Archives > 2005-12

I went to Egypt last week. 14 hour flight from Tokyo. I really had fun visiting pyramids and old ruins. An Egyptian guide I met talked so much about the war in their neighboring country, Iraq. He repeatedly said to our tour group that the US started the war because they wanted oil, not to provide democracy. He was so emotional about that. I've seen very few American tourists visiting there. I understood why. I recommend Americans not visit there nowadays although the pyramids and ruins were magnificient.   

Yesterday I went to the meeting to hear the testimonies of Nanking Masscre survivors. Two people showed up and talked about their experience in ther villages near the former Chinese capitol, Nanking, December 1937. They are very old people. One of them is 85 year-old man, and the other is 77 year-old woman. They were child at the time the masscre occured. Japanese army came into their...