2008年10月8日星期三

Sandakan no.8 ( film 1974)

Sandakan no.8 , elegantly filmed at 1974 (Color) .
I rent the original version from a small DVD-shop .
(Japanese w/ Chinese subtitles)

OP title .
Frankily speaking,i haven't had chance to read
the original novel 『 サンダカン八番娼館~望郷 』山崎朋子
(full script in Nihongo),but this is the 3rd time
i watched this movie in HongKong.


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[ The Secrets ]


"It's been one year,after that summer ..."



ねえ~あのせんせいに写真を撮ってもらわない?
"Let's ask that Sensei to take a photograph for two of us !"



A silent night ,in the village's Tatami-Kobeya .



"I will never forget you ..."



In a small tabacco shop .
"Excuse me, i would like to buy some table-salt ."



高校の吉田先生から。。。
"This is for you . Picture taken by highschool teacher ,
Yoshida Sensei."



Actress who played the original researcher
( book writer Tomoko Yamazaki) .
She visited a village in Kumamoto(熊本県天草) around 1960s ,
and found out the old lady's secrets.




Moody ending .


* This film was banned in United States ,
as well as the French title : "Hiroshima Mon Amour" 1959
(was never shown in US national television).


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My motivation of posting an introduction page
of "Sandakan no.8" is :
Agaisnt the War Violence + Protest agaisnt the
Sexual crimes / Child-abuse .


The copyright item of this film "Sandakan no.8"
("Sandakan Hachiban Shokan, Bokyo") belongs to film-maker :
[ 東宝株式会社 映画製作 1974 ]

Director of this film :
Mr. Kei Kumai [ 熊井啓 監督 ] (R.I.P. aged 76)





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*Translate script by : Gigi
10.9.2008

2008年10月7日星期二

Memoirs of " I-AN-FU "慰安婦歷史

Secret diaries / Foreign Lawsuits / Thesis papers /
Volunteers group / Appeal / Parliament representatives /
/ Women Tribunal / Bilingual professors / Weblinks :

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1.The Comfort Women 1995 ( by George Hicks )
---First book about Comfort Women( published in english )


2. COMFORT WOMAN by Nora Okja Keller
/ " Akiko's Hidden Past " 1997
---Discussion Forum : Reading Matters


3. " Jan O’Herne was born in 1923
at Bandoeng, in central Java."
[ Australia & Dutch survivor in the Pacific War ]


4. Testimonies of the Victims (Bilingual)
: (年老慰安婦 倖存者) 受害者的證言
/Korean, Filipina ,Taiwanese Seniors.

Comfort Woman ( the Asian Women's Fund )
慰安婦裁判・アジア女性基金 Digital Musuem
[ President of AWF : 村山富市 Tomiichi Murayama ]


5.Prof. Ienaga Saburo 家永三郎教授
[ TAIHEIYO SENSO 1982 ] 太平洋戰爭
--- One-man battle stood alone / fight on
court for 32 years


In 1965 Ienaga Saburo, a prominent historian,
filed the first of his three lawsuits against
the Ministry of Education, charging that the process of
textbook approval was unconstitutional and illegal.


The Ministry had rejected Ienaga's history textbook
because it contained "too many illustrations of the
'dark side' of the war, such as an air raid,
a city left in ruins by the atomic bomb, and disabled veterans."


審定歷史教科書案 家永所編的高中教材《新日本史》,
多次被日本文部省審定為「不合格」,
要求他修改多處,特別是關於二戰期間日軍暴行的描述。
終於,1965年,家永開始控告日本政府和文部省,
訴訟長達32年,家永多次取得「部分勝訴」。

6.蘇智良教授 :慰安婦問題研究第一人
Chinese professor's researches on Comfort Women
/ Books published in Chinese language.


7. Dutch parliament demands Japanese
compensation
(for "Comfort Women") 2007
: 荷蘭國會首次通過法例 (年老慰安婦生存者的 賠償訴訟)
[ Online News-report : www.chinaview.cn ]
Editor: Sun Yunlong | 2007-11-21 11:07:12



8.Rep. Mike Honda (D -- CA) addresses
the U.S. House of Representatives
Foreign Affair Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific,
and the Global Environment in support of H. Res. 121 .
/ A 10 minutes brief hearing for Comfort Women --- WW2
& the (US) Japanese Internment Camp issues. (2007)

[ Video courtesy : robpierson (Youtube) ]



9. Taiwan Comfort Women Legal Support Group 2004
台湾の元「慰安婦」裁判を 支援する会 ( Nihongo website )
" 50年間の沈黙を破って !" = Break the 50 years silence !
[ 3・8 国際女性デー : 阿媽(アマー)の夢を叶え ふれあう会 ]



10.Ms. Carol Cooper (UK) : The Lost Diary 1994
/ Stories,Poems,Eye-Witnesses [ 二戰:遠東戰俘遺族(英國) ]
COFEPOW is a Registered Charity ( Reg. No. 1074474 )
---Children(& Families) of the Far-East Prisoners of War


11. "Why Do We Sue NHK?" July 24, 2001
Mrs .Yayori Matsui, Chairperson of VAWW-Net Japan
★ 松井やより :「戦争と女性への暴力」日本ネットワーク


12. Links to items about : Comfort Women [ A Web Reference ]
The women who were held in sexual slavery
by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

( Jerry D. Boucher and Chunghee Sarah Soh )
/ Last updated June 13, 2002


13.Mrs.Tomoko Yamazaki 山崎朋子 / Feminist Pioneer
[ Sandakan no.8 ] 1974 兒童人口販賣
--- Women Trafficking ( Child prostitution )


