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Name/email: Takanobu Ohya __School:__ __Sakaihigashi High school__ Age: _17 __Country:__ _ Japan__

1) How does your community (school, town, country) select to remember World War II? Examples: holidays, memorials, songs, movies, books…

There are a movie, a monument, a book, a song, every thing. The Japanese students study about war, too. The school excursions often visit war monuments for example. I visited the A-Bomb Dome.

2) Do you know of anyone who was involved in some aspect of the World War II? If so, what is their connection? If possible, can you send a picture?

At the time of war, my grandmother was a child. She lived in Osaka then. She still uses every thing carefully. She often teaches me importance of everything.

3) Is there anything else you would like to add?

Few years ago when World War II began, Japan and China were at war with each other. And Japan attacked Southeast Asia. It is to get resources and to cut off a support route. It led to the further war. It was an opportunity of war with U.S.A. And Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It developed into World War II. The Japanese people were taught the Emperor was God in those days. Most of the nation believed it. It moved the Japanese armed forces. While they fought, students made weapons in factories. They became soldiers. Of course the Japanese does not think the Emperor is God now. But The Emperor is a Japanese symbol now. Japan is a democratic government now. I have doubt toward the Emperor system of Japan. The Emperor is a symbol for symbols.