今日８月１５日は７２回目の終戦記念日です。
戦争で尊い犠牲となられた方々のご冥福を心よりお祈りいたします。
大雨・・・・
ただただご無事を祈るばかりです。
The Japanese Rising Sun Flag
The Japanese Rising Sun Flag is widely accepted and regarded as another national flag of Japan. Actually it is used as the maritime flag of the Japanese Self-Defense Force still now.
However South Korea is now insisting that the flag be banned from any international sport game since the flag was used by the Imperial Japanese military forces during the wartime. They claim that the Japanese committed war crimes under the flag during WWII and thus must be treated as equivalent to Hakenkreuz, the flag of Nazis.
However, the fact is that Hakenkreuz was merely a flag of some political party and never represented Germany or German people in toto originally. On the other hand, the design of the Rising Sun Flag had been used by the Japanese in their daily life since much earlier times and the flag is still being used by Japan as a nation officially. The flag represents the Japanese people as a whole even if their history contains both light and shadow. Won’t a denial of a flag of a nation lead to a denial of the whole nation including its entire history and people? Isn’t this the exact reason why national flags of any country must be treated with the highest respect always? Don’t the Japanese have the due right to demand the same respect to one of their national flags and confront any form of trials to disgrace it?
(Sometimes, hatred is directed also at the national flags of other countries, especially the flag of the United States, in South Korea. )
http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/angry-koreans-protests-demonstrations-09.jpg
As for war crimes, which country is totally innocent? For example, South Korea has a dark history that they massacred 1.2 millions of civilians in the Bodo Leave Massacre during the Korean War.
If North Korea accuses South Korea of the crime insisting that South Korean flag reminds them of the horrible incident, must the South Korean flag be banned from international sport games?
How about the Vietnam War? It is told that Koreans massacred and raped so many Vietnamese civilians during the war.
If the Vietnamese complain about the flag of South Korea saying that the flag reminds them of the horrifying experience, must it be banned from international sport games?
Nonsense!
After all it seems to us that South Korea just wants to eliminate all things related to Japan from this planet. Must the rest of the world share the same hatred against Japan with South Korea just as they are wanting it to?
The same attitude can be seen in their silly claim that “Sea of Japan,” the internationally established place name of the body of water between Japan and South Korea must be replaced with their local name “East Sea.”
“J.Crew, Tsunami, Sea of Japan, and Korean Ethnocentrism”
When can the Japanese have mature neighbors and good friends on the other side of the Sea of Japan?
横浜・・・・
桜も散ってしまいましたか・・・・・
こんな風景がもう少し暖かい時期まで続けば最高なのにね。
今日で６年・・・
東日本大震災から今日で６年。
犠牲になられた方々に対し深く哀悼の意を表します。
また、台湾の皆様にも深く感謝の意を表します。
森友学園 籠池理事長 【本人緊急配信】
沖縄県民の叫び ”素晴らしい演説でした”
https://youtu.be/TH8WaR7lrS0
横浜市立岡村中学校創立70周年大同窓会特設サイト
http://yes-dousoukai.com/okamura/
我が母校である横浜市立岡村中学校の大同窓会が企画中であるようです。
詳細は上記URLをごらん下さい。
現在は幹事代表の名前もあることから安全と思われます。
新年あけましておめでとうございます（昼）
新年あけましておめでとうございます。
年明け早々不調（笑）すでに首が痛いし・・・
皆さんにとって今年一年が良い年でありますように。
騒動のあった２０１６年とは違った穏やかな年になってほしいものです。
よこはまＣＣ１６