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Common Ground

Common Ground

by | September 17, 2022 | Blog, Civilization, Shinto

Common Ground

Common Ground

All share common ground at the very beginning of life—alive in these extraordinary times—due to acts of two others—your mother and father.

The Source says there are only two things that are certain—birth and death.

Human Life Cycle - Land Of The Rising Son

After entering the atmosphere, indoctrination starts in earnest, and more often than not, there is the promise of eternal life contained with in these fantastic stories.

Well over half of the world’s population believe in a spiritual afterlife, which in principle is not such a bad thing, who doesn’t want to live forever?

The crux of the issue lies in giving up a splendid life here on earth today, for a mythical promise of a better tomorrow in heaven.

地蔵 - Land Of The Rising Son

But as is known—tomorrow never comes—today.

Here the flock must worship, pray, and pay for long dead ideas and corrupted deities, and it is particularly clear the three desert dogmas no longer serve the needs of the human condition.

One only has to look around to see the abject hypocrisy being played out all over the global as the and prey upon the gullible and wretched for riches, glory, fame, and power.

Jimmy Swaggart representing fraudulent Christians - Land Of The Rising Son
An extreme examples of intentional evil via religious indoctrination would be those encouraging vulnerable youth to don a suicide vest, and along with the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven, vaporize themselves while murdering and destroying innocent lives.

72 virgins waiting in heaven - Land Of The Rising Son

Any fraudulent cleric spewing doctrine of hatred towards other enticing them to perpetrate acts of evil, have by their own edicts and commands solidify the invalidity of their tenets, revealing themselves to be the enemy of humanity, and all the promises it holds.

Ages ago life was short and unpleasant—thus, the duplicitous oracles promise of eternal life, and this is where the control protocol sets in to appease the wretched masses with the false promise of milk and honey in Nirvana.

The Concept of Heaven - Land Of The Rising Son

One the other hand, those who dare to think original thoughts will suffer a much more nasty fate, which certainly does not include virgins or worshipping a stranger from millennia ago and his for eternity.

Remember, those who have anointed themselves as oracles while presenting false gods for personal and organizations gain, also refer to the group as a “flock” and the individuals as sheep.

Never forget, sheep are used to harvest wool and when that mission is complete, the last step is lamb chops.

Lamb Chops - Land Of The Rising Son

Alternatively, there is a much more pragmatic way to go through life while moderating one’s own behaviour.

This is through the more realistic protocol of ancestor veneration.

One finds deeper calmness in the practicality of ancestors veneration as opposed to obsolete dogma demanding rejection of one’s own , , and .

ロレンス氏神の神棚 - Land Of The Rising Son

The ancestors forged incredible pathways for the descendants who are now privileged to live in this magnificant world.

A world that was forged with blood, sweat, and tears, sprinkled with the fortitude and perseverance of the men and women who came before.

Now with this realization, it is prudent to dismiss the abject nonsense of doctrine demanding loyal to false gods in far away land who only have money and power as the driving motivation—certainly not some stranger’s salvation.

Warmonger Obama And The Unholy Pope - Land Of The Rising Son

Salvation only exists when one looks in the and seeing one’s inside.

Here one can profoundly understand—the only reason for your existence is because of one’s ancestors.

Be released from the chains of the past and the obsolete dogma of one’s initial indoctrination.

Replace despotic idols and their mendacious minions who create the suffering and division of this modern day.

War Criminals George W Bush - Donald Rumsfeld - Dickwad Cheney - Land Of The Rising Son

Here one can look to one’s own ancestors and know that morality and ethics comes from the fact that and grandfather are watching over your every step of the way.

One’s action are guided by the innate desire to do the right thing—venerating those who came before, and recognize their suffering during their journey through history to lay the foundation for one’ own family, clan, and community.

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Who Is Tokyo Rose?

Who Is Tokyo Rose?

by | September 10, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration, Woman Power

Who Is Tokyo Rose?

Who Is Tokyo Rose?

Often—life is about—time—place—opportunity.

Circumstances of the times.

Tokyo Rose was an American-born, Japanese woman who hosted a Japanese propaganda radio program for U$A GIs during .

Tokyo Rose Iva Toguri - Land Of The Rising Son

After graduating with a doctorate of medicine from UCLA in 1941, life dramatically changed through a twist of fate.

As a graduation gift, Tokyo Rose was sent back to Japan to visit her sick aunt.

