Park Geun-hye (President Park) used for anti-Japanese

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I think the following sentences are insufficient in English translation, but I am writing my thoughts in English.

It seems that some intellectuals, the media, etc, who started wobbling by the country, use anti-day, instigating many Korean people, the president who is also a nominee at the same time is excluded.

In Japan, Park Geun-hye (President Park) is a lot of articles with anti-Japanese, but I think that it is antispy acting (acting based on my will and judgment).

Park Geun-hye I think that the presidential issue is not only a problem within Korea but also a problem that implies the future of Japan.

Korea that is also the nearest neighbor country for Japan, a period from the end of the war, a victorious country, some intellectuals, the mass media, etc. have instigated many Koreans to anti-Japanese, making them funny.

After that, I think that this anti-Japanese became like national policy. As a result, I think that only conflict has been made in both countries.

It is truly unfortunate for young people who are burdened by the future of Korea.

If you read books from neighboring countries, there are many excellent people who are fit for the leaders of Korea, but unfortunately it seems that it is much more difficult for these people to appear in Korean politics.

 

After the war, unless it was anti-Japanese like Taiwan, the two countries talked with real intention, fostering mutual trust was fostered, and it would have been one of the developed countries of the world that economically competes hard.

In the case of Taiwan, it seems that it is exhausted to the fact that victorious countries, some intellectuals, mass media, etc from the postwar erupted to Taiwanese people to anti-Japanese and did not make it funny.

Recent Park Kun-ee (presidential issue) handed over Cheong Wa Dae's internal materials to Mr. Choi Seung-soil (arrested) for many years pointed out the possibility of violating the law on document management, It is said that alleged suspicion that people were deeply involved.

 The following sentences refer to NHK · BS World Watching (2016.10.31) etc.

Korean private broadcaster · JTBC TV is said to have obtained a tablet terminal using Mr. Choi · Suncil on October 24, but it is unknown how to obtain it. The tablet says that a lot of internal materials of Cheong Wa Dae were preserved.

Mr. Choi Seung-soil is said to have been a longtime consultant and reliable friend of Park Geun-ee (president). Personally it becomes a complex mind when considering this problem.

When doing a project to reevaluate the achievement of the late father (the pro-Japanese, Park Ji-hee · former president), the Saemaul Movement (Korea's regional development movement modeled on the rural promotion movement promoted by the Governor General of Korea during the Japanese occupation era Semaul is the meaning of a new village.) It is said that the companion who led a great deal of help.

Mr. Choi Seung-soil, also a leader of the Saemaul movement, is said to be a pro-Japanese day. It is said that Park Geun-hyeong was accompanied by hardships after his father's murder, and was also an advisor.

 

Park Geun-hoo, Ministers at the time of President's inauguration, etc. It is said that 7 to 9 persons were appointed on the parents' day as well, but since everything has been driven out of anti-Japanese forces, I think that the nation's management has been a tough start.

These facts have never been reported in Japan ... It seems that there is a good possibility that Mr. and Mr. Mr. and Mr. Both of these problems have become a good target for anti-Japanese in this issue.

Among the tablets are a draft of the President's speech, a high-ranking personnel affair, a response procedure when talking with the special envoy of Japan's Prime Minister Abe, documents mentioned about secret contact with the former Lee Myung-bak administration and North Korea, It is said that important contents were included, but I can not say anything about their credibility.

 Now President Park Geun-hye has become more powerful.

I agree with expelling the president, I am broken, but the pro-agency seems to be extremely small to be reported.

I think that there is no country where any country perfectly manages the state affairs.

I think that there are many countries that have many problems still not wanted to be known to other countries, Korea seems to have a lot of passionate mass media reports that strike a corner of a box, especially.

 To say that there are South Korea, the nearest neighbor country, Japan President etc, born trust, measures are easy to carry out, and consequently I think that the national interests born in both countries are immeasurable. I think the presidential issue is also a problem that the future of both countries is hanging.

 

This issue may be rooted in Korea, Confucian heart may have a big influence.

From our Japanese, why such corruption continues, such as Korean law violations etc?

Of course, there are many people who commit a law violation in Japan. I think that it is fundamentally the fact that it is a Confucian country.

 As Korea seems to Tokugawa principle (a value that virtue rule over the world), virtue may prevail over law and the legal spirit may become thinner.

This difference in religious views may lead to injustices such as interests, bribery, law breach and so on.

