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【罰あたりのインチキ信者アホウ太郎の「無信仰告白」ｗ】カトリック188殉教者列福式が行われたばかりのご当地で基督教嘘っぱち講釈をたれた麻生太郎
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http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/11/24/interview_taro_aso/9858/
Interview: Taro Aso
By KEN JOSEPH (Middle East Times)
Published: November 24, 2008
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TOO SLOW -- Speaking to Middle East Times on Japan’s financial crisis of the 1990s Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said, “looking back our biggest mistake was in not acting sooner.” The photo shows Aso at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 15 after attending the G20 financial summit. (Kyodo via Newscom)
Japan is not the biggest country in the world, but according to its prime minister, the country has "special expertise" and can make a difference in the world in this time of global economic crisis.
"Japan is not just cars and technology," Prime Minister Taro Aso told the Middle East Times during his recent visit to Washington where he attended the G20 meeting.
Japan, said the prime minister is "a faithful partner" of the West and of the United States.
"Japan has a message to world," said Aso. "We went through the same situation, made a lot of mistakes, did some things right and can help," he said, referring to the financial crisis his country went through.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Market went from a high of 38,916 on Dec. 29, 1989, to a low of 14,309 in 1992. Property prices plunged an average of nearly 85 percent.
"In Japan we saw property prices drop and the collapse of what we call the "bubble," the Japanese prime minister told the Middle East Times.
It took Japan from 1989 to 1998 to make the first major capital injection into 21 major banks.
Aso said that Japanese drew lessons from their financial crisis, but in addition, he personally learned some hard-earned lessons. "At the same time, I for one can add one more important part to what we have learned," he said.
"While it is important to make changes it is also important to let the people know what is happening. I want to make our contribution to the current crisis in the world economy one of my main priorities," said Aso.
Aso, is a former foreign minister who represents both the modern face of Japan and at the same time encompasses the past. His grandfather was the first post-World War II prime minister, the famed Shigeru Yoshida who set Japan's course following its defeat in that war. Aso is a Christian and fluent in English. He is regarded by many as the new breed of Japanese leaders. He sees his stage not only as Japan, but the world.
Much like the U.S.'s President-elect Barack Obama, he uses the Internet to get his message out to his constituents. He turns to the World Wide Web to get his word out using a regular e-mail newsletter to anyone who signs up for it.
From Japan's previous experience in dealing with the financial crisis, he offers the following suggestions.
"First, there needs to be aggressive international coordination to supervise and regulate financial institutions. Second we need to fix the credit rating agencies. It is they that are a key to the current problem as they certified the various financial instruments that turned out to be unsound. And finally we need international accounting standards so this kind of crisis does not happen again," said the Japanese prime minister.
On the sidelines of the G20 summit in Washington last week, Aso, launched another of his campaigns to use Japan's experience in her nearly 15-year "lost decade" to give advice to the world currently undergoing what Japan experienced previously.
Speaking with the experience of having traveled through rough waters before, the prime minister said: "At the same time, looking back our biggest mistake was in not acting sooner. If we had sooner forced disclosure of banks and financial institutions, capital injections into the banks and increased liquidity from our central bank we could have dramatically shortened our national nightmare."
While it is important to make changes it is also important to let the people know what is happening, said the Japanese prime minister.
"We need to utilize the international media to get our message across and to do it aggressively," he said.
"I have spoken to President-elect Barack Obama and as America's best friend in the world, Japan is ready to help out with our experience to tackle the current crisis," said the prime minister.
