Tanka poems against the war

Obsolete MPs 

Stand for obsolete techniques

Of nuclear power

Plants to maintain the cash cow 

For obsolete companies 

ポンコツのポンコツによるポンコツのための原発推進国会

Ponkotsu no Ponkotsu ni yoru Ponkotsu no Tame no genpatsu Suishin kokkai

Related News:

Japan enacts law for operating nuclear reactors beyond 60-yr limit

May 31, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230531/p2g/00m/0na/016000c

Who can forget the horrible nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011?

   On 1 May 2003, President Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq, leaving Iraq in turmoil.

"No War in Iraq"

On a poster in the streets

Has faded away

And has been blown afar with

The green wind of lovely May

「イラク戦争に反対します」のポスターも

五月の風がさらっていった

A view from a mountain of Kobe in May

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The tanka poem below was written about the War on Iraq 20 years ago, but I feel we are now  being agitated especially in Japan by war mongers. Why do we need to double the budget for cruise missiles? Why do we need to prepare for the crisis between Taiwan and China? Who is piping the war song now?

Piping a war song,

A lad scattered red balloons

Among boys and girls

Alas, all have burst with claps

And crackles one after another

戦争の笛吹き小僧がばらまいた

赤い風船パチパチ割れた

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Everything in my garden looks so beautiful in the sunlight of lovely May. However, war never ends: in Iraq 20 years ago and Ukraine, Sudan or somewhere else in 2023.

A yellow rose blooms

Silently in your garden,

A bit of the earth

Where numerous bombshells are

Being let fly without cease

砲弾の飛び交う地球の一点の

あなたの庭に黄のバラひらく

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Collect warheads of

Nuclear missiles on the earth

Send them to Jupiter

'Cause peach trees will be blooming

Next spring on the brown planet

核弾頭を集めて送ろう木星に　

春には桃の花が咲くから

G7 summit was held in Hiroshima last week (19 - 21, May, 2023) .

 I wonder if they got together there to blaspheme atomic bomb victims, survivors and all the people who have struggled for Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The statement from a survivor, Setsuko Thurlow, is the one which should be covered worldwide, not the one from the G7 leaders.

■A-bomb survivors angry at G7 summit for upholding nuclear deterrence

The Japantimes May 21, 2023

HIROSHIMA – Thurlow, 91, called the G7 summit a "huge failure" in the closing hours of the three-day gathering, calling the Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament statement issued at the end of the first day "blasphemy against atomic bomb survivors."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/21/national/hiroshima-bomb-survivor-2/

Please read her statement in the article and listen to her speech after  ICAN officially received the Nobel Peace Prize 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_nIa520gu0

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), activist and Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow speaks in Oslo City Hall, Norway, Sunday Dec. 10, 2017, after ICAN officially received the Nobel Peace Prize 2017.

The tanka poems and drawings from "Flowers and Bombs: Stop the Violence of the War Now!" by Kaoru Kobashi

https://hanabaku.blogspot.com/