That day I looked up the sky I was supposed to fly. There was a war. It hurt many people. We lost everything, and only a life was left. Alone in the burnt land, I thought I would plant a seed.
New constitution. The sign of rebirth. Liberty and Democracy. They were just little seeds. And I was holding them tight in my hand. For myself someday in the future.
Rapid growth. They worked hard. And we were delighted with little pieces of wealth. But war was going on overseas. We raised the voice of refusal. Again and again I planted the seeds.
Before we know it, wealth was in our everyday life. I thought I could choose my own future. Freedom. Happiness. Peace... Peace? "Nothing will change,” a friend said. But somewhere inside I knew that's not true.
And the land trembled. March 11th. There was a girl standing in the ocean of debris. And I was watching that. “It doesn’t matter.” “It’s gonna be alright.”“ Nothing will change." There were seeds in my fist gripped. The little seeds I had forgotten.
人を傷つける言葉が街に溢れた。 路上に撒いた種はいつか芽吹くだろうか。
Harmful words flooded the cities. Will the seeds I planted in the streets sprout someday?
「関係ない」「大丈夫」「何も変わらない」。 その言葉が、いつか誰かの命を奪うかもしれない。
“It doesn’t matter.” “It’s gonna be alright.” “Nothing will change.” Those words may take someone's life someday.
種を蒔いた。 顔のない視線を、名前のない罵声を浴びながら。 ありったけの種を。
I planted the seeds. There was gaze without a face, and blame without a name. I scattered handful of seeds.
その種は絶望から生まれた。たくさんの絶望がその種を育てた。
The seeds were born from despair. The despair grew the seeds.
That day, I was surely listening to the sound (The battle starts here again).The sound of the seeds changing into a life. “Let’s think, decide, and take action solitarily. That’s all we need to do.”
Seventy years have passed since the end of war. The peace and prospect of post-war Japan were led by profound sacrifice of the war. We support the pacifist constitution of this country and use it for peacebuilding in north-east Asia and the world. Liberty, democracy, and universal human rights; these values are not just imagination. They are the important seeds that we were given by the past for defending liberty of people and constructing sustainable peace. The ideal of Japanese Constitution never loses its power unless we give it up. With intelligence and reason, we continue to claim for peace and respect for liberty and democracy in Asian Countries.
