日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Opinion / Op-Ed Contributors

Flying in the face of reason

By Wen Zongduo (China Daily) Updated: 2014-02-17 07:56

Japan's attempt to glorify its kamikaze pilots of World War II is a brazen violation of universal human values

One tragedy of World War II was Japan's fascist fanatics driving young pilots into suicidal attacks on US warships. These kamikaze attacks have become synonymous with crazy, reckless behavior.

But for today's Japanese nationalists, the kamikaze pilots, officially named Special Attack Forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy, embody Japan's samurai warrior spirit of devotion and revenge and therefore should be idolized. Pilot documents are exhibited at the Yasukuni Museum in Tokyo and more are displayed at the Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu.

The Minami-Kyushu municipal government, which manages the museum, submitted an application on Feb 4 for 333 items, including pilots' wills, letters and diaries, to be included on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register under "Letters from Chiran". The aim is to have those items honored worldwide and remembered side by side with the Diaries of Anne Frank and other documentary heritage inscribed to the Memory of the World Register and related to the victims of the Holocaust.

Curator of the Chiran museum Satoshi Yamaki says the pilots' "letters are symbolic of Japan's commitment to peace", while Mayor Kanpei Shimoide claims the special attack pilots were "victims of the national war policy".

In fact, the curator and mayor know well that the letters and documents are real in handwriting but hardly in thinking. Due to the Imperial Army codes of behavior and peer pressure, those young pilots who did their "noble duty to die", a duty shunned by the experienced naval officers, could never express their agony, doubts and concerns in words as it would threaten the lives of their immediate families and other relatives. Akihisa Torihama, grandson of Tore Torihama, a woman who cooked many pilots' last meals in her restaurant in Chiran, told Mark Litke from ABC News that the pilots confided in her "all the things they could not say in their heavily censored letters home".

The kamikaze pilots may have been victims of the war, but once they took off, they were committed to turning others into victims. Their writings should not be part of the Memory of the World.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

Most Viewed Today's Top News
New type of urbanization is in the details
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 毛片视频免费 | 天天爱天天干天天操 | 伊人加勒比 | 午夜色影院 | www国产亚洲精品久久麻豆 | 韩国一级淫一片免费放 | www.av视频| 欧美一级一区二区三区 | 国产又黄又色 | 色播激情 | 玖玖在线 | 日批视频在线播放 | 亚洲精品久久久久久久久久久 | 午夜免费观看视频 | 另类欧美亚洲 | 国产资源一区 | 日本色综合 | 91在线观 | 成人一区三区 | 亚洲国产成人91精品 | 97精品国产97久久久久久免费 | 日韩av手机在线免费观看 | 九九热免费在线视频 | 日韩在线视频观看免费 | 在线观看国产欧美 | 天堂va在线 | 深夜成人福利视频 | 中文字幕专区 | 一道本在线观看视频 | 成人黄色免费视频 | 香蕉视频免费看 | 日韩精品视频免费在线观看 | 亚洲国产欧美精品 | 网友自拍av| 成年人视频网址 | 日韩成人综合 | 成人激情视频在线 | 欧美一级免费大片 | 欧美一区二区日韩 | www日本高清视频 | 亚洲国产精品欧美久久 |