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2017-08-18 "Finally we become able to speak "misery of war" directly, without metaphor" [長年日記]

I have written a lot about the "Pacific War" recently, but I have noticed somewhat.

It is a fact that it says "memory of war is being lost" and I am afraid that this is inescapable inevitable, however,

On the other hand, I also feel the atmosphere that "the situation of war is being told clearly".

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For example, in the recently described "Impal Strategy" of NHK Non-Fiction program,

"Soldiers who fell into hunger ate meat of fellow countrymen who became corpse (caribalism)"

was quite a shocking content for many people, I thought.

(By the way, I knew it well because I read a lot of books about them since I was a teenager)

Furthermore, in that program, the opinion

"When they were alone in an injured state, there felt a fear that they could be eaten by being attacked"

was introduced.

(I was surprised because I did not even know this)

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This seems to be related to the fact that "the number of people who want to conceal such facts (especially people on the power side) are decreasing".

After over 70 years of age,

"Finally we become able to speak "misery of war" directly, without metaphor"

I thought that it might be possible to interpret "positively".