Shortly after arriving, the tension between Japan and the U$A escalated quickly—making it impossible for her to return home—as the last ship for America—left without her— so here she was stranded—in the .

Stay In Japan Ms Tokyo Rose - Land Of The RIsing Son

Anything can happen during times of conflict, and sure enough, the knock came on the door from the Japanese secret police while Tokyo Rose was staying at her beloved aunty’s house.

They came to demand she renounce her U.S. citizenship and pledge loyalty to the Japanese emperor.

She refused, thus becoming an enemy alien who was then denied a food ration card.

In 1942 Tokyo Rose’s family property was appropriated by the Democrat American government.

Her entire family was relocated to the notorious Japanese interment camps—her family’s new home—the parched desert of Arizona.

Japanese Interment Camps - Land Of The Rising Son

The letters between her and her parents stopped, and she was suddenly isolated without information about their lives.

Perhaps it was the innate Japanese DNA inside her spirit whispering:

When life gives one lemons, make lemonade.

wazuwai tenjite fuku to nasu
災いを転じて福となす

American Occupation of Japan - Land Of The Rising Son

So she started work at an English-newspaper listening to short-wave-radio newscasts and transcribing them into Japanese.

Her next job was with Radio Tokyo, typing scripts for programs to be broadcast to the isolated American foot soldiers in Southeast Asia.

She was then unexpectedly asked to host a show called the “” an entertainment program directed at the American soldiers.

American Soldiers Commiting War Crimes - Land Of The Rising Son

Part of the mystery of Tokyo Rose is the affection the U.S. soldiers felt when they heard her feminine Japanese voice.

For certain they were delighted to listen to her, all the while imaging an exotic geisha, as reflected in the propaganda films shown to the Americans before departing Happy-land to fight the resilient Japanese in the Pacific theatre.

Xenophobia in the United States

Her real name was Iva Toguri, and she never referred to herself as Tokyo Rose, but called herself Orphan Annie when on air.

Tokyo Rose was actually a term coined by the lonely forlorn American GIs in the South Pacific when listening to her soothing voice and music from home which made them melancholy and despondent.

After the end of World War II in 1945, the American Army began to investigate her as a traitor, accusing her of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda while detaining her for a full year before release due to lack of evidence.

Tokyo Rose Mug Shot Sugamo Prison - Land Of The Rising SonWoefully, the misery was not over for this unfortunate prisoner of fickle fate.

Tokoyo Rose In Sugamo Prison - Land Of The Rising Son

Her painful ordeal did not end with the two atomic holocaust events perpetrated by the American military upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Japanese people, nor her year-long detention at Sugamo prison.

Her story was made national news in America by a sour, long forgotten old man by the blasé name Walter Winchell.

A despicable Occxie who hated people of colour, especially strong women of colour, such as Tokyo Rose.

He was backed up the notorious William Randolph Hearst, and these parasites of humanity could be accredited with the start of smutty slander journalism, which is now on full display across the rags and boob tube channels permeating the American media infesting the citizens minds with the ugly virus of exceptionalism.

Tokyo Rose Arrested in USA - Land Of The Rising SonTokyo Rose Arrested in USA - Land Of The Rising Son

He called for her to be returned to the U.S. so she could be tried, so in 1948, President Truman acted and she was eventually charged with treason.

Tokyo Rose became only the seventh person in U.S. history to be convicted of treason.

In her 1949 trial she was conviction on one of eight counts of treason, she was paroled from prison in 1956.

Tokyo Rose - Iva Toguri Prison Parol 1956 - Land Of The Rising Son

This is what is know as scapegoating and the American Empire have this nefarious protocol down to an evil science.

Perhaps the also servers to take the attention away from the war crimes that American military perpetrated upon Japan, not only by torching their cities with napalm, but the nuclear holocaust events perpetrated upon innocent Japanese civilians.

東京大空襲 - Land Of The Rising Son

True to the nefarious nature of the American Empire, in 1974, investigative journalists discovered important witnesses had asserted that they were forced to lie during testimony.

They stated that F.B.I. and U.S. occupation police had coached them for months about what they should say on the stand, and they had been threatened with treason trials themselves if they did not cooperate.

Corruption in the FBI - Say it isn't so - Land Of The Rising Son

U.S. President Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose in 1977 based on these revelations and earlier issues with the original indictment.

