Many people would be surprised to learn that #US Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was born right here on #Nevis Island. Our tour of the island today brought us to his birthplace, where we learned how his #Caribbean upbringing led him to become a vanguard of democracy. #JFDS2019
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ワシントンポスト社説「China is brainwashing Uighur children. How much longer will the world look away?」
中国共産党によるウイグル人に対する文化的虐殺を告発、糾弾する社説
By Editorial Board July 13
NEW EVIDENCE is emerging that the Chinese campaign to exterminate the culture and traditions of Turkic Muslim people, chiefly Uighurs, in the Xinjiang region also includes a generation of children and young people. As their parents are hauled off to concentration camps — euphemistically called “vocational education” by the Chinese authorities — the children are being herded into special boarding schools and orphanages. At these schools, the children can check in but they cannot leave. The comprehensive effort to create a separate brainwashing and imprisonment system for children deepens the evidence that China is committing a cultural genocide.
Up to 1.5 million adults in Xinjiang have been forced into the camps, where China is attempting to reeducate them as part of the Han Chinese majority, wiping out their language, traditions and culture, essentially assassinating their identity. China at first denied this was going on, but in the past year or so, incontrovertible evidence has accumulated that China is trying to delete the mind-set of a whole people. That evidence includes eyewitnesses and satellite photographs that identify the new camps.
In the last half of 2018, fresh evidence began to surface that Uighur children, too, were being sucked into the brainwashing machine. In July, the Financial Times identified the new orphanages, and in September, the Associated Press talked to 15 Muslims who described how China was separating the young children. Human Rights Watch called attention to the practices in October.
Now the BBC and a German researcher have published new details of a chilling operation to reeducate the children. Adrian Zenz of the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany, writes in the Journal of Political Risk that China has built a system for the children that is “taking place in highly secured, centralized boarding facilities” and “driven by multi-billion dollar budgets, tight deadlines, and sophisticated digital database systems.” He adds that “this unprecedented campaign has enabled Xinjiang’s government to assimilate and indoctrinate children in closed environments by separating them from their parents.” China, Mr. Zenz says, is carrying out a “systematic campaign of social re-engineering and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.”
While the duration and intensity differ in places, he found, “In some instances, parental influence is quite possibly almost completely eliminated.” Mr. Zenz reports that in some Uighur majority regions in southern Xinjiang, preschool enrollment more than quadrupled in recent years, exceeding the average national enrollment growth rate by more than 12 times. Why? Because the parents, and in some cases both parents, have disappeared into the camps. Mr. Zenz found that lower-level governments have been keeping records that “list the exact detention situation of children with one or both parents in detention or external work, grouped by age, who are ‘in need of being cared for.’ ” He also notes the absurd doublespeak being used by the Chinese Communist Party to mask the cultural genocide, with emotional language such as “care,” “love” and “nurture” to describe the state’s facilities to brainwash the children.
How much longer will the world continue to look the other way?
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T?rk milleti, T?rk milleti（ﾄﾙｺ国家よ！ﾄﾙｺ国家よ！）
A?k ile sev h?rriyeti（汝の自由を享受せん！）
Kahret vatan d??man?n?（祖国の敵を打ち負かし）
?eksin o mel-un zilleti.（忌わしき奴等に絶望を与えん！）
Kahret vatan d??man?n?（祖国の敵を打ち負かし）
?eksin o mel-un zilleti.（忌わしき奴等に絶望を与えん！）
U.S. President Donald Trump has openly criticized as “unfair” the security treaty between Japan and the United States, which has been the foundation of Tokyo’s postwar national security policy.
Speaking about the treaty in a U.S. TV interview in late June, Trump said, “If Japan is attacked, we will fight World War III. ... But if we’re attacked, Japan doesn’t have to help us at all. They can watch it on a Sony television, the attack.”
Trump’s gripes about the bilateral security treaty came immediately before he attended this year’s Group of 20 summit, held in Osaka.
In a news conference after the G-20 summit, Trump repeatedly said the treaty was “unfair,” although he denied thinking about withdrawing from the pact. And he also said he had told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this “lopsidedness” of the pact should be changed.
