Nobody Knows "Comfort Women".

 So-called "Comfort Women Problem" are now making new turbulence in Japan. I think  , there might be few people who know this issue Except east Asia.

 At the WW2, many brothels were utilized for military in many countries. Off course Japan imperial army administrated such a private contractor too. U.S Army asked for brothel service to

occupied country after the WW2 and it continued till Vietnam War.

 At the end of 80's, Japanese leading newspaper Asahi set off the campaign against Japanese government as follows" Japanese government kidnapped Korean Women, and forced them prostitution for Japanese soldiers".

 This was the beginning of serious conflicts between Japan and Korea. 

Over after 20 years, Asahi retracted the ground articles that consisted of would-be comfort women's testimonies. After all,　Comfort Women problem have come  to be a fishy story. To say the fact, Japanese masterminds coaxed Korean aged women to claim apology and huge compensation to Japanese government, 

 And more, some Japanese female corespondents had spread critical article for a disgrace to Japanese for themselves in English. But Now, their ground has lost, and Class action are held against Korean government, and the reason of  action is as follows  "Korean government offered sex worker to U.S.military, at the time, it was a national policy and a sort of demand from U.S personnel. "

 I assure that this problem will go awry and cause many outrage from now too. I don't want to imagine it. 

Flower Picnic Photo

April, 1 Cherry has fully bloomed. I took film camera, Pentax 67 to capture sight of flower picinc.

original image 4796×3315

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0dYQGH684JBQjJDUmQyZmNsN3c/edit

Ukrainian Musicians

My knowledge about Ukraine is scarce.  Ukraine and Crimea are gathering attentions of the people all over the world.

　Ukraine and Crimea are very famous for battle fields.  Especially, the biggest panzer battles around this area in WW 2. After the great tank battle in Kursk　1943, Kiev in Ukraine was the next key city which Stalin wanted to regain.

 But these don't so impressed  me as a Ukraine affair. By the way, looking up Ukrainian Musicians by  Wikipedia. I have been surprised to know great musicians Ukraine gave to the world. For example,

Vladimir Horowitz 1904-1989 piano

Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953 composer

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter　 1915-1997 piano

 These famouse geniuses were Ukrainians. Nowadays, Jazz became to be well played in Ukraine. Kotebel Jazz Festival is one of the famous Jazz festivals in the world. Billy Cobham ,
drummer , has peformed as a host in this festival.

朝三暮四 Same Assad, Dithering Obama

Old Chinese proverb "朝三暮四　chõsan boshi "might be fit to think about U.S.-Russia agreement on Syria.

 Once upon a time,  in China there was a man who was fond of monkeys very much. He kept many monkeys. Then he was getting poor and poor, and often run short of food for them.
 He was at a loss, but got nice but tricky idea.

  Every monkey was fed  acorns everyday, but he decided to reduce them to seven.
 He said to monkeys " From today ,  I give everyone FOUR acorns in the morning, THREE in the evening".

 Monkeys got angry and made a row.

 He gave another proposal at once. " I feed you THREE in the morning, FOUR in the Evening. Are you OK?"

 Monkeys got satisfied and delighted.  They couldn't spot the same amount of acorns as a day after all.

 After U,S-Russia agreement , Assad is not moved at all, and his policy seems to be invariant. He already started to mop up against anti govt and conceal chemical weapons.

Yes,We Can..... Strike Against Syria.

A wise man changes his mind ,a fool never. This Spanish proverb seems to be untrue.  As for "Change ",  U.S. president Obama won the election to get the supreme status by using a catch phrase "Change".

 Civil war in Syria has been lasting for two yeas and a half. Assad regime  hardly fall. Obama was reluctant to take military intervention in Syria. But he has "changed his mind". Despite of strike against Gaddafi without approval of the congress, he suddenly wanted "Authorization".

 This is his unpredictable "Change"too.

 What cause him to solicit solidarity with the congress?  "Can  Obama order the operation without approval of the congress?"

  "Yes, he can do it alone." Will lawmakers "change", and say "yes" for Obama?

Is It Operation CHAOS In Japan ?

In the mid-1960's, CIA began the domestic espionage program to investigate foreign influence and anti-war movement. Operation CHAOS was the code name of it. It is thought that Various conspiracies ｗere undertaken for thought investigation.

Well, in Japan, "the comfort women issue" has been took up so often. And Now Japanese medias  are reporting on this issue everyday.  But I can't understand this problem. What on earth did comfort women do?

 To be the fact, the comfort women emerged suddenly at the end of 1980's. They denounced  Japanese government and call for compensations. But after a time, it turned out that they narrated a complete fiction.  And now Japanese correspondents are desperately distributing articles abroad to denounce Japanese local mayor, who remarked such as "Comfort Women were needed at that time、during the war."   Licensed prostitution is licit and common now in many European countries, and Japanese military handled private brothels at that time. But Japanese medias seems to be unable to accept the fact and continue denouncing the mayor.

  This uproar might be Operation CHAOS. For what? At least, Sexist or pro-prostitution can be unmasked, can't it?

Sweden May Be Targeted By The Islamic Extremists.

 Riot in Sweden has continued for a week. But in Japan,　to be strange, there are so few news on this incident. It may be a contributing factor that Sweden is always idealized by liberal Japanese intellectuals.

 Immigrants in Sweden　includes many Muslims, and 17% of the population in Sweden are already aliens.　So-called Swedish far right groups have been cautious about this problem, but many western mediaｓ ignored this problem. Because for liberals, or leftists, Sweden is a ideal country, they always think medias shouldn't let people know the FACT. Actually, Only American conservative intellectuals have been criticizing this problem.

 Now, in Europa. Islamic Extremists are in action, maneuvering for Jihad. Today News noticed British solder killed by Islamist too. Sweden may be most dangerous in Europe, because Swedish Politicians are too liberal to face up to the reality. and the fact that many progressives in other countries praise Swedish society model, is rather harmful for the future of Sweden. If I were an Al Qaeda, I would target Sweden.