tv Japans Never- Ending War BBC News June 30, 2018 4:30am-5:00am BST
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just hours after reaching a deal, european leaders disagree about who should take in and process migrants coming into europe. france and austria ruled out securing centres for migrants, a central part of the agreement. canada fights back, imposing billions of dollars worth of tariffs on american goods in response to president trump's steel duties. they come into effect on sunday. more details are emerging about a shooter's motive a day after he killed five people at a newspaper in the american state of maryland. the man who carried out the rampage has been identified as jarrod ramos. he's been charged with multiple murders and denied bail. he said he would kill more if he could. the carbon dioxide shortage which has hit britain's food and drink industry has now spread to crumpets. the simultaneous shutdown of several major carbon dioxide plants is effecting supplies of many everyday products, including soft drinks,
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beers and meat. here's our business correspondent, emma simpson. her report does contain some flashing images. crumpets, one of our favourite treats. they should be making 25,000 of them an hour at this factory. but the production lines have ground to a halt. two of warburtons‘ big bakeries have run out of c02. this is the point at which we package our crumpets and here we fill every packet with c02. that helps us maintain the freshness and quality of our product over the shelf life. i've got two plants here that haven't run for the last ten days. it's a massive impact on our ability to provide our customers. but supermarkets aren't running out of crumpets just yet. it's notjust some bakery products that rely on c02. it's everything, from fresh salads, chicken, meat, ready
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meals, sliced cheese, because the c02 in the packaging helps keep your shopping fresh for as long as possible. c02 also puts the fizz into lots of soft drinks and beer. this gas really matters to our food and drink supply chain. why is there a shortage? a lot of carbon dioxide is created as a by—product when making fertiliser. plants usually scale back production in the summer, but this year, even more than normal, just as demand for drinks has shot up thanks to the world cup and the hot weather. the shortages are even causing problems in abattoirs. they need c02 to stun pigs and poultry before slaughter. it's having an impact at scotland's biggest pig processing plant. it's been shut since tuesday and we don't actually know when it's
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going to open again. added on to that, a number of the packing plants which would take the product and then make it into sausages and mince and things like that use c02 in that and with the shortage those plants have had, it's hard to see how we're going to avoid some disruption to the product on the shelves. at warburtons, they're not sure when things will get back to normal either. but c02 producers say they're working as hard as they can to resume production. emma simpson, bbc news. now on bbc news, the second world war is still controversial in east asia, even as it falls from living memory. so how is japanese cinema telling the story 70 years on? in conjunction with bbc radio 3, historian, rana mitter, has visited tokyo to find out. japan's never ending war contains some distressing scenes from the start. japan and today is prosperous,
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lively, and enjoying the upside of 70 years of peace. but in the 1930s and early 405, japanese 70 years of peace. but in the 19305 and early 405, japanese forces 5wept gci’oss and early 405, japanese forces 5wept acro55 first china and then the pacific, until finally they were driven 5lowly back towards the japanese mainland and destruction. hiroshima wa5 japanese mainland and destruction. hiroshima was completely hidden by an impenetrable cloud of smoke and dust. in east asia, the second world war is still so wrought it dominate headlines. so how the countries of the region tell them5elve5 headlines. so how the countries of the region tell themselves their war stories really matters. but as memories of the war die away, what aspects of the conflict remain in focus and was left out of the frame? iama focus and was left out of the frame? i am a literary, a historian east a5ia. i am a literary, a historian east asia. i have come to tokyo to find
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out how japan tells itself the story of the war through its movies. movies that recreate the era of devastation that still 5hapes this country's relationship in the region and the world. this museum in central tokyo is a record of the everyday lives of wartime civilian5. everything from preparing ever 5ca rcer wartime civilian5. everything from preparing ever scarcer food to sheltering from american bomb5. and it's that perspective on the face of japanese civilian5 that is at the heart of a recent 5urpri5e blockbuster. 0n heart of a recent 5urpri5e blockbuster. on its release in 2016, in this corner of the world seemed to capture a wider public mood and
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became a big hit. it talks about a woman called su5an who started her life near hiroshima to be as the war comes closer to the islands, it bring5 food shortages... and wor5e. but at first, su5an responds with youthful creativity. how do young people react to seeing the war period will trade on screen? —— portrayed on screen? finally, su5an loses her drawing hand, and anise, holding it, to an american bomb. but do young people think about movies as a way to understand the war? i went to meet up with three
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5tudents, akame, yuri, and haruka. in this corner of the world 5tays focused on the damage inflicted on japanese people rather than buy them, but gives cancer5 japanese people rather than buy them, but gives cancers of the heartache of the regime. in this scene, the military police accuse su5an scene, the military police accuse susan of spying for warships in the bay. arai harahiko's movie this country's sky also tell the story of a young woman learning during the last year of the war and its desperation. amid the air raids, 19—year—old satoko begins a highly unconventional relationship with her thirtysomething neighbour. we have heard quite a bit about
