software codes could be written in Japanese so conveniently based on technical standards specified by mostly Japanese businesses, Japanese economy would grow at a 10% rate leveraging the virtual world.

It is a framework that matters. Japan should leave a paradigm formed through the success in the industrial, physical domain built up in the 20th century.

America would still continue to prosper fairly relying on its military, financial, and energy sectors, but strong warnings have been given repeatedly from Heaven.

So, it is a spiritual matter that matters in deploying in a new framework.



SECTION I: Key to Japan's Future Growth: The English Internet?

It is truly amazing that Japan is the No.3 country in terms of the number of Internet users (as of 2007), while China has a 1300 million population, the U.S. has 300 million, and Japan has 125 million.



It is also quite amazing that Japanese is the No.4 language in terms of the amount of usage over the Internet (as of the end of 2009), while there are so many English speakers, Chinese speakers, and Spanish speakers, each in different countries, who also use the Internet all over the world, while the Japanese language is only used in Japan roughly speaking.


http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

It is apparent that the future of Japan consists in this peculiarity of Japan and Japanese. If Japan achieves an annual 4% growth, the key to success is all the more in the Internet or the IT technology.

Japan must more appreciate the merit and advantage of its own language, which allows for such great deployment of the Internet in the general society. But, it must also correctly correspond to the global mainstream, enhancing its ability in communications in English through any channels, including the Internet.

Chinese will have to learn and use English and Japanese if it continues to grow keeping some quality. It is not difficult for Chinese people to learn both English and Japanese. Their language has affinity with English as a spoken language as well as with Japanese as a written language.

But, for Japanese with such a uniquely advanced mother language, it is ironically not easy to learn other low-tire or wild language such as English.

For ordinary Chinese, the Chinese traditional culture does not mean anything so binding on themselves. They do not identify themselves at the core of their consciousness with the traditional culture. They identify themselves with the Chinese style of living. This difference is not so explicitly large, but decisive. Riding on the culture irresponsibly or blindly is different from continuing to input a spirit and seeds into it as a person in charge if self-appointed. No Chinese look like sacrificing their life in order to enhance their traditional culture. It is partly because a majority of the Chinese are simply too poor and too poorly educated, and noble classes of China who in a great pride developed the Chinese Civilization till the 20th century had long gone. Though today's Chinese adhere to being a kind of successors of the great ancient Chinese Civilization, most of Chinese do not find codes, norm, or value so binding in the tradition, in comparison with material success under any conditions, including the Communist ruling state and the Western dominant globalization.

But, for Japanese living in a tradition that the most people, from farmers, samurais, to noble people, have contributed to development of the Japanese culture, the Japanese unique culture that has made Japan the No.2 nation in the world has a more influence or restrictive power on them. Being Japanese does not mean that he looks like a Japanese but that he is under a critical influence of the Japanese culture and tradition. As this influence is so strong that most of Japanese cannot build an English-speaking function in their mind, no matter how many English words they might learn by heart.

Yet, computers and the Internet belong to the English-speaking domain (while China cannot lead the world in the modern cultural competition though Japan has some influence though inconspicuous).

In this context, a future 4% growth of Japan depends on how Japanese people will cultivate a skill to handle English and communicate in English over the Internet, while keeping the Japanese culture and the merit of the Japanese language. English-based Internet activities by Japanese users must be supported by the fundamental Japanese culture which only can promise success for Japan and the Japanese people in future, too. It is so since Japan already achieved what it could do to the utmost in the 20th century type of industry.

Nonetheless, it is not so easy.

It involves a matter of religion. That is why Japanese must at least study Christianity in earnest.



SECTION II: Interest of America

Who decides the national interest of America?

In a broader historical view, voters in 2008 decided that it met the American interest to elect Mr. Barack Obama as president, since those voters believed that they constituted the right part of America and they had a right to choose even a minority African American if the George-W.-Bush type of elites could not serve them well.

Accordingly, reformation is going on in the medical/insurance sector and the financial sector with whatever outcome and effect as well as in management of the War on Terror.

The BP offshore oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico would be related to this agenda: Who defines the national interest of America?

Not all the non-rich in America want to be rich like those rich of today who have sacrificed so many others in the War on Terror and the Wall Street Shock. "The rich are probably not right Christians any more," they must think in the bottom of their mind.

Even non-rich men can enjoy their own life style in America. But, they need assurance that rich people and elites would not harm their view on the world, sharing the same idea on the American value.

But if this belief that the American national interest is pursued by elites in Washington D.C. and New York very properly for all the Americans has vanished away from the mind of a majority of non-rich people, another change should occur in America.

