The strategy for dealing with China’s rise as a military power, however, should not be focused on taking an antagonistic stance toward China, which would only heighten tensions in the region.
It would be in Japan’s best interest to make steady efforts for effective neighboring diplomacy to promote regional stability under a strategy not heavily tilted toward military responses while pursuing a good balance between the security treaty and the restrictions imposed by Article 9.
From this point of view, it is highly significant for Japan to stick to its traditional exclusively defensive security policy under Article 9 and seek solid cooperation with the United States based on an appropriate, if asymmetrical, division of roles.
TO MAKE THE SECURITY TREATY A VALUABLE PUBLIC ASSET
Simply responding to U.S. demands should not be the inviolable principle that dictates Japan’s diplomacy.This is an era that poses new sticky diplomatic challenges to Japan. Tokyo needs to think thoroughly to clearly define the boundary of security roles it can perform while keeping its security policy firmly anchored by the security alliance with the United States.
If Trump is moving in the wrong direction, Japan needs to say so directly to him and try to persuade him to change his mind.
The Trump administration is urging Japan to join a multinational military coalition it is assembling to safeguard shipping lanes in the Middle East in the wake of recent attacks on tankers in the region.
It has also been reported that the U.S. government has demanded that Japan pay several times more than it does now to shoulder a greater portion of the costs of maintaining U.S. forces in Japan.
We strongly call on the Abe administration to guard itself against the possibility of making misguided policy decisions because of its tendency to put a priority on keeping its security alliance with the United States intact.
The Trump administration has taken a series of actions that run counter to maintaining the international order and raise international tensions, most notably withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord.
The fact is that the United States has stopped acting as “the policeman of the world” and started acting as a disruptive force for the world.
Instead of allowing itself to be twisted around Trump’s little finger, the Japanese government should take a first step toward setting its diplomatic agenda on its own to ensure that the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty will function as a public asset for the international community.
Hiroshima Marks the 74th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing
By Mari Yamaguchi / AP
10:58 PM EDT
(TOKYO) — Hiroshima marked the 74rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city with its mayor renewing calls for eliminating such weapons and demanding Japan’s government do more.
Mayor Kazumi Matsui raised concerns in his peace address Tuesday about the rise of self-centered politics in the world and urged leaders to steadily work toward achieving a world without atomic weapons.
“Around the world today, we see self-centered nationalism in ascendance, tensions heightened by international exclusivity and rivalry, with nuclear disarmament at a standstill,” Matsui said in his peace declaration.
He urged the younger generations never to dismiss the atomic bombings and the war as a mere events of history, but think of them as their own, while calling on the world leaders to come visit the nuclear bombed cities to learn what happened.
Matsui also demanded Japan’s government represent the wills of atomic bombing survivors and sign a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty.
Japan, which hosts 50,000 American troops and is protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, has not signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, an inaction atomic bombing survivors and pacifist groups protest as insincere.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged widening differences between nuclear and non-nuclear states.
“Japan is committed to serve as a bridge between nuclear and non-nuclear states and lead the international effort, while patiently trying to convince them to cooperate and have a dialogue,” Abe said in his address at the ceremony. He vowed to maintain Japan’s pacifist and nuclear nuclear-free principles, but did not promise signing the treaty.
Survivors, their relatives and other participants marked the 8:15 a.m. blast with a minute of silence.
The Hiroshima anniversary ceremony came hours after North Korea launched suspected ballistic missiles in its fourth round of recent weapons demonstrations. The activity follows a stalemate in negotiations over its nuclear weapons.
The U.S. attack on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people. The bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed another 70,000 before Japan’s surrender ended World War II.
A tribute to Old Cathay Pacific Airways & Kai-Tak Airport British Hong-Kong. A Beautiful Tune & My Imaginable Story on YouTube videos. Thank you for your watching & Enjoy my edit.video.
Writer(s): Barry White, Aaron Schroeder
Co-arrangement: Gene Page
Producer: Barry White
Label: 20th Century / Pye International
Released: 1973
IN A STUDENT AREA OF Tokyo called Takadanobaba, behind a peculiar sculpture showing a nude Marilyn Monroe about to pounce on a sumo wrestler, lies the office of Kunio Suzuki, leader of a ''spiritual movement'' called the Issuikai.
The group produces a monthly paper called Reconquista, which aims to reconquer what Suzuki thinks has been lost: the pure Japanese spirit. On the wall of Suzuki's tiny office hang pictures of Emperor Hirohito in uniform, snapped sometime during the 1930's, and of Yukio Mishima, the ultranationalist writer who committed seppuku, a form of ritual suicide, in 1970.
Suzuki is a quiet man in his early 40's, casually dressed, more like a research fellow than a right-wing activist. He receives many fan letters from young women, who profess to admire his romantic spirit.
He explained that ''because of biased textbooks'' many people of his generation felt guilty about the Japanese role in World War II, ''and people who did better than I did at school all joined the left-wing student movement.'' He concluded that there was something wrong with Japanese education. He also worries about the spiritual state of most Japanese, ''who spend their time reading comics and watching TV,'' but he conceded they were probably quite content. A young member of the group, who had been engrossed in a book on terrorism, suddenly broke his silence to exclaim that it was all America's doing: ''They want us to be weak. That is why they rigged our education system. To stop Japan from being a major power.''
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのときこそ、平和が諸々の惑星を導くことだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまは水瓶座の時代の夜明けのとき
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代だ
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス! アクエリアスだ!
