ARAI said
This performance is for memory of Tainan private middle school of Presbyterian Church in days of occupation by Japan.
Almost 6 years ago Japanese diet decided what are Japanese flag and Japanese
anthem in the law. Before there was no law for Japanese flag and the national
anthem. Now in all schools like graduation ceremony, People should show
Japanese flag and sing the national anthem. And sometimes teachers and
students who do not like to respect the flag and sing the national anthem
in the ceremony are punished by the director and the Mayer because of the
law now.
Before there was some agreement among people with
Japanese flag was symbol of militarism and the anthem celebrate the Emperor in spite of they agree or not.
Last year 5 Japanese people were kidnapped in Iraq by whom demand that Japanese army immediately withdraw from Iraq.
Those 5 people, 3 of them are freelance journalists and other two are NGO.
Most of them are against Japanese government's policy, course of as journalists
they report the situation from Iraq and as NGO they are helping Iraq people
very much.
After that the kidnappers understand those people very well and released
them without any help from Japanese Gov't.
On the other hand Japanese Gov't claim that they spent a lot of money and term to those people. Also They ask those people to pay them back.
Many Newspapers and Magazines endorse the Gov't policies
But the agent of kidnappers said that they did not have any contact from Japanese Gov't.
ARAI make the gate of Japanese shrine by red tape on the wall.
ARAI took off his clothes, keeping only a small yellow Pikachu Pokemon
fig leaf on his genitals, and squats on a canvas. While singing the Japanese national anthem "Kimi-ga-Yo means Our superior@Emperor
regime", he presses a plastic tube containing red paint from just below his buttocks,
as if excreting red human waste.
Using his bare buttocks on the "waste." he paints a full but irregular rising sun in the middle of the canvas that turns out to be a copy of the Japanese national flag, which he later hangs on the wall.
ARAI said
The title of this comicbook is "What is a patriotic war?"
The comicbook's author says that Japan must have more military power. We
Japanese must have a patriot spirit. There was no Nanking genocide by the
Japanese Emperor army. There were no Korean or east asian women sex slaves
in the Japanese Emperor army. They were only commercial prostitutes.
More than half a million people bought this book and almost all of them
are under 30.
And he is very friend of ex-Taiwan president Lee Teng-Hui
ARAI put the page of the comic book in his mouth and shout
Happy Japan!
again and again
ARAI Shin-ichi (Japan)
"Happy Japan!"
Memory for Tainan private middle school of Presbyterian Church in days of occupation by Japan
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