VJ Day
Written by: adekun on 15 August, 2007 10:03 pm - Filed under: blog ?
In the morning, there was a short program about some American veterans who served on the USS Drexler, meeting a Japanese pilot trained to carry out kamikaze attacks. It was arranged by the filmmakers of Wings of Defeat. The documentary released in July, aims to dispel the myths that the pilots were all crazy fanatics and show many shared mixed emotions. The release comes a couple of months after the film written by Tokyo’s nationalist governor, depicting the pilots as national heroes.
My wife looked a little shocked watching the footage, so I asked her what she knew of the tactics. Nothing was taught at school; it was only by chance that she had seen an animated depiction some years after leaving. It seems no different now, after a couple of days of the earthquake, there has been no mention of the Kashiwazaki power station. There is however, plenty of coverage outside of Japan.
