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A large cache of ceramic coins made as currency in Japan in the last month of World War II has been discovered in a warehouse in Kyoto. Counting is still ongoing, but the estimated quantity is 500,000 coins in 15 wooden boxes both loose and in bags. They are known as maboroshi (meaning phantom or illusory) coins because they were destroyed en masse at the end of the war, so finding half a million of them is unprecedented. In 1944, almost all of the metal Japan could get was dedicated to weapons, munitions and other military applications, leaving a fraction of the amount needed for the production new currency. The Japan Mint commissioned pottery manufacturers in the cities Kyoto, Seto and Arita to make prototypes of ceramic coins in ten, five and one-sen denominations (100 sen were worth one yen). The company in Kyoto was Shofu Kogyo Co., founded in 1906 as a manufacturer of export porcelain and industrial porcelain (high-voltage ceramic insulators, chemical porcelain) for the local market. In 1922, they embarked on a new endeavor: the research and manufacture of the first artificial ceramic teeth in Japan and by the end of the 1930s, were the leading producers of ceramic dental products in Japan. In July 1945, less than a month before the end of the war, ceramic coins began to be mass-produced in Kyoto and Seto. About 15 million coins were made before production ended abruptly with the surrender of Imperial Japan on August 15th, 1945. The inventory of ceramic coinage was destroyed before entering circulation. That’s why they’re known as “phantom coins.” The entire sen denomination was discontinued after the war, and the last metal coins were taken out of circulation in 1953. The Shofu Kogyo Company was dissolved in 1967 but its descendant, Shofu Global, is still going strong today, and still producing cutting-edge (no pun intended) dental materials and equipment. The huge cache of undestroyed and uncirculated ceramic coins were found in their warehouse located on the site of the former Shofy Kogyo Company in August 2023. They are one-sen coins with a view of Mount Fuji on one side and a cherry blossom on the other. The company handed over the 15 boxes to the Japan Mint and received an official letter of appreciation and 100 of the coins as keepsakes. The Mint owns these coins, and we hope that the recent discovery of so many ceramic coins will lead to new discoveries about the circumstances surrounding currency manufacturing at the end of the Pacific War. In the future, we plan to conduct a detailed investigation into the condition of the discovered ceramic coins while also referring to materials remaining in the Mint’s collection, which we hope will shed more light on the manufacturing conditions at the time. Once the investigation is complete, the Mint plans to exhibit the coins in the museum at its head office in Osaka as well as at its branches in Saitama and Hiroshima.

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America’s Catholic bishops are giving President-elect Donald Trump a mixed reception ahead of his second term. Following Trump’s overwhelming victory in Tuesday’s election, Archbishop Timonthy Broglio, head of the Military Archdiocese and president of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference (USCCB), issued a statement congratulating the 45th and 47th President on his victory. [T]he USCCB would do well to familiarize themselves with the Catholic Church’s moral teachings on immigration throughout the centuries. “I congratulate President-elect Trump, as well as the national, state, and local officials who campaigned to represent the people. Now, we move from campaigning to governing. We rejoice in our ability to transition peacefully from one government to the next,” Broglio wrote. He added, “Let us pray for President-elect Trump, as well as all leaders in public life, that they may rise to meet the responsibilities entrusted to them as they serve our country and those whom they represent.” (READ MORE from S.A. McCarthy: Kamala Harris’s Anti-Catholic Bigotry on Display) In a subsequent interview, Broglio noted, “No matter who occupies the White House or holds the majority on Capitol Hill, the Church’s teachings remain unchanged.” So far so good, although the USCCB made little enough mention of the Church’s perennial moral teachings on abortion during outgoing President Joe Biden’s term, even though Biden is a self-described Catholic. “Let us ask for the intercession of our Blessed Mother, the patroness of our nation, that she guide us to uphold the common good of all and promote the dignity of the human person, especially the most vulnerable among us, including the unborn, the poor, the stranger, the elderly and infirm, and migrants,” Broglio said. Ah, there it is. The Catholic Church has, since the first century, reaffirmed and reiterated the inherent human dignity of the human person, especially the unborn innocents, and ferociously, unequivocally condemned the grave moral evil of abortion. While the Church’s moral teachings do also address such issues as poverty and migration, those issues were never placed on a par with abortion — at least, not until Trump came on the scene in 2016. To his credit, Broglio did insist that the USCCB’s “preeminent concern” is “the dignity of the human person. We like the phrase that the human person is created in the image and likeness of the Almighty from womb to tomb. So that’s a primary concern.” He called abortion “a form of violence in our society” that “cheapens the dignity of the human person.” However, the archbishop quickly followed that up by saying that the U.S. is a “wealthy nation” and, as such, has “a responsibility to address … the concerns of