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American citizen but a foreign native born in southern Germany, raised in northern Japan. He holds a Ph.D. degree in biblical theology (Center for Advanced Theological Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary). Dr. Waterman mainly lives in Los Angeles, California. He studied various subjects (philosophy, sociology, etc.) and languages in Japan and in America (Hirosaki University, University of Tokyo, Fuller Theological Seminary, and other institutions). Email: markwaterman(at)fuller(dot)edu. Some call him "Dr. Marks".

Thursday, December 07, 2006

真珠湾攻撃の日

Pearl Harbor Day

As I mentioned yesterday, my blog sometimes makes mention of calendar. Today (Hawaii time: December 7, 1941; Japan time: December 8) we willy-nilly recall “Remember Pearl Harbor!” But in what sense? There are many meanings of the remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor: for the Americans, for the Japanese, and for the Japanese-Americans.

American TV news cites “Day of Infamy” (http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/PearlHarbor/fdr-speech.htm) from morning till night. KTLA (Los Angeles) Prime News reported that the former P.O.W. in the Philippines will take action to sue the Japanese Government and Japanese companies for physical and mental damages. News media of Japanese-Americans keep silent today because today is not the day to speak about Manzanar and Heart Mountain (the major forced relocation centers of Japanese and Japanese-Americans during WWII).

Strangely enough, however, some Japanese people (n.b.: most of them are not Japanese-Americans but pure [?]Japanese who live in the US as permanent residents) in LA recently held a meeting for critical evaluation of the Tokyo Trials (International Military Tribunal for the Far East). Thanks to one of my friends who participated in the meeting, I heard their trend toward anti-American readings of history. As Japanese they still live in America and hate America.

Anyway, I do not like political calendar . . .

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

日本の開戦日や敗戦日が何れもマリアの記念日に当たるのはどんな偶然からなのでせうか。

500年前には日本の人口が1300万人くらいで耶蘇教徒が100万人ゐたと云ふことですが、人口が10倍になつてもキリスト教徒の数は変はらないのは痛快です。

でも日本の(高等)教育がイエズス会に占領されてしまつたのでは同じことでせうか。

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