2010-07-18T06:12:57+09:00JUGEMhttp://bloge.miwako-kurosaka.com/?eid=9696592010-07-17T11:08:08+09:002010-07-17T21:12:48Z2010-07-17T02:08:08Z

Mr.Masayuki Kurechi ( Chairman, The Japanese Geese Protect Association) is asking your financial support for the restoration project for the Aleutian Canada Goose between the Sendai Yagiyama Zoological Park and the Rusian Science Academy :the Kamch...

miwakokurothe Aleutian Canada Goose Mr.Masayuki Kurechi ( Chairman, The Japanese Geese Protect Association) is asking your financial support for the restoration project for the Aleutian Canada Goose between the Sendai Yagiyama Zoological Park and the Rusian Science Academy :the Kamchatka -Pacific Geographphical Research Institute.


His e-mail: son_goose@sky.plala.or.jp

Thank you very much!








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This book is selected by bookshop sales men and women as the 2010's best book to be sold. How I could describe about this book's attraction and the hero's charming character and achievements ! ...

miwakokuroJapanese people( 160 years ago ) This book is selected by bookshop sales men and women as the 2010's best book to be sold.

How I could describe about this book's attraction and
the hero's charming character and achievements !






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Japanese voters have had longstanding headaches because Japanese politics has been influenced by US foreign policies since the end of the World War II. One day the US government wanted and forced Japan to abandon the military and next day th...

miwakokuroJapan 's problems Japanese voters have had longstanding headaches because Japanese politics has been influenced by US foreign policies
since the end of the World War II.
One day the US government wanted and forced Japan to abandon the military and next day the US government wanted and forced Japan to have the military, although the Japanese Constitution has the chapter 2. article 9 : Renunciation of War.
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I t was just 160 years ago! Can you imagine how we have changed so quickly ?

miwakokuroJapanese people( 160 years ago ) I t was just 160 years ago!
Can you imagine how we have changed so quickly ?


















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You could enjoy these shapes, colors and tastes! 　　　 ( from the comic "Andomaxtsutsu ", " BIG Comic Original", June 5,2010, Shogakukan Publishing Co.）

miwakokuroJapanese traditinal Pastry You could enjoy these shapes, colors and tastes!



























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( from the comic "Andomaxtsutsu ", " BIG Comic Original", June 5,2010, Shogakukan Publishing Co.）

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Are these only ways of the 21 century to deal with this BP's massive oil spill disaster?

miwakokuroBP oil spil Are these only ways of the 21 century to deal with this BP's massive oil spill disaster?











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p 111 “ Stifling of evolutionary striving could lead to extinction of the race through lack of interest in ecological or mutual relations between man and man and between man and nature. We do not as yet understand how to ...

miwakokuroEdith Cobb
p 111
“ Stifling of evolutionary striving could lead to extinction of the race through lack of interest in ecological or mutual relations between man and man and between man and nature. We do not as yet understand how to put to full use the strength of the child’s appetitive need for the power to know and to create his environment, nor do we know how to fully exploit the death of the human urge to continue to find satisfaction in knowledge of the outer world. Whereas sexual aims and purposes require moral creative restraints and restrictions in order to curb, narrow, and civilize sexual behavior, the striving to evolve richer and more creative cultural aims and social purposes that act as releasers for the formative energy of this development. As in sexual behavior, unused energy of the body seeking to fulfill this psychological and mental trend will be displaced onto the ingenuity of delinquency and crime.
　The common-plus-cosmic of the beginnings of the child’s thought establishes a basic need for outer expression of the power to model and mold his environment. This can be achieved through cooperation and mutual relations with his total environment in which learning, imagination, and the process of evolution will be geared to one another in the child’s personal development. If cultural attitudes could be shifted toward a recognition of human desire to exercise a compassionate intelligence, not only as tool and method but also as the chief human survival function, we would, I believe, find ourselves capitalizing on the human impulse to nurture, cultivate, and extend this vast potential. It is even conceivable that the economic motive, which at present dominates social structure and stifles other styles of motivation, could be enlisted if all humanity’s health and welfare were seen to be at stake. The counterpoint between life and death, even in wartime, tends to evoke man’s nurturing impulses, thus developing new methods of hearing that lead to new techniques of learning. When these conditions prevail, the world-or the particular ecological niche we inhabit- becomes in truth a “vale of soul-making,” to quote Keats again. We are today in a position to release this creative drive in the world. “


