The following is from the Weekly Asahi of this week's issue.
The origin of the journalist Soichiro Tahara recall in August 15
The August 15 came. Speaking of the incident maximum of life for me, it is a broadcast of the voice of Japan's Emperor Hirohito of August 15, 1945.
I was a fifth grade elementary school. Than that there is a serious broadcast of the Emperor at noon, was waiting to sit in front of the radio. There is also a house with no radio; it was supposed to be the people in the neighborhood of 5-6 people listen to the radio together in the neighborhood. I remember the vivid atmosphere of the time. Gyokuon broadcast of the Emperor began.
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But I have to think ahead has become dark to understand the war was over in the form of surrender. Since I had decided to go to the Naval Academy, the future outlook is became zero.
I cried and ran up to the second floor. And fell asleep crying. And this has been at night and wake up. And it was bright and looks down from the second floor. It was a pitch-dark in the blackout until last night, but the war is over, which house he was wearing a light. There was a complicated feeling of freedom.
But, unreasonable extremely event has occurred school begins. In up to one semester of fifth grade, in the holy war in order to be independent countries of Asia, with you, too, this war is becoming big early and going to war in order to defeat the United States and Britain of invading countries we, regardless the death in battle honor for the Emperor, it has been taught repeatedly.
But when it comes to the second semester, in fact, the same teacher, school principal, said that as go and assume it was a war that must not be doing that war, has been a criminal cried executives our military such as Hideki Tojo was a hero until one semester. They say “that it had been necessary where “the emperor is.
Teachers and principals is, that he say's so reluctantly, I was also found to my fifth grade elementary school. That means that, however, until the first semester had said, "this war's holy war" and also, it might have been forced to say so.
Most newspaper articles as well as teachers were also pulled off easily the same value conversion. I came to think that it cannot trust basically that adults who have a look bossy say plausible. The generation that does not know the war of my junior probably would never have encountered unreasonable conversion value of this much.
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