Above all, priority is given to anything, if it is asked, I can not refuse. If Japan were a similar Confucian nation, I think there is a high possibility that various problems of similar fraud would occur.

 

 We think that it is necessary to know a little about what Confucianism is.

The Korean dynasty (Mr. Lee) who dominated the Korean Peninsula from about the 14th century put Confucianism into the political philosophy from the previous Buddhism.

I am trying to rule the country with the order of the hierarchical relationship centered on the paternal society. Such ideas are said to have penetrated in the Korean Peninsula before the reunion of the Republic of Korea in 1910, and it is said that the present remains remarkable.

Especially, it is said that attitude towards older people is thorough.

Even with a slight difference of age, basically a younger person uses a polite word to a person older than an older person, and the other person makes a pamela (a mouth, an equal wording) for a wording It is said that Korean courtesy continues polite language, unless otherwise told.

 It is not unusual to listen to the age of the person who is meeting for the first time, and it seems that the hierarchical relationship is determined by the age difference.

The following text refers to the article of Spin The Earth.
Give the seat to the elderly by train or bus.
Since the elders started to eat chopsticks in hand.
Do not blow your nose in front of a superior person.
Do not smoke in front of elders.
Attentive attitude toward parents etc.
* In the liquor seat

Do not drink liquorly while facing the front of the person.

Direction to face a little so that it hides the mouth. When you ask a superior person to drink alcohol, be sure to accept while holding a cup with both hands, drink it at once and return it to those who pour down.

When I try to pour into the still remaining glasses, I will have them pour out after drinking at a stretch.

* When you talk
It is cocky to keep looking at the eyes of the elders cheeky, obedient attitude to hear the story of the other person with a little downside
* Acceptance of objects
For superiors receive with both hands. Hand it with both hands. Even with deliberate delivery of goods, you always use both hands for older people.
Divided culture seems not to be general. There seems to be a culture still feeling bitterly that each person cleanses his / her own in front of the register at the time of billing. Young people seem to have a tendency to like split bills.
Basically the couple is men, the elders pay for the group, but tea will pay if you eat meals, since there was last time bought me delicious manners such as to treat this time are present

*Greeting
Handshake instead of a greeting is handshaking hands with both hands even if it is the first time you are a younger person, handshaking hands on the left hand with the right hand elbow or right hand side shake hands with the opponent, if the opponent is superior, Do not put out before hands. When pouring sake etc. or getting it pouring, be sure to either hold a cup or a bottle with both hands, or hit one hand around the right chest.

 Conspicuous spirit seems to live for a polite attitude especially to older people.
Can you refuse various injustices? Reality is the power of Confucianism in Korea beyond the law? Maybe.

 

Park Geun-hye (Park Kune) - the day leading to the president at the base of the president

My father, President Park Ji-hee, was a poverty that I could not have brought to school even when I was young but endeavored, I fought hard and graduated at the Japanese military academy school and graduated at the chief.

Life is said to be frugal, it is said that I disliked the affair the most, and people around the world are highly appreciated. In 1999 Time magazine, among 20 people as the most influential person in this century Asia.

President Park Ji-soon's bilateral policy brought immense national interest and national interests to South Korea after that.

People shouting anti-day think that they are crying anti-Japanese on this benefit.

The Korean press seems to overlap the father, Park Jung-hee former president now, President Park Geun-hye if it is a nominee, and trying to overtake it from the seat of the administration by using anti-Japan.

I think that this issue should be handled under the Korean law, and even if we take the president off from the seat of the administration with passionate argument, the question remains how much Korea's national interests are.

Although the Korean press has criticized the president just because we have concluded a comprehensive protection agreement of Japan and Korea military information recently, this agreement should also be the national interest of South Korea. I think that the two countries that are also nearest neighbors should cooperate with each other.

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We, Japanese people should face the reality that opposition parties and presidential candidates who like to write the following articles are in the South Korea.

Seems to have decided to die for the father's mother country Japan, Mayor Seongnam strongly criticized

The Korea-Japan Military Information Comprehensive Protection Agreement is a site of sales
The first step in the handling of the salesman is only withdrawal and impeachment

On November 23, Korea and Japan signed a military secret information protection agreement for direct sharing of military information, and in the midst of a severe condemnation storm, the opposition party presidential candidate Seongnam City (Gyeonggi Province, Gyeonggi Province, Korea Mayor Lee Jae-mye of Mayor of the city of Seoul, a satellite city in the south of Seoul City, designated as a specific city to which a special case applies, based on Article 175 of the Local Autonomy Act of the Republic of Korea, with a population of 1 million people) strongly criticized as a site of sales.

