Akihito

The photo shows Prown Prince wore no button IJN style uniform of Peers School in his childhood on Aug 1945. The article writes that Crown Prince does trainning of handling swords. His father Hirohito always wore a sword then.

Button
When Commdore Pery came to Kanagawa, some people in Edo were very curious about buttons and wanted them. Some US people exchanged buttons for something. I suppose this is the first commercial trade between Japanese people and US people. After half a century, Japan exported buttons in Europe.
Korekawa p.81

Body bag
Recently it happened to watch on TV, the documentary was about a US Army ER in Bagdad. After curring a heavily hurt soldier, a medic closed a fasener of a bag which contained the body of the soldier, it was impressive to me. I suppose bodies are enveloped in cloth or blankets with no fasteners even now in Japan.

Inch threads
Bolt is another kind of fasteners. Japan knew the screw while copying plugs of guns in 16th century. Japan imported modern screw manufacturing machines from UK in 19th century. So Japanese people began to make inch threads. IJA and IJN had thread standard separately, and main thread standard of aircraft engine was not unified until 1941. I asked Ogawa Seik about thread of a glow plug. He said, 'We had sold taps for working engine heads before. It is 1/4-32'. I asked a screw shop for a stock of the nuts. Sales did not know standard of UNEF at all. I wonder a car repair shop demands 500yen($4) for an inch nut or bolt. A Mini of UK hobbist worried about inch screws.
Eikoku-sha wo seikatu ni toriiretemitara

Bamboo fence	Fall wall

Bamboo grows well in the west of Japan. To see bamboo growing was curious for me, because I grew up in Hokkaido. Once Japan exported bamboo crafts, lantern, fan, skiing poles which were used in skiing troops of Finland etc.
Mussashi Edo-jyou

A Japanese professor of economics said, "There is four divisions of society at University of Tokyo. Law, medicine are upper. Economics, engineering are lower."

Certainly I was disappointed to Mr. Fukui's scandal of the Bank of Japan. A lots of Japanese professors have studied economics more than 100 years. Laurentzs of Nobel Prize in economics are Americans this year again.
Mr. Fukui's scandal

Money of the Wall Street broke challanging Germany, Japan and Soviet. But it seems their method has not worked in China and Vietnam well. If Leaders of Japan analyzed her economy in 1930s, the catastrophy would not bring out in 15 years later.

Zhongnanhai Walls

Han of China built police to govern farmers, the police had around walls. Bureaucrats and troops lived in the police, The bureaucrats collected taxes. China continues to distinguish people between city and village even now. Kremlin means walls originally. Leaders of China lives in walls, as governers did once upon a time. Now, this place is completely around walls.

2 succesive top leaders of China are from ( �µ��� ) now. ( �븵��, ����, Ϸ��, ���) and ����� also were all from here. It is interesting. Principle of the nation is different from her outsiders ( �� ). US and other nations will always worry her politics in confused relations.
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A mast and gyms	Poles of Kantei

However, the Kantei of Japan shows it low, and lower than the White House. And commons of Japan do not show our national flag, though we showed it on a natioanl holiday in 60s to 70s. While schools have been eager to build higher flag-towers for education now.
the White House

Education in an easy way
It reminds me of a holy facility in shools all over Japan. The ministry of education had tried to control mind of boys since Meiji era. At last IJN and IJA beaucrats and Education Ministry could bring up soldiers for suicide attacks. Teachers of Japan have liked uniform learning and training for a long time. It seems that this is an easier way for them to control boys in school. Teachers had better learn Fukuzawa's and Katsu's thought. Some teachers praised Great Leap Forward in China and Marxism when I was in high school. As a result, very few radical students appeared. And some of them became terrorists rather than revolutionalists. To teach was to propanga a dogma in Japan. I suppose Japanese teachers do respect authority in all times even now. Or we should change ourselves, should not we? Japanese people are uniform under freedom of individuals, while Chinese people are individual under control of rulers.
Great Leap Forward

Portraits' bank	The highest flag tower

Confucianism
The left photo shows a proof of uniform controlled education. A small bank belonged to an elementary shool in Okinawa which contained photos of Mikado and a bible of Education ministry. Boys and girls had to bow it every passing. Teachers taught boys to be good soldiers for Mikado eager and eager. After the Pacific War, GHQ banned such education, teachers easily obeyed the order through Education Ministry. Japanese teachers always did respect to authority of Education Ministry. I remember climbing up it to play with other kids. I did not know it holy those days. Simply teachers have taught boys under the authority since 1868. They had no will either Mikado or GHQ. I said 'dogmatic' teachers in my high school days. The central dogma is Confucianism. The Confucianism is stick to our life, as it were air. IJN assigned commanders under Confucianism during the Pacifc War. USN was more efficient and reasonable for controlling the organization. How does weak confucian navy win against strong pragmatic navy?