　　
　　　　　




　　

“ The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood”, Edith Cobb, Columbia University
Press, 1977.
　 Contents
Introduction by Margaret Mead
　
　One 　　Prelude to a Method
　Two 　　Wonder as the Genesis of Knowledge
　Three Anatomy of the Sense of Wonder
　Four 　The Ecology of Perceptual Organization
　Five 　The Biocultural Continuum
　Six 　 The Ecology of Individuality
　Seven 　The Evolution of Meaning
　Eight Creative Evolution: A Process of Compassion

References
Biographies and Autobiographies of Childhood in Many Countries in the Edith McKeever Cobb Collection.



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What heartbreaking pictures these are !!! Why the USA could not develop the technology to stop the oil spill, although she could develop the high technology to kill ordinary peop...

miwakokuroFaith








What heartbreaking pictures these are !!!

Why the USA could not develop the technology to stop the oil spill, although she could develop the high technology to kill ordinary people in Iraq and Afghanistain from the sky ?
Why ?
Why ?
Why?


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" I Want My Earth Back, by Chris Durang
Posted: June 4, 2010 01:37 PM

The oil spill. "I am overwhelmed by the post-apocalyptic sensory experience of a man-made disaster irretrievably destroying part of our country."
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I want to end this with a very full statement that Rachel Maddow made at the end of her program last night. She has been in the Gulf, seeing the results of the spill for herself. I think what she says is extremely articulate and extremely important. Please read it:


...The oil now coating wildlife and the beaches of this beautiful coast stinks. It stinks, it smells bad, it is filthy, it is slimy, it is sticky, it is toxic - even if Mississippi governor Haley Barbour wants to say that it's not... it is irredeemably foul, and it is everywhere.

And when you come upon it in person having only seen it on televsion, at least if you're me, you are overwhelmed by the post-apocalyptic sensory experience of a man-made disaster irretrievably destroying part of our country.
You are disgusted that BP put this ocean and this coast and the communities inland in jeopardy. Disgusted at the billions of dollars in quarterly profits that lined the oil industry's pockets and deepened their wells, and didn't do a thing to prevent this.
You are disgusted that the government let BP and the rest of the oil industry do that. Disgusted that American leaders screamed "drill, baby, drill!" without considering the consequences, all in the name of whoring themselves for a few votes during the few months that gasoline prices were rising.
Disgusted that the booms off this coast meant to protect it mostly aren't doing anything. Disgusted that those booms remain largely unmanned. Disgusted that there isn't much more to do, except maybe put more people here to try to make this totally inadequate technology try to work less horribly than it does.
This is not Hurricane Katrina. This isn't another Katrina, This isn't another anything. This is a whole new thing, happening to us. This is America's Deepwater Horizon disaster, we all own it forever.
And right now, right here in Grand Isle and all along the Gulf Coast, there are really only 3 things that matter: stopping the oil from flowing, protecting the coast and the ocean from the millions of gallons of oil that are already spilled, and making sure that this never, ever happens again.
You can diagnose whether we have a functioning media in this country by whether or not the country understands that this is a vile environmental mega-disaster. You can diagnose whether we have a functioning political system in this country by whether or not the results of this mega-disaster is change.
Big oil has been too rich to care about what it was putting us all at risk for. And we've been too cowardly to change direction and break free from them. If that changes because of our national disgust at this disaster, then America's political system in 2010 works. If it doesn't change, then it doesn't work. "
( I Want My Earth Back , Chris Durang, Posted: June 4, 2010 01:37 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/i-want-my-earth-back_b_600859.html )



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http://www.ehon-house.co.jp/ 　 　　 This is an excellent resource for foreign residents of Japan who wish to understand the background and significance of the tradition they observe being e...

miwakokuroJapan's annual events







http://www.ehon-house.co.jp/


　
　　 This is an excellent resource for foreign residents of Japan who wish to understand the background and significance of the tradition they observe being enjoyed throughout the year.

