I confess a deep admirer of Japanese culture and idiosyncrasies. The behavior of the people in these days of terrible tribulation is to further strengthen this special feeling. A nation ravaged by the fury unleashed on earth and the sea, torn mercilessly by the scourge of fire and radioactivity, is hardly alone erect structures for its insularity and plunged into a drama of which only one mentioned a word: their demographic decline. Unlike what happened during the miraculous recovery after the defeat in World War 2, Japan today have a very low birth along with a low migration flow. If this trend is not corrected is estimated that in the remainder of the century Japan's population will be halved, with a dependency ratio unbearable for its coffers suffocated. So who will build a new country from the ashes? Aloysius holds that even the Yakuza (Japanese mafia) has appealed to their particular code of honor to bring their vast financial resources to the long-awaited national reconstruction.
time ago I was amazed a movie called "Departures" (Yojiro Takita, 2008), translated into English as "Awakenings" (Title really has nothing to do with the tape) and his affable weaving around plot secular Japanese funeral ritual. How bleeding accept such a modern nation while attached to their ancestral traditions? Will the cellists to bury the dead?
While from the comfort of our homes powerless witness to witness such misery, I come to mind those great low-budget films about disasters anticipating the Apocalypse the metropolises of the country of the rising sun, or those other great masterpieces of Kurosawa built on stoicism and sense of sacrifice of the Japanese hero. Precisely this kind of category is that they have acquired in life the 50 liquidators who fought from the outset, the nuclear disaster at the plant in Fukushima. As a reward awaits death, as happened with those other brave men who fought to control the catastrophe of Chernobyl.
This time also the international solidarity has been launched. The love of others should be on forever, but in these dramatic times seems to wake from their slumber. The English Society of General Medicine (SEMG) has sent me an email informing me about the possibility that the English doctors who so wish to travel to Japan to help with medical tasks. A call will go to those colleagues insurance specialists in emergency medicine and disaster. And perhaps unintended accident, Aloysius is listening to the classic Deep Purple, his Lp "Made in Japan" entitled "Smoke on the water" ... The smoke rises over the waters and the fire is in heaven. No But I prefer this haiku Yamagushi of Sodo (1643-1716) who said:
" this spring in my cabin
nothing
everything "
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