Here we go again!

China calls it their island .... Diaoyu

Japan calls it's theirs.... Senkaku.

Japan sneaks on land in the middle of the night to plant their flag, the flag which still has blood on it.

The problem is that Japan has a bad case of AMNESIA over what it did during the last 100 years. Problem is; the other 38 Asian Nations haven't forgotten what Japan did to them.....
It's not just China either, pick an Asian country and odds are Japan has claimed one of their islands as it's own.

I think Japan needs to consider some serious History lessons for its own people, about just exactly what they did during say, 1900 to about 1945, after that I think the Japanese them selves would realize how lucky they really are, to be living in a free and prosperious country, considering ALL the EVIL things they perpetrated on ALL of ASIA....

Again it goes back to this notion of Japanese Victim-Hood, which couldn't be farther from the truth....
I am by no means any fan of China, but I have to take their side as well as Korean's in these nonsensical island claims by Japan.

I agree totally with the above, which was one of the comments on the article "Japanese nationalists proud of isle landing".

I cannot believe they have not learned their history lessons.It's very scary.I will repeat again what George Santayana reminds us:
"Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it."

Lessons of history are invaluable.

LEGACY of LIFE:

by Win Rainer

How do we hand down the good things in life.
When sadness invades with so much strife,
There is away believe in ones self.
The ability to achieve but not in wealth,
Gather thy feelings of Love and Endure
A way of life that is more sure,
Nothing is easy be determined to try
Your legacy from the past will get you by.

A wife of a former POW prisoner of the Japanese.

Tokyo's anti-nuclear Protestors remembering WW2.

Japanese nuclear demonstrators on Friday recounted the horror of World War Two, days after the region marked Tokyo's surrender nearly seven decades earlier.

The rally came after Japan on Wednesday marked the 67th anniversary of its surrender, which came after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I am sure these people do not realize that if it had not been for these bombs they would not have been able to demonstrate today.

I read one comment on this article and I totally agree.

What do nuclear Bombs have to do with nuclear energy? I am sorry I have to say; this is 100% ridiculous. I guess they should be protesting NASA and the Mars rover Curisotry, since it has a nuclear Radioisotope thermoelectric generator on board. I think they should protest X-Ray. Those use nuclear material function. Not to mention radiation treatment is used medically in the USA alone over 10 million times a year to heal people. This just shows how easy it is to lump things into a category to black and white terms. Hey, lets boycott smoke alarms too. They have nuclear materials in them. It's so easy to say; No Nukes. And by the way, if we did not drop the bombs, most of those Japanese people protesting would not even be here today to protest.We saved the lives of millions by not invading the mainland Kyushu and Honshu. Do people realize what would have happened if operation "Downfall" had taken place? Japanese people today don't realize that the Allies were two weeks away from launching an invasion three times the size of D-Day (Normandy France),and that was just for Kyushu the military machine of Japan during the war. Combined losses were estimated from 500,000 to 2 million. Another placed Japanese casualties at 5 to 9 million. Remind me again how many died from both bombs combined?? The USA had already made 500,000 purple hearts in anticipation of the half million troops it expected to loose. Oh, yes the bombs killed less than 200,000. Life is not black and white like these protestors make it. Are the bombs horrible, Yes, oh yeah. But what does saving lives through the use of the bombs have anything to do with nuclear energy power plants??(but not the mars nuclear powered mars rover?)

Lets get this right. These people are remembering the last few days of World War Two only, during which a large number of people were killed by two bombs. Remembering World War Two totally would involve remembering all the other , substantially more people killed, including those at the hands of Japanese military in Asia. When that happens more people and your government will have sympathy I am sure.

Lest we forget!


Japan seems to have forgotten about the atrocities and the many innocent people, women and children, they murdered during World War 2. Japan has never taken responsibility about their past. It's time that history is told. Japans Military barbaric behavior in World War two is not written in history books. They make it sound like they were the ones who suffered. It's time they except the blame and remove the shame!

Like one said, who was on the plane that dropped the bombs:"I try not to think about the people that got killed, I am thinking about the people that did not get killed."

Japan made many mistakes, one of them was attacking The United States. There was also the untold misery and atrocities inflicted on China, Hong Kong, Burma, Malaysia, India, The Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Korea. This was done under the dubious auspices of liberating Asia from Western imperialism and has been described as an Asian Holocaust. Even Today, the only Asian Country that has significantly warm feelings toward Japan remains Taiwan.