Tokyo Rose—an accidental historical figure—a life destroyed by vindictive victor’s justice—by the morally bankrupt American empire—which continues to perpetrate heinous acts of violent aggression upon Oneness—up until this very day.

Tokyo Rose - Iva Toguri Movie Poster - Land Of The Rising Son

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Back To Skool

Back To Skool

by | September 3, 2022 | Blog, Education

Back To Skool

The stark contrast between the system, in which one was indoctrinated in the 70s, and Japanese education is profound.

Seeing Japanese school children dressed in school uniforms the first time was a sight to behold.

Japanese School Uniforms - Land Of The Rising Son

Having never thought about school uniforms until seeing the Japanese students, one could see they identified with their most important group—school mates.

However, in a small rural town in , it was always clear which strata of society the classmates resided in based upon the overall quality of their appearance, and personal hygiene protocol.

This truth only became more evident as things turned into a fashion show, and the spectrum of cruel one-upmanship was visceral as the Occxie-kids advanced up the Industrial Education indoctrination ladder.

American high school students - Land Of The Rising Son

To be clear—one-upmanship is innate in all humans—the Japanese are no exception—discrimination is simply more difficult to do based upon outward appearance.

Truly, one was also shocked to see Japanese children going to school on Saturday of all things!

Dogma Yes or No? Land Of The Rising Son

In the pristine mountains of , Saturday was clearly the first day of the coveted weekend, and going to the indoctrination center was the furtherest thing from this author’s mind.

Here in Japan, one also quickly understood the significance of the omnipresent school club and how it forges a mindset serving them in the hierarchal society of .

The Japanese students must dedicated their life to their coach, fellow members, and pledge loyalty to the club.

甲子園大会 - Land Of The Rising Son

These extracurricular activity, although said to be voluntary, are in reality not, unless one is asking for the dreaded mura hachibu.

Club activity often caps the regular school day with early bird practice from 06:30, resuming after school for a few more hours, just before running off to the cram school.

Student at a Cram School - Land Of The Rising Son

Not only does club activity make for really long days, but more often than not, club activity is also scheduled for Sunday—making the club predominate in Japanese school life.

The school year also last much longer in .

In fact, one could say because of this, Japanese students are well prepared for the life of a worker bee as a cog in the machine of Japan—creating Form, Order, and Process.

Grind the curiosity out of the youth and enslave them - Land Of The Rising Son

The school year starts the beginning of April and goes all the way until the middle of March.

Summer break starts at the end of July, but this is where the omnipresent club activity relentlessly continues throughout August, with a short intermission to celebrate Obon.

お盆の由来 - Land Of The Rising Son
Don’t forget to add in the copious amount of homework for the Japanese student to complete over the summer holiday—in principle any notion of separation from the school community is simply never considered.

Fortunately for this , who could not identify with the soul crushing Industrial Education System, the two and a half months of summer vacation was replete with tons of fun and boatloads of joy.

The Beautiful Shuswap Lake - Land Of The Rising Son

It’s true—the school doors were slammed shut and locked, until the beginning of new school year—in September.

Truthfully, the chances of this author remembering any math equations or most of the other pointless drivel spewed from the extremely tedious government employees was minimal at the best.

Boring Teachers create boring people - Land Of The Rising Son

Surely the designers of the morally bankrupt Anti Matriculation protocol—formerly known as the Industrial Education Complex—supposedly created to nurture, enlighten, and brighten our children—only to produces indoctrinated, stoopid, and willfully ignorant adherents—clearly a reflection of Mal Matriculated Industrial Drones.

Occidental notion of what it means to be a teacher - Land Of The Rising Son

Could it be the Japanese education system is a more pragmatic way to prepare its citizens for real life in the modern world?

Indeed, for first three years of elementary school life in Japan, there are no tests.

Japanese Kindergarten Students - Land Of The Rising Son
Here the conventions of Japanese society are instilled into the children along with communal objectives such as planting a garden, or raising small animals in the school yard.

For Japanese student, going to school is nothing short of the ultimate practice for when they official join “adulthood” as formalized in the come January.

Consider an education system a reflection of any given society as a whole—the conventions and protocols contained within will undoubtedly determine its success or failure.

Even so, as the world turns, the is now in it’s final stages, and herein lies the opportunity for the Japanese to create new education systems to serve the world’s children in the Age Of Corona, now and far beyond.

The Mischievous Doctrine of Endless Suffering

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Personal Agency

Personal Agency

by | August 27, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration

Personal Agency

The Japanese are one of the most emotional people in the world.