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http://sankei.jp.msn.com/politics/policy/081208/plc0812080313000-n1.htm
【麻生日誌】７日
2008.12.8 03:13
このニュースのトピックス：自民党
【午前】７時３０分から５８分、宿泊先の長崎県雲仙市の雲仙九州ホテルで林幹雄自民党幹事長代理と朝食。８時６分、同ホテル内のレストラン「百年ダイニング」へ。雲仙温泉、小浜温泉の旅館女将らとの懇談会に出席。９時１０分、雲仙九州ホテル発。３７分、同県島原市の雲仙普賢岳災害記念碑着。献花。５０分、同所発。１０時４８分、長崎県南島原市の口之津港着。５９分、島鉄フェリーで同港発。１１時２８分、熊本県天草市の鬼池港着。同３１分、同港発。４５分、天草市のホテルアレグリアガーデンズ天草着。
【午後】０時５分から５０分、同ホテル内のレストラン「グランマール」で安田公寛天草市長らと昼食。園田博之自民党政調会長代理同席。１時１分から３７分、同ホテル内のレストラン「カメリア」でインターネットテレビ「天草テレビ」のインタビュー。３８分から４４分、同ホテル内で報道各社のインタビュー。４５分から２時２３分、同ホテル内のレストラン「グランマール」で地元青年会議所メンバーらと懇談。２９分から４７分、同ホテル内の「チャペルガーデン」で演説。５７分、同ホテル発。５時３２分、熊本市の健軍商店街ピアクレス着。街頭演説。６時２分、同所発。５分、同市の日本料理店「浜ん小浦総本店」着。木村仁自民党参院議員ら地元国会議員、県会議員らと夕食。７時１１分、同所発。３４分、熊本空港着。８時１５分、全日空６５０便で熊本空港発。９時２７分、羽田空港着。４０分、同空港発。１０時、東京・内幸町の帝国ホテル着。秘書官と懇談。１１時３１分、同ホテル発。５０分、東京・神山町の私邸着。
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http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/item/61595
国内初の列福式、長崎で開催 殉教者１８８人が「福者」に ３万人が祝う
2008年11月25日 02:45 カテゴリー：社会 九州・山口 > 長崎
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１８８人の殉教者たちの列福宣言をするローマ法王代理のジョゼ・サライバ・マルティンス枢機卿（中央奥）＝２４日、長崎市
福者の肖像画が除幕された会場で、厳かに行われた列福式＝２４日、長崎市
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カトリック信仰の範を示した江戸時代の日本人殉教者１８８人に、最高位の聖人に次ぐ「福者」の称号を与える「列福式」が２４日、国内で初めて長崎市で開催され、内外の信者約３万人が列福を祝った。
福者になったのは、天正遣欧少年使節としてローマ法王に謁見（えっけん）した長崎出身の中浦ジュリアン、日本人として初めて聖地エルサレムを訪れた大分出身のペトロ岐部をはじめ、殉教時１‐８０歳だった武士や庄屋、農民など。このうち九州にゆかりがあるのは７５人。いずれも江戸初期に改宗を拒否して火あぶりなどで処刑された。
式会場となった長崎県営野球場では、ローマ法王代理のジョゼ・サライバ・マルティンス枢機卿が列福を宣言。１８８羽のハトが放たれ、聖歌や祈りをささげた。
この後、サライバ枢機卿は「４世紀を経て殉教者に光が当てられた。いつの日か聖人に列せられることを望んでいる」とメッセージを読み上げ、白柳誠一枢機卿が「殉教者は生きる意味や人生の目的が何なのかを現代社会に投げ掛けている」と列福の意義を語った。
＝2008/11/25付 西日本新聞朝刊＝
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-kxd42miUFGsMRrYvsyrPD9hhLwD94JC4GO0
Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified
By YURI KAGEYAMA – Nov 21, 2008
TOKYO (AP) — Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs.
The upcoming ceremony on Monday bestows honors from the Roman Catholic Church that are one step short of sainthood for Japanese killed from 1603 to 1639. The ceremony is expected to draw 30,000 people to a baseball stadium in the southwestern city of Nagasaki.
The event highlights a tragic page of history for Japan, which shut itself to the outside world during the 17th century, when the shogun rulers, seeking to control people's lives, banned contact with the West, including Christians.
It is also designed to be a celebration of the strength of Christianity in a culture dominated by Buddhism and Shintoism, organizers say. Christians make up only 1 percent of the Japanese population, but Japan now has its first Catholic prime minister — Taro Aso.
The beatification follows a 27-year effort, including research and documentation of the martyrs' lives, which began with a visit by Pope John Paul to Japan in 1981, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins said Friday.