Trump’s view about the Japan-U.S. pact is one-sided and unacceptable. The security treaty between the two countries not only serves the strategic interests of both countries but also contributes to stability in the region and the world as a whole.The argument that the treaty is unfair is nothing new.
Originally signed in 1951 and revised in 1960, the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between Japan and the United States of America stipulates in Article 5 that the United States would act to defend Japan in case of an armed attack against Japan.
Article 6 of the treaty says for that purpose the United States is granted the use of “facilities and areas” in Japan by its military forces.
These “asymmetrical" obligations the pact imposes on Japan and the United States, sometimes referred to as “cooperation between things (bases) and people (troops),” is the distinctive characteristic of the treaty and has been the cause of American complaints about its “unfairness” and “one-sidedness.”
To be sure, other mutual security treaties involving the United States, such as the North Atlantic Treaty, which forms the legal basis of NATO, and the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), commit all parties involved to defend each other.
The Japan-U.S. Security Treaty is essentially different from these pacts because Japan is banned by Article 9 of its Constitution from exercising its right to collective self-defense.
The Abe administration has forcibly changed the traditional government interpretation of the article to allow Japan to partially exercise this right. But Japan’s successive Cabinets consistently ruled out Japan’s engagement in collective self-defense operations.
Based on this assumption, the treaty is designed to strike a realistic balance between the obligations of both countries even though they are not symmetrical.
The U.S. military bases in Japan are vital for the U.S. global strategy and serve its national interest. Maintaining them has imposed heavy burdens on local residents, especially those in Okinawa.
The argument that this treaty unfairly imposes all the burden of defending Japan on the United States is based on complete misunderstandings.
JAPAN’S SECURITY COOPERATION WITH U.S. EXPANDED GRADUALLY
When the Cold War ended, removing the common security threat posed by the Soviet Union, Japan and the United States in 1996 reaffirmed the importance of their security treaty as a lynchpin of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.In the ensuing years, Washington has been steadily stepping up its demands concerning the security roles Japan plays. In the process, the nature of the bilateral security treaty has changed from “cooperation between goods and people” as it assumed more of the features of “cooperation between people and people.”
The law to deal with security emergencies around Japan, which was enacted in 1999, has allowed the Self-Defense Forces to provide logistic support to the U.S. forces in areas surrounding Japan.
When the United States launched war with Afghanistan in retaliation against the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, Japan dispatched Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels to the Indian Ocean to provide fuel to U.S. warships.
During the Iraq War, which started in 2003, Japan sent Ground Self-Defense Force troops to “non-combat zones” in the Middle Eastern country to engage in activities to help its reconstruction.
Each of these moves provoked constitutionality debate at home over whether it was consistent with Article 9. But the respective Japanese administrations made the decisions to avoid harming Japan’s relations with the United States, thereby gradually expanding the scope of SDF activities.
The Abe administration took another step in the same direction when it railroaded controversial new security legislation through the Diet in 2015.
If Japan wants to move further along this path and make the bilateral security treaty a “symmetrical” pact that allows the Japanese and U.S. forces to fight side by side against the common enemy, it needs to amend Article 9. But that would not be the right choice for Japan.
The principal security challenge facing the alliance between Japan and the United States is the threat posed by China’s rapid military buildup and aggressive naval expansion.
The strategy for dealing with China’s rise as a military power, however, should not be focused on taking an antagonistic stance toward China, which would only heighten tensions in the region.
It would be in Japan’s best interest to make steady efforts for effective neighboring diplomacy to promote regional stability under a strategy not heavily tilted toward military responses while pursuing a good balance between the security treaty and the restrictions imposed by Article 9.
From this point of view, it is highly significant for Japan to stick to its traditional exclusively defensive security policy under Article 9 and seek solid cooperation with the United States based on an appropriate, if asymmetrical, division of roles.
TO MAKE THE SECURITY TREATY A VALUABLE PUBLIC ASSET
Simply responding to U.S. demands should not be the inviolable principle that dictates Japan’s diplomacy.This is an era that poses new sticky diplomatic challenges to Japan. Tokyo needs to think thoroughly to clearly define the boundary of security roles it can perform while keeping its security policy firmly anchored by the security alliance with the United States.
If Trump is moving in the wrong direction, Japan needs to say so directly to him and try to persuade him to change his mind.