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
Golden living dreams of visions
ヴィジョンに溢れた光り輝く生の夢
Mystic crystal revelation
神秘的な透徹とした黙示
And the mind's true liberation
そして心の真の解放
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス! 水瓶座!
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまや水瓶座の時代が明けようとしているのだ
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス! アクエリアスだ!
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
Let the sunshine,
太陽の輝きを
Let the sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
The Sunshine in
太陽の光が差してくるぞ
january 7, 2018 ~ today ~ according to astrology ~ marks the rare astrological alignment of jupiter and mars along with the moon being in the 7th house (virgo). given the schuman spikes that suddenly began last year (early 2016) as well as many of us feeling the flash pulse entering from the galactic central sun between end of january and early march as well as humanity's ongoing awakening (hitting the 100th monkey at this point) ~ i would say we ARE entering THE age of aquarius. let's make it so people. we are ready, aren't we?
When this song debuted I was a screaming 17 years old. It was a great song for our generation. Fast forward to about 1982 and my daughter is 5 years old and we hear this song together and she turns to me and says "dad is this the hippie song" from your childhood. Every since that day the "hippie song" brings a smile to our faces. It was a generation of music that still rings so true today. There was political division in the 60's what with Vietnam raging. How tame we were compared to today. I am so glad I have all these wonderful songs to take me back to a better time in our country's history. Long live the "hippie song"!!
Art Garfunkel's clear, soft, beautiful voice is sweet and his singing is perfect; thank you, Art Garfunkel.. and thank you also amazing Paul Simon.. I love you guys.
8943:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:03:52
今日の音楽The 5th Dimension Age of Aquarius 1969
[www.youtube.com]
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
(行省略)
8944:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:05:06
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
(行省略)
8945:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:05:53
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろ
(文字略)
8946:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:06:30
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
(行省略)
8947:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:16:42
コメント欄より
(AA略)
8948:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:20:53
今日の音楽
(AA略)
8949:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:24:52
今日の音楽2
My Sweet Lord - Concert Tribute to George Harrison
[www.youtube.com]
liveatvictoria1 年前
(行省略)
8950:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:30:09
今日の音楽2
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord - Lyrics
[www.youtube.com]
I remember the story of my life...have to much fight.. so sad but now i can handle all with God..He makes me stand strong...thanks paul the real music tallent ever
I am just a poor boy
Though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers In the quiet of a railway station
Running scared Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know
Asking only workman’s wages I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
Now the years are rolling by me
They are rocking even me
I am older than I once was
And younger than I’ll be
But that’s not unusual
No, it isn’t strange
After changes upon changes
We are more or less the same
After changes we are More or less the same
今や歳月は僕までも押し退けて僕の傍らを流れている
僕は昔より狡くなった
僕は理想とする僕より未熟だ
しかし、それは当たり前の話だ
そう、それは不思議な事ではなく
困難に従い、困難を支えとしたところで、僕達は多かれ少なかれ変わらない
苦しみが去っても、僕達は多かれ少なかれ変わらない
Then I’m laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me
Leading me
Going home
又僕は冬の衣類を取り出している
それでもいなくなりたい、故郷に帰りたい
かと言って、ニューヨークシティの幾星霜が、僕に血の出るような思いをさせたわけではない
僕をその気にさせるが
故郷に帰りたい
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the remainders Of every glove that laid him down
And cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving”
But the fighter still remains
Lie-la-lie . . .
晴れ晴れとしてボクサーは立ち上がる
そう彼の商売はボクサー
彼は彼をダウンさせ、怒りと羞恥心で大声を上げるまで彼の感情を傷付けたグラヴを一つ残らず記念として持ち歩く
「僕は捨てたい、僕は捨てたい」
いや、闘士は猶も留まる
We find our individual freedom, by choosing not a destination but a direcion. You do not choose the transformative journey because you know where it will take you but because it is the only journey that makes sense.
8958:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:10:26
Then I’m laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me
Leading me
Going home
(行省略)
8959:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:11:07
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
(AA略)
Paul Simon - The Boxer (Live From Paris)
[www.youtube.com]
Ketut Pramana1
(行省略)
8954:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 18:58:05
I am just a poor boy
Though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
(行省略)
8955:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 18:59:41
(AA略)
8956:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:01:15
Asking only workman’s wages I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
(AA略)
8957:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:09:43
Now the years are rolling by me
They are rocking even me
I am older than I once was
And younger than I’ll be
But that’s not unusual
No, it isn’t strange
(行省略)
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのときこそ、平和が諸々の惑星を導くことだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまは水瓶座の時代の夜明けのとき
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代だ
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス! アクエリアスだ!
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
Golden living dreams of visions
ヴィジョンに溢れた光り輝く生の夢
Mystic crystal revelation
神秘的な透徹とした黙示
And the mind's true liberation
そして心の真の解放
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス! 水瓶座!
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまや水瓶座の時代が明けようとしているのだ
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス! アクエリアスだ!
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
Let the sunshine,
太陽の輝きを
Let the sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
The Sunshine in
太陽の光が差してくるぞ
8968:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:45:38
今日の音楽
The 5th Dimension Age of Aquarius 1969
[www.youtube.com]
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
(行省略)
8969:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:46:22
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
(行省略)
8970:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:46:59
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第7宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろ
(文字略)
8971:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:47:37
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
(行省略)