The following is from the series column of Masayuki Takayama published in the weekly Shincho released today.
As I mentioned, I subscribe to Weekly Shincho to read the column of him and Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai.
This week's issue also proves that Takayama is one and only journalist in the post-war world.
The world, the world must give the best award to him.
US war
Mrs. Sophia von Tylle was informed that in the morning his husband Vladimir was injured and sent to the Matsuyama Camp, where he was a Japanese prisoner of war.
The war of Siege of Port Arthur was just beginning in June 1904, shortly after the Russo-Japanese War.
Mrs. made a decision. I will go to Japan and take care of my husband.
The people around her remonsted with her to go to Japan too reckless, saying that Japan is now a country of during war at present and a barbaric colored nation.
The French envoy who mediated Japan with her thought that most Japan could not be accepted but a returned answer was "it is good".
Thus, Sofia spent 1 month from Peterburg to Kobe, further by small ship while being fascinated by the picturesque islands and cheerful people, she got off in Matsuyama.
"Why is a Russian giant army defeated to dwarf's soldier? I finally understood. This country is arranged cleanly, cultured indeed, to the small villages. The country in my motherland is muddy, facing, and each house is the same as a piggery, and the people are left in that misery as the ignorant illiteracy."
The degree of civilization was also different.
It came with a lamp in to a husband but in a detention facility, an electric light was burning.
She met her husband who came back somehow under that light from a serious flaw, alive.
The Japanese side gave her a house and free act, and she spent the days to nurse the Russian injuries who came one after another with husband's escort.
The real battle situation is also visible from their words.
The crew of the cruiser Luylik was brought in at the fall.
They were sunk in the Ulsan offing, and a Vladivostok armada found that it became extinct, beating other ship, too, by it.
As it ran, an injury soldier from a field in Liaoyang, from then, Lushun was.
That fortress also fell.
The following spring the Russian army was destroyed at Mukden, and the Baltic fleet, which was expected to reverse slightly, was also sunk by all major ships.
Russia's defeat has been decided.
She remembered the pure love of the country and the kindness of all the Japanese people, and in the fall, she went home with her husband.
The Russo-Japanese battled on the battlefields of Zhengzhou and Mukden. The naval battle also decided on the sea off Tsushima.
Toyotomi and Tokugawa's decisive battle also set Sekigahara after the rice harvest was over, and Napoleon also fought with the European Union forces on the battlefield of Waterloo.
Outside the battlefield, at the homefront of Sekigahara, people were watching the battle while eating rice balls.
It was tranquil.
Sophia came to Shikoku in the Russo-Japanese War.
Homefront has long been an isolated place from the battlefield.
The form of such war collapsed with the advent of the United States.
Herman Melville compared Americans to "Israelis in Canaan" and justified a tribe that kills even indigenous children.
No, they were more insidious than the Israelites, and they attacked the reservation to kill the girl and child, aiming at the absence of the indigenous warriors.
If there are no girls and children, the race will die.
The same is true when fighting against Japan.
Jumping over the head of a soldier waiting on the battlefield, they bombed the mainland of Japan and killed a female child.
Matsuyama was tranquil but there was no such safe zone before the US military.
British commander Purgeval was sent to a safe Mukden camp, but US planes also bombed there and killed 19 prisoners of war.
He was also dangerous.
The 12 B24 crew members who were shot down by fire were killed in an atomic bomb dropped while being transferred to Hiroshima.
The only US force in the world to kill homefront non-combatants.
Asahi Shinbun's Fukushima Shinji uncommonly blamed the atrocity on Column "Memory of Fire".
If I think that it is not like the Asahi Shimbun, the conclusion is as usual "Japan that made the citizen of an unarmed body front in the theory of mind" is the worst, it was.
Why is it harder for non-combatants to defend themselves than the US military, which is dedicated to killing non-combatants.
I do not know the meaning.
Incidentally, Seidensticker used as a guide for the column.
Depicted as a conscience of Americans, this man landed in Nagasaki and witnessed the disastrous of the atomic bomb, but he did not try to speak for life. The Asahi leaned on the name of such mean bastard and spread Anti-Japanese. I hate that despicable and shallow.