The Trump administration is urging Japan to join a multinational military coalition it is assembling to safeguard shipping lanes in the Middle East in the wake of recent attacks on tankers in the region.
It has also been reported that the U.S. government has demanded that Japan pay several times more than it does now to shoulder a greater portion of the costs of maintaining U.S. forces in Japan.
We strongly call on the Abe administration to guard itself against the possibility of making misguided policy decisions because of its tendency to put a priority on keeping its security alliance with the United States intact.
The Trump administration has taken a series of actions that run counter to maintaining the international order and raise international tensions, most notably withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord.
The fact is that the United States has stopped acting as “the policeman of the world” and started acting as a disruptive force for the world.
Instead of allowing itself to be twisted around Trump’s little finger, the Japanese government should take a first step toward setting its diplomatic agenda on its own to ensure that the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty will function as a public asset for the international community.
Hiroshima Marks the 74th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing
By Mari Yamaguchi / AP
10:58 PM EDT
(TOKYO) — Hiroshima marked the 74rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city with its mayor renewing calls for eliminating such weapons and demanding Japan’s government do more.
Mayor Kazumi Matsui raised concerns in his peace address Tuesday about the rise of self-centered politics in the world and urged leaders to steadily work toward achieving a world without atomic weapons.
“Around the world today, we see self-centered nationalism in ascendance, tensions heightened by international exclusivity and rivalry, with nuclear disarmament at a standstill,” Matsui said in his peace declaration.
He urged the younger generations never to dismiss the atomic bombings and the war as a mere events of history, but think of them as their own, while calling on the world leaders to come visit the nuclear bombed cities to learn what happened.
Matsui also demanded Japan’s government represent the wills of atomic bombing survivors and sign a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty.
Japan, which hosts 50,000 American troops and is protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, has not signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, an inaction atomic bombing survivors and pacifist groups protest as insincere.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged widening differences between nuclear and non-nuclear states.
“Japan is committed to serve as a bridge between nuclear and non-nuclear states and lead the international effort, while patiently trying to convince them to cooperate and have a dialogue,” Abe said in his address at the ceremony. He vowed to maintain Japan’s pacifist and nuclear nuclear-free principles, but did not promise signing the treaty.
Survivors, their relatives and other participants marked the 8:15 a.m. blast with a minute of silence.
The Hiroshima anniversary ceremony came hours after North Korea launched suspected ballistic missiles in its fourth round of recent weapons demonstrations. The activity follows a stalemate in negotiations over its nuclear weapons.
The U.S. attack on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people. The bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed another 70,000 before Japan’s surrender ended World War II.
A tribute to Old Cathay Pacific Airways & Kai-Tak Airport British Hong-Kong. A Beautiful Tune & My Imaginable Story on YouTube videos. Thank you for your watching & Enjoy my edit.video.
Writer(s): Barry White, Aaron Schroeder
Co-arrangement: Gene Page
Producer: Barry White
Label: 20th Century / Pye International
Released: 1973
IN A STUDENT AREA OF Tokyo called Takadanobaba, behind a peculiar sculpture showing a nude Marilyn Monroe about to pounce on a sumo wrestler, lies the office of Kunio Suzuki, leader of a ''spiritual movement'' called the Issuikai.
The group produces a monthly paper called Reconquista, which aims to reconquer what Suzuki thinks has been lost: the pure Japanese spirit. On the wall of Suzuki's tiny office hang pictures of Emperor Hirohito in uniform, snapped sometime during the 1930's, and of Yukio Mishima, the ultranationalist writer who committed seppuku, a form of ritual suicide, in 1970.
Suzuki is a quiet man in his early 40's, casually dressed, more like a research fellow than a right-wing activist. He receives many fan letters from young women, who profess to admire his romantic spirit.
He explained that ''because of biased textbooks'' many people of his generation felt guilty about the Japanese role in World War II, ''and people who did better than I did at school all joined the left-wing student movement.'' He concluded that there was something wrong with Japanese education. He also worries about the spiritual state of most Japanese, ''who spend their time reading comics and watching TV,'' but he conceded they were probably quite content. A young member of the group, who had been engrossed in a book on terrorism, suddenly broke his silence to exclaim that it was all America's doing: ''They want us to be weak. That is why they rigged our education system. To stop Japan from being a major power.''