The mayor is unlucky to witness the site of the selling country through his facebook this afternoon.

From the military point of view, Japan is still a hostile nation, and when Japan becomes a military powerhouse it is clear that the place to be attacked first is the Korean Peninsula. But it is a military agreement that approves the Japanese army ... and tells a miserable feeling.

Regarding the fact that President Park Geun-hye (Park Kune) has forced the conclusion of this agreement despite the request for citizens' retirement and the impeachment process of the Diet, apparently Park Geun-ee is in his father's motherland It seems that he decided to die for a certain Japanese. I also asked the salesman who was prepared to die whether it was correct or not.

In the special lecture of the department of international relations at Hanzhong University on this day, the meaning of this agreement is that the Japanese army will take a first step on the Korean Peninsula. The government has signed an agreement despite all public opposition. Japan condemned that it was wrong to conclude the agreement though Japan did not repent or apologize for past invasion.

The mayor also said that in connection with Park Geun-hye Choi Seung-si gates, "I believe (president Park Geun-hye responds to the investigation of the prosecution at the outset) believes that it can cover (substance) by the prosecution appointed by him It seems that it seems to be because of prosecution (but prosecution) presenting up to the recording as evidence, it is said that now it can not receive the investigation of the prosecution by cutting off the battle.In order to fight back against President Park prosecuted for prosecution investigation, I'm making money on time. "

Furthermore, the mayor is not currently restoring the democratic republic of Korea, it is in the process of making a democratic republic.

A dominant group with so-called vested interests, where 1% dominates the country, sees the people as dominated targets, not masters (of the state).
I lamented that the lives of the majority of the people were devastated in the absence of opportunities and resources, competition was very unfair.

 

Look East Policy - The Challenges for Japan in a Globalized World

It is a sentence to want many people to read.

H.E. Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia

would like to thank the organizers for inviting me to speak at this 20th Anniversary of the Look East Policy. I have chosen to speak on "Look East Policy - The Challenges for Japan in a Globalized World."

The people of East-Asia had been Looking East long before Malaysia adopted the Look East Policy. When Japan started modernizing during the Meiji Restoration, East Asians who were then faced with aggressive European and American free traders to open their countries for trade, looked at Japan's handling of this problem.

The assumption by China that its culture was superior and the foreigners were barbarians could not be sustained in the face of Western successes in forcing open the country. Elsewhere in the East the Europeans simply occupied the counties in order to gain access to their products. By the middle of the 19th century only Thailand and Japan remained free. China had many ports converted as European trading stations.

Japan was able to ward off European and American hegemony by adopting the administrative systems and the commercialization of the economy. Large numbers of Japanese were sent to Europe in order to acquire industrial technology. Very quickly Japan became as much as industrial and commercial power as the Europeans. Any idea that the Europeans had of colonizing or dominating Japan was shattered when in 1905 a modern Japanese Navy defeated the Russians decisively. From then on, Japan was looked up to by East Asians.

Attempts were made by East Asians to emulate Japan's modernization. Siam, now Thailand being independent followed in Japan's footsteps. Looking East is therefore not a new thing. The people of East Asia had been Looking East at Japan even when they looked up to the West. Japan's success in modernizing gave them hope. They believed they could become as good as Japan.

The success of the Japanese Army in the early days of the Pacific war finally broke the spell cast by the Europeans regarding their invincibility. East Asians were able to see that their European overlords could be defeated. Their yearning for independence gained strength.

True, Japan was eventually defeated by superior Western arms, including the atom bomb. But the post-war years saw yet another demonstration of Japan's capability. From almost total destruction, Japan rose to become the second most powerful economy in the world.

East Asians cannot help but look more and more eastward, at Japan, as a model for their countries. Malaysia is perhaps less bashful and announced loudly that it intended to look East, to look at Japan mainly for inspiration and guidance.

Malaysia identified what we believed to be the factors which contributed towards Japan's success. They are the patriotism, discipline, good work ethics, competent management system and above all the close cooperation between the Government and the private sector. And so we tried to adopt these practices and instill these cultures in our people. And everyone now acknowledges that Malaysia has made better progress than most other developing countries. The fastest pace of Malaysia's progress and development took place in the last two decades coinciding with Malaysia's Look East policy.