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films that mourned the japanese victims of the war but some films concentrate on the soldiers. and they're not just stories concentrate on the soldiers. and they're notjust stories of condemnation. some recent movies have found aspects of the wartime effort to sympathise with. i am going to a place where the spirits of japan's war dead are, commemorated. this shrine is controversial. it commemorates not just war dead, but the leaders. it isa just war dead, but the leaders. it is a place where the souls of kamikaze pilots were inducted after their deaths. it has become difficult to film freely inside. it is this place invoked in a film that makes those kamikaze pilots its heroes. in for those we love the young man about to fly off and crash
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planes in two america's warships promised to meet each other after death at the yasukuni shrine. it was written by the then governor of tokyo, well—known for his hardline nationalist views, and his script insists on the ability of the pilots' sacrifice. —— nobility. it was not a huge box office success, but a more recent film about kamikaze pilots proved a blockbuster hit. the eternal zero was adapted from a book. the film adaptation took it in a new direction. in these electrifying aerial chase scenes, he desperately tries to outmanoeuvre the american fighter plane on his tail. but when he is saved by one of
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his pupils deliberately crashing into the american‘s plane, he chides him for risking his life in direct opposition of the country's mandate on sacrifice. some appreciated the film's take on the pilot's noble sacrifice, others, not least the director of the film, saw it as more critical. the director of the film sat down with me. we have known each otherfor
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yea rs. me. we have known each otherfor years. people have this perception this film is pro— war. they have come out and said this is ourfilm. the people in that film, the kamikaze pilots, they are to be pitied the way they died. so wasteful. how can they even think that? it was mad. he was offended. finally, he sets out on a kamikaze mission and the film ends with a moment of emotional connection between kamikaze pilots and today's fighters as miyabe comes face to face with his grandson in today's japan. but in today's japan, some worry about how the war is betrayed 110w worry about how the war is betrayed now that almost no one is left who remembers what it was really like. and that young japanese are dangerously unaware of the realities
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of war. that is why in 2015, a film called fires 0n of war. that is why in 2015, a film called fires on the plain confronted audiences with a vision of war as hell. half crazed japanese soldiers commit atrocities as they struggle to survive. the lead is played by the film's creator. but there is another aspect to what war movies focus on. japanese movies tend to focus on the war in the pacific, rather than events like the massacre carried out by the invading japanese army in the then chinese capital in winter 1937. japanese army in the then chinese capital in winter1937. an event known in the west as the rape of nanking. although japanese journalist and academics have worked extensively and honestly on this, it is not a subject that japanese
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steelmakers have dealt with very much. but their chinese counterparts have certainly put the subject at the heart of how it treated on screen. “— the heart of how it treated on screen. —— it is treated. city of life and death is a vision ofan city of life and death is a vision of an spearing cruelty as the japanese army forced chinese women into sexual slavery. and this film, the flowers of war, it was similar themes. in this scene, christian bale struggles to stop a cultivated japanese officer take away the convent girls that he is protecting
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toa similar convent girls that he is protecting to a similarfate. convent girls that he is protecting to a similar fate. i'm not sure that it is appropriate for them to attend and adults party. but we thank you very much. i am sorry. the horrors visited on nanjing are also at the centre of the documentary the girl in the picture. the film shows the woman passing on her memories to her curious seven—year—old great—grandson. that moment, to me, is the defining special moment to me, because it is this visceral moments of literally
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him touching the past. she was passing on a very valuable lesson to herfamily and the passing on a very valuable lesson to her family and the grandchild: forgiveness. and that is the purpose of this entire film and exercise. learn from history so that we can reduce the possibility of it happening again. but then to move on. there is a moment where he sort of clinches a little bit, and he's concerned about his grandmother. what i love is what she says. she notices his feeling and says, but i survived. japanese leaders have repeatedly apologised, but many feel the country has never quite fully reckoned with its war crimes. some, though, to suggest that china uses the memory of war crimes to pressure japan and ignores us more positive role as the war. and then few chinese films confront the horrors of the cultural revolution. what's more, a reluctance to confront
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difficult history is notjust confined to east asia. there is no simple british equivalent to nanjing, but uk movies do often not tackle subjects like the wartime famines that british policies helped to create in bangalore. —— bangal. here is the legendary toho studios, and i'm here to meet a man cutting his latest film to ask him about his latest film, the emperor in august. most of the hills we have been looking at have been about civilians or soldiers. but this one tries to grapple with the responsibility of the top leaders who were rolling
