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Never again, prime minister
By Fledermaus
30 April 2007
Goddess' non-fiction piece made me think of a certain politician who's still afraid to face his nation's history..

Every nation suffered in World War Two
Many people were killed and lost their life
With commemorations, it matters who
For a stupid choice hurts and causes strife
Please, prime minister, think before you act
About Hiroshima you may well weep
But you know how the outside world will react
If you honour cruel butchers in their sleep
Killing babies is no heroic deed
Nor are rape or genocide and slaughter
PM, be careful where you place your feet
Imagine he had taken your daughter
Or that he had stabbed your own son to death
Murdered everyone when he had a chance
And someone visited that butcher's bed
Would you not hate the person's ignorance?

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HI Fledermaus
Written by jean.day (2266 comments posted) 30th April 2007
You can sure put emotion into your poems. I like the way you use history in your writing. I do it too, but not in the direct honest way that you do. I expect you have a history degree or something like that.

Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 1st May 2007
Thanks Jean, 
I have no history degree, but I'm just interested in history a lot. On the one hand it's often very inspiring, on the other hand it might make certain current issues more understandable. 
Perhaps people like the Japanese prime minister should read a little more history books too though... 
Thanks for your comment :)

Written by Witzl (1585 comments posted) 2nd May 2007
Interesting that you posted this the day after the old emperor's birthday. (Hirohito was born on April 29th and his birthday is still a national holiday in Japan.) 
 
The sad fact is that all the really big criminals -- Dr Ishii of 731 infamy, Tsuji Masanobu, Kishi Nobusuke, and plenty of others -- were released without a by-your-leave after the war. Even though a number of Ishii's colleagues were tried and convicted for vivisection of captured American pilots, their sentences were never carried out. The American occupation government were as much to blame for this as anyone else: they wanted Ishii's data, Tsuji's know-how, and Kishi's money. And they got it, too! 
 
Read about those class A war criminals and others -- and their subsequent happy-ever-afters, including trips to America and other countries, the pensions they received, fortunes they amassed, political careers they embarked upon -- I assure you, no fiction could be more astonishing.

Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 2nd May 2007
Thanks for your comment Witzl. 
I have read a few things of what the Japanese did in China and South-East Asia, and saw a rather disgusting documentary of what they did to allied POWs. 
If, as I thought, Japanese politcians were simply ignorant, it'd be bad enough, but to hear that those war criminals simply got away with it is far worse. 
With our uni we once visited a number of universities in Austria and I remember I was rather shocked when I heard that one of Vienna's most prestigeous universities was led by a nazi until the 1960s or '70s, who still continued disciminating against Jews. 
 
It seems that what happened in Japan is far worse thoughl...

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