1945 - AUG. 30TH - ATSUGI
AT ATSUGI AIR-BASE OUTSIDE TOKYO HEADQUARTERS OF ONE OF THE IMPERIAL NAVY'S KAM-KAZI SQUADRONS THE PILOTS HAVE FLED, LEAVING A CORE OF BOYS TO PREPARE THE AIRFIELD FOR THE FIRST OF THE AMERICAN INVADERS.
JOURNALIST MATSO KATO: "THERE WERE RUMORS OF THE ARMED MEMBERS OF THE KAMA KAZI CORE WERE HIDING IN THE NEARBY HILLS READY TO STRIKE. THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SUDDENLY TOLD TO WITHDRAW FROM A FIGHT TO THE DEATH, AND THERE REACTION WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT."
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR HISTORY, THE JAPANESE ARE FACED WITH THE REALITY OF DEFEAT.
AT 2 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON A PLANE ARRIVES, IT IS CARRYING JAPAN'S NEW RULER, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR.
MASO-KATO IS WAITING ON THE TAR-MAC, "THE SUPREME COMMANDER POSES TO GLANCE CASUALLY AROUND ON THE SUN-LIGHT AIR-FIELD, AS HE SAVORS THE MOMENT; VERY MUCH LIKE A GREAT ACTOR MAKING A CAREFULLY PLANNED ENTRANCE. NOW THAT THE WESTERNERS HAVE ARRIVED, HOW LONG WILL THEY STAY?"
AS GENERAL MACARTHUR LEAVES FOR YOKAHAMA ON ROUT TO TOKYO, 30,000 JAPANESE SOLDIERS ARE ORDERED TO LINE THE ROUT. THEY ARE TOLD TO TUREN THEIR BACKS WITH INDIFFERENCE TO THEIR NEW OVERLORD.
16 YEARS OLD ATANO IS WAITING IN TOKYO, "THE POLICE ARE GIVING ORDERS ABOUT THE AMERICANS: AVOID PERSONAL CONTACT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. IF AN AMERICAN STARTS A CONVERSATION ANSWER HIM CALMLY, 'WOMEN SHOULD DRESS MODESTLY, AND GO OUT ALONE AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE.' BEING OCCUPIED IS MORE FRIGHTENING THAN BEING BOMBED."
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WOW GET THAT LAST SENTENCE. WHEN YOU SEE THE PICTURES OF THE RESULT OF BOMBING, THE HORRIFIC DESTRUCTION OF THE ATOM BOMB AND THE VILE STATE OF MANY LEFT ALIVE, AND YOU HAVE THE STATEMENT THAT OCCUPATION IS MORE FRIGHTENING THAN BEING BOMBED, YOU SEE THE DEPTHS OF THE STRANGE MIND-SET OF MANY JAPANESE AT THAT TIME. PARTLY I GUESS FROM NEVER HAVING LOST A WAR IN THEIR ENTIRE HISTORY.
THEN YOU SEE FURTHER THE MIND-SET OF MILITARY LEADERS IN ORDERING 30,000 SOLDIERS TO TURN THEIR BACKS ON THEIR NEW WESTERN OVERLORD, AS MACARTHUR DROVE TO TOKYO.
ALL THE RESULT OF VAIN HUMAN EGO, VANITY AND WRONG PROUDNESS IN ONES SELF OR NATION.
HUMAN VANITY IN SELF HAS LED MANY A RELIGIOUS LEADER TO WANDER OFF THE HUMBLE PATHWAY OF GOD'S TRUTHS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, INTO THE SNARES OF THE DEVIL, LEADING THOUSANDS, AH, MILLIONS AT TIMES, INTO FALSE TEACHINGS AND HUMAN IDEOLOGIES. AND ALL THAT CAN GO FROM PEOPLE LIKE JIM JONES [LOOK HIM UP ON THE INTERNET] TO THE MAN WHO SITS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHAIR IN ROME.
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