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Damian Aspinall's Amazing Gorilla Reunion (VIDEO) First Posted: 05-14-10 02:37 PM This just might be the most beautiful thing you've ever seen ... well, at least since Christian the Lion. The Aspinall Foundation is a charity that...

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Damian Aspinall's Amazing Gorilla Reunion (VIDEO)
First Posted: 05-14-10 02:37 PM

This just might be the most beautiful thing you've ever seen ... well, at least since Christian the Lion.
The Aspinall Foundation is a charity that promotes wildlife conservation and reintroduces captive gorillas back into the wild in West Africa. Five years ago, conservationist Damian Aspinall released a gorilla, Kwibi, into the jungles of Gabon.
Aspinall returned recently to reunite with a now ten-year-old Kwibi.
How did the reunion go? Words fail me.

( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/14/damian-aspinalls-amazing-_n_576759.html )
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Mr.Chalmers Johnson (Former CIA Advisor. Director, the Japan Policy Research Institute) contribute to the Diamond Online (Japanese) ,May 7,2010, about the following statement to Japanese people. " For the U.S. military, no need the alterna...

miwakokuroUS-Japan relationship
Mr.Chalmers Johnson (Former CIA Advisor. Director, the Japan Policy Research Institute) contribute to the Diamond Online (Japanese) ,May 7,2010, about the following statement
to Japanese people.

" For the U.S. military, no need the alternative facilities ! Japanese people should unite themselves against the US government to close down the Futenma without any conditions ! ",
( http://web.diamond.jp/rd/m690867 )

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Japanese major mass media, in general, severely criticized about Hatoyama Prime Minister's position and seem to support to the US government 's policy, while Okinawa citizen's do not want to continue to be victims under the US-Japan Security Agreement.

In the past, the former ruling party, LDP, had spent large
amount tax to pay to Okinawa and US Military base and forced
to close down the Okinawa people's real voices.
Thefore, Okinawa people had the strong expectation to Hatoyama new Administration.
In Japan, it seems that "democracy has just started !".

Thank you very much for Mr.Chalmers Johnson !

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　　May 6, 2010, The Los Angeles Times、By Chalmers Johnson

　 ” Another battle of Okinawa
ー Despite protests, the U.S. insists on going ahead with plans for a new military base on the island.ー
　　
　　”The United States is on the verge of permanently damaging its alliance with Japan in a dispute over a military base in Okinawa. This island prefecture hosts three-quarters of all U.S. military facilities in Japan. Washington wants to build one more base there, in an ecologically sensitive area. The Okinawans vehemently oppose it, and tens of thousands gathered last month to protest the base. Tokyo is caught in the middle, and it looks as if Japan's prime minister has just caved in to the U.S. demands.
　　In the globe-girdling array of overseas military bases that the United States has acquired since World War II ― more than 700 in 130 countries ― few have a sadder history than those we planted in Okinawa.

