Interview

[Tbmcneill]

I'm not sure where to post this, so please point me in the direction of the right subforum if this is not the right spot.

I'm trying to find a Japanese interview subject for a school project. The project is about different views on World War 2, and part of it requires interviewing someone from another country. The interview can be conducted online, so I came here.

The interview subject can be anyone who grew up in Japan (so that we can ask about how schools treated the subject), so long as he or she speaks English (or at least there is a translator). The interview would not be extensive, but I would need responses within a few days.

If you are willing and able to be part of this interview, know someone else who is, or can point me to another forum where I might find an interview subject, please let me know.

[Tbmcneill]

Bump.

Anybody at all?

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

貴方の質問はなんですか?
大東亜戦争について、答えられる限り答えます。
What is your question?
About Greater East Asia War, I answer it as far as it is answered.

[Tbmcneill]

For Hiroyuki Nagashima and anyone else who is willing:

I have several questions:


Where did you go to school?

When did you go to school?

What was taught in school about World War 2? How is the war treated and viewed by most Japanese?

Were your parents or grandparents involved with the war? If yes, how were they involved? What did they tell you about it?

What have you been taught in school about the atomic bomb attacks?

How are the atomic bomb attacks viewed by most Japanese? Do many Japanese people consider these attacks to be very different than the bombing of Tokyo or other bombings of cities?


Please answer tomorrow or the day after because the deadline for this project is very soon. Thank you for helping.

If you have any questions of clarification, please ask.

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

For Hiroyuki Nagashima and anyone else who is willing:
I have several questions:

Where did you go to school?
When did you go to school?
What was taught in school about World War 2? How is the war treated and viewed by most Japanese?
Were your parents or grandparents involved with the war? If yes, how were they involved? What did they tell you about it?
What have you been taught in school about the atomic bomb attacks?
How are the atomic bomb attacks viewed by most Japanese? Do many Japanese people consider these attacks to be very different than the bombing of Tokyo or other bombings of cities?

Please answer tomorrow or the day after because the deadline for this project is very soon. Thank you for helping.
If you have any questions of clarification, please ask.

Q.)
どこで、あなたは学校に行きましたか？
Where did you go to school?

A.)
福岡県の公立学校
The public school of Fukuoka Prefecture

Q.)
いつ、あなたは学校に行きましたか？
When did you go to school?

A.)
市立小学校　municipal elementary school, 1974-1980
市立中学校　municipal junior high school, 1980-1983
県立高校　　prefectural senior high school, 1983-1986

Q.)
何が、第２次世界大戦について学校に教えられましたか ？どのように、戦争は扱われて、大部分の日本語によっ て見られますか？
What was taught in school about World War 2? How is the war treated and viewed by most Japanese?

A.)
小学生と中学生の時代に、平和学習が、ありました。
中学校、高等学校で、日本の歴史と世界史でそれを勉強 します。
夏休みの期間。8月9日と8月15日に登校して平和学習が� �りました

In the days of a primary schoolchild and a junior high student, there was peace education.
In a junior high school, a senior high school, I study it in Japanese history and world history.
A period of a summer vacation.
We attended school on August 9 and August 15, and there was peace education

平和学習の内容
Contents of peace education

1)学生は、原爆犠牲者の講演を聞きます。
A student hears a lecture of an A-bomb victim.
原爆の記録資料をみての学習
We watched an atom bomb record

2)日本がアジアの人々に戦争の間に与えた行為。
強制的労働、虐待、その他について
The act which Japan gave during war to people of Asia.
About forced labor, abuse, etc.
(花岡暴動Hanaoka riot 炭鉱での強制労働Forced labor in a coal mine
沖縄の朝鮮人虐殺事件The case that slaughtered a Korean in Okinawa)

戦争の原因について
A cause of war.

日本の軍国主義の為と教えられる
It is taught for Japanese militarism.


Q.)
あなたの両親か祖父母は、戦争と関係していましたか？
可能ならば、どのように、彼らは入りましたか？
彼らは、それについてあなたに何を話しましたか？
Were your parents or grandparents involved with the war?
If yes, how were they involved?
What did they tell you about it?

A.)
祖父は、その頃 炭坑夫でした。
父は、小学生でした。
The grandfather was a miner in those days.
My father was a primary schoolchild in those days.

叔父（長男）は、16才で海軍兵学校に入学しました。
彼は、戦争末期に人間魚雷の特攻隊にいたそうです。
彼は、特攻の訓練を行っていたそうです。
The uncle (the eldest son) entered a naval academy at 16 years old.
He belongs to a special attack unit of a human being torpedo in last years of war.
He seems to have done suicide attack training.

もう一人の叔父（次男）は、戦争末期に15才で志願して 、幼年兵士として満州へ行きました。
Another uncle (the second son) applied at 15 years old in last years of war and went to Manchurian as an early childhood soldier.

叔父は、戦争体験の詳細について話しませんでした。
私は、父と祖母から話を聞きました。
The uncles did not talk about experiences of war in detail.
I heard the story of those days from father and a grandmother.


Q.)
あなたは、原子爆弾攻撃について学校に何を教えられま したか？
What have you been taught in school about the atomic bomb attacks?

A.)
原子爆弾の威力は極めて大きく、無差別大量殺戮する、 大量破壊兵器であること。
Power of an A-bomb is extremely big,It is indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction to massacre in large quantities
また、原爆の2次的な被害(放射能被害)は長く残る。
In addition,
The secondary damage of an atom bomb(The radioactivity damage) is left for a long time.


Q.)
どのように、原子爆弾攻撃は、大部分の日本語によって 見られますか？
多くの日本人は、これらの攻撃が東京の爆破か都市の他 の爆破とは非常に異なると考えますか？

A.)
東京の空襲や原爆攻撃は、一般市民を攻撃目標とした戦 争犯罪だと思う。
An air raid and atom bomb attack of Tokyo,

I think that it is the war crimes that assumed a citizen a target.
また広島や長崎の原爆攻撃は、原爆の威力実験だったと 思う
In addition, I think that the atom bomb attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a power experiment of an atom bomb


An English sentence uses translation software.
I think that there is a mistake of a sentence

[Cue]

oh dear... what a deep topic.

well, i won't be able to answer all of them, but one thing i know is that my mother is from Hiroshima, and she barely survived the war because she moved to Osaka right before the a-bomb. But still, there was a big attack in Osaka as well, and she lost her little brother during that time.

My school trip when i was in junior high school was to Hiroshima and visited
Hiroshima peace memorial musium. http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/
Also, when I was in elementary school, the teacher made us watch "Hotaru no Haka" and "Hadashi no Gen" movies(hope you've heard of their names at least) on those August 6th/9th or 15th to learn more about the war, about how cruel a war can be as well as how valuable the peace can be.

The air raid on Tokyo/Osaka and A-bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki, IMO, are exactly the same. They both killed a lot of people. And yet if there were any difference between them, i'd say "The air raids might have needed a mass of normal bombs while it needed just one little A-bomb to kill tens of thousands of people in a second."

hope the above helps you a bit, Tbmcneill.
and please note that those I wrote are just for your reference and no other intension.

[Tbmcneill]

Hiroyuki Nagashima: Thank you for your help.

Cue: Could you tell me a bit more about your mother's experience, the content of the education about the war, or the way people tend to view the war? Thank you for your answers so far.

[Cue]

Tbmcneill,
I sent you my replies thru PM. Sorry it's seperated into 3 messages as it got so long. ^^;

hope it helps,

Cue