tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112020162011-07-28T20:22:31.999+09:00Words are marvelous because they can work as a useful tool to explore possibilities to share with others with different views from yours.sivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13484216210497117663noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11202016.post-60924501241708205882010-07-18T21:40:00.003+09:002010-07-18T22:06:30.836+09:00

My blog has paused because two years ago I've got a daughter!! I have spent and am going to spend most of my time with her, but a lot of things have come to my mouth.I'm going to express them to the world though very few want to read them.

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"Religio," the Latin match for "religion," is supposed to mean the "prudence" or awe of the supernatural, called God or Allah, that gives order to the natural world. You know, the Arabic match for religion, "taqwa," has the same meaning. In a Chinese character, 「信仰」(sinko), a correspondent for "religion," has a different meaning. It refers to the seriousness in stating something is true. But it's

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Let me give you a plan as to the Olympic Games to be held in Beijing.In July, if the polluted atmosphere there is not improved, the games might be held in Asian countries except China.I think it absurd atheletes will enter the competition with asthma inhalers(NY Times) in a Beijing described in NY Times.Give a thought to this suggestion.

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Did you read the article in Washingtonpost?The US administration in handling North Korea has been in Paranoid Policy. They just fear they would fail in the same way as it did against Iraq. More important, they overlook the crucial difference between North Korea and Iraq, however. Iraq Helped terror groups, while North Korea has organized and surpervised terrors. Terrorists use violenct actions or

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The words in Jurassic Park III reminded me of what was stated in his books by Theodor W. Adorno, who admired non-coordination, or in another expression, who disliked a theorized view without any contradictions. The words are "Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions." It's important to build a theory with no defects, but it's arrogant to think human beings

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I read Bush's speech in VFW, which was criticized in Bostonglobe for his views on Vietnam War.To me, what annoyed me most is the sentence, "They(the Japanese in WWII) killed Americans because we stood in the way of their attempt to force their ideology on others."The sentence expresses what Matthew Arnold called Hebrewism, based on the words in the Hebrews, "Faith is being sure of what we hope

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What is democracy? I have been thinkig about this since I read a post in Aljazeera English, which emphasizes violent actions have been done by those thinking and stating democracy is the most important.Democracy is a system selected by the people to govern a community in which they live based on the religion, philosophy, environment, and history proper to the community, so first of all, democracy

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On August 6 sixty two years ago, a nuclear bomb was exploded in Hiroshima to kill 140,000 persons including civilians. Whether the decision was right or not has been one of the controbersial topics in Japan.According to the Gallup Poll 2005, fifty-seven percent of the Americans approved dropping an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima mainly because it reduced the number of the possible persons who would die

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I love this joke:A: "I'm sorry--- I quite forgot your party the other evening!"B: "Oh, weren't you there?"I'm always the type of person who are treated in this way (TEAR).

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In Aljazeera English, you can read views on the Koreans abducted by the Taliban.I don’t think the Taliban can justify what they are doing because they are doing that to Koreans. Can the Taliban admit Koreans do the same thing to Muslims living in other areas because they are categorized into Islamite? A Japanese young man was also killed there. He was blamed for taking a trip there though he was

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Last week, six party talks adjourned to require North Korea and the neighbours to meet the requirements. NK will get so much oil and dismantle nuclear program in return, while Japan is required to show less hostility toward NK on abduction issue, and the US take the name of NK out of the list of goverments supporting terrorists, according to Washingtonpost. The neighbours gave a villain what it

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My favorite Japanese artist, Okamoto Taro, frequently said, "Be a layman." I guess he meant by this phrase that you should have a direct view into objects, letting nothing intervening between the objects and you. Probably, we have some assumptions on which our social lives go easily, but they sometimes prevent you from seeing the truths and making good decisions.For example, when old persons

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In a sense, philosophy tells you that you cannot have an objective view on anything you think existing in the world. In short, you have a very limited view of the world in which you are living now.In this limited view, some of you, including me, should try to find a better way to spend your time in this world. This type of persons are categorized into existentialists by Heidegger.As an

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Japan Argues to Hunt Minke Whales (washingtonpost)Moratorium on Commercial Whaling Upheld (washingtonpost)This news has reminded me of the words of Claude Levi-Strauss about "barbarian." The persons called "barbarians," he said, should refer to the ones who do not accept anything they are not familiar with. Before, Japanese found it strange that some westerners eat cattle, but have accepted them