Certainly, the antiquated image of the Japanese is one of expressionless people―with cold hearts―who are robotic in nature―or so the historical narrative used to go.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

In this cloistered hierarchical society with esoteric relationship protocols, all outward emotions and true feeling must be kept in check, if not suppressed altogether.

ΩNE only needs to look at the history of how evolved―and they are resigned to submitting to authority―due to the evolution of our society.

徳川家康 - Land Of The Rising Son

This is why realization and actualization of personal agency is of paramount importance to the Japanese during the paradigm shifts in these turbulent times.

The Japanese now have the opportunity to fuse Western ways into the Eastern mind advancing the third pillar of civilization―Japan.

Emphatically, Japanese civilization is built upon outside inputs and incremental improvements also known as kaizen.

Kaizen Philosophy - Land Of The Rising Son

Indeed, from the beginning, are infused with community and the importance of harmonious relationships, which does not include stroking individual egos, or the idea of personal sovereignty.

Unlike those raised in the , personal autonomy is fundamentally nurtured from the start―or so it was in this author’s particular case.

Rocky Mountains - Land Of The Rising Son

Spot the difference:

Two kindergarten classes―one in the States―the other in Japan.

The task was simple―draw a picture of the Sun.

The Sun - Land Of The Rising Son

So, what happened?

The American children, started to individually draw the Sun right away in their own way.

American Sun - Land Of The Rising Son

Over in fairyland Japan, the Japanese children turned to the others, thus starting a process by discussing what form an orderly Sun should look like.

Only after achieving a consensus protocol, did the groups start to draw the Sun.

Japanese Sun - Land Of The Rising Son

Assuredly, recognizing personal agency is the most important realization ever, and is the underpinning of discovery and, yes, .

The ability to take action, be effective, influence ΩNE’S own life, and assume responsibility for all behaviour are the most important elements when navigating the volatile, unpredictable human relationships encountered throughout life.

Personal agency is essential to assume control regardless of the surrounding chaos along the one-time journey upon Mother Earth.

One must believe in the innate capacity to influence ΩNE’S own thoughts and behaviours while having unshakable conviction in one’s ability to handle a wide range of tasks, problems, and situations, even dangerous ones.

Dangerous Situation - Land Of The Rising Son

Internalizing personal agency influences stability as a separate person with the capacity to be psychologically stable having flexible resiliency in the face of conflict and change.

The emotionally healthiest people strive to increase the sense of personal power by developing competence and autonomy while decreasing their dependence upon others.

For the , this takes courage and fortitude as these are unfamiliar concepts―concepts to be fused into the .

Shintoism, the way of the Japanese - Land Of The Rising Son

Increasing one’s sense of competence and autonomy involves recognizing the ways to influence ΩNE’S own life without the need to control others, all the while assuming responsibility for one’s own behaviour without the need to blame others.

One begins to reveal personal agency by increasing one’s ability to take action and be effective in one’s own life regardless of the circumstances.

Here is the secret to implement personal agency, as all destined to encounter the entire spectrum of humanity in the ephemeral animation of sentient beings.

Abstract Rainbow - Land Of The Rising Son

Before internalizing personal agency one might say:

“The made me feel sad.”

The question to posed to oneself would have to be:

How can any other one make another feel anything unless having been granted power over another―here ΩNE has rejected personal agency.

Rejection - Land Of The Rising Son

Personal agency protocol is notoriously difficult to implement as it demands giving up all preconceived notions about everything.

Just ask Dr. Viktor E. Frankel―he will answer in earnest inside the pages of the extraordinary account of his personal interment in Auschwitz―in his unprecedented book―Man’s Search For Meaning.

In order to achieve one’s own value, one must first recognize and implement personal agency and the mindset of a sovereign individual contained within the framework of the .

Viktor Frankel a hero for the hopeless - Land Of The Rising Son

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Suck It Up Buttercup

Suck It Up Buttercup

by | August 20, 2022 | Blog, Language Study

Suck It Up Buttercup

Suck It Up Buttercup

One first heard this term from a loud-mouth obese American who came to “open up Japan.”

By the way, the term “open up Japan” arrived along with Commodore Perry and his heavily armed Black ship armada sailing into Edo Bay in 1853.

Perry’s Arrival and the Opening of Japan - Land Of The Rising Son

This led to the establishment of forced diplomatic relations between Japan and the western Great Powers ending the 264 years of .

