Some dolphins came for play with the boat which I rode.
I was in the dolphin watching tour with a lot of Korean people.
IRUKA, HORA, ASOKO!(Look! dolphin! over there!) in Japanese -- a South Korean old couple taught me.
'Wow, you can speak Japanese fluently?!' -- I talked to him in the light feeling.
Well, We had to speak Japanese at the time of last war, we had no choice, you know.
He answered.
...
I lost my word.
My parents are the persons experienced in war.
They taught me what the old Japanese army did to Asian countries,
How they hurt people,,,, use them as slaves, insult them, then kill them, destroy their cities,,
I have thought I understood it very well, but....
The question that I gave them carelessly,
It has shot and pierced through myself. .
The uncle was a smiling face.
His wife gave me peanut cookies and said
HORA, KORE, OISHIIYO. TABETEMINA.(try this, tasty.)
She also speaks Japanese fluently..
...It cut me.
-- We Japanese did horrible things to you at the last war -- -- I'm sorry --
Although I knew it doesn't help anything and they could scold me for my conceit, it is painful if I don't say it, anyway.
The uncle and his wife were smiling at me.
WAKAI NIHONJIN, IIHITO YO. (young Japanese are nice people),
The wife came closer and pet my back.
It's over baby, do not worry. Young Japanese are sweet, we know that.
but it is good to hear you say so.
....
The sea which dolphin were dancing and shines returned to my field of view at last.
Dolphin showed their dorsal fin and played with the wave which the boat was making, over and over.
Then they raised their tails highly, dived and disappeared into the deep sea.
WAKAI NIHONJIN, IIHITO YO. (young Japanese are nice people),
.. Various thoughts condensed by the word of an uncle
I still think by simple honesty.
Sad fact which is not a far old thing, or just other people's affairs, either.
What to do.. I don't have any answer yet.
2000/11/6@ Central Australia