Rememberance Day, August 15.

Commemorate, 67 year after World War Two.


Commemorate.For us August 15. 1945 is the day we were liberated. We were free, but so many of our friends had lost their lives.They lost their lives in the Japanese concentration camps, and during the Bersiap and Political Actions, after the war.

Each war brings destruction, death and victims. People, forever marked for the rest of their lives, because of the loss of their loved ones.

We should remember and never forget what happened in World War Two. Maybe by remembering mankind will find a way to diplomacy. Maybe we become better people, otherwise there will be no future for mankind.

In the Dutch East Indies now called Indonesia after August 15 there was no August 16 for us.Yes; August 15, 1945 we were freed from the Tyrant, the Japanese, but after August 15 the Bersiap, the Political Actions started. Thousands of Dutch women, children and men were murdered.My mother and I, her sister and two children, were one of the lucky ones who made it out alive.

I think about my mother how sad it must have been for her after she arrived in The Netherlands without her husband.
For her there was August 15, but never a August 16, like it was in The Netherlands  when they got liberated on May 4,1945. They were able to celebrate again on May 5, etc. etc.

In The Netherlands they do not celebrate August 15, 1945. not even one Dutch flag will be raised. For my mother August 15 went by, like any other day.It was like it had never happened.So many times she was told that she had no idea about how the Dutch had suffered during the War. She was always told that she had been in Paradise, where it was nice and warm, food was growing on the trees. How ignored can people be.How alone my mother must have felt.

When we arrived back in The Netherlands on April 25, 1946 the Dutch people greeted the repatriates with chilliness. The reception of the Dutch Indies Military, Officials and fellow country-men and women, who arrived in The Netherlands total indigent, never got any support from our Government.Even the simple clothes they received from the Red Cross during their journey home had to be paid back, even the cost of the boat trip.For years my mother never talked about The Dutch East Indies, it was not social accepted and not political correct.My mother never received one penny of my fathers wages, when he was fighting and died for his country.

More then 24,000 citizens were killed during the occupancy of Japan in The Dutch East Indies. It would be very appropriate if the Dutch flags would be seen blowing in the wind on every building in The Netherlands to commemorate the victims from that very painful time in the history of The Netherlands, on August 15.

Never be forgotten,

                                 My father Klaas van der Wal.

                                 My fathers grave in Kanchanaburi

                                 My uncle Tobias van Driel, who died on the O16 submarine.

                                 This is his grave.

                                            Rest in peace.

Our monthly demonstration.Petition 213

Today, August 14,  our 213 petition was presented to the Japanese Embassy in The Hague.

FOUNDATION OF JAPANESE HONORARY DEBTS
NGO,STATUS ROSTER
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

His Exellency Yoshihiko Noda
Prime Minister of Japan


The Hague, Ausgust 14,2012
Petition: 213
Subject: Paper Memorial to the fallen Dutch in Asia 1941-1945.


Excellency,


Today, the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts presents to the chairpersons of the Dutch Parliament, First and Second Chambers, a Paper Memorial of the fallen Dutch Asia 1941-1945. Queen Wilhelmina in her year-end speech in 1943 proclaimed that a monument would be erected for the fallen Dutch during World War Two. Name for Name they would be mentioned in an Honorary List. After the war many names were collected and transcripted in a parchment foliant. The daughter of Queen Wilhelmina, the then Queen Juliana, presented and handed over the Honorary List of Fallen in a special formal meeting with the Dutch Parliament (Staten General) for safe keeping. The Honorary List is kept in the hall of the Parliament and since then every day a page of the Honorary List is turned.
Sixty seven years after the ending of the World War, names are still being added to the Honorary List as a result of scientific research and availability of previously closed achives. Much work has been conducted to uncover the names of those Dutch fallen in Asia. All the known names have been collected and collated in the Paper Memorial presented to the Dutch Parliament.

With the Paper Memorial we pay respect to those who gave their lives to protect us. It is for those who survived a memory of how their loved ones tried to prevent the war affecting their respective families, for others a terrifying historical document.