　In 1945, Japan was of course a defeated enemy and therefore given no say in where and how these bases would be distributed. On the main islands of Japan, we simply took over their military bases. But Okinawa was an independent kingdom until Japan annexed it in 1879, and the Japanese continue to regard it somewhat as the U.S. does Puerto Rico. The island was devastated in the last major battle in the Pacific, and the U.S. simply bulldozed the land it wanted, expropriated villagers or forcibly relocated them to Bolivia.
　　From 1950 to 1953, the American bases in Okinawa were used to fight the Korean War, and from the 1960s until 1973, they were used during the Vietnam War. Not only did they serve as supply depots and airfields, but the bases were where soldiers went for rest and recreation, creating a subculture of bars, prostitutes and racism. Around several bases fights between black and white American soldiers were so frequent and deadly that separate areas were developed to cater to the two groups.
The U.S. occupation of Japan ended with the peace treaty of 1952, but Okinawa remained a U.S. military colony until 1972. For 20 years, Okinawans were essentially stateless people, not entitled to either Japanese or U.S. passports or civil rights. Even after Japan regained sovereignty over Okinawa, the American military retained control over what occurs on its numerous bases and over Okinawan airspace.
Since 1972, the Japanese government and the American military have colluded in denying Okinawans much say over their future, but this has been slowly changing. In 1995, for example, there were huge demonstrations against the bases after two Marines and a sailor were charged with abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl. In 1996, the U.S. agreed that it would be willing to give back Futenma, which is entirely surrounded by the town of Ginowan, but only if the Japanese would build another base to replace it elsewhere on the island.
　　So was born the Nago option in 1996 (not formalized until 2006, in a U.S.-Japan agreement). Nago is a small fishing village in the northeastern part of Okinawa's main island and the site of a coral reef that is home to the dugong, an endangered marine mammal similar to Florida's manatee. In order to build a large U.S. Marine base there, a runway would have to be constructed on either pilings or landfill, killing the coral reef. Environmentalists have been protesting ever since, and in early 2010, Nago elected a mayor who ran on a platform of resisting any American base in his town.
　　Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister who came to power in 2009, won partly on a platform that he would ask the United States to relinquish the Futenma Marine Corps Air Station and move its Marines entirely off the island. But on Tuesday, he visited Okinawa, bowed deeply and essentially asked its residents to suck it up.
I find Hatoyama's behavior craven and despicable, but I deplore even more the U.S. government's arrogance in forcing the Japanese to this deeply humiliating impasse. The U.S. has become obsessed with maintaining our empire of military bases, which we cannot afford and which an increasing number of so-called host countries no longer want. I would strongly suggest that the United States climb off its high horse, move the Futenma Marines back to a base in the United States (such as Camp Pendleton, near where I live) and thank the Okinawans for their 65 years of forbearance.　”
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　Chalmers Johnson is the author of several books, including "Blowback" and the forthcoming "Dismantling the Empire: America's Last, Best Hope."
　　　Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times

（ http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-20100506,0,4706050）
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" 70% of Okinawans Say No to Futenma Move to Henoko" Okinawashimpo, Nov.11,2009 " A poll conducted by The Ryukyu Shimpo and The Mainichi Shinbun on Oct.30 and Nov.1 found that 69.7% of Okinawa residents believe the Hatoyama adm...

miwakokuroUS-Japan relationship " 70% of Okinawans Say No to Futenma Move to Henoko"
Okinawashimpo, Nov.11,2009
" A poll conducted by The Ryukyu Shimpo and The Mainichi Shinbun on Oct.30 and Nov.1 found that 69.7% of Okinawa residents believe the Hatoyama administration, which is currently reconsidering its policy towards the reallignment of US forces in Japan, should renegotiate with U.S. about moving the Futenma U.S. Marine Air Base out of the prefecture or the country.

The poll also shows that 67% of respondents are against the relocation plan of the Futenma base within Okinawa, the plan which currently involves moving the base from the central part of Okinawa to Camp Schwab in Henoko, Nago city, in northern part.

The poll also found more than 50 % want to reconsider the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. 42% believe that the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty should be turned into a peace and friendship treaty. Only 16.7% believe in maintaining the present arrangement, and 15.5% think it should be changed into a multilateral treaty,while 10.5% would like to abandon the treaty altogether. "



　　 What do you think about the relocation of the Futenma to Henoko?









What should PM Hatoyama do about the Futenma relocation issue?





What should be the future of U.S.-Japan Security Treaty?
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　 On May 3, we,who have worked for well-beings of all human beings' and the diverses of "life", would like to deeply appreciate the existence of the article 9 , the Constitution of Japan. 　 " ASDF dispatch said unconstit...

miwakokurothe article 9 , the Constitution of Japan 　 On May 3, we,who have worked for well-beings of all human beings' and the diverses of "life", would like to deeply appreciate the existence of the article 9 , the Constitution of Japan.

