"Harmonica story" set in Myanmar

General Japan The Myanmar Friendship Association Oshima Shizuo

Oshima sensei was born June 10, Taisho 14th. Therefore, he has adolescence during the Asia-Pacific War. After graduating from Aichi Normal Normal School, after the war he was active as a teacher at elementary and junior high school and retired at the retirement age as the principal. In particular, he was devoted to the education of Japanese language in Aichi Prefecture, and he himself has worked on "Otomi Old Story", "Village Lullaby", "Otchan's Tamane Box", "Tiger Bell Tataki", "Tomorrow's Tomorrow", "Asunaro no Uta" Every work is spelled out in a very easy-to-read sentence that talks kindly to children. I feel the spirit of the good old days of Japan there.
By Japan 's defeat war, the Japanese culture that has been warmed up until then, the American values ​​of soul and wisdom penetrated in new education. However, Mr. Oshima's spelling books can hear Yamato Damai. It is engraved with a rich life experience experienced during the prewar, the war, the post war and the turbulent period of Japan that was 92 years old. Mr. Oshima became Burma Through the publication of this "Harmonica story" set in Myanmar and joined the Japan Myanmar Friendship Association. And in March of this year I formed "Aichi Prefecture Yayutomi Tourism Organization" to travel to Myanmar which was the stage of the book, and a total of 20 people visited goodwill.
Actually, the hero called Moshiyoshi appearing in the "Harmonica story" took part in a project to build a school with assistance from Japan to the ancient capital Bago, Myanmar 20 years ago, at that time there was warm contact through local children and harmonica. This journey started with finding out an elementary school called Stirrin, where the story appears. Fortunately, I got in touch with the site, on the same day I started the village chief and the principal, and the children of the circle elementary school also raised the school and gave me a great welcome.
As a senior in our life despite the elderly, I express respectfully to Mr. Oshima who is continuing volunteering through literature even now and still active.

Everyone traveling to Myanmar is feeling the original landscape of ancient Japan there for some reason, being deprived of their heart, becoming "Billikichi" unnoticed.
When Aka visited Burma under the military regime for the first time in 2004, the country scenery expanded as soon as getting out of Rangoon city, where the buffalo cultivated the field and the scene where the threshing was entrusted to the wind blowing developed, There was a sight that invites nostalgia as a child.
This photo album has a deep flavor that can not be expressed in color because it is a silver salt / monochrome.

The Japan-South cooperative film "Passage of life"

- winning at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2017 "The Future of Asia" category

A couple who came to Myanmar from Tokyo, a child born in Japan, grows as a child in Japan. However, gradually the mother got mentally depressed in Japanese life and his father chooses to return his family to Myanmar against his / her will. · · ·
In this movie, brothers who entered the kindergarten / elementary school of the local Japanese school while having the Myanmar nationality in 2013 become models, and the theme is the universal value of family ties . Three of the scenes of the photograph are genuine parents of the Myanmar people living in Tokyo. Director Fujimoto Akino is drawing the human patterns of parents and children with this movie with the child's acting role of the amateur who is the most difficult.
In Myanmar, problems of autonomy of ethnic minorities such as Rohingya's conflict have emerged, but in the war of adults selfishness, there are no innocent children who are always sacrificed. In this movie, a scalpel is also included in the internationalization of international education, cultural exchanges of international movies, mutual exchange of ethnic groups and education which is not quite globalized.
Next year I hopefully wish to disclose together with Myanmar and Japan, but again sponsors are indispensable for initial investment. I hope that you will be able to support those entering Myanmar.
The theatrical release will be published simultaneously in Japan and Myanmar next year, and furthermore it is planned to spread to ASEAN countries. I am planning to update the information for release to the future. Thank you very much for your support!
Akio Fujimoto
This movie is a family of four Myanmar who leave their homeland and live in Japan. One day, the notice received to the family will change the fate of the family .... Japan and Myanmar, the story of love based on a true story that spinning across the border. Official Site