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INTEREST: Sumire Uesaka Contributes Essay in Book on Pacifism


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omiya



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:33 pm Reply with quote
Sumire Uesaka also visited Russia this year:

#30 Cultural Diplomacy in St. Petersburg – Interview with Sumire Uesaka

http://asianbeat.com/en/popculture/030.html
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:50 pm Reply with quote
Coincidentally, I saw the first 6 dubbed episodes of Chunibyou's second season today. While I will avoid the politics part, I too like Russia because of this: The former USSR and the -stan countries have so many beautiful Caucasian and Central Asian Ovcharka dog breeds/types.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:53 pm Reply with quote
I don't think it's good to have affection for a thing as destructive and horrid as the Soviet Union was. Regardless of what she THINKS, the facts still exist.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:15 pm Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
I don't think it's good to have affection for a thing as destructive and horrid as the Soviet Union was. Regardless of what she THINKS, the facts still exist.


While that's true, you should consider this angle: Communist philosophy would deem capitalism bad and vice versa. That is, communist nations would see themselves as the heroes and deem capitalists the villains and vice versa.

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She needs to send the book to Abe, that tyrant is trying to start a war with China knowing all too well, Japan can't win and the US won't give too much of a darn when war does happen. Japan must not go back to the 1930's militaristic nation or it will bring grave consequences to the country.
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Hiroki not Takuya



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:27 pm Reply with quote
I'm glad she finds the USSR "interesting" and it's not dark and scary and is good as a fashion statement, she should stay like maybe forever...The USSR wasn't dangerous and will never return? She should ask Ukranians about that. A good reason never to listen to celebrity opinions on world politics (I'm looking at you Rodman)
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Lili-Hime



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:28 pm Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
I don't think it's good to have affection for a thing as destructive and horrid as the Soviet Union was. Regardless of what she THINKS, the facts still exist.


To be fair, she's looking at it for its only for its value in art and fashion. Still it always kind of confused me how Japan kind of does this. For example, I thought it was weird in Beautiful Dreamer how they had a 'Third Reich' cafe for their student festival. That kind of thing wouldn't fly here and definitely not in Germany.
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Hiroki not Takuya



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:37 pm Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
While that's true, you should consider this angle: Communist philosophy would deem capitalism bad and vice versa. That is, communist nations would see themselves as the heroes and deem capitalists the villains and vice versa.
OK sorry for "double-dipping", but maybe you should consider that if that were even remotely true, the USSR would never have broken up. Philosophy has a hard time overcoming near-starvation and officials causing friends and family they don't like to "disappear".
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TarsTarkas



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:01 pm Reply with quote
It is all well an good to appreciate history. Evil times make for fascinating history, but you also have to appreciate the horrors also. Stalin was just as evil as Hitler and Mao. While their are plenty of Russians that wish for the glory days of the Soviet Union, there are millions of Russians that remember their family members and friends disappearing into the Siberian prison camps.
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yaki-udon



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:21 pm Reply with quote
We love Germany for obvious reasons. Speaking of the former USSR, I think Kazakhstan should left UEFA and join AFC again.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:31 pm Reply with quote
Well, she's proven you don't have to be smart to be a seiyu.
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Panzer Vor



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Tuor_of_Gondolin wrote:
Well, she's proven you don't have to be smart to be a seiyu.

Russian is one of the most difficult languages to learn for non-native speakers. She majored in it. It's not that she's stupid, it's just that she's giving opinions on subjects beyond her area of expertise. There's even a term for that: ultracrepidarian.
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Hakajin



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:47 am Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
She needs to send the book to Abe, that tyrant is trying to start a war with China knowing all too well, Japan can't win and the US won't give too much of a darn when war does happen. Japan must not go back to the 1930's militaristic nation or it will bring grave consequences to the country.


The hell the US wouldn't care; we have major economic ties in both China and the US, such a thing would be destructive to our own economy. I don't know the situation, but it doesn't make sense to me that Abe would try to start a war with China. They're both super-powers, and... It'd kind of be mutually assured destruction, wouldn't it?

As for this voice actress... It almost feels like she's looking at it as though it's fiction. To her, it may not be scary, but she's only read about it. To the people who actually suffered because of it... Seems like a statement like that would be offensive. But I think it's just naivity; I can't really feel angry at that.
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Wrathful



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:53 am Reply with quote
People seem to all conveniently forget every countries have dark spots in their histories. It's true Ms Uesaka seems quite biased to Russian culture in general, that wasn't the purpose of her essay. There isn't already enough people speaking out for pacifism.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:17 am Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
She needs to send the book to Abe, that tyrant is trying to start a war with China knowing all too well, Japan can't win and the US won't give too much of a darn when war does happen. Japan must not go back to the 1930's militaristic nation or it will bring grave consequences to the country.


well said. Cool
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