In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

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The book contains three episodes, a man who has lived in Okinawa and fired the de facto at that time national flag, a woman who has rejected the burial by the state of her hasband having been a member of the Self-Defense Force and the ex-mayor of Nagasaki City who has referred to the war responsibility of the Emperor, as well as a report on the very curious atomosphere prevailing in Japan on the death of the Showa Emperor. A reader could understand the true but hidden mentality of the Japanese from the contents explicitly and implicitly.

The authour of course could have written the original in Japanese, but the fact that the work had to be translated itself has had a significance. I strongly recommend to read the work if you want to understand the Japanese who are now at the crossroad. She utilizes personal memories as well as interviews with private and public citizens that recount their struggles as Japanese. Japanese life is one filled with contradiction. After Japan's surrender in August of they adopted an Americanized Constitution to symbolize to the world their commitment to peace.

This Constitution has been at times nothing more than that, a symbol, because despite efforts to mimic the American guarantees of personal freedom and liberties, the Japanese traditions and cultural practes of Emperialism and Shinto overshadow these Constitutional gurantees, leaving citizens wondering where Japan's future lies.

Norm Field puts faith in the Japanese people, that they as the people in her book have, will take the high road in Japan and except their past for all its good and bad and move bravely into the future. His Imperial Majesty Emperor Akihito of Japan, 78, will undergo heart bypass surgery this week after tests showed the narrowing of his arteries has worsened, the Imperial Household Agency announced on Sunday.

We have decided to ask his majesty to have a coronary artery bypass surgery,' a IHA spokesman said. The announcement came shortly after Emperor Akihito was discharged from the University of Tokyo Hospital, where he underwent a catheter angiogram on Saturday.

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The test showed that the narrowing of his arteries has progressed, compared with an examination he underwent a year ago, the spokesman said. The operation will be performed by physicians from the University of Tokyo and private Juntendo University, the spokesman said. Akihito, wearing a gray suit and a striped tie, walked out of the university hospital Sunday, accompanied by Empress Michiko, as his physicians stood in line at the entrance.

The surgery comes amid increasing concerns about Akihito's health. The latest angiogram was arranged after periodic electrocardiograms showed restricted blood flow to his heart. In November, the Emperor spent 19 days in hospital suffering mild pneumonia. Emperor Akihito, who ascended the throne in following the death of his father Emperor Hirohito, underwent surgery for prostate cancer in Maeda Haru, a nineteen-year-old woman from Maehira village, recalls what happened when surviving Japanese troops, desperate as Americans closed in on them, raided her cave:.

There was no bombardment in the morning, and everybody went out of the cave to get water. Then I found my younger brother and sister crying and calling me from a pile of sugar cane bagasse at Miisumo. They said they got hurt in front of Mearakagua and had come crawling on their hands and knees.

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I brought them one by one to the cave and laid them down. Maybe Seiyu was also dead, they said.

I asked them why Mother was killed. My younger sister got away, carrying our younger brother on her back, but when she got as far as Mearakagua, the soldiers caught up with her, took her inside the gate of the house and stabbed her, so she let go of our little brother. She was stabbed three times in the abdomen and her intestines came out here and there.

In total, , Okinawans died during the final battles of the Second World War, a third of the civilian population. The number exceeded the total of American and Japanese military casualties over 23, and 91, respectively. Chibana Shoichi, Burning the rising flag, p. A flag that is responsible for the cruel murder of many Okinawan people, as well as millions and millions of other Asians, sealed the fate of Chibana, and made him step forth on October 26, , climbed the building with the flag poles, pulled down the Hinomaru, and burned it in front of the whole audience.

The interesting point here is, that at that time, the Hinomaru was not the official flag of Japan till It was just a flag , not mentioned in the constitution. Thus, the burning of this piece of cloth, worth a few thousand yen, should have given Chibana simple fine, and that should have been the end. Right-wing militarists roamed the village of Yomitan, destroyed the memorial for the fallen built in front of the Chibichirigama Cave built by the villagers on their own money, not by any government from Tokyo! All this ended with a conviction, and ultimately led to the establishment of the Hinomaru as national flag in It is the illegal action from the side of the government and politics, ignoring the constitution, ignoring law, that still drives people in Okinawa to the brink.

Consider the last election in Japan, there was only one prefecture that was not right-wing dominated, it was Okinawa. Those people have my fullest respect and appreciation. They are fighting for rights, for freedom. In times where our, the Japanese, constitution is under heavy attack from right-wing activists trying to get rid of paragraph 9 and reinstalling a quasi-fascist system, we need to look back in history, and stand ashamed in front of those who have fought for freedom, peace, and right, while our generation is bound to accept these perilous changes.

In Japan, as elsewhere, the allure of late capitalism comes saturated with irony. In Japan, as elsewhere, the citizenry seem not to care. Perhaps it is easier to suspend doubts where general prosperity reinforces an apparent homogeneity, where there are neither obvious oppressors nor unsightly victims. Japan Literature Politics Society. You may use these HTML tags and attributes: Notify me of follow-up comments by email.

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Norma Field puts it quite clearly: Maeda Haru, a nineteen-year-old woman from Maehira village, recalls what happened when surviving Japanese troops, desperate as Americans closed in on them, raided her cave:

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