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The Kamakura period (1192-1333) is important in Japanese history for two remarkable facts: the establishment of the government by the pioneer peasants and the emergence of religious sects for them. These two were the first in the world then.As doctuments shows, in the Nara and Heian periods, you haven't found any trace of the peasants living and contributing to the governmetal system. They are

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Since May 3rd, 1947, Japan has had the current constitution, which might change to activate the Japan Army under the present Prime Minister regime. Recently, there has been talk about whether it should be revised. Most crucial in the talk seems to be the ninth article: Japan does not have any force effective to handle international conflicts.The problem is on how to intepret the international

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I don't want to conclude the shootings in Virginia Tech must have been attributed to just abnormality in the person because discontent should lead to such abrupt massacre in some cases. I think we must recognize the current society has been incomplete, and such awareness may bring something to prevent another tragedy from assaulting us not you. I haven't organized my thought, but I'm sure it

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Here, you can listen to the song for Yokota Megumi, abducted by North Korean agents, composed by Paul Stookey.Related article: No Justice

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Did you read the articles in NY Times, L.A. Times, and Bostonglobe about the sex slaves?I was disappointed to read them because the writers seem to have written them before seeing the issue in perspective.According to me, Japan will appologize and accept the call (though it apoligized more than once) if it is based on fair judgment and investigation into the truth, in correct judicial proceedings

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I'm stunned that Six Party Talk has ended in that way. What a deal is it that Norht Korea would be offered much oil while letting them know and permitting IAEA to inspect the institutions where nuclear weapons are said to have been produced! Neither justice nor cause-and-effect coherence can be found there. North Korea would not lose anything while the other countries would pay.What they are

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Japanese fisherboats were taken to Russia for their alleged operations (I don't know what they have done!). A couple of months ago, a Japanese fisherboat was also assaulted and one of the crews was shot dead for their ill management and in a Russian court the captain was told to admit they were doing something in the wrong place and pay a penalty of about 1500,000 yen, or he would not be home.

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I didn't know I had been deeply immersed in Faulkner's spirit until I was required to answer to the question by one of my girlfriends of why I'm so pessimistic. I answered, "I'm not pessimistic, but just a Faulknerian," by which I meant we're required to see the whole scene of human experience in transformation, in which each individual is trapped in his own past.

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To the World Whom it May Concern,　　　　Japan seems to have been charged with its alleged attempts to whitewash the atrocities it committed during the wars in the first half of the 20th century. Some have found three symptoms of its kind in 1) some of the descriptions in the Japanese history textbooks, 2) the Japanese insistence on its own dominion over Takeshima (alleged by Korea), and 3) the

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Did you hear about CHI, seen in Dragon Ball Z, a Japanese animation? It is something mysterious, a kind of supernatural power. I didn't believe its existence until I found myself emitting it.A couple of months ago, I found my feet paralyzed when I was getting into computer, so I thought I should have got a serious problem in my brain or backbone. Additionally, I realized I was losing weight, no

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If you are planning to come to Japan, I'll recommend you to visit Saiho-ji in Kyoto. You will see the sights of MOSS that many of Japanese think most beautiful.Probably, you would wonder why moss has been thought beautiful. It has been regarded as one of the salient plants to let us feel SABI, the aesthetic term to describe something many Japanese are attracted to. Moss looks beautiful to us

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Have you heard of "Beautiful Foolishness of Things"? This was a remark of Okakura Tenshin, one of those Japanese who tried to explain Japanese culture after Japan encoutered the West. He condensed something Japanese into the expression. I think it is marvelous.Can you guess what it means? Anyway, that remark reminded me of the conversation between Smith and Neo in the culminating part of The

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Buddhism has been regarded as one of the major religions in Japan, but I don't think it has played the same roles as Christianity in the West and Islamism in the Middle East.It was thought to flow into Japan through Korea in the midst of the 6th century, but it didn't have a definite form or doctrine to cling to, so the people were just attracted by magnificence of Buddhistic statues, which made

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No preliminary analysis has made it clear where the original Japanese people came from, so you have to be content with the limited information on how Japan began to work as a country. Japan started as a country in the 7th century.Before that, the island that would be Japan was like the USA in the first half of the seventeenth century. I mean the immigrants came there from different countries and

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Why did Japan enter a series of wars, called WWII? According to Siva, the reason was the Japanese overestimation of his own military power. More specifically, his pseudo victory over Russia in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905 made him believe he was strong and competent enough to win battles with the Powers.But that was just a diplomatic victory. Kaneko Kentaro, a Japanese civilian and a

