The costs of it, considerations, from the people living in the warzones’ perspectives here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The recent Russian-Ukrainian Conflict, with the people caught in the middle in both countries, having it, the hardest. The games of betting of the major world powers, using the many forms of warfare, beating the adversaries, elevating oneself. And yet, does this mean get to the right sort of the ends? Let’s look at history, the Japanese started the Japanese-Russian Wars in 1904, expected that Russia will be ousted from Asia, and become a part of Europe. While the novel, “I am a Cat” by Soseki Natsume, was on the Japanese in the Japanese-Russian War, the first person narrator of the “Cat”, observing the times, to show his criticisms of the conflicts. He’d published his novel, “Sanshiro” in 1908,the character of Hirota criticized the Japanese, “this sort of a look, so useless, even if we’d won the Japanese Russian Wars, becoming one of the top countries in the world, it’s still of no use. The architectures, the gardens, none of it is, good………”
In 1904, Tolstoy wrote against the Russian-Japanese War, told of how he empathized with the Chinese people who were caught by the Christians, of how the culture was, exploited. In the fable story collection, “Ivan the Idiot”, Tolstoy showed of how easily it is, to activate the greed in human nature, just give him more than he needs. The pillaging, the taking over of the neighboring countries’ territories during the Russian-Japanese War, made life suffered, it’s, a tragedy of, mankind. After Japan had invaded China, there were the photos, documenting how many Chinese people had suffered, and they’re, all, awful to see.
The American writer, Susan Sontag wrote a book, “Regarding the Pains of Others”, discussed the war and the ethics of photography. Sontag kept on asking, “as we are documenting the images of war, are we, capturing what the wars looked like, or, are we, structuring the myths of these, disasters?” The innocent Chinese people caught between the Japanese-Russian Conflicts, the trials of their lives were, documented by the foreign reporters, but, who speaks for the Chinese? Sontag asked, “what’s the purpose, to make the people aware of how much they hated violence, to desensitize us from the sense of conscience that came out? Watching the wars of others, does it actually, help us know the lessons of wars, or, is it to, numb us all out?”
The former legislation member of the Japanese congress, Yamaguchi’s grandfather, loved Asian culture, he’d moved the family the year the Russian-Japanese War was over to northeast China, Yamaguchi (Lee) was born in Liaoning Province, not far away from the warzones of Japanese-Russian War. Lee is a formally trained soprano, excellent in the skills of opera. She’d popularized the song “The Night Willow”. After World War II was over in 1945, she was charged for treason by the government of Republic of China. Later it was proven that she was of Japanese nationality, and released on a not-guilty charge, extradited back to Japan.
In Yamaguchi’s biography published in 1994, “War, Peace, & Song” stated, “a man, fooled by the times, the false policies, upon waking from the nightmares, if he is able to think of what he’d done wrong during those times, or, to explain his actions, he’d, blessed too.” Yamaguchi warned the younger people: peace isn’t easily got. That you must cherish it, to stand up against war. She’d hoped, that the younger generations can open up their sights, and, seriously think on how to get along. Maybe this was from the first half of life which she lived in times of war. It only takes one person’s thought, to bring about a full-blown war, we must be very careful about this.
And so, this just showed, how much war can hurt us all, and yeah, it might, kick start the economy (as history showed us!), but no matter which country won, people are the ones losing, the biggest, because their lives are lost, homes are, destroyed, and, they will have to, build back their original lives, from scratch, and they may not be able to, get their lives back to, the way it’d been from before the wars began.
Life, the Obstacle Course 