「戦争に反対する唯一の手段は各自の生活を美しくしてそれに執着することである」 吉田健一（長崎）より

"The only way against the wars is making your life beautiful and keep it very strictly" from Kenichi Yoshida (Nagasaki)

You are free to interpret any words. There are maybe some misunderstandings here and there. That might can be controversial sometimes. But it's okay. 

As is well known, the city of Hiroshima, where I live, was damaged by the atomic bomb in August 1945 and has been reconstructed from that point. Whether the city is really beautiful or not, I think you can agree with that in broad sense. The sentence I quoted by Kenichi Yoshida, which I met when I was in high school, is remembered every time I saw the word war. About 15 years ago, I really wanted to get a book from that time and searched for a secondhand original book. I could only get the one that was put together in the essay collection "A bunch of newspapers", but the column of the newspaper containing this sentence was written in 1957 and published in 1963, six years later. It's strange that every time I pick up a book, I feel like I'm touching something close to the person's words because of the bleeding of old and tanned paper and ink. The general interpretation of this essay is that the city of Nagasaki favorably captured the fact that few scars of the atomic bomb damage were left behind at that time. To me, throughout the whole context, it feels like a word that embraces all the emotions that, apart from the past, you can only attach to the present and create the future after all. I feel, personally,  a whirlpool of emotions that cannot be expressed in words. Emotions are always complicated. It blurs immediately and mixes.

What is happening in Ukraine now will change the Japanese perception of peace. Just as the people of Finland and Sweden have drastically changed their consciousness, it's easy enough to be surprised if something goes wrong, and as the behavior of the people of Kyiv shows, a little. But when the war slowed down, it was hard for me as a Japanese to understand that people were trying to return immediately to regain their daily lives. Their appearance reminds us that everyday and extraordinary were gradations. To be clear, peace is always side by side with war, but rather mixed, in his land. My Ukrainian friends who are exchanging messages are scared, angry, sad, and sometimes even laughing, in the gradation. Kenzo Tange, who is a famous architect who designed Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, called the park a "factory of peace." If peace must be created as he said, I'm worried that we have already forgotten how to create it. However, Kenichi Yoshida says that the method of making it will not be limited to demonstrating and shouting anti-war. It sounds like you are indirectly saying that being obsessed with everyday life is about making peace. If so, I feel that we also have a way to make peace. At the very least, we suppose to keep in mind that our world is always in a state of gradation and blurring. (M.N)

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