Seeing Kasumigaura reminds me of things wartime. People who know about the Japanese military might pick up on the connection. There is a well-known wartime song that mentions Kasumigaura in the first verse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember it from among the numerous war songs I learned back in the 1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was in a yakitoriya<\/em> one time\u2014I\u2019m always in some yakitoriya, right? Lot\u2019s of stuff going on there\u2014a right-wing thugmobile truck drove by playing that song at somewhere over the pain threshold and with about 35 percent distortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feeling mischievous, I commented to the guy sitting next to me (another regular) \u201cI know it\u2019s wrong. I really do know it\u2019s wrong, but when I hear these rousing war songs, I\u2019m overtaken by an urge to go to China and stab babies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fellow immediately launched into all the reasons why I should not repeat the horrible mistakes made by the Japanese military during World War II, apparently feeling compelled to warn me of making the same mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarcasm and black humor don\u2019t work in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seeing Kasumigaura reminds me of things wartime. People who know about the Japanese military might pick up on the connection. There is a well-known wartime song that mentions Kasumigaura in the first verse.\u00a0 I remember it from among the numerous war songs I learned back in the 1960s. When I was in a yakitoriya one … Continue reading “Yokohama beat Kasumigaura at Koshien.\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[266,285,284],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-things-about-japan","tag-ijn","tag-kasumigaura","tag-nanking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}