Last night the NHK hi-vision TV channel presented a special program as May 5th is the Children's Day.
The TV station invited children of various nationalities living in Japan, most of whom have a Japanese parent and a foreign parent, who speak Japanese almost as a mother tongue with a Japanese style of mind work.
It is said that it is between age 9 and 11 that children complete preparation for their life as a major in terms of language ability. The guests of the TV program are around 12 years old.
Impressive were a Korean girl who looked most reserved and said that she wanted to be a historian in future, and also an Ethiopian girl who looked most appealing and said that she wanted to be an architect and design a musical-instrument-like building.
A Japanese boy in a studio also said that he wanted to be a first-class builder in future. But, still, a kind of concern has remained as to implication of comments by a Korean elementary-school girl, living in Japan and speaking Japanese, who looks so wise and yet wants to be a historian.
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In December 1937, the Imperial Japan's Army completed its Nanjing Campaign, destroying Chinese troops who had first attacked Japanese military in Shanghai in August 1937 but had been defeated and fled to the then Chinese capital 300 km upstream of Shanghai, while continuing guerrilla attacks.
(Nanjing City, 6597 km2, is almost eight times larger than the land area of New York City, 786 km2, and its inner city was then surrounded by mighty walls, which means most citizens had many places and chances to run away before being dragged into hostilities.
Refer to "Truth of Nanjing in 1937"
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/09/twelve-disciples-togethe.html)
The Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo, however, decided a non-expansionist policy which Japanese generals commanding troops in China actually neglected in their continued conflicts with armed Chinese.
(The Imperial Army had been stationed in Shanghai and around Beijing, since the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, following international treaties and consents authorized or accepted by the USSR, the USA, European countries, and Chinese Governments since the Qing [Ching] dynasty.
However, Chinese troops supported by the USSR and so on launched attacks on Japanese troops stationed around the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing in July 1937, which provoked [or welcomed by] Japanese generals leading their divisions in China and made them determined to settle the matter once for all.)
In March 1938, an Imperial Japan's division, trying to secure a railroad line from Nanjing to Beijing was attacked severely by Chinese troops, several times larger, and withdrew from the field of operation, which became the first victory for Chinese since the series of full-scale battles had begun in Shanghai in August 1937.
In May, following a change in policy of the Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo, the Imperial Army as a response mobilized several divisions and began a full-scale campaign around Xuzhou where the key railroad line passed.
By the end of May, Chinese troops were defeated, fled, and abandoned Xuzhou, breaking levee of the Yellow River to cause a large-scale flood and performing guerrilla activities. As a consequence, many Chinese farmers were drawn to die, though some were saved by Japanese troops.
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This is the so called "Xuzhou Campaign," one of the major military campaigns in the Sino-Japanese War.
Additionally, the Imperial Japan's Army won all the major military campaigns fought in the Continent of China in WWII.
The Xuzhou Campaign is recorded as having continued from December 1937 to May 1938 and having been fought by 600,000 Chinese troops and 200,000 Imperial Japan's troops, resulting in 22,000 deaths on the Chinese side and 15,000 deaths on the Imperial Japan's side.
Nonetheless, China is large in terms of population and land, and its military was materially supported by the USSR and the USA who eventually sent a voluntary air squad called the Flying Tigers several months before Japan's attacks on Pearl Harbor.
Accordingly, Japanese generals found that several victories in campaigns could not settle the matter once for all, though they were still determined to continue battles, for they knew their officers and soldiers were stronger than their Chinese opponents.
Both the Chinese National Party and the Chinese Communist Party, spending huge money in manipulation of public opinion in the U.S., were then desperately wishing that Imperial Japan and the U.S. would open war for whatsoever reason to divert Imperial Japan's force.
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Every intellectual in the West knows the Battles in North Africa and Stalingrad fought in WWII.
But without any proper knowledge of, or insight into, great military campaigns fought between the Empire of Japan and China in WWII, even if they think they know the world and history well, I wonder if they could well deal with the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War on Terror, and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A wise Korean girl, living in democratic Japan and observing gentle and polite Japanese, must wonder why people in the world always talk about atrocities Japanese conducted in China, Korea, and other Asian nations in and before WWII.
Indeed, Japanese children should wonder why Chinese leaders would not try hard to protect their people by avoiding, at any costs, battles in the mainland China against the Imperial Japan's military.
It was perfectly clear that if they had provoked Japanese samurai-spirited generals, they would advance their soldiers into whatever fields, villages, and streets where Chinese leaders had set a military operation.
In the case, it was perfectly clear that uncounted numbers of Chinese farmers, families, and citizens would fall victim of the battles and guerrilla activities.
Chinese leaders should have had, in earnest, talks, negotiations, and business with the Empire of Japan who was already busy in developing its overseas territories in the South Pacific Ocean, Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, and the coasts of the Sea of Okhotsk.
But, unfortunately, the Chinese National Party and the Chinese Communist Party, vying for domestic hegemony, were still trying hard to leverage hopeless upheaval and turmoil since the collapse of Qing, the last classical dynasty in China, in 1912.
(In the Civil War fought by the Chinese National Party and the Chinese Communist Party between 1946 and 1949, it is said that 3,000,000 Chinese were killed.)
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I really hope that Asian children would follow suit of the Korean girl who looks honestly interested in history.
But, what makes me worry about is that there is no such a report from Israelites or Israelite Americans.
Why don't they try to review their honorable history which, however, has been contorted and, in a sense, soiled for so long by the so-called Christians or sometimes by biased Muslims?
Israelites and Israelite Americans seem to have abandoned their holy mission to restore their honorable history; Or have they been in a sense brainwashed with erroneous interpretation of the Gospels and the Old Testament?
Now, the biggest figure in the history of mankind is Jesus Christ and He was one of Israelites 2000 years ago, the study on which hence has the highest value for mankind.
If God acknowledges this my reverence to Him, He would listen to me, which itself is my faith and religion.
(A Japanese fifth-grade elementary-school girl wrote to a newspaper that she wants to be a news caster, since it looks so cool. She is determined to learn many things and keep her in good shape so as to be an anchorperson who can provide useful information for people.
However, most of Japanese elementary-school girls seem to want to work in a shop selling delicious foods, such as cakes, according to a survey....[oh my goodness...]....)
"...No Sacrifice or Offering Will ever Remove the Consequences of this Sin..."