Prime Minister,
The Paper Memorial is an emotional document, which brings back tearful memories, but also anger over the Japanese denial of their moral responsibility for the terrible cruelties by the Japanese military. We have said much about this subject in the past. We cannot and will not accept the diplomatic reply that with the 1951 peace treaty the matter of responsibility to the individual victims dead or alive has been dealt with. It would be for you as Prime Minister of Japan and for the people of Japan an honor to acknowledge moral responsibility to those who died and those, and their dependents who are still alive.


Prime Minister,
The Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts is proud to have been able to present in the Paper Memorial the more than 11,500 Names of those Dutch Nationals who fell in the Asian theatre of war to the chairpersons of the Dutch constitutional parliament (Staten General). We would have welcomed to present to you personally the Paper Memorial, but with this petition, we present a copy of the Paper Memorial over to your ambassador in The Hague too.


With honor and respect,
On behalf of the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts,


J.F. van Wagtendonk
President

Below article was placed by Indisch4ever on Sept. 1, 2012 by Ted Hartman.

On the day before the National Remembrance day August 15,1945, a deputy of the board of the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts, handed the petition to the Japanese Embassy.
The executives of the board of the Foundation of Japaneses Honorary Debts, were on that day and at that hour at the presentation of the Paper Remembering Monument to the chairman of the 1chamber , Fred de Graaf (VVD) and to Gerdie Verbeet of the 2 chamber (PvdA).

 J.F.Wagtendonk, our president of the the Foundation of Honorary Japanese Debts,  shows the Remembrance Monument papers.

We are anxious to see, what happens after the election of September 12, we hope we still can stay in contact, and hope that we can count on their support.

After the demonstration at the Japanese Embassy as usual, we gathered at the Bel Air Hotel for a light lunch.


Japan just held their Memorial day last week. They remembered the bombs fallen on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 
It was a terrible thing, and we hope that something like that will never happen again.
Innocent Japanese people were killed. 
The Bomb was intended for Nazi Germany, but they surrendered.
Surrender of Japan was out of the question. They would fight to the last man, women and children were trained, and a bloodbath seemed ineffable.
They would fight and die for the Emperor of Japan, because in the eyes of the Japanese he was like a living "God".
Truman gave the Japanese many warnings and one more last chance to an unconditional surrender of all Japanese military. That left the door open for Japan.
Susuki ignored the warning.

Paul Tibbet flew the plane " Enola Gay" named after his grandmother.

Hiroshima was an important military base. The military were training on the grounds of Hospitals and schools. Schoolgirls  and boys as young as eight years old were trained to kill, if the Americans would invade Japan. Only Japan and the Japanese people have any idea what this would have meant for Japan. The world had no idea, what a massacre it would have been if the bombs had not been dropped.Millions of people would have died, far more then the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.Two hundred thousands were killed, but far more were saved, because of the bombs.

One of the people who were on the plane, said" I am not thinking about the people which got killed. I am thinking about the millions of people who did not get killed.

A war is a terrible thing, there are no winners.
Lest not Forget!

I am glad this bomb was not in the hands of fanatic's who think they can conquer the world.
America was attacked, without warning by Japan.America was not warned. Thousands were killed when Pearl Harbor was attacked. I cannot thank America enough and Harry Truman, for this unbelievable responsibility they took upon themselves. Thank you , thank you!

NO PEARL HARBOR,NO HIROSHIMA, NO NAGASAKI.

LITTLE BOY, FAT MAN YOU SAVED OUR LIVES.

THANK YOU,


The other day I read in a Dutch paper an article about the atrocities the Japanese military inflicted on human beings, and I know all about these atrocities which happened in these camps. My mother and me, her sister and two children were in Japanese prison camps for three and a half year,, on Java in Indonesia then called the Dutch East Indies We barely survived.My mother and her sister were raped by these so called soldiers and had to work everyday in the hot sun, with hardly any food to eat and hardly any water to drink. On top of that they had to take care of their children, who were always crying from hunger.My father a POW of the Japanese worked himself to death as a slave, working on the Burma rail road tracks. My uncle died on the 016 a submarine, fighting for our freedom.
A couple of comments on this article from people made me very angry. One comment was that it was time to forget about the past and move on with life. Why all these memorials and stir up these memories. Let it go."I think these people have nothing to remember, nothing has ever happened to them. I wonder if they have anything to celebrate, or maybe they don't.
It is very sad that some people think this way, but it is a lack of their education.We should never forget the people who gave their lives for our freedom.
George Santayana reminds us that the lessons of history are invaluable"Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it".
We demonstrate in front of the Japanese Embassy every second Tuesday of the month. Japan keeps denying the atrocities they inflicted on innocent women and children in these camps.I am afraid they will never admit that they were wrong.

