This is the story about Jean, who was English woman and was thrown into the World War II in Malaya. The Thirty-one English women and children, including Jean, were taken by Japanese as prisoner at Pangon, and were forced to keep on the move from area to area over six month. They totally have marched more than hundred miles, and half of them were dead. Then...
After I had read this story, I rearized that We Japanese are the victim of war and at the same time are the victimizer of war. I think that We must not only urge the banning of nuclear weapons in the name of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must atone for role in war in countries in Asia
English language school in the heart of the Japanese Alps, and English language learners sharing their experiences online. Teachers post regular items about teaching, learning tools, events in the school, their day to day experiences living & working in a foreign country. Students post on whatever takes their fancy - book reports, festivals in home towns, postcards from business trips etc. A little Brit of England in the guts of Japan!
Sunday 8 November 2009
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ReplyDeleteInteresting comment you make about Japan & the war; I think a lot of people would agree with you. How come so few Japanese people know very much about what happened before & during the war?
Seems very blinkered to me. I met a couple of Japanese backpackers at a cemetary on Death Railway (Burma railroad), at Kanchanaburi in Thailand, who were shocked to know of their country's brutality to prisoners & Thai natives...
jim