Freedom, Tolerance and Justice

Great Read.

Before this man stands the table where his country will formerly sign the articles of surrender. This act has never occurred in the history of his nation and was unthinkable just a few years before when the empire of Japan stretched from the border of Russia to Wake Island in the pacific.

Framed behind the surrender table is a US flag flown by Commodore Matthew C. Perry's flagship when she entered Tokyo Bay in 1853, which signaled the end of Japans self emposed attempt to maintain life as it was in feudal Japan. In the nearly hundred years since that time Japan had progressed from a feudal state to an industrial nation, only to be turned into a heap of rubble by the forces of the United States and the Allied nations.

This man is Toshikazu Kase...