This is what is know as gun boat diplomacy, and this subjugation protocol continues to subvert diverse cultures globally today.

Perry's Black Ship - Land Of The Rising Son

Here the delusion of exceptionalism swallows the beauty of diversity while spewing a dystopian monotone world void of heart, spirit, and soul.

Truly, most Japanese distain those who come to Japan with the arrogance embodied within the demeaning and derogatory phrase “open up Japan.”

In fact, the boisterous blob of the greedy was doomed to fail from the very beginning.

Obese Americans - Land Of The Rising Son

Indeed, most Americans are failures when coming to “open up Japan,” particularly the plethora of greedy narcissists who are also charlatans.

So what exactly does “suck it up buttercup” mean?

Actually, buttercups are beautiful flowers embodying the meaning of growth, youthfulness, good health, and attraction.

Butter Cup Flowers - Land of the Rising Son

Like all things, language evolves and de-evolves over time—reflecting the state of one’s own society and the mentality within.

The beautiful buttercup is now a derogatory term insulting weakness and frailty.

How miserable things of beauty such as the beloved buttercup are stolen from the original meaning and turned into something else.

Will the U$A soon be dystopia - Land Of The Rising Son

“Suck it up” mean to have fortitude and perseverance—which inherently are noble traits.

Here lies the fork in the road—the conceptual parting of way between the global lingua franca English—and its conceptual opposite—Nihongo.

Utopia Dystopia - Land Of The Rising SonPerseverance, fortitude, resilience, tenacity, patience and other such noble traits are already embodied in the culture of Japan and carry significant weight as contained within the ideograms of the Japanese.

Like many things related to ancient language of the Japanese—they say much with little—an exemplary virtue for certain.

Innate traits such as patience and perseverance are not necessary to verbalize in Japanese, as they reside in the ambient atmosphere inside the esoteric language of the Japan.

For certain, during these extraordinary times, the wheat will be separated from the chaff.

Separation of WHEAT from CHAFF - Land Of The Risaing Son

For the resilient and committed, it will take Japanese style perseverance and endurance to create the new paradigms of humanity as the third pillar of civilization—Japan.

Indeed, the concepts necessary to build the third pillar of civilization dwells within the spirit of the Japanese and their language.

絆 - Land Of The Rising Son

Here are some Japanese concepts to drive one past the pain, suffering, and sorrow of one personal history, surviving this volatile world, and flourishing as the resilient build communities creating a wholistic inclusive vision for humanity.

(1) wazawai wo tenjite fuku to nasu
災いを転じて福となす
わざわいてんじてふくとなす
Turning misfortune into fortune

(2) shinbo
辛抱
しんぼう
patience – perseverance – endurance
＊近頃の若い者は辛抱が足らぬ
ちかごろわかいものしんぼうたらぬ
Young people these days lack patience [perseverance].

(3) nintai
忍耐
にんたい
patience – endurance – tolerance
＊忍耐と寛容をもって
にんたいとかんようをもって
With patience and tolerance.

(4) konki
根気
こんき
vigour – endurance – vitality – energy
＊この仕事には大変な根気がいる
このしごとにはたいへんなこんきがいる
This work takes a lot of patience.

(5) kanin
堪忍
かんにん
tenacity, persistence; perseverance ; energy vitality
＊堪忍袋の緒がついに切れた
かにんぶくろのしょがついにきれる
My patience has snapped [has run out].

(6) gaman
我慢
がまん
endurance – resilience – tolerate –
＊ 彼が話し終わるまで我慢して聞いていなさい
かれがはなしおわるまでがまんしてきいていなさい
Be patient with him until he finishes talking.

There is no time like the present to internalize the Japanese protocol of perseverance, endurance, and turn one’s own misfortune into fortune each and every day.

Clarity Over Time - cybersensei - Land Of The Rising Son

Royal Tutor – Elizabeth Vining

Royal Tutor – Elizabeth Vining

by | August 13, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration, Woman Power

Royal Tutor – Elizabeth Vining

Royal Tutor – Elizabeth Vining

The profound influence upon Japan of Ms. Vining, a Quaker English instructor can not be disregarded.

Quakers beliefs include the idea that the presence of God exists in every person―just like the ―rejecting elaborate religious ceremonies and believed in spiritual equality of all

The Quakers also practice pacifism and played a key role in both the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.

Elizabeth Vining was personally selected by Emperor Hirohito to become the private tutor to then Crown Prince Akihito from 1946 to 1950.

