Do you know Hinomaru?

I am Zhou Yilang , living in japan.
I don't know how to use English , but I don't care that.

Hinomaru is the national flag of Japan.

These days , Japanese nationalists making terrible images of Japan.
Some of us think that old Japanese imperial army were the army of justice.
I can't believe it but they believing it.

I am a nationalist too , but not because of old Japanese imperial army's doing.
I am a nationalist because I know how kind most of Japanese people is.

I'm so ashamed about the wrong style of nationalism known as Japanese nationalism.
 

Here's what most of Japanese people want to be like I think.
It's a words of a Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa.

I hope someday every Japanese people recognize how we should try to be like.
And we have to get back our Hinomaru from the wrong nationalists.
And I'm still sorry about what Japanese crazy nationalists doing.

not losing to the rain
not losing to the wind
not losing to the snow nor to summer's heat
with a strong body
unfettered by desire

never losing temper
cultivating a quiet joy
every day four bowls of brown rice
miso and some vegetables to eat
in everything
count yourself last and put others before you
watching and listening, and understanding
and never forgetting
in the shade of the woods of the pines of the fields
being in a little thatched hut
if there is a sick child to the east
going and nursing over them
if there is a tired mother to the west
going and shouldering her sheaf of rice
if there is someone near death to the south
going and saying there's no need to be afraid
if there is a quarrel or a suit to the north
telling them to leave off with such waste
when there's drought, shedding tears of sympathy
when the summer's cold, wandering upset
called a blockhead by everyone
without being praised
without being blamed
such a person
I want to become


 picture : Hinomaru at the festival of Obama city.