国際教育研究所 AI.INSTITUTE aiinstitute@gmail.com Two Remembrance Days, November 8th Sunday and November 11th, Wednesday

 I attended two Remembrance Days, one by the Commonwealth Nations in the Hodogaya War Cemetery and the other at the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery.

I used to think the British Commonwealth Nations War Cemetery was well kept with 60million budget run by the Royal organization under Duke of York in London.  However, the things have changed, and the British name is not there, and I heard is run by the Commonwealth Nations military group with Pacific side led by the Canadians and the others.  This year, it is under the Australian Embassy, and they had decided to have a secular ceremony with very short one of 45 minutes. Food was not impressive, too.

i attended the Requiem Chorus and mass at the Yokohama Christ Church at 6 and found out from the people who had lived in England that the Remembrance Day has had been at 11 o'clock November 11th with 2 minutes silence through the country. I heard from the Australian Ambassador's speech which only thing I remembered what he had said is that the Remembrance Day of 2 minutes silence was initiated by King George V.  I think not many people know that the gate of the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery was erected for Prince of Wales, later King George V who had visited the cemetery on January 1922.  i don't know the French knows this or not, they always visit the Cemetery on November 11th every year. I used to be a director of the Cemetery so attended the ceremony, and St. Maur International School French section (Lycée) had been there at the occasion.  This year after feeling of lousy and useless to question the meaning of the Commonwealth one, I went and observed them. French has "culture" and respect for the heritage.  They came well prepared with about 50 with three vans and two small sized bus and three French battalion flags and embassy, students, scholars and a priest appointed for missionary to Japan. it was a secular ceremony, but I felt there was a respect to the religious compare the one in the Hodogaya cemetery.  I had a chance to meet Father Dick, an Anglican Reverent, on the way home and he said if he is not invited by the Remembrance Day Ceremony by the Commonwealth Nations, he will not attend and have a Prayer session in the morning and visit the Foreign Cemetery right across where the monument is dedicated for the soldiers who

died in the World War I

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 November 5/6, 2026

I went to Keiyu Hospital on Thursday. It is always a nice routine. Ride 58 bus from Tofukuin and many Tateno High School students get off, so most of time I can have a seat. It was raining so many people rode the bus instead oof walking. It became very crowded but by Yamashita Cho, Motomachi Chukagai Subway station people got off. I change to a subway at Nihon Ohdori because the escalator is waiting right in front of the bus stop. I get off at MinatoMirai station, only two stops but it is nice to have a place like New York Manhattan style place. I walk one block and impressive hospital building is there. I reserve 9:30 and meet the doctor, actually he is the head or CEO of the hospital and expert in Vascular field.

He said I am all right and can walk and keep the band with the leg. He asked how many kilometers I walk every day. I said about 3,000m. He responded that to improve my leg situation I should walk more every day, about 10,000m.

So,

I can walk now, but I have to walk everyday.

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 November 3, 2026

Dear Friends

Squirrels come to our garden to build their den/nest. Last time I saw their house was destroyed by some birds. So, I though they are not around. Today I saw them trying to build their den/house by getting some branches from our garden.

Welcome back and good luck.

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 November 2, 2026

I went to the War Cemetery of Hodogaya Commonwealth Nations War Cemetery with Rev. Dick of Yokohama Christ Church. He explained why the name of the British Commonwealth Nations "British" was dropped out. Today the Commonwealth Nations are not only from the nations of the British Empire, but others are participating and it is economic group.

On the way we had a chance of talking about our background and he mentioned in 1984 he came to Japan as an Anglican volunteer to the Asian Rural Society and later got married to a Japanese woman and lived in the Philippines in 1990's and told me there is a Christian Congregation group called the Independent Church of Philippines participating in the Anglican bishops of the Philippines with a Catholic tradition but not part of the Roman Church under the Vatican Pope because of their independent movement in the Spanish colonial days.

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 November 1, 2026

All Saints Day

Today is All Saints Day. Yokohama Christ Church members went to the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery for the prayer at their grave. 

Yokohama Union Church member is collecting donation for a girl in an orphanage for her school "RANDOSERU".  She was adopted to St. Mary's International School graduate whom I thought he was a wealthy and highly educated man married without a child. However, he was not nice as he looks, and she was put into the Japanese government protection and went back to an orphanage. She was a student at Yokohama Christian School when the government protected her. She is now entering an elementary school, so the church members are collecting money to donate her a "RANDOSERU".

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 October 30, 2026

Facebook has a meaning.   SJC grad. Endo put on Facebook that the funeral of Ritchie will take place today at 11 in Sacred Heart Cathedral.

I thought it was another Halloween joke. However, John Fanourakis wrote it is too young for Ritchie to die at the age of 66. I look at the Facebook

carefully and saw the sign of the funeral of Ritchie will take place at the Sacred Heart Cathedral from 11 to 12.  It was 10:55. I rushed to a casual suit with a tie and went to the Cathedral and able to attend the Funeral Mass.

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 On October 26 NHK 世紀の映像

With the Great Depression 

America faced unbelievable happening from the loss of wealth, so FDR , the president created two things not to repeat, one was to separate the Security business with banking, the other is oversee the New York Stock Exchange. This was the base of the American economy till Republicans under Ike, Nixon, Reagan and the others changed them.

Why this took place is with Ayn Rand's philosophy of Laises fairs and Federal Reserve head for many years Mr. Greenspan was her disciple appointed by Dick Nixon to lead it. He lowered the interest rate and made the USA great again even though he had been challenged many times but overcame the difficulties.  I t eventually caused the money flow to the real estate and housing with subprime loans. When money overflows, it will eventually go to the investment in land, but this took place later in Greenspan era. It was well managed and people said he was a "maestro", master of money control.

The other was a very successful investor during the booming 1920's and lost everything with the crush. Benjamin Graham later had a chance to teach at Columbia University, Business School.  Mr. Warren Buffett took his course. It was based on the concept of value investing.

Buffett invested with the value investing and became very successful. He shares his knowledge and wealth with other people and people like him very much.