Perhaps if Francis Xavier had come to Japan four centuries later, and had the opportunity to experience Aoyama's masterpieces, he would have better understood thespiritof sho if not the "devil's language" it transforms.
He wrote an op-ed, actually, in the Miami Herald ahead ofthe debate, where he said the Spanish language debate and his participation in it would've offended thespiritof democracy.
Many businesses in Wales were using Welsh far more than they used to, and they were doing so in a spiritof goodwill with the support and encouragement ofthe Welsh Language Board, he added.
But there is an insidious blurring of categories here, which becomes plain when you compare this resolution with the more rigorous languageofthe Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 in a spiritof revulsion over the evils of fascism.