War Responsibility Nobu Did Not Take
It has been about a week since the NHK TV series “Anpan”, a.k.a. “Morning Drama”, came to an end. It was an interesting drama. However, there was one issue that could not be overlooked. War responsibility. How did Nobu (Mio Imada), a nationalist teacher who had driven her students to war, manage to join the Kochi Shimpo, the flag bearer of a democratic nation, at the end of the war? Fuyuhiko Takabori, broadcast columnist and journalist] [View photos] Mio Imada is in hot pursuit! The “Three Little Facial Glasses of Fukuoka “ **** are competing in terms of popularity.
If the personal histories of Yanase Takashi (Kitamura Takumi) and Nobu Nobu, who are modeled on Yanase Takashi and his wife, Nobu, are at odds with their own, there is no problem at all. That is drama. However, when it comes to an issue that concerns the entire history, such as responsibility for the war, it is a different story. It is not enough to say that it would have been more interesting if it had been changed. If the responsibility for the war were to be misunderstood as a light matter, it could be a source of future problems. Nobu had been a nationalist teacher since the 35th, which was in 1938. This was the year after the Sino-Japanese War broke out. He resigned from his position in 1946, just after the end of the war, when he was 61st. He apologized to the children, saying, “The teacher made a mistake. In the 63rd session of the same year, Nobu repented to the demobilized bulks, saying, “We have to get back to the children. I did something irretrievable to the children. It was me who had sent those children to war. I didn’t stop. I was afraid to stop and think. I was afraid to stop and think about it. I was afraid of painting over their free minds and letting their precious families die. Nobu also acknowledges his own responsibility for the war. He feels a deep sense of guilt and even prepared to die, saying, “I wonder if I should live. However, responsibility for the war does not disappear with remorse or regret. In October 1945, GHQ (General Headquarters, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces) purged about 7,000 nationalistic teachers. They were expelled from the teaching profession. In an attempt to get back at the war effort, there was a wave of tip-offs from parents. Many teachers quit before they were purged. Other people who were purged included politicians, bureaucrats, and newspaper people. These were expelled from public office. The number of those purged was as many as 210,000. The purge was so thorough that even the president of a nationalist neighborhood association was purged. Nobu had resigned as a teacher, but that did not absolve him of responsibility for the war. Article 6 of the Potsdam Declaration, which Japan accepted, states. GHQ’s aim was to wipe out those who had been complicit in the war. It did not matter if they turned. That is why they pursued the past problems. It did not matter whether they were present or former.