"How could written fiction hope to survive against the might of cinema and television if it didn't offer something unique, something the other forms couldn't do"? Kazvo Ishiguro, spring 1983 as narrated by him during his Nobel prize speech 2017
It's surprising that the speakers here, the two women who introduced him, mispronounced Ishiguro's name as Ishiguru. He is not a guru. It should rhyme with Guro or Gurow. There is a video on You tube that instructs how to pronounce his name correctly. He is a Nobel Laureate, after all, so one should learn how to pronounce his name correctly. Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Mind you , the Japanese do remember what they did in the second warld war and are filled with remorse even today, which is why, Jspan has never been involved in any wars since WW2 .But it is China that continues to cause all kind of problems in relations with its neighbouring countries including Taiwan...
Just because one remembers one’s crime does not mean it clears all matter. If your father was killed and your mother was raped, you would not be satisfied with the criminal saying I am sorry one hundred times. You need to understand their depth of sorrow which might not be possible because you were not the victims. I am Korean. 2-3 million, about 1/10 of Korean population, was killed by Japanese. Additional 200,000 raped as comfort women. Despite the pain, I personally wish to move on, too. But seeing this kind of attitude does not help the scar from being healed. You cannot force the victims to hurry up and forgive asap. Have patience with your current remorse. I hope you understand where victims are coming from. As for Ishiguro, I think his previous book An Artist of Floating World speaks his mind more directly about this issue. One is aware of the past mistakes yet what can one do but to move on. There is nothing else one can do just like how Stevens moved on in the end. I hope in moving on, the future generations will uphold dignity and have autonomous clarity to do what is right and not do what is not right.