War deplores the question: Why?
War emits her eerie cry,
"Oh! human nature in extremist,
E"er you sport your raging p*nis
Raping us until the grave
War is baying:
Victory!! Hail the winner! Fail the loser!
Pitiful; there are no winners, only sinners!

War bears childhood fantasies
Toy soldiers for young boys,
Computers now with games,
Destroy with a click of the mouse,
,I shoot you down in flames'
We should be ashamd
It's adults who are to blame.

                              

Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts.

FOUNDATION OF JAPANESE HONORARY DEBTS
NGO,STATUS ROSTER

His Excellency Yoshihiko Noda
Prime Minister of Japan



The Hague, July 10,2012
Petition:212
Subject: Japan shares in Dutch art history and pays for it.


Excellency,


Dutch museums with their priceless collections of paintings by Dutch masters are lending these to Japanese museums and media organizations on a regular basis. It generates interests in the Dutch ability to paint long lasting images of their lives and their people. For the museum it is a welcome extra income needed to maintain the paintings and to present the collections to the general public. The Japanese public has taken great interest in these exhibitions both at home and abroad. Names of Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh are well known in Japan.


We much appreciate the Japanese interest in our art history and are happy to share it. But what do the Japanese visitors to the exhibitions know about the Dutch East Indies, sometimes depicted in these paintings. Do they know the history of the Japanese occupation of Dutch Indies during World War Two? In particular are they aware of the Japanese military terror and violation of human rights during that occupation? Would that knowledge influence their appreciation for Dutch Masters? Would they question why after so many years after the ending of the War, the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts continues to insist that the present Japanese government acknowledges and accepts moral responsibility for that military conduct?

Prime Minister,


We believe that these exhibitions offer an excellent opportunity for both of us to provide the visitors with a bridge to our history, and to the true story of what happened and why despite all legal arguments there is a moral responsibility to redress. We are willing and able to prepare, jointly with our experts, an information pamphlet that reflects on Japan's history relative to the occupation of The Dutch Indies. It would give you the opportunity to express regret and it would give the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts the opportunity to express its ill feelings and its aim: to progress towards acknowledgement and acceptance of responsibilities.

The Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts and its members have a long tradition to seek a redress in the relationships with the Japanese people of today, but it is firm in their demands that such a redress must be acceptable in its historic context.


On behalf of the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts,


J.F. van Wagtendonk
President.

My father Klaas van der Wal was very good at drawing. One of his last drawing he did was of a photograph of me. He never was able to finish it. He died of  exhaustion and all kinds of diseases on that horrible Birma railroad track, as a POW of the Japanese.He was buried along side the railroad tracks in Kuiya. His friend barely survived and was able to bring some of his drawings back to my mother.

The drawing he was never able to finish.

The following is a drawing of the cemetery alongside the railroad tracks, where my father was buried. One of these crosses must have been my father's grave. His remains were transferred after the war to Kanchanaburi in Thailand. Rest in peace Dad.

                                            NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.

Japan except the blame, remove the shame.The drawings speak for themselves. When are you going to take responsibility., why are you in denial about the Japanese Army's atrocities during the Second World War?
It is a disgrace for Japan, it demonstrates that either Japanese officials do not know or do not want to know about the sufferings inflicted upon Netherlands nationals.
We will never forget, but we are able to forgive.

The drawing below was done of me in Japanese prison camp in Moentilan.I will never know who did this drawing. It is signed N.v.d.Nolen. I was only four years old, these eyes has seen a lot, and these eyes were not able to understand.

 A war brings nothing but eternal hate,
and a pain that never heals
wounds that never seal
A war brings sadness to my heart
a feeling that is so dark
It takes pieces from my soul
A war will never let go.
A war is pain
It is a loved one lost
A grave that never leaves
is a broken family,
A war is a fight
A child caught between the
crossfire of a battle called life
This is a war inside of me
A pain that will never leave
and a war is what it will always be.
A war is tears ran dry, a question asking always, why?
a loneliness a need for people that are never there
A war like any other war, brings pain.

