The modern industrial civilization has a fatal defect. This defect resides in the “Lack of the sense of absolute values” and the pursuit of “Ultimate beauty of labor compulsion”. Modern economics which has worked as the theoretical arm of the modern industrial civilization itself represents a doctrine of mammonism or materialism (in the case of Marxian economics). It is apparent that the modern economics tends to destroy nature as it calls the destruction of nature “development”. In this paper, the author proposes the values of the sun, the air, the earth and the ocean to be absolute values. As we shall look at later on, “eros” or love can be an absolute value too. The civilization which has been existing from the ancient time up to the present may be expressed as the “labor-compulsive civilization system” and the pursuit of “ultimate beauty of labor compulsion”. However, the civilization contains self-destructive mechanism. From the foregoing philosophy of civilization, in this paper, the author proposes “the concept of Positive-Negative-Harmonized New Capitalism” in which “positive” refers to the production system based on relative value of the modern industrial civilization and “negative” refers to a self-supportable capital system which depends on absolute values. Also strategies to realize “capitalistic happiness” are proposed.

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Under investigation is a system for heating and adding moisture to air in ascending atmospheric wind current power generation at a level of several hundred million kW using an artificial structure constructed on a desert plain in a subtropical region or on an ocean. In power generation on a subtropical desert plain, the area required for collecting solar heat will increase in proportion to desired output; however, the conveyance of a huge amount of heat poses a serious problem. It would be rather more advantageous in view of the energy balance sheet to use a system that moves the structure within the area in which the solar heat is being collected, and this would also be a much simpler system. In a wind power generation system constructed on the ocean, it is possible to move the structure over a wider range, thereby allowing power generation in more favorable meteorological conditions. This system is thus expected to obtain a sufficiently large output even using humid air at the same temperature as that of surface sea water. It is therefore possible to utilize ocean surface water as a natural source of heat to construct a system which does not require an artificial solar heat collector covering a huge area that might exert an adverse effect on ocean ecosystems.

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This paper consists of two parts. The first part is a proposal on ground-water. It is a domestic or social issue. 1. To propose to make ground-water maps and to record groundwater balance and quality all over Japan. They must be open to public and easily accessible. 2. To propose that a minimum unit of local self-governing body, such as village, town or ward, must have at least one ground-water well by cultivating, maintaining and managing. Furthermore, it must have an additional well for each 100, 000 residents. Nationwide Water contest must be held to promote water conservation and clean maintenance. 3. To propose that national statistics by government or private publisher must carry an independent chapter on water balance. A comparison was made and discussed between Japan's and the U. S. on ground-water data. The second part is a proposal on CO₂ control and reduction in the air. It is named “Cotton Coal CO₂ Cycle (4Cs) Project”. The proposal is good for country or area where a large amount of coal is consumed and able to plant cotton. The base of this proposal is to try to contribute for environmental improvements by a combination of conventional technologies but not by the-stateof-art technologies. The major portion of proposal are: 1. Immediately applicable. 2. To mediate and solve negative relationship between industrial development and environmental deterioration by productive agriculture. 3. Use of natural vegetation cycle. 4. Fixation of a large quantity of CO₂.5. Beside CO₂ subject, effective for depression of suspended particle matter caused by flyash, greening of desert, etc. This is a simple and applicable proposal.

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During the 1980s, the real growth rate of Tokyo had shifted, showing higher values than that of the national average by nearly 2%. However, this rate declined to be below the national average in 1990 for the first time in ten years. It is not correct to regard such discontinued growth as a temporary loss of growth speed after the collapse of the bubble economy. We should direct our attention to the “cycle of exhaustion” that plagues the Tokyo economy. The Tokyo economy has been working in this cycle as the high performance engine pulling the Tokyo-centered economic system and also leading the local economy which is unilaterally dependent on the Tokyo economy. The “abolition of prefectures and the establishment of states” would release the Tokyo economy from this cycle and would play the role in the preparation of a new stage for the growth of the Japanese economy toward the 21st century.

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