17 August 2010
Why they protest US military base
Anti-US military base activist, Mr. Ashitomi spoke to young students from Palestinean, and Israel with interpreter.
He talked about why he set up the tent to monitor nearby US marine base, Camp Schwab.
Japanese government recently agreed with the US marine on expansion of the current marine base for the relocation of the Futenma base in Okinawa.
Part 1 is environmetal issue related to the construction of new base. Part 2 is peace issue.
Anti-US base activist talks 反米軍基地活動家の話し Part 1
Anti-US base activist talks 反米軍基地活動家の話し Part 2
You can learn more detail in this blog's tag, Okinawa, which you can access by clicking the below.
18:20 Posted in Ecology, Japan News, Politics, Society, US-Japan relationship, USA issues | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: military, okinawa
10 August 2010
Very Constitutional
Found and captured great scene in Henoko beach, where US marines are destroying the natural environment to harm local people.
This represents current situation of US-Japan relationship.
12:23 Posted in Japan News, Politics, US-Japan relationship, USA issues | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: military, okinawa
02 August 2010
Japan signed, but the U.S., Russia, China did not!
Who contributes to the world peace?
00:13 Posted in Politics, USA issues | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: war, military
27 June 2010
German film "Die Welle" It can be true!
The story took place in Highs School in Germany. One high school teacher taught students what the dictatorship (Autokratie) is.
Students never understood what it was and believed things like Third Reich would never happen again.
Then the teacher decided to do psychological experiment in his class and the students' attitude gradually changed in scary way.
The story was not well-done, not convincing althought it was based on a true story.
However, I understand fear of charisma featured in the film because I recently experienced something like that by the man in the below photo.
He has become public icon since fall of 2008 after being dismissed as Japanese Air force chief due to his publicly released essay which justified Japan's past invasion. Details are described in this article. He has published several books since then. I bought one of them.
He is in fact charismatic and neo-fascist-like but at the same time very realistic because of his knowledge gained in his career.
No one wants to be isolated in the society. So people want some kind of symbol to strengthen the unity.
Yes, it can revive as described in the film. Especially those who are not smart, and youngsters can be easily manipulated.
Being attracted to it sometimes makes you feel great like drugs.
We need to be cool about what a learder says in order to avoid tragedy.
11:47 Posted in Deutschland, Film, Politics, Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: history, nazis