I think it can be an underlying theme in the 2012 Presidential Election.

It has been triggered violently by the 9/11 Terror, financially the 9/15 Lehman Shock, and environmentally the 4/20 BP Rig Accident, but it would progress to a spiritual or a philosophical domain of the American people.

A new change will be pursued with an agenda not only in terms of security, economy, and environment but also in terms of the American spirit.

Indeed, as those without a right American spirit have decided what the American interest is for so long, poor and non-rich Americans are still being sacrificed.

Accordingly, this movement must be first manifested in who will be chosen as candidates for the presidential election in 2012.

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I saw a young woman riding on a bicycle with a cellular phone on the one hand.

While waiting for the signal to change, she said to the phone, "That one is nothing in my emotional world."

She is angry with somebody, so that she denies the person in her mind. (What is peculiar is that she restricted the matter in her emotional world, which may be not so bad objectively and socially.)

If she can draw a distinction between her emotional world and the world governed by the God, she would not be involved in any violent accident, no matter how casual she looks.

So, the sky was covered by gray clouds all over around Tokyo.

It may be time for me to go and see a sea, since you can reach a seaside travelling over 100 or 200 km from any point on the Japanese Island.




Dan 6:25 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

Dan 6:26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

Dan 6:27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

Dan 6:28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

"Woe unto you that are full! "

(The Tokyo Tree Tower to Replace the Tokyo Tower in a year or two...)



Walking Dreams


Italy has gone. France was gone. Greece had been gone.

Germany is clinging on to its survival with so many red and yellow cards.

England has no auras, though Americans are lucky, as is usual, even in South Africa.

Yet, so disappointing are Africans. Are they going to be gone with former colonialists from Europe?

Anyway, great are Latin Americans and Japanese/Koreans.

So, I would say, "Look at the Iberian player. The ball followed him into the goal!"

Indeed, there is a sense of Arabs or Muslims to Iberians, even today.

By the way, Paraguay is on the opposite side to Japan around the globe, with almost the same land size, though with a far smaller population.

Japan vs. Paraguay is scheduled on the next Tuesday (in case that you have somebody in Japan to contact at the night of June 29th).



SECTION I: What Countries Respect Japan

Country:....Ratio of Japan Respecting People
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The Philippine:...77%
Indonesia:...71
Brazil:...70
Kenya:...68
Chile:...67
Thailand:...66
Nigeria:...66
USA:...65
Korea:...64
Australia:...59
Canada:...59
Russia:...58
UK:...57
Egypt:...54
Central America:...54
Ghana:...53
Germany:...50
France:...48
Italy:...47
Portugal:...43
Spain:...42
Azerbaijan:...41
Turkey:...34
India:...33
Mexico:...31
China:...29
Pakistan:...25
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The above data shows that 77% of Filipinos respect Japan or give higher credit to Japan.

Though North Korea is out of question, the Chinese Government is still teaching its people to hate Japan, while other neighboring countries, the U.S., South Korea, and Russia have many citizens who respect Japan as a percentage of a whole population.

(http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/honkawa/index.html)


So, I can predict that the 21st century or the coming era is a century for Asia Pacific nations, South American nations, and maybe Africa.

I am afraid to say that the E.U., the Middle East, ans South Asia must wait for another era.

Indeed, you can trust those who respect Japan more than those who deny Japan in various fields, such as religion, culture, politics, economy, business, and sports.



SECTION II: Japan 3-1 Denmark

When the 2002 World Cup Soccer Matches were held in Japan and South Korea, I bought some lighters.



They are on my desk these days.

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The Japanese media and most of TV channels have repeatedly referred to and showed the three goals the Samurai Blue made in the match with Denmark.

However, it was a Brazilian manager that led Japanese players in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

It was a French manager that led Japanese players in the 2002 World Cup in Japan/South Korea.

Yet, it was the very Japanese Takeshi Okada that led Japanese players in the 1998 World Cup in France just like he is doing in South Africa now.

And, very interestingly, Japan could not win the final in the Asian stage of the 1994 World Cup matches, since Iraq made a miracle heading goal during added time. Iraq went to America for the 1994 World Cup matches.

No one in Iraq must have been able to dream that he would be able to enjoy freedom and democracy 10 years and more later.

Anyway, history is truly there even in its detail.




(http://www.just-oldies.com/1965/dont_let_me_be_misunderstood.htm

Paraguayans might like such a feeling if well far from Mexico...)