14.Ms. Li Hsiang-Lan (JP) aka. 李香蘭
The original singer of "Soshyu Yakyoku" 蘇州夜曲
1940s ManchuKuo national film-star 反對參拜靖國神社
--- Protesting on the worship of YASUKUNI JINJA
( War-Criminal shrine) by neo-Nazis' politicians . / 2005


15.BBC online News ( English channel )
--- Japanese War-Orphan ( Manchuria –WW2 )
[ 中國殘留孤兒問題 ] 2003


16.Nanking Massacre Anniversary 1994
★In Memory of : Sister Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vautrin
---在「南京安全區」保護了數十萬難民 :魏特琳女士


17."To Forget is Impossible ,
We remember Nanking !" [ 南京大屠殺 / Iris Chang's book ]
[ Alliance to preserve the History of WW2
in Asia
--- Los Angeles . ]


18. [ Let's 編集部 / 日本の戦争責任. 資料センター ]
民間活動(ボランティア 雑誌) 2006
--- a Volunteers Magazines (Jp version)

Let's find out ,
Let's think about ,
Let's talk about ,
Let's do something about ,
Japan's War Responsibility !


19.Fake Children Textbook year 1942
of "Greater East Asian Co-operation"
「大東亜共栄圏」1942年- 兒童教科書
[ Introduction by James Orr ,
/ University of Hawaii Press (2001) ]


20.JAPAN FOCUS ( all Truths about WW2 )
---the Asia Pacific e-journal (by region)


21.Japanese Occupation WW2
[ 二戰:日本帝國對外侵略史 ]
Wikipedia version ( Search by region ) .


22.MAGAZINE 9 『マガジン9条』
" 憲法九条。知ってるヒトも、知らないヒトも。"
[ Article 9 --- Japanese Constitutional Pacifism ]
( Japanese / English bilingual )

--- See also : 『九条の会 』。日本国憲法
《 Société de soutien à l’article 9 》
(第二章:戦争の放棄)Article 9 Chapter 2 : No war .
Language available :
( Japanese / English / Korean /Chinese /French version )


23. "The untold Japanese stories you might never know. "
[ 你可能不知道的日本故事 ] by T.S.Chia 老賈/賈忠偉 (2007)
--- The Fugu Plan Lies : "Oriental Israel"
--- "The Lords of Human Kind : European attitudes towards
the outside world in the Imperial Age" (1969) Victor Kiernan
--- The Tax-payer : Karayuki-san


24.郁達夫 Yu Dafu (1896-1945 )
: a Novelist /Ryugakusei during Sino-Japanese War
★ Hongkong film :《 郁達夫傳奇 》1987 / Color


25. 井上清教授-Prof. Inoue Kiyoshi
Kyoto University 京都大学名誉教授/日本史専攻。
Japanese historian(1913~2001)
★Book published :
《日本婦女史》《日本的近代史》《日本的歷史》
《天皇‧天皇制的歷史》
《部落的歷史和解放理論》《日本的軍國主義》


26 . the "Banzai Cliff" ,Saipan 「バンザイ突撃
--- 太平洋塞班島。萬歲崖(自殺崖 )
/"Another version of Okinawa" : Mass Suicide
: Orphaned Children from Camp Susupe (Saipan).

★ some info about Saipan , an island which remained
tons of evidence of Japanese–US Marine War.

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Here's a glance from the article :
Koyu Shiroma and the Battle of Saipan / pg. 1 of 11
"Victory in the Pacific" 4.21.05

A Lost Child
Many orphaned children were adopted from Camp Susupe.
Koyu feels his sisters could have been taken to Korea,
Okinawa or maybe are still in the Mariana Islands.

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27. ★ History-Distorted Textbooks / 2001-08
[ 被歪曲的歷史教科書:洋報版 ]
--- External Links from Foregin newspapers ( english )
: CNN / BBC / Reuters / China Daily & The Asahi Shimbun
/ People's Daily / The Korea Times


28. WW2 – Reader’s Digest 1982
《第二次世界大戰實錄》讀者文摘
World War Ⅱ – Reader’s Digest edition
NY London HK / 496 pages in total.
Association Far-East Limited.

Reader's Digest WW2 Fact
( fr.pg.158 ) happened in the Phillipines.

Battle of Bataan 1942[ 巴丹死亡行]
A memoir of LT. COL.William Dyess USA .
with B/W photograph battles-field evident.


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29. National History Musuem

"Story of HongKong" 香港歷史博物館
[ 香港故事 / 三年零八個月 ]

"Singapore period of Darkness"
新加坡 :黑暗時期 / 戰俘營秘密日記
POW Secret-diary inside the cell .(w/ hand-illustration)
[ National Archives of Singapore ]


30. the"Forgotten islands" / South Pacific : 南太平洋群島
Click here : [ インドネシア文化宮 : Grahabudaya Indonesia ]

This is a website written by native Japanese researcher
( came back from islands of Indonesia ) .
Detailed report and many digital photos posted .
Interviews : Old local people of Pacific islanders .

[ Ref :☆ Pacific Ocean Islands / 南太平洋群島]

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31. " The Yamashita's Gold Secrets "
★ Weblink : [ World War 2 Treasure.com ]

" The Japanese were serious, sober, and deliberate
when they methodically and systematically looted
thirteen Asian Countries during World War 2.

They took treasure including precious diamonds and
other gems, gold bullion, and solid gold Buddha's
out of every hiding place. "

---by : worldwar2treasure.com/

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32 . World Food Program - UN : http://www.wfp.org/english/

The World Food Program is the United Nation
front-line agency in the fight against hunger.

For refugees,victim of war ,or natural disasters.
To find out more How you can help the world's hungry,

--- visit : http://www.unhcr.org.hk/starappeal/tc/index.html