the poor, those who are on the margins of society. It’s distressing to see in some of our major cities the number of people who are without homes, without shelter.” Again, fair enough: care for the poor has always been a concern of the Church’s — it’s one of the reasons so many American Catholics were once Democrats. But it would be erroneous to place it on a par with abortion. Poverty is an unfortunate reality, one which might be alleviated; abortion is an unnecessary brutality, one which cruelly ends the life of an innocent unborn child, an evil which demands to be opposed at every turn. Catholic Doctrine and Immigration Broglio followed that concern, however, by noting that USCCB leaders “have advocated for reform of the immigration laws in this country for decades. And this is really the time I hope that something can be done to rectify a system that is broken and to try and make it more responsive to the needs of people.” He added, “Coupled with that would be our responsibility to help those nations from which people are migrating, because often they’re migrating because of poverty and other difficult situations in their home countries.” The Catholic Church has, contrary to the claims of progressive bishops, long been a proponent of national sovereignty and advocate of justified border control measures. Pope Pius XII once declared, “It is quite legitimate for nations to treat their differences as a sacred inheritance and guard them at all costs.” Yes, Christians have an obligation not to treat immigrants — legal or otherwise — uncharitably, but we also have an obligation to love our nation, our national heritage and culture, and to protect and preserve those things. Enforcing laws that uphold the common good is a matter of justice. It was largely on the grounds of this particular issue, closely following concerns over the economy, that Trump was handed the sweeping mandate — the electoral college, the popular vote, the House, and the Senate — that he was, even after nearly a decade of mainstream media and Democratic politicians smearing him as a fascist, a Nazi, and even Adolf Hitler. The American people, in accord with our laws, placed Trump in office a second time. He has a responsibility — to the American people, to the U.S. Constitution, and even to Catholic moral teaching — to protect and preserve the nature and identity of the country. (READ MORE: Trump, McDonald’s, and the Lost Art of Noblesse Oblige) Broglio’s devotion to pro-life principles, to defending the lives of the unborn innocents who have been so callously and wantonly slaughtered in this country, is admirable. However, he and the rest of the USCCB would do well to familiarize themselves with the Catholic Church’s moral teachings on immigration throughout the centuries. Particularly given the USCCB’s complicity in the ongoing illegal immigration crisis, it might be best for the bishops to sit this one out and focus their efforts on protecting the unborn. The post Catholic Bishops Stumble on Immigration appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Those who wish to govern must sacrifice their freedom. It is not only the grinding demands of a campaign, with its enormous demands on the body and the spirit as well as on the finances. It is, when the campaign has been won, that the greatest demands come.  The greatest of our leaders were true public servants and gave us examples of power harnessed to responsibility. We speak of those in government as public servants. Sometimes, that term expresses only a hope. While Harry Truman left the White House in much the same financial shape as when he came in, we have become inured to folks like the Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens for whom a lifetime in government turned out to be immensely rewarding financially.  But we see that the charm of living vicariously through glam politician/celebrities has worn thin. The promise of our American democracy has been that it is the ordinary free citizen who is free to make a life as celebrated and glorious and enriching life as that of the glittering elites. (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: Unity Is a Common Goal, Often Abused) This last election was largely about the working American casting off the enchantment of the elite classes and seeing that instead of doing good, dedicating themselves to the good of the country, they have concentrated far more effectively on doing well for themselves. They spoke at the polls and told would-be public servants: serve us well or we will remove you. The country wants as its public servants those who realize that the only proper use of power is in service to those who have voted to grant it to him — or her. Good governance is responsible, meaning capable of responding, through its power, to the genuine needs of Americans people: protection from enemies, without and within, ensuring a free market and fair trade, and good at responding to disasters that are beyond the resources of private citizens to address adequately by themselves. One of the illusions of those who fancy themselves the governing class has been that Americans have a great desire to be perennially free of such responsibility. They have used the addictive joys of irresponsibility the way a dealer uses drugs — to enrich themselves irresponsibly, little caring for the destructive effects on the people whom they have hooked. And there is an addictive attraction to power with no responsibility, and it allows us to plan lives around money we need not pay back, devotion to ourselves that we may take for granted, and an imagined unlimited ability to satisfy every craving with no consequence of ill health. A permanent childhood, endlessly gratifying.  