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風が木の葉を巻き上げて吹き抜けてゆくとき、それは精霊達が通り過ぎてゆくからだという言い伝えがアイルランドにある。人々は十字をきって手を合わせるという。
Jingu-Gaien (outer garden of Meiji shrine in Tokyo)
It has been handed down in Ireland that
faithful people make the sign of the cross when they saw the wind blows up
falling leaves, thinking the spirits are crossing the road.
In Jingu-Gaien, famous for its beautiful gingko tree-lined road, it had always been
heard the cheers of many young people resounding in stadiums, called Mecca of
sports.
After 1943, thousands of young people had
been sent from here to the battle field shouldered a gun in halfway through college, what
is called “the departure of students for the front”. Most of them died in the
Philippine sea, jungle in Impahl, Luzon island, Okinawa and cold field in Siberia. The number of war dead students is estimated around 130 thousand,
but nowhere precise documents exist.
Finally, Japan was clobbered harshly in
the war, and unconditionally surrendered under two atomic bombings. Notwithstanding,
Japanese leaders survived as crafty as old fox, in spite of that they declared
the opening of the war, propelled the battle and loudly hurled contempt towards England
and US as “western brute”. They shamelessly advocated “national confession of
Japanese war guilt” when Japan was defeated in the war. Their war
responsibility was pigeonholed and they transformed themselves into pro
American right wingers without reluctance.
However, over seventy years after the war,
Japanese nation still has never passed own judgment on these war criminals who
sent the students and the young to death.
The wind blowing through
Autumn leaf tree lined way,
Might be golden genie is passing through
On a fine day
