I was going to sit down and blogg on a different story, but couldn't resist anymore to open this video on youtube after the second encounter with it. http://youtube.com/watch_popup?v=SS-sWdAQsYg&vq=medium
It is made by the Japanese people in Tohoku to thank the international community who had gone over to help them in the aftermath of sunami 2011.
The video lasts only 8 minutes, there is no technical fanfare involved, just a very simple, heartfelt message, but a very important one. It gives closure to the tragedy (though 3,800 people are still unaccounted for), it acknowledges the common bond of humanity - its frailty and the need of one another.
The rise of Japan after WW2 was an unprecedented phenomenal. After the humiliating defeat by the atomic bomb, it sets its goal to be a world class super power again through economy. Within 10 years, they built the largest department store in HK, (a small island which population was so battered by the Japanese Imperial Army.
Thousands of Canadian soldiers died there defending it.) We never heard a word of apology. Even when China demands an apology from Japan recently for the Naking massacre of millions of people about 70 years ago, Japan was tight lips about it. In Japan's history book for the classroom, it's global invasion was never mentioned. It is a very proud nation, determines to move on without looking back. Even though many countries had forgiven its brutality and open their markets to Japan which it only took for granted.
USA poured millions of dollars to helped rebuild Japan, they sent them missionaries too. They took the former but rejected the latter. They worship instead their tight knit culture and their own strength, they have no room for a God who died for them, and it is the same God who sent them help. But after the tsunami, they are given another opportunity to do it right.
May we, as individuals, not to by pass the opportunities of expressing gratitude to those who have helped us, making apology to those whom we have offended - they are no small things in life. In fact, they are Life.
It is made by the Japanese people in Tohoku to thank the international community who had gone over to help them in the aftermath of sunami 2011.
The video lasts only 8 minutes, there is no technical fanfare involved, just a very simple, heartfelt message, but a very important one. It gives closure to the tragedy (though 3,800 people are still unaccounted for), it acknowledges the common bond of humanity - its frailty and the need of one another.
The rise of Japan after WW2 was an unprecedented phenomenal. After the humiliating defeat by the atomic bomb, it sets its goal to be a world class super power again through economy. Within 10 years, they built the largest department store in HK, (a small island which population was so battered by the Japanese Imperial Army.
Thousands of Canadian soldiers died there defending it.) We never heard a word of apology. Even when China demands an apology from Japan recently for the Naking massacre of millions of people about 70 years ago, Japan was tight lips about it. In Japan's history book for the classroom, it's global invasion was never mentioned. It is a very proud nation, determines to move on without looking back. Even though many countries had forgiven its brutality and open their markets to Japan which it only took for granted.
USA poured millions of dollars to helped rebuild Japan, they sent them missionaries too. They took the former but rejected the latter. They worship instead their tight knit culture and their own strength, they have no room for a God who died for them, and it is the same God who sent them help. But after the tsunami, they are given another opportunity to do it right.
May we, as individuals, not to by pass the opportunities of expressing gratitude to those who have helped us, making apology to those whom we have offended - they are no small things in life. In fact, they are Life.
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