This is a  Poem,
Written by: Richard Ferdin.

Slavery, Crimes, Slave Labor, committed by Japan

Inhuman Slavery Crime, POW. Slave Laborers,

Today I had to write again on my blog about the history of Japan. I cannot understand why Japan got away with all the atrocities they inflicted on men, women and children. They still will not acknowledge their brutal past.In May I was in a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in The Hague. Japan cannot face the truth, they hide behind closed curtains as you could read on my former blog I wrote.

 In the back ground the Japanese Embassy, with the curtains closed. May 2012.

POW. Slave Laborers- Inhuman Slavery Crime.

This large scale of Slavery is definitely the worst war crime case of massive slavery violation against Humanity committed by a country in our Human History.

Japan has surpassed Nazi Germany in both the number and brutalities of using human beings in both "Before and During the war".

"The Japanese were running no less than the biggest Slave shipping operation since the middle passage, the African Slave Trade,"California based lawyer Barry Fisher said.

Millions of so-called "Romusha" Asians worked as Slaves, forced by the Japanese across Asia Pacific. It is estimated more than 15 Million Asian and POW's were used as Slaves and only a  fraction of the survivors may still be alive.

Although Japan had destroyed most of it's war documents to conceal it's crimes, what can almost be certain is that, Japan had surpassed Nazi Germany in both the Number and Brutalities of using the Slaves in both Before and During the war.

Most shocking is that the death rate in Nazi-run POW camps was 1.1%; but in Japanese prisoner camps it was a staggering 35.7% according to The Center for Civilian Internee Right.inc.

On August 6, 1945, Paul Tibbets flew the "Enola Gay, the B-29 Bomber" and dropped the atomic uranium bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, August 9 another atomic plutonium-239 bomb "Fat Man" exploded on Nagasaki.

August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered.

If the bombs had not been dropped and Japan would have been invaded, it would have been terrible. The Japanese people know more about that than the American public and the World will ever know.

Paul Tibbets, who flew the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber has been credited by thousands of former POW, soldiers and civilians including Japanese, in all Asian countries for saving their lives. 

The Atomic Bombs also prevented the utter destruction of the Japanese mainland, and the deaths of millions Japanese civilians who would have fought to their deaths.

My mother and I, her sister and two children were in a POW camp in Java, Moentilan. We were transferred to Banjoebiroe 10, with thousands of other women and children to be liquidated.

The Japanese were going to slaughter us all. The date was set for August 26, 1945.

"Thank God", for the A-Bombs. The Bombs saved our lives and all those innocent women and children held in POW camps all over Java and Sumatra and no doubt elsewhere.

"I am ever so grateful", 

Paul Tibbets you did the right thing.

Japan driven by the frenzy of Militarism, committed unspeakable war crimes and atrocities of such great magnitude and diversities never matched, even by the Nazi.

Many years have since past,

But memories forever last.

Women children in prison camps

Where nobody was able to give them a hand.

Put there by the Japanese Regime

With soldiers who were so terrible mean.

Although it is so long ago

My mind goes back to 1944.

How the women shed their tears

In that hell for three and a halve years.

These Japanese were brutal and vicious

Cruel and heartless and twisted.

Endless roll calls, just for fun

Everyday in the burning hot sun.

They screamed "Kiotskay,Kiray, Nowray" and waved their whips,

And the women knew better than to give them a lip.

They kept their wits together

Because their children was all that matter.

When they  think about those years,

They come back with so much fear!

Swamped by misery, grief and pain

They hoped God would hear his name.

They sang of his glory and begged to be heard,

They prayed, they pleaded, but never a word.

They reached for the last straw in despair,

And hoped somebody out there would care.

Why, oh why was it no help came

Did you not hear them calling your name?

Why was it you let innocent children die?

They will never forget you passed by.

There was thunder and lighting all around,

They were sure you would strike these Japs to the ground.

They were in so much agony, grief and pain,

They hoped for mercy, but it never came.

There in that horrible prison camp

"YOU" never offered a helping hand.

Most of us women lost their fate,

For thousands freedom came too late!

written by; Tetske Thea van der Wal.

 "Kiotskay" -attention "Kiray"- Bow and "Nowray"- stand-up.