For a country with a population of just over 20 million, Malaysia's position as the 18th biggest trading nation in the world is something that Malaysians are proud of. More than most countries Malaysia is dependent on foreign trade. Malaysia's trade is almost two times as big as its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Japan, which is a very big trader, has a trade that is less than 30 percent of its GDP.

The extent to which Malaysia is trade dependent is dangerous. We are very open. Foreign goods enter Malaysia freely although some discriminatory import duties are imposed to protect local products. Malaysia, like Japan, believes in trade as a basis for growth. We are more open than Japan though.

Until 1997 we were comfortable with the status quo. We were in complete control of our economy and we could formulate tax policies and incentives for investments to benefit from capital flows from outside, while maintaining the competitiveness of the commodities and products we produce. We saw no necessity for a change in our system. Even the economic disparities between the different races in Malaysia were being tackled effectively through our own affirmative action program.

Free trade had always been the way cry of the Europeans. In the 19th century they used threats and force of arms to open up the countries of East Asia for trade. They objected strongly when they were not allowed to use opium to pay for the goods of Asian countries. They set up fortified trading stations in many of the countries of East Asia. With superior arms they began to infiltrate the hinterlands to secure their supply of local products. In the end they occupied and colonized many of the counties they were trading with.

Japan had its share. The black ships forced Japan to abandon its isolationist policy. The Portuguese established their trading stations in Nagasaki and forthwith began converting the Japanese to Christianity.

All these were done in the name of free trade. How it could be called free trade when force of arms were used and partner countries were occupied and colonized is difficult to understand. But today we are again assailed by the same demand for free trade.

Some countries are subjected to sanctions, i.e. they were not allowed to trade freely unless they accept the terms and conditions proposed for them. If they have to accept then can it be said that their trade is free? Trade under terms imposed by the traders surely cannot be free trade.

But other countries are also being subjected to all kinds of conditions if they with to trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has been set up in order to ensure rule-based trading. But more than that the administration and practice of business within the country must be made to conform to certain systems set by the powerful countries through the WTO.

Tremendous pressure is brought to bear on these countries to conform. Institutions including the media controlled by the rich and the powerful examine and investigate every aspect of a county's administration, including its politics in order to enforce conformity. These institutions publish their findings which often affect adversely the economy and politics of the countries concerned. In this way the counties are forced to conform or more correctly, to obey. Yet no matter how they try to conform they are invariably found wanting. They can do nothing right.

The gunboats have disappeared but the economic and political pressures exerted are no less threatening, no less effective. An army of occupation cannot colonize more effectively than the economic and political arm-twisting used by the Western countries.

Witness the operation of the free market in currencies. Upon allowing the currencies to be floated, the so-called free traders traded not in goods but in currencies. The currency of a county is treated as a commodity which is not only bought and sold but is speculated in. From speculation the traders graduated to manipulation, selling huge quantities of currencies in order to force down its value and then buying at the depressed prices in order to deliver to their buyers. Short selling has been taken to the ultimate level.

It is fine if they trade in physical currency. But no real currency is involved. They sell currency they do not have, huge sums of these currencies, to buyers who are members of their own circle of traders. The buyers in turn sell these fictitious currency to others. When the price of the currencies is depressed enough, they would go through the motion of buying and delivering to their earlier buyers. And they would make huge profits and become hugely rich. Their banks would be holding huge sums of their money, not physically of course, but merely in figures credited to their accounts.

The trade in currency is very many times bigger than total world trade. The profits are equally huge. This huge sums must be lent out or the banks would not be able to pay out the interests. And so we hear of huge corporations being bought and sold with unbelievable amounts of money. Still there is a lot of money sloshing around in the vaults of the banks, or so we are told. One hedge fund was able to borrow more than one trillion dollars, something no Government in the world has done. Its operation was so big that when it failed it threatened to destroy the financial standing of a very rich country and the world even.

But what is of concern to the small countries is that the free trade in currencies could destroy their economies overnight. Suddenly countries which were doing well, which were regarded as tiger economies; suddenly they became insolvent. The "international" institutions then moved in to advise and to offer to lend money to pay off foreign debts.

The advice they give would only worsen the situation. And if their money is borrowed then economic colonization by them would begin. They would determine not just how the finances of the country should be managed, but they would also insist on imposing their political creed. The money borrowed is not disbursed unless certain "reforms" are carried out. But even if the money is given it is to be used to pay debts to foreign banks. In effect the country is just changing the creditors, becoming borrowers of the international institutions instead of the foreign banks. The burden of debts remains, sometimes permanently.