Luk 6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

Luk 6:25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Luk 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

"Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles"

(Captain Tokyo So High!; click to enlarge; Tokyo Tree Tower at 398 m or 1306 feet as it has been still under construction.)


Dream Days or Dreamy Days　　　

One night recently, a very prominent Japanese politician appeared in my dream.
　
To my surprise, he was friendly to me.

But, other night recently, a very prominent foreign agency appeared in my dream.

To my surprise, they were not friendly to me.

I might have to be careful in dealing with a Japanese agency and a foreign prominent politician.




SECTION I: Soccer and Election

At 03:30 a.m., Friday, on June 25, Japan Standard Time, the Japanese team is to meet the Denmark team in South Africa.

I don't know how many people here in Japan will watch the live broadcast tonight or before dawn.

But, it is a big event for the Japanese people like for Danes.

However, it is very interesting that the official announcement of the Upper-House election is coincidentally heralded today in Japan.


SECTION II: Which Will Win?

The Japan's Upper House has 242 members. Every three year, 121 lawmakers who have completed their 6-year term are renewed through an election.

For the ruling camp led by the DPJ to maintain a majority, namely 122 seats, it needs to have 56 candidates elected in this 7/11-2010 election.

Before Former P.M. Mr. Yukio Hatoyama resigned a few weeks ago, it was predicted by most of critics and journalists that the ruling DPJ and its allied parties would win only less than 40 seats, meaning a big defeat.

But, now with controversial ex-political hero Mr. Yukio Hatoyama and Mr. Ichiro Ozawa (former Director General of the DPJ) having left key positions, the DPJ led by P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan is expected to win more seats. But how many?

If they should not be able to maintain a majority in the Upper House despite overwhelming advantage in the Lower House, the ruling camp will have to invite other minor party or parties into a new coalition.

The threshold number is 56. Can P.M. Mr. Kan win 56 seats?

I think it will be less than 50, specifically around 48.

If it should be around 45, current head of the DPJ Mr. Naoto Kan would have to face a tough situation after the election toward the party convention in September where a new head is to be elected as it is the legitimate end of the term of former head Mr. Hatoyama since Mr. Kan replaced Mr. Hatoyama on a temporary base.

But, it will be not so easy that the former ruling party LDP, so pro-American, to exceed the DPJ in terms of elected seats. Yet, if the LDP led by Lower-House lawmaker Mr. Sadakzu Tanigaki cannot win at least one third, namely 40, of the seats up for re-election it is a kind of crisis for conservative people in Japan.

Three years ago, the liberal DPJ won 60 seats in the Upper-House election, and the conservative LDP 37 as a precursor to the 30-8-2009 quasi-revolutionary general election.

Yet, it is said that a real trend will be only fixed just two days before the voting date.

Anyway, the despotic-state North Korea-friendly DPJ with so many amateur-class politicians should not be allowed to get more arrogant with any victory.



SECTION III: 4% Economic Growth

Dubai built more than 60 building, each taller than 700 feet, leveraging $550 billion investments from overseas, though it has now $85 billion deficits.

If Japan grows at a 4% rate per year, its GDP will increase by $240 billion (= $6 trillion x 0.04).

It means Japan will have 25 buildings, each taller than 700 feet, per year in the land size almost equal to that of California State, while the flatland accounts for only 30% or so of the whole Japanese land.

Taking into consideration environmental conditions and 125 million population of Japan (3.5 times larger than California's), this 4% growth translated into a Dubai-size development per two years cannot be sustained in Japan even for four to six years, since it will destroy the nature unbearably.

All the Japan's rivals, that is, the U.S., the E.U., China, and even Canada, Australia, Russia, India, and Brazil, have a 20 times or more larger land size each. They can absorb a Dubai-size development per two to four years. But Japan cannot.

This is the most fundamental reason for the Japan's low growth rate since 1990's, which no economists in the world can insightfully interpret.

No Japanese politicians either so far have been able to offer a solution.

The LDP could not, so that they lost power in the 30-8-2009 election.

The DPJ seems to be unable, so that it must be checked in the 11-July-2010 election.

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Now, leaders of political parties have started to address voters on the street in Japan.

All I want to say is: "If you cannot help your neighbours, you have to make the government do in lieu of you. Who in the name of you will help your poor neighbours?"

Anyway, happy P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan with his classical wife has started to fly to Canada for the G8 Summit.

I hope that the Japanese prime misiter will discuss the Afghan issue with the American president.




(http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ud3t-krym/902-jasrac/0910-yozoranotrumpet.htm )



Joh 6:23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)

Joh 6:24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.

