Sunday, January 18, 2015

The Vancouver Asahi

I watched ”The Vancouver Asahi ” in the movie theater the other day. The movie is based on fact. It is the topic that Japanese baseball team played the baseball in Canada.


 It is different from now to go to abroad in the war. Canadian is friendly to Japanese now, but they had the discrimination and prejudice to Japanese  in those days. It was hard that Japanese live in the environment. Japanese were desperate just live. They worked every day , played baseball in free time. They liked baseball well, but they were saw other person just like they are hanging out . The times are in war and poor everyone, so it cannot be helped.

They practiced baseball in free time, but Canadian was strong. They have the physique better than Japanese, they are strong man. Japanese team always had been lost them. The Canadian judgment was also unequal in the inside of a game for Japanese. Every time they had been lost them, they had made fun. Japanese team thought how to win hardly. They utilized the physique of the Japanese and did the brain competition. They use the bunt , ran a lot of in the game. It was the best way for Japanese. They won at the first time in the game. They got victory at last. After, they kept winning too. Japanese got the courage to live through they win the game. 


But its good situation didn't also continue lengthily. The Japanese military attack the United States by Pearl Harbor attack. Japan and U.S. was a war hostile country, and a movement of a Japanese boycott had begun to move rapidly in Canada which were the United States and closest allies. The Japanese who live in Powell district were thrown into a concentration camp as man of a hostile country. But Japanese team is a hero for Japanese forever.

I watched the movie, I thought that it was very hard to play the game in the war. They overcome handicap, They came a hero. I thought that the Japanese who we should know

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