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japan at the end of world ii. and emperorhirohito's decision to go to war. “ emperorhirohito's decision to go to war. -- emperor hirohito. article nine says that japan will forever renounce war and the use of force to settle international disputes. shinzo abe and his report is considered those were the —— those with a humiliation was injapan by the victors. —— and his supporters. it isa the victors. —— and his supporters. it is a dangerous way that japan is heading. and shinzo abe's regime and administration, i am afraid about. why did the making a film about 1945 might address those issues? well, it is clearly telling how difficult it
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is clearly telling how difficult it is to abandon the army once we had this organisation. the emperor had to come out and speak out and such tremendous effort for everyone in the cabinet, to finish the war, to end the war, and to abandon the army to save the nation. and ifjapan end the war, and to abandon the army to save the nation. and if japan was that way again, to form a new type of army, i feel fear of what we're doing, walk into harm ‘s of army, i feel fear of what we're doing, walk into harm '5 way. of army, i feel fear of what we're doing, walk into harm 's way. some feel it is unnecessarily anxious few of the current japanese government. —— view. to bring about the surrender, emperor hirohito had to pulldown resistors in his cabinet. and harada says portraying the
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emperor on screen and harada says portraying the emperor on screen today in volt taboos. while in preproduction, i checked about the safety of making this film and asked mr hando who wrote the book, and he checked with some people and maybe it is safe to show the emperor in that way, but to betray the family feud among the emperor's family, nobody tested that water yet. maybe japan, like britain, cannot leave world war two behind, even though it is 70 years ago. -- family feud. there are so many interesting stories and lots not being exposed yet. injapan,
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like said before, there are so many taboos, you cannot do this and do that and it seems like now is the time to show some of those hidden truths. at the end of the walk the emperor was living in a secluded palace estate the on this bridge —— nijubashi. it needed to move away from the image ofjapan who nijubashi. it needed to move away from the image of japan who invented large parts of asia to a new country promoting peace and prosperity. but the legacy has never really faded. the relationship with china has remained formal and call. that bridge has never really been crossed. both countries are still fighting one another on screen. both countries are still mourning the losses of more than seven decades ago. but they are doing so in relative isolation from one another. if the two countries are to overcome
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the enormous chasm between them, they will need to learn more about their histories. and perhaps filmmakers can make that crossing a little easier. hello there. for the fifth day in a row, friday brought temperatures above 30 degrees in the uk. can we continue that into the weekend? well, there will be plenty more heat and sunshine, for sure. just the chance of a downpour, you can see this cloud currently circulating around close to iberia. that will be drifting northwards, threatening some showers into the south—west during sunday. ahead of that, we're going to be pulling this very warm air in from the near continent, increasing amounts of humidity as well, as we go through the weekend. saturday morning starting like this, temperatures between 11 and 15 degrees. notice some clumps a bit of mist and murk as well, potentially, but that should clear very quickly.
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watch the way the cloud breaks up on our map. by the late morning, most areas should be sunny. the sun very strong, high uv levels, high pollen levels, too, and if we look at the temperature chart, you can see the extent of the orange shades. widely those temperatures up into the mid to high 205, a little bit cooler for some north sea coasts. to the west of london, perhaps the west coast, temperatures likely to hit 30 degrees. but, whereas recent nights have been quite cool and fresh, saturday night brings a bit of a change, particularly in the south. the heat and humidity will struggle to trail away, so 16 degrees the overnight low in cardiff and london. still a bit cooler and fresher further north, and notice a few hints of showers into the far south—west. this area of low pressure will be moving a little closer by this stage. so the risk of some showers into the south—west of england as we go through the day,
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also threatening wales, the west midlands, perhaps into northern ireland. if the showers do crop up, they could be heavy, they could be thundery. also this frontal system starting to bring the rain into the west of scotland, in between lots of sunshine. and remember, we'll be importing that hot and humid air from the near continent, london likely to hit 31 degrees. somewhere in the south—east could get up to 32, but even in the north, birmingham, manchester, parts of north wales likely to get to 30 degrees. now, as we move into the new working week, low pressure will still be getting around to the south. the south—western areas potentially could see some showers at times, but high pressure will still be close by, so there will still be lots of sunshine around. strong sunshine, and hot sunshine too. temperatures still pretty close to 30 degrees. this is bbc news.
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i'm nkem ifejika. our top stories: just hours after reaching a deal, european leaders disagree about who should take in and process migrants coming into europe. canada fights back, announcing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of us goods saying it will not back down in the face of american pressure. police in maryland say the gunman who shot dead five people at a newspaper office would have killed even more if he'd had the chance. and we meet the man who cant stop dancing, even though he can't hear the music.
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