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My pen-name, Siva, comes from the surname of my favorite author, Siva Ryotaro, who passed away several years ago. He was driven to write so many stories and novels to explore what Japan had been until his encounter with Japan's defeat in the WWII. You should not misunderstand he would try to justify Japan's assault or participation in the war. He was just wondering why Japan chose to go to the

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I went to one of the greatest traditional Japanese restaurants in Kyoto, the oldest city in Japan, named "Hyoutei." I'll describe how I ate marvelous dishes.The first dishes were here.The one over there is raw fish, Tai, one of the valuable fishes in Kyoto, while the one closer to you is a kind of salada with vinegar, full of matsutake, one of the most expensive mushrooms in Japan, cherished for

sivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13484216210497117663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11202016.post-1130586309095023952005-10-29T20:31:00.000+09:002007-08-11T13:14:28.015+09:00

In the photo you are seeing the most invalueable mushrooms in Japan, maitake and matsutake, grilled in Japanese paper made from mulberry bark. The former mushroom is famous for its tasting greatest while the latter for its fragrance though non-Japanese may not love them to the extent to which many Japanese cherishe them. Anyway, they are too expensive here!!

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According to some non-Japanese I have ever met, Japanese desserts are not so sweet, not enough to satisfy them. This should be one of them. The semi-transparent cubes are agars made from kudzu, which in itself doesn't have any taste and needs flavor from the white soybean-flour-and sugar powder and the raw-sugar black syrup.

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Some TV programs and websites have let us know Katrina may have been caused by Japanese Mafias. Was it a joke? Even if it was a joke, I don't like it because I know how disastrous a damage Katrina brought to some of the Southern states where my friends are there.The TV programs and websites has reported how some of Americans blamed President Bush and FEMA for their slow responses and alleged

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Politicians began to prepare for the general election on September 11. There are several political parties here, but each of them doesn't have its own policies. I mean the members in a party have so different opinions and views on the policies Japan is required to handle as to make it difficult for us to choose a political party that we should support.

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Did you read the article in BBC, which reported the Japanese protest against China's move to get oil gas buried in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, though the place where it began to dig it is within the EEZ of China. We have the rule that an exclusive economic zone should be within 370 km from the mainland of a country. But China stated it is not from the mainland but from the continental

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Here has been noisy because two days ago the Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro dissolved the Diet after the bill of privatizing public postal services, one of his campaign promises, was voted down in the House of Councilors, due to some of the Liberal Democrats rebelling against the President of the Government party.This seemed to be good to Japan because they will be likely to have an opportunity

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The Mayor of Hiroshima City made a good speech this morning, saying no countries without nuclear weapons seem to have any right to speak in the international meetings, IAEA, Six countries talk, and the Security Council. I agree with him.

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I went to Kyoto with my friends last week. There are so many sights to see, but I wanted to watch most the temple of Manshu-in(曼殊院), located in the north east part of Kyoto. Its name comes from a Bodhisattva in Sanskrit, but it is not a Buddhistic temple in nature mainly because in the Edo Era many of the imperial Princes were required to live there as Buddhistic priests lest they should

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Japan is going to be isolated because it is trying to get back the abductees from North Korea in the meeting of the six countries, the US, Russia, China, South Korea, North Korea and Japan. You know, North Korea was a communist country, so it tried to communize and absorb South Korea into One Korea. Then, it abducted more than 100 Japanese to use them as secret agents for North Korea. It was a

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Today, I found and read a report written by a Chinese who were interested in Japanese Nobel Prize Winners in Literature, came to Japan to study some of them for three years and came to hate Japanese because he felt discriminated and underestimated there. Now he is back in China, leading some group protesting against Japan. In the report, he explained how he came to dislike Japanese. He attributed

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Did you see the pictures? I don't understand why they need to let their children inherit such hatred against Japan from the children's great grandparents? I partly understand they cannot forgive those who killed their parents and relatives, but I don't think it good to teach them such hostility in public school. I would say the antipathy has not remained but been forged in their minds to create

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Japan has been trying to draft new laws in some of the international committees like NPT, that will bring about a peaceful society without any war, for it knows the stark fact that a war works as a game like soccer, baseball, just to decide which wins in a battle; so it does not help to judge which is right over a matter. Therefore, in the NPT meeting, Japan tried to make articles that will

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I went to Yuto, one of the authentic Japanese traditional restaurants, where I ate hamabohfu in the picture, a wild plant which grows on the seacoast and creates a wind blowing in your body after you eat it. My experience has revealed wild plants have something special that cannot be found in vegetables grown in the fields partly because wild ones have survived by its own survival power in the

