Without his financial support, Japan would have never succeeded in defeating Czarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) and so we Japanese have every reason to be always grateful to him for it and to stand with the Jewish people. I have no doubt that ingratitude to him will lead Japan to its end. As for myself, I'm so very grateful to him that I've even decided to devote the rest of my life to doing anything possible to bless the Jewish people.
Not interested at all? Are you really human? But why did she as well as millions of other people of Jewish origin have to be treated so unfairly? Simply because the Führer was a mad man? No. The mastermind behind him was Satan and a third of the world population would agree.
I got this in May 2020. Have I mastered Modern Hebrew? Unfortunately, no. But I must say I was right to have got it because I've succeeded in knowing something about the miraculous language.
I've read this through. A must-read book if you are human.
Warren E. Buffett, the world's most successful investor ever, says 'The Intelligent Investor' is 'by far the best book on investing ever written.' Why should I disagree? I got a copy of the original in November 2022 and I found myself to be an individual investor a month later.
This past April l gave this to my niece as a present. Is she reading it? God only knows.
In 2007 I read this and something great happened to me the following year. Yeah, Genesis 12:3 is always valid! So why don't you join me and do anything possible to bless the Jewish people?
In my previous blog post, I wrote that human life is only to give glory to God. According to a survey, 99% of the Japanese people don't believe in Him and therefore they would disagree with me, but so what? Yes, if they could ever disprove the existence of the Almighty, then I would probably succumb. But why should I give in when they have neither the will nor the intelligence to do so? Besides, a third of the world population are Christians and they would be quite willing to choose to stand with me and not with those defacto atheists. So even if we Christians in Japan are only about 1% of the population of the country, we don't need to belittle ourselves at all. It is also to be added that the Constitution of Japan has guaranteed freedom of religion since 1947 and even that US forces have had some bases in Japan to keep it under control. So it is safe to say that there's little or no possibility of the Christians in Japan being persecuted as they were during WWII.
But should we be content with the status quo and do nothing to change the situation? Ideally we should do our best to increase the number of the Christians in Japan, but unfortunately it has already been proved that all the efforts the Western Powers have made since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 are almost in vain, considering the fact that the Christians here are still so very few in proportion to the total population of the nation. Such being the case, I've made up my mind not to waste my time and energy casting pearls before swine. Instead, based on Genesis 12:3, I'll devote the rest of my life to cooperating to do anything possible to bless the Jewish people in Israel and anywhere else in the world. My dear fellow Christians, join me if you are interested.
Here's my list of the things I'll do to bless the Jewish people:
1. Invest in BlackRock and Goldman Sachs;
2. Read the Bible;
3. Learn Hebrew;
4. Read books by Jewish authors (Benjamin Graham, Viktor Frankl, Henry Kissinger, Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, and others);
5. Travel to the Holy Land (Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Eilat, etc.);
6. Go to Israeli restaurants in Tokyo regularly;
7. Buy Israeli wine regularly;
8. Donate some money to the Japan-Israel Friendship Association regularly;
9. Wear an Adi wristwatch imported from Israel; and
10. Donate all my money after tax to the Jewish Community of Japan after my passing.
It was in November 2020 that for the first time in my life I bought a bottle of this Chardonnay from Israel. I fell in love with it immediately. Since then I've bought more than 70 bottles of Israeli wine and I must say this white wine is still one of my all-time favourites.