The Rain in Tokyo Falls Everywhere
It`s been raining every single day since I got here. I`ve been told this is good because before I came it was stifflingly humid. Go figure. I`ve been haunting bookstores, getting excited by the prospect of many books in English and the thought that soon I can read any book I want available to me care of the public library system. I`ve also joined the real world again because I`m not in Korea anymore I can listen to NEW MUSIC. Did I mention without the internet? Because of course, my only internet connection at school was so ghettofab I couldn`t even listen to sound when I plugged my headphones in. I`ve been walking around Tower Records and HMV in Shibuya (area that is from whence the likes of Pizzicato Five came) listening to a bajillion CDs. Fuji Rock is coming and though I will miss it, that means many CDs on sale. Of course, a Japanese sale means $25 instead of $30 but at least they`ve put all the It band CDs on listening stations.
Today I went to the shrine for the Japanese war dead. I was amazed to see Korean people there, posing for photos with their peace signs, did they have any idea what was inside the museum? Probably not, there was no Korean but essentially the museum made me quite angry. It was as if the Germans made a museum that glorified the Nazi cause and said Or I mean, there was a bit on a suicide techinque they were working on developing before the war was over and it said, As if they weren`t going to loose their lives if they did the actual suicide missions??? There are 2 books in the bookstore that claim to debunk the of the Rape of Nanking. One includes a passage where they highlight the words
and argues that the report is relying on hearsay and therefore the rapes didn`t happen because of a lack of eye witness accounts. And BTW, did you know that the US forced the Japanese to bomb us? Wow....WOW.
Today I went to the shrine for the Japanese war dead. I was amazed to see Korean people there, posing for photos with their peace signs, did they have any idea what was inside the museum? Probably not, there was no Korean but essentially the museum made me quite angry. It was as if the Germans made a museum that glorified the Nazi cause and said Or I mean, there was a bit on a suicide techinque they were working on developing before the war was over and it said, As if they weren`t going to loose their lives if they did the actual suicide missions??? There are 2 books in the bookstore that claim to debunk the of the Rape of Nanking. One includes a passage where they highlight the words
and argues that the report is relying on hearsay and therefore the rapes didn`t happen because of a lack of eye witness accounts. And BTW, did you know that the US forced the Japanese to bomb us? Wow....WOW.