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Volume 13 - Issue 27 - July 2015

Contents

Research Article

  • ‘Do we have peace now?’ poem by Okinawa teen Chinen Masaru

  • Roger Pulvers
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    14 March 2025, e1
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  • Chinen Masaru, 17, a third-year student at Okinawa Prefectural Yokatsu Senior High School, recited his poem, “Miruku yu ga yayura” (Do we have peace now?), at an Okinawa Memorial Day ceremony on the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman on June 23. He expressed his desire to let neither his great aunt's memories nor the misery of war be forgotten. The following is a translation of the poem's full text.

  • Civilization & Barbarism: Cartoon Commentary & “The White Man's Burden” (1898–1902)

  • Ellen Sebring
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  • Rudyard Kipling's famous poem “The White Man's Burden” was published in 1899, during a high tide of British and American rhetoric about bringing the blessings of “civilization and progress” to barbaric non-Western, non-Christian, non-white peoples. In Kipling's often-quoted phrase, this noble mission required willingness to engage in “savage wars of peace.”