Elizabeth Grey Vining Portrait- Land Of The Rising Son

Emperor Hirohito had two requirements.

He wanted a woman tutor, as he didn’t think the Crown Prince had enough feminine influence in his life.

Keep in mind, as was protocol in the Japanese royal family, Akihito was separated from his parents at the age of 3 to be raised by other adults in the imperial household.

He saw his parents only once a week.

裕仁と皇后 - Land Of The Rising Son

The other requirement was that the tutor be a , but not a fanatic.

This meant Emperor Hirohito had no desire to see his son converted to Christianity, which as the head of was an unfounded concern anyway.

Indeed unlike most other sects and faction of Christians, the Quaker do not actively try to convert others to the dogma of Christianity.

Even so, the influence of an American pacifist on the young prince was regarded with resentment by right-wing intellectuals who complained that Akihito had contracted a spiritual and intellectual ‘fungus’ from his tutor.

Mushrooms - Land Of The Rising Son

However, Ms. Vining carried out her mandate brilliantly opening a window to the world along with the desire to set him intellectually free.

She also expanded Crown Prince Akihito cloistered palace world by inviting Akihito and his classmates to her Western-style home one afternoon a week.

Elizabeth Gray Vining with Akihito and Friend- Land Of The Rising Son

As is often the case with foreigners who come to Japan unaware of the rigid hierarchy of structure of Japan, she gave each of her pupils an English name to break down formality and encourage more democratic interactions.

Even today in modern Japan today, the strict hierarchy structure of Japan does not facilitate any sort of “democratic interaction” among the rigid social system of .

The nicknames “Jimmy” given to the Crown Prince Akihito was not embraced for when she first called him “Jimmy,” he replied:

“I am not ‘Jimmy,’ I am the Crown Prince.”

Culture point: The are very rarely on the first name basis with anyone―except the immediately family―and more often than not―not even then.

Elizabeth Gray Vining Shaking Akihito's Hand - Land Of The Rising SonSome of the important concepts instilled during Ms. Vining’s tenure came from reading a biography of Abraham Lincoln, discussing Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence, and shared hopes for world peace.

One could say the teaching of these universal principles planted seeds and lead to them rising from the ashes of the war―thus creating the Third Pillar of Civilization―Japan.

Indeed the merging of East and West civilizations started in earnest with overseas missions during the Meiji restoration― in particular, the Iwakura Mission.

Iwakura Mission - Land Of The Rising Son

The Iwakura Mission truly marks the beginning of the industrialization miracle of the Meiji Restoration, culminating Mr. Vining’s serendipitous trip to Japan where she blew her fairy dust on the Crown Prince, changing the course of the Japanese forever.

Interestingly enough, she also lectured at Tsuda College, which was established by the author of this article wife’s Great Aunty―Umeko Tsuda, who also became a Quaker during her time in the United States, starting from 1871.

One could say Tsuda Umeko is the tutelar deity of Oneness―just as Ms. Vining― their philosophy aligned that education should focus on developing individual intelligence and personality, creating harmony inside oneself, and by extension the world.

Tsuda Umeko on the new-five-thousand-yen-bill-Banner

One could say having this elegant female Quaker instilling the Crown Prince with the universal values innate in all those connecting to is herself a tutelar deity surely worthy of recognition.

Indeed, this mostly forgotten historical figure played a significant role in pointing the way of the future to 125th Emperor of Japan, and one can feel her influence permeating the “air” of Japan, even until this very day.

Elizabeth Gray Vining also wrote the book: “Windows for a Crown Prince” in 1952, and referred to her tutelage of Akihito “a fairy story.”

Elizabeth Gray Vining wrote the book- “Windows for a Crown Prince” in 1952 - Land Of The Rising Son

“It’s a fairy story, in that a quite Philadelphia Quaker was picked up and transported halfway across the world and dropped into the heart of the oldest and most mysterious royal court in the world.”

For this serendipitous miracle―an important catalyst for the merging of the Western and Japanese mind―she was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure shortly before her return to the United States in 1950.

Order of the Sacred Treasure - Land Of The Rising Son

Japan is continuing the natural progression of its ancient civilization as the Japanese continue to blend Eastern and Western values creating a common moral foundation to build our societies upon while seeing new world paradigms, tomorrow and today.

Emperor Akihito With Empress Michiko - Land Of The Rising Son

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