吉川英治の「ストレート・トーク」

No surrender

Never surrender.

降伏するな

Conforming

Conforming is giving up.

順応はギブアップ

Friends change

Your friends may change,

turning into someone else.

You stay who you are.

友達は変わっちゃう。世の中に負けて。

自分は負けないように。

Stay kid

Stay kid.

Stay true to yourself.

Or you'll be acting happy the rest of

your life on the most boring stuff

organized by your control tower.

染まるな。自分でいろ。

でなきゃ管制塔の指示通りに

ウソのハッピーを演じ続ける人生。

Friends change

Your friends may change,

turning into someone else.
You stay who you are.

友達は変わっちゃう。世の中に負けて。
自分は負けないように。

5 friends

If you learn from your 5 friends, characters like --
- honesty
- kindness
- truthfulness
- heartful
- courage
.. these strength they've got,

you'd be really a great person.
If you are not, either you are not learning

from them or your friends don't have anything good.

Or you font have those characteristics.

例えば5人の友達のそれぞれのいい特徴

「正直」「優しい」「明るい」「賢い」「勇敢」

…などを自分に取り入れれば、かなりいい人間になれる。

もし、そうなってないなら「ちっとも学ぼうとしてない」

か「友達にそれらがない」か「自分自身にも全然ない」か。

Trunchbull

Many kids in Japan belong to sports clubs

run by school teachers and kids must

be there on all weekends, summer/winter/spring

holidays, 6am till 8am every weekday and

after school.

If you miss the training once, you're most

likely to be punished heavily and will get

kicked out of the group. Not because they

want to do the training but not to be

isolated and punished by the majority (=power),

students attend every time.

A few years later, they'll start punishing

younger ones.

Kids who can't even read or write can

enter and graduate top class universities if

you're a great ball player or a sumo champ.

They do anything they're told, so that the

police and the military will hire many thousands of them.

Those who make it to top level will be used

by the government to help their nationalism

by winning in Olympic Games etc.

The sad part is that as they missed all

opportunities to develop brains, they have

no idea that they're spreading fascism.

They will be coaching children, travel the

whole country for lecturing on "Japan is the

best. The best people on earth." and will be

TV personalities to talk what the government

tells them to talk.

Miss Trunchbull from "Matilda" represents

the closed little island nation that keeps

butchering innocent dolphins and whales.

イジメ精神が根底に根ざす 年がら年中の部活で

一兵卒に鍛えられ、運動部は不正待遇で、

漢字が書けなくても大学は裏口入学。

なんでも言われたとおりにするから警察と

軍隊にいっぱい就職。

オリンピック選手になるトップレベル達は

ファシストのペットに利用されてても、

教養を身につける機会を逃してるから、

それがわからず、自分が正しいと信じて

次世代を洗脳と弾圧。

映画「マチルダ」の世界の敵、

トランチブル教師は、その象徴。

Migration

Birds migrate to be stronger and smarter.
Men drink to stay.

鳥は旅して強く賢く。
人は留まって酔っ払う。

Higher doing

Do what you think is right instead of

trying to defeat verbally what people say.

Higher action beats lower thinking.

いっぱい溢れる程度の低いことをやっつける

努力より、自分の信じる高い理想を実践し続けること。

Dead or messed

To soldiers :

The guys who send you out there in

the storm of bullets just don't care

if you're dead or brains messed up.

A friend of mine was blown away by

a scud missile and was unconscious

for 18 days while all his buddies died instantly.

盛大な壮行式を開いて戦場に送ってくれる

奴らは、あんたが吹き飛ばされようが

死のうがなんとも思ってない。

友達はスカッドミサイルで吹き飛ばされて

18日間、意識が戻らなかった。

一緒にいた20人の兵士は全員死んだ。