The "Nowray"-stand-up,  usually came after hours standing in the "Kiray"- bow position. It was hard to stand up strait, your back would hurt so much.

in memory of my mother Sietske who survived the horrors of Japanese prison camp and protected me from all the atrocities the Japanese inflicted on women and children, during world war 2.

One would never know the price they paid and how they suffered. They never gave in, although they often lost hope. They survived in a frantic effort to stay alive, to be there for their children. Their courage against diversity we must honor and believe.With their gentle strength they took care of their children. Love has no equal.They gave of themselves desperate to survive, a will so strong to keep their children alive.

Memories can never be erased. Remembering the heartache, the pain and the tears, we hope MAN will never sink to such sorrow and shame again.

With one breath at a time, the mothers left their stamp on history with bravery so sublime, it will shine in history forever.Their Victory should always be told,their lives so hard and bleak as prisoners of the Japanese do not require the written word: their actions for them speak.

Love you Mom.

Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts.

 FOUNDATION OF JAPANESE HONORARY DEBTS
                                  ______________________________________________

                     His Excellency Yoshihiko Noda

Prime Minister of Japan


The Hague, June 12, 2012.
Petition:211
Subject: Responsibilities stemming from the past continue in the future.


Excellency,


The Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts was established in 1990 with the purpose to provide on-going protection of the interest of the Dutch from former Dutch East Indies. At that time more than 100,000 individuals registered with the Foundation, agreeing to form an union to obtain acknowledgement and redress from Japan. This group, being around a third of the Dutch population of Dutch East Indies at the beginning of the Japanese military occupation in 1942, felt that Japan- regardless the San-Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951- has the moral responsibility to them as individual victims. In protecting the interests of the individual victims it is clearly stipulated in the Articles of Association of the Foundations that these are extended to the next of kin of the victims. They are the second and further generations.


Prime Minister,

Many of the actual victims, the first generation, who suffered inside and outside the concentration camps, did not want to burden their children with the brutal experiences they had to undergo at the hands of the Japanese military. They kept their stories to themselves and tried to rebuild their lives again. As a consequence their children, the second generation, were hardly aware of these experiences and got on with their lives in The Netherlands. However the third generation, the grandchildren, demanding to know what had happened are increasingly informed by the actual victims. They are astounded and aghast. They cannot understand Japan's refusal to acknowledge responsibility for their military and in particular for the denial of the violation of human rights. These grandchildren question the morality and integrity of the present Japanese government.

They confront Japanese citizens they happen to meet anywhere in the world with the war time facts and with hard questions demanding what they know. Many of the younger Japanese generations are not aware of these facts, but are shocked, ashamed and cry for the conduct of Japanese military. They apologize for what their military on behalf of their country did to the Dutch and express hope to rectify the shame.

You may believe that Japan's moral responsibility will go away in time as the victims die. However the succeeding generations of the victims will take up the issues and will continue to demand acknowledgement and redress. The Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts will continue as well. And it will in due course hand over the management to the next generations in order to protect the interests of the Dutch and their next of kin from former Dutch East Indies.

Please be aware that the Foundation does not allow the passage of time to offer Japan an escape from its responsibilities.

On behalf of the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts,


J.F. van Wagtendonk
President.

                                             The next generation.How they protect their young.

Face the past, open your curtains.You can't hide from the past... we will not go away!

                                                     Japan make the clouds go away!!

Japan; as long as you forget about your past, there will be no peace for the future!


A little boys Quest.

When the little boy's daddy went off to war
Mommy he says, what has daddy gone for?
How can one explain, to one so young?
Atrocities of war, and how it all begun.
In his time one hopes it will never come again,
A determination to achieve remain.
A lad in time becomes a man with hope,
That war in his time hopefully will not have to cope>

Win Rainer, 
A Fepow's wife.



Third generation is protesting!

In Seoul a Chinese man threw a fire bomb to the Embassy. The man explained that his Oma (grandmother) was forced to be a prostitute by the Japanese military in World War 2. He said that he had done this before at a monument where Japanese military are honored.

              Nos teletext January 8,2012.

                                                                  Next of kin.

This drawing was done in February 1945.

Prison camp Moentilan.

The eyes of a child, only 4 years old. I saw it all, but could not understand.