To the degree we have fallen for this bait and that our culture has turned towards such an ethos, we elect leaders who reflect this irresponsibility in a variety of ways in their own lives. We are blessed, however, with powerful counterexamples of what politicians can be. The greatest of our leaders were true public servants and gave us examples of power harnessed to responsibility. We were blessed at the start with George Washington and his conscious attempt to establish an ethos of selfless duty as the main requisite of the job of head of the American federal union. Adams left a quiet legacy of doing what was right for the country even if it meant political defeat. Lincoln gave his own life in ridding our nation of the obscenity of slavery. In a later age, Truman was famous for the attitude expressed by the sign on his Oval Office desk: The Buck Stops Here. Ronald Reagan had a motto on his desk as well: “There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit,” teaching that empowerment depends not on enhancing one’s glory but on dedication to what needs to be done. But our own times provide counter examples as well. One of Rush Limbaugh’s most acute criticisms of Obama’s presidency was 44’s proclivity to always speak as the perennial candidate, always free to lecture and criticize, and never accountable for the results of his own use of power. He wanted us to believe as well that the government was something outside him and for which he was not responsible. Judge me on utopian promises, he was saying, and not on what I deliver in the world of action in which you, my subjects, live. On the other hand, one can equally evade responsibility by claiming the opposite: to be power incarnate, and thus reducing to zero the standing of anyone to question him. Dr. Fauci famously showed that attitude when, subject to increasingly telling criticism, he fulminated, “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” dimly echoing the phrase famously attributed to Louis XIV: “I am the state.”  In either the Fauci way or the Obama way, the same result follows — the one exercising the power is trying to exempt himself from any accounting. He wishes to be free to act with impunity in the future, either by denying the power he holds (Obama’s way) or denying any accountability for it (Fauci’s way). The problem of responsibility is shared by every free individual. Genesis tells that God gave the human being enough power to rule all other beings, but within a framework: “To work it and to protect it.” The message is that we are responsible for protecting the world over which we have been given power. We are part of a commonwealth that will prosper if we act within the bounds of care and accountability. In the wake of the disastrous results of their narcissistic exercise of power, Obama and his proxies under Biden peddled the excuse that all blame lay elsewhere. They peddled the malignant Woke construct of an always-guilty oppressor class, identifiable by ethnicity and designated from birth to be forever responsible for all that goes wrong in society. Eventually, this metastasized into one great enemy, to whom all blame was always appropriate — Donald Trump as Emmanuel Goldstein. (READ MORE: Created in God’s Image: Where Human Greatness Lies) Existentially fearsome, eternally threatening, his menace justified every abrogation of the traditions of our politics that has kept our Republic from following the Greek democracies into a suicidal plunge into oblivion. But now, by the grace of Providence, the citizens awarded political power to us. What will we do with it? We have had plenty of people to blame for their misuse of power. The drama of Trump overcoming the brute force of a coordinated political attack that aimed to censor, censure, impoverish, isolate, criminalize, and imprison him — certainly inspired some to attempt to assassinate him — is an epic for the ages — yeuge! Time to Deliver for Every American But now we will have the power, and we will be rightly measured by our use of it. Lincoln realized this and tried to turn America towards a new birth rather that into a settlement of old scores once the rebellion had been defeated. It is up to us to as well provide an example for the ages about what American good governance really should look like. The first time around Trump delivered a fine economy and a world more peaceful than in any other administration of this century. All was overwhelmed by the monstrous lies of the impeachment campaigns, which have at last been dealt their mortal blow by an American public that has had years to make up its mind and consider. Now it is up to us to deliver. No excuses, no fear. Just as Trump has put together in this winning campaign a memorable coalition from all parts of America, each bringing their talents to bear for the cause, so must we continue. The path we take must command and excite the best and the brightest, must encourage a path forward in which we welcome merit, ability, and devotion to our national cause and in the cause of freedom. It must look towards what we can all be together, and only in the most egregious and criminal of cases, look backwards towards what we now as a country leave behind. Trump’s comeback is legendary. Now for a legendary presidency, filled with the knowledge he has expressed so movingly of being spared by divine providence from the assassin’s bullet. Let his term of office be galvanized by that knowledge of purpose. May we all welcome in a renewed sense of an American Covenant, an embrace of our responsibility to each other, to the world, and above all, to the One in whom we find our oneness and whose blessings on us all we humbly entreat. The post We Must All Renew the American Covenant appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.