People of Japan's neighbor have to show photos of her leaders at their home, I hear. The education of the nation may be extremely uniform and controlled as Japan did. The flag tower of the nation is the highest in the world. Once the naion was governed by the most Confucianism in the world.

Students

Otherwise a lot of Chinese students came to Japan and learned modernization of Japan. Sonbun, Chiang Kai-shek and Zhou Enlai were famous among them. Sun Wen stayed here.

Japanese students went to China

Name	Kanji	Birth year/place	Death year/place
Genbo	����	?	746
Abe no Nakamaro	-	698 Yamato	770 Choan
Kibi no Makibi	-	695	775
Saicho	-	767 Oumi	822 Hieizan
Kukai	-	774 Sanuki	835 Koyasan
Jyogyo	���	?	867
Engyo	�߹�	799 Kyoto	852
Ennin	�߿�	794 Shimotuke	864
Eun	�ñ�	798 Yamashiro	869
Enchin	����	814 Sanuki	89
Syuei	����	809 Kyoto	884
Eisai	-	1141 Kibi	1215 Kamakura or Kyoto
Dogen	-	1200 Kyoto	1253 Kyoto
Sesson Yubai	��¼ͧ��	1290	1347
Sesyu	-	1420 Bicyu	1502
Kian Geiju	�˰ø���	1427	1508

Priests wished securities of land and people. They thought mandala, however noble people of Japan did not understand it.

Enchin went and came back by a merchant ship

In the end of Heian era, noble clans believed in amida-nyorai and saiho-jyodo. Sugawara no Michizane proposed not to send Imperial embassies to China in 894, because of Tang's domestic confusion, official expendture, and merchantizing route between Korea and Japan. In later, priests studied in private mission. Syuei was Todaiji-betto, Toji-nicyojya
amida-nyorai and saiho-jyodo

Chinese priests thought deep and grew up zen, a kind of metaphysics. Dogen purified zen in Japanese simplified style, therefore his thought was very diffcult for me to understand. Heidegger knew Dogen's 'Uji' in 1920s. I prefer Heigegger's 'Sein und Zeit'.

I found that Douglas MacArthur, Helen Adams Keller and William Merrell Vories were born the same year in 1880. They were 24 years old, when the Japanese-Russo War was ceased.

Jazz

• Polydor -> Daitoa(���찡)
  
• Colombia -> Nicchiku
  
• King -> Fuji(�ٻ�)
  
• Victor -> NihonOnkyo(���ܲ���)

Otherwise Japan did not ban Chinese songs, though both nations had been at war for 5 yeas. A Chinese composer made a song, titled Itu no hi ka kimi kaeru(When will you come home, ����������), was a big hit in Japan in 1940. Chiang Kaishek troop sang the tune on leaving for Taiwan, I heard. Both of Japanese and Chinese people loved it each other as Lili Marleen in the West.
Itunohi ka kimi kaeru, ����������)
Lili Marleen

Why did not Government ban a Chinese song but Jazz music and English words? Japan accepted Chinese culture for 500 years. But American culture was less than 100 years. It reminds me of ultra nationalism in 19th century. Spirits of bureaucrats were conservative same as in Edo era at the Pacific War. They disliked Western thought and adopted Western technologies only. Leaders of Japan forgot international law too, when Japan broke the Pacific War. Governers were afraid that commons knew Western thought. And commons did not believe government and its bureaucats. Bureaucrats ignored spirits of confidence, cooperation and love among societies of Japan. They thought people were uncivilized pesants, workers and soldiers only.

On the contrary, US were busy with learning Japanese for intelligence war. US bureaucrats were reasonable.

Jazz became very popular. Sometimes we listen to Jazz in BGM of Japanese TV drama or something. A TV program of Japan uses Blue note records now.

