Monday, October 17, 2005
This week , Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made another controversial visit to the Yazukuni War Shrine, albeit it was a private visit and he did not enter the Shrine's inner sanctum, it still sparked massive condemnations from Japan's neighbours namely China and South Korea. They state it was disrespect towards their losses, and an intentional move on Koizumi's part to disrupt bilateral relations, seeing the visits, and every other visit to the Shrine as indication that the Prime Minister is honouring Japan's war generals who had held dominion over the suffering of the Asian people during World War Two.
Koizumi maintains that it was a visit to pray for protection and peace from their Japanese ancestors. Hmmmm....
I don't see why they are complaining so much....after all, this is in the past, those generals are dead.
Although. I'm thinking they should be happy about Koizumi's war shrine visits. It is a testament that as Prime Minister, he represents the people memories of the past and of the wrong they had done during the world war. It reminds him everytime to not repeat that mistake, to know of Japan's own losses in the war and by the atomic bombs, and that until today, his people are still suffering because of toxic contamination. The fact that Japan still adhere to the 1950 treaty of San Francisco to have non military and only defensive army and limited cache of weapons is proof to Japan's willingness to follow the path of peace rather than the warpath set of the generals of Japan's past.
It is China's and South Korea's inability to let go of the past that is causing breakdowns in bilateral relations. Rather than seeing ways of how they can cooperate, they hang onto the events that occurred near 40 years past.
Sigh......
In unrelated news.......umm....I've forgotten what I was going to say.......uh....
well, boss had me drafting a sale and purchase of shares agreement. Besides that....I basically spent the whole day on kgs, trying to recruit members to SGC. They from the Ship of Fools are fun =p, and I won against their clan leader in a 9x9, but lost to one of their members by the name of Impulse.
Met Zombie......he's nice. On Sunday, just stayed up and talked once we found out one of our favourite books were Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy. He does this great go posters for his club, and they are really funny..... visit them here http://www.putfile.com/zombielincoln
Just lost a rengo game. Me paired with Springto. Goninja with Aitkensam...................................bad move after bad move.....sigh........
Just getting crankier. Bad dreams, bad headache........chest hurts too......off to bed I suppose.
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 10:25 PM
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