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A Japanese was killed in Iraq, who was employed as a bodyguard or something in a company. We will never forget two innocent Japanese have been killed in Iraq. Japan may have looked offensive to some in supporting the USA in the war and sending the army there, but we're adamant that the Japanese army was sent there to keep some area ivolved peaceful. I mean Japan was trying to play a different

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Last Monday a tragedy happened in Japan. A train got derailed and crashed against a big apartment built along the rails, and about 100 persons passed over so far. Each of them had their own lives, which they expected to be continuing more....A lot of stories have been narrated here concerning the persons who cannot tell us any longer about themselves and anything that they were going to do on

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I have to be sorry because I made a mistake. I found the mistake in one of the articles I posted here, about the unavoidable four pains in Buddhistic view. A book on Buddhism, I have finished reading recently, illustrates the true meaning of the pains, "duhka" in the original language. Some Buddhistic books written in about 100-200 BC showed the pains referred to the unavoidable pains. But the

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Etymologically, "history" means "one who sees or knows," and, in Latin or Greek, "learning by inquiry." That is, "history" is a subject for those who are not content with what they have learned, and think they have to know more. Let me tell you Japanese people has got a biggest information about what happened around Japan from 1900 to 1945 because they've been required to face up to what their

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Available through the internet to me are more than 50 newspapers, domestic and foreign, which let me find several perspectives, from which an event is retold and reiterated to me. Looks like a possible whole picture of it comes to me, though a perfect view cannot be drawn by a human being, I guess. Japan is an isolated island country, into which many of Japanese were so confined that I felt as

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Let me explain how Japan seems to have justified what it did during the war. It's because it has begun to distinguish between wrong and non-wrong things that it conducted during the wars from 1900 to 1945. We began to do that because we don't want to commit wrong things again. In order not to do that, we need to know the exact reasons. In another expression, the awareness of the reasons would

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Some of the riots in China to protest againt Japan 1) making a bid for a permanent seat for the UNSC, and 2) allegedly distorting some of the descriptions in the textbooks adopted in Japanese schools have been reported in the world, but some of the mass medias fairly pointed out that that was a fake. Most of Japanese were relieved to see the news. I hope China would understand cheating and unfair

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There has been much conflict between Korea and Japan, concerning some of the descriptions in Japanese history textbooks. This is attributed to the difference of the system in which textbooks are adopted in school. In Korea, the government chooses the one single description about a historical event, while in Japan the government is prohibited from intervening in the process. In the beginning,

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I thought Gulliver's Travels was written just for children. But I have to admit I was mistaken. One of the remarkable phrases in the work is "Reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot either. So that Controversies, Wranglings, Disputes, and Positiveness in false or dubious Propositions, are Evils unknown among theHouyhnhnms."I saw the report

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What is the Buddhahood, the ultimate goal for Buddhists? It is the stage on which you can do two things; first, you love others like you love yourself, and second, your every act, voluntarily or involuntarily, gives much joy to any other living and non-living things in this universe.Some of you would wonder on what doctrine or from what view buddhists would think it possible. It's because of the

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To avoid the four unavoidable pains in Buddhism, you have to change your view of the world as found in the movie of The Matrix. What makes you afraid of the pains are mind, words, and a body. Your body enables you to see, feel, hear, touch what is going on around you. Those information should be processed through your mind into words, a cetain extant things in the world. You know you are going to

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Why am I here? Why was I born? Nobody asked me if I would want to be born in this world. I'm here, I'm living. I have to try to survive, but I know I shall die. Why do I have to live knowing I would die? The same feelings come to me when I had a flu or disease. I haven't allowed any virus to assault me. How did they do that in my body? These, life, aging, disease, and death, are called the

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Takeshima is a tiny island 150 kilometeres away from the mainland of Japan, and 117 kilometres away from Korea. This is one of the issues between Japan and Korea. Takeshima had belonged to Shimane Prefecture in Japan since 1659 and been recognized so internationally since 1905.In 1941 the war happened and in 1945 Douglas MacArthur came to Japan as the President of the GHQ. He, when leaving Japan,

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Some pieces of the first movement of a good Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 floated to me while I was still sleeping. My body remained resting but my mind worked well enough to wonder how this music was being played, because the CD should have been buried in a corner of one of the bookshelves in my room for so many days that I couldn't locate it. The only information I inferred was my wife picked it up

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It's difficult to understand others correctly. Understanding, in my opinion, is classifing into categories you have established in your mind through your experiences. Described in Faulkner's works, however, it seems to me, are the actions or accidents caused by the persons whose experiences, you're adamant, cannot be sorted into any categories that you have never seen, heard, or read in books. I

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