　





" ASDF dispatch said unconstitutional "
04/18/2008 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN /IHT
　　　NAGOYA--In an unprecedented ruling, the high court here Thursday said Japan's dispatch of Air Self-Defense Force personnel to Iraq was unconstitutional.
　　　Plaintiffs hug each other and hoist banners in front of the Nagoya High Court as they celebrate Thursday's ruling that found the dispatch of Air Self-Defense Forces troops to Iraq violated the Constitution. (THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)
However, Thursday's ruling on the SDF mission to Iraq will not lead to the immediate withdrawal of SDF troops, analysts said.
　　　In addition, the Nagoya High Court sided with an April 2006 Nagoya District Court rejection of claims for an injunction against the SDF dispatch and demands for compensation for what plaintiffs called a violation of their right to a peaceful existence. There were 1,122 plaintiffs in the appeal before the Nagoya High Court.
　　　After the ruling, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told reporters, "The conclusion of the verdict is that the central government has won the case. I believe there are no problems. I have no intention of doing anything special in response."
　　　The plaintiffs said they would not appeal.
　　　Thursday's verdict was written by Presiding Judge Kunio Aoyama, but was read in court by Judge Kenichi Takada because Aoyama has retired from the bench.
Looking at the current situation, the verdict said, "The fighting in Iraq is an extension of the attack of Iraq that began in March 2003. It is an international conflict between a multinational force and armed elements (in Iraq)." In over four years, about 3,000 ASDF members were dispatched in 15 separate deployments.
　　　The ruling also recognized Baghdad as a "combat zone" as defined under the Iraq special measures law because it is "a region where acts are being committed to kill and maim people and destroy property as part of an international armed conflict."
　　　Referring to ASDF's duties, the ruling said, "In modern warfare, supply activities, such as transport, are an important part of combat activities."
　　　Thus, "ASDF airlifts of armed soldiers in the multinational force to the Baghdad combat zone were acts that could be identified as being involved in the use of force by other nations, and (the ASDF) could be said to have conducted use-of-force actions itself," the ruling said.
The high court concluded that some ASDF duties had "violated provisions of the Iraq special measures law prohibiting the use of force and Article 9 of the Constitution."
　　　While the high court ruled the plaintiffs could seek compensation for violation of the right to a peaceful existence, it also ruled that the ASDF dispatch did not represent a situation in which "the lives and freedom of the plaintiffs were actually being violated." The high court thus rejected claims for compensation.
　　While lawsuits were filed in 10 other district courts seeking injunctions and compensation, no court had yet sided with the plaintiffs. Moreover, no court until now has ever touched the constitutionality issue.
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(IHT/Asahi: April 18,2008)


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　　　The　Constitution　of Japan

　　We, the Japanese people,acting our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall　secure for ourselves and our posterity the fruits of peaceful cooperation with all nations and the blessings of liberty throughout this land,and resolved that never again shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of government, do proclaim that sovereign power resides with the　people and do firmly establish this Consititution. Government is a sacred trust of the people, the authority for which is derived from the people, the powers of which are exercised by the representatives of the people, and the　benefits of which are enjoyed by people. This is an universal principle of mankind upon which this Constitution　is founded. We reject and revoke all constitutions, laws, ordinances,and rescripts in conflict herewith.
　　We,the Japanese people,desire peace for all time and are
deeply conscious of the high ideals controlling human relationship, and we have determined to preserve our security and existence, trusting in the justice and faith of the peace-loving peoples of the world. We desire to occupy an honored place in an international society striving for the preservation of peace, and the banishment of tyranny and
slavery, oppression and intolerance for all time from the earth. We recognize that all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want.
　　We believe that no nation is responsible to itself alone,but thatlaws of political morality are universal, and that obedience to such laws is incumbent upon all nations who would sustain their own sovereignty and justify their sovereign relationship with other nations.
　　We, the Japanese people, pledge our national honor to accomplish these high ideals and purposes with all our resources.

　Chapter 1 The Emperor
　Article　1 The Emperor shall be the symbol of the State and of unity of the people,deriving his position from the will of people with whom resides sovereign power.

　　Article 2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Chapter 2 Renunciation of War
　Artice 9 Aspiring sincerely to an international peace base on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means ofsettling international disputes.
　 In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph,land,sea,and air forces,as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of bellingerency of the state will not be recognized.

　Article　99
　　The　Emperor or the Regent as well as Ministry of State, members of the Diet, Judges, and all other public officials have the obligation to respect and uphold the　Constitution.


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