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Japan’s Lost Leaders

Visionaries have emerged at critical moments in the country's past--but not this time.

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  • Posted By: steve777 @ 04/19/2009 1:50:54 AM

    For more information on Okawa Ryuho and his incredible movement aimed at creating World Utopia that starts in Japan go to www.happy-science.jp/en

  • Posted By: steve777 @ 04/19/2009 1:39:54 AM

    I believe there is a leader of leaders or creator of leaders in Japan. His name is Okawa Ryuho and he is the head of an organisation called Kofuku-no-Kagaku. He has published more than 500 books (best selling book for the last 8 years in Japan) on human happiness that aim to show people how to develop themselves and then to take leadership and develop others. Many millions of people are studying these teachings right now and some of these people will step foward to lead Japan and the world to a new and bright future. I believe a new civilisation is unfolding right now just as the old is crumbling before our very eyes. I believe the new civilisation will be based on the teachings of this extraordinary man and that Japan will lead the world to a new prosperity over the next 20 years. For more information go to www.happy-science.jp/en

  • Posted By: steve777 @ 04/19/2009 1:30:33 AM

    I believe there is a leader of leaders in Japan. His name is Okawa Ryuho and he is the head of an organisation called Kofuku-no-Kagaku. He has published more than 500 books (best selling book for the last 8 years in Japan) on human happiness that aim to show people how to develop themselves and then to take leadership and develop others. Many millions of people are studying these teachings right now and some of these people will step foward to lead Japan and the world to a new and bright future. I believe the new civilisation that awaits human kind will be based on the teachings of this extraordinary man.

  • Posted By: Bruce0747 @ 04/18/2009 6:45:25 AM

    MuchAdo everybody does NOT believe in globalization.Didn't america causing a World Recession- Depression teach you anything?

    • Posted By: MuchAdo @ 04/18/2009 7:12:23 PM

      It is not a revelation that not everybody believes in globalization Pray tell though, what is your alternative? This world we live in is not a group of isolated entities; whether you like it or not everything everyone and every nation does is interconnected and in separable from the whole. Frankly, whether you or I believe in globalization or not.it will occur because it is the bath that will unite all of us in to a contiguous whole where we are able to profit from our differences rather than focus on why they justify our being hateful of each other. Resistance is futile!

  • Posted By: Bruce0747 @ 04/18/2009 6:38:57 AM

    een here 20+ years and it does have some economic problems at the moment. But, I will never get caught in a drive by or any other gang banger sheeeet!I live in a Large city and do not feel it necessary to lock my doors.Nor do I need a car due to the most efficient mass transit in the world.Beats the Hell out of living in big city usa where I am from!!

  • Posted By: MuchAdo @ 04/18/2009 6:20:35 AM

    If one had a track team and equipped each runner with a 50 pound ball and chain attached to a leg, would we be surprised that they did no win many races?

    If you have a society that abhors individuality and by default does everything it can conceive of to discourage individualistic thinking by rigidly inculcating in its citizenry, from the time they are knee high to a duck, that following without question and imitation, of each other as well as other peoples??? products/creations, is the holy grail all should seek, should we be surprised such a society finds itself with an almost complete dearth of leadership?

    The miracle is that it has ever had any! Of course, it is always easier to find military leaders who know how to destroy things and kill effectively, as they obviously had in WWII, than it is to find enlightened Level 5 leaders, see Jim Collins??? book Good to Great, who have the desire, brainpower and ability to see the big picture as opposed to the narrow, domestic picture that serves only local needs and ignores global human interrelationships with their commensurate responsibilities.

    What Japan is going through now is a possibly one of the best experiences it could ever go through. Mayhap a couple of people may actually be inspired to address the real issue here. Namely, a culture that frustrates the creation of a base of leaders who have the ability to act as free thinking individuals within a context of responsibility not just in support of the overt and covert agendas that serve the self interest of Japan, but with respect for Japan???s role as a contributing member of the world community.

    It will be very interesting to see if they have the ability to actually grow or will continue to cling to the security and comfort they, any many other nations) derive from conformity and kidding themselves like so many nations that the glorious traditions of their pasts based most likely on dead men???s efforts greatly exaggerated in the telling ??? like a fish story with an ever greater sized fish caught each time it is told.

    In the meantime, America will quietly, methodically reinvent itself once again, relatively quickly as we have in the past, not being weighed down by fear of change, worry about saving face because we screwed up, nor having to push several thousand years of tradition down the road ahead of us in a wheelbarrow ??? trying all the while to make sure our present doesn???t get out of lock step with nor invalidate a lie based in said glorious past

  • Posted By: Broodstar1337 @ 04/17/2009 10:23:21 PM

    You weeaboos got told.

  • Posted By: jade_years @ 04/14/2009 8:54:16 PM

    Having lived in Japan for 10 years I would argue that there ARE leaders in Japan. Unfortunately, they are right-wing, racist demagogues such as Shintaro Ishihara who are waiting in the wings to fill the leadership vacuum and return Japan to former 'glory'. The time seems to be ripe.

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