World Cup Soccer Games was Almost over for Japan
Early this morning, in the Japanese time zone, the Japanese national soccer team was matched against the German team as a goodwill game prior to the World Cup in Germany.
The score was even: 2 to 2.
Coach of the Japanese team Zico looked happy.
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The Japanese team is used to be laughed at, because they look too excellent in team work and passing a ball among team mates in a football match to get a goal at all.
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In the summer of 2004, Japan defeated China at the final game of Asia Cup in Beijing to be an Asian champion.
If the coach of the Japanese team had been a Japanese instead of Zico, a Brazilian, the result of the match might have been different.
Japanese players had been exposed to bare hostility at stadiums in various Chinese cities during the Asia Cup games. In Beijin, they were also amid anti-Japan sentiment of China that unfriendly rekindled memory of the Sino-Japanese war that had occurred before and during WWII.
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It is often said that Germany fully apologized for atrocities it had done during WWII, but Japan didn’t.
There is a big misconception about reasons for an Imperial Japan’s decision on launching a war on the continent of China as well as the U.S. and its allied countries.
Nonetheless, even in this regard, Japan and Germany are even in my view, taking into consideration their manners of apology and post-war contribution to the world.
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From a certain point of view, World Cup Soccer Games was almost over for Japan. The rest is Japan vs. Brazil.
We will see a result on June 22 in Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany.
“HE IS COMING FROM HIS HOLY PLACE”