Chapter 12 Chapter 11 Dankuro's Head Bomb

Chapter 11 Dankuro's Head Bomb 1 When I was young, maybe it was because I didn’t catch up with the popular period of "Kuro Dog Kuro" and "Adventure Danji", so I didn't appreciate the fun of new comics, or it can also be said that the society and the overall atmosphere of the times at that time were very different from comics. It's not suitable, and it's easy to even get a comic book itself. The comic books that were published earlier, such as the comic books such as "Kuro Dog Kuro" and "Adventure Danji", have a hard-shell cloth cover and are made very strong. Compared with the comic books published now, they are also considered early up.What I had before I entered national school was "Tank Egg Kuro" that my mother had spent a lot of time getting for me.Another kind is cut from foreign newspapers and magazines and put in boxes.There were two serials called Felix the Cat and Grandpa Alpha—these weren't really one books, and why they were in our house I don't know.

Long after the war, I actually saw the new foreign magazine with the Felix the Cat cartoon, and I found a T-shirt with that cartoon image on it.I also occasionally saw the picture of "Grandpa Alpha" on TV, but it was somewhat different from what I remembered, and it made me feel strange. I later worked at a university in California called Berkeley, from where I could take the subway to a used bookstore in San Francisco.It is said to be a second-hand bookstore, but it is actually a large building. On the second floor, there is a room dedicated to collecting rare books.In that second-hand bookstore, I was very lucky to find that "Felix the Cat", which I have been obsessed with for a long time, is a book version that collects the pre-war parts and its appendices.

The reason why I go to used bookstores so often is to collect information on the poet and printmaker William Blake, because new books on this topic are hard to come by.The comic book was the same price as a book with Blake's fine engravings that came across on the same day.I thought about it for a long time and finally bought Black.The young man in the store copied a Felix painting for me without the owner's back, because he, I think, had seen how hesitant I was about which copy to buy. That "Tank. Egg Kuro", I wrapped the book cover for it, and read it very carefully.It was my mother who taught me to wrap the book cover.I still use Japanese confectionery wrapping paper, old calendars, etc. to wrap book covers in the same way.It's been fifty years since you leather your schoolbag before you start reading.

Tank Dankuro's body is a black iron ball with several holes, protruding from those holes is a face with combed samurai hair and big and ugly eyes, legs and arms wearing boots, what? of.Not only that, but the wings and propellers that resemble the wings of an airplane also protrude from there. Why does Tankuro carry all kinds of weapons?This is because Dan Jiulang will fight the enemy with the monkey named K on the battlefield.This monkey is not so much his subordinate, but his friend. The cartoonist who created Tank Tankuro is Sakamoto Ishiro, so I drew a man with two long teeth growing out of his mouth on the cover of this book.One day my father saw it and told me that Yacheng was the position where the great general set up the army flag in ancient times.We had been playing war games since we were in elementary school, so I understood what Dad said.

When I grew up, my memories of Tank Dankuro received a letter from the author's family and the "Nanhua Painting Collection" signed by "Yacheng".It was painted with delicate techniques using ink and pastel colors from China.I originally thought it might be that he changed the name, which had a sense of the war era, to "beautiful city".Unexpectedly, it turns out that "Yacheng" is her real name.However, anyway, I stubbornly think that "Yacheng" is better than "Yacheng". 2 Change the subject a little bit.Not long ago, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji visited Japan.He met with many politicians and businessmen, and had conversations with Japanese citizens through television.Since the prime minister of a country had a dialogue with hundreds of citizens, I think there must be many people who attended but were unable to speak that day.Even so, I think it's a good idea to arrange an assembly of this type of conversation.

Long before this, I attended the welcome banquet of high-level leaders from China.I bought a ticket because I joined an association that promotes cultural exchanges between Japan and China, and I really wanted to hear a speech on this aspect. I think this was designed by the Japanese side who came to express their welcome - the program of the banquet was arranged so that the leader would shake hands with all the participants at the entrance.Everyone has to stand in the long queue.The line is moving faster than I thought.When it was almost my turn, I saw that the politician was already very impatient.