"They died for their faith — not for economic or political reasons," said Martins, who is in Japan to attend the beatification on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI. "They died 400 years ago, but they send us an important message."
Christianity in Japan began with the arrival of Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier in 1549. At first, missionaries were welcomed and Christianity blossomed, growing to as many as 200,000 followers, according to the Catholic Bishops Conference of Japan.
But in 1587, shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the missionaries expelled, although the order was not immediately enforced. A decade later, the crackdown began, and 26 Christians were crucified.
Those martyrs were beatified in 1627 and became saints in 1862 — among the 42 people from Japan who have been canonized, or reached sainthood.
The most intense persecution came under Tokugawa Ieyasu, who followed Hideyoshi, and the martyrs being beatified Monday were killed during that period.
Among them will be 16 people, including three children, whose fingers were chopped off and their foreheads branded with a symbol of the cross. They were thrown into the boiling waters of a volcanic mountain.
Another martyr, the Rev. Julian Nakaura, was one of the first Japanese to travel to Rome and receive blessings from the pope. He endured torture called "the pit." Bound tightly with ropes, his body was hung upside down into a hole filled with excrement, until he died on the fourth day.
The Rev. John Isao Hashimoto, one of the beatification ceremony's organizers, said the martyrs' history is a source of pride for Japanese. Although records show 4,000 or 5,000 Japanese were killed for refusing to give up their Christian faith, the true number could be 10 times that, Hashimoto said.
"There is fantastic light in fantastic darkness," he said in a telephone interview from Nagasaki. "No one has the answer on how they were able to endure such great suffering, not even themselves."
Takashi Kawagoe, editor of The Catholic Weekly of Japan, said the beatification is special for the Catholic community.
"Japanese worked hard with the Vatican for this," he said.
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Cardinal Jose Saravia Martins, a representative of Pope Benedict XVI to attend a beatification of 188 Japanese martyrs set for Monday, Nov. 24 in the southwestern city of Nagasaki, speaks during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. The beatification of samurai, housewives and children who died 400 years ago follows a 27-year effort, including research and documentation of the martyrs' lives, which began with the Japan visit of Pope John Paul in 1981, Saravia Martins said. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE4AN1E220081124
Japan's Catholic martyrs honored in mass ceremony
Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:59am EST
By Isabel Reynolds
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Bells tolled at the largest beatification ceremony ever held in Asia as thousands gathered on Monday to honor 188 Catholics killed in the persecution that almost wiped out Christianity in Japan four centuries ago.
As rain poured down on a baseball stadium in southern Japan, women in kimonos placed candles at a temporary altar, while clergymen, many wearing plastic raincoats over their robes, filed along a red carpet.
Beatification is a step on the way to Catholic sainthood and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan said the ceremony was the largest to be held in Asia to date.
For Japan's small Catholic population, the first beatification to be held in the country since Christianity was introduced in the 16th century is long-sought recognition for their predecessors' suffering.
Participants in the ceremony at Nagasaki, a port city that was once the gateway to Japan for Christian missionaries from Europe, said the events of four centuries ago held lessons for the present day.
"We pray that those who bear the responsibility of government around the world do not seek only their own profit, but work toward world peace and respect individual dignity and human rights," one member of the congregation said at the ceremony.
Vatican envoy Cardinal Jose Saraiva read a message in Latin from Pope Benedict, who also mentioned his spiritual closeness to the martyrs in his address in Rome on Sunday.
Brought to Japan in 1549 by Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary active across Asia, Christianity was banned by feudal lords fearful that foreign influence would undermine their power.
A period of persecution followed, forcing the faithful to choose between martyrdom or hiding their beliefs. At least 5,500 Christians are believed to have been killed for their faith in Japan.
Others practiced their rites in secret and blended them with local beliefs, a hybrid faith that has trickled down to the present day in remote parts of southern Japan.
Less than 1 percent of Japanese are Christians and fewer than 500,000 are Catholic. Prime Minister Taro Aso is the first Catholic to become premier but he rarely refers to his religion in public and was not invited to the ceremony.
