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I just happened to hear the song during work-out at a gym in my neighbourhood.  It was a style of telling a fairy tale.   The lyrics were very impressive to me as it says “hate your neighbours and cheat your friends in the name of God.” Then it goes on telling how the aggressor went so greedy though their opponents were generous.   The song reminds us of what is going on in the Middle East and Eastern Europe currently. The aggressors are just arrogant and never compromise with anybody. That was true when Japan invaded China in 1930's. Japan invaded China because...

I just saw the film at a small theatre in Tokyo.  It was a biopic about the French politician who lived through holocaust and after the war became a lawyer and the minister of French government and became the first female president of European Union assembly.  She helped promote women's rights by legalisation of abortion in France, 1970's. She contributed to improvement of...

The novel is based on this issue and my own experience.   In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer...

Academy winning film (1986) directed by Oliver Stone.  A young American boy joined the military force combatting in South Vietnam, and witnessed the hell including division within the...

Last month, US president Obama paid visit to Hiroshima and hugged survivor of the atomic bomb which the U.S. force dropped onto the city. For most Japanese he was very much welcomed because he...