Monday, March 14, 2011

Tsunami and Japan

The Japanese coined the word "tsunami" to describe the terror waves caused by an earthquake. They have experienced the tsunami many times during their long history.

In recent history, the word was borrowed to describe the terror waves that killed 300,000 people following the Sumatra earthquake in 2004. Six years later, the Japanese had the misfortune to experience the tsunami again. Quite sad!
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yujuan said...

MY heartfelt sympathies to the ordinary Japanese people for this horror of Tsunami and the nuclear
radiation risk. Thank God it is past the North East Monsoon Season, and the winds are now blowing towards the Pacific Ocean, and not down to SEA.
When young, we often saw our grandmother praying for the soul of our grandfather in front of his tablet, and after that she would curse the Japanese. Our Grandfather was tortured in prison by the Japanese Army, and only released when Japan surrendered, and died shortly after due to water torture, beatings, and diseases incurred in prison.
When studying in the UK in the early seventies, I was sent to a seaside town of Bournmouth for industrial training for my course of study. Often I was mistaken for a Janpanese, and some people there were very hostile and unfriendly to me, and very often had to emphasise my nationality, and the reaction changed amazingly. That town was peopled with British POWs
who was tortured by the Japanese Army in WW2, and I could sense the hatred for the Japanese.
Hopefully after more than 30 yaers,
the altitude towards the Japs have changed with the passing off of the POWs and their spouses.
The Japanses, unlike the Germans, never formally apologise for the atrocities committed during WW2, in fact many times try to whitewash
history in their school books to hoodwick the younger generations.
With so many natural disasters coming time and time again, is this called retribution for their sins committed by their army nad probably by their former Emperor.
Or are my grandmother's curses coming true. Or Almighty God is still angry with them because they are still recalcitrant in the words
no apology.

March 14, 2011 1:51 PM
? said...

When I saw the old documentaries on how the Japanese soldiers cleanse the streets of Shanghai, rape women, grandmothers, mothers, and even younger girls at the age of 12 and stab children and babies with their knifes, it made me boil with anger.

This anger is not only felt by me. Till this day, my 80-ish year old, still alive parents refused to visit Japan.

The younger "strawberry" generations have no idea what the Japanese did to all the rest of the Asians in the last century. Is it only their Emperor who is at fault? No. The generals and soldiers all have a mind of their own, but theirs is a crazy and deranged mind, and their womenfolks who supported the war machinery by providing logistical support and the entire government (including the present one) are all in it together. Their experiments and projects on the human body goes beyond description. It pains me just to force myself to "live" through the nightmare again.

Heaven got eyes this time.

March 15, 2011 3:52 PM

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