Many Japanese take a mix-and-match approach to religion, often favoring Christian-style weddings, Shinto blessings for children and Buddhist funerals.
Japan boasts 42 Catholic saints and 205 Catholics with ties to Japan have been beatified since the 19th century, but many were missionaries from other countries.
Monday's beatification is the culmination of three decades of efforts by Japanese Catholics to recognize more of their own martyrs. The destruction of records in Japan meant researchers had to travel overseas to study letters sent home by missionaries.
Some of those beatified on Monday were crucified then burned to death, while others were beheaded or drowned. The martyrs ranged in age from one to 80. Four were priests but most were ordinary Catholics, many of whose names are still unknown.
(Editing by Miral Fahmy)
© Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved
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Japan revisits dark chapter in Christianity's past
Nov 18, 2008
NAGASAKI, Japan (AFP) — As church bells ring and grey-robed nuns hurry to Mass in this Japanese port city, a dark chapter in Christianity's past is being revisited with the beatification of 188 martyrs persecuted for their faith.
The Catholic Church hopes the special ceremony for the Christians killed in the 17th century will generate more interest in the history of a religion that has so far failed to take root in a country dominated by Buddhism and Shinto.
"We have a history of religious persecution that has no similar example in Japan nor in the world," said Father Isao John Hashimoto of Nagasaki's Catholic Centre, which is organising the event on November 24.
"We would like this to be an opportunity for Japan, including the government, to dig deep into our past and learn about this part of history. Japan has a tendency to erase histories that make it look bad," he said.
As many as 30,000 Christians are believed to have been martyred since the religion was banned by the government shortly after it was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese Jesuit priest Francis Xavier in 1549.
Many hid their faith, fleeing to outlying islands where the "hidden Christians" secretly preserved their religion during the 250-year ban, which was scrapped in 1873 after US gunships forced open the country, ushering in the Meiji Restoration, along with its guarantees of religious freedoms.
Christians devised ingenious ways to keep their faith alive, carving statues of the Virgin Mary disguised as Buddha or with a cross engraved in the back, as well as copper mirrors that, under a certain angle, revealed a cross.
Whole families were tortured to death, including children as young as 12 months old. Among the martyrs was the Jesuit priest Peter Kibe.
Crucifixion and beheading were common, and persecutors devised ways of hanging martyrs upside down in pits until they bled to death through cuts made behind their ears.
Others were boiled alive in the "springs of hell" of Unzen volcano in Nagasaki Prefecture, now a popular hot springs resort.
No government officials have been invited to the beatification -- a public act of blessing martyrs who suffered persecution for their faith -- not even Prime Minister Taro Aso, Japan's first Christian leader.
Although the history of Christian persecution is not entirely unknown in Japan -- helped by Shusaku Endo's prize-winning novel "Silence" -- public awareness remains relatively low, historians said.
Today there are an estimated one to two million Christians in Japan, including about half a million Catholics.
Akiko Inuzuka feels the troubled relationship between Christianity and Japan running through her blood.
She was surprised to discover her lineage counts persecuted Christians as well as a former believer who crossed enemy lines.
"I was shocked, in a good way, like a cultural shock. If I'm a descendant, I'm sure there are many others who have a connection with Christianity but who are completely unaware," she said.
Inuzuka is not alone. Local officials have noticed a sudden flowering of interest in the history, and are trying to turn it into a boon for their local economy, which is increasingly dependent on tourism for revenue.
Nagasaki last year submitted a list of Catholic churches and sites to be considered for UNESCO's World Heritage status.
The local government began a flurry of projects this year to build tourism based on the history of Nagasaki as "Japan's Rome."
"Interest is growing not so much among Catholics but more among others who like history and want to know more," said local tourist official Toshikazu Yokoura.
"We are hoping this will become a boon for the economy."
The Catholic Church took more than a quarter of a century to have its beatification request approved by the Vatican.
Pope Benedict XVI issued the decree last year and Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins will represent him at the ceremony in Nagasaki.
In a symbolic gesture of peace, the ceremony will take place beneath the spot where a US atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, killing 80,000 people.
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