Thursday Aug. 15, 2024 – Today is the 79th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII. This is what I posted on the Facebook pages of Best of British, British & Commonwealth Forces, Conservatives (U.K.), MacArthur Memorial, American History TV and WWII in the Philippines:
Thu. Aug. 15, 2024
“Japanese education curriculum prioritizes portraying the country (Japan) as a VICTIM of World War II rather than acknowledging its role as an aggressor.” This must be corrected.
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006) Surprising Truth About The Cast.
Did you know this in “LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA”? The young Japanese actors portraying soldiers during the Battle of Iwo Jima had limited knowledge of the actual events since the Japanese education system does not extensively teach about the battle. This is partly because Japanese education curriculum prioritizes portraying the country (Japan) as a VICTIM of World War II rather than acknowledging its role as an aggressor. As a result, many Japanese citizen, especially those born after the war, have limited knowledge about the details of the battle
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Now this:
On the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Shin Nakayama, Nikkei Asia’s Editor-in-Chief, wrote about Nagasaki’s decision not to invite the Israeli Ambassador prompting others including those from the U.K. and the U.S. to boycotted the ceremony.
Letter from Nikkei Asia’s editor: Harris takes on Trump
Shin Nakayama shares his weekly reflections and recommendations August 9, 2024 17:23 JST
https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Editor-in-Chief-s-Picks/Letter-from-Nikkei-Asia-s-editor-Harris-takes-on-Trump
Hello from Tokyo. Seventy-nine years ago today, Nagasaki, a city in western Japan, was devastated by an atomic bomb. Nagasaki and Hiroshima remain the only places in the world to have experienced such destruction. Each summer, ceremonies are held in both cities to silently pray for peace and renew the resolve to achieve a planet without nuclear weapons.
This year’s events have received more attention than usual due to Nagasaki’s decision not to invite the Israeli ambassador — a move that led some other ambassadors, including those from the U.S. and the U.K., to stay away in protest. This situation highlights the complex interaction between historical memory, diplomacy and current international relations.
The history of U.S. participation in these ceremonies is worth noting. For more than 60 years after World War II, U.S. ambassadors did not attend the events in either city. That changed when Ambassador John Roos went to the Hiroshima ceremony in 2010 and the Nagasaki event in 2012. The presence of U.S. presidents in these cities — let alone the ceremonies themselves — is even rarer, with Barack Obama becoming the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima in 2016, while Joe Biden followed in his footsteps last year.
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On “Japan Forward” Facebook page, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said: “No matter how difficult the path to a world without nuclear weapons may be, we cannot stop striving toward that goal.“
My comment were as follows: Fri. Aug. 9, 2024 – The atomic bombings of Japan was the solution to fanaticism. Don’t you think we also have to address fanaticism, extremism and most of all indifference?
Excerpt: I am not totally against the Kyoto Protocol. Totalitarianism, extremism and indifference will be the three roots of man’s problems in the 21st century. We just have to be relatively on the same page.But the Philippines is not yet ready for self-rule. It is difficult to argue that after 60 years of failing to develop, the Philippines as a whole should be allowed to maintain the status quo.
The Kyoto Prootocol and deforestation. (Bienvenido Macario, ex-Philippines) 02/19/06 at 9:37 am
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