why?
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
Ending. "Why human beings fight wars?"
3 September 2006
why?
why?
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
A baby, 2003
A baby, 2003
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A baby rescued from a bombed site. Iraq, 2003.
An atomic bomb victim, 1945
An atomic bomb victim, 1945
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
An archived film of an atomic bomb victim. Hiroshima, 1945. The chopsticks on the right is for medical purpose, not for eating.
A boy and a former baseball star
A boy and a former baseball star
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
This boy is now talking to Isao Harimoto, a former baseball star.
I remember Mr Harimoto very vividly. When I was a child, in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular baseball players. Slugger Harimoto hit a total of 3,000 hits in his career, and now he's a famous baseball pundit.
Despite the fact that he was a great professional baseball player, he has never been free from health worries. When he was five years old, he was in Hiroshima, and it was in the year 1945. He is one of the thousands of hibakusha (exposed person). He had to take blood test regularly even when he was a star player.
Here, he talks to the boy about what he hopes for the future - no weapons, no bombs.
A boy's eyes
A boy's eyes
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A close up shot of this shocked boy. He just stood there, and broke into a cold sweat. Later in the studio, he told he had never experienced this kind of sweat. What shocked him was, a boy at the same age was killed in the war. He also said the uniform was a bit small for his age.
A boy
A boy
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A close up shot of this shocked boy. He just stood there, and broke into a cold sweat. Later in the studio, he told he had never experienced this kind of sweat. What shocked him was, somebody, a boy at the same age, was killed in the war. He was shocked to see that a bomb kills. He also said the uniform was a bit small for his age.
A boy and a burned school uniform from 1945
A boy and a burned school uniform from 1945
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A Japanese boy, aged 13, visits Hiroshima for the first time and stands in front of what is left of a school uniform.
The boy in the uniform, aged 13 as well I think, was killed when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, 6 August 1945.
The boy (on the right) stands absolutely shocked. "War" was something real for him when he saw "the boy" of the same age.
Conflicts and wars
Conflicts and wars
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Conflicts and wars in the past ten years, including Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and the Balkans.
As appeared on the TV screen, 14 August 2006 - the same program as this one.
A boy on TV
A boy on TV
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Taken at my TV screen. 14 August 2006.
From a film originally shot in Iraq in 2003, by Mr Toshikuni Doi, a Japanese journalist.
This eight-year-old boy's name is Mustafa (or Moustafa), and he lives in Baghdad. In 2003, just days before the Iraq war ended, he was hit with a sharpnel in his left leg. At the time the journalist met him, he was on a hospital bed. The medicine there was not enough, which made it worse for the boy's leg. Doctors feared they would have to cut it off to save his life, and Mr Doi decided to begin some fund-raising activities in Japan. His website has some reports (in Japanese only).
On 14 August 2006, on the eve of the 61st VJ day, the NHK (Japan's BBC) aired a special program on "children and war". The program started with two pretty-boy actors' recent efforts on a war play, followed by this Mustafa report.
In the report, Mustafa was drawing some pictures. Whereas other children's pictures were about fighting, bombs, explosions and destruction, his were 1) a beautiful sunrise 2) a playground, a tree and the river. That's how his wounded boy sees, or wants to see, the world around him.
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