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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Aoyama Gakuin High English entrance exam in 2005

Do you know that Aoyama Gakuin Senior High School hurt feelings of people who survived the Himeyuri squad of the battle of Okinawa in its entrance examination in 2005, saying "boring"? As the problem was widely broadcasted by mass media, not only people who survived the Himeyuri squad but also people in Okinawa, and even people in Japan depressed and got angry. Actually, I've read the whole text. In my opinion, this is a problem, but what the author wanted to say is significant and persuasive to us. The text is too careless to war victims. Perhaps they don't want to talk any more, but they are telling their terrible experiences because they don't want young people to make the same mistake again. It could be a personal opinion, but not in the entrance exam. However, I sympathize with the author in other parts of the text. We have less opportunity to listen to firsthand messages from war victims in the future, and how we can pass our war experiences to the next generations? In the text, the author says it is very important to visit war sites. From my experiences, I think visiting war sites is the most effective way to start thinking about the war, especially for younger people because we can feel something spiritual there and experience what had happened.

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