REPATRIATION

[Gil Boyd]

My daughter and her husband taught English in Japan for 5 years at an American owned school and we travelled to see her on three occasions.

It is probably the strangest environment or country I have ever been too.
Very formal, highly efficient but totally unorthodox. Ruled by officialdom and everybody appears to tow the line, for their own reasons!!
However,
Whilst we were there a number of years ago, an English girl teaching English to a Millionaires son was murdered and found in a bath filled with sand on a balcony, another girl was murdered by another millionaire and found on a beach. She was a hostess, and a guy walked into a Police station and stabbed all the officers, so you have to balance what goes on and where!!!

It is such a strange country and one has to go there to experience the legacy. One has to think the A Bombs have made them totally subservient in many many ways, and scared to upset anybody, but these odd things then occur which you can't even start to explain.

I know you can't blame their fore fathers for everything, but I find the massacre of 200 bed ridden British soldiers and nurses and doctors in Alexandria Hospital in Singapore in 1941 totally unacceptable and a total flout of the Geneva Convention, and their bodies tipped into a mass grave still there today under the football pitch. That afterall was what they were good at, slaughter.
I have never knowingly bought anything Japanese and can fully understand those men that were in their camps feeling the same and very bitter even today, especially those that worked on the Burma Railroad!!

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[browningautorifle]

these odd things then occur which you can't even start to explain.

Including the fist fights in their political forum...on TV...

[Gil Boyd]

..............ha ha yes and that very unusual for what appear a docile race nowadays