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのときこそ、平和が諸々の惑星を導くことだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまは水瓶座の時代の夜明けのとき
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代だ
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス！ アクエリアスだ！
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
Golden living dreams of visions
ヴィジョンに溢れた光り輝く生の夢
Mystic crystal revelation
神秘的な透徹とした黙示
And the mind's true liberation
そして心の真の解放
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス！ 水瓶座！
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまや水瓶座の時代が明けようとしているのだ
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス！ アクエリアスだ！
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
Let the sunshine,
太陽の輝きを
Let the sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
The Sunshine in
太陽の光が差してくるぞ
january 7, 2018 ~ today ~ according to astrology ~ marks the rare astrological alignment of jupiter and mars along with the moon being in the 7th house (virgo). given the schuman spikes that suddenly began last year (early 2016) as well as many of us feeling the flash pulse entering from the galactic central sun between end of january and early march as well as humanity's ongoing awakening (hitting the 100th monkey at this point) ~ i would say we ARE entering THE age of aquarius. let's make it so people. we are ready, aren't we?
When this song debuted I was a screaming 17 years old. It was a great song for our generation. Fast forward to about 1982 and my daughter is 5 years old and we hear this song together and she turns to me and says "dad is this the hippie song" from your childhood. Every since that day the "hippie song" brings a smile to our faces. It was a generation of music that still rings so true today. There was political division in the 60's what with Vietnam raging. How tame we were compared to today. I am so glad I have all these wonderful songs to take me back to a better time in our country's history. Long live the "hippie song"!!
Art Garfunkel's clear, soft, beautiful voice is sweet and his singing is perfect; thank you, Art Garfunkel.. and thank you also amazing Paul Simon.. I love you guys.
8943:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:03:52
今日の音楽The 5th Dimension Age of Aquarius 1969
[www.youtube.com]
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
(行省略)
8944:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:05:06
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
(行省略)
8945:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:05:53
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろ
(文字略)
8946:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:06:30
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
(行省略)
8947:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:16:42
コメント欄より
(AA略)
8948:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:20:53
今日の音楽
(AA略)
8949:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:24:52
今日の音楽2
My Sweet Lord - Concert Tribute to George Harrison
[www.youtube.com]
liveatvictoria1 年前
(行省略)
8950:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 17:30:09
今日の音楽2
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord - Lyrics
[www.youtube.com]
I remember the story of my life...have to much fight.. so sad but now i can handle all with God..He makes me stand strong...thanks paul the real music tallent ever
I am just a poor boy
Though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers In the quiet of a railway station
Running scared Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know
Asking only workman’s wages I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
Now the years are rolling by me
They are rocking even me
I am older than I once was
And younger than I’ll be
But that’s not unusual
No, it isn’t strange
After changes upon changes
We are more or less the same
After changes we are More or less the same
今や歳月は僕までも押し退けて僕の傍らを流れている
僕は昔より狡くなった
僕は理想とする僕より未熟だ
しかし、それは当たり前の話だ
そう、それは不思議な事ではなく
困難に従い、困難を支えとしたところで、僕達は多かれ少なかれ変わらない
苦しみが去っても、僕達は多かれ少なかれ変わらない
Then I’m laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me
Leading me
Going home
又僕は冬の衣類を取り出している
それでもいなくなりたい、故郷に帰りたい
かと言って、ニューヨークシティの幾星霜が、僕に血の出るような思いをさせたわけではない
僕をその気にさせるが
故郷に帰りたい
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the remainders Of every glove that laid him down
And cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving”
But the fighter still remains
Lie-la-lie . . .
晴れ晴れとしてボクサーは立ち上がる
そう彼の商売はボクサー
彼は彼をダウンさせ、怒りと羞恥心で大声を上げるまで彼の感情を傷付けたグラヴを一つ残らず記念として持ち歩く
「僕は捨てたい、僕は捨てたい」
いや、闘士は猶も留まる
We find our individual freedom, by choosing not a destination but a direcion. You do not choose the transformative journey because you know where it will take you but because it is the only journey that makes sense.