In the meantime every aspect of the administration of the country is put under the control of the international institutions, which in effect means being controlled by the rich countries which control the institutions. It means colonization and nothing less. As before when gunships were used to open up countries for trade, now the international institutions are used to open up countries for the so-called "free trade".

Once the countries are opened up the big corporations and banks would move in. Will there be fair competition between the enormous foreign banks and corporations and the tiny local banks and companies? Of course not. The locals will be swallowed up, one way or another.

The Government will not be in a position to control the big foreign banks and corporations. In any case they will claim that free trade means no Government interference. They should be allowed to do anything they like in the interest of their profits. The social problems of the country are not their concern.

During the colonial days there was no concern for the social problems of the colonies. To facilitate exploitation of the wealth of the colonies, huge numbers of foreign workers from other colonies were brought in. The demography was changed. When the colonies became independent they were saddled with the problem of multi-racial and multi-religious population, whose economic development were different. Calmly and coolly the ex-colonist would condemn the newly independent countries for not being fair to the foreigners they had brought in. They easily forget that they were not fair to these people before.

The foreign corporation will do the same. They would want free entry of their employees from wherever. They would claim that the locals are incompetent or there are not enough of them. There would be other things that they would do in the interest of more profits which would ignore the problems that the countries will face, problems, when caused by their own people being unemployed or employed in lower pay jobs while foreigners lord it over them, earning handsome pay.

We are all for globalization. But globalization should not be in the interest of the rich free traders only. It should take into consideration the interest of the countries as well. It should not create social and political problems for the host country. Unfortunately at the moment the interest of the small countries are not being given due consideration by the WTO and other forum.

Japan has been having a bad time for more than a decade now. The people who are looking East are not getting any guidance from Japan. It seems that Japan is somehow unable to pull itself out of the economic quagmire that it is in.

Many people have advised Japan on what it should do. And Japan had tried many of the ways suggested without any results.

As a foreigner from a small country, it is not for me to tell Japan what it should do in order to again become a model for us. But with apologies, I would like to put in my penny worth of comments.

No one can dispute that Japan achieved a miracle when it rebuilt itself after the war. How did it do it? It did it by not being advised by other people. It did it in its own way. The only advice it accepted was to produce high quality goods, goods of world standards, so as to be accepted by the world markets. The rest was entirely Japanese.

Japan had always favored big corporations. The zaibatsu were dismantled by the victors but the broken pieces grew into new zaibatsu's. Matsushita, Toshiba, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Hitachi etc, all grew again to become huge corporations. New ones like Sony also became big.
These Japanese corporations had their own banks. Perhaps they borrowed more money than the banks had. But when the American banks lent hundreds of billions of dollars to the hedge funds like LTCM did they actually have the money. We doubt these banks have the huge sums that they lent for the acquisition of the huge corporations by other corporations. We doubt they can pay back, certainly not from the profits. To pay back they have to boost the share prices and sell them. We doubt they can pay back now with the share prices so depressed. United Airlines, Sabena, Swissair are good illustrations.
So it was not unusual for the banks to lend more money than they had for the expansion of Japanese companies. In any case the stock market was bullish and the value of the Japanese companies was high. The banks felt secure because the collaterals they held were adequate, and they were lending to companies which were worth more and more all the time because their shares were appreciating to astronomical heights. The companies were certainly better propositions than the hedge funds whose value is not known, and as we have seen can suddenly be worth nothing. The Japanese companies could have gone on expanding. But Japan decided to Westernize its business practices.

Japan has been censured for the close cooperation between the government and the corporations. Japan incorporated was regarded as some kind of cronyism involving the government and the private sector. Malaysia sees nothing wrong in the close collaboration between government and the private sector. The government should help the private sector to succeed because a large chunk of the profits made by the private sector belongs to the government. In helping the private sector the government is actually helping itself. This happens in the West also. When LTCM failed, the government moved in to bail it out. We in Malaysia believe that it is right for the government to help the private sector, not to cheat of course, but to overcome bureaucratic bottlenecks which often result in unnecessary losses by the businesses.

Japanese businesses believe in life-time employment. It is a social obligation that relieves the government and therefore the public from having to bear the burden of unemployment and old-age care. In the West the first thing that businesses do when faced with downturns is to lay-off workers. The workers then go to the government to collect unemployment benefits. In some countries the benefits are so good that workers prefer not to work. The unemployment rates in Europe and America are usually high, and this is a burden on the working public.