Culture rather than military

Why did ridiculous appearance happen? Japanese people remembered the modernization of Meiji. So we must do the 2nd civilization, 'bumei kaika' (ʸ������) of Japan like Meiji Restoration. We stopped 'fukoku kyouhei' (�ٹ�ʼ) on peace this time. We found military power gave no wealth. We also changed our nation name, dai nippon teikoku (Great Japanese Empire) into simple Nihon koku (Japan). By the way Japan called bunka (ʸ��) a peoriod of 1804 and 1807 year.
Empire of Japan

Chinese civilization

Civilization boarding in China

Slogan in Nanjin	Volunteers for regulating

Japan's neghibor began Great Leap Forward (������) after the Civil War in 1958 to 1961 at first. This policy did not work well. And the Cultural Revolution (ʸ�����̿��with violence in 1965 to 1976. Economic reform (���׳���) is under way since 1976. China could not develope like Russia. After all, it took almost 20 years to begin the reform in China. I think simply that China is a big country and China is a country of 'bun' (ʸ). Originally Japanese people expressed the word, bunka and bumei using kanji characters. I think China governed people by bun. Empeors must always read a lots of reports everyday. Bureaucrats wrote tremendous bun. The state was governed by bun. Japan adopted the system in Nara era, but it failed. 1,000 years later, Japan adopted alike the system mixed with Western law. So Education Ministry is 'monbu sho' (ʸ����) even now. Japan is also a country of 'bun' (ʸ). Chinese passengers are in line. They call it civilization boarding (ʸ�����) in a Olympic year campaign. Japan calls it 'seiretu jyosha' (������). I was irritated on boarding a train or subway, when I moved to Kansai from Kanto. Because people of Osaka are not in line on boarding. Are people of Beijin in line, though people of Nanjin are not?
Great Leap Forward
Wasei kango

Protest Meeting [���Ľ���]

Protest in Okinawa

Okinawa angered that USN did not pass 3 crime suspects to Japanese police and held protest meeting in Okinawa in 1995.^[3] A newspaper of Okinawa wrote an opinion on 22 October 1995. We read [�赯���] in the back screen of the meeting.
Omoiyari Yosan

Anti American movement [ȿ��Ʈ��]
US had governed Okinawa since Nimitz's declare on 26 Marcch 1945. Newspapers called [��������]. We often see [�Ʒ�����] in articles of Okinawa issue [��������]. US controlled mail in Okinawa till 1972.^[2]��USN holds naval bases in Guam, Japan, Korea, Philippines^[1], and Singapore now.

China adopted [��̳��ư] and [��������] after defeat of war on UK. In the conflict Chinese bureaucrats knew [�����ˡ]. China is one of nations in the world. Farmers were tired of heavy tax. Some people revolted and took part in [��ʿŷ��]. [���δ���] could not protect logistic line to Korea because of [Ϣ�����]. [��ˡ��ư] failed, but [��������] movement occurred. When Qing collapsed, local warlords were independent and foreign intervention occurred. Complicated conflict lasted for a long time. It was usual in Chinese history. Japan intervened and organized two or three puppet governments for 15 years. Japan was one of �� for her long history. [��̩���] is a key factor in China. The two [��̱��] and [������] survived in the conflict. The two armed parties ceased fires twice. They called it [�񶦹��].

Chinese Communist Party won the Civil war after the WWII. They tried a copied Russian [�ײ�к�] and built [��̱����]. We learned how the Chinese farmers comunity is splendid from high school teachers and newspapers. But the Japanese farmers disliked the style completey. I think they wanted to have farming right simply. The right was given by US. Japanese people learned that newspapers advocated the Japanese-Sino war. Teachers taught us to be soldiers and die for [�Ĺ�], though they did not die for Mikado's land in the Pacific war at all. Only one thirds agreed with socialism in general elections. [��ͳ̱����] always won the general elections under negative campaigns of newspapers and intellectuals. [1] Kichi heisa to sai-shiyou
[2] Okinawa kitte
[3] Okinawan rape incident

English-Japanese dictionary

English-Japanese dictionaries

Word	Kenkyusha's	Daishukan's
body	a body of laws	the body of a speech
English England	The English are a law-abiding people.	England's armed intervention
gun	under the gun(s)	Gun Control Act of 1968
horse	mount[ride] the high horse	get on one's horse
nation	a nation without a country Jews are people, not a nation, Russians are a nation, but not a single nation.	the Jewish nation
out	far out at sea	The fishing boats are 5km out.
right	All right!	It's time to leave, all right, but the bus hasn't come yet.
surrender	surrender of a fugitive	the surrender of the fortress
time	There is[I have] no time to lose.	Give me time to try again.
war	War often breaks out without warning.	Supposing War broke out, what would you do?
water	jump in(to) the water	The child had fallen in the water

all right : I knew the phrase 'all right' in a boy at first. A woman bus condcutor often called the pharse to a bus driver, when he drove it backward. An IJN bombardier called yousoro, when a pilot flew a bomber to a target.
work like a horse : Ouini[genkini chujituni] hataraku Kenkyusha, basha-uma no youni[genkini] hataraku Daishukan