8958:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:10:26
Then I’m laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me
Leading me
Going home
(行省略)
8959:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:11:07
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
(AA略)
Paul Simon - The Boxer (Live From Paris)
[www.youtube.com]
Ketut Pramana1
(行省略)
8954:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 18:58:05
I am just a poor boy
Though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
(行省略)
8955:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 18:59:41
(AA略)
8956:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:01:15
Asking only workman’s wages I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
(AA略)
8957:アクエリアン
19/08/09(金) 19:09:43
Now the years are rolling by me
They are rocking even me
I am older than I once was
And younger than I’ll be
But that’s not unusual
No, it isn’t strange
(行省略)
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのときこそ、平和が諸々の惑星を導くことだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまは水瓶座の時代の夜明けのとき
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代だ
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス！ アクエリアスだ！
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
Golden living dreams of visions
ヴィジョンに溢れた光り輝く生の夢
Mystic crystal revelation
神秘的な透徹とした黙示
And the mind's true liberation
そして心の真の解放
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス！ 水瓶座！
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろう
And love will steer the stars
そして愛が星々の舵を取るのだ
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
いまや水瓶座の時代が明けようとしているのだ
The age of Aquarius
水瓶座の時代
Aquarius! Aquarius!
アクエリアス！ アクエリアスだ！
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
Let the sunshine,
太陽の輝きを
Let the sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
The Sunshine in
太陽の光が差してくるぞ
8968:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:45:38
今日の音楽
The 5th Dimension Age of Aquarius 1969
[www.youtube.com]
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
(行省略)
8969:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:46:22
Harmony and understanding
調和と理解と
Sympathy and trust abounding
共感と信頼が満ち溢れる
No more falsehoods or derisions
インチキやバカげたものはもうおしまい
(行省略)
8970:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:46:59
When the moon is in the Seventh House
月が第７宮にあり
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
木星が火星と直列するとき
Then peace will guide the planets
そのとき、平和が諸々の惑星を手引きするだろ
(文字略)
8971:アクエリアン
19/08/10(土) 11:47:37
Let the sunshine,
陽の光を
Let the sunshine in
太陽の輝きを差し込ませよう
The Sunshine in
陽の光を入れるんだ
(行省略)
俺は小さな町で生まれ
Well I was born in a small town
そして小さな町に住んでる
And I live in a small town
多分小さな町で死ぬだろうな
Prob'ly die in a small town
ああ、この小さな場所
Oh, those small communities
友達はみんなこの小さな町にいる
All my friends are so small town
親たちも同じ小さな町に住んでる
My parents live in the same small town
俺の仕事もこの小さな町の中でやってる
My job is so small town
ここじゃあんまりチャンスもないけど
Provides little opportunity
小さな町で教育を受け
Educated in a small town
小さな町で神を畏れることを教わった
Taught the fear of Jesus in a small town
小さな町でよく空想にふけったもんだよ
Used to daydream in that small town
生まれつきロマンティックだったのさ
Another boring romantic that's me
小さな町で起きたことは全て見てきた
But I've seen it all in a small town
小さな町で楽しい思いもした
Had myself a ball in a small town
Ｌ．Ａ．で可愛い娘と結婚して小さな町に連れてきた
Married an L.A. doll and brought her to this small town
今じゃ彼女も俺と同じ「小さな町」してる
Now she's small town just like me
自分がどこの出身か忘れることはない
No I cannot forget where it is that I come from
自分を愛してくれた人たちを忘れられないよ
I cannot forget the people who love me
そうさ、小さな町では自分のありのままでいられるし
Yeah, I can be myself here in this small town
みんな俺がやりたいようにやらせてくれるんだ
And people let me be just what I want to be
大きな町について悪く言ってるんじゃない
Got nothing against a big town
いろんなこと言えるほど大きな町を見たわけじゃない
Still hayseed enough to say Look who's in the big town
でも俺のベッドは小さな町にある
But my bed is in a small town
俺にはそれで十分さ
Oh, and that's good enough for me
俺は小さな町で生まれた
Well I was born in a small town
小さな町の空気を吸うことができる
And I can breathe in a small town
いつか、この小さな町で命を終えたい
Gonna die in this small town
きっとみんなが俺を埋めてくれるだろう場所・・・。
And that's prob'ly where they'll bury me
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小さな町で教育を受け
Educated in a small town
小さな町で神を畏れることを教わった
Taught the fear of Jesus in a small town
小さな町でよく空想にふけったもんだよ
