today we first had a pre-PWT test.
15 minutes seemed shorter than i thought.
i need to be able to use more academic words in my essay.
than we watched a DVD called "this is what demonstration looks like".
there were so many shocking facts that i had never seen before.
i didn't know that the police are so violent to the demonstrators because there were no such scenes on the news. they were actually pulling off people's masks and spraying tear gas right into their faces! they were also beating up a man who was trying to climb onto the car of the police. and yet there were many people still standing up for justice. i'm not sure if the Japanese would still be at the place, if there ever was a demo.
we talked in groups about why there isn't a demo in Japan. even people in Korea had a huge demo and overcame the country. But why not in Japan?
maybe the reason might somewhat be related to the personality of Japanese. there is no sense of "danger" in Japanese daily lives. they believe what the government sais and it is out of their imagination that the news might be controlled and might not always be telling the truth. it is the Japanese who most needs to learn the critical way of thinking. at least i'm really glad i learned the truth abut the news. i won't be biased further on.
Sayako and Natsuko said they saw demos in Ginza and Kichijyouji. I didn't know that demos existed in this country. and apparently, it was not on the news. when i lived in France, the strikes and demos were part of daily life. trains and buses stopped occasionally, and it was not surprising for us. in Japan there isn't the habit of demos. the Japanese are not used to it. maybe that's another reason why there aren't much demos in Japan.
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