Joh 6:25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

Joh 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

　　　

"and leap for joy"

(Tokyo Tree Tower Yet to Full Elevation; click to enlarge; "That's Captain Tokyo?? Heading for 7/11??")




SECTION I: Japan's 7/11 Upper-House Election


The July 11th, Sunday, is the day for the final at Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 2010 World Cup Soccer Matches.

In Japan, it will be the voting day of the 22nd Upper House election where candidates for half of 242 members of the house undergo judgement by voters.

The world paid a strong attention, as a rare case, to the Japanese politics last summer due to the regime change from a very-pro American conservative government to a pro-Chinese liberal one. It was however the Lower-House election for 480 seats that realized the regime change pulling up the Democratic Party of Japan to power. This time, the concern is on whether the DPJ can further gain a foothold as it replaced a few weeks ago unpopular Former Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama with a little cleaner new P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan.

But, what people in the world should understand about Japan now is that for the first in half a century, Japan has a real liberal prime minister with a socialist mind set. He has never joined the very-pro American conservative Liberal Democratic Party in his 30-year career in the national politics, though he has never acted as a violent revolutionist.

Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan has however no experiences in real business. He has no social experiences since his graduation from the Tokyo Institute of Technology except ones as a liberal civil activist. He looks like being an ambitious politician with justification for his activities in complying with value of anti-conservatism.

For example, there are some Japanese who tie up with anti-whaling foreign activists. Those Japanese do not love whales especially but hate Japanese traditions and conservative people or the establishment. They are a kind of ideologically brain-washed Japanese. Accordingly, those anti-whaling Japanese look like crooked men and women to the eye of most of Japanese, since Japanese whaling is based on the Japanese tradition.

(It is truly laughable that some anti-Japanese big media companies in America are bringing up and praising those crooked anti-whaling Japanese, since they have no grounds and roots in the main and sub-main Japanese communities. American anti-whaling activists are a kind of engaged in the anti-Japanese business. But Japanese activists are a kind of socialists of an old Soviet-Union's spy type.)

P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan is, however, not a crooked one. He is more balanced, respecting commonsense. Yet, those crooked anti-whaling Japanese support Mr. Kan. Those who write "a man should not hate others" on their site while using every expression of hatred against their enemies, namely ordinal Japanese who support whaling, on the same site are supporting liberal P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan. It is not good. Mr. Naoto Kan should be rather denied together with those crooked anti-whaling Japanese than being respected for the purpose of defending the Japanese traditional culture.

Anyway, Japanese politicians can be judged with three measures: conservativeness or anti-crooked ideology, respect for traditional value, expertise in any advanced field.

For P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan,
Anti-Crooked Ideology: 50
Traditional Value: 70
Expertise: 20
TOTAL: 140/300

For LDP President Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki,
Anti-Crooked Ideology: 80
Traditional Value: 80
Expertise: 30
TOTAL: 190/300

Yet, there is another measure: anti-ultrarich
For P.M. Mr. Naoto Kan,
Anti-Crooked Ideology: 50
Traditional Value: 70
Expertise: 20
Anti-Ultrarich: 70
TOTAL: 210/400

For LDP President Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki,
Anti-Crooked Ideology: 80
Traditional Value: 80
Expertise: 30
Anti-Ultrarich: 10
TOTAL: 200/400

That is why the regime change occurred in the summer of 2009, though Mr. Kan and Mr. Tanigaki were not the top leaders of the two major parties, respectively, on August 30, 2009 when the quasi-revolutionary general election was held in Japan.

To choose candidates for the coming national election, it might be also better to introduce another measure: anti-antisocial organization.

For a certain female DPJ candidate,
Anti-Crooked Ideology: 70
Traditional Value: 80
Expertise: 10
Anti-Ultrarich: 10
Anti-antisocial organization: 10
TOTAL: 180/500

For a certain female LDP candidate,
Anti-Crooked Ideology: 80
Traditional Value: 75
Expertise: 85
Anti-Ultrarich: 30
Anti-antisocial organization: 80
TOTAL: 350/500

So, Japanese voters might support LDP female candidates more than DPJ female candidates, in general, this time.


(For Captain Tokyo,
Anti-Crooked Ideology: 100
Traditional Value: 90
Expertise: 90
Anti-Ultrarich: 100
Anti-antisocial organization: 100
TOTAL: 480/500)


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Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

Luk 6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

"and the end everlasting life"

SECTION I: Brookings Institution

The lost decade of Japan prompted to serious study many American intellectual elites, including Former President Mr. Bill Clinton, Former Secretary Mr. Lawrence Summers, Former Chairman Mr. Alan Greenspan, and so on who all could not eventually find what the real situation of Japan was at a true academic level but started foolishly to praise China and visit China so often as if suddenly finding another enemy to Japan, while soiling or almost cursing Japan's tremendous success in the human history as a non-Christian/European nation.