When he was shaking hands with the person in front of me who seemed to be engaged in Japan-China trade, his eyes had moved to my side.During this process, the translator next to him translated the company name of the person in charge one by one.But I don't think he will listen that closely.By the time he shook my hand, the politician was already looking at the next guest. If your father took you to such a meeting, you would think it was unbelievable—how could the grown-ups take such a meaningless form?I am an adult, but I also have this feeling, so I decided not to attend the welcome party of foreign dignitaries after that.In fact, when Premier Zhu Rongji visited the Japanese team, I also got a big banquet invitation, but I didn't go to it.And this is the reason why I think it is very good for him to have a dialogue with ordinary citizens through TV.

3 Even if you only read newspaper reports, you will feel that every question and answer is very interesting. What touched me the most was Premier Zhu Rongji's answer as follows: "In 1995, the then Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama expressed his apology to the Asian people in general. Not once." I have always been very concerned about the ambiguous speeches that the so-called high-ranking officials of the Japanese government use when they go to foreign countries and bid farewell to Asian countries.Although the packaging is well done, when I opened it, there was nothing I needed. Anyone would feel uncomfortable with such a guest's gift from the bottom of their hearts.I think everyone has had this experience.

I think the Chinese Premier's answer is real and has something to say, rather than just saying some kind words to make the other party sound comfortable.Those who participated in that discussion, and the young people who saw it on TV, must have remembered it well. Originally Premier Zhu Rongji’s words were aimed at Japan’s participation in the discussion, “When will China not ask the Japanese team to apologize forever?” People's own problems. I hope everyone will think about it." This is also a solid answer.This is the problem of the Japanese.And if you ask why we should make up our minds to apologize, why it is necessary to apologize, I will answer: it is for our own dignity.

The Japanese invaded China and raped women and killed a lot of people.This includes children.The Nanjing Massacre is just one of them.From your standpoint, you can say that this was done by the Japanese of your grandfather's generation, or even older, so it has nothing to do with us.But as long as you have a sense of dignity, I don't think you can say such things. If you don't know that history until now, you can learn it.If you have learned it, you will not object to the Japanese apologizing for the war of aggression they launched in the form of official national documents.Among you friends, if someone has done too much bullying to a weaker partner, if he never apologizes, won't you think that person has no courage to be a human being and despise him?

And from before you were born to now, people have been talking about writing a new history textbook. There are some old people of my age who say that it is for the children of Japan, that is, for you to have a sense of dignity.How to write it?It is to erase all words about aggression against Asian countries headed by China from history textbooks. I think many of you will feel that this statement is not true.Some people even feel angry about this matter, and think that if it is really for us, they hope that such things will not be said.Even if all the bad things that the Japanese have done to Asian countries are completely deleted from all the history textbooks from junior high school to high school, the children of Japan's neighboring countries will know all about it.Moreover, you will have dialogues and work with them in the future, and you will create a new world together with them. What I'm worried about is the day when the Chinese say "we don't ask the Japanese to apologize anymore".Needless to say, it would be gratifying if it was after the Japanese government formally apologized in official documents; but if not, if the Chinese, especially the young people, have started to speak like this, then in the future they and you will be able to Really maintain a good relationship? 3 Now let's go back to the tank. Egg Kuro.Dan Jiulang was bitten by a lion because of Mr. K's carelessness, and the head with samurai hair that was originally hidden in the cave was pulled out.The head was pulled, his neck stretched like a snake.The head was just like that. Mr. K watched worriedly. Dan Jiulang's head stretched out from the body of the iron ball that was left in place due to its heavy weight.That masquerading as a head is actually a bomb.In this way, Dan Jiulang used the long stretched neck as the fuse, and killed the lion with the bomb. Although I was still a child who had not yet entered school there, I still felt that among the ranks depicted as enemy troops, there were Chinese who were called "Chinese people" by the adults at that time.At that time, we were given such an impression of Chinese people who had never met each other. Mr. K and I were worried together, and we were very happy for Dan Jiulang's plan.Because in our childish hearts, we planned to join the Japanese army that invaded China. Mr. K and I were worried together, because Dan Jiulang had been driven into a dangerous situation, and there was no way to save him.This worry disappeared without a trace because of Dan Jiulang's wonderful performance.As for the lives of the Chinese who were bombed and assumed to be enemy soldiers, etc., I didn't think about anything at that time.