The Japanese have a different culture. When they are laid off they have such a feeling of shame that they refuse to go back to their families. They prefer to put up plastic huts in the cities and eke out a miserable living there. It is shameful that in a wealthy country there should be so many poor people. The Japanese corporations should go back to life-time employment.

It is said that one of the reasons for Japan not being able to recover is because the Japanese public refuses to spend money. Even when the savings earn them nothing, even if their currency would depreciate they would still not spend. I find this difficult to believe. In Malaysia we increased the GDP by paying bonus to government servants and controlling the prices, especially near festive seasons and the people flocked to shopping complexes. The Japanese people cannot be so different that they would keep their money if prices are reduced and there is a possibility that the Yen would be devalued radically.

We understand the desire of the Japanese to Westernize its system. But when systems are suddenly changed, even if it is for the better, there will be severe disruptions. It is far better to stick to the system which worked. And the Japanese system had worked very well for the Japanese. It enabled Japan to recover rapidly from the destruction wrought by the war and it made Japan the second most powerful economy in the world. It may not be the Western way but it cannot be all wrong if it can achieve so much. If you must change, then change slowly to avoid too much disruptions.

Asians are looking East at Japan. Yes we can learn from your mistake, but we would rather learn from your success. The Japanese people as a whole must wake up and appreciate that the disaster that you face now is of your own making. Just as your post-war recovery was through your own way, you can recover now by your own way.
44. Changing government every two years is not the best way of managing a recovery. It is not even the best way in managing a normal situation. A government needs time to understand the problem, to plan and to execute the plan. In two years no planning can be done, certainly the plans cannot be properly executed, the mistakes corrected and success achieved.

I am not tying to advise you. But these are critical times. Globalization needs to be handled properly. So far there is little input from the East Asian Countries. If there is, the world does not take heed. The East Asians are not working together. They need to work together and they need leadership.

And the challenge for Japan is to take on the leadership role. Japan has the size, the wealth and world class technologies. Military might is still important but today's war is more economic than military. Japan has shown how it could resurrect itself after the most devastating war ever. It was a feat that reflects the character of the Japanese people. Prosperity has no doubt sapped some of this character, but not completely.
East Asia and indeed the world need Japan, its dynamism and its single minded dedication. Today's world is in shambles. The abuses of the free trading system, the unlimited greed of a considerable number of speculators, the fumbling and incompetence in the handling of problems has resulted in the world losing its way.

We live in an age of fear, we are afraid of terrorists and being frightened, we react blindly. We try to fight terrorists as if we are fighting a conventional war. We erect barriers around us, we invent new security measures, we break our own codes of behavior, we do not respect borders, we assassinate and kidnap, we detain our enemies without trial and put them to death. We are getting more and more angry and in our anger we have become irrational. We are back in the stone age when might is right.

We need to do business. We have all these great technologies which promise to enrich the world but we are not able to exploit them. We urge our people not to travel, not to fly, not to go to this country and that country. What is the good of free trade if we cannot travel the world to do business. How long can we sustain the travel advisories? History has shown that terrorism never dies, at least not until the causes of terrorism are eliminated. The exploitation of the workers and the serfs lead to bombings and assassinations. Suppression of the colonial people resulted in terror attacks and random killings. The French, Russian revolution and the struggles for independence had more than their quota of terrorism. Only when the causes were remedied was terrorism stopped. People struggling for their rights cannot be expected to be rational, to follow the conventions of war.

The capitalist countries escaped the horrors of revolutions before because very quickly they moved to accommodate, to curb their own excesses, to grant the workers their rights.

Today, it is not a class struggle. It is nevertheless the struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors. More oppression is not going to stop the struggle. Terrorists are not representatives of countries which can be defeated and the war ended. Terrorists can be anywhere, even in our own backyard. It took but one person to hold a whole city in a state of terror. An army threatening a city can be attacked and defeated. But one man cannot be attacked in the same way. Yes, eventually he was captured. But like suicide bombers, there can be others.

The world has truly lost its way. The anger of the terrorist is there and will remain there. But we can control our anger, we can be rational. Only rationality can win us the battle against the terrorists.

Japan is not the target. It need not be filled with anger. It can help bring the world back to its senses. It can help revive the world's economy. It can do many things if it decides not to follow but to lead. This then is the challenge for Japan in a globalized world, to lead and not to be lead.