One example of such study from Brookings Institution is as below:
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1 The Policy Trap

As Japan enters its twelfth consecutive year of economic stagnation, it has begun to dawn on the world that something peculiar is going on...

This is not the first time, of course, that Japan has puzzled the world. Indeed, the country has been something of an enigma ever since the “little land of topsy-turvy” emerged out of a rosy mist of geishas and cherry blossoms to crush the Russian navy in 1905. In more recent times the country posted the most phenomenal record of economic growth in history while violating virtually every single tenet of Western economic orthodoxy...

Therein lies the significance of the information in figure 1-4—for otherwise, this information is little more than a tautology. The great majority of Japan’s claims on the rest of the world are denominated in U.S. dollars, mostly because Japan’s external trade is conducted largely in dollars....That helps explain the persistence of an undervalued yen in the face of record current account surpluses.


...
But Japan is the world’s second-largest economy, not because Japan can extract extortionate rents but because over the past half-century the Japanese have built the most wholly integrated industrial structure on earth. Japan still outclasses the rest of the world in cost control, product quality, and technological sophistication in a number of centrally important finished goods—most notably automobiles—as well as a wide range of upstream product segments. Japanese companies have to rely on foreigners only for commodities, aircraft, and cutting-edge computer, information technology (IT), and Internet-related products for which they, in turn, provide components that no one else makes.

This situation has been the implied goal of Japanese economic policy since the late nineteenth century—the building of an industrial structure that would reduce reliance on foreigners to the bare minimum. And while Japan has faltered in the last decade in the IT arena, that should not disguise its overall success in reaching its goal. But that success has landed Japan in a trap. As all the hand wringing over a recent shrinking of the current account surplus demonstrates, the trap itself is not understood, not to mention any realistic means of escape...

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Press/Books/2002/japanspolicytrap/japanspolicytrap_chapter.pdf
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So, no American elites understood anything at a true academic level.

Japan has supported the value of the dollar all through the lost decade and decades. Even when Japan tried to establish the yen zone in Asia in 1990's, the Clinton Administration determinedly destroyed the scheme to protect the American hegemony and the value of the dollar.

What's more, in the Asian financial crisis in late 1990's, Japan again tried to establish the East Asian economic/financial zone with ASEAN nations which the Clinton Administration determinedly destroyed to protect the American hegemony and the value of the dollar.

It is not a pure currency issue, a pure monetary issue, a pure financial or economic issue that works between Japan and the U.S. It is a political and security issue that dominates the psychology of responsible experts and politicians of Japan and the U.S. While American economists have never been taught historical significance of this truth.

In one word, Japan and the U.S. are still in the aftermath of WWII which American economists have never realized.

It is not history of WWII that American economists do not know. They do not know how China today came to be established militarily, how China today came to be governed politically, and how China today developed in terms of technology and business through 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's. East Asia is very different from East Coast, West Coast, or Europe, since a majority of people there never respect American Christian priests, for one easy example, or have no sense of community with American Judaists only because they are Judaists.

But, what they have praised China on is only money but not its historical efforts to develop the political/economic systems, science, and technology, but only on money accumulated through trade with Japan and the U.S. by foreign-invested businesses in China.

At least those American elites know that China has just secondary glory in terms of developing the political/economic systems, science, and technology in comparison with Japan. Indeed, Japanese experts taught Chinese how to build a modern iron mill, a car plant, a semiconductor foundry, etc. through 1970's and 2000's.

So, what American elites have praised China on is only money accumulated through trade with Japan and the U.S. by foreign-financed businesses in China.

Without deep understanding of history and culture of Japan and China, no American elites can explain well what the decades-long deflation of Japan is.

In a wider historical view, Japan has helped Taiwan, Korea, and China by sacrificing possible further enrichment of the Japanese society, significance of which no American elites can understand, since they are a kind of the Mafia.


SECTION II:


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Now France 0-2 South Africa at 14 minutes in the second half.

But, more shocking was: North Korea 0-7 Portugal.

It is truly the Heavenly punishment on North Korea.

North Korea must immediately release Japanese citizens abducted by spies of North Korea in these decades.

But, China might be more responsible as it was not qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

In addition, FIFA should have invited Haiti as a special entry.





Rom 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

Rom 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.