Used to daydream in that s
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この歌を聞くと、時々 祖母の人生を思う。日本と中国の戦争が始まり、祖父の所属する陸軍の連隊が出動命令が下った。そして昭和12年 いわゆる上海上陸作戦に於いて、祖父は戦死した。祖母はその時からずっと、祖父を心に抱いて、2人の子供を育て上げた。「ずっと私の心には、愛する主人が生きている。だから必ず子供達を立派に育て上げてみせる。」という強い心を持って。You are safe in my heart. の歌詞は、特に祖母の心を思い出す。99歳まで元気に生きた祖母。今は祖父と仲良く暮らしているに違いない。そして、これからずっと永遠に戦争から平和への道を日中が歩む事を祖父は願っていると思う。
'Symbol of the devil': Why South Korea wants Japan to ban the Rising Sun flag from the Tokyo Olympics
By Yoonjung Seo, Yoko Wakatsuki and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN
Updated 0502 GMT (1302 HKT) September 7, 2019
(CNN) — The organizers of Japan's 2020 Summer Olympics have refused to ban a controversial flag that South Koreans say stirs memories of the violent, brutal life endured under Japanese rule during the early to mid-1900s.
South Korea's parliamentary committee for sports wants the so-called Rising Sun flag to be banned from venues at next year's Tokyo Olympics as it is viewed in South Korea as a symbol of Japanese "imperialism and militarism."
But this week, Tokyo 2020 -- the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics -- said that the flag wouldn't be banned as it was widely used in Japan.
"The flag itself is not considered to be a political statement, so it is not viewed as a prohibited item," Tokyo 2020 said in a statement.
That decision has caused controversy back in South Korea, where An Min-suk, the chair of the parliamentary committee for sports, condemned the decision.
"A flag symbolizing war is not suitable for peaceful Olympic Games," An said in a press conference Tuesday.
"The Rising Sun flag is akin to a symbol of the devil to Asians and Koreans, just like how the swastika is a symbol of Nazis which reminds Europeans of invasion and horror."
The Korean Sports & Olympic Committee told CNN Friday that it had not yet made an official request to Tokyo 2020 or the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban the flag. In a response to CNN, an IOC spokesperson said sports stadiums should be free of any political demonstration. "When concerns arise at games time we look at them on a case by case basis," the spokesperson said.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Thursday it had expressed regret over the decision via diplomatic channels. Earlier in the week, South Korea's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kim In-chul said the Japanese government needed to acknowledge its history.
"I believe the Japanese government is well aware that the Rising Sun flag is viewed by neighboring nations as a symbol of (Japanese) imperialism and militarism," Kim said on Tuesday, adding that the ministry planned to continue to work to change Tokyo 2020's decision.
The flag disagreement comes amid an ongoing trade spat between the two countries, which has been raging since July.
The Korean Sports & Olympic Committee told CNN Friday that it had not yet made an official request to Tokyo 2020 or the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban the flag. In a response to CNN, an IOC spokesperson said sports stadiums should be free of any political demonstration. "When concerns arise at games time we look at them on a case by case basis," the spokesperson said.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Thursday it had expressed regret over the decision via diplomatic channels. Earlier in the week, South Korea's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kim In-chul said the Japanese government needed to acknowledge its history.
"I believe the Japanese government is well aware that the Rising Sun flag is viewed by neighboring nations as a symbol of (Japanese) imperialism and militarism," Kim said on Tuesday, adding that the ministry planned to continue to work to change Tokyo 2020's decision.
The flag disagreement comes amid an ongoing trade spat between the two countries, which has been raging since July＜＜.
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七つの社会的大罪(The Seven Social Sins. )
労働無き富 (Wealth without work.)
良心無き快楽 (Pleasure without conscience.)
人格無き知識 (Knowledge without character.)
モラル無き商業(Commerce without morality.)
人間性無き科学(Science without humanity.)
犠牲無き尊敬 (Worship